When the coalition army was about 300 steps away from Mengjiazhuang, Qin Chuan moved, and the three hundred and fifty cavalry directly lined up in an arrow formation, slowly approaching the coalition army.

He could not allow the coalition forces to move the siege equipment outside the village.

Seeing them approaching, the coalition forces threw down their sacks and assembled in formation.

There are still 700 cavalry in the coalition army, most of them are the old battalion men and horses of Wang Gang and Leopard Wu, and the rest are the old bandits of Guo Yan and Bashan Hu, whose combat strength is not a little stronger than that of the Guan Emperor Army, which has just been established for less than half a month.

Qin Chuan knew that he couldn't go head-to-head with the other party, and when the other party had just assembled, he led his subordinates to start circling in circles, always keeping a distance of about two hundred steps from the other party.

The seven hundred horsemen of the coalition army did not chase them out, but only followed them in circles, and whichever direction they went, they blocked the offensive line in that direction.

After turning around a few times, seeing that they didn't dare to kill them, Guo Yan, Wang Gangbao, and the others let the first army continue to carry food, while the seven hundred cavalry continued to stare at Qin Chuan.

Moving food meant that the formation would be lengthened, even if the coalition forces were only moving a hundred paces at a time.

The defensive range of the 700 cavalry has also increased.

Qin Chuan divided his subordinates into two, and asked Li Dingliang to lead a hundred Guan Emperor troops to move south to attract the attention of the other party, while he himself took the remaining two hundred and fifty Guan Emperor troops and more than twenty Jiuji Mountain old bandits to move to the north in the opposite direction.

The opponent's seven hundred cavalry also divided into about two hundred cavalry to block the one hundred Guan Emperor Army, and the remaining five hundred cavalry continued to follow Qin Chuan in circles to block his offensive route.

Qin Chuan's two roads are like two pens, drawing two semicircles around the coalition forces from the north and south, and the speed is getting faster and faster.

The two men on the other side had to follow in circles and draw two other semicircles on the inside.

When he was about to draw a circle and was about to meet head-on, Li Dingliang suddenly turned out with the hundred Guan imperial army, avoiding the people of Qin Chuan.

The two hundred horsemen of the other party were afraid of bumping into their other people, so they also turned out a little.

At this time, Qin Chuan suddenly went inside, led more than 270 subordinates, and killed the 200 horsemen who came out.

That's what he's for.

In a limited space, draw out a small force of the opponent and annihilate the opponent with your main force.

The two hundred horsemen on the other side kept staring at the one hundred Guan Emperor Army, and they didn't expect him to come to this hand at all, so they didn't make any preparations, and when they found that his main force was coming head-on, they were suddenly in chaos.

After firing scattered arrows, two hundred horsemen rushed forward.

They were greeted by an overwhelming array of javelins.

In the case of high-speed galloping, the thick iron-clad wooden shield could not stop the sharp javelin, and only in the first wave of projection, dozens of unlucky ghosts were pierced through, and fell heavily from the horse, and the dead could not die again.

Qin Chuan pulled out the second javelin, threw it fiercely, and stabbed an unlucky ghost who was rushing onto the horse's back, then drew out his long knife and crashed into it first.

Two javelins and a charge wiped out all the 200 cavalry of the coalition army.

The five hundred horsemen who blocked him on the inner line, when they saw him rushing to kill the friendly army, hurriedly came out to rescue, but Qin Chuan didn't stop at all, and after rushing the two hundred horsemen through each other, he continued to rush forward without stopping.

The 500 horsemen of the coalition army had to step over the corpse and eat the dirt after him.

The 100 Guan Imperial Army led by Li Dingliang took the opportunity to rush towards the coalition army that was moving grain, and after two rounds of javelins, it cut through the panicked coalition army like a sharp arrow.

Guo Yan and Wang Gangbao's faces were pale, they tore open their throats and kept yelling, and finally let the panicked coalition forces line up in formation.

Li Dingliang went around for half a circle, and after seeing that the other party had discharged hundreds of archers, he turned his horse's head to support Qin Chuan.

Qin Chuan no longer went around in circles, but kept galloping north, and the five hundred horsemen were originally biting behind, but after chasing for a while, they suddenly turned their horses' heads and killed Li Dingliang in the back.

Li Dingliang had expected it, and he also turned his horse's head and withdrew in the direction of Mengjiazhuang.

Seeing that the five hundred horsemen could not catch up, they had no choice but to return to the formation.

Qin Chuan and Li Dingliang stopped to rest in place, and sent dozens of subordinates to retrieve the other party's scattered war horses, which were the most valuable trophies.

Guo Yan and Wang Gangbao and the others were so angry that their lungs were about to explode, and their seven hundred horsemen were obviously twice as many as the other party, but they were played around by the other party, and they were so helpless that they had no power to fight back.

In this battle, another 200 cavalry and nearly 100 infantry troops were lost, and the other side only suffered one or two dozen casualties.

……

On the mountain beam in the distance, Zhang Kewang frowned, looking at the battlefield in the distance.

At the age of fifteen, he began to follow his father-in-law to fight in the north and south, following his father-in-law to read and write, read military books, and learn the art of war.

But now, he realized that what he had learned before was not worth mentioning at all, and he understood what the real tactics were.

With less than 400 horsemen and a radius of 500 paces, the surnamed Qin was able to divide the enemy's forces into several pieces, and let the enemy's small force unknowingly collide with his main force and be crushed with a single blow.

Zhang Kewang had never seen this kind of tactic, and he had never even heard of it.

He had never seen such a person who could come up with such a tactic in a short period of time.

The surname Qin is a character.

A character as powerful as his father-in-law.

In the future, he will become a troubled figure of his father-in-law.

So, this man must die!

"Major General, when are we going to kill it?"

The subordinate's inquiry interrupted Zhang Kewang's thoughts.

After retracting his gaze, he shook his head: "Don't worry, the one surnamed Qin will fight with those two groups of people and horses for a long time, we should also let them kill each other for a while, and it will not be too late to kill them when those two groups of people and horses start to attack the village." ”

"Yes."

……

Zhang Kewang soon regretted it.

Qin Chuan's old trick was repeated, and when the coalition army began to move food, he divided the team into two and began to circle in the opposite direction.

The coalition army learned wisely this time, and instead of chasing them in a circle, the 500 cavalry was divided into two divisions, stationed on the east and west sides respectively, and then drew out 100 archers and 100 riflemen, and stationed them at the north and south ends in a mixed formation.

As a result, only 600 people were left to carry the grain, which was much slower than before.

Qin Chuan saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, so he went back to Zhuang and got something: a fire oil bottle.

This thing was made by him in the past few days, and he planned to use it to guard the village, but there were not many of them, there were less than two hundred cans, and he only took fifty cans out.

Then he repeated the old trick again, and circled around the coalition forces in the opposite direction with Li Dingliang.

Circling around the second circle, when the west side of the coalition army was about to meet, the two groups of men and horses turned in one direction at the same time, and slashed towards the more than 200 people on the west side of the coalition army.

At the same time, fifty Guan Emperor soldiers lit the fire oil bottles in their hands and were ready to throw them out at any time.

When Guo Yan, Wang Gangbao and the others saw it, they thought they were going to burn the grain, so they hurriedly asked their nearby subordinates to go over to support, and protected the grain, and once the fire broke out, they would immediately extinguish it.

This time, Qin Chuan could only choose to attack.

The direction of the attack was the position with the least number of archers on the other side, and each person was crowned with a wooden shield, but there were still many mounts of Emperor Guan's army who were shot by arrows and were overturned and fell off their horses.

After rushing into a distance of thirty paces, throwing two rounds of javelins in a row, and putting down dozens of riflemen in the front row, Qin Chuan led more than 300 subordinates to kill through the gap.

The reinforcements were scattered, not only to defend on all sides, but also to protect food, the lineup did not have any thickness to speak of, and the two or three layers of troops were chiseled through in an instant under the high-speed impact of the cavalry.

Qin Chuan was not in love with war, and as soon as he burst in, he immediately rushed to two towering siege towers and a rushing car.

The coalition forces thought that they were going to burn food, and the men and horses were arranged next to the grain pile to prepare to extinguish the fire, and there was no one to defend next to the siege equipment.

Qin Chuan led his team to pass by the three siege equipment, and his subordinates smashed the fire oil bottle that was lit in their hands.

Before the opponent's cavalry completed the encirclement, Qin Chuan led his subordinates to kill out from the weakest position of the opponent, went around in half a circle, rescued more than a dozen fallen Guan Emperor troops, and then galloped towards Mengjiazhuang without looking back.

This assault can be described as heavy losses.

Of the three hundred and fifty horsemen, only two hundred and eight returned safely, and a charge reduced twenty percent of the troops.

Among them, there are two old bandits from Jiujishan who did not come back.

However, no matter how big the loss is, it is worth it.

Dozens of fire oil bottles smashed on the three siege machines, and the fire oil spilled out of the broken clay pots and sprinkled on the siege equipment, instantly igniting a fire.

Today, the two siege towers and one rushing vehicle have been drowned in the raging fire.

In the case of the lack of siege equipment, even if there are two thousand people, Qin Chuan is not afraid.

……

On the mountain beam in the distance, Zhang Kewang beat his chest and scolded his mother.

If he had killed it earlier, he would not have let the surnamed Qin destroy the siege equipment he had made overnight.

The one surnamed Qin is really a son of a bitch,

Without siege equipment, he would not be able to take Mengjiazhuang with this amount of troops.