Jin Chang and Zuo Wu are the second of the eight princes of Huainan.

Zuo Wu is tall and thin, with a sharp chin, likes to wear a brown shirt, the corners of his eyes are slightly hanged, his face is as cold as ice, and his eyes are sharp.

He is nearly forty years old, more than ten years younger than Jin Chang.

Jin Chang has a goatee on his chin, an ordinary human figure, and his pupils are a little yellowish.

They led more than a thousand disciples raised by the King of Huainan, that is, strange people under his command, to Jiangxia.

Huo Quai's dedication to pacifying Huai Ce, Jiangxia is the first battle to attack head-on and seize the military power of the counties around Huainan, and it is also a place to fight.

Zuo Wu and Jin Chang came to arrange in advance and waited for them here.

Both of them are proficient in martial arts, and they have their own cultivation, and they can stand out among the thousands of disciples under the King of Huainan, which shows their talents.

"I thought Tian You would also come, but I didn't expect it to be just the two of us."

Zuo Wu's face is cold, his voice is also cold as a knife, and his voice is almost undulating.

Jin Chang's voice was slightly hoarse: "Tian You came back from Beiguan, and the king lost his trust in him.

He led his troops to Beiguan and returned with a crushing defeat. It is said that he didn't even have the opportunity to officially engage in battle, and after he came back, he made excuses, saying that the Han army was too strong, and he had no armor, so he was scattered by the Han army.

In this way, the king is merciful enough. ”

"Do you know what arrangements King Huai has made to fight against Chang'an?" Jin Chang asked.

Zuo Wu said coldly: "This kind of secret matter can only be known by the three quilts who are most relied on by the king, how can I know." After winning the first battle in front of you, you can talk about other things. ”

The three quilts he said were Wu quilts and Mao quilts in Huainan Eight Princes.

There is also a person named Lei Quilt.

The three of them worked under the command of the King of Huainan, and coincidentally there was a quilt in the name, so it was called the Three Quilts outside the Eight Princes, which was especially valued by the King of Huainan.

Among them, Lei is known as the first sword in Huainan, and it is a fine channel.

"The news said that this battle was the Han general Huo Quai, who had attacked the Huns, and this son had become famous all over the world. How sure are you that you can beat him? Jin Chang said.

"The battle in which he rushed to the rear of the Huns is indeed known to the world recently."

Zuo Wu groaned: "If the vertical son becomes famous, he must have the ability." But it's far from being a famous general. You and I have come to this day, who has not fought with others countless times.

What does it mean for you to let us lead the team, don't you know? ”

The two of them were in an attic at this time, and looking out, it was a school field, located on the outskirts of Jiangxia County.

In the school grounds, soldiers and horses are training.

Liu An's disciples are all equipped with unique skills.

Zuo Wu and Jin Chang brought a thousand people at a time, and the king of Huainan obviously had the intention of winning the first battle between the two sides.

At the time of the confrontation, these doormen and guests were mixed in the army, and suddenly broke out, and won the championship for Huainan.

On this point, whether it is Jin Chang, Zuo Wu, or even Liu An, the opinions are unanimous.

The upcoming Han army will not know what kind of team they will face!

"King Huai's news channel is really powerful, from morning to now, he has sent us three secret letters, inferring the movement of Chang'an, the other party's generals, and even the route of the march.

Including the Chinese army, it will attack Jiangxia first, and it is also very clearly written. Jin Chang said with emotion.

"No wonder King Huai dares to do something!"

Zuo Wu responded: "King Huai's ability and strategy are all the choice of the moment, otherwise how can you and I follow with all our hearts." King Huai's news is so detailed, and the enemy's movements are known to us.

The superiority in forces is also in our hands, have you considered taking the initiative? ”

Jin Chang said: "Naturally, I have thought about it, the news said that the other party came in three ways, and the number of Chinese troops was not much. Our soldiers are several times larger than the enemy, but unfortunately the order handed down by King Huai is to meet the enemy by virtue of the advantage of stubbornness. ”

"It's a shame indeed."

Zuo Wu sighed: "I'm afraid that the strategy of sticking to it is determined by Wu and is too stable." ”

Wu was the military advisor of the king of Huainan and the minister of the Huainan feudal state.

"Or do what the king orders, the two of us will cooperate with each other and wait for the enemy."

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On the outskirts of Chang'an, a layer of mist rose in the morning.

The Guards' large camp outside the city.

Huo Qubing rode out of the city, and when he arrived at the military camp, Yao Zhao and Zhao Ponu had already ordered their troops and horses, and they were still the nearly 1,000 troops who had rushed to the grassland.

Before Huo Qu's illness arrived, the team had completed the preparation.

Each of them was dressed in dark brown light armor, inlaid with red blood lines, wearing semicircular helmets, straddle horses and hold spears, and were equipped with swords.

Because the distance of this attack is not too far, one person is only equipped with two horses.

After Huo Qu fell ill, the team immediately left the camp.

After leaving the camp, he disappeared.

Tong Xuan, the right middle general of the Chang'an Guard, looked at the team in front of him with his own eyes, and rolled up a burst of mist in the gallop, as if he was in harmony with the void. At first, the hoof prints were deafening, but the fog gradually thickened, and it seemed to envelop the hoof sound, and the sound quickly became smaller.

In the end, even their figures were enveloped in the fog until they disappeared.

The operational goal of this trip was clear, Huo Qubing personally commanded the troops, went out of the city and went straight to the southeast, along the tributaries of the water, and staggered with Nanyang County, and rushed to Jiangxia County in the southeast of the Han border, that is, the territory of Hubei in later generations.

After the team left the camp, with the blessing of the miraculous marching method, the people and horses were united.

All sergeants fed their horses a red pill to protect them and reduce the consumption of horsepower.

In the sky, a peregrine falcon with flapped wings has been staring at the team below.

When the group rolled up a mist and disappeared, the peregrine falcon tilted its head, as if with some regret.

This is Liu Qing's 'eyeliner' chasing bystanders, and he planned to pay attention to Huo Quzhi's every move, but unfortunately he didn't succeed.

Fortunately, knowing the approximate direction of the march, the peregrine falcon still flew forward as usual. When the team rests, see if there's a chance to spot them again.

However, until this evening, the peregrine falcons were unable to find the team again.

At the beginning of the night, the team that left Chang'an chose a position and rested for a short time.

“…… I told you to go out last night, and you said that there was war today, so you won't go out. The night before you said you wanted to practice, but you didn't go, whether you were a man or not, or you had a hidden disease. "The conversation between Yao Zhao and Zhao Ponu.

"Huo Hou, Yao Zhao always wants to take me to fool around, and says that I have something wrong." Zhao Ponu decisively made a small report.

The veteran who has been in a hundred battles has a characteristic, that is, his emotions fluctuated less before the war, and he was not too excited or afraid because of the approaching war.

The atmosphere of the team is relatively relaxed, everyone does their own thing, and before resting, they will check their combat readiness again.

Occasionally, someone whispers to each other.

In order to maintain the secrecy of the march, their army did not enter the city and camped in the field.

Only one herb to repel insects and beasts is burned in the camp, and humans smell very faint, and there is no open fire visible.

After nightfall, all members go to sleep at the appointed time, except for the scouts who are in charge of guarding.

This is a strong force that has become more and more mature after Huo Qu's illness and the Huns.

After returning from the Xiongnu, Huo Qubing had already begun to select the elite from the Chang'an Guards and expand the cavalry team under his command.

After the people fell asleep, Huo Qubing was in the middle of the camp, opening his eyes from the short practice of warming the strength in his body.

The moon shines on the river.

Not far away is a tributary of the river, and the sound of the river rushing can be heard in the ears, and even the fish in the river become still after nightfall, only the tail fin swaying slightly in the water, maintaining the stability of the body.

Everything is perceived in a subtle way, and all the information around it is naturally presented without deliberately doing it.

When Huo Quzhi wants to focus on which point, that point will be magnified and become clearer.

And he knew the talismans in the sea, and the turtles and snakes were flashing with textures, and from the Xuanwu star positions corresponding to the seven northern houses, he drew a kind of qi that seemed to come from the stars outside the sky.

This qi entered the body, making the bodies of turtles and snakes more and more solid.

The two talismans gradually took on a bronze sheen.

In the book of knowing the sea, the magic of military tactics that conceals the sky and the sea is also playing a role.

The combination of the strategy of concealing the sky and crossing the sea and the miraculous marching method has become Huo Quai's unique method, covering the entire team's tracks and preventing anyone's prying eyes and tracking.

At this moment, Huo Quzhi suddenly felt a slight palpitation.

He took out the blank notebook he had obtained from the two captives.

On the bamboo slips, there is actually handwriting emerging.

This brief book can contact the author's accomplices, and at this moment it is the first time it has changed since it fell into the hands of Huo Quai, and the handwriting:

"This time, you're going to die!"

The handwriting was a red blood-colored, containing a terrifying fluctuation that was shocking.

Is the other party a writer?

In this way, he wanted to lock the location of the bamboo slips so as to find my traces, or was it just a provocation...... Huo Quzhi thought about it, what if he knew the location?

Who is the hunter, you have to fight to know......

"I'm waiting for you, if you dare to come!"

The handwriting flickered, then vanished, and the bamboo slips no longer fluctuated.

The two-hour break ended quickly.

In the wee hours of the morning, the whole team set off again. The traces of the previous night's stationing on the ground, including horse manure, were buried on the spot, and even if someone passed by, it was difficult to tell that there was a thousand-strong team here that stayed for two hours.

After the team set off, they went straight to Jiangxia County.

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On a July afternoon, the sun was shining.

"The two generals, one hundred and seventy miles west of the county seat, discovered the incoming team of the Chang'an Guard, and some scouts came back through the secret outpost."

A Huainan soldier came to report to Jin Chang and Zuo Wu.

They are still located in the local army barracks in Jiangxia County.

The garrison barracks in various places will be built outside the city, and in wartime, the city needs to be defended before all the staff will retreat into the city.

Zuo Wu and Jin Chang united the 6,000 local troops of Huainan controlled by Liu An, plus the royal diners they brought, totaling more than 7,000 people.

According to the information obtained, the guards who attacked them from Chang'an were less than a thousand people.

Zuo Wu and Jin Chang are confident and ready to eat each other.

Seven times the strength of the opponent, ready for battle, with obvious advantages.

They don't think they have the possibility of losing.

Of course, they will not underestimate the enemy because of this, and both of them have full combat experience.

"Looking at the direction of that team, it's not going to my Jiangxia, it's more like going to cross Jiangxia without entering, and go straight to Lujiang." Huainan Jun continued.

Zuo Wu and Jin Chang were a little surprised.

It's not the same as the news you got.

"Is it the other party's deception? Or did they receive the news that they were running to Jiangxia to be fake? ”

After instructing the summoners to go to the revisit, Zuo Wu frowned and said: "They crossed Jiangxia without entering, and went straight to Lujiang, what do you think?" ”

"Scouts probe, they march to the southeast, and the destination can only be Lujiang County." Jinchang Road.

"Lujiang County was found before because of the vertical and horizontal road, and it was cleaned up once, and it is the weakest county of the Huai King among the several counties we control now.

The king asked the two of us to block the enemy here, because he didn't want the other party to reach Lujiang County to avoid accidents. Zuo Wu responded.

Jin Chang nodded slightly, it seems that the other party is indeed cheating. From leaving Chang'an, the news they got may be the smoke released by the other party, which is used to confuse them.

The real purpose of this team is to go to Lujiang County, and then use it as a transit to echo with other Han armies.

This is also in line with the logic that the opposing side does not have many soldiers and should not confront them head-on.

"Good calculation."

"That team is afraid that it already knows that we are blocking here, so it does not confront our army head-on, but uses the strategy of a roundabout march! I want to win with surprise soldiers. ”

Zuo Wu chuckled: "The news of the scouts says that they are still a hundred miles away, and if they want to go to the Lujiang River, they must take the railing ferry seventeen miles away to the east of us." ”

"You mean to take the initiative and attack?"

"That's right, they have come from afar, and we have plenty of troops to deal a blow to the enemy if we attack."

"What about the orders that the king asked us to hold?"

"The situation has changed, and sticking to it will only miss the fighter.

The mediocre will stick to it at this time, and if you know the situation, you will also agree with our decision.

We have 7,000 people, even if we divide our troops into two places, we have a chance of victory. It is better for you to leave 3,000 men to hold on, and I will take the rest of the men and horses to attack and kill all the enemies who come to attack. Zuo Wu pursed his lips, and the battle achievements were close at hand.

"Good!"

Jin Chang groaned slightly, and said, "Then immediately mobilize people and horses, don't let that team run." ”

The two passed down the order, and the soldiers quickly regrouped. Half an hour later, a procession of thousands of people lined up outside the camp, murderous.

"Ready to go!"

Zuo Wu was responsible for leading the team, and Jin Chang stayed behind.

The team that was ready to go outside the camp opened up in a line, and under Zuo Wu's order, set off for the south.

In the blink of an eye, the dust was flying, and the team ahead was pulling out.

At this moment, Zuo Wu and Jin Chang inexplicably had a trace of palpitations.

The location of the barracks was open to the point of viewing, and the trees nearby were cut down, and there was no place to hide. But there seems to be a sense of solemnity in the surrounding air, which makes people feel like they are in suspense.

Zuo Wu and Jin Chang looked left and right, their expressions solemn.

In addition to the sound of their team's hooves, even the clouds in the sky seemed to be still, and not even a single bird could be seen in the sky.

"That's not right!"

Zuo Wu is proficient in the art of war, and the situation at this moment made him and Jin Chang subconsciously think of the team from Chang'an...... The qi machine around here is clearly being transformed into the battlefield where the two armies are facing each other!

Could it be that the previous judgment was wrong.

That team, it's not going to Lujiang?!

…… The thoughts that sprung up in a moment made the two of them feel a little vague about that team, and it was difficult to accurately judge the terrain.

At this moment, they suddenly heard the sound of thunderous hooves, which rang out loudly.

The sound appeared so abruptly that it was like someone beating a heavy drum in a quiet environment!

Boom Boom!

The sound of horses' hooves stomping on the ground made the ground tremble, and countless gravels were beating with the sound of hooves.

Jin Chang and Zuo Wu immediately saw a scene that shocked them and made them unforgettable!

On the left flank of the barracks, less than two hundred feet away, in the mist that came with the wind at some point, a team rushed out like a ghost.

All of them are clothed in fine armor and hold sharp spears. They were ready to charge long in the mist, and they came out in a hurry. Whistling like the wind, in a cone-shaped formation, the waist rushed towards the troops of the Huainan army who were departing.

The Han army is really coming, coming to storm the camp head-on...... Zuo Wu and Jin Chang were shocked.

This was followed by the shouting of the two: "There is an enemy attack, an enemy attack, turn around and line up to meet the enemy!" ”

At this moment, they saw the team that had been killed, riding on a tall horse, and one of the generals in silver helmets and silver armor had lightning in their eyes, and pointed in their direction.

The general's left and right immediately rushed out of a small team and killed the two of them.

Jin Chang and Zuo Wu observed the enemy's situation, but quickly regained their composure.

When they saw that the team only had a few hundred soldiers, the two immediately understood why the scout's information was untrue. This team dared to divide its forces to confuse the enemy even though it had only 1,000 men.

What the scouts saw was that they had used military tactics to conceal the true number of some of the soldiers, and they were galloping towards the Lujiang River.

That team is there to mislead them!

And the other part of the Han army is hiding tracks, which is the team that suddenly appeared in front of them and attacked them.

The leader of the Han army wants to storm the defenders of the Jiangxia military camp with hundreds of people?

After Zuo Wu and Jin Chang figured out the reason, Qi Qi swelled with anger.

"I have heard that this Huo Qu is sick and dares to attack the Huns, and he is rampant by nature! And so it was! ”

"Only bring a few hundred troops to rush to the camp!"

"Kill him!"

Jin Chang and Zuo Wu scolded repeatedly, and their soldiers turned their horses' heads one after another, preparing to fight with the attacking team!

By this time, the team had already struck head-on.

Rumble!

The two armies engaged in close combat.

Yao Zhao and Zhao Ponu rode and held guns, facing Jin Chang and Zuo Wu respectively.

In the rear, Huo Qubing didn't move at all, he was on his horse, looking at the battlefield.

The team under his command, with the military skills of concealing the sky and the sea, combined with the magic of marching, suddenly killed, the position, the timing could not be better, like a long knife, the opponent's team is out of the camp to break the waist.

From the point of view of fighters, the moment they appear, they have the advantage.

He dared to divide his troops in the case of a thousand people, and he was not arrogant and underestimated the enemy.

Rather, it is based on an accurate judgment of the enemy's situation and the mentality of the Huainan people.

These local armies in Huainan clashed with the Han army, and their names were not right, their wills were not strong, and no one would serve their lives.

Therefore, Huainan urgently needed to win the first battle, and sent troops to block it, wanting to boost morale.

How much combat effectiveness can such a unit have?

As long as the Huainan army in the first battle is defeated, the future battles will be better.

Huo Quzhi glanced at Zuo Wu and Jin Chang, who had already fought with Zhao Ponu and Yao Zhao.

Not far away, the other subordinates staggered, and the queues were divided and merged, and sure enough, the other party's subordinates quickly tore a gap.

And because the Huainan defenders were out of the camp when they were attacked, they started the battle in a panic, and most of them were blocked in the barracks, so that the enemy troops engaged in the battle did not have much of a personnel advantage!

Huo Qubing said to the herald behind him:

"The communication is in a spear formation, with hundreds of people in columns, in two horizontal and vertical directions, staggered galloping, cutting and destroying the opponent's array, and focusing on attacking and killing the opponent's generals.

The Huainan army is not strong, after we cut the queue, the generals are killed again, and someone will stop the battle, wait and see, or even surrender.

Then he sent an order to let the scouts go north, and Zhang Cigong's team went south, less than two hundred miles away from here, and according to the predetermined battle plan, let him send someone to take over the surrender and military camp here.

Let's go when we're done! ”

At the beginning of the engagement, the arrangements after the victory were already being arranged.

This is Huo Quzhi's self-confidence and accurate judgment of the current battle situation.

The herald beside him shouted his order.

At the same moment, Huo Qubing saw that on the battlefield, Zuo Wu used a fake body, retreated ghostly from the confrontation with Yao Zhao, and climbed onto the back of a Huainan Army soldier nearby.

The warrior was swept off his horse by his slasher, and Zuo Wu Ce rode in the direction of Huo Qu's illness to kill.

He wants to hunt down the enemy generals and set the tide of battle!

Jin'an, who Huo Quai's ride, was very restless and kept rubbing in the direction of the battlefield with small steps.

The distance between the two is only more than 20 zhang, which is not far.

The next moment, Zuo Wu had an extra longbow in his hand, and shot an arrow like lightning!

The event is good, too...... Huo Qu was sick.

Suddenly, Jin An sped up his speed, rushed out suddenly, and dodged an arrow shot by Zuo Wu by a fraction of a second.

In the blink of an eye, Jin'an had rushed to Zuo Wu's vicinity.

This horse is so fast...... Zuo Wu's thought flashed, his left hand retracted his bow, and his other hand stabbed a shot to the left side like lightning.

But he didn't want Jin'an to sink to the left side of the horse, it seemed that the whole body was tilting to the left, the two horse legs were pierced to the ground like two spears, and the earth and stones turned out. Its massive body showed strange agility, and it suddenly changed direction, and its center of gravity shifted to the right, appearing to the right of the horse that Zuo Wu was riding.

I was confused by a horse's change of direction and misjudged...... Before Zuo Wu's thoughts were finished, he had already heard Huo Quzhi laughing softly when he was staggered, and he stretched out a kick like thunder below.

Ps: The word count of this chapter is okay, everyone reads happily~

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