Fu Jin and Zhang Jin were fellow townsmen. He was also a Hebei Ranger in his early years and was a friend of Zhang Jin. The year before yesterday, he followed Zhang Jin Cheng to raise an army in Gaojipo and became Zhang Jin Cheng's most trusted confidant. He was named General Hu Ben and led three thousand Wuchang Army.

Fu Jin has an ugly appearance and a fat face. He is very cruel. He especially likes to abuse and kill young boys. In just two years, countless young children died at his hands, and they are called "child demons" by the people of Qinghe County.

When people in Qinghe County mentioned him, they all hated him to the core, but they were extremely afraid that the children would not dare to cry at night when they heard this name.

Fu Jin is not tall, but his arms are wide, and he uses a long-handled copper hammer weighing 60 kilograms, which is very skilled in martial arts.

He knew very well that Zhang Jincheng wanted to fight horses. In order to catch up with the fleeing Sui army, Fu Jin was eager to make contributions and led his army to chase him.

Qinghe County belongs to the hilly areas in Shandong, mainly plains, but from time to time you can see low hills covered with dense forests.

There are large fields of wheat on both sides of the official road. Soon after autumn, the corn gradually turned yellow, and the endless fields of millet rose and fell with the wind.

The Sui army retreated south for more than 30 miles in one breath. It was already 4 o'clock. The night was deep and the official road was deserted. There was no pedestrian. Two miles south was the Yongji Canal. Under the reflection of the bright moonlight, dozens of night boats slowly walked along the water.

At this moment, a gust of dust flew away in the distance, and Fu Jin led three thousand soldiers to chase after him with murderous aura.

Zhang Jin said that there were two elite troops, one called the Yan Luo Army and the other called the Wuchang Army. This was originally the name given to them by the people of Qinghe County, but Zhang Jin said that this name was good, so he officially named the two armies Yan Luo and Wuchang.

The Wuchang Army was established last year, mainly with the soldiers in the Shandong area. Last year's Second Battle of Goguryeo was suspended due to Yang Xuangan's rebellion. Most of the soldiers who retreated from Liaodong fled and returned to their hometowns. Although there were no soldiers in the military palace, they benefited from the rebellion bandits everywhere.

Zhang Jin said that he also took the opportunity to recruit 3,000 well-trained soldiers and established the Wuchang Army. They were equipped with the formal Sui Army. They wore bright light armor, had eagle helmets, bows and arrows on the back, cross-swords on the waist, and spears on the hands. They were dressed in the Sui Army, but all the helmets were dyed red, which was particularly conspicuous in the moonlight.

"Quick! Speed ​​up!"

Fu Jin had already seen the rolling dust in the distance, less than two miles away from the Sui army. He was particularly excited and anxious, and desperately ordered the soldiers to pursue him.

But at this time, just above the hills covered with woods not far ahead, Zhang Xuan led 300 cavalry and 800 archers to quietly wait for the pursuit.

Zhang Xuan used a trick of doubting soldiers and ordered hundreds of soldiers to drag branches to run back and forth on the spot, bringing up rolling yellow dust, as if thousands of troops were running away, but he led a thousand elite troops to wait for the arrival of the enemy.

Zhang Xuan's eyes were very quiet. When he returned from the battlefield in Goguryeo, he was like all the soldiers. He was in a triumphant mood to return home, with the joy of expecting the imperial court to reward him, but they never thought that as soon as they returned to the Central Plains, the war came unexpectedly, which caught Zhang Xuan even a little off guard.

But after the fierce battle and breakthrough in the middle of the night, they had gradually entered the state. There was no suspense about evacuating Qinghe County. The key was to leave like this. Not only did Zhang Xuan unwilling to accept it, but all the soldiers were unwilling to accept it.

"General. They are here!"

A soldier pointed to the distance and shouted. Zhang Xuan's eyes became deeper. An army appeared in the distance several miles away, with dust flying. Judging from the dust-covered range, the number of this army would not be too large, at most three or four thousand. His judgment was correct. Zhang Jin said that it would take time to rectify the army. The large army did not have time to fight out, so he would only send a vanguard to chase him.

At this time, all the Sui soldiers in the woods were excited. The archers blew the bow and arrow, and the cavalry all turned over the horses, eager to try. Zhang Xuan ordered in a deep voice: "Listen to my command, don't act rashly!"

Zhang Xuan participated in decomposing various classic battles in history in the classroom of the Army Academy and discussed in depth. He knew very well what the focus of the ambush was.

But that's just a paper talk, but reality is ever-changing. He must combine practical combat with theory and constantly hone himself in practical combat.

Generally speaking, the probability of successful ambush wars is very high, and the main reason is not that the enemy is caught off guard. In fact, many ambush wars have discovered the ambush troops in time, but unfortunately defeated.

The fundamental reason lies in the formation. The importance of formation to the confrontation between the two armies is self-evident. Only neat formation soldiers will not be confused and will have high morale to fight against the enemy.

The marching team usually stretches for a long time and it is difficult to maintain its formation. Therefore, once it is ambushed, the soldiers will often fall into chaos. The first thing people think of instinct for survival is to escape, and then the morale of the army will collapse and eventually collapse completely.

The enemy was getting closer and closer, and the vanguard troops had already run by the Sui army, but they did not find the Sui army soldiers hiding in the woods. Zhang Xuan's pupils gradually contracted. The army had about three thousand people, stretching for about three miles, as if a snake was wandering on the official road.

The key to the snake is seven inches, but the key to the marching team is the main general. He must launch an attack from the main general so that the enemy's main general has no time to organize a counterattack.

Zhang Xuan had already seen the enemy's chief general, located in front of the middle of the team, riding on a war horse, holding a long-handled copper hammer, and dozens of personal guards around him. Zhang Xuan immediately winked at the signal soldiers.

The signal soldiers blew a long cry of night owls. The eight hundred archers immediately straightened their waists and slowly pulled the bowstrings away. A sharp armored arrow aimed at the thief army that was marching quickly sixty steps away.

The figure of the thief general finally appeared on the front of the ambush. Zhang Xuan waved his hand decisively, "Bang!Bang!Bang!Bang!" The rapid sound of bamboo buckle suddenly rang, and eight hundred archers released their bowstrings at the same time, and a dense array of arrows shot towards the enemy sixty steps away.

The thief army was caught off guard, and blood splattered in the team, and a scream suddenly sounded. Two hundred soldiers were shot down one after another. Although the sharp armor-transparent arrows shot through their helmets and military robes, the bright armor on their bodies effectively blocked the penetration of the armor-transparent arrows.

Although most soldiers were only injured and were not shot to death on the spot, the sudden attack still caused chaos in the army.

"There is an ambush!"

The screams were accompanied by the soldiers' terrified shouts, and the soldiers rushed to the other side of the millet field. Several of Fu Jin's personal soldiers were caught in the arrow and fell from the horse, but used their bodies to block the arrow for the main general Fu Jin.

Fu Jin was shocked. Seeing the situation was chaotic, he grabbed a shield and shouted: "Don't be confused, keep it steady!"

According to the original plan, the cavalry had to wait for the three-wheeled arrows of the bowmen before launching an attack, but unexpectedly, the bandits fled into Sutian after the first round of arrows. It was really beyond Zhang Xuan's expectations. He immediately changed his mind and ordered: "The bows and arrows stop, the cavalry attack!"

‘Woo’

The low sound of the horns echoed in the woods. Three hundred cavalrymen urged their horses to rush down from the hillside, rushed into the enemy group like a storm, like chopping melons and vegetables, killing the thief army crying and running around in all directions.

Zhang Xuan was looking for the enemy's chief general. The official road was too narrow, which was not conducive to the cavalry's performance. The enemy's chief general must be killed as soon as possible to cause the enemy to fall into complete chaos.

In the moonlight, he saw the enemy's chief general who was besieged by more than a dozen Sui cavalry. He looked ugly and ferocious, and he waved a long-handled copper hammer and slammed left and right. The cavalry could not get close to him. At this time, a cavalry's war horse was hit by his copper hammer. The horse's head was broken and overturned. He threw the cavalry into the Sutian field.

Zhang Xuan shouted loudly, "Do away from them all!"

He waved the green dragon serpent and urged the horse to run towards the enemy's chief general. The Sui cavalry dodged one after another. Fu Jin saw Zhang Xuan and sneered. He pushed the horse towards Zhang Xuan, and his thoughts were the same. Killing the enemy's chief general could turn the unfavorable situation around.

The two horses rushed towards him, and Fu Jin seized the initiative and swept Zhang Xuan with a fierce hammer. However, Zhang Xuan tried to take action, and the long halberd was flat on the hammer head. He used the word "老" technique to surround the hammer head with force, causing the hammer head to change direction. The long halberd immediately raised and stabbed the enemy's general's throat, as fast as lightning.

Fu Jin smashed the air with a hammer and almost lost his balance. At this time, he suddenly saw the tip of the halberd appearing in his throat. He was so scared that he screamed and flicked to the side. Unexpectedly, the direction of the halberd changed, and the halberd pierced into his left chest.

Fu Jin shouted, the copper hammer fell to the ground, and Zhang Xuan picked up the long halberd, and actually carried him into the air, throwing him several feet away, just next to more than a dozen thieves.

"Save me!" Fu Jin shouted faintly.

But more than a dozen soldiers stared at him, and the usual fear in their eyes disappeared, turning into deep hatred, "He is going to die!" Someone shouted, and more than a dozen soldiers rushed up and slashed at Fu Jin, and dismembered Fu Jin's corpse on the spot.

This scene stunned the Sui cavalry, and Zhang Xuan was a little puzzled. The bandits actually killed their commander.

"The child demon is dead!"

The thieves and soldiers shouted, "He is dead, the child demon is dead!"

The soldiers were in a state of enthusiasm, Zhang Xuan seemed to see something, and waved his halberd and shouted: "The surrender will not blame you!"

"We surrender!"

More than a dozen soldiers who killed Fu Jin were the first to kneel down and surrender. Under their leadership, hundreds of soldiers from the thief soldiers around him knelt down and begged to surrender.

A surrendered officer was brought up, and he knelt down to report to Zhang Xuan: "Report to General Qi, Fu Jin is cruel and vicious, and countless people have been destroyed by him. Everyone in Qinghe County hates him to the core. He is afraid of him and cannot obey his orders. If the general uses his head to announce it, I believe many soldiers are unwilling to fight again."

Zhang nodded and immediately ordered his subordinates to take Fu Jin's head to send a letter to the bandit army. They had not had enough time and they had to completely disintegrate the morale of the enemy before the main force of the enemy arrived.

"The child demon is dead! The child demon is dead!"

Several cavalrymen took Fu Jin's head and ran along the official road. To some extent, Fu Jin controlled this army by threatening his cruelty and fear, forcing the three thousand troops to obey his orders.

But as Fu Jin died, the morale of the bandits began to disintegrate, and countless people took off their armor and ran into the fields, and the morale of the bandits began to disintegrate.

However, not all the thief troops were willing to escape. There were still more than a thousand rear troops fighting fiercely with the Sui cavalry, unwilling to surrender or retreat. They quickly formed a spear formation under the leadership of a thief general.

The cavalry's advantage in the impact force when fighting in plains, and the repeated impact force of the enemy's formation with powerful impact force can eventually lead to the collapse of the enemy.

But at this time the narrow official road was not suitable for cavalry attacks. On the contrary, the spear formation formed by a thousand rear troops caused great trouble to the cavalry.

Hundreds of cavalry attacked the enemy twice and killed more than a hundred bandits, but they themselves paid the heavy price of nearly twenty people being killed.

At this moment, hundreds of Sui soldiers in front, led by Yuchi Gong, came around with spears and launched an offensive to the enemy's rear army from the side. The bandits fought fiercely with the Sui army back to back. Although they were at a disadvantage, they effectively dragged Zhang Xuan's army.

The cavalry lost nearly forty people, which made Zhang Xuan heartbroken. Every soldier was a soldier who followed him back from a bloody battle in Goguryeo. He had not had time to enjoy the glory of victory, but died at the hands of the bandits.

Zhang Xuan felt very hatred and rushed towards the enemy. Suddenly, there was a chaos behind the bandits. More than a hundred Sui cavalrymen rushed in from afar. They were the leader of a white horse general, holding two hammers in his hand, and were invincible. Wherever he passed, the sledgehammer flew, causing the bandits' brains to burst and bones to break.

The attack of more than a hundred Sui cavalry was like the last straw that overwhelmed the camel.

Zhang Xuan and Yuchi Gong rushed in from both sides at the same time, and the morale of the bandits finally collapsed completely. The bandits were killed and blood flowed into a river, with corpses everywhere. Hundreds of bandits, led by a general, rushed out of the encirclement and fled towards Qinghe County.

The fierce battle gradually subsided, and the official road was full of corpses, hundreds of thieves were killed, six or seven hundred surrendered, and most of the remaining thieves soldiers got into the Sutian field and fled without a trace.

"Where is the Sui army?" Zhang Xuan came forward and asked loudly.

The cavalry of the Sui army tied down the war horses, and the young general led by the white horse and silver hammer came forward and saluted: "Pei Xingyan, the captain under the command of General Zhang, please see General Zhang!" (To be continued...)
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