With Yuan Shao's order, the Hun cavalry, which had been assembled for a long time, continued to advance to the east from Shuofang, Xihe and other places in Bingzhou.

This time, the Southern Xiongnu almost poured out, a total of 60,000 cavalry, nearly 100,000 horses, it can be said that in addition to guarding the Southern Xiongnu pastures necessary for some young people, all the Southern Xiongnu suitable young men participated in this battle.

Although this battle is not a decisive battle, it is like a decisive battle!

Yuan Shao gave an order, and the Hun cavalry, which had been assembled for a long time, continued to advance to the east from Shuofang, Xihe and other places in Bingzhou.

This time, the Southern Xiongnu almost poured out, a total of 60,000 cavalry, nearly 100,000 horses, it can be said that in addition to guarding the Southern Xiongnu pastures necessary for some young people, all the Southern Xiongnu suitable young men participated in this battle.

Although this battle is not a decisive battle, it is like a decisive battle!

Although Taihang Bacheng is a relatively spacious passage, but this is also for the mountain path, for tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, it is still a little uncomfortable, so it has been half a month, Yan Liang and others' soldiers and horses have been in place one after another, ready to wait until the appointed time to unify the attack.

The time they agreed upon was the time of the vernal equinox,

The vernal equinox, the equinox, the point where the yellow and red intersect, the sun travels here, and the day and night are equinoxed. That is to say, this time is the same day and night time, the spring equinox is also the time of sacrifice, the ancient spring equinox sacrifice day, the autumn equinox sacrifice month, more importantly, the spring equinox is the time when the plant sprouts, the so-called spring equinox wheat up, fertilizer and water to follow, at this time if the war delays the fertilization, then even if there is a harvest this year, don't think about where to go.

When Ma Qiang and Han Fu held the spring equinox festival in Yecheng, countless Black Mountain Army, Bingzhou Army, and Xiongnu Army poured out of the Taihang Mountains and entered the Jizhou Plain.

-- The position of the military fort under the mountain

"General! Give money quickly, give money quickly! ”

"What the hell, you really didn't steal, right?"

"What are you stealing, so many people are watching, hurry up and give money!"

In the military fort, several sergeants were gathered around to watch the two of them play chess, and there was no entertainment in the military fort, only the newly issued chess and backgammon could be played.

On the military fort, two sentries took turns holding binoculars to look at the direction of Baitu Pass, monitoring every move in the pass.

"Huh? There is a case! A sentry took down the telescope and said, "There is a sudden large amount of smoke and dust in the direction of Baitu Pass, team rate, come and see!" ”

Li Jie, the leader of the team who was playing chess in the military fort, heard the shout from above, and immediately climbed to the top of the military fort with a clever look, grabbed the telescope to take a look, and sure enough, he saw a large puff of smoke and dust in the distance, which was a sign of the appearance of a large number of cavalry.

"Burn wolf smoke! Call other military forts! ”

As the wolf smoke rose one after another, the smoke also rose from the mountain, and the people of Yecheng from Ma Qiang to the people got a message from these thick smoke - the war has started again.

"Tian Kai sent a telegram that a large number of Yuan troops appeared in Baitu Pass, and the banners of Yan Liang and Wen Chou appeared."

"A telegram came from Changshan, and the banner of Zhang He's soldiers and horses appeared in the direction of Jingcheng."

"A telegram came from Zhongshan, and a large number of Yuan troops rushed out of the Flying Fox and Puyin paths, among which the cavalry may have 10,000 horsemen!"

Ma Qiang immediately dispatched troops according to the already prepared deployment, ordering Huang Zhong's first army to move from Julu to Zhongshan, Zhao Yun's second cavalry division to Changshan, Yan Rou's first cavalry division to move to Quliang, and Tai Shici and Sima Ju to go to Julu Ren County to standby.

After all the military orders were issued, Yan Liang and Wen Chou in Baitu Pass began to open and close the door, all the way to the east to Yecheng, and all the way to the north to Handan.

Ma Qiang couldn't sit still in Yecheng, so he simply took the guards out of the city to prepare to go to Fushan to watch the battle.

Walking out of Yecheng, you can see that there are constantly people running to Yecheng with their families, and Han Fu, who was pulled by Ma Qiang, said worriedly, "Yuan Shao came to kill at the time of the spring equinox, obviously because he didn't want us to have a good harvest this year, Ma Gong, I'm worried that after this battle, the people of Wei County will flee back to their hometown." ”

"No, it won't." Ma Qiang confidently pointed to the fields on both sides of the road and said, "There are fields and houses here, this is their home, there is no idle field in Jizhou now, where can they go back?" ”

"Isn't life more important?"

Ma Qiang shook his head and said, "For the people, the field is more important than life, and the homes they have worked so hard to build will never be easily abandoned." ”

Yan Liang set out from Baitu Pass with 15,000 soldiers and horses, and after walking for several miles, he saw several small Wu forts standing tall on both sides of the road in front of him, and pointed and asked, "What is this?" ”

The general of the Montenegrin Army who cooperated with Yan Liang was Tao Sheng. He said to Yan Liang, "This is the military fort established by Ma Qiang, in a group of three, there are probably hundreds of people in it. ”

"This thing is on both sides of the road, how are we going to get there? You, immediately bring 500 men to demolish the Wu forts on both sides for me! ”

"Five hundred?" Tao Sheng hurriedly threw his hand and begged for mercy, "General, I heard that a grandson said that ten people will be surrounded, let me bring a thousand people." ”

"You want a thousand people for just these few stone houses? Are you Montenegrin so gutsless? Go now, go now! Yan Liangqi wanted to give Tao Sheng a slap, he had just gone out, could he have no more interest?

The military forts built by the Zhenbei army are very disgusting, all on both sides of the main road, if you don't care about him, you can also go, anyway, there are no machine guns in these military forts, but people can make a detour, horses can detour, cars can't.

The car is full of military food and grass, this time Yuan Shaojun is preparing to fight the war, but he can't not bring no military food at all, otherwise once he doesn't find enough food for a day or two, Yuan Shaojun can go home hungry.

Tao Sheng transferred 500 infantry and 500 cavalry to the front of the military fort, and first let 100 Hun cavalry tentatively shoot arrows around the military fort.

"The enemy is coming! Be careful, is the door blocked below? Li Jie, the leader of the team in the fortress, asked loudly.

"It's blocked! We've used all the food bags to block the door. ”

"That'll do."

Shout~

An arrow flew in along the shooting hole, grazing Li Jie's face and hitting the wall behind him before falling.

"It's so dangerous, these cavalrymen are so powerful!"

"Damn it, push all the ballistas up for me and shoot him!" Li Jie touched his face, and after making sure that there was nothing wrong, he angrily urged the sergeant to push the ballista to the shooting hole, and then sat on a chair and shot at the cavalry below.

Tao Sheng saw that the arrows hitting these forts were useless, but were wounded by the arrows shot from the forts, so he told the cavalry to retreat, and then let the infantry hold their shields and attack.

"Lead, the infantry is coming!"

"What are you afraid of, the doors are blocked, there is not even a window here, they can't get in at all, a team of two, one is on the hyun, one is archery, and the white horse general is avenged!"

"That's right! Avenge General Hakuba! ”

Many of Tian Kai's troops were the original Anton Army, so there were many people who had enmity with Yuan Shaojun.

Five hundred infantry swarmed with shields and thick wood that they didn't know where to find and began to move forward, they were attacking three military forts at the same time, Tao Sheng had seen it just now, these three military forts were within each other's range, and it would be more troublesome not to fight together.