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The fog finally dissipated, and a red sun was in the sky, and thousands of golden lights were sprinkled!

On the banks of the unknown small river, Zhu Wen was directing his men to dig pits on his own position by the river. One small pit after another, each pit was only one foot long and about one foot deep.

"Dig the pit and then insert a sharpened wooden stick into it. Remember to put it in a bit!" Zhu Wen shouted loudly while digging the pit hard. Although Li Cunxiao gave him five teams of 250 brothers, Zhu Wen still had no confidence. Although these 200 people all had full equipment, they were just recruited brave soldiers after all. Who knows if they would scatter under the impact of the thief?

For his own life and future, Zhu Wen tried every possible way. Finally, he remembered the trap of hunting to deal with beasts. He discussed with Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun. Both of them thought that this method was good. Anyway, their task was to defend this river beach. Since that was the case, it would be the best place to dig a pit. However, it is too late to dig a large pit to deal with the enemy, so he would just dig a small pit. First of all, this pit is the best cavalry to guard against thieves. After all, if the thieves have cavalry, even if the cavalry is bad, as long as they rush up on horseback, it will still be a huge threat.

Digging a trapped horse pit and planting small tips can not only prevent horse riding and rushing to the formation, but also allow infantry to fail to rush in for a while.

The two hundred new recruits on the left wing were also full of tension at this time. They knew that digging a hole could relieve some pressure. Everyone had no complaints and were digging the hole desperately.

Li Cunxiao rode a horse to inspect the left-wing positions, and was very satisfied with Zhu Wen's active defensive arrangement. He smiled and scolded Zhu Wen: "Since you know how to dig a trap and plant a stake. Why don't you plant deer antlers and trees to resist horses? Now that the enemy's soldiers have not arrived yet, you can dig a trench and pile up a wall of earth!"

Zhu Wen and others have just joined the army. They didn’t know how to fight before, so they dug a hole based on the experience of hunters. Li Cunxiao has been with Li Jing for so long and is very familiar with many combat defense fortifications in the war. In the night school subjects of the town, defense civil fortifications are a must-learn.

After Li Cunxiao pulled out a little, Zhu Wen couldn't help but lit up. It turned out that in war it was not just about you who killed me.

"If you want to do something, you have to hurry up, otherwise it will be too late when the thief comes." Li Cunxiao smiled and turned to an officer next to him and said, "Go and bring a thousand of our caltrops to Zhu Wen."

The caltrops are four-legged nails. When throwing them at will, one foot will inevitably face upwards. This is the last weapon to deal with infantry. Especially when fighting in positions, throw them in front of the formation. If the enemy infantry rushed up directly, they would have to suffer huge damage. This time, Li Jing specially pulled a group of auxiliary troops, and Li Cunxiao himself only had 5,000, and this time he gave Zhu Wen one thousand.

By noon, Zhu Wen, a half-man-high trench had been dug up on the defense line that was dozens of feet defended by Zhu Wen, and then he used the dug soil to build a wall of about five feet high. Zhu Wen and his friends stood behind the wall, with earth walls covering the bows and arrows. Moreover, the earth walls and the hail were combined were equivalent to a city wall of only a maximum-foot city wall. It would be difficult for the thieves to break through their positions directly.

In front of the earth wall and the moat ditch, there are dense horse pits about sixty steps wide, and sharpened wooden stakes were planted in the horse pit. In addition, many deer antlers were planted on this land. The so-called deer antlers are sharpened wooden stakes about two or three feet high, which are planted in front of the position in a mess, effectively preventing enemy infantry and cavalry from charging. In addition to deer antlers, there are also horse-resisting wood, which is also made of sharpened wood, but not planted on the ground, but tied several sharpened wooden stakes together, and set a row in front of the formation, forming sections of horse-resisting walls, forcing the enemy to slow down when charging. The biggest function is to prevent cavalry from charging.

The richest thousand caltrops have all been scattered on this open land within sixty steps.

After doing all this, more than 200 new recruits were lying on the ground like dogs. In May, they were already wet with sweat. However, looking at this position that had completely changed by them, Zhu Wen and others were amazed.

This piece of land has really become a death trap. If anyone rushed up, it would be impossible to ask for it. Everyone's nervous and worried mood couldn't help but feel relieved.

Countless crows flew past the sky, hovering above their heads. Recently, thieves burned, killed and looted nearby. The wilderness and countryside were full of exposed corpses, attracting countless crows. When these crows saw so many people gathered together, they could not wait to enjoy a feast of crows!

"Wait for feeding the crows!" Zhu Zhen looked up at these crows who were not afraid of the soldiers, then looked at the fortifications they had just built, and cursed in a low voice. Although Zhu Wen did not speak, he couldn't help but nodded in agreement. However, although there were such fortifications, there were still too few people. Only 250 people had to guard the defense line of dozens of feet. What's more important is that most of these soldiers were new soldiers. Although their quality was good, there were not many archers.

"Everyone who knows how to bow and arrow comes over, and each of the others only leaves ten arrows, and give them the rest of the arrows." Zhu Wen thought for a while, and finally decided to gather the archers of the more than 200 people to use them.

There were not many archers, about thirty people. Most of these people were hunters before. Zhu Wen personally tested it, and all archery skills were OK. Zhu Wen formed them into a team, directly commanded by himself, and then divided the rest. Fifty people with strong martial arts and tall and brave men were formed into a team, and these people would be the dancers and shields. The rest were 170 people. Zhu Wen divided 120 of them into four teams of thirty people, and the remaining fifty people were appointed as reserve teams by Zhu Wen Chong, ready to support at any time.

Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun had no objection, and the other four team leaders were divided into seven teams. Zhu Wen commanded the archers himself, Zhu Cun and Zhu Zhen each commanded a team of swords and shields, while the other four team leaders each commanded a team of spearmen.

Just after the arrangement was completed, a cavalry team suddenly rushed over, and Zhu Wen recognized that it was Li Cunxiao's personal army.

Soon a messenger arrived and conveyed the latest news to him, "Commander Fu, Commander Yang, Commander Gao, and Commander Wang have all entered Yucheng and are now fighting bloody battles with the enemy in the city. Commander Liu sent an order, and the scouts had discovered that a large group of thieves were coming from the southeast, so that they must hold their positions before capturing Yucheng and prevent enemy reinforcements from reaching the city of Yucheng."

"How many thieves are coming?" Zhu Wen's voice was trembling.

"About three thousand!" After the messenger left this sentence, he turned around and turned around.

Can their 1,000 troops defend their positions and block the three thousand thieves?

He didn't have time to think about these things carefully. The sound of war drums had already come from Li Cunxiao's central position. The drum sound became louder and louder, and the rhythm of the war drum caused his heart to be faster and faster, making him blush and his hands tremble slightly.

Zhu Cun picked up the red pennant gun. In an instant, the bandits had already appeared in front. They emerged from the plain along the river, and were everywhere. The bandits in front held high flags, and shields and spears formed a solid barrier, and were constantly moving forward.

"Damn it!" Zhu Wen couldn't help but curse. How many people were there? Looking at this glance, there were more than three thousand men on the other side, but if you think about it carefully, the three thousand men should be bandit soldiers. The ones in the wild behind should not be bandit soldiers, but just people being held captive.

The leaders of the bandit army rode war horses and advanced under the surround of the bandits.

He saw many flags, but these flags were very strange. They were made of cloth of various colors, of different sizes and colors, and there were even no yarns on them. They were just painted with various patterns like ghost talismans. Some were painted with ferocious tigers, some were painted with wolves, and some were painted with swords, spears, and battle axes. The flags were floating in the wind and flew over the long poles.

Amid the rumbling drums, the horn sounded, whimpering!~~~It was low and long, like the north wind that had just passed, making people feel cold and grey. Zhu Wen felt a little nauseous, as if the wine he drank last night was only feeling uncomfortable now, and his stomach spasms, a sense of nausea, and he was dizzy.

Amid the sound of the trumpet, the two armies were approaching to war.

Li Cunxiao of the central army was the first to order the arrows to be fired, while the bandit army began to send their hundreds of cavalry to charge directly. The bandit army's cavalry began to accelerate and ran around and shouted. For a long time, they had fought with the government army and rushed forward to defeat the government army. Today, they were preparing to continue like this and directly submerged the government army with the sea of ​​people tactics.

The archers of the auxiliary army in the middle lane held their bows one after another, and at this time they didn't care about archery skills, they just shot arrows. Those who had never taken the bow were commanded by Li Cunxiao to use a spear throwing device to install five-foot javelins one by one, and then with a call, they twisted their waists and raised their arms, and threw the javelins out with all their might.

In the sparse rain of arrows, countless javelins flew by, hundreds of spears roared by, and suddenly fell towards the arrogant thief cavalry.

Archery requires precise archery skills, but not much skill is required. Especially after being equipped with a simple but practical spear thrower, any recruit can throw the gun fifty steps away, and some soldiers with good talent can even throw the javelin to one hundred and twenty steps away.

In an instant, as many as five or six hundred javelins roared and fell from the air, giving the arrogant thief cavalry a fatal blow. Many war horses and knights fell to the ground with guns, and their arrogant shouts turned into miserable wails.

And at this time, the second wave of attacks arrived again.

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