On the evening of June 23, at the southern foot of the Taihang Mountains in the north of Wu'an, the towering and continuous Taihang Mountains became gentle hills here, and the dense woods gradually thinned out, leaving only clumps of shrubs and grasses on the outer edge, which slowly extended into the territory of Henan and connected to the plains of Shangma Pingchuan.

On the plains beyond the mountains are miles of camp camps, and large groups of homeless people come to the mountains to chop wood and fetch water on the side of the mountains. Some horsemen led their horses to graze in various places. The Eight Kings and other displaced people had just arrived here and began to camp and cook.

The two thieves rode along the mountain for a while, then disappeared after disappearing. Soon after, they returned to the plain from a few miles away, and rode east......

Three miles northwest of Huixian County, the land is dry and yellow, and the continuous drought and turmoil have made the land almost lifeless.

The camp of Dengzhou town was located here, and two deep trenches were dug and covered with pointed wooden stakes, behind which was an earthen rampart with javelin-made horses, and at intervals there was a wooden lookout on which several soldiers were on duty. A number of sentry horses were scattered around the camp, driving some of the outcast-looking people ten miles away.

Yellow dust rose from the road to the west, and several Dengzhou sentry horses galloped towards them with two rogue-looking men, and after a few words with the guard at the gate, they entered the camp.

In the Chinese military tent, Chen Xin, Zhu Daichun, several thousand generals and staff officers sat at the big table, studying the information sent back by the sentry horse, the two days suddenly became active, more than ten bandits appeared in Huixian and Huojia County, and also fought with the local Henan Mao soldiers, Dengzhou's sentry horses found that there were many rogues to the north of Xiuwu, but their horsemen made a big move, and the horses could only determine the front of a few bandits, namely Zhang Fei, Lao Zhang Fei, a piece of cloud and the eight kings of Nanying.

These bandits also took the initiative to attack the Dengzhou Sentinels, so that they couldn't guess what the rogues planned to do. All the ministries strengthened their vigilance, and transferred Geng Zhongming's troops to the vicinity of Huixian County to prevent him from being raided by the rogues.

Chen Xin was a little anxious by these rogues, they had a lot of horsemen, and the whereabouts of the camp were uncertain, and often when the officials and soldiers received the news, the rogues had already changed camps. Officers and men often fight in the air, and although they also win a battle, they are not decisive.

A few people were scratching their heads at the map. Wang Mafu reported loudly outside the tent, "My lord, the bucktooth of the special service team is back, urgent information." ”

After hearing this, Chen Xin slapped the table, "Let him come in." ”

A moment later, Bucktooth ran in. The look was very hurried, everyone did not say hello, and the bucktooth hurriedly saluted and came to the map, introduced the movements of the Liukou, and then pointed to the north of Xiuwu County and pointed one by one: "My lord, Zijinliang has arrived in Xiuwu and camped near the southern foot of Taihang Mountain." Zhang Xianzhong is directly east of him, three miles away from his camp, about a hundred miles away from us, and Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, has also arrived. Six or seven miles southeast of Zijin Liang, there are at least seventeen large and small liukou moving towards Xiuwu, possibly attacking Xiuwu County, or coming to Huixian. The subordinates judged that Zijin Liang would be stationed there for several days. So hurried to return. ”

Chen Xin touched his chin and asked, "Zijin Liang is camped near the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, and the location of King Chuang is not far from the mountain. These two people are ready to run away at any time, they gathered people and horses to come to Huixian, we should have a good fight, what do you think. ”

"The subordinates think they have two possibilities." Zhu Daichun came over and looked, "The two largest are in the north of the subordinate, they are preventing us from rescuing and cultivating martial arts, or they are preparing to attack Huixian County and loot to the north." ”

Huang Yuan raised his hand and said: "My subordinates think that there is another possibility, if the Liukou gather in Xiuwu in a big way, then they may attack Xiuwu County, lead a certain group of people and horses on my East Road to rescue, and then besiege them in groups." ”

Chen Xin nodded and said: "There is some truth, maybe it is to deal with us, how do you think we should fight?" ”

Huang Yuan got Chen Xin's affirmation, and said more confidently: "My subordinates think that we should plan and plan in advance, and notify the nearby Governor Xuan, General Deng and General Ma, as well as Zuo Liangyu's department, we are not afraid of many rogues, pretend not to know their traps, and go directly to let them surround them, let's drag them in the middle, and wait for the rogue to gather, and the governor will command the army to march in one drum, and we should gather inside and outside to annihilate them." But the best way is to lead them east to Huixian. ”

"With their speed, I'm afraid it will be difficult to catch the rogue horsemen." Zhu Daichun shook his head, "It's useless to kill as many as those homeless people, I heard that there are a lot of thieves in Huaiqing and Weihui, and the subordinates feel that they are more like going to Lin County, we can use cavalry to lead them to the east, and we will know that if they don't follow, it may be to fight Xiuwu County, let's wait for Lord Xuan's order to rescue with other friendly troops, the most important thing is the horseback riding of the generals." ”

Several staff officers agreed with Zhu Daichun's idea, Chen Xin looked up, saw Zhong Laosi holding his hands and still looking down at the map, and said by name: "Zhong Caisheng, what do you think?" ”

Zhong Laosi looked at Chen Xindao and said: "My lord, you said in the crash course for officers, the simpler the plan, the easier it is to execute, I just think, let's guess what the plan of a group of rogues is for, he can calculate whatever he likes, we don't care what his plan is, let's fight our own." Since Zijin Liang and King Chuang are here to cultivate martial arts, it is a good opportunity, not far from the camp in Hui County, let's not play any tricks with him, a hurried march over to overturn Zijin Liang is. ”

Chen Xin and the others were stunned for a moment, and Huang Yuan couldn't help but say: "We are all infantry, if the rogue horse soldiers flee for their lives in a hurry, it can be two or three hundred miles a day, and we can't catch up with the horsemen no matter how fast we march." ”

Zhong Laosi said unceremoniously: "Of course you can't catch up, so even if you lure the enemy into Huixian, we may not be able to trap them if we gather with the Sichuan army, because we still don't have enough horses, not to mention that those friendly troops may not be willing to come, I think they are very happy." Although the rogues ran fast, they always had to sleep at night, so we would go at night, march a hundred miles in a hurry, without armor, and we would definitely arrive in one night, and strike at dawn, so that they would not have time to ride their horses. ”

Everyone is a little hesitant, if Huang Yuan's analysis is correct, then there will be seventy or eighty thousand rogue soldiers in the north of Xiuwu, thousands of elite horsemen, Zhong Laosi will take the initiative to send it over to fight, in case it is really surrounded, if the rogue attacks from all sides, everyone is still a little worried in their hearts.

Even a person like Bucktooth who often goes in and out of enemy lines. I also felt a little worried, "The location of Zijin Liang is not in the outermost periphery, in addition to the north is the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, there are other rogues stationed on the southeast, west and west, and it is easiest to find us is a few liukou camped in the east, namely Huanghu Zhang Xianzhong, Shangtianlong and Xue Rengui, all within ten miles east of Zijinliang. No matter how you go, these are unavoidable, and it is impossible for an army of several thousand people to sneak through the camp. Once it alarmed the rogues on the periphery. Zijin Liang can run away at any time. ”

Zhong Laosi shook his head, grabbed a charcoal pencil and was about to draw on the map, Zhu Daichun hurriedly grabbed him, Chen Xin waved his hand to Zhu Daichun, "Let him draw." ”

Zhong Laosi lay on the table. Draw a circle at the position of Zijin Liang, indicating that it is Zijin Liang and Gao Chuang Wang, make up some small dots around, and then pull a line from Huixian, walk to a place close to the small point and stop, go north into Taihang Mountain, and pull a line from the mountain. To the north of Zijin Liang.

The onlookers frowned at the same time, and Zhong Laosi looked at Chen Xin and said, "My lord, they are only guarding in other directions, and they would never have thought that the official army could drill into the ravine." The defense in this direction is the most lax, our Dengzhou Town is the only officer and army with night marching and mountain training, let's use the mountain cover to approach the nearest place of Zijinliang. Then unfold the frontal push. The two wings struck centripetally and crushed it with a single drum. As long as the strongest Zijin Liang is broken. The small bandits around must have no fighting spirit, and if they act quickly, they are very likely to capture a few bandit leaders alive. ”

Huang Yuan objected: "Mr. Zhong Qian's plan looks good, but after marching for a hundred miles at night, even if our spearmen are lightly armed, they must carry more than thirty catties of iron armor......

Zhong Laosi interrupted him: "Don't bring iron armor, artillery and all baggage." Zhong Laosi interrupted him and said, "Each soldier only brings five servings of dry rice, the firefighters bring a small amount of cured meat, and the others only bring combat weapons." As for the armor, all musketeers who had chain mail were removed from the spearmen, and the iron armor was placed in the battalion, and ordinary musketeers could not wear armor. Each soldier has some more medicine on them, in case the surprise attack fails, we will alternately cover and retreat along the mountain, it is difficult for the horsemen in the mountain to perform, with our firepower, the rogue can not surround us. ”

A group of people looked weird, staring at the map and turning their heads, Dengzhou Town started with the Qi family army as the blue, when the Qi family army ran one hundred and ten miles of mountain roads in one night, the classic battle was a compulsory example of martial arts, and the blood was boiling when listening to the class, but when I really got here, I always felt that it was very risky, because I had to give up all the heavy firepower and supplies, like a gamble.

After a while, Chen Xin turned his head to look at Bucktooth and asked lightly, "Are there any rogue bandits camping in the mountains?" ”

Bucktooth recalled: "Generally, there are many mosquitoes in summer, and no one wants to spend the night in the mountains and forests, and when they can go to the plains, they spend time in the plains." ”

"Can the mountains and forests north of Zijin Liang march?"

Bucktooth called his companion, and the two discussed a few words together, recalling the terrain of the mountains and forests in that area, and after a while, Bucktooth said: "You can march, that mountain area is composed of a string of hills, and there is a continuous ravine behind it, there are not many trees in it, and it is relatively easy to march along the ravine, and you can follow the ravine to the north of Zijinliang." The final attack requires passing through the woods on the southern slope, which is not dense but is a bit difficult for the spearmen. ”

Chen Xin stared at that position, his eyes were full of light, and he seemed to be making up his mind, but he still asked, "Is there an ambush army between the general and the mountains?" ”

"Yes, I was it once, and I didn't take it seriously in other directions, and most of them had to sleep."

Chen Xin turned to the operational staff officer, "How many rivers are there in the middle?" Can I wade in the evening? ”

"There are six large and small rivers, all marked with wading points."

"That's good." Chen Xin slapped it down and looked at everyone: "Is there any problem?" ”

Everyone shook their heads together, they knew that Chen Xin had made up his mind, his face was excited, this raid plan was bold and had the possibility of success, thinking that with more than 3,000 people, he would raid the seventy or eighty thousand rogues who were a hundred miles away, which made the hearts of this group of officers beat faster.

Chen Xin waited for a while, and when he saw that no one objected anymore, he said to them: "The opportunity is rare, and the location of the rogue has finally been determined, and the official has decided to take this risk." If we want to do it, we will do the strongest, just pick the Zijin Liang and use Zhong Caisheng's plan as deputy battalion officer. The Central Military Department immediately sent Tang Ma to contact the Sichuan Army Ma Xianglin and Deng Xi's department, and only asked them to go to the north of Xiuwu to attack the Liukou, not to mention our plan, in case the raid failed, they could come to help. Ordered Geng Zhongming's troops to rush westward, rushed to the northwest of Huixian, found a stockade at random, made a gesture of grabbing grain, and expelled the nearby Liukou sentry horses. The staff officers immediately began to draw up specific battle plans, and the commanders of the various units returned to the battalion to begin preparations, and the briefing was only conveyed to the 100 generals for the time being, and was only conveyed to the soldiers before setting off after dark. After nightfall, our army marched along the edge of the southern foot of Taihang Mountain, this time to show Liukou what a real strong army looked like. ”

The generals stood up together, "Yes!" ”

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