On the plain of the river valley north of Panjialing, an army is advancing to the east non-stop, led by Pan Xiaogu's 'cousin' Pan Xiaofeng and his original guard Pan Hu.

"Hold on a little longer, don't be left behind!" Originally, as a member of the instructor teaching team, he turned into an officer, and kept cheering up his team members during the march, so that this army, which was still very immature, kept moving forward at a rapid pace for a whole day.

Pan Xiaofeng's purpose was to rush to the Xiaotuling Pass, which was more than 60 kilometers away from Qingzhu Village, through more than 20 kilometers of hills and valleys, and make a detour behind the Turks. After Pan Xiaogu received the news of the Turkic attack in the morning, he immediately thought of the two teams that were not fully trained in Qingzhu Village and Xiangyin Village, and originally Pan Xiaogu planned to bring these two groups together to reinforce Panjiabao, but the ensuing system tasks disrupted all this.

The system task requires at least more than half of the Turks to be eliminated, and the Turks are all cavalry, and once the situation is not right, they can quickly escape from the battlefield by virtue of mobility, and it is not easy to meet the requirements of the system. However, the special geographical environment of the territory of Xize Township has created an opportunity.

The township is divided into two narrow plains by a mountain and two rivers, and as long as the two ends of the plain are blocked, the Turks can be blocked.

So Pan Xiaogu sent people to Pan Xiaofeng and Pan Hu to give orders that within two days, they must take their troops to bypass the mountain pass on the east side of Xiaotuling, and ambush in the Xiaotuling area to cut off the Turks' retreat to the east to the ferry.

At the same time, Pan Xiaohe and Liu Wu of Xiangyin Village also received orders from Pan Xiaogu, ordering them to maneuver to the forest west of Panjiabao within two days to hide and wait, and when they saw the red flag hanging outside the west wall of Panjiabao, they immediately attacked.

Pan Xiaohe and Liu Wu's troops are all cavalry, and the marching distance is not too far, and there are freshly repaired dirt roads along the way, and there are several villages on the way that can be replenished, which belongs to the internal line maneuver, so there is no difficulty; The difficulty is that Pan Xiaofeng and Pan Hu are on this road, not only the road is farther, but also the outer line is maneuvering, not only there is no road along the way, but the second half is still a difficult mountain road, and it is impossible to have village supplies on the way, and the most important thing is that the troops on this road are not even fully equipped with weapons!

Fortunately, Qingzhu Village is a fishing village, and the villagers have a lot of harpoons for fishing, plus some tools for building roads, barely arming this army of 3,000 people, and the fishermen of Qingzhu Village can also set up fishing boats against the current to provide them with supplies.

Thanks to the military rations mixed with Linggu, the physical strength of the soldiers is very good, even the people who are training and building roads in shifts have enough physical strength to support such a rapid march, and the instructors continue to get up and sing various mountain songs and trumpets with everyone during the march, which dissipates the tension and fear of the recruits for the unknown war, and the morale of the troops is maintained quite well.

After the sky was completely dark, Pan Xiaofeng and Pan Hu's team successfully arrived outside the mountain pass on the east side of Xiaotuling. The danger of entering the mountain at night is too great, and everyone is not familiar with the terrain in the mountain pass, so Pan Xiaofeng and Pan Hu decided to camp outside the mountain pass for the night, and then continue to move forward after dawn tomorrow.

After the order was issued, the soldiers began to camp on the spot as a team, this more than a month of road repair work, has already made these people familiar with the life of camping in the wilderness, the accompanying fishing boats have also docked, unloading the food and other materials carried on the boat, the fishermen have dragged the fishing boats to the shore, these more than 300 fishermen will also act with the army tomorrow, although these fishermen have not received formal training, but their personal combat effectiveness is not bad, this is not Pan Xiaogu's arrangement, it is completely Pan Xiaofeng and Pan Hu's own attention.

After the troops bombed the camp, Pan Xiaofeng and Pan Hu gathered most of the instructors together to study how to better complete the tasks assigned by Pan Xiaogu.

"I think we should set up an ambush near the Xiaotuling ferry, and when the time comes, we can most effectively reduce our casualties by taking advantage of the fact that the Turks are crossing the river and attacking halfway." An instructor gestures on a simple map drawn by Pan Xiaofeng.

"No, the lord said in the order, this operation is aimed at destroying as many Turks as possible, and if we attack halfway through the ferry, many Turks will definitely escape." Pan Xiaofeng thought about it and shook his head to reject the proposal

The man who proposed it was not convinced, arguing: "I didn't say that we should set up an ambush on the north bank of the Panyang River, we can cross the river to the south bank first and carry out an ambush on the south bank." ”

"That's not good, let's not talk about how long it will take the whole team to cross the river, even if the Turks who cross the river are successfully ambushed on the south bank, what about the Turks on the north bank? They continued to flee eastward, and they did not fulfill the demands of the adults. Pan Xiaofeng thought about it and shook his head again, this time the person who proposed that he had nothing to say.

"I think that in order to complete the master's order, we must rush to ambush and intercept the place before the ferry, so as to ensure that too many Turks are not missed, I think we should enter the small soil ridge westward, where the terrain is complicated, and it is not conducive to the cavalry to play an advantage, but it is more beneficial to the ambush." Pan Hu stirred the bonfire with a wooden stick

"Won't the time be too tight in this way, the lord said that he will choose the opportunity to launch a counteroffensive tomorrow afternoon, and it would be good if we could pass through the Xiaotuling Pass before noon tomorrow, and then turn back to Xiaotuling and run headlong into the retreating Turks, so that the original nearby war will become a movement war." Pan Xiaofeng is cautious and meticulous, and can always find shortcomings in the plan

Pan Hu thought about it, and then ran to the map to compare it for a while

"We can do this, we don't have to go too far into the small dirt ridge, and only set up an ambush on the eastern edge, so that there should be enough time. In addition, the valleys in the small soil ridge are staggered, there are many forks, but there are only two exits from these valleys, one is the river beach area along the river, and the other is the mountain pass on the east side of the small soil ridge, the two places are not far apart, we can first divide the troops into two roads, set up ambush positions in the two places respectively, and then send reconnaissance and go deep into the small soil ridge area, once we find the traces of the Turks, immediately notify the reinforcements on the other side, and the other road will soon arrive, so that no matter whether the Turks are retreating in a concentrated manner or retreating in a dispersed manner, we can intercept most of them. ”

Pan Xiaofeng studied the map and felt that Pan Hu's method was more feasible, so he did not raise any more objections.

"Okay, just do as you say? Do others have any other opinions? When he was teaching the team, Pan Xiaogu often told these people that officers should listen to the opinions of their subordinates before making decisions, and make full use of collective wisdom to find and solve problems.

"I think it's better to prepare tomorrow's dry food in advance, so that you can eat while you're on the road, and you don't have to stop to cook or expose your whereabouts because of the smoke."

"This is a very good suggestion, it must be set up right away...."