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In the face of the Jinwu army's large-scale attack on the village, Yan Qing was shocked, and while organizing and defending Zhangliang Cottage, he sent three waves of people down the mountain from the trail to chase Qin Ming and others back for help.

The people sent out by Yan Qing were all clever and capable people, and after they went down the mountain, they found the war horses they had hidden in advance, and then desperately beat the horses to chase Qin Ming and the others.

The hard work paid off, and just as Qin Ming and his party were halfway there, the people who asked for help finally caught up with Qin Ming and Dong Ping, who were walking behind.

After listening to the report of the helper, Qin Ming and Dong Ping were shocked!

Not long ago, when passing through Tuancheng, Qin Ming's wife and children were killed by the official army.

Qin Ming was furious, and immediately wanted to lead his headquarters to find the group of officers and soldiers to take revenge.

Seeing this, Song Jiang was kind to talk about, but Qin Ming just didn't listen.

In the end, Song Jiang took the initiative to marry Hua Rong's sister Hua Baoyan to Qin Ming, and Qin Ming calmed his anger.

Song Jiang's words also counted, and soon held a wedding for the two.

It's a pity that the ceremony has just been completed, and before the two of them can enter the cave room, the officers and soldiers will fight again.

There was no way, Qin Ming could only pick up his mace and fight with the official army, while Hua Baoyan was protected by her brother Hua Rong and took the lead.

After that, the Song Jiang Righteous Army fought and ran all the way, and there was no place to stay.

Qin Ming and Hua Baoyan don't talk about the round house, they can't even see each other.

Even when they arrived at Wuma Mountain, the Song Jiang Righteous Army has been facing the encirclement and suppression of the official army.

Until a few days ago, Song Jiang sent someone to send Hua Baoyan to Qin Ming at the risk of being intercepted by the official army, wanting to let the two have a round house.

However, no coincidence is not a book, on the day Hua Baoyan arrived at Zhang Liangshan, Cai still led the Jinwu army to kill, and the troops may come to the city at any time.

And during this time, some rumors came out, and everyone was saying: Qin Ming is a ruthless villain, and if his wife is killed, he will not take revenge because he can marry a more beautiful Hua Baoyan, and he will be a husband and a father in vain!

In order to prove that he was not greedy for Hua Baoyan's beauty, but because he wanted to take into account the overall situation, Qin Ming did not go to avenge his wife, and he did not rush to have a round house with Hua Baoyan, but only said that it was not too late to defeat the officials and soldiers and have a round house.

Now, if the official army really defeated Zhang Liangshan, then Qin Ming's wife, who has not yet touched it, will be gone!

In this case, how could Qin Ming, a pervert, not be anxious?

Dong Ping's situation is similar to Qin Ming's.

His wives and concubines are all on Zhang Liang Mountain.

Forget about the old wife, let's die, the key is that he just recruited a stunning concubine not long ago, which is a rare stunning beauty in the world, in order to get her, he killed her whole family.

If Zhang Liangshan is captured by the official army, his beautiful concubine will not know whose it is.

Let's ask, why isn't Dong Ping anxious?

Therefore, Qin Ming and Dong Ping immediately decided to return to Zhang Liangshan, and they didn't even think about continuing to rescue Dui Sushan.

The selfish side of human nature is vividly revealed at this time.

Of course, you can also say that there are forty or fifty thousand officers and soldiers on Dui Su Mountain at the moment, even if only one or two thousand are divided, it can make Qin Ming and Dong Ping's rescue go in vain, so why bother?

And Qin Ming and Dong Ping, who were walking behind, both decided that they had even returned to help, and Mu Heng, who was walking in front, couldn't go to the rescue alone, right?

All in all, as soon as they received Yan Qing's request for help, Qin Ming, Dong Ping, and Mu Heng immediately led their armies to rush back.

Because they were too anxious to return to help, and because the army was divided into two parts before, as a result, the good army of 6,000 was divided into three parts by them - Qin Ming led the 500 horse army to walk in the front, Dong Ping led the 2,500 infantry army to walk in the middle, and Mu Heng led the 3,000 infantry army to walk in the end.

Qin Ming, Dong Ping, and Mu Heng had gone too far before, so that when they rushed back, it was already dark.

But despite this, Qin Ming still desperately beat the war horse under his crotch and led the horse camp to rush back, as if he only needed to take a step slowly, his Hua Baoyan would be someone else's.

Cai Ying, who had been in ambush for a long time in Laoyapo, saw Qin Ming leading the horse camp of the Song Jiang Righteous Army into the encirclement, and gave an order!

Dozens of tripwires suddenly bounced off the ground!

The war horse running in front immediately tripped over the tripping horse rope, and the war horse running behind tripped over the war horse running in front.

In an instant, people turned on their backs, just like the scene of a series of car accidents!

Before Qin Ming, who had fallen off his war horse, could react, an overwhelming rain of arrows shot over!

The rain of arrows is over, and the trumpet of the charge sounds!

Immediately afterwards, Wang Deqin led an army of 600 horses (as well as Cai Ying's 100 personal guards) to rush down from the old crow slope!

Immediately after, Cai still personally led the two thousand infantry troops of the rear, left, right, and middle four battalions to rush down!

A one-sided slaughter began to unfold......

After a meal time, the crow slope was densely covered with three or four hundred corpses of the Song Jiang Righteous Army, and the head of the leader of the Song Jiang Righteous Army, Qin Ming, was cut off by Wang De himself, and then tied to his horse, only more than 100 cavalry of the Song Jiang Righteous Army with good riding skills and good luck scattered away.

In comparison, the Jinwu army suffered less than ten casualties.

It was a big win on the go.

Cai Ying, who led this victory, was regarded as a god by his subordinates.

No, Cai still didn't get complacent about the big victory in front of him, but immediately ordered: "Quickly clean up the battlefield and prepare for the next battle." ”

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As soon as the battle in front of them started, Dong Ping and the others who were following Qin Ming and them faintly heard it.

Although he didn't know how to encircle the point to send reinforcements, Dong Ping had also experienced dozens of battles, how could he not have imagined that someone had ambushed Qin Ming and the horse battalion led by him?

At this time, Dong Ping was faced with a difficult choice - was he going to rescue Qin Ming? Or go and join Mu Heng, and then do some calculations?

After hesitating for a while, Dong Ping said secretly: "The official army must be Qin Ming who was ambushed in Lao Yapo, such a long distance, when I bring people to arrive, I am afraid that the battle there will be over." ”

Thinking about it this way, Dong Ping immediately made a decision - to join forces with Mu Heng in the back.

It can be said that Dong Ping's decision was very right - as soon as the Jin Wu army defeated the horse camp of the Song Jiang Righteous Army led by Qin Ming, it was ready to engage the battle, if Dong Ping only led the peasant army of the Song Jiang Righteous Army of 2,500 to fight the Jin Wu Army with the prestige of a great victory, it would be completely a dessert for the Jin Wu Army.

Soon, Dong Ping joined forces with Mu Heng.

In addition, Dong Ping also intercepted more than a dozen rout horses that retreated from the front.

From these routs, Dong Ping and Mu Heng learned that Qin Ming was defeated, and because the attack organized by the other party was very effective, and the horse army expanded the results, their horse camp could not be counted on at all, and although the other party only had more than 2,000 horses, there was a horse battalion, and the other party's horse camp was extremely extravagant with one person and two horses.

"What should I do?"

Dong Ping and Mu Heng are in a dilemma.

Although they still have the advantage in terms of troops, on the battlefield, the accounts cannot be counted in this way, and in the open field, there is no problem at all that the combat power of a light horse is as light as five or even ten ordinary soldiers.

Don't think it's an exaggeration, it's not an exaggeration at all.

In the current era of cold weapons, cavalry is an important force that can decide the outcome of the battle.

The impact of the cavalry's high-speed advance was the greatest threat to the infantry.

The second is the high mobility of the cavalry, if I can't beat you, I'll run, and you can't catch up with me, and when you relax, I'll come and harass you again.

In short, an ill-trained infantry can easily be crushed by fear when faced directly with a cavalry charge.

Once the infantry formation was broken up, the cavalry could use its mobility to pursue and kill the infantry who did not have time to escape.

The Song Jiang Rebellion led by Dong Ping and Mu Heng was such an untrained infantryman.

Therefore, if the horse battalion of the Jinwu army is counted, the strength of the Song Jiang Yi army is not superior.

In fact, it is not impossible for infantry to deal with cavalry, but these methods must all be in specific situations, which is far less easy than cavalry against cavalry.

This is also one of the reasons why Cai still defeated the cavalry camp of the Song Jiang Yi Army first - in fact, at the earliest, Cai was still ready to defeat the rear army of the Song Jiang Yi Army, or directly ambush the entire Song Jiang Yi Army while the enemy was unprepared, in short, it was improvised, according to the Song Jiang Yi Army's return to the situation, and later the horse battalion of the Song Jiang Yi Army left the large army far behind, and entered his own ambush circle alone, Cai still weighed the pros and cons, and decided to eat the horse camp of the Song Jiang Yi Army first.

Faced with the situation that the troops were not superior, Dong Ping and Mu Heng had a disagreement.

Mu Heng said: "If the troops are not superior, we can't fight a decisive battle with them." ”

Dong Ping said: "You don't know the combat power of the official army, it's no problem for us to beat ten of them one by one, this way, how many battles we have won with less, have you forgotten?" Besides, we have 5,000 and a half, and they only have more than 2,000, so why don't they have an advantage in troops? Qin Ming was defeated and died, it was because they were careless and fell into the enemy's ambush, if it was a fair battle, maybe the horse camp itself would have defeated that bit of the official army, the official army, pigs and sheep. ”

Without waiting for Mu Heng to speak, Dong Ping said again: "Take a step back and say, if we don't fight with it, where do we go?" Do you want to rescue Zhang Qing and them, or break through the blockade of the official army and join your brother and them? There are now 40,000 or 50,000 officers and troops on Dui Su Mountain, 50,000 or 60,000 officers and troops on the blockade line, and there are only two or three thousand officers and troops in front of us. ”

Mu Heng said: "This official army is a bit evil, they don't fight with us directly, but they make a detour to attack our cottage to force us to come back, and when we come back, they set up an ambush to ambush us and annihilate Qin Ming's horse camp, this kind of performance is by no means the performance of those officers and troops who will be defeated with one blow, so I don't think we should fight a decisive battle with it, otherwise, we choose to retreat to Zanhuang and wait and see what happens?" ”

Dong Ping held the spear in his hand and said coldly: "Do you want to betray your brother? ”

Seeing that Dong Ping, the butcher, was about to burst out and kill people, Mu Heng hurriedly said: "My brother treats me like a mountain, how can I do anything to betray him, it is really because this group of officers and soldiers is a little strange, so I want to be careful." ”

After listening to Mu Heng's explanation, Dong Ping slowed down a little and said: "If we withdraw, the official army can concentrate on attacking Zhang Qing and them, and when Zhang Qing and them are defeated by the official army, the official army can defeat my brother and them, and when my brother and they are all defeated, where can you and I flee to, can we live alone?" And if we defeat the official army in front, we can rely on Zhang Liangshan's constant harassment to attack Zhang Qing's official army, then the official army will inevitably be unable to attack Zhang Qing and them with all their might, and if it drags on for a long time, the official army may withdraw. ”

How could Mu Heng not know this truth? But Mu Heng really felt that the official army that did not play cards according to the routine was extraordinary, and it should not be confronted with it.

Just when Mu Heng wanted to discuss with Dong Ping again, the scout horse sent out by Dong Ping and Mu Heng suddenly came back to report: "Two leaders, the officer army in front has run away!" ”

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