Moyue Lake is one of the three major horse thief forces in the deep desert of the northern part of the Xiqiang Kingdom, with more than 4,000 soldiers and horses at its peak, and is located more than 1,000 miles southwest of Jinxiangling. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At this time, the alliance forces of Zhukou were fighting, and the second leader of Moyue Lake led 1,800 elite horse bandits to Songyang Lake to converge, which meant that there were still more than 2,000 elites left behind in the Moyue Lake cottage.

If the soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain have incorporated the remnants of Jinxiangling, and the nearly 5,000 horse infantry army has preliminary results, they may be able to fight when they reach Moyue Lake, but at this time, Zhukou ordered the remaining soldiers and horses of the small thief village to gather in Moyue Lake and Guyu Mountain, which means that the Moyue Lake they are about to choose to attack may gather 4,000 or even more elite horse bandits.

Although they have 5,000 horse infantry troops, they cannot be used as the main force; and the soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain have incorporated the remnants of Jinxiangling, and there are only more than 500 elite cavalry, how can this battle be fought?

After reading the letter sent by Hu Junhu Lingying, Fan Dachun and the others had figured out the first dynamics of Zhu Kou, and watched Chen Hai wait for him to make a decision.

On a piece of yellowed velvet paper, Chen Hai outlined the geographical locations of Heishanzhai, Jinxiangling, Moyue Lake, Guhushan and other places, and supplemented the main terrain according to the descriptions of Fan Dachun and Deng Tong'er.

In the depths of the vast desert, in addition to a little oasis, there is not a vast sea of sand, more of the Gobi Desert and barren rocky mountains and stone ridges, but the ups and downs are not large, there are no large forests and rivers to block, so it is the world of cavalry.

"Do you want to send someone to take the Spirit Eagle to the Demon Moon Lake to reconnoiter first, and find out how many soldiers and horses are gathered in the Demon Moon Lake first?" Deng Tong'er suggested.

Chen Hai shook his head and said, "Anyway, there are more soldiers and horses in Demon Moon Lake than expected, and it will be quite difficult to attack the village again, and rashly sending the spirit hawks over will actually let the thieves know that their details have been leaked." ”

"What should I do then?" Fan Dachun asked, "Retreat to the Black Mountain Village?"

After winning two battles in a row, Fan Dachun's courage is not so small, and it is still a good choice to think of retreating to the Black Mountain Village to wait and see the situation.

Even if Kong Peng and other thieves and the internal thieves of the Xiqiang Kingdom succeeded in subverting the Ye royal family, they still had six or seven thousand soldiers and horses in their hands to defend, and they could not fight with the elite horse thieves.

"We didn't appear when the Spirit Eagle didn't appear, we rested here for three more days, but you directly led five hundred elite horsemen to gallop to Moyue Lake, and then retreated east in a panic and fled to the Black Mountain Village, where we met in Shiyue Gorge," Chen Hai pointed to a barren mountain and stone gorge located between the Black Mountain Village and the Demon Moon Lake on the rudimentary map, and said to Fan Dachun, "As long as the thieves gathered in the Demon Moon Lake are unwilling to let us guard the Black Mountain Village, then we will meet this road of thieves in Shiyue Gorge." ”

"Field battle with horse bandits?" Fan Dachun and Deng Tong'er both looked at Chen Hai in disbelief.

They had thought of all kinds of possibilities, but it was definitely not something they could imagine for five or six thousand horse infantry troops with extremely reluctant combat strength and three or four thousand elite horse bandits fighting in the flat stone ridge desert.

"Calculating the time, Ma Bujun can rush to Shiyue Gorge a day in advance to rest, and the chasing soldiers are arrogant," Chen Hai clenched his fists and said, "In this battle, we may not have no chance of winning!"

"Even if there is a chance to win, isn't the chance of winning in Shouhei Cottage better?" Fan Dachun asked puzzled.

"Zhu Kou can make many soldiers and horses from small and medium-sized thieves gather in Moyue Lake and Guhu, which means that the horse thief forces in the north of the Xiqiang Kingdom will be completely united," Chen Hai said, "We will go to defend the Black Mountain Village at this time, and we will not have to worry about it for the time being, but let the thieves contact the internal and external eunuchs and thieves to successfully steal the Xiqiang Country, and when the time comes, seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses will come to attack the Black Mountain Village, what are our chances of winning?"

Hearing Chen Hai say this, Fan Dachun and Deng Tong'er both gasped, thinking about it in their hearts, thinking that Zhu Kou's past habits were really to the point of having to give up their old nest, and they should also order the remaining soldiers and horses to rush to Yequ Mountain with the property accumulated for many years to join the main force, where could they enter other people's lair with their belongings and be controlled by others?

Now that this anomaly appears, it is very likely that it is just like what Chen Hai said, that all the Kou should be completely united.

This is not unexpected, as long as the Black Mountain Martial Venerable Kong Peng can convince Zhu Kou that this subversion of the Xiqiang Kingdom will definitely succeed, and after the success, all Zhu Kou will have the title of glory and wealth, and Zhu Kou will be able to give up some small interests in front of them and unite more closely.

In that case, the horse thief forces in the north of the Xiqiang Kingdom alone have gathered more than 30,000 elite horse thieves, plus their success in subverting the Xiqiang Kingdom, and the soldiers and horses who finally come to attack the Black Mountain Village with momentum will be difficult to estimate, and it will be difficult for them to defend the Black Mountain Village again.

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In order to keep the war horse in the sand sea of more than 1,000 miles, still able to maintain sufficient physical strength, to avoid being caught up and besieged by thieves in the depths of the vast sand sea before rushing to Shiyue Gorge, Fan Dachun and Ning Chan'er also carried two thousand catties of stone mistletoe honey when they set off.

Two thousand catties of stone mistletoe honey are worth the city, and it is not a human service to carry with the army, but to mix in horse feed and feed the war horses to ensure that the war horses can ensure sufficient physical strength through the vast sand sea.

Fan Dachun led his troops to the periphery of Moyue Lake, and the outpost confirmed that the thieves gathered outside Moyue Lake far exceeded the more than 2,000 soldiers left behind in Moyue Lake as originally expected, and Fan Dachun did not hesitate to lead his troops to flee in the southeast direction.

As Chen Hai expected, there were more than 4,000 thieves and soldiers gathered in Moyue Lake, and the soldiers and horses were strong, how could they allow five or six hundred soldiers and horses from Yequ Mountain to calmly withdraw?

Immediately, there were three or four thousand horsemen galloping out of the city in Moshan Lake, chasing out of the tail, like a black cloud, crossing the sea of sand, sweeping away in the southeast direction, and Zhukou also sent a large number of scouts to search for the enemy's traces in the direction of Jinxiangling.

Previously, the soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain attacked the two villages of Black Falcon Cliff and Jinxiangling, and the cavalry went first, and the main force of the horse infantry army delayed two to three days to rush to the periphery of the cottage. This time, since the Zhukou of Moyue Lake saw that Fan Dachun led hundreds of elite cavalry to flee in a hurry just as they approached, they guessed that the main force of the thousands of horse infantry troops must also be dragging a large number of siege equipment on the way to Moyue Lake.

Chen Hai and Fan Dachun really want to lead five or six thousand soldiers and horses to defend the walled city, and the Moyue Lake Kou will definitely not rush to attack, after all, attacking the city is not what horse thieves are good at, but Chen Hai's five or six thousand weak soldiers selected from slaves and prisoners dare to enter the vast sea of sand, no matter how timid and unsafe the Moyue Lake Kou is, how can they let them escape back to the Black Mountain Village?

The reconnaissance sent by the Zhukou of Moyue Lake found the figure of the Yequ Mountain horse infantry army on the second day, and also found that the more than 5,000 horse infantry troops selected by the Yequ Mountain from the prisoners and slaves had thrown a large number of siege equipment and food supplies into the vast desert one day ago, and fled to the black mountain village in the south in panic.

The main force of the Moyue Lake Zhukou was still staring at the five or six hundred cavalry under Fan Dachun, and after getting the reconnaissance report, it was also possible to confirm that the two soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain wanted to fight and retreat after converging, and retreated to the Black Mountain Village to refuse to defend the village.

The inside of the walled city of the Black Mountain Cottage is unrecognizable, but the wall of the wall is intact, how can the Kou of the Demon Moon Lake allow the five or six thousand soldiers and horses of Yequ Mountain to calmly withdraw to the Black Mountain Village?

The timing of Fan Dachun's appearance on the periphery of Moyue Lake was deliberately arranged by Chen Hai, and at about the same time, Chen Hai led 5,000 horse infantry troops on the route from Jinxiangling to Moyue Lake. And at that time, the geographical location from Shiyue Gorge was also the closest, less than three hundred miles. In this way, when the snake was drawn out of the hole in this play, the 5,000-horse infantry army gave up large equipment, excess food, and baggage, and only needed to gallop south for a day before entering the preset battlefield.

When the main force of the Mabu Army was discovered by the Moyue Lake reconnaissance, it was actually not far from Shiyue Gorge, and at this time, hundreds of Moyue Lake scouts were targeted, and Chen Hai led his troops into Shiyue Gorge, which was more like guarding against these hundreds of enemy cavalry from attacking and harassing the Mabu Army from the flank.

Fan Dachun led 600 elite cavalry not to flee all the way, but to use the rugged stone ridge and sand dunes in the area from Moyue Lake to Shiyue Gorge to slow down the pace of the pursuing troops as much as possible, so as to give the Ma Bu army more time to prepare, and only arrived at Shiyue Gorge in the early morning of the third day to join the Ma Bu army led by Chen Hai.

Shiyue Gorge is located in the depths of the vast sand sea, the canyon is like a narrow crescent moon, the narrowest point is less than two or three hundred meters, and the wide valley is only one or two miles.

The stone ridges on both sides of the stone gorge were not very high, ranging from one or two hundred zhang to three or four hundred zhang, but they were extremely rugged, so that the elite horses of the robbers could be restrained from cutting into the Macedonian spear phalanx at high speed from the flanks.

In addition to the twenty hundred-man teams, all of whom held five-meter-long iron spears, they were mixed with archers to form four Macedonian spear phalanxes to defend the four corners of Shiyue Gorge in front and back, left a gap in the east and west directions, leaving a narrow passage on both wings, which could limit the enemy cavalry from outflanking, but allowed more than 600 horsemen from Yequ Mountain to quickly go out of battle and engage the enemy from the flanks.

Even in the middle of the array, six stone-throwing crossbows had been assembled, and hundreds of stone bullets were neatly stacked to the side.

The Masters of Demon Moon Lake almost laughed when they saw the Ma Bujun of Yequ Mountain holding an extra-long iron spear that was far taller than a normal person. These super-long iron spears, the spear shafts are temporarily lengthened, that is, a large number of poplar wooden rods are re-sharpened, and they are tied together with ordinary iron spears.

The Zhukou of the Demon Moon Lake also saw that the extra-long iron spear would limit the impact of the cavalry, so at this time, they arranged for more than 2,000 people to raise their swords and shields, dismount and fight.

In the eyes of the Moyue Lake Zhukou, the horse infantry army of Yequ Mountain is not even as good as the servants of the Xiqiang Kingdom, and there are 2,000 elites who dismount and fight, which is enough to make these unbelievable cheap slaves fly with flesh and blood, and leave more than 1,000 horsemen to prevent the 600 elite cavalry led by Fan Dachun from killing from the array.

When more than 2,000 bandits from Moyue Lake pressed forward with swords, shields, halberds, and spears, Han Wendang, who was in charge of commanding the two spear phalanxes at the front, waved the order flag and ordered the first five columns of the spear phalanx to stick their pawns together densely, and push forward with their spears raised.

The Moyue Lake Lords had never seen this kind of warfare, especially the more than 2,000 horse bandits who dismounted and fought, and only then did they realize that what they were facing was not the spear of the most advanced generals, but the spear wall formed by the dense stacking of the first four to five columns of Yequ Mountain generals pushed towards their relatively loose and conceited battle formation layer by layer, wave after wave......