Cao Ba dares to fight tough battles, and he is good at fighting tough battles, and he often takes the lead in charging into battle, but this does not mean that he is a reckless man.

In addition to his eldest son Wang Mao, Wang Yuankui has many brothers, sons and nephews who can fight well.

Among the children of the Wang family, Wang Lie, Wang Gai, Wang Zhong, Wang Impeachment, Wang Da, and Wang Ye are all famous brave generals in Heshuo.

Wang Yuankui relied on the royal brothers and nephews to firmly control the military power of the German army for more than 20 years and never changed hands.

It is also because they have mastered military power for so many years, and they have maintained relatively good internal stability, so that the benefits of military power, like a drug addiction that cannot be stopped, have long been deeply rooted in the depths of their bone marrow.

When the negotiation failed, Wang Yuankui, Wang Mao and his son, and other children of the royal family also inspired a remnant of courage in their hearts, and struggled to intercept the Liang army's defeat from the south and the crossing of the Weishui and Moyu rivers on the west bank, thinking of saving the forty or fifty thousand horses that they would rather die than let go.

Cao Ba took the lead in the afternoon, and personally led a cavalry to cross the shoal to test the enemy's interception strength on the east bank, and was intercepted by Wang Gai and Wang Yi brothers on the east bank of the river.

The two sides rode and killed together, Cao Ba bravely crowned the three armies, a horse lance in hand, only met three or five opponents in the army, and saw Wang Gai and Wang Yi brothers join forces to kill and didn't care, but they were almost planted here.

In terms of pure martial arts, Wang Gai and Wang Yi brothers have cultivated their muscles and bones to the point where their strength is surging like a landslide, and Cao Ba is only slightly stronger than them.

The generals of the Wang family and the Chengde army are now fierce lost dogs, fighting trapped beasts, not only surpassing them in cavalry strength, not only in the Moyu River There are a small number of naval warships to attack the floating rafts they hastily built, and in the afternoon I heard that there will be 3,000 Pingxia Qiang riding south before noon tomorrow, Cao Ba couldn't help but be impatient.

Even if Feng Xuan couldn't come, Cao Ba would send someone to Feng Xuan to discuss countermeasures, but he didn't expect Feng Xuan to rush over first, and said that the Qiang Cavalry of the Pingxia Department might not be able to get out of the Jingshui River Valley.

Cao Ba was slightly stunned, ignoring the danger encountered in the afternoon, and asked in surprise: "What?" Pingxia people don't dare to fight? ”

Pondering the thoughts of enemy generals is not Cao Ba's forte.

Li Yuanshou's son Li Siqi led 3,000 Pingxia Qiang to ride in and out of the Jingshui River Valley between Qingyuan, what was he thinking in his heart, Cao Ba was really too lazy to ponder.

He also prefers to be a general who charges into battle, and he doesn't do anything if he commands the town army or commands the commander.

"It's not that the people of Pingxia don't dare to fight - Jing Commander Shuai sent a messenger across the river to report before noon, three days ago Han Bao confirmed that in the northern valley of Tongguan County, there is a wild path that can cross the north ridge of Jiuji Mountain and enter the territory of Yongshou County, Han Bao has personally led two thousand light armor elites to the territory of Yongshou," Feng Xuan said, "Looking at the movements of the enemy army, I should not have noticed this." ”

"Wang Mao did not send reinforcements to Heiniutan, obviously hoping that the Pingxia people could go out of Chiyang in time to reinforce Heiniutan, and he was not afraid of our surprise attack from Heiniutan, but if this kid Han Bao can stop the Pingxia people in Yongshou, Heiniutan will be our best breakthrough! It's just that Han Bao's kid can stop the Pingxia cavalry in time? While Cao Ba was excited, he couldn't help but ask worriedly, "How many miles is there from Tongguan County to Yongshou County by taking the Yuangu Trail over Jiuji Mountain?" ”

Yongshou County, which controls the southern section of the Jingshui River Valley, and the northern part of Chiyang County are the main passes for the 40,000 or 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Cheng German army to flee to Qingyuan.

However, starting from the territory of Tongguan County to the Jingshui River Valley in Yongshou County, it seems that there is only a direct distance of 100 miles, but if you cross the north ridge of Jiuji Mountain from the inaccessible Yecheng Mountain Road, the distance is definitely more than 100 miles.

Cao Ba asked this question, worried that Han Bao would lead a surprise army and have no way to rush to the Jingshui River Valley in the south of Yongtai and north of Chiyang to intercept the Qiang cavalry of the Pingxia Department going south as scheduled.

"Preliminary survey, it's almost three hundred miles." Feng Xuan said.

“…… Then how could it be possible to intercept the Pingxia cavalry in time? Cao Ba gasped and said.

Two thousand elite infantry armor, walking a smooth post road, walking 300 miles in three days, it is still possible to do it, but walking 300 miles over the mountains and mountains, Cao Ba suspects that he will be so tired that he will vomit blood when he walks this trip in person, right?

Of course, Feng Xuan was not sure that Han Bao would be able to enter the southern section of the Jingshui River Valley in time and stop the Pingxia people, so he must leave a certain amount of leeway when making a decision, and said:

"Maybe it's too late to block Pingxia Cavalry in Yongshou and can't go south, and even Li Siqi will successfully enter the east bank of Heiniutan before tomorrow afternoon to strengthen the interception of us there, but as long as Han Bao can lead his troops into the Jingshui River Valley tomorrow and tomorrow, the deterrence of the enemy army will definitely not be small......

Even if we didn't consider the fact that Han Bao led a surprise attack on the Jingshui River Valley, seeing the enemy's interception on the east bank of the Moyu River so resolute prompted Feng Xuan to decide to choose the Heiniutan upstream as a breakthrough.

In this case, even if the battle to cross the river will be quite fierce, it is very likely that it will stalemate for a long time, as long as it can break through the Heiniutan and go directly to the east, it will be able to cut off the passage of the German army from the south mouth of the Jingshui River Valley to the north.

If you cross the river from the shallows of the lower reaches of the Moyu River, once the time is prolonged, even if you succeed in gaining a foothold on the east bank, you may still be dragged by the soldiers and horses of the Chengde army, and you will not be able to intercept and flee the enemy from the head.

Of course, even if Feng Xuan didn't expect Han Bao to enter the Jingshui River Valley tonight, he also hoped that Han Bao would enter the northern area of Chiyang at dusk or at night tomorrow.

In that case, even if Han Leopard failed to intercept the Pingxia people from moving south, the deterrence of the enemy army would definitely not be low.

This will still help them to take advantage of the decline in the morale of the enemy army and the wavering will to concentrate their forces to break through from the Black Bull Beach.

"Good ......," Cao Ba said excitedly, "I will leave more than 1,000 cavalry here as suspicious soldiers to contain the enemy troops on the other side, and the other cavalry will withdraw to the forest in the west tonight, and then turn to Heiniutan, and I will meet with Lu Ze, Hou Mo, and Li Zhi in the early morning of tomorrow morning, and kill Heiniutan together!" If you don't believe in biting your mother's day, you can't bite your mother's bird off! ”

"You have to stay here as a suspicious soldier," Feng Xuan said, "You are too picky on the battlefield, and you look eye-catching, only if you are in Sanghe Bay, Wang Mao will not dare to relax the defense here, and it is possible to mistakenly think that this is our main direction of attack." I have ordered all the troops to transfer all the wounded and sick to me, and the battalion of the baggage workers who arrived in advance will also rush over to rendezvous......"

It is impossible to transport the ready-made heavy weapons over, and the baggage battalion goes first, and there is no way to erect a simple bridge over the Moyu River under the strong harassment of the enemy army overnight, nor can it be possible to build hundreds or thousands of floating rafts to swallow up a small number of enemy sailors, and choose a crossing point along the Moyu River at will, so it is better to concentrate on the Sanhe Bay first to further confuse the judgment of the enemy generals.

Of course, in order to really attract the main force to intercept the enemy cavalry downstream, Cao Ba, such an iconic figure, cannot leave.

"......" Cao Ba didn't expect that he would be used as a suspicious soldier one day, and groaned in pain: "Li Zhi is still a melon egg, Lu Ze and Hou Mo are both cowardly and useless birds, no one takes the lead to tear up the enemy formation, how do you defeat Heiniutan?" ”

Cao Ba was not stupid enough to point the finger at Feng Xuan, but he also emphasized that he was the only brave general that Feng Xuan could use to enter the forward line and lead the generals to fight bravely.

Feng Xuan said: "It may not be that you are the first to break through the enemy's interception, but remember to use the generals......

Cao Ba is a brave general, a fierce general, in terms of the battles he has experienced, the record of killing the enemy is unmatched, but Cao Ba as a sharp blade, bravely killing the enemy, the lack of protection of the flank, often leads to his casualty rate is higher than average.

Because Cao Ba had already received the attention of the enemy, it was inconvenient for Feng Xuan to transfer him to the main offensive battlefield of Heiniutan to lead the army, but he was also worried that he would stay in Sanhe Bay to attract the main elite of the enemy army, and he would forget to fill in the number of injured and sick and labor auxiliaries who served as suspicious soldiers here.

"If you can win, you should fight bravely, and if you can't lead them to defeat the enemy with your soldiers, what's the use? However, I will not forget that San River Bay is full of suspicious soldiers. Cao Ba said.

"If you know, it's good." Feng Xuan said.

He then gathered Cao Ba and his subordinates to join the army and generals, and determined the reinforcements and horses to strengthen the Black Bull Beach and the deployment of the old Bu Suspicious Formation, and only then did he go around to the west of a dense forest surrounded by Hu Cai, and hurried north outside the enemy's field of vision......

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"In front of the black wind ditch, in autumn and winter, there are often strong winds passing through the ditch, blowing black dust, like a black wind, so it is named......"

In the faint morning light, Han Bao crossed his sword in front of his knees, sat cross-legged on the mud floor, and listened to the scout's report on the situation in front of him.

The Loess Plateau, where they are located, is barren and has no tall trees, and in early summer, the rain is abundant, and the weeds are long among the valleys.

Although Han Bao led his troops to recover the walled cities of Tongzhou and did not enter the west bank of Jingshui to intercept the combat mission of the German army's northern escape, but after discovering that Tongguan had a wild path to Yongshou to cross the north ridge of Jiuji Mountain, Han Bao directly decided to organize the personal guard battalion and the soldiers and horses of the recovered Tongguan into a surprise team to cross the west.

The soldiers were so fast that Han Bao couldn't send troops after asking Jing Zhen's permission.

In that case, it would be delayed for at least a day, and he just sent people to the Baqiao camp to report his decision at the same time as he sent his troops.

When he set out from the western part of Tongguan County, Han Bao did not know that the 3,000 Pingxia Qiang cavalry had arrived in the northern part of Yongshou County from Gyeongju, and he decided to take a wild path and insert it into the Jingshui River Valley between Yongshou and Chiyang, with the simple intention of cooperating with the cavalry advancing westward, directly from the path that the enemy army must pass, and blocking the passage for its northward escape.

It was a grueling and remarkable march.

In addition to swords, spears, light shields, crossbows and arrows, the 2,000 soldiers who marched west in batches unloaded all the heavy armor in Tongguan City.

In addition to a series of stony mountains dominated by gray and carbon in the transition zone between the southern margin and the Guanzhong Basin, the Weibei Plateau, also known as the Northern Shaanxi Plateau in later generations, is mainly dominated by loess hills with gentle tops and steep slopes.

The intermittent road stretches in the ravines of the hills or rivers on the top of the hills.

The Heifeng Gully in front is actually a valley formed by the loess hills along the continuous erosion and alluvial flow of thousands of years or even more ancient streams, and it flows westward along the gurgling river, passing through this valley that is more than 20 miles long, and you can see the turbid Jing water, interspersed between the wider river valleys and ravines, and flows to the Guanzhong Basin in the south until it joins the Wei River.

Although Han Bao did not know about Li Siqi leading 3,000 Pingxia Qiang cavalry from Yuanzhou to the south when he set out from Tongchuan County, at this time, the scout Tanma had confirmed that a cavalry was moving south from the river valley in the south of Yongshou County.

Obviously, this could only be the Qiang cavalry or the Mughal cavalry reinforced from Wonju or even from the Hetao Plain further north.

For more than three days, nearly 300 miles in the valley of Yuanlianggou, 2,000 soldiers and horses have long been sparsely scattered and opened nearly 100 miles long, and the front soldiers and horses in front of the arrival of Hangou in Heifenggou are only more than 300 people, and they are all exhausted at this time, and many of them are even rotten in their combat boots - the front soldiers and horses were originally a 500-person integrated combat battalion, plus Han Leopard as the commander of the brigade more than 50 brigade tent guards, soldiers and other entourages, but at this time, nearly half of them fell behind, and they really couldn't keep up with the intensity of such a march.

Han Bao took off his shoes and socks, both feet were bloody, and his firm determination told him to study the military situation without changing his face, and at the same time asked Hu Wei to wrap his leg with medicine, and then endure the pain and stuff it into the cracked combat boots.

More than 300 tired soldiers passed through the Black Wind Gully, and except for swords, bows, crossbows, and arrows, they did not have armor, and it was unrealistic to intercept enemy reinforcements from the front, who did not know how many people were for the time being.

At this time, is it to set up a suspicious formation according to the Black Wind Valley, so that the enemy army is worried that the back road will be cut off, and they do not dare to continue southward, or do they hide in the valley east of the Black Wind Valley, take advantage of the enemy's unnoticed, and then block their retreat from behind after this enemy army has passed?

There were more than 300 people in the front, seizing the time to rest, and Han Leopard stared at the combat map and fell into deep thought.

Choosing the former, it is possible to alarm the enemy army in advance.

If the enemy forces divide their troops into the Heifeng Valley, it is possible to block their passage into the Jingshui River Valley, so that they cannot directly enter the Jingshui River Valley and block the enemy's retreat.

If the main forces of the soldiers and horses on the south and west flanks could not enter Chiyang in time, their little strength would not be able to withstand the 40,000 or 50,000 enemy troops who would not be able to fight into the Jingshui River valley without strong armor and heavy shields.

What a dilemma!

"Brigade Marshal, Deputy Envoy Feng has sent someone over!" At this time, several scouts sent to the front climbed over the southern ridge, and slid down the steep slope directly into the ditch, where they brought back two thin black men dressed as mountain hunters.

For nearly four days, Han Bao had no way to get in touch with the Baqiao battalion, and he did not know the situation of the Cheng German army's flight north and the interception of the enemy troops on the southern and western flanks, which was also the root cause of his difficult decision just now.

At this time, seeing that Feng Xuan sent someone to contact, Han Bao stood up excitedly, regardless of the pain in his heart when his bloody feet were stuffed into his combat boots, he limped over, and asked eagerly: "Feng Xuan led all the brigades of cavalry to kill from Fengxiang?" ”

"Wang Mao, Wang Da, and Wang impeached the generals, led the German army to ride more than 10,000 feet, deployed along the Moyu River, and planned to cross the river from Heiniutan this morning and enter Chiyang County......"

The person who came was a middle-level soldier from the Longyou Propaganda Embassy, and Han Bao was familiar with him, but the person who came went over the mountains and mountains in a day and night, drove more than 100 miles of mountain roads, and walked through the enemy-occupied area in disguise, looking even more embarrassed than them.

After verifying his identity, he didn't have time to clean up, so he came directly to see Han Bao, and in the dim morning light, he naturally couldn't see his real face.

After hearing the name of the newspaper, I knew that the person who came was Tian Mao, the second son of Tian Cheng, the counselor of the Nannei Historical Mansion, who had been in the army for several years, and had been serving as a guard military attache by Han Qian's side, and Han Bao had seen two sides in the past.

Tian Mao asked to join the battle with Feng Xuan and lead the cavalry brigade into Longyou to participate in the battle, and then followed Feng Xuan and others to march east from Tianshui along Weishui and enter Guanzhong.

Feng Xuan knew that Han Bao led 2,000 lightly armored infantry to cross the valley at the northern foot of Jiuji Mountain and advance westward, so he was worried that Han Bao would not be able to contact the southern front in these three or four days, and it would be difficult to accurately estimate the battle situation south of Chiyang, so he sent a large number of scouts to reprimand and cross the hills and mountains in the upper reaches of the Moyu River, on the one hand, to attack and disturb the Pingxia Qiang Department from the western front, and on the other hand, it was also convenient for messengers to pass through the Jingshui River Valley, which was still under the control of the enemy, to the hills and plateaus in the east to wait for Han Bao to come and communicate.

Tian Mao didn't want to be treated preferentially because of his identity, he had no experience in commanding troops, and he didn't expect to go to the front line to charge into battle, so he took the initiative to ask to come over and contact Han Bao, a surprise attacker.

Seeing the more than 300 people and horses who rushed to the east side of the Black Wind Gully with Han Leopard in the first batch, they were all miserable, and Tian Mao couldn't bear to ask him to lead these remnants out of the Black Wind Ditch at this time to contain the elite of Pingxia who were ten times larger.

"How many scouts did Feng Xuan send to scout horses into the hills on the west flank of the river valley?" Han Bao listened to Tian Mao's dictation, marked the deployment of troops and horses on the southern line and the western flank at this time on the combat map, and asked.

Feng Xuan clearly knew that even if they arrived on the east side of the Jingshui River Valley in time, they would be miserable, and he hoped that they would let Li Siqi's Pingxia Qiang ride over first, and when the time was right, they would enter the Jingshui River Valley from the flank and back, shake the hearts of the enemy troops in Heiniutan, and reduce the difficulty for them to forcibly break through the Heiniutan defense line.

If it is only arranged in this way, the battle in Heiniutan will be unimaginably fierce.

After all, once the Heiniutan rush battle begins, the Cheng German army will inevitably realize that Feng Xuan's breakthrough focus is there, in addition to Li Siqi's reinforcements, the Cheng German army can transfer a large number of reinforcements from Liquan and Chiyang.

Once the Cheng German army used heavy shields and spears to form a formation east of Heiniu Beach, and Feng Xuan only used cavalry to cross the river, how many people would have to die before it was possible to defeat the enemy army?

"At present, to the west of the river valley, there are more than 200 of our scouts." Tian Mao said.

"Two hundred scout elites are enough!" Han Bao said, "The people of Pingxia know that the small group of soldiers and horses between the hills and plateaus on the west wing can only be scout troops, and the number will not be large, and they also need to leave a small number of defensive troops on the west wing, which will not attract their troops, but if we kill from the Black Wind Valley, he will inevitably shrink the soldiers and horses to the mouth of the Black Wind Valley, and will never dare to go south easily!" We can drag these 3,000 Pingxia Qiang horses! ”

"This ......" Tian Mao looked at the more than 300 people who were crooked, if it weren't for the fact that the newly built crossbows of the Ordnance Institute mainly used winches to open the strings, he doubted that a few of these people would be able to pull the crossbows apart, let alone pick up swords and spears, and fight against the fierce Pingxia people in the valley.

"The Pingxia people dragged on until this moment before they decided to go south to receive reinforcements and the German army fled north, to put it bluntly, they were not willing to take much risk," Han Bao summoned several soldiers and battalion generals who followed him to his side, and said, "We don't necessarily have to nail them to the west entrance of the Black Wind Ditch to fight with them, but more importantly, let the Pingxia people know that if they continue to go south, they will bear the risk of being blocked by us to retreat." Li Yuanshou has a big heart, but the people in the Pingxia Department are sparse, and they can't support their big ambitions. There are more than 200 elite scouts on the west flank, as long as we make sure that the Pingxia people stop heading south, we can fight and retreat in the Black Wind Gully, and wait for the soldiers and horses behind to come......"

The slave and maid boy who was once a muddy boy was already a senior general of Daliang who had experienced the test of war at this time.

Although the forcible march for three days and four nights looked very embarrassed by Han Leopard, his tone revealed resolute confidence.

He knew very well that if they could successfully drag the Pingxia people in the Jingshui River valley at this time, it would mean that the interception force deployed by the German army on the east bank of Heiniutan would only be four to fifty percent of the planned force; The first wave of assault attacks organized by Feng Xuan on the west bank would most likely break through its much thinner defensive line than expected, instead of using cavalry to crush the enemy's heavily armored infantry in the narrow Heiniu Beach.

The advantage of cavalry is that it is difficult to take advantage of the heavy armor infantry formation.

"There's no need to send someone to report, just light three bonfires on the top of the hill, and the west wing will gather the scouts when they see it!" Tian Mao said excitedly.

There are not many soldiers and horses entering the mountains on the west flank, but the situation is much better than here, the only problem is that Li Siqi knows that they only have a small number of scouts on the west flank who have crossed the mountains and mountains to get in, and they can't hold back the main force of the Qiang cavalry of the Pingxia Department.

However, for various tactics, plans have already been formulated, and only Tian Mao needs to meet with Han Leopard and use a bonfire or wolf smoke to transmit a simple signal.

Han Bao's more than 300 people who were about to arrive in Heifenggou were divided into two parts, and more than 100 people who were in a slightly worse condition stayed in Heifenggou to rest and recuperate, and if necessary, they retreated, and the other 200 people were slightly better in physical strength, and followed him to the Jingshui River Valley to kill and attract the attention of the Pingxia people.

In order to create a strong momentum, Han Bao also deliberately divided more than 200 people into three teams, one team went to the bottom of the Black Wind Valley, and two teams walked to the two wings of the Black Wind Valley......