Affected by the distance and the state of combat readiness, after receiving the transfer order of the little Yuan Sangong, the first to send reinforcements to the Huainan and northern fronts was, of course, the Huainan general Zhang Xunbu stationed in Liyang, who confronted Liu Xuan, the sworn enemy of Yuan Shujun's army all the year round, and was always on the alert for war, and Zhang Xun not only did not need to make any preparations when sending reinforcements, but also even saved the time to assemble troops from all over the country -- Liu Xun of Lujiang, who had an extremely long battle line, did not have this advantage.

As the current chief general of Yuan Shujun, Zhang Xun hopes to personally lead the troops to the north to fight to the death with the Xuzhou army that has repeatedly defeated Yuan Shujun, and by the way, he avenges his friend Ji Ling, who unfortunately died on the battlefield of Zhuyi, but what makes Zhang Xun helpless is that his meticulous work has found accurate news, Yuan Shujun's sworn enemy Liu Xuan has personally led the army from Qu'a, and is killing towards the Niuzhu battlefield at night, and at the same time, Liu Xianjun, who is facing Zhang Xun across the river, is also sorting out the boats. Pack up your weapons, and it is very likely that you will take advantage of the fire to rob and cross the river to the north. Although Zhang Xun is not afraid of this, he does not dare to take it lightly.

After thinking about it again, especially considering that the northern front army was personally commanded by Yuan Shu, even if he went north, he would not be able to obtain the position of commander-in-chief of the northern front army, and at the same time, the southern front would have no leader, so Qiao Rui finally made up his mind and decided to let his deputy, Xiao Yuan Sangong's canonized Yangzhou assassin Shi Huiqu, be the commander, and lead 12,000 main forces to the north and rush to the Huaihe battlefield for reinforcements.

After finalizing the selection of the reinforcement commander, Zhang Xun told Hui Qu uneasily: "Hui Envoy, you lead the army this time, please remember two things." The first is that the speed of the march must be fast, we must hurry up to the Huai River battlefield, assist General Qiao Rui to guard the Huai River defense line, do not hope for the so-called tens of thousands of troops in Shouchun, those are the recruits recruited by the Lord last year, in addition to suppressing the anti-tax rebellion, there has not been a hard battle, lack of experience can not be of great use, and the combat power is far from catching up with our army in Liyang, only if your team arrives at the Huai River in time, our army can hope to resist the enemy outside the door of the house, and block the Xuzhou thief army on the north bank of the Huai River. ”

Hui Qu nodded vigorously, indicating that he understood this truth, and then Hui Qu hurriedly asked, "General, how many cavalry do you bring me?" If the cavalry is not enough, the speed of the march will not go up. ”

"There are more than 1,400 cavalry in Liyang, and I will let the partial general Li Yuan lead a thousand cavalry to the north with you!" Zhang Xun was very generous, and at once handed over more than two-thirds of his precious cavalry to Hui Qu - the battle with Liu Xun was basically a water battle, and the cavalry was not of much use. Then Zhang Xun added: "Li Yuan is the number one fierce general under my command, and he will definitely be able to help you in terms of fighting generals." But remember, don't let Li Yuan fight with a team called the Gentleman's Army, that's looking for death! ”

"Fighting with the gentleman's army will be looking for death? Why? Hui Qu was full of confusion.

"I don't know." Zhang Xun spread his hands helplessly, "My friend Ji Ling mentioned this in his letter, the specific why, Ji Ling didn't elaborate, and I haven't had the opportunity to ask in detail, in short, tell Li Yuan to be careful, and when he encounters an enemy who is under the banner of a gentleman and benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, and trust, gentleness, courtesy, and frugality, he must not fight, and he must be careful to face the battle." ”

Hui Qu was quite obedient, and remembered Zhang Xun's advice with his heart, and when he asked about the second thing that Zhang Xun advised, Zhang Xun lowered his voice and said: "Second, don't listen to the blind command of the lord, although our lord is from a famous family and likes to treat the soldiers of the army well, but in terms of command, it is too far behind. After you arrive at the northern front, you have to discuss more with General Qiao Rui, listen to General Qiao Rui's opinions, and help General Qiao Rui persuade the lord more, and our northern line in Huainan will be reliable for General Qiao Rui. ”

Hui Qu, who has followed Xiao Yuan Sangong for many years, smiled bitterly, knowing that Zhang Xun's words were true, every time the Huainan army went on an expedition, if Xiao Yuan Sangong just sent his generals to lead the army to fight, then even if he couldn't win, he wouldn't lose too much, and there would be much more chances of winning, but if Xiao Yuan Sangong personally led the army to fight and personally commanded on the spot, then there was basically not much hope for victory............ After a wry smile, he quickly determined the list of expeditions, and the next morning Hui Qu led 12,000 Liyang to set off north, with the partial general Li Yuan as the vanguard, via Hefei, and rushed to the Huaihe battlefield for reinforcements at night. As soon as Huiqu's army was dispatched, Xuzhou Xizuo, who was lurking around Liyang, also immediately released carrier pigeons, allowing carrier pigeons to bring the news to Hefei first, and then Xuzhou Xizuo, who was lurking in Hefei, sent the news to the Huai River, and raced against time to send the news to Tao Ying.

When Hui Qu led the army to Hefei, the rescue troops on the side of the Lujiang River had just been assembled, and at the same time, the news that the Xuzhou army had broken through the Huai River defense line had also reached Hefei. However, in the next day or so, the news of the loss of Dangtu, Yicheng and Quyang came one after another on the northern line, and Huiqu, who was less than 100 miles away from Quyang, suddenly fell into a difficult situation again, and did not know what to do next, in the end, to counterattack Quyang? Or rescue the Yin Tomb? Or go straight to Shouchun to meet with Xiao Yuan's three guilds?

The military situation was like fire, Hui Qu did not dare to stop and wait for orders, so he could only send messengers to contact Shouchun and Yinling, and at the same time discuss the next move with the generals on the march, but the generals under Hui Qu also disagreed, and the fierce general Li Tong advocated a counterattack on Quyang, taking advantage of the opportunity of the unstable foothold of the Xuzhou army to recapture the city; Hui Qu's brother Hui Cheng advocated rushing to Shouchun to meet with Xiao Yuan's three guilds, not seeking merit but seeking no fault; There are also several civil and military officials who advocate saving Yinling, first establishing a foothold in Yinling and keeping the important town of Yinling, and then considering the next move. They quarreled with each other, each with their own reasoning, and no one could convince anyone.

Zhang Xun absolutely regretted that he did not personally lead the army to reinforce the northern front this time, and at this critical moment of life and death, Yangzhou Assassin Shi Huiqu, who had never officially taken office for a day, was also exposed at this moment in the fatal flaw of lack of military experience, not only did not think of the real only correct choice to immediately return to Hefei, but also hesitated among the three wrong choices, wasting the precious time that was left behind. And after the main soldiers of Yuan Shu's army on the southern front walked the first mile in Hui Qu's hesitation, the death knell of the god of death finally sounded............ "Report the ――――――!" In the midst of the long shout, a Yuan Shujun scout galloped back to Hui Qu from the north, and shouted before he could dismount: "Envoy Hui, three miles ahead, I found a cavalry team of the Xuzhou thief army, which is ushering in our army!" ”

"The cavalry of the Xuzhou thief army?" Hui Qu was surprised, and exclaimed: "This is at least eighty miles away from Quyang City, they only took Quyang City two days ago, and there are still our Yinling garrison and Shouchun army on the left and right flanks, and the Xuzhou thief army dares to advance to this position, how is this possible?" ”

After being surprised, Hui Qu hurriedly asked about the number of enemies, and after learning that there were only about 1,000 cavalry in Xuzhou and there were absolutely no enemy reinforcements around, Hui Qu breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that with the main force of 12,000 on the southern front in his hands, it should not be too difficult to defeat 1,000 Xuzhou cavalry - at least he would definitely not lose! And Li Tong, the Huainan fierce general next to him, couldn't wait to ask for battle: "Hui Envoy Jun, please let the last general lead the cavalry of the headquarters to fight, and go to get the head of the enemy general to come back and ask for merit." ”

Hui Qu didn't immediately agree, but turned to the scout Tanma and asked, "What kind of banner is the Xuzhou thief army in front of?" Have you ever seen the banner of a gentleman? Or a sub-flag like benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and faith? ”

"Nope." The scout shook his head and replied: "The Xuzhou thief army that came ahead only played a pottery flag and an ordinary military flag, and there was no gentleman's banner that the envoy said. ”

"It's good if you don't have it." Hui Qu breathed a sigh of relief again, and hurriedly instructed Li Yuan: "General Li Yuan, be careful, it is safer for us to meet the whole army, but you can go up to fight the generals first, and strive to kill one or two enemy generals for our army, so as to boost the morale of the whole army." ”

Li Yuan happily agreed, patting his chest and promising that he would definitely make meritorious contributions, and Hui Qu hurriedly ordered the army to stop, arranged a crane wing formation with both offensive and defensive capabilities, arranged heavy protection in the Chinese army, and arranged mobile forces on both flanks to facilitate outflanking and encirclement, and the 1,000 cavalry under Li Yuan's command was placed in front of the Chinese army by Hui Qu, so that it was convenient to attack at any time and pursue and kill the enemy's cavalry -- otherwise, even if the Xuzhou army was defeated in the battle general, the infantry would not be able to catch up with the Xuzhou cavalry, and the heaven-sent opportunity to expand the victory would be missed in vain. At least that's what our Hui Thorn history thinks.

The crane wing array has just been arranged, the Xuzhou army has trotted to the front of the Huiqu army, this is a very strange cavalry team, about a thousand cavalry lined up in five neat but evacuated horizontal teams, the equipment is particularly poor, including the elite main force including the commander of the army, are wearing cheap leather armor inlaid with only a little iron sheet, the leather armor on the ordinary auxiliary soldiers is not even inlaid with iron sheets, the spears in their hands are more uniform wooden poles and iron heads, and the equipment is so weak that even the elite infantry of the Huiqu army can not compare, From a distance, you can smell a shabby and poor smell.

Of course, this shabby and poor Xuzhou cavalry also has one thing that makes Huiqu's army extremely envious, that is, each of the Xuzhou cavalry has a spare war horse, although this must be done for the convenience of escape, but in Huainan, where there are no war horses and no fixed horse source, such luxury equipment still makes Hui Qu and Li Yuan and others drool with envy - and quietly swore that they must defeat this team of enemies and strive to grab more war horses back.

The two armies were separated by two hundred paces in a circle, and without waiting for General Li Yuan, who couldn't wait, jumped out of the battle, and one of the Xuzhou cavalry teams on the opposite side was even more eager to come out to die--brandishing a brand-new Qinglong Yanyue knife in his hand rushed to the front of the formation, and shouted excitedly from afar: "Guan Yu Guan Yun is here, you are waiting for the nameless rats, who dares to come to die?" ”

"Guan Yu? Guan Yunchang?! ”

Poor Hui Thorn Shi's face turned white, and he didn't expect that the famous Guan Yu Guan Erye, who was a well-known Wenjiu slashing Huaxiong, would appear in the Xuzhou army? General Li Yuan, who was eager to try over there, was also taken aback, cautiously stepped out of the battle, and shouted: "You are Guan Yu Guan Yunchang, who slashed Huaxiong with warm wine?" ”

"Definitely!" The Xuzhou general on the opposite side shouted vividly: "The husband will not change his name, and he will not change his surname!" My surname is Guan Mingyu - the universe of the universe, and the word cloud is often - Changshan County! Nameless rats, why don't you get off your horse and die?! ”

"Piff! Dare to pretend to be General Guan Yu's name and be killed! The very respected General Li Yuan was furious, and rushed towards Guan Yu with his gun. Hui Qu in the back also breathed a sigh of relief for the third time today, and muttered secretly: "I'm scared to death, how can there be such a similar name in the world?" ”

"Nameless rats, die!" General Guan Yu on the opposite side was indeed arrogant, and continued to provoke Li Yuan one by one, and at the same time slapped his horse to meet Li Yuan, Li Yuan was fast, rushed out of hundreds of steps in a blink of an eye, clenched the steel gun with both hands, and just rushed straight to Guan Yu with blood-red eyes.

"Nameless rats! This time, spare your life! ”

What made the Hui Qu army stunned up and down happened, General Guan Yu, who was extremely arrogant just now, trotted thirty or forty steps, suddenly shouted the slogan of sparing Li Yuan's life, and threw the Qinglong Glaive Knife in his hand at General Li Yuan, and then turned around and ran back, poor General Li Yuan was a little caught off guard under shock, seeing that the Qinglong Glaive Knife flew in front of him and hurriedly raised the gun to dial, the gun and knife collided, and the poor General Li Yuan was even more shocked to find that the Qinglong Glaive Knife thrown by General Guan Yu opposite was actually made of wood............ Zi said: For politics and morality, such as Beichen, live in its place, and the stars are together. Zi said: There are 300 poems, in a word, he says: Thinking is innocent! ”

The familiar slogan of friends sounded, and the Xuzhou cavalry in the third team suddenly charged together, pulling their bows and arrows together in the charge, and shooting two hundred feather arrows neatly at the poor General Li Yuan, the poor General Li Yuan's soul was scattered and his reaction was a little slow, and even the people and horses were shot by hundreds of feather arrows, the people screamed, the horses neighed, fell to the ground together, and died on the spot!

It was also at this time that three big flags were finally displayed in the Xuzhou cavalry team, the big flag in the middle was written with the word 'gentleman', and on the left and right, it was written with the ten big characters of 'benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, faith' and 'gentleness, courtesy, and frugality'!

"General Li ......." At the same time, Hui Qu's screams came to an abrupt halt and were replaced by crazy screams of disbelief, "Gentleman Army?!" How is it a gentleman's army?! The legendary army of gentlemen who has never lost a battle?! ”

"Hahahaha! General Ben deliberately did not wave the flag, and sure enough, an idiot was fooled! Tao Ji in the ranks of the Gentlemen's Army laughed wildly, proudly waved the command flag in his hand, and the light cavalry of the fourth and fifth teams of the Gentlemen's Army took turns to charge up, arrogantly rushing towards the enemy who was twelve times his size, and threw the feathered arrows in his hands to the cavalry of the Huiqu Army in front of him, and the screams of being injured and killed by the arrows quickly echoed in the cavalry ranks of the Huiqu Army.

"What should I do?" Hui Qu, who was frightened by the prestige of the Junzi Army, hesitated for a moment, and the grassroots cavalry generals under Li Yuan's command had already issued an order to charge on their own - if you don't charge, you can't do it, you can't stand and be shot by arrows, right? As soon as the cavalry of the Huiqu army charged, the gentleman's army on the opposite side had already turned their horses and ran, and deliberately did not turn back to release the arrows.

The speed of the cavalry's maneuver is naturally far above the infantry, Hui Qu only hesitated for a moment, the Junzi army and his own army have fled and chased out two or three miles away, in order to keep the precious cavalry from fighting alone, poor Hui Qu Assassin Shi had to choose the most normal but the most wrong choice for all the generals to fight with the Junzi army - the whole army will attack, catch up and cooperate with the cavalry!

The familiar pursuit battle began, after chasing five or six miles away, the Huainan cavalry relied on the protection of the war horse, and once narrowed the distance with the Hun horses of the Junzi Army, and the fastest cavalry was even less than twenty steps away from the neat rear of the Junzi Army, but at this time, the soldiers of the rear team of the Junzi Army made a move that the Huainan cavalry could never do - turning back and releasing arrows in the high-speed charging war horse! While laughing wildly and scolding the idiots of the Huainan cavalry, he turned around and released the arrows, never dreaming that the Junzi Army would be able to collectively do this difficult action The Huainan cavalry was caught off guard, and one after another fell off the horse with arrows, screaming and falling to the dust, either killed on the spot, or trampled to death by his own war horse!

After chasing out more than ten miles after being beaten and unable to do so, the Huainan cavalry, which had suffered heavy casualties, finally woke up, and when the generals hurriedly ordered to restrain the team, the gentleman's army, which ran faster than rabbits, naturally wrapped up like a leper dog, and continued to entertain the arrow rain without saying a word. After receiving the careful guidance of the Galaxy archer surnamed Cao, the Junzi Army's bow and arrow hit rate has now more than doubled, and in the blink of an eye, hundreds of Huainan cavalry were killed and wounded, and the number of Huainan cavalry quickly dropped to less than 600 people.

"Withdraw! Evacuate! Withdraw! Seeing this scene, the frightened Huainan cavalry did not even have the courage to continue to charge, scrambled to shout the retreat slogan, turned the horse's head and fled back and forth, and the soldiers of the gentleman's army continued to chase and kill mercilessly, while carefully keeping a distance on the way to the pursuit, while constantly pulling the bow and arrows, shooting the Huainan cavalry that had been chaotic, desperately harvesting the precious lives of the Huainan cavalry, and once again thousands of years in advance, playing a symphony of bows and arrows and horse hooves in the land of Huainan.

When the poor Huainan cavalry finally met their own infantry, there were less than 400 people left in a thousand cavalry, seeing that their own cavalry was so embarrassed, the Huainan infantry on the way to pursue was naturally in chaos, and it was too late to form a formation to meet the battle in a hurry, plus the Huainan cavalry stepped forward in order to escape for their lives, and rushed straight into the dense place of their own infantry team, which made the already chaotic infantry team even more chaotic.

The fighter plane is rare, seeing the Yuan Shu Army Infantry Cavalry Brigade, Tao Ji, who shoulders the heavy responsibility of recreating this Yuan Shu Army rescue army, did not hesitate, and immediately waved the command flag to give the order, first released a smoke signal, and ordered the other five hundred gentlemen army who were outflanked to kill from the flank, while ordering three teams of gentlemen's army light cavalry to outflank the other side, and finally the two teams of gentlemen's army heavy cavalry quickly retracted, discharged two dense horizontal teams, leaned over to end the gun together, grabbed the gun shaft with the tiger's mouth upward, clamped the tail of the gun in the armpit, and prepared to charge.

When Tao Ji waved the command flag again, the Junzi Army's new cavalry had never been displayed in public for the first time, and it appeared in front of the world for the first time - in order to kill Yuan Shujun by surprise, when the Junzi Army fought against Yuan Shujun several times, they were not willing to use this new killer weapon!

The wall charge began, and the four hundred Junzi Army heavy cavalry formed two cavalry walls, maintaining a dense and neat formation, like two cavalry city walls, firmly and quickly pressing towards the Yuan Shujun infantry who had been in chaos, and wherever the bayonet spear went, one after another Yuan Shujun soldiers pierced through the spear, and were led by the spear to sprint forward, until the spear pierced the second or even the third Yuan Shujun infantry, the Junzi Army heavy cavalry let go of the gun, picked up the knife and axe and slashed other enemies, and at the same time the first team scattered left and right, Change to the second cavalry wall and continue forward, stabbing the enemy in front.

The cavalry of the Gentleman's Army without heavy armor used a wall charge, if it was used to deal with the enemy with a neat lineup, it would be looking for death, but it would be wonderful to use it for the enemy in a state of confusion, the two cavalry walls charged down, and any attempt to intercept the Yuan Shujun team had been scattered and crushed, and most of the Yuan Shujun infantry collapsed psychologically, rushing forward to flee for their lives, allowing the heavy cavalry of the Gentleman's Army to wantonly slash and slaughter them from behind. And the cavalry of the Gentleman's Army killed on the left and right flanks also made these poor Yuan Shujun soldiers even more devastated, and they could no longer muster any courage to fight with the Gentleman's Army, and there was only one thought left up and down, "Run!" Run! ”

Have you ever seen a scene where an army with an absolute disadvantage in numbers pursues and kills far more than itself? It is a spectacular picture that makes people's blood boil and can not be described, in short, today's gentleman's army has done this again, the heavy cavalry is just crazy swinging the axe and slashing with Yuan Shujun's ass, and the light cavalry is following behind the heavy cavalry, constantly throwing the enemy in front of him with bows and arrows, knives and axes are everywhere, flesh and blood are flying, arrows rain to the ground, people are on their backs and horses, and poor Yuan Shujun soldiers are constantly wailing and falling, or scattering and fleeing, or trampling on each other, corpses are all over the field, and blood is flowing all over the canal.

On the way to escape, poor Hui Qu Hui Thorn Shi was first accidentally knocked over and fell off the horse by his own soldiers, and then he didn't even have time to get up from the ground, he was trampled on by his own defeated soldiers one after another, and the soldiers who came forward to rescue were also completely dispersed by the defeated soldiers, and could only cry and scream in the soles of his shoes that fell like raindrops, and before being trampled to death by his own defeated soldiers, poor Hui Qu Thorn Shi only had one thought left in his mind, "Gentleman's Army, it really deserves its name...... ”

(To be continued)