At three o'clock, an hour had passed since Zhao Ying's soldiers were in the Maozi Chongcao camp. The battle went more smoothly than expected, with several defensive lines in the north blocking the front, and Maozichong's defense was as sparse as the clouds in the sky today. Liukou was not good at setting up a camp, and two of the three temporary wooden villages built by Cao Ying in the Maozichong belt had been swept away by the light and small artillery of the Zhao camp, and the only Chinese army village that was still strong was also blasted out of a lot of gaps.

Guo Ruke, who was in charge of commanding the battle on the front line, ran back to the battle in a drenched manner, and said to Xu Hui, who was watching the battle: "The local chickens and dogs on the other side can't last long, and if you want to come, we will be able to eat on time at noon." ”

Xu Hui looked at the Cao Ying camp hundreds of steps away in the middle of the smoke and dust, and the grass and trees burst out, and stroked his beard and said: "Chang Guoan said that Maozichong still has more than a thousand Cao Ying horse army, why do you want to give up the length and short, and would rather shrink in the camp and eat cannons than come out to make an appearance?" ”

Guo Ruke said with a smile: "You still dare to appear? I'm afraid it's not a sad face. ”

Han Gon said: "I heard that Wang Long divided Yang Jinshan and Wang Kehuai to lead half of the soldiers and horses to Guozhuang in the west, or to help Wang Guoning's troops guard against our army's forced crossing, and now our army has turned its spear, Guozhuang is only five miles away, and if the horse army there gallops to help, it can be reached in the blink of an eye." Then he said, "Our army has 2,500 horses and footmen, and the cat and the thief only have 1,000 horses. The reason why Wang Lung did not move for a long time is that I have selfishly speculated, or it is to wait for reinforcements. ”

Guo Ruke listened, smiled, and said: "Wang Long's name is unknown, I heard that it is only by relying on his relationship with Luo Rucai that he can be a fox and a tiger. This person is a puppet, and he is afraid of the power of our army's newly broken back thieves, and the number of soldiers is not advantageous, so he has no courage to sacrifice himself to fight. Now that he doesn't fight and doesn't retreat, I think what Lao Han said is reasonable, he has the heart to help the troops fight again. ”

Han Gon continued: "The five cavalry generals relied on by Cao Thief are each brave and good at fighting, Zhu Yangmin is not mentioned in Zaoyang County, and now Li Rugui and Yang Chengen are all in Maozichong, although Wang Lung is incompetent, but with these two people on his side, he cannot be completely despised . Sticking to the act of waiting for help will not be Wang Long's daring, it must be Li and Yang's idea. Waiting for the four generals to gather and lead the 2,000 Cao thief horse army to gallop in the wilderness, it is also a little tricky, so you have to prepare early. ”

Guo Ruke slanted his mouth and said: "Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, since we have expected Cao Thief's tricks, we will see the move." Give me Lao Guo 500 people......"

"Guo Command!" Guo Ruke was patting his chest as always, and Han Gon, who had always been modest, suddenly broke out.

"Old Han, you ......" Guo Ruke stopped abruptly halfway through his words, looking at each other suspiciously.

Han Gon said solemnly: "This battle is related to the success or failure of our army's southward movement, and it is a great matter. Yang Jinshan and Wang Kehuai are both fierce generals, and they must not be taken lightly. Therefore, Han had a foolish opinion, first use my Feijie battalion horse army to contain it, Guo commanded the infantry army to advance, and the horses and steps joined forces, at least 1,500 people went to battle, so as to ensure everything. ”

Xu and Guo glanced at each other when they heard this, only to feel that Han Gon's words were tough, and there was a sharp momentum in between. Suddenly, I thought that Yang Jinshan and Wang Kehuai were the main culprits who had killed the Feijie battalion sentry officer Lian Buxin and the death of a group of horse soldiers, and they were also the main cadres of Cao Ying's succession to take Zaoyang, Chungling and other places from the Feijie battalion. Thinking through this section, it is not difficult to understand Han Gon's rare excitement.

"Old Han, be careful." Guo Ruke was knowledgeable and silent, Xu Hui thought for a moment, and nodded solemnly. Unlike riding on foot, Han Gon's proposal to ride on foot is a real melee and a dangerous one. Xu Hui didn't want to refuse Han Gon, but he didn't want to see him suffer any damage.

"Han saved!" Han Gon's eyebrows flashed heroically, and he answered in a deep voice.

A quarter of an hour later, the Zhao battalion besieging Maozichong adjusted its deployment. The 500 Feijie battalion horse army was led by Han Gon, the commander, and went to the northwest, and Guo Ruke led a thousand people from Chang Guoan's department to respond. The rest of Xu Hui continued to attack Maozichong with Qin Jinxiao and Fan Jiwei. Of course, before the situation in Han and Guo Northwest is clear, Xu Hui will take care of himself.

After the soldiers were not far away, Han Gon's troops immediately collided head-on with the Cao Ying horse army who was hurrying away.

"If it is a little delay, so that this horse army arrives at Maozichong, it will not be so easy to take Maozichong in one day." While rejoicing in the choice to send troops, Han Gon commanded his subordinates to suddenly raise the speed of his horse.

Generally speaking, a cavalry must have at least two horses, one on horseback and one on horseback. And in order to maintain the physical strength of the horse as much as possible on the road, they do not try to spur, but mostly trot forward. However, Han Gon was ready for the encounter early on, and on this trip, he asked all his subordinates to abandon their horses and ride directly on war horses. Although the endurance of the war horse was not as good as that of the horse, Han Gon was extremely experienced, and did not give the order to move at full speed, and ordered all the soldiers to maintain a low speed that was slower than the average speed of the horse and the horse, or even close to the human run. This has two advantages, one is to ensure that when it is necessary to fight, the war horse will not be exhausted from the strength of the galloping and difficult to charge; Second, with the follow-up infantry Guo Ruke, thousands of people will not be too far apart and difficult to meet each other.

In extraordinary times, from Guozhuang to Maozichong, there is only this large road for horses, and Han Gon expects that the Cao Ying reinforcements who are in a hurry have no time to think much about the choice of route, so long-distance mobility is not important in this case. And no matter how expensive the war horse is, once it is defeated, it is all in vain, and it is self-evident how to weigh it.

Suddenly, Zhao Ying's horse army rushed head-on, and Cao Ying's horse army was obviously caught off guard. They are Yang Jinshan and Wang Kehuai, who rushed to Guozhuang a few days ago to keep an eye on Wang Guoning on the grounds of "assisting in river defense". Maozichong was besieged, and the depressed Wang Long, at the insistence of Li Rugui and Yang Chengen, stubbornly held the camp and asked Guo Zhuang for help. For Yang and Wang, keeping an eye on the kingdom is not more than Wang Lung's temporary dispatch, and guarding Maozichong is the heavy responsibility that Luo Rucai personally ordered, even if Wang Lung doesn't say it, they have to rush to Maozichong as soon as possible. However, just when the Cao Ying horse army was hurriedly preparing to change into war horses and even stunned in place, the Zhao Ying horse army, which had been gathering momentum for a long time, had already rushed like thunder under the leadership of Han Gon and Meng Aocao, as if the stormy waves were beating together, the war horses and human bodies collided staggeredly, and the shocking shock was loud.

The hammer-like Zhao Ying's horse army riveted its strength, galloping back and forth without dying, and the helpless Cao Ying's horse team was shattered, and Han Gon took the lead, spearing vertically and horizontally. Meng Aocao followed, and the knife was spinning. The two back flags of "Han" and "Meng" were like a streamer in the array of Cao Ying's horse team, fluctuating and coming and going.

And Guo Ruke led the crowd to the battlefield, and on the vast plain, a horse army of the Feijie battalion turned the world upside down in the Cao Ying horse army array, which was twice as large as himself, and firmly occupied the upper hand. Guo Ruke sighed, and immediately ordered the infantry to rush forward with long and short weapons. Chang Guo's security department is not a descendant of Zhao Ying, at the beginning, there were still military generals who were worried and did not enter, Guo Ruke was furious, and he beheaded three generals on the spot, and the army was stunned. The 1,000-foot army was divided into three divisions, the front, the middle, and the rear, with 200 men in each division, and the remaining 400 men were left in place to stand by.

Yang Jinshan and Wang Kehuai, who have always been in a passive position, were supposed to rely on their numerical superiority to delay and slowly reverse the situation, but once Guo Ruke arrived with his troops, there was no possibility of repeating. Wang Kehuai was alert, saw that Zhao Ying was prepared, and knew that he was afraid that he had entered Zhao Ying's position today, and his fighting spirit was shaken and he wanted to withdraw his troops, but how could he give the name of "Yang Fool" to his partner Yang Jinshan in vain, and the more he fought, the more courageous he became. Wang Kehuai crossed the chaotic army several times and invited Yang Jinshan to retreat with him, but he was rejected by the other party.

"Life and death are fate, and faith is mine. If you are cowardly Zhao and the thieves are in the evening, how can I Cao Ying's face! This time, but it's just a fight to the death! Yang Jinshan shouted loudly, blood foaming from his mouth.

Unable to break through the predicament here, the cat rushed to be more auspicious and less auspicious, and the cat rushed to lose, and the defense line north of Cao Ying basically collapsed. Wang Kehuai is also very clear about this truth. But after all, he is used to being a rogue, and seeing that the situation is not good, it is a housekeeping skill, even if he successfully retreats, he can't escape Luo Rucai's accountability, but Wang Kehuai is not willing to give his life here today.

"Old Yang, let's go!" Wang Kehuai still advised himself, but what he was waiting for was Yang Jinshan and left without looking back.

"I can't take care of this Yang fool!" Wang Kehuai secretly gritted his teeth and began to gather his own soldiers to gather the scattered army. While fighting and walking, he suddenly heard a burst of exclamations in the dusty chaos not far away. Immediately afterwards, I saw a long lance several feet through the military horse, and under the bright sun, the tip of the lance proudly picked up Yang Jinshan's bucket-like head.

Cao Ying's generals were all frightened, and Wang Kehuai was depressed, clamped the horse's belly, and fled with some of the remnants of the defeated army. Han Gon, who was stained with blood, immediately assigned Meng Aocao to choose an elite hundred cavalry to pursue, Meng Aocao left, Zhao Chenglin came over on his horse, pulled out the head of Yang Jinshan on the lance in his hand and tied it to the edge of the saddle, and said: "Command, the enemy army has been defeated, and the overall situation is in the hands of our army." ”

Han Gon took a long breath and said: "Fortunately, I made a quick decision and intercepted this group of Cao thieves, otherwise it would be a disaster for them to go to Maozi Chong and calmly change into a war horse and gallop away." Glancing at Yang Jinshan's head, which was constantly colliding slightly with the horse's belly, he said approvingly, "You have made a great contribution to the battle of the Cao thief general." ”

Zhao Chenglin said embarrassedly: "This thief sought his own death, and suddenly broke into the siege of our army. If it weren't for that, with its martial arts, it would be difficult to deal with for a while. ”

Han Gon smiled lightly: "On the battlefield, there is a five-five ratio of skill and luck. It's a good thing that you have good martial luck. After that, looking into the distance, Zhao Chenglin followed his line of sight, but saw a green horse galloping over.

"Guo Command." Zhao Chenglin saluted and turned his horse to retire.

Guo Ruke nodded at him, seeing that he was hanging Yang Jinshan's head, a smile rose at the corner of his mouth, and he turned to Han Gon and said with a straight face after only a moment: "I just got the news, the cat is still fighting against the thief and the beast, and he has broken through several times, and there are many injuries in the second part of Qin and Fan, so I see that it is better to return to the aid as soon as possible." ”

It was less than half an hour before and after a bloody battle, even so, considering that this place was not too far away from Maozichong and the terrain was flat, it was likely that the soldiers and horses of Cao Ying, who were trapped in Maozichong's camp, had discovered the situation and had this abnormal movement. Qin Jinxiao and Fan Jiwei, who besieged Maozichong, were both infantry, although they were elite, but they did not bring chariots or other weapons that could prevent the movement of war horses.

"Han will take people back first, and this place will be handed over to Guo Tong." Han Gon cut the railway, and the war horse also raised its hooves and neighed at the same time.