The cavalry captain led his troops back after Brehan conveyed the order, and replied to Zhao Ziliang: "General, my subordinates are fortunate not to disgrace their orders, and they have defeated the horse bandits who came to attack, and they came to pay the order before!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said coldly with a straight face: "Shi Chonglin, are you guilty?" ”

Shi Chonglin was stunned, "General, my subordinates were ordered to defeat the horse bandits who came to attack, is this also guilty?" If this is a sin, is there still a heavenly principle in this world? ”

At this time, Brehan rode his horse and galloped over, jumped off his horse and reported to Zhao Ziliangyu: "General, the last general sent someone to see the rocky desert area in front of the cavalry of the Shenwu Army, and found that there were a large number of footprint prints, horseshoe prints and horse manure there, and it can be inferred that there were no less than 4,000 people and horses ambushed in that area just now!" ”

As soon as he said this, the faces of the surrounding people all changed color, Zhao Ziliang turned his head to look at Shi Chonglin, and shouted: "Before General Ben ordered you not to pursue after defeating the horse bandits, and what did you do?" Not only did they pursue, but they also chased and killed five or six miles, if it wasn't for the fact that General Ben sent Brehan to stop you, do you think you and these more than 160 Shenwu army cavalry would have come back alive? ”

"This ・・・・・・" Shi Chonglin opened his mouth but couldn't speak, but he quickly realized that he had disobeyed the military order, and he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and begged for mercy again and again: "General, the subordinates are eager to make meritorious contributions, and they killed on a whim, forgetting the general's orders, please give the generals another chance, and the subordinates will never dare to plan again!" ”

Zhao Ziliang shook his head: "There is no chance, in the general's army, military law is above all else, before starting from Chang'an, the general has already reminded you that you did not grasp the opportunity and did not take the general's words to heart, this is not to blame others, you can only blame yourself!" Someone came, Shi Chonglin disobeyed the military order, the sin was unforgivable, and he dragged it down and cut it down! ”

"Yes!" Even a strong Hu Cong pounced on Shi Chonglin and held Shi Chonglin down, dragged him to the side, Shi Chonglin, who was controlled, was so frightened that his buttocks urinated, and shouted in panic: "General, my subordinates are wrong, spare my life, my subordinates will never dare to ・・・・・・ again."

Zhao Ziliang didn't react at all, he was not moved at all, Shi Chonglin was really frightened at this time, and said without words: "The surname Zhao, you can't die well, Lao Tzu just didn't fully implement the military order, even if you don't disobey the military order, you have to kill Lao Tzu, I'll wipe your grandma, you are going to borrow Lao Tzu's head to kill chickens and monkeys!" ”

Zhao Ziliang snorted coldly: "You're right, General Ben just wants to borrow your head to prove whether General Ben's military law is strict, and see if others still have the courage to disobey military orders!" Cut it and send it to all the soldiers to see, this is the end of disobeying military orders! ”

"Plop-" A knife flash flashed, Shi Chonglin's head rolled to the ground, his eyes were still spinning, the headless corpse fell to the ground and kept twitching, and the blood spurting out of the broken neck splattered several meters away.

Seeing this situation, the remaining two infantry captains of the Shenwu Army and some brigade commanders and team leaders turned pale with fright one by one, and some of them kept swallowing saliva and involuntarily took two steps back.

"Did you see it all?" Zhao Ziliang pointed to Shi Chonglin's corpse and shouted, "This is the standard model of disobeying military orders, and if anyone is like him in the future, he will also try the general's sword!" ”

The generals were silent one by one.

It didn't take long for the scouts sent out to send people back to report the situation, and there was no sign of the enemy within ten miles around, Zhao Ziliang immediately ordered the army to continue to advance, taking advantage of the fact that the sun was setting below the horizon and the temperature began to drop during this time.

After the army continued to advance, Ashina Xin rode a horse from the carriage of his wife Princess Jiaohe to catch up with Zhao Ziliang, who was at the front of the army, and said: "The general is well versed in the art of war and the way of generals, Xin admires, thank you to the general for repelling the horse bandits just now!" ”

"That's what Ben should have done!" Zhao Ziliang said, shook his head and said: "I'm afraid that this matter is not over yet, the other party has not achieved the goal, I am afraid that it is not so easy to retreat, and I don't know what else awaits us in front of us, let's take one step at a time!" ”

In the next two days, Zhao Ziliang and his party marched cautiously along the way, and also increased the intensity of reconnaissance, but nothing happened, until about five o'clock in the afternoon of the sixth day of August, the situation finally changed.

The army was taking advantage of the drop in temperature to speed up its march, when a flying horse came quickly, and the knight stopped panting in front of Zhao Ziliang: "General, a large number of horse bandits have been found on the ten-mile high slope ahead, at least as many as five thousand!" Of them were three thousand who had horses, and two thousand who did not."

Zhao Zi's conscience said that it was finally here, and after a moment of silence, he immediately said: "Probe again, see if there are other people in ambush around!" ”

"No!"

Zhao Ziliang beckoned to the herald, ordered the army to slow down, and began to eat and drink, the afternoon march was only an hour in the past, and now the soldiers are still very strong, but in order to accumulate a lot of physical strength to meet the next battle, it is necessary to let the soldiers eat and drink in advance, and at the same time, the speed of the march is also slowed down, the purpose is also to let the soldiers recover some physical strength.

Zhao Ziliang knows very well that this group of horse bandits can't be shaken off, they can't take a detour, if they want to solve the problem, they can only fight with it, five thousand horse bandits look very scary, but in Zhao Ziliang's eyes, they are just a group of rabble, even if the commander and commander are strong, it is impossible to train a group of rabble into a group of lions in such a short time, but I don't know that after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion in history, Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing, two generals with extremely rich combat experience, led a group of recruits who had not yet completed their training to retreat under the attack of An Lushan's army? Could it be that Feng Changqing and Gao Xianzhi's commanders and commanding talents are not as good as An Lushan's generals Tian Chengsi and An Zhongzhi? This is obviously impossible!

After walking two or three miles, Zhao Ziliang ordered the army not to leave, stop and rest, and asked the scouts to keep an eye on the movements of the horse bandits, and the horse bandits quickly got the news that the Tang army had stopped in the open five or six miles away.

Mr. Liang, the masked man standing at the highest place on the high slope, sighed after listening to the report of the horse bandit spies: "It seems that this Zhao Ziliang is the master who is not willing to eat at all, since this is the case, then we will meet them and have a big battle with them on the flat ground, but in this way, we will not have the advantage of geographical advantages, no matter what, this battle is inevitable, this Zhao Ziliang is not a person who will admit defeat and surrender!" All of you are in charge, all of you will rectify the people and kill them, let's go and meet Zhao Ziliang together! ”

"Okay, I want to see if this Zhao Ziliang has three heads and six arms!" The leaders of the horse bandits echoed one after another, and then each returned to his own horse bandits, and rushed down the hillside with men and horses in the direction of Zhao Ziliang's army.

Zhao Ziliang and his subordinate soldiers rested in place for nearly two quarters of an hour, and billowing smoke and dust rose in the sky in front of them, which was a sign that a large group of soldiers and horses were coming.

Two hundred heavy soldiers to protect the grain and grass vehicles and mules and horses in the rear of the army, six hundred infantry in the middle, on the left is Zhao Ziliang's two hundred elite cavalry, on the right is the Shenwu Army cavalry one hundred and sixty-six cavalry, after Shi Chonglin was beheaded by Zhao Ziliang, Zhao Ziliang let his deputy Lan Yutian take over the position of cavalry captain.

Zhao Ziliang and several lieutenants, Brehan, Nur and others were at the front of the military formation, and the Whirlwind Eighteen rode behind them in a line at short intervals, each with three war horses, two of which were bantam horses and one tall and sturdy Arabian horse.

Zhao Ziliang looked back at the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry behind him, and ordered: "The Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry is ready to take the lead, and all of them will be replaced by big food horses, heavy armor and heavy weapons!" ”

Under Zhao Ziliang's orders, everyone in the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry began to change to the Great Eater Horse, which was strong in sprinting speed and strength, and all of them changed into heavy armor and heavy weapons carried by bantam horses.

The leaders of the horse bandits saw that the Tang army had lined up and waited, so they slowly stopped a mile in front of the Tang army's formation, and the formation was in a mess, the masked Mr. Liang was obviously just a guy who could talk on paper, and it took a long time for the military formation to be barely placed, but it was all the horse bandits on horseback in front, and the horse bandits without horses in the back, so that the horse bandits with horse bandits in front blocked the sight of the horse bandits without horses behind, standing in the horse bandit group, they could only see the crowd of their own people, but they could not see any movement of the Tang army in front.

Mr. Masked Liang looked up at the sky, it was going to be dark soon, he was obviously unwilling to delay any longer, so he said to Boss Song and several other bandit bosses: "Everyone, it will be dark soon, and after the fight, I will go back to eat meat and drink in a big bowl, what do you see?" ”

"It's extreme, it's extreme!" The leaders of the horse bandits agreed.

"Then let's start, kill the past, and crush the Tang army one by one!"

The leaders of the horse bandits pulled out their weapons and shouted at the horse bandits under them: "Sons, the Tang army in front of me escorted dozens of truckloads of gold, silver and jewelry, if we can snatch some gold, silver and jewelry, it is enough for us to eat for ten years without worrying, what are you waiting for, kill with me-"

As soon as the horse bandits heard that there were dozens of carts of gold, silver and jewelry in the Tang army, the horse bandits immediately screamed with excitement, pulled out their weapons and followed their leaders to rush towards the Tang army.

The horse bandits who rushed fast had already thrown off the horse bandits behind them for more than ten meters, and the horse bandits who ran slowly were huddled together, and many people were squeezed to the ground by their own people.

Zhao Ziliang observed for a while, and ordered: "Nur, you take the Whirlwind Eighteen Cavalry to take the lead, and give General Ben a good look at this group of rabble!" ”

"No!" Nur agreed and led the whirlwind eighteen horsemen to form a horizontal formation with Zhao Ziliang and the others, each riding five or six meters apart, but when they each held a heavy long knife with a length of one meter and five or six in their hands and spread their arms, the distance between them became very short. (To be continued.) )