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In this way, the 300,000 Central Imperial troops stationed in Wushan Pass, led by 20,000 light cavalry, stepped out of Wushan Pass with great momentum, and their speed was extremely fast, and it only took less than half a day to enter the Gobi Desert in Guannan!

I have to say that although a total of 300,000 troops were mobilized to go out in this battle, it was the 20,000 light cavalry that rushed to the front that really used to "block the mouth of the urn". Pen & fun & pavilion www.biquge.info these 20,000 light horses are a configuration of one person and four horses, if you rush with all your strength, it is not a problem to run two hundred and fifty miles a day, although this speed can not last, at most two days, but the distance between Wushan Pass and Zhaoliang City is less than a thousand miles. As long as the light cavalry rushed at a speed of 120 to 200 li a day for the first three days, and went all out for the last two days, they could be guaranteed to reach Zhaoliang City without being particularly tired in five days.

In this way, they can also resist the next counterattack of the Zhaoliang defenders!

All these plans are designated by the army staff, in order to save combat power to the greatest extent, the light cavalry is allowed to bypass all the cities along the road, and go all out to march to Zhaoliang, in order to strengthen their combat power, these light cavalry are equipped with the latest style of steel rifled guns, and there are war horses in the army to drag 75 mm rifled guns for them, it can be said that although the riding ability is very bad, but if you dismount and line up, it is estimated that only the Central Imperial Army can break through their interception in this world!

At this time, Wang Gang's temples were still drinking and having fun with the fox king Bai Keqiu in the yamen of the governor of Shannan Province! He never dreamed that at this moment, an invincible iron army with a total of 300,000 people had already marched towards the place where he was sitting!

On March 20, 4866 in the Guangming calendar, this day was the same as before, it was also a clear and dry and cold day, Gou San, who lived in the suburbs of Lumen County, a small city in the north of Shannan Province, was hoeing in the field outside his Zhuangzi, he was an honest farmer, and the most convinced sentence in his life was - a hard work, a harvest, no matter what the year, the work in the field was not relaxed for a day.

Gou San was bowing his head and hoeing the ground, and suddenly, he felt as if there was an earthquake, and the entire ground under his feet trembled violently!

Gou was shocked, and hurriedly looked up, and found that at some point, an overwhelming cloud of smoke and dust had swept along the official road outside Zhuangzi and swept to a place less than two miles away from him.

"Where did you get such a big horse team?! Didn't the army of beast masters lose last year? Gou San watched in amazement as the cavalry got closer and closer, and in a moment of curiosity, he forgot to escape.

In an instant, the huge horse team rushed to Gou San's approach, and only then did he see clearly that in the billowing smoke and dust, this horse team was actually playing a strange rectangular flag, the background color of this flag was blood red, and there was a golden dragon with teeth and claws, and fifteen golden beads around the dragon!

"Is this ......?!" Gou San finally showed a frightened expression, this flag is not something he has never seen, in fact, as early as more than two months ago, the officials from the county insisted on this flag and knocked the gong to summon the old and young masters of the whole village, and announced in public that this is the banner of Xiao Rebellious Buchen who is entrenched in the four towns of Wushan in the north, if anyone sees this flag appear nearby, they must immediately go to the government to report the news, and the first to arrive will be rewarded!

But having said that, Gou San will definitely not go to the county seat to report to the official by himself, the Zhuangzi where he is located is called Gou Jiazhuang, which is the place where their family lives, even if he wants to sue the official, he must first inform the head of the family.

Thinking like this, Gou San seemed to turn around and run into Zhuangzi, but at this time, the things dragged by this horse team of thieves attracted his attention.

It was a piece of iron pipe more than a meter long, with two large wooden wheels on each side, and four horses dragged it, following the horse team and galloping on the official road!

Gou San is a countryman, and he doesn't know what this thing is, but he is still surprised to see that this horse team has to drag this heavy iron pipe forward even if it costs four horses.

At this moment, one of the cavalrymen in the horse team slowed down his horse, aimed a small iron pipe at Gou San, who was about to flee, and shouted loudly to the front.

"Squad leader, this kid looks like he wants to go back and report the news, what to do?!"

Although Gou San didn't know what that little iron pipe was, seeing the cavalry's fierce expression and murderous words, could he still not know that he was already worried about his life? I was stunned at the moment.

The cavalryman called the squad leader looked back at Gou San, pouted and said, "It's just a small peasant, how many have you seen on the road?" What is all the fuss about? If he wants to report the news, he will go with him, he can keep up with our speed before the sun hits the west and comes out! Hurry up and give Lao Tzu a hurry! ”

The cavalryman shrunk his neck at the last sentence of the squad leader, and he didn't dare to delay with Gou San at the moment, so he picked up his horse speed and caught up with the team.

The long team of horses with no end in sight kept galloping by, and it took Gou San a long time to come back to his senses and pat his chest, at this time the clothes on his back were wet with cold sweat.

Afraid that these soldiers under the command of Xiao Thief Buchen would change their minds, Gou San didn't dare to look at it anymore, spread his feet and ran back to his own Zhuangzi, and found the patriarch to tell him about it.

In fact, there is no need for him to say that tens of thousands of iron horsemen have gone through such a big thing, and the patriarch is not deaf and blind, how can he still be kept in the dark? Early in the morning, I heard what Minzhuang who was on duty on the village wall said.

Because the government had already told him about this matter, the patriarch did not dare to delay, and when he saw Gou San coming, he immediately ordered him to ride the only remaining mule in Zhuangzi to the county seat to sue the official.

Gou San didn't expect that his family would finally get on this errand, so he had no choice but to set off on a mule, and rushed to the county seat in the evening of the same day, wanting to tell the county magistrate the news of the invasion of Buchen's army, but he arrived a little late, and at this time the city gates had been closed because of martial law -- because the official road was around the city, when the army crossed the border today, the county official had already learned the news of the invasion of Buchen's army, and sent a messenger to the provincial capital on a fast horse. Although the envoy had just left the city not long after he was shot dead by the light cavalry scouts behind the palace......

Gou San couldn't enter the city, so he could only find a place to sleep outside the city, and when he passed by the corpse of the messenger, he glanced at the other party with some sympathy.

"Then the squad leader is really right, we can't catch up with them at all, don't say that the speed is not as good as them, who dares to chase, this is the end!"

Gou San had nothing to do, and he was full of sympathy, so he dragged the body of the messenger into the field, and ran to a pit to bury the messenger.

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Not to mention what happened after the little man Gou San, just talking about the Tiger Khan Wang Gangsides, the defense envoy of the five provinces was still dedicated, just eating, drinking and having fun with Bai Keqiu for a day, and from the next day he inspected the city defense and treasury of Zhaoliang City, and he was busy for several days, and the beast generals in the city were all moved, and praised the Tiger Khan as the pillar of the country.

On March 21st, Wang Gang's temples were still patrolling the city as usual, and today he checked the Zhaoliang arsenal, which was in a good situation, although it was not said that the armor was piled up, but it was no problem to provide a supplement for the 80,000 beast army in the city.

Wang Gang's temples were in a good mood, and praised Bai Keqiu who accompanied him a few words, Bai Keqiu was humble as usual, and then the conversation changed, and he invited Wang Gangsideburns to the banquet in the evening.

Wang Gang's temples were unreasonable, and when the two of them were talking happily, suddenly, a Tiger Clan warrior ran in front of them in a panic! This person ran out of breath, and he couldn't even speak, but he still pointed in the direction of the south of the city!

Wang Gang's temples and Bai Keqiu immediately frowned when they saw this.

"Say it to your breath! What's going on?! Wang Gang's sideburns said with a calm face, his intuition told him that this warrior of his own clan was not good news!

Sure enough, after taking a few breaths, the Tiger Clan warrior hurriedly said, "Great Khan, His Royal Highness the Fox King, Xiao Thief...... The army of thieves has slaughtered outside the city! ”

"What?!"

Wang Gang's temples and Bai Keqiu were immediately shocked.