On the horizon, the newborn red sun gradually drove away the dark night, and the whole earth seemed to be covered with a colorful golden coat.

"Drive!"

"Drive-!"

"Step, step, step!"

With the sound of hurried horses' hooves, a cavalry army galloped from afar, and the cavalry in the army were dusty and embarrassed.

Suddenly, the general at the head raised his arms and shouted, and immediately, the cavalry of the whole army stopped one after another.

"Bang--!"

The wind blew the flags in this cavalry army, and when I looked at the flags carefully, I realized that this was clearly the second division of the Jizhou Army, the Ma Dan Army, which had made a big show in the battle under the capital of Jizhou two days ago.

How could the people of the world have thought that Li Mao, the lord of the dignified northern frontier, the overlord of the grassland, and the king of Yan, would encounter such a setback in Jijing, and obviously commanded an army of seventy or eighty thousand in northern Xinjiang, but was completely tricked by the 10,000 cavalry of Ma Dan, the general of the Jizhou army.

Of course, Ma Dan actually paid a heavy price for this, not only did he sacrifice nearly 2,000 army sergeants under the capital of Jijing, but also was chased by the 40,000 Yuyang iron cavalry dispatched by the whole army for 13 days, and even more, Li Mao, the furious Yan King, sent Cao Da, Zhang Qi, and Youdou three generals to chase after him.

40,000 Yuyang iron cavalry, three generals of the Northern Xinjiang Army, it is not difficult to guess that Li Mao, the king of Yan, is determined to capture and kill Ma Dan in order to report that Ma Dan played him in the capital of Ji that day.

"Whew!" With a long exhalation, Ma Dan grabbed the reins of the horse with one hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the other. I have to say that the 13 days of escape really tired him.

"Let's take a sip of water!" Adjutant General Wu Xing threw over a water bladder.

Raising his hand to catch the water bladder thrown by Wu Xing, Ma Dan poured several sips in a row. Immediately wiped the water stains on the side of his mouth, and said loudly, "Zhongerlang, Yuyang Iron Rider is uncertain when he will catch up from behind, seize the time to rest!" ”

"Yes. The general ......," the cavalry in the army replied weakly.

It's not that they disobey military orders, it's just that in the past 13 days, they have been fleeing for their lives day and night under the pursuit of 40,000 Yuyang iron cavalry, not to mention that their energy is haggard, and even their will is close to collapse. Perhaps at this moment, for the second sergeants, what they hope most is probably to sleep soundly.

It's a pity that their hope is destined to be difficult to come true. After all, there was an unrivaled enemy with 40,000 Yuyang Iron Cavalry hanging behind them, and once the pursuers behind them caught up, I am afraid it would not be difficult to imagine that it would be such an end. After all, if it really starts, the 10,000 Ma Dan army is not the opponent of the 40,000 Yuyang Iron Cavalry, even if the Yuyang Iron Cavalry is only 10,000, the Ma Dan Army may not have a few chances of winning. To know. Although the Jizhou Army is the elite of the forces of the Three Kings of the West and the Taiping Army of the East, don't forget, the Yuyang Iron Cavalry is a fierce iron cavalry that dominates the entire grassland.

"Zhang Qi, Cao Da, You Dou...... Are those three guys monsters? Glancing back at his back with some unease, Ma Dan said with a wry smile on his face, "This has been chasing our army for thirteen days, right?" Don't those guys need to rest? And so on. Don't say we can't get rid of them, or even be dragged down by them......"

Wu Xing shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, and said with some admiration, "It is worthy of the Yuyang Iron Cavalry, and it is not at the same level as the cavalry of the Taiping Army, which has empty shelves...... If it weren't for the fact that our army was extremely familiar with the terrain and topography in this Anping country, I am afraid that our army would have been caught up and killed by those Yuyang cavalry...... Speaking of which, we were too flamboyant in the capital of Hebei that day, which is not in line with the style of our second army at all! ”

Hearing this, Ma Dan couldn't help but show a little inexplicable smile on his face.

Indeed, in fact, Ma Dan attacked the formation of the Northern Xinjiang army under the capital of Hebei that day. During this period, the process is extremely dangerous, and if one is not good, it will be surrounded by it, which will directly lead to the annihilation of the whole army. After all, the two armies led by Ma Dan were all cavalry, and if the cavalry lost its speed, it might be even weaker than the infantry. What is said to be cavalry on horseback, and infantry when dismounted, that is only the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army, and throughout the world, there is only one Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army.

It stands to reason that such an impulsive and unwise charge is thought to be carried out recklessly by only Liao Li, even if it is Fei Guo, most of them have to weigh the benefits and losses. In fact, even Ma Dan didn't know why he gave the order to charge so much at that time.

"Who told Li Mao to deceive people too much, and treat our second army as nothing?!" Xiao general Su Xin rode over at this time and said what Ma Dan was thinking.

And beside Su Xin, Li Jing had a bitter smile on his face like Wu Xing.

Su Xin and Li Jing, the two generals of the Jizhou Army who were subdued by Xie Anxi when he conquered Luoyang and Chang'an rebels, are now also in the position of captain of Fenwei and Fenwu. Even a few days ago, Ma Dan cooperated with Su Xin to smash into the hinterland of the Northern Xinjiang Army in one fell swoop, and disrupted the formation of the Northern Xinjiang Army into a pot of porridge.

Of course, it was precisely because he saw the talent of Su Xin and Li Jinger in commanding the cavalry that Xie An transferred the two of them to the Second Army, which was all light cavalry, for the use of the corps commander Ma Dan.

"That's a good point!" Ma Danlang smiled, slapped Su Xin's back vigorously, and said loudly, "It's to let those northern barbarians who look down on our second army see the strength of our army!" ”

In Ma Dan's view, with Tang Hao, Zhang Dong, Ou Peng, Cheng Yang and other generals of the Jizhou Army, Su Xin and Li Jinger did not dare to say that they were the strongest generals in the Jizhou Army or the most outstanding in command, but their comprehensive strength was quite outstanding, especially in leading the cavalry in battle. The addition of these two generals immediately increased the flexibility and mobility of Ma Dan's second army by several grades. After all, he and Wu Xing were the only two who played the role of "axe" or "Yue", but now with the addition of Su Xin and Li Jing, it is easier to dazzle the enemy when performing [Car Suspension: Axe Array], I don't know which cavalry detachment is a feint, which cavalry detachment is the real killer move, and it has become more flexible in the use of tactics.

To put it bluntly, even if Zhang Dong of the First Army of the Jizhou Army and even Tang Hao, the deputy marshal of the main division, are exchanged for Su Xin and Li Jing. Ma Dan was also reluctant. Unless it is Liao Li, a general who can take on any position, but Ma Dan also knows in his heart that it is impossible for Liao Li's talent to be under his command.

And Su Xin was originally a cheerful and active general, and he seemed to be inspired by Ma Dan when he patted him on the back. With a red face, he said smugly, "It's really enjoyable! Our Second Army alone relied on 10,000 people to attack the 70,000 or 80,000 troops of the Northern Xinjiang Army...... The last general has lived for so long, but he has not been so hearty, but it's a pity that Lord Xie hasn't seen it......" At the end, he smacked his lips and showed a little regret.

looked at Su Xin's look of inviting merit. Li Jing sighed slightly, and was about to speak, but suddenly heard the sergeant who was watching not far away shouting in a somewhat alert tone, "It's coming, Yuyang Iron Cavalry is chasing after you!" ”

"Don't stop for a moment......" Ma Dan, who had only taken a few sips of water, frowned slightly, with a little depression and a little wry smile. muttered, "These Yuyang Iron Riders ...... Is this necessary? ”

Next to him, Adjutant General Wu Xing smiled when he heard this, raised his hand to greet the sergeant, and shouted in a deep voice, "Let's go, sons!" ”

"Oh!" The cavalry of the second division of the Jizhou Army shouted. They all looked quite haggard, but the cohesion in the army was quite strong.

No wonder, after all, they already have an instinct for honor. When they swaggered out of the army of the Northern Xinjiang Army and fled under the pursuit of 40,000 Yuyang Iron Cavalry, the fame of the Second Army of the Jizhou Army had already begun, and there was no doubt that it would become the talk of the world after tea and dinner a few years ago, after all, it was not just any army that could make Li Mao, the Yan King of the Northern Xinjiang overlord and the overlord of the grassland, deflated.

A sense of honor, something that is ethereal and untouchable, can strengthen the cohesion and willpower of an army to some extent until it is defeated by another strong army. It's like the Southern Army that was heavily defeated by Liang Qiu Hao back then and fell into the camp.

"Let's go!"

"Oh-oh!"

Raising his arms and shouting, Ma Dan led the Second Army of the Jizhou Army to march towards Yunjing Mountain in the territory of Anping Kingdom.

And just a moment after Ma Dan and the others left, Zhang Qi, Cao Da, You Dou and other three generals of Northern Xinjiang led as many as 40,000 Yuyang iron horsemen to arrive.

Seeing the grass that had obviously been trampled by the horses' hooves, Zhang Qi and the others had even more anger on their faces.

"Damn, that bastard escaped again!" A whip. Slammed the ground hard, and Zhang Qi's still handsome face faintly became distorted.

Next to him, Cao Da's face was not too good-looking, and after getting off the horse and carefully observing the direction of Ma Danjun's departure, he frowned and said, "It's not a way to go on like this!" Ma Dan has been walking around with our army for the past few days, obviously trying to drag down the horsepower of our army's war horses......"

Zhang Qi squeezed out a sneer in his mouth when he heard this, and said in a cold voice, "Okay, since that's the case, let's see which side is dragged down first!" - Hmph, the war horses used by my Yuyang Iron Cavalry are all excellent war horses in the land of Youyan, and the horsepower is quite good! ”

"Zhang Qi!" Cao Da stopped Zhang Qi, who was greatly annoyed, and calmly persuaded, "It is true that the war horses used by our army are all excellent war horses in the land of Youyan, but don't forget, the war horses of the Jizhou Army are also war horses produced in the Yanmen area of the northern region, and they are in the same place as the war horses of the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army...... Therefore, if you want to use the advantages and disadvantages of the horse's foot strength to drag down the Ma Dan army, I am afraid it is not very easy! As he spoke, Cao Da glanced around, took out a marching map from his arms, compared the surrounding scenery with the marching map one by one, and said at the same time, "And the most important thing is the familiarity of the Jizhou army with the terrain of this place......

"So what do you say?" Zhang Qi asked angrily.

Cao Da thought for a while, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Have you ever noticed that our army has been chasing the Ma Dan army for thirteen days, and in the first few times, the Ma Dan army did not dare to rest halfway, at least to throw our army thirty miles away, but in the last few times, that guy dared to order the whole army to rest for a while when it was only more than ten miles away from us......

He ...... Slack? Hearing Cao Da say this, Zhang Qi also calmed down and said in surprise.

"He can't be lax, but no matter what, he will definitely look for every opportunity to get rest for his men. Therefore, in my opinion, rather than our army chasing after Ma Dan to the death, but every time he almost escaped a little bit, it is better to divide the army, and you and I continue to chase after the Ma Dan, and you fight, you raise a soldier. Hurry up and go back to the front of Ma Dan's army, when the front road of Ma Dan's army is blocked and the back road is broken, how can it be undefeated? ”

"You and I deliberately slowed down the pace of the catch-up. Is it time to take a detour back to the front of the Ma Dan Army? "Thinking about it, Zhang Qi, as one of the five tigers in Northern Xinjiang, is not a reckless and unscrupulous person, and he suddenly understood it with a little touch.

"Exactly!" Cao Da nodded and said.

Zhang Qi and You Dou glanced at each other when they heard this, and nodded in unison. Immediately, among the 40,000 Yuyang iron cavalry, Youdou left the team with 20,000 cavalry. Detouring from the other side of Yunjingshan in front, trying to get ahead of Ma Dan's army, Zhang Qi and Cao Da slowed down their march as planned, chasing Ma Dan's army unhurriedly.

"What did those Yuyang Iron Riders do?"

As an excellent horseman, Ma Dan immediately sensed that something was wrong with the pursuers behind him. Because he found that the group of Yuyang Iron Riders who seemed to have a different enmity with him, and the group of Yuyang Iron Riders who had not given him the slightest respite in the past few days. I don't know why I became weak and weak, and I followed slowly behind, where was there still the momentum of a hundred victorious divisions across the grassland.

In this regard, the deputy general Wu Xing didn't think much about it, and while galloping on the uneven road with his war horse, he panted and said, "No matter how strong the Yuyang Iron Horse is, it is still a human after all." It's not a tireless ghost...... I don't even have the strength to hold the reins at this time, and I guess that the Yuyang Iron Rider should be like this......"

Ma Dan nodded when he heard this, after all, his current situation was that he could fall asleep as soon as he closed his eyes, and compared his heart to his heart, Yuyang Tieqi would not be much better than them.

Maybe it's because I've been too tired these days, and Ma Dan, who has always been cautious and steady, didn't even notice the approaching crisis this time.

A few more days passed like this, and in a blink of an eye, it was the sixth day of the seventh month, just when Ma Dan was secretly happy that the group of Yuyang iron horsemen behind him were no longer chasing him as desperately as they did at the beginning. He didn't realize that Youdou, one of the Five Tigers of Northern Xinjiang, had led 20,000 Yuyang Iron Cavalry back to his front.

If even the heavens are paying attention to this cavalry battle that is about to be triggered, then it is not difficult to see that as long as one day passes, the Ma Dan army will be in the embarrassing situation of being surrounded by 40,000 Yuyang iron cavalry.

However. As the saying goes, the world is unpredictable, and God is here to play a joke on the Yuyang Iron Riders......

"Report! Ten miles ahead, I found a trace of soldiers and horses! ”

While following the Ma Dan army in pursuit, a scout of the Yuyang Iron Cavalry reported to Zhang Qi and Cao Da about the latest situation ahead.

"Huh?" Hearing this, Zhang Qi and Cao Da'er looked at each other, you must know that in order not to startle the snake, they have been hanging dozens of miles away from Ma Dan's army for the past two days, and they have never made a move to try to tighten the distance. In that case, how could Ma Dan's army appear only ten miles away from them?

"Could it be that Ma Dan sensed that there was an ambush ahead?" Cao Da asked tentatively.

"Then you shouldn't have bent towards me, should you?" Zhang Qi frowned, he couldn't figure it out, he pondered for a while and frowned and said, "Let's go and have a look first, and see what kind of pass that Ma Dan is selling!" ”

"Hmm!"

The two of them summed up, and at the same speed, gradually moved closer to the army in front, and in less than an hour they saw the army as it really was.

"It's ......"

Looking at the banner of the word "Fei" fluttering in the army from afar, Zhang Qi and Cao Da looked at each other.

It turned out that what they bumped into was not the Ma Dan Army who turned the road and returned, but the First Army of the Jizhou Army, Fei **.

However, it doesn't seem to be a complete fee, after all, Zhang Qi and the others looked at it, and the other party only had four thousand horses up and down, but the four thousand war horses were carrying two people respectively.

"Huh?" Fei Guo on the opposite side obviously also noticed the 20,000 Yuyang iron cavalry in front, and immediately ordered the whole army to stop rushing and calmly watch the situation.

"Yuyang Iron Rider?" Fei Guo's deputy general, Ou Peng, the general of the Jizhou Army, looked at the banner in the cavalry team opposite, and said in surprise, "Didn't you say that the Northern Xinjiang Army is attacking Jijing?" What are these guys doing here? Could it be that Jijing has fallen? ”

"......" Hearing this, Fei Guo frowned, carefully looked at the 20,000 Yuyang Iron Horsemen who were confronting him on the other side, and said in a deep voice, "No! This place is only one hundred and thirty miles away from Jijing, and the other side is cavalry, which can be reached in a day and a half, but the cavalry on the opposite side is not good...... The Yuyang Iron Cavalry is an elite iron cavalry that crisscrosses the grassland, and it is definitely not like this, in other words, ......" Speaking of this, he glanced at the direction of Ma Danjun's departure as if he was perceptive, and smiled inexplicably, "It seems that someone deliberately led these Yuyang Iron Riders back and forth in the territory of my Anping Kingdom...... I really want to see that guy being chased by those Yuyang iron horsemen on the opposite side and fleeing in embarrassment, hahahaha! ”

"Ma Dan?" Ou Peng looked surprised when he heard this, and then nodded and said to himself, "I thought that the marching speed of my army was already shocking, but I didn't expect that General Ma Dan was even better......

"What's that? That guy is all cavalry, if he can't arrive before half a month, how can he be qualified to compete with Fei for the position of general? Joked, Fei Guo looked at the 20,000 Yuyang Tieqi who had passed by, licked his lips, and said jokingly, "Good guy, it's just that he robbed him of a second-class merit before, is it necessary to frame me like this?" ”

Ou Peng smiled bitterly, you know, in order to arrive in Jijing as soon as possible, the first legion of his Jizhou army used only 4,000 war horses to carry two people, and rushed to Jizhou day and night, in other words, at present, they only have 4,000 cavalry and 4,000 infantry, and another 12,000 infantry are still thousands of miles away, led by another deputy general, Zhang Dong, rushing towards Jijing.

"Do you want to fight?" Ou Peng asked with a frown.

Fei Guo licked his lips when he heard this, and said with a chuckle, "It's not your turn for me to choose this matter, haven't you seen that those Yuyang Iron Horsemen have begun to charge?" ”

Speaking of this, Fei Guo's face sank, and he raised his hand to take the heavy gun handed over by the guard beside him, and a little fierceness flashed in the tiger's eyes.

Seeing that the other party only had 8,000 soldiers, he subconsciously thought that he could knead it at will? It seems that Northern Xinjiang is indeed too small, and I have never seen a great hero like Chen Shuai and Zhen Lei who can turn the tide of the battle with one person...... Then let Fei come and tell you to wake up, what you are facing is my Jizhou army! - Formation! Meet the enemy! ”

"Oh oh!!"

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