When Cao Wenzhao led 4,500 soldiers to the ancient county town, there was no trace of Cao Bianjiao, only to see that the ground was a mess, and there were weapons discarded by the thieves everywhere, and even some thieves thought that the bleached mandarin duck jacket was too conspicuous, so they took off the mandarin duck jacket and threw it on the ground.

These scattered things are everywhere in the east.

The border soldiers from Liaodong didn't even look at these things, but the guards from Yansui cheered loudly, picked up these things, and smiled: "Haha, I'm rich, I picked up a knife, which can hit several catties of iron." ”

"These stupid thieves not only sent us war exploits, but also weapons and armor, hahaha!"

Cao Wenzhao glanced at the east a few times, guessing that his nephew had caught up, the two armies were fighting, and it was also very common to pursue the enemy army, but he didn't feel anything unusual, and ordered: "Don't pick up the garbage on the ground, throw them away, and the whole army will quickly march east to meet General Xiao Cao." ”

Yan Suibing was very dissatisfied, he was not allowed to pick up the loot, is there such a commander? The military order was like a mountain, and they did not dare to resist openly, so they had to throw away what they were in hand and continue to advance eastward, but they kept muttering curses to the commander.

Cao Wenzhao chased all the way to the east for a few miles, and the more he chased, the more he wondered: "Chase so far?" It's not safe, is it...... If you chase it any further, you will enter a place where the scouts have not scouted, and you will be afraid of the enemy's ambush plan. ”

He was about to call the scout to chase after him and call Cao Bianjiao back, when suddenly a scout of Cao Bianjiao ran up to him and reported loudly to him: "Report to General Cao, General Cao Xiao led the elite of a thousand border troops and encountered an enemy ambush in front, but the enemy ambush was incompetent. Although he was attacked from both sides, he couldn't help General Xiaocao in the slightest...... After General Cao broke through the ambush, he continued to pursue. ”

Cao Wenzhao smiled dumbly: "These stupid thieves really use ambush tactics, but they are too incompetent, and the ambush soldiers can't shake the elite of our border army." Command the whole army to intensify the pursuit...... It's all in one battle! ”

"Yes!" The border troops responded loudly and continued to run eastward.

This is where Zhu Yuanzhang is clever, you must know that the plan to lure the enemy is not so easy, and the enemy generals are stupid. After being lured out for a few miles, you will always feel that something is wrong, and you will definitely stop chasing and it will be difficult for you to lure the enemy into the encirclement. But first lay down an ambush soldier, deliberately let the enemy army defeat, so that it goes. The enemy will think, "I've broken through the ambush, what are you afraid of?" You can keep the pursuit! ”

Cao Bianjiao chased after him for this reason, and after Cao Wenzhao heard about it, he had no doubt and continued to chase forward.

Let's say that Cao Bianjiao was in front, chasing all the way, Bai Yuzhu and Xue Hongqi fled while letting the soldiers scatter to the countryside. The more the two of them fled, the fewer soldiers around them, and Cao Bianjiao was overjoyed: "I will definitely capture these two stupid thieves alive today." to vent the hatred in my heart! ”

He didn't care about the thieves who scattered into the mountains and forests, but he recognized Xue Hongqi and Bai Yuzhu who were chasing after him to the death, and this chase lasted for half a day, and he chased them thirty miles away. A small village appears in front of it. The name of the village is Xiyan Township, this village has been abandoned as early as the sixth year of Chongzhen, and it is uninhabited, only a piece of ruined tiles remains.

Bai Yuzhu and Xue Hongqi were two with dozens of henchmen. Hiding in the wreckage of Xiyan Township, he disappeared.

Cao Bianjiao said happily: "They can't run anymore, so they have to go into the village and rely on the broken wall as a cover to escape, brothers, give me more strength, chase them out of the village." ”

"Yes!" The elite morale of the 1,000 border army was like a rainbow and rushed towards the abandoned village.

Suddenly, there was a "coaxing" sound in the abandoned village, and several groups of people rushed out to the east, north, and south, and the number of people in each group and the dress were exactly the same. There is a Xue Hongqi and Bai Yuzhu on the run, there is also a Xue Hongqi and Bai Yuzhu on the north, and there is actually a Xue Hongqi and Bai Yuzhu on the run...... These three groups of people look exactly the same from behind, and it is difficult to distinguish the authenticity.

Cao Bianjiao screamed "hey", at a loss.

It turned out that there were already several groups of stand-ins lurking in the village who were dressed exactly like Xue Hongqi and Bai Shuzhu, and when Xue Hongqi and Bai Yuzhu fled into the village, they rushed out from three directions at the same time, so that Cao Bianjiao didn't know which side to chase.

This time Rao is Cao Bianjiao, who has experienced a hundred battles, and he can't help but be dizzy......

The adjutant general beside him exclaimed, "General Cao, it's not a good thing...... The enemy army has been prepared for a long time, and knows that we will chase after here, so there are still ambush soldiers? ”

"Not good!" Cao Bianjiao came to his senses and shouted urgently: "The whole army is tightened, and the array of square circles is arranged!" ”

At this time, the border troops used the crane wing array, and the soldiers on both wings spread out to both sides, wanting to surround the village, and when they saw that the situation had changed, they quickly shrank back, wanting to transform into a square circle array with excellent defensive capabilities.

However, the military formation of 1,000 people does not mean that the formation will change when the formation changes, even if the soldiers use the speed of 100 meters to return to the formation, it will take a while to do it, and the soldiers will inevitably stumble and stumble when the formation changes, pushing and pushing, and it will take a lot of time to waste. Just when this formation was about to change, a horn sound sounded in the small forest behind Xiyan Township, and Xue Hongqi, dressed in red, jumped out of the woods, holding up the scimitar in his hand: "Assault!" ”

The sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, and a cavalry team of about 500 people rushed out of the woods. The five hundred horsemen were divided into several shares, one for each hundred, and two small shares, each of which was spaced apart, with twenty heavy riders in front and thirty light riders behind. The heavy cavalry is all in the shape of iron bumps, and the spears are stretched out, obviously to use the power of the impact of the war horse to pierce the spear. The light riders in the back carried one or two bows on their backs......

Cao Bianjiao can also be regarded as a good general who has experienced a hundred battles, and he knew at a glance what tactics the enemy wanted to use, and suddenly sweated like rain: "This is ...... Very old cavalry tactics of the Jin Kingdom! ”

The woods that the cavalry rushed out of were about a mile away from Cao Bianjiao's military formation, and it took a certain amount of time for the horses to accelerate from starting to the highest speed, so it would take a while to rush to the distance of one mile.

Cao Bianjiao pinched the sweat in his palms, and now it depends on whether the cavalry rushes in front of him first, or his soldiers line up first to form a formation. If the infantry is charged by the cavalry in the middle of the change of formation, the consequences are unimaginable, but if the cavalry can be set up in a square formation and set up a dense spear before the cavalry rushes in front of them, then the enemy's cavalry is not worried.

He didn't dare to give any more orders at this time, for fear that the frequent orders would slow down the reaction of the soldiers, so he had to watch the cavalry rush over, and the border troops were arrayed under the pressure of the cavalry assault...... Fortunately, these soldiers were the elite of the border army, and they had fought against Jiannu for many years, and they had already overcome their fear in the face of the cavalry charge, and they were actually able to line up the square circle before Xue Hongqi's cavalry rushed to a distance of fifty paces.

Cao Bianjiao breathed a sigh of relief, and the border soldiers did not wait for his order, they had already raised the spears in their hands, and the spear array stood up all of a sudden.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

The soldiers of the two armies released their arrows at the same time, and the arrows of the border army fell on the heavy cavalry in the front row, and when there was a sound, all of them were shot down by the iron armor. And the arrows shot by Xue Hongqi's archers were not necessarily pleased, and it was also difficult to penetrate the armor of the border soldiers. In fact, if you want to hurt a soldier in armor with the power of a bow and arrow, you have to go at least "ten steps" to shoot at a distance of "ten steps" to penetrate the armor, and shooting arrows beyond ten steps is a waste of effort.

The two armies did not succeed in a wave of arrows, the spear formations were not chaotic, and the cavalry was not injured. Xue Hongqi whistled, and the cavalry also whistled together, and the five hundred cavalry split into two large groups at once, whistling past the left and right sides of Cao Bianjiao's military array...... ran to the west of Cao Bianjiao's army, and then reorganized the cavalry formation.

Cao Bianjiao's palms were full of sweat, and he could see that these five hundred cavalry were not ordinary rogue level, they were obviously trained for several years, although the archery skills were not as good as those of Jiannu, but the riding skills were quite exquisite, the key was that they were not like the rogue thief cavalry who fought indiscriminately, but maintained a fairly rigorous cavalry formation, which seemed to really deserve the word "cavalry", and was by no means the level of "horse bandits".

"Turn!" Cao Bianjiao waved the Ling Banner, his Fangyuan array changed from the front formation to the front formation, and the front formation to the rear formation, just now the soldiers were still facing the east and swinging the spear formation, and now the spear formation has turned to the west, staring closely at Xue Hongqi's five hundred cavalry. This is also an advantage of the Fangyuan Array, it is an orthodox defensive formation, there are no flaws in all directions, it is easy to change the direction, if it is the arrow formation of the Arrow Array, it is very troublesome to turn the formation around.

By the time Xue Hongqi's five hundred horsemen set up the charging formation again, Cao Bianjiao's spear formation had been perfectly placed!

"Come on!" Cao Bianjiao shouted: "Let me show you the ability of the Liaodong border army to break the cavalry with foot. ”

Xue Hongqi laughed, the scimitar was raised, but it did not fall, and the five hundred cavalry were waiting for it, but they did not charge, but just stared coldly at Cao Bianjiao's military formation.

The two armies confronted each other for a while, and neither of them moved.

After a long while, Cao Bianjiao roared angrily: "Why don't you dare to rush? ”

Xue Hongqi raised his voice and said, "Why should I take the initiative to rush? If you have the ability, come and rush me! ”

Cao Bianjiao was speechless, how could there be any reason for the infantry to take the initiative to charge the cavalry? There is no such art of war in the world! He laughed secretly in his heart: I will confront you, and when my uncle's army arrives, see that your five hundred cavalry will not run away?

At this time, his lieutenant suddenly leaned over and whispered, "General Xiaocao...... The thieves only sent 500 cavalry here to deal with us, so will their main force ambush General Cao? (To be continued.) )