Tian Ben was still scolding outside the camp of Fan and Zhongxing.

He pointed behind him and said, "Naigong still has two empty spears here, which were specially left by my general for Zhongxingyin and Fan Ji to shoot, and it won't be long before you will give the ...... to the head."

Before he finished speaking, he saw the main gate of the enemy camp suddenly open, and hundreds of people chased out, holding torches and weapons, shouting and rushing towards Tian Ben and them.

"The rat is finally out of the nest!" Tian Ben heyed, he jumped up, led his subordinates to turn around and ran, who didn't expect to run far, but was blocked by another group of people.

Gongsun Yan was calculating, so he deliberately closed the main gate, but instead let people detour from the left and right camp gates, wanting to intercept these arrogant Zhao pawns, so that they could be intercepted and killed nearby to avoid long-distance pursuit.

Who expected that the combat effectiveness of these more than 100 Zhao soldiers was amazing, especially the poisonous tongue man with a knife and a halberd rushed to the front, like chopping melons and vegetables, killing and scattering the Fan soldiers who surrounded them left and right, and then killing and retreating from the chasing team. By the time the pursuers at the main gate arrived, Tian Ben and the others had already killed a bloody road, and they did not love to fight, and ran into the deep night.

This was not expected before, the soldiers who came out to pursue were suddenly a little confused, and after a period of confusion, they reorganized themselves to continue the pursuit under the scolding and shouting orders of Gongsun Yan and a Diren cavalry officer riding a horse and holding a spear.

"I must take back my son's head, and then break the body of the person who humiliated him into ten thousand pieces!" Before leaving, Fan Ji's advice was that Gongsun Ji must complete it.

Although, he was reluctant to go deep into the night full of crises.

But in addition to the lord's orders, Gao Qiang's words also echoed in his ears.

"Zilong, Zhao Wuxian asked people to scold and provoke. There must be a conspiracy to lure us into attacking. But on the other hand, the Fan gentleman was beheaded in Makino. The head was also cut down by the Zhao clan and ordered the three armies, and the morale of the Fan clan has been greatly damaged because of this incident. Successive defeats, abandonment of the city and loss of land, and any further surrender will be scattered at any time, do you understand? ”

"The kid knows ......"

Gao Qiang said again: "Zhao Wuxian sent someone to challenge the Fan clan today, not only to make the Fan clan lose his fighting spirit, but also to affect the Zhongxing clan. If they just ignore it behind closed doors, there will definitely be a lot of mourning in the army. Those who compete with each other in the two armies will also have the courage to slack off once they are sharp. In battle, it will be difficult to defeat the enemy army. Therefore, it has to be out! If you go out, you must be quick and fast, and strive to settle the battle within two miles of what the big battalion can handle, and recapture the head of the Fan gentleman, and if you are far away, you must withdraw it......"

As a militaristic country where even the Qing is in and out of the prime minister, the Jin people have a lot of experience in warfare, even so. They still try to avoid fighting at night, because there is not enough light to see things in the distance, and it is difficult to get together in the dark once the team is scattered. So they usually try to avoid night fights.

What's more, there are still many people in Fan's and Zhongxing's strokes who suffer from "blindfolding": ordinary people can vaguely see people 40 steps away under the starlight, but these "blindfolded" patients can only see within 10 steps. In the night scuffle, these people are no different from the blind. If you go, you will be sent to death.

So Gao Qiang asked Gongsun Yu to light more torches, in addition to bringing three hundred Fan apprentices. He was also given two hundred Rongdi cavalry belonging to the Zhongxing clan to pursue.

The leader of the Rong Di cavalry is named Zhai Fengdi, who is a person from the drum and fat area, and after the Zhongxing clan conquered the two small states of the Di people, the Zhai Fengtu clan served the Zhongxing clan as a proton and a retainer. His accent and dress were no different from those of the Jin people, except that the fur on his head was exaggerated with feathers, and his subordinates retained more of the Di style: wearing rough animal skin armor, wolf, leopard, bear skin hats, and even bird feather capes and animal teeth.

Gongsun Yan didn't have much conversation with this Di cavalryman, looking at these unique soldiers of the Zhongxing clan, he pondered: "The north is called Di, the clothes and feathers live in caves, and there are non-grain eaters...... And so it was. ”

However, it is strange to say that among the Rongdi cavalry who drink blood and even eat raw animal liver, the proportion of blindfolded birds is very small, while there are many Fan and Zhongxing soldiers who often eat vegetarian coarse grains, which is also the reason why Gao Qiang let Zhai Fengdi accompany him.

The pursuit continued, the other party's feet were very fast, they ran hundreds of paces away, and after a while, they could only vaguely see the torch flickering in front of them, and before they knew it, Gongsun Yan found that they had fallen into the gloomy night.

The pursuit of an unknown future is the most difficult, let alone in the face of such a dangerous situation. After a while, Zhai Fengdi proposed to pursue separately, let the Di cavalry spread outward, and cooperate with the apprentices and chariot soldiers left and right, opening forward like a scorpion's pincers, and clamping off the people who fell into it.

This way of chasing has obvious effects, they even caught more than ten Zhao soldiers who fell behind, killed them all with swords, and then continued to chase, getting closer and closer to the fire in front, a hundred steps, fifty steps!

Gongsun Yan had been looking at the torch in front of him, and later, because the night was getting darker and deeper, his eyes were dry and he felt stinging because of the long staring, and he couldn't help blinking.

Just for a moment, when he opened his eyes in the blink of an eye, he was horrified to find that the torches in front of him had all been extinguished......

They are now in a large field one and a half miles away from Daying, and it is said in the "Yu Gong" that in the area of Hanoi, "the soil is only white soil, and the land is only on the top", and the fertile white soil has produced dense corn, and the stalks are half a man high......

On the road, there are several horse-drawn carriages with unloaded wheels......

After the torch in front was extinguished, the pursuers became the only light between heaven and earth, and became the most conspicuous target. It's too late.

In the next moment, the bowstrings and crossbow machines resounded, and countless arrows shot out of the corn field, covering the front line of the pursuers......

"It's an ambush!" Gongsun Yan only remembered that he shouted such a sentence, and was shot in the bronze by a precise and heavy arrow, his head buzzed, and he fell unconscious in the car......

……

Time went back a few hours ago, and after nightfall, Zhao Wuxian asked Tian Ben to challenge in front of the enemy's camp, while he himself set up an ambush here with crossbowmen and cavalry.

Except for five hundred crossbowmen and foot soldiers lying in the corn fields on both sides of the road, the cavalry lay in ambush at the edge of the woods. Hundreds of knights sat in the glade, their horses' mouths tied. So don't worry about the sound of the war horse, there is no one around. Only the sound of the knights' calm breathing.

On this moonless night, the archer Yan Gao could see the fields near and far. Forests, streams. The stream rattled, reflecting a faint starlight light, and Yan Gao subconsciously felt that the cool water vapor was blowing on his face: they flowed out of a place called "Baiquan" in the north, where a steep canyon was formed, where the mountain spring water rushing down from the Taihang Mountains gathered to form a lake.

But he didn't follow his master around when he was in Lu at this time, and he had been carefully observing the enemy camp a few miles away, observing this pre-planned ambush point.

Yan Gao's eyes are good. In fact, the people who ambushed here tonight can see normally at night!

Fan and Zhongxing suffered from the fact that many of the sergeants and soldiers in the army were "blindfolded" and tried to avoid night battles, in fact, the Zhao army also faced this difficulty, but for the Eastern Zhao soldiers, this problem has been solved.

The treatment of the military guards is very high, not only in terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, once they get sick, the lord will ask the disciples of the doctor Bian Que to come to the doctor to ask for medicine!

After two or three years of development, the doctor organization called "Lingque" has taken root in the country of Lu. Bian Que's right-hand men were all over the city as the attending doctor, and the doctor Bian Que himself no longer focused on general treatment and prescription medicine, he began to delve into medical science, and at the same time tried to overcome some incurable diseases.

He traveled in some areas. It was found that many of the local poor had rough skin and suffered from "finch eyes". Bian Que is also known as the "disease of poverty"; The local rich are rarely blindfolded.

After investigation, it was found that the rich mostly eat meaty, greasy, and polished rice delicacies. and even all kinds of fresh fruits. The recipes of the poor are a bit monotonous, especially the lack of mountains and woods. It is difficult to go to hunter-gatherer places again, and the diet is mainly vegetarian whole grains.

Yi Bian Que determined that this kind of "blindfolded" has a lot to do with the recipes of different people, and this guess was approved by Zhao Wuxian, and directly pointed out the key point: "Fat and animal liver!" ”

In this era, many animal offal have been made into delicacies, such as Zhou Tianzi's recipe, there is a kind of "liver net oil". Take a pair of dog liver, wrap it in pig intestinal oil, **** adjust the taste, put it on charcoal and roast it until it is browned, the fragrance is fragrant, the taste, it is simply ......

Bian Que was no longer surprised by Zhao Wuxian's unlearned ability, he immediately conducted an experiment in the barracks, and asked the soldiers with finches to add dog liver and pig liver, and it only took more than a month, and the finches really improved!

Since then, the soldiers have been able to open meat once every ten years, and they have eaten roasted pork liver and dog liver, although each person can only eat a small piece, but this is enough to make them grateful.

According to the idea of providing without shirts, Bian Que also found a lot of foods that can treat the blindfold of birds, such as wolfberries, dates, etc., which can be eaten occasionally by soldiers, and the cheapest is of course the northern soybean that began to be widely promoted in Lu State: Rong Shu! This stuff can be eaten every day.

Under the diet of Yi Bian Que, more than half a year has passed, and most of the blindfolded diseases of the martial arts have been cured, and they may be the most daring army to fight at night in this era!

Therefore, Yan Gao's subordinates were also deaf and clear-sighted at this time, and he was a little tired, so he asked in a low voice: "What time is it?" ”

Someone at the bottom replied: "Brigade commander, it's just past the ugly time." ”

Yan Gao knew that Tian Ben set out to challenge when he was a child, but now that an hour has passed, can he really succeed?

At this moment, the person next to him suddenly whispered, "I seem to hear movement." When the soldiers below heard this, they hurriedly clenched their bows and crossbows.

Yan Gao first looked into the enemy's camp, it was still pitch black, with a few bits of light, and he couldn't see anything, and it was silent. Then I looked at the finger of the person who spoke, and it was a field dozens of paces away.

The night was deep, and everyone looked together, some held their swords, some stretched their bows and crossbows, but they saw that there was no one on the field, and after waiting for a long time, the millet seedlings rattled, as if some small animal had fled away, or fox, or raccoon.

"It turned out to be a false alarm."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and released their weapons, but at this moment, the light of a torch suddenly flashed in the distance!

"It's coming, it's coming!" Everyone lowered their voices to prompt the people next to them, this was a good signal, Tian Ben lured the enemy over with a torch, and Zhao Wuxian in front raised his hand, telling them to calm down and wait for the enemy to enter the ambush circle.

Yan Gao saw that Tian Ben and them were bitten very tightly, a team of Di knights with spears, halberds, swords and bows killed from their sides, and a large number of apprentices with torches were chasing behind, fighting and retreating, and from time to time someone fell, Yan Gao was very anxious.

But the ambush soldiers still held their breath and remained motionless, and only after the soldiers gritted their teeth and crossed the field and threw the torches in their hands to the ground to extinguish them, Zhao Wuxian issued a low order.

"Shoot!"

……

After the bows and crossbows were fired, Wuxian heard Yan Gao shout excitedly: "Hit!" ”

Yan Gao shot the enemy officer down in the car with an arrow and whistled proudly.

"Good shot!"

Zhao Wuxian gave him a thumbs up in his heart, this is a heavy arrow with iron as a cluster, if the enemy officer is unlucky, he may shoot directly through the head, if he is lucky to wear a bronze jacket, he may be able to pick up a life.

Losing his command, those Fan Clan's apprentices were in disarray, while Yan Gao continued to open his bow and crossbow with his robes to harvest life, while Zhao Wuxian looked at the overall situation and made the ambush soldiers get up and attack one after another, while glancing at hundreds of paces away.

Yu Xi had already rushed out of the woods with hundreds of horses, turned his horse and turned back, and cut off the back of Tian Ben and the others, and at the same time stopped in front of those black and oppressed Di cavalry, their weapons flashing gloomily under the torch.

After being stunned for a moment, the horn suddenly sounded, and the cavalry on both sides rushed forward and charged at each other......

Zhao Wuxian couldn't help but be attracted by them, this was the first time that the Zhao clan's light cavalry had fought with an opponent on the horse!

……

In the darkness, the swords and shadows dazzled people, and the neighing of horses was all in the ears.

Zhai Fengtu dodged an enemy attack and returned to a safer place with his skin covered in hot sweat.

Zhai Fengtu is a Baidi people, whose ancestors originally lived in the wilderness south of the Hetao and north of the Qin state, and migrated with animal husbandry activities. Bai Di were not pure nomads, they were half-farming and half-pastoral, migrating in search of water, grass and fertile land, and their livestock were mainly horses, cattle and sheep, and there were no words or books. It was not until more than 100 years ago that Bai Di took advantage of the broken country of Xing and Wei to migrate to the endless Hebei Plain, established Xianyu, Gu, Fei and other states, and began to settle down and learn the agricultural and etiquette system of the Central Plains.

Even so, Bai Di still did not forget his tradition, and when there was no war, he was free to nomadize and farm, riding a horse and shooting birds and animals in the mountains for fun; When the situation of the tribe is urgent, everyone practices offensive skills, and uses the rapid maneuver of horseback to invade and plunder, which is their nature, and this nature is also used by the Zhongxing clan, and they often recruit Bai Di in the drum and fat area to join the army on weekdays.

So a long time ago, when Zhai Fengdi heard that a gentleman of the Zhao clan rode alone on a horse while hunting, and asked his subordinates to wear pants, practice riding and shooting, and formed a cavalry, he was suddenly happy.

"We Baidi people can ride sheep as children, draw bows and shoot birds and rats at the age of five or six, and when they are a little older they can shoot foxes and rabbits for food. Adult men can draw their bows, and often ride horses through the mountains. How can the Jin people compare with us? I'm afraid that it will not be able to imitate it, but it will make people laugh. ”

Even later, when the Zhao cavalry won a great victory in the battle against the Qi people, Zhai Fengdi, who followed Zhong Xingyin on the north bank of the Great River and watched the Qi people conquer Yiyi, did not care.

He thought confidently: "If you can have a duel with the Zhao clan's light horse, it will definitely be Bai Di who wins!" ”

But it wasn't until tonight, when he really met Zhao Wuxian's cavalry, that Zhai Fengdi realized that he might be very wrong!

PS: There's something going on today, and there's only one big chapter (to be continued.) )