On this day, Mo Li received a message from He Zhenbei early in the morning, saying that he had found a large number of officers and soldiers rushing in the direction of Heiyun Village, and asked Lord Mo to get ready.

Mo Li hurriedly summoned the commanders of the battalions to discuss countermeasures. Everyone said that the soldiers will block the water and cover the earth, and the terrain of Heiyunzhai is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it can be defended by danger.

Mo Li thought for a moment and said: "The officers and soldiers are menacing this time, they must be prepared, I think so, Brother Cheng, you and the brothers in the rear battalion are ambushed about three miles away from the outpost of the village, when the officers and soldiers come to attack the mountain, you don't move first, wait for my signal flare to be fired, and then you will surprise the officers and soldiers from behind, they will definitely not think that we will attack from both sides, and then we will be able to win a big victory." ”

Everyone nodded yes, so Cheng Qingzhu led the people of the camp to go down the mountain first, looking for a place to hide.

Subsequently, Mo Li commanded the men and horses of each battalion to enter the guard and arrange the defensive plan. and let Liang Peijun and He Zhendong be jointly responsible for protecting Ruan and Yuan Chengzhi to prevent anyone from entering the village.

Mo Li picked up his flintlock pistol and took Guan Feng, Ma Jinzhong, Ba Laodao and others to ambush at the outpost at the foot of the mountain, ready to fight.

On the official road about ten miles below the mountain in Heiyunzhai, Wu Keli, the prefect of Pingyang Prefecture, rode a horse and galloped surrounded by a group of officers and soldiers, his brows furrowed all the time. Recently, the famine in various places seems to be getting worse and worse, this is full of troubled people, and the public security in Pingyang Mansion is getting worse and worse, so that he is always busy dealing with various cases, which landlord and rich family are robbed by the hungry people today, and which rich businessman is robbed tomorrow, etc., he meows, Lao Tzu just wants to be a peace officer and make a few good fortunes and then enjoy his old age, am I easy?

No, Han Chong, the magistrate of Lingchuan County, reported again a few days ago, saying that a group of bandits and bandits had been found in the territory, and there were many of them, so please send troops from above to suppress them. Kill your sister! How did you become a county magistrate? There are so many chaotic people and thieves under your own jurisdiction, you have been eating for the past few years!

However, scolding and scolding, things still have to be done, and of course the bandits must be suppressed, but at the moment, the strength of the prefect's yamen is really stretched! There were rebellions everywhere. As a last resort, Wu Keli had no choice but to ask the above to send additional troops and horses to support the suppression of bandits.

At that time, most of Shanxi's troops were deployed near Datong Town to defend against the southern invasion of the Mongols, Jurchens and other tribes in the north, and the troops of other provinces were only used to maintain law and order, and there were no troops to adjust. Later, the imperial court ordered Yang He, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, to send a part of his troops to support Pingyang Prefecture to suppress bandits.

Yang He then ordered Cao Wenzhao, deputy chief soldier of Yansui East Road, to send 1,000 elite soldiers to Lingchuan, and together with more than 3,000 officers and soldiers from Pingyang Prefecture and Lingchuan County, they went to encircle and suppress Heiyunzhai, under the unified command of Wu Keli.

The general sent by Cao Wenzhao to lead a thousand troops to support was none other than his nephew, the guerrilla general Cao Bianjiao. The name Cao Bianjiao was well-known in later generations, and the young man joined the army with his uncle Cao Wenzhao, bravely crowned the three armies, and was known as the Ming Dynasty General Cao, and the big Cao General was his uncle Cao Wenzhao, and was called the big and small Cao generals. But now, he can only be regarded as a little famous.

Cao Bianjiao was very young at this time, about eighteen or nineteen years old, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, looking heroic, holding a spear two or three meters long, riding a snow-white horse galloping, majestic. I saw him riding his horse and asking, "Lord Wu, how far is this Black Cloud Village?" How many thieves are there? ”

Wu Keli was a little embarrassed, he had just received Han Chong's report not long ago, and he didn't know how many of these thieves there were. However, Han Chong's gang reported that there should be three or five thousand thieves, which may be exaggerated.

It just so happens that this question will be left to Han Chong to answer, after all, he is the protagonist here, and he and Cao Bianjiao are only cameos.

So he said loudly to Han Chong, who was following behind: "Han County Order, you are familiar with the situation here, you can tell me." ”

Han Chong hurriedly beat his horse and took two steps forward, and said: "Lord Wu, Brother Xiao Cao, after our multi-faceted investigation, there were originally only two or three hundred thieves in Heiyun Village, but recently there have been more and more, and it has exceeded three thousand, I am afraid that they will become the climate, and it will be difficult to clean up when the time comes!" ”

Cao Bianjiao nodded slightly, but said disdainfully: "It's just a homeless thief, no matter how many people there are, it's just a rabble, nothing to fear." ”

Wu Keli smiled and said: "That's right, I heard that Brother Xiaocao is brave and brave, there are few enemies, we are all civil officials, I don't know much about this war, this time the bandits are all up to you!" ”

"Lord Wu, don't worry, Bianjiao will definitely take the lead and wipe out this gang of thieves!" Cao Bianjiao said confidently.

"Good! Good! The little Cao brothers are arrogant and dry, and they are worthy of being the nephews of General Cao! "Wu Keli is not stingy with sycophants.

"Yes, yes, Brother Xiao Cao is a tiger in the door, he is proficient in marching and fighting, arranging troops, and it will be up to Brother Xiao Cao later. Oh, there are about ten miles ahead to reach Heiyun Village. Han Chong also said flatteringly.

Ten miles, the cavalry will be able to arrive soon, and it will take about a stick of incense to arrive. More than half of the soldiers brought by Cao Bianjiao were cavalry, and speaking of this cavalry, it was the famous Guanning Iron Cavalry!

Speaking of Guanning Iron Cavalry, then we have to talk about two people, one is Sun Chengzong, and the other is Yuan Chonghuan.

Sun Chengzong, the governor of Liaodong, had been in military affairs for many years, and deeply felt that the Ming army's combat effectiveness was low and it was difficult to resist the Houjin cavalry.

Yuan Chonghuan also held the same view as Sun Chengzong on how to defend Liaodong, and was a loyal executor of Sun Chengzong's military strategy, and the so-called Guanning Iron Cavalry was built by Yuan Chonghuan.

This cavalry is mostly composed of Han people in Liaodong, and there are also many other ethnic minorities who are oppressed by the Tatars, and the same is that they all have a bitter hatred for the Tatars, so they are also trained with extra care, and the Tartars are often more brave and fierce because of hatred, and gradually become a cavalry unit with strong combat effectiveness.

Last year, when the Beijing division was in an emergency, Yuan Chonghuan galloped thousands of miles to help the vanguard of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and personally led the army to fight with the Tartars outside Beijing, and Yuan Chonghuan was also injured in this battle.

As soon as the smoke of the battle of Beijing dissipated, Emperor Chongzhen asked his soldiers to hang Yuan Chonghuan into the city of Beijing in a large basket, and then put Yuan Chonghuan in prison on the charge of collaborating with the enemy. The Guanning Iron Cavalry outside Beijing returned to Guanwai with a bloody stain.

The Qing army first annihilated more than 7,000 Ming troops at Lugou Bridge, and then defeated more than 40,000 people led by Man Gui and others outside Yongding Gate, and completely annihilated 4,000 reinforcements from Shanhaiguan.

At this time, the Ming army outside Beijing was completely annihilated, and there were no soldiers to fight again. Chongzhen remembered Guan Ning Tieqi.

But Zu Dashou received the order at this time, but he did not move. Chongzhen was helpless, so he asked Yuan Chonghuan, who was in prison, to write a letter to Zu Dashou, and Zu Dashou took Guanning Tieqi to enter King Guanqin again.

Guanning Iron Cavalry is so good at fighting, but only listens to Yuan Chonghuan's orders, and does not even listen to his own holy decree, which makes Chongzhen even more restless, after executing Yuan Chonghuan, he immediately divided the Guanning Iron Cavalry into three, part of which was commanded by Zu Dashou, part of which was commanded by Wu Sangui, and some of which were transferred to Guannei, led by Cao Wenzhao to suppress the peasant rebel army in Guannei.

Now the hundreds of cavalry brought by Cao Bianjiao are some of the elite Guanning iron cavalry, they are full of confidence, brandishing swords and guns, and rush towards Heiyun Village......

(There is no explicit record in history about the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which is a very strange phenomenon.) And there are different opinions about Guanning Tieqi in the future life, and the madman Lan doesn't plan to explore too much here, because this is just an online novel, for the sake of the plot, I will describe it like this for the time being, if there is a judge who disagrees with this statement, you can laugh at it. ）