Cao Wenzhao's favorite is this kind of decisive battle. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

But his nephew, Cao Bianjiao, sensed a hint of an unusual atmosphere. Xiang Cao Wen said: "Uncle, I heard that there is a detailed return, the Qin army near Tongguan has suddenly increased a lot, and most of them are cavalry, could it be that they are here to join forces with Li Zicheng?" The Qin army is strong in combat, and if the two of them join forces, we should be careful. ”

Cao Wenzhao snorted, touched his nephew's head, and patted him twice: "Boy, our Guanning Iron Cavalry is not even afraid of the Jurchens, what are you afraid of the Qin army?" Take 10,000 steps back and say, even if we can't win, we can always run. What else are you worried about! ”

Cao Bianjiao was still not at ease, Cao Wenzhao said: "This time, our troops are pressing the border, it is very close to Tongguan, it is impossible for the Qin army not to take precautions, and Li Zicheng's men and horses are also nearby, it is normal for the Qin army to increase troops in Tongguan." Besides, the peasant army and the Qin army had just broken up, and it was impossible for them to collude again so quickly. In fact, even if they really collude in one place, how can they be the opponent of my Guanning Iron Cavalry. ”

After speaking, he ordered his men and horses, accelerated forward, and rushed straight to Jiezhou.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already learned that the cavalry of the Qin army had arrived at Tongguan, and he was about to send someone to contact him, but he didn't want the Qin army's people to arrive first.

He asked the messenger to come in, and the messenger handed him a letter, which was written by Li Yan himself. Li Zicheng has seen Li Yan's pen style, and naturally believes that it is true. The letter agreed that the next morning after the letter, the two sides met in Dayudu to discuss specific tactics.

Li Zicheng immediately replied to the letter, agreed, and handed it to the messenger to bring back.

On the second day, both sides really came to Dayudu, Li Zicheng took Liu Zongmin, Tian Jianxiu, Li Guo, and Bai Qi took Li Yan and Li Kang.

After everyone met, in the pavilion on the edge of the ferry, they discussed how to completely annihilate Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Iron Cavalry.

They all know that the key to dealing with cavalry is to choose a good terrain, if it is an endless plain, it is impossible to encircle the cavalry, it is best to be in an area with relatively complex terrain, such as mountains, jungles, swamps, so that the war horse can not rush up, in order to reduce its threat.

Li Zicheng had been to Shanxi a long time ago, and in order to eliminate Cao Wenzhao, he also checked the terrain in many ways, and finally he chose a place, which was Xia County east of Jiezhou. It is located in the middle of the mountainous area, there are several rivers, the terrain is complex, and there are few plains, which is not conducive to the cavalry galloping across the country.

Bai Qi looked at the topographic map brought by Li Zicheng and felt that it was a good place for ambush. I agreed. Then they agreed on a concrete plan. In order to prevent Cao Wenzhao from discovering that the peasant army and the Qin army were joining forces, Bai Qi first rushed to Xia County with the Qin army, hid it, and Liu Zongmin led most of the men and horses to go to Xia County to ambush with Bai Qi. And Li Zicheng led a part of the peasant army to attract Cao Wenzhao and lured him into an ambush circle step by step.

The project is still very sure to be successful.

After the discussion, the two began to act separately. Bai Qi returned to Tongguan and ordered Shehuai to guard the pass, and then he and Li Yan and Li Kang led the cavalry, crossed the Yellow River, and entered Shanxi. When he came to Jiezhou, Cao Wenzhao was already less than fifty miles away.

Li Zicheng's side was also ready, and Liu Zongmin took more than 20,000 people out of the city, joined Bai Qi, and then rushed to Xia County together.

Bai Qi looked at these teams and found that Li Zicheng's men and horses were really much more elite than the other peasant armies, although they also brought their families, but these family members could ride horses and act very quickly, and although there were many women among these family members, there were many girls like the red lady, with swords and swords, and they were very heroic.

Liu Zongmin walked side by side with Bai Qi, Li Yan and others, he was born as a blacksmith, and his speech was like striking iron, every word he said was like a spark bursting from iron, loud and bright. Bai Qi talked to him for a few words, and found that this person had a cheerful personality, he couldn't hold words in his stomach, he could say whatever he wanted, and he was a well-known man.

But he also knows that these people are by no means as simple as they seem on the surface, and those who can survive the encirclement and suppression of the official army for several years are all characters.

Therefore, Bai Qi did not say much, especially when it came to the Qin army, and he only dealt with the past vaguely.

Liu Zongmin is a straightforward man, he knows everyone well, as long as he is his own person, he is always open-mouthed. Speaking of happiness, he also patted Bai Qi's shoulder. He frowned.

Li Yan has met him a few times, Liu Zongmin admires Li Yan very much, and feels that this young man is both civil and military, he is not only a talent, but also able to fight, and he really wants to be close and close.

Let's talk about it, the speed of the march is not slow. Moreover, Li Zicheng's order to Liu Zongmin was to rush to the Xia County area as soon as possible. In this way, he doesn't have to desperately resist Cao Wenzhao in Jiezhou.

How could Liu Zongmin not know the stakes? As he walked, he kept urging everyone to hurry up.

After a journey of seventy or eighty miles, the team walked for a day, and finally arrived at Maning Town, outside Xia County, at noon the next day.

This town is not big, and when I heard that a peasant army was coming, the people in the town fled into Zhongtiao Mountain with food and money.

By the time they arrived in the town, it was an empty town.

This is just right, so as not to leak the news, Bai Qi ordered the people to rest in the town, and then came to the outside of the town with Li Yan and Liu Zongmin to observe the terrain in order to choose a suitable ambush location.

They walked around the town, and finally chose a place, on the east side of Maning Town, there are several hills, among which there are two rivers that are not big or small, flowing through the mountains, this place is high on all sides, low in the middle, there are many trees on all sides, and there is a flat land in the middle.

In the end, Bai Qi and Liu Zongmin agreed to set up an ambush here.

After the two sides studied the specific plan together, Liu Zongmin sent someone to find Li Zicheng and told him to lure Cao Wenzhao here.

According to the prior arrangement, Bai Qi ambushed the 5,000 cavalry behind the two hills, and he sat on the top of the mountain with Li Yanhong, carefully watching the terrain in this area.

Li Yan looked at it and asked Bai Qi: "General, think back then, in the Battle of Changping, you surrounded more than 400,000 Zhao troops, how big a piece of land did you have?" ”

A hint of gloom flashed in Bai Qi's eyes: "The radius is almost fifty miles." There were two valleys, very large, and a few small villages, in which the Zhao army was enclosed, and at all times you could hear their screams in the distance, the wails of the wounded who could not be healed or who had been killed and eaten. I listened to it at the time, and I felt very happy. Because I know that if that battle is won, Zhao Guo will die. As soon as the Zhao State died, the remaining five countries could no longer confront the Qin people. At that moment, it was clear to me that the Qin State would eventually dominate the world. ”

Li Yan said: "If we are surrounded by 400,000 officers and troops right now, will you still ...... Live...... Bury them alive ......"

When asking this, Li Yan was very careful, he knew that Bai Qi was given to commit suicide before his death, and before he died, he once looked up to the sky and asked, he had made countless meritorious contributions in his life, why was he given death, and finally Bai Qi finally understood that he really deserved to die if he killed 400,000 Zhao troops in one battle.

Bai Qi heard this, turned his head to look at him, and smiled indifferently: "I will do it." ”

Li Yan said: "Why? ”

Bai Qi replied slowly: "Just because they are enemies." ”

Li Yan was silent.

Bai Qi looked at the lush valley in front of him: "Soldiers fight in order not to fight in the future. For the common people to no longer endure hardship, for this, it is worth killing as many people as possible. Just like a wildfire in the fall, no matter how much forest is burned out, more trees will grow the following spring. It's more dense than before. ”

Li Yan sighed: "But those dead people don't think so. ”

Bai Qi was unmoved: "Those who achieve great things will not take care of everyone's thoughts." ”

Li Yan said: "You are right, we rebelled and killed people, so that the world would be peaceful in the future, and there would be no more people who would suffer hardships......"

When the two of them lamented the nature of the war, Li Zicheng did not have the leisure to do so, because he was desperately resisting Cao Wenzhao's attack.

The county seat of Jiezhou is not big, the city wall is not high, and when they attacked the city, they were damaged in many places, these city walls are basically the same as the earthen walls of the people's homes, and when Cao Wenzhao's cavalry came over, they could not play any protective role.

The Guanning Iron Cavalry was also very powerful when attacking the city, they fought with the Jurchens many times, and they had seen how the Jurchens attacked the city, so they followed suit.

These cavalry were divided into several groups, and they rushed to the city wall in groups, and when they reached the half-arrow point, they shot arrows into the air, and most of those arrows fell into the city, and many peasant troops were killed. When the peasant army began to fight back, it couldn't shoot anyone, because the Guanning iron cavalry was well protected and wore iron armor, which was similar to the Mingguang armor in the Tang Dynasty, forged from a whole iron plate, light and hard, and the arrow could not be penetrated. Moreover, these cavalrymen also held shields to protect the heads and breasts of the horses, so the arrows of the peasant army did not kill many officers and soldiers.

The 10,000 peasant army held out for more than half a day, with more than 2,000 casualties, and Li Zicheng felt that it was almost enough, so he ordered to abandon the city and leave.

The peasant army followed the pre-arranged route and began to retreat. After Li Zicheng took Li Guo to break it off personally, Cao Wenzhao took a look at the banner and knew that it was Li Zicheng, so he ordered the men and horses to chase after him, and he must capture Li Zicheng alive.

For a time, the Guanning iron cavalry was all over the mountains, shouting to catch up, Li Zicheng selected hundreds of cavalry with good archery skills, blocking the pursuers in the back, each of them with two pots of feather arrows, as soon as they saw that some officers and soldiers were chasing closer, they turned over and shot away.

These people's archery skills are good, and their hands are strong, and the arrows they shoot are quick and accurate, and from time to time some officers and soldiers are shot in the face and fall off their horses.

Cao Wenzhao then ordered his subordinates to return fire, and arrows came and went from both sides, and some people fell from their horses.

In this way, the two sides chased after me and ran all the way to the east. Li Zicheng had a large number of people, and from time to time sent a small group of men and horses to delay Cao Wenzhao's pursuit, so the distance between the two sides was widened.

After running for dozens of miles, the people sent by Liu Zongmin met Li Zicheng and reported Liu Zongmin's arrangements to him. Li Zicheng was overjoyed and ordered to go down and ask the brigade to rush to Maning Town.

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