"Sigh the law ......"

The wind roared and the horses roared, and the cavalry of the Three Banners of the Jingwei Battalion slept in the open air, traveling 150 miles a day, and finally arrived at the ambush site on the morning of the sixth day.

Liu Ce turned over and dismounted, squatted on the ground to check whether there were any car footprints, and Wu Zhenying and Chu Zijun, who were in the same flag, also surveyed the terrain together......

"Judging by these hoof prints, the most recent mass of centaurs passed here at least a month ago, which means that we are now ahead of most of the thieves."

Listening to Wu Zhenying's slow and methodical analysis of the terrain, Liu Ce couldn't help but nodded.

"The thieves are marching loosely, and there are a large number of baggage transports, even if my Jingwei battalion is thousands of miles away, it is expected to catch up with them, and in my opinion, it will take at least three or four days for the thieves to reach this place." Chu Zijun was in good spirits, his knights were not subordinated by Chen Qing, which made him very excited, indicating that the main department of the general Zhengqi had the potential to become cavalry, and he didn't care much about the power of the cavalry when he heard Liu Ce talk about it on weekdays.

"You're good." Liu Ce approvingly: "Being able to accurately analyze the movements of the enemy's troops, and meticulously survey the surrounding terrain, has the potential to become a general." ”

"Thank you, General, for the compliment!" Chu Zijun and Wu Zhenying clenched their fists at the same time, and there was a burst of ecstasy in their hearts, it seemed that the general was very optimistic about himself.

"I said the truth, but this is far from enough, whether your analysis is correct or not, wait for Su Wencan to come back and make sure." After Liu Ce finished speaking, he waved his hand and motioned for them to settle the soldiers and horses.

Guo Tao saw that there was a good forest on the road when he came, so he proposed to Liu Ce: "General, the forest ahead is good, can you camp there and wait for the thieves to arrive?"

Liu Ce nodded in approval, and everyone immediately led the horses into the forest and began to cut down branches and thin trees to keep warm.

Sun Biao lit a bonfire with pine resin hay, and then the crowd gathered around to push the horses to the ground and place them behind them, took off their leather gloves, and put their frozen hands on the fire to roast.

"Here, take a sip!" Sun Biao took out a pot of wine bag and handed it to a soldier, who was not polite, took a sip, and then handed it to another soldier on the side, and returned to Sun Biao after the last lap.

Alcohol was forbidden in the Jingwei camp, but considering that the weather was really cold on this expedition, Liu Ce made an exception to bring a small amount of alcohol per person to ward off the cold during rest. But you must not get drunk, otherwise the consequences of the punishment will be very serious, and it is very likely that you will be dealt with according to military law!

"Sun Baichang, anyway, I have nothing to do now, you can tell us a few of us about your deeds with the general in the Thunder Army."

"Yes, yes, let's talk about it, we all want to know."

Seeing that everyone was constantly urging, Sun Biao simply patted his thigh and said, "Okay!" I said, I remember when the general first entered the camp, I was secretly shocked when I saw him, and I felt that this man would not be easy in the future......"

Just when Sun Biao made up the deeds of himself and Liu Ce, and told the story beyond recognition, Su Wencan came back with a few horsemen......

As soon as Su Wencan saw Liu Ce, he immediately dismounted and hugged his fists and said: "General, my brothers and I have explored more than forty miles in the direction of Gaoyang, and there is no trace of a large number of thieves, according to my estimate, it should still be a hundred miles away." ”

Liu Ce said: "How do you find out that the thief is a hundred miles away? ”

Su Wencan said: "The last general will investigate the whereabouts of the thieves, deliberately climbed the hillside to watch, there are not many people in the distance, only the jackdaw and birds surround, so it can be concluded that the thieves are a hundred miles away from here, if the general does not believe it, I am willing to personally go to the thief brigade to investigate......"

"No need, I believe you, a few of you are tired, go to the forest to roast the fire, and rest." Liu Ce was satisfied with Su Wencan's words.

"Thank you for your care." Su Wencan answered and walked towards the forest, Liu Ce looked at his back and wondered if it was time to train a special intelligence scout.

Qin Mo rubbed his hands and said, "General, in this way, our army should be ahead of the thieves now, and then wait for the four divisions of Yang, Feng, Han, and Xu to arrive and converge, and then they can start a war with the thieves." ”

Liu Ce said: "Where are Yang Kaishan, where have they been?" ”

Qin Mo thought for a while and said, "According to the time, there should still be three hundred miles away from here. ”

Liu Ce closed his eyes and pondered for a while, then said: "The battlefield is changing rapidly, if Xu Hui and they can't catch up, then they must also make a complete strategy, this batch of materials must be taken no matter what, this is related to the survival of my Jingwei battalion!" ”

Three hundred miles away......

"Hurry, hurry! Run, the generals must have arrived, and the fighters must not be delayed! "Yang Kaishan's headquarters is constantly urging the soldiers under his command to hurry.

Most of Han Feng on the other side also galloped quickly, each of them had a pair of bows behind them, collected the bowstring, and wrapped the bow body in a piece of cotton cloth to prevent it from getting wet and affecting its use.

Feng Chou Nian was also trotting all the way, he straddled the horse and couldn't help but shout to speed up the pace, if you don't hurry up, let alone eat meat, maybe you can't drink the soup.

Xu Hui's troops drove mules and horses among the four banners, and the carriages were loaded with marching food and hundreds of sets of light vests, ordering the whole army to follow steadily on the side of the army and never fall behind.

……

In the dense forest of the Yihekou Plain, Liu Ce leaned against a big tree and closed his eyes to rest, all he had to do now was to wait, waiting for the big war to come.

"Huh?" Suddenly, Liu Ce jumped down from the tree violently, Sun Biao not far away also got up suddenly, and Chu Zijun and Wu Zhenying also came to Liu Ce's side together.

"In the west, the sound of horses' hooves, more than 100 horses, and many footsteps, with armor leaves, less than two miles......" Sun Biao knelt on the ground in one ear and reported the number of people and the distance approaching on the opposite side.

Liu Ce's face was solemn, and he said to Chu Zijun: "Zijun, you quickly go and inform Chen Qing and Guo Tao to prepare for battle!" ”

Chu Zijun agreed and quickly sank into the secret camp, and after a while, different sounds sounded, quickly extinguished the fireworks, and quickly assembled, hiding in the depths of the dense forest and waiting for Liu Ce's next instructions......

"Could it be the Liudaokou thief who came to answer it?" Liu Ce secretly figured it out, but judging from the estimated number of people, it seemed that it was too small, no matter what, eat these people first.

The sound of horses' hooves is getting closer and closer, and there is already a black dot imprinted in Liu Ce's eyes not far away, he motioned to everyone behind him to calm down, Su Wencan has already adjusted the strength of the bowstring, and a feather arrow is on the string......

"Huh~" The hundreds of centaurs, led by a man in his forties, were wearing a tiger-faced silver armor and holding a glaive knife, but there were still undried blood stains on the armor. I saw him grab the reins of his horse and say to a soldier beside him, "Where is the front?"

The soldier's face was pale, his lips cracked slightly from thirst, and his expression was full of exhaustion. He stepped forward and looked at it a few times and said, "General Qiyu, ahead is Yihekou...... There is no ambush in the plains here except for the dense forest......"

"Send someone to investigate, the thieves shouldn't ambush an army here, right?" The leader said.

At this moment, a soldier fell down with a "bang", and everyone hurriedly stepped forward to help, only to find that he had lost his breath.

Immediately, the horsemen also fell, and soon they were dead.

Another soldier pleaded bitterly: "General, they are all tired to death, rest down, brothers have not closed their eyes for four days, how could the thieves have expected us to march here?" ”

"For four days in a row, there have been more than ten battles with the thieves, sixty horses have been lost, and now there are less than two hundred soldiers in five hundred armor, and almost everyone is injured, so tired that they can't run."

I saw the general shouting, "No! We have been delayed for too long, and we must rush to Caizhou City as soon as possible to meet Lord Xue and inform him of the situation in Liangzhou Province......"

"But...... The brothers really can't walk anymore, so you can pity and pity us, rest for a while, drink a bowl of hot water, and get some game to satisfy your hunger before you hurry! ”

"Yes, General! Rest! ”

Seeing that the generals couldn't stop pleading, the general's eyes flashed with unbearability, and he pondered for a while and said, "Okay! Just rest for an hour! But you can't rest here, in order to prevent the thieves from sneaking up, you must go to the dense forest ahead, take their bodies with you, and set off immediately. ”

"Thank you, General!" The soldiers knelt down and thanked each other, finally relenting.

"Brothers, don't worry, when I see Lord Xue, I will definitely ask him to reward you, and the brothers who died in the war will also have a bereavement pension, and I, Xue Peng, will never treat my brother badly." The general named Xue Peng saw that the soldiers under his command had no fighting spirit, so he couldn't help but cheer up.

But the effect was not very ideal, everyone was still glazed, and a soldier said: "I don't want any reward, just let me sleep well now......

"Alas......" Xue Peng sighed and walked towards the dense forest......

Although Liu Ce in the dense forest didn't know what they were talking about, he had already seen that there were less than two hundred people, but all of them were wearing iron armor, and the more than twenty war horses were extraordinary at a glance, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

"These two hundred sets of armor are good, just enough to make up for the armor of a banner......" Liu Ce had already made up his mind to snatch it, although these people in front of him looked like warriors of a hundred battles, and they seemed to be more powerful than the rogue soldiers they had encountered before. But what about that? Seeing them so tired, no matter what the purpose, these people are already meat on a sticky board, to be slaughtered by themselves.

Thinking of this, Liu Ce said to Wang Cheng: "Prepare to blow the trumpet and end the battle within a quarter of an hour!" ”

"Yes!" Wang Cheng took out the horn and was about to blow it, but was immediately stopped by Qin Mo.

"General, no! They are not thieves! Qin Mo was in a hurry to stop the Jingwei Battalion's attack.

Liu Ceqi said: "Could it be that Mr. Fei knows them? ”

Qin Mo said: "The iron armor worn by those soldiers, as expected, is the escort of the Xue family in Shengzhou. ”

Liu Ceqi said: "So what?"

"The general doesn't know, Xue Peng, Xue Yi and I are close friends of the Xue family's guards, and Mo guarantees with character, they are different from the official army! They are all heroes among people! Please also ask the general to sell me some thin noodles, don't embarrass them. ”

"Hmm......" Liu Ce thought for a while, and suddenly waved his big hand and roared: "Array!" Out of the forest! ”

"Woo woo woo woo~" horns sounded throughout the dense forest.

In an instant, the entire forest shouted in unison, and in addition to Chen Qingbu, Liu Cebu and Guo Tao Bubu slowly walked out of the dense forest with seven hundred spears......

"General!" Qin Mo never expected that Liu Ce would not listen to what he said, and actually led the army to take the initiative to meet him, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat!

"Enemy attack! Array! Xue Peng and his subordinates were taken aback, they never expected that there was really an ambush in the dense forest, and hurriedly ordered to form a formation to meet the enemy.

"It's ...... Rogue? How do you feel that this equipment and this momentum are more terrifying than the Thunder Army?" Looking at the spear formation that slowly ended, Xue Peng's mind was a little bad, and the army in front of him felt that he couldn't express it clearly in words.

Although Xue Peng's face was shocked, wounded and exhausted, the one hundred and ninety-six soldiers still quickly formed a team of five, holding swords, shields, spears and other weapons in their positions, ready to start fighting again at any time, they joined the Xue family's escort team from the first day to kill and be killed, they were used to life and death......

"Stop!" Liu Ce shouted, Wang Cheng's headquarters immediately sounded a drum and trumpet, and the seven hundred soldiers of the Jingwei Battalion immediately stopped at a distance of about twenty paces, and the two hundred soldiers in the first two rows aimed their cold spears at Xue Peng's army in front of them.

This kind of order is forbidden, and the neat and uniform military formation makes Xue Peng frightened and can't help but be amazed, "This is an absolute elite army!" Xue Peng thought to himself, not to mention that his two hundred people are tired and injured now, even if the five hundred people are in peak state and waiting for victory or defeat, it is still unknown, when will the thieves have such an elite army?

Liu Ce stepped forward and said to Xue Peng: "Don't you surrender yet?" ”

"Humph!" Xue Peng lost on his horse, and the glaive knife in his hand was slowly raised, "My Xue family guard only has soldiers who died in battle!" There are no bastards who surrender! Rogue! Let the horses come! ”

Liu Ce smiled and said, "The Xue family? Dare to ask if you are Xue Peng or Xue Yi?"

Xue Peng's eyes narrowed and said: "This general is Xue Peng, if you have the courage, just step forward, I will cut you with the glaive sword in my hand!" ”

"Oh?" Liu Ce smiled playfully, "Courage is commendable, since this is the case, then I'm not welcome!" Throw guns! ”

"Ding!" A crisp bronze impact sound sounded from Wang Cheng's hand, but he saw that more than 100 gunners in the last row of the rear were ready to throw......

"You ......" Xue Peng's eyes widened, he never expected that the young man in front of him would not play cards according to common sense and send people to fight alone, but chose the most shameless way. Look at those throwing guns, once they are thrown, I am afraid that I and most of the soldiers under my command will have to explain here. It's not terrible to die, but I'm afraid that it's worthless to die like this.

"General, no! Never! At this moment, Qin Mo hurriedly ran out to play a round, fearing that if Liu Ce gave an order, nearly two hundred Xue family guards in front of him would be wiped out......

"Mr. Qin? It's you! Xue Peng recognized Qin Mo at once, but then said with a cold look in his eyes: "Mr. Qin, I, Xue Peng, respect you as a person, why do you want to join the thieves and help the abuse?" You forget about the Far East......"

Qin Mo hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, General Xue, you really misunderstood, this army in front of you is not a thief army, but this General Liu's righteous army, Jingwei Battalion!" ”

"General Xue, let your people put down their weapons, I will not embarrass you." Liu Ce said slowly, seeing that Xue Peng was about to refuse, he immediately opened his mouth to block his words and continued: "Now, if I really want to harm you, I won't talk so much nonsense with you, your soldiers are already tired, go into the forest with me to recuperate, and some words will be said first, what do you think?" ”

"This ......" Xue Peng fell into deep thought, he glanced at Qin Mo, knowing that it was impossible to join the thieves with his character, he couldn't help but believe it a little......

"If the general refuses......" Liu Ce saw that Xue Peng was still hesitating, and said coldly, "Then forgive Liu for not giving Mr. Qin face, to tell you the truth, my Jingwei Battalion has a big thing to do here, and I will never let you leave, and in order to avoid accidents, General Ben can only let you shut up forever." ”

"I can't believe you, but I believe in Mr. Qin, brothers, lay down your arms!" Xue Peng thought about it for a long time, but finally put down his weapon, and soon everyone walked towards the dense forest under the leadership of the Jingwei Battalion......