Between the mouth of Baotai and the flat land near Hejiazhuang, there are some low ridges and ravines with little undulation, most of which are undeveloped, and there are patches of forests and large areas of wasteland.

The Baoping River passes through the middle of these ravines.

The Baoping River is not large, but the valley plains on both sides of it are very wide, almost more than a mile wide, and in this flat valley, most of them are overgrown barren beaches, but there are also some wooded areas.

In the first few days, the pursuing enemy cavalry was still cautious, not only sending a beam horse to look out for the mountain beam, but also sending a sentry horse to check the woods along the way.

But as time passed, after repeated explorations were fruitless, not only did the sentry begin to cope with the errands, but even the leader of the team began to slacken.

On this day, everything was no different from the previous days, and the group of child cavalry in Yiyuan saw the cavalry of the family generals from a distance and began to flee in the direction of Baotaikou.

Now the leader of the cavalry is surnamed Chen, named Chen Tang, and he is the eldest young master of Chenjiazhuang in the northwest of Laiwu County.

Chenjiazhuang operates two iron yards and a copper yard in the northwest of Laiwu, and there are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land at home, which is not much worse than the Huo family in Laiwu County.

Unlike the Bai family, the Huo family and other families who take the road of farming and reading heirlooms, the Chen family is a thorough local tyrant, paying attention to the martial arts heirloom, and the family has only loved to dance with guns and sticks for several generations, and the books are not unreadable, but only for literacy.

Therefore, in this Yiyuan, if you talk about the strength of force, except for the Huo family, it is the Chen family.

Last time, when the cavalry of the powerful family in Laiwu united against Chen Xian, the eldest young master of the Chen family also led his troops to Liujiazhuang to converge, but after he found that Huo Yi personally brought the troops, he only left half of the general's cavalry, and he led the other half to return.

Because he knew that he couldn't compete with Huo Yi, but he didn't want to be subservient, so he simply left, but he didn't expect to be lucky enough to avoid a catastrophe, of course, the eldest young master of the Chen family didn't think that he had avoided a catastrophe, but felt that because he didn't have himself, he would suffer such a big loss that time.

Young Master Chen not only danced with guns and sticks since he was a child, but also learned the art of war.

Master Chen specially invited the military attache in the Jin Army to come to the house as a leader and teach the Chen Tang brothers several tactics of war.

Therefore, although this Young Master Chen has never fought in a war, he is very familiar with the tricks in this army, and he himself often regards himself as a good general.

This time, I heard that the Yiyuan cavalry was powerful, and the other families responsible for blocking Yiyuan couldn't support the cavalry, so Young Master Chen took the initiative to stand up.

Last time Huo Yi was defeated, the Chen family did not have many cavalry, so the loss was not large, this time Young Master Chen took nearly a hundred of his own generals and cavalry, plus several other generals, there were one hundred and sixty or seventy cavalry available under his hands.

At the beginning, Chen Tang felt that this Yiyuan cavalry was nothing more than that, except for slipping away, he had no ability.

After a long time, Chen Tang was made up of false fire by these Yiyuan doll cavalry who did not leave their hands, and his temper gradually deteriorated.

This group of Yiyuan cavalry seems to have infinite energy, in the past half a month, they have been tossing every day, and they are still alive and well, but it has made Young Master Chen and his subordinate cavalry miserable, chasing them every day, tired like dogs.

At this time, Chen Tang, who was leading troops to pursue, was in a very bad mood.

Different from the Yiyuan doll cavalry, Chen Tang's generals and cavalry, most of them are adults around thirty years old, although the skills of the generals at this age have reached the peak, but their physical strength has begun to decline, especially the leaders of the generals, who are older, but they don't train much on weekdays, enjoy a lot, the body is blessed, and the physical energy has declined greatly.

Even Chen Tang himself is no better, although he is called a young master, it is only because his father is not dead, he himself is actually not a teenager, but a middle-aged man who has passed the age of standing, although he has not lost his martial arts over the years, but the amount of training has long been not as good as it was at the beginning, plus he is overly drunk on weekdays, and his body is also very empty.

After such a continuous toss, his body was a little unbearable.

wanted to hide in Hejiazhuang and ignore these Yiyuan cavalry, and let them come and go, Chen Tang felt that he couldn't get over his face, and he was in the mouth of the sea before he came.

wanted to eliminate this Yiyuan cavalry, but this group of guys didn't leave their hands behind, and they ran fast, so they couldn't catch it.

Just as Chen Tang was riding a horse, thinking about how to push this annoying errand out, he didn't notice that his horse team was running through a narrow intersection.

On the south side of this road, the rocky course of the Baoping River and the north side are a large area of woods that invade the plains of the valley from the hillside, leaving only twenty or thirty meters wide in between.

Usually when passing here, Chen Tang would definitely send a sentry horse to go first and enter the forest to check, but today he was so absent-minded that he forgot to give an order, the leaders of his subordinates have been tossing and turning in the past few days, and they are already physically and mentally exhausted, and their vigilance has dropped greatly.

When Chen Tang was awakened from his distraction by the screams of his subordinates, he looked at the terrain around him, and then looked at the Yiyuan cavalry that suddenly stopped in front of him, and dismounted in formation, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

Just when Chen Tang was about to stop the excitement of the crowd and want to give the Yiyuan cavalry a good-looking subordinate who finally stopped in front and dismounted, a sharp sound of arrows came, and a group of people rushed out of the woods behind Chen Tang, and quickly listed an infantry phalanx on the road that was not big, but enough to cut off the open space less than thirty meters behind them.

At this moment, the cavalry under Chen Tang finally realized that there was an ambush.

However, these cavalry were not too panicked, although there seemed to be a lot of people intercepting behind them, but the only one who intercepted them in front of them was the hundred cavalry who dismounted in formation, and these cavalrymen did not have a long weapon in their hands, only a musket.

Chen Tang knew that the musket was not loaded quickly, and in the face of the cavalry charge, he could only shoot one shot, so he felt that he should be able to rush through from the front.

At this moment of crisis, Chen Tang didn't think much about it, he did not hesitate to order the cavalry to charge forward and disperse the group of baby cavalry who had almost disgusted them to death during this time.

The cavalry galloped and charged, and the momentum was quite huge, even if there were only more than one hundred and fifty cavalrymen, there was a rumbling of hooves and a great tremble.

Just as Chen Tang's cavalry vanguard had just entered the musket firing range of the Yiyuan horse infantry in front, a dense burst of gunfire suddenly rang out from their flanks, in the woods close at hand.

Hearing the gunshots from the side, Chen Tang only had one thought left in his mind, damn! Fooled again.