Wang Jian thanked him, and the king of Qin said to Bai again: "This time, the general will not go, for several months, you have fought repeatedly, and your soldiers are tired and tired, so you still recuperate in the city."

Bai Qi also hurriedly thanked him, and King Qin said: "This time the Houjin Tartar attacked, Guanzhong was shaken, and the court must know about it, so in order to prevent the officials and troops from attacking at the same time, Tongguan must strengthen its defense." [No pop-ups. The general is in command in Xi'an, and he must not be neglected. ”

Bai Qi said: "Although the king can rest assured, with me, I will ensure that the customs are safe." ”

The king of Qin said to Zhang Yi and Li Yan again: "All government affairs will be handed over to the two of you, Li Yan has never had a clear official position in my Qin army, at this time I will crown you as the left minister, Zhang Yi as the right minister, you master and apprentice, work together, the people of Guanzhong will be happy." ”

Li Yan thanked him, since Chongzhen entered the Qin army in the second year, after six years of hard work, he finally entered the top leadership circle of the Qin army.

King Qin handed over the defense of Xi'an City to Ji Mengdie, and let her lead the Xi'an Governor as a princess.

After everything was properly arranged, the King of Qin instructed Wang Jian to order 10,000 horses, take Shehuai as the vanguard, and drive to Baishui County.

10,000 cavalry marched out of Xi'an City and came to the northeast.

Shehuai led 3,000 cavalry as the vanguard, non-stop, and went straight to Baishui County.

At this time, although the county seat of Baishui was under the control of the Qin army, the Qin army did not garrison in the county, because it was far away from Xi'an City, and the Qin army was unwilling to disperse its forces. Moreover, after the repeated sacking of the official army and the peasant army, Baishui County was almost in ruins, and the city wall collapsed and could not be defended, so the Qin army abandoned this place and moved the people to the vicinity of Xi'an City.

Shehuai's 3,000 men and horses came to the outside of Baishui City, set up the corners, Shehuai sent a horse to investigate, and reported that within a radius of twenty miles, the shadow of the Houjin army had not been found, so Shehuai ordered to camp and wait for the king of Qin and the men and horses behind.

At nearly dusk, the brigade arrived, and Wang Jian led 7,000 cavalry to protect the king of Qin, and camped on the side of the road, and the camp of Shehuai was in a horn shape.

The king of Qin ordered to be prepared at night in case the Houjin army came to attack.

However, the Qin army stared at it all night, and did not see a single Houjin cavalry coming, so it was discouraged.

Early the next morning, the king of Qin walked out of the big tent and instructed Wang Jian to take two thousand cavalry and go to the front with him to check it out.

Wang Jian and Shehuai did not dare to disobey the order, so they led two thousand elite cavalry and accompanied the King of Qin out of the camp and headed north.

At this time, it was the weather in October, the weather in the north was cold early, and it had frost in the morning, so everyone wore thick clothes, stepped off the war horse and sniffed the cold wind of early winter, very energetic, and kept snorting, along the way only to see the grass half yellow, the leaves half withered, and the field was silent.

The people and horses came to a place in the northeast of the county, there is a wild forest here, behind the wild forest is a high hill, very desolate, King Qin looked at the terrain, nodded slightly, and said to Wang Qian: "If there is a war, you can ambush the people and horses here, and at the same time, you must also guard against the enemy ambush here." ”

Wang Jian also looked at the terrain, he has been fighting all his life, how can he despise the terrain? Especially the cavalry battle, it is even more important to pay attention to the height of the terrain, flat, he looked around, nodded and said: "The king said very much, this four outside a field, there is no towering, the high post behind the wild forest, is the highest place, as long as the cavalry occupies the wild forest and high slopes, the advance can be attacked, the retreat can be defended, and a thousand people can block the attack of three thousand people." ”

As he was talking, a sentry suddenly came to the king of Qin, and arched his hand: "King, there are people and horses running behind Gaogang." ”

Wang Jian asked urgently: "How many people?" ”

The sentinel said, "Not much, it looks like there are more than a hundred horses." Shi Huai said: "Isn't it a Houjin Tartar?" The sentinel said: "It should be, the color of the dress is different from that of the Central Plains." ”

King Qin said: "It may be the scout or vanguard of the Houjin army, we are not familiar with the Houjin people, we don't know its reality, and we don't know its tactics, you are a cavalry general, two thousand years ago, how many points are left, I want to see, take a thousand people, wipe out these more than 100 horsemen, it is best to catch the leader." ”

When she heard this, her heart was boiling: "King, don't worry, no matter how many thousand years later, the old Qin people will not spend much effort to slaughter these grassland cattle, and there will be no one thousand people in the end, three hundred people are enough." ”

Wang Jian said: "Don't be careless, the old Qin people are invincible, that's because they never underestimate the enemy, you can take five hundred people." ”

Shi Huai didn't dare to stiffen his mouth, so he took five hundred cavalry, galloped into the wild forest first, and then carefully went up to the high post, only showing his head, looking north.

I saw a puff of smoke and dust not far away, and more than a hundred horsemen and horses came, these people wore round hats on their heads, with strange styles, wearing cloth armor, carrying bows on their backs, and each of them had two pots of feather arrows hanging from their waists.

Sure enough, it was the Houjin Army.

In order to prevent this from happening, Shehuai divided the five hundred Qin troops into three teams, and brought two hundred cavalry to ambush behind the high post, and sent two hundred chiefs each with one hundred and fifty horsemen, quietly went down the high post, distributed on both sides, as long as they charged, these two teams of men and horses galloped out left and right, showing a fan face, outflanking the past, cutting off the retreat of the Jin army, at that time five hundred people surrounded one hundred people, closed the door and beat the dogs, Let not one escape.

Under the orders of Shehuai, the five hundred cavalry of the Qin army opened the shelf and waited for the Houjin army to come and send them to death.

The group of Houjin cavalry didn't seem to notice anything unusual, and still ran towards Gaogang in a straggler formation, but when they ran a stone's throw away from Gaogang, the leader suddenly raised his hand, and all the cavalry reined in their horses and stood still.

Shi Huai could see clearly behind Gao Gang, and secretly frowned, thinking that they had discovered the Qin army?

But after a closer look, I didn't feel like it, I saw that the group of Houjin troops did not pull their bows and arrows, ready to fight, but looked left and right, not knowing what they were looking at.

The knight at the head looked to be in his early twenties, very strong, with a pair of slender eyes, shining with a small cold light, it seemed that he was the leader, this man looked carefully at the surrounding field, and his nostrils couldn't help but sniff deeply, like the first wolf in the pack, as if he had vaguely sensed the existence of danger.

The man observed for a while, but still did not move. Shi Huai felt that there were two lines of sweat dripping down, and the place where the group of Houjin troops stayed was very embarrassing, just outside the range of the bow and arrow, even if they fired arrows on the high post, they couldn't shoot anyone. And if they rush out at this time, the Houjin army will immediately flee, leaving the Qin army empty-handed.

In his previous life, he had followed the general Meng Tian to garrison the Great Wall, and also fought a few battles with the Huns, although the scale was not large, but he also accumulated a lot of experience, he knew that this kind of grassland nomads were the best at mobile combat and sneak attacks, fighting, non-stop, running and archery, so that you can't catch up, you can only be beaten. These people are extremely accurate in their arrows, and there are almost no missed shots, so if it is not for mounted archery, there is no chance of victory at all.

Of course, the Qin army could also use strong crossbows to deal with the cavalry of the steppe peoples, but there were no strong crossbow troops at this time, so it was decided to continue the ambush and not be exposed.

He put his right hand behind his back, pressed down slightly, and motioned to his five hundred cavalrymen not to move, not to make a sound.

Needless to say, the five hundred Qin troops, and those war horses have also been trained for a long time, in this atmosphere, the master gently stroked the horse's head, and none of the horses snorted, kicked the soil, and made a sound.

I saw that the group of Houjin cavalry under the post still did not advance, the knight at the head looked like a wolf, looked left and right for a long time, then waved his hand, beckoned a cavalryman behind him, whispered a few words, the cavalry nodded, with ten Houjin soldiers, lined up, and walked towards the high post.

It turned out that the knight led by this one had already felt the murderous aura, or that something was wrong around him, and the people of the steppe people had a wolf-like sense of smell and premonition. Therefore, he did not advance, but ordered a small team of men and horses to explore the road first, and the commanding height of more than ten miles around is this high post, so as long as you stand on the post, the surrounding terrain and terrain can be seen at a glance.

Shi Huai secretly scolded this person for being cunning, but seeing that the eleven Houjin cavalry were already about to get off the post, if he attacked at this time, he could kill the eleven Houjin cavalry, but the more than 100 people behind him were about to escape.

In a hurry, he whispered to a ten-chief, took more than 20 people, took off his coat, jumped off his horse, pretended to be a commoner, escaped from the high post, and ran into the wild forest.

The ten chiefs understood, took more than 20 people, took off the Qin army's uniform, and did not take weapons, suddenly shouted, ran to the post, and exposed the eleven Houjin cavalry.

The Houjin soldiers were taken aback at first, but when they saw that it was only some people, they were relieved, and when they drew their bows and arrows, they wanted to shoot, but the twenty or so had already fled into the woods.

After the Jin army breathed a sigh of relief, the ten elders ran back and said a few words to the leader of the person, and the knight at the head waved his hand, led more than a hundred people, continued to move forward, and approached the high post.

Seeing that his strategy was successful, he had already deceived this group of Houjin troops, and his heart was steady, he gestured with his hand, and the two hundred cavalry around him all held bows in their hands, mounted arrows, and waited there.

More than a hundred Houjin cavalry were getting closer and closer, and they were already halfway into the firing range, and it was the best time for Shi Huai to let go of his raised hand suddenly.

Two hundred Qin cavalry pulled their bowstrings together and shot the first wave of feather arrows.

The knight at the head was walking, and suddenly looked up, only to see a layer of black dots flying behind Gao Gang, drawing black lines in the air, and flying towards him.

He shouted, no one could understand what he was calling, it was not Chinese.

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