On April 16, King Huai moved from Longzhou to Liupan Mountain, which was the first line of defense to the grassland.

At the same time, Li Yanbing, the general of Yulin, sent salt water and Ding'an, and Yang Peimin, the general of Wuwei, led the army out of Jinchuan.

King Huai's plan can no longer passively wait for the thorn to go south, but must change from passive to active, so that the thorn army will automatically show their strength and purpose.

Otherwise, waiting for the thorn to go south, and then going to dispatch troops, not to mention the large time span, it is easy to let the thorn have more room to move, and it is not easy to catch the main force of the thorn.

In particular, with the arrival of the third batch of chariots, King Huai has added a lot of confidence in his heart.

Not to mention how shocking it would be if hundreds of chariots were used in unison, once an encirclement of one or two miles was formed, the cavalry would be lambs to the slaughter.

Although he asked the saint for a thousand chariots, he also knew that it was indeed difficult for the court, and it was already very good to have these.

However, he didn't put them together as Yuan Rui said, and sent a hundred to Wuwei, but told them that they must be together, and they must not be separated again, do you have a good look.

Obviously, Hua Thorn didn't expect that Great Xia would send troops first, and some small tribes didn't even have a chance to concentrate, so they were directly strangled by the army.

This made the entire tribe of thorns begin to panic, and many tribes began to abandon the pasture they had just occupied and began to return.

King Huai did not interfere too much with Li Yan and Yang Peimin, and let them decide the deployment of troops and battle strategies according to the battlefield situation, and the only requirement was not to expose the chariot as a big killing weapon too early.

In order to annihilate thousands or thousands of cavalry, you can't easily let the other side know about this new equipment, so as not to make the thorns ready for the final battle.

The first to engage in the battle was Li Yan's department, and the five battalions of the Yulin Left Army, under the leadership of the Pingliang general Tang Tianfang, attacked from Ding'an to Gaosha, and met 10,000 people of the Shanuki tribe who were gathering here at Haba Lake.

Tang Tianfang is 42 years old this year, his ancestral home is Jingzhou, his ancestors started as a pawn in the Jingzhou army, and was promoted to lieutenant after meritorious service, and then returned to his hometown due to injury.

When Tang Tianfang's father arrived, he was only a pawn in the army, often went to war with the border army, and his health was not very good, and he died of illness in the army before he was forty years old, so Tang Tianfang began to join the army at the age of seventeen.

After Tang Tianfang joined the army, he was strong, not only did he immediately step down and excel in martial arts, but he was also very good at fighting skillfully.

First of all, he led a team of soldiers to skillfully avoid most of the enemy, went around behind the enemy, killed and repelled the enemy soldiers, and directly burned the heavy grain and grass, making a contribution.

Three years later, he was promoted to lieutenant and became the youngest lieutenant in the Yulin Border Army.

He has his own ideas for managing his subordinates, whether it is training or fighting against the enemy, he strictly requires that it be carried out according to his own arrangement.

In several major battles, his subordinates suffered the least casualties, but killed the most enemies, and General Yang at that time was very appreciative, and three years later he was promoted to a partial general and became the commander of the first battalion.

Shaoning twenty-seven years and Xining three years of the war, he participated, made many large and small military exploits, recommended by the general, was given by Xining Shengshang as the general of Pingliang, became a border army general.

He was a general who was very good at seizing the warplane, and when he saw a rare opportunity, he took advantage of the fact that the Sanuki tribe was defenseless and busy reorganizing the army, and commanded three battalions to rush towards the enemy from three directions.

A stone's throw away, they were light horses, and in an instant, they rushed to the front of the camp of the Sanouchi tribe.

The Sanouchi cavalry hurriedly met the battle, and without firing a few bows and arrows, the Xia soldiers arrived.

At this time, the strong quality of the steppe cavalry still played a role, and their individual combat ability really cannot be underestimated.

At first, although the Sanouchi cavalry fell directly to a thousand people.

However, under the desperate fighting style of the thousands of cavalry in front, especially the desperate resistance of many old people and women of the tribe, more and more Sanouchi cavalry began to assemble and form a combat effectiveness.

Tang Tianfang has never been the one who suffers losses, knowing that with only more than 10,000 people, it is a dream to defeat more than 10,000 people on the other side. Without further delay, the horn of retreat was sounded and the gong was sounded.

When the officers and men of the third battalion heard the order, everyone turned their horses around and retreated from the Sanouchi camp in three ways.

The Sanouchi cavalry had suffered this loss, and they had no intention of stopping at all, so they chased them out in a scattered manner.

At this time, it was seen that Tang Tian was very powerful, as if he had expected this a long time ago, and the other two battalions were exactly what they were doing, and they had already laid an ambush on the way to retreat.

Letting go of the retreating soldiers, it was three consecutive shots at the chasing cavalry, and suddenly tens of thousands of arrows rained down.

Another thousand Sanouchi cavalry were shot into a sieve on the spot.

It is said that if the general is greedy for merit, he may let all the soldiers kill another carbine, not to mention more, it is still possible to kill a thousand more enemies.

However, Tang Tianfang didn't have this idea at all, and watched the rest of the Sanuki cavalry retreat back, not stopping at all, and giving several orders in a row, the five battalions of men and horses returned directly to Ding'an according to the pre-battle deployment.

Five days later, the king of Huai, who had just arrived at Liupan Mountain, got Li Yan's battle report, and the Pingliang general Tang Tian met the enemy in Haba Lake, and after a fierce battle, killed more than 1,000 enemies, and killed 132 of his own.

King Huai knew that Tang Tian put this person, he could fight, he was good at fighting, and he never exaggerated the situation of the war.

He said that there must be more than 1,000 people, and he must have killed so many people, not counting injuries.

In fact, King Huai still estimated less, and when encountering long-range shots and melee strangulation in this battle, more than 1,000 people died on the spot.

During the pursuit, more than 10,000 arrows rained down and killed more than 1,000 people, and they were really not injured.

At that time, Tang Tianfang knew that he couldn't be entangled, once he started a frontal battle, although he might kill and injure more, but he would also have a lot of losses, which was not cost-effective, so he didn't think about counting it at all, and after he came back, he just made a simple statistics.

After the battle, Shanouchi counted that more than 2,760 people were killed on the spot, and more than 2,850 were wounded, so it can be said that at least half of the cavalry lost their combat effectiveness.

If you add the dead and wounded old people, women and children, the Sanuchi tribe has lost its original vitality for at least ten years.

Now the leader of Sanuki is very angry, and he has gathered the remaining five thousand cavalry, and is looking for Tang Tianfang with the cooperation of the five thousand ebony cavalry, thinking of fighting to the death.

King Huai was overjoyed, the first great victory in the north, and while ordering the meritorious service, he reported it to the entire Longzhou border army. At the same time, let all the border army generals pay attention to it and report the movements of the Thorn army in a timely manner.

On 26 April, some soldiers brought an urgent official document to Longzhou, and the day before yesterday, 300 new-style chariots arrived in Longzhou, and Chen Guogong specially sent people to ask how these chariots would be placed.

This time, King Huai remembered Yuan Rui's proposal, and he decided that the three hundred cars would not be dispersed, so they would be concentrated according to Yuan Rui's arrangement, and once the army fought, this team could be used as a surprise soldier.

He immediately sent someone to inform Chen Guogong to quickly send someone to send 300 chariots to Liupan Mountain, and at the same time sent a letter to General Li Yan to requisition Tang Tianfang 5 battalions to go south and take over the 300 chariots.

King Huai also knew that Li Yan was under a lot of pressure now, and if Tang Tian was transferred over, Li Yan would not be able to figure it out, and he explained his thoughts in detail in the letter.

At the same time, it is explained that after Tang Tianfang accepted the chariot, he still belonged to Li Yan and obeyed Li Yan's command, of course, if it was needed in the war, King Huai might directly command Tang Tianfang to participate in the war.

What King Huai didn't expect was that these 300 chariots were made by the Ministry of Industry in recent times and using nearly 10,000 craftsmen, and the cost was two percent higher than that of Yuan Rui.

The 200 vehicles made by the Chen family recently have also been transported from Songjiang to Jingzhou, and they have joined the Miao soldiers of Guizhou and the wolf soldiers of Yuezhou, and they have gone north from Xiangzhou, and it is expected to reach Longzhou within half a month.

Yuan Rui had already made arrangements with dozens of veterans of the Wei Mansion, and these two hundred chariots were used to cooperate with the wolf soldiers and Miao soldiers against the enemy.

The Miao soldiers and wolf soldiers have to say that the shortcomings are their defenses, although they carry a large number of rattan armor, but for the steppe flower thorn cavalry, these protections are still a little weaker.

In order to give full play to the powerful combat power of these soldiers, it is necessary to let them kill the enemy in a very dexterous state, and the protective ring is the best battlefield.

These dozens of veterans are on the road to let these Miao soldiers and wolf soldiers know the power of the chariot and how to effectively use the protection of the chariot to kill and injure the enemy.

At the same time, it is also necessary to tell them the combat characteristics of the flower thorn cavalry, so as to prevent the Miao soldiers and the wolf soldiers from not knowing the situation and suffering a big loss.

This time, Wei Guogong strongly requested to come, but the saint did not allow it, at such an age, if there was a good one, it would not be conducive to stabilizing the situation in the court, so dozens of veterans from the family were sent.

On the first day of the fifth month, Li Yan sent the latest news that the Great Khan Shada had gathered nearly 200,000 cavalry from the surrounding tribes, and now Ningwu was on the first line of the three beams.

It is expected to attack Ding'an and Yanshui according to the original route through Xidagou to the east, and attack Longzhou from the direction of Ansai, this route is not only close, but also has the point that there are not many dangerous places on the way, which is not good for the defenders.

Huai Wang stood in front of the map for a long time, he was a little uncertain about the direction, it is said that the news reported by Li Yan should be accurate.

This was the route that spurs went south last time, and it was also the most beneficial route for them, but King Huai always felt that something was wrong. Shada gathered 200,000 cavalry this time, and he dared to go south, shouldn't it!

Looking at the last time, the thorn has assembled an army of 500,000 troops, is there another layout?

There is no news from Wuweijun's side now, is there any way there?

Is the thorn thinking about two left and right flanking attacks or breaking each one?