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Liu Tichun, who was standing on the top of the mountain, used the firelight to illuminate and saw the Wu army with torches retreating again and again. But he didn't see it clearly, every time the Wu army retreated, he secretly left a group of soldiers to ambush halfway up the mountain. Before he knew it, Wu Sangui had already ambushed three thousand soldiers on the hillside.

All the soldiers were clad in rattan armor, with a green uniform and hats woven from twigs and blades of grass on their heads. Wu Sangui was inspired by the military uniforms of the sharpshooters of the Qiongzhou Army, and also prepared a batch of green military uniforms for his own soldiers, which were specially used for ambushes and attacks. Not to mention, Wu Sangui's approach to the mountain soldiers of the Qiongzhou Army still has to improve the ambush and concealment skills of the Qiongzhou Army a lot, and the combat effectiveness has also been strengthened a lot.

Originally, the soldiers were the most elite infantry in the Wu army, and after the combat effectiveness was improved, they were no longer lost to the wolf soldiers in Guangxi.

"Wu Gou actually attacked overnight! However, looking at their offensive posture, it seemed that they were feints, and Wu Gou did not really come up, so they did not suffer a lot of losses. A general said to Liu Tichun.

Liu Tichun said: "Wu Gou may be relying on the strength of the crowd and playing wheel warfare with us, which will consume us!" It is very likely that they did not let us have a good rest at night, so they took turns harassing us by virtue of the large number of people. ”

Although the Manchu court had been asking Wu Sangui to reduce his troops, Wu Sangui was disarmed on the surface, but in fact he placed many of the cut soldiers on the spot to reclaim wasteland, and those young and middle-aged men who were half-soldiers and half-civilians were soldiers as long as they took up arms. What's more, Wu Sangui has earned a lot of silver through the Eight Banners special offerings and Nanyang cigarettes in the past few years, and has also obtained a lot of sophisticated firearms made in Nanyang, and it is not a problem for Wu Sangui to raise an army of more than 100,000 people.

As for the Chuang army, it is claimed to be 500,000, but in fact it is only 100,000, and among these 100,000 horses, the weapons are poor, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and their combat effectiveness is not the same level as that of the Wu army at all.

The Wu army harassed the army with fatigue tactics all night, and after dawn the next morning, the camp standing on the top of the hill found that the Wu army had actually abandoned the camp and began to withdraw! Moreover, the Wu army was brazenly pulling out the camp and raising the village, instead of adopting the method of gradual retreat, directly emptying the camp and transferring it all.

Not long after Liu Tichun fell asleep, he was woken up.

"General, Wu Gou has begun to withdraw his troops! It is as if they all abandoned the camp and uprooted the camp. "A soldier came to report.

Liu Tichun rubbed his sleepy eyes, walked out of the camp, stood on the top of the mountain, picked up the telescope obtained from the Qiongzhou army and looked down the mountain, and found that the Wu army seemed to be abandoning the big camp and retreating, and the camp tents had been put away, leaving only the worthless wooden fence still in place.

"General, Wu Gou withdraws his troops, are we taking advantage of their retreat to catch up from behind and cover up behind our backs? will be able to take advantage of the situation to kill a large number of Wu dogs! A ministry general proposed.

Liu Tichun refused to send troops to pursue: "No! Last night, Wu Gou harassed our army overnight, harassing our army all night, and suddenly withdrew his troops early this morning, there must be fraud in it! I'm afraid it's Wu Gou's trick to trick our army down the mountain and set up an ambush on the road! Hum! Lao Tzu just won't fall for Wu Dog! ”

"General, what do we do now?" Several generals asked.

Liu Tichun replied with a smile: "Don't do it!" Let's go back to sleep! I didn't sleep well after a busy night last night! There are a few observation posts left on the mountain, and they are all staring at Lao Tzu with wide eyes, so as not to engage in any conspiracy and tricks in Wu Gou! ”

"No!" Several soldiers who stayed behind to guard saluted.

At noon, in the camp of the army on the hill, the soldiers got up with their sleepy eyes and prepared to make a fire to cook. At this time, the spy in charge of keeping a sentry on the back path came to report: "Found a large group of infantry in Wu Gou!" It's a detour from the back path! Get ready to sneak up on us! ”

Liu Tichun was woken up, and when he heard the report from the spies, he suddenly realized: "It turns out that Wu Gou used the strategy of exhausting soldiers to sneak attack us during the day!" Give it to me, brethren! Block Wu Dog! ”

Troops were immediately dispatched in the camp of the breaking army, and most of the troops were transferred to the back mountain by Liu Tichun, preparing to block the Wu army. However, Liu Tichun is a veteran of the battlefield after all, he is worried that the Wu army is deliberately dividing the troops, and it is likely that a part of the troops are left in front of the ambush and waiting, and they may attack at any time, so they also left a few observation posts in the front.

Liu Tichun personally led the main force and rushed to the back road to intercept it. As soon as his army arrived, Wu Sangui's main infantry had already appeared on the path.

Wu Yingqi, the second son of Wu Sangui, who personally led the army, roared: "Brothers! Kill the thieves! Go with that! Kill a thief and reward five taels of silver! The first to attack the camp of the thieves will be rewarded with 100 taels of silver! ”

Sergeant Wu roared and attacked the intruding army.

Not to be outdone, Liu Tichun shouted: "Stop Wu Gou!" Chop off the head of a Wu dog and reward five taels of silver! Kill Wu Yingqi and reward a thousand taels of silver! ”

The two armies fought fiercely on the narrow mountain road, although the Wu army was large in number and strong in combat, but the army was condescending, and the mountain road was narrow, the Wu army's forces could not be deployed, and it was blocked on the mountain road for a while, and it was difficult to move forward. On the other side, Hu Guozhu took 5,000 men and horses to make a detour, but on the mountain road with dangerous terrain, he was smashed by a rolling wooden stone by the intruding army, and Hu Guozhu was defeated and retreated.

No matter which direction the Wu army attacked, it was blocked by Liu Tichun by virtue of the advantage of the terrain. The two sides fought fiercely on the mountain road for a whole afternoon, and the fierce battle lasted until the evening, and Wu Sangui's army was still unable to advance a single step.

"Bang" Wu Junzhong, someone took out a fireworks rocket and aimed it at the air and released a rocket.

The 3,000 soldiers who were waiting in ambush in the middle of the hill in front of them had been in ambush since the middle of the night last year, and they had been in ambush for about eight hours, and these soldiers had already held their breath and were only waiting for the order to attack. Seeing that the sky was starting to darken, the soldiers were gearing up and preparing to attack.

"Fireworks signal! Offensive! Wu Guogui, the general of the Wu army and Wang Xinyu's new father-in-law, jumped up, pulled out his knife and roared.

"Kill the thief!" The three thousand soldiers let out an earth-shattering roar and charged towards the mountain.

Liu Tichun left a few observation posts to keep an eye on the movements of Wu Sangui's camp, which was just staring at Wu Sangui's camp at the foot of the opposite mountain, but he was unafraid that someone launched an attack from the hillside! In a hurry, the Chuang army threw rolling wood and stones, and urgently issued a fireworks signal to call people back to stop the Wu army.