At noon on 1 April, shortly after the messenger from Zunhua passed through Santun Camp again, two small units set out from Santun Camp one after another, heading east with their front and back feet.

These two teams consisted of a small number of special combat personnel + cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion, both numbering 50 people and 100 horses.

The aim of both teams is to block. On the two sides of the triangle, they would be at a suitable location that had been reconnoitred in advance, blocking the Tartar troops who might reinforce the county seat of Qian'an from the direction of Yongping and Luanzhou.

After the two teams set off, they moved at a constant speed on the road, and after nightfall, they would bypass Qian'an and rush to their destination.

After the two teams of blockers left, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, the east gate of the Santun camp was opened, and 300 soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion, 200 soldiers of the Guards Battalion, and some special combat personnel, with a total of more than 500 people and more than 1,000 horses, set off in turn.

From this moment on, the Santun camp city has become a "dead place", no one is allowed to pass in front of the gate, and the battlefield information is blocked from here.

After the army set off, it also adopted the most horsepower-saving constant jogging mode. On this way, the cavalry traveled east along the Luan River, stopping from time to time to drink their horses, and the speed was not fast.

In the evening, the army passed through Qinghe County at the east entrance of the corridor.

Qinghe County has long been empty of people here, and even with the nearby villages and towns, the Ming people were either captured or fled south, and many of them will be carried by the people in Tianjin.

After the troops passed through the Qinghe, they were out of the corridor. Here the Luan River turns at a right angle and begins to flow southward; The troops also turned a corner, and after walking more than ten miles, they set up camp in a pre-surveyed riverbend woodland.

At this moment, the crossing is already in the Luanhe Plain, twenty miles to the south is Qian'an County, to the east is Yongping Mansion, and if you continue to the east, you can see the sea and Qinhuangdao.

Yelang Xingxing, since it is a field camp, there must be no tent. The soldiers settled their horses, set up pots for dinner, and then lay down on the spot around the campfire, wrapped in felt blankets.

There is a reason why we chose to camp here: a forest of trees blocked the fireworks of the campfire, so that it would not be seen by the county seat of Qian'an.

Due to the fact that there was a military disaster in the Luanhe Plain, it was very calm that night, and the outer observation posts did not find pedestrians and caravans who were rushing to the night road, and the troops rested well.

At dawn the next day, when the sky was slightly white, everyone had eaten a full meal of horse meat soup and compressed biscuits, and the horses had chewed black beans and drank enough water from the Luan River.

The pre-war mobilization and arrangement, which is characteristic of the traversal, has once again begun.

By this time, there was no longer any need for the troops to hide their tracks, so the soldiers finally raised their knives and yelled three times collectively, and then got on their horses with murderous spirits.

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Standing at the head of Qian'an County, looking at the large puffs of smoke and dust rising from the north, his face was full of confusion.

With such a large amount of smoke and dust, a large number of cavalry are bound to approach, which can be judged by all the banner soldiers standing at the head of Qian'an City at this moment.

But the identity of the comer is a mystery.

Because just yesterday afternoon, when the messenger from Zunhua passed through Qian'an County, he also reported that he was safe. In this way, even if Zunhua was attacked by the Ming army yesterday, it would be impossible for him to retreat so quickly?

Besides, even if all the banner soldiers along the way from Zunhua and Santunying abandon the city, then after they leave the east entrance of the corridor, they shouldn't go south to Qian'an, and go directly to Yongping Mansion City in the east to see Erbeile, and then it is reasonable for the whole army to go north and exit the customs?

So Heto was confused...... He and his subordinates were confused at the moment, and they really couldn't guess who the other side was sacred.

But in any case, since a large force of cavalry came from afar, the preparations still had to be done. So Heto ordered the four gates of the county seat to be closed and the suspension bridge to be pulled.

As for those Ming people in the Guanxiang under the city...... These men were already very experienced with soldiers, and as soon as they saw the city gate suddenly closed, they began to run towards the mountains west of the Luan River.

It didn't take long for a cavalry team to arrive at Qian'an, a county town half-surrounded by the Luan River.

Then the identity of the person who came was also clear: the deputy chief soldier Cao of the Department commanded Tongzhi to guard Zhangchao and other places in South Australia.

"It's actually the Ming Army!?" After seeing the other party's flag clearly, Heto was dumbfounded: "How is this possible?" ”

Heto was illiterate, including the illiterate nature of all the Tartar soldiers in the city, but that didn't prevent them from identifying their opponents: even though the visitors were wearing strange green jackets, the two flags in front of them, as well as the square characters on the flags, revealed the identity of the visitor.

Soon, an old man dressed in a soapman's suit was taken to the city.

By this time, 500 cavalrymen had already dismounted in the open space outside the city, and some of them took out water bags and hung them around their horses' necks.

"Which way are you coming?" Heto didn't know Chinese, but he had an interpreter by his side, so the interpreter asked in stiff Chinese, pointing to the flag.

After the old official of the county town was brought up on the city wall, he took a look, and then recalled it, and then said to the translator: "Vice master, it is the soldiers and horses of King Qinwang in Fujian in the south, and the main general is a deputy chief soldier, surnamed Cao." ”

“WHAT？”

Heto still didn't understand - don't use the template of later generations to set this era of lack of information, none of these Tartars in the city know the specific location of Fujian.

The old official was helpless, and explained two more sentences: Fujian is south of the Yangtze River, and the deputy commander-in-chief of Zhangchao is about a large island outside Fujian.

"Bastard! So how did this gang of fur seals get to my Qian'an County!? ”

When Heto finally understood, he couldn't help but be furious, and he couldn't figure it out more and more: if it was from the sea, then there was no news from Yongping Mansion, which was closer to the sea in the east, so that this group of people rushed to Qian'an inland?

Then he figured it out: "This group of people must have landed a long time ago, or they came in from the hinterland of the Ming Kingdom, otherwise they wouldn't have come down from the north." ”

"Wolf smoke, wolf smoke!"

With his hands on the head of the city, he stared at the group of people under the city viciously, and Heto decided to release wolf smoke to warn him first. After he calmed down, he had already vaguely realized that something was wrong with the situation: the cavalry of the brigade came from the north, and the Santun camp did not call the police...... In the direction of Zunhua and Santunying, there is always a problem.

As soon as the wolf smoke is released, no matter whether the opponent has follow-up soldiers and horses, Yongping and Luanzhou will be vigilant and send sentry spies around, so that they will not be beaten to the city like him.

After the wolf smoke was released, Heto ordered the messenger to go out of the city and inform his neighbors of the news of the troops.

After everything was done, Heto put down his mind and carefully looked at the Ming army under the city. As a result, after taking a closer look and counting again, Heto found that this group of people seemed to be imposing, but in fact the troops were not strong?

The total number of soldiers in green jackets under the city was only more than 500, and 200 of them were spearmen with birds...... There are also dozens of people dressed in floral clothes, about auxiliaries, standing in the back row.

Counting the horses, Heto now knew why a mere 500 men were able to make a noise: this group was actually one man and two horses, and there were now thousands of good horses in the city!

"Are the Ming generals in the south rich?" Heto looked greedily at the city, and everywhere he saw was a good northern horse with a strong body.

These thousands of horses undoubtedly represent a huge amount of silver. In the current situation of frequent wars in the Ming Dynasty, twenty taels of silver may not be able to buy a good horse, so this is a real wealth of more than 200,000 taels.

Heto, who has been in charge of five bulls all year round, must have understood this value, so he is carefully weighing the possibility of leading troops to kill.

Heto, the Ala-Egzhen, theoretically was in charge of five cattle and 1,500 people. But since the army left the customs, Heto, who stayed here in Qian'an as a nail household, only left 400 people under his command to deal with the errand, so he did not go out of the city to deal with the battle in the first place today, after all, he did not find out the details of these strange opponents.

Now that you look closely, this group of people in the city is purely rookies from the sea!

At this moment, in front of Heto's eyes, two cavalrymen wearing green jackets and holding large flags were running across the city, waving the flags in their hands along the way, as if they were provoking the Tartars at the head of the city, attracting bursts of cheers.

Then there is a shooting show: a cavalryman with a three-eyed gun also gallops past the city, and then the tidemaker shoots at the top of the city as if he could hit a Tartar...... As a result, the last shot accidentally exploded, and the man was so frightened that he even threw the gun, and the cheers of the hundreds of people next to him were silent as if they had been choked by chickens.

"Are these people a tease sent by the monkeys?" If the Tartars at the head of the city had been on the net, they would have said it by now.

This kind of provocative technique can no longer be described as clumsy, not only exposing the details of this group, but also their sparse equipment.

Heto, who has dealt with the Guanning Jiangmen Group for many years, finally made a conclusion to this group of mentally handicapped people in the city at this time: "It is about the Ming people who are infighting again, and the foreign generals who were sent to death." ”

After hearing this, the close comrade-in-arms standing beside Heto, Niu Lu Ezhen, who is also Heto's half-brother Daheren, knew Heto's thoughts well and said in a deep voice: "Five hundred men, two hundred birds, and only three hundred sword soldiers. ”

Heto sneered, turned back to the other leaders of the city and asked, "A thousand good horses, can you fight them?" ”

The Manchu Qing Dynasty didn't have so many condescensions at this time, so after hearing Heto's question, one of Niu Lu immediately shouted: "Four hundred warriors fight five hundred Ming dogs, Heto, what are you waiting for?" Are you afraid that the captured horses will bite your hands? ”

After seeing the number of people who came, the rest of the gang leaders had already wanted to go out of the city to kill these rookies, and now that Heto spoke, everyone was naturally excited.

Not to mention four hundred, they have all experienced the scene of a hundred Tartar soldiers chasing five hundred Ming soldiers and slashing and killing many times, not to mention that there are two hundred gunners in this group of people under the city - gunners are not counted at all in the eyes of the Tartar soldiers.

Send Baoyi to the city tower to keep an eye on, if there are any more cavalry coming, send a letter quickly!

After finally arranging the lookout post, Heto drew his waist knife and stood at the head of the city and shouted: "Armor! Go out with Lao Tzu and slaughter this stupid dog! ”

"Whoa!"

Five minutes later, looking at the slowly lowered drawbridge and the gradually opening city gate, Qian Tieshan, who was shrinking at the end of the line, looked at the watch on his wrist, and couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Finally tricked these stupid dogs out, if they don't come out, Lao Tzu will attack!" ”