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The summer rain began to rain again outside the camp, and the time had just entered the unitary hour (17:00), because the rain had arrived, and it felt like twilight;

Hearing the rain crackling on the top of the tent, Ma Yongzhen's brows couldn't help frowning, his thousands of men and horses came from the South Snake Mountain, originally scheduled to arrive tomorrow evening, if the rain fell for a long time, the road was muddy, and it would be difficult for thousands of people and horses to arrive on time.

According to the current situation, one more day of delay, Qin Mu will have one more day of time to train troops, and it will be more and more unfavorable to him, now the four gates of Ganzhou City are closed, and there are people patrolling the city day and night, and it is difficult for the original fine work sent into the city to spread the news, and Ma Yongzhen has no way of knowing how the situation in the city has changed, which makes his worries more and more serious.

Whether he can win Ganzhou or not has a very different meaning for him. After taking Ganzhou, the entire Gannan will fall into the bag, and his team will have the possibility of a qualitative leap;

Geographically, Ganzhou is even more advantageous than Wuchang, where Zhang Xianzhong is entrenched, because before Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are destroyed, it is impossible for the imperial court to send a large army into southern Gannan, and he can have enough time to develop, so as to become a liliang who can compete for dominance in the world.

If he can't take Ganzhou, he can only retreat to the mountains, still just a group of bandits, and he has to prevent Qin Mu from coming to suppress him at any time. There is a world of difference between the two.

Ma Yongzhen frowned, and unexpectedly remembered what he had said in a separate conversation with Qin Mu, regardless of whether the earth-shattering words Qin Mu said were true or not, but just because of his thorough analysis of Zhang, Li and others, his vision of talking about the situation in the world, and his strategic opinions such as military and political affairs, Ma Yongzhen had to admit that he was not enough.

Such a character, the longer he operates in Ganzhou City, the farther away Ganzhou will be from him, which Ma Yongzhen is convinced of.

He was about to send someone to send an order for thousands of men and horses in the South Snake Mountain to rush to the city of Ganzhou as soon as possible no matter what, when a subordinate outside the tent rushed in in a panic and reported: "General, that Qin Mu is here again, here again."

"Again?" Ma Yongzhen couldn't help but ask back, how long has it been, it's only been about an hour and a half since he sent Qin Mu away, what does Qin Mu want to do? Today is the third time, once in the morning to challenge, once at noon to drink, this dusk, another time, and the end? "Go, bring him in."

"General, it's not that Qin Mu is here alone this time."

"Hey, do you want to challenge again?"

"No, General Ma, I think he is here to attack our camp, General Ma, go out and see, Qin Mu has brought thousands of men and horses."

"What!" Ma Yongzhen rushed out of the big tent in disbelief, it was raining this day, Qin Mu actually braved the rain to attack? It's getting dark, Qin Mu actually wants to fight at night?

A series of question marks flew in Ma Yongzhen's mind, just like Guanyin Bodhisattva dancing a striptease, which is incomprehensible!

He ran at the gate of the camp in the rain, and looked through the misty rain curtain, but no, after a Qinzi flag was wet by the rain, it was like impotence and premature ejaculation.

The first hundred black-clothed and black-armored cavalrymen in front, this hundred "black iron flow" looked very majestic, but in fact, they were wearing leather armor, or when Qin Mu was in Niuxi Town, he temporarily dyed it black, and was washed by the rain, and the black dye flowed down with the rain, revealing the primary color of cowhide in some places;

But this did not detract from their majesty in the slightest, and under the leadership of Qin Mu, they rushed with a roar, and the bowl-sized horses' hooves splashed on the ground. Thousands of infantry in the back brandished swords and guns, and the formation was very chaotic, but it was crazy, arrogant, and croaking.

Ma Yongzhen felt from a distance that Qin Mu's team of men and horses did not seem to be here to fight, but more like they were here to grab silver, because fighting in the rain, the soldiers were usually not so excited, and it was strange that Qin Mu's team of men and horses was like a chicken's blood, scrambling one by one, running faster than the horses.

Well, there are a few big cars behind the army, which is even more strange, it is only five miles away from the city, is it possible for Qin Mu to come with logistics, or bring some secret weapons?

In any case, thousands of people and horses rushed in the rain with a roar, which really caused a lot of pressure on Ma Yongzhen's side.

"Prepare for battle!" Ma Yongzhen didn't have to think much before he ordered loudly.

"General, please order your subordinates to lead their troops into battle!" Hong Dazhuang roared out with hatred, Ma Yongzhen asked him to take three hundred people to attack Xinfeng at night, it was not dark yet, he hadn't had time to set off, but someone from Qin had come to patronize their camp three times, damn, what is this!

"Don't be in a hurry, first use the camp to thwart the enemy's spirit, and then it's not too late to counterattack with all your might." Before finding out what medicine was sold in Qin Mu's gourd, Ma Yongzhen felt that it was better to be cautious and safe.

Ma Yongzhen is not in a hurry, Qin Mu's slogan at the moment is: A thousand years is too long, seize the day!

So he came to a "three-in-the-mountain city", single-handedly in the morning, drinking at noon, and drinking blood in the morning and evening.

The sudden heavy rain did not extinguish the surging passion of the three thousand armors, because Qin Dazhi County kept shouting: "The sky is going to rain, the mother wants to marry a pig, and the three thousand armors can swallow Wu!" ”

weishenme will have such a strange slogan, the ghost only knows, anyway, there is Qin Dazhi County rushing in front, there are several big truckloads of silver following behind, and there are three hundred acres of fertile land in his heart, three thousand baojia doesn't care what slogan he shouts!

The folk customs in the southern part of the country are already strong, and the three thousand armor that burns passionately are lured by huge profits, and they have become brave men under the heavy reward, in the heavy rain, treading water like waves, rushing forward, surging like a tide.

Ma Yongzhen chose to defend the wall, which is not unexpected, but there is one point, the bow and arrow cannot be used in rainy days, which is not good for the defending side, especially this kind of temporary walled wall is not high, and it is not comparable to the city wall.

Qin Mu did not hesitate at all, let alone stop and ramble, taking advantage of the high morale of the three thousand armor, he directly ordered to rush up, fifty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps

"Smash! Fuck it! Qin Mu sat on the horse, pointed his long knife, and roared loudly.

Bows and arrows can't be used, but that doesn't mean there are no long-range attack weapons, and with his roar, three thousand stones rose into the air with a "Whew!" The sound smashed into Ma Yongzhen's camp, and the rebels in the village didn't expect Qin Mu to use such a scoundrel fight, only to see countless fist-sized stones whistling down, falling down like hailstones, and many defenders were stunned by this scene.

"Hide!" Ma Yongzhen screamed, but it was too late, the rain of bullets came too quickly, and before some defenders had time to dodge, their heads were smashed open, blood splashed, and their brains burst! Screams rang out one after another.

Just after the first rain of soft bullets, the second round came, followed by the third round, which smashed the defenders in the village to pieces.

"Build a bridge!"

With Qin Mu's roar, hundreds of armor guards carrying wooden planks rushed out from behind, and soon set up twenty or thirty bridges on the trench in front of the camp. Just rush on.

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"Hurry up! Hurry up! Hard! Hard! Make a little more effort, yes, force, and a little more effort! The voice was hysterical, and Zuihou was still very cheerful, "Hmm! If this is a delicate woman's voice, you must think that there are men and women fighting in the field.

But in fact, the scene at the bottom of the mountain is not glamorous at all, on the contrary, it is tense and moving.

The Rentong caravan fled here, facing the mountains in the south, the river in the north, the road was narrow and rugged, the wheels of a large cart were stuck in the cracks in the stones, the horses could not be bounced, the truck could not escape quickly, and if it was stuck again, the soldiers and bandits behind would chase after it, and everyone would die without a place to be buried.

The shopkeeper Xu was sweating profusely urging the guards of the cart, and when the cart finally pushed over, the panicked and tired shopkeeper Xu almost collapsed.

Li Xiangjun's car happened to follow behind the stuck truck, fleeing all the way, the car was bumpy, her sideburns were scattered at this time, and her sweat was slightly wet;

In the most panicked times, she always unconsciously thought of Qin Mu, hoping that he would suddenly appear, and even guessed how he would save herself from danger after he suddenly appeared.

At this moment, he was stuck on this narrow mountain road, Li Xiangjun suddenly felt blessed to his heart, and hurriedly shouted to the shopkeeper Xu: "Shopkeeper Xu, shopkeeper Xu, you can't escape like this, our car is full of goods, we move slowly, and sooner or later we will be caught up by those soldiers and bandits." ”

"What do you think?"

"Shopkeeper Xu, whenever the army retreats, there must always be some men and horses to block the pursuing soldiers, Brother Zhang, he is alone, I am afraid that it will not be delayed for long, our truck will not go fast, and we must leave some people to block the enemy, otherwise if the group of soldiers and bandits chase, the consequences will be unimaginable."

Leaving a blocking force to delay the enemy is basically understood by everyone in the army, but in the hearts of ordinary people, there is rarely such a concept, and everyone only thinks about escaping faster, and this is the difference between the way of thinking of the army and ordinary people.

Don't look at the shopkeeper Xu is bloated like a meat ball, but he is a very decisive person, after Li Xiangjun reminded, he slapped his thigh, and immediately said loudly: "Thank you Miss Xiangjun for reminding me, Xie Laosan, the mountain road here is rugged and narrow, just suitable for blocking the enemy, quickly turn the back of a few cars sideways, you take fifty guards to stay here to block the enemy, at least drag it to the second watch and then withdraw, you can rest assured, if you can escape this catastrophe, the old man guarantees that the owner will never treat you badly after you go back, the old man swears to the sky, if anyone is unfortunately killed, I Xu Yi will support his family for the rest of his life!" ”

"Thank you Shopkeeper Xu, we were originally here to protect the caravan, Shopkeeper Xu is leaving, and this will be handed over to us." The captain of the guard, Xie Laosan, responded with a fist, and immediately led people to cross the cart behind him to organize the defense line.

Li Xiangjun's mind became clearer and clearer, and she then said to the shopkeeper Xu: "Shopkeeper Xu, just laying this line of defense is not enough, we must prepare for the worst, usually the more valuable the goods, the lighter, the shopkeeper Xu will quickly divide the valuable goods, and when there is a fork in the road ahead, we will go in two ways, this group of soldiers and bandits are mostly foot soldiers, after we go in two ways, they can probably only catch up with one way, so that the loss can be minimized." ”

Li Xiangjun This is the meaning of abandoning the pawn to protect the car, such as misleading the pursuers at the fork in the road, she has thought of these methods, but the caravan is not an army, she can't say it too directly, otherwise no one wants to be a "pawn" at all.

Shopkeeper Xu is a shrewd person, so he can naturally hear what Li Xiangjun means, and he was about to do so, when he saw the yellow dust rolling behind him, and it was Yan Mao who came with five hundred men and horses;

Seeing this scene, everyone's faces couldn't help but change greatly, and Xie Laosan shouted again: "Shopkeeper Xu, go, go!" If you don't leave, it's too late, hurry, the little ones will be entrusted to the shopkeeper Xu. ”

"Okay, I won't wait for you!" Shopkeeper Xu hurriedly answered, and drank again and again, and the coachman who was driving the car was in a hurry to flee for his life, and he didn't need to urge, he had already whipped the pack horse.

Yan Mao saw the panic here from a distance, and couldn't help but laugh wildly, brandishing a big knife and yelling at his subordinates behind him: "Kill me!" Except for the beauty, the chickens and dogs are not left! ”

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