At present, Zhangye County belongs to Zhangye City and Sha Bang Pass has the most troops, but the strategic location of Sha Bang Pass is too important, once it is lost, Zhangye City and the interior of the Great Sui will be cut off, do not dare to move, Shangguan Hu, Li Congrui two generals will guard in Sha Bang Pass.

Therefore, Wang Junlin sent fast horses to Wang Tong, the assassin who returned to Jincheng, and Yujuluo of Xiping County, as well as Kyoto to report that the Turks were attacking south, and sent a signal for help, he personally led the 3,000 cavalry in Zhangye City to set off first and galloped to Xifeng County, where Shifeng Village was located.

Although the difference between 3,000 cavalry and 50,000 Turkic cavalry was too great, even if the defenders of Shifeng Village and Xifeng County were added, it was only 10,000 people, Wang Junlin still set off without hesitation. If it weren't for Wang Junlin's previous record of winning more with less, it was too brilliant, and Jiang Yishan would not have agreed to Wang Junlin's behavior of sending him to death.

Xifeng County is only about 400 miles away from Zhangye City, and it can be reached in two days, but Shifeng Village is located more than 300 miles north of Xifeng County.

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Smoke everywhere, mourning everywhere, the people in Xifeng County and Shifeng Village are shrouded in a rage, where the Turks outside the city passed, thick smoke billows, and the villages and towns that have just been built are reduced to nothing in a spark, and what makes the defenders of Shifeng Village extremely angry is that this time the Turks and the previous robberies and plundered the population have different purposes, but after robbing things, all the Sui people they met were killed, so where the Turkic horses' hooves passed, there was no one left.

Xifeng County ordered Yuan Qingshan to close the city gate tightly, but Niu Jinda of Shifeng Village was already restless, "Everyone, are we going to sit and watch the other party wreak havoc on the people like this?" Seeing that the Turks brought the heads of countless people, and threw stones outside the walled city layer by layer, the soldiers in the city were red-eyed, but the most fierce reaction was the former green forest hero Niu Jinda.

"Lord Duwei, if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan." Hu Dafei, the leader of the regiment, said: "The reason why the Turkic dog thieves do this is to provoke the general to go out of the city, if the general goes out of the city to fight, he will fall into the hands of the other party, we have too few troops, especially too few cavalry!" ”

Niu Jinda took the case: "Lao Tzu is not a benevolent and righteous person, let alone a moral person, Lao Tzu is just a martial artist, but the Hou Ye looks up to me and makes me this captain, I want to protect the people's safety, I decided, I want to go out of the city." ”

Tian Ming, Hu Dafei, and Ren Junshuo, the three regiment leaders, were shocked, and knelt down on one knee in front of Niu Jinda's eyes, and dissuaded: "Please think twice!" ”

Niu Jinda shook his head and said: "I see that Xue Yantuo only left more than 1,000 people and horses under the city, and the other two groups of men and horses divided their troops to plunder, obviously expecting that we would not dare to go out of the city, hmph, I just can't do what he wants, I will take 2,000 men and horses out of the city, leaving more than 1,000 strong soldiers, plus the young and strong in the city, the three of you will preside over the defense of the city, and the enemy army will not take advantage of it, I will use 2,000 troops to deal with the other party's scattered and plundering people and horses, and I will never be defeated by the other party, at least I can let the thieves be so presumptuous again." ”

"General?" Tian Ming also wanted to dissuade him. But Niu Jinda categorically stopped his words, "Okay, I know what you said makes sense, but Master Hou asked me to be this captain, I can't turn a blind eye to the people suffering so much, even if the horse leather shroud, I have to go out of the city to fight, otherwise if it drags on like this, my Shifeng Village will be finished, and morale will no longer exist." ”

After speaking, he walked out without looking back, the three regiment masters looked at each other, sighed, knowing that it was difficult to dissuade, Hu Dafei said: "Lord Duwei, it is better to go out of the city with the lord from a humble position, and it is enough for a thousand infantry in the city to be led by the two regiment masters and Tian regiment masters to defend the city." ”

"It's fine." Niu Jinda thought that this was the first time he had led his troops to fight independently after all, thought about it for a while, and nodded in agreement.

The first contact battle between the two sides ended with Niu Jinda's complete victory, short and fierce, dozens of Xue Yantuo cavalry just came out of a village, suddenly encountered two thousand Sui troops, too late to retreat, most of them turned back to kill at the moment, the remaining few horses actually beat horses and fled, in a vain attempt to report to the nearby friendly troops, Niu Jinda with only five hundred cavalry under his command Although they are also elite, but there is still some gap between them and the Xue Yantuo people who grew up on these horses in terms of horseback, and they can't catch up, so they can only turn back and surround the dozens of Xue Yantuo cavalry left behind.

In this battle, 51 Turkic cavalry were beheaded and more than 40 war horses were captured, which made Niu Jinda slightly angry at the same time, but he also raised his vigilance. The five thousand silver wolf king horse, who was known as the most elite in the Turks, was easily burned to death by Hou Ye's design, which made him subconsciously despise the Turks, but after a short battle just now, he found that these Turkic dog thieves in the Xue Yantuo Department were far more difficult than he thought before.

Take it just now, once the other party found that he could not escape, he decisively abandoned the looted property, covered his companion's escape and reported the news, and rushed towards them without hesitation knowing that he would die, just to buy a little time for his companion, this will to fight made Niu Jinda's heart awe-inspiring.

Moreover, he killed more than 50 people on the other side with 2,000 men, and his own side even lost more than a dozen people in battle.

Squinting into the distance, puffs of smoke and dust billowed in, and reinforcements from the Turks arrived. Niu Jinda's pupils shrank, knowing that he still had 1,500 infantry, and he couldn't run, only one battle, and hoped that the number of reinforcements on the other side would not be too much.

"On both sides of the cavalry, in the middle of the infantry, lined up, ready to meet the enemy!" Niu Jinda ordered blatantly.

Under the specific dispatch of Hu Dafei, after a collision of weapons, 1,500 infantry quickly formed a phalanx of five or three hundred people, and each soldier was only a foot away from each other, so as to swing his arm to stab the spear in his hand, and the spear of the soldiers in the back row stretched out from the gap between the soldiers in the front row, and the five gun forests were formed in an instant. The remaining five hundred cavalry were on either side of the infantry phalanx, ready to charge at any moment.

The Turks in the distance were extremely fast, and in less than a stick of incense, there was already a trumpet in Niu Jinda's field of vision, a horn, the wild torrent stopped, and dozens of cavalry hugged a Turkic general wearing iron armor and jumped out to observe the battle formation of Niu Jinda's side.

This ironclad general was very familiar, Niu Jinda only glanced at it, and recognized that this person was the Turkic man who planted the flag under the military fortress, and he couldn't help but feel a wave of anger in his heart, and almost wanted to jump out of the horse and fight him again.

But in the end, he gritted his teeth and gave up this idea, he is now the commander of the army, no longer a horseman, and the other party is obviously not a reckless man, he did not rush over directly, which made him very vigilant in his heart, fortunately, the other party only has a thousand cavalry, and the strength has been superior, but the other party is all cavalry.