The morning sun, miserable white without the slightest warmth, flashed out from the ridge due east, from the mist that was like nothing, it shone on the plateau covered with a layer of white frost, on the plateau silently, hurried forward thousands of troops, on the fiery red banner that led the whole army, on the black military flag that followed, and the red, black, white, and blue clothes that followed closely behind, in the undulating and winding hills with the wind, appearing and disappearing, looking very magnificent.

Lu Shi stared into the distance, looking at the silent land of northern Shaanxi, looking at the vast mountains and thousands of ravines, not knowing where the expected enemy was waiting for him, and he no longer had the heart to pray for God's favor in his heart, just staring nervously at the highland forests around the river valley.

Just thinking about it, suddenly a sergeant of the prison rode up to the post with a tired body full of wind and frost, gave him a military salute, and reported: "Qi Qi military division, after the break, Zhao Dahai, the deputy commander of the report, followed by the officers and soldiers behind, last night had chased us into the canyon overnight, and was blocked by the deputy commander in the canyon, only two or three miles away, and did not attack, I don't know what the intention is." The deputy commander said, "Please tell the outpost to be careful." "It has been commanded." Lu Shidao, as if he was thinking about a problem. "Tell the commander in front of you to speed up, don't get too far from the old camp, and tell all the brothers to be on guard, today, you must cross this river valley and enter the mountain opposite." "Obey!" The sergeant turned his horse's head and ran off his post. Lu Shi knew in his heart that Guo Weiquan's pursuers were waiting for the front to start fighting before carrying out a flank attack, but he didn't know where the official army had arranged the interception troops, maybe they were still far away, but it seemed that the pursuers began to accelerate overnight, and they might encounter it soon. Now even he knew that that section of the river valley was the best battlefield to ambush him, and after that section of the valley, as soon as he entered the mountain, it would be difficult for the officers and troops to encircle and suppress him, and he saw that the outpost had bypassed a hill and disappeared into the increasingly heavy white mist. "Zhao Xing, you send someone again, and tell the brothers in front to slow down, just take the people of the old camp, don't stretch the formation too long, so that once there is a change, we will not be able to deal with it."

"Yes, Strategist." When Zhao Xing agreed, his voice didn't know whether he was nervous or cold, and he was shivering.

Lu Shi turned around, smiled calmly at Zhao Xing, who was pale, and then said, "Don't be nervous, everything is still under our control." ”

Zhao Xing's face turned red, and in Lu Shi's calm gaze, he took a deep breath, smiled hard, and said, "It's fake not to be nervous, but with the military advisor here, I know that everything will be fine." ”

"It's everyone." Lu Shi corrected: "As long as everyone is together, no difficulty is a difficulty. ”

"Yes." Zhao Xing nodded, and then mentioned the war horse and said, "It's better for me to go personally, in case something happens, I can still help the Great Commander come up with an idea." ”

Lu Shi thought about it, nodded, and then said softly: "A literati, don't go up to fight roughly." "I said this because I remembered the image of Zhao Xing who was holding a brick in Mizhi Beicheng.

Zhao Xing also remembered his appearance at that time, he forgot his fear at that time, and he was full of pride in his chest, and couldn't help laughing: "I have no power to restrain the chicken, but there are millions of male soldiers in my heart, and the military advisor will see how I scold Fang Xuan." With that, he laughed and rode away. The sun rose higher. It shines on the mountains to the west. The mountains are like the sea, and the waves are undulating! It follows the banner of the word "Chuang" on the head of the post. The silver light of the flag gun flickered, and the big flag cheered and rolled in the morning wind. It looked at Lu Shi and his white dragon horse, he was quietly raising his head and staring forward, the white dragon horse was turning his ears and listening to the sound of horses' hooves and horses neighing in the distance, as if it had a premonition that it was about to enter the battle, and excitedly sprayed its nose and let out a long neigh. Worried that there would be a battle at any time in front of him, Lu Shi was still not at ease, waved his whip, took Chunlan Zhang Xiaochi to get off the post, and advanced with the Chinese military camp. After walking for another two or three miles, he suddenly heard a cannon fire in front of him, and immediately rose from the dense fog in the distance, and there was a shouting of killing and a dense cannon sound, "It has begun." He whispered, at this moment the tense nerves suddenly relaxed, many days of tension actually relaxed, the time to finally come, this is like the lottery, not the lottery is the most difficult, once the puzzle is revealed, even if you win a million jackpot, you are no longer nervous.

Lu Shi shrugged his eyebrows slightly, then whipped the white dragon horse's buttocks, left the middle military camp, and galloped forward. Geng Kui knew military affairs, and was arranged in the front army, leading the cavalry to move forward vigilantly, while observing everywhere, three teams of spearmen followed, maintaining a battle formation, and the stars pressed the new annex army to follow, while supervising the advance of the team, while inspecting the terrain in front.

Everyone was on high alert, and they all knew that as long as they entered the thousands of mountains after crossing the Qingjian River Valley, they would be basically safe, and the officers and soldiers would never let go of this last opportunity.

Geng Kui saw that there was a small river in front of him, with dense forests on both sides and undulating hills, which was very conducive to infantry combat, his heart moved, he stretched out his hand to stop the Black Tiger Guard who was following closely, and called the guards around him and ordered: "Go and report to the Great Commander, there may be an ambush ahead, let the Great Commander restrain the new annexed army, I have a pause here, and send scouts to search forward." Wait for me—"

Before he could finish speaking, "boom, boom, boom" More than a dozen earth-shattering cannons rang out, and more than a dozen red-hot projectiles flew out of the bushes of the small mountain bag with a scream, and smashed on the river ground, the huge potential energy stirred up the gravel and ice in the sky, and then bounced and rolled on the ground, an iron egg was castrated and rolled into the formation of the Black Tiger Guard, smashing the leg of a war horse, splashing a burst of blood, and the war horse neighed and fell to the ground with a bang, slamming the brother on the horse to the ground. The whole formation was driven into chaos. With this burst of artillery fire, the officers and men who were ambushed in the woods on the opposite bank jumped up, let out an earth-shaking shout of killing, and rushed towards the river beach. At the same time, a team of fire commanders and a team of crossbowmen stood on the mound and fired fiercely at the Black Tiger Army, and in an instant, some of the cavalry and infantry of the Black Tiger Army fell down, and the blood immediately dyed the water of the river red. Fortunately, Geng Kui had already been alert in his heart, and did not panic under this sudden attack, in a dangerous situation, in the chaos of thousands of troops and swords, standing still like a mountain, now, it is a test for him, calm, calm, this is what he should do. There was already a scuffle in the river beach thirty feet away in front of him, and the soldiers of the Black Tiger Guard engaged in close combat with the officers and soldiers who had suddenly killed, and the brothers continued to fall, and shells and sharp arrows flew around him and above his head, as dense as flying locusts. In this moment, he saw the weakness of the enemy and suddenly relieved himself.

It would be even more dangerous if the officers and men let go of his front team and stop them to fight in their old camp, and at the same time surround the front team from all sides. Officers and troops poured out endlessly from behind the hills, desperately crossing the not wide glacial river, trampling on broken ice, and then rushing into the melee warbands.

This will not work, once the cavalry is entangled by the infantry, it will lose the advantage of the cavalry itself, and it must break away from the war group and give full play to the advantages of its own pig assault formation, and at the same time avoid the range of the official artillery, avoid unnecessary casualties, and also avoid the small river that is not conducive to the cavalry charge. Giving the officers and troops a heavy blow, and fighting for the opportunity to spread out the formation for their main force, the spearmen behind him, Geng Kui thought of this and shouted loudly: "The whole army retreats, breaks away from the battle formation, and swings the pig burst formation." ”

The Black Tiger Guard, who was in the middle of the fight, immediately retreated according to the order, cut down every officer and soldier who dared to pursue him, and immediately ran out of the range of the official army's artillery and crossbows, retreated to an open field, and formed a formation again in front of the spearmen who were nervously forming a team.

In this battle, more than 20 of the Black Tiger Guard's brothers were killed, more than 50 were wounded, and the blood of the officers and soldiers flowed on the sabers of each brother like a stream, and they were all panting, but they all fearlessly stared at the officers and soldiers who were still surging across the glacier like a tide.

Geng Kui hit his horse and ran to the front of the battle, drew his saber that was still in the sheath, raised it high and shouted: "Brothers, life and death are here in one move, for the fathers and elders behind you-" The brothers who were close to three hundred raised their bows together and shouted in response: "Fight to the death and don't retreat, kill-"

Li Li raised his riding bow and shouted, "Pig Assault Formation, the first team, rush with me-" One urged the war horse and the horse to take the lead in killing the officers and soldiers who were swarming with red eyes.

The first team of 50 cavalry followed Li Lifen to kill the officers and soldiers, and the first batch of long arrows exerted great power at the speed of the war horse and fiercely penetrated into the enemy formation.

Don't worry about missing the target, because the enemy is too dense, even if the enemy wants to hide, there is nowhere to hide, the enemy formation that pounced on the sky immediately splashed a burst of blood, the whole formation collapsed as if suddenly collapsed into a big pit, wailing screams rose to the sky, but immediately this wail was trampled off by countless big feet, and those who died or fell to the ground immediately turned into meat sauce. The collapsed formation was immediately filled in by the swarming officers and troops.

The first team spun away, and the second team's feathered arrows flew out again, causing the chasing formation, which had just recovered to its original shape, to collapse again, but in the blink of an eye, it was filled in again.

The third team killed again and shot the officers and soldiers who dared to break forward again.

This cycle went on and on, so that the originally high morale of the officers and soldiers panicked, and the pace of pursuit began to slow down, but this gave the Black Tiger Guard a chance to shoot them, layer by layer of corpses fell, twenty arrows per person, six thousand caused thousands of deaths of the officers and soldiers, this is not the power of bows and arrows, but the result of the enemy's dense formation trampling, almost all those who fell to the ground were trampled into meat sauce by countless big feet.

However, this time there was no expected rout and escape, and the officers and troops just gathered together and did not retreat despite the rain of arrows.

The bows and arrows were exhausted, and the sword and shield soldiers of the official army also stepped forward, replacing the mixed ranks of the officials and the army.

When Geng Kui saw it, he immediately put away his bow and arrows, drew his saber, and shouted loudly: "Sharp arrow formation-"

The Black Tiger Guard, which was less than three hundred, changed its formation again, drew its saber, and faced the layers of impermeable enemy formations, ready to start a decisive battle.