The county government of Fuma County, Fangzhou, is Rao Qiangfeng's temporary camp. A month ago, Rao Qiangfeng listened to Dong Haoyun's advice, and collectively called his soldiers and horses the "Heavenly Army", and the sky was uneven, Rao Qiangfeng was called "General of the Heavenly Army", Dong Haoyun was the military advisor, and there were ten generals under his command, and he declared an army of 100,000 to the outside world.

However, since the court sent Shen Guogong as the commander to lead the troops to rebel, Rao Qiangfeng found that the good situation had changed, and those panicked officials seemed to have a backbone all of a sudden, and they took the city as a camp to resist and become tenacious.

On July 5, Shen Guogong led 5,000 soldiers and horses into Xingyun Mansion in Fangzhou, and issued a proclamation, calling on the people to kill thieves and make meritorious contributions, and the bandit army could not be prosecuted if they rebelled against the court. As soon as the announcement came out, Rao Qiangfeng found that the minions who went out to grab food disappeared inexplicably, and he didn't know whether to die or flee, and a sense of crisis was coming.

In the hall of the county government, Rao Qiangfeng gathered to discuss countermeasures. Hua Lizhu, the master of Fuming Cottage in the newly joined army, said first: "General, the soldiers are coming to block, Shen Guogong is just a bad old man, I'm afraid he will do something." Let's send troops to Xingyun Mansion and beat this old boy down. ”

"Yes, the court has only transferred 5,000 soldiers and horses, it is too underestimated to look down on our Heavenly Army, the 20,000 people in the Anxi camp were all defeated in our hands, not to mention these 5,000 people." Above the lobby, echoing the sound rang out.

Rao Qiangfeng was silent, the prestige of King Keming, the Duke of Shenguo, was forged with the flesh and blood of countless opponents, and he was invincible on the battlefield for decades, after this person arrived in Xingyun Mansion, he reversed the situation with an announcement, and if he was not careful and cautious with such an opponent, he would kill himself.

Dong Haoyun stroked his beard and said, "General, there must have been a fight." However, the art of war: defeat before victory, retreat before expectation, and comprehensive arrangements in advance are indispensable, after all, Shen Guogong is a wise and brave veteran. If you can defeat Shen Guogong, the general's prestige will be greater, and you can be the king and hegemon. ”

Rao Qiangfeng nodded, since the dispatch of the army, his soldiers and horses have gathered more and more, but the only battle he really experienced was a battle with Ma Chenguang, and the court sent Shen Guogong to come to conquer him, which can be regarded as looking down on himself. Rao Qiangfeng laughed loudly: "Brothers, everyone is forced by the government to run away, and the government doesn't give us a way to live, so we will use the knife in our hands to cut a way out." ”

On July 14, Rao Qiangfeng led 20,000 soldiers and horses to approach Xingyun Mansion, and Shen Guogong led 3,000 soldiers and horses to meet the enemy. Wang Keming's 5,000 soldiers and horses on this trip were the elite of the 16 guards, including 500 heavy cavalry, 500 swords, and 1,000 light cavalry. Holding a male soldier in his hand, Wang Keming is full of confidence, even if the thief is huge, he is confident that he can defeat the thief army.

Rao Qiangfeng led the army to attack Xingyun Mansion, which was in line with Wang Keming's intentions. Dressed in battle again, the horizontal knife under the banner of Daxu was immediate, Wang Keming felt that he had found a little young madness, looking at the bandit army rushing towards him with teeth and claws on the opposite side, Wang Keming quietly ordered: "The thief enters eighty steps, and the bow and arrow are scattered." ”

The thieves are like a tide, surging, and swept in. Three thousand iron armor, as safe as a reef, carried out the commander's orders without any mistakes, and after five rounds of arrows, hundreds of thieves had fallen, but they also rushed into the front twenty steps.

"The archers retreated, the spears formed a formation", the soldiers and horses of the Sixteen Guards were well-trained, and the execution of the general order was not delayed, and when Hua Lizhu rushed to the front of the official army, he was greeted by a spear as strong as a hedgehog. Hua Lizhu roared sharply, picked up the shield in his left hand, and swept towards the "spike" in front of him. He was a cattle herdsman in the mountains, and two oxen fought each other, and he separated them from them, and one of the horns of the ox broke and died, and the proprietor blamed him for whipping him, and Hua Lizhu was angry and killed, and fell into the grass.

The shield was like a giant hammer in Hua Lizhu's hand, and the spear head was broken one after another, Hua Lizhu blocked the shield in front of him, strode forward, and the long knife in his right hand slashed out, and blood splattered. Most of the rushing bandits were stabbed by spears, strung into blood gourds, the spears retreated, and the other group of spears stabbed out alternately, and in a moment a large number of officers and soldiers fell in front of the formation.

Wang Keming immediately saw a small gap in the gun array, and ordered: "Plug the loophole." Wang Zhixiang was beside him, and when he saw the battle between the two armies, he was already eager to try, and when he heard his father's command, he immediately picked up his horse and moved forward. Zhao Wei smiled at Wang Keming and said: "The tiger father has no dogs, and Zhixiang is a good kid." Big brother, I'll go over and take a look. ”

Hua Lizhu tore open the gun formation, and led his men forward, Wang Zhixiang came on horseback, and condescendingly cut at the top of Hua Fangzhu's head. Hua Lizhu had long noticed the officers and generals who came on horseback, and saw the knife slashed, the shield was raised, the sword and shield collided, and Wang Zhixiang's scimitar was turned upside down. Hua Lizhu's right hand machete swept and slashed towards the horse's front legs, Wang Zhixiang gently lifted the reins, and the war horse was trained to know its intentions, and gave up the machete to the side.

"Good horse", Hua Lizhu praised, there was no mercy in his hands, the shield was smashed in the direction, it was not easy to beat people, and it was easy to beat horses. Wang Zhixiang was forced by Hua Lizhu to be in a hurry, and retreated again and again, if it weren't for the help of the guards around him, the mount would have been injured in Hua Lizhu's hands.

Zhao Wei didn't rush forward to help, he fought with the guards on weekdays, and the guards would not really hurt him, but fighting with the enemy was different, and if he didn't pay attention to it, he would see life and death. Under the cover of the guards, Wang Zhixiang gradually found his senses, and the scimitar in his hand floated towards Hua Lizhu like snowflakes.

Wang Zhixiang won the first battle against the strong enemy, he was reluctant, and took his guards to chase forward, Rao Qiangfeng and Dong Haoyun saw the officers and soldiers kill out of the gun array, and immediately ordered the light cavalry on both sides to cover the kill, and saw that the chasing officers and soldiers were riding high-headed horses, which should be generals in the army.

Zhao Wei secretly sighed in his heart that his nephew was reckless, as a general, he had to judge the situation and have a comprehensive control of the battle situation, and the result of his rash attack was an ambush. Wang Zhixiang's dozens of horsemen fell into the siege, Zhao Wei couldn't watch his nephew get injured, and there was a lesson to be learned. Wang Keming handed over the five hundred heavy cavalry to Zhao Wei under the command, and Zhao Wei ordered: "Heavy cavalry, follow me to fight." ”

After the heavy cavalry was put into battle, he got on his horse and rushed out, wearing black armor like a dark cloud, Dong Haoyun saw a group of cavalry wearing horse armor rushing out of the official army, and exclaimed: "It's a heavy cavalry, general, order the withdrawal of the army." ”

The poorly equipped Heavenly Army was as vulnerable as a piece of paper under the impact of the heavy cavalry, and Wang Keming saw that the thief army had been frustrated and retreated, and ordered in a loud voice: "Pursuit." ”

The Heavenly Army scattered and fled, and Rao Qiangfeng and Dong Haoyun deliberately led the official army to run to the ambush.

Wang Zhixiang rushed to the front, this is his first battle, years of learning and art finally have a place, he has had a wish since he was a child, to be like his father to fight for the country in all directions, and set up a great reputation. In this battle, Wang Zhixiang asked himself and fought bravely, and tens of thousands of bandit troops fell apart in front of his horses' hooves, and this sense of pleasure was indescribable.

Of course, Wang Zhixiang knew the truth of "poor people don't chase this", and his father would sometimes talk to him about the various traps he encountered, and the bandit army in front of him was gathering and not dispersed, so beware of their ambush. Wang Zhixiang paid attention to the surroundings, the surrounding area was open and mountainless, and the flat rice fields in front of him had been harvested, and only half-foot-high rice roots remained.

The thieves rushed straight down to the fields and fled forward. Wang Zhixiang came to the edge of the field to restrain his horse, and noticed that the field after harvesting had dried up and cracked after a month of wind and sun. There were guards around him who jumped into the field and ran around it, and it was okay, he could ride his horse. Wang Zhixiang lifted the reins, and the war horse shot out like an arrow, and continued to chase forward.

This paddy field has hundreds of acres, because it is a rare paddy field because it is close to the river not far away. Rao Qiangfeng and Dong Haoyun have already rushed to the water's edge five miles away, they have sent people to build a dam here, full of river water, and on both sides of the embankment ambushed thousands of archers, just waiting for the water to flood the rice fields, the fields become a quagmire, the feet high mud will make people unable to lift their feet, and the war horses will not be able to gallop on it, then they will become fish in the net, to be slaughtered.

Zhao Wei led five hundred heavy horses to the edge of the field, and saw that Wang Zhixiang had already led the chase out two miles away, Zhao Wei's mind flashed this map, remembering that there was a river here. Looking at the dry rice fields under his feet, Zhao Wei immediately became worried, and ordered in a loud voice: "Mingjin." ”

Hearing the drum and entering, singing gold and returning, Wang Zhixiang understands this rule. Hearing the gong behind him, Wang Zhixiang hesitated, but a few feet in front of him, more than 100 bandit soldiers were panting forward, and these people were the credit of sending them to the door. Wang Zhixiang gritted his teeth, pretended not to hear the gong, and rushed towards the group of bandits with a sword. The farther and farther they chase, the closer they got to the ambush point.

Dong Haoyun heard the sound of the gong and immediately ordered: "Open the dam." "The half-foot-high river rushed out of the gap and quickly soaked the farmland. The guards beside Wang Zhixiang shouted loudly: "Young marshal, be careful. The bandit army is attacking with water. ”

Wang Zhixiang looked forward, and a torrent rushed in, but the water was not deep, only a foot high, not to mention riding on a horse, even standing on the ground was only knee-high. Wang Zhixiang said with a smile: "The thieves saw that we were too tired from fighting, so put some water to wash our feet." As he spoke, the river rushed over the horses' hooves, and fifty paces ahead stood countless archers. The guards were in a hurry and said, "Hurry up, I was ambushed by the bandits." ”

The horse galloped back, and the horse's hooves sank deep into the mud, making it difficult to lift the hooves. Behind him, arrows rained down like locusts. The guards around Wang Zhixiang were astute, and stepped forward to throw Wang Zhixiang off the horse's back and fall into the muddy water, using the cover of the horse to avoid the rain of arrows.

After a while, the horse neighed and fell to the ground, and the guards pressed Wang Zhixiang to the side where the horse fell. Wang Zhixiang saw the dense arrow feathers on the other side of the horse's body, and his heart was as uncomfortable as a knife. This war horse is a congratulatory gift from Jiang Anyi to his father's 60th birthday - a BMW in the Western Regions. Unexpectedly, the first time he went to the battlefield, he folded his brother on the battlefield.

The rain of arrows poured down, and the screams continued to sound in all directions, and the officers and soldiers who followed the battle were shot by the arrows and struggled in the muddy water, the blood staining the mud red. Behind him, Zhao Wei arrived with shield soldiers, set up a long shield in front of everyone, and fought and retreated to cover everyone's retreat, and finally got out of the wet rice field in the mud.