Yang Zhi, Niu Gao and others went to the camp to rest for a while, people ate, horses ate, and it didn't take long to hear the big drum of the gathering generals, and the soldiers came to inform that Wu Song and Zhu Wu had gathered everyone to discuss things.

In the big tent in the army, Wu Song made it in the middle, sitting in the main general's position, next to the military division Zhu Wu, and dozens of other generals were on both sides.

Zhu Wu had already let people open the huge battle map early, which was the battle map of Dongping Mansion.

Wu Song said: "There is something important to discuss when we call everyone over in the evening, and I just visited the Malay newspaper that the enemy's main force is only sixty miles away from the northwest boundary of Dongping Mansion, and it will arrive tomorrow evening at the latest." Although we can defend the fortified city, the Daimyo's army is a guest army, and it is difficult to ensure that the military discipline is not good, so I discussed it with the military advisor and decided to send troops to meet the enemy at the border. ”

Huang Xin nodded and said: "This kind of worry is not superfluous, when I was in Qingzhou, the officers and soldiers suppressed bandits, and the soldiers with loose military discipline were more terrible than bandits, burning and looting villages, and there were many dead and wounded. So I had to guard against it. ”

The generals nodded yes, no one can say for sure in this situation, anyway, it is good to prevent it in advance.

Zhu Wuyi pointed to one in the border area of Dongping Mansion and said: "This town is called Hukou Town, there is a river blocking the way to the northwest, only in this Hukou Town, the river water is very shallow, as long as the Daimyofu army comes to Dongping Mansion, it must pass through here, otherwise it will have to make a detour of more than 100 miles, if it is a small group of cavalry more than 100 miles, it is nothing, but tens of thousands of troops must not be cost-effective to go around so far." As long as you stick to this tiger's mouth, you will definitely be able to stop the Daimyo's army. ”

Niu Gao said: "It's so important, what else to discuss, let's hurry over." ”

Who goes to Hukou Town, who stays in Dongping Mansion, this is a very important matter, after discussing for a long time, Zhu Wu led more than 1,500 infantry to stay in Dongping City. Wu Song, Huang Xin, Yang Zhi, Niu Gao and others led 3,000 infantry and 1,500 cavalry immediately rushed to Hukou Town.

The march at night is very hard, especially the infantry, but the quality of the three thousand infantry trained by Wu Song is excellent, except for the collision of passwords and weapons, there is almost no sound of speech, the three thousand soldiers are lined up, and the first to walk is a thousand soldiers with sabers, these thousand soldiers are tall and burly, wearing strong armor. These thousand soldiers are comparable to Li Kui and Bao Xubu's plate axe soldiers and giant sword soldiers, and they are all teams that can beat the cavalry with infantry.

It was followed by more than 1,000 archers, followed by 700 sword players, and finally 300 artillerymen. The mule cart pulled the cannons and shells, a total of 100 tiger squat cannons, all of which were light infantry tiger squat cannons weighing 120 kilograms, and the power was okay.

A night of rapid marching, in the middle of the night to reach Hukou Town, Wu Song, Yang Zhi and others watched the terrain and sure enough, a river blocked the west of the town, the river water did not freeze, tried to be more than two meters deep, only a hundred meters of river beach is very shallow, only half a meter deep, there is a stone bridge on the river.

The cavalry perimeter was on guard, the infantry camped, and the camp was only done after dawn, and the soldiers were also tired, and they slept in the tent one by one, Wu Song led five hundred soldiers on duty, and the others slept.

There was nothing to do in the morning, and the soldiers had breakfast and only had a little training before resting, after all, what was needed before the big war was rest, not intense training.

A horse rode into the camp quickly, came to the account of the Chinese army, flew off the horse, and flew to report the account: "Hu Yanzhuo has led three thousand troops to arrive ten miles away, and there is no intention of camping, it seems that he wants to come directly." It was only ten miles away from the army behind. ”

Wu Song's face sank like water, and said, "Come so fast, go down, and explore again." Wu Song asked Tanma to continue the reconnaissance, looked at the generals and said: "The Daimyo's Mansion Army has this speed, which shows that it is also well-trained on weekdays, and Hu Yanzhuo's elite chain horse actually started to be the vanguard army, presumably Na Suo Chao still has palpitations after eating the defeat of Battalion Commander Yang and Battalion Commander Niu." ”

Niu Gao said: "If you want to say that you are psychologically afraid, you must still be scared, if you don't believe it, I will take someone to tease him and frustrate his spirit." ”

Yang Zhi said: "Hu Yanzhuo is a person with superb martial arts, and there are many fierce generals under him, so you need to be careful." ”

"Look at me, I'll only take fifty horsemen, and I promise they won't chase them."

Wu Song said: "Fighting a war depends on morale, if you can thwart Hu Yanzhuo's sharp spirit this time, you will be credited with your first merit." ”

Niu Gao said that he would take his troops out of the camp, and only took fifty cavalry to cross the river, and stopped after walking for two miles, because Huyanzhuo's army was not far away, and at most it was two miles.

Niu Gao said to the deputy general Zhou Daodao: "Put the wine jar." ”

It turned out that each cavalryman also carried three or four wine jars, and the cavalrymen put down the wine jars, lined them up, and then remounted their horses. Hu Yanzhuo led the army slowly, and the heavy cavalry was already neatly draped, but it was not connected with iron chains.

In front of him was a thousand light cavalry led by Han Tao, and when he saw Niu Gao leading fifty people, he dared to stop the army and was very angry, and immediately waved the jujube mallet, this weapon is a weapon similar to a spear. Han Tao shouted: "Where did the thieves come from, they dare to be so rampant and dare to stop the army. ”

Niu Gao said to Zhou Tongyi next to him: "Go, go up and beat him." ”

Zhou Tong waved the overlord gun and rushed up, the two did not report their names, and fought directly in one place, Zhou Tong's martial arts have improved a lot recently, and Han Tao has killed more than 30 rounds and still has spare strength, Niu Gao was worried that Zhou Tong would not be defeated, so he immediately came up to change back to Zhou Tong, waved his double gong and Han Tao fought in one place, as soon as the twenty rounds passed, Han Tao felt invincible, after all, he and Zhou Tong just had a fierce kill. Immediately, he waved his arm and shouted behind him, "Rush." ”

A thousand light horsemen rushed up, and Niu Gao puffed up and said: "You kid is playing tricks, playing group fights, my brother is not playing, and he is leaving." ”

After saying that, Niu Gao turned around and left, and Han Tao didn't dare to chase after him, because Niu Gao had already changed his bow and arrow, and Han Tao didn't dare to chase after him for fear of being hit by the arrow.

Han Tao suddenly found more than 100 wine jars lined up separately on the ground in front of him, and he was immediately frightened, stopped his horses, and shouted loudly: "Stop." ”

Fortunately, it was light cavalry, and it finally stopped.

The front team changed to the back team, and slowly retreated.

Niu Gao saw that they were no longer chasing, and came back with troops, and said with a smile: "Han Tao, why don't you chase, you come here." ”

Han Tao was not fooled: "You guys come out, let's fight here, and I promise to blow you up a black boy." ”

Niu Gao was most annoyed by others saying that he was black, and immediately shot an arrow as fast as a meteor, and shot at Han Tao with a whoosh, and the frightened Han Tao blocked it with a jujube wood gun.

"If you don't come, we'll sleep." Niu Gao and others deliberately dismounted and slept against the wine jar.

Hu Yanzhuo came up and asked, "What's the situation?" ”

Han Tao pointed and said, "General, please look, there is a wine jar in front." ”