Roundhead Mountain.

Two young men in tattered clothes stood on a tree and saw the coalition troops rolling in.

The faces of the two turned white all of a sudden.

One of them said, "Quick, go and report to General Zhang!"

The other scrambled down the tree and scurried out like a monkey.

He ran as fast as he could, well-sheltered, and after a little more running, until he came to a bright and spacious cave.

"Report, report General Zhang, the officers and soldiers are back, back!"

Zhang Xianzhong stood up when he heard this, his eyes widened like copper bells.

Li Dingguo, who was on the side, saw his father-in-law for the first time with a frightened expression in his eyes.

"Don't light the lamp and tell the truth?" Zhang Xianzhong said to himself with a solemn expression.

Li Dingguo immediately said, "Father-in-law, hurry up and lead the brothers to set up defenses! We have more than 10,000 people, and if we can hold out until dark, we can break through the siege." ”

At this time, from another cave, a man also hurried to run.

"General Li is right, since Qin Shuhuai turned around and came back, he must already know where we are hiding. It's too late to run now, so it's better to fight with them depending on the location!"

It was Li Zicheng who spoke!

Since the defeat in Shaanxi, he brought his nephew and more than a dozen others to Zhang Xianzhong. Although Zhang Xianzhong vaguely knew about his killing of Gao Yingxiang, considering that Li Zicheng was quite famous, and if he had him, he would be able to recruit troops and buy horses in the future, so he took him in.

Zhang Xianzhong subconsciously looked at Luo Rucai again.

Luo Rucai, nicknamed "Cao Cao", has always been known for his resourcefulness. When he left the mountain before, it was he who came up with it. It's a pity that Qin Shuhuai quickly saw through his trick, so that they didn't have time to evacuate (although the 40,000 army walked out of five or six miles, but at the end of the team, Yuantou Mountain was still very close, and Zhang Xianzhong had to wait at least for the coalition army to go out of more than ten miles before evacuating), and they were surrounded again.

Luo Rucai was also depressed at the moment, but he still gave Zhang Xianzhong a positive look.

The reality is clear.

If their army of 10,000 is still nested in the cave, then Qin Shuhuai can always find out as long as he seals the mountain and looks for it slowly. And once they find them, they are turtles in an urn, not only can't escape, but it's also difficult to resist.

Only by sending a large army to block the coalition forces and dragging it out until dark can they have the possibility of breaking through.

Zhang Xianzhong thought for a moment and said, "Okay, since the child surnamed Qin doesn't live with us, let's fight with him!

Soon, the rogue soldiers from all over the cave were brought out. They defended the terrain according to the danger.

After Qin Shuhuai's Chinese army arrived, Zu Dashou and Zhang Xiao's left and right flank armies also arrived.

Three armies, each with 6,000 men, were killed from three small paths. The rest of the men and horses waited at the foot of the mountain to prevent the rogues from breaking through.

They originally wanted to find the stone cave where Zhang Xianzhong was hiding, but they never thought that as soon as they went up to the mountainside, the army led by Zu Dashou was ambushed.

Zu Dashou immediately ordered people to set off fireworks signals to notify the whole army.

He had just raised the signal, and the signal was also raised on the mountain road that Zhang Xiao had passed.

Qin Shuhuai saw the fireworks rising one after another at the foot of the mountain and smiled slightly.

This time, Zhang Xianzhong shouldn't be able to run.

On the mountain road on the west side of Yuantou Mountain, Zu Dashou's 6,000 people were ambushed by about 3,000 Liukou on the narrow mountain road. On both sides of the path, the rogues first attacked with boulders, bows and arrows, etc., causing certain losses to the coalition forces.

However, the rogue's bow and arrows were pitifully few, and after a few volleys, they were gone. Moreover, the allied soldiers were well-equipped and did not lack large shields and armor, so the losses from bows and arrows were limited.

Compared to bows and arrows, Liukou prepared fewer boulders, a total of a dozen. Most of the Coalition soldiers will do it lightly, and it will take time for the boulder to roll down, and by the time it does, most of the soldiers have already avoided it.

Because Zhang Xianzhong can't stand anywhere now, he has no intention of making Yuantou Mountain his lair. In this way, his defense facilities in various parts of Yuantou Mountain are naturally pitiful.

Therefore, in this wave of offensives, the coalition forces only paid the price of dozens of casualties.

The coalition soldiers immediately launched a counterattack.

With their light skills, they rushed to the high ground quickly, and then fought with the rogue soldiers.

Zhang Xianzhong's rogue soldiers have been running around for a long time and are short of food, so they are no match for the coalition soldiers in terms of morale and physical strength. As for tactical recuperation, individual soldier ability, and army equipment, they cannot be said on the same day as the soldiers of the coalition forces.

It was a duel between two armies that were a few ranks apart.

There was no suspense, and the fight was one-sided from the start.

Before the allied soldiers on the trail had completely rushed to the high ground on both sides, the rogue soldiers on the high ground appeared to flee and surrender in a large area.

It will collapse at the touch of a button, and it is talking about such an army.

The battle lasted only about a quarter of an hour before it was almost over. Of the three thousand rogue soldiers, nearly half surrendered, one or two hundred fled, and the rest were all annihilated.

And the coalition soldiers only suffered more than 200 casualties.

Zu Dashou smiled and asked his subordinates to count the results.

After a while, several of his soldiers tied up one of them and brought him over.

"General Zu, I caught a big rogue guy. ”

Zu Dashou smiled, "How big?"

According to other rogues, he is Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son Li Dingguo. ”

Zu Dashou smiled, "Yo, it's not small." Take it down the mountain and listen to the fate of Grandpa Guo. ”

Li Dingguo's eyes were red, and he roared with his head, "There is a kind of killing Lao Tzu, and there is a kind of killing Lao Tzu!"

It's also a bit backbone.

But he was immediately beaten by the coalition soldiers.

Like Zu Dashou, the progress of the other two roads is also very smooth.

Zhang Xianzhong arranged about 3,000 people on each of the three roads up the mountain, relying on dangerous places to carry out echelon defense. Naturally, he would not expect to hold on to Yuantou Mountain, but hoped to drag it out until dark.

These soldiers are Zhang Xianzhong's old subordinates, who have fought many tough battles, and their equipment is also the most sophisticated among the Liukou in Shanxi.

Zhang Xianzhong believes that there is at most one hour before dark. With the advantage of geographical advantages, it is no problem for these 9,000 troops to drag until dark.

But Zhang Xianzhong seems to have forgotten that his soldiers haven't eaten for a long time. Even if the Zhang family's caravan brought some grain a few days ago, Zhang Xianzhong didn't dare to let them eat openly. In addition, the group of "elite soldiers" under his command have long lost much confidence in him.

And he is facing an army that has fought the Demon Cult and the Tartars, and is not inferior to the top infantry in Asia. Even, this army now has a psychological advantage when facing the Demon Cult and the Tartars.

It probably took less than half an hour for the coalition forces to completely defeat all the rogues on the three roads. The so-called devastating and invincible is nothing more than that.

The sun is about to set, but it hasn't set yet.