Yangcheng, the city of Jiangzhou, is also the largest city in Jiangzhou, with a large number of people and a registered population of more than 100,000. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 As an important city in the political and economic center, the quality of life in Yangcheng can be described as the best in Jiangzhou, and naturally, it has become a first-tier city in Jiangzhou.

On this day, as always, the sky was clear and the wind was high. Everything seems to be business as usual, nothing out of the ordinary.

Perhaps, only those who pay attention can notice that there is something strange in the sky.

It was really not easy to find the anomaly, after all, no matter how suspicious people were, they would not find the birds that could have appeared in the air. It was just a palm-sized bird, and it was even more difficult for such a small bird to attract people's attention.

I saw that the bird flew lightly on a high tower in the western district of Yangcheng, if you pay special attention, you will find that this bird seems to fly straight here, it turns out that this tower is the destination of the bird.

It is the highest place in Yangcheng, and when you stand on the tower and look down, you can see almost the entire landscape of Yangcheng.

Of course, not everyone can climb to the top of this special place, in fact, it has long been occupied.

Seeing the return of the bird, on this high platform, a sturdy man in a linen coat showed a satisfied smile on his face, and then stretched out his right hand.

At the moment when he stretched out his right hand, the bird seemed to have found its place of return, and quickly flew towards the strong man, and then stopped at the strong man's right hand.

With a little force, the strong man grabbed the bird's claws and helped it steady, and then, on one of the bird's paws, the strong man found some objects that did not belong to the bird's body.

It turned out that this flying bird was specially trained to deliver letters, so that it could travel from place to place so skillfully.

"There's a note!" the big man untied the small bamboo tube tied to the bird's leg, opened it and found a small piece of paper inside, and told an elderly man not far away about his findings.

"Whose note?" On the other side of the tower, the elder was a bird keeper from Yangcheng, and when he heard Dahan's words, the elder looked sideways a little and asked back.

When the old man heard the elder's question, he immediately carefully examined the label on the bamboo tube, and wanted to check it for the elder, but his expression changed because of this! He subconsciously turned his head and exclaimed: "This is the logo of the palace, and it is a letter from the minister to the marshal. ”

These words also made the birdkeeper's expression become serious, and he immediately judged that the situation was not trivial, and it must be immediately treated as an emergency.

What's more, such official correspondence cannot be delayed in the slightest. Therefore, the bird keeper hurriedly called the courier soldiers, solemnly explaining to the soldiers that they must carefully protect this bamboo tube, and must personally deliver the note to the barracks and hand it over to the marshal, and there must be no loss.

This is the main duty of this birdkeeper. On weekdays, he raised some letter birds in this way, set it up as an information processing point in Jiangzhou, and took on most of the birds' books.

In order to ensure the successful delivery of such a particularly important letter as the one received in front of him, the bird keeper also has a group of courier soldiers who are responsible for delivering the birds' letters.

The courier soldier who got the order quickly took the bamboo tube containing the note and didn't dare to stop sending it to Bai Qi's hand at all.

It's just that when Bai Qi got the note, he was more surprised because someone would send him a note.

"Isn't my whereabouts a secret, how could anyone know that I was in Yang City?" Bai Qi couldn't help but have doubts in his mind, and said strangely as if talking to himself.

Although he was the marshal of the Xia army, he had always strictly ordered his generals to keep his whereabouts secret.

It's not that Bai Qi is fleeing because he has done something shady, but mainly because he doesn't want his whereabouts to be leaked out, so that the Xinghua army will have a chance to know where he is, so as to find out the location of the main force of the Xia army.

At this time, Bai Qi attached great importance to the Xinghua Army, and he especially needed some surprise tactics, in order to be able to attack it unprepared and catch the Xinghua Army off guard.

Therefore, Bai Qi didn't want to be preempted by the Xinghua Army to know his location before he launched a fatal blow to the Xinghua Army.

In this state of confrontation, he didn't want to make the slightest mistake.

With doubts, Bai Qi quickly opened the bamboo tube and checked the note.

This time, he discovered a fact, and this fact made his face change, and he immediately said to the staff around him: "The Xinghua Army wants to sneak attack Yangcheng. ”

"Marshal, how are we going to deal with this Xinghua army?" Hearing Bai Qi say this, the staff suddenly became nervous. Although the army has been out, the battle march is a matter of time, since the Xinghua army is going to attack Yangcheng, their Xia army naturally has to take action.

It's just that there was news all of a sudden, and this sudden arrival still made the staff can't help but tighten their scalps, and they immediately asked Bai Qi.

Bai Qi was different from him, and a meaningful smile suddenly flashed on his face, as if there was still a bit of an old god's presence, and he responded: "This is not the main force of the Xinghua Army, the main force of the Xinghua Army is still in Tai'an City." ”

"So, this is a partial division!" these words unsurprisingly made the staff member's face relax, and with a bit of surprise, he confirmed to Bai Qi.

"Why is Wang so excited to join the army?" Bai Qi asked curiously when he saw a staff member who was surprised.

"Marshal, this is God helping me. The morale of the Xia army is low and it needs a big victory to inspire!" replied the staff.

Bai Qi pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "Wang joins the army, this is feasible!"

Bai Qi took out a token and said, "Pass my general order, order the cavalry Longyi Battalion and the Shenwu Small Artillery Battalion to set up an ambush for the Xinghua Army." The rest of the departments are on strict alert and are ready to obey orders at any time!"

Bai Qi's general order was quickly sent to the cavalry Dragon Wing Battalion and the Shenwu Small Artillery Battalion.

These two battalions are the elite troops of the Xia Army, the division of a hundred battles.

Because of this, it was just a partial division to deal with the Xinghua Army, and Bai Qi was already going to use the division of a hundred battles to ambush him, which shows how much Bai Qi attached importance to the Xinghua Army.

There is no doubt that this is a battle that must be won for Bai Qi.

The marshal personally ordered, two armies of a hundred battles, and the movements were extremely fast.

After careful and careful exploration by the scouts of the Xia army, they estimated the marching route of Wei Yingcai's troops in advance and began to set up an ambush.

The site of the ambush is on a mountain.

As long as the Xinghua army came from the northwest and wanted to attack Yangcheng, it would inevitably pass under the mountain.

The Shenwu small artillery battalion set up the Shenwu small cannon on the mountain and aimed at the road down the mountain. The Longyi battalion was ambushed behind the mountain, and when the Shenwu small artillery attack was over, the cavalry of the Longyi battalion would be killed nearby, not giving the Xinghua army a chance to reorganize the army.

Taking advantage of the chaos of the Xinghua army, the assault of the Xia army's cavalry will definitely be able to deal a heavy blow to the Xinghua army.

On the other hand, Wei Yingcai led his army to Yangcheng, but his heart was full of illusions. Looking forward to breaking through Yangcheng and making great achievements.

"Report sir, in two hours, we will be able to reach Yangcheng. Do we report our position to the commander?" the adjutant next to him reported to Wei Yingcai.

"No need now, in another hour, I'll send a telegram telling the commander that we are going to tentatively attack Yang City. "Wei Yingcai wants to create established facts and make Leon blameless. This is also the reason why Wei Yingcai has confidence in himself and does not need help.

The Wei Yingcai Division of the Xinghua Army continued to march.

An hour later, Wei Yingcai ordered the telegraph operator to send a telegram to Lyon.

Subsequently, Leon wrote back and ordered Wei Yingcai to abandon the tentative operation. The Xinghua Army continued to strengthen its control over the occupied areas, and did not want Wei Yingcai and them to destabilize the situation.

Wei Yingcai ordered the telegraph operator to reply: It is imminent and cannot stop the action.

Wei Yingcai could imagine Leon's annoyance, but he was also a general and had a certain amount of autonomy. Of course, if Leon's order, Wei Yingcai did not obey it, and he also had to bear some responsibility.

"Report to the chief, there is a mountain, and after passing the mountain, we can see Yangcheng...... Sir, this place is too close to Yangcheng, and I am afraid that the enemy army will have an ambush. The adjutant reminded Wei Yingcai.

Wei Yingcai smiled: "Don't worry that the enemy will find us. Even if they find out, we will face the enemy head-on, and the enemy will not be able to defeat us. As for enemy ambushes, we have excellent scouts who can detect the enemy in advance, and even more so to worry about. ”

When the adjutant heard this, he didn't say much. However, he was already a little worried in his heart that Wei Yingcai would underestimate the enemy. The adjutant sighed slightly: No matter how strong a scout is, it takes time to reconnoitre. With the speed at which the Xinghua Army marched, how much time did the scouts have to reconnoitre. In many cases, the scouts could only walk in front, one step ahead of the main force and meet the enemy.

The Xinghua army continued to march, preparing to bypass the hill.

Wei Yingcai's 5,000 Xinghua soldiers continued to advance. After a while, the troops entered the road at the foot of the mountain.

Officer Xinghua cautiously surveyed the surroundings, but no one noticed the Xia army on the mountain.

Bang! bang...... One loud bang after another fell on the top of Xinghuajun's head.

"Enemy attack, lie down!"

When the troops were attacked, Wei Yingcai shouted as soon as possible.

The soldiers of the Xinghua Army were highly trained and knew how to dodge shells.

The first round of shelling ended.

By analyzing the ballistics, the officers and men of Xinghua quickly judged the position of the enemy's artillery. Wei Yingcai ordered the troops to quickly leave the place.

At this time, Wei Yingcai was surprised, he had not experienced the previous battle between the two armies, and he had no idea about the strength of the Xia army.

Now, when encountering the ambush of the Xia army, I feel a little tricked.

Wei Yingcai's troops chose to retreat. However, before the troops could withdraw from the enemy's shelling range, another round of artillery bombardment struck, and the Xinghua army was again shelled.

Then, Wei Yingcai heard the dense sound of horses' hooves.

"It's the enemy's cavalry!" Wei Yingcai was taken aback.

Although most of Wei Yingcai's troops were cavalry, they were attacked by Shenwu cannons, and their formation had long been out of order. Running is not able to outrun the enemy, so Wei Yingcai ordered the soldiers who had withdrawn from the foot of the mountain in advance and immediately formed a position. Since you can't run, don't run and try to stop the enemy. This option is dangerous, the enemy artillery can move the artillery and continue to attack them.

However, Wei Yingcai's department can't do it without a little buffer, they need time to regroup.

Sure enough, the Xia cavalry came out of the woods.

The galloping cavalry rushed into the Xinghua army without hesitation, slashing and killing indiscriminately. The Xinghua soldiers, who did not retreat in time, also fought back. However, without a formation of troops, the Xinghua soldiers could only fight on their own and could not form an effective counterattack. However, they fought back and bought time for their comrades.

Wei Yingcai's troops built an improvised position three hundred meters away from the hill.

Wei Yingcai saw that the cavalry of the Xia army was killing his own soldiers, and his heart was full of remorse. If he had listened to the words of his subordinate officers and carefully examined the hill, he would not have been ambushed.

"Report sir, the mortar is ready!" the artillery officer reported to Wei Yingcai.

When Wei Yingcai heard this, he gritted his teeth and said, "Immediately open fire! We must not waste the time that our comrades-in-arms have won for us." ”

When the artillery officer heard this, he heard Wei Yingcai's words, that is, he bombarded the cavalry and Xinghua soldiers of the Xia Army at the foot of the hill without distinguishing between the enemy and me.

"Execute the order!" Wei Yingcai shouted.

The artillery officer raised his hand in salute and went to carry out the order.

There were not a few Xinghua soldiers who were entangled by the Xia army's cavalry, and thousands of Xinghua soldiers were entangled by the Xia army. Fierce fighting broke out between the two sides.

However, all this is temporary, and the strength of the Xia army's white-knuckle combat melee combat is stronger than that of the Xinghua army. One by one, the Xinghua soldiers are falling.

Wei Yingcai's order, though very cruel, was very effective.

Mortars sounded, and explosions also disrupted the rhythm of the offensive of the Xia cavalry.

After ten minutes, the Xia cavalry temporarily retreated.

Wei Yingcai ordered the officers to gather the Xinghua soldiers and slowly retreat back. The Xinghua soldiers in front, nearly a thousand soldiers, he also gave up the rescue. The artillery of the Xia army on the mountain, Wei Yingcai could not be unguarded.

The Xinghua army retreated one kilometer, and with the help of the terrain, it ambushed the Xia cavalry. The cavalry of the Xia army pursued the enemy eagerly, pursued again, and suffered a small blow from the Xinghua army, leaving hundreds of cavalry and having to temporarily retreat.

Wei Yingcai saw the enemy retreating, and continued to retreat with his soldiers.

The Xia cavalry attacked again and found that the Xinghua army was gone, but it was an hour later.

Wei Yingcai's troops, before they saw Yangcheng, were ambushed by the enemy and had to retreat gloomily.

Wei Yingcai's troops hurriedly fled from the dangerous place, and after two hours, after making sure that there was no enemy tracking, Wei Yingcai ordered to stop the march and rest and recuperate. By the time the officers of each team reported the losses to Wei Yingcai, Wei Yingcai almost fainted.

The Wei Yingcai Department of the Xinghua Army, at the foot of the mountain, actually lost 1,200 soldiers of the Xinghua Army. This was the greatest loss of the Xinghua Army since its founding. Wei Yingcai felt both sad for the dead soldiers and sad for his own defeat this time. This is all because of his underestimation of the enemy, his negligence, which led to the defeat. What's more, he also acted on his own initiative and disobeyed the orders of his superiors.