Chapter 20 Ambush
The bandits who Li Bin was worried about did not attack the camp at night and they were safe all night. Early in the morning on May 22, after breakfast, Li Bin led his troops to continue to march towards Jiguanling.
As he got closer and closer to Jiguanling, Li Bin and his six infantry heavy armor did not take off again. There were ten carriages in the team. If someone felt tired, he could go to the carriage to rest for a while.
About ten miles away from Jiguanling, the troops of the government soldiers walked into a forest along a dirt road.
Not long after the army of the government troops walked into the woods, Xu Chu, who was walking in the front of the team, suddenly stopped, then raised his right hand and made a gesture of stopping behind him.
Li Bin, carrying an 88-pound iron rod hammer, walked quickly from the middle of the team to Xu Chu, "What's wrong?"
Xu Chu said in a deep voice: "Lord, the woods in front are a little too quiet. I am worried that there will be ambush from bandits. This place is not far from Jiguanling."
Li Bin looked at the silent forest ahead with a serious expression, and then said, "Send a few soldiers to the front and check it carefully, don't really fall into the ambush of the bandits."
At this time, about two hundred steps away from the front of the mansion, many people holding bows and arrows and weapons were lying on both sides of the dirt road.
Seeing the troops of the mansion stop, a solid man in heavy infantry armor lowered his voice and said to another strong man with a stronger figure: "Brother, the officers and soldiers suddenly stopped. Have you noticed us?"
This strong man, who was nearly 1.8 meters tall, is Sun Yuan, the leader of Jiguanling. The honest man who spoke before was Huang Kun, the second leader of Jiguanling. Both of them were originally the border guards of Jingyuan City, Qizhou Prefecture. Sun Yuan was also a mate commander, and Huang Kun was a deputy mate commander under Sun Yuan.
Later, Sun Yuan and Huang Kun were discovered because of killing good deeds. Sun Yuan and Huang Kun, who were unwilling to be killed, then fled from the army and became bandits in Xiu'an County, Guo'an County, Qizhou Prefecture, and gradually gathered about 2,000 subordinates. Among the many bandits in Qizhou Prefecture, Sun Yuan and Huang Kun are the largest ones.
Xiu'an County is located in the northwest of Qizhou Prefecture, not adjacent to Leishan County, Pu'an County, Xuanzhou Prefecture, and even several counties are separated in the middle. Therefore, the county magistrate Chen Fu, county magistrate He Yunbin and others did not know that the group of bandits that appeared in Jiguanling were the group of bandits that caused a great sensation in Qizhou Prefecture.
About two months ago, Sun Yuan and Huang Kun, a group of bandits, were jointly encircled and suppressed by Qizhou Guard Imperial Army and local government soldiers in Guo'an County. After a bloody battle, Sun Yuan, Huang Kun and others finally broke through the siege with more than 400 remaining subordinates, and finally escaped to Leishan County, Pu'an County, and established a new mountain village in Jiguanling, north of Leishan County.
Sun Yuan is a man with great martial arts skills and has reached the level of a dark martial artist. Last time, Leishan County sent troops to suppress bandits. Li Jingyu, who is also a dark martial artist, failed to hold on to Sun Yuan's hands and was injured by Sun Yuan's shoulder.
Huang Kun's martial arts are also quite good. Although he is only a Mingjin warrior, his strength is not worse than that of ordinary Dark King warriors.
Among the bandits in Jiguanling, the one with the most powerful martial arts skills is not Sun Yuan, but Sun Xiong, the third leader.
Sun Xiong is Sun Yuan's adopted son, nicknamed Big Xiong, with a big waist and a round waist, and a height of seven feet and five meters, which is two meters and two five meters. It is like a small giant, and its weapons are two mountain hammers weighing 180 kilograms each.
Sun Xiong's IQ is lower than that of ordinary people. He has lived alone in the jungle since he was a child. He even didn't speak human words before, so he didn't have to talk about practicing any kind of Yuanqi martial arts.
However, Sun Xiong was born with divine power and was able to tear tigers and leopards. By chance, Sun Xiong, who was like a savage, was discovered by Sun Yuan, so he took him as his adopted son.
It was precisely because of Sun Xiong, the extremely powerful general, Sun Yuan and Huang Kun, that group of bandits were able to escape from the encirclement of the Imperial Guards of Qizhou and the local government soldiers of Guo'an County.
In that bloody battle to break through, the imperial guards and the palace soldiers who died under Sun Xiong's pair of shocked mountain hammers combined had at least more than two hundred people.
Among them are Mingjin warriors and Darkjin warriors, and even a martial artist in Huajin was killed by Sun Xiong's mountain hammer.
However, Sun Xiong was seriously injured in that bloody battle of breaking through, with as many as thirteen wounds on his body. Until now, Sun Xiong's injuries have not fully recovered. Therefore, Sun Yuan did not bring Sun Xiong with him this time when the ambushed the soldiers of Leishan County.
Even when Leishan County sent troops to suppress bandits last time, Sun Xiong did not participate in the war, otherwise the losses in Leishan County might have increased a lot. Li Jingyi, Li Jingde and Li Jingyu could not return to Leishan County if they were not done well.
The big boss Sun Yuan's eyes flashed with fierce light, "I'll call on my brothers to come and kill. Even if the officers and soldiers did not enter our ambush circle, a mere team of soldiers from the palace would not cause us much trouble!"
Xu Chu was about to send several soldiers under his command to investigate. When figures suddenly swayed in the woods on both sides of the dirt road three hundred steps away, and many people holding weapons suddenly appeared.
Li Bin and Xu Chu immediately shouted at the same time: "Enemy attack! Arrangement!"
Fortunately, Xu Chu was more alert. The team of the mansion soldiers did not plunge into the ambush circle of Jiguanling bandits, leaving Li Bin and the others with sufficient preparation time.
The soldiers of Leishan County were well-trained. Soon the soldiers in front lined up a dense battle formation. There were more than a dozen swallowtail shields in front, almost completely sealing the dirt road in the middle of the woods. A spear stretched out from the gap between the swallowtail shields.
The Jiguanling bandits appeared in the woods, with nearly 300 people, all of them were wearing armor, holding shields and various weapons in their hands, and almost half of them were carrying bows and arrows.
Sun Yuan waved the wide-blade machete in his hand forward and shouted: "Brothers, kill all these officers and soldiers, one officer and soldier's head, and a reward of three taels of silver!"
The second in commander Huang Kun waved his waist and echoed, "Kill all the officers and soldiers! Get the reward!"
"Kill all the officers and soldiers!"
"Kill--"
When the bandits from Jiguanling rushed to about sixty steps away from the battle formation of the mansion soldiers, the soldiers with bows and arrows in the battle formation of the mansion soldiers began to shoot arrows at the bandits rushing over, and then the bandits' archers also launched a counterattack.
Taking one foot is a step, taking two feet is a step. One step in the Great Yan Empire is about 1.5 meters, and sixty steps are about 90 meters.
Li Bin, Xu Chu and Dian Wei were not equipped with bows and arrows. Li Bin had never practiced archery at all. Xu Chu and Dian Wei's archery skills were very average, and there was no strong bow suitable for Xu Chu and Dian Wei. The bow that Li Bin pulled the most is Li Meng's ox-horned bow that was one stone and three bets. The remaining bows were less than one stone.
The people in front of both sides had shields and were all wearing armor. The intertwined rain of arrows did not cause much damage to both sides at the beginning. It was only when the distance between the two sides was closer to within thirty steps, the heavy arrows fired by the archers on both sides made more screams.
The bandits in Jiguanling are worthy of being a group of bandits. After the two sides met in close combat, the two rows of soldiers at the front of the battle formation of the mansion were almost instantly attacked by the bandits.
The soldiers behind saw that the two rows of soldiers in front were instantly washed away, and subconsciously turned around and fled backward. As soon as the entire mansion war formation was engaged, they were on the verge of collapse.
However, at this moment, there were suddenly three people like the God of Killing in the battle formation of the palace soldiers. They rushed up against many bandits, and like chopping melons and vegetables, they killed more than 20 fierce bandits in an instant. These three were Li Bin, Dian Wei and Xu Chu.
Lin Xiang and Lin Hao, who were originally leading the auxiliary soldiers, rushed to the front line at this time, followed Li Meng, behind Li Bin, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu, and slashed at the numerous bandits.
If Li Bin, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu are the gods of killing, then Li Meng, Lin Xiang, and Lin Hao are also considered three tigers. The three gods of killing plus three tigers immediately knocked the bandits down.
Relying on the counterattack of Li Bin and the sixth people, the bandits' aura was suppressed. The soldiers and soldiers who had almost dispersed immediately gathered and followed Li Bin and the sixth people, covering up and killing the bandits.
"Brother, those officers and soldiers wearing heavy infantry armor are too fierce, and the brothers seem to be unable to hold on." Huang Kun, the second in command, saw Li Bin holding an iron rod and slapped the heads of several powerful generals under his hands like a watermelon, and felt his calves tremble.
The two bandit leaders, Sun Yuan and Huang Kun, did not rush to the front, but stopped about forty steps away from the battle formation of the mansion soldiers, and kept urging their subordinates to the battle formation of the mansion soldiers.
A trace of fear flashed in the eyes of the boss Sun Yuan at this moment. Although he was already an underworld warrior and his strength was even comparable to that of ordinary Huajin warriors, the cruelty shown by Li Bin, Dian Wei and Xu Chu reminded Sun Yuan of his adopted descendant Xiong.
"What a shitty information? Didn't it mean that the only ones who led the troops this time were only a few babies who were not as good as the crown? Retreat! Retreat all! Withdraw back to the parody immediately!" The boss Sun Yuan shouted and turned around and ran away.
Chapter completed!