Xujiawokeng is eight miles away from Gaoyang County, and the terrain is more peculiar.

When the official road passes here, it faces a slow downhill of about 300 meters, followed by a huge flat dam, and then a slow uphill of about 500 meters, the flat dam in the middle of the upper and lower slopes has an area of about two square kilometers, and on the left and right sides of the flat dam, there are some hills of different sizes, and it is such a peculiar terrain that this place is known as Xujiawo pit.

Xujiawokeng is not a deserted place, because it is close to Gaoyang County, and because the terrain in the middle is very flat, so it naturally becomes a bazaar, where the three religions and nine streams gather, forming a lot of illegal trading places, when Beizhili suffered a famine, there are even many people here to openly buy and sell people.

The hills on both sides have become the best hiding places for illegal traders to hide from the government.

Ambush in such a place is by no means the best choice, Xujiawokeng is only eight miles away from the county seat, when Kong Youde led the Han army to arrive here, it should be in a state of high excitement, because they will be able to attack the county seat immediately, and the hills on both sides are a certain distance from the Pingba in the middle, and you need to seize the best opportunity when charging, and the most critical problem is that the exit and import on both sides of Xujiawokeng are all open, once Kong Youde encounters an ambush, he can calmly choose to escape.

Because of the cold climate, and because of the arrival of the news of the invasion of the Houjin Tartars, there was no one in sight in the Xu family's pit, and there were only some empty wooden sheds left in the former prosperous trading places, which saved the Zheng family army from the trouble of clearing the field.

Just when Zheng Xunrui carefully observed the terrain of Xujiawokeng and drew a figure at the same time, Wang Xiaoer came to report that no better ambush location was found in other places.

The Xujia pit was officially identified as the site of the ambush.

All deployments unfold in an instant.

According to Zheng Xunrui's arrangement, Zheng Jinhong led 20,000 soldiers of the Zheng family army to choose a hiding place in the hills on both sides of the Pingba, Liu Zeqing and Zheng Kaitao, Su Congjin and others were responsible for the installation of the artillery in place, as for Hong Xintao, the 10,000 soldiers of the Zheng family army led by him were interspersed with the entrance and exit directions of the Xujia pit at the fastest speed after the battle began. Prevent the defeated Han army from scattering and fleeing.

In order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, the clearance work is also carried out in an orderly manner.

The sergeants led by Su Manzi really cleared out some people from Pingba, and most of these people were beggars. Homeless, when he was found, his body trembled, and he couldn't stand steadily.

The beggars who had been cleared out were gathered in one place, and Su Manzi instructed the sergeant to give them some cooked food. However, before the start of the war, they were under the care of the soldiers of the Zheng family.

The speed of the march was affected to a certain extent, which made Kong Youde a little helpless, after all, after a whole day of looting in the new city, the physical consumption of these Han soldiers was too great, and the looted money and food were still a lot, and many of the women that the sergeants grabbed had to be carried, and these women were definitely not good at walking, so they could only be pulled by carriages. It's definitely a waste of time.

Kong Youde was unable to reprimand the sergeants under his command, and he brought two women with him.

These styles are all learned from the Manchurian Eight Banners, and when the Ming army was fighting, it was always forbidden to carry female dependents.

Fortunately, Xincheng was only 340 miles away from Gaoyang, and the sergeants set out early in the morning and set up camp after it was completely dark, and they were able to arrive in Gaoyang within the scheduled time.

On the first night of rest, Kong Youde issued an order that no sergeant should touch women, otherwise military law would be involved. You must know that the wind and waves in the bed are even more deadly, and the sergeants vent their energy on women, and when they attack Gaoyang County, how can they charge.

Plundered money and grain and grass. There is a special person to take care of it, and Du Du has 50 soldiers with eight banners, who are specially taken care of this money, grain and grass, and at the same time are responsible for reporting the battle situation of the Han army to Du Du, but when these money and grain and grass are concentrated, there are many omissions. The sergeants of the Eight Banners also turned a blind eye, anyway, this is the rule of battle.

Kong Youde sent nearly 200 scouts to reconnoiter along the road, because the battle was too smooth, and because the march did not encounter any harassment, so Kong Youde did not pay special attention to the intelligence detected by the scouts, and a small number of scouts did not return to the team for the time being, and he did not ask questions, who knows if these scouts took advantage of the reconnaissance to find which house.

The march was very smooth, the scouts didn't find anything, and they always held on to safety.

By the end of the day, the army was only fifty miles away from the county seat of Gaoyang.

According to the calculation of time, there is at most one hour before the army can reach Gaoyang County.

Kong Youde ordered the army to rest for a while, and he planned the time of the attack, after Shen Shi.

In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and it gets dark early.

When attacking the new city, Kong Youde has learned experience, the army took advantage of the dark night to attack, it is easier to succeed, these cities do not have many sergeants stationed, at most it is a small number of sergeants guarding the yamen in the city, as well as the head and catch fast of the patrol house, etc., if the attack is during the day, the officials may still organize the people in the city to go to the city wall, there is basically no such possibility at night, the Han army adopts the way of sneak attack, it is easier to succeed.

Of course, there is one more thing that Kong Youde thinks of, that is the most important thing, Du Du and Tulai and others are impossible to know, that is, Gaoyang County is the hometown of Sun Chengzong, the prince of the Ming Dynasty, if he can capture Sun Chengzong alive after breaking through the city, it will be a great credit, you must know that Huang Taiji knows Sun Chengzong's name.

When the sergeant rested on the spot, Kong Youde began to look at the map carefully, and went to the official road of Gaoyang County, which was marked very clearly, Gaoyang County was basically a plain area, with a small number of hills and mountains, and the army set off from Xincheng, walked through three hundred miles, and almost did not see any mountains, this special terrain also showed that the Han army's attack must be steady and ruthless, and it was necessary to seize the opportunity to attack quickly, and not give the soldiers defending the city any chance to prepare.

Because Gaoyang County is Sun Chengzong's hometown, Kong Youde still attaches great importance to it, Sun Chengzong has a very good command ability, if the news of the Han army's attack on Gaoyang County spreads in advance, so that Sun Chengzong is prepared, then the Han army may have to pay a certain number of casualties, which is not a situation that Kong Youde is willing to see.

An hour passed quickly.

The Great Army began its march.

Kong Youde's order was also issued immediately, from the time of departure, the army arrived at Gaoyang County in one go, do not make any stops on the way, if you find people walking on the official road in the middle, no matter who it is, they will be killed, to prevent the leakage of news, and at the same time scouts to reconnoiter in front, grasp the situation of Gaoyang County in advance, and report in time when the army is attacking.

The army of 10,000 was divided into two parts, the 8,000 people in front were led by Kong Youde himself, and they accelerated towards Gaoyang County, and the two people in the back were responsible for escorting money, grain, grass and women looted by the sergeants.

When Wang Xiaoer reported that the 10,000 Han army was divided into the front army and the middle army, Zheng Xunrui frowned, at this moment, Kong Youde was only about twenty miles away from Xujiawokeng, and the scouts of the Han army were about to enter Xujiawokeng.

It's normal for warplanes to change at any time.

Zheng Jinhong, Liu Zeqing, Hong Xintao and others quickly gathered in the Chinese military tent.

"The 10,000 Han army is divided into the front army and the Chinese army, according to the scout's reconnaissance, the number of the Chinese army is not much, and the carriages are all left to the Chinese army, I estimate that the front army is responsible for attacking the battle of Gaoyang City, and the Chinese army is responsible for transporting grain and grass materials, the speed of the front army is obviously much faster, so our plan should also be slightly adjusted, Wang Xiaoer, you lead the soldiers of the scout battalion to solve all the scouts of the Han army, you can't miss a single person, don't start a fight in Xujiawo pit, wait until they pass Xu Jia Wo pit, start immediately."

"Liu Zeqing, you lead 5,000 soldiers and are responsible for dealing with the Chinese army of the Han army, and when the front army led by Kong Youde enters the Xujiawo pit, you will set off immediately with 5,000 soldiers to surround the Chinese army of the Han army, and you must completely annihilate them, and the Chinese army will be commanded by Zheng Kaitao."

"The rest of the arrangements and deployments will be carried out according to the original plan, you all remember that what I need is to make dumplings, and it is extremely important to annihilate the 10,000 Han army, and not miss a single one."

It was a little dark, but you could still see it very clearly.

Several figures on horseback quickly entered the Xujia Wo pit, they looked around, did not stop, and quickly whipped their horses in the direction of Gaoyang County.

These people were scouts of the Han army.

Wang Xiaoer held a telescope in his hand, looking at these people motionlessly, and he was even counting the number of Han army scouts.

Soon, these scouts of the Han army left the Xujia Pit.

The two hundred scouts who were waiting for the rabbit moved quickly, and they pounced like tigers, first surrounding the dozens of Han scouts, and then shooting bows and arrows.

These scouts of the Han army, when they found out that the situation was not right, it was too late, they were already surrounded, there was no way to retreat, several Han scouts drew their steel swords and rushed forward, but unfortunately they were greeted with bows and arrows and spears.

Short screams appeared.

Half an hour later, the battle ended, and everything returned to calm.

Zheng Jiajun's scouts quickly dismounted and began to clean up the battlefield, the corpses of the Han army scouts were dragged aside, to everyone's surprise, these scouts actually had a lot of money on their bodies, Wang Xiaoer ordered to search the body of each Han army scout, and also found a lot of money, which was immediately gathered and handed over to the law enforcement battalion by a special person.

The ground was covered with blood, as if nothing had happened.

Wang Xiaoer quickly came to the Zhongjun tent and reported the situation to Zheng Xunrui.

At this time, the front army of the Han army led by Kong Youde was only about five miles away from Xujiawokeng. To be continued