King Qin nodded: "Now the plan, immediately send someone to ride a fast horse to Baishui, and be sure to catch up with Wang Qian, so that he can't rush in easily." 【Latest chapter reading. Bai Qi said: "This will be arranged in the end." After saying that, he hurried out of the house.

Whitewater City was newly restored, so Wang Jian did not carry carrier pigeons, so he could only rely on fast horses to deliver letters.

King Qin was slightly relieved when he saw Bai Qi leaving, a cold wind blew, he shivered, and prayed secretly in his heart, hoping that it was still too late.

Besides, Bai Qi, out of the mansion, went straight to the barracks, and found a deputy general, this deputy general's surname is Lu Mingxi, he is also a Qin person, and he is familiar with Wang Qian, Bai Qi ordered him to rush to Baishui immediately, convey the king's command, do not attack Jingbian for the time being, and be sure to send someone to carefully investigate before making plans. This matter is urgent, and there should be no delay on the road. At the same time, give him a large order. At this time, the situation was urgent, and the king of Qin could not write the decree, so the military order could be replaced.

Seeing that Bai Qi had a serious face, and knew that he should not be lazy, he immediately nodded and agreed, and selected six of the best horses in the camp, and selected two personal soldiers, three people, and six good horses.

With a big order, the three men left the city overnight and went straight to Baishui.

When they arrived at Whitewater City, it was the night of the third day, the city gate was closed, Lu Xi shouted under the city, and the people of the city heard it, and hurriedly opened the door and put it in. Lu Xi went straight to the county office, and when he arrived at the office, someone had already followed. As soon as Lu Xi saw that it was the adjutant general Li Yuan, he had a premonition that something was wrong and asked, "General Li, where is General Wang Qian?"

Li Yuan said: "I led the troops out of the city yesterday, and during the day, the infantry army had just marched. General Lu, what's the matter with you?"

When Lu Xi heard this, he stomped his feet again and again: "It's broken, it's broken, it's a big mistake." So I went after him. ”

Li Yuan didn't know what he was doing here, so he stopped and asked, Lu Xi simply and concisely said the king's order, Li Yuan was also anxious when he heard it, and ordered his subordinates: "Change horses for General Lu immediately, and bring dry food and water." He also ordered a hundred commanders to lead fifty Qin troops to escort Lu Xi on the road.

Lu Xi changed horses, took these people, and galloped all the way until dawn, and finally caught up with the infantry.

Leading the infantry was the general Zhang Gong, who led the men and horses to run all night, and was already a little tired when it was dawn, and was just about to give the order to rest on the spot, when someone came to report: "General, someone has come from Baishui City, asking to see you." ”

Zhang Gong said: "What kind of person?"

The man said: "It's the deputy general Lu Xi." With a few dozen cavalry. Zhang Gong was stunned: "Isn't Lu Xi in Xi'an City, how could he come here" He was puzzled, and ordered the people to stop and let Lu Xi come to see.

Lu Xi ran to Zhang Gong and bowed his hand, Zhang Gong saw that he was full of anxiety, he knew that something was wrong, and asked: "General Lu, you are not in Xi'an City, what are you doing here" Lu Xi hurriedly said the order of King Qin, Zhang Gong heard it, some doubts, Lu Xi took out the order and handed it to Zhang Gong: "This is the general's military order, the general should not be suspicious." Quickly withdraw the centaurs. ”

Zhang Gong saw that there was a big order from Bai Qi, so he believed it, but he frowned: "General Lu, my men and horses are all infantry, and it is easy to withdraw, but General Wang Jian and General Li Kang have been walking with the cavalry for more than a day, and it is estimated that they have gone out hundreds of miles away, how can they catch up?"

Lu Xi said: "I have a fast horse here, chase as much as possible, and the general will be stationed here and wait for us." ”

Zhang Gong nodded, Lu Xi and his subordinates hastily ate some food, and once again went on the road to catch up.

Let's say that Li Kang, with 3,000 iron horsemen, went out of the city in the starry night, and rushed to Jingbian, he went out of the city for an hour, and Wang Jian followed closely with 7,000 men and horses. The two groups of men and horses were separated by about thirty miles, and they marched one after another.

Li Dang knew that this was a sneak attack, and the action must be swift, so after leaving the city, three thousand cavalry swept across the ground like a gust of wind, Li Dang took the lead, followed by the flag officer, who rolled up the banner in order not to reveal the target, crossed the horse's back, and ran closely after Li Dang.

These 3,000 people, together with the 7,000 men and horses led by Wang Jian behind, traveled 200 miles a day, and Lu Xi and the others lagged behind them for more than a day, how could they catch up

Three days later, Li Kang came to the Jingbian border, and in the afternoon of this day, Li Kang was leading the army to gallop away, and there was a horse in front of him to report: "General Li, you can already see Jingbian City from a distance in front." ”

Li Dang ordered the men and horses to stop, and he took two personal soldiers and explored the horses together, went up to a high post, and looked to the north.

Sure enough, dozens of miles away, a city appeared. It is Jingbian City, outside the southern city, there is a large camp on both sides of the road, Li Dare took a closer look, and calculated in his heart, looking at the scale of this camp, there are about two or three thousand people and horses. If you want to attack Jingbian, you must first sweep away this battalion.

At present, he is only a vanguard, with 3,000 cavalry under his command, and he is not sure of annihilating the enemy, so he ordered the whole army to rest and wait for Wang Qian's arrival.

More than an hour later, Wang Qian's brigade also arrived, Li Dare reported to Wang Qian, Wang Jian also went to the high post, looked at the camp for a while, nodded slightly, and ordered: "The whole army rests, and after nightfall, start an attack." ”

During the day, the cavalry of the brigade was too conspicuous, and Wang Jian was worried that once he got closer, he would be discovered by the scouts of the official army, so he ordered to be stationed thirty miles away from the official army camp. Just wait until it gets dark.

In order not to be discovered by the officers and soldiers, no one was allowed to leave the brigade, nor was it allowed to light a fire for cooking, but just gnawed some dry food and drank some water. As long as there are pedestrians passing by on the road, they will be caught, so as not to leak the news. The whole army was like a snake lying in ambush in the grass, looking at the rat's nest in the distance, waiting for the right opportunity, and then launching a surprise attack.

In winter, it gets dark very early, and within two hours, the sky is completely dark.

Wang Jian and Li Dang stood side by side on the high post, looked at the big camp, and saw a little fire in the camp, which was a lot of fires, and they were raising the fire to cook, of course, it was not appropriate to attack at this time, Wang Jian had to wait until midnight, after the officers and soldiers in the camp were asleep, and then attacked.

The two of them looked at the starlight above their heads, and kept holding their hands to drive away the cold, and their subordinates also stomped their feet in place and circled to keep their blood flowing.

Finally, after waiting for more than two hours, the lights in the camp gradually went out, and only a few fires remained, which were used by the soldiers on the night patrol to keep warm.

It's about time.

Wang Jian nodded to Li Dang: "General Li, let's start." ”

Li Dang gave the order, ran down the high post, shouted the order, and the three thousand cavalry immediately assembled, and Li Dang took the three thousand men and horses, the rank of the person, and the mouth of the horse, and quietly pounced on it.

Wang Jian took the rest of the people and stayed where they were, and when Li Kang and them rushed out of more than ten miles, they gave an order, followed closely behind, and rushed to the official camp.

Li Dang led the army in front, straight to the camp gate, ran for about half an hour, and then approached the official army camp, Li Dang waved his hand, the whole army stopped, Li Dang ordered a hundred commanders around him, with a team of men and horses, to sneak attack.

Li Dang, as the commander of the vanguard battalion, was not only brave in battle, but also very careful, he was also afraid of being ambushed, so he sent a small team of men and horses in advance, if he could touch the camp, it was best to open the camp door wide, even if he could not enter the camp, he could also see if the camp was prepared.

The hundred commanders led a hundred people, all dismounted, stepped forward, ten archers in front of them, quickly approached the camp gate, looked in front of the camp, there was no one, the camp gate was closed, and there was no one on the fighting on both sides of the camp gate, I couldn't help but take a secret breath, waved my hand, stopped the team, and then sent five people to touch the camp gate.

These five people carried knives, slowly touched the front of the camp gate, looked in through the gap in the gate, only to see that the camp was empty, there was no one in sight, there was no patrol sentry, and the camp gate was not guarded. He pushed the door open, but there was still no movement inside.

A few people didn't dare to enter the door, so they called the hundred chiefs over, and the hundred chiefs came to the camp gate, looked carefully, and were shocked, and shouted: "It's not good, there is fraud in the camp, retreat quickly"

As soon as his words came out, he suddenly shot out countless arrows from several tents in the camp, making a piercing roar, and the six people in front of the camp gate were caught off guard and immediately fell to the ground with arrows.

Li Dang took a look at the back and was taken aback, he knew that there was an ambush in the camp, so he waved his hand: "The whole army is on alert, the rear team becomes the front team, slowly withdraw, I will cut off the rear."

He has been a great enemy for a long time, and knows that he has been ambushed, and at this time he must not panic, once he orders an unorganized retreat, it is likely to turn into a rout.

But without waiting for the Qin army to turn around, the official army camp issued a cannon in the sky, at the same time, the camp was full of fire, there were countless torches, in an instant, in the various tents rushed out of countless officers and soldiers, one by one, fully armed, holding a weapon, headed by a person, with a helmet and armor, straddling a high-headed horse, holding a long sword in his hand, majestic, behind the flag officer in the hand of the flag officer fluttering in the firelight, the flag black satin, white streamer, embroidered with red flying flame in the center, a big "history" word written on it.

The person who stands under it is none other than Shi Kefa.

When Wang Jian led the troops to arrive, Shi Kefa had already received the news, because he had sent the scouts to fifty miles away, such a distance, when the Qin army did not find the scouts, the scouts had already seen the Qin army, so they flew back. Shi Kefa knew that the Qin army was good at night attacks, and his large camp stood by the city, and it was far less convenient to attack during the day than at night, and more importantly, the Qin army must have thought at this time that the officers and troops who went to fight the Mongols had just left and had not gone too far, so they would never attack immediately, and they would also have to rest for a while. So Shi Kefa ordered that the whole army should continue as usual during the day.

When it got dark, Shi Kefa ordered the whole army not to sleep, and to hide in the camp tent in full armor, not to make a sound, and not to move around the tent at will, so as not to be discovered by the Qin army.

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