There are not many cavalry in Shen Qingzhi's hands, but there are a lot, there are 2,000 cavalry, but the war horses are not very good, the endurance is not good, and the explosive power is not good, these horses are also bought from the north little by little, because the former Northern Wei Dynasty and the current Qianguo have imposed an embargo on war horses in the Southern Dynasties, and the Southern Dynasties can only buy some slightly better horses through smuggling, and can also buy some horses that pull carts through normal channels.

It is not that there are no cavalry in the Southern Dynasties, and there are quite a few, but the combat effectiveness of the cavalry is always not up, in addition to the war horses, there are some other reasons.

First of all, horses trafficked from the north are not suitable for the climate of the south, and many of them get sick and die, and it is also common for them to have a decline in physical fitness due to the climate.

Secondly, there is a lack of superb horse training and breeding skills in the South. Horses, like people, want to make them run faster and have stronger endurance, they must be systematically trained and used to help them grow with sophisticated food formulas.

Third, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry has a great relationship with the cavalry's riding skills. Northerners have more opportunities to contact horses, southerners have fewer opportunities to contact horses, northerners have a good foundation and foundation in horsemanship, while most of the southern soldiers have almost no experience in horseback riding, how easy is it to train a cavalry with superb horsemanship with such soldiers?

During the march, Shen Qingzhi also arranged the team into a long snake formation, and deployed 2,000 cavalry in the front and 1,000 in the rear.

"General Liu, what time is it and where are we? How long does it take to get to Yangzhai? Shen Qingzhi opened his eyes and looked at it, and found that the army was still advancing, so he asked Liu Yuanjing beside him. He had just fallen asleep, and it was not clear how long he had been asleep.

Liu Yuanjing replied: "Back to the general's words, when I first arrived now, our army will be near Guanyin Mountain, and we will be able to reach Yangzhai in one hour." When we arrive at Yangzhai, we will be completely safe, even if Yangzhai can't hold it, we can still retreat to Xuchang, with the city defense of Yangzhai and Xuchang, as long as enough grain and grass are prepared, our army can block the cadres for more than half a year! ”

Shen Qingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, he thought for a while and said to Liu Yuanjing: "Actually, the general is not worried about not being able to stop the attack of the cadre army, but worrying that he can't cooperate well with the middle route army!" Although there are 60,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are still infantry, and once they encounter the main force of the cadre army in the field, they are afraid that it will be difficult to retreat! General Liu, you have been operating in the Henan region for many years, you must have your own news channels, and after arriving in Yangzhai, I would like you to use your means to monitor every move of the main force of the cadre army, once Mulan waves her army east to attack our middle route army, we must report it in time, we can't let her attack the middle route army without scruples! ”

Liu Yuanjing promised: "The last general will obey the order!" ”

The two of them felt that something was wrong as they spoke, and they instinctively felt that there was danger around them, because they had traveled all the way before, although the insect chirping near them would disappear wherever they went, and the insect chirping in the distance could still be heard, but there seemed to be no insect chirping here, and not far from the left was Guanyin Mountain, there should be a large number of insects on the mountain, and the distance was so far away, why didn't there be a little insect chirping.

"General Liu, order to stop advancing and prepare for defense on the spot!" Shen Qingzhi immediately gave an order.

"Yes!" Liu Yuanjing clenched his fists and agreed, and immediately ordered the herald to pass the order.

However, at this moment, Wei Jing did not give them enough time to set up the formation, he gave the order to attack at the best time, and the three cavalry ambushed in the woods on the slope of Guanyin Mountain were killed from the front, middle and rear respectively.

The nearby cavalry did not raise torches, thinking that there was no time at all, and by the time the torches were hit, the fighters would have already been lost, so Wei Jing's order to everyone before was to rush down as quickly as possible, first shoot with cavalry, and then directly charge and kill at close quarters, until the opponent's long snake formation was broken up into a few sections, and then turned around and continued to charge.

"Soldiers, the meritorious service is at this time, when will it be better if you don't work hard to earn merit at this time? Crush the enemy with me, kill—" Wei Jing roared with a spear in his hand and rushed down the hill first.

As soon as the trumpet sounded, a thousand cavalry led by the deputy general and the military Sima on the left and right flanks also killed together, and in the dark night, three black iron streams rushed over with unparalleled momentum.

The generals of the Southern Dynasty, who had already heard the movement, could not see the enemy troops on the flank, but the generals had already ordered the archers to turn to the flank and fire their bows and arrows.

Ambushed in the middle of the night, even the well-trained infantry of the Southern Dynasty were all changed at this time, their hearts were flustered, the orders were not conveyed in time, and they were panicked when they were executed, and the archers of the Southern Dynasty only had time to shoot the first wave of arrows, causing hundreds of casualties to the cavalry, and the cavalry rushed to the front in one breath.

"Whoosh ······" The cavalry of the dry army began to shoot three rounds of rapid cavalry, and the archery speed of the cavalry archery is definitely much faster than that of the foot archers, because the pull force of the cavalry bow is smaller than that of the foot bow, and the foot bow generally requires the bow to be fully drawn in order to release the arrows, this process takes a certain amount of time, and the cavalry bow can easily pull the bow, and the cavalry of the dry army shoots three arrows in a row, and the foot archers of the Southern Dynasty army shoot a wave of arrows.

A rain of arrows hit the Southern Korean army, which had already been a little flustered, even more panicked, the formation of the long snake formation was not very tight, and the rain of arrows shot by the cavalry of the first cadre army shot more loosely, and when the cavalry of the dry army collected their bows and arrows and rushed over with weapons, they were scattered in one shot.

The front and rear cavalry of the long snake formation had received Shen Qingzhi's order at this time, asking them to attack the enemy troops in the center from the left and right flanks, but before they had time to start their actions, they ushered in the arrow rain of the cavalry of the dry army.

"Bang Bang Bang ······" A dull crash sounded.

A burst of war horses neighed, the war horses fell to the ground and screamed, one by one the cavalry of the Southern Dynasty was knocked away by the powerful impact of the oncoming cavalry of the cadre army, some people were strung up with spears, and the generals of the Southern Dynasty holding torches became live targets, and people were constantly shot off their horses, and people were constantly provoked by the cavalry of the cadre army who rushed over with spears.

The Southern Korean army was completely stunned at this time, and it couldn't organize a counterattack at all, and everyone couldn't take care of the others, and in just a few breaths, the long snake formation was divided into three sections.

After coming back to their senses, the first reaction of the soldiers and generals of the Southern Dynasty was not to organize a counterattack, but to flee, and the more they escaped, the better they were.

As a result, the rout of the Southern Korean army began, no matter how Shen Qingzhi, Liu Yuanjing and others shouted and gave orders, it was in vain in such a chaotic situation.

A vote of military horses rushed towards Shen Qingzhi and Liu Yuanjing, and before the people arrived, the arrows arrived first, and the people around them were shot down one by one, Shen Qingzhi and Liu Yuanjing immediately raised their weapons to block the arrows that came one after another.

At this moment, a young general rushed over and stabbed with a gun, Shen Qingzhi was furious, and a hairy boy dared to brush his tiger whiskers, which was too deceitful, he broke out with a roar, raised the steel gun and met it.

"Dangdang" twice, Shen Qingzhi's spear was blocked, and the young general of the cadre army stabbed Shen Qingzhi in the throat, Shen Qingzhi's eyes widened and he couldn't avoid it, seeing that he was about to become a ghost under this gun, a long knife suddenly picked up next to him.

With a sound of "dang", the spear that stabbed Shen Qingzhi's throat was cut off, and the young general of the cadre army on horseback suddenly flew up and kicked him.

Liu Yuanjing, who saved Shen Qingzhi, didn't expect that the horseman's riding skills were so superb, and he hurriedly protected his chest with his arms, and the whole person was kicked out, and Shen Qingzhi, who was still on horseback, only felt that his eyes were flowering, and he felt that he was being carried away from the horse, and when he looked again, he had been pressed to death on the back of another horse.

Shen Qingzhi struggled desperately, but he was punched in the head and fainted, and when he woke up again, it was already the next day.

Shen Qingyi saw that he was lying sideways in a simple camp tent with his hands and feet tied, when three soldiers walked in outside the tent, one of them was holding a steamed cake in his hand, and the other two came over and held him down, the steamed cake was stuffed into his mouth, and he tried to spit out the steamed cake stuffed into his mouth, "Bah, bah! ”

"Yo, you still don't eat it? Compared with dry food, steamed cakes are much more delicious, you don't know how to do it! Hurry up and eat, after eating, the gentlemen will take you to see the general! ”

Shen Qingzhi spit out all the crumbs of steamed cakes in his mouth and scolded: "Ben will not eat the food of Beiyu when he is about to die!" ”

The feeding soldiers squatted in front of Shen Qingzhi and said coldly: "Listen, no matter what official position you have in the Southern Dynasty, you have become a prisoner here, you better be honest!" I will come and feed you when I am ordered, and if you don't eat, we will let our brothers be punished, and if our brothers are not happy, we will have your good fruit to eat! You are a dignified general, why should you be bullied by us shrimp soldiers and crab generals for the sake of such a pitiful self-esteem? ”

Shen Qingyi thought, this guy is right, if I don't eat, these little soldiers will definitely try their best to torture me and let me eat in order to complete the task and not be punished by their bosses, why should my dignified generals be insulted by them?

Thinking of this, Shen Qingzhi said: "Untie it for me, bring the steamed cakes, and I'll eat them!" ”

The feeding soldiers glared: "Do you still want me to wait for you to untie the rope?" You are a general, although martial arts are not invincible in the world, it is more than enough to deal with a few of our small soldiers, if you let you run away, we will be a capital crime, you are really a fool when we are little people? Lao Tzu feeds you, eat quickly! ”

Shen Qingzhi had no choice but to eat the steamed cakes that the other party fed into his mouth little by little, and soon he was taken out of the camp tent, and saw many cadres and soldiers along the way, even if they walked, they were all in one place, never alone, and they moved neatly between walks.

After a while, he came to a big tent, and the chief who escorted Shen Qingzhi over saw that someone was talking in the tent, so he stopped and prepared to report after the discussion in the tent was over.

Shen Qingzhi was standing outside the tent with his arms tied, and heard the voices of the people inside:

“······ Our army lost 229 killed and 145 wounded; More than 3,300 enemy troops were captured and more than 8,200 enemy troops were killed. According to the report from our spies, there are only more than 3,400 Southern Korean troops who fled into Yangzhai City, and there should be a small number of Southern Korean troops who fled into the surrounding wilderness! ”