Wei Xuan was worried that the movement on his side would be too big, which would affect his fate after falling to Yuzhou. So he discussed with Zhang Liao, let Han * Meng lead two hundred cavalry to open the road in front, let Liu Ming lead more than one hundred and fifty light men on foot, and the remaining cavalry was divided into two parts, one part of Commander Du Peng guarded around the carriage, and part of Commander Zhang Liao broke off. This team was completely arranged according to the march, so that the distance between the infantry and the cavalry, between the two teams of cavalry, was more than two or three grains, and if the slightly impatient scouts saw the first wave, they would naturally ignore the second wave.

Wei Xuan wanted to keep a low profile, but he didn't expect that he had already been remembered, and when the army slowly entered the Yuyuan Pass, Wei Xuan announced that he would rest here for three days as usual.

In the past three days, most of the soldiers were required to climb the city wall of Yuyuan Pass, and even a few light men felt that they were good and climbed the high mountains on both sides of Yuyuan Pass. Wei Xuan rarely let his subordinates stop it.

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It's just that when the team left the pass, the vanguard had just left the pass for only a dozen miles, and Wei Xuan didn't even go out in the pass, so Wang Qiang's scouts sent back information from the front, saying that there were thieves in ambush on the way forward, and the number exceeded 1,000.

Hearing this, everyone was very surprised, although Yuyuan Pass is a banana farmer to arrive, but after all, it is very close to Yingchuan Zhizhi, out of Yuyuan Pass, it is the boundary of Yingchuan, Yingchuan Taishou is Wei Xuan's uncle, not to mention thousands of bandits, I am afraid that it is a small group of thieves of 100 or dozens of people Pei Ye has already sent someone to inform Wei Xuan. It is only more than a hundred miles from Yangzhai to Yuyuan, how can it be possible to gather so many bandits at once?

No one thought that the bandits had gathered together for pure fun, and it was clear that they were targeting Wei Xuan's team.

If there were really so many bandits operating near Yuyuan Pass and not waiting for Wei Xuan to arrive, then Pei Ye was afraid that he would have sent county soldiers a long time ago, and even Henan Yin and the captains of Beijun couldn't sit still, after all, they could come to Yuyuan Pass to be a master of Beijing. Moreover, the bandits were not more than twenty miles away from Yuyuan Pass to set up an ambush, obviously they had been waiting for a long time, and they were unwilling to get close to Yang Zhai.

Where did these bandits come from, the purpose was obviously aimed at their own business, in this case, Wei Xuan did not want to escape, he came to Yuzhou to train troops, and suppressing bandits was naturally the ultimate goal.

Wei Xuan then ordered the military marquis Zhang Liao to take over the whole army, responsible for exterminating the bandits in front, and left Du Peng and a hundred cavalry with his two sisters to leave Yuyuan Pass slowly.

Although Zhang Liao had experienced a hundred battles before, but this was his first battle as a military marquis, and most of his subordinates were righteous servants of the Wei family, and a small number of them were local light heroes in Henan.

After receiving Wei Xuan's order, he asked in detail about the scouts who came back to report the news, and then ordered Han * Meng and Liu Ming to change the order of marching, intending to use Liu Ming's more than 150 light men to lure the enemy, and Han * Meng's cavalry merged with the cavalry led by himself as a charge.

Hearing that there were only more than a thousand bandits ahead, Liu Ming and his subordinates were all in the same mind, thinking that they could solve it by themselves, and Han Meng relied on three hundred cavalry to plow the four or five thousand thief soldiers in Xingyang several times, so he volunteered to lead the cavalry to charge directly.

Zhang Liao looked at these arrogant soldiers, and had no choice but to put on a straight face, put on the frame of a military marquis, and said: "Liu Ming is responsible for luring the enemy, and he wants to print all the bandits from the hills on both sides of the ambush. Then retreat to the open area to line up to facilitate the cavalry charge. ”

Then he glanced at Han Meng and said: "Mr. Han, the terrain ahead is unknown, the enemy is coming strangely, although the captain has not given an explicit order, but we can't let the thieves escape too much." Therefore, the person in charge of luring the enemy must convince the thief, and after luring the thief to the predetermined location, the cavalry should cut into the enemy position at the bow of the ship, and then send someone to block the way for the thief to escape. Wait until the thieves are in chaos before the infantry can turn around and kill the thieves. After the thieves at the bow of the ship, Mr. Han was responsible for spreading the cavalry nets to prevent the thieves from escaping. ”

Liu Ming was a little anxious when he heard Zhang Liao's arrangement, there are more than 680 people in this team, in addition to the 100 most elite cavalry left by Wei Xuan, there are more than 400 people with war horses, and there are only more than 1,000 thieves. However, this is Zhang Liao's first time in power, and even the uncle who is selected for the election honestly took the order to cast a net, and Liu Ming did not dare to make a mistake even though he was a close confidant of Wei Xuan.

Zhang Liao's side was in full swing, and the bandits' side was also in full swing, they had arrived outside the Yuyuan Pass for three days, obviously according to the intelligence estimate, Wei Xuan and his party had a problem with the marching speed, no one expected that Wei Xuan liked to stay in the Yuyuan Pass for several days.

However, Wei Xuan's vanguard finally left the Yuyuan Pass, and as long as the first wave was ambushed, the cavalry under Wei Xuan would definitely scatter and flee, and the few infantry would definitely not be able to stop more than 1,000 of their own side.

The bandits didn't expect that Wei Xuan and the others seemed to be aware of it, and soon changed the marching column. However, the bandits were able to confirm that it was one hundred and fifty infantry and two hundred cavalry, which was similar to the information they received from Luoyang.

I think it was Wei Xuan who sent scouts and felt that the situation was a little wrong, so he transferred the cavalry back to protect himself and his two sisters.

So when Liu Ming appeared in the sight of the bandits with more than 150 infantry, all the bandits sneered in their hearts, saying that Wei Xuanzhi was good at fighting, and now the infantry is just a group of rabble.

Liu Ming led a group of rabble, most of them are Henan light warriors, with strange costumes and various weapons, the key is that they haven't had time to conduct queue training, but simply received some flag training and military law education. Therefore, more than 150 people walked on the avenue and were injured, which was called a sparse and staggering.

Now Zhang Liao asked them to lure the enemy again, and one by one they naturally behaved more loosely, and at first glance they were a rabble. However, the thieves have been waiting here for three days, and they have long been impatient, their purpose is not to completely annihilate Wei Xuan's department, but to break up Wei Xuan's team, and it is best to snatch Wei Xuan's two sisters away.

So when Liu Ming and the others entered their ambush circle, the thieves hidden on the hills on both sides rushed down from the mountains at the beginning of the month almost at the same time. Although the bandits are also a rabble, more than a thousand people rushed down from the slopes on both sides of the hill shouting, and the momentum was still quite terrifying.

Liu Ming led only some light warriors who were usually brave and ruthless in front of the people, not to mention that they came to lure the enemy, even if they didn't know in advance that they saw so many thieves, their first reaction was to run. A few of the timid ones even broke away from the group and ran to both sides, and after running for a while, it seemed that there were many cavalry on their side, and they quietly returned to the group.

More light men didn't wait for Liu Ming's orders, many people turned around and ran away in their true colors, and a few even threw away the weapons in their hands and shouted, and the others immediately understood and knew their task so they also shouted and ran back. Due to the uneven costumes of these people, and the fact that some of them are acting in the true colors of light heroes, the horror is beyond words.

The bandits looked like a rabble that was inferior to themselves, and when they saw their own people, they panicked, and their banners and weapons were scattered all over the place. Don't take advantage of a few good opportunities to capture more officers and soldiers, and wait even longer.

More than 100 people ran wildly in front of them, and more than 1,000 people were in hot pursuit, and although the two sides did not directly confront, the atmosphere was quite tense. Fortunately, these please Xiamen's physical strength is good, and they didn't let the unauthorized forehead in a short time. After chasing out about three or four miles, Liu Ming saw Han * Meng, Zhang Liao and others who were belated. Both of them and the skilled cavalry had the same expression, that is, a smile on the corner of their mouths, and slowly began to accelerate.

Seeing the cavalry that was about to run, Liu Ming and the others also split into two and immediately flashed to both sides of the road, leaving the middle road to the cavalry.

The target of the pursuit suddenly dispersed, and the bandits apparently saw the cavalry, which they had expected, and had long planned to defeat the champion's cavalry with a group of mounts, so that they might be able to rob many horses.

But the number of cavalry they did not expect was as high as four hundred, and the bravery of the two leaders was completely beyond the imagination of these bandits.

I saw Han * Meng appear on the left side first, a spear flew up and down, shuttling back and forth among the bandits, and the yellow horse under the crotch and Zhang Liao's mount were both the sweat and blood horses that the Son of Heaven rewarded Wei Xuan. Therefore, Han * Meng at this time was more courageous than he was under Xingyang City that day. Zhang Liao on the right also did not have any reservations, he knew that Wei Xuan's subordinates were all brave people, and if he wanted to win their respect, he had to prove himself with his achievements, a steel knife slashed left and right, and the thieves fell one after another everywhere he went. The cavalry behind him also fought bravely under the leadership of these two.

By the time Liu Ming and the others reacted, Han Meng and Zhang Liao had already appeared behind the thieves. When the bandits pursued Liu Ming and others, they had no formation for scientific research, but now they were attacked by the cavalry from the left and right at the same time, and they were chiseled through from both sides at the same time without any decent resistance.

Han Meng originally wanted to bring people back again, he felt that these thieves were not even as good as the combat effectiveness of those people outside Xingyang City, and the number was no more than a thousand, and he felt that he could easily handle it with two hundred men. But he was stopped by Zhang Liao, and asked him to carry out the pre-battle deployment to disperse the team and block the escape route of the thief soldiers.

Seeing the deployment of Zhang Liao and the others, Liu Ming, who was hiding on the side and watching the excitement, came to his senses and shouted at his subordinates: "All the heroes in Henan, the hard bones have been gnawed off by their cavalry, and then if you don't want to see people drink wine and eat meat, you will take out my housekeeping skills and kill them!" ”

"Kill, kill, kill!" The rabble, who had fled like sheep before, instantly turned into more than a hundred fierce tigers and pounced on the panicked thieves. Immediately, the road for these thieves to escape head-on was blocked.