The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 397 Head-to-head confrontation
However, when Han Tao and Peng Qi came to the big tent of the Chinese army, they saw Hu Yanzhuo's stinky face as soon as they entered, and they hurriedly asked why.

Hu Yanzhuo told the story angrily, and Han Tao scolded when he heard the words, "These big headscarves are all corrupt and corrupt. They should all be killed. The general can sue him with the Taiwei and teach him a lesson."

Seeing that Hu Yanzhuo was a little moved, Peng Qi hurriedly spoke out to dissuade him, "It's absolutely impossible, the general sued a magistrate of Yuncheng today, but it's the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty who offended.

Those literati have always reported to the group, and it's okay for them to have internal strife, but I and other warriors can't offend a single person, otherwise they will definitely look for me in the future. "

After all, Hu Yanzhuo was not a reckless person. After Peng Qi's persuasion, he also calmed down, finally gave up the idea of ​​suing, and instead discussed the matter of suppressing thieves with Han Tao.

Han Tao suggested, "It's better to send someone to send a letter of war to encourage those thieves to come out and fight."

Hu Yanzhuo thought about it for a while, and felt that there was really no good way to do it right now, so he simply planned to try it, as a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

After a lot of effort, I finally found a reliable guide in a nearby village.This person was originally Baozheng in the village. Because of his many acts of being rich, unkind, and oppressing goodness, he was punished by the hero on the mountain for a while.

Under the leadership of this person, two messengers who were still responsible for exploring the terrain, rowed a small boat and slowly drove into the densely covered water moor.

The boat had only traveled two or three miles, when it passed a reed marsh, two fast boats rushed out of it, each with six men waiting for it.

There was nothing to say next, the three of them were caught together, and then they were blindfolded and brought in front of Mu Xu.

Taking a closer look at the battle letter written by Hu Yanzhuo, Mu Xu smiled and said to the left and right, "Hu Yanzhuo has run out of plans, and I want to use this letter to motivate me to fight with him."

Zhu Wu said disdainfully, "The village master don't care about him, let him wait on the shore, and when the food and grass are exhausted, he will naturally retreat obediently."

Mu Xu didn't want to but said, "No, since he wants to fight, then I will grant his wish, just to measure his ability."

Immediately replied to the messenger, "You go back and tell Hu Yanzhuo, and say that I have agreed to his request. Three days later, a decisive battle will be held forty miles to the east!"

After ordering the courier to be sent away, Mu Xu said to the leaders, "Send me the general's order, and all the soldiers prepare for battle."

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In the blink of an eye, it was time for the decisive battle. The day had just dawned, and Mu Xu personally led an army of [-] to form a formation, facing Hu Yanzhuo's army far away, and the whole wilderness was filled with a murderous atmosphere.

After the three drums were played, Mu Xu was watching the formation by himself, when he saw a general coming out from the enemy's flag gate. This man was wearing a brocade robe and carrying a jujube lance. Pointing in the direction of Mu Xushuai's flag, he shouted loudly,

"Traitors, Han Tao, the training envoy of the Chenzhou Regiment, is here, and you will come out quickly to lead you to death. If not, you will fill up your water ponds, crush Liangshan, capture your gang of rebels alive, and tear your corpses into pieces. , my wish!"

As soon as this remark came out, all the heroes in Liangshan were furious, and they challenged Mu Xu to fight.Mu Xu looked around and pointed at Luan Tingyu. Luan Tingyu was overjoyed, and saluted with fists, then rode on horseback and pointed his gun at Han Tao.

The two men shot back and forth, and fought in a circle. The stalemate lasted for more than [-] bouts, and Han Tao was a little timid. When he was about to retreat, Hu Yanzhuo, the leader of the Chinese army behind him, came and killed him.

It turned out that it was Hu Yanzhuo who saw clearly in the formation. Seeing that Han Tao was no match for the enemy general, fearing that he would make a mistake, he hurriedly waved his double whips, and sat down on the imperial horse kicking the snow-black horse, roaring and screaming, and came to the formation forward.

Luan Tingyu didn't expect that Hu Yanzhuo's mount was so fast, and he was almost whipped off the horse. He was furious and cheered up to fight two. It's just that Hu Yanzhuo's martial arts is extraordinary, and there is Han Tao Assisted by the side, he soon fell into the disadvantaged.

Fortunately, there was a loud shout from behind, "Brother Luan, don't panic, Shi Wengong is here!"

With Shi Wengong entering the arena against Hu Yanzhuo, the situation on the field was reversed in vain.But Mu Xu, who was watching the battle from behind, felt that it was not enough, and nodded to Zhang Qing. Zhang Qing understood, and immediately rode out to help.

Seeing this, Peng Qi on Hu Yanzhuo's side, not to be outdone, also galloped out and blocked Zhang Qing with a three-pointed and two-edged knife.So, the six people fought each other in front of the formation of the two armies.

After fighting for only a moment, Hu Yanzhuo realized that something was wrong, because Han Tao and Peng Qi were already at a disadvantage. He tried to rescue him a few times, but was entangled by his opponent, and almost got shot in the thigh.

Taking advantage of blocking Shi Wengong's iron spear again, Hu Yanzhuo shouted loudly, "Don't love to fight, return to the formation quickly!"

The three of them rode away, but they didn't know that Zhang Qing was waiting for this opportunity. He picked up a flying stone and hit Han Tao who fell at the end.

Han Tao screamed and immediately rolled off his horse. Hu Yanzhuo in front of him heard the news and wanted to go back to his horse to rescue him, but before it was too late, he had to watch Han Tao being dragged away and captured alive by the enemy.

Hu Yanzhuo turned around, thinking that he had lost a general in the front line, he couldn't help being furious, and immediately wanted to press the whole army, but when the words came to his lips, he changed his mind and only ordered the front army's [-] infantry to attack .

Following Hu Yanzhuo's order, the drums and horns of the Song army sounded in unison, and groups of infantry were lined up neatly and began to move forward slowly. There are many spears, and the arrows emit a cold light.

At this time, Mu Xu in the opposite formation let out a soft "Hey", looking extremely surprised, and Xu Guanzhong asked hurriedly, "Did the village master find something wrong?"

Mu Xu put away the abnormality on his face, shook his head, and said perfunctorily, "Hu Yanzhuo is worthy of being a general, and the troops he leads are not chaotic before the battle, which is several times stronger than the Song army he has seen before."

After finishing speaking, he sent an order, ordering Lu Zhishen and Wu Song to lead their troops and horses to meet them.

Lu Zhishen and Lu Zhishen received the military order, they didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly commanded the troops to fight.

After several rounds of arrow rain, the two sides finally met each other.In an instant, the sounds of weapons colliding, shouts of killing, and screams could be heard endlessly. After fighting like this for nearly an hour, Mu Xu took the lead in ringing the gold, making a gesture of withdrawing troops.And Hu Yanzhuo also unexpectedly chose to retreat, did not take advantage of the situation to cover up the kill, obviously he did not want to continue to die.

But it is said that after Hu Yanzhuo withdrew his troops and returned to the stronghold, he discussed with Peng Qi how to win Liang Shanshuibo.Peng Qi suggested, "Judging from today's casualties, the bandits' infantry is quite elite, but it seems that they haven't seen many cavalry troops. It's better to use all the cavalry troops to attack them tomorrow, and they will definitely win a big victory."

Hu Yanzhuo replied, "I think so too, but I have to test it out a little more, lest I fall into the enemy's tricks."

Peng Qi nodded, and said again, "It's best to capture a few more generals of the enemy army and exchange Brother Han back."

The two had a good plan, and they took the initiative to fight for the next three consecutive days, but no matter how urgently they attacked, at most they only saw more than a thousand horse troops of the enemy, and their combat power was far inferior to that of the infantry.

Seeing this situation, Hu Yanzhuo took it for granted that Liang Shanbo would just order cavalry.Immediately, a general order was passed down, instructing people to arrange five thousand horses in a row, every fifty horses in a row, but chain the iron rings.But when encountering an enemy army, shoot with arrows from a distance, and charge straight in with a gun if you are close.The [-] serial horse troops were divided into [-] teams to lock in, and the [-] infantry troops followed up.

Everything was ready, Hu Yanzhuo made up his mind and prepared to defeat the enemy and make meritorious deeds in one fell swoop tomorrow.

(End of this chapter)