(The Year of the Tiger is about to enter, Happy New Year, brothers)

From Hengchengling Qinjing Station to the east to the Qinshui River, which winds from north to south, although it has undulating slopes, its terrain is much smoother than Wuling, which is densely covered with deep valleys and cliffs on the east. Hengchengling is also much smoother, and there are also villages of all sizes located in it, farming day and night, and fields are crisscrossed.

If it weren't for the arrival of bloody and cruel war, it would have been like a place where "chicken and dogs hear each other and go back and forth", but the crowing of chickens and dogs at this time would have been disturbed by the cavalry hiking and hiring among the Pogang Valley.

Xu Huai drove his horse to a hill and could see a village on the long slope not far north. Many villagers were poking their heads out from behind the village wall in horror, looking at the bloody battlefield that was about to be unfolded here.

The enemy has entered the Qinshui River Valley for more than ten days, but they set out from Zezhou and went up along the Qinshui River, crossed the Qinshui River from the ancient ferry east of Qinshui City, and the soldiers surrounded Qinshui City. The plundering along the way was mainly concentrated in the east of Qinshui River. At this time, there was no free of action to loot the villages in the west bank valley.

This may give people an illusion. As long as the Qinshui defenders surrender quickly and the city wall will change the king's flag, the Taiyue Mountain will soon return to peace, but it will be just a different government to pay the grain and pay the tax.

Therefore, for more than ten days, the villages on the west bank of the Qinshui River Valley were just thinking about building a village to protect themselves. No one thought of uniting, let alone taking the initiative to restrain the enemy and reinforce the Qinshui County where 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and civilians were besieged.

After Zhou Jing and Wang Zhang blocked Qinjing Post, they also sent people to the two nearest villages, hoping to recruit more than 100 villages as auxiliary soldiers to help build equipment and attack the post office, but they were all rejected.

Even though the banner of King Jing was released, the sent people were driven back without even entering these villages.

Wang Zhang and others were indignant about this, while Zhou Jing and others looked at it indifferently.

Xu Huai's state of mind was also unpredictable, and he looked at all this calmly.

Since ancient times, protesters have always been a minority.

Even the lords in the court bowed to this point, just thinking about waving their tails and begging for surrender. Most of the villagers who have not even entered the county town can expect how high the awareness they have before they are truly invaded?

These villagers need leaders.

Xu Huai's eyes quickly collected from the village to the north and turned to look south.

Between Hengchengling and Qinshui River, if the hiking soldiers deviate from the official road and want to climb over hills and go to Qinjingyi, it will be very difficult for Qinshui City to climb high and climb up the hills. Climbing up the hill is a very physically exhausting thing, but the cavalry should enter and exit relatively freely.

Several cavalry teams of the Wing Cavalry Camp had occupied the slopes on both sides of the post road under the leadership of Wuchihai, Shi Hu and others, but each team had only a dozen or twenty cavalrymen, which looked more like a bluff and an empty city plan.

In the direction of Qinjing Post, the sound of fighting came faintly, with gongs and drums ringing and people screaming. Although I couldn't see the situation there clearly through a slope, I could imagine the fierce battle situation of the besieging the post office.

The Eight Hundred Cyclists seemed to be a small number, but they all occupied the post road and the shallow slopes about twenty feet wide on both sides. They were divided into three teams, as if a black torrent stretched about two miles and rushed towards Qinjing Post.

Seeing the sergeant advancing westward without obvious hesitation or hesitation, Wang Zhang smacked his lips and said, "Brother Wang Xian performed so hard in front of Qinjingyi, it seems unnecessary. These idiots did not expect that we dug a big hole in Qinjingyi and waited for them to jump in!"

Wang Zhang followed Xu Huai to the hill, which was the highest point west of Hengcheng Ridge, and could see the Qinjing Post. Standing in their position and looking west, you could see the sound of fighting coming from the Qinjing Post. It was purely a performance of more than a hundred people in the Yiqi Camp who were unilaterally hoarsely there.

However, seeing the Eight Hundred Cavalry pounced forward without any sense of consciousness and determined that Qin Jingyi was being attacked by a small group of enemy troops, Wang Zhang felt that they had some unnecessary deployment.

"We must despise all enemies in strategy. No enemy is invincible. Even the Chihu Iron Cavalry who sways the world is no exception. In the long run, we can accumulate strength to defeat them. However, when we formulate and implement specific combat plans, we pay attention to all enemies, including the Yunzhou surrendered army in front of us. Therefore, all tactical actions that can be prepared in advance, including scouts, lures, misleading, and avoiding the enemy before they are strong and weak." Xu Huai, generals Wang Zhang, Wang Hua, Shi Hu, Shi Xiong, Zhou Yong, Zhou Quan and others, stay by their side as guards, and do not want to enjoy their personal protection and attendants. Before the military school was officially established, Xu Huai could only help them make up for their shortcomings in basic military theories through words and deeds.

Xu Huai's reputation has nothing to do with his age or his origin. It is laid by one almost miraculous victory after another, and by his evil knowledge and insight as if he was granted to heaven.

In addition to a group of experienced generals such as Wang Ju, Xu Wuli, Xu Wukun, Zhou Jing, Guo Junzong, Fan Yong, Pan Chenghu, Zhu Chengjun, Xu Xin'an, Tang Pan, Yin Peng, Han Qi, Tang Qing, Shen Zhen'e, Yan Xiaoyi, Yuan Lei, Wu Chihai, etc., all made Wang Zhang feel ashamed of himself. These people had no reservations about Xu Huai's guidance, and Wang Zhang did not dare to be negligent in his guidance.

At this time, behind the first slope on the east side of Qinjing Post, Han Qi personally led more than a hundred cavalry out, lined up on the post roads on the top of the slope and the slopes on both sides. It seemed that he wanted to block the chariot by his arms and blocked more than 800 reinforcements, and bought more time to attack the Qinjing Posthouse.

Han Qi's move was actually to lure the Yunzhou cavalry who had arrived at the foot of the Po in the previous stage to launch a charge.

The enemy cavalry also decisively lived up to expectations, and the horns whimpered, and the small drum placed in front of the saddle quickly rang out. More than 200 cavalrymen in the front row who heard the charge order, quickly pulled up their speed and rushed towards Pogang. The cavalry in the back row also shouted and drove forward.

Apart from the post roads that have been repaired in previous dynasties, the slopes on both sides are not very steep, and hundreds of riders spread out, just like a torrent.

Even though the strong attackers and horses that appeared on the east side of Qinjingyi at this time had exceeded the previous news reports, the generals who led the troops still did not have suspicion. Or, he believed that the number of people who attacked Qinjingyi arrived in batches was normal, and it was far from enough to curb their rushing cavalry.

He had this mentality, mainly because the previous messages from the Fen River coast misled him, making him think that the small group of people who entered the Fen River during this period were the Western Army from Qinfeng Road or Xihe Road.

In fact, even the commander of the Chihu Western Route Army always thought that after their Eastern Route Army withdrew from Hehuai, Yueting had a little backbone and would transfer the Western Route Army to cross the Yellow River at any time, and go north along the Fen River to lift the siege of Taiyuan.

At this time, a sentry horse crossed Taiyue Mountain and rushed to Qinshui County. The generals of the commander-in-chief concluded that it was a certain unit of the Western Army's vanguard. Isn't it corresponding to the previous predictions and the messages sent during this period?

In the northern part of Gong County, the battle with Miao Yanxiong and the Western Army aid division led by Zheng Huaizhong were mainly the Yunzhou soldiers under Xiao Gan's troops.

Although the Western Army was well-equipped and skilled in training, the Western Army generals were lazy and timid after entering the battlefield in Gongxian County. The generals under Xiao Gan had a deep feeling for two or three months. Moreover, the two elite Western Army soldiers were so vulnerable before the Iron Cavalry of the Chihu people.

The Khitan clan established a country, and the Khitan clan who moved to Yunshuo was mainly under the jurisdiction of the Group Pastoral Department. The last bit of elite troops Xiao Linshi mastered was partly the elite troops drawn from Yunshuo's clan, and partly the vassal of the Fanmin Jianrui.

During the first northern expedition to Yan, among the defenders of Datong (Yunzhou), the Han army was defeated without fighting, and the remnants were not trusted by Xiao Gan, Li Chulin and others. Finally, they were Xiao Gan. Li Chulin relied on Chong to defend the inner city, including the Datong soldiers and Bohai soldiers.

During the first and second northern expedition to Yan, the foreign troops in Yunzhou (Datong) were very weak, and they were not opponents of the Great Yue Tianxiong Army and Xuanwu Army.

However, when it comes to morale, confidence and combat effectiveness, there is not so much mystery. If you win a few more battles, you will definitely make great progress.

Since the Yunzhou foreign soldiers surrendered to the Chihu people, they have gone south to attack cities and villages, but they have no signs of defeat. They have also raped and plundered, completely exposing the tyrannical side of human nature. The morale and combat effectiveness can be said to have made great progress.

In Gong County, the foreign troops in Yunzhou were not inferior to the Western Army’s aid division several times this time, and they even established sufficient confidence in the Western Army.

Now the number of troops in the "Western Army" vanguard may be between hundreds and more than a thousand (no more valleys before and after Qinjingyi cannot be opened), and is launching a fierce attack on Qinjingyi. The commanding generals led 800 elite cavalry to come. Why not defeat them in one fell swoop and get a reward for marching thousands of households?

The general of the Fan personally raised the order flag and waved it, and ordered the left and right to rush forward. The eight hundred cyclists were divided into three sections, and quickly occupied the east slope of the gang like a torrent. However, the cyclist who charged at the forefront crossed the gang in his field of vision and immediately realized that something was wrong when he saw the other side.

Not only did Qin Jingyi not be attacked, but the cavalry that had occupied the top of the slope had spread out to the two wings one step earlier. Just ahead of them, three teams of armored soldiers were holding spears, large shields, and crossbows were waiting for the battle. At this time, the horn suddenly sounded, and the shield soldiers raised heavy shields and smashed them step by step. They would rather suppress the speed than keep the formation stable. The spear handle held a sharp spear and stabbed out from the shield formation to prevent the cavalry from directly attacking. The crossbowmen pulled the motorists behind them, pulled the bows and arrows, and shot the sharp clusters into the enemy formation.

The Yunzhou soldiers who had established confidence had greatly improved their combat effectiveness. The former were all greedy and violent soldiers. Although they were panic when they saw this situation, they gritted their teeth and raised their swords and spears, drove their horses forward and stabbed them. The two streams of people quickly collided together.

Xu Huai shouted to the guards beside him: "Rise the flag and send a command to the left and right cavalry team to launch a charge and encircle and annihilate the Yunzhou cavalry."

As long as the two hundred armored soldiers who were dismounting on the top of the slope could defend the front line, the eight hundred cavalry would be suppressed tightly in the narrow and shallow sinking belt distributed along the post road on the east slope.

At this time, they launched a charge from both wings. Even if there were only two or three hundred elite cavalrymen, they could directly disrupt the Yunzhou cavalry array, and create a better killing ring mirror for the main force of the 400 cavalry standing in the west slope to enter the battlefield. It would be possible that before dark, they would annihilate all the Yunzhou cavalry and start the first battle for the tomb guards to advance eastward.

Xu Huai also checked the armored helmet and leather rope between his armpits again. After confirming that it was correct, he took the long-blade sharp horse spear from Niu Er and led the team of cavalry behind him to the shallow sink belt under the slope in front.
Chapter completed!