After Sima Shu broke the 30,000 cavalry of the rebels, he immediately accelerated his march and hurried to the gourd mouth of Liangshan, but what made Sima Shu wonder was that although the entire valley was illuminated by torches, it was silent, and he did not hear a trace of shouting and killing.

"Your Highness, Zhou ...... General Zhou will not ...... It's not going to be wiped out, is it? Zu Ti patted his horse and came to Sima Shu's side, looked at the silent gourd valley, and asked a little uneasily.

"Huh!? This...... It's not clear. Sima Shu couldn't help but worry about the surroundings, wouldn't it really be late?

Just when Sima Shu and the others were hesitating, suddenly a group of rebels appeared at the mouth of the gourd valley, and the leader was still wearing a dragon robe, this guy was Qi Wannian, the leader of the rebel army.

As Qi Wannian came out, 50,000 Hu rebels took up positions in turn. Since Qi Wannian learned that the 30,000 cavalry army was defeated by the Jin army, and Hao Duyuan was nowhere to be found, he immediately mobilized the troops besieged around him back and prepared to welcome the arrival of the Jin army.

At this time, the besieged Zhou was at the end of the crossbow, and Qi Wannian believed that as long as the Jin army reinforcements in front of him were eliminated, there was nothing to worry about at all. Therefore, in addition to leaving a few thousand people to continue to surround the periphery, he mobilized the remaining 40,000 Hu cavalry, as well as 10,000 elite infantry, and prepared to go all out to deal with Sima Shu.

The Imperial Crown Prince Sima Shu was dressed in a dragon phosphorus and rode on a good horse from the north, his eyes followed the team of Mo swordsmen, archers, and dragoons to the west, and his thoughts seemed to float over the mountain peaks to the distant country.

The rebellion in Guanzhong has lasted for half a year, and those who were once extremely docile and attached to the Hu people have risen up one after another.

They slaughtered Han officials, bullied the Han people, and relied on their innate riding and archery skills to defeat the Guanzhong troops of the Jin Dynasty. First of all, the Beidi Taishou army was defeated and killed, and then the new Yongzhou Assassin Shi Xie Department was defeated again, and all parts of Guanzhong were already rumors, and there were Han people fleeing for their lives everywhere.

Sima Shu asked for orders to go on the expedition this time, on the one hand, for the sake of his own hegemony, and on the other hand, he wanted to teach the arrogant Hu people a good lesson. He didn't want the Han people to become the two-legged sheep of the Hu people like in the original history, but Sima Shu, who came to Guanzhong with passion, was angered by Sima Tong, the selfish king of Liang.

In a fit of rage, Sima Shu took his troops and horses to rescue General Zhou, who was besieged by the rebels, and the rebels, after losing part of their troops, apparently focused their attacks on him, which made Sima Shu feel unprecedented pressure.

In this battle, thousands of miles of twists and turns, victory and defeat are on the line. The general died in a hundred battles, and the strong man returned in ten years, thinking that he didn't know how many athletes were bleeding and yellow sand and lying in a foreign land this time, Sima Shu couldn't help but sigh softly.

Immediately behind Sima Shu is the Mo sword general Zu Li, among Sima Shu's existing generals, only Zu Li's brave martial arts can serve as the Mo sword general.

General Zu was dressed in jet-black and shiny bright light armor, the tiger-headed beast on his shoulders was particularly hideous, a Mo knife was obliquely inserted behind his back, the blade was glowing with cold air, and the remaining stains of blood in the blood groove that could not be wiped away showed the awe-inspiring spirit of the first brave general under the command of the prince.

Qi Wannian, the leader of the rebel army, watched intently, and his heart sank, this prince's army was really powerful. Hurriedly passed down the general's order, asking his subordinates not to despise the Jin army, the rebel army of 40,000 Hu cavalry, puffing up dust in the sky, but also imposing, looking at the Jin army opposite.

"It's the Di cavalry!"

I saw that the Chinese army on the other side was hoisting the Luanniao flag, and it was the Di cavalry, with no less than 20,000 people, all of whom were elite cavalry. Zu Ti came up with his whole body draped to ask for battle, and the Mo knife hand was gathering behind.

Sima Shu pondered for a moment and waved his hand, "Don't worry! It's not time for the Modao team to attack! ”

Zu Ti stopped talking and turned back to the Mo Dao team. Since the musket team and dragoons made great achievements yesterday, the Modao team led by him has become impatient, and they have asked for a decisive battle with the enemy army as soon as possible.

Zu Ti also wanted to establish his reputation as the first general under the crown prince through this battle.

A big battle finally kicked off, Sima Shu personally led a total of 6,000 people from the personal guard battalion, musket battalion, machine crossbow battalion, longbow battalion, and sword and shield battalion to meet the battle, and Zu Ti and Sima Ya led a total of 2,000 people from the Mo knife team and dragoons to help the flank.

The rebels on the opposite side were the Hu cavalry coalition led by Qi Wannian, as well as an infantry battalion composed of Han refugees. The Hu coalition army went out of the camp and lined up, and in front of the team was a sturdy middle-aged man riding a blue-maned horse, he was the puppet emperor Qi Wannian who provoked the war.

"It's finally here," Qi Wannian muttered, "The prince's pro-army, it's really extraordinary"

Looking at the black and oppressive array of the Jin army, Qi Wannian was secretly frightened, and couldn't help but glance at the cavalry army of the Di clan around him, can they stop the Jin army?

If he can't block the Jin army in front of him, once they break through the defense line, not only will his previous intention of besieging and killing Zhou not be realized, but it will also break his idea of plotting Guanzhong.

This battle can be said to be related to the fate of the Hou Di people: if they win, they will be able to take advantage of the victory to pursue and take Chang'an and occupy Guanzhong; If they are defeated, they will not only lose tens of thousands of troops, but they will also lose all the fruits of their previous victories, and the counties of Anding, Lüyang, Fufeng, and Longxi will also be recovered by the Jin army with high morale.

This is not the most terrible, what worries Qi Wannian the most is that if he can't defeat the Jin army in front of him, it is conceivable that the Han people who have turned over will not let go, and the Di people like him, those who once relied on their own Di people, may also turn their faces and deny people, and everything they have now will be in vain.

No way! There must be no failure! The Jin army in front of you must be defeated!

The two warring sides flew arrows in front of the formation, and the various armies slowly moved forward one after another, and the two armies met on the plain in front of the mouth of the gourd valley.

The Di cavalry in the Hu coalition army is the strongest in combat effectiveness, Qi Wannian planned a rebellion as early as five years ago, so he absorbed the advantages of some Jin army troops and trained the Di cavalry in his headquarters into an elite army. The 20,000 Di cavalry were in strict formation, advancing and retreating in an orderly manner, and became the trump card in Qi Wannian's hands.

The other troops, especially the elite Hu coalition and infantry armies, were just a group of improvised herdsmen due to their short training time, and they did not even have uniform weapons and equipment, but were just a rabble.

In the face of such a group of chaotic infantry who came up to die first, Sima Shu ordered the Jin army to shrink the formation, the Modao battalion and the dragoon battalion shrank to the left and right flanks, the crossbowmen stretched out to the two wings in the shape of goose wings, and the sword and shield battalion protected the safety behind them.

When the enemy approached the range of the 300-step Fuyuan crossbow, the Lingguan triangular apricot yellow flag swung the Fuyuan crossbow and started the first round of shooting, and the long crossbow arrows flew towards the rebels in an arc.

The rebels were shot one after another, shocked by the long-range attack, but quickly adjusted their formation, the cavalry moved back, the shield-bearers were at the forefront, and when the crossbow range was two hundred and thirty paces, the second round of shooting began, and the dense crossbow arrows passed through the gaps in the shields, over the heads of the enemy soldiers, and caused heavy damage to the enemy troops.

Immediately, more than 1,000 people lost their combat effectiveness, and the enemy army was in confusion. After hesitating for a moment, Qi Wannian still ordered to continue advancing, but the speed slowed down significantly, when the distance was 200 meters, including longbows, horned crossbows, single-bow crossbows and other bows and crossbows fired in unison, powerful crossbow arrows shot through the shield, and the soldiers in front of them were like a row of crops that had been cut to the ground, and this round of blows killed nearly 3,000 soldiers of the rebels on the spot, and the enemy finally lost the courage to advance.

With a bang, the rebels turned around and ran, rushing and trampling back and forth, and many of the poor soldiers who were hit by the arrows were trampled to death by their own men and horses, and with the dance of the apricot yellow flag, many soldiers were hit by arrows in the back.

Since the Hu cavalry army never dispatched, Sima Shu did not issue an order to pursue the whole army. Instead, let the light infantry - sword and shield soldiers cover the past, the rebel infantry soon suffered more than half of the casualties, and the cavalry caught in it ran fast in front, and the poor infantry were cut down by the Jin soldiers who caught up one by one, and the battle turned into a bloody massacre.

Sima Shu admired his infantry chasing after the enemy, and suddenly found that a well-formed cavalry formation appeared in front of him, and dozens of brave and reckless Jin soldiers actually roared into the enemy formation, like a microwave quickly disappeared into the sea of people.

"Bastard!"

Sima Shu scolded secretly, it seems that the recent successive victories of the army have made his subordinates have some arrogance. He hastened to give the order to restrain the infantry units, ordering the forward guards to retreat back and distance themselves from the opposing side.

At the same time, he ordered Sima Ya to lead 300 dragoons to cover, and the enemy quickly attacked in a vain attempt to kill more than 100 Jin troops who were encircled.

The Jin army quickly cleared the battlefield and returned with the whole army, but the enemy did not pursue, and the first tentative contact between the two sides ended. The main force of the Di cavalry, which Sima Shu had been worried about, did not appear. In this battle, the Jin army annihilated more than 5,000 enemy troops, including more than 200 prisoners. More than 30 of our infantry were killed and more than 60 were wounded.

After the first temptation, Qi Wannian no longer dared to despise the Jin army in front of him, their combat effectiveness was stronger than that of the Jin army under the command of Zhou Zhi. It seems that there is no killer weapon, Qi Wannian has a 20,000-strong Di cavalry under his command, which is personally led by his son, which is his biggest reliance since the incident.

Through this pick-up, Qi Wannian found that he couldn't defeat the other party with only infantry and the Hu coalition army, and he also found that his own war horses seemed to be inferior to the other party, but he didn't know that the cavalry under Sima Shu was all equipped with horseshoes and stirrups, of course, it was not comparable to the Hu people.

Moreover, Qi Wannian did not have a longbow and crossbow like the Jin army in his hand, and the Hu people's bows and arrows could not penetrate the armor of the Jin army at a long distance, so he thought that he must give full play to the strengths of the Hu cavalry: fighting the Jin army at close range.

Qi Wannian believed that how the Han people trained was not as good as the Hu people, who were born on horseback, and as long as they fought closely, the Han cavalry must not be the opponent of the Hu people.

After a short rest, Qi Wannian ordered his son to personally lead 20,000 Di cavalry to attack the Jin army's central army camp, and these 20,000 Di cavalry were the most elite troops under Qi Wannian. In addition, Qi Wannian also ordered the remaining Hu coalition army to continue to harass the two wings of the Jin army.

Seeing the rebels' movements, Sima Shu quickly adjusted his deployment, and the left and right flanks were handed over to the longbowmen and sword and shield soldiers to protect him, while the Chinese army was dominated by 3,000 musketeers, and the Modao team was also transferred to the rear of the musket team by him. Once the cavalry rushed through the resistance of the musket team, it was up to the Modao team to crush the opponent.

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