"Thousands?" Wang Shangli and Miao Zhenzong glanced at each other, and they both saw a strong suspicion in each other's eyes.

A thousand people is a considerable force, and it must be paid attention to in any case, the question is what the Chu army sent thousands of people in this direction for? It doesn't make sense!

"Are you mistaken, did they raise the flag?" Wang Shangli quickly thought of the reason, the other party might be Yunnan soldiers who came from the west of Guiyang, if they sent a lightly armed vanguard and happened to take the wrong road, they might run to the northwest behind the mountain. In addition, there is another possibility that the baggage troops of the Chu army are transporting supplies to the 75th Division, and they will break into the battlefield in a daze when they don't know that the front is already fighting.

"They are flying the square flag of Chu thieves, but the flag is unknown."

The Chu army and the western army both wore the red battle flag of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Kefan according to the custom of later generations, stipulated that the battle flag of the Chu army must use a rectangle, after the war between the Western army and the Chu army, in order to facilitate the identification of friend and foe, only triangular battle flags were used, which were easy to distinguish from each other.

"That's the Chu thief's grain transport team." Wang Shangli came to a conclusion very confidently, and said: "Since the thieves have sent them to the door, we can't let them go." ”

He ordered Miao Zhenzong to lead a thousand soldiers to eliminate this confused Chu army's baggage troops, although the other party also has thousands of people, but it is an auxiliary soldier with no combat effectiveness, and it is even impossible to guarantee that one person has a self-defense weapon, and using a thousand soldiers to deal with them is definitely a knife for killing chickens, in order to speed up the march, these thousand soldiers are wearing convenient light armor and leather armor, and there are no clumsy and sluggish ironclad soldiers.

This is the credit of picking up in vain, there is almost no risk, it just takes some effort, after Miao Zhenzong set off, he divided a thousand soldiers into several ways to advance, like a fishing net to open a search formation, the unarmed auxiliaries saw the enemy attacking in a big way, they would throw down the food bags like frightened rabbits and scatter and flee, it is not easy to destroy them all, deploy troops in advance, you can catch more prisoners.

Walking the Wuli Mountain Road to the southwest, bypassing two low mountain bags, and chasing out a section to the west, Miao Zhenzong did not find the Chu army grain transport team, nor did he encounter other Western army scouts, he stood on a high place, and looked carefully again within the line of sight, all around are very ordinary mountains and hills, there is no trace of the brigade of men and horses, if the Chu army grain transport team is in this area just now, it is impossible to leave so quickly, it must have been discovered.

"You're still mistaken, there are only a hundred and ten thieves at most, maybe less."

Didn't catch the expected fat sheep, Miao Zhenzong was very frustrated, turned around the mountains and mountains, it was a very hard task, but he didn't even see a single hair of the Chu thief, since the other party was not the Chu army's grain transport team, and it was determined to play the Chu army's square flag, then there is another possibility, they should be the Chu army's scout team, the number may exceed a hundred people, the western army scouts because they were too nervous, and seriously exaggerated the other party's strength, thinking that they had a thousand people.

In the battlefield where nerves are highly tense, this situation is very common, even the most experienced scouts, it is difficult to keep calm when they encounter the enemy in a hurry, most of the first-hand information they provide is chaotic and wrong, there are often contradictory phenomena, and they must be confirmed before they can be used, after Wang Shangli received the report of this scout, he did not send anyone to confirm, so he sent Miao Zhenzong to chase down the grain transport team of the Chu army, mainly because the troops were doing nothing, and there were dates and no dates.

The scouts move quickly, they must have gone far for such a long time, and it is likely that they will be broken into pieces and scattered into scout teams with small goals, trying to find and eliminate them in this heavy mountain, which is more difficult than capturing Tuyun Pass, Miao Zhenzong did not make such a futile effort, only added a few groups of sentries on the nearby mountain, and ordered them to raise a smoke alarm when they found an abnormality, and then led the troops to return.

On the way back, you can take a convenient shortcut, and Miao Zhenzong inserted it between the two mountains.

Go up the mountain, go down the mountain, cross a cheerful mountain stream, pass through a passage like a beast's mouth, Miao Zhenzong's eyes are cheerful - the sunrise peak is in sight, Tuyunguan is vaguely visible, the Nanming River is like a crystal shining jade belt inlaid between the mountains and fields, the mountains are like gathering from afar, the forest is like waves, and the red flag is rolling up closely, the swords and guns are like forests, and the scenery of mountains and rivers is magnificent.

Hey? Something wrong seems to have crept in.

Miao Zhenzong turned his head suddenly, staring at the two-zhang high red flag not far away, yes, I was not wrong just now, this is a rectangular red flag, and it is also a two-zhang high handsome flag, indicating that the generals under its banner are at least the generals of the general army and the deputy general, and the corresponding Chu army is about the division commander or even the army commander. The long snake-like procession filled the entire mountain road, and there was no way to see where the tail was.

"Tan Xiao!"

Miao Zhenzong was shocked, called out the name of the enemy general, and then came to his senses, pulled out his saber and shouted to the soldiers of the Western Army behind him: "Sons, kill the thief with me!" ”

When he rushed down the mountain road, Miao Zhenzong kicked the scout who reported the news hatefully: "What are you still doing in a daze? Hurry back and call the police to Gu Yuanhou, and say that I met the thief general Tan Xiao, and his strength is far more than 1,000, at least 2,000...... Well, two or three thousand. ”

This fool still made a mistake about the number of the Chu army, but it was not an exaggeration, but a more serious reduction and underreporting of the consequences, so that Miao Zhenzong is now in a very dangerous situation, with General Miao's rich experience, he knows at a glance that Tan Xiao's troops are at least two thousand, and they are all heavily armed soldiers, and his one thousand light armored soldiers are definitely not opponents.

Even if you know that you are invincible, you must also stand up to the battle.

The brave wins when they meet on a narrow road, this is the basic truth that every general knows, if he turns around and runs away now, he will be chased by the enemy by victory, but he will die faster, Miao Zhenzong hopes to hit Tan Xiao by surprise, and then retreat quickly, so that there will be a glimmer of life.

Sending that scout back to call the police was also just in case, in case Tan Xiao's troops were more than he estimated, send someone back to call the police to Wang Shangli, Wang Shangli could prepare for battle in advance, and he could also send troops to rescue Miao Zhenzong.

Tan Xiao was also taken aback by Miao Zhenzong.

According to the plan, he led 10,000 soldiers to rush to the battlefield from the west side of Tuyun Pass, preparing to skip Wang Shangli's front army, not to entangle with it, but to attack Liu Wenxiu directly from the flank, and strive to separate his middle army from the front army and the rear army, and then break through each one. The terrain and roads in this area have been repeatedly surveyed during the pre-war preparations, so the speed of the troops' advance is very fast, the vanguard of about 1,000 people smoothly bypassed Wang Shangli, Tan Xiao with more than 2,000 people quickly followed, and other troops, such as Chen Youlong's Zhenxiao soldiers, and Bian Xiang's Ningzhou soldiers were a little later on the left and right flanks, but as soon as they crossed a mountain bag, they collided with Miao Zhenzong.

How did the Western Army get behind the vanguard?

Tan Xiao's heart sank suddenly, the appearance of the Western Army Brigade here, indicating that his whereabouts had been exposed, and he was interspersed and divided by the enemy, which was not a good sign, although Tan Xiao had 10,000 soldiers, but marching in the mountains, the troops would inevitably lose contact with each other, and if Wang Shangli stabbed him in the waist, he was likely to lose the battle.

Seeing that Miao Zhenzong only had about a thousand people, and they were all lightly armored soldiers, Tan Xiao breathed a sigh of relief, it seemed that the Western Army was also in a hurry, at least it was not an ambush, and with more than 2,000 soldiers around him, it was not a problem to defeat the 1,000 Western Army.

"Brothers, kill the thief with me!"

Now it's a race against time, Tan Xiao quickly decisively decided, put the two thousand soldiers in his hands into battle at a time, and did not leave any remaining strength, of course it is very dangerous to do so, if suddenly an enemy army comes from other places, there will be no reserves will be very passive, but Tan Xiao has always been a fierce and rushing style in battle, regardless of three-seven-twenty-one, first smash the enemy in front of him and then say, this kind of tactics that do not follow the rules can sometimes achieve better results.

On the mountain road, on the hillside, the two armies launched an encounter, Miao Zhenzong only had a thousand light armor soldiers, and he was soon unable to withstand Tan Xiao's all-out onslaught, and he retreated one after another, suffering heavy casualties.

Seeing that the army was about to collapse and there was no possibility of recovery, Miao Zhenzong kicked down the general flag and shouted at the soldiers of the Western Army: "Sons, the thieves are fierce, withdraw to the camp with me!" ”

After shouting, Miao Zhenzong threw away his helmet, took off his armor, and turned around and fled backwards with only a saber and dozens of personal soldiers, and he had to run away, if he didn't throw away the bulky helmet and armor, Miao Zhenzong would definitely not be able to outrun those soldiers who were only wearing light armor, and he was likely to die heroically.

The enemy army was defeated, Tan Xiao immediately led the army to pursue, followed Miao Zhenzong's ass into the depth, and chased out four or five miles in a blink of an eye, getting closer and closer to Wang Shangli's main force, but because of insufficient intelligence, he was not sure of Wang Shangli's specific location, but he just knew a rough idea.

It went so well!

Some of his subordinates reminded him that Miao Zhenzong's Western Army came strangely and lost strangely, be careful that he was deceitful and lure the enemy, it is said that the combat effectiveness of the Western Army is not so weak, and Liu Wenxiu is not so careless, it is likely to set up an ambush in front of him, so that Miao Zhenzong can lead the main force of the Chu army into the ambush circle.

"Let's lure it, anyway, we've been exposed, what are we afraid of to lure the enemy? Liu Wenxiu set up an ambush is the best, Lao Tzu has 10,000 horses, so he can't eat and walk around. ”

Tan Xiao relied on the strong strength of his troops, and was not afraid of being ambushed by the Western Army, but he slowed down slightly after passing through some dangerous terrain places, sent scouts to reconnoitre, and then sent people to Chen Youlong and Bian Xiang to give orders, ordering the Zhenxiao soldiers and Ningzhou soldiers to quickly follow, propping up the two wings and advancing in unison, so as to cover each other...... Facts have proved that all these worries are superfluous, Tan Xiao did not encounter effective resistance along the way, only a few surrounding mountains, lit up the wolf smoke of the alarm.