South of Huozhou City, Baibi Pass (near Nantan Village in the south of the city in later generations).

At this time, the post road is not completely set up close to the Fen River, the south of Huozhou is due to the steep mountains on both sides, and the post road is in the mountains of about a few miles east of the river, and Baibiguan is stuck at the exit of the post road into Huozhou City.

Although the mountain range south of Huozhou is not very tall, but there are also four or five hundred meters, if it is over the mountains and mountains, it is naturally possible, but the efficiency is obviously too low, and it cannot pass through the army, so Hong Chengchou's West Road troops want to reach Huozhou through the main post road, they must pass through Baibi Pass.

Of course, just in case, he asked Wang Chengen to take Bai Anbu from the east road to the north at the same time.

On the West Road, Yang Jiamo led Li Bei's troops to march at a normal speed, and escorted all the grain and grass of the West Road army, while Ai Wannian, the striker and Shenmu General of Shenmu, was lightly armed and simple, and only rode in front with 1,500 steps.

According to the style of the Ming march at this time, the interval between the striker and the headquarters was about an hour.

Therefore, when Hu Dawei's rout brought news to Yang Jiamo from the west bank of the Fen River, Yang Jiamo immediately stopped, and asked Ai Wannian in front to stop as well.

At this time, Ai Wannian had already arrived at Baibi Pass, and had been waiting for a long time according to Yang Jiamo's order, seeing that there was still no further news coming, and the sky was darkening, thirty-year-old Ai Wannian couldn't help but curse secretly.

Although his troops did not carry grain and grass, they still brought dry food, generally speaking, there was still dry food for three days, Yang Jiamo was old and heavy, which was obviously better than Niu Chenghu and Zuo Guangxian.

Baibi Pass, just a small pass, used to be very important in the Sui and Tang dynasties, but now it has gradually become a patrol inspection department, the so-called inspection department, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, its role in the "commodity inspection" is far greater than the "patrol", to put it bluntly, is a place to make money.

Inspector and Cang Ambassador, although the two nine-grade official positions are of low grade, the seekers are eager to seek them, and they are no less than the county orders above the middle county.

Naturally, there is the corrupt system of the Ming Dynasty at work.

The Ming Dynasty has very little tax on commerce, but it can't stand the inspection department, the local heroes, and the military forts at the key points to draw money, sometimes called "salary", sometimes called "donation", and so on.

The warehouse ambassador is the manager of the large granary set up at the important ferry port of Caoyun.

Due to the design of the Ming Dynasty's strange grain collection system, it is necessary to transport a stone of grain to the destination in accordance with the regulations, and at least two stones must be loaded when it is shipped.

There are many natural rivers and canals suitable for navigation, and the most famous ones are naturally those on the eastern section of the Grand Canal.

It is said that one year of cang's work is equivalent to three years of a county commander's work.

Therefore, ordinary people really can't do patrol inspections and warehouse ambassadors.

Baibiguan originally had an inspection department here, and the scope of the inspection was the entire mountains south of Huozhou, obviously, the twenty archers of the inspection department alone (there were ten after eating empty salaries) could not do it, and they would not do it, and they were most enthusiastic about extracting money from passers-by and merchants.

Therefore, when Long Thirteen's army occupied Huozhou City, it was easy to take Baibi Pass.

However, although Baibi Pass is not big, it can only garrison a hundred soldiers, but it is tightly stuck on the post road, easy to defend and difficult to attack, although Ai Wannian is brave, but he does not dare to attack at night.

So he settled down on the post road in front of the pass.

Ai Wannian, a rice fat man with mixed Han and Mongolian blood, thin and tall, with a pale yellow goatee and triangular eyes, at this time there are a large number of shops in the north and south of Baibi Pass.

There are also many villages in the mountains near Baibi Pass.

These people are all low-hanging fruit for Ai Wannian.

After giving an order, Ai Wannian slaughtered the merchants on the south side of Baibi Pass and a nearby village, wrapped the young man's head in lime, and then snatched the young woman into the military camp to humiliate him.

Don't blame Ai Wannian, since Wanli, most of the border army generals have done it, which is also their only magic weapon to maintain the so-called "morale" and "murderous spirit".

At this time, the distance between Ai Wannian and Yang Jiamo was still twenty miles.

For Ai Wannian, the Xiaoqiang Brigade is naturally powerful, but at the moment he is flanked by mountains, and the Xiaoqiang Brigade wants to make a detour to attack him, although there is also a road, but that road is still between the mountains, which just connects Yang Jiamo and Wang Chengen's stations, and they must pass through these two places when they go around.

So, he was relieved and bold to hug a few snatched women and fell asleep.

In the middle of the night, he was woken up by a commotion.

"General!"

"What?"

"The thieves are out!"

Ai Wannian nodded, he had already expected this section, although the enemy could not make a detour, but he could open the Baibi Pass and come out of it, so he also arranged for three hundred steps to be on duty in front of the pass.

Although there is an open field in front of the pass, it is a narrow place after all, and there are not too many soldiers, and three hundred people are enough to deal with the thieves.

It was the Xiaoqiang Brigade who came.

After learning that the households near the pass were slaughtered by Ai Wannian, Long Thirteen also struggled for a long time - with the current intelligence ability of Xiaoqiang Brigade, he could notify them to take refuge before Ai Wannian arrived, but he only "notified" them and did not force them to move out.

In this, there is naturally his selfishness - he wants the people to open their eyes to see what is "like a grate", his small strong brigade obviously did not do "thieves like combs", but Ai Wannian's reputation for courage and fierceness has long spread throughout Shaanxi and Shanxi.

This time, he did not send cavalry on the south side of the pass, but all the infantry, two hundred pikemen, two hundred muskeoners, and twenty artillerymen.

Before leaving the customs, he was ruthless and used a tiger squat cannon to bombard the shops in front of the south gate, and then drove out the Ming army who was sleeping with a woman in his arms.

At this time, the infantry army came out!

First, there was a volley of fire, and then the pikemen formed a group of ten people and rushed towards the panicked Ming army!

However, fearing that the enemy might have soldiers on duty, a sentry spearman and a sentry gunmen formed a formation on the post road.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the rumbling sound of horses' hooves to sound on the post road!

The 100 cavalry and 200 infantry troops on duty in Ai Wannian are here!

In order to prevent the enemy cavalry from flying behind the spears that glittered in the night, the pikemen in front deliberately placed their spears on the ground and waited for them to reach a range of fifty meters before raising them.

At this time, four people and one door, a total of five tiger squat cannons filled with scattered bullets have been inserted between the pikemen, lined up on the street!

Thirty meters!

"Boom ....."

The three tiger squat cannons roared, although the tiger squat cannon is only a small cannon, but it still has a large fan surface when firing scattered shells, on the street, two tiger squat cannons can completely cover the entire street, so the cavalry that rushed to the front naturally fell off their horses without exception!

But these cavalry are obviously the elite of Ai Wannian, although their military discipline is corrupt, but they still have bravery, although the people in front of them suffered heavy losses, but the people behind did not retreat, and still continued to rush forward!

"Boom ......"

The last two cannons roared!

At this time, the ground about 20 meters in front of the artillerymen was immediately covered with the corpses of men and horses, some of whom were not completely dead, and were struggling and moaning in pain on the ground.

At this time, on the one hand, it was not easy for the cavalry behind to come up, a large number of people and horse corpses blocked the street tightly, and secondly, even if they were brave, they would be able to protect themselves in this situation.

However, this situation did not have any obstacle for the troops of Dragon Thirteen, after completing a round of reloading, at this time, the fire guns were in front, the artillerymen carried the tiger squat cannons, and then the pikemen followed, stepping over the corpses of men and horses and continuing to move forward!

In this way, they walked all the way and stopped all the way, and soon reached the vicinity of Aiwannian's camp.

Ai Wannian was still very cunning, and he also knew that although the shops at the gate of the city were comfortable, once they were besieged and killed, they would be doomed, so he chose to camp in a relatively wide mountain col near the post road, where his own big tent was located, surrounded by his family cavalry.

And on the post road, his infantry was lying densely.

In his mind, the three hundred cavalry he left to guard tonight were all elite, and it was impossible to make a mistake in arranging them on the narrow street.

However, he regarded Long Thirteen as an ordinary thief, or a relatively strong rogue, if he realized that Long Thirteen was a fierce enemy, first, he would not carry out a massacre, and second, he would not let the military generals insult those robbed women overnight.

Therefore, when the sound of obscenity and moaning came and went one after another at night, the soldiers who stayed behind naturally couldn't help it, and left their posts one after another to return to their houses to participate.

Killing and plundering to boost morale is clearly a double-edged sword, and now it seems that the backlash is even stronger.

Ai Wannian was a little surprised.

Before the small strong brigade reached his main camp, he once again charged it with his infantry troops, but it was scattered under the repeated blows of artillery, firearms, and spears like a forest.

Ai Wannian is naturally fierce, and his army is powerful enough, but that is just to say that his family's, the so-called elite infantry army, once the family defeats the enemy, they can play a good role in icing on the cake, and once even the family is ineffective, it is obviously too much to count on the infantry army to turn the tide of the war.

"You ......, stop the thieves for an hour, and then you can retreat, and afterwards each person will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver, no, no, no, one hundred taels"

He decided to retreat, retreat to Yang Jiamo first, but people obviously won't look at you in vain, so he pointed to a sentry and said.

At this time, his cavalry lost almost one hundred and fifty, and the infantry army numbered almost two hundred, most of whom were killed by tiger cannons and firearms.

It was about three or four o'clock in the morning.

Ai Wannian rode on the horse with some deplution, this night, a total of three young and beautiful women to accompany him, when he learned that the thief was out of the customs, naturally disturbed his lustful interest, and later learned that his remaining troops were defeated after the defeat of the angry and angry, pulled out the knife and killed all three women.

Twenty miles ahead was Yang Jiamo's camp, and Ai Wannian was so angry that there were still a large number of infantry troops on the post road who had not yet gotten up, and urged the war horse to rush over.

After crossing the place where the infantry army was, the front was suddenly empty, and at this time, the cool breeze on the mountain blew, so that Ai Wannian gradually calmed down, he pointed to one person and said: "You, take twenty people back, comfort those infantry soldiers, and then bring them back......"

Before he could finish speaking, he saw one of his subordinates pointing to the front and shouting, "General, look! ”

Ai Wannian looked at it and saw a group of cavalry coming in front!

"Could it be that Yang Dashuai learned about my situation here and sent someone to answer it?"

There seemed to be a lot of riders, and the whole post road was shaken.

"Rumble ......"

Soon, the rider came to them!

"Thief ......"

Before the word "Kou" in Ai Wannian's mouth was spoken, a large number of arrows were shot from the opposite side!

Ai Wannian used the riding knife in his hand to block the arrows, and suddenly understood, "The hateful Yang Jiamo and Wang Chengen, you are still a member of the general army, and after getting the news of Hu Dawei, you hurriedly went south, and you didn't even notify me?" ”

He quickly realized that the thieves had made a detour, and the reason why they succeeded was obviously that Yang and Wang had gone south first!

However, he wronged Yang Jiamo this time, because Yang Jiamo also sent a banner to the Aiwannian Department when he decided to go south, and it was obvious that this banner was captured by Long Thirteen's troops.

"Whew....."

Another burst of javelins, and then a slam in!

Tonight led the team by Li Zhanchun and Ou Mubu, and the infantry in front was Bai Wenxuan, and by the time it was dawn, the battle was over.

Except for a few people who escaped by hiding in the mountains on one side, all of them, including Ai Wannian, were annihilated, half killed, and half captured.

This time, Dragon Thirteen didn't have a single captive.

On that post road, hundreds of large cross wooden stakes were erected, and hundreds of prisoners, including Ai Wannian, were nailed to them!

Zhaocheng County, after receiving the news, Hong Chengchou, Yang Jiamo, and Wang Chengen were all in their hearts.