"Marshal Qiqi, Wang Yanzhang has led his troops out of the mountain pass, which is less than two hundred miles away from Zhongzhou City, and it is expected to arrive in Zhongzhou the morning after tomorrow." Xuan Yingwei almost uninterruptedly transmitted Wang Yanzhang's movements to Xue Yang and the third battalion, who were secretly following him less than a hundred miles behind.

"Is there any news from the fifteenth battalion? Where are they now? Xue Yang nodded and asked.

"It's not clear for the time being, the 15th Battalion has not had follow-up news since it last delivered news on the way south to Zhongzhou three days ago." The Dark Guard replied.

"You send someone to search for the news of the 15th Battalion and report it immediately." Xue Yang frowned and said after sending away the secret guard, "This guy doesn't plan to intercept Wang Yanzhang on the road, right?" ”

"Report, marshal, news has come from the rear camp that General Xu Ying has had a final decisive battle with Zhang Guihou's army in the morning recently." The heralds in the rear came Xu Ying's decision.

"Immediately send an order to the deputy commander and chief of staff, the whole army of the third battalion immediately speed up, and the personal guard immediately carry out the task of sentry detection and interception, and be ready to enter the battle at any time." Xue Yang's eyes suddenly glowed, and he immediately began to convey orders. Xu Ying's decision meant that the decisive battle of Jingzhou had entered the final critical moment, and his mobile force, which was free from the main battlefield, had to divide the victory and defeat before the main force had not yet fought a decisive battle, and defeat the opponent's mobile corps, so as to provide the best reserve for the general staff.

When Xue Yang decided to speed up and bite Wang Yanzhang tightly, Li Yang outside Zhongzhou City had already commanded the fifteenth battalion to rush into Zhongzhou City, and under the surprise, Zheng Qi's personal guards, who entered the city in disguise to receive them, firmly guarded the gate of Zhongzhou City, and insisted until Li Yang's brigade entered the city. Although Zhongzhou's city defense has strengthened a lot after Xue Yang's sneak attack last time, the advantage of being hundreds of miles away from the main battlefield made the guards here not increase their vigilance during the day, and Li Yang decisively rushed into the city. After a day of fighting, the soldiers of the 15th Battalion successfully wiped out the defenders in the city and took over most of the grain, grass, baggage, weapons and equipment stored by the Xuanwu Army in the city. After taking these, Li Yang and Zheng Qi quickly withdrew the large army out of the city, handed over Zhongzhou to the people of the secret guard organization for defense, and after distributing the logistics materials of the Xuanwu Army to the local people as disaster relief materials, these people decisively began to organize a decent team to take over the city defense of the entire Zhongzhou City.

"Order the troops to advance towards the Anzhou Straight Road as quickly as possible, and let Xuan Yingwei immediately contact the marshal, and say that our army will set up an ambush tomorrow in front of the remaining veins of Dabie Mountain, a hundred miles west of Zhongzhou City, hoping that the marshal can lead the army to attack Wang Yanzhang's back road in a timely manner, and our 20,000 people will ambush him 50,000 people and fight a battle of annihilation." Li Yang asked Xuan Yingwei to pass the order, and immediately led the army along the straight road quickly.

This side is still waiting for Wang Yanzhang's ambush, but the Anzhou side has officially started fighting at this time, although Zhang Guihou's troops are more than twice that of Xu Ying, but he does not dare to be careless, although the third battalion is gone, but Xu Ying is still there, this Yuan Lingwu military lodge stationed on the plateau for more than a year represents a deterrent in itself. Sure enough, Xu Ying also began to radiate his own light after Xue Yang left, and as soon as the war began, he directly ordered his direct subordinate mountain battalion to charge as the first team, this predator trained in the northern Tibetan plateau was almost one-sided to disperse Zhang Guihou's troops in the forward, forcing Zhang Guihou to join the Chinese army's reserves into the battlefield in advance to stabilize the precarious situation of the forward, but even so it was still pressed and beaten by more than 10,000 people in the mountain battalion.

In this way, Zhang Guihou's troops were lowered by the strength of the mountain battalion, and the troops on his hand were instantly diluted, and after Xu Ying pressed all the horses and horses, there was no advantage, and the entire battlefield situation also changed from the previous situation of less to more to a stalemate. Seeing this, the commanders of both sides invariably led their own personal guards into the battlefield, hoping to use their actions to boost morale and turn the tide of the battle.

"Zhang Guihou, your time of death has arrived." Xu Ying came directly towards Zhang Guihou after rushing past the striker, and Zhang Guihou and Xu Ying also had the same idea, if the coach had an accident on the battlefield, then he would inevitably be able to reach the rhythm of collapse, so as to quickly end the battle.

"Luo Chun, take out the secret weapon for me, and give Zhang Guihou a hard blow when the time comes." Xu Ying couldn't help but sneer when he saw Zhang Guihou brandishing a long knife and rushing towards him, and followed himself to rush forward, "Dangdangdang" The three knives blocked Zhang Guihou's powerful moves, "Zhang Guihou, today I will let you see how gunpowder is used." After finishing speaking, he immediately turned his horse and retreated, and he actually withdrew from the battle circle with Zhang Guihou, only to see that more than a dozen guards gathered behind Xu Ying at this time suddenly raised a strange weapon in their hands, like a tube like a cylinder, aimed at Zhang Guihou, and each guard held a burning torch at some point.

"Be careful, big handsome." Xu Ying's guard's strange behavior also made Zhang Guihou's personal guards notice the abnormality, and hurriedly stepped forward and raised the shield in his hand to surround Zhang Guihou tightly, and hurriedly began to retreat.

"Ignition, launch." They retreated, Xu Ying was not polite, he waved his hand directly and began to ignite, only to hear the sound of "Zizi" in the air in an instant, and then only heard the sound of "bang bang" endlessly, and white pillars of smoke suddenly appeared in front of the guards, this kind of brass-colored pipe spewed out flames, and then the guards of the Xuanwu Army who were covering Zhang Guihou's retreat suddenly paused, and the shields in front of him were also shattered in front of everyone, and the flames brought out strange projectiles, It was like the speed of light to penetrate the shield and turn the people who were beaten by the Xuanwu Army soldiers behind him on their backs, and Zhang Guihou, who was in the center of the people, didn't know whether he was hit or pushed down, and he also fell down.

"Zhang Guihou, this time you are dead." Xu Ying laughed, stepped forward immediately, raised the long knife and swung it down after Zhang Guihou's pupils were suddenly enlarged, and Zhang Guihou's head was slashed with a knife, and he was immediately lifted up by the guards around him.

"Zhang Guihou is dead, the Xuanwu army surrenders immediately, otherwise there will be no mercy." Xu Ying's voice resounded like rolling thunder on the battlefield, and the guards ran all over the field carrying Zhang Guihou's head. This blow suddenly made the morale of the Xuanwu army completely fall to the bottom, and the bad impact of the commander being killed was quickly amplified, and at this time, the Tiance army once again made a big move, and the explosives were quickly launched by the ballista troops in the rear, and the violent explosion made these Xuanwu troops no longer have the courage to resist, and the entire Jingzhou battle ended the battle on the main battlefield, and the Xuanwu army that was completely demoralized put down their arms in despair, and was driven to the side of the open space by the soldiers of the Tiance army.

"Luo Chun, I'll leave it to you here, give you 10,000 people to follow the Anzhou garrison to deal with the morale of the prisoners, let Yang Yi escort these people to the north as soon as possible and join his team, and the rest of the people will immediately gather with me and set off to Zhongzhou immediately to support the marshal." After Xu Ying gave the battlefield order, he didn't care about the rest of the matter, handed over the aftermath to Luo Chun, the chief of staff, and led a force of less than 30,000 people, mainly from the mountain battalion, to Zhongzhou quickly.

Xu Ying's side ended quickly, but the war near Zhongzhou has not officially begun, and the news that Zhongzhou was taken reached Wang Yanzhang who was on the way, Wang Yanzhang was not surprised by this news, Xue Yang's thinking that his group of people can keep up is already very good, this opponent also makes Wang Yanzhang very admired, fighting is never eclectic, especially good at this unexpected sneak attack, it seems that he is never willing to fight head-on, This feeling of letting the enemy punch the cotton made Wang Yanzhang feel that his bravery and strength had almost no room to play.

"General Qiyu, news has come from the rear of our army, and the banner of the third battalion of the Tiance Army has appeared in the rear." Just when Wang Yanzhang ordered to speed up and rush to Zhongzhou, there was a hurried report from the rear.

"Rear? Xue Yang in the rear? And what about Zhongzhou? Wang Yanzhang was a little puzzled and said, "Can Xue Yang's speed be faster than himself?" ”

"Zhongzhou fell into the hands of the Tiance Army yesterday, and the banner of the third battalion of the Tiance Army was clearly seen when the last general escaped." A general beside Wang Yanzhang said without thinking, "How can they be faster than me?" Didn't they enter Zhongzhou City? ”

The general's words made Wang Yanzhang frown, and suddenly had an idea: "Don't care which one is true and which one is fake, let's rush to Zhongzhou as soon as possible." ”

"Since you're going to play a real or fake game, then I'm embarrassed not to cooperate." Wang Yanzhang said with a smile as he walked, regardless of the situation behind him, no matter which side Xue Yang was on, as long as he defeated the army on the Zhongzhou side, then the third battalion and Xue Yang would naturally appear in front of him honestly, so that everything would be easy to do.

Wang Yanzhang's acceleration quickly made Xue Yang behind him feel abnormal, but then Xue Yang understood Wang Yanzhang's plan, and Xue Yang was also very helpless about Wang Yanzhang's self-confidence, this kind of battlefield iron general really believes in the weapon in his hand at all times, but this time I don't know if the weapon prepared by Li Yang in ambush will work. This weapon, which was named "landmine" by the armament department, was only tested once during the battle in the river, and it is not known if it will work this time.

But soon, these were all erased from Xue Yang's mind, and it was reported that the third battalion began to speed up, still maintaining a distance of about twenty miles from Wang Yanzhang, and followed behind unhurriedly.

And when these two people came towards Zhongzhou one after the other, Li Yang had already arranged an ambush position in front of the remaining veins of Dabie Mountain. As gunpowder weapons appeared on the battlefield one by one and were used, the Military Academy of the Tiance Army also began to study professional tactics and randomly taught them to young generals who came to study, so that the battlefield and theory maintained a high degree of compatibility.

"General, let's go into the battlefield too. According to Xuan Yingwei's report, Wang Yanzhang estimated that there would be an hour before he arrived here. Zheng Qi looked at the time and said to Li Yang, who was in a trance.

"Tell the brothers to give me the banner of the third battalion and put it up on the mountain when the fight starts, let's make Wang Yanzhang completely unclear which is the real third battalion." Li Yang took his personal guards and commanded as Zheng Qi walked.

An hour passed quickly, and according to Wang Yanzhang's accelerated speed at this time, an hour would be enough for him to run a distance of about twenty miles, so this ambush was basically completed under Wang Yanzhang's nose, if it weren't for Xue Yang erecting the banner of suspicious soldiers in the rear at this time, maybe it would really reveal a flaw. However, whether there are flaws or not is actually not a big problem for Li Yang, his purpose is to tell Wang Yanzhang that he is Xue Yang and the third battalion, to attract the other party's attention to himself, so as to create opportunities for Xue Yang behind him.

Wang Yanzhang's team really appeared in Li Yang's sight smoothly an hour later, looking at the crowd that appeared near the horizon, Li Yang nodded and nodded towards Zheng Qi, who was in ambush in the distance, who had been staring at Li Yang's reaction, so he quickly understood what he meant when he saw this, and began to make final preparations.

Wang Yanzhang's forward had already entered Li Yang's position as he spoke, but there was no movement, but Wang Yanzhang obviously didn't realize this, his team of 50,000 Xue Yang was only 10,000 people, and there was basically no danger for him to set up an ambush.

But soon he was stunned, as the Chinese army brigade began to enter Li Yang's ambush circle, Zheng Qi really nodded to the soldiers who were watching him, and the flag bearer behind him quickly waved the red flag, and in an instant, this row of soldiers quickly pulled up the lead buried in the underground conduit, only to hear for a moment The originally quiet ground suddenly cracked, explosions came and went, the ground was blown up, and the sand and stones turned over turned into violent weapons almost in an instant and flew out, knocking those Xuanwu soldiers who blew up.

This time, Li Yang buried all the hundreds of mines stored in his hands on this road that is two hundred zhang long, and the hundreds of mines exploded together almost instantly and a gust of wind blew up, sweeping Wang Yanzhang's Chinese army brigade to a large area, after the explosion, in addition to the thick smoke, there was a wail, countless Xuanwu soldiers were blown away, and the rest were also carried up by the aftermath.

"Xue Yang, you're finally out." The tragic situation of the Xuanwu army made Wang Yanzhang breathe a sigh of relief, and asked the adjutant general around him to quickly reorganize his troops and horses, and he beckoned the unaffected troops of the vanguard to quickly seize the high ground on both sides, preparing to hold the commanding heights and then counterattack.

However, at this time, Li Yang waved his hand, and Zheng Qi's side also began to dispatch again, and the explosives package of the ballista brigade was quickly thrown out, and at the same time, the soldiers of the fifteenth battalion suddenly appeared on the two heights, and the battle was about to break out.

"Wang Yanzhang, since you came out, I will definitely not let you run away this time. Defeat you, Zhu Quanzhong, this time it should be over. Li Yang smiled, stood up and pulled up the banner of the third battalion behind him, and also announced the official start of this battle.

The loud explosion of "Boom" sounded the horn, and the smoke almost covered the eyes of the soldiers of the Tiance Army, and the whistling arrows became the most headache weapons for the soldiers on both sides, and the scattered arrows almost injured Li Yang by mistake.

"The guards are concentrated, let's go find Wang Yanzhang." Li Yang smiled slightly, looked at the guards gathered around him and smiled.