The reason why Hong Chengchou was so anxious to order the official army to march into Yuncheng was because he had just received a distress letter from Liu Lianxiang, the general of Yuncheng, and the security army had begun to attack Yuncheng a day earlier, and there were a large number of enemies, and the offensive was fierce, and Yuncheng might not be protected after a long time.

Hong Chengchou judged the current situation, the security army came out of the mountains all the way to the south, during this period did not attack a decent city, indicating that their ability to attack the fortification was as weak as other thieves, and they ran to the Yuncheng area, there was no way to run, there was the Yellow River in front of the road, and the rear officers and soldiers were in hot pursuit. At this critical time, he had to attack Yuncheng, which was defended by strong walls, probably because the thieves had problems with food and salary, so they made this decision. This is a good time to annihilate the thieves, and the thieves must not be allowed to understand and give up attacking Yuncheng and escape, as for Liu Lianxiang's report that Yuncheng may be lost, it is just alarmist. This group of generals blows through the sky on weekdays, and they are less daring than anyone else on the battlefield. Hong Chengchou asked the person who came to deliver the letter to reply to Liu Lianxiang and ordered him to stick to Yuncheng, and the brigade of the official army would arrive immediately. At the same time, he ordered his team to speed up, and they must surround the thieves in Yuncheng, and they can't let them run anymore.

The generals in front were in a dilemma after receiving Hong Chengchou's order, the battle just now shocked them too much, the thieves were so powerful, after weighing, the generals decided to attack immediately, and the lives of the soldiers were not as important as the official hats on their heads.

This time, the generals were ruthless, sent all the troops at hand, personally supervised the battle in the rear, and buried the security forces in front here with corpses.

The officers and soldiers were holding all kinds of things for defense, and more than 10,000 people were densely packed together, and they didn't care about any formation, and shouted and rushed towards the security army under the urging of the generals.

The security forces were unceremonious this time, and as soon as the officers and soldiers entered the maximum range of the artillery, the artillery on the combat vehicle opened fire.

Each round of shelling plowed dozens of death alleys in the array of officers and troops. The officers and soldiers were unmoved, and at the urging of generals at all levels, they accelerated the speed of the charge, and soon shortened the distance with the security army, the artillery of the security army was replaced with shotguns, and the casualties of the officers and soldiers increased exponentially, and the huge number of officers and soldiers made the proportion of casualties still within a tolerable range, and several wavering soldiers were also cut by the generals who supervised the war, and the officers and troops on the entire battlefield entered a state of madness, and the madness of the officers and soldiers really had an effect. The officers and soldiers saw hope, and the thieves finally got timid and messed up their positions, and the officers and soldiers became even more frantic and accelerated the speed of the impact.

Suddenly, there was a rapid sound of horses' hooves behind the security army's formation, and a large number of security army cavalry crossed the car formation and quickly gathered together and rushed towards the official army.

The officers and soldiers who were rushing to Xing were suddenly frightened by the galloping momentum of ten thousand horses.

The cavalry of the 5,000 security army rushed into the flock like a tiger into a flock of sheep and suddenly broke the position of the official army, and the officers and generals could no longer suppress the bullets, the officers and troops were defeated, and the security army continued to slash and kill in the rear, and the officers and soldiers were killed and injured countless at once, and they ran all over the mountains.

At this critical moment, Cao Wenzhao's Kwantung Iron Cavalry arrived.

Cao Wenzhao with his Guanning iron cavalry was not with the infantry of the official army, Cao Wenzhao was very cautious and cautious when fighting with soldiers, which is also the reason why he survived for many years, before he figured out how to deal with the firearms of the security army, he decided not to fight with the security army for the time being, so he not only did not lead the team to participate in the attack, but ordered the soldiers to continue to strengthen the camp, make a stubborn look, at the beginning of the official attack, he ordered all the soldiers to get on the horse and prepare, if the official army wins, you can immediately follow the past, Even if you can't grab the results of the battle, you can still be regarded as participating in the attack, and you can still respond if the official army is defeated.

Unexpectedly, Cao Wenzhao's arrangement really worked, when the official army was defeated and retreated, Cao Wenzhao did not lead the troops to turn around and run, but let the cavalry maintain the formation and slowly move forward, forcing the rout to both sides. Cao Wenzhao understood that if he rushed over in a hurry at this time, his formation would be disrupted by the defeated army, and the security army would take the opportunity to kill him, and it would be difficult for him to protect himself at that time. The charging security army found something strange in front of them, saw the official cavalry coming in formation, immediately retracted the reins, no longer pursued the fleeing officers and soldiers, quickly gathered together, and confronted Cao Wenzhao's team from a distance, and the defeated soldiers of the official army took advantage of this opportunity to escape behind Cao Wenzhao's cavalry. The cavalry on both sides watched each other, looking for weaknesses and preparing to attack at any moment.

Cao Wenzhao's psychology is very contradictory, the cavalry of both sides is at a disadvantage in terms of the number of cavalry, if you attack now, losses are inevitable, even if you win, the cavalry of the security army is repulsed, it is not much good for yourself. Strong soldiers are the foundation of generals, if there are no strong soldiers, generals will lose the basis for survival, which is why a large number of generals raise relatives. Therefore, when most of the officers and soldiers had already fled to the rear of his ranks, Cao Wenzhao ordered all the cavalry to slowly begin to retreat, and first protect the fleeing officers and soldiers.

After the cavalry of the security army formed a formation, they did not attack Cao Wenzhao's troops, but retreated back under alternate cover.

The rush just now consumed a lot of the physical strength of the war horse, and the muskets equipped by the cavalry of the security army needed to be reloaded after firing, which was not the best time for a decisive battle with Cao Wenzhao.

Another important reason is that Zhang Chu's order came from the direction of Yuncheng, their blocking mission has been completed, and they don't have to fight hard with the enemy, they can retreat to Yuncheng.

The cavalry battle, which was about to break out, did not happen because of the hearts of both sides, but they became farther and farther away.

Cao Wenzhao saw that the security army did not rush up and secretly called it a fluke, and his own men and horses were saved, and at the same time, he also took part of the officers and soldiers down, leaving the green mountains behind, not afraid of running out of firewood, and waiting for the officers and troops behind to come up and then fight a decisive battle with the security army.

The entire cavalry regiment of the security army retreated, and even the chariot battalion withdrew, and the position became deserted.

The officers and soldiers have become frightened birds, and they are still in a state where the officials can't find the soldiers, and the soldiers can't find the officers, and it is fortunate that they are not all killed by the security forces, so they can only watch the security forces retreat, but there is no way to do it. And the security army retreated at this time, who knows if there is any new conspiracy.

The officers and soldiers really thought wrong, the security army didn't want to play conspiracy anymore, they really withdrew, not even a single soldier was left, and they resolutely carried out Zhang Chu's order to withdraw to Yuncheng.

The reason why Zhang Chu gave such an order was because the war in Yuncheng had undergone fundamental changes. (To be continued.) )