"General, the mountain road in front leads to a big mountain, the mountain is high and dense, the road is rugged and difficult to walk, is it a detour?"

General Liu was stopping to rest, and when the scout said this, he was a little undecided, so he asked the officers to discuss, and marched for four days, the soldiers were tired and urgently needed to rest, but the bandits in Hongyan Cave had been working together before, and if they didn't break it as soon as possible, they were afraid that they would have a long night's dreams. There is still an hour or so before the sun sets, with the current physical strength of the soldiers, I am afraid that they will not be able to climb the high mountain in front of them in this hour, and it is taboo to go up the mountain and stay halfway up the mountain for the night.

After a little discussion, everyone finally decided that it would be better to rest on the spot, let the soldiers recover their strength as soon as possible, and wait for tomorrow to climb the mountain in one go.

"Pass the order, the whole army will rest in front of the mountain, and go up the mountain tomorrow!"

At the sound of the order, the whole army suddenly came to the spirit, hurried under their feet, and after a while, they rushed to the front of the mountain and rested on the spot. Sitting or lying, under the roadside forest, very casual, all without the majesty of the forbidden army.

That night, the 400 forbidden troops rested in front of the mountain, the sentry was on duty at night, and the others slept peacefully.

On the other side of the mountain, there were also four or five hundred people gathered, all of them bandits from the vicinity of the Red Rock Cave, and they had all arrived before the sun set.

The bandits who arrived in advance set up some hunting traps on the way down the mountain, and also set traps in the forest not far from the roadside, so as to prevent the officers and soldiers from chasing and killing them after being attacked. The bandits who arrived later, taking advantage of the fact that it was not dark and the officers and soldiers did not go up the mountain, also set traps in the forest and on the side of the road, just waiting for the officers and soldiers to jump in.

The leaders of the villages preliminarily estimated that if these traps were triggered by the officers and soldiers, it should be no problem to kill and injure 100 of them. Even if the trap is not triggered, they must take the initiative to introduce the officers and soldiers into the mountains and forests, and if they can't kill them, they must also let them detour.

After dark, the leaders of each village gathered once, discussed and discussed tomorrow's battle, and finally decided not to focus on killing and wounding tomorrow, and it was enough to entangle the officers and troops in Niutou Mountain for one day, and try to lead as many officers and troops as possible to trigger traps, create casualties, and less confrontation with the officers and troops, and withdraw from Niutou Mountain after dark.

There were people on the mountain in front of the mountain, the bandits knew the officers and soldiers, the officers and the soldiers did not know the bandits, and the bandits did not provoke the officials and troops in advance in order to avoid the purpose of exposure, so that the two sides were safe and sound all night.

On the second day, as soon as the sky was bright, the officers and soldiers in front of the mountain buried the pot and made rice. Half an hour later, the sky was bright, and General Liu gave an order, and the officers and troops set off and began to climb over the mountain.

The bandits on the mountain were always keeping an eye on the movements of the officers and soldiers, and as soon as the officers and soldiers moved, the bandits would know. It takes an hour for the officers and soldiers to go up the mountain, and the bandits on the mountain can use this hour to set up more traps and create more trouble for the officers and soldiers.

More than 400 forbidden troops were stretched back and forth for almost a mile, the mountain roads were narrow, and it was inconvenient to pass orders, so General Liu followed in the middle of the team to keep an eye on what might happen at any time.

The road up the mountain was very difficult, and he had been a little worried that the bandits would be bold and ambush halfway. The march has not been hidden in the past few days, and perhaps the bandits have discovered it, so this possibility cannot be ruled out. When the whole team climbed the ridge safely, he eliminated the words "ambush of bandits" from his heart.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, the officers and soldiers did not rest and went down the mountain quickly.

General Liu secretly calculated that according to the speed of the mountain, it would not take half an hour to reach the bottom of the mountain, and it should not be a problem to rush to the Hongyan Cave today. If it goes well, a battle to take out the bandits in the Red Rock Cave will allow you to return tomorrow.

I don't know how much money I can make on this trip. This time I came to Tianzhu Mountain, so far, I have earned about 400 yuan, and I have more than ten years. Maybe when you go out, not to mention that you have a lot of money, a thousand yuan shouldn't be a problem, with so much money to build a house and buy a concubine, that's called face, that's life.

"Ah.....h

"Ah.....h

"What's going on?" The mountain road was rugged and covered by trees, and General Liu couldn't see the situation in front of him clearly, but he thought that there should be no doubt that something had happened to the soldiers.

It happened suddenly, and it was far away, and no one could answer him.

"Pass the order, stop advancing!" General Liu immediately made a decision.

The order spread from the middle of the ranks up and down, and the rear team immediately stopped in place, but there were doubts. The front team did not need an order and had already stopped. In fact, by the time a few screams came, the entire team had almost stopped in place.

"General, there are many traps ahead, some people are injured, and bandits have been found in the mountains and forests." In a short time, a message came from the soldiers.

The purpose of the bandits is obvious, and the trap is set on the road in order to delay their journey and buy time to evacuate the bandits. General Liu thought for a while, and then ordered: "Don't worry about the bandits in the mountains and forests, pay attention to precautions, avoid traps, and go down the mountain quickly." ”

The military order quickly reached the front of the team, and the three soldiers at the front had already fallen, the bamboo tip pierced the soles of their feet, blood flowed, and they lay on the ground in pain, their faces pale. The fourth soldier received the order to descend the mountain, hesitated, looked at the three people who were wounded and fell to the ground, and did not dare to take a step.

"What's going on, keep going down!" The officer in the back urged loudly.

The fourth soldier had no choice but to raise his foot and carefully take a step down, slowly stepping on it, and found that there was nothing to do, and looked down at the mountain road carefully, and found that some places were covered with broken weeds, so he did not step on those places, so he walked about a foot away, and did not encounter any danger, so he happily shouted to the soldier who was still in place: "Go, don't step on the grass and it's fine." ”

When the people behind saw that he was fine, they slowly walked down according to the method he said, and passed the method backwards by the way.

Just as the fifth person was about to catch up with the soldier in front of him, he suddenly heard the sound of breaking the sky from the front, and when he looked up, he saw a black shadow rushing out of the forest on the side of the road, and struck the back of the soldier who was lifting the foot of the mountain.

The fifth soldier who was frightened by this scene immediately lost his face, and instantly stopped, his eyes were stunned, and he watched a wooden stick swing horizontally on the tree by the side of the road. The others behind him also saw this scene and immediately stopped.

"Why did you stop again, hurry down the mountain!" The inquisitor in the back began to urge again.

The fifth soldier was helpless, wiped the sweat from his forehead, slowly walked towards the stick, looked down carefully, only to see a small stone slab on the road, and a small mechanism buried underneath. As he spoke, he avoided the small stone slab and walked all the way down for more than three feet.

Seeing that there was nothing wrong ahead, the others also followed at the urging of the detainer.

Seeing that there were no weeds or small stone slabs on the road ahead, but not knowing whether there was any danger, the fifth soldier stopped and made a difficulty.

"What's wrong again?" The detainees shouted from behind.

The fifth soldier had no choice but to take his knife and point it on the road ahead, without triggering any traps, and immediately raised his feet and stepped forward. As soon as he fell, his feet were empty, and the whole person fell into a deep pit, and he only heard a scream, and then there was no sound. The soldiers behind him turned pale and did not dare to take half a step forward.

The team stopped descending the mountain, and the officers behind were impatient and had to rush to the front to check the situation. He walked into the edge of the pit and looked into the pit, only to see that the soldier had been pierced by sharpened bamboo, and blood was flowing all over the ground, and he died at the bottom of the pit.

In just a short section of the mountain road, five people were lost, but there were no bandits, and the detainees were very angry.

"Report to the general that there are too many traps ahead, and five people have been lost, so it is recommended to stop advancing."

The news quickly spread to General Liu, and he didn't have a very good way, if he forcibly went down the mountain, I don't know how many traps there were under the mountain, and he suffered heavy losses before he reached the Hongyan Cave, it would be a big loss.

"Give the order to go down and return to the top of the mountain." General Liu gave an order, and the military order quickly passed down loudly.

The rear team immediately turned around and went up the hill when they got the news, and the front team was a little further away and fell a little behind.

"Kill!" Suddenly, there was a roar in the forest, and then a big man rushed out, wielding a knife and cutting down an officer and soldier who was concentrating on climbing the mountain.

"Kill!" Immediately after that, several more figures sprang out of the forest, shouting and waving their knives and slashing at the officers and soldiers.

The officers and soldiers knew that there were bandits in the forest, but when they saw that they had been hiding and could not come out, they thought that they were too few to show their faces, so they lost their vigilance and were cut down several people in an instant.

When the officers and soldiers saw the bandits clearly, they raised their swords and fought with them on the mountain road, and the sound of swords and soldiers spread in an instant.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

......

In a few breaths, the entire mountain forest was drowned out by shouts of killing, and the bandits jumped out of the forest on the side of the road one after another, killing the officials and soldiers around them. The mountain road was narrow and suddenly crowded, the officers and soldiers were directly cut in half from the middle, the rear team was completely besieged by bandits, unable to move, and the front team could not return to form an effective support.

Four or five hundred bandits surrounded the rear team of the officers and soldiers and slashed fiercely, and if they won the battle, they would fight, and if they could not win, they would drill into the forest, and the officers and soldiers would chase them in, and they would lead them to the side of the trap, and as soon as the trap was triggered, the officers and soldiers were directly overturned, and the officers and soldiers did not chase them, and the bandits went into the forest and turned around, and for a while they jumped out of nowhere and joined the war group.

With the screams, the number of officers and bandits was rapidly decreasing, but if you had time to look closely, you would find that the casualties of the bandits were far smaller than those of the officers and soldiers. The bandits can run into the woods if they can't win, the officers and soldiers are afraid of traps and dare not go in to chase them, and when the officers and soldiers are distracted by other bandits, the fleeing bandits jump out from behind the officials and soldiers to give him a knife, the bandits obviously occupy a huge advantage in the mountains and forests, the officers and soldiers can not resist, nor can they escape, they can only watch their companions in the screams, one by one.

Seeing that the road down the mountain was cut off by dozens of bandits, General Liu waved his knife and hacked a few people to death, but was blocked by the surrounding soldiers.

"General, there are too many bandits, let's go!" The soldiers surrounding General Liu shouted.

General Liu saw that there was a mess at the bottom of the mountain, and the officers and soldiers who were surrounded by many bandits were surrounded and slashed, and as soon as they chased into the forest, they never came out again, obviously there were many traps in the forest, and they could only watch them fall one by one, but they could not be rescued.

A few more bandits rushed up the hill and were cut down by the soldiers in front of them.

"Withdraw." Seeing that the rear team was about to end, General Liu shouted helplessly.

At the sound of an order, the soldiers surrounded him and quickly retreated up the mountain.

When I reached the top of the mountain, I could hear the shouts and killings under the mountain. Regardless of counting the number of people, he directly ordered the team to go down the mountain the same way.

"What? One hundred and eighty-one! General Liu's eyes widened with rage.

"General, what's next?"

"With such heavy casualties, what can we do? Back to Nipple Mountain! ”

After the military order was issued, the remaining teams did not make any stops and returned directly to Nitou Mountain.