"Oh, it turned out that Xu Ping was here." After Xiahou Kuanfu heard about the general's life, his thick eyebrows suddenly twisted into a pimple, and he twisted his beard and asked, "What does the adult want me to do?" ”

"Lord Governor wants General Xiahou to temporarily stop the thief," the envoy sent by Yang Wenyue replied honestly: "Governor Sun and Lord Governor are gathering troops and horses, it won't take long, General Xiahou only needs to resist a little, and it will be almost half an hour." ”

"The Governor doesn't want to leave my family and run away, does he?" Although the relatives of Xiahou Kuanfu have always respected Yang Wenyue, the god of wealth who pays military salaries, but at this critical moment, he can't care about any etiquette, and a relative Ding who accompanied Yang Wenyue jumped three feet high, pointed at the nose of the war envoy and scolded: "Is it impossible to treat my family as a fool?" ”

Seeing that the guys who had always nodded their heads and bowed their waists on weekdays, and still honored some silver from time to time, suddenly turned their faces and didn't recognize people, and one by one they still showed a fierce light, and the war envoy was dumbfounded: "How can there be such a thing?" ”

"My lord, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of running out of firewood." Xiahou Kuanfu's relatives no longer paid attention to Yang Wenyue's envoy, but howled at their master: "There are so many elite soldiers and strong generals under your lordship, where is it not to eat?" ”

"Lord Xiahou!" Yang Wenyue's envoy was in a hurry to see the matter, and even changed his title: "Your Excellency the Governor is not kind to you." ”

"The Governor is indeed not thin on the last general."

Xiahou Kuanfu finally spoke, after hearing this, Yang Wenyue's envoy of the war let out a long breath, and was relieved, he glanced at Xiahou Kuanfu's relatives with a smug look on his face, but he was surprised to see them looking at him with a mocking gaze, and the pro-soldier who shouted the loudest just now also had a smile on his face.

"How will the Governor last stop Xu Ping?" Without waiting for this envoy to think more, Xiahou Kuanfu's questioning voice attracted his thoughts again, and he saw that General Xiahou was still gesturing in his hand while speaking: "Do you want to arrange a pocket array, or a horn array?" ”

"This Governor has not given a special explanation," it is impossible for Yang Wenyue to interfere with this temporary deployment, and the envoy immediately replied: "Your Excellency the Governor wants General Xiahou to act cheaply." ”

"Okay, I'll go to the north immediately." With a wave of Xiahou Kuanfu's hand, his relatives responded in unison, immediately conveying this order and preparing the whole army to march north.

"General, general......" The war envoy said in a loud voice: "Xu Ping is from the southeast. ”

"Ben will know, Ben will call this the old cloth suspicious array," Xiahou Kuanfu looked very patient, waiting for his subordinates to pass the order, while he also explained to Yang Wenyue's envoy with great interest: "When the road is in the formation, it is the next policy, and in the north, the old deployment of the suspicious array is the best move, this is more than ...... to say."

"My lord, my lord......" Yang Wenyue's envoy's title unconsciously turned back: "Then what if the thief ignores your suspicions and rushes over directly?" ”

"Then Xu Ping is the eldest disciple of the Marquis of Zhendong, who is proficient in the art of war, how can he do such a farmer's thing?" Xiahou Kuanfu smiled and comforted the messenger: "Soldiers are impermanent, water is impermanent, and the magic of this art of war is to be in one mind." ”

"Grandpa Yue said it well, General Xiahou is a good analogy, but the mark is just worried, what if Xu Thief is really like a peasant, he will rush over in front of the adult's suspicion regardless of it?"

"That's even better." Xiahou Kuanfu was confident: "This will just be with Inspector Sun and the Governor to attack Xu Ping and kill him." ”

"My lord, the governor doesn't want the adults to flank him, he just needs the adults to resist for a while, so as to give Inspector Sun more time to gather his troops."

Xiahou Kuanfu smiled and was about to answer, but at this time, a relative Ding rushed over: "My lord, Xu Ping has arrived!" It's here! It's only a few miles from us. ”

At the same time, another pro-Ding ran to inform the army that the marching target had been changed, and the whole army had changed from retreating to the west to marching north, after hearing these two words, Xiahou Kuanfu did not have time to talk to Yang Wenyue's envoy again, he sank his face: "In the Hebei army, who is the best at guarding?" ”

"Of course it's you, Lord Xiahou, otherwise the Governor wouldn't have ......," the envoy hurriedly complimented with a smiling face.

"That's why I said it's good to be suspicious." Xiahou Kuanfu raised his horsewhip and hurriedly retreated north with his relatives: "You go back and tell the Governor: as long as Xu Ping is not a fool and knows a little bit of the art of war, he will definitely not dare to continue to add; If he was so stupid that he didn't even understand this kind of common sense, then the Overseer and the Governor would have won him with their eyes closed. ”

……

When the Qin army was arranging the formation, the envoy sent by Yang Wenyue to Qi Tu rushed back with the standard camp guards in a hurry, and the envoy knelt on the ground when he saw Yang Wenyue: "My lord, the mark is incompetent, and you can't hold General Qi?" ”

Although he had already expected the worst, Yang Wenyue was so angry that he stomped his feet when he heard the bad news, and lamented repeatedly: "General Qi is too reckless. ”

"Your Excellency......" The envoy who was sent to Qi Tu snorted, lowered his head and echoed: "Your Excellency is right, General Qi is really too reckless. ”

After there were fewer people around Yang Wenyue, the messenger came up to clarify the facts: "My lord, Qi Tu is not a thief, as soon as he heard that it was Xu Ping, he ran away with his relatives, and he didn't stop him under the mark of incompetence." ”

"Oh?" Yang Wenyue stood stunned for a moment, and said in disbelief: "No, General Qi swore a curse to kill Xu Ping's revenge, could it be that he was acting before?" Then he must be too similar, right? ”

When Yang Wenyue was still suspicious, another messenger sent to Xiahou Kuanfu brought back another bad news.

"This is impossible, how can General Xiahou be a wasted person, the generals of Hebei are all praises for him, and even that Xu Ping is quite jealous of him." Yang Wenyue shook his head like a rattle, completely disbelieving the envoy's words.

"But Xiahou Kuanfu's guy did run away." The messenger was also sweating profusely with urgency.

"What did General Xiahou say?"

After listening to the envoy carefully repeat Xiahou Kuanfu's speech, Yang Wenyue frowned and thought about it, and said to himself hesitantly: "Since General Xiahou said that this is better than blocking it in person, maybe it's true." ”

……

After hearing this huge number estimate, Xu Ping did not dare to slack off, and immediately sent additional men to investigate whether the Ming army was trying to ambush him.

Reconnaissance showed that tens of thousands of Ming troops were within close range, but they were leaving in a hurry to the north.

"Is it to escape? Or a detour to attack our rear team? Or are you going to flank us? Yu Shenhe threw out several questions in a row.

"What do you think?"

"I think it's an escape," Yu Shenhe and Xu Ping both rushed to the place where a large number of officers and soldiers were found before the main force of the Guards Battalion arrived, and after seeing all the signs around, Yu Shenhe thought that he was ninety percent sure that this was a Ming army that was fleeing from the attack range of the intruding army.

"I agree," Xu Ping didn't think that the other party had plans to ambush or flank, and Sun Chuanting's main force was in front of him, seeing that the grand prize was about to arrive, Xu Ping was reluctant to give it up for such a little risk: "This risk is still worth taking." ”

At this moment, a dense sound of gunfire sounded in the north, and after hearing this sound, Xu Ping and Yu Shenhe turned around at the same time to look at the place where the sound was made.

"Empty guns, empty guns." Yu Shenhe listened intently for a moment, then nodded slowly: "This is a deliberate attempt to show us harmless." ”

"There is also a show that Sun Chuanting is loyal and brave, so far away, Sun Chuanting must not be able to hear whether it is an empty cannon." Xu Ping had a smile on his face: "I don't know which general this is?" ”

"Thief Xu Ping! I am Xiahou Kuanfu, the general of Zhili, can you dare to fight? Can you dare to fight? ”

As if hearing Xu Ping's question, there were countless shouts of the Ming army in unison in the distance.

"It turned out to be this old man, he was really knowledgeable, and it was in vain that I helped him back then." Xu Ping laughed: "There must be seven or eight thousand officers and soldiers on the other side. ”

"At least, this Xiahou general did not hide his strength," the strength shown by the other party coincided with the situation detected by Yu Shenhe, and after hearing Xu Ping's address to Xiahou Kuanfu, Yu Shenhe also used honorific titles in his words: "This Xiahou general has a reason for being with your lord." ”

"Well," Xu Ping nodded, "I'll tell you more about it in the evening." Now let's talk about how to fight today's battle. ”

"How are you going to fight?"

Now most of Xu Ping's men use wooden sticks, and in addition to the infantry, there are also many intruders who throw themselves on horseback, but most of their weapons are also clubs. Qi Jiguang paid attention to the cavalry to be light and fast, Zhendong Hou carried forward this spirit, in addition to the spears and straight swords used to charge the strong infantry position, the cavalry of the general new army is equipped with a saber weighing about two catties, especially the scout is only equipped with a saber and a handgun. This thin saber is so sharp that it can easily kill a person with its speed, while its light blade allows soldiers to fight for long periods of time and quickly change moves on a high-speed horse. The 1st Cavalry Regiment, which was subordinate to the Guards Battalion, used all of these captured sabers, and the other battalions, although they looked at them, had not yet been able to change their outfits 100 percent like the Guards Battalion.

This time, the cavalry in front of Xu Ping's army - the soldiers who had horses did not have this kind of sophisticated weapons, most of them used big sticks weighing more than ten catties, and some horse bandits even used stones and iron pieces to process their big sticks and turn it into a majestic stick. Xu Ping admits that the *** stick looks really majestic, and it may be more deterrent than the light knife in the face of the irregular army, but Xu Ping does not have the idea of sending these *** stick knights as scouts: this kind of "heavy" cavalry who usually have to put their weapons across the saddle to preserve their physical strength does not have enough mobility to complete the work of reconnaissance and expelling the opponent's scouts.

As a trainee of the teaching team who is proficient in infantry and cavalry tactics, Yu Shenhe became extremely unconfident in these cavalry because he saw their weapons: "We don't have many cavalry, and most of our infantry are civilian training, so the last general thinks that it is better to let the guards battalion go up to disperse the officers and soldiers, and then let the civilian training go to clean up the battlefield." ”

"If it's one or two thousand officers and soldiers, no problem, but there are at least eighty thousand officers and soldiers on the other side, I heard that Sun Chuanting asked for a lot of things from the faint king, even if half of them have guns in their hands, it's 40,000, not to mention cannons. How many people does Brother Yu plan to die to defeat them? Xu Ping admits that the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers is suspicious, but the problem now is that the combat effectiveness of his friendly forces is also suspicious: "Time is not good to say who is beneficial, maybe the blood of the people on our side is boiling, and the officers and soldiers on the opposite side will collapse on their own when they see heavy casualties; However, it is also possible that the enthusiasm of the officers and soldiers is boiling, and our civilian training has collapsed on its own because of the first sight of the brutal battle formation. This is ***, and it is difficult to predict the win. ”

"And what are your intentions?"

……

After learning that Xu Ping really didn't pay attention to Xiahou Kuanfu's suspicious soldiers like a peasant who didn't know the art of war, but rushed over in a daze, Yang Wenyue couldn't help but lead his standard battalion and the remaining soldiers and horses of the 10,000 Hebei Army to meet the 60,000 Qin army.

Today, before seeing the camp, Sun Chuanting was indeed quite nervous, and I am afraid that no one on the opposite side of the famous general and his famous master would not be nervous, but when Sun Chuanting saw the tens of thousands of troops in front of him, he couldn't help laughing, and the tension and worry in his heart were swept away.

Not only did not many of the intruders in front of the bandit army have firearms, they did not even have a single cannon, but they also lacked flags. Most of them were scattered, and even the military flags were disorganized, and at a glance they knew that they were a rabble.

Sun Chuanting has been asking the imperial court for huge salaries and materials for several years, and although the Qin army he brought out of the customs this time is not a battle-hardened battle, the equipment is still good, at least the flintlock pistol is almost a handful. Sun Chuanting looked at the neat and orderly heroic division behind him, and then looked at the small and seemingly disorderly army in front of him, and smiled at the staff around him: "This official has long said that the Kaifeng flood will definitely sweep away the main force of the thieves. You see, the thieves would now send such an army called Hanako to meet our army, what else could this be if this is not death? ”

The surrounding staff members also heard a burst of praise. They looked at those intruders who didn't even have spears and broadswords in their hands, and most of them were holding wooden sticks, and everyone was extremely contemptuous in their hearts, and they flattered him together, "Master Inspector has no last resort, and we will definitely win a big victory this time." ”

"Did you know that Xu Ping's subordinates were like this? Why should I quit the army? ”

Sun Chuanting regretted it a little in his heart, but his mistake was finally made up for by the other party's stupidity.

"It's a shame that he's chasing me."

Sun Chuanting's heart was happy, and after the army was lined up, he waved his hand impatiently and shouted loudly: "Attack!" ”

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