Zu Kuan rode on a sturdy tall horse, with a set of finely made scale armor all over his body, a layer of chain mail lining inside, and a well-made horse lance, slowly escorting the cavalry in the direction of Yongning County.

This time, because their whereabouts were detected by the scouts of the Xingtian Army in advance, his plan was exposed, so that a siege and annihilation battle that he originally planned was going to turn into a head-to-head confrontation, for this matter, he was quite unhappy, as a family member who followed the Liaodong general Zu Dashou all the way in the early years, Zu Kuan was already a general who was familiar with the tactics of war.

But in the early years, because of the killing of Yuan Chonghuan, the current court lost trust in their Guanning iron cavalry, which was a good army, but now it was torn apart by the imperial court, one stayed in the north of the Beijing division, led by Zu Dashou, to defend against the northern Tartars, and part of it was attributed to the door of the Wu family of Liaodong Jiangmen, and the town was guarded in the Shanhaiguan area, and these people were transferred into the Guannei to fight against these thieves, a good Guanning iron cavalry, by this time, it has long ceased to be as majestic as it was at the beginning.

But fortunately, after all, they are all northern athletes, although they have few achievements in the battle against Jiannu in the north, but since entering Henan, under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, their soldiers and horses are still a symbol of invincibility.

Those thieves from all walks of life who were making more and more fun in the Central Plains, under the front of their Guanning iron cavalry, all rolled up the hall and defeated the stragglers, so that after the thieves heard the name of his ancestor Kuan, they all avoided one after another, and finally cleaned up the large number of thieves in Henan, and finally lived in peace for less than two months, but I didn't expect to be transferred to deal with such a so-called Xingtian army.

Zu Kuanda didn't pay much attention to this battle in his heart, although he laid out such a game, he just wanted to save some strength to completely kill this thief army in a battle, so he could go back to the division to rest early, but unfortunately the opponent this time was very cunning, and he didn't jump into the set he laid down, which made him feel a little bad.

But even so, Zu Kuan is still full of confidence in the future war, since the ambush can't be established, then come to the battle with dignity, and defeat this group of thieves, they are the famous Guanning Iron Cavalry, how can they be invincible?

So after coming out of the mountain, he immediately scattered the night collection under his command, formed a strict warning curtain in front of the main force, and protected the main force and began to force in the direction of Yongning.

And these subordinates who followed Zu Kuan, at this time, they were also giggling on their horses, slowly moving forward, they didn't take this battle seriously at all, although they looked a little casual, but on the bodies of these iron horses, they all faintly exuded a fierce atmosphere, there was no warning signal at the moment, so they didn't feel the slightest nervousness at all, but as soon as the warning arrived, their guys would immediately become a gang of fierce gods, what a bullshit Xingtian Army, in their opinion, but still a gang of rabble, In the face of a soldier like them, it is nothing in their eyes.

However, Zu Kuan is still a little curious about this Xingtian army, although he has followed Lu Xiangsheng to suppress bandits in Henan in the past two years, but it does not mean that they have no understanding of the war in Shanxi and Shaanxi, and he still knows a little about this Xingtian army entrenched in the south of Shanxi, and he also knows that this Xingtian army is not too famous among the thieves from all walks of life, but it is a quite capable thief army, and it has defeated several Shanxi officials and troops in Shanxi, which makes the officials and soldiers in Shanxi and Shaanxi terrified. Don't dare to take action against it, in the past six months, the news about this Xingtian army has gradually decreased, but I didn't expect that near the end of the year, this thief army suddenly crossed the Yellow River and broke into the land of Henan.

Now as a strong army guarding Henan, they are the first to be transferred to this area, which makes Zu Kuan have some expectations, and also wants to meet this rumored very fierce thief army, to see how powerful they are, but for whether they can defeat them, Zu Kuan is still full of confidence, he just wants to see how long this thief army can hold out in front of the Guanning Iron Cavalry under his command.

"Report! General Qiyu, five miles ahead, I found a large army of thieves coming in our direction, please make a decision! Our night is not closed, we have already fought with their exploration horses, and we have beheaded several of them! A night did not stop and quickly ran back from the front of the team, turned over and dismounted, knelt in front of Zu Kuan, and shouted loudly.

"Oh? Got it! Revisit! Zu Kuan rolled his eyelids and waved after hearing this.

Ye Bu retreated, turned over and raised his whip, and immediately headed towards the front of the team again.

"Grandma's! This thief army is really bold enough to cover its body, since it knows that we are coming, it doesn't hurry back to Yongning County to hide, and it actually comes up to meet us! My lord, give five hundred men down there, and go up down and kill them! A subordinate general who was also dressed in iron armor immediately asked Zu Kuan for battle, and as soon as the general's voice fell, several of Zu Kuan's subordinate generals also shouted for battle, and wanted to go to the front to grab merit.

Zu Kuan sneered: "I don't know whether to live or die, they are new to this group of Shanxi Yankees, I'm afraid they don't know how powerful we are, and they actually bumped into us so straight, Lao Tzu wants to see what this thief eats and grows up, don't worry, since they are here, they can't leave, wait a minute, are you guys afraid that there will be no fight?" Let's all cheer up, let's speed up, catch up, meet them, since they don't know whether they are dead or alive, then let them see how powerful our Guanning Iron Riding is! In this battle, we will completely kill them and directly enter Yongning County! The general soldier of the province came to grab the merit! ”

After hearing this, the generals answered the order loudly, and galloped into their respective parts one after another, shouting loudly to their soldiers and generals, so that they could cheer up and speed up.

Immediately, the trumpets sounded in unison, and the soldiers who were sitting lazily on horseback all sat up straight, shook the reins, quickened the pace of their horses, raised a cloud of dust on the road, and rolled forward.

The distance of five miles is really nothing at the feet of the cavalry, although they have accelerated their speed, but in order to cope with the next big battle, these two thousand officers and soldiers still maintain a certain speed, preserving the horsepower of the war horses, but in the team, the casual atmosphere has disappeared at this time, and each soldier has an arrogant face, adjusting their weapons on horseback.

The quality of Guanning iron cavalry equipment is probably the most elite in the world today, under the accumulation of countless silver coins in the imperial court, they are compared to the general official army, basically everyone has armor, and all of them are iron helmets and iron armor, and the defense is quite high, which is also the origin of their soldiers and horses who dare to rush forward in battle.

And they are equipped with weapons and other cavalry are also very different, in the Guanning iron cavalry, the most common weapons are not ordinary cavalry commonly used knives, spears, horses, or cold weapons such as knives and sticks, under the countless silver investment of the imperial court, the Guanning iron cavalry is basically all equipped with hot weapons, the vast majority of soldiers are carrying a long pole of three-eyed guns, when the battle is about to charge, they often use the tactic is to first before receiving the enemy, with the three-eyed guns continuously towards the enemy array, After breaking up the opponent's formation with a dense line of lead, he swung his division to press it up, and used the three-eyed gun as a heavy weapon such as a long-handled iron hammer, and smashed it openly, often causing the enemy to be defeated in a big way.

And this kind of tactics, although in the face of the extremely fierce Houjin Tartars, may not be able to play a role, at least their Guanning Iron Cavalry is the only soldier in the world who dares to confront Jiannu in the field, so when using such tactics to deal with the poorly equipped wandering army, it can be said that it has been tried and tested repeatedly, and the wind battle will be won, and even the rare thousands of heavy cavalry under Gao Yingxiang, who was the best equipped among the exile army in the past few years, were still beaten to the point of losing their armor when facing them.

Therefore, with such a record, when these Guan Ning soldiers heard that the Xingtian Army was approaching them, they were not nervous one by one, and while marching on horseback, they began to take out the medicine gourd on their waists, and began to reload the three-eyed gun in their hands.

Half an hour later, on the horizon in the distance, a scarlet banner suddenly jumped up, and as the officers and troops marched, rows of soldiers with various colored feathers began to appear on the horizon, blocking the way of the officers and troops.

The night of the two armies and the scouts finally began to gather at this time, and they robbed their own casualties, and began to retreat to the two flanks of their own formation, and dismounted and gasped.

Before the two armies have come into contact, the scouts of these officers and soldiers have already fought with each other on a small scale several times between the two armies, and what surprised these arrogant officers and soldiers was that this time they were actually engaged with the scouts of the thief army, and they did not take much advantage, although they had a certain advantage after several battles, but the scouts of this thief army did not perform badly, and they were constantly attacking them tentatively. It has always suppressed the night of their officers and soldiers, so that they can't go too far ahead and spy on the deployment of the Xingtian Army, so that although they know that the Xingtian Army is head-on with the official army, they have never been able to break through the warning curtain of the Xingtian Army's scouts and approach the main force of the Xingtian Army to probe the military situation, this kind of performance surprised these Guanning Army, who were arrogant and accustomed to the night, so that they had to gradually shrink the search line and keep a distance from each other, so as not to be broken through by the scouts of the Xingtian Army, approaching the vicinity of their main troops.

And now that the two armies were close to the visual distance, their tasks were over, and they turned their horses' heads, shouted at each other and withdrew to their own positions to rest.

Zu Kuantima came to the front of the army and looked in the direction of the Xingtian Army's formation, but as his gaze swept over the opposite Xingtian Army's formation, the contemptuous expression on his face that he had carried all the way gradually retracted, and he gradually changed into a neat face, and even his loose shoulders and waist tightened at this time.