The nine dragons who had gone up the northern slope had received the news of the arrival of the officers and troops more than half an hour earlier, but because the distance was too close and the officers and troops were too fast, he did not have time to withdraw the brothers. So he had to order everyone to stay where they were, hoping that the officers and soldiers were just passing by "accidentally", not knowing that there were 15,000 of his men on the northern slope.

It's a bit like an ostrich mentality, but he really can't help it—can the 15,000-strong troops be withdrawn in just half an hour?

Cui Shanhu of Baiheling was also in the same situation, and could only watch the official army stop at the foot of Baiheling. And when he convened the main leaders to discuss countermeasures, the officers and troops had already divided into two routes and began to outflank Baiheling.

By this time it was already light.

The encirclement and suppression operation officially began.

In Baiheling, He Kegang and He Renlong first divided 10,000 troops and attacked from both sides of the south and north slopes. The rest of the people, under the guidance of the White Lotus Sect's "leading party", quickly blocked all the main roads up and down the mountain.

Most of Cui Shanhu's subordinates were farmers and bankrupt small traders, and because of Yang He's "good policies", they had hardly fought any major battles before. However, the reason why Cui Shanhu's troops were able to become one of the more "famous" miscellaneous armies was because they had twice defeated the official army. According to their own words, they killed at least two or three thousand officers and soldiers in two times, but in fact they only encountered a small force of officers and soldiers, and they only killed two or three hundred in two times.

But Cui Shanhu believes that most of the soldiers under him have been on the battlefield, and he usually trains them very strictly, so with his condescending advantage, he may not necessarily lose. Moreover, as soon as he received the information, he had already sent someone to Weinan City to inform Li Zicheng, and he thought that Li Zicheng would definitely send someone to rescue, otherwise he would not be able to explain to several other friendly troops.

I have to say that an optimistic personality is a good thing, but blind optimism is very bad.

After the officers and troops went up the mountain from the north and south, after a period of searching, they quickly found Cui Shanhu's men and horses, and the two sides immediately began to fight.

Cui Shanhu's soldiers are only half equipped with spears, knives and other weapons, while the other half are still the most primitive hoes, iron rakes and other "weapons", as for armor and other equipment, it is a luxury for them. Such a team, if it fights more and fights less, it is okay to bully and bully the local Tuntian army, which has the lowest combat strength in the official army, but if it encounters the elite of the official army, it will be like hitting a stone with an egg.

After the officers and soldiers armed to the teeth saw Cui Shanhu's soldiers and horses, they first strafed the crossbowmen, and swept down a piece without saying anything, and then the soldiers of the martial arts coalition wearing armor and big shields rushed up, and with their personal cultivation, they rushed into chaos with the rogue soldiers, and then the infantry of the officers and soldiers outflanked them from both flanks and launched a massacre.

Whether it is weapons, training, morale or individual soldier quality, these officers and soldiers who have gone through the baptism of several wars are the best among the Ming Dynasty. And Cui Shanhu's soldiers and horses are only second-rate rogue soldiers at best.

Some of these rogue soldiers took hoes, and when they went down, the officers and soldiers only had to take a step forward to avoid them, and then when he picked up the heavy hoe and was ready to launch a second attack, the sharp long knives of the officers and soldiers were already stuck in his stomach.

Some of the rogue soldiers also took big knives, but there was no armor, and the result was that the officers and soldiers opposite him were slashed by him, but the armor was cracked, resulting in a shallow wound on the chest, and he was slashed by the officers and soldiers, and even the intestines came out directly.

The gap between the two sides was too great, and the battle was one-sided from the start.

At the top of the mountain, many rogue soldiers rushed to report to Cui Shanhu, telling him that he had lost his position again, and whose subordinates had been completely wiped out.

Only then did Cui Shanhu realize how capable Qin Shuhuai's troops were in the legend.

He couldn't sit still and was ready to lead someone to break through!

Since both the north and south have been blocked by the officers and troops, take a small road to the west. Few people knew about that path, and he felt that the officers and soldiers would definitely not find it.

At this time, Cui Shanhu's 10,000 "army" had already lost more than 3,000 people, and the rest of the soldiers and horses had no intention of fighting. And there are countless surrenderers, often a leader with a group of people surrendering, kneeling on the ground one by one, holding their heads, and they don't even dare to breathe.

It is said that Cui Shanhu took three or five hundred people and ran wildly on a trail west of Baiheling, just wanting to hurry down the mountain. It's a pity that as soon as they arrived at the mountainside, hundreds of officers and soldiers were killed from the bushes on both sides of the path.

Among the officials and soldiers, someone was wearing the clothes of a rogue, pointed at Cui Shanhu and shouted, "Official, he is Cui Shanhu, catch him!"

When Cui Shanhu saw it, he was immediately angry and afraid, wasn't the person who identified him a small leader under his own hands?

He knew that he couldn't escape with his wings, and with the psychology of luck, he immediately knelt down and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, spare your life, spare your life!"

As soon as he knelt, no one immediately beat him anymore, and these three or five hundred rogues immediately knelt down neatly and begged the officials and soldiers for mercy.

The leader of the ambush was Meng Hu, who took a turn in the surrender, picked more than 200 people who were relatively strong and looked quite honest, tied them up together with Cui Shanhu, and put them aside first.

As for the rest, he gave the order and executed them all!

This is Qin Shuhuai's rule, if there are captives, only the strong will be accepted, and no more than half of the total number of captives, and the rest will be killed. The main reason for doing this is that the officers and soldiers don't have the energy to guard so many prisoners, and those prisoners who are old, weak, disabled, and slippery can't be used as soldiers, and second, they can't be let go back (eighty percent of them have to continue to be bandits).

The Cui Shanhu Department of Baiheling was quickly wiped out. In total, the officers and troops killed more than 6,000 rogues (including prisoners) and captured more than 3,000, including Cui Shanhu. The reason why Cui Shanhu was not killed was because he could show his face under Weinan City in the future, expressing the intention of the officials and soldiers not to kill the prisoners, thereby reducing the will to resist the rogues in the city.

He Kegang's side is very smooth, and Qin Shuhuai's side is similar. On the north slope, the fifteen thousand men of the nine dragons completely collapsed in less than an hour, and the nine dragons were also captured. In addition to the more than 4,500 strong captives, the rest of the rogues were also killed, as for a few rogues who were really well hidden, even if they were lucky, Qin Shuhuai didn't have the time to search them carefully in the mountains.

At the same time as they were being cleared, the spies of the factory guards also came to report one after another, saying that the rogues from other places had now run into the city, and asked Qin Shuhuai if he wanted to divide his troops to intercept them.

However, Qin Shuhuai refused without thinking about it. Judging from the performance of Cui Shanhu and Jiu Zhulong's subordinates, these ragtag rogues are basically a group of rabble, and they are real guys who are not enough to succeed and more than to lose. When the time comes, let's see, as long as Weinan City is broken, these rabble will inevitably run around with their heads, not only will they not be able to help Li Zicheng, but they will also pass on fear and chaos to Li Zicheng's soldiers!

After the official army eliminated Cui Shanhu and the nine dragons at a slight cost of losing more than 2,000 men, the army turned around and swaggered back to the city of Weinan and surrounded it.