In front of Wuyang Pass.

A group of thirty or fifty Liangshan cavalrymen were resting in a small forest three or four miles away from Guancheng. Suddenly, I saw Wuyang Pass, the city gate was opened, and a hand danced with a double gong, and the horse galloped. Behind him, 100 horsemen followed.

When the head of the Liangshan cavalry saw it, he cried out in surprise, and then shouted loudly, calling everyone. He lifted his blade, and his arrows flew onto the war horse, and the soldiers under him shouted and shouted, and they had already jumped on the horse!

Dozens of people shouted and urged the iron riders to rush out of the woods.

On the open ground in front of Wuyang Pass, one hundred and ten cavalry attacked with the momentum of thunder. The head of the Song Dynasty will have a face like black paint, and his body has grown. He wears an iron helmet on his head, a pair of iron chain armor on his body, and a soap robe underneath, tightly bound with a scarlet tape. Riding a black horse, carrying two four-fluted iron shovels. Isn't it Niu Gao who showed up in the book earlier?

This person was originally fighting with Zhong Xiang and Wang Qing on Jinghu South Road, but Lu Qian's troops entered the Central Plains, and the momentum was like a bamboo, Liang Fangping was urgently transferred to the northern line to garrison, and he was brave by nature He was the vanguard of the Song army's imperial camp, and was put directly by Liang Fangping to Wuyang Pass, which is a very critical place.

The leader of the Liangshan cavalry is an unknown person, but he can be a leader in the horse exploration ranger, which is also a bit arrogant.

The Horse Ranger is like a scout in later generations, the elite of an army.

A cruel smile flashed at the corner of this person's mouth, is this Zhao Song's horse army? This time, he followed the army to sweep the Central Plains, and it was the first time he had seen it, which was really fresh. There was actually a Zhao Song army that dared to take the initiative to launch an offensive against them, or a group of horse troops.

Holding his saber aloft, his eyes staring coldly at the enemy.

Their Horse Rangers are not combat troops, and frontal charges are not the strong point of the Horse Rangers. First of all, they did not have strong iron armor, and even if the blades were only light weapons such as swords and bows, even the arrows were light arrows. Because you can shoot far!

Duty made them give up heavy armor and heavy weapons, and mobility was the first need for horse exploration and riding. But this team didn't take the opposite Zhao Song Ma Jun in their eyes at all.

Not to mention anything else, just looking at the war horses of the horse army opposite, they are inferior.

The man raised his sword and rushed forward. Dozens of horsemen behind him shouted loudly and followed closely. Thirty or fifty horsemen faced twice as many enemies as they were, but they showed no sign of retreat. This is because they already have a concept formed in their heads - Zhao Song's army is unbearable, as long as our army charges, the other side will be defeated.

It's not that the entire Liangshan army is arrogant, but that this period is going too smoothly. Where did it go, and the army had already reached Wuyang Pass. Seeing that the entire Central Plains is completely started.

Niu Gao danced with a double gong, and saw that instead of riding his horse and fleeing, the other party launched an attack. His face is even angrier, so crazy! It's really crazy!

How many of them are there? How many of them do you have?

Don't mention Wuyang Pass behind him, just say that now, there are a hundred horsemen behind him. But was ignored by the thirty or fifty horsemen on the opposite side?

This is simply treating our army as nothing!

For the military, this is a great shame.

Just as he was thinking like this, he saw a puff of arrows coming at him, and a pro-rider behind him fell down in response.

The armament of the cavalry of the Song army was not bad, and this Peng arrow did not make a contribution. However, the commander of the personal soldiers on Niu Gao's side also bent his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow, and a thief rode on the opposite side of the horse, obviously hit by an arrow. But Niu Gao just wanted to cheer, but he saw the man who was hit by the arrow straighten his waist, sat up straight, cut off the arrow on his shoulder blade with a knife, continued to wave his blade, and rushed forward with a roar.

"How brave are the thief riders?" Niu Gao's face couldn't help but froze.

Two armies meet! The queue of the Niu Gao Horse Army was really smashed to pieces. The Liangshan cavalry is not to say that they are all the survivors of a hundred battles, but those who can be selected to explore the horse and ride are not comparable to these cavalry under Niu Gao in terms of individual combat effectiveness. And the defense of cotton armor is not weaker than that of leather armor, but it suffers from the lack of that heavy weapon. But even so, there was no suspense in the battle, and Niu Gao was deeply impressed by the fierceness of the Liangshan cavalry.

These people are wearing thin armor, which Niu Gao has never seen, and it is very similar to cloth armor. But the ground is brave. As soon as he had passed away, he saw the two thieves being knocked off their horses with swords and spears, and then wielding their sabers and slashing at the horses' hooves. He had never seen such an elite soldier before.

"The pickled bird, almost killed me!" The commander of the pro-soldier commanded and rushed over, and on the armor, the traces of several sharp blades were clearly visible. even changed the war horse, and the horse under his crotch was cut half of his butt with a knife, and the fault was not that he was lucky, it was really about to break.

The Liangshan cavalry on the opposite side turned around and rose non-stop, and did not make any further efforts to rush over, because the Song army on Wuyang Pass saw that the situation in Niu Gao was not good, and they had already blown their horns. And Niu Gao himself was brave and unstoppable, and only one blow broke the right arm of the leading team, and the team that was heavily injured in the back was directly lost in the formation. The rest of the team will not fight again.

Two Song cavalrymen carried a seriously wounded Liangshan sergeant and threw him under Niu Gao's horse. The man's cotton armor had been pierced, the wound was on his chest, his flesh was blurred, his shirt had already been dyed red, his arms were broken, and one of his legs was broken. People can't move, they can't even live. However, the eyes of others were wide open, but there was not the slightest hint of fear at this moment. His chest was rising and falling, and blood was constantly spilling out of his mouth.

The man tried to open his mouth, but it was so small that he couldn't speak. Niu Gao looked at this person coldly, he wanted to see a trace of weakness and a trace of prayer in this person's eyes. It's a pity that ......, no!

"Give him a ride." Niu Gao said expressionlessly.

The words came out of his mouth, and a smile appeared on the man's face, and the commander of the pro-soldier next to him made the iron cone gun in his hand go straight down! A shot in the chest. From beginning to end, there was not a trace of weakness on the latter's face.

"Commander, since there are small groups of Liangshan rangers here, then the army brigade ...... men."

The Song army and horse army were limited, and their combat strength was not good, so they were unable to investigate the situation in the north, and they had been blockaded for many days. And there is probably no one in the Xinyang army who is willing to report for them.

In this way, for ten days in a row, Niu Gao became deaf and blind. But there is a steady stream of military intelligence in the rear. The Liangshan army had already captured Nanyang, and Li Kui, who was pacified by the Jingnan Road, led the remnants of the army to retreat straight to Xiangyang, and Dengzhou was not wanted. The Liangshan army can now reach Xiangfan directly. If they suddenly attack Zaoyang and Suizhou, won't it cut off Niu Gao's back road?

Now that the Liangshan army is appearing in front of the pass, it is difficult for them to withdraw, the pro-army commander reminded.

Although Wuyang Pass was dangerous, it was also far away from the main force of the Song army. If they encounter a large number of enemies here, Shangfeng must not want to teach them to abandon the pass and flee. In that case, the situation is not good.

Niu Gao was silent, he naturally knew that the situation was very unfavorable to him. How many Liangshan troops were there in the north? What is the purpose of these people?

His mind is also a mess.

But he knew that the cavalry like Shicai did not need much, only three or five hundred cavalry, and when he abandoned the pass and went south, when the morale of the whole army was low, it would be a big problem.

While he was thinking about it, he suddenly heard someone report in a loud voice that a military order had arrived in Guannei and told him to return to Guanzhong quickly.

This is an order to withdraw the army, Liang Fangping told Niu Gao to lead his troops to retreat from Wuyang Pass, and together with the defenders of Jiuli Pass and Pingjing Pass, retreat to Xiaogan and Hanchuan.

There is the Hanyang Army, and there is a garrison in Ezhou, which is across the river.

The main battlefield of the Liangshan Army and the Song Army in this battle was in Xiangyang, and even if there were Liangshan infantry cavalry there, it was at most a partial division.

Niu Gao's task is to defeat, or at least resist, this detachment. The Hanyang Army is the bottom line!

Suddenly, the order called all the generals in the pass to be discouraged, and before the battle started, they were going to abandon the dangerous pass, and Liang Fangping put himself in the position of a weak person first. Even though the Imperial Camp Forbidden Army is indeed weaker than the Liangshan Army, it is also frustrating.

Niu Gao was originally a black face, but now it has become the bottom of the pot. But no matter how angry you are, you have to obey military orders. It is said that Liang Fangping is not thin for Niu Gao, if Niu Gao can win in Xiaogan-Hanyang Vice Battlefield, he will definitely be able to go further!

But withdrawal is not something that can be simply retreated. The Imperial Camp Forbidden Army is not the elite of a hundred battles, although it can be a battle, but the morale of the army will fall when it withdraws from Sanguan, and then it will be killed by the Liangshan Army, and the consequences will not be good.

If the camp is pulled out on the same day, the flag is left on the close, the sheep is tied in front of it, and the two feet are hung on the drum, and the drum is beaten.

Outside the city, the Liangshan Army rangers saw the banner of the city head unfurled and there were bursts of drums, how could they detect the truth from the fake? It was only two days later that he realized that if he wanted to chase him again, Niu Gao's army had already gone away.

But Niu Gao's line was not smooth, and he ordered soldiers and horses at Anzhou School, and found that the soldiers on Jiuli Pass and Pingjing Pass only came back with five thousand people and insufficient. You must know that each of the two divisions can have more than 1,000 soldiers stationed there.

However, after the soldiers and horses of the three passes were gathered together, the sentinels he stayed in Yingshan County reported and found a team of sneaky people. Pressed to Anzhou to be sent under the Niu Gao tent.

This person was interrogated, and it was a deserter from the Jiuliguan garrison. The angry Niu Gao was about to push them out and cut them down. It was at this time that a bad news came, a partial division of the Liangshan Army had broken Zaoyang and Tangcheng, and now it was approaching Suizhou.

This is not allowed to be extravagant, and the defenders of Suizhou will either surrender in Kaicheng or flee in a hurry; Sure enough, less than a day, another Tanma Fei reported: "At most ten miles ahead, there is a remnant of an officer and army, under the banner of square characters, about three or five hundred people are fleeing. There was a Liangshan foot soldier chasing after him.

The situation is urgent!

The local soldiers in Anzhou were already trembling, if it weren't for the presence of Niu Gao's army, they would have surrendered at this moment. And the governor of Na'an Prefecture can still maintain two points of calm. can not be calm to keep Anzhou, all this depends on Niu Gaojun.

Anzhou's soldiers and horses all listened to it, and they were busy brushing their faces in front of Niu Gao. "So that the general knows that the word must be Fang Peng, the commander of the soldiers and horses of Suizhou, and this person can make a Fang Tian painting halberd, which is quite brave."

Under such circumstances, it is indeed extraordinary to be able to escape to Anzhou with people. After all, this is an era in which "those who flee from the wind are brave, those who flee when they hear the wind are brave, and those who flee by mishearing are brave". Niu Gao hummed in approval, at least the Anzhou soldiers and horses in front of him couldn't succeed.

"Command, this is a good opportunity." Since it is the remnants of the official army, the Liangshan thieves will not send a large team of men and horses to chase and kill. Suizhou is a state city in the end. And this is not a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for Niu Gao's army?

"Gather the soldiers and meet the enemy with me! I still don't believe that this Liang thief has an extra head than us? Niu Gao was obviously aware of it. This is the difference between a soldier and a civilian. The people in Anzhou City were already trembling with fright, and Zhizhou was only forced to calm down, how could he see this fighter?

It's just that the terrain of this Anzhou city is flat, there is no danger to rely on, and there is no ambush warfare. Niu Gao was not afraid, and as soon as he thought of this, he ordered loudly: "The whole army is ready to fight!" ”

If you can't fight an ambush war, you can fight a frontal battle. The Liangshan army is only a small team, hundreds of people, but he has more than 4,000 troops under him, how can he be afraid of them?