Xue Rengao laughed loudly, causing the soldiers who had just proved with blood and swords that their newly formed swordsmen were worthy of the name of Great Qin Tieying for a while. Xue Huaiyi wiped the blood stains on his face, and said to his cousin, who had always scared him more than he was close: "Why is Your Highness laughing, but what is the good news?" ”

Xue Rengao stroked his short beard with his hand, trampled the unconscious officer of the Chen Army under his feet, looked around at the remaining two or three hundred Iron Eagle swordsmen around him, and asked loudly, "Do you want to defeat the Chen Army?" ”

"Yes!" He was answered by a neat voice, like thunder, and like a grandeur.

"Do you want to be promoted and make a fortune?"

"Yes!"

"Then do you want to capture Chen Pojun alive!"

It was cold, and the field was suddenly silent, and the only thing in the air was the sound of sparks popping as the pine resin on the torches burned. Hundreds of Iron Eagle swordsmen all opened their mouths wide, staring at their Royal Highness the Crown Prince, looking at their commander, but they didn't know how to answer.

Chen Pojun, that is the Great Chen Emperor, has dozens of famous commanders, thousands of generals, and millions of elite soldiers. Now nearly half of the territory of the entire world is his territory, what kind of joke is it to capture Chen Pojun alive.

Regarding the reaction of the soldiers under his command, Xue Rengao was slightly disappointed, but it was only slightly. Although these people all bear the name of the Iron Eagle Swordsman, they are not the elite who have followed him for several years, but just the new Iron Eagle Swordsman who has just been drawn from various armies and reorganized.

"Tell Ben Shuai, don't you want to be promoted, don't you want to get rich? I don't want to sit on 10,000 acres of fertile land in the future. Don't want to be a spoiled wife? Tell Ben Shuai, do you want to? ”

"Yes!" Hundreds of soldiers were finally aroused by Xue Rengao's roar.

"Now, Ben Shuai will give you such a chance. Let me tell you that Chen Pojun has secretly crossed the Yellow River to Shangxian. He thought that his whereabouts were secretive, but he didn't know that the Chen cavalry we had just intercepted and killed had already obtained such an important piece of information. Now, Chen Pojun is staying in that dilapidated and short Diaoyin County, do you dare to gamble with this king and capture Chen Pojun alive together! ”

"Capture Chen Pojun alive!" Hundreds of Qin troops finally boiled with blood and roared wildly. The spear in his hand slammed into the ground.

The cavalry squad intercepted by Xue Rengao had more than 100 light cavalry and amazing combat power. Xue Rengao's five hundred new Iron Eagle swordsmen ambushed them to fight more and fight less. In the end, he also suffered the price of more than 200 people, and finally annihilated this Chen cavalry.

However, although the price paid is great, the reward is even greater. From the body of the officer Chen Jun, Qin Jun searched for a piece of information. The letter was to be sent to Chen Shuming, the marshal of the Chen Army's Western Expedition in the North, and the content of the letter was only one. That is to let Chen Shuming stand still and refuse to leave the city. The letter said that as long as it lasted for another seven days, reinforcements from Chen's army would arrive. And what makes Xue Rengao excited. The reinforcements in the letter were none other than the Emperor Chen Dynasty's generals who personally led 50,000 troops to help.

"Your Highness. There was no mention in the letter that Chen Pojun had arrived in Shangxian. On the way back to the camp, Xue Huaiyi wondered.

Xue Rengao rode on a horse. With a contemplative face, he didn't reply when he heard the words: "Do you really want to wait for Chen Pojun to run to Shangxian County without a single soldier and let us arrest him?" Leading troops to fight, how can there be so many good things. ”

"But Your Highness didn't say it just now"

"That's to boost the morale of the soldiers, but although Chen Pojun can't wait for us to catch him. But for us, the result is the same. The letter said that Chen Pojun personally led 50,000 troops to help, and the letter also said that as long as Chen Shuming could not hold out, Chen Jun's reinforcements would arrive within seven days. From Yanfu City on the bank of the Yellow River to Ding'an City in the north, do you calculate the distance here? As long as we calculate the time it takes for Chen Jun to march on the road, we can get the time when Chen Jun crossed the river. ”

"From Yanfu to Beidi, we have to pass through four counties and more than ten county seats. Even if you go fast, it will take five or six days. ”

"That is to say, the time for Chen Jun to cross the river is within these two days."

"What is Your Highness's plan?" Xue Huaiyi had already vaguely guessed Xue Rengao's plan in his heart.

Xue Rengao smiled coldly: "Of course, the opportunity should not be missed, we will take the initiative." He led the army to break through the Great Wall along the Haoyan River, broke through the Confucian forest, and then rushed to Shangxian along the Haoyan River. As long as we act fast enough, maybe when we take Shangxian, the Chen army has not completely crossed the Yellow River. ”

Xue Huaiyi saw that Xue Rengao had made up his mind, but there was a faint bad feeling in his heart. Chen Pojun's name was too loud, so he always felt that something seemed wrong with this matter. But he couldn't think of what was wrong. Looking at the mountains and forests behind him, he thought of the more than 100 elites of Chen Jun who had fallen in the mountains and forests, and seemed to remind him that it was impossible for Chen Jun to deliberately send so many elites to death in vain in order to give them a false information.

Those people were all real elites, and five hundred Iron Eagle swordsmen besieged more than one horseman, and in the end, they all paid the price of more than two hundred horsemen. Especially that general, he was even more brave, if it wasn't for the crown prince Xue Rengao to lead the army, they would definitely have to pay a greater price.

Thinking of the previous battle between the Chen army and the Wu army in Jiangdong, Chen Pojun also personally led the army to reinforcements. This time the situation seems to be no different, according to Chen Pojun's usual practice, it is very likely that he will lead troops to help.

Shuofang Qin army camp, under the night, nearly 40,000 Qin troops have been assembled. The officers and men of the 10th Battalion were all ready to go.

Xue Rengao was dressed in black iron armor, straddled the war horse, held a big iron halberd, and shouted loudly as he looked at the neat army in front of him.

"Are your knives sharpened quickly?"

"You can cut off ten Chen Jun's heads with one sword!"

"Are your spears sharp enough?"

"One shot can pierce ten Chen Jun's assholes!"

"Are your bows and arrows calibrated?"

"It's very accurate, you can shoot through Chen Jun's eyes a hundred steps away!"

"Dashuai, we're all ready! Don't worry, our brother is ready to cut his grandmother! Deputy General Xue Huailiang and Brother Xue Huaiyi, the captain of the Iron Eagle Swordsman Battalion, stood in front of Xue Rengao one on the left and one on the right, and replied loudly.

"Marshal, give the order, the brothers will follow His Highness together to capture Chen Pojun alive!"

Xue Rengao looked at the ignited battle spirit of the whole army with satisfaction, and he was worried that more than seventy percent of the 40,000 people were Liu Wuzhou's old troops after all. However, looking at the performance of the crowd, he knew that these people had completely become the soldiers of the Qin State. Raising his hand to stop the crowd's excited shouts for battle, Xue Rengao nodded with a smile, and waved the iron halberd in his hand: "Let's go!" ”

The sound of the Qin army's horses' hooves sounded in the wind, Xue Rengao, as always, took the lead, first led the Iron Eagle Swordsman Battalion and the Guard's Tooth Barracks and the Flying Cavalry Battalion with a total of 15,000 light cavalry, and the deputy general Xue Huailiang led the remaining two battalions of Longyou Hu soldiers brought from Longyou 6,000, and the three battalions of 9,000 men and horses that were reorganized into the surrendered troops of the Later Zhou Dynasty, plus 10,000 in two battalions of the new army that had just been recruited, a total of 25,000 infantry followed.

Woo woo woo -

The army pulled out the camp, and the whole army went out on the march.

The wind was howling, the horses were roaring, and the 40,000 Qin troops set off overnight. The entire camp became an empty camp, and even Shuo Fangzhi Chengyan Green City, at this time, there was only a new military camp of 3,000 people left, staying behind and waiting for the arrival of the baggage battalion.

Running all the way, Xue Rengao quickly left most of the infantry behind. Crossing the ancient Great Wall overnight, the Runing City on the bank of the luxurious water is already in sight, this is the first city to enter Diaoyin, according to the intelligence, there is an army of 3,000 people of the Chen army stationed here. However, these 3,000 defenders were not the real Chen army, but the Later Zhou army that had surrendered to the Chen people when the Chen army entered Longshang.

"Warriors, get ready to strike! As the battle approached, Xue Rengao's blood boiled rapidly, "Wash your swords with the blood of the soldiers of the Chen army!" ”

"Your Highness, don't you wait for the infantry to attack the city together?" Xue Huaiyi said with some concern, their 15,000 people were all light horses, and it was obviously not suitable to attack this Confucian City built by mountains and rivers.

Xue Rengao shook his head: "The soldiers are very fast, and the people in the city haven't discovered us yet." Not now, but when. Even if you pay a little more damage, as long as you can take Rulin City early, it will be worth it. Offensive! ”

Xue Huaiyi also shook off the worry in his heart at this time, quickly returned to the front of the formation, pulled out his long knife and pointed at the still sleeping Rulin City, and shouted: "Blow the trumpet, attack!" ”

The Qin army's short but impassioned trumpets broke the silence of the night, and in the moonlight, hordes of cavalry rushed towards the towering monster-like walls of the night. A hurried alarm rang out over the city, and the defenders finally spotted the enemy's arrival.

The torches were lit one by one, and many figures were in the city, running in a panic.

At the forefront of the gallop is the five thousand Iron Eagle swordsman battalion commanded by Xue Huaiyi, these new Iron Eagle swordsman battalions formed by the elite of various armies, are good at riding and riding, and at this time they are galloping on horses, but they have already drawn their bows together.

Five thousand horsemen shot long arrows almost at the same time, with the sound of whistling wind, the starlight on the entire city was dimmed, and thousands of long arrows had already covered the entire city. Countless screams rang out, and the defenders who lit torches under the attack of the Qin army completely became live targets one by one, and after a round of arrow rain, nearly a third of the defenders had fallen to the ground with arrows.

The soldiers of the Iron Eagle Swordsman Battalion are worthy of being an elite army, not only are they good at horseback, but they are also no worse at this time.

"Tooth barracks, flying cavalry battalions to snatch the city gates!"

Under the suppression of the bow and arrow of the Iron Eagle Battalion, the battle had not yet begun for half an hour, and the defenders at the head of the city were completely suppressed and could not raise their heads. Without the blockade from the city, the Qin army's tooth barracks and flying cavalry battalions had calmly dismounted, and then quickly cut down a lot of trees and quickly made a simple siege ladder.

Dozens of ladders hit the city almost at the same time, and the defenders tried to knock them down, but as soon as they appeared, they were immediately enveloped by countless bows and arrows. Several times in this way, no more defenders appeared at the head of the city, and the soldiers of the battalion of teeth and the cavalry battalion with steel knives in their mouths had already jumped onto the city to the sound of war drums.

When the moon rises in the middle of the sky, the north gate of Rulin City has been slowly opened, and the north gate of Diaoyin City has been opened......)

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