Five days had passed since the battle of Fanhecheng, and the soldiers and horses of the Zhao battalion, who had arrived at Dahegang early in the morning, had not advanced further for several days, but had set up camp on the spot. This place is only six miles away from the northernmost part of Cao Ying, where Kong Xinda and "Baiyunsheng" Bai Jiali are stationed.

Zhao Dangshi's sentence at the autumn equinox Japanese army meeting, "This operation is similar to the battle of Fanhecheng, there is no advance or retreat" still echoes in his ears, but the reality is quite a bit ironic. Including Qin Jinxiao, many military generals successively asked to see Zhao Dangshi, and on the grounds of labor's salary, they raised doubts and even complaints about the current state of the army's sluggishness. To them, Zhao Dangshi was kind to each other, but he did not reveal the specific plans in his heart.

It can be seen that this battle is very important, and the recent betrayal of Jing Keqin and Hui Deng has to make Zhao Dangshi more cautious. Knowing the army's next battle plan, in addition to Zhao Dangshi, there are only four people, Xu Hui, Han Gon, Guo Ruke and Qin Qigong, although the rest of the generals are difficult to kick, but seeing that Zhao Dangshi is bound to win, and there are Xu, Han, and Guo three commanders to suppress the bullets, they gradually stabilized their minds and stopped thinking about it.

Another day later, Pang Jinming begged to see Zhao Dangshi. Subsequently, Xu Hui, Han Gon, Guo Ruke, and Qin Qigong were summoned again and went to Zhao Dangshi's Zhongjun tent to discuss. The discussion was dispersed, and then before the time came, Qin Jinxiao and Fan Jiwei, two sentinels, received a military order and immediately led troops to attack Qianzhuang Village.

The military order came suddenly, although Qin and Fan had doubts, but after a few days of delay, the war finally had an eyebrow, so they didn't say much, and immediately lit up the soldiers in the sentry and went straight to the village. Both of them belong to the Xiaojie Battalion, and they have fought together outside the city of Fanhe, and they have a tacit understanding. Qin Jin's filial piety department arrived first, and found the breakthrough point of piling up grain and straw in the southwest corner of the village from the military situation detected in advance, so he ordered the soldiers to shoot fire arrows in the southwest periphery of Qianzhuang Village. Kong Xinda, the "warbler", was anxious, and led 500 people from his headquarters to attack the village, not wanting to be in the middle of Qin's filial piety pocket array. At that time, Qin Jinxiao's left and right wings each had ten wrought iron Buddha machines and three rows of birds in front of him, and the green smoke dispersed, killing Kong Xinda and hundreds of his subordinates outside the gate. Seeing this, Bai Jiali was afraid that there would be a gap in the southwest, so he hurriedly divided his troops to support, but in a hurry, there was chaos in the deployment of troops, and he was caught by Fan Jiwei. Bai Jiali returned to the army to resist, but Zhang Huangzhong took care of one thing and lost the other, and Qin Jinxiao also led his troops to rush into the southwest gate at the same time. The two sides fought in the village, before dusk, the battle had been seen, and the Bai Jiali Department was killed and wounded, and was defeated out of the village.

After seizing the money Zhuang Village, Qin Jinxiao's fighting spirit was high, and he went out of the village to pursue the remnants of Bai Jiali, chased out four or five miles, and saw that there were Cao Ying's soldiers and horses in the direction of Shijia Xiaochong from afar, and only then did he collect the troops and return to the village. Qin and Fan Qi were victorious and complacent, and sent Tang soldiers to Dahegang to report the battle situation, and hoped that Zhao Dangshi would add reinforcements in the future and make persistent efforts. However, the military order from the military side of Zhao Yingzhong poured cold water on them on the spot.

"The lord's decree, Qin and Fan Erjiao are stationed in Qianzhuang Village, and without a military order, they can't take another step south." Tangma said.

Qin Jinxiao and Fan Jiwei looked at each other dumbfounded, and then said: "The soldiers are available, why don't you fight?" ”

Tang Ma shook his head and said, "The villain doesn't know. ”

Fan Jiwei patted Qin Jinxiao on the shoulder and said, "Old Qin, the lord has his own arrangements, let's do it." ”

Advancing with the advantage of momentum was Qin Jinxiao's strong point, and he always advocated "fighting in one breath," believing that morale was the most important factor in combat over training and equipment. At the time of the new victory, it was time to go all out and maximize the advantages of high morale, but at this time, it came to an abrupt end, which made him very uncomfortable.

Qin Jin's filial piety was Xing Yanshan, and Tang Ma said: "The lord decrees that Qin and Fan Ershou will temporarily fix the village, and Wu Mingfeng will take over tomorrow." ”

"Pick-up?" Qin Jinxiao was surprised when he heard this, "Will my two posts return to Dahegang?" ”

Tang Ma said: "Exactly. ”

Qin Jinxiao sighed to Fan Jiwei: "I thought that this battle was going to start, but in the end, it was still empty joy. "If it is a decisive battle with Cao Ying, Qin Jinxiao expects that Zhao Dangshi should lead the main force to leave Dahegang, enter Qianzhuang Village, and advance to Zaoyang County step by step. But now one is Wu Mingfeng's whistle to take over the defense, and the other is his own two posts to return to Dahegang, which shows that the battle of Qianzhuang Zhai is not the beginning of the next series of compact battles as he thought before, and Zhao Dangshi has no idea of marching forward.

Fan Jiwei was also a little depressed, and said, "That's true." ”

Qin Jinxiao pondered for a moment and said, "Do you remember that the lord had a military meeting earlier today? ”

Fan Jiwei replied: "Yes, I heard that before the military conference, Pang Jinming went to find the lord. ”

Qin Jinxiao pointed his fingers and said: "The battle against the Cao thief, Pang Jinming is responsible for the investigation of the sentinel detective, since he went to find the lord, and the lord arranged for us to move troops, it must be that the southern Cao thief has some movement." ”

Fan Jiwei nodded and said: "The lord's heart is as careful as a hair, and he has always been steady and steady. Lao Wu is good at defending, and you and I have the advantage of firearms to attack. The Lord summoned us back, and as expected, we were assigned otherwise. ”

"Another assignment ......" Qin Jinxiao pondered for a moment, and the previous bad mood dissipated slightly.

North of Huyang Town, south of Tang County, Fangxiang Baozanggang Village.

"The people in this village moved from the Hongdong area of Shanxi Province at the beginning of the country, and I say that all of them are surnamed Zhan." On the bank of the stream, Li Wanqing stepped on the pebbles. Fu Xunyu, who was sitting on the ridge drinking water, said "um" and couldn't help sighing.

Li Wanqing came to his side and said, "Mr. Fu, although this trip did not achieve its goal, it is not nothing. I can see the desolate appearance of returning to the camp. ”

Fu Xunyu sighed again and did not speak. A few days ago, he volunteered to represent Zhao Ying's envoy stationed in Tang County's Huiying, and Zhao Dangshi's first task was to negotiate with Ma Shouying, the "old Huihui", in exchange for 5,000 war horses in exchange for capturing Ma Guangchun and Guan San'er. Ma Guangchun has both wisdom and bravery, and he is in the year of fighting, and he is a rare good general among the rogues, and Zhao Dangshi wanted to take him for his own use at first. However, no matter how Zhao Dangshi, Hou Dagui and others persuaded them, Ma Guangchun always sternly refused. Similar to him, Guan San'er also scolded every time, without any intention of surrendering.

Seeing that there was no hope of surrender, Zhao Dangshi changed his course and started the calculation of exchanging Ma Guangchun for military funds. Ma Guangchun, who can be called the pillar of the return camp, is self-evident in the importance of returning to the camp, Ma Guangchun and Ma Shouying have a personal relationship connection with Ma Guangyu, and it is difficult to find a thousand troops, in Zhao Dangshi's view, five thousand war horses to exchange horses for horses and irrigation, Fu Xunyu also thinks so, and also plans to use horses and irrigation as bargaining chips, in addition to five thousand war horses, and then squeeze some benefits for Zhao Ying.

However, the reaction to the return camp was unexpected, and Fu Xunyu, who was full of enthusiasm and even a little arrogant, did not receive the expected treatment after entering the camp, and it can almost be described as a cold reception. He went around and around the camp for a long time, but he could not see Ma Shouying's face, and when he arrived, the anger came up, and the horse galloped wildly between the tents of the camp back to the camp, and Fang was stopped by the patrolling soldiers returning to the camp, and he was twisted to the camp general. Because it was Zhao Ying, the battalion would not dare to make decisions without permission, and Fu Xunyu would be left to dry for another half a day, until the sun set, and then Fu Xunyu was invited to see Ma Shouying.

Ma Shouying's attitude was also unexpected, Fu Xunyu, who had the initiative in this way, had been at a disadvantage in the conversation with him, and even later Fu Xunyu tried to lower his own price, Ma Shouying still sternly refused. In the end, he reacted and figured out a little - Ma Shouying didn't want to redeem Ma Guangchun at all. Fu Xunyu didn't know why, but he knew that Ma Shouying didn't care about Ma Guangchun, which was the root cause of his encounter all day.

Since there was no intention of returning to the camp to Ma Guangchun, Fu Xunyu had no right to excessively compress the conditions given by Zhao Ying, so he had a few words of hasty conversation, and then broke up. Li Wanqing also followed him to the camp, saying that he wanted to use his former connections and influence to broaden the relationship between Zhao Ying in the camp, but he was like Fu Xunyu, and no one paid attention to him at all.

"You say, that Ma Guangchun is also a hero, when Ma Guangyu didn't die, I saw that this guy was extraordinary, such a talent, Ma Shou should be blind or stupid, willing to let it go in vain?" Li Wanqing pouted and said, "Besides, Ma Guangyu should have the grace to support Ma Shou, and the two younger brothers forgot to die for returning to the camp." If he does this, he is not afraid of chilling people's hearts? Said and smiled again, "It's okay, I think Ma Shouying has taken Ma Guangyu's wife, don't look at his brother and sister-in-law, doesn't he have any friendship with Ma Guangchun?" ”

When Fu Xunyu heard this, he asked, "You said that Ma Guangyu has two younger brothers, who else is there besides Ma Guangchun?" ”

Li Wanqing thought about it sideways and said, "It seems to be called Ma Guang...... Ma Guangning, I met in Shanxi a few years ago. At that time, he was still a thin and mackerel boy, and with his brother taking care of him, it was estimated that he should make a name for himself in the past two years. ”

"Ma Guangning......" Fu Xunyu continued to ask, "You were looking for the old ones when you returned to the camp, but you didn't look for this Ma Guangning?" From his mouth, I may know some thoughts of Ma Shouying. ”

Li Wanqing shook his head and said, "No, I don't know Ma Guangchun well, let alone his younger brother." ”

Fu Xunyu's face turned dark, and he reproached: "You tossed for a day and got nothing, and none of the so-called old friends helped." Rather than this, it is better to find this Ma Guangning, he is the younger brother of the party, and he must be more useful than others. ”

Li Wanqing did not answer, and more than ten horsemen suddenly galloped along the stream, and immediately the knights were all wearing swords and armor, and the stream water splashed between the horses' hooves everywhere.

"Like a thief!" Li Wanqing spat and pulled out his waist knife, and the seven or eight soldiers of the Zhao Battalion who accompanied the escort were also armed with knives and guns, waiting on guard.

The more than ten horsemen came quickly, and in an instant, Fu Xunyu and his party were surrounded in the center. Li Wanqing asked, "Are you brothers who have returned to the camp?" What's the point? ”

"It's back to the camp, but it's not your brother." Among the more than ten horses, one person jumped off the horse. At the edge of the sparkling stream, Fu Xunyu looked closely, and saw that it was a young knight in his twenties, thin face and broad shoulders, his facial features were not handsome, but the silver hook and iron stroke, the outline was deep, and the figure was quite beautiful and tall, looking sharp and square.

"Your Excellency?" When he heard that it was someone who had returned to the camp, Fu Xunyu was half nervous and half curious.

The young knight replied proudly: "Return to the camp to lead the left wing of the Chinese army, Ma Guangning. ”

"Oh, Commander Ma, I'll be lucky." Fu Xunyu was shocked, and looked at Li Wanqing and found that he was also slightly open.

"You ask me what I have to do, but I don't have it, there is only one thing I want to do." Ma Guangning's slender black eyes, which were cut by a knife, glowed with a little cold light, "I'm going to tie you back and exchange my brother with Zhao Thief!" After saying that, he beckoned, and the cavalry on all sides was about to attack the center in an instant.