Just in the same place, Long Thirteen asked, "Xiao Shi, what do you think Zuo Guang of Huozhou will react to when he learns that Po Ximu has been annihilated?" ”

Long Xiaoshi thought for a moment, "Big boss, we are not familiar with Zuo Guangxian, how a person reacts, in addition to the orders issued by his boss, but also depends on his personality, it is really difficult to deduce at the moment."

Long 13 shook his head, "What you said is naturally right, however, Huozhou can station two heavy troops, obviously it is not just one Huozhou, Huozhou is the forefront of the fight against our department, and Fenxi County has the least soldiers and horses, Po Ximu has obviously been included in Zuo Guangxian's defense area a long time ago."

"Fenxi County is lost, Zuo Guangxian can't ignore it, and he will definitely send a force to take over the town guard."

"The big boss means ......"

"Yes, starting from Huozhou, you can reach Fenxi County without passing through the Bird Mouse Valley, if my guess is correct, Zuo Guangxian's troops are on the way right now."

"But we ......"

"Don't be afraid, since the officials and troops of Fenxi County can't help us wait, then immediately notify Bai Wenxuan of Lingshi County, and let him lead a thousand infantry troops and three hundred firearms battalions to the south quickly, except for the Yin Di Pass, and then march on the west bank of the Fen River."

Long Xiaoshi seemed to understand something.

"Yes"

The eleventh mission of Dragon Thirteen is coming soon.

Conquer Hoo.

......

Everything was as Dragon Thirteen expected.

After learning of Po Ximu's fate, Zuo Guang weighed it again and again and sent Niu Chenghu out of the department.

Niu Chenghu set off from Huozhou overnight with 200 cavalry, 800 infantry troops, and 500 grain and grass escorted by the master.

Niu Chenghu is Chinese New Year's Eve five years old today, originally the head of Ningxia Town, the last time he followed the governor of Gansu Mei Zhihuan into Jingqin Wang because of the mutiny of the troops and became a grass coward, soon after returning to his hometown in northern Shaanxi, there were thieves in the local area, Niu Chenghu simply rebelled under the nickname of "a scale of gold".

At that time, the thieves were still very weak, far from being the opponent of the official army, Niu Chenghu saw that the situation was not right, so he took refuge in the official army, and made great contributions in the pursuit of the thieves, so he soon rose to the high position of the garrison.

Originally, he was guarding Huozhou alone, but he didn't expect the imperial court to get another Zuo Guangxian, which made Niu Chenghu very unhappy.

After returning to the ranks of the official army, Niu Chenghu not only made a lot of achievements by chasing down the thieves, but also obtained a lot of money, with which he recruited two hundred families, all of which were led by his only son Niu Yiqi.

After getting Zuo Guang's order to let him guard the county seat of Fenxi, Niu Chenghu was surprised and delighted.

Although the residents of Fenxi County were all taken away by the thieves, he also knew that in a mountainous county like Fenxi County, many residents had already run to the mountains to take refuge before the thieves arrived, and once the thieves left, they would come back again.

Not long ago, when Po Ximu was stationed here, many residents had already returned.

In addition, there are many farmers and artisans near the county seat, and they also hide in the mountains, and when the thieves are gone, they will get some of them to live in the city.

What is surprising is that the thieves are so powerful, can they hold on to this thousand people?

As for whether the thieves will occupy the county seat of Fenxi, Zuo Guang first probed the horse's news: "After the thieves broke the Poxi pastoral department, they returned to the Yin Pass along the west bank of the Fen River, and there was no sign of taking the county seat of Fenxi."

Also, although this group of thieves is strong, but after all, it is weak, if it is guarded everywhere, it is passive everywhere, it is better to gather the military forces together and defend Lingshi County.

If Zuo Guangxian sent another army to march at night, I am afraid it would take at least two days to arrive, but most of Niu Chenghu's men were selected from the thieves who surrendered, and they were also chased by the official army over the mountains and mountains before, although they were a little lax after a few years, they were stronger than the serious officers and soldiers after all.

Before dawn, Niu Chenghu had arrived only five miles away from the county seat of Fenxi, and the shadowy outline of the county city wall was already visible to the naked eye.

Niu Chenghu was determined.

"Speed up, I'll have breakfast in Fenxi County!"

Niu Chenghu gave the order.

His men had long been exhausted from the night's journey, but when they received this order, they were in great spirits, and they all screamed with joy.

At this moment, there was a sound of horses' hooves ahead!

Niu Yiqi's background in front is much better than Niu Chenghu, he entered Suide Martial Arts at the age of fifteen, after Niu Chenghu was promoted, he obtained the "martial arts man" with military merits, although he was only eighteen years old, but he also knew that the situation was not good.

He sent someone to the back to inform his father, and he greeted him with two hundred soldiers—he believed that even if there were thieves and cavalry in front of him, he would be able to deal with it.

This is because Long Thirteen in Lingshi County only has four or five hundred newly trained cavalry, and Gao Yingxiang's brigade of men and horses has already arrived in the north of Pingyang Mansion City, and it is impossible for a large group of rogue cavalry to appear here.

It was Dragon Thirteen who came.

When Niu Chenghu's soldiers and horses appeared, he also breathed a sigh of relief.

His long-awaited strategy of "encircling and sending reinforcements" is about to come true.

"Niu Yiqi, force value 83,......"

When the post road approached Fenxi County, the road had become very wide, and Fenxi County had not yet carried out spring ploughing, and it was surrounded by wilderness, which could be used for large-scale field battles.

As in the previous fight against Po Ximu, there was a flurry of bows and arrows, a burst of javelins, and then a burst of cavalry!

With preparation for the unprepared, and waiting for work with ease for exhaustion, Long Thirteen led the cavalry to beat the two hundred families led by Niu Yiqi to pieces, and Niu Yiqi himself was also shot off the horse!

Niu Yiqi was captured!

The cavalry of Dragon Thirteen blocked Niu Chenghu's further advance!

Knowing that Niu Yiqi was in danger, Niu Chenghu was shocked and hurriedly urged the infantry to speed up the pace again.

It didn't take long for him to encounter Long Thirteen's cavalry, and after a burst of arrows were fired, Niu Chenghu stopped his pace, and almost at the same time, he could only hear a commotion behind him, and after a while, his men ran over in a panic.

"General, no, there are thieves behind you!"

Niu Chenghu was shocked, knowing that he had been tricked, he hurriedly pointed to a person and said: "You, you, take the trail back to Huozhou, notify General Zuo to come to the rescue, and tell him that if it is later, our department will not exist!" ”

......

Not to mention, Niu Chenghu's subordinates are worthy of being thieves, and those people are all his cronies, who immediately got off their horses and ran along the path.

Huozhou is less than fifty miles from Fenxi County, and it only took these people half a day to arrive in Huozhou.

Huozhou, Chengdong University Campus Barracks.

A man in his thirties, with a sallow complexion, three long wisps of beard, and a vigorous and fierce expression, was walking around the yard with his hands behind his back.

This person is Zuo Guangxian, and there is also a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy standing near him, who is his son Zuo Jiu, who, like Niu Chenghu, is also the leader of his family Ding team.

Compared with Zuo Guangxian, Zuo Jiu has a strong figure and is powerful.

"Why didn't the thieves directly occupy the county seat of Fenxi first, but to intercept Niu Chenghu halfway?"

This is something Zuo Guangxian has never thought clearly, so when he learned that Niu Chenghu was surrounded, he did not immediately send rescuers, but kept silent.

It's not that he doesn't want to save Niu Chenghu, but he wants to save it very much.

He knew that once Niu Chenghu's army was wiped out, it would be difficult for his own army, which was dominated by firecrackers, to hold Huozhou City alone, although the imperial court transferred the former Yongning Prefecture garrison Zhou Yuji to his command, but when Zhou Yuji came, there were only a few people.

After coming to the state city, he only re-held the group exercise in Huozhou, and he only practiced for more than ten days.

"For more than ten days, it's good to defend a city, what combat power is there?"

Zuo Guang was born in Wuju, and when he served near the capital, he worshipped Sun Yuanhua as a teacher in the then military department, and learned from him the drills of artillery and firearms, and the method of battle formation.

However, although he favored firearms, he did not feel that firearms could be the decisive factor on the battlefield, so after returning to Shaanxi, he still pulled a cavalry unit in addition to the firearms battalion.

He used to approach Xu Guangqi and Sun Yuanhua's apprentices in the capital, but it was just to get close to the civil officials, and then add glory to his career.

Rao is like this, he is still the best general in firearms in the Ming Dynasty.

However, he didn't believe that he would have the ability to deal with Niu Chenghu and him at the same time, and even if he did, he wouldn't have enough troops to achieve this.

For this, Zuo Guangxian is convinced.

Later, Zuo Guang first served as the chief soldier of Hanzhong, and defeated Li Zicheng with the combination of cavalry and firearms, at that time Li Zicheng still had tens of thousands of horses under his command, but since the defeat to Zuo Guang, there were only two or three thousand people left, and he rushed into Shangluo Mountain.

It can be said that Zuo Guang is the most powerful celebrity Li Zicheng has encountered since his debut, and to some extent he is still above Cao Wenzhao, because it was Li Zicheng who defeated Cao Wenzhao.

Thinking of this, he decided to go out himself.

He called Zhou Yuji over.

"Niu Chenghu can't afford to lose, if it doesn't help to send your regimental training troops, I should go out in person, remember, no matter what the situation is, it is best to defend the city steadily, and don't attack at will"

"Got it"

Zhou Yuji lamented in his heart, if he hadn't lost all his elite men in Yongning Prefecture City not long ago, he would not have fallen to this point, when he used to serve near the Beijing Division, he and Zuo Guangxian were both Qianzong, but now Zuo Guangxian is already a general, and he is still a garrison.

Zuo Guang set off first, with 500 cavalry and 1,000 firearms.

His 1,000 firecrackers are estimated to be the most powerful firearms in the Ming Dynasty, and they are the elite trained by him in accordance with Sun Yuanhua's methods.

Each of his musketeers is equipped with a single sword, and he also trains from time to time, which can be regarded as a long-range and close-to-hand combat unit.

Zuo Guangxian did not carry grain and grass, he thought: "If Niu Chenghu can hold out until his arrival, he can immediately repel the thief army, why do you need grain and grass, if Niu Chenghu can't hold out until his arrival, there is also no need for grain and grass."

He didn't believe at all that after defeating Niu Chenghu, Long Thirteen still had the strength to attack his elite army.