At dawn, there was silence on all sides, and although there were not many dozens of horsemen and horses in Zhang Heng's department, the sound of horses' hooves still quickly woke up the minions on the periphery of the thief camp.

When the minions who were awakened by the sound of horses' hooves saw that dozens of officers and knights dared to break into their own company camp of 10,000 or 20,000 people, they were all dumbfounded.

It wasn't until Zhang Heng's department got closer and closer that the clever ones came to their senses and shouted: "The official cavalry!" Officers and cavalry! ”

Although the shouts are sharp-pitched, they often stop abruptly.

Although the momentum of dozens of war horses was not large, it was not small, and the moment they rushed into the camp, it also caused a lot of confusion to this relatively sparse and weak simple camp in front of them.

Of course, the sound transmission was faster than the galloping speed of the war horse, but most of the thieves who heard the screams were still lying in simple tents, and they had no time to form a formation to resist, and those thieves who got up early to patrol and guard in the camp were not the enemies of Zhang Heng's subordinates who were armed with spears.

As Zhang Heng rushed into the camp of the thief army, more and more screams rang out: "The official army is sneak attacking!" Sneak attack of the officers and cavalry! ”

The thieves who were woken up by the screams also screamed, and some of them didn't even see Zhang Heng's shadow, and they had already begun to scream and run around.

Dozens of officers and cavalrymen armed with spears sandwiched Zhang Heng with a longbow in the middle of the ranks, like a fast-galloping chariot, passing through a simple camp tent, and stabbing to death or trampling to death the thieves who dared to stop in front.

In just a quarter of an hour, he has already approached the north gate of Shilou County.

Outside the north gate is a wide ditch, and the stone bridge facing the north gate is full of rows of rejecting horses, of course, Zhang Heng has no way to ride his horse across the stone bridge, and he has no intention of rushing across the stone bridge and rushing into the city.

Dozens of horsemen roared, and turned sharply right more than ten steps away from the stone bridge, taking advantage of this opportunity to turn around, Zhang Heng pulled out his longbow, and with a "whoosh", shot the long arrow tied to the letter towards the city.

The officials and soldiers at the head of the city, who had been awakened by the noise in the thief camp before, exclaimed, and before they could figure out what was going on, Zhang Heng and his dozens of horsemen had already turned around and went north.

Only this time, it was not as simple as before to break out of the thief camp, and the shouts from the thief camp were everywhere.

More and more thieves rushed out of the camping tents, some armed with spears and some with bows and arrows, running in the direction of the official cavalry.

Looking at the thief army blocking in front of him, surging layer after layer, it was becoming more and more dense, Zhang Heng knew that at this time, even the sword mountain and sea of fire in front of him had to rush over.

Because they are in the camp of the thief army, all they can rely on is the war horse under them, once the horse's speed slows down, and they are finally forced to stop, then not to mention that he only has a few dozen people, even a few hundred people are doomed to a dead end.

And the reason why he dared to risk his life and lead his men to rush into the enemy camp was not because he was reckless, but because he understood that in the thief camp at dawn, as long as he could always maintain a high-speed sprint, then he had every chance to fast in and out of the army, complete the mission, and escape.

"Bump into it! Don't stop! Crash into me! ”

Zhang Heng shouted loudly, while shooting the bow and arrow in his hand, not far away was waving a knife and shouting angrily The leader of the thief army arrayed to block the arrow to death, before rushing into the crowd of thieves, picked up the spear that had been placed parallel to the horse's body, and rushed into the thief army formation in front of him at high speed, knocking the thief army minions who dared to block in front of him into the air, or stabbing them to death.

In just a moment's effort, he rushed out of a thief formation that had just been set up, and then continued to rush over at high speed without stopping to face the rain of arrows shot by the second thief array on the opposite side!

In a jingling sound, there was a sharp stabbing pain in his left arm, Zhang Heng gritted his teeth and continued to hold the gun in one hand in his right hand, clamping the body of the spear under the armpit of his right arm, and rushed over.

Compared to him, the men who followed him closely were not so lucky.

One of the horses under him was hit with several arrows in the chest and neck, and suddenly fell to the ground in the midst of a high-speed gallop, and fell off his horse, and was smashed into the formation of the thief army, and was immediately hacked to death with a knife.

The other clutched his throat and fell backwards under his horse, while the horse under him continued to rush forward.

Zhang Heng endured the pain of the arrow piercing through his upper arm, and threw the spear in his hand at another leader who was shouting and shouting to shoot arrows, and the spear passed through his chest and nailed him to the ground.

When Zhang Heng pulled out the long knife hanging on the left side of the saddle again, he found that he had rushed out of the last dense thief formation, and the thief army running over in front of him could no longer stop the galloping war horse under him.

When he slashed to death a thief soldier who rushed to his side, he took the opportunity to look back, only to find that only half of the forty-four comrades who followed closely behind him were left.

At this moment, suddenly a spear stabbed obliquely into the belly of the horse he rode off, if it stabbed the horse's belly, not only the war horse was finished, but he himself would also land, and then he was hacked to death by the thieves who swarmed up, Zhang Heng, who had no time to swing his knife to block, urgently turned sideways and stubbornly used the outside of his thigh to block the spear stabbing from the stab.

The moment the spear of the spear pierced into Zhang Heng's thigh, the long knife in his hand quickly slashed back to cut off the spear in the thief army's hand, and then galloped out with the piercing pain.

At this time, Wang Ziyong, Luo Rucai and others had also heard the news and rushed over, but when they arrived on horseback, they could only watch the officials and soldiers leave from a distance.

For the thieves at this time, cavalry was a good thing, but they didn't.

The limited number of horses are the mounts of the leaders and leaders of all walks of life, and there are many pack horses and other horses, and there are no hundreds or thousands of war horses.

Not to mention them, even the guards of the inland guards, it is difficult to get serious war horses.

Even in the nine-sided towns of the Ming Dynasty, which are the most valued in this era, whether it is war horses or food and salary, war horses are also a scarce resource, at best, they can only make up thousands of cavalry, and no border town can easily pull out tens of thousands of cavalry.

Therefore, for the thief army at this time, in the face of a short assault on the cavalry of the official army, unless there is a good way to use the dense infantry phalanx to block and force the cavalry to stop.

Zhang Heng endured the sharp pain on his left arm and leg, wrapped his hands around the horse's neck, and rushed through the shallows of the Beihun River, not daring to stop at all, and ran all the way north.

His right leg was dripping with blood, and he could no longer step on the stirrup, and he could not use any force, and if he had not put his hands around the horse's neck, he would have fallen from his galloping horse and landed.

And the cavalry that followed behind him was able to rush out of the thief camp alive and cross the river to the north, and at this time there were only twenty horsemen left.

This Zhang Heng in history has had such a feat.

However, at that time, the 200 cavalry he led entered and exited the camp of the thief army, as if entering a no-man's land, not only killing and wounding a large number of enemies, but also himself and his subordinates even achieved unscathed.

Now such a feat happened four years earlier, but the ending was slightly different, and the already small number of subordinates lost more than half.

Zhang Heng led the remaining twenty horsemen, crossed the Beihun River, all the way north, from morning to noon, for several hours without eating, drinking, or dismounting, and finally ran to Qinglongdu outside Liulinbao in the afternoon, and under the response of the officers and troops stationed in Qinglongdu, they entered Liulinbao and reported the news of the breakthrough of the thief army to Hong Qiyin.

Hong Qiyin was shocked, and he didn't dare to delay at all, and immediately sent a team of men and horses to Ningxiang, and in the evening of the same day, he arrived at Ningxiang County, and reported the military information brought back by Zhang Heng from near the stone building to Shaanxi Governor Hong Chengchou in 1510.

On the evening of the same day, more than 1,000 people from Chen Tan's department of Tianxiong Camp also followed the grain transportation team led by Zhong Dewu and rushed to the vicinity of Ningxiang.

Hong Chengchou handed over the defense of Ningxiang to Chen Tan's department in the Tianxiong camp, and then left Zhong De's five subordinates to supervise and lead the more than 2,000 young and strong prisoners and a large number of thieves and daughters, and then slowly went north, while he took 4,000 men and horses from Wang Chengen, Li Bei and other troops of Shaanxi Province, and urgently returned to the division overnight.