The current camp of the main force of the Wei army is about a hundred miles away from Xingyang, and if it is in the rapid marching mode of Wei Wushu, it can even arrive in half a day.

Of course, being able to do it does not mean that the Wei army dares to do this, at least Meng Zhong does not dare, he is afraid that the Qin army on the opposite side will take the opportunity to press the ground and beat him violently, after all, even if it is a Wei soldier, he must be exhausted after the general rapid march, so blindly marching in a hurry is equivalent to sending the fatal flaw to the Qin army in vain.

However, such a distance of more than 100 miles, it is quite easy for the cavalry to arrive in one day.

No, even though it was a group of new soldiers under Menghu's command who had just been transformed into cavalry, they arrived in the Xingyang area after about eight hours of hurrying.

However, what made Meng Hu feel strange was that after they entered the territory of Xingyang County, they did not find any traces of the Qin soldiers along the way, as if the Qin army was no longer here.

A moment later, the sentry general under his command sent the news, it was some Wei pawns who had made rapid progress in riding, and they were basically able to ride their horses and gallop, at least there was no problem in escaping.

"Back to the brigade commander, there is no trace of the Qin army on Xingyang City, and there is almost no flag of the Qin army, I don't know why."

"It's not going to be running away again, is it?" Meng Hu muttered with a wistful face.

On the side, the deputy general Cao Chun said in a low voice: "Since you are here, let's simply go to Xingyang to see what is going on, if the Qin army really evacuates in advance again, we can also inquire about the direction of the Qin army's evacuation from the Korean population in the city." ”

"Hmm."

Meng Hu nodded, led a total of more than 300 cavalry, and slowly approached Xingyang City.

When he waited to take a look at Xingyang City, as those sentinels said, there were no soldiers on the city wall of Xingyang, whether it was a Han soldier or a Qin soldier.

As for the gates, they were tightly closed.

"Beware of ambushes." Cao Chun whispered to Meng Hu: "Why don't you send a few ......?"

His original intention was to let a few cavalrymen call the door, but before he could finish speaking, he saw that Menghu had already ridden his horse towards the city gate, and he could only follow Menghu after giving the order to "stand by" to the cavalry under his command.

In the blink of an eye, Meng Hu and Cao Chun rode about a dozen horses, and they slowly rode their horses to the city gate, only to see him shouting at the city gate: "Hey, is there anyone else in the city?" Open the gates! ”

After shouting a few times and not responding, Meng Hu was a little annoyed, and scolded unceremoniously: "I know that there are people in the city, and I just saw someone peeping sneakily, and immediately open the door for me!" ”

As soon as the words fell, a few heads really popped up on the tower of the city gate, and those people asked timidly towards Meng Hu and the others: "You, who are you?" ”

"Are you blind? Didn't see the banner of our army? ”

Meng Hu angrily pointed to the more than 300 cavalry behind him, many of whom were holding the military flag with the word "Wei".

"Wei, Wei Jun? Are you Wei Jun? ”

In the shouts of the few people in the city, a little joy gradually appeared.

"Yes, open the gates!" Meng Hu urged with some impatience.

"Yes Yes ......"

After a few moments, the gates slowly opened, and about six or seven men with weapons in their arms walked out hesitantly.

A closer look at the six or seven men with weapons in hand showed that they were old and young, the older ones were all gray, and the younger ones were probably fourteen or fifteen years old, and they all had one thing in common, that is, they knew at first glance that they were not from the army—they were only a group of civilians even if they were wearing armor.

“……”

Exchanging glances with Cao Chun, Meng Hu frowned and asked, "You guys...... Are you a local? ”

"Yes, yes." The eldest man nodded again and again, and said in a gesture of goodwill, "We are all from the city......

"What about the soldiers who defend the city?"

"All ...... dead"

"All dead?"

Meng Hu frowned.

He still has to remember the last time their army passed through Xingyang nearly ten days ago, there were still some Han soldiers in Xingyang City who were lucky to survive, there were not many of them, about 200 people, and when they returned here today, all the soldiers in the city had already died?

"It's the Qin people, not long after your army left, the hateful Qin army came back to kill......"

After Meng Hu raised questions, the elderly civilian explained with a hateful face, explaining to Meng Hu, Cao Chun and others the second wave of offensive against Xingyang City a few days ago, to put it bluntly, that is, the Qin army killed a horse gun, and after the Wei army set off to Xinzheng, Xingyang was weakly garrisoned, attacked Xingyang City again, and once again slaughtered and looted in the city.

"These Qin people are really not anything......

Muttering, Meng Hu frowned and asked, "What about now?" The Qin army evacuated again? ”

"Yes." The old civilian nodded, pointed to the south and said, "Someone saw those Qin people heading south. ”

"Southside?" Meng Hu muttered and glanced back, while Cao Chun immediately took out the map of the army from his arms, and said to Meng Hu after a few careful glances: "There is no big county in the south of Xingyang, but in the southwest...... Zhaiyang is there. ”

As he spoke, he glanced up at the sky, saw that the sun was about to set, and said, "Why don't you rest in the city today, and then set off for Zhaiyang tomorrow?" ”

Meng Hu nodded, and led more than 300 cavalry to slowly enter Xingyang.

However, as soon as they entered the city, the Wei cavalry felt a depressing atmosphere rushing to their faces, only to see that the streets in the city were full of bloodstains, the corpses were piled up in the corners and alleys, there were soldiers guarding the city, women and children in the city, there were old people, and there were children, and the streets in the whole city were empty, and the suppressed sorrow could be faintly heard.

And as Meng Hu and the others went deeper into the city, they seemed to feel a pair of eyes full of fear peeking at them out of nowhere.

"Gloomy—"

Meng Hu immediately grabbed the reins, shrunk his neck, and said with a strange expression: "I suddenly feel that we should stay in the wilderness all night......

From the side, Cao Chun and some Wei cavalry also nodded again and again when they heard this, they all felt that the atmosphere in Xingyang City was too terrible at this moment, which made them feel a little creepy, especially the deliberately suppressed women's sobs that came from nowhere.

After returning to the outside of the city along the original road, Meng Hu breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately, he turned his head and said to Cao Chun: "Immediately send someone to inform the army, tell the army that the Qin army has withdrawn from Xingyang and is heading south, and our army will pursue the tail rank, please send an army to recover Xingyang." …… Tell Master Meng that this time I hope to leave a little more army defending the city, in the final analysis, it is we who will force this Qin army to this side......"

Cao Chun glanced at Meng Hu with some surprise and nodded: "Huh! ”

Subsequently, on the way to Zhaiyang with a group of more than 300 cavalry, Cao Chun paid attention to Menghu's expression from time to time.

In his impression, Meng Hu is always smiling and smiling on weekdays, and there is nothing right, but at this moment, Meng Hu's attitude is very dignified, and there is even a little murder in his eyes.

"Was it because you were provoked by the indiscriminate killing of the Qin army? Can't you see that this kid turned out to be a very upright person......

While thinking in his heart, Cao Chun said tentatively: "Is the brigade commander angry because the Qin army slaughtered the Koreans?" ”

"Huh." Meng Hu smiled faintly, did not speak, and looked straight ahead, with a bit of murderous intent in his eyes.

Seeing this, Cao Chun did not continue the topic with interest.

However, as far as he is concerned, he is very open to the fact that "the Qin army slaughtered Korean civilians", after all, how many armies of various countries in the world have not done this kind of thing? In such troubled times of war among countries, it is common for soldiers to massacre civilians and loot money and food.

After nightfall that night, around the time of the day, Menghu and his party of more than 300 riders arrived in Zhaiyang.

When I got closer to Zhaiyang, it was dark on the city wall, but I could still vaguely see some soldiers on routine patrols in the city.

"Qin pawn?" Cao Chun muttered quietly.

"No, it's Han Zu."

Meng Hu shook his head and said: "If the Qin army is still stationed in the city, there will be scouts of the Qin army outside the city, but so far our army has not encountered it, so it can be seen that the main force of the Qin army is not here...... I suspect that the Qin army did not attack Zhaiyang twice. At this point, he paused for a moment and ordered, "Anyway, rest in this forest tonight, and wait until dawn." ”

"Hmm." Cao Chun nodded.

At dawn the next day, Cao Chun sent people to Zhaiyang to peep, and sure enough, he found that the "Han" flag was still erected on Zhaiyang City.

Seeing this, he sent his cavalry to make contact with the Korean defenders in the city.

Just as Meng Hu judged last night, the Qin army did not sneak attack Zhaiyang.

He immediately reported this matter to Meng Hu: "Brigade commander, according to the Han soldiers in Zhaiyang City, there were indeed Qin troops passing through here two days ago, but for some reason they did not storm Zhaiyang ......"

"Humph!" Meng Hu pursed his lips when he heard this, and said: "This Qin army is indeed very cunning, the reason why they didn't attack Zhaiyang twice was just because they didn't want to waste time...... They knew that when we learned that they had attacked Xingyang for the second time, they would immediately think of Zhaiyang, so the Qin army deliberately did not attack Zhaiyang......"

"Is that so?" Cao Chun was a little surprised, and immediately couldn't help but glance at Meng Hu with a strange gaze.

This kid, was his mind so meticulous?

Meng Hu didn't pay attention to Cao Chun's strange gaze, and after pursing his lips to express his disdain for Qin Jun, he asked, "Did Zhaiyang say where Qin Jun went?" ”

"To the south."

As he spoke, he took the map of the march from his bosom, pointed to the city marker on the march map, and said: "I have sent people to inquire about the defenders of Zhaiyang, and according to them, to the south of Zhaiyang, Yangcheng is a larger city, and I believe that this city is in line with the Qin army's attempt to weaken Korea's target. ”

"Well, let's go to Yangcheng. By the way, send two cavalry to send a message to the army to report the movements of the Qin army and our army. ”

"Whoa!"

On the same day, after the cavalry in the army simply used some dry food, Meng Hu led the more than 300 cavalry to Yangcheng.

Along the way, they met Hua Hu's advance sentry and exchanged information with each other.

Just as Meng Hu had guessed, Hua Hu had also led his army to Xingyang before, but he sensed something was wrong halfway through, as they had not encountered the Qin army's scouts for a long time.

So Hua Hu immediately changed direction and went straight to Zhaiyang, anyway, he knew that Meng Hu and Mu Wu also went straight to Xingyang, even if he didn't go to Xingyang, he wouldn't leave any information behind.

It was for this reason that Huahu arrived in the Yangcheng area one step ahead of schedule.

Around noon, Menghu and Huahu met about five miles southeast of Yangcheng, that is, on the north bank of the upper reaches of Yingshui.

Although they were competitors, Hua Hu didn't mind sharing the information he knew with Meng Hu, and he said to Meng Hu: "It's a step too late, the Qin army has already crossed Yingshui. ”

"Yingshui? Is this the river? Meng Hu asked with a frown.

"Hmm."

Hua Hu nodded, and said in a deep voice: "I went to Yangcheng City to inquire, two days ago, the Qin army stormed this city, looted a batch of grain and grass in the city, and then immediately crossed Yingshui and went straight to the south...... I probably went to the "Yingru Room". ”

"Between Yingru?"

"Ah, that's my own name, and I don't know what it's called. All in all, it refers to this Yingshui, and the flat land between the Rushui further south, where the main force of the Qin army should be. ”

"......" Meng Hu pondered for a moment and asked, "Is there a Korean city over there?" ”

"Yes." Hua Hu nodded and explained: "After this Yingshui, to the west are "Fox Fox" and "Yang People"; And to the southeast, is Yu County, well, it seems that there is a city called "Yang Zhai", I think it is possible on both sides of the east and west, so I am waiting for you here, how about it, which side do you choose? ”

"West!"

Meng Hu said without hesitation.

Hearing this, Hua Hu was not surprised, but chuckled and said, "Coincidentally, I also choose the West!" …… To the southeast, then leave it to Mu Wu's guy, who called that guy the latest? ”

After a battle, Menghu and Huahu left a few cavalry to wait for Mu Wu here, and sent a few cavalry back to the Xinzheng area to inform the army of their movements with the Qin army, and then went in the direction of "Fear Fox" together.

Only half a day later, Mu Wu led more than 300 cavalry under his command to arrive in the Yangcheng area, and after learning the distribution results from the cavalry left by Menghu and Huahu, he angrily scolded the two bastards, but there was no way, after scolding, he still had to honestly take his cavalry to the southeast, even if he thought that the Qin army was the most likely to go west after crossing Yingshui.

Why is it said that the Qin army is most likely to go west after crossing the river and Yingshui?

The reason is that the "Fox Fear" is the upper reaches of Yishui to the west, and you can reach the "New City" by going down the Yishui, to put it bluntly, the Qin army has a chance to escape back to the main battlefield by going around such a circle.

The only problem is that the current commander of the Korean army, Storm Kite, is storming the new city, and if the Korean army captures this city faster than the Qin army's retreat to the new city, then Bai Qi will be intercepted by the Korean army again.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, after crossing Yingshui and rushing westward for two days, the cavalry led by Menghu and Huahu finally caught up with the Qin army.

Subsequently, Menghu and Huahu separated again and fought separately.

After all, the main force of the Qin army had 50,000 people, and even if the cavalry under their command was added together, there were only more than 600 cavalry.

By the way, you can also test the combat capabilities of their two cavalry.

"The tiger that the tiger rides is the tiger of my Huahu! …… Cai Cheng, let's go! ”

Under Meng Hu's disapproving expression, Hua Hu dropped a cruel word.

His lieutenant Cai Cheng shrugged his shoulders and smiled helplessly at his former friend Cao Chun: "Hmm...... That's it, Cao Chun, don't show mercy. ”

"Shh

Cao Chun also pursed his lips, although he didn't think much of the childish competition between Menghu and Huahu, it didn't mean that he was willing to lag behind.

The tiger character of the tiger rider is, of course, the tiger of the brigade commander Meng Hu beside him!

"That guy Cai Cheng has become more arrogant recently, and his achievements have always been inferior to mine in the past......"

I don't know why, Cao Chun hinted at Meng Hudao.

As if he understood Cao Chun's hint, Meng Hu also smiled and said: "That guy from Huahu has always been my defeat......

Well, this pair of brigade commanders and lieutenant generals are quite confident.

After smiling at each other, Cao Chun asked Meng Hu with a straight face: "Brigade Marshal, what are your plans next?" ”

Meng Hu pondered for a moment, and said in a rare and serious manner: "First teach you the combat methods of the cavalry, go, and go to the Qin army for a walk." ”

"Qin Jun's side?"

Cao Chun was stunned, and reminded with a strange expression: "Qin army, but there are 50,000 people......

"They can't catch up with us, and no matter how many people there are, it's useless. …… Don't worry, the soldiers haven't mastered the combat methods of the cavalry, so I won't take you straight to the Qin army's garrison, let's start with the basics. ”

"The basics?"

"Well, it's very simple, it's to ride a horse and run to a distance from the place where the Qin soldiers are an arrow away, and then stop the horse and shoot a few arrows at the Qin army, and the other party sends someone to chase after us, so let's escape; If the other party doesn't send someone, let's continue to shoot arrows, it's as simple as that. ”

“……”

General Cao Chun was skeptical, but he still believed Meng Hu's words, followed Meng Hu, and led more than 300 cavalry to slowly lean towards the Qin army.

At this time, Bai Qi was urging the Qin army under his command to attack the "Fox" city.

Suddenly, a soldier came to report: "Bai Shuai, traces of the Wei army have been found in the northeast!" ”

“……”

Bai Qi opened his mouth.

At that moment, he was startled by the soldier's report.

What the? Traces of the Wei army?

How could the Wei army track down his army so quickly? Could it be that the Wei army flew from the sky?

“…… How many troops are there? Bai Qi's voice was much lowered.

"There are two armies, about two or three hundred men each, one of them showed its face and retreated, and the other one, at the moment, is stationed in that direction, watching our army attack the city."

"Huh?" Hearing this, Bai Qi immediately turned around and looked behind him, and sure enough, he saw that near the dirt slope in the distance, there was an army of hundreds of people stationed there, watching them from a distance The Qin army attacked the city of Fox City.

To Bai Qi's surprise, those soldiers were all riding on their horses.

"That's ...... Cavalry? ”

Next to Bai Qi, the general Ji Hong also noticed the Wei army in the distance and muttered in surprise.

"Cavalry? What is that? Bai Qi asked Ji Hong puzzled.

Ji Hong thought for a while and explained: "That is the army formed by the Zhao State to imitate the Hu people, they no longer use war horses to pull chariots, but let the soldiers ride on war horses to fight, which is called cavalry. As he spoke, he glanced at the cavalry in the distance a few more times, frowned and said, "However, I have only heard that Zhao has cavalry, but I have never heard that Wei and Korea have formed any cavalry. ”

“……”

Frowning, Bai Qi asked Ji Hong: "How are these so-called cavalrymen capable of fighting?" ”

"Very weak."

Ji Hong said without hesitation: "The cavalry runs with the help of horsepower, their speed is very fast, but their combat ability is quite weak as far as I know. …… A long man can easily kill a cavalryman. ”

"I see...... Scouts on horses. ”

Bai Qi nodded in realization, as if he understood the cavalry like this.

However, it is true that the cavalry's ability to detect is much faster than that of a scout running on two legs.

『…… The surname is Meng, isn't this a means intended to be used to counter our army? Tell these horseback soldiers to follow the movements of my army? Oh, that's a great idea...... Don't you worry about them coming and going?'

Secretly snorting coldly in his heart, Bai Qi said to Ji Hong: "Don't let the Wei army wantonly peep into the reality of our army and send people to pursue them. …… Just send some convoys. ”

"Whoa!"

Ji Hong clenched his fists and immediately sent a general under his command to lead a hundred chariots and five hundred foot soldiers, a total of about eight hundred Qin soldiers, to expel the cavalry in the distance.

Seeing this, Meng Hu in the distance couldn't help but chuckle: "Yo, we haven't done it yet, but the other party has done it first...... Well, about 100 chariots and 500 foot soldiers, we don't have a small face. …… Go, take them yo-yo. ”

With that, he gave the order for the whole army to retreat.

“……”

Catching a glimpse of the cavalry under Meng Hu's command slowly withdrawing, Bai Qi didn't care, and continued to focus on the siege battle in front of him.

Anyway, according to Ji Hong, a hundred chariots and five hundred foot soldiers are enough to deal with the hundreds of cavalry who don't know what to do.

I have to say that whether it is the Qin general Ji Hong or the Qin army commander Bai Qi, they don't know the true power of the cavalry, otherwise, they will definitely not be so confident.

Chase a cavalry with a chariot mix of foot soldiers?

How can this be caught up!

No, it was just half an hour of chasing, and the convoy in the Qin army's pursuit unit was completely disconnected from the five hundred foot soldiers.

During this period, Meng Hu glanced back and secretly said that it was a pity.

The reason is very simple, if there are 300 cavalry soldiers under his command, he can completely get rid of the chariot behind him this time, go around to the rear and shoot a wave of the 500 infantry first, and then withdraw when the chariot arrives to support.

But unfortunately, the more than 300 cavalry under his command at this moment are just recruits who have just mastered some basic skills, so they cannot achieve such difficult tactics.

However, Meng Hu was not in a hurry, because the pursuers behind him could not catch up with them at all, unless one of the cavalrymen made a mistake and was thrown off his horse during the gallop.

And during this period, Cao Chun couldn't help but ask Meng Hu: "Brigade commander, can't we use crossbow arrows to attack the pursuers behind us?" Why do you keep fleeing? ”

"Escape?"

Meng Hu glanced at Cao Chun and said with a smile: "Which eye of yours saw me fleeing?" I'm clearly trying to lure the enemy. …… Cao Chun, the biggest advantage of the cavalry is reflected in the distance, at the moment behind the pursuers, I have dozens of ways to defeat them, but the problem is that they are too close to their main force at the moment, once they are attacked by our army, they will inevitably flee back to their army, and then we will have nothing to do with them. …… Therefore, first of all, we must let the pursuers behind us distance themselves from the main force of the Qin army, once the two have opened a certain distance, then we can clean up the pursuers behind us one by one like hunting. …… Trust me, I'm an old pawn. ”

Speaking of this, he glanced back at the pursuers behind him, lowered his voice and said, "Herald soldiers, ten miles, as long as you lure these pursuers ten miles away, we can call them...... Don't even think of going back alive! ”

"Really?"

Looking at the confident Menghu, Cao Chun felt a little incredible.

Cavalry, do they really have such terrible combat capabilities?