Zhou Kexiao heard that the thieves had arrived in the city, and he knew that it would not work without some blood at this time, so he discussed with He Renlong: "General He, I have been the magistrate of Ningzhou for less than half a year, and I can't get out the extra silver, so I will give you five thousand taels first, and I will borrow the rest from the silver number firm in Ningzhou." ”

Cao Wenzhao persuaded He Renlong: "Brother He, this is better than nothing." The military situation is urgent, so we hurry out of here. ”

He Renlong glared at Deng Xizhao, and then said to Zhou Kexiao: "Lord Zhou, you must give me the salary within three days, otherwise don't say that Lao Tzu is not polite!" ”

Cao Wenzhao and He Renlong left the drunken immortal building, went straight to the north city gate, and climbed the tower to watch the enemy.

On the tower of Ningzhou City, Cao Wenzhao pointed to the banner in the distance and said to He Renlong: "Brother He, this group of people is playing the banner of the word 'Chuang', it must be a high thief who came out of Pingliang, today is the day of my shame, I will go out of the city first, and take the head of the high thief back." ”

He Renlong was unhappy, he muttered: "Dog Day's ball, Brother Cao, I will also go with you to kill the high thief!" ”

Cao Wenzhao stopped him: "Brother He can't leave, this Ningzhou City still needs to be guarded." ”

He Renlong said: "Then let me go first." ”

"I'm the manager, of course I'll go first." Cao Wenzhao did not allow He Renlong to argue, "Besides, your men and horses are still waiting for you to pay the silver, so you will go to Zhou Kexiao wholeheartedly, and if he doesn't pay the silver, you will not send troops." ”

He Renlong felt that Cao Wenzhao was reasonable, so he didn't fight with Cao Wenzhao anymore.

Cao Wenzhao returned to the barracks and ordered Cao Bianjiao, Liu Chenggong, Liu Guozhen, Feng Ju, Ping'an, Wang Ximing six generals, and 3,000 Guan Ning iron cavalry to kill Ningzhou City.

Outside the city of Ningzhou, before the two armies fought, the more than 10,000 cavalry of the thieves fled in the direction of Zhenning, Cao Wenzhao rode on the horse hahaha laughed wildly, laughing at this group of cowardly thieves, and ordered Cao Bianjiao to lead an elite division to fight the vanguard in front, and he led the brigade to the rear of the palace.

Cao Bianjiao was not an idle person, led a thousand iron horsemen, chased and killed dozens of miles all the way, and traveled to a place called Xianzi in Hutou Town, and the thief suddenly disappeared.

Liu Chenggong, who joined the army, reined in the reins of the horse and said to Cao Bianjiao: "General Cao, the thieves don't know where to go, I'm afraid that they will be cheating, let's stop the pursuit and wait for Cao Ye's army." ”

Cao Bianjiao waved his whip: "Bastard! We are the vanguard, we are only allowed to move forward and not stop! If you don't see the thieves, you will split up and chase them! When he had finished speaking, he rode his horse southeast without looking back.

"Liu joins the army, what should we do?" A small colonel asked from the side.

Liu Chenggong waved his hand: "Let's go too!" He led three hundred men to the northeast to search.

However, it was said that Liu Chenggong led three hundred iron horsemen around a depression and came to a forest, the forest was not big, but it was surprisingly quiet. Liu Chenggong, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, had a premonition that the situation was not good, and he turned the horse's head and wanted to retreat.

Suddenly, there were murderous sounds all around, and before Liu Chenggong could say "withdraw", a large number of thieves appeared in front and behind him, and the thieves were also cavalry, surrounding Liu Chenggong's 300 iron cavalry regiment in the middle.

The junior colonel asked, "Liu joins the army, what should I do now?" ”

Liu Chenggong shouted loudly: "Rush out for me!" ”

What he didn't expect was that these thieves were not easy to deal with, and he led his men back and forth to kill for several rounds, but he couldn't break through the siege.

He was in a cold sweat, and now he was not thinking about how to kill the thieves, but how to break out of the encirclement, the little colonel who was following him was being slashed and killed, the little colonel fell off his horse, in the messy grass, desperately wailing and calling for help, but he was unable to lend a hand, he could only watch his subordinates being killed by the thieves, because he was besieged by several thieves at that time, and he could not protect himself.

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Cao Bianjiao's side also encountered an ambush, they came to a low point, suddenly the drums were loud, and a group of cavalry rushed towards him desperately, and the formation of seven hundred horsemen was immediately disrupted, and the thief cavalry cut them into two sections, so that they could not look at each other.

Cao Bianjiao deserved to be a fierce general, and a unicorn broadsword in his hand slashed left and right in front of the thieves, killing seven or eight thieves at once, stabilizing the morale of the army. He was desperate to kill his enemies, and he slashed at the depth of the thieves at all costs.

Killing and killing, he obviously felt that there were fewer and fewer people around him, and when he looked back, he was horrified in his heart, the team of seven hundred people, there were only a dozen people left behind him.

He didn't dare to kill again, and if he continued to kill like this, he would eventually become someone else's meal. This Gao Junshan is too powerful, every time I meet him, I fight very hard, unlike other thieves, who will be scattered as soon as they fight, and the subordinates of the high thieves are desperate to fight with you.

This time, he knew that he had been ambushed, he didn't care about it, he took the lead in the battle, and wanted to use his momentum to overwhelm the high thief, but he didn't expect the high thief to be so determined to fight, and he couldn't break up and fight.

"General Cao, we can't go any further!" The lieutenant general who followed him shouted Ping'an.

Cao Bianjiao took the reins and turned the horse's head, and he wanted to kill back to find his subordinates.

At this moment, the thieves suddenly routed on all fronts and fled to the forest area to the east, it turned out that Cao Wenzhao's army had arrived, and Cao Bianjiao breathed a sigh of relief and hurried to gather the remnants.

"Grandma's bear!" Cao Wenzhao, who was riding on a horse, scolded as soon as he saw Cao Bianjiao, "How did this battle go?" Lying on the ground are all their own brothers? ”

Cao Bianjiao hurriedly dismounted and saluted, and then explained: "This high mountain is too powerful, it dares to set up an ambush for me here, but fortunately, the brothers fought bravely to kill the enemy, so that the situation improved." ”

"! Hurry up and count the number of people! Cao Wenzhao was very displeased.

Cao Bianjiao went to count the number of people.

At this time, Liu Chenggong was carried in front of Cao Wenzhao, and Cao Wenzhao saw it and hurriedly dismounted to visit Liu Chenggong lying on the stretcher.

Liu Chenggong was seriously injured, and he said weakly to Cao Wenzhao: "Master Cao, this thief is too powerful, General Liu Guozhen died on the battlefield, and I have become what I am now." ”

Cao Wenzhao wiped Liu Chenggong's tears with his hand, and said to him with concern: "Bingran, you go back to Ningzhou first to recuperate, and we will avenge General Liu." ”

After Liu Chenggong was carried away, the anger in Cao Wenzhao's heart finally broke out, he pulled out his sword and slashed the ground frantically, and scolded with a daze: "Hateful Gao Junshan, Lao Tzu must break your body into thousands of pieces today!" ”

At this time, Cao Bianjiao counted the casualties and ran over to report to Cao Wenzhao: more than 500 thieves were killed, 413 horsemen were killed, Liu Guozhen was killed, and Liu Chenggong and Wang Ximing were seriously injured.

This result was unacceptable to Cao Wenzhao, he ignored the fatigue of the soldiers, and ordered a pursuit, that is, to chase to the ends of the earth, he also wanted to exterminate this group of thieves. Under the supervision of Cao Wenzhao, he chased and killed thirty miles all the way to the Diaoling Pass.

Carved Lingguan.

Diaoling Pass is a pass of Shaanxi Meridian Ridge, Meridian Ridge is a branch of Qiaoshan Mountain Range, it is between the Jing River and the Luohe River two major water systems, Ningqing in the west, Yan'an in the east, Yaozhou in the south, Yanbian in the north, stretching for 800 miles, across Ningzhou, Zhengning, Heshui, Huachi. Diaoling Pass is located in the hinterland of the Meridian Ridge and is the commanding height of the Meridian Ridge. Here are mountains and mountains, dense forests, pine waves, birds singing and flowers.

To the west of Hutou Town is the Diaoling Pass, Gao Junshan had been here many times before the crossing, and he knew the terrain here well - of course, before the crossing, so Liu Hongru's plan to set up an ambush here, Gao Junshan agreed.

The rout of Xianzi was not a real rout, but a deliberate defeat, with the purpose of luring Cao Wenzhao to carve Lingguan.

Originally, Gao Junshan meant to send a group of men and horses in the place of Xianzi as a soldier to lure the enemy, which is the method commonly used by soldiers to lure the enemy of "only defeat and not victory";

Liu Hongru did not approve of this, he believed that Cao Wenzhao had always despised the rebels, always fought more with less, and did not take the combat strength of the rebels into account, as long as he sent an elite division to ambush in Xianzi, bite him fiercely, and let him bleed, according to Cao Wenzhao's character, he would never give up. I'm sure I'm going to chase after it.

Gao Junshan adopted Liu Hongru's tactics, and the result was as Liu Hongru expected.

In the Diaoling Pass, the main force of Gao Junshan's four teams, about 50,000 horses, was the main force of Gao Yigong, Liu Fangliang, Li Busi, and Li Guo.

After the Red Army Friends and Ma Zhi'an completed the task of ambushing and luring the enemy into the depths of Xianzi, the two cavalry teams, under the instruction of Liu Hongru, detoured back to Jijiashan in the west.

"The officers and soldiers are coming!" The general in charge of the sentry rode back to report to Gao Junshan, who ordered the whole army to wait for the order to attack.

The dial of Gao Junshan also shows the traces of Cao Wenzhao's pursuers, and the dial clearly shows that Cao Jun is drilling into the ambush circle of the righteous army.

Gao Junshan's watch is tailor-made for him by the high-energy neutrino application center, which applies advanced neutrino technology, the satellite map can be opened on the watch screen, and there are positioning settings, and the high-energy neutrino application center also intimately installed an S generation bio-sensing system for him, through neutrino rays, it can detect organisms within ten kilometers, if there is a red dot on the watch screen, it means that there are creatures nearby.

However, it was said that Cao Wenzhao led Cao Bianjiao, Feng Ju, and Ping'an San to continue to pursue the thieves, and chased them until Ziwuling, and the team stopped in front of a straight road, which was about four feet wide, with green grass knee-high between the roads, and trees beside the road covering the sun.

"Master Cao, there are traces of the army passing by, indicating that they have hid in the mountains." Ping'an pointed to a straight road up the mountain and said to Cao Wenzhao.

"Follow this road to Lao Tzu to chase."

They chased for five miles, and there was a wooden door in front of them, and on the left side of the wooden door hung five wooden signs, square and square, with the words "Soldiers and Horses Inspection Division" written in red letters on a black background. The door had been broken, the debris was scattered and there was no one around.

"Grandma, a bear! What about the garrison here? Cao Wenzhao howled loudly.

Feng Ju explained: "Master Cao, there is only one guerrilla and thirty brothers guarding here on weekdays, and seeing that this wooden door has been broken, it must have been martyred. ”

Cao Wenzhao was furious: "Continue to chase Lao Tzu!" ”

Feng Ju stopped Cao Wenzhao again: "Master Cao, the terrain here is dangerous, we can't blindly march into the army, we must leave a team of men and horses to guard here." ”

Cao Wenzhao nodded and said, "Annoying Gao Ming (Feng Ju's character) stays here." ”

Feng Ju said categorically: "Master Cao, you can rest assured that I Feng Ju is here, and this place is foolproof!" ”

Cao Wenzhao left 300 cavalry to guard the gate, and he took less than 3,000 cavalry to break into the ambush circle of Gaojun Mountain.