When Wang Yunyi saw Mao Bao, he was overjoyed, and immediately got up to greet him, and exclaimed, "General Mao, why are you here?" ”

Mao Bao's face was full of anger, and he shouted: "Hmph, this general will lead 20,000 troops to guard the road outside the West Gate, but Peach Leopard led the army in the southeast direction and killed the people of my Great Jin Dynasty indiscriminately, which is really unreasonable." The general has already transferred the main force back to Yinling City, ready to immediately go out of the city to fight with the peach leopard, and avenge the dead people, General Wang, is willing to help me. ”

"I can't ask for it, the general was about to attack the peach leopard, and the general came." Wang Yunzhi replied loudly.

When Mao Bao heard this, he was overjoyed and said loudly: "Okay, great, you and I will each lead 15,000 elite soldiers and go out of the city to kill the peach leopard." ”

Wang Yunzhi nodded, and said: "The enemy camp is less than 10,000 people, and it should be enough for our army to leave 10,000 troops to guard Yinling City and two small roads. ”

"Yes, that's very good." Mao Bao nodded approvingly.

Soon, Mao Bao and Wang Yunzhi each led 15,000 men and horses out of the city to the southeast, chasing down the less than 20,000 troops of Taobao.

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Fifteen miles outside Yinling City, Han Qian and his generals were outside the camp tent, looking at the sky-high fire in the southeast, everyone frowned.

Through the return of the scouts, they already knew that it was the Peach Leopard army that was killing the people and burning the villages, and the angry generals were going to attack, but they and the other two armies had already agreed to raise fire as a signal to attack the Peach Leopard camp, act without authorization, and lose their trust in others, besides, Han Qian always felt that the Peach Leopard's move was a little weird, and there seemed to be some conspiracy.

"General, you can't watch the people suffer, at least send a detachment of men and horses to rescue the people." One of the generals looked at the skyrocketing fire in the distance and shouted.

"General, the last general is willing to lead the headquarters of 3,000 men and horses to attack." Another subordinate general asked for battle.

Han Qian glared at the two of them, and said: "Peach Leopard has nearly 20,000 troops, if there is no cooperation of the Jing and Yang Second Route armies, our army will not be able to defeat Peach Leopard, let alone save the people." ”

"General, then our army will watch the people suffer and ignore it." The general asked.

Han Qian looked up in the direction of Yinling City, and said: "There are only 9,000 defenders in the peach leopard camp in front of you, and when the fire is raised in the city, my three-way army will attack, and I will definitely be able to break the peach leopard camp and kill thousands of enemy troops, which can be regarded as avenging those people who died unjustly." ”

"General, look, the captain who came during the day is here again." A subordinate general saw the approaching colonel.

Han Qian looked sideways, and it was really the confidant captain of General Wang Yunzhi who came during the day. I thought to myself, something must have changed.

"The last general meets General Han." The school is as polite as ever.

"No, things have changed." Han Qian hurriedly asked.

The little colonel was stunned when he heard this, and hugged his fists and said: "Back to General Han, the enemy's main general Tao Leopard has divided 20,000 troops and is slaughtering the people of my Great Jin Dynasty in the southeast direction, General Wang and General Mao have led 30,000 main forces to the southeast, and the last general has come to inform General Han Qian, and the three ways to attack Tao Leopard." ”

When Han Qian heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief and ordered loudly: "The generals will prepare immediately, and then set off to strangle the peach leopard." ”

"Order." The generals clenched their fists and went back to prepare.

After the generals left, Han Qian, Chen Xiong and other personal entourages returned to the Chinese army's tent and analyzed the intentions of the peach leopard in front of the huge map.

"General, the peach leopard is not in a hurry to open a way out and return north, but slaughters innocent people in the southeast of Yinling, what do you want!" Chen Xiong expressed doubts about Taobao's behavior.

Han Qian looked at the map and said lightly: "Maybe it was deliberately lured by our army, introducing the main force of our three-way army into the southeast, and then taking the opportunity to escape." ”

"Hmph, my three-way army is surrounded, how can the Peach Leopard army escape." Chen Xiong disagreed.

When Hua An heard this, he interjected: "The Peach Leopard army is strong in field combat, even if our army is surrounded by three routes, it may not be much stronger than the Peach Leopard army, and it is impossible to completely annihilate the enemy army." ”

After Hua An's reminder, Han Qian seemed to understand Peach Leopard's intentions, and the only way to go north was the east and west of Yinling City.

The peach leopard harassed the southeast direction, and seemed to have the intention of attacking the east and west, attracting the main force of the Jin army to the open land in the southeast, using its strong field strength to open a bloody road, and fleeing back to Dangtu City from the small road west of Yinling City.

Understanding Peach Leopard's intentions, Han Qian informed Chen Xiong, Hua An and others of Peach Leopard's plan, and everyone felt that this was the case.

"General, since Peach Leopard's intention is to attack the east and the west, how should our army respond, and will we send a large army to attack Peach Leopard?" Chen Xiong asked.

Han Qian smiled indifferently, and said with a straight face: "Since General Mao and General Wang invited, how can our army not go, Chen Xiong, you immediately order 10,000 troops, the southeast of Yinling in front, and join forces with the Jing and Yang Second Route armies to attack the peach leopard." ”

"Yes, General, the last general will go." Chen Xiong said, turning around and leaving the big tent.

At this time, the follow-up 3,000 men and horses of the Northern Expeditionary Army's battalion and the 1,000 men and horses of the baggage battalion had already entered the battalion, and the total strength of the battalion was 19,000, Chen Xiong took 10,000, and there were 9,000 left.

Han Qian decided to lead the 6,000 men and horses to the west of the road to ambush and cut off the retreat of the Peach Leopard army, the terrain of the path is not very open, the field strength of the Peach Leopard army is not easy to play, and it is not easy to kill a bloody road.

"Master, I am familiar with the path to the west, there are many areas suitable for fire attack, let the baggage battalion bring flammable things such as fire oil, and the soldiers have more bows and crossbows, which will definitely inflict heavy damage on the Peach Leopard army, and at the same time greatly reduce the losses of our army." Hua'an built yì road.

Han Qian nodded and said, "Okay, you immediately go and inform the baggage battalion, prepare flammable materials, and set off at any time." ”

"Yes, master, I'll do it." Hua An turned to leave the big tent.

In less than half an hour, Han Qian took the soldiers of the personal barracks, the baggage battalion and the 5,000 infantry battalions, a total of more than 6,000 people, to the west side of Yinling City.

The army set up three lines of defense along the path, the first and most important one, in an overgrown valley, with a large amount of flammable materials such as fire oil sprinkled on both sides of the road, and a total of 3,000 crossbowmen arranged on the mountainside on both sides.

The second way, on the edge of a cliff, with nearly 1,000 soldiers of the baggage battalion, prepared stones on the top of the mountain, ready to defeat the fleeing enemy soldiers with stones at any time.

The third and final way is to choose a hilly area with relatively complex terrain, commonly known as Qiangu Ridge, where the enemy can not see the strength of our army clearly, so that the enemy must be extremely panicked in his heart, which is conducive to our army killing the enemy.

On this last line of defense, Han Qian personally pressed the formation, with 700 soldiers from the personal battalion and 2,000 soldiers from the infantry battalion, a total of 2,700 soldiers, which will form the last line of defense to intercept the defeated troops of Peach Leopard.

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To the southeast of Yinling City, the Peach Leopard Legion, which was committing murder, was besieged by the Jin Army's three-way army.

In the dark, watching the three fire dragons killing him, the corner of the peach leopard's mouth smiled fiercely, pulled out his sword, and shouted: "Soldiers, follow the generals to kill a bloody road." ”

"Kill ......"

The army of peach leopards roared and slaughtered the Jin army from the front.

Less than 20,000 enemy troops faced the attack of 40,000 Jin troops, and actually took the initiative to attack from the front, which shows Taobao's confidence in the strength of the army under his command.

Although the soldiers under the command of Tao Leopard learned that the Yin Tomb was occupied by the Jin army, their morale was hit, but after several hours of slaughtering the people of the Jin Kingdom, the bloodthirsty nature of the soldiers was stimulated again, and their morale was stronger than before.

But the Jin army on the opposite side is not a rabble, the strong are opposed, and the side with insufficient troops is still gradually at a disadvantage.

After fighting for nearly an hour, the losses on both sides were extremely heavy, and the soldiers' bodies were also greatly consumed, and the peach leopard had no intention of fighting, so he decisively abandoned the soldiers who were injured and had difficulty moving, and led an army of less than 10,000 to retreat westward.

The Jin army's three-way army swarmed up and quickly slashed the enemy's wounded soldiers, but the peach leopard had already run away, and the three-way army took a short break and pursued forward.

Peach Leopard led his army all the way and sent light cavalry to the camp, informing the 9,000 elite soldiers of the camp to pack up and retreat to the west road.

Soon, the two armies under the command of Peach Leopard converged together, and the chasing troops behind were less than five miles, Peach Leopard did not dare to stay, and hurriedly led less than 20,000 troops to the west of Yinling City.

The Peach Leopard Army, which was galloping all the way, soon entered the first line of defense of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and because they were in a hurry, they did not notice the strangeness of the weeds on both sides of the valley road.

When the main force of the peach leopard entered the valley, the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army shouted: "Set fire." ”

"Whoosh ......"

The soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who were ambushed halfway up the mountain, fired their ignited rockets into the grass below the valley.

"Huhuhu......"

The oil-doped hay burned unusually fast, and soon the fire spread, and the valley was completely enveloped in fire.

"Ah......h

More soldiers were overwhelmed by the heat, and the frantic scurrying soldiers made a mess of the ranks.

"General, we are in ambush. One of the generals shouted.

Peach Leopard looked at the fire all over the valley, his heart was shocked, and he hurriedly ordered: "Rush out, the soldiers go all the way forward, rush out." ”

Suddenly, the peach enemy soldiers, who had no way to retreat, rushed forward in the flames, the soldiers in front were roasted to death, and the soldiers behind stepped on the corpses of their comrades, and continued to rush forward, rushing forward all the way, leaving countless corpses along the way.

"Soldiers, release the arrows." The commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, seeing the enemy fleeing, ordered loudly.

"Whoosh ......"

3,000 crossbowmen of the Northern Expeditionary Army fired arrows at the enemy soldiers who were breaking through in the fire.

The enemy soldiers were immediately hit by arrows, and soon a large number of them fell in the fire, and their bodies were quickly consumed by the flames.

"Soldiers, rush out." The peach leopard roared hoarsely, and at this time, his voice could be described as despair.