"Hey, we're the first ......"

Pulling the horse on the dirt slope, Ma Dan looked at the tens of thousands of northern Xinjiang troops who were preparing to attack the city under the capital of Jijing, and he couldn't help but feel a little proud in his heart.

In a month's time, he rushed from Guangling to Jijing, which was thousands of miles away, such a miraculous marching speed, not to mention the Jizhou army, even if it was looking at the whole world, how many could there be?

Although he was able to do this thanks to the fact that he was full of cavalry under his command, unlike the mixed cavalry and infantry of the two armies of Fei Guo and Liao Li, this speed was indeed shocking. After all, Ma Dan spent more than 30 days running from the south to the north of the Great Zhou, almost across most of the country.

However, he was proud, but Ma Dan did not dare to relax in his heart, after all, he still remembers what happened in Guangling last time: because he miscalculated the speed of Fei Guo's march, so that Ma Dan, who originally wanted to monopolize the merits, actually made a wedding dress for Fei Guo in the end, and when he fought with the Taiping army in Guangling City, Fei Guo miraculously killed from behind him and took great credit into his pocket.

Thinking of the smile on Fei Guo's face under Xie An's praise during the celebration banquet afterwards, Ma Dan felt a slight stinging pain in his liver.

"Old Fei's people...... Where's it going? ”

Wu Xing, the deputy general next to him, smiled, his relationship with Ma Dan was so good that he wore the same pair of pants, and said with a smile when he heard the words, "Don't worry, we have learned to be obedient this time, and we have sent more than a dozen brothers to follow...... There are infantry in Lao Fei's men, and the foot distance is definitely not as good as our army, and if you calculate the schedule, Lao Fei should still be in Yan and Henan......"

Listening to Wu Xing's tone, it was obvious that he was also worried about the events of the day.

"Yan and Henan, ......" Ma Dan sighed slightly when he heard this, and said with a straight face, "Not far from the Yellow River is Jizhou." Not far away is where Anping Guo Jijing is located, I don't have to relax anymore, that old boy has always been strange and combined with soldiers...... Sometimes. I can't even figure out what the hell is going on in that guy's mind! ”

"Or else someone else is the boss, and you are the deputy commander?" Wu Xing teased in a mocking tone.

Ma Dan smiled slightly. Immediately, he seemed to think of something, and said with a sigh, "In addition to Lao Fei, there is also Liao Li's kid...... Originally, I thought that Tang Hao was crushed to death in meritorious service, and only me and Lao Fei were left, but I didn't expect that Liao Li's kid to get up again, now it's okay. That kid is even more difficult than Tang Hao......"

Hearing this, Wu Xing smiled heartily.

You must know that in the Battle of Guangling, Liao Li, the general of the Jizhou Army, resisted the onslaught of tens of thousands of Taiping troops with nearly 10,000 troops with fewer enemies and outnumbered enemies. Therefore. Liao Li was really high-spirited and energetic at the celebration banquet after the battle.

A first achievement, plus Xie An and Li Xian toasted one after another, this kind of glory really made the generals in the Jizhou army blush.

Of course. For Liao Li, Ma Dan and Wu Xing don't have any unbalanced ideas, after all, Liao Li's ability to take the first credit is his ability, and he can suppress the enemy soldiers of the Taiping Army from the three sides at the same time, this command talent. Even Ma Dan is difficult to match, so he has no position to blush. At best, they can only hold back their strength and capture the greatest merit in the next battle.

"It's hard!" Ma Dan let out a long sigh.

A month ago, after the Battle of Guangling, the Jizhou soldiers carried out post-war reorganization, and Xie An raised the number of partial divisions from two to three in one go, simply put, Liao Li was corrected, so that the Zhou army general sat firmly in the position of the commander of the partial division.

In addition to the main division, which was still led by Xie An himself, the armies under the command of Fei Guo, Ma Dan, and Liao Li were named the First Army, the Second Army, and the Third Army respectively. These three divisional armies of the Jizhou Army have undergone major changes in personnel transfers.

First of all, Fei Guo's first army, because Fei Guo himself is the first fierce general of the Jizhou army, so the first army is highly valued by Xie An, and 4,000 cavalry and 16,000 infantry are distributed, totaling 20,000 troops. Because it was an army that needed to rush to the most dangerous battlefield, Xie An also transferred Zhang Dong, a general who was good at defense in the main division, to Fei Guo, which made the first army not only not less lethal at all, but also greatly enhanced its defensive strength.

Secondly, Ma Dan's Second Army, because of the use of troops by the corps commander Ma Dan, the Second Army was regarded by Xie An as a surprise army, and 10,000 cavalry were assigned, and Su Xin and Li Jing were transferred to Ma Dan, making the Second Army more flexible and mobile.

Finally, there were the three armies of Liao Lixin's group, and the commander of the corps was naturally Liao Li, who assigned 3,000 cavalry and 7,000 infantry, a total of 10,000. The deputy general is served by Zhou General Chengyang, and it is worth mentioning that Xie An's brother-in-law Withered Yang and the soldiers of the Niu Zhu Army under his original command were also included in the three armies. This distribution method completely wiped out the original advantages of Ma Dan's Second Army in terms of extremely flexible command, after all, Liao Li, Chengyang, and Withered Sheep were all generals who were good at commanding.

In general, Ma Dan's second army only had some advantages in mobility, after all, all the cavalry under his command were cavalry.

As for Xie An's main force, Tang Hao was promoted to deputy marshal, commanding soldiers and horses when Xie An did not show up, accompanied by generals such as Wang Huai, Dian Ying, and E Yi. To tell the truth, if you put aside the Dongling and Jinling forces, and then put aside Li Xian, Changsun Xiangyu and Liu Qing and other military divisions, Xie An's main army actually does not have an advantage over the first, second, and third armies, and this is what Xie An wants to see. After all, it is better to bloom on all sides than to be stronger than one of them, and in special circumstances, partial teachers can also play a decisive role. It's like in the Battle of Guangling, to put it nicely, Xie An's main army was the last straw that broke the camel's back at that time, and it was precisely because the main army led by Xie An attacked Guangling from the West City Gate that the Taiping army in the city completely lost its fighting spirit and surrendered to the wind; To put it mildly, the role played by Xie An's main force at that time was purely to clean up the finishing work of the battlefield, after all, the most difficult battle had already been fought by Liao Li, Ma Dan, and Fei Guo in batches.

Of course, if this is the case, Ma Dan may not be so warlike.

In fact, since the completion of the rectification of the Jizhou Army, the three generals Fei Guo, Ma Dan, and Liao Li began to compete secretly, after all, there was a gossip in the army that made the generals stunned and extremely red-eyed.

That is, after defeating Li Mao, the overlord of the north, King Yan, Xie An was ready to choose one of the generals with outstanding achievements in the army and recommend him to the imperial court. Promoted to the rank of general.

General, that is the highest position in the military, and Fei Guo, Ma Dan and others are honestly dead to this position. After all, there is Liangqiu Dance, and they don't have the courage and ability to compete with the hostess. But then I heard that Liang Qiuwu, one of the four towns of Jijing, could not concurrently serve as one of the generals according to the ancestral system of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the general of the Eastern Army was already her limit.

In this way, it is no wonder that Ma Dan and the second army under his command had a strong fighting spirit, and they came to Anping Kingdom in Jizhou from Guangling in the south of the Yangtze River in just about a month. So much so that when Li Mao, the king of Yan, who was preparing to attack the city, saw the huge banner of "horse", his eyes widened in shock, revealing a look as if he had seen a ghost.

He originally thought that the army stationed in Ma to watch might be a local army near Jijing, and when he saw that Jijing was attacked, he came to help. But under the explanation of the general Zhang Qi, he learned that it was the Jizhou army that went south to quell the rebellion.

"Unbelievable...... How is this possible?! ”

Li Mao was stunned, after all, in his impression, Xie An and his Jizhou soldiers should still be in the south to quell the rebellion, dealing with Li Shen, the king of Qin, and Wu Heng, the Taiping army. So much so that when Zhang Qi said that it was the Jizhou Army, Li Mao didn't react for a while.

"So, the King of Qin, Li Shen, and the Taiping army have been destroyed?" He muttered to himself.

"Most likely, it's ......" Cao Da, the general of the Northern Xinjiang Army, frowned when he heard this, and said in a deep voice, "If the war in Jiangnan has not been settled." It stands to reason that Xie An and Li Xian would not dare to send troops and horses back to Beijing to support, otherwise, the Taiping army would take the opportunity to sit big, and Xie An and Li Xian would not want to annihilate it this year...... Since Ma Dan of the Jizhou Army is here now, in other words, Xie An and Li Xian annihilated the Taiping Army in the south at least three months ago......"

I have to say that Cao Da's guess was right, but he miscalculated the real time when Xie An annihilated Taiping, after all, who would have thought that Ma Dan would rush from Guangling to Jijing in only one month? In his opinion, Xie An probably annihilated the Taiping army in March, and after that, the Jizhou army rushed from Guangling to Jijing for three months, after all, this is in line with the facts. It can only be said that he underestimated Ma Dan's sword of Xie An, maybe Ma Dan is inferior to Fei Guo and Liao Li in terms of lethality, but if it comes to marching speed and mobility, even if Fei Guo and Liao Li are tied together, I am afraid it is not as good as Ma Dan.

"Unbelievable......" narrowed his eyes, and Li Mao, the king of Yan, said with a shocked expression, "When Xie An and Li Xian led the Jizhou soldiers south to quell the rebellion, this king originally thought that the two of them and his soldiers and horses would fold in Jiangnan or Jingzhou...... Li Shen's ability is the king knows best, if it wasn't for Li Shen in Jijing to balance the power of the crown prince Li Wei, how would this king and Xiaoba dare to leave the palace lightly and stay in the north and south of the Yangtze River for several years? As for Wu Heng...... Whether it's this king or you, it's all too clear......"

"......" Cao Da frowned when he heard this, although Wu Heng was undoubtedly a traitor and a spy to them, but even so, he had to admit Wu Heng's talent, and he had to admit that Wu Heng was the most scheming and wise of the five tigers in Northern Xinjiang. In fact, Wu Heng was the deputy general of Li Mao, the king of Yan, and the deputy general of the boss, so he was in the second position.

"Even Li Shen and Wu Heng are not as good as that Xie An...... Is this king underestimating that guy? Li Mao muttered in disbelief. After all, he really didn't expect Xie An to succeed in exterminating the forces of the Three Kings and the Taiping Army, let alone that the war in the south would end so quickly that all his previous plans came to naught.

You must know that although Li Mao, the king of Yan, disdained to cooperate with Li Shen, the king of Qin, and the Taiping army to jointly attack the Great Zhou, on the other hand, why didn't he have the idea of using Li Shen and Wu Heng in his heart? Otherwise, he would not have endured until Xie An went south, and together with Li Xian, he led the Great Liang Army and the Jizhou Army to formally engage Li Shen and Wu Heng in the south. To put it bluntly, he also wanted to take advantage of the weakness, take advantage of the absence of the soldiers of Jizhou in Jijing, and take the opportunity to wave his army south to take the position of Emperor of the Great Zhou into his arms. After all, at that time, Jijing only had four troops in the four towns of Jijing, and the Western Army Relief Army led by the Han family's father and son was still his internal response in Jijing. Even if Xie An and Li Xian learned of this in the future and led the army back to help Jijing, what would it be? With such a natural danger as the Yellow River, can the Jizhou army easily get by?

However, due to the providence of God, Li Mao, the king of Yan, did not go well this time, and was first blocked by Liangqiu Dance in Boling for half a month after the beginning of spring. Finally designed a plan, and borrowed the defective Western Army to trap Liang Qiuwu to death in Boling, so that his Li Mao's brigade could successfully arrive in Jijing. Li Shou, the son of heaven he looked down on, didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong, and relied on Jijing's consolidated city defense. With less than 50,000 troops under the jurisdiction of the Southern Army, the Northern Army and the thousands of city defense soldiers under the Weiwei Temple, they stubbornly resisted the onslaught of his 30,000 Northern Xinjiang infantry and 40,000 Yuyang Iron Cavalry, and defended it for more than a month.

At that time, Li Maoke was really angry, but he had to temporarily suspend his troops and stop fighting, after all, the weather was gradually getting warmer. The frozen moat under the capital city of Jijing gradually came to life again, which made Li Mao have to beat his mouth, retract the arrogance he had once released, and honestly ask his subordinates to build pontoon bridges and various siege equipment. That's another month wasted.

And when he Li Mao wasted so much time, he finally built a batch of siege equipment, and was preparing to take revenge on Jijing, so that he could not die, Ma Dan, the general of the Jizhou army, quietly touched his vicinity with as many as 10,000 cavalry. Standing on the distant dirt slope and watching, you can imagine how depressed and angry Li Mao is at this moment.

"Your Highness, what should I do now? Still besieged the city? Cao Da, the general of the Northern Xinjiang Army, obviously also saw the anxiety in the heart of Li Mao, the king of Yan, and asked cautiously.

"Attack!" Gritting his teeth and spitting out a word, Li Mao stared at the cavalry in the distance. Said viciously, "This king doesn't believe that he dares to attack!" If this person really has the courage to do this, this king himself will go out and take off the dog's head from his neck! ”

"Order!" Cao Da clenched his fists and immediately gave the order to siege the city. Although he was indeed frightened by the terrible strength of the Jizhou Army in exterminating the Three Kings and the Taiping Army in a very short period of time, this did not mean that he would be afraid of it in his heart, after all, no matter how he said it, the 40,000 Yuyang Iron Cavalry was retained undamaged, not to mention the 10,000 cavalry of the Ma Dan Army, even if Xie An led the entire Jizhou army to be in person?

"Siege!"

But seeing Cao Daling's flag waved, nearly 30,000 northern Xinjiang soldiers immediately launched an offensive against Jijing, which made Wu Xing, the deputy general of Ma Danjun, slightly stunned.

"Good fellow...... Do you really dare to attack the city? ”

Hearing Wu Xing muttering to himself, Ma Dan chuckled, raised his head a little bit of the 40,000 Yuyang Iron Horsemen who were waiting solemnly in the distance, and said indifferently, "What dare or not, people have nothing to fear!" Even, he wished I could kill him later! ”

"Oh? How so? ”

"Don't you see that the cavalry of thirty or forty thousand people is ready to go but does not move? If we dare to make any rash moves, His Royal Highness the King of Yan in the northern frontier will order the 40,000 cavalry to devour our army without accident......" Ma Dan said indifferently.

"Hmm-" Wu Xing nodded when he heard this, and said, "I have heard of the prestige of the Yuyang Iron Cavalry for a long time, looking at my Great Zhou, I am afraid that only this Yuyang Iron Cavalry is qualified to compete with the Shenwu Battalion of the Eastern Army under the command of the master mother of Liangqiu for the reputation of the first elite cavalry of the Great Zhou...... But then again, since Li Mao didn't take us and others in his eyes and dared to continue to attack the city in front of our army, why didn't he order the Yuyang Iron Cavalry to pursue us and others? ”

"Isn't that easy?" Ma Dan sneered and said with some displeasure, "Because Li Mao didn't take us in his eyes, but he didn't take us in his eyes at all!" - I am not waiting, he is attacking the city, I am waiting, he is still attacking the city! Even if we wait to harass me, I'm afraid that in his eyes, it will be just as ridiculous and self-sufficient as a grasshopper that shakes the tree. ”

Wu Xing frowned when he heard this, and said unhappily, "This is really infuriating!" - What should I do, old horse? ”

"What to do? How do you say? Licking his lips, Ma Dan's eyes flashed fiercely, and he said viciously, "Since people don't look down on us at all, why don't we give him a big gift?" - Although you and I know that it will be difficult to defeat the famous Yuyang Iron Cavalry, why play with it? ”

"Hey!" Wu Xing suddenly understood, raised his hand and made a move, and suddenly, the 10,000 cavalry near the soil slope were ready to charge.

And Li Mao, the king of Yan, obviously also noticed Ma Danjun's movements, his tiger eyes narrowed, his eyes flashed with a little anger, and he said in his heart that this king will ignore Er and others, and let you wait for a way out, and you will dare to come and tease this king and tiger whiskers?

Thinking of this, Yan King Li Mao snorted coldly, raised his right hand, pointed in the direction of Ma Danjun with the horse whip in his hand, and shouted in a deep voice, "Xiao Huo, Ti Na will come to see this king!" ”

Xiao Huo, who was originally the most restless young general among the Five Tigers in Northern Xinjiang after Youdou, heard Li Mao's words, his eyes lit up, and he immediately brought 10,000 Yuyang Iron Horsemen to the War Horse Army.

However, what is surprising is that Ma Danjun, who was obviously making an attack posture, suddenly turned around and fled to the south.

Seeing this, Xiao Huo was shocked and angry, and chased after him with 10,000 Yuyang cavalry, after all, his cavalry finally got a chance to appear, how could it be easily lost?

"How much do you think you can do...... The rabble! ”

Seeing Xiao Huo, the youngest fierce general in his army, carrying 10,000 Yuyang iron horses to chase the Ma Dan army, Yan King Li Mao sneered, but he didn't care, and continued to focus on the siege battle. After all, conquering Jijing and regaining the throne is the top priority, and other than that, it is a trivial matter for Li Mao.

However, what made Li Mao stunned was that after half an hour, the Ma Dan army actually returned to the dirt slope where the horse was originally stationed and watched, but Xiao Huo's 10,000 Yuyang iron cavalry did not come back.

Li Mao chuckled in his heart, not that he was worried about the safety of Xiao Huo and the others, after all, 10,000 Yuyang Iron Horsemen were extremely terrifying existences, he just suddenly realized that the Ma Dan on the other side might not be just an ordinary general.

"In just half an hour, you can get rid of the king's Yuyang Iron Cavalry, this tactic is very familiar...... Who is Ma Dan? ”

Looking into the distance, Li Mao muttered to himself.