Wucheng is the county of the east county, the ancient Zhao land, the flat and wide, the four no mountains, the east is close to the strong Qi, the age is decorated with military equipment, and the name of the yi.

Tobu Castle has a long history, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin State built the city in order to prevent the attack of the Qi State. With the passage of time, today's form of warfare is no longer the chariot rush of the Spring and Autumn Period, it is more flexible and changeable, and Tobu Castle is located in the plains of Hebei, where there is no danger to defend on all sides, and its strategic importance has been repeatedly reduced.

Such a geographical environment, naturally there are good and bad, the disadvantage is that there is no danger to rely on, once the strong enemy presses the territory, the countryside changes hands in an instant. The advantage is that there will be no long-term, large-scale wars in the realm, which is also of great benefit to the preservation of local vitality.

Therefore, today's Dongwu City, although it is not a strategic battle, but with its profound cultural origins, it can also be called a famous city in Hebei. For example, the famous Qinghe Cui clan and Zhang clan are all living in this realm, and the rest still have Lu, Chen, Yin and other surnames.

In Wang Shi's original strategic planning, Dongwu City did not belong to the middle road battlefield, so after recovering Dongwu City, Shen Mujun on the East Road did not open up to the west, but continued to attack Bohai County in the north.

However, the plan could not always catch up with the changes, and while the Eastern Road Wang Division was advancing vigorously, the Yanzhou Army on the right flank of the Central Road was suppressed by the Upper Baili Army after the initial victory, so that Linqing, an important supply place for the Eastern Road Wang Division, was threatened by the Upper Baiqi Army.

In addition, the 20,000 Youzhou army led by Shi Hu's son Zhang Wugong Shi Bin entered the Bohai battlefield around the beginning of autumn, and the advance of the Bohai side was somewhat blocked, so the East Road Wang Division also suspended the pace of advancement, and the main force stayed in the Bohai Prefecture, while some of the troops returned to defend Dongwu City and launched an offensive to Guangzong in the southwest.

When Jin Xuangong, who had just conquered Shangbai, lamented that Shi Min, the general of the army, was not lacking in the heroic spirit of the troubled times, Shi Min, who was far away in the Qinghe Beiqiu Orthodox Army, did not have such a promise, but had a kind of embarrassment and irritability under the difficulty of riding a tiger.

The Shi Min army was stationed on a hill more than 30 miles west of Beiqiu, and a tributary of Qingshui ran around the hill, but because the Jin army built a dam on the Linqing Barrage in the upper reaches of the south, this river entered the dry period very early.

A few miles to the northeast of the mound, there is the Jin army camp of Tobu Castle, which is not too large, built on a dilapidated dock wall, and the garrison strength is about two or three thousand people.

More than ten days have passed since the two armies confronted each other, and the dry river between the camps was still a little muddy, but after the cavalry iron hooves of the cavalry in the past period of time, it has already become extremely hard, and because of too much blood, the earth color is tinged with a strange dark red, and the autumn wind is filled with a disgusting fishy smell.

Shi Min railing and standing, due to the recent frequent killing, the beard has a posture, looking not angry and mighty, awe-inspiring. Behind him, the soldiers were silent, and they all looked up at the Jin army camp in the northeast.

Since the confrontation between the two sides, there has not been a day without fighting, and the scale is large and small, and today is no exception.

On the battlefield under the mound, hundreds of horsemen were fighting back and forth. Although Shi Min's army is a new army, it has absorbed the essence of all parties in Xiangguo, and then has been honed in many battles large and small in the Guangping realm, all of which are extremely strong, even in the face of the elite cavalry in the Qingxu army of the southern country, they can still not fall behind the obvious inferiority.

The two sides fought these hundreds of people, rushing back and forth on the battlefield that was several miles wide, although there were no banners, but they could distinguish friend and foe at a glance. Most of the horses used by the Jin army are Hexi war horses, which look much more powerful than the horses of the Karma army, and the soldiers are clearly dressed and armored, the bows and knives are neat, and the momentum is more than one step ahead of the Karma army.

The one who led the troops to fight today was Shi Min's henchman Su Hai, whose physique was strong, his armor was tight on his body, and he looked burly and abnormal, and even the war horse under his crotch looked a little short.

At the beginning of the battle, the advantages of the Jin cavalry in all aspects were revealed, and when the hedge, the men and horses did not arrive, and the strong arrows arrived first, and at such a distance, the poorly armed Qian army had no way to counterattack.

Su Hai was the first to stiffen and dodge, and the Wu Zi behind him was like a shadow, but there were still knights who had no time to control the war horse to change the momentum and were pierced by the Jin army's strong arrows and died on the battlefield.

The Hexi war horse has strong explosiveness, especially for short-distance charges, even if the Jin army's knights' equipment is much heavier than that of the Jin army, it is still a few points shallow in terms of speed.

After a round of flying arrows, the bow was hung on the saddle, the knife was in hand, and the condensed edge of the elite cavalry directly penetrated into the ranks of the Qiang army, and the thin battle formation was penetrated in an instant, and about more than 100 cavalry of the Qiang army were led off the track of the rush, and with the chopping of the Jin army rangers were coerced and divided, surrounded and slaughtered.

The defeat in the first battle was already a reality that the Qian army had to grit its teeth to bear, and the all-round strength gap made them dare not expect to be able to kill the enemy like a bamboo when they fought with the Jin cavalry.

But the current small setback did not cause the collapse of the army, although the formation was divided into two parts, but the cavalry of the two parts were still struggling to work hard.

The hundreds of knights of the Jin army wrapped in it continued to impact outward, because of the lack of weapons, most of them used spears that were easier to make, but under the chopping of the sharp knives of the Jin army, the lethality that these spears could cause was really limited, and even due to the drastic changes in the position during the battle, some spears clearly stabbed the body of the knights of the Jin army but were blocked by hard armor, and the spear shaft was broken in the hands of frequent occurrences.

However, their continuous outward assault still had a certain impact on the Jin army's charge. Although the soldiers of the Jin army were well equipped, their riding skills were relatively inferior to those of the Jin army.

The southerners learn the water, the northerners learn to ride, although the Qingxu royal division is mostly the elite of Ding Zhuang recruited from all over Qingxu, and they cannot be regarded as southerners in the strict sense, but when it comes to the constraints of this general situation, there are actually still exists. In addition to the absolute elite of the Fenwu Army and the Hongwu Army, even the Hanoi Cavalry Corps led by Han Huang is actually a little inferior to the Qiang Army in terms of average riding skills.

But this gap is actually not fatal, Wang Shi is a multi-class collocation, not all cavalry to control the enemy, and the overall level of equipment is far better than that of the army, which is enough to make up for this gap.

However, if it is in a specific regional battlefield, such as the current small-scale cavalry engagement, the disadvantage of cavalry is still relatively large. Although the initial battle was unfavorable, and the casualties were greater than the gains later, with superb riding skills, they were able to temporarily maintain the battle without defeat.

The impact of the inner line also brought opportunities to the general Su Hai on the outer line, taking advantage of the obvious gaps in the Jin army several times, leading the cavalry under his command to swim and bite like a cunning fox wolf, and gradually brought a lot of casualties to the Jin cavalry.

Especially as the battle continued, there was also a gap in horsepower, the Jin army was already heavily armed, and although the Hexi horse had abundant short-distance horsepower and strong explosive power, it did not have too long endurance, and it had an obvious disadvantage in endurance compared with Saima.

Of course, there is no shortage of excellent war horses with both explosiveness and endurance in the Jin army, especially the famous Hexi Longju, which has no obvious shortcomings in all aspects, and is even better than the famous sweat and blood BMW. But after all, this kind of excellent war horse is still a minority, mainly for Shengwu, Fenwu and other real ace troops, and cannot popularize all the first-line royal army.

In the past period of battle, the rhythm is often like this, in the first battle, the Jin army Wang Shi stabilized the front line of the Jin army, and the Jin army had almost no power to counterattack, so it could only rely on perseverance to swim and fight, but more than half of the time could not withstand the strong pressure of the first round, and was driven away by the Jin army.

However, if it can withstand the fierce impact of the first round of the Jin army, the battle situation will gradually deflect, and the mobility of the Jin cavalry will gradually decline.

The 500 cavalry of the Qiang army this time were the new force that Shi Minfang had brought to the front line for a long time from Shangbai, and the will to fight could be called tenacious.

Although the initial battle situation was unfavorable, with a loss of nearly 200 soldiers, as the Jin army's horsepower declined, the initiative gradually fell on the side of the Jin army. As a result, the situation on the battlefield gradually changed, and the Jin cavalry, which was originally rapidly interspersed with the cavalry of the Jin army, gathered in the middle area, while the cavalry of the Jin army spread out and roamed on all sides, harvesting the lives of the Jin army through continuous attacks and arrows.

"The power of Su Hai, can't you be the chief of ten thousand soldiers?"

Shi Min, who was watching the battle, saw that the battle situation had reversed, and a short smile appeared on his face, although the overall strategy was more and more unfavorable to him, but he was still able to suppress the Jin people on this local battlefield, and the morale was also huge.

He didn't fantasize that he could use one of his forces to restore the decline of the kingdom as a whole, but if his own troops could perform well in the battles of all sides, it would naturally make the lord rely on him a little more. No one can say where the situation will develop in the future, but as long as you can master a fierce and brave elite army in your hands, you will always be more relaxed than the duckweed that has nothing to rely on.

Although he was praising his subordinates, he was not complaining about himself.

Now he is only a rising star in the country after all, far from being a high-ranking and powerful general, similar to Ma Qiu, obviously has the sin of losing the land, the lord still handed over the responsibility of guarding the country to Ma Qiu, and he successfully stopped the pace of the Jin army to the north with his less than 10,000 weak people, and his merits were passed on to the country early, but he was not able to match the reward.

Shi Min also understands that the reason why this is the case is, in the final analysis, because his background is still shallow, and he does not have a strong backing in the country. Although he had reached a certain alliance with Boling Gong Shi Zun in Xiangguo last year, due to the involvement of the former prince Shi Zun, Shi Zun did not have enough voice in the country to provide him with more support.

At present, one of the new rising forces in the country is Zhang Wu Gong Shi Bin, who should now be called King Zhang Wu. After moving to Xindu, in order to stabilize the hearts of the people in the country, the lord finally fulfilled the title of emperor, and abandoned the title of King Zhao Tianwang, who was not good, and the sons were also crowned kings.

Shibin, the king of Zhangwu, the old town of Youzhou, is the most prosperous military merit among the sons of the lord today, and now he is in trouble and leads the Youzhou army to the south to rescue, and the Jin army has fought several times in the Bohai Sea, and there are mutual victories and defeats, and finally the situation has been saved a little, and the lord is very happy, and the military affairs of several counties such as Bohai, Zhangwu, and Hejian in eastern Hebei have been given to it, and there is no such victory among the kings.

In addition to his own power, King Zhang Wu also has a powerful ally, that is, Youzhou Thorn History Zhang Ju, the current state is in decline, only half of Jizhou and the whole territory of Youzhou remain, Youzhou Thorn History Zhang Ju has also become the No. 1 Fang Bo Thorn History in the country today.

The alliance of the powerful sect king and the strong general, if it were not for the rebirth of the Liaodong Murong Department, which had been attached to the state of Qian, in the middle of summer, there would have been almost no suspense in the choice of the heir in the country. Although Shi Bin, the king of Zhangwu, is humble in his maternal line, after the tragic deaths of several unsuccessful brothers one after another, he is already a latecomer, which is not to be underestimated.

At present, the Jin army has divided its ways, the general trend of the Northern Expedition, and the battle for the heirship of the country has to be temporarily ended. Although King Zhangwu almost had a dominant power, in order to maintain the hearts of all parties in the country who resisted the strong enemy, the lord did not directly canonize him as the crown prince.

It is precisely because of this that several other princes have not completely lost the opportunity to fight for the throne, and even Shi Kun, the Duke of Puyang, who had been captured by the Jin army before, had to take advantage of this benefit and was named the king of Wu'an, guarding Xiangguo and controlling Maqiu.

Compared with other princes, this combination of Shi Zun and Shi Min is a little unproductive. Because the late crown prince Shi Di corrupted state affairs and caused the fall of Xiangguo and ambushed him, the queen Zheng was also affected by this and was deposed, and Shi Zun, who was originally the concubine, was in a much more difficult situation, and he didn't even have the title of king.

After the lord moved the capital, Shi Min was ordered to stay in Xiangguo, but because he was rejected by the Maqiu troops who retreated to Xiangguo, he was resentful, and left Xiangguo to fight Guangzong. Right now, he is far away from Xindu, who is far away from the core of the ruling kingdom of the kingdom, even if he wants to change his court, he has no chance at all.

Of course, Shi Min at the moment doesn't have such thoughts. On the one hand, he realized that in the current situation, no matter who he relied on, it was better to have enough power to protect himself, and if he chose a prince who was too strong such as Zhang Wu Wang Shi Bin to take refuge, it would be difficult for him to have the current independent situation.

On the other hand, Shi Zun's difficult situation is also temporary. Although his people lack military strategic ability, but the entrapment of the hearts of the people is a strength, not to mention that Shi Min formed an alliance with him after a short contact, before the lord decided to move the capital was not without resistance, many places on the deep-rooted strong unwilling to abandon the family to follow, Shi Zun in the process to persuade many families.

Now the management of Xindu, the lord also relies a lot on Shi Zun at the beginning, but because the queen is newly abolished and does not want to give people the impression of changing the order, Shi Zun has not been crowned king for the time being.

Although Shi Min was on the front line, he also had frequent correspondence with Shi Zun in the country. Shi Zun has no shortage of plans in the letter, saying that Shi Min is assured to fight on the front line and strive for excellent performance, even if the award is not reached, it is only temporary, and when the time is ripe, he will also advance the Lord to transfer Shi Min back to China for another appointment.

"The erosion of Jixia has been very powerful, and this realm is no longer where you and I are doing. After the thorn slave returns to China, I will also try my best to invite the giant deer and Zhongshan to attract all sides to use it, and it will become your own grand plan......"

Shi Min is still quite convinced of Shi Zun's vision, at least at the moment, although he is fighting on the front line, but when it comes to the future, he is actually at a loss and has no opinion.

Shi Zun focused on the counties such as Julu and Zhongshan in the rear of Xindu, in his opinion, it was really full of insight, the southern army was strong, and only those who had actually fought had a deep understanding, and there was no shortage of pessimists among the generals on the front line, and Shi Min was naturally no exception.

No matter how prominent the battle exploits of the front line, it is a peripheral force that can be given up by the Lord, just to buy time for the construction of the Xindu defensive line.

Today's Xindu is said to have gathered 300,000 armor soldiers, this number is naturally inevitably exaggerated, but there are still tens of thousands of troops in poor countries, and although the southern country is menacing, it is not easy to fight quickly.

Shi Zun was able to take the lead and choose to operate and develop in the rear of Xindu, and the pressure on the frontal battlefield was naturally borne by Shi Bin, the king of Zhangwu and others. If this plan can really come true, he and Shi Zun will recuperate in the rear with peace of mind, and they may not be able to catch up and counteract the rest.

Of course, the current situation is treacherous, people's hearts are treacherous, and Shi Min will not fully trust Shi Zun. The reason why he chose to leave Xiangguo and defend Shangbai was actually because he had his own calculations.

The reason why Shi Min was willing to take the risk to defend the front line was naturally to increase his strength. He has coveted the remnants of begging in Guangzong County for a long time, and even if he can't take it for his own use, it is very necessary to maintain a good relationship with his people. Not to mention anything else, just placing the base camp in Shangbai is a complete show of goodwill to the beggar general Li Nong.

Today's Li Nong, guarding Yanmen and deterring Daibei, is definitely the leading general of the current country.

The beggar army is very xenophobic, and Shi Min does not expect to be accepted by the public and even loyal to him in a very short period of time, but if he can form a deep friendship by helping Li Nong defend the countryside, and if he combines Shi Zun's idea of avoiding the rear to lead the troops to Zhongshan, he can echo Li Nongda Yu in Yanmen, and he will have to support half of the remnants of the country!

It's just that the xenophobia of the beggar army is much more serious than Shi Min imagined. When he rushed to Shangbai with enthusiasm, the beggar soldiers who were originally left behind in Shangbai had already retreated to Guangzong, and they were lukewarm about his arrival.

Even if he used troops fiercely afterwards to block the Jin army from all directions, so that Guangzong was not directly disturbed by the Jin army, Guangzong's begging still did not express any gratitude to him, and he did not even have basic material supplies and assistance, and directly rejected the proposal to send troops to fight the Jin army with him.

For these stubborn and self-defended guys, Shi Min almost gritted his teeth with hatred every time he thought about it, the Jin army's offensive was so turbulent, and it was only a matter of time before the soldiers came to Guangzong, could these people still hope to be able to go sideways and not be disturbed by military disasters?

"When it is time to repel the southern army of this road and withdraw to Shangbai, you must negotiate with Guangzongshen!"

Shi Min secretly thought in his heart, after he arrived in Shangbai, he faced the scene of the surging advance of the Yanzhou Department of the Jin army, several vicious battles annexed a part of the defeated army, and then he was busy suppressing the Jin army in Guangping, and he did not have the time and energy to communicate and negotiate with Guangzong.

But it is obvious that all the units of the Jin army have strengthened the pressing momentum, and the strength that Shi Min has at his disposal has been exerted to the limit, in order to resist the Jin army under the counterattack of Dongwu City, Shangbai has almost all the available pawn force to be pulled to the battlefield here.

Although the current situation is still under control, Shi Min also knows very well that his troops are already full of strength, and there is a danger of breaking the string at any time, if he does not think of retreating, it is very likely that he will not be able to retreat if he wants to retreat in the future. But when he thought that he couldn't lure Guangzong to beg for his own use, he was always a little unwilling.

There are all kinds of thoughts in his heart, so that the advantage on the battlefield in front of him makes him unhappy.

And just when he was pondering, there was a sudden exclamation around him, he was busy looking up, only to see that the situation on the battlefield had changed again, the war horse under the command of the general Su Hai suddenly died, and the surrounding soldiers were eager to rescue, and the siege that had originally formed for the Jin army suddenly collapsed, and the Jin soldiers in the battle formation also seized this rare opportunity, tightened the cavalry formation and rushed directly to the place where Su Hai fell off the horse.

At the same time, there were horsehooves and thunders in the Jin army camp on the opposite side, and hundreds of reinforcements rushed straight to the battle formation.

"The thief dares to harm my wrestler!"

Seeing this, Shi Min roared loudly in his mouth, stretched his arms and bound his armor, leaped on his horse, held a two-edged spear with a full body of iron casting, and held a half-zhang long hook halberd in the other hand, and led more than 300 horsemen to the field to kill in the shout!