The destruction of 60,000 people in the Lingwu Marquis Department of the Left Route Army shook the Shenguang government and the opposition, and the people were embarrassed. Back then, Zhong Ming Ding ate the marquis of ten thousand households, but now his head is exposed to the corpse in a different place, people die like lights go out, everything is a passing cloud, and what worries Emperor Jialong is that the entire chess game of the Northern Expedition has been disrupted, and the chess game has reached the middle game, and the battle on the Western Front is the first to deviate from the track.

Lost in the east corner of the harvest of Sangyu, King Pingkang led 30,000 light cavalry foot soldiers in the Gabu Lake corridor guerrilla warfare to fight the wind and water, 10,000 cavalry rolled Pinggang like the wind, plundered the red inkstone, and turned to Hexi. If it weren't for that, I'm afraid that the Divine Light Middle Road army would have been attacked from two sides at this time.

Perhaps the status of the eldest son of the royal family of Pingkang Wang Youqi is too dazzling, so that for the first time, the whole country realized that the military talent of the eldest prince Youqi has been suppressed for too long. The addition of the word "Mu" to the title of the prince is the best praise given to his son by Emperor Jialong during the Northern Expedition in the later period, and King Mu of Pingkang is the first since the founding of Shenguang.

The bright moon rises out of the snow-capped mountains, and the vast sea of clouds.

King Pingkang led the light cavalry to lightning guerrilla attacks, turning left and right to fight, which made the grassland tribes in the Gabu Lake corridor terrified for a while.

The 30,000 horses of the Youqi Department have achieved war in the Gabu Lake corridor, especially in the Xueling Hetao area, which caught the fighters and attacked the horse farm, and then realized the replacement of some war horses.

When they heard that the identity of the main general was the eldest prince of the Shenguang Dynasty, the main army of Gabu Lake Horse Farm was excited, and thousands of men sharpened their knives night after night. Suffering from the heavy responsibility of guarding the old queen mother and other royal descendants, the main force of the royal tent dragoon army could not be separated, and in the end it could only divide 40,000 dragoons to chase and kill the people and horses of the Youqi tribe.

"These wolf cubs are crazy when they see fat." The old valley lord of Bingzu scolded with a smile,

"Tell them not to underestimate the enemy, be careful that if you don't eat the meat, you will break your teeth. The south gave birth to a promising offspring, but it's a pity. The old queen mother sighed and drank the spring tea before Ming, and scolded jokingly.

These 40,000 dragoon horses have basically been screened layer by layer, and the quota is squeezed out of the head, which one must not be behind the big general?

After the Beihu royal family's descendant troops, the Wang Ledger Dragoon Army, after eating the people and horses of the Lingwu Hou Department in one go, their mentality was already fluttering, and they regarded the Shenguang cavalry as if they were nothing, thinking that after a burst of charge, they were like cutting melons and chopping vegetables, and they all regarded the people and horses of the Pingkang Royal Department as if they were moving military cards.

Beihu, a nation on horseback, is a natural warrior, and the king is the best among them.

At this time, the men and horses of the Youqi Department had once again divided their troops into two routes, lured the enemy with light horses, set up ambushes with foot soldiers, and plundered the surrounding Daxicha forces, and they did not know that the biggest enemy of the war on the Western Front, the 40,000 kings' dagoons killed violently.

At the end of the year, the platinum star was still hanging in the sky, and the sky was still not white.

A standard divine light scout rushed wildly, and the standard commander entered the camp and told Lun Shuai: "Sixty miles northwest has found the enemy's situation, and based on the brightness of the fire light of the night march in Beihu, there are more than 5,400 cavalry escort brigades marching from east to west, and the war horses are about two people and four horsemen. ”

"Two people and four horses, good guys, it seems that this grain transportation team has a very heavy task." Jiang Yunlang smiled suddenly, his eyes had already drifted out of the camp tent and looked into the distance.

"Dong Baqian, Cao Ren, you first take 5,000 cavalry and crossbow battalions to the Crow Ridge Valley thirty miles ahead to occupy the dangerous terrain, bring all the saltpeter, and use rockets as the number." Liu Zhilun threw out a token.

"Jiang Yunlang, Liu Fang, Jing Da, the three generals led 10,000 horses and 5,000 archers, and cut off the back road after the enemy army entered the Crow Ridge, so there was no need to participate in the strangulation, and the archers and 5,000 foot soldiers blocked the retreat. In addition, 5,000 light cavalry must be stationed 60 miles behind the entrance of Crow Ridge to guard the safety of the rear of the Beihu grain transport team at any time. Liu Zhilun deployed again.

"Lun Shuai, if we eat this team, we will have all the grain, grass and horses." Zekang Wang Youyin looked at Liu Zhilun's two orders before and after, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but rise.

The march and rush of the past few days, really made the right army of the eastern front suffer, although it is a bypass to Kuiyin Mountain, but the mountain is quite difficult to walk, along the foothills of the area is very consuming foot, the wind and sand outside the plug are big, the spring ploughing season, especially the sandstorm that often blows in the sky, the king of Zekang is full of wind and frost, his lips are chapped, and he no longer sees the graceful and suave of the gentle Luo fan in Taikang City.

"If it can really be achieved to nourish the war by war, the right army's space and durability on the Eastern Front can be raised to a higher level." Liu Zhilun understood what King Zekang meant, and had some expectations in his heart, two days ago they had all read the secret letter of Niu Ma Lan, but it was a pity that the dignified Lingwu Marquis lost all the plates by accident, and his life was lost in Gabu Lake Ranch, and the battlefield was ruthless......

"Yellow sand wears gold armor in a hundred battles, and if you don't break the royal oath, you won't return it." King Zekang had faith in his heart, and after several large-scale battles, his confidence was also established, and he naturally revealed the idea of smashing the Yellow Dragon at any time.

"Please also ask the prince to lead our 30,000 horses to set up an ambush at the exit of the Crow Ridge, one is to snipe the enemy's grain transport team to speed up the ridge in a hurry, and the other is to bury all the horse rejection stakes at the exit position, and three rockets are the order to retreat." King Zekang was a little puzzled after listening to the military order, and couldn't help but have questions on his face.

"If you can rob grain, grass and horses in this battle, it is naturally the best, but you should be more prepared for the unexpected." Liu Zhilun hurriedly explained, and then led the pro-military battalion to Crow Ridge.

Liu Zhilun's troop formation has matured after fighting a few tough battles, and his vision has become broader after focusing on the overall situation, and he is free to use troops between advance and retreat. He knew very well in his heart that in the final analysis, the lone right line army, in addition to the Beihu Iron Cavalry on the surface, the enemy also had "himself". Liu Zhilun must take into account the physical strength, spirit, and spirit of his soldiers, as well as all factors such as war horses, bows, crossbows, grain and grass, and potential battle losses.

The attrition of the ambush has made Liu Zhilun deeply aware of the gap in combat power, so every march and battle are to act with the lowest battle damage, and now the riding and archery feeling of the right army can be said to have climbed to the peak, but there is too sustained long-term fighting, it will also lead to irreparable sequelae, the strain of the arms and muscles of the soldiers will make today's light cavalry can only fight the battle of "three axes", if there is not enough archer and crossbow machine fire suppression, the light cavalry can only quickly solve the enemy with the least number of charges, Quickly evacuated the battlefield and entered a safe area to rest, so in this battle, he was far more interested in grain, grass and horses than in killing the Hu cavalry.

It's only sixty miles, but the Beihu grain transportation team has traveled for two hours, and the configuration of two people and four horses makes people feel extravagant, at least Liu Zhilun on the eastern front can't think about it at all.

The sky is slightly bright, the archer in ambush on the Crow Ridge has seen the team of escorting grain and grass from a distance, different from the carriage footmen, the cavalry is better at manipulating the horse transportation, only to see two or three horses in parallel, the horse is tied with a rope, the grain and grass are all loaded on the top, and the front is dragging the carriage forward, so the mighty more than 5,000 people swaggered into the Raven Ridge valley.

Liu Zhilun leaned over and hid behind the rocks to observe carefully, and always felt that there were too many people in this grain and grass transportation team, and they walked slowly and leisurely, not at all like they meant to rush to the front line.

"Feiwei, you have good eyes, carefully observe the hoof prints and ruts of the horses transporting grain" Liu Zhilun looked puzzled and called the sharpshooter Feiwei in the pro-barracks.

"The subordinates look at these horses should not bear much weight, there are more sand and gravel in the Crow Ridge Valley, and ordinary soldiers will have some shallow marks when they go down, if they are horses with a large load, it is enough to leave deep rut marks." Feiwei was reminded by Lun Shuai, and he also noticed the abnormality of this batch of grain transportation teams.

"Lun Shuai, have you noticed that the speed of this batch of grain transport teams has slowed down after entering the Crow Ridge Valley, and the vanguard team sent out is only defending along the terrain fortress inside the valley?" Feiwei turned his head and reported carefully to Liu Zhilun, the archer's eyesight is a master, and he observes the details within a kilometer.

"Feiwei, immediately send the fastest crossbowmen to the front to inform Jiang Yunlang, Liu Fang, and Jingda that the three generals retreat, don't be greedy, the situation has changed.

Retreat on your own from both sides of Raven Ridge without waiting for the army to assemble. In a critical situation, you can choose to retreat to the southern foot of Kuiyin Mountain. Liu Zhilun had a premonition in his heart, the fall of the Lingwu Marquis made him have to be more careful, and ordered Jiang Yunlang and the others who were blocking the entrance in front to retreat, I am afraid that this grain transportation team is the bait for people to take the bait.

"He Xian, immediately go to the exit and inform King Zekang to sprinkle the thistle, and the main army will retreat for a hundred miles, leaving only 20,000 arrows and 5,000 archers to snipe, and the arrows will be withdrawn."

When the crossbowmen sent by the commander Liu Zhilun rushed to Jiang Yunlang and the others, Liu Fangjingda had already discovered that the situation was abnormal, and two waves of ranger scouts sent out in a row did not return. As the elite of the vanguard force, the Ranger Battalion Scouts would never make such a mistake, and if they didn't come back, they wouldn't come back. After receiving the news, Jiang Yunlang did not hesitate, and immediately led the men and horses to retreat along the side of Crow Ridge, and buried and eliminated the traces of the march.

"General Liu Fang, don't rob me of the credit this time." Jingda grabbed Liu Fang, who was about to ride forward, and said with a smile.

"you, you kid wants to eat alone, first ask the big knife in Lao Tzu's hand." Liu Fang violently waved away the arm that was pulled by General Jingda, and slapped the scabbard on his mount's butt with the scabbard at his waist while he was not paying attention, and the war horse galloped away in an instant.

"Brother Jingda, I'll lead 2,000 cavalry to stop it, you go back quickly and inform Lun Shuai, there is a big one behind." Both of them knew in their hearts that it would be auspicious to intercept the murderer. Although the two are from different backgrounds, they have had a lifelong relationship. After several big battles, he cooperated skillfully and often handed over his back to the other party.

Jingda just married his daughter-in-law last fall, and General Liu Fang, as the eldest brother, was reluctant to let him take risks. Pioneer Liu Fang was born as a captain in the Southwest Frontier Army's Ranger Battalion, and fought with the Ten Ghost Sects all the year round, licking blood with his knife, and there were many cases of escaping death. Later, he was transferred to the military department, and he was somewhat unaccustomed to the boastful family members of the military department in Taikang City, but for many years after that, he fought out his life's friendship in the military camp and at the wine table.

"Brother Liu Fang, you must come back alive!" Jingda's eyes were slightly red, and he roared hard, turned his horse's head and led the cavalry to gallop along the side of the Raven Ridge Valley.

At this time, General Liu Fang had already led 2,000 cavalry to rush out of 50 miles away, only to see the black pressure army in front of him, and from a distance, the formation was more than 10 miles winding, and I am afraid that there were no less than 80,000 soldiers and horses. Liu Fang and the others felt cold in their hearts, no wonder none of the two waves of ranger scouts sent out came back. Encountering this army, I am afraid that no one will be able to fly with wings, at this time there is no way back, Liu Fang only thinks about delaying for the rear army for a quarter of an hour, as the war horse rushes faster and faster, a long-lost sense of excitement rises in the depths of his heart.

The Beihu army had already discovered them when Liu Fangbu's men and horses appeared, but they didn't seem to be in high spirits, and more than 2,000 men and horses were indeed not enough to stuff their teeth, so they scattered 5,000 cavalry to escort grain and grass as bait, naturally thinking about catching a big fish, and Liu Fangbu's men and horses could only be regarded as small shrimp at best. This Beihu army was highly disciplined, did not see the drums of the attack, and never had cavalry come out to fight.

"Brothers, I, Liu Fang, am going to die, who is willing to go with me?" Liu Fang looked back at the brothers who were following him.

"Brothers, good companions on the Huangquan Road, not alone!"

"I am willing to die with General Liu Fang!" The crowd brandished spears and shouted in unison.......

Commander Beihu shouted in a low voice: "Stand up in the front row!" Archers ready! ”

General Liu Fang grinned and scolded,

"The Northern Hu barbarian of the dog day, without a spear to resist the horse formation, without heavy armor, with two or three rows of scattered shield soldiers, he just wants to block the charge of my Divine Light cavalry?"

I saw that he exerted force with his legs, clamped the stirrups, and suddenly accelerated, taking the lead and rushing to the front.

The elite cavalry of the pro-military battalion who followed all relied on the corner of their eyes to speed up their charges, and soon continued to maintain that perfect front line that was almost completely straight.

The same is true for the cavalry after this platoon, and the condition of men and horses is improved to the best.

More than 2,000 riders, all like that.

This is the old cavalry that followed Liu Fang to fight in the southwest border army, that is, the combat power and tacit understanding have been instantly improved to the peak.

Liu Fang's spear was in front of him, and he randomly pulled away an oncoming arrow, and as for the one that shot at the armor on his shoulder, he didn't care.

At the moment when the horse touched, the heavens and the earth seemed to stand still, and only the neighing of the war horse swirled.

I saw a divine light horse jumping high, above that line, above the head of the first row of foot soldiers in Beihu who bent their knees and raised their shields, it was spectacular!

When the horse's hooves finally hit the ground neatly, it was a dead man, and his brains were cheap.

A captain of the Divine Light Cavalry with amazing strength, clenched his spear, stabbed into the chest of a Beihu rear row archer, dragged the blood-gushing corpse all the way backwards, and through the head of the spear in his chest hit the abdomen of the second Beihu soldier behind the same column, the cavalry captain suddenly pushed the spear, and then let go of his hand, and at the moment when the war horse charged between the two corpses, the captain bent down and clenched the head of the spear, and pulled it out of the corpse in one breath, like a divine light war horse with a heart suddenly burst out of an astonishing second charge, Knocked the third Beihu barbarian who tried to slash at his master's arm, and then two iron hooves stomped on his chest.

Only a few shield guards, some archers and melee swordsmen, and a military formation of 3,000 men without any thickness to speak of, were rushed by the light cavalry of 2,000 men, and the formation was scattered.

After a round of charge, only a few cavalrymen still held guns in their hands, and most of them had been replaced with waist knives, but it was this time that the guns were abandoned and replaced with knives, which brought greater damage to the front row of this large army, and the infantry in the front three rows were directly killed under the horses.

Most of the spears that got out of their hands pierced into the chests of the Beimang infantry, and some even pierced two people with one shot.

Coach Liu Zhilun has an iron law, "If you take off your pistol and spear before changing the knife, you can't kill the enemy, and you will be counted as defenseless after the war!" ”

From a distance, this large piece of shining snow blades is particularly eye-catching!

On the battlefield, there is no parting, and the brothers only entrust life and death.

Liu Fang, the vanguard general of the Shenguang Right Route Army, led his troops to fight to the death with the main force of Beihu, the cowardly army, and did not retreat, and was stunned for half an hour.

This group of cavalry was destined to never return to their hometown in the south, and they were killed to the last time, and none of them died facing south, all of them turned their backs to their hometowns. They knew that there would be no one to support, and no one would come back to collect the corpses, because the heads had been cut off and tied to the back of the Beihu cavalry.

When the vanguard general Liu Fang led the cavalry to die generously, Liu Zhilun ordered all the archers to light it with saltpeter and shoot it with all their strength at the grain and grass wagons in the Crow Ridge Valley. When he had a premonition that the situation was not good, he had already made up his mind to burn this batch of grain and grass, and as for the heads of the five thousand cavalry of Beihu, he temporarily deposited them around their necks.

For a time, the smoke of gunpowder was billowing in the valley, and the northern climate after the beginning of spring was quite dry, and the grain and grass were very easy to burn, and the war horses neighed and fled and trampled on a piece.

After Liu Zhilun and Zekang Wang's army converged, they looked at each other, and both sides broke out in a cold sweat.

"Lun Shuai, it seems that our right army is being targeted." Zekang Wang Youyin looked solemn and said faintly.

"Those who should come will come, and the soldiers will cover the water when they come." Liu Zhilun didn't stay in the camp for long, he still hoped to see the pioneer general Liu Fang rush back with his brothers.

Although he had already understood Liu Fang's choice when he saw Jingda leading the 2,000 cavalry back alone, there was always a little hope in his heart that a miracle would appear.

"Send out all the ranger camp scouts, and keep an eye on the main demon cowardly army of Beihu from afar." Liu Zhilun's face was pale, and Jiang Yunlang quickly arranged it.

Liu Zhilun walked out of the account, watched the standard rangers gallop away, raising dust and sand all over the ground, and said quietly: The Holy Lord asked the Eastern Front to contain the Beihu army as much as possible, "Ghost Cowardly Army", I want to see what hole cards dare to call themselves "Ghost Cowardice". The general of the Northern Hu Army, Shenhuan Tan, is famous, and I, Liu Zhilun, want to touch the tiger's buttocks. Now that the Ghost Cowardly Army is here, don't think about it so easy to leave. Brothers of the pioneer battalion, go all the way, I, Liu Zhilun, can only use the head of the ghost cowardly army to pay tribute to the spirit of the heavens.

After that, the 60,000 troops on the Eastern Front were divided into zero, and Dong Baqian led a light cavalry, abandoning the baggage machinery, plundering everywhere in front of the front, luring the enemy to pursue.

Cao Ren led the heavily armored foot soldiers, carrying wolf stalks, horse rejection stakes, thistles terrestris, ghost thorn fences and other distant ambushes to assist Dong 8,000 and his men.

Jiang Yunlang and Jing Da each led a group of light cavalry, supplemented by crossbow machine battalion foot soldiers, mainly harassing in the left side of the ghost cowardly army, shooting and killing from a long distance, and consuming the enemy.

King Zekang led a battalion of light cavalry and horse-repellent spears, mainly responsible for hanging behind the Devil's Cowardly Army, and from time to time stepped forward and stabbed him, keeping a safe distance of fifty miles.

The remaining one is under the personal command of Commander Lun, who can supply and support all departments at any time, and gather at any time to encircle and kill the troops that have been separated from the main army.

Before leaving, Liu Zhilun personally taught the key to guerrilla warfare, "guerrilla warfare without attack, attack without consumption."

It was this kind of biting guerrilla tactics that made Liu Zhilun thoroughly exert the high mobility of the Shenguang Light Cavalry in the mountains and hills, which made the ghost cowardly army grit its teeth with hatred, and suffered from being unable to grasp the right army that had been reduced to pieces, let alone organizing a decent large-scale decisive battle.

In this way, within a month, the two teams chased and fought, and there were no less than six or seven battles of various kinds, but none of them were a head-on decisive battle. Liu Zhilun led his troops like a dog's skin plaster, hanging the enemy army tightly, provoking the main force of the entire ghost cowardly army to jump to his feet and scold, and occasionally the dizzy commander led the troops to kill, and he would be surrounded and killed by the two right armies.

In contrast to the lightning guerrilla tactics of King Pingkang Mu in the open grassland of the Gabu Lake corridor on the western front, the army of the Eastern Front led by Liu Zhilun showed the mystery of guerrilla warfare in the mountains and hills without attacking and setting up ambushes. In later generations, the two of them wrote a book together, and even summed up the 16-character guerrilla warfare motto: "The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and disturbs me, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I advance." ”

These two people guerrilla warfare created a demonstration tactics of attacking the strong with the weak, and it also attracted the personal comments of the Northern Hu Bingsheng, although they were antagonistic and did not hesitate to praise, these two people's tactics were worthy of the 'ghost talent and yang scheme', and for a time the "guerrilla warfare method" swept the north and south of the river, and attracted Luoyang paper.

After the generals of the Ghost Cowardly Army suffered several losses, they also learned to be calm. They are all holding back their strength to seize an opportunity, wanting to annihilate the fly cavalry that has been harassing incessantly. Later, the banner of "Dog Skin Plaster Liu Zhilun" was hung in the camp.

According to the memories of Lun Shuai's own soldiers in later generations, Liu Zhilun had only seen it from a distance at that time, and he laughed with arrogance:

"The Northern Hu Barbarian is illiterate, and Lao Tzu is the Lun of 'Lupine Scarf, Talking and Laughing, and the Tree is in Ashes', not the Lun ...... of humanity"