At dawn the next day, the banner of the Chu army was already flying high in the sky of Zigui, after a night of fighting, Li Jingwei was killed, Gao Baorong, Sun Guangxian, and Liu Fu surrendered, and most of the soldiers of the forbidden army and the Guizhou soldiers were killed and wounded.

Ma Guangmeng comforted Gao Baorong and them with kind words in the Assassin's Mansion, so that Sun Guangxian was still in charge of the government affairs of Guizhou, and stabilized the situation in Guizhou as soon as possible. At this time, a sergeant outside the hall reported to the general: "There is an urgent report from Padang County. ”

At that time, the hall was quiet, Gao Baorong and a few of them peeked at Ma Guangmeng, and couldn't help muttering in their hearts, there is an urgent report in Padang? Could it be that Shu sent troops? Aren't these people from the Chu State? And Cao Bin, who was standing on the side, had a stinky face, stretched so long. Cao Bin was in charge of Ma Guangmeng's training of the guards, and now he was a little angry when he saw a sergeant running in without paying attention to the occasion.

In order to improve the strength of the army as soon as possible, Ma Guangmeng engaged in learning the methods of war in the war, and he scattered all the veterans, and used the old to lead the new, always fighting some ambush wars, sneak attack wars and other small battles, on the one hand, to provide the morale of the army, on the other hand, to familiarize the new recruits with the war, to overcome psychological obstacles. However, it is precisely because of the focus on improving the combat effectiveness of the army that some other aspects are a little relaxed.

Just like today, Ma Guangmeng was deliberating, and the guards below heard that there was an urgent military situation, and hurriedly ran to report it. This was originally good, but the mistake was that the time was wrong, Ma Guangmeng was appeasing the general, okay, there was an emergency military situation again. These generals are monkey spirits, and after hearing this, I can't guess a rough idea.

Ma Guangmeng was indeed quiet, and smiled at Sun Guangxian: "There is an emergency military situation in Badong, hehe, it must be that the Shu army has finally picked up the bargain." ”

As he spoke, he said to the sergeant, "Let that spy come up." ”

The sergeant made a promise, turned around, and after a while, a spy with a hurried expression came to the hall, knelt down and said: "General Yu, in the west of 100 miles of Libadong County, a large number of Shu troops have been found, estimated to be more than 5,000 people, and their general is An Siqian. ”

Sure enough, the Shu army came. The people in the hall glanced at each other, and then secretly looked at Ma Guangmeng.

Ma Guangmeng laughed and said: "It's just right to come, General Ben is thinking that it is not much credit to win Guizhou, and his Shu army himself has come to give us a big gift." As he spoke, he smiled and looked at Sun Guangxian, Liu Fu and others.

These people also laughed and echoed a few words.

Ma Guangmeng said: "Cao Bin, you go and mobilize 8,000 soldiers and horses from Gaoyang City, and rush to Badong County overnight to garrison, and then I order Zhang Wenbiao, who came to help from Xiazhou, to lead the 10,000 soldiers and horses of his headquarters to quickly advance to Badong." Strive to completely defeat the enemy in Padang. Lord Sun, Lord Liu, the two of you and General Ben are waiting for good news in Zigui. ”

Although there are soldiers and horses in Guizhou, they are all in Zigui City at the moment, and there are only 4,000 people when they are full, and it is estimated that there are about 10,000 people in Gaoyang City, where are there 8,000 soldiers and horses in Gaoyang City. Zhang Wenbiao estimates that he is still in Jiangling City, and Zhang Wenbiao is a battalion commander, only 1,000 soldiers and horses, where did he come from the headquarters of 10,000 people.

Despite this, Cao Bin still shouted: "Honorable order." ”

Then he walked out quickly, wore a circle, and returned to the Assassin's Mansion through the back door.

Waiting for Ma Guangmeng to send Sun Guangxian and the others away, Cao Bin came in with a bitter face and said: "General, how is this good, the Shu army has 10,000 horses, we still stick to the state and wait for reinforcements."

Ma Guangmeng sneered and said, "It's not a good way to hold on." Especially now this is the case. In my opinion, this Shu army wants to take advantage of the fire to rob, and wants to take advantage of the turmoil in Guizhou to take advantage of these places in Badong County, if he wants to attack Guizhou, how can he only send 5,000 soldiers and horses? I don't know that the Shu army doesn't know that Nanping has now been conquered by our army, and I don't know the real strength of our army, so it is better to surprise the army, in the area of the Badong Gorge, play the banner of our Great Chu Army, and suddenly attack the Shu army. The Shu army is now like a fox crossing the river, first trying to see if the ice on the river is solid, and if it thinks it is safe, it will jump over the river in three or two strokes. If our army is based on Zigui, then the Shu army will soon figure out the situation, and the Shu army attacking Zigui City will probably no longer be 5,000 people. ”

Ma Guang paused for a moment and continued: "Moreover, Cao Dalang, once the Shu army surrounds Zigui, do you think that person Liu Fu is reliable?" If we don't send troops, not only the Shu army will know our strength, but even Liu Fu and those people will know our strength. When the Shu army besieges Zigui City, since he can sell Gao Baorong, he may not dare to sell us. ”

Cao Bin's heart was like lightning, the situation might really be as Ma Guangmeng said, he asked: "Which general, how should we deal with the Shu army?" ”

"The Shu army is coming, it must pass through Bashan, Bashan you are also clear, there are undulating mountains, the road is crooked, and narrow, which is not conducive to the battle of the large army, in this case, you secretly lead 1000 of our soldiers, before they go out of Bashan, impact them, remember to Dachu Our Dachu military flag, desperately fight, the Shu army does not know our reality, will inevitably withdraw. Don't block the intersection, if you want to fight but don't fight, you may be seen through by the Shu army. You can treat this battle as an ambush war, our army is 10,000 people, and the Shu army is 1,000 people, just come and fight. ”

Cao Bin nodded, and couldn't help but ask again: "General, what if... ”

Ma Guangmeng smiled and said: "If you lose, don't go to Badong County, go back to Zigui directly." In this way, there is a 2-day time to go back and forth, and with these two days, even if the Shu army dares to come to Zigui, he will have to let him come and go. ”

Looking at Ma Guangmeng's confident appearance, Cao Bin suddenly calmed down, two months ago, we were not 500 people, but now we have developed to 4,000 people, and even Guizhou has been defeated. And the soldiers and horses of the five princes are behind, there is nothing to fear.

After camping in Bashan for the night and having breakfast, An Siqian urged the army to continue to march towards Badong County. Since the turmoil in Guizhou came two months ago, the court of Dashu has been watching for a long time, and finally half a month ago, the commander of the forbidden army was sent to lead An Siqian to lead 5,000 people to test and probe.

An Siqian sat on a horse, and there were soldiers leading the horse in front of him, this mountain road was too difficult to walk, and it was really difficult for no one to lead the horse. An Siqian looked at Bashan boredly, not knowing what was going on in his heart. Suddenly, the front army didn't understand, and there were shouts of killing.

"Report, General Yu, there is a Chu army attacking us ahead."

Chu Jun? An Siqian thought he had misheard, and hurriedly asked, "What kind of army did you say?" ”

"Chu Jun."

"How many of them are there"

"General, those people shouted and killed the sky, and they came to fight with their lives. There should be six or seven thousand people. The terrain in the mountains is not open, and the spies can't figure out how many people there are, so they speculate a little fearfully.

Six or seven thousand people, it seems that the Chu army is prepared. The water in Nanping is deep.