On August 16, the first day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Tong Guan, the privy envoy of the Great Zhou Dynasty, left Tokyo with an army of 100,000. They hurried along the official road from Tokyo to Jeju, and within a day they entered the Heungin Mansion on Jingdong Road, and it was evening when the army was stationed outside the city of Jiyin.

Located on the south bank of the Wuzhang River, Jiyin Fortress is the first big city from Gyeonggi Road to Jingseo-ro, and it is also a prosperous place. The Son of Heaven's close court, the privy envoy of the court, personally led the army, which made the officialdom of Xingren Mansion instantly busy. The prefect Zhang Rong received the documents of the imperial court more than ten days ago, for this moment he has made full preparations, in the afternoon of the same day, he led the officials of all sizes to welcome out of the ten miles, and diligently put Tong Guan and other officials into Jiyin City, and then waited diligently for the beautiful wine and food. The officers and generals were naturally happy and overjoyed, and they let the 100,000 soldiers in the camp outside the city go freely.

Let's say that in a small village called Miaocun on the bank of the Wuzhang River in the west of Jiyin City, a merchant ship has been here since a few days ago, and then it has been anchored there for some reason. Soon after the officers and soldiers set up camp, it untied its cable and went east.

That night, Tong Guan and his gang rested in Jiyang City after eating, drinking, and having fun, and some of the generals in the camp didn't care that they went to bed early. When they arrived, some fleets slowly came from the downstream by the Wuzhang River outside the temple village, and they docked on the river bank scatteredly, and finally reached as many as 100.

In one of the boats, Ruan Xiaowu and Xu Guanzhong made a strong request, saying that since its establishment, the Second Naval Battalion had not been able to participate in the big war, and that the members of the battalion had been training every day to be useless, and that the good time today would go ashore to participate in the stealing camp no matter what.

Yuan Lang felt the same way on the side, his fifth infantry battalion has been idle since it was stationed at Lijia Daokou, and tonight it was also because Jiyin was far away from Lijia Daokou and did not affect the task of defense, so he came under the hard fight. At this time, seeing that Ruan Xiaowu was anxious, he couldn't help but help:

"Director Xu, it's really a waste to leave all the 1,500 manpower of the junior five brothers on the ship, it's better to put them ashore and kill a few more officers and soldiers."

"As you wish, leave five hundred men to watch the ship, and the rest will move with the five battalions of infantry."

Xu Guanzhong saw that what the two said was reasonable, so he responded. The five and seven battalions of infantry, the second and fourth battalions of sailors, a total of 7,000 men, according to the news sent back by the outposts along the way, calculated the right time to enter the Wuzhang River from Shuibo, and in the afternoon Wang Dingliu sent the news of the officers and soldiers stationed in Miaocun, they quietly assembled at the scheduled time.

At about the end of the day, the rear camp of the officers and soldiers suddenly caught fire, and in an instant the grain and fodder burned into a piece, and when the officers and men were panicked and chaotic, two teams entered from both sides of the rear camp, one left and one right. The red-faced and yellow-bearded man on the left was Yuan Lang, and I saw him make the two water-milled steel-making Laos like they were in a no-man's land, and flesh and blood flew everywhere he went. The one on the side is Ruan Xiaowu, he is like a hungry wolf, suddenly smelling blood, his eyes are like copper bells, and the long knife is like killing chickens and cutting vegetables. On the right side were the seventh battalion of infantry led by Lu Zhishen and Deng Fei and the fourth battalion of sailors led by Fei Bao and Ni Yun. Lu Zhishen quickly tore a crack in the barracks with a Zen staff like an iron plow, and Deng Fei was excited to participate in the battle for the first time after joining Liangshan, and his already red eyes were almost dripping blood.

Let's say that the 100,000 officers and soldiers are from the eight major military states under the jurisdiction of Tokyo, and they are not familiar with each other, but the rear army is the soldiers and horses of Chenzhou and Xuzhou

Wu Bingyi and Li Ming, the capital supervisors of the two armies, stayed in Jiyin City, and a few of the leaders were frightened by this sudden attack, and they didn't know how to deal with it, but they just passively retreated to the back with the flow of defeated people. And connected with the rear camp is the Chinese army battalion, stationed in the 20,000 forbidden troops in the capital, the back camp sudden riot, the front few camps of the officers and soldiers also woke up, but they don't know what the reason, the third watch in the middle of the night and the chief officer is not there, one by one stick to the camp and dare not come out.

The forbidden army of the Chinese army was already superior, and at this time, looking at the swarming rout, they would let them in, but the officers and soldiers of Chen and Xu were chased and killed by the rear and had nowhere to retreat, and at this time they were blocked by the friendly troops in front of them, and they were furious, and they didn't know which side made the first move, and after a while, the two sides fought around the wall.

"Order the battalions to slow down their attacks and withdraw in half an hour."

Xu Guanzhong stood outside, seeing that the battle situation had turned into a civil war between officers and soldiers, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately ordered the attacking battalions to change their methods and turn the attack into an expulsion.

In just half an hour or so, just as the infighting between officers and soldiers intensified, the Liangshan battalions quietly withdrew from the battlefield.

In Jiyin City, Tong Guan was woken up by his subordinates after a whole hour, and when a group of people gathered together and hurried to the city, the barracks were already full of fire and killing.

"What's the matter, why did the rear battalion fight with the forbidden army?" Tong Guan glared at Wu Zhengyi and Li Ming, and asked viciously.

And these two people have just come out of Gentle Township, and they know the reason, but they are staring at each other with big eyes - looking at each other.

"Why don't you hurry out of the city and take a look, the pestle is here to see the excitement!"

Tong Guan looked at the stunned generals and was angry. And these people just woke up from a dream, and hurriedly gathered their own soldiers and went out of the city.

It was not until dawn that the chaotic battle slowly subsided with the full strength of the commanders of all armies, but by this time the battalion was full of dead and wounded, and the rear battalion had lost most of its baggage. The losses in Chen and Xu were even more serious, with nearly half of the 20,000 horses killed and wounded, almost losing their combat effectiveness, and the forbidden army also suffered nearly 2,000 casualties. What's even worse is that the soldiers of Chen and Xu Prefecture did not save the forbidden army when they saw death, but instead dealt a dead hand to them, and they were all angry, and the armies of other states were also secretly cold, so an invisible crack grew in the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

After many investigations, Tong Guan and others finally knew that last night's riot began with the sneak attack of two troops of unknown origin, and through half a day of verification, it was learned that there were many unknown boats docked on the bank of the Wuzhang River last night. He was about to rush to take revenge, but he had just lost most of the grain and grass, and he couldn't set off for a while, so he had to replenish it on the spot, and after a delay of two days, he set out of the camp.

Because the march by the river suffered a big loss, Tong Guan and others knew the benefits and disadvantages of the Liangshan water army, so they crossed the Wuzhang River from Jiyin to the north, and went to Liangshan by land through Puzhou. However, as soon as the large army went north twenty or thirty miles, the cavalry of Liangshan continued to appear along the way, and they rode in groups of three or four hundred, surrounding the officers and soldiers to attack day and night, and they were exhausted. After walking for three days, the officers and men finally arrived in Chengshi County. Tong Guan ordered to set up a camp, and then together with Zhang Zhixian of Chengshi County, who came to greet him, he summoned the generals to discuss the matter together.

"You have all seen that the small group of cavalry mosquitoes of the grass cobs are generally annoying, if you don't give them some benefits and take a look, I will not be at peace from time to time, I am afraid that I will die of exhaustion before I reach Liangshan, you can have a good plan."

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These days are also deeply disturbed, at this time, seeing Tong Guan asking, everyone exchanged heads, but it was Duan Pengju, the governor of Suizhou, who opened his mouth first, only to see him say:

"I am not familiar with the terrain here, and I don't know if Zhang Zhixian knows that there is a place to hide soldiers here."

"More than ten miles east of the county seat, there is a place called Maling, which is on the side of the road, and there is a small hill in the south of the village in the shape of a saddle, which can hide thousands of people."

"That's good, tonight we will first ambush more than a thousand horsemen there, tomorrow when the thief riders will come to harass them, and then suddenly kill and cut off their retreat, and they will be able to strike a blow."

Tong Guan saw that he thought it was good, so he asked, "Who wants to go?"

And everyone here was like an old monk and no one answered, and when Tong Guan was about to speak, he saw that Duan Pengju looked at Li Ming and Wu Bingyi and said with a smile:

"From the point of view of the last general, this merit has to be given to Li Ming and Wu Bingyi, who just suffered a big loss from Liangshan Caokou a few days ago, and they just breathed a sigh of relief."

"In the lower Xuzhou army, the camp is full of wounded soldiers, and there are more than 1,000 elite horsemen, but the Suizhou army is strong and strong, and this plan is what Duan Dujian thinks, he must have more experience than others, and this is not your work."

When Li Ming saw Duan Pengju making fun of him, his heart couldn't help but get angry, and then he slammed back coldly.

Wu Zhengyi sat on the side and immediately opened his mouth to agree, and the other eunuchs also wished that someone would come forward and suffer, so they immediately agreed.

Duan Pengju didn't expect that he would be burned, but he was helpless, but he didn't take this group of wanderers seriously, so he said:

"If you don't want to, you can go down, but three or five hundred horsemen can help me!"

At that moment, Tong Guan set up a battle strategy for tomorrow, and the generals prepared to go.

It is said that Duan Pengju returned to the camp and selected 1,500 elite cavalry, and quietly went to Maling at about midnight in the second half of the night, under the leadership of the guide sent by Zhang Zhixian. It was only the time of the pillar incense, and they arrived at the destination, Duan Peng stood outside the mountain and looked at the saddle-shaped mountain nest, thinking that it was really a good place to set up an ambush, and he couldn't help but say coldly in his heart, and he made a great contribution when the old man stayed, but it made those ghosts who were afraid of death red-eyed, so he immediately led the cavalry into the mountain nest.

Early the next morning, the officers and men set out for camp as usual, but after a short journey, the harassing enemy cavalry followed on time.

"Straight lady thief, let these grass cowards be arrogant for a while, and they will definitely let them know the interests of the master." Tong Guan walked in the Chinese army and scolded fiercely.

"Don't worry, General Yumei has led the forbidden army to ride in the rear camp, as long as you cross the horse ridge, you can surround the front and back of Duan Dujian, and you will definitely let everyone breathe a bad breath."

Bi Sheng stood on Tong Guan's side and said lightly, he looked at the group of cavalry who fell far behind, like a plate of delicacies on the table.

Soon the army passed Maling Village, and Tong Guan specially slowed down the whole army, but after a long time, there was no movement behind Maling, and everyone couldn't help but be confused.

"General Yumei led the troops to attack, rode the thief to the horse ridge to drive away, and see what happened to Duan Pengju."

Tong Guan couldn't stand it anymore, so he gave an order.

Soon, I saw thousands of elite cavalry of the forbidden army coming out from the rear army, and the enemy cavalry really retreated in the direction of Maling.

Tong Guan and the other generals stared wide-eyed, staring at the thief cavalry that was gradually approaching the ambush site, but until they left the ambush area, they did not see the slightest movement in the mountain nest.

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