Looking at the dozens of horses jumping in front of him, Cheng Yanjin's face, which had been gloomy for several days, finally relaxed. Since temporarily throwing off those chasing officers and soldiers in the Bird Mouse Valley, Cheng Yanjin has never been happy since he counted the losses of the cavalry. The little cavalry that was finally saved by smashing pots and selling iron, after this bloody and bitter battle, the five hundred martial arts masters actually suffered nearly a hundred casualties.

This martial arts master is not a cabbage in the market, it can be seen everywhere, in order to recruit so many martial arts masters, Cheng Yanjin has worked hard. In addition to ordering all the members of the Salt Gang to practice the "Rolling Stone Heart Method", and then picking out those talented people from it for key training, Cheng Yanjin also took out a large amount of money to recruit martial arts masters who did not join any forces and practiced alone on the rivers and lakes, which was barely enough for the five hundred cavalry.

Cheng Yanjin also hoped that these 500 cavalry could become an important pillar for him to dominate the world, but he didn't expect that he would lose nearly one-fifth of it after just one battle, so how could he not feel uncomfortable. What's more, along with these martial arts masters, there were nearly a hundred fine war horses.

Although Cheng Yanjin spent a lot of money in order to buy those war horses, what really distressed him was that those war horses were all trained and could cooperate with the cavalry tacitly, doubling the combat effectiveness of the cavalry. If you are buying a new batch of war horses, you will need to go through a period of training before you can go to the battlefield. Such a worse situation made Cheng Yanjin unable to eat and sleep for several days.

After converging the infantry ambushed in the Bird Mouse Valley, Cheng Yanjin ordered his men to hurry day and night. After three days of running around in the mountains, they finally came to the official road with the huge fire tripod.

In order to be able to leave the territory of Bingzhou as soon as possible, in order to avoid the pursuit and killing of the officers and soldiers sent by Li Valve, the first thing Cheng Yanjin did after leaving the mountain was to send a few teams of men and horses to several nearby villages to buy back all the four-legged livestock in the villages that could be used to pull people and goods.

Originally, if it was according to Cheng Yanjin's habit in the past, where would he pay to buy anything he wanted, he would just find a big family to grab it. However, the nearby villages are inhabited by some poor people, where can Cheng Biting Jin do it. But if his team wants to leave the state quickly, those livestock must be necessary.

Therefore, Cheng Biting Jin simply ordered his subordinates not to take it by force, but to take gold and silver to buy livestock from those farmers at a high price. Although there must be some forced purchases, it is already the best that Cheng Yanjin can do to protect the lives and property of these farmers.

With the smooth return of those teams, all kinds of livestock were also brought back, mules, ploughing cattle, donkeys, a large herd, I am afraid that there are not hundreds of them. With these livestock, Cheng Yanjin's team traveled much faster.

Along the way, as long as he encountered a place inhabited, whether it was a village or a small town, Cheng Yanjin had to send people in to search and get all the livestock that could be used to pull people and loads. Anyway, his traces have been discovered by Li Jiancheng, and Cheng Biting Jin Suxing no longer hides in the deep mountains and old forests, but simply swaggers and erects the banner of the Heroes Club in a dignified manner, and about 3,000 people appear on the official road in a grand manner.

All the roadblocks encountered along the way were all picked by Cheng Yanjin and his people, and their speed was as fast as the wind and as fast as fire, so fast that the local governments could not reflect it at all. This side has just received an urgent order from Li Valve to stop it, and the news came from that side that Cheng Yanjin and others had killed and injured many officers and soldiers and left all the way.

Cheng Biting Jin not only destroyed all the checkpoints encountered on this official road, but also plundered several official post stations he encountered. As a result, dozens of military horses were pleasantly found in the stables of these post stations. These horses were kept by the post station and used to transmit emergency information for messengers to transfer, but now they were unceremoniously accepted by Cheng Yanjin.

With these horses, Cheng Yanjin urgently selected some good fighters from the infantry and asked them to train while hurrying, in order to form combat effectiveness in the shortest possible time. Not only that, Cheng Yanjin also learned the lessons of the last battle and began to train his soldiers to cooperate with each other.

Cheng Yanjin didn't know what the combat formation was, and there were no veterans around him to follow, so he had to secretly explore how to cooperate with the battle. Although he has no experience and is still a layman, Cheng Yanjin also understands some truths, the so-called cooperative operation is nothing more than a group of people cooperating with each other, some are specifically responsible for defense, and some are only responsible for attacking forward.

It's a pity that according to the battle a few days ago, Cheng Yanjin arranged for some people to cooperate in training, but he was disappointed to find that although the cooperation operation he made was decent, and he could withstand some blows, the number of people who formed a combat team was really too much, and it reached thirteen people.

These thirteen co-ordinating teams perform their own duties and have their own division of labor, so as to ensure that attacks from all directions are blocked to the greatest extent and can be counterattacked. After the exercise, Cheng Yanjin found that although the method of cooperation and combat he had figured out seemed to be a little too many, it still had some effect.

Along the way, whenever he stopped to rest or encountered a small group of officers and soldiers, Cheng Yanjin would conduct actual combat drills with the coordination techniques he had initially explored, in order to find out the defects and complete them. In this way, day and night, galloping all the way, rushing all the way, Cheng Yanjin finally came to Lingshi County with his people.

Looking at the towering mountains on both sides, Cheng Yanjin looked at a group of black shadows that appeared in the sky and smiled bitterly. Originally, as long as he walked a hundred miles, he could get out of Bingzhou and get rid of these court officers and soldiers who came to chase and kill on Li Jiancheng's orders. However, according to the news sent by the secret agents of Suzaku Hall, in the direction of their own advancement, there are still a group of intercepted officers and soldiers, and only by defeating these officers and soldiers can they have a road to heaven in front of them, unimpeded.

Just looking at the secret report in his hand, Cheng Yanjin was speechless. The secret report said that there were tens of thousands of officers and men intercepted in front of him. And some of them are still elite officers and soldiers in the imperial court, unlike those officers and soldiers who belong to the local government that they have met before, these elite officers and soldiers are directly dispatched from the military camp of Jinyang Mansion, and their combat effectiveness is very strong, and their equipment is also extremely sophisticated.

Behind him, the officers and soldiers sent by the local government who wanted to tie up with Li were dense like locusts, and it was estimated that these people would be able to arrive here in two days. Therefore, there is not much time left for yourself, if you can't defeat the group of officers and soldiers in front of you in one day, then you will wait to be made dumplings by these court officers and soldiers!

Although it is said that after coming out of the Bird Mouse Valley, Cheng Biting Jin sent a messenger with fast legs to take a small road to inform the Tang brothers who were wandering on the border of Qingzhou, so that they could come to the rescue. However, the Tang brothers led all the infantry, and the journey on the road was naturally very slow, and now they don't know where they are, and now they can only do their best to know the destiny of heaven!

Getting closer and closer to those figures, looking at the group of officers and soldiers who were waiting for the battle, Cheng Yanjin, who was riding on the horse, waved his right hand, "Array!" Then he saw that the cavalry who were walking in front of him avoided both sides and gave way to the road. With the sound of messy footsteps, the infantry of the Quartet quickly ran to the front of the team and formed a phalanx.

This phalanx, in fact, can't be regarded as a formation at all, it's just that these infantry can stand neatly and look more square. These infantry lined up in more than a dozen columns with spears, and in the middle of each column, there was a wide gap to facilitate the soldiers behind to intersperse and advance.

A large number of infantry from the Quartet Department walked in front, Cheng Yanjin followed with the cavalry, and the crowd of people escorting Huoding walked slowly behind. Forming this team in such a queue, Cheng Yanjin ordered the team that had stopped in place to start advancing, preparing to fight with the officers and soldiers blocking in front of him.

Perhaps because they had already experienced several battles, these soldiers of the Heroes Association were not afraid in the face of enemies several times their size, and there was no panic in the advancing queue, and Cheng Yanjin, who was walking in the middle of the team, couldn't help but feel a little happy.

Fortunately, he relied on fighting with a small group of imperial officers and soldiers along the way, so that all soldiers took turns to train their soldiers, to hone in the cohesion and coordination between the soldiers, and to improve their combat effectiveness with actual combat.

And the soldiers, who had no combat experience at all and were not familiar with combat, have exercised their fighting skills and bloodthirsty temperament after countless actual combat training, and have become fierce and fierce one by one. And only a soldier who has seen blood and killed people can barely be called a qualified soldier.

The distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer, and it seemed that they were about to come within the range of those officers and soldiers' archers, and some of the archers at the front of the line had already bent down to shoot their arrows, ready to aim and shoot. Who would have thought that Cheng Biting Jin gave an order, and the team that was marching suddenly stopped.

Looking at the puzzled expressions of the archers three hundred paces away, Cheng Yanjin smiled, waved his right hand, and shouted, "Release!" When the officers and soldiers on the opposite side were wondering, they were surprised to find that the pikemen standing on the opposite side were neatly working hard and threw the spears in their hands together. In an instant, the sight of these officers and soldiers was filled with an overwhelming array of spears.

A general sitting in the rear of the imperial court officers and soldiers laughed when the pikemen were about to throw, "These rogues are really some leopards, such a distance, unless they are born with divine power, it is possible to throw those spears at the archers who are three hundred paces away, and the leader of this rogue only cares about hiding outside the range of the archers, but forgets that the archers are also outside the range of these pikemen." After joining the military for so long, it's the first time I've met such an idiot! ”

However, the smile on the general's face froze on his face before it could fall, and he and a group of officers and soldiers around him were stunned to watch the hundreds of spears easily leap over a distance of three hundred paces and fall into the midst of those officers and soldiers who were caught off guard.

Seeing that the pikeman's first appearance was so brilliant, Cheng Yanjin couldn't help but smile, and the haze on his face for a few days was suddenly swept away. How could these officers and soldiers have thought that the money that Cheng Yanjin spent on this spearman was not much less than that cavalry.

These spearmen were originally fishermen along the coast of Qingzhou, and they had developed the skill of piercing fish with spears since childhood. You must know that the fish swimming in the water are small in size, smooth in appearance, and agile swimming, and the fishermen in the coastal area, young and old, have all developed the ability to shoot the fish swimming in the water in a rocking boat.

And these extremely strong pikemen in front of them, in addition to the accurate head that they have trained since childhood, also have arm strength beyond ordinary people. At the beginning, in order to make these spearmen exert their great power, Cheng Yanjin racked his brains to come up with a crooked idea, that is, to spend the price to let those martial arts masters open up the meridians on the arms of these spearmen.