But obviously, the people arranged by Bai Mazi should have been frightened by the rounds of arrow rain just now, and the soldiers were never attacked by anyone in the cave again. Yelu Juli and a few family members who were born as horse thieves personally led the way in front and led everyone out of the cave quickly.

In front of them, there was a sudden opening up, and a mountain valley appeared in front of everyone.

Dong Ce swept his eyes, this valley is not very big, in the north of the valley, relying on the mountains, there are large forests, and relying on the forest, it is a cottage.

The scale of the cottage is very ordinary, about three or four hundred steps in circumference, and the wall is not high. And outside this wall, there is a circle of fences, and the walls are not very tall, and this fence is even more shabby, only about four feet high, if people are more agile, they are afraid that they can be climbed over with a single hand.

About four or five paces beyond the fence was a small river, not wide, but about a foot long, which began in the mountains on the west side of the valley, and flowed eastward, disappearing into a large forest. The river does not surround the cottage, but flows horizontally in front of it.

Dong Ce and the others came out of the cave, and walked about sixty steps to the north, and it was the gate of the cottage. It was also a pity that they were so far away, otherwise, they were afraid that as soon as they came out of the cave, they would be attacked by a rain of arrows.

From here to the gate of the cottage is sixty steps, then to the south bank of the river is about fifty steps, and if Dong Ce is in this open space to organize the army, he must walk forward for a while, in order to spread these people out, then it is inevitable to be attacked by horse thieves in the cottage, which will have a great impact on morale.

The soldiers are frustrated when they are beaten and are unable to fight back.

So Dong Ce ordered to walk a hundred steps to the west.

Walking a hundred steps to the west, it is almost almost close to the mountain wall to the west, and further down, there is no way. But this distance is enough, it is very open, enough to accommodate the hundreds of people of the Rock Fort Army, and at the same time, it is still far from the cottage, so there is no need to worry about the attack of horse thieves.

Dong Ce's plan was to go north from here, cross the river and turn east, attacking the west side of the cottage, rather than the gate of the cottage with the strongest defense.

Since the cottage only has a south-facing main gate, it stands to reason that no matter what, you have to attack the south gate of the cottage, if you want to attack the south gate of the cottage, you have to cross the river from the front of the cottage, and it is conceivable that when the official army crosses the river, the horse thieves on the wall will definitely not let go of this crazy opportunity to pour arrow rain. Moreover, when crossing the river, the formation will inevitably not be so tight, and coupled with the enemy's attack, it is more likely to cause casualties.

Even after crossing the river, because of the narrow space between the creek and the fence, too many troops could not be discharged, so they could only go up in batches.

It's a fueling tactic.

For the attackers, the casualties are high, while for the defenders, they are happy to see it. Because the horse thieves are few in number and the officers and soldiers are large, what they are most looking forward to is that the officers and soldiers will not be crushed by the whole army and use the superior forces, but will be sent in batches, so their numerical disadvantage will not be so obvious.

I have to say that this cottage was built with great care, and the defense line built by using this small river is enough to cause considerable damage to the incoming enemy.

But now, Dong Ce plans to cross the river from the west, and the horse thieves can't attack when crossing the river, which is equivalent to abolishing the horse thieves' first line of defense. And he attacked from the west, and the space in the west was very large, enough to line up a considerable number of troops, and Dong Ce naturally would not use the tactics of adding fuel.

It's just that attacking from the west has a great disadvantage, that is, there is no door to the west!

Why do you have to hit the south gate to fight this cottage? Because there is a gate at the south gate! Without a door, how do you kill it? You can't kill it, you've been wandering around outside, how can you win?

Therefore, siege battles have always been fought more near the city gates.

No way? It's okay! Dong Ce has his own plan.

After a cup of tea, the rectification was completed, this time, Dong Ce asked each team to put out a mandarin duck array, a total of thirty mandarin duck arrays, five mandarin duck arrays in a row, a total of six rows in front and back. In a row, the distance between the left and right killer teams is three steps, and the distance between the front and rear rows is ten steps.

In this way, a fairly long offensive formation was formed, and each row was not very wide, because when engaging with horse thieves, the battle line would not be very open, so the troops that could directly engage the horse thieves were limited, and there was no need to put too many troops. But the front and back are relatively long, so that the stamina is enough, enough to form a wave of attacks. It is like the waves washing over the reef, and the continuous high-intensity impact on the enemy, as long as the opponent is not particularly strong, it is generally impossible to parry this kind of impact.

None of the soldiers carried ladders, even though the ladders they had built had been moved into the valley.

Dong Ce has his own plans, if it doesn't work, it's not too late to use the ladder.

While Shi Jin and Zhou Zhong were directing the infantry to line up, Dong Ce was interrogating the prisoners.

On the Fangcai platform, in addition to the corpses of forty-seven horse thieves, eight prisoners were also found.

All eight were wounded, and they were quite badly wounded.

Under circumstances like Fang Cai, it is actually quite a strange thing to be able to catch a prisoner. Because Bai Mazi had time to retreat, he could have taken everyone with him, but obviously he didn't do it. Dong Ce estimated that he disliked these people for being injured, and they had no combat strength anymore, and it was also a burden to carry them, so he simply threw them down.

Dong Ce would not kill these prisoners, not that he was afraid of the notoriety of killing prisoners, after all, Dong Ce didn't care much about such a false reputation. It's just because he thinks that all captives can be divided and subdued to become their own people, don't you see how loyal Yelu Juli and Dong Zhongxian are now?

I really can't take it in, and I can throw it into the kiln factory to do coolie work. What good do you get by killing them? Reporting the first rank in exchange for military merit? First, according to the standards of the imperial court, the heads of these horse thieves were not valuable; Second, Dong Ce already has enough heads to hand over to Shangguan in this battle, and no matter how much he has, it is impossible to get more.

Dong Ce raised a few interrogations from these captives, they had already been frightened, and besides, they were all prisoners, who was willing to give Bai Mazi his life? It's all about asking what to say, and some of them don't say a lot. Dong Ce can see that what he says is the truth, and he still has the ability to distinguish the true from the false.

This also gave Dong Ce a better understanding of the situation in the cottage.

There are not many valuable messages in them, probably only three.

First, Dong Ce once again confirmed one thing, Bai Mazi is really rich, very rich, not to mention that he has a lot of money, but it is estimated that it is not far away!

Second, there are not many feather arrows in the cottage.

Third, Hou Jiawei ran away, even with Hou Jing and his cronies. After Dong Ce heard this third news, he was silent for a while, and sighed secretly in his heart. He didn't expect Hou Jiawei to see the opportunity so quickly and act so decisively. You must know that one of the purposes of Dong Ce's coming to fight Hutou Cottage this time is to kill Hou Jiawei, Hou Jing and others. This gift is intended to be given to Liu Ruozai, and it is also given to himself. Although Liu Ruozai didn't say it, Dong Ce knew that he still cared about Hou Jiawei who was absconding, and Dong Ce was the same. Thinking of having such an enemy who wants to skin himself, eat his own flesh and drink his own blood every day, Dong Ce is also not very comfortable.

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