Xu Huang led the newly established "Wei" battalion to the north, and the army only traveled 30 miles a day, one continued to familiarize the soldiers and horses of each school with the method of marching and cooperating, and the other was also to save physical strength, so that the soldiers could keep themselves in the best condition and be ready to deal with sudden battles at any time. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

According to the intelligence from the reconnaissance of the first colonel of the Flying Eagle Army, there is no major military force in Wenxi County ahead. There are only a small number of bandits entrenched, but only a few hundred armed forces.

Xu Huang ordered the brigade to continue to maintain the speed of the march, and ordered the soldiers and horses of the former military captain Qi Tai to be the vanguard to attack the enemy of Wenxi. If the enemy does not surrender, try to capture the prisoners and keep them alive, after all, a county in Hedong is sparsely populated, and one more prisoner will give him more power to cultivate and fight in the future.

After Qi Tai received the order, he ordered the standard-bearer to raise the white flag of the military academy in front of the battalion of the "Wei" character of the Northern Army, with the word "Wei" written on one banner and the word "Qi" written on the other flag. The former military cadet abandoned the baggage and accelerated the march. Rushed to Wenxi County one day and night.

Qi Tai didn't say hello either, and directly ordered people to attack the city at night. The defenders of the city were directly killed and injured by the sharpshooters under Qi Tai's command with one arrow, and the infantry besieging the city waited for the city. Entering the city, there was basically no resistance, and Qi Tai almost bloodlessly captured Wenxi County. And many thieves in the city were blocked in the barracks by Qi Tai's soldiers and horses, and they were directly captured without resistance.

Qi Tai ordered people to defend carefully, and waited for Xu Huang's army early the next morning. When the army entered the city, Xu Huang praised Qi Tai for a while, and then sent someone to escort the captives back to Anyi and hand them over to Zhao Yan, the middle man of the Diannong. At the same time, he notified the Shouwangyi of Hedong County to send someone to take over the treasury of Wenxi County.

Wenxi did not take much trouble in the first battle, but further on is the Fen River, after the Fen River there are Jiangyi and Linfen two counties are regarded as big cities in the northeast of the river.

According to the report of the Flying Eagle Army, after the withdrawal of the Southern Xiongnu, these two counties were basically empty cities, but just a month ago, that is, during the period of the Northern Army's training, there was an unknown soldier and horse who occupied the two cities, and each city had two thousand defenders.

Qi Tai led his troops to the Fen River and ordered his soldiers to search for ships along the coast. After working for a long time, he only found a dozen or so small fishing boats, each of which carried only three or five people. Qi Tai ordered people to camp on the south bank of the Fen River, and at the same time ordered people to cut down trees in the nearby mountains and forests, and prepared to build a pontoon bridge in the narrow part of the Fen River.

If others may not know how to build a pontoon bridge, Qi Tai once learned the method of ironwork and carpentry from Luo Blacksmith. As long as the river is not in a hurry and the place chosen is suitable, it is not difficult to build.

It is mainly made of two trunks about two or three zhang long and thick bowls as skeletons and placed vertically, with side-by-side planks on them, and then tied with long ropes to form floating rows; After one section, and so on, and so on, until you can reach the width of the river.

Then drive piles on the shore and tie a long cable at one end of the floating row to fix it. The soldiers who knew how to operate the boat were ordered to line up the small fish boats horizontally from north to south, and drove the floating rows on the boats, and then fixed every two floating rows on the boats until they were all connected to form a line, until they connected to the two banks of the river. At the same time, the pile is driven on the opposite bank to fix the long cable of the floating row.

Such a pontoon bridge was built, and Qi Tai asked a small number of soldiers to try to cross the bridge without hindrance, and then ordered the brigade to pass quickly. Let the queen leave a song of soldiers and horses to guard the pontoon bridge, waiting for Xu Huang's army, and he led a thousand soldiers and horses to kill Jiangyi.

Twenty miles under the city, Qi Tai ordered people to set up camp and bury pots to cook. After the soldiers rested, they went to the city to fight, and immediately called for the battle, so that the thieves in the city would come out to answer.

Soon after, the city gate was opened, but a young man was killed from it, who was only about ten years old, but he was in silver helmet and silver armor, carrying a snake spear and a carved bow on his back.

I saw that the young general sat down and got off the horse and approached Qi Tai, and shouted, "Who dares to violate my boundary, do you have to taste the power of the snake spear in the master's hand?" ”

Qi Tai didn't expect that someone would ask him first, and said, "I am Qi Tai, the former military captain of the "Wei" battalion under the account of General Zhengbei of the Han Dynasty. Jiangyi is the boundary of the east of the river, and you and other thieves have occupied the city, I have not asked you about your crime, but you have come to ask the captain of this school? I ask you, where are you and why do you occupy the city? ”

The young general on the opposite side laughed, "Zhang Fang, the son of Zhang Yan, the commander of the Daqu of the Lower Black Mountain Army, Hedong, Hanoi, Shangtang, Zhongshan, Zhaojun and other places are all my Taiping Avenue Paradise." You are ignorant and stubborn, and you are not educated by great sages and good teachers, and you are not worthy of the land east of the river. Today, I will let you know how powerful my Taiping Dharma Protector is great. ”

Qi Taixin said, I was also a member of the Baibo Sect back then, but I had never heard of any Dharma Protector Divine Skills. "Come, I'll learn a thing or two."

Qi Tai stepped forward to fight with that Zhang Fang. Don't look at Zhang Fang's young age, his martial arts were good at that time, and a snake spear flew up and down, so that Qi Tai only had the ability to parry, and had no power to fight back.

Qi Tai fought for twenty times, and found that it was not the opponent of that square, so he turned his horse and left. How do you know that Zhang Fang shouted: "Get off the horse!" ”

I don't know what means Zhang Fang used, Qi Taizao suddenly lost his horse, and Qi Tai fell off the horse in response.

Zhang Fang came up and lifted Qi Tai and arrested him back to the camp. The former military cadet battalion was stupid now, and as soon as they clashed, they lost their main general. There was no choice but to withdraw thirty miles and wait for Xu Huang's Chinese army to come.

Three days later, Xu Huang led the battalions to the city of Jiangyi. Xu Huang had already heard about Qi Tai's capture, and said that he wanted to see how powerful the young generals on the other side were, so he asked who under his command dared to fight.

Liu Meng, the captain of the right army, asked for battle, Xu Huang asked him if he had a strategy to deal with the enemy, Liu Meng smiled, "Since the enemy general can make the demon magic frighten the horses, then I will step down to fight him." ”

Xu Huang nodded in agreement, and Liu Meng led his troops to call for battle in front of the city. After a while, Zhang Fang came out, Liu Meng abandoned the horse, raised the big knife in his hand, and stepped forward on foot to meet the battle.

Liu was fierce and fought on the horse, because his body was not flexible enough, so he had suffered Zang Shun's loss before. But when he fought down, his sword skills and strength were revealed. Zhang Fang fought with Liu Meng on the horse, and he went back and forth dozens of times, but he didn't take advantage.

Zhang Fang was anxious in his heart, and suddenly shouted, "Fire is coming!" ”

Liu Mengxin said I won't be watching you right away, how do you know that you were caught off guard and became angry. Fortunately, Liu Meng quickly rolled on the spot and extinguished the flames, but a large area of his eyebrows and mustache was still burned.

Liu Meng's spirit extinguished the flames and quickly ran towards the main formation. At this time, Wu Guoxing had already caught up with Zhang Fang.

Wu Guoxing is good at using double hammers, and he rarely fights alone before, and the generals in the battalion don't know how his martial arts are. Today, Wu Guoxing and Zhang Fang are at war, but they are careful everywhere. Because he heard that Qi Tai was captured before and saw Liu Meng being burned, he knew that this Zhang Fang had some skills, and he didn't dare to be careless.

The two patted their horses and fought, and after thirty times together, Wu Guoxing took advantage of the sledgehammer and gradually gained the upper hand.

Zhang Fang knew that he was going to make a plan again if he was defeated, but he saw that he took out an item from his arms and was about to throw it at Wu Guoxing.

Wu Guoxing stared at the movements in Zhang Fang's hand with round eyes, and when he saw him reach into his arms, he had already made preparations, turned over and dismounted, and at the same time threw the golden hammer in his hand out. His hammer had always been a two-handed blade, and he had never been thrown to use it.

But after all, the hammer is heavy, and the distance is close, which is not enough to smash. Zhang Fang's magic weapon was not used in a hurry. I had to use the spear to set up Wu Guoxing's golden hammer. But where to parry, Zhang Fang's hands were shattered, and the golden hammer with the spear shaft crashed into Zhang Fang's chest. Zhang Fang was hit hard, and spat out a mouthful of blood with a whoa. He fell backwards and lay on the horse's back.

Seeing the situation, Wu Guoxing leaned on his side, dragged Zhang Fang down, and then led Zhang Fang to his horse and took Zhang Fang back to the camp.

When the Montenegrin thieves saw that Zhang Fang was captured, they knew that it was not good, and more than 2,000 people and horses were killed in a chaotic manner.

On the side of the Northern Army, Xu Huang had already prepared, and asked the herald to order Wang Ping, the captain of the military academy, to lead the troops to meet the battle.

The Chinese army drums sounded, and Wang Ping led a school of men and horses to fight, but the team was neat and well-trained. First the archers fired a volley, and after three rounds waited for the enemy to get closer; The crossbowman is again shooting at close range; Seeing the enemy is less than ten paces. The archers and crossbowmen retreated, replaced by spearmen and sword and shield bearers. Wang Ping's sword and shield men and spearmen crossed each other and arranged them at intervals. The sword and shield hand is the main guard, the spearman is the main attack, square and neat, as long as the drum does not stop, only forward and not backward. The front row fell, the back row made up for it, no one disturbed the phalanx, and no one escaped.

Although the Montenegrin Army has moved to various places, it is not as well-trained as the Northern Army after all. In addition, the main general was captured and the command was improper, which was not at all as powerful as the lieutenants and horses of the military academy led by Wang Ping.

Although it was one thousand against two thousand, there was basically no suspense in the battle. In less than half an hour, the Montenegrin army was routed and scattered and fled. Most of them abandoned the city of Jiangyi and fled north to Linfen.

Xu Huang led his troops to occupy Jiangyi, but unfortunately Qi Tai was taken away by the Black Mountain thieves and did not have time to save him.

Xu Huang asked Zhang Fang to come up for interrogation, Zhang Fang had just been seriously injured, and his steps were vain and his breath was lacking. Xu Huang didn't ask for any useful information for a long time, but he knew that it was none other than Linfen who led the troops, it was Hu Cai, the handsome Baibo Sanqu who escaped from Hedong that day.

Xu Huang didn't know how this Hu was involved, but since the main task this time was to recover the counties north of the Fen River. I have to meet this Hu Cai again.

Xu Huang asked Mao An to lead the rear army to guard Jiangyi, and he led the army north to Linfen, because the former military academy captain lost the main general, Xu Huang transferred Wang Ping's lieutenant to the front of the lieutenant position, and the former army was changed to the Chinese army under his direct command.

After a day of marching and coming to Linfen City, Xu Huangxin said that he had heard Tian Jing talk about this Hu Cai before, and he still had to deal with it carefully. Who knew that not long after the camp was set up, an envoy from the Montenegrin army came. Xu Huangxin said, this Hu Cai is interesting, before the war, he came down first, okay, I want to see what the envoy says?