In the early morning, just dawn, on the highest hill between Chongqing Prefecture City and Fotuguan.

Zhu Qizhe took the telescope and glanced at the terrain on both sides of the official road on the west side, then pointed to the two small hills on both sides of the official road and said to Qi Jin: "General Qi, look at those two small hills, less than fifty steps away from the official road, and the slope is good, which can be used to block the enemy reinforcements."

Upon hearing this, Qi Jin quickly picked up the telescope and looked carefully.

After a while, he put down the telescope and said with confusion: "Prince, please forgive me for being stupid. Those two mountains seem to be a bit far away from the official road, and they are not cliffs, and there is no cover on the mountain. It seems that they are not suitable for blocking enemy reinforcements, right?"

Uh, how do you explain this?

Zhu Qizhe raised his telescope and looked at the direction of Chongqing Prefecture City and Fotu Pass. Then he said to Li Wanxiong behind him: "General Li, you send someone to build a watchtower here and send a post to monitor the direction of Chongqing Prefecture City and Fotu Pass for twelve hours. Once an enemy approaches, he will sing a flag to inform the camp below. This will be used for posting."

After saying that, he handed the telescope in his hand to Li Wanxiong.

At this moment, the telescopes in Wang Zheng have not yet been mass-produced. In a month, there were only 20, and the farthest ones can be seen four or five miles away.

He didn't send much, except for the commander, deputy commander and division commander, only a few generals from the Ma family and Qin family were in the hands of them.

He saved all the remaining few for himself.

The one in his hand is the farthest to look at. It is enough to monitor the direction of Chongqing Prefecture City and Fotu Pass. After all, this place is only about five miles away from Chongqing Prefecture City and Fotu Pass. Once the enemy sends troops, they will be discovered.

After arranging the observation tower, he waved his hand and took Qi Jin and others down the mountain.

At this time, his 40,000 troops had crossed the Jialing River and arrived between Chongqing Prefecture City and Fotuguan.

The 10,000-ping Dongjun under Li Wanxiong and the 10,000-plus young and strong men under Ma Xianglin were logging wood and building a camp.

Ma Qiancheng and Qin Gongming led the Imperial Guards to set up a formation in the direction of Chongqing Fucheng, ready to block the rebels' attack at any time.

In fact, the rebels in Chongqing City could not fight and could go out to attack their "official soldiers" because there were only 5,000 rebels in Chongqing City at this moment. If they dared to run out, they were just delivering vegetables. Not only did they give heads to the "official soldiers", but they even gave them together.

The most likely direction of the rebels' attack was still to the west, that is, from Fotu Pass, Qingmu Pass, Erlang Pass, and even Hejiang and Luzhou to mobilize heavy troops to fight to the death with the "commissioned officers and soldiers".

Therefore, Zhu Qizhe placed the strongest Qi family army under his command west, facing the direction of Fotu Pass, setting up a formation and waiting for the battle.

The formation of the Qi family army really looked extremely strict, with 10,000 people and nearly two thousand small mandarin duck formations spread out in geese, blocking the land passage less than two miles wide between Fotu Pass and Chongqing Prefecture City.

Behind the Yanxing Formation, there were a hundred tiger squatting cannons lined up in a row, with their muzzles facing the official road between the two small hills in front.

That momentum really makes people feel a little numb.

Zhu Qizhe inspected the formation and nodded with admiration.

The Qi family army is indeed worthy of the invincible hero. Even though the group under his command is newly trained, the momentum still gives people an incomparable sense.

Qi Jin's formation was also quite good. Even if the rebels recruited all 40,000 to 50,000 troops from the 17th Company outside Fotu Pass, they might not be able to pass the Qi family's army.

The problem is that if you fight someone in front of you, casualties will be inevitable. Even if the Qi family's army has to withstand the frontal attack of 40,000 to 50,000 rebels, they will probably have more than half of the casualties.

These elites cannot be consumed here in vain.

Zhu Qizhe pointed to Shan Bao on both sides of the front and said, "General Qi, let your personal guards come with me with a shovel."

After saying that, he walked along the official road.

He walked to the middle of the two mountain bags, looked left and right, then turned around and strode towards the mountain bag on the right.

One step, two steps, three steps.

He was thinking silently in his mind as he walked. When he reached a hundred steps, he looked back at the official road and walked forward for about ten steps before pointing to the hillside under his feet: "Dig, dig it flat, just lie down on one person vertically, and pile all the digging soil in front of him, and pile it into a half-person-high earth wall."

Qi Jin didn't know what Zhuqiu was going to do, but it was not difficult to dig such a small flat ground on the originally not very steep hillside. He waved his hand and the guards of hundreds of guard companies swung their shovels to dig.

It is not difficult to dig a trench on this soft soil slope. In less than a quarter of an hour, a trench with a width of about 100 meters was dug.

Zhu Qizhu nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Everyone is down, one class gathers together, and your eyes stretch out from the ground slope."

With a "wow", hundreds of personal guards slept into the trench at once, with five people lying neatly.

He looked in front of the trench in Zhuqi Garbage Station, then patted his forehead again, turned around and pulled the weeds into a big circle, put it on the head of a guard, took a few steps back and looked at it, then nodded with satisfaction, "Well, that's all. As long as everyone wears this straw hat on their heads, they can't see clearly that people are lying here in the distance."

Qi Jin looked at all this in amazement and couldn't help but exclaim: "Prince, your hidden method is so amazing!"

What's wrong with this? Isn't it just a trench?

Zhu Qizhe pointed to the mountain bag opposite the official road and said lightly: "Divid five thousand people, dig such a ditch and ambush it."

OK!

Qi Jin raised his hand to call a guard, and explained it carefully, and the guard ran down the mountain.

He did not rush to go down the mountain, but instead walked to the front of the trench, looked around, thought for a while, and then ordered: "The sword and shield hand is half squatted and erected the shield."

With a "wow", dozens of swords and shields lying in the trench immediately squatted up, erecting the shield and blocking it in front of you.

He walked forward again, leaned the two shields of a squad into the middle, leaving only a crack for the barrel of the musket. Then he nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "The spearman stood behind the shield by lunge."

With a "wow", dozens of spearmen lay in the trench and stepped on their lunges, holding their spears and standing behind the shield.

Qi Jin then ordered: "Rain Rain, hide."

With a "wow", the long spearman standing in a lunge immediately raised his waist and shrank behind the shield.

Qi Jin then ordered: "Long spear, sprint!"

"Kill", with a roar, dozens of spears immediately stabbed out from behind the shield.

At this moment, it was Zhu Qizhu's turn to be stunned.

Qi Jin is worthy of being a leader of the battles for hundreds of battles, and soon thought of what to do if the enemy plays on the hillsides on both sides.

Most of the rebels carried bows and arrows. When they were ambushed, they were likely to gather together to rush to the hillside on one side and occupy a mountain first.

The Qi family army's firepower is not very strong at this moment, and each squad is equipped with a musket, and the remaining are two swords, shields and two spearmen.

In other words, there are only 1,000 muskets in the mountains on both sides. If the enemy is tens of thousands, it will definitely not be eliminated for a while. At that time, it is very likely that close combat will be required.

Qi Jin practiced carefully for a while, then nodded with satisfaction, and then ordered: "Okay, get up, get together, teach them how to dig a trenches, hide, hide, avoid arrow rain, and sting close to each other."

"Crash" hundreds of guards immediately scattered and ran down the mountain.
Chapter completed!