Cao Bianjiao was eager for meritorious service, and since he came to Datong, he began to hear how powerful the Jiang army was, and how to fight the Manchu Tartars.

Later, even Hong Chengchou, who went to persuade Zhao'an, was humiliated by others and then snatched all his weapons, which made him even more unhappy in his heart, and he had long thought about leading troops to destroy this gang of thieves, so that he could give Yuan Inspector, Hong Chengchou, and himself this evil breath in his heart.

After all, he is also a famous warrior for his bravery, and the Liukou who chased him on the battlefield in the Central Plains cried for his father and called his mother, there was no way to go to the sky, and there was no way to enter the ground.

This pride accumulated on the battlefield was in his bones, and he would never allow anyone to be more brave than him.

Not to mention a thief army that started with horse thieves, even if the Tartar army came, he still dared to lead people to kill three in and three out.

Half of the 10,000 former troops he led were cavalry, so the march was very fast, and as he walked, he was getting farther and farther away from Yuan Chonghuan's Chinese army.

Moreover, he did not see half of the enemy along the way, which made him even more sure that this thief army only dared to hide in the lair when he heard the attack of the army, and prepared to resist stubbornly.

He now very much suspected that the news of the repeated defeats of the thief army was made up, and even the words of Li Yongnian, the commander of Datong, began to feel that he was making excuses for his incompetence.

Thinking like this in his heart, he naturally didn't take Jiang Jiajun in his eyes. As soon as it was daylight, he ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and continue to advance.

And seeing the slow movement of the infantry, he was even more anxious, so he simply handed over the five thousand infantry directly to the deputy general, and he took the five thousand cavalry first.

The adjutant general wanted to persuade, but Cao Bianjiao's eyes glared, and the adjutant general didn't dare to say much, so he had to let him go, and he accompanied him with 5,000 infantry.

Five thousand cavalry galloped towards the gourd valley, and it didn't take long to discover the enemy's tracks.

"Report! Lord Commander, enemy rangers snooping on the front. "Scout Pegasus Newspaper.

"Probe!" Cao Bianjiao was completely unafraid and ordered loudly.

After a while, the scout came again, and his voice was even higher-pitched: "I have found a group of enemy cavalry charging towards our troops. ”

Cao Bianjiao not only did not panic at all, but became excited when he heard the words, suddenly stepped on the stirrup and stood up on the horse, turned around and roared at the soldiers under his command: "Erlang, go with Lao Tzu to kill the thieves, let this gang of thieves see what the real Ming elite is!" ”

The five thousand cavalry of the Ming Army behind him also roared in unison, raising their arms and shouting: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! Kill the thief! ”

The roars of the five thousand people formed a rolling wave, and the momentum was terrifying, sweeping away in all directions, startling the birds in the nearby mountains and forests to flee overwhelmingly.

Seeing this magnificent momentum, Cao Bianjiao laughed loudly, drew a long knife, and galloped forward first, and the five thousand elite horsemen behind him roared again and again, following closely.

Five thousand horses kicked up billowing smoke and dust across the wasteland and swept away in a northwesterly direction.

After a while, the Ming army found that the scout said that a group of black-clothed and black-armored cavalry was rushing towards them, Cao Bianjiao shouted excitedly, accelerated suddenly, and rushed over with people, wanting to crush these thieves with mantis arms as cars in one fell swoop.

Seeing that the Ming army was so powerful, the black-armored cavalry rushed to the front and released a few arrows indiscriminately, so they shouted and turned around and ran backwards, obviously frightened by the momentum of the Ming cavalry.

Cao Bianjiao was a master of art and boldness, and he was not afraid of an ambush in front, and led 5,000 cavalry to chase after him.

The cavalry of the thief army obviously did not expect the cavalry of the Ming army to be so brave and ferocious, and some people kept falling from their horses with arrows, and the rest were even more frightened and ran for their lives.

Cao Bianjiao was full of pride in his heart, and made up his mind to destroy all the cavalry of the thief army, so as to let out the evil spirit that he had saved in his heart for two months.

Between the two sides chasing and fleeing, they chased out more than ten miles in the blink of an eye.

Only then did Cao Bianjiao find that the two mountain ranges in the distance, which were originally winding from west to east, suddenly tightened and cut off in front of them, forming a deep valley between the two mountains.

And in the middle of the valley stood a very tall fortress wall, crouching like a huge beast, opening its mouth to itself.

Is this the den of the thieves? There is such a tall city wall fortress, it is even taller than the city wall of Datong City or even the city wall of Beijing City!

When Cao Bianjiao was frightened, suddenly the soldiers beside him exclaimed: "My lord, look! ”

Cao Bianjiao came back to his senses, only to find that the thief cavalry who was chasing them just now with the lost dog suddenly split into two groups and ran to both sides, and as they separated, the blocked vision in front of them quickly widened.

A huge phalanx of infantry was waiting not far away, waiting for the Ming army to crash into it like a hunter waiting for a rabbit.

Cao Bianjiao was shocked in his heart, and then he realized that he had fallen for someone else's plan to lure the enemy.

The infantry phalanx in front of him was the real killer weapon commanded by Bai Shan and Jiang Chuan according to the plan.

The total strength of the Jiang army is currently about 27,000 people, and all but 10,000 cavalry are infantry.

Jiang Chuan only left 1,000 infantry in the city to guard the city, and in addition to 500 monks and soldiers to maintain law and order, the remaining 16,000 infantry were all put out.

The whole large array was arranged in a huge arc, with a depression in the middle and two wings protruding. With 3,000 heavy armor halberd soldiers as the front of the phalanx, divided into three rows, the first row erected a huge iron shield, the iron shield is stuck in the trench dug out, a thousand iron shields are closely connected, and the defense is impermeable.

At the same time as the iron shield was erected, 1,000 halberd soldiers stabbed 300 halberds nearly two zhang long obliquely from the groove left above the iron shield from the bottom to the top, and the soldiers were half-squatting on the ground, the tail of the euphorbia was pierced into a small hole in the ground to fix it, and the soldier's right arm clamped the halberd tightly about three-quarters of the way to the tail, and used three points and a line to stabilize the halberd.

The soldiers in the second row stood and stabbed the halberd, which was nearly two feet long, through the gap in the heads of the soldiers in the first row, and the sharp halberd heads blocked the space in the middle.

The third group of Euphorbia soldiers held their hands in the middle and back of the center to stab them from the top down, blocking the space below.

The three rows of halberd soldiers used their sharp halberds to form a dead forest with no dead ends in the upper, middle and lower corners and flashing with cold light, once the enemy collided head-on, the sharp halberd heads in three directions made the enemy unavoidable.

Behind the halberd soldiers were a thousand silver-armored swordsmen with a shield in one hand and a large sword in the other, showing only a pair of cold eyes, and they were arranged in two rows to prevent the first line of defense formed by the halberd soldiers from breaking through and quickly stepping forward to stop the enemy from advancing after being breached.

Behind the silver-armored swordsmen are six-thousand-meter crossbowmen, each equipped with a longbow and a crossbow, with a bow for long-range shooting and a crossbow for close-range shooting, which will give the enemy a full range of long-range strikes.

This was the frontal arrangement of the large array, and on the two flanks of the arc formation were two thousand spearmen, also in iron armor, and their defenses, although not as tight as those of the halberders, were arranged in the same formation. Although it is a little weaker, it is not something that the Ming army can collapse at the touch of a button.

Moreover, the two thousand Jiang family army iron cavalry, who were originally responsible for luring the enemy, also arrived on the two flanks of the large array to protect the vulnerable flanks and prevent the enemy from attacking the large array from both flanks.

And Jiang Chuan still has 3,000 reserves in his hands, and if the battle situation is unfavorable, these 3,000 reserves can be filled at any time to fill the weak defensive position.

This is an almost airtight death trap prepared by Jiang Chuan for Cao Bianjiao.

As long as Cao Bianjiao dares to rush up, Jiang Chuan promises that he can break the blood flow of his head.

And if Cao Bianjiao didn't dare to rush up and wanted to escape, it didn't matter. Although the infantry could not catch up with him, Ran Wu's eight thousand cavalry was still waiting for him behind.