In the twilight of spring, the sun is extraordinarily gentle, shining on people, warm, the mountain flowers are blooming very splendidly, all over the mountains, but on the plain, there are no crops to be seen, and the weeds grow arbitrarily.

Under normal circumstances, the crops in this season are still relatively short, but the weeds are different, they greedily absorb the nutrients in the land, twisting the branches and leaves wildly, and from a distance, the field is full of green, dotted with red, pink, purple, white wildflowers, and colorful butterflies, to form a beautiful wild picture.

In the twilight of spring, it is a good time to go out, but Zhong Hui has no intention of enjoying the beauty of this countryside, all his thoughts are on marching and fighting, this battle he will never allow to be lost, as a pioneer.

Sima Shi was also very willing to spend his blood this time, and directly sent 50,000 of the 70,000 cavalry to Zhong Hui's command, which is definitely the main force among the main forces, leading this army, and leading 200,000 rabble, are completely two different concepts.

Before the expedition, Zhong Hui also deliberately checked the equipment of these cavalry, although these horse harnesses of Sima Jun were copied from the Bingzhou Army, but Sima Shi called craftsmen with extremely high craftsmanship, and there were samples of the Bingzhou Army, so the production of these horse harnesses was quite sophisticated, and there was no gap with the original things of the Bingzhou Army, and there was even a feeling that the blue was better than the blue.

In the last battle of the state, the Sima army suffered the loss of the state army, which led to the almost total annihilation of the cavalry of the Sima army.

Where to fall and where to get up, Sima Shi understood the importance of horse harness, so when creating these horse harnesses, meticulous, the best craftsmen, the best raw materials, strict process requirements, so every horse harness is a boutique.

The warhorses ridden by Zhonghui are also equipped with Gaoqiao saddles and bilateral stirrups, which also allows him to better experience the benefits of these harnesses, although Sima Jun began to build these harnesses in Luoyang two years ago, but for the sake of secrecy, except for the army in Luoyang, other foreign armies do not even have a set of harnesses, even if Zhong Hui is the governor of Hebei, he can only ride an ordinary saddle.

Now after changing to a new type of harness, even Zhong Hui has an obvious feeling, these two harnesses are simply tailor-made for the cavalry, so that the cavalry is more handy when driving the horses, and the strange state army can win more with less in the last battle of the state, and completely annihilated all the cavalry of the Sima army, and the secret of daring is here.

Now that the two sides are on the same starting line, Sima Jun naturally has no reason to scare the state cavalry, and Zhong Hui is even more confident and ready to take revenge.

Previously, when he was the governor of Hebei, although he claimed to have 350,000 people under his command, almost all of them were infantry, with poor equipment and low combat effectiveness.

Lu Zhao tried to transfer the troops of each city to Xindu, but was intercepted by the Bingzhou cavalry halfway, the battle situation can be called a tragedy, completely crushed by the Bingzhou army, and there was no ability to resist at all.

Therefore, leading such an army to fight, first of all, is to be aggrieved, passive everywhere, beaten everywhere, but there is no ability to fight back, and it is depressing enough to think about it.

This time leading 50,000 newly equipped cavalry, Zhong Hui's confidence suddenly became full, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and the commander of the army has a strategy, but there are no soldiers and no generals in his hands, and his ability cannot be reflected.

Zhong Hui still has great confidence in his own ability, although he has been deep behind the scenes, giving advice to Sima Shi, and really leading the army to fight, or this time to Jizhou, but so far, Zhong Hui has not fought head-on with the Bingzhou army, this time as the vanguard of the front, it will be the first battle in the real sense of Zhong Hui, he secretly made up his mind, he must raise his eyebrows, fight this battle, and let the world know that he is by no means Zhao Kuo who can only talk on paper.

This time, the strategy proposed by Zhong Hui to attack Zhending and Jingcheng from the flank, if he wants to implement his strategy, whether it will succeed or not, only by taking Zhending and Jingcheng can it be proved, Zhonghui is full of ambition and confidence.

After he led 50,000 cavalry to leave Yecheng, he went north through Zhao to Zhending, but in order to avoid the lone army going deeper, Zhong Hui suppressed the speed and always maintained a distance of about half a day with the infantry cavalry behind.

This distance can be just right, if the front of Zhonghui is attacked by the Bingzhou army, then the follow-up army of Sima Division will soon arrive, with the combat effectiveness of 50,000 cavalry, even if the Bingzhou army pours out, it will not be difficult for them to support for half a day.

This time to the north, Zhong Hui first looked for an opportunity to have a decisive battle with the main force of the Bingzhou army, relying on the numerical superiority of the Sima army, and it was completely possible to crush the Bingzhou army in the field. If the state army avoids and does not fight, Zhong Hui is also not afraid, his purpose is to capture Zhending and Jingcheng Pass, as long as the two places can be captured, Sima Jun can occupy the strategic initiative.

At that time, when the Jizhou army evacuated Zhending, the city had already been burned, and the damage to the entire city was very serious, and it was difficult to repair the state army in a short time.

Therefore, Zhong Hui went north this time, he seemed to be calm and unhurried, whether he fought or not, he was under his control, 50,000 cavalry, this is definitely a terrifying force, enough to sweep the entire Jizhong Plain.

Zhao State is located in the west of Jizhou, under the foothills of Taihang Mountain, Zhong Hui led the army along the foothills, although the road is not as smooth as the road of Xindu, but there are no dangers and obstacles along the way, and the march of Sima Jun is still very smooth.

In Zhonghui's previous defensive deployment, Zhao basically belonged to the abandoned place, the troops originally stationed in Zhao were all withdrawn to Yecheng, and the Bingzhou army did not easily go south after taking Xindu, so Zhao was in an area of the vacuum of forces on both sides.

Zhong Hui originally thought that he would not encounter the Bingzhou army before rushing to Changshan County, but he obviously miscalculated, and as soon as he arrived in Gaoyi, he encountered a surprise attack by the Bingzhou army.