Hu Cheng, the eldest young master of Hujiazhuang, rode on a horse, reached out and scooped up his wine gourd, and poured a few sips of turbid wine.

After that, he felt that his heart had been mentioning his throat for some reason in the past few days.

"Big brother, why are you drinking before the battle again?"

Hu Cheng's younger sister, Hu Sanniang, a famous beauty near Jining County, twisted her good-looking brows, and said with a little dissatisfaction:

"It's about to happen, and if you're drunk, it's easy to delay big things."

"Out of the way." Hu Cheng sighed and said, "Brother knows it in his heart, and he won't get drunk." ”

"It's just that I'm always a little uneasy in my heart, this battle may not be so easy to win."

Hu Sanniang rode on the horse, held her head high and said: "If you want me to say, our family should support the Qingzhou Army in this matter, that is the real hero!" ”

"What do you know, girl?" Hu Cheng reprimanded.

"Am I not right?" Hu Sanniang stiffened her neck and retorted: "Zhu Jiayin helps the Tartars, then what the Qingzhou Army said is right!" ”

What a naïve girl.

Is there only one Zhujiazhuang for the Yin Aid Tartar? Didn't Li Jiazhuang do it? Haven't you done it before?

Even, hasn't Qingzhou done it before?

If according to the Qingzhou Army, Zhujiazhuang Yinzhu Tartar should be destroyed, isn't the next one Li Jiazhuang or his own Hujiazhuang?

"Little sister, don't say that, you are also a girl who promised others, and you can be regarded as the daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, and you will have to be more towards your mother-in-law's family in the future!"

Hu Cheng couldn't tell his naïve little sister about his worries, so he could only reprimand her with a straight face and tradition.

"Yes, yes, if you get married, you are a member of your in-laws' family, and you don't want a little sister anymore......"

"Don't talk nonsense, I wish the Li Sanjia the same spirit, so that we can survive this troubled ......"

At this moment, a horseman rushed anxiously to this side, and the fellow waved his arms on his horse, and shouted in a trembling voice:

"Qingzhou thief! Qingzhou thief! Qingzhou thief! Yes! ”

Zhuang Ke screamed and fell off his horse, and there was a feathered arrow stuck in his back that was still trembling!

The fatal panic spread throughout the army in an instant, and Hu Cheng and Hu Sanniang were visibly stunned, as if they couldn't understand why the Qingzhou army that was besieging Zhujiazhuang appeared here.

But it's too late to think about it.

A red flag suddenly jumped out of the hill not far ahead, followed by a few leading rangers, and then, a large group of cavalry stepped on the deafening sound of horses' hooves in Hu Cheng's field of vision.

Row after row, squad after team, burst after burst, hundreds of Zhiyuan cavalry silently drew their weapons, the tips of their spears and the blades of their sabers reflected this little bit of light—a deadly light, like a huge wave, towards the panicked Hu army!

"Hurry up!" Hu Cheng finally knew why he was worried before, and he howled and urged his strong men to form an anti-cavalry formation.

"It's too late! I'm going to resist for a while! Hu Sanniang clamped the horse's belly, brandished her double swords, and led more than 20 self-proclaimed Zhuang Ke to face the rolling cavalry.

"Little sister, come back soon!" Hu Cheng shouted anxiously.

However, it was too late.

It's too late for anything.

Although the old lady Hu has long ceased to preside over the overall situation of the family, and everything is left to him to take care of, after all, he has never seen this kind of large-scale battle with thousands of people participating in the war, so the horseback scouts released are few and unprofessional, and as a result, Sun Li easily seized the fighter.

More than 200 Zhiyuan cavalry swarmed up, and Hu Sanniang's more than 20 Zhuang Ke who rode inferior horses were gently wiped off like spider silk, and they didn't even splash up.

Then, in the blink of an eye, the cavalry array crashed straight into the chaotic array of Hu Jiajun's foot soldiers!

"Kill the thief!"

It was only then that Commander Sun Li let out his first shout.

Then it sounded, and two hundred Zhiyuan cavalry responded in unison:

"Wan Sheng!"

The Hujia infantry formed by the peasants failed to bring any obstacles to the Zhiyuan battalion, and the cavalry slashed with guns and knives, as if entering a no-man's land, and groups of Hujia infantry soldiers scattered and fled, trampling on each other.

The defeated foot soldiers scattered the other friendly troops who were attacked, and even spread the deadly plague of defeat to the whole army, and the Hu family army, which numbered as many as 2,000 cavalry, was easily beaten by a mere 200 cavalry and scurried around like sheep!

"Happy!"

Sun Li overturned the last enemy, and as soon as his eyes opened, there was no more fool in front of him who stood in the way - he had already broken through the front of the Hu family's army!

"Turn around and rush again!" Sun Li ordered unsatisfactorily: "Let them know how powerful our Qingzhou soldiers are!" ”

"Yes!"

The high-morale Zhiyuan cavalry responded in unison.

……

By the time Xu Shizhen followed the Weiyuan battalion to the battlefield, the Hu family army had already completely collapsed.

Xu Shizhen and the others, who thought they would encounter a big battle, only had time to capture some escaped prisoners.

The 2,000 army that the Hu family had managed to put together was crushed by the Zhiyuan cavalry in one fell swoop, with more than 300 dead and nearly 1,500 prisoners, including Hu Cheng, the young master of Hujiazhuang, and his sister Hu Sanniang.

This woman was lucky, she was shot in the chest by Sun Li when she was counterattacking the Zhiyuan cavalry, she was wearing iron armor, and she was facing a riding bow, so the arrow was not deep into the flesh, and the wounded did not fall off the horse and fell hard, and then the cavalry that surged over miraculously did not step on her body, so she picked up a life.

However, the others were not so lucky, and a third of the captives were injured to varying degrees, and it is estimated that a hundred of them were seriously injured and could not survive these few days.

Of course, this is no longer meaningful to Hu Cheng and Hu Sanniang and other senior executives of the Hu family.

With the loss of 2,000 fresh troops, it is impossible for Hujiazhuang to withstand the next offensive of the Qingzhou army.

Sure enough, two days later, three battalions of the Qingzhou Army (one cavalry and two steps, owed artillery) easily broke through the gate of Hujiazhuang, which was almost undefended, with thunder, and captured Hujiazhuang on the same day.

The battle in the north ended a little later than in the south, and Li Ying, the owner of Lijiazhuang and the people of Jianghu who gave him the nickname "Fighting the Sky Eagle", reacted slightly better than Hu Cheng on the battlefield - only better.

The scouts he sent spotted the oncoming Qingzhou army 5 miles away from the line, which gave Li Ying the opportunity to line up and fight.

However, in the battle, the infantry of the Li family army was defeated by the musket wheels of the Shenji soldiers, and the cavalry infantry led by Luan Tingyu took the opportunity to outflank the rear of the Li family army.

Gongsun Sheng encircled Li Ying step by step, and at night, the Qingzhou army erected a fence and patiently waited for the Li family's army, which was fluctuating, to fall into a state of hunger and thirst.

The next day, the Qingzhou Army launched a general attack, and more than 2,000 reinforcements led by Li Ying were all wiped out.

Gongsun Shengshuai's army continued to advance, and two days after capturing Hujiazhuang on the southern front, it captured Lijiazhuang.

At this point, the canal from Jining County to the south to Dushan Lake, which is tens of miles long, was completely controlled by the Qingzhou Army.