Under the urging of Cao Wenzhao, the cavalry of the official army regardless of the consumption of horsepower, rushed to catch up with the craftsman battalion, and at noon the next day, finally saw the smoke and dust raised by tens of thousands of people walking in front, Cao Wenzhao was relieved, and finally caught up, and then half a day later the craftsmen were about to enter the mountains, and the cavalry of the official army could not be used in the mountains, even if they caught up, they could not drive all the craftsmen back. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Cao Wenzhao is a veteran of a hundred battles, and he knows that the closer he is to success, the more careful he must be, these tens of thousands of craftsmen can be taken so neatly and uniformly to go such a long way, it is impossible for no one to organize, maybe there will be security troops to meet the people.

Cao Wen ordered the brigade to slow down the pace of advance, let the horses walk slowly, so as to get a moment of rest, accumulate horsepower, and prepare for the fight below, and at the same time sent people to the front to inquire about the situation, and the horses came back after a short time, and the news they brought back was that the brigade of craftsmen could be seen in front, and they were trying to rush to the mountain pass not far ahead. The officers and soldiers rushed up at this time, just in time to stop them or scatter them. However, at the back of the artisan procession there was a large group of vehicles lying there, apparently to stop the pursuit of the officers.

Hearing a large group of vehicles across the road, Cao Wenzhao immediately became vigilant, he suffered such a loss when he was in Yuncheng, losing hundreds of cavalry, and the infantry of the official army was wiped out in front of the cart in pieces, but he could not cross the car formation one step.

Cao Wenzhao ordered the cavalry of the official army to stop immediately, and he took a small group of cavalry to get as close as possible to the car formation of the security army, only to see that the large cars were connected from end to end, forming a long car formation in the middle of the road, and the cavalry in a group could be faintly seen behind, protecting both sides of the car formation, which was the team of the security army.

When Zhang Chu led his troops to Taiyuan to grab people, he brought the entire chariot battalion and a regiment of cavalry, and what he valued was the defensive ability of the chariot battalion. The cavalry could both provide cover for the tank battalion and strike at the enemy using the characteristics of maneuverability and flexibility. On the way from Yuncheng to Taiyuan, the security army wore the clothes of the officers and soldiers, and waved the banners of the officers and soldiers, and smoothly passed through the areas controlled by the officers and soldiers. After taking control of the artisan battalion, the cavalry regiment and the chariot battalion became bodyguards, escorting the artisan battalion to carefully move towards the Zhongyang area occupied by the security forces. On the one hand, it is to prevent officials and soldiers from coming to snatch the craftsmen back, and at the same time, it is also to prevent some craftsmen from being unwilling to follow them and flee.

But so far everything is still very normal, the craftsmen from Beijing to Taiyuan, in Taiyuan and continue to move, most of the people are numb, these ordered to move is still the Chinese officer Cao Qian, at the same time there are a brigade of officers and soldiers around, but the distance is a little far, I don't know where the governor wants to place everyone. Even so, no one came out to oppose it, just silently obeyed the orders of the Chinese army and kept moving forward.

Seeing that the brigade of the artisan battalion was about to enter the valley in front, as long as the whole army entered the chariot battalion to block the mountain pass, the operation was basically successful.

Unexpectedly, the pursuers of the official army ran quite fast, and chased after the craftsman battalion before entering the valley, Zhang Chu could only order the chariot battalion to line up, and he himself and the cavalry regiment were on the flank of the chariot battalion to prepare to respond. The cavalry of the officers and soldiers must not be allowed to rush through, and if the artisan battalion is scattered, the operation will be wasted.

Looking at the cavalry that kept emerging in the rear, Zhang Chu was in a complicated mood, it was noon at this time, although the distance between the two sides was quite far, but the banner and everything were clearly seen. Immediately following was Cao Wenzhao's Guanning Iron Cavalry. Zhang Chu has always been reluctant to fight this team in the previous battles. On the one hand, because the combat effectiveness of the Guanning Iron Cavalry is indeed very strong, and if it is hard to fight, it will cause huge losses to the security army, and on the other hand, the Guanning Iron Cavalry is the only existing team in the Ming Dynasty that can compete with the Houjin Cavalry in the field. Cao Wenzhao only had a small part of Guan Ning's iron cavalry in his hands, and Zhang Chu didn't want to wipe them out so quickly.

Cao Wenzhao took advantage of the noon sun to see the opponent's formation clearly, although the other party was under the banner of the official army, Cao Wenzhao knew that this was absolutely fake, and the official army in Shanxi did not have a strict team that could put on such a formation. This must be a fake from the security forces.

Cao Wenzhao waved his hand and called a small group of cavalry to his eyes, telling them to rush forward for a while, make a tentative attack, as long as the other party shoots or fires cannons, they will retreat, and they must pay attention to their own safety.

The cavalry squad of the officers and soldiers slowly approached the cart formation, and seeing that the number of people who came was small, and the Francophone on the car did not fire, they knew that the musketeers on the car were enough to destroy the enemy.

The cavalry of the officer army had approached the chariot formation across the road, and the cavalrymen took out their riding bows and put on the arrows, because they were just for the sake of temptation, they did not straighten up on their horses and shoot arrows, being careful not to expose their bodies, drew their bows and shot the arrows regardless of whether they could shoot or not, and then turned their horses' heads and ran back. The range of the compound recurve bow used by the Ming Dynasty officials and soldiers was still very long, but the arrows could be shot at such a distance but had no lethality.

The arrow landed lightly in the formation of the carriage and was stopped by the baffle of the carriage. The security soldiers in the car simply didn't have the energy to pay attention to the arrows that were fired at them. They wanted to wait for the officers and soldiers to get close and suddenly open fire, so as to keep these officers and soldiers here, but they didn't expect the officers and soldiers to shoot arrows from a distance, turn around and run back.

"Fire!" The platoon commander of a security army facing the officers and soldiers saw that the enemy could no longer control so much, so he decisively gave the order to open fire, and could not let the officers and soldiers come and leave, so that both sides would be disappointed.

The muskets rang out, and the fast-flying buckshot caught up with the officers and soldiers who were just retreating, wounding several horses, and the rest escaped from the range of the muskets. The leader of the officers and soldiers who led the team broke out in a cold sweat and hurriedly went back to report to Cao Wenzhao. Cao Wenzhao had already judged from the dense gunfire and the ultra-long range that it must be the security army in front.

It is definitely not possible to rush the security army vehicle formation head-on, and it is really unwilling to let the security army kidnap Cao Wenzhao from the craftsman battalion. Looking at the terrain of the battlefield in front of him, Cao Wenzhao decided to take a risk, rushed over from the right flank of the security army's vehicle formation, bypassed the vehicle formation, and broke up the artisan battalion.

Cao Wenzhao recruited the cavalry team around him, set up a position to prepare for the charge, and at the same time conveyed the battle intention. The cavalrymen felt much more relieved to hear that there was no need to rush to the chariot formation, but to dash at the enemy's right flank with a false shot. It was even easier to rush over to disperse the craftsmen who had no combat effectiveness, and the only obstacle was the cavalry of the security army defending behind the car formation, but the cavalry duel against the cavalry Guan Ning Iron Cavalry did not flinch.

Cao Wenzhao saw that everything was ready to stop, and ordered two thousand iron horsemen to rush towards the security army. (To be continued.) )