Maozichong's Cao Ying's soldiers and horses already had a bad premonition, and the two generals Li Rugui and Yang Chengen each led 300 horsemen out of the camp and tried to attack the Zhao camp array. Qin Jinxiao and Fan Jiwei fought back with a platoon, but the trapped beasts were still fighting, and the Cao Ying horse army galloped and quickly defeated the front of the Zhao camp that had no time to adjust the sequence, and Fan Jiwei alone killed and injured dozens of people in the blink of an eye.

Seeing the situation, Xu Hui urgently ordered Qin Jinxiao's knife and axe hands and spearmen to cut from the back row to guard the palace first. After a while, Cao Ying's horse army retreated suddenly, but after a short time, it attacked again and again and advanced in turns. The infantry of the Zhao battalion pursued several times, either because of the fatigue of Cao's cavalry, or because the camp refused to be able to leap forward, Qin Jinxiao and Fan Jiwei both knew that this was the attack tactic that the Liukou Ma Army had always loved, but even if they knew about this, due to their own insufficient conditions, they had no choice but to let it go in a short time.

Even though he was eager to break through the shackles, the actions of Cao Ying's horse army were generally strictly implemented in a planned offensive strategy, and there was quite a rule between advance and retreat. He judged the situation and ordered Qin and Fan to retreat slightly, and distance themselves from Maozichong's Cao Ying camp, so as to avoid providing the enemy with the initiative to enter and exit at will and then switch between attack and defense at will.

On the surface, it seems that the Zhao battalion is still besieging Cao Ying, but in essence, the Zhao battalion, which was originally the main offensive, has to gradually turn to the defensive under the fierce counterattack of Cao Ying. Xu Hui knew that this move was just a delaying tactic to relieve the urgent need, and if he wanted to completely reverse the decline, it was difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice with the thousand people in his hands. In other words, if Han Gon and Guo Ruke, who went out of the northwest, lost or failed to return in time, once Qin and Fan Li were unable to resist and messed up, then today's attack on the village would be considered yellow.

Even if there is a lot of danger, fortunately, Xu Hui is calm, his face is calm as water from beginning to end, without the slightest ripple, Qin Jinxiao and Fan Jiwei are also very effective, and they have been gritting their teeth and persevering, so far, Cao Ying's repeated attempts have stubbornly blocked them. However, in just a few quarters of an hour, the casualties of Qin and Fan's second division had already exceeded the total number of casualties they had suffered in the previous months, which showed the fierce and dangerous nature of the current battle.

For that glimmer of life, the stubborn Cao Ying's horse army tirelessly shook the wall of the Zhao Yingbing made of flesh and blood, and for the Zhao Yingbing, capturing the Maozi Chong Cao Ying's camp was also their only chance. Both sides tried their best to force out the last breath of the other's mouth. Xu Hui, Qin Jinxiao, Fan Jiwei, Li Rugui, and Yang Chengen are not willing to fall short.

Only a quarter of an hour later, the arrival of the Feijie Battalion Ma Army completely broke the stalemate between the two confrontations.

The five hundred elite cavalry of Zhao Ying, who was like a rainbow, seemed to hold the will and spirit of the hundreds of comrades who died in the south of Zaoyang in their hands, divided into several rows, and broke into the flank of the Maozi Chong Cao Ying horse army one after another. The iron hooves lifted the gray atmosphere that covered the sky and the sun, and spread in all directions, instantly enveloping the originally bright heaven and earth into a dead gray darkness. Han Gon's throat rolled, and the strongest roar erupted, and the iron flow was ruthless, completely extinguishing the only remaining ray of hope of Cao Ying's soldiers.

After another half an hour, the cat that once seemed to shake the ground rushed to the battlefield, and the fighting gradually stopped.

Xu Hui, who walked briskly, walked along a path full of corpse plasma into the gate of Maozichong's camp in Caoying. Inside, in the small school yard, which was also paved with a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, under the army that stood crookedly, a general with bright armor was kneeling there in mourning, and if he looked closely, he was firmly tied to the pole.

"It's Wang Lung tied up there?" Zhao Chenglin trotted up from Da Xu, and Xu Hui asked him.

Zhao Chenglin said: "Yes." This person was blocked by our army at the gate, and a lot of gold and silver were found in his backpack. ”

Xu Hui sneered: "If you want money, you don't want to die, you should." ”

Zhao Chenglin said: "In addition to this Wang Long, the thief general Yang Chengen has also been awarded, only Li Rugui ran away alone, and Meng Sentinel has chased after him with more than ten horses." Then he said, "Han and Guo are working together to kill the few remaining stubborn people in the north of the village, and our army fought with Maozi Chong from the first battle in the northwest, capturing and killing more than 1,000 thieves and 2,000 horses of various types. In addition, there is still a lot of grain and grass hoarded in the village, and I heard that Wang Long said that a few days ago, a batch of military rations had just been allocated from the Cao thief's base camp in Zaoyang County, and it had not yet had time to be transferred to various places. ”

Hearing this, Xu Hui smiled and nodded. From the perspective of others, Zhao Yingxuan raided Maozichong at this time, which was able to attack the enemy unprepared and cut off the grain road, which was really good luck and made a lot of money, but as one of the top decision-makers, how could Xu Hui not know that this seemingly coincidental situation was actually carefully designed by him, Han Gon, and Guo Ruke through the information collected one after another in the dense forest. In popular terms, it is to use the brain before doing it, but unfortunately it is easier said than done, and not everyone can do it. With the influence of Zhao Dangshi and the tempering of countless wars, a group of officers in Zhao Ying, represented by Xu Hui, have gradually understood the importance of intelligence and information for victory or defeat on the battlefield, and this concept is far from being matched by Cao Ying, Hui Ying and other rogues at this stage.

"Go and inform Qin and Fan, let them hurry up and clean up the battlefield." Xu Hui's smile faded quickly, because the victory here did not mean everything, Luo Rucai in Zaoyang County was likely to take revenge, and the situation in the north was even more unpredictable, and in order to obtain the final victory, it was far from the time to relax.

Zhao Chenglin promised, and then whispered tentatively: "Command, there is still something unsolved here under the subordinates, and I hope that the system will be released." ”

Xu Hui said: "You want to ask how to dispose of the military rations in the camp, right?" ”

In his words, Zhao Chenglin suddenly showed a look of admiration, nodded violently and said: "Exactly, there is a lot of grain and grass, and our army ......."

Xu Hui said decisively: "Our army cannot be delayed for half a minute at present, and all drags must be dealt with immediately." He continued, "When Han and Guo come back, the whole army will each carry five days' rations, so as not to affect the road, and the rest will be burned down with this broken stockade." ”

Zhao Chenglin swallowed his mouth and responded with a sharp voice.

In the afternoon, the cat burst into flames and dyed half of the sky red. The surplus grain and grass accumulated in the three villages of Cao Ying, as well as the corpses of people and horses who died in battle, were all burned. The war will continue, and the bones of the dead Zhao Yingbing soldiers were also not buried under Xu Hui's strict order, but burned into ashes, marked with their names, and carried by the soldiers of the same team and team for burial in the future. This is a rare scene for Zhao Ying, who attaches great importance to honor, and from Xu Hui's handling of this matter, everyone also felt the urgency of follow-up.

Just as a series of wars in the southwest of Zaoyang County were in full swing, the construction of Fanhe City in the northeast was also in full swing.

Zhao Dangshi led the Zhao battalion soldiers to pour out, and the garrison tasks up and down Fanhe City were temporarily taken care of by Wang Laixing and the Tuntian army. Wang Laixing is in charge of the rear, in addition to sitting in the town, he will naturally think of leaving a way back for the soldiers on the front line. In his thoughts, once the soldiers were defeated, Fan Hecheng would serve as the old stronghold of the Zhao camp and assume the role of resisting the last line of defense against the invasion of the bandits, which was the top priority. Therefore, taking advantage of the free period after the harvest in these days, he put the main manpower and energy of the Tuntian army on stepping up the construction of the city.

As of the first day of September, it is expected that the middle is slightly in the shape of "product", and the foundation of Fanhe City has been dug up in about five miles in circumference, and the progress of many important areas is faster, and even the bottom layer has begun to be rammed. Everywhere inside and outside the city, you can see the cones of mixed triple clay and many large grass huts that have been transported in advance and stacked with loess, green bricks, logs and other raw materials, and the busy repairers and soldiers are endless. The sound of trumpets, shouts, and even complaints and noises filled every corner of the city of Van River.

Fu Xunyu and Li Wanqing took the lead and walked across the drawbridge over the dry moat that had not yet been diverted outside the southern gate of Fanhe City, and had a conversation with the officer in charge of guarding the city gate. The officer tilted his head and glanced at Ma Guangning's cavalry, who were lined up behind them with a ferocious look, but after all, he didn't say much, and the two spearmen immediately withdrew their spears that crossed diagonally and made way of the way.

"Where is my second brother?" As soon as he entered the city, Ma Guangning caught up with him, and went hand in hand with Fu Xunyu, and asked impatiently.

Fu Xunyu persuaded: "Commander Ma is calm and don't be impatient. My brother is in the city, but before I visit, let me go and hand over my official duties. ”

When Ma Guangning heard this, the boss didn't like it, and was about to lose his temper, but suddenly thought that he was now in Zhao Ying's old base camp, no better than other places. In line with the ultimate goal of seeing Ma Guangchun, he didn't want to make a mistake because of his irritability, his face flashed red, and he said in a sullen voice: "How long will it take?" ”

Fu Xunyu replied: "Come when you go, I'll lead the way to the commander first." Then he added, "The Commander relaxes, and today will be a reunion of the Commander brothers." ”

With this sentence "Today will be a gathering of the leading brothers", Ma Guangning was unhappy, and he had nothing to say, so he said "I know" angrily, and his face was full of unhappiness.

Fu Xunyu turned around and secretly instructed Li Wanqing to keep an eye on Ma Guangning and the others, and quickly whip himself to the north of the city first. When he went, he didn't "go to hand over the official business" as he said, but went straight to Lu Zhongheng, the head of the former battalion of the Tuntian Army.

The Tuntian army is divided into front and rear battalions, all of which are under the orders of Wang Laixing, who controls the Tuntian camp, and then the front battalion is the main one, and the rear battalion is secondary. Zhang Miaoshou, the former commander of the battalion, was the third person in the Tuntian army after Wang Laixing and Wang Laixing's staff officer, Tuntian Yingtian Zhushi, and Shuiqiu Tan. Unexpectedly, Zhang Miaoshou was disheartened and lazy, and no one took him seriously if he basically didn't care about anything, so the real No. 3 person was actually Lu Zhongheng, the former camp of Tuntian, who assisted Zhang Miaoshou.

The soldiers of the Zhao battalion were all deployed in the south of Dahegang in the southwest and in the area from Huyang Town to Cen Pengcheng in the north, and the Tuntian Army, which had the nature of a reserve army, could only temporarily undertake the defense task. The quality of the soldiers of the Tuntian Army in the front battalion was relatively high, and 1,000 people were separated from them to set up a training battalion. The training battalion was the first choice for the battalion to replenish the shortage of personnel, and at the beginning of the year, the Tuntian army was divided into several shifts to train combat skills in shifts. It was only later that Zhao Dangshi thought that this method was inconsistent with the line of the elite soldiers of the Zhao battalion, so he later changed to a selective selection system, and directly selected suitable people from the Tuntian army according to their talents and entered the training camp, but not more than the rated size of 1,000, and the vacancy was filled. The soldiers in the training camp have basically the same routine and daily content as the soldiers, and there is almost no logistical work for combat training. The military position in charge of the training camp is "training camp instructor", the main training of soldiers, has no military power, and is under the jurisdiction of the instructor envoy department, and is currently held by Luo Wei, who retired from the combat camp due to injury. The military power of the training camp is directly under Wang Laixing, the commander of Tuntian, but the actual command still falls on Zhang Miaoshou, the envoy of the former battalion Tuntian, but according to the current situation, Zhongheng is in charge.

To sum up, it can be seen that although Lu Zhongheng, the former battalion owner, took a civilian position, he was really responsible for military affairs. Coincidentally, Lu Zhongheng already has the heroic spirit of being a chivalrous warrior, and he is also very interested in military strategy, so the matter of training the soldiers in the barracks makes Lu Zhongheng, who has always admired the act of "throwing a pen from Rong", very excited.

At this time, the soldiers patrolling up and down Fanhe City were all people from the training camp, and the prisons in the city were also under their control.