(a)

After you went to Qingchuan to recuperate, your father was getting older day by day. Determining that you are destined to die early is a major blow to my father. Every day I could see the wrinkles on his face and the gray hair on his head.

But my father himself suffered this pain, and he never said it to me. He knew both of us too well. He knew what I would do when I knew the truth, and he also knew what I would do if I knew the truth.

He agrees with your decision. Your father and son have decided together that the Cui family should not add more burdens to my fate.

You have decided that I can no longer be associated with the accidents of the Cui family, I should be out of the track of the Cui family's fate, and I should have a safer and brighter future.

My father comforted me, who was confused and worried, and untied my knots, while silently supporting your gradual alienation from me.

(b)

On Chinese New Year's Eve that year, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Han people to celebrate the New Year, the Hesse cavalry in Beji's army launched a sneak attack on Huangsang Yukou and fought fiercely with Yu Wentao's troops guarding Yukou.

The battle began in the firecrackers and fireworks of the Han area, and the Hesse cavalry, with ghostly speed and powerful impact, swept over 18 outposts in the Beitou Mountains one after another, killing all the Han soldiers at the outposts, and roaring forward in the silent darkness. At the 19th outpost, the Han soldiers stationed at the outpost finally succeeded in releasing the alarm signal before they were broken in and slashed by the black cavalry horse. The alarm of the enemy's attack then spread to the camp at Huangsangyukou.

According to the previous joint defense agreement and battle plan between you and Yu Wentao, the Han troops in the three places immediately acted in concert. Yu Wentao led his troops to fight bravely and stick to the camp gate. When Fu Tianliang heard the news, he immediately gathered part of the garrison of Qingfeng Village, divided it into three hundred-person squads, and assembled in the school field.

Fu Tianliang said to the three horse teams that were about to set off on the high platform: "Brothers, the time has come to test the results of our training when the enemy army is suddenly attacking. Although the commander is not in the camp now, everyone must act as decisively and quickly as he is here. Zhang Bao, you take 200 people to stick to the camp, just in case, and the other 300 people follow me to meet the enemy. They followed their usual training, followed the only possible path of the enemy's attack, and went around behind them to intercept their rear. We have practiced the ambush position many times, and everyone will not make a mistake with their eyes closed. When the enemy's entire army had passed two-thirds, we suddenly attacked, taking advantage of the opportunity of the front team being blocked by the cliff, and used lightning speed to quickly surround and ambush the rear team, and completely annihilate it in one fell swoop, so as to reduce the defensive pressure on the second line of defense led by Dingguo Gong and the Yukou camp gate in front. Everyone must move quickly, evacuate immediately after the fight, and don't let the front team get entangled. According to the requirements of the commander, our side must control zero casualties in the first battle, regardless of the number of men and horses, and there must be no loss. ”

Fu Tianliang said: "The commander has repeatedly instructed that although we participate in the war, we must not expose the strength of our army too early. Therefore, don't beat the banner of the Han army, don't expose the location of our camp and the troops to which we belong during the battle, don't leave any traces on the battlefield that make the enemy suspicious, kill all the enemy's rear troops, don't take prisoners, don't leave wounded soldiers, and not a single living mouth can be left. ”

Fu Tianliang said: "The commander has worked hard for this army, if we can't win this battle, we will be sorry for the countless efforts and sweat that the commander has spent here." In the future, when the commander returns from his illness, what face will we see with him! Everyone is sincerely united, fighting hard, and must succeed in the first battle, so that the commander's new tactics will shine brightly, and the commander will become the expectation of the entire army on the northern front. ”

He drew his saber and shouted, "Follow me, get on your horse, and attack!" ”

The sound of horses' hooves was urgent, and a black whirlwind rushed out of the camp.

Zhang Bao led the troops guarding the camp to see him off on both sides of the camp gate, and the morale of the whole army was high, and they shouted in unison: "The king of Han will win!" The Han army will win! ”

(c)

At the same time as the Qingfeng Zhai horse team attacked, Cui Jiaji's defenders were also moving quickly

My father was fully armoured and armed with a saber, and he personally led the crowd to set out. They quickly arrived at the ambush position halfway up the hill during the exercise, seized the favorable terrain, set up gunpowder bows, crossbows and arrows, and waited for the battle.

The Begi cavalry soon appeared in the valley of Yukou in a cloud of smoke and black pressure. Looking at the fierce momentum of the enemy army, many Han soldiers were secretly surprised in their hearts. However, their father's composure gave them great encouragement and confidence. Everyone patiently lurked in the dark light, waiting for the enemy's front team to rush over, the squadron rushed into the ambush circle, the father gave an order, and the Cui Jiaji defenders fired thousands of arrows, and the burning rockets rained down on the enemy squadron. The enemy army was in chaos. The sound of people shouting and neighing resounded through the valley.

At this time, Hesse's front army had already engaged with Yu Wentao's camp troops, both sides were the elite of the elite, with tough against tough, the battle was so tense that it could not be opened, Hesse heard the squadron in the back of the chaos, and for a long time did not hear the movement of the rear team, his heart was full of bad premonitions, but Yu Wentao's department was too powerful, he really couldn't take care of the team behind, he could only play twelve points of caution, attack with all his might, hoping to storm and seize the camp gate of Yukou.

The joint operation of the three armies of the Han army successfully cut the Hesse cavalry from the mountain down the mountain to the mountain, cut it into three parts, divided and surrounded it in a narrow terrain, so that they could not take care of each other, and could only disperse to meet each other, the attack speed was slowed down, and the impact force was greatly weakened. By the time dawn, the effect of the surprise attack of the Bejima team had been completely disintegrated, and the two sides were basically tied on the battlefield between the front team and the squadron, with casualties on their own. And Beji's rear team, almost as soon as the battle began, quickly fell silent, as if they had disappeared out of thin air. When the day dawned, the Hesse troops felt that they could not take advantage of it, and it was obvious that their intention to plunder the floating wealth could not be realized, so they decided to retreat in order to avoid entanglement with the Han army and causing meaningless casualties.

Hesse led the front army, fought and walked, forcibly broke through the encirclement line of Yu Wentao's department, rushed to the mountainside, and joined the scattered Chinese army. The appearance of the main general reinvigorated the disgraced squadron. Hesse immediately made a decision, commanded all the archers to concentrate, divided into three rows, and took turns to fire a rain of arrows at the defenders of Cui Jiaji on the opposite side to suppress their attack. The wolf tooth arrows of the Beji people and the white feather arrows of the Han army intertwined and shot at each other in the sky like flying locusts, and the bright light of the rockets reflected the sky in a streamer. Soldiers on both sides were constantly being shot and falling. Under the cover of the arrow array, Hesse directed the troops to continue their retreat.

Seeing that most of the enemy army gradually escaped from the encirclement under the cover of the arrow array, and ran quickly towards the way he came, his father was in a hurry, and he led people to rush to the forefront of his side, wanting to command the defenders to strengthen the attack, counter the enemy, and kill a bloody way to pursue Hesse and prevent him from escaping. Hesse saw the figure of the commander in front of the opposing camp in the firelight flying in the sky, and immediately did not hesitate to draw an extra-long wolf's tooth arrow, put on a strong bow, aimed at his father, and pulled the bow hard. The arrow was as fast as the wind, and in a blink of an eye, it was in front of his father's eyes, after all, he was old, and he was unable to react in the dim light, and the wolf's fang arrow shot through the gap between his breastplate and armguard, and immediately pierced his father's left chest. The father screamed, covered the wound, fell off the horse on his back, and the blood sprayed wildly on the spot, and he fainted. The Cui Jiaji garrison was in confusion, and the Hesse department seized the opportunity to break through the encirclement of the second ambush and fled to the valley at the bottom of the mountain.

On the way to the pass, Hesse was stunned to see the corpses of the rear caravan all over the place, and all the horses were gone. The corpses of the rear team that were bleeding all over the ground were almost all killed by a knife, and many people's weapons were not able to be drawn, and there was no blood on the knife at all, so it was obvious that they were killed instantly, and they didn't have time to fight back. Hesse gasped: "Who did this?" After invading the Han land for many years and fighting countless battles with the Han army, it is absolutely impossible for the Han army to have such combat effectiveness! "The other party plundered the horses and quietly and quickly withdrew, obviously it could not be infantry, this is a super elite cavalry! However, all the Han troops in this area have never had formed combat cavalry! Hesse was shocked, and he heard the shouts behind him to kill for a long time, presumably after the meeting of the defenders of the Wentao Department and the Cui family, and pursued him. Hesse didn't think much about it, and led his men to flee from the valley as fast as possible, rushing out of the narrow mountains and back to the vast grassland. The Han army behind had to watch them flee because the infantry speed could not catch up, Yu Wentao ordered to release arrows behind them, but the speed of the Beji people was too fast, and the bows and arrows only wounded dozens of people, and most of the Beji cavalry ran out of the range of the Han army's bows and arrows, and ran away in embarrassment.