At the beginning, when Hua Fei's envoys rushed to Hebei and Hongnong to inform the various forces, Hua Fei sent a large army with no weapons and only torches and other things to help destroy the locusts, but several forces did not express any gratitude and did not object. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

So the two armies of Tai Shici and Xu Chu took it as if the other party was acquiescing and marched towards the two places, and exterminated the locusts they saw along the way.

However, on the morning of the eighth day of the ninth lunar month, Tai Shici, who was leading the army to the west of Huxian in Hongnong, was chasing and burning locusts with torches, but suddenly received a summons from the guards who had been sent to Hongnong in advance to monitor the enemy's movements.

The guard's urgent report claimed: "Zhang Ji of Hongnong is coming towards Huxian with a large army, the army is tightly arrayed, full of swords and guns, and the murderous atmosphere is awe-inspiring, and there is no action to hunt and kill the locusts on the road, but it is just rushing towards Huxian." ”

Tai Shi Ci was taken aback when he heard the report! He never expected that after Zhang Ji received the summons from Hua Fei's envoy, not only did he not appreciate it, but he also ignored the situation of grasshoppers flying all over the territory in the territory, and insisted on raising a large army in vain to recruit troops to Lintong Pass.

And he did not come openly, but secretly covered up his own army that was spreading out to burn locusts.

In fact, Tai Shici didn't know that the reason why Zhang Ji would send a large army to attack them was entirely because Xu Shu had designed to take away all the war horses he and his subordinates had taken away from them last time.

Zhang Ji's subordinates can be said to be all cavalry nine times out of ten, and now there are no war horses for them to ride, and they all suddenly become infantry troops with legs in the circle.

This is really a treatment in the sky and an underground, you must know that this phoenix that has lost its hair is not as good as a chicken, and the Xiliang iron cavalry who have no war horses, their strength is also inferior to the infantry.

Zhang Ji, whose strength was greatly reduced, was still full of panic at first, worried that Hua Fei in the west would take the opportunity to lead troops to attack him.

However, when he found that Hua Fei had not moved, he also settled down and thought of a way to get him a few horses first, so that his subordinates could regain their former combat effectiveness.

It's a pity that when the people he sent to the Hetao area in the north to buy horses returned to him, the price of a war horse still remained at the original price, and after a horse was priced at 100,000 yuan, he gave it with a pale face and knelt down.

Because a horse of 100,000 yuan is 100,000 taels of silver, and these 40,000 horses must be 4 million taels of silver, and this price is not said that he Zhang Ji can't afford it, but I'm afraid that even Hua Fei may not be able to afford it.

After wailing for a while, Zhang Jinai gritted his teeth and went bankrupt to buy more than 5,000 war horses, and then asked people to scrape the ground in Hongnong to collect all the silver taels, and finally got more than 4,000 war horses.

Barely for his army, he has regained a quarter of their combat effectiveness. In this way, Zhang Ji, who was already so poor, hated Hua Fei to the bone.

However, no matter how much he hates, that is, he can only do some scolding in his heart or at home, tying the little straw man, or cursing Hua Fei in a circle or something, but he really doesn't dare to go to Hua Fei, whose strength has increased greatly, to fight again.

But when he learned that Tai Shici and the others did not bring weapons, but rode a large number of war horses to burn locusts in Huxian County, his mind became active again.

As the saying goes: people die for money, and birds die for food. Zhang Ji also looked at Tai Shici's more than 20,000 war horses, and he was almost certain that these war horses were snatched from his Zhang Ji's hands.

Zhang Ji felt that he should be snatched back if he was robbed, and if he could snatch these war horses back, his strength would be greatly improved immediately. So he was red-eyed, and he had this whimsical move.

Why is he whimsical, it is because according to the intelligence of Huafei, Xu Shu, Fa Zheng and others, it was a sneak attack by hostile forces that had long been guarded against.

They had already strictly ordered Tai Shi Ci and Xu Chu to monitor the movements of the enemy soldiers all over the elite guards when they led the army to attack, which made the news of Zhang Ji's army's actions exposed in advance.

Tai Shici, who had been in battle for a long time, instantly judged after receiving the report: "The enemy army is rushing towards Huxian County without killing locusts, which clearly wants to hit himself and his subordinates who have no weapons, and they are caught off guard." ”

So Tai Shici immediately ordered someone to go to the customs declaration immediately, about the situation of Hongnong Zhang Ji. He also ordered the army to immediately retreat to Tongguan, which had been half-built, and wait for Hua Fei's next order.

After the Donglai Tiger general Tai Shici ordered people to quickly withdraw his troops, he did not stop the army in Tongguan, but only ordered the army to take all the blades and bows and arrows, and led more than 20,000 troops to the west of Tongshui, which flowed from south to north.

Because he knew that the fight against locusts at this time was urgent, and according to the report of the guards, Zhang Ji's total strength this time was only more than 30,000 people, and there were only nearly 10,000 cavalry inside.

Therefore, Tai Shici ordered Yang Ren to guard the Tongguan fortress; Ordered the lieutenant to divide half of his army, and continued to raise fire to burn locusts after the army; But he set up an army of 10,000 across the river, dismounted and waited for the arrival of the enemy army.

At noon, Zhang Xiu, who had recovered from his injuries, rode a horse and carried a golden gun to lead nearly 10,000 Xiliang iron horsemen to arrive first. He saw the army on the other side of the river and the array was so strong that he did not dare to cross the river and march eastward.

Zhang Xiu felt a pain in his heart when he saw Tongshui, thinking that their army had lost countless war horses here that day! It's all white silver!

Tai Shi Ci pointed a gun at Zhang Xiu's across the river in the bleak autumn wind and asked: "Zhuzi, I will come to help you fight against the locust plague, how dare you lead a large army to come?" Could it be that he wants to lead the two armies to war? ”

"Humph!" Zhang Xiu sneered when he heard this, but he also pointed a gun at Tai Shici and said, "Don't be ashamed!" The crops in our territory have long been eaten by the locusts, so why should you wait to come to your aid? ”

Tai Shi Ci was speechless when he heard this, but he heard Zhang Xiu say loudly again: "Enemy general, you can listen to the truth, I am the Wuwei Zhang Xiu who is known as the Gun King of the North, you wait for the day before yesterday to steal my uncle's war horse, but you can give me a quick return." ”

"Oh?" Tai Shi Ci looked at him in surprise when he heard this, and said loudly, "It turns out that you are the Zhang Xiu who can still come on the horse to challenge after being punched by Xu Chu more than a dozen times in a row?" Well...... Not bad, not bad, you're ......."

"Shut up!" Zhang Xiu didn't wait for Tai Shi Ci to finish speaking, he had already interrupted Tai Shi Ci's words in anger in his heart, and shouted loudly, "Where is Xu Chu's thief now?" You can let him out quickly, and see if Lao Tzu can tie him into a hornet pot today. ”

"Humph!" Tai Shi Ci sneered when he heard this, but said to Zhang Xiu with a smile, "You're not afraid to eat him again, and just beat out everything in your stomach for you?" ”

"Wow, I'm angry!" Zhang Xiu screamed when he heard this, but pointed at Tai Shi Ci and scolded sharply, "If Lao Tzu hadn't been careless and knocked down the war horse by that dead fat man last time, he would have died thousands of times ago with the appearance of his horse stumbling on his front hoof, how can you be arrogant and stinky shit here?" ”

"Not bad!" Tai Shi Ci thought to himself when he heard this, "Xu Fatzi is really too heavy, and every time he fights, he must guard against the lack of horsepower, and he must remind the lord of this matter after he returns, so that he can find a way to help Xu Fatzi get a good horse, so as not to regret it in the future." ”

Tai Shi Ci was thinking to himself, but he suddenly heard Zhang Xiu say loudly again: "Thief general, Lao Tzu doesn't do anything with an unknown general like you, you can quickly call the fat man with Zhang to come out and fight with me." ”

"Go!" Tai Shi Ci was also secretly angry in his heart when he heard this, but he said excitedly, "You probably knew that Zhong Kang had already led the army north to fight against the locusts, so you deliberately came here to fight, right?" ”

"...... you" Zhang Xiu pointed at Tai Shici's gritted teeth and angry eyes, and it took a long time before he roared, "How dare a thief be so rude?" If you have a kind of time, then you will make your army a stone's throw behind, so that Lao Tzu can lead the army across the river to clean up for you! ”

"Pick me up?" Tai Shi Ci's eyes widened when he heard this, but he was also very angry in his heart, so he pointed a gun at Zhang Xiu and scolded, "You kid is bold, good, since you want to clean up Lao Tzu, you can lead a hundred troops across the river to fight." ”

In the scolding, Tai Shici waved his gun and shouted, and made some appointments with the army to give up some places.

But there was still a lot of scolding in his mouth: "You kid can rest assured!" Lao Tzu will never use a large army to deal with you, just rely on Lao Tzu's spear in the palm of his hand to step off the horse to fight you, Lao Tzu wants to see who the hell is cleaning up today? (To be continued.) )