After intense preparations in the middle of the night, at five watches, the defenders quietly opened the east city gate, first sent some elites out, killed the civilian soldiers and sentinels cruising outside the city, and then the whole army went out of the city, in the end most of them were old soldiers, this defender was quite elite, they went out of the city without a sound at all, quietly out of the city, walked seven or eight miles to the south, and then turned to the west.

The 3,000 people of the Yuzhou Lieutenant Department here are divided into two battalions, 2,000 in the west of the city and 1,000 in the south of the city. His military commander had never experienced a war, had never been on the battlefield, but was appointed to this position by the county because of his family resources, and he lacked combat experience, so although he stayed in the camp day and night, he was very attentive, but he was very deficient in some military deployments such as vigilance, and no one in his battalion found that the defenders of Liang County passed quietly by their camp.

This Dong army was ready to fight, but he didn't expect that not only would it be easy to get out of the city, but also that he would not be puzzled when he saw that the civil soldiers in Nanying were so careless, and the guard general said in his heart: "Wenwu Meng and Sun Hou defeated Captain Yuan in a row, it is said that their troops should be very elite, but why is this Shiwen army outside the city so useless, and the battalion defense is so lax?" Soon thought of the answer, "Yes, this civilian army is not fighting under the banner of civil and military fierceness, it should not be its headquarters, no wonder it is useless." Thinking of this, I feel a little pity, if it weren't for Wen Chou and Sun Jian's headquarters on the other side, then he could have taken the opportunity to attack the Yuzhou lieutenant camp at night, and then left.

The defenders of Liang County passed the camp of the captain of Yuzhou lightly and skillfully, and went west to Luhun Pass.

When the defenders of Liang County successfully passed the Yuzhou Lieutenant Camp, Wen Chou in the hills on the north bank of Rushui had just received another report from the cavalry in front: The reinforcements of the Dong army at Yique Pass had arrived more than ten miles ahead. But it was just like Wen Chou's expectation, at this time the sky was about to dawn, and although Dong Jun's reinforcements were rushing at night, the speed of the road was not fast. After walking all night, he came to his ambush.

As early as an hour ago, Wen Chou gave an order that all the departments that had ordered to rest had risen, and that they had not made fires to make food, and that they had eaten dry food prepared in advance. And all have entered the position, ready for battle.

After waiting for another quarter of an hour, Tanqi came again to report: Dong Qi was less than five miles away from the ambush place.

The sky is getting brighter, the fish belly is white in the east, and the morning breeze is blowing, with coolness, and it is refreshing.

Wen Chou sent a military order, ordering all the men and horses to lie in the hills and forests, and hide in the banners. No sound shall be heard, and no soldier shall shoot an arrow or arrow until the war drums on his side are heard.

The Dong army that came to help was all cavalry, and they arrived in the blink of an eye for four or five miles, and after a while, they saw the dust on the road to the north, and the soldiers lying on the ground felt that the surface seemed to tremble slightly. This Dong army reinforcements totaled about 2,000 horsemen, and 2,000 war horses galloped. The momentum was very strong, and their troops and flags were not yet in sight. Dust and ground movement appeared first, but fortunately, the main battlefield on both sides of the hills was ambushed by the elite, and Yang Ding had just been defeated, and the morale was high. Not many people were frightened by this.

Soon, Dong Qi's figure appeared in the north.

At the front was a vanguard force of more than 200 horsemen, and behind was the main brigade some distance behind.

If it was in other circumstances, such as in enemy territory, this Dong cavalry would definitely send scouts to enter before entering the hills. Carefully probe in case there is an enemy ambush, but now this is equivalent to the home of the Dong army, and the Dong army's reinforcements do not know that Yang Ding has been defeated, so although they also routinely sent a dozen horsemen from the vanguard into the hills, but these dozen horsemen did not check very carefully, in fact, even if they looked carefully, it was difficult to find the ambush soldiers of Wen Chou, Sun Jian and other troops for a while, Wen Chou, Sun Jian and others did not lie in ambush on both sides of the road, but a little behind, and there were no cavalry hidden on both sides of the road, they were all foot soldiers, and it was easy to hide.

Soon after the dozen or so scouts entered the hills, the vanguard of more than 200 horsemen followed into the hills, and then, after a short time, the main brigade that galloped to the hills also followed.

This hilly area is wide from east to west, narrow from north to south, the length of the north and south is not enough to accommodate the marching team of 2,000 cavalry, can only accommodate more than 1,000 cavalry, Wen Chou in order to be able to completely annihilate this Dong army, made arrangements before the war, ordered Wen Ba and other troops who were ambushed in the south outside the hills not to attack first, and would rather let part of Dong cavalry pass through the hilly area first, and must wait for Dong Cai's rear formation to enter the hills.

Only when this rear formation of Dong cavalry enters the hills, Yan Liang and Zhou Lu, who are responsible for cutting off their back roads, can be surrounded from the north.

Therefore, Wen Chou and Sun Jian, who were ambushed on both sides of the hills and in the south, held their breath, watching the vanguard of Dong Qi pass through the hilly area safely, and watched the three or four hundred horsemen in front of the main force of Dong Qi also pass safely, at this time, Dong Cai's rear formation has entered the road in the hills, Wen Chou raised his hand, waved it down, and the drummers behind him suddenly jumped up, and at the same time beat the war drums, and almost at the same time as the drum sounded, a black flag was raised behind Wen Chou.

In the early morning, when the sky was still bright and silent, dozens of big drums suddenly sounded at the same time, which suddenly alarmed the Dong soldiers on the hilly road, and many of the Dong soldiers' mounts were frightened, or suddenly stopped, raised their hooves and hissed, or rushed forward in fright, and the board was in chaos.

Wen Chou, Sun Jian, Yan Liang and other soldiers who were lying in ambush on both sides of the road and south rose at the same time.

First the soldiers on Wen Chou and Sun Jian's side shouted and rushed out, and then Yan Liang and the soldiers on the side of Zhou Lu also jumped up, except for leaving some soldiers to guard the hills on the side of the road, the rest of the troops rushed to the northern entrance of the hills to cut off the retreat of Dong Qi. Wen Ba and Liu Qing in the south also led the cavalry to rush out from both sides and went straight to intercept and kill the hundreds of Dong cavalry who had already left the hills.

The two Yuzhou lieutenants and others led the remaining more than 10,000 new soldiers to guard behind Wenba and Liu Qing.

Dong Cai's main troops were surrounded by Wen Chou, Sun Jian, Yan Liang, Zhou Lu, Wen Ba, Liu Qing, etc., and the two lieutenants were outside the position here, which was relatively relaxed, and the two of them stood in the formation, and when the fierce battle unfolded, there was still time to wait and see other battlefields.

This ambush of Dong Jun's reinforcements was different from the previous two battles with Dong Bing.

The first battle to annihilate the more than 1,000 Dong cavalry in Yingchuan County was on the home field of Wenchou, and it had the advantage of being near the river, so it was able to lure the Dong cavalry to the river and plunge it into the mud, thus winning.

The battle of defeating Yang Ding the night before was also a strategy, first destroying Yang Ding's fighting spirit, and then besieging and winning. (To be continued......)