Ma Hua and Shao Qin led the Jingguo army in the lead, and Hao Yang guarded this Ji Wen and Yang Xue followed closely. The army came to the outskirts of the military camp on the West Road, but found that the silence in the camp was as if it were death.

"Is Jiao Qiang so careless? Not even a sentry? Looking at the little fires in the camp, Ma Hua's heart was full of doubts.

Shao Qin took a deep breath and asked Ma Hua, "It can't be an empty city plan, right?" Jiao Qiang felt that he was not our opponent, so he deliberately put on this posture to scare us! ”

Ma Hua narrowed his eyes, immediately ordered his junior generals, and led a cavalry to rush to the camp.

The young general rushed into the enemy camp, but found that there was not even a figure in the tent, so he hurriedly came back and reported to Ma Hua: "General, it's an empty camp!" ”

When Ma Hua heard this, many thoughts flashed in his mind, and he had no idea for a while, so he hurriedly took someone to report to Ji Wen.

"What? Is it an empty camp? Did the enemy know about our plan in advance? Ji Wen was stunned, in his opinion, someone must have leaked the news to the enemy, otherwise why did the enemy slip away in advance?

Hao Yang unconsciously looked at Yang Xue, if it was Yang Xue who revealed the news to the enemy, how did she do it? This time, it was only two hours from making the plan to starting the action, and during this time, I also paid special attention to Yang Xue's actions, and there was nothing abnormal, all kinds of signs showed that she didn't have time to deliver the news at all.

Yang Xue frowned on the surface, but sneered in her heart: It seems that the people of the Western Route Army are not stupid, and they have directly seen through Ji Wen's plan, so that he will have the opportunity to regain Ji Wen's trust.

Seeing that no one answered his question, Ji Wen once again raised a nameless fire in his heart: "A bunch of waste, I can't even keep a message!" ”

Yang Xue saw that the time was ripe, so she said to Ji Wen: "Lord Wang, the enemy army didn't even take away the tent baggage, which means that they are in a hurry and should not have gone far." The prince can let General Ma lead the cavalry to chase them, and maybe he can stop them! Even if we can't stop Jiao Qiang, we can take advantage of the situation to attack the lower city, recapture Dieling Pass, and wait for reinforcements to arrive. ”

Ji Wen nodded, and immediately said to Ma Hua: "I will give you 20,000 cavalry, and I will definitely stop Jiao Qiang for me!" After speaking, he said to everyone: "The rest of the people will follow this king and march to the next city!" ”

Waiting for Jingguo's army to leave, a team walked out of the woods in the northeast of the camp, and in a hurry, Jiao Qiang and his men hid in the woods.

"The two gentlemen really expected things to be like gods, but now Ji Wen is leading a large army to kill the next city, there are only nine thousand soldiers and horses over there, I'm afraid they won't be able to hold it!" Jiao Qiang said.

Without waiting for Chen Lin to speak, Qin Sheng preemptively said: "I don't care if I can hold them or not, but whether the reinforcements can arrive at the first time!" The general should contact Qinghua City first, and let them send troops to support them quickly! ”

After hearing this, Chen Lin nodded to Jiao Qiang, and Jiao Qiang immediately came to Qinghua City with his people.

At this time, the people in Thanh Hoa City already knew that the Jingguo army was heading north, and they didn't need to think about it to know what they were doing, so they began to clear the obstacles in the doorway.

After Jiao Qiang arrived, he brought the exact news to Zhang Jun, and Zhang Jun immediately ordered to speed up the clearing of obstacles, and finally cleared a path two hours later. Zhang Jun left 2,000 men and horses to defend the city, and he and Jiao Qiang rushed to the next city with nearly 20,000 troops non-stop!

Dieling Pass is an important military fortress of Huaiguo to resist the invasion of Jingguo, and the next city is built on the edge of Dieling Pass, which is the place where the soldiers who guard the border pass live and live. In the early hours of the morning, the soldiers in the next city were still asleep. Suddenly, a drum beat shattered the silence of the city, and tension spread.

Leng Yu hurriedly came to the city wall, looking at the dense firelight in the distance, he couldn't help but feel numb: "Inform Dieling Pass, you can't hold out, the enemy is so big moving, I believe General Jiao will come back soon!" ”

Ma Hua chased all the way with 20,000 cavalry but didn't even see Jiao Qiang's shadow, which made Ma Hua very annoyed. He wanted to directly lead the cavalry to attack the city, but he didn't bring siege equipment, so he had to give up. In the end, Ma Hua had to order the soldiers to rest in place and wait for Ji Wen's arrival.

At dawn, Ji Wen arrived with a large army, and Ma Hua hurriedly reported the situation to Ji Wen.

When she heard that Ma Hua chased all the way and didn't catch up with Jiao Qiang, Yang Xue instantly became vigilant.

"Impossible, Jiao Qiang's subordinates are mainly infantry, how can General Ma and his cavalry chase for so long? Unless Jiao Qiang takes someone to hide, learn that he is behind us now! Yang Xue immediately analyzed.

When Ji Wen heard this, he immediately returned to the road to investigate, and then said to everyone: "But Jiao Qiang is not behind us, there are not many soldiers and horses in the next phase of the city and Dieling Pass, let's capture the city first!" ”

After speaking, Ji Wen immediately ordered the siege of the city, regardless of the soldiers' tiring night.

Leng Yu saw that the other party had set up a siege posture, but Jiao Qiang had not yet arrived with reinforcements, so he had to turn his heart and say to his soldiers: "Brothers, if the Jingguo dog thieves occupy the next city and Dieling Pass today, then Jingguo will seize the life gate of our Huaiguo, so we will die today, and we can't let the enemy easily take the pass!" Everyone obeys the order, defend the city today, and never die! ”

The nearly 10,000 horses of the Western Route Army took out the momentum of death, and the attacking Jingguo army started a fight, just when the Jingguo army was about to make a breakthrough, Jingguo's scouts hurriedly came to Ji Wen: "Report to the king, there is a team of men and horses behind you, the number is more than 10,000!" ”

Ji Wen narrowed his eyes: "There is really someone behind you, Ma Hua, you take 20,000 cavalry to block the enemy, be sure to drag it until we capture the city!" ”

Ma Hua received the order and immediately rushed to the rear with 20,000 cavalry.

At this time, Jiao Qiang and others were anxious to rush to the next city, and soon heard the sound of thousands of horses galloping, Jiao Qiang immediately realized that it was the enemy's cavalry coming, so he ordered his soldiers to form a square formation, surrounded the generals in the middle, and walked forward slowly.

Ma Hua led the troops to kill, and when he saw that the Western Route Army had already set up a posture, he didn't dare to rush hard, after all, the task given to him by Ji Wen was just to drag the enemy army, so he deliberately asked his subordinates to stop and confront Jiao Qiang.

"Jiao Qiang, do you dare to fight with me?"

Zhang Yan heard Ma Hua's provocation and was about to raise his gun, but was stopped by Zhang Jun: "He wants to deliberately delay time, leave him alone, the whole army listens to the order, thunders the war drums, and continues to move forward in a square formation!" ”

The Western Route Army followed the sound of drums and stepped out of neat steps and approached Mahua step by step. Ma Hua narrowed his eyes and tried again: "The world says that Jiao Qiang is the first fierce general of the Western Route Army, and today it seems that they don't even dare to fight with me, don't come to the battlefield to be embarrassed in the future!" ”

Zhang Jun's third son, Zhang Lin, is still young, and his blood and qi Fang Gang couldn't stand Ma Hua's ridicule, so he slapped the horse and rushed out: "Ma Hua dog thief, watch me take your dog's life!" ”