"General, just like what this prisoner said, their village is just over ten miles away, and there is a small path behind the village, which can be escaped." After several scouts returned, they reported the collected information to Zhao Guirong.

The captured middle-aged man was tied up here. When he heard the scout's report to Zhao Guirong, although he didn't understand what they were saying, he roughly knew that because of his betrayal, his village had been exposed.

"Well done, this time they will accept our most severe revenge." Zhao Guirong sat cross-legged on the ground, with the sword beside him stuck to the ground.

This is the third day they were blocked from staying here.

"Are we going to set out to attack the village? Our schedule for attacking Gaoping City has been delayed for three days?" Some low-level officers also sat cross-legged on the ground. They could no longer hold back and wished they could take revenge as soon as possible and return to their hometown.

"Just just in case, wait a little longer, our reinforcements are coming." Zhao Guirong comforted the restless people, but still had no intention of attacking the local village immediately.

"I can't help it anymore. This damn jungle, mosquitoes, will bite people to death, which is even more difficult than when we were training in Guilin." A low-level officer complained.

"It seems that we underestimated the living conditions here at that time. In order to facilitate the transportation of food and grass, we chose a forest close to Guilin City. In fact, after the development of the toasts in history, the more primitive forests were still worse than this." Zhao Guirong said.

"Next time I want to be transferred to the battlefield on the Western Front. I heard that the Seventh Corps on the Western Front has recovered all the territory of the Western Region Protectorate, and it took only three months to end the battle. I would rather go to the battlefield on the Western Front and face the vast Gobi Desert in the sky, which is better than the jungle of snakes, insects, and beasts now?" said a low-level officer.

"Do you think it's good to have a big Gobi? It's easy to die when encountering sandstorms." Zhao Guirong said.

Just as Zhao Guirong was chatting with everyone, the sentries of the Jiuzhou Army on the periphery came to report in panic. However, before they could speak, the soldiers suddenly became cheerful one after another: "Our reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived!"

Zhao Guirong and others were moved and stood up from the ground. After waiting for three days, it was finally time to counterattack.

"Let's go and have a look." Zhao Guirong patted the dust and walked under the stream with a group of middle and low-level officers.

When they came, troops wearing Jiuzhou Army uniforms appeared on the forest road. They were also in groups, with cattle dragging artillery in the middle of the team. The number of people was endless because of the winding winding of the forest road. This reinforcement was Zhao Guirong who couldn't wait to assemble, so they asked them to follow up with two infantry battalions and one artillery battalion. There were more than 3,000 soldiers, which was three times that of Zhao Guirong's current force.

"It's been here!" Zhao Guirong rubbed his hands.

After more than 3,000 people arrived with logistics troops, Zhao Guirong's troops suddenly expanded to more than 6,000. The arrival of reinforcements was a little surprised to see many of his companions who advanced ahead of time, because no one had been so embarrassed when attacking Lang Son.

Zhao Guirong quickly summoned four battalions and used branches to mark the terrain described by the scout on the soft soil beside the stream: "This time I was too arrogant and advanced alone, which led to a great loss for our vanguard. We must wake up the spirit of the next action. You see, this range is the main body of their village. The number of old women, young and old people is about a thousand people, and there are about one thousand soldiers of the Zheng family. In the previous battles, they may have killed and injured hundreds of people, and the number is still more than us, but now all our main forces are here, the number is more than three times that of theirs."

"Now, with the first and second infantry battalions as the main force, the artillery battalions provide support, the third infantry battalion redirects to the rear of the village and ambush them in the small path in the rear. If they give up the village and escape, the ambush troops must block them and let them choose to die in battle or surrender. Get ready to set off!"

The arrival of the main force quickly alarmed the local scouts who were observing in the dark. These local scouts were surprised to find that behind the Jiuzhou army's thousand-man troops, which was originally difficult to deal with, there was a reinforcement that was three times more than them. Unlike the Jiuzhou army, there were reinforcements in the Tuzhou villages, the local villages were just a few people, and the Zheng family's troops were also a dog of a family, so they had no reinforcements! Even if they were temporarily looking for them from the surrounding villages to resist the Jiuzhou army, it seemed too late.

"Go back and notify the clan leader and the young clan leader. Another group of northern barbarians came, with about 4,000 people." A scout asked his companions to return to the village.

The companion also knew that the situation was serious, so he didn't say much and hurriedly shuttled through the forest and returned to the village as soon as possible.

The young clan leader, with more than 200 young and strong people in the village, collected a pile of dry firewood and turbulent oil, piled it at the entrance of the village, intending to use fire to attack the Jiuzhou Army at night and destroy them in one fell swoop. In order to defeat the Jiuzhou Army, he made up his mind to make the decision to set fire to destroy the mountains and forests.

"Young Master, something is wrong!" A scout who was monitoring the Jiuzhou Army ran back in a panic. Seeing the young master leading his men at the door, he hurriedly came to the young master's front panic and said to him.

"What makes you panic? We will soon defeat the northern barbarians. What big things are wrong." The young patriarch said angrily when he saw that the scout said something unlucky.

"The Jiuzhou Army...The Jiuzhou Army has come to reinforcements, and there are many... thousands of people, now they have five or six thousand people..." The scout gasped.

"Isn't it just five or six thousand...what were you saying?!" The young clan leader hadn't reacted for a while at first, but then he understood and hurriedly pulled the scout up.

"It's true..." said the scout.

Zheng Hu walked out of the village wearing armor, with more than a dozen personal soldiers behind him: "What happened? Why is it so noisy at the entrance of the village?"

"Zheng Hu, our fire attack plan may not be implemented tonight, and we must arrange defense matters as soon as possible." The young clan leader's face was not bloody. The Jiuzhou Army, which had more than a thousand people, caused heavy losses to the coalition forces of the village and the Zheng family's troops, and this was because they had the advantage of the terrain. Now the Jiuzhou Army has three times more reinforcements, and has begun to become familiar with the nearby terrain. The offense and defense are easy, so the young clan leader cannot help but worry.

"Five or six thousand..." Zheng Hu was stunned after hearing this and said in a conditioned reflex, "If it is true, you can't fight anymore. Why don't you follow me to Gaoping City and join the defenders there."
Chapter completed!