—————— time goes back half an hour——————

About half an hour after Zhang Huang and others evacuated Pingxiang County, Ma Dou, the captain of the Changshui Battalion of the Northern Army, followed the judgment of the commander Lu Zhi and led the cavalry of the Changshui Battalion to Pingxiang County and recovered the county seat that had been occupied by the Yellow Turban Army for a long time.

Because Pingxiang County was the first county to be recovered, and most of the people in the city were taken away by the Yellow Turban Army, the space was very abundant, so it was natural for Lu Zhi to choose this place as his first stronghold to attack the Yellow Turban Thieves in Jizhou.

Because of this, Matteo took the safety of the county so seriously that after he took over Pingxiang, he did not lead his knights to pursue the Yellow Turban Army, but ordered them to divide into various teams, some patrolling in the city and some patrolling outside the city, to find out if there were any Yellow Turban soldiers left in the city. By the way, he also has to shoulder the responsibility of appeasing the frightened people, after all, not all the people are willing to follow the Yellow Turban Army to migrate to Quzhou, as the regular army of the Han Dynasty, the Northern Army naturally does not commit any crimes against the people.

When all the arrangements were made, Matteo ordered people to deliver the news to Wei County and Hanoi, and ordered the soldiers who were in charge of the logistics of the Northern Army to take Pingxiang County as the end point of their escort of grain and grass from today onwards.

Of course, while busy with these things, Matteo didn't forget to send a message to the Yue Cavalry Battalion, who was always waiting for his news.

"Whoosh-"

Three rockets shot into the sky, and in such a silent and deep night, even from a long distance could be seen clearly.

Sure enough, Matteo had just ordered someone to shoot a rocket into the sky in Pingxiang County. Nearly ten miles away from the county seat, the Yue cavalry camp immediately took action.

"Lord Captain, there are three rockets shooting into the sky in the direction of Pingxiang County, I think it must be the news that the Changshui Battalion has delivered to our army."

Sima Wangyi, the captain of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, woke up the former who was closing his eyes and recuperating at the first moment. Clenched his fists and said in a deep voice. Yesterday, at the last moment, the Yue Cavalry Battalion used Zhang Huang's few dozen people as bait to lure Pingxiang County to open the city gate, so that the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion could take the opportunity to rush into the city. Unfortunately, Zhang Huang and Guo Tai on the side of the Yellow Turban Army are not fools. With tacit understanding and tacitly, he pit 500 cavalry from the Yue cavalry battalion, and lost a full 20%.

Although it is said that the nearly 500 knights of the Yue cavalry battalion still resisted to the death in the face of a desperate situation, and also replaced nearly 1,000 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army in the battle that lasted for half an hour. showed the bravery of the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion to the Yellow Turban Army and even the world, but in the final analysis, it was Wang Wei's strategy that went wrong. Because in ordinary times, killing nearly a thousand Yellow Turban soldiers did not require them to pay such a heavy price for the cavalry battalion. At most, dozens of rides. It is even very likely that the enemy army will be completely annihilated without losing a single soldier on its own side.

It is no wonder, after all, the Vietnamese cavalry battalion is a cavalry army that mainly adopts harassment, guerrilla, and long-range shooting tactics, and the scope of duties is different from that of the knights of the Changshui Battalion and the knights of the Tun Cavalry Battalion.

"Hmm." Wu Fu opened his eyes when he heard this, and glanced at the three rockets that were still in the sky in the distance in the night sky with a grim expression.

Unlike Wu Fu's ease when he bumped into Zhang Huang in the main formation of the Northern Army, he was now full of anger in his hearts, including Wei Sima Wang Wei and the remaining 2,000 or so knights under his command. I can't wait to find Zhang Huang and his Yellow Turban Army immediately, and break them into thousands of pieces. In order to pay tribute to the spirit of the five hundred Yue cavalry camp knights who were sacrificed.

It is true that tonight's pursuit is a battle of revenge for the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, and they will have to return blood for blood and tooth for tooth.

With such thoughts and strong fighting spirit, the knights of the two thousand Yue cavalry battalions were like two swimming dragons after receiving the signal to attack, quickly shuttling away into the distance under the night.

Although the Pingxiang Yellow Turbans got more than 400 war horses that belonged to them, Wu Fu believed that as long as they chased after them, they would always be able to catch up with Zhang Huang and others, after all, according to Lu Zhi's guess, there were about 3,000 Yellow Turbans in Pingxiang County during the day, excluding the nearly 1,000 Yellow Turban troops who died before the 500 sacrificed Yue cavalry camp knights who died, there should be about 2,000 left.

Two thousand people, in front of such a number, what role can a mere four hundred war horses play?

Is it possible to ride five people together?

Just kidding, even if three people ride together, no matter how good the war horse is, it is difficult to carry it far, let alone five people?

Therefore, Wu Fu secretly judged in his heart that the remaining 2,000 or so Pingxiang Yellow Turbans should be 800 people riding war horses, while the other 1,200 or so still rely on their legs to hurry. After all, if two people ride together, as long as they don't gallop on the horse, they can still protect the foot strength of the war horse, and they will not tire the precious war horse to death.

But the strange thing is that the two thousand Yue cavalry battalion knights of Wufu chased for nearly half an hour, but they did not find any trace of the retreat of the Yellow Turban in Pingxiang County.

This made Woolfu feel incredible.

"It's weird, how can you run so fast?" Looking out over the wilderness at night, Woods muttered.

"No......" Wei Sima Wangyi was also anxious with a sad face, smacking his lips and saying strangely, "Even if the two Yellow Turban thieves take a ride, there will be more than a thousand infantry left, how can they escape far?" What's more, even the foot strength of our army can't catch up. ”

"Hmm." Wu Fu nodded approvingly when he heard this, and then looked back at Wei Sima Wang Wei and said, "It may be that the soldiers of our army are eager for revenge, so they have not found any traces of the retreat of the thief army." …… Tell me the order to slow down the horses, and the sergeants keep an eye on their feet to see if there are any footprints left by the thieves when they fled. …… As long as the infantry among the Yellow Turban Thieves is found, I believe that the eight hundred or so foot soldiers on war horses will not be too far. In his words, he did not call the eight hundred or so yellow turbans cavalry, but the infantry on war horses, which was the pride of being a knight or a horseman. But to put it in detail, Wu Fu's words are not wrong, after all, it is not a cavalry on a war horse, it has to go through long-term training such as equestrianism and spearmanship. And those guys in the Yellow Turbans of Pingxiang are just a bunch of infantry on war horses in Wufu's eyes, except for the speed. There is not much difference between the strength of the horse and the horse, and even the strength on the horseback is not as good as on the flat ground.

"No!" Wei Sima Wang clenched his fists and took the order. Deliver Woft's order went.

As a result, the vengeful Yue cavalry battalion had no choice but to obey Wu Fu's orders, slowing down the speed of the horses, while at the same time checking the places they passed from time to time to see if there were any footprints left by the Yellow Turban bandits.

But what is even more strange is that although the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion have been so careful, they still have not found any clues when the Yellow Turban Army withdrew.

"Didn't the Yellow Turban Thief follow this path?" Wooder was a little confused.

Wei Sima Wang Wei also frowned frequently. Hesitantly said, "This direction leads straight to Quzhou County." Could it be that they knew that we would chase after us, and deliberately did not retreat to Quzhou, but chose Guangping County? ”

"It won't be Quang Binh County!" Wu Fu shook his head when he heard this, and said in a deep voice. "I'm going to Quang Binh. Then he must pass through Julu County, before Guo Dian temporarily joined the division of our Northern Army's crusade, the original soldiers under his command were all placed near Julu County, and the Yellow Turban Thieves would definitely not choose this road, otherwise there would be blocking soldiers and horses in front, and the rear would be chased by our army, so as to ensure that the whole army was annihilated! …… I don't think that 'Zhang Baiqi' will not even be able to see through this kind of thing. ”

"That's weird." Wei Sima Wang touched his chin. frowned and said, "It's not Xiang Guangping." It's not like Qu Zhou, could it be that the two thousand yellow scarves can still fly with wings? ”

Wu Fu thought about it carefully for a while, and suddenly had an idea, and asked rhetorically, "Wang Wei, do you think the thief army will go the other way and retreat in a big circle knowing that our army will follow and pursue...... Hmm, it seems unlikely. In the end, even he hesitated, after all, this land could almost be said to have been controlled by his northern army, and how could the Yellow Turban thieves with a mere 2,000 people dare to be in the enemy's hinterland for a long time.

"It's really weird, why can't I find anyone?"

"Let's look for it again." Wei Sima Wang Yi was relieved, "Maybe we weren't careful enough before, so the retreating thief army heard the movement and found a place to hide, let's go back the way we came and search carefully." ”

"Hmm......" Wu Fu nodded, and said thoughtfully, "You're right, it's absolutely impossible for the infantry to escape so far with their foot strength alone, they must have heard the wind and hidden, I'll go back and look for it later." ”

After deliberating, the 2,000 knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion returned the same way, searching inch by inch along the way for traces left by the Yellow Turban Army when they withdrew.

Suddenly, Wu Fu raised his eyebrows, as if he had thought of something, and looked back at Wei Sima Wang Yi and asked, "Wang Wei, is there a hill five miles outside Pingxiang County?" ”

"That's right......," asked Wei Sima Wang Yi suspiciously, "but that hill is on the north side, and it leads to neither Guangping nor Quzhou......"

"Where does it lead?" Wu Fu asked with a frown.

Hearing this, Wei Sima Wang Yan took out a simple marching map from his bosom, and recognized it for a while with the help of the hazy moonlight, and then replied affirmatively, "Lead to Nansi County." ”

"Nansi County...... Wu Fu pondered for a moment, and then asked, "Is Nansi County close to Anping Kingdom?" …… In addition, I remember that Liu Xu, the king of Anping, seemed to have been captured by the people under his rule, and it was not easy to escape? ”

"Not bad. At present, Anping Kingdom is said to be occupied by Zhang Bao, the younger brother of the Taiping Demon Master Zhang Jiao......" Speaking of this, Wei Sima Wangyi's face changed slightly, and he woke up and said, "What does Lord Captain mean that this Yellow Turban thief wants to go to Nansi County, and then borrow Anping Kingdom?" ”

"It's all its thief army, how can you use it to talk about it?" Wu Fu pursed his lips, and after thinking about it carefully, he said more and more affirmatively, "It should be right to take the South Silk Road, if its infantry wants not to be caught up by the cavalry, they can only take the mountain road, but unfortunately, ......"

"It's a pity that this wave of thieves bumped into my Yue Cavalry Battalion!" Wei Sima Wang Yi smiled coldly.

You must know that in the training of the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, there is an item of the Prancing Horse Mountain Stream, how can the dignified guerrilla light cavalry army be hindered in the mountain stream and forest plain?

"Let's go!" Wu Fu shouted, a little eagerness on his face.

Seeing this, Wei Sima Wang Qi hurriedly asked, "Lord Captain, slow down!" …… And what about the army of thieves with 800 horsebacks? Could it be that they also crossed the mountains and crossed the mountains to the south together? ”

"This ......" Wu Fu was stunned when he heard this, and after some thought, he said categorically, "first go to that hill to find out, I believe that the thieves will not abandon their companions, and if they find the infantry, it means that they have also found the eight hundred thieves on horseback!" ”

"No!"

Immediately, the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion increased their speed again. Change direction and head north.

It is undeniable that Wu Fu and Wang Wei guessed correctly, that is, those infantry of the Yellow Turbans in Pingxiang, they were indeed heading in the direction of Nansi. Even in order to hide their eyes, the Yellow Turban soldiers deliberately hid for a while in the hills only three or five miles away after leaving the city, and only after witnessing the knights of the Yue Cavalry Battalion roaring past them in the distance of their field of vision, they cautiously hurried north. It was precisely because of this that Wufu's Yue Cavalry Battalion did not notice it.

However, now that Wu Fu has realized that the fate of those Yellow Turban soldiers will probably be miserable, after all, it will only be an hour or two. It is impossible to rush to Nansi County, let alone borrow Anping Kingdom from Nansi County.

Admittedly, Woodford as a leading lieutenant. The grasp of the battle situation is still quite in place, but it is a little late.

But isn't it, Wu Fu and the Yue Cavalry Battalion's previous lack of gains has made Lu Zhi, who is in the main camp of the Northern Army, have some doubts.

After all, according to the Changshui Battalion, it was half an hour after taking over Pingxiang County. The Vietnamese cavalry battalion did not have the slightest intention of sending people to deliver the good news. This made Lu Zhi really puzzled.

It's not that I'm worried about the safety of the Yue Cavalry Battalion, after all, in the wilderness, even the knights of the Changshui Battalion may not be able to take advantage of the injuries in the Yue Cavalry Battalion, let alone the infantry of the Yellow Turban Army. Lu Zhi just wondered why Wu Fu hadn't sent anyone to deliver the good news until now.

[Isn't half an hour enough to catch up with the Pingxiang Yellow Turban?] ]

Lu Zhi shook his head secretly, you must know that according to his estimate, more than half an hour is enough for Wu Fu and his party to rush all the way to Julu County.

"Something is wrong, something is wrong......"

In the tent, everyone is still waiting for the good news. Lu Zhi faintly felt that something was wrong in his heart, so he thought carefully about it against the marching map on the table.

[Even Wood's Yue Rider didn't catch up.] Does it mean that the Pingxiang Yellow Turban did not take that road? …… That is to say......]

"Nansi County!" Muttering to himself, Lu Zhi's eyes shone with a few gleams. This wise Confucian general, who is over half a hundred years old, really guessed it with all kinds of clues.

[If you want to get rid of the light ride behind you, the Pingxiang Yellow Turban can only take the South Silk ...... But in this way, the hundreds of war horses that 'Zhang Baiqi' painstakingly designed and captured will not be used...... They don't ride more than they ride, and it's not the same as having horses on the hills than not having them? In this case, why risk letting the five hundred Yue ride into Pingxiang and snatch the war horse at any cost? ]

[Did you retreat to Nansi with the footmen?] Or did you go somewhere else? …… If so, where are you going? ]

Thinking about it repeatedly, Lu Zhi's brows furrowed tightly.

At this time, his gaze swept over the place where the location of the main camp of the Northern Army was marked on the marching map, and after a slight stunned, his face gradually showed a little disbelief.

"It won't be...... Came here, right? ”

muttering to himself but almost startled by his own words, Lu Zhi, whose face changed slightly, suddenly remembered that because of the relationship of time, the so-called main camp of their northern army was at best a temporary station, not only a fence, but even the soldiers rested at night and slept around the bonfire......

Lu Zhi only felt a chill in his heart, although he didn't believe that Zhang Huang had the courage to lead people to attack the main camp of tens of thousands of troops at night, but this person's feat during the day had proved that this guy could not be justified.

Thinking of this, Lu Zhi suddenly turned to Infantry Captain Liu Jiang and said, "Captain Liu, the old man wants you to immediately count the people in the headquarters and lie in my barracks, don't make a noise...... This matter may be urgent, and it is inconvenient to talk about it in detail at the moment, so Captain Liu will go. ”

Infantry Captain Liu Jiang glanced at Lu Zhi suspiciously, clenched his fists and retreated.

The rest of the people in the tent saw this scene, their expressions were a little strange, and of course they could understand what Lu Zhi meant by such an arrangement. The question is, how can Lu Zhi be sure that "Zhang Baiqi" will really attack the camp?

Just as they were thinking in secret, they heard a noisy noise from the southeast, mixed with the angry scolding and exclamations of the soldiers, and the neighing of the horses when they were frightened.

[Wouldn't it?] Do you really dare to come? ]

Hearing the noise, the expressions of the sect members, Liu Biao, Ma Riyan, Bao Hong and others suddenly became quite exciting.

The only exception was Lu Zhi, after breathing a sigh of relief, the Confucian general's face was still so calm.

"That's just right...... Punish the 'white horse' first, and then destroy the yellow scarf! (To be continued......)