Zhang Yiliang went home for a trip, but after not seeing her for a few days, Xiao Nian had become a charming little girl under Song Yi's careful dressing, and began to learn to play the pipa. Zhang Yiliang and Xiao Nian played for a while, and Song Yi arranged for the maids to take Xiao Nian out shopping, and the two locked the doors and windows, and became intimate in broad daylight.

In the evening, Zhang Yiliang quietly went to the Lianlu Station in Cixiaoli to discuss with Xiao Jianli about the formation of Huben. He planned to go back tomorrow to begin this work, and the time was short, and the team was ready to go out as soon as the team was formed, so that the Ulu army would not disappear again. For a temporary team to win against a battle-hardened barbarian soldier, Ichira is obviously lacking in confidence.

The last time 30 people fought against more than 300 people, and the night raid was the main factor in success, and the fact that the Ulu team was mostly old, weak, sick and disabled also greatly reduced the difficulty of the battle. This time, a thousand tigers are going to fight eight thousand Xianbei soldiers, whether they can find a chance to raid for the time being, the commander of the other party is a belligerent and murderous madman.

The two agreed that Xiao Jianli would gather the Langya soldiers in the Gyeonggi area and organize a team of forty or fifty people to go out with the army. However, this team can only be used as a backup team for the Tiger Army, secretly following behind the Tiger Army, and letting the Tiger Army fight independently unless it is absolutely necessary. First, to sharpen the Tiger Ben Army with actual combat, and second, to reduce the losses of the sect.

The two made a plan: Xiao Jianli immediately gathered his men and horses, and waited for Zhang Yiliang's signal in Fanlian Mountain in the Monan Grassland tomorrow night. Yiliang prepared three flags, red means that he ordered the Langya people to stand still, green means to join the battle, and yellow means that there is something important to discuss with Xiao Jianli.

The Langya Army is mainly composed of the Leopard Army and some martial arts masters in Gyeonggi, with such a force behind them, one bright and one dark, Yiliang can command the tiger with peace of mind. This head was properly arranged, and Yiliang quickly returned to the northern camp to select the tiger cavalry.

It took a whole night for Zhang Yiliang to select a thousand cavalrymen with their own strengths in Yan Zhang's northern defense battalion. Among them, there are those of Hu blood, some of them are veterinarians, and some of them are well aware of Monan; there are ten warriors of the whole army who are not allowed to open a husband, and there are also sword and axe hands, fire men, and horse experts in the army. Varied, strange.

After the personnel were selected, Yiliang spent another half a day to train this Tiger Cavalry. Two hundred people were arranged in a company, from the first to the fifth. Each company was divided into five platoons, each with forty men. Two shifts are arranged in each row. Company commanders, deputy company commanders, platoon commanders, deputy platoon commanders, squad leaders, deputy squad leaders, etc. were appointed one by one.

In addition to the cavalry attributes, these five companies are also arranged into a running company, a strong crossbow company, a heavy cavalry company, a reconnaissance company, and a logistics company according to the soldiers' second specialty.

The running company is mainly composed of soldiers who are good at running such as horse experts and cavalry soldiers, and is equipped with the best war horses;

In addition to the regular cavalry slashing skills, the strong crossbow company also has the advantage of riding and shooting;

The heavy cavalry company, mostly heavy armor sword and axe hands, is the tank meat shield company of the Tiger Ben Army;

The reconnaissance company, in addition to the regular cavalry, each also had to carry the clothing of the Huns and Xianbei people and all kinds of Hu utensils. It is up to them to disguise reconnaissance and infiltrate the enemy camp;

The logistics company also takes the ability to fight on horseback as the first requirement, and the ability to provide logistics services second. It is up to them to save the dead and help the wounded, replenish the military supplies on the spot, etc.

In the afternoon, Yiliang let the rehearsed Tiger Ben Army practice rush warfare, repeated drills several times, and the command system was basically mature. Although the warriors have not yet understood the importance of the run, it doesn't matter, as long as they know the essentials of the run. Before leaving, according to Yiliang's request, Yan Zhang arranged dinner for the Tiger Ben Army, big fish and meat, and the soldiers let go of eating. When he left, he gave each soldier dry food, dried meat and other things.

After Fanlianshan and Xiao Jianli conspired, Hu Ben was in front, Langya followed secretly, and the team advanced to the depths of the grassland. The Tiger Cavalry let go of running, and did not pay attention to the formation and formation, like a group of steppe wolves, rushing forward. The team followed the border between the Xiongnu and Xianbei to the river where the Ulu army had last been raided. The east is white, the dawn has come, and the march has been for days.

There are three directions to choose from, one is to continue to look north along the junction of Xiongnu and Xianbei, the second is to enter the hinterland of Xianbei to the northeast, and the third is to enter the territory of Xiongnu. Marching all the way north, it is most likely to encounter the enemy, but it may be an encounter, and it may even be an ambush, and the Xianbei people of the Ulu must have known that the Jin army was looking for them at this time. The battle against the Ulus tribe was bound to be defeated if it could not be raided.

It is a way to make a detour into the territory of the Xiongnu, but this territory is the land of the Southern Xiongnu, and the 100,000 cavalry of the Southern Xiongnu enter rashly, and the danger is extremely great. In the northeast, there are scattered tribes of Xianbei, dozens of miles to the northeast, and then detour back to the north, looking for the enemy from the north to the south, and suddenly appear in the north of the Ulu army, and the surprise attack is bound to be successful.

The tiger cavalry rested for a day, and in the evening, after eating some dry food, turned the march route, and rushed to the northeast. A thousand tigers gallop across the grassland in the evening glow. At this time, it was the dinner time of the Xianbei people, and the tiger cavalry came to a spring water, and when they saw the water, they became vigilant and continued to move forward in the direction of the water, and about two or three miles, they saw a small lake. Sure enough, there was a Xianbei Ranger with fifty or sixty tents stationed on the edge of the lake.

Zhang Yiliang didn't have time to think about it, and said: There is the Xianbei Ranger in front, and you will be rewarded with ten taels of silver for killing one person. Kill!!!

As soon as the words fell, he rode his horse to speed up, and he was a peerless horse through the forest, and he took the lead and killed the camp group. The first company is a rushing company, and all of them are first-class war horses, following Zhang Yiliang. The soldiers of the second company galloped on their horses, while preparing a strong crossbow, following behind the first company, dozens of meters away from the enemy's camp, the strong crossbow preemptively sprayed a burst, killing all the outer patrols of Xianbei.

According to the previous exercise, the first company was divided into two teams on the left and right in front of the enemy formation, leaving the space directly in front of the second company, and the second company fired a strong crossbow for another while, and the next three companies arrived and launched an attack at the same time.

The Xianbei people were having dinner, some were still biting the meat in their mouths, some were holding a leg of mutton in their hands, and some were carrying wine bags out of the account to see the situation. The sound of killing suddenly rose, wailing all over the field, and the Xianbei people hurriedly organized resistance. Before rushing over, he was caught off guard by a series of outflanked on both sides, and scattered in all directions.

The second company saw that the first company was already white, so he put away the crossbow and killed into the formation. The next few companies blocked the road, and they all found their own way, attacked left and right, and rushed away. Zhang Yiliang was fighting outside the formation, took out a small red flag from the clip on horseback, turned around and swaggered back, signaling the leopard army not to attack.

Zhang Yiliang found that there were weaknesses in such an advance, and the biggest advantage of the first company was a lightning attack, which had to be as sudden as a bamboo and close to the speed of the limit. The speed of the second company cannot keep up with the first company, and if the first company is allowed to maintain its original speed and charge head-on, the crossbow of the second company cannot be used, and it will hurt your own people.

If you want to give full play to the strong crossbow company of the second company, their speed should be faster than that of the first company, at least the same as that of the first company. The second company annihilated the enemy sentries and the first group of resisting enemies in front, and then the large army went in to cut cabbage, and the surprise attack was more effective. The second company released arrows while running, and when it arrived in front of the formation, it was divided into two teams on the left and right to outflank, leaving the front to the first company, which did not affect the potential energy of the first company, and could choke the reinforcements behind from the two wings, so that the first company could kill more refreshed and faster.

Making good use of these two companies is the key to making the most of the raid battle. In the blitzkrieg of long-distance running, if you want to win more with less, every link must be played to the extreme. This is the meaning of actual combat, and the generals who have been tempered by actual combat are genuine.

About ten minutes later, the battle ended, and the battlefield statistics were cleaned up: 687 Xianbei troops were annihilated, more than 1,000 cattle and sheep were captured, and 627 horses were captured. Our side suffered six serious wounds, twenty-seven lightly wounded, and more than 100 horses were lost.

Zhang Yiliang ordered: The trophies of more than 600 horses are very good! The soldiers of the Second Company give priority to selecting good horses, and choose the fastest ones, and your speed must be raised.

After a little rectification, the troops set out overnight and continued in a northeasterly direction. The soldiers asked what to do with the spoils? Zhang Yiliang ordered: Abandon them all and move forward lightly.

After another ten miles, it was already dark. The Tiger Cavalry ran into a larger group of Xianbei rangers in their madness. I didn't say it, kill! So he rushed over from two miles away.

The soldiers of the first company were close to the unity of men and horses, and the coordination was the strongest, and they ran for a while to leave the second company behind. Zhang Yiliang drove back to the second company through the forest, and asked loudly: Are we all raised by bitches?

In this agitation, how dare Erlian slacken, he seemed to be crazy and had to shuttle forward, only to hear the whirring sound of the yin wind, and the horses' hooves trampling the earth. It didn't take long for the second company to overtake the first company. The top two took the lead, followed by the remaining three. The second company rushed into the enemy area first, shot and killed about 30 people who were on guard, and outflanked the soldiers in front of the camp tent in two ways, and the first company had already rushed in.

This adjustment is slightly better than before, but Zhang Yiliang is still not satisfied. After charging into battle, the second company split into two, outflanked from the left and right, and shot the reinforcements rushing up from the enemy's center and rear army with strong crossbows. However, the enemy's middle and rear troops were too numerous, and they soon surrounded the two armies of the second company. This situation frightened Zhang Yiliang into a sweat, and immediately asked the fourth and fifth companies that arrived to support the second company, and then the inside and outside should be combined and the encirclement was torn to pieces.

If the three companies behind can't keep up, it will still be dangerous to raid a team with more people than themselves.

The battle lasted an hour. The raid was successful, but the disparity in numbers was so great that the enemy was given a chance to recover, and the enemy's rear army could even mount and kill him. However, the enemy always responded to the battle in a panic, and the morale of the army was shaken, and there was no advantage at all. The Tiger Ben army annihilated more than 3,000 Xianbei people, and more than 1,000 people were wounded and fled. The Tiger Ben cavalry also killed more than 20 people, most of whom were from the second company.

After two victories, the team was like a chicken's blood, and the fighting spirit was extremely strong, and it was time to find the Vulus army for a decisive battle. Zhang Yiliang ordered the Tiger Ben Army to line up according to the formation, he rode behind the forest, raised the sword in his hand, and mobilized:

The Xianbei Hu people have long invaded the Central Plains, burning, killing, plundering, and doing all kinds of evil. I know that some of your family members have been killed by the Xianbei people, your wives and children have been ravaged by the Xianbei people, and your father and brother have died under the butcher's knife of the Xianbei people. Tonight, we will have a decisive battle with the Shouxian Beilu army. Annihilate all the Ulu, bloody shame!

Annihilation of the Ulu, bloodshed disgrace! Annihilation of the Ulu, bloodshed of shame! Annihilation of the Ulu, bloodshed of disgrace! The Tiger Benjun shouted deafeningly.

Or choose the best war horse, or abandon all the booty, or run freely like a deer in the grassland. The team made a big turnaround, no longer marching in a northeasterly direction, but in a northwesterly direction. After traveling dozens of miles, I came to the junction of the northern section of the Xiongnu and Xianbei, which is already the boundary of Mobei.

Zhang Yiliang concluded that the Wulu army was in Monan, and they had plundered a lot, so it was impossible to enter Mobei with so much baggage.

The team traveled from north to south for more than 20 miles, and the border between Xianbei and Xiongnu in Monan had been searched, but there was no trace of the Wulu army. So a team of scouts was sent to investigate.

The results of the investigation surprised Zhang Yiliang: the reconnaissance team disguised as the Huns rescued several seriously injured Huns, and the Huns told the scouts that Shuofang City was twenty miles west of here. The Shuofang city was originally occupied by the Huns, and yesterday a group of Xianbei people came to attack the city and rob the Shuofang city......

Shuofang City was built by Liu Che, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty during the Han Dynasty, to commemorate the great victory of Heshuo. At that time, Liu Che sent Wei Qinghuo to go to war with the Xiongnu and recapture the Hejian, Hebei, and Hetao areas occupied by the Xiongnu for a long time. In order to consolidate the border defense, Liu Che migrated 100,000 people from the interior to build this Shuofang city. Although Shuofang is exposed to the grassland and has no natural barriers, the city is built according to the model of Hancheng: four city gates, four urn cities, dozens of city towers, dozens of arrow towers, and even the moat is built according to the scale of Hancheng, which is the most important fortress in Monan, and there is no one.

Since ancient times, the territory of Shuofang City has been an important place for the Hu and Han people to grab and grab. The Western Zhou Dynasty was occupied by the Linhu people. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Bai Di destroyed Lin Hu and established a nomadic kingship in this place. The Qin Dynasty sent the crown prince Fusu and Meng Tian to the north, seized the vast grassland area in the north, and set up Jiuyuan County here. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Central Plains was in turmoil, and these frontier lands were robbed by the Xiongnu, Qiang, and Xianbei in turn.

The rest of the scouts also brought back the same news, in addition to confirming that the Ulu army was hiding in Shuofang City, they also learned that more than 2,000 Huns in Shuofang City had killed more than 1,000 in battle and fled hundreds of people. The Xianbei Ulu army also lost more than 2,000 people in the siege battle, and there are only more than 5,000 Xianbei defenders in the city at present.

It's broken. Zhang Yiliang thought that the tiger was a cavalry, and the advantage was a surprise attack. Now the opponent is hiding in the city and storming Shuofang City, and he will definitely be defeated.

I originally wanted to raid in the steppe, but now it has become a siege battle, and I have no chance of winning now. However, even if you can't destroy these more than 5,000 Ulu troops, you can take the results of the previous two battles and go back to report to the imperial court, which can be regarded as an explanation. In such an embarrassing situation, how did Zhang Yiliang make a decision? Let's see next time.