At the end of the war, the sun had set behind the mountains in the west, but it was not yet completely dark, and the fiery clouds in the western sky were still bright. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

At the same time that Li Banghua, Lu Xiangsheng and others were moving to camp with their large army, a few miles to the south of them separated by several hills, on the road leading to Fenxi, there were bursts of rapid horses' hooves.

The sound of horses' hooves came from the Dong Xueli Department of the Left Army in the Tianxiong Battalion.

Dong Xueli, a native of Sanyuan, Shaanxi, although his name is Xueli, he is red-faced, bearded, high-nosed and deep-eyed, five big and three thick, a typical Kansai Han appearance, in fact, he is a martial artist, and it is the martial artist of Enke Wuju in the first year of Chongzhen in this time and space.

Speaking of which, a character like him belongs to the same kind of person as Liu Guoneng, the landlord Haoqiang of Mizhi County in northern Shaanxi, and a group of ruffians and hooligans are gathered around him, but he is luckier than Liu Guoneng that he has a good family of the same clan and clan, that is, Dong Zhiyi, the current chief military officer of Lintao Town.

In this way, the same landlord was born strongly, and he also liked to play with guns and sticks, Dong Xueli and Liu Guoneng had a completely different fate at this time, one was recommended by his uncle, passed all the way, and successfully passed the Ming Dynasty's martial arts, and then entered the second phase of the cavalry section of the Emperor's Zhongyi Wutang, and then according to the emperor's order, he became the commander of the only cavalry in the Tianxiong camp under Lu Xiangsheng!

And the other, that is, Liu Guoneng, became a mountain king who fell into the grass and occupied the mountain as the king under the abduction of a dry wine and meat friend.

Of course, these two people don't know each other, so Dong Xueli naturally won't show mercy to the current Heaven Breaker's subordinates!

Under the twilight, Dong Xueli led the cavalry of the left army of the Tianxiong Battalion, which had fought for the first time, and galloped quickly on the mountain road leading to Fenxi.

Outside of Li Banghua's mining camp, it was only to protect the mines and iron factories of the Ministry of Industry in Zunhua and Baiyecheng and other imperial courts and royal industries, so there was no cavalry, and because it was a pure firearms unit, it was not easy to train cavalry, so the front army led by Li Bei was almost all infantry musketeers, and in such an emergency, it was naturally impossible to compare with the cavalry.

So after the two were ordered, Li Bei, who was older and had a high position, asked Dong Xueli to gallop away with the cavalry first, while he trotted with the musket team of the front army of the mine camp to follow the march all the way behind.

Because in his opinion, as long as the musket team under his command rushed to the mountain road in front of him before the thief army returned to Shimen Pass in the west, then there would be no threat to the existence of this thief army, not only was there no threat, but it was also difficult to fly!

At this time, it was already evening, and the fiery clouds in the sky in the west were gradually blocked by the mountains on the right, Dong Xueli took the lead in galloping in front of the cavalry under his command, and just rushed through a low hillside with his horse, he saw that there was a group of hundreds of thieves, marching rapidly in his direction.

The team of thieves on the opposite side suddenly saw the cavalry appearing on the mountain road in front, and the one in front immediately made an emergency stop, and was knocked over several by the unknown thief army behind them.

When the thief army saw Dong Xueli, there was a commotion.

"Officers and soldiers! That's the official army! ”

Some of the people in front were still shouting, while some of the people in the back changed to the front, turned around and ran back!

This group of thieves is the patrol post sent by Liu Wenxi, the main general of the thief army camp not far ahead, to inquire about the situation.

Although the distance between this road leading to Fenxi and the road leading to Lingshi in the north will become farther and farther, but in the place where it is only one or twenty miles away from Shimen Pass, there are only a few mountain beams between the two roads.

The rumbling cannon sound that sounded in the north of the country of course reached this large camp and reached the ears of Liu Wenxi, the general of the thief army.

This Liu Wenxi is the leader of the thief army under the command of the thief "King of the Collapsed Heaven" Liu Guoneng, and he is also an uncle of Liu Guoneng who has not been out of five suits.

Since it was a camp, like the camp on the road leading to Lingshi, the thief army only set up a relatively strong camp on the side of the mountain road facing the west of Fenxi, and did not even place a fence behind them.

Because when Hong Chengchou led the army from the north and south of Jin, the last to be stationed in Fenxi, the main force of Shaanxi Fubiao led by Wang Chengen, the deputy commander-in-chief of Shaanxi at the time, has always been in Fenxi, so this gave Liu Guoneng an illusion, and he always felt that Fenxi was the direction of the main force of the official army.

But what he didn't expect was that such a big official as Li Gelao, the minister of military aircraft of the imperial court, would personally lead the army from Lingshi to the front line.

In his eyes, this is the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, how many big things have to be done every day, and great blessings to enjoy, how can he be so condescending and condescending to personally come to him for the trouble of this little thief in the mountains?

But he was wrong.

Now that Li Banghua, the minister of military aircraft who has the hope of being a marquis, how can his enterprising heart be comparable to that of ordinary court officials and civil ministers?

It was precisely because Liu Guoneng judged that Fenxi was the main force of the official army, so he let his uncle, who was not a few years older than him, lead the 3,000 thieves in his department to set up camp here to prevent the official army from suddenly coming from Fenxi.

Liu Wenxi heard that the main force of the official army was in Fenxi, so after arriving at this place, he mobilized the army to overhaul the fortifications for more than a month, lest he betray Liu Guoneng's trust and damage the foundation of the old Liu family.

However, the camp built by Liu Wenxi with great effort is the same as the thief army camp on the road from Shikou to Lingshi, only guarding the east and not the west, that is, only guarding the front, not the back.

After all, in his opinion, behind is his own stone gate, and I built a camp behind my back, which is time-consuming and laborious, and thankless, and easy to attract suspicion.

But what he never expected was that the strong camp that he had spent more than a month building had not yet ushered in the attack of the Fenxi official army, but it was suddenly hit by a rapid blow from behind without cover.

The rumbling sound of artillery from the north made Liu Wenxi suspicious, the thief army has no artillery, and even if there is artillery, they won't play by themselves, this must be in addition to an accident, meeting the official army!

However, after only a few artillery shots in the north, there was no sound again, which made Liu Wenxi hesitate, should he take the main force to reinforcements?

After thinking about it, Liu Wenxi finally decided to prepare with both hands, while ordering the thief army under his command to immediately strengthen the defense in the east to prevent the Fenxi from also attacking from the west, and at the same time sending a team of men and horses to go back along the road, first to inquire about the news and see the situation.

As a result, the men and horses sent had just walked half the way when they encountered the cavalry galloping from Dong Xueli's department.

Since Dong Xueli saw the sentry team of the thief army, he naturally would not be polite, and immediately rushed down the hill with his cavalry, galloping while ordering archery.

After two rounds of arrow rain, Dong Xueli put away his riding bow and rushed into the thief army of hundreds of people with a spear similar to a horse lance.

At this time, the thieves on the mountain road had already turned around and fled, and it was a good opportunity for the official cavalry to pursue and kill from behind.

Those who possessed mounted archery skills continued to shoot arrows with their bows, while those with average cavalry and archery skills took out the flintlock three-eyed guns that the Shenji Battalion had eliminated to the Tianxiong Battalion from their saddle bags, and fired at close range with a "bang, bang, bang".

In this way, after chasing all the way, three or four hundred of the 500 thieves were shot, stabbed to death, or even trampled to death, and the remaining 100 people fled for their lives, shouting hoarsely: "The officers and soldiers are coming!" The officers and soldiers are coming! ”

The four-to-five-mile mountain road was naturally completed quickly, and when Dong Xueli led the army to rush over a small hill again, the thief army camp not far away was already in sight.

In the twilight, Dong Xueli saw that although the thief camp in front of him was much larger than the one he encountered before, there was no shelter behind it, and there was not even a fence to prevent horses, and many camp tents were densely arranged on the flat land that was renovated on both sides of the road.

This is the back camp of the thieves!

The thieves who fled in front rushed down the hill with rolling and crawling, and while fleeing for their lives, they warned their comrades in the camp.

But it was only a few hundred steps away, and it was too late to warn the police, not to mention that at this time, the main force of the thief army in this thief camp was still concentrated under the walled city in the east.

Dong Xueli held a spear in his hand, rode his horse and rushed down, without his order, the cavalry of the left army of the Tianxiong battalion behind him knew the meaning of his main general, and then rushed down, shooting or stabbing to death the thieves who were about to flee into the camp one by one or stabbed to death on the side of the road.

The people at the rear of the camp of the thieves saw a large group of cavalry suddenly sweeping from behind their homes, and they were immediately frightened, some of them hurriedly set up obstacles to prevent horses under the command of the small leader of the thief army, and some people fled in a panic, running in the camp while shouting: "There are officers and soldiers!" There are officers and soldiers! ”

There was chaos in the thief camp!