The adjutant general said a word, which frightened Cao Bianjiao and almost fell off the horse, he exclaimed: "Not good! We have to hurry back and join our uncle......" But after he said this, he glanced at the Xue Hongqi cavalry in front of him again, and his face suddenly darkened.

Only then did he think of a problem, once an infantry team without absolute superiority in strength was targeted by a cavalry team, it would be difficult to march rapidly. If you want to march in a hurry, you must disarm the square circle formation and use the long snake formation to form the army. However, the defense of the Long Serpent Array is extremely poor, and the cavalry can stop you at any time to give you a charge, which is guaranteed to cause you countless casualties...... If you don't want to be caught by others and charge, you can only maintain a square formation, advance at a slow pace, and the formation must not be chaotic in the slightest.

In other words, Cao Bianjiao couldn't move, unless these five hundred cavalry fled far away, he would never be able to withdraw his Fangyuan array, and withdrawing the formation would be a dead end!

Cao Bianjiao was in a hurry, sweating profusely and said, "Xue Hongqi...... Are you trying to ambush my uncle's army? ”

"Why should I tell you?" Xue Hongqi laughed.

Cao Bianjiao wiped a handful of sweat and said: "Don't think you can succeed, my uncle still has 4,500 elite soldiers in his hands, and with the combat effectiveness of these thieves of yours, he can't help him at all." ”

Xue Hongqi spread his hands: "Yes, yes, your uncle is invincible in the world, he rode through the battle alone on the bank of the Yellow River, and killed Zhao Shengren, who lit the lamp, and turned over on his back, we admire it very much, but it's a pity...... The person who went to ambush your uncle was not Zhao Sheng and the like who lit the lamp! ”

As soon as she said this, Cao Bianjiao's face changed color: "How do you know about this?" Who is it that ambushed my uncle? ”

"I'm not going to tell you." Xue Hongqi laughed.

Cao Bianjiao's heart was cold, and a picture suddenly flashed in his mind, when Cao Wenzhao's uncle and nephew pursued Zhao Sheng. encountered a thousand extremely powerful thief army, and finally saved the desperate Zhao Sheng, and that thief army still has an indelible impression in the mind of General Cao. He only felt cold in his hands and feet: "Could it be ...... The one who went to ambush my uncle was the very powerful thief army back then? ”

"Congratulations, you guessed it!" Xue Hongqi said with a smile: "Do you want to go back to the rescue quickly?" Command your soldiers to run, run west, move fast, and catch up......," she said, raising her scimitar aloft in her hand in a threatening manner. It was clear that he said to Cao Bianjiao: "As long as you dare to move, I will use cavalry to kill you." ”

Cao Bianjiao was sweating profusely, his face was black, and he ordered the soldiers around him: "On the premise of maintaining the formation without chaos, the whole army is slowly marching west...... Pay attention to keep in shape! ”

The 1,000 frontier army also realized that the matter was serious. They answered, slowly lifted their feet, and took a step to the west, this step very slowly, so that all the steps were equally far and near, and the spear formation in the front row did not dare to be slightly confused. Because five hundred cavalry not far from them could rush at any moment.

Xue Hongqi watched them move with a grin, and raised his scimitar high, but he just didn't cut it down......

The soldiers of the border army couldn't help but put their eyes on Xue Hongqi's scimitar, facing this huge pressure. The border soldiers took the second step, and the heavy atmosphere weighed down their extreme tiredness.

"You are walking slowly like this, when will you be able to retreat twenty miles to meet Cao Wenzhao?" Xue Hongqi laughed and said, "Hurry up, okay?" ”

Cao Bianjiao's face turned dark, and he roared: "Don't pay attention to her, don't fall for her provocation." Hold it all for me! ”——

To the east of the old county town, more than ten miles, Cao Wen Zhao Army.

Two thousand border troops were in front, and two thousand five hundred Yansui soldiers were behind. Follow the supplies discarded by the White Jade Pillar Army all the way and gallop eastward. Cao Wenzhao couldn't help muttering while chasing: "This thief army is said to have 16,000 people, according to the common sense of the thief army, the young and strong account for almost 30% of the total number of the whole army, that is, more than 5,000, since the nephew has defeated 5,000, then the remaining 10,000 are old and weak women, hehe...... It seems that this battle can be done to take down all these people. ”

His eyes looked eastward, looked in the direction of Xingyang, and thought secretly: I don't know how many thieves are left in Xingyang, if they are taken down and make great contributions, maybe they will be able to make up for the merits and let the imperial court transfer themselves to Liaodong to deal with Jiannu again.

Just thinking of this, he suddenly heard a drum in front of him, and a thief army appeared, which was lined up in the plain, and it seemed that he had been waiting for him here for a long time.

Cao Wenzhao was secretly shocked in his heart: My nephew has passed here, could it be that the thief army deliberately missed him and then came to ambush me?

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel a thrill in his heart, you must know that most of the thief army is a short-sighted person, and if you can take advantage of a small advantage, you will take advantage of a small advantage, usually speaking, even if the thief army ambushes the officers and soldiers, it will give priority to the vanguard of the ambush officers and soldiers, like this situation of missing the vanguard army and directly ambushing the main force of the officers and soldiers, he has never seen it in his life. This must be a judgment made by someone who considers the situation at a strategic level, but where does the thief come from?

Cao Wenzhao's face sank, and he looked at the thief army seriously, and when he saw it, he immediately gasped, only to see five hundred heavy infantry in front of him, and the outfit almost made him think that it was Hong Chengchou's family soldiers in front of him.

With 500 heavy infantry as the core, the thieves stacked heavily to form a large formation, enclosing him in the middle in the shape of a pocket...... But the retreat to the west was not enclosed, and they deliberately left a road for them to walk!

However, it is impossible for Cao Wenzhao to retreat westward, although the five hundred heavy infantry startled him, but it was not enough to scare him to flee, secondly, Cao Bianjiao was obviously divided by the thief army, and now it is separated from the east, if his main force retreats, Cao Bianjiao's vanguard army will not want to go back, there is only one dead word. He must defeat the main force of the thieves here with the main force of the Chinese army and bring his nephew back.

This is a bureau, you know that the enemy is setting up this bureau to lure you to do something, but you must act according to the script made up by the enemy, helpless, Cao Wenzhao took a deep breath, he looked at the enemy army seriously, only to see a young general riding on the back of the front of the enemy army, this person's eyes are deep and sharp, and his gestures have a kingly spirit, it is the thief leader who has seen a face in the pursuit of Zhao Sheng, who lit the lamp, this person commanded a thousand thief troops in that battle, Xiao Yong was incomparable, so that Cao Wenzhao was almost besieged, It was all thanks to a steel gun in his hand that he rode through the battle to get his life back.

"It's you again!" Cao Wenzhao said in a deep voice.

"Hmm!" Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and smiled: "Guyuan." ”

"You're not solid." Cao Wenzhao's face was as black as ink, and he said coldly: "After the last battle, I asked the old ones in the army everywhere to inquire about the news, and most of the Guyuan rebels joined the command of Lao Huihui, Chuang Wang, and the Eight Kings of Xiying, and became the main force in these three thief armies...... Who are you? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, and the soldiers behind him held up a big flag, the flag was unfurled in the wind, and the four big characters on it flew and stood tall: "Baishui Zhu Ba", he chuckled: "I'm just a cow herding baby in Baishui." ”

Cao Wenzhao said coldly: "It turned out to be Baishui Zhuba, who defeated Du Wenhuan in the battle of Huanglong Mountain, killed Yu Shi Wu Fu, conquered Puzhou, and settled in Taihang Mountain...... I thought you had been hiding in the Taihang Mountains for the past few years and didn't dare to come out, but it turned out that you were here. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't answer his words, but started another sentence and said: "General Cao, I respect you as a hero, how about we not fight this battle?" You join my army, and I will take you to deal with the Tartars later. ”

Cao Wenzhao sneered: "Don't talk in your dreams. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "Do you really think that relying on the current imperial court, you can solve the trouble of the Tartars?" ”

"As long as you thieves don't hold back, we'll be able to kill the Tartars." Cao Wenzhao said seriously.

"It's not the rebels who are holding back." Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head.

Cao Wenzhao smiled: "It's not you who are dragging your feet, who is dragging your feet?" Do you want to say that it was the Jade Emperor who dragged our Ming Dynasty back? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang took it seriously and said word by word: "Those who drag the army in eastern Liaodong are corrupt officials, taxes, land annexation, relatives of the emperor and the country, and party disputes...... In the end, in fact, it is the court itself that drags the side army! ”

Cao Wenzhao was shaken by this sentence, if he was a stubborn Donglin Party, he might have to accuse Zhu Yuanzhang of nonsense, nonsense or something, but he is a general who has really fought on the battlefield in Liaodong, and he knows very well what the biggest problem facing the Liaodong Army is, that is, it cannot get strong support from the rear, and the reason for the ineffective support from the rear is that of course there are peasant rebels making trouble, but more problems come from the huge and suffocating bureaucracy...... Party strife, corruption, suspicion, and dumping...... How many generals did not fall under the swords and arrows of Jiannu, but fell under the conspiracy of their own people...... Mao Wenlong, Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Chengzong, Xiong Yanbi...... Regardless of whether they are loyal or treacherous, right or wrong, they are not defeated by Jiannu, they are played to death by their own people.

Cao Wenzhao Khan rained down, and after a long time, he gritted his teeth and said: "I don't care if you say this, the way for my generation of warriors to save the country is that whoever is the enemy of the imperial court, I will step on whoever is peaceful!" When the thieves come, I will step on the Pingliu Kou, and when the Jiannu comes, I will step on the Jiannu, who is right and who is wrong, I don't have to think about it at all, and it shouldn't be considered by the warriors. ”

"If you don't think about anything, then you are just a knife or a gun, and when you are in the hands of the bad guys, you will become a killing weapon to help the abuse, and other than that, it is nothing, and you have no ability to serve the motherland at all." Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Let me teach you how to swing the knife." (To be continued.) )