When the officers and soldiers attacked Tiantianhu and his party, they advanced stealthily and attacked quickly.
They were immediately attacked by Ta Tianhu and his party, so that Ta Tianhu and the others did not have enough preparation time, so they were attacked during the march.
After being raided by the officers and soldiers, Ta Tianhu once wanted to resist the first wave of attacks by the officers and soldiers, so as to stabilize his position before counterattacking or retreating.
However, he underestimated the combat power of the officers and soldiers led by Huang Guangmao. After Huang Guangmao personally led 300 soldiers to rush forward, the Sky-Taking Tiger and his party were completely helpless and were forced to flee.
Because the incident happened suddenly, although Ta Tianhu forced the young cannon fodder to come forward to resist and buy time for the hundreds of old thieves to retreat, in fact, those young and strong men stopped resisting when they saw the officers and soldiers coming to kill them. Ta Tianhu and the others started again After escaping, all of them ran away without giving the Sky Tramping Tiger and the others a chance to break up the rear.
In desperation, Tiantianhu and the others could only flee in panic. They didn't even have time to bring food, mules and horses and other baggage with them. They couldn't wait to get into the forest to escape for their lives.
After all, the officers and soldiers were right in front of them at that time. In order to escape for their lives, they ran away without caring about so many things. Some even thought that the weapons and armor were too heavy and hindered them, so they threw away their weapons and armor in order to escape.
When they climbed over a mountain and the Sky-trapping Tiger gathered his soldiers to count, he found that there were only a hundred or so old thieves left under his command.
More importantly, they fled too quickly and failed to bring the food and baggage behind.
Without food, they could only slaughter the few mules and horses they brought out, thinking that they could survive by slaughtering mules and horses.
But they didn't expect that the mountains were high and densely forested, and it would be more difficult to walk deeper into the mountains. Moreover, they were not familiar with this place and could not find any mountain hunters to guide them.
So, after wandering around in the mountains for a few days, they successfully got lost in the mountains...
I wandered around in the mountains but couldn't find a way out of the mountains.
Looking at the endless mountains in front of them, these more than a hundred old thieves are all desperate!
Even Ta Tianhu, who had been constantly boosting morale, had a look of despair on his face.
He finally managed to gather more than 2,000 people and get a batch of food. However, a sudden encounter made his efforts in vain.
Not only that, but the backbone of the old thieves under his command killed and injured another twenty or thirty people, leaving only about a hundred and fifty people left.
Their efforts were in vain, their strength was damaged, and what was even worse was that they got lost in the mountains.
After they had eaten all the mules and horses, they could only continue to cross the mountains with hungry stomachs. They did not look for the mountain trails that went back and forth, and walked directly through the dense forest and headed east.
After all, the east side must be Ruzhou. If you keep walking towards the east, you will definitely be able to get out.
When this group of hungry old thieves, with their chests pressed against their backs and unable to even walk safely, wandered over the mountains and ridges for seven or eight days, they finally saw hope of survival!
After they emerged from a dense forest, they saw a clearing ahead, and a large number of houses could be seen not far from the clearing.
This is a village, a still inhabited village.
Many of the old thieves were already dizzy from hunger. Seeing this scene, the old thieves showed ecstasy on their faces: The sky is the limit. As long as they rob this village, they can survive, and maybe they can make a comeback.
But their newly raised hopes were dashed before they could last.
Because they soon saw more than a hundred archers armed with swords, spears and arrows coming out of the village in front of them. Among them, there were seven or eight cavalry who rushed up and bent their bows to shoot arrows...
Seeing this scene, the Titianhu, who was already dizzy from hunger, murmured: It's over...
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Luo Zhixue from Sanshui Village felt very strange when he saw this group of bandits emerging from the mountains and forests to the west.
To be honest, Luo Zhixue never expected that these bandits could come out of the mountain forest and walk to the edge of Sanshui Village.
Because no normal person would do this kind of thing.
This place is not a densely populated place, but deep in the mountains with no people. The mountains are high and the forests are dense. If you don't take the trail that was opened before and go directly through the mountains and forests, you need to open a road all the way. It is very difficult. big.
However, just half a day ago, Luo Zhixue arranged for an emergency report from the lookout post on the top of the mountain to the west, saying that a group of bandits had appeared in the forest to the west.
At first, Luo Zhixue thought that these bandits were marching from the mountain road to the east, hiding it or simply killing their own sentries deployed on the mountain road. Then they reached the edge of Sanshui Village, and in order to bypass Wuli Pass, And he made a special circle and ran to the mountains and forests in the west.
Well, the lookout posts set up by Sanshui Village on the three sides of the mountains in the southwest and north are to guard against this kind of situation.
However, Luo Zhixue still didn't expect that these people didn't come from the east, but came all the way from the west to cut through the mountains and open a road.
Although Luo Zhixue didn't understand this fool-like behavior, he was still very alert and immediately ordered his troops to assemble and prepare for war.
After he assembled his troops, he did not rush directly into the forest to intercept. Instead, he waited for the enemy to emerge from the forest before intercepting.
What happened next was not too surprising. After a group of thieves in rags finally got out of the forest, they met dozens of people from the Funiu Mountain Baoxiang Camp supply camp led by Luo Zhixue.
On one side was the exhausted and hungry bandit, whose chest was pressed against his back and he couldn't even walk steadily.
On the other side was a supply camp that had been prepared several hours in advance, armed with spears, swords and shields.
Among them are seven elite cavalry. These seven elite cavalry are actually four soldiers under Luo Zhixue, namely the gunners transferred by Sun Chengli before. Luo Zhixue temporarily summoned them to form a cavalry team. Cooperate with the sixty infantry of the baggage battalion to fight.
Ta Tianhu and his party had no power to resist at all. Although Ta Tianhu tried his best to resist with a few close soldiers, but after Ta Tianhu was shot to death by Zhao Hongshu with an arrow, this group of hundreds of thieves I surrendered simply...
The reason why these people surrendered so simply.
On the one hand, it was because the leader, Ta Tianhu, died.
On the other hand, they also discovered that these people on the opposite side were not officers and soldiers, and judging from their formations and cavalry, they were unlikely to be ordinary bandits and bandits, so they believed that these people had a high probability of being with Just like myself, we are a rebel army.
In this case, they felt that their lives should be saved, and at worst, they could just defect to the rebels in front of them.
Furthermore, there was another important reason for their surrender.
It can also be said to be the most important reason.
That means they are starving to death...
If they turned around and fled back to the mountains, they didn't think they could survive.
There are many smart people who can think of this, so after Tianthu died, many people under him simply chose to throw down their swords, and then lay down on the ground and shouted:
"Spare your life!"
"I surrender"
At this time, in fact, the sixty infantrymen in the baggage camp had not had time to rush forward.
This small-scale battle was fought solely by the seven cavalrymen in the cavalry squad.
In fact, the cavalry team didn't do much. They didn't even charge forward to fight. They just rode their horses past and fired a few waves of bows and arrows, causing seven or eight casualties to the opponent.
But just like that, the other party surrendered one after another.
Seeing that the other party had surrendered, Luo Zhixue did not dare to relax.
"Ask everyone on the other side to abandon their weapons and armor, and come over in batches with their hands raised high."
"Send someone up to tie them up."
"Stay alert. If the opponent resists, kill him immediately."
Luo Zhixue didn't want to see people pretending to surrender and then launching a counter-attack, so he asked the opponent to abandon their weapons and armor as soon as possible.
And sent people to tie these prisoners into strings one by one.
After the surrendered bandits were tied up one by one, Luo Zhixue roughly cleaned the battlefield, mainly collecting the weapons and armor abandoned by the opponent.
After everything was done, Anyonduo came up with an excited face: "Sir, we have made a big gain this time. We seized fifty-three intact knives, eighteen pairs of strong bows, and five pairs of armor. "
Luo Zhixue, who had ordinary swords and bows and arrows, didn't look much at them, but instead turned his attention to the five pairs of armor.
Four of the sets are ordinary cloth-covered armors. This kind of armor looks like it has many dense copper nails on the outside. At first glance, it seems to be just a military coat with diamonds inlaid with copper nails on the clothes.
But if you open it up and look at it, you can see that there are pieces of iron on the inner layer of the fabric.
This kind of cloth-covered iron armor is a standard armor commonly used by the contemporary Ming army. It is also a commonly used armor by major rebels and even Japanese pirates. It is considered a very common armor in contemporary East Asia.
Luo Zhixue's soldiers had two original sets of iron armor, and later used cotton armor to transform several sets of cotton armor, which were actually this kind of cloth-covered armor.
There are good and bad things like cloth-covered armor. Some good-quality ones often have an outer layer of cloth, a middle layer of thicker iron sheets, and an inner layer of multiple layers of strong cotton, which can act as a double layer of defense and take into account cold resistance. It can protect weapons and firearms, and can also be used as a warm coat in winter...
However, there are not many such good cloth-covered armors. Most of the cloth-covered armors are just thin iron sheets nailed to the cloth. In many cases, in order to save costs, the inner armor is just a little casually placed on the chest. , its defensive capabilities can be seen.
Whether something like cloth-covered armor is good for defense or not depends purely on whether you are willing to spend money on it.
If you are willing to spend money, if the quality is improved, then the defense is not bad.
If you are not willing to spend money, then it is basically no different from a military coat...
In addition to these four sets of cloth-covered iron armor, there is also a set of fish-scale armor.
This set of fish-scale armor is relatively well-made, with helmets and other parts also complete. Generally speaking, this kind of fine fish-scale armor is worn by officers. Ordinary soldiers and even junior officers cannot afford such things.
Obtaining these five sets of armor made Luo Zhixue feel very good.
It is not easy to get a good set of armor these days, whether it is captured or made by oneself. Now that a wave of thieves have attacked and he has obtained five sets of armor, Luo Zhixue is naturally in a good mood.
Luo Zhixue was in a good mood, so he did not treat these thieves who suddenly appeared too harshly. Seeing that they were all dizzy with hunger, he ordered someone to cook a pot of porridge to prevent these people from starving to death.
After all, it’s free labor, isn’t it?
At the same time, they also asked people to question them, at least to find out the origins of these thieves.
Seeing that porridge and water were being distributed, these bandit prisoners of war rushed to tell everything they knew in order to drink porridge.
