Peng Shan took these two thousand cavalry like a torrent to the garrison of the Jiangbei camp, the prince was in the garrison camp of the tun army, where the defense must be extremely tight, and in the garrison camp where a lot of houses had been built, it was not conducive to the cavalry to maneuver, so Peng Shan still chose the cavalry garrison of the Jiangbei camp.

This place is closer to oneself, and the big camp is built temporarily, there are not too many fixed fortifications, it is easy to enter and exit, and once the shape is wrong, one's own side can also exit in time.

As soon as Peng Shan waved the small red flag in his hand, all the sergeants immediately mounted their horses, and Peng Shan took the lead and rushed out of the woods and went straight to the garrison of the Jiangbei camp.

Less than five miles away, the cavalry raided, almost very quickly. When Peng Shan's cavalry was about to approach the opponent's camp, and there was still about half a mile to go, the opponent's sentry obviously discovered Peng Shan's cavalry.

Peng Shan immediately took out a lit torch with his left hand, pulled out the saber with his right hand, and then bent down and kicked the spur hard, and the war horse immediately accelerated and went straight to the Jiangbei camp.

The other cavalry behind him also accelerated, and with a charge, the war horse reached the fence outside the camp, and Peng Shan's war horse jumped over and jumped into the camp, and the torch in his left hand was thrown towards one of the other party's tents.

The soldiers behind Peng Shan were the same, thousands of torches were immediately thrown to all corners of the camp, and the camp was immediately ablaze, but there was no chaos in advance, Peng Shan immediately realized that something was wrong, and he was ambushed.

It's just that when Peng Shan wanted to immediately order the cavalry around him to retreat quickly, the surrounding area began to sound cannons, and many crossbow arrows broke through the air, fortunately, Peng Shan had already made a pre-deployment before the raid, once he encountered an ambush, don't wait for the order, take the cavalry squad as a unit, and immediately return along the original road.

Moreover, Peng Shan found it in time, and there were about a thousand cavalry behind him who did not enter the camp, which was equivalent to guarding his rear.

However, the sound of artillery still made some of the war horses on his side lose control, and Peng Shan found that several groups of cavalry appeared on the opposite side, obviously trying to copy his own back road.

Now was not the time to hesitate, Peng Shan immediately ordered all the cavalry to retreat in batches along the edge of the camp, and cut off the rear himself.

When Peng Shan kept wielding his saber and fighting with the cavalry of the Jiangbei battalion who caught up, the other cavalry around him also fell into a bitter battle, it turned out that the Jiangbei battalion had already ambushed two teams of cavalry at the gate of the camp in advance, and now it was almost equivalent to outflanking Peng Shan from both wings.

Pengshan's 2,000 cavalry were in a bitter battle, and it was impossible to withdraw completely.

Fortunately, the other party did not know the direction of his side's surprise attack, so he did not arrange an ambush on the retreat road in advance, otherwise it would have been a real tragedy.

Now there is chaos in the camp, the torches thrown everywhere by Peng Shan's group, although they did not burn the opponent's cavalry, but the flames that were lit still limited the attack speed of the opponent's cavalry, in such a small space, the cavalry of the Jiangbei battalion could not be fully deployed, and the infantry did not dare to rush forward.

On the one hand, Peng Shan led the cavalry forward and attacked forward, and on the other hand, he carefully observed the route of the cavalry encirclement of the Jiangbei battalion.

When Pengshan fell into a bitter battle, Xiao Yao and the three of them had already rushed outside the camp, and now it was a chaos, and the cavalry of the two anti-reverses were staggered together, fighting separately, and they were all in a chaotic formation.

"Xiao Yao, Yi Feng, you quickly go to find the generals of the Xizhou Army and help them get out of trouble. I went to find a way to ignite the baggage of the camp in Jiangbei and attract their attention. Yi Ming immediately commanded.

There was nothing to hesitate about now, and when Xiao Yao and Yi Feng rushed into the camp, they saw Peng Shan surrounded by several cavalry.

Xiao Yao jumped in one body, a few palms, and slapped away several cavalry from the Jiangbei battalion around him, although he secretly supported the Peng's Tusi in Xizhou, but it was difficult for Xiao Yao to kill these troops in the imperial court.

Xiao Yao flew to Peng Shan's side, grabbed Peng Shan from his war horse, and then jumped a few times to Yi Feng's side, and the three of them flew on their horses, and Peng Shan was very surprised to see that Xiao Yao had saved him, but his calmness as a general still made him quickly remember his duties, so Peng Shan immediately ordered the surrounding cavalry to assemble towards him and break through in the direction of Xizhou.

But the cavalry of the Jiangbei battalion did not want to give up, the twin engines were already mixed together, and it was difficult for Peng Shan to concentrate the team.

At this time, a fire suddenly broke out on the inside of the Jiangbei camp, and an urgent horn sounded in the camp, and the cavalry of the Jiangbei camp began to retreat, and Peng Shan took the opportunity to run back to Xizhou City with the team in one go.

Shun lì entered Xizhou City, but the two thousand cavalry had already lost four or five hundred people, Peng Shan settled the military affairs on the one hand, and took Xiao Yao and Yi Feng straight to the palace hall on the other.

When the three of them walked into the main hall, they saw that Prince Peng and Yi Ming, the witch god of the third hall, were already sitting opposite each other, discussing something.

Seeing Peng Shan and the three of them coming in, both of them stood up.

made a brief introduction, and the two sides did not have any false etiquette to sit down with the guests.

Peng Wangye was briefly introducing the battle in the past few days to Yi Ming, and Peng Shan also briefly introduced the situation of the camp robbery tonight.

"The battalion of the imperial court is much stronger than our army's combat effectiveness, and now the surrounding tribes have begun to transfer the population, and they dare not rashly send people to aid Xizhou, and some of the tribes directly under our Peng Tusi have also begun to prepare for the transfer, the imperial court is menacing this time, this Zhang Taiwei is very proficient in military affairs, there are almost no major loopholes, we are lagging behind the other party in terms of numbers and equipment."

"Tell me about your plans. How long do we want to stay in Xizhou City? Yi Ming asked.

Prince Peng looked at his son and motioned for Peng Shan to answer this question.

"Thank you Lord Witch God for your help tonight, otherwise you will lose at least half of your brothers tonight, you also saw the battle just now, Lord Witch God, these cavalry are the strongest combat power of our Peng Clan's Tusi, but they are still defeated by the cavalry of the imperial court one-on-one. Moreover, the imperial court also has a Shenji Battalion and a Firearms Battalion, which are more troublesome than we expected, so it is no longer realistic to stick to Xizhou City for a long time. Peng Shan said as he looked at his father and Xiao Yao.

This eighteen or nineteen-year-old boy has now grown into a general who leads the raid independently and takes the lead, the blood stains on his body have not been wiped off, and the armor on his body has not been taken off, and Peng Shan, who looks slightly thin, has an iron-blooded temperament.

"Now once the imperial court has mobilized enough Hongyi cannons, it will immediately begin to attack the city, although the Xizhou city defense is strong, but it can't last long under the Hongyi cannon, and we didn't take into account the role of Hongyi cannons at the beginning of the city, this kind of cannon has a range of two or three miles, from their current position, as long as they move forward a distance, they can start shelling our side, and our bow and arrow range can't reach so far at all, only a small number of large crossbow guns used to defend the city can attack the other side, But we now have a limited number of ballistas, and the power of the ballista is much less than that of the opponent's Hongyi cannon. ”

Peng Shan's speech was very fast, there was almost no pause in the middle, Xiao Yao could feel that the current war was not optimistic, in fact, these Xiao Yao had been mentally prepared for a long time, but he didn't expect that when facing the war, he would still be a little worried.

The pace of the war was clearly beyond everyone's expectations, and the imperial court continued to bring in various siege equipment by water, such as Hongyi cannons, ladders, chariots, and simple arrow towers.

With Peng Shan's introduction, Xiao Yao and Yi Ming also began to look solemn.

It seems that the Peng family Tusi went to steal the Nine Palace Spirit Gu, he thought of this in advance, once the imperial court was ready, then within ten days, Xizhou City would fall.

This Captain Zhang obviously adopted the method of blockade and gradual advancement, and it seems that he wants to occupy one place and transform another, rather than rushing to occupy Miao Xinjiang in an all-round way.

Now the three main passages of Miaojiang to the outside world have been blocked by the imperial court, and this year's winter grain will not be transported to Miaojiang, so the long-term confrontation will be strategically beneficial to Miaojiang, but in the short-term tactics, it is beneficial to the imperial court.

The tribes in the interior of Miao Xinjiang will first face the problem of how to survive this winter, and the lack of food will be a problem for many small tribes.

Xiao Yao listened to Peng Shan's introduction of the various material reserves in Xizhou City and the situation of the surrounding tribes that had begun to be transferred, while thinking about specific countermeasures.

Xiao Yao summed up the various situations introduced by Peng Shan, that is, there is almost no good news, only bad news.

It seems that he does not want to occupy the entire territory of Miao Xinjiang at once, but to use the method of occupying all important places in Miao Xinjiang, dividing Miao Xinjiang into several parts, and then occupying the main cities, so as to implement the land reform and return to the river in advance around the city.

It seems that the crown prince Taibao has the intention of occupying military power for a long time, which is equivalent to fighting for a military force for the prince.

Xiao Yao figured out this, and understood the current situation, since Taiwei Zhang had such thoughts, then he had a way to force him to withdraw from the army.

But with such an analysis and judgment, Xiao Yao didn't intend to tell Peng Shan and them, what he wanted to help them now was how to get out of the current situation, and this depended on Yi Ming.

Xiao Yao didn't speak, nor did he make any comments on Peng Shan's words, it seemed that Peng Shan had already told Peng Wang Ye about his situation, and they probably didn't know that they had entered Peng Wang's mansion at night to steal things, and he was just a helper now, and he could do a lot less than Yi Ming, so he had to focus on Yi Ming now.

Yi Ming listened to Peng Shan's introduction, and then turned his gaze to Peng Wangye.

"Lord Tusi, you must have guessed the reason why I came to Xizhou in person this time." Yi Ming said in a very flat tone.