Winter turns to spring, and by the end of February, the grass in the fields has sprouted and the trees have been revitalized.

However, in the land of Qingzhou, although it is not full of smoke, there is also a constant sound of war, especially on the land of Donglai, where swords and soldiers can be seen everywhere.

As Liu Ju transferred the 40,000 troops stationed in Huang County to outside Ting County, he planned to annihilate Ting County and Xu Rong's troops in Chengyang.

Dong Zhong sent all the cavalry to harass the 40,000 army according to Jia Xu's strategy, not for anything else, but to delay the speed of the anti-army's march, intending to wait until the arrival of the northern army in Youzhou.

February 27 of the second year of Jianning.

A group of knights of about ten percent, leading their horses, gathered around several corpses, one of whom was crouching on the ground to inspect, and the others were looking around with pale faces.

"Tun Chang...... Let's wait until it's dark before moving forward, it's too dangerous, and if we run into the anti-army scouts, then ......"

"Zhang San, you are also a veteran, what are you talking about now? Don't you know that the military situation is like fire! Squatting on the ground, he snorted angrily, got up and reprimanded: "Now that the anti-army reinforcements are less than two hundred miles away from Tingxian, if we don't inform the general of their specific marching route, how can the general implement the delaying strategy." ”

It turned out that this scout was a cavalry scout under Dong Pet's command, in order to inform most of the cavalry of the specific camping place of the rebel army, so as to attack and disturb.

However, Liu Ju had already suffered two losses due to inaccurate intelligence, so he strictly ordered the army to send scouts widely to control the army within thirty miles of it.

In this way, these cavalry scouts are suffering, and the number of deaths of the scouts who are exploring the path alone is almost catching up with the total number of cavalry raids and reinforcements against the army.

From this, we can see how tragic this scout war is.

At this time, a soldier said, "Okay, okay, let's say a few words!" Zhang San, it's not my Lao Liu who said you, you still want to mess around like before, if you let the staff officers of the army know, you will be miserable. ”

Zhang San hurriedly shut up when he heard this, and there was a trace of fear in his eyes, which showed what kind of deterrent this staff officer gave to the soldiers.

At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and the tun chief hurriedly said, "Get on your horse and prepare for battle." ”

"Rumbling ......" The sound of horses' hooves roared!

"Kill, kill!" The shouts of killing are endless!

After listening to it for a while, the tun chief said puzzledly, "Strange, how can this shouting and killing sound be in the West?" And not the North and the East? ”

He couldn't figure it out, so he said, "Let's go and have a look." ”

"No"

Although this group of cavalry was still a little hesitant before, it was not obvious at all.

First, because they are veterans of war after all, and second, the military law strictly orders that deserters will be punished by the three clans.

After everyone galloped west for a while, they saw a group of more than 20 red-armored Han troops fighting with a group of more than 30 gray-armored rebels.

At this time, it was noon, and under the illumination of the sun, the armor of the more than 20 Han soldiers was particularly dazzling.

Seeing this, the chief of Natun was about to give the order to attack, after all, the Han army was small in number!

However, when he saw a Han army break away from the battle formation and came to a short distance from this group of cavalry scouts, he asked, "Who are your subordinates?" Why here? ”

The tun chief was stunned for a moment, but he still replied truthfully: "We are the cavalry commander under the cavalry under the command of the rear general Dong Chong, and I was ordered to investigate the movements of the anti-army. ”

After saying this, the tun chief continued, "I don't see that you have an advantage in numbers, so let me wait to join the battle!" ”

The Han soldier nodded when he heard this, as if he believed the words of the tun chief, and then said, "I believe in Er's identity, but my northern army does not need your help. ”

After speaking, he returned to the battle formation and shouted, "Brothers, don't disgrace my Northern Army, and don't embarrass Zhang Ji. ”

"Drink"

The twenty Han soldiers shouted, and they all swung their swords and slashed at the opposing rebels, and the seemingly unskilled blows all killed one of the rebels.

Then he leaned over, hung on his side, or hid in the belly of the horse, dodging the attacks of the rest of the rebels, and then sat on the horse's back and slashed with his sword.

In just a few breaths, all the more than 30 rebels were beheaded under their horses, and none of the Han troops were injured.

This made the cavalry scouts not far away stunned, and they couldn't believe their eyes.

The tun chief thought, "Could it be that this is the northern army that annihilated Xianbei in Liaoxi in Youzhou?" It is worthy of being a soldier who has been fighting with Xianbei on horseback for a long time, and it is really powerful. ”

Subsequently, the Han army named Zhang Ji, who had come out of the queue before, came to the front of the tun commander with a group of people and said, "The commander of the Northern Army, Captain Zang Min, and the military Sima Zhang Ji have seen you. ”

Hearing this, the tun chief hurriedly visited, although it was not from the same team, but after all, the other party's official position was higher than his own.

After the two sides met the ceremony, Zhang Jidao, "I don't know where most of your army is?" It's better to go back and report to the general! ”

Hearing this, the tun chief was embarrassed and said, "Humble duty, I don't know where it is, I only know how to go." ”

Zhang Jihao smiled indifferently, "That's fine, then go first." ”

"Please"

"Please"

Quite county, on the city wall.

Ding Yuan's lieutenant general trotted all the way to Ding Yuan's side and said, "General, just now the scout came to report!" The 30,000 troops of the Northern Army of Youzhou and the 200 miles of Tingxian County. ”

"Is that true?" Ding Yuan exclaimed.

It's no wonder that Ding Yuan is not calm enough, but the battle is too hard, and the rebels completely ignore the casualties of the siege, so that the defenders in the city suffer heavy losses, if it weren't for Wang Yun to lose the youth and defend the city, I'm afraid the Han army would have died.

Especially the previous day, I don't know if Liu Yi was mad, or what's wrong, he actually used the people to attack the city, if it weren't for Wang Yun's ruthlessness, regardless of the people or the enemy's arrows, Tingxian would have been broken a long time ago.

Now that I know that reinforcements are coming, how can I not be overjoyed.

The deputy general naturally knew that Ding Yuan's situation was not easy, so he replied, "This time, the 30,000 Northern Army is commanded by Captain Zang Min of Changshui, and the 30,000 are all cavalry. ”

"What? All cavalry? How can it be? ”

Ding Yuan exclaimed when he heard this, although the Changshui Department of the Northern Army was originally a cavalry unit, but since the time of Emperor Huan, the cavalry of the Han Army has been very few, and now the 30,000 people of the Changshui Department are all cavalry, how can Ding Yuan not be surprised.

The adjutant general said calmly, "General, have you forgotten? Last year, General Du Liao led the Northern Army to annihilate Xianbei in Liaoxi, Longyan Dayue, and captured more than 30,000 war horses, more than 20,000 cattle, and more than 80,000 sheep, of which sixty percent were distributed to combat sergeants. ”

"With such a large reward, coupled with the emperor's intention to reorganize the cavalry, why can't he have 30,000 cavalry?"

Ding Yuan was silent when he heard this, indeed, in the past year, the big man has changed too much, it seems that some small changes, but it has made the strength of the big han grow by leaps and bounds.

Thinking of this, Ding Yuan couldn't help but feel a little lucky, glad that he was not Chengren when Emperor Huan was in the time, otherwise he really didn't know what would be waiting for him.

In this way, I must serve His Majesty well, otherwise I will not be sorry for God to let me go through this experience in this world.

Immediately, Ding Yuan looked coldly at the rebel camp outside Tingxian County, hum, 30,000 cavalry, don't say that you only have 60,000 people, even if you come again 60,000, there will only be one result.