In a forest on the east side of the official road, a cavalry of 5,000 men had quietly appeared, and during the previous inspection by the thieves' spies, this cavalry was not in the woods, but three miles away, so it was not discovered, and they were silently killed in front of them during the march of the thieves.

Pei Xingyan stared sharply at the chaotic marching team a hundred steps ahead, but he was not in a hurry to attack, but was waiting for the signal from the coach Zhang Xuan to attack.

At this moment, a bright rocket suddenly shot from the north, flying straight into the air, which was particularly dazzling in the night sky, which was the attack order issued by the commander, which meant that the army in the north was in place.

Pei Xingyan immediately shouted: "Kill!"

"Kill—"

Five thousand Sui cavalry shouted, rushed out of the woods, and killed the thief army a hundred steps away, the sudden Sui cavalry frightened the thief soldiers, and the team was suddenly in chaos, many people turned around and fled, and more people were so frightened that they collapsed to the ground, and their legs were difficult to move.

The Sui soldiers killed like a storm, the knives slashed, the heads rolled, blood burst out, and hundreds of people died in an instant under the swords and lances of the Sui cavalry, and the Sui cavalry cut the thief army into two, and then formed an encirclement, and covered the thief soldiers in the south.

At the same time as the rocket was fired, Zhang Xuan personally led an army of 35,000 to appear in front of the night team, and the night combat ability that he had been training for months finally had a chance to play at this time.

Zhang Xuan shouted: "The whole army is attacking!" ”

The 35,000 Sui army was divided into seven phalanxes and slaughtered the panicked thief army from all directions.

This is a well-planned ambush battle, from the very beginning Fang Xuanling put forward the strategy of concentrating troops and dividing and annihilating them, which coincided with Zhang Xuan's idea, first of all, to create the illusion that the Sui army had only 20,000 troops, and weakened Lu Mingyue's vigilance. Let him divide his troops to fight without any worries, and then attack Neihuang County falsely, but in fact, he ambushed the reinforcements sent by Lu Mingyue to Neihuang County in the middle of the road.

The Sui army not only had an advantage in numbers, but also had 30,000 soldiers wearing Mingguang armor and 5,000 cavalry, and its training and combat capabilities were far stronger than those of the other side, regardless of number, equipment, training, and morale. The Sui army in Qingzhou is much higher than Lu Mingyue's bandits, and there is no suspense in this battle, the key is how many casualties the Sui army will have, and how much time it will take to completely defeat the other party.

In less than a quarter of an hour, Lu Mingyue's army began to rout on all fronts, and the 30,000 thief army suffered heavy casualties and fled in all directions. But he met the copper hammer Taibao Qin Yong, Qin Yong shouted, and smashed the hammer at Xu Hengyi, blowing a fierce wind.

Xu Hengyi raised his gun to block in a panic, but Qin Yong used his latest training chain of thirteen hammers, one hammer after another, and the double hammers were as fast as the wind, and they smashed down in a chain like iron. When the seventh hammer was smashed, Xu Hengyi could no longer support it. The gun flew out of his hand, and a mouthful of blood spurted out.

Xu Hengyi shouted, turned around and urged the horse to flee, Qin Yong sneered, pressed a copper hammer in front of him, and waved his left hand. A small pumpkin-like meteor hammer shot out of his sleeve, holding a slender iron chain, fast and powerful, hitting the back of Xu Hengyi's head. Just listen to 'Smack!' With a crisp sound, Xu Hengyi was beaten to the point that his skull was shattered, his brain was splashed, and he fell off his horse and died on the spot.

The death of the main general Xu Hengyi made this battle meaningless, and the only thing for the Sui army was to hunt down and surrender the soldiers.

But for Zhang Xuan, time was very urgent, and Zhang Xuan immediately ordered: "Order General Wang Kuang to lead 5,000 troops to collect and surrender the remnants, and the rest of the army will go south with me!" ”

The order was handed down, the general Wang Kuang led 5,000 soldiers to continue to encircle and suppress the defeated soldiers, Zhang Xuan led 30,000 infantry and 5,000 cavalry to turn south, and rushed to Tanyuan County, Zhang Xuan has received information, Lu Mingyue is leading 50,000 troops to Tanyuan County to end his lair, this is a great opportunity to annihilate Lu Mingyue's army, with 35,000 elite Sui troops against 50,000 thief troops, Zhang Xuan has at least seventy percent of the victory.

In the morning, Lu Mingyue, who had been empty, finally realized that something was wrong, Zhang Xuan did not regard Tanyuan County as a logistics center at all, not only did he not have any grain and grass, but even the camp tent was clean, and only a bare camp fence remained.

But what really made Lu Mingyue panic was that the number of warships in the Yellow River suddenly increased from more than 30 to more than 200, and he realized that he had been fooled, Zhang Xuan had more than 20,000 troops, so his division of troops was in the hands of the enemy.

Lu Mingyue had realized that Xu Hengyi's army was likely to be more auspicious, and he no longer hurriedly withdrew his troops to Neihuang County, but reorganized his army in Tanyuan and prepared to meet the main force of the Sui army.

This is actually Lu Mingyue's careful thinking, he doesn't value the army, his army has grown rapidly from more than 5,000 people to nearly 200,000 troops in just one year, it is too easy to come, and he will certainly not cherish what is too easy to get, on the contrary, he attaches great importance to food, he has suffered from a lack of food in Shanggu, and he does not hesitate to kidnap his clan sister for a thousand stone of food.

This attack on Liyangcang was also for food, but Lu Mingyue never had pity for his army.

After all, Lu Mingyue is a famous bandit in Hebei, after he found out that he fell into Zhang Xuan's trap, he immediately made a choice, whether to keep it or to abandon it, to keep the food and abandon the army, of course, his own life is more important than both.

In the wilderness north of Tanyuan County, Lu Mingyue led an army of 50,000 to line up the formation, and he wanted to wait for work at ease, and face the Sui army that had marched all night.

At this time, Lu Mingyue had received accurate news, Xu Hengyi's army was defeated forty miles north of Liyangcang, the whole army was annihilated, tens of thousands of Sui troops were quickly killing this side of Tanyuan County, Lu Mingyue concealed the news that Xu Hengyi's army had been defeated from his subordinates, he knew very well that his soldiers, many of them were still peasants with hoes a few months ago, and many people were scoundrels and ruffians, who joined their own army for adultery and looting.

The former has the concern of the land family, most of them are forced to join the army, and the latter is even more for profit, whether the former or the latter, they will not serve their lives, but Lu Mingyue has no choice now, he must fight with the Sui army before the news of Xu Hengyi's defeat spreads, otherwise once these people hear unfavorable news, many people will become deserters.

Lu Mingyue's two lieutenants, Zhang Feng and Li Kui, each led 15,000 men to the left and right wings, and he personally led an army of 20,000 as the central army.

Lu Mingyue held a large iron gun weighing eighty pounds, riding a horse like coals, this war horse was still Zhang Xuan's Huoyun horse back then, was snatched by Lu Mingyue, and it has always been his mount, he looked at the front of the team and a black line gradually appeared in the distance, at this time, he heard a slight commotion behind him, and couldn't help but look back.

His soldiers also found the main force of the Sui army that appeared in the distance, many people were frightened and exclaimed, their eyes showed fear, and they involuntarily retreated, these soldiers almost did not encounter any major battles, and they went all the way south without encountering any resistance, so when they faced a big battle for the first time today, many people began to be timid.

Lu Mingyue couldn't help but scold secretly, 'A bunch of useless soft bones! ’

In fact, he knew in his heart that these 50,000 people, except for the 20,000 Chinese troops led by himself, who were the original county soldiers, the other soldiers were a group of rabble, where was the opponent of the Sui army, but this battle had to be fought if it was not fought, and he could only fight with the Sui army.

At this time, the 30,000 Sui army had gradually advanced to 300 steps away from the thief army, and the 30,000 army was also arranged in a zigzag pattern, Luo Shixin was the left wing, Su Dingfang was the right wing, and the two each led 10,000 troops, Zhang Xuan personally led 10,000 troops as the middle army, and Pei Xingyan's 5,000 cavalry disappeared for the time being, and they would appear at a critical moment and give the enemy a fatal blow.

The 30,000 Sui troops were all dressed in Mingguang armor, wearing eagle helmets, wearing horizontal knives at the waist, round shields and bows and arrows on their backs, holding a sharp war spear in their hands, the team was neat and uniform, murderous, and the thief army was different, they did not have a battle flag, only a two-zhang high military flag, the battle flag was black and yellow, and the front was a flying cyan dragon, and the other side was a huge 'Zhang' word.

Compared with the elite and neat of the Sui army, Lu Mingyue's army was obviously disorganized, with flags of various colors mixed at the front of the ranks, and the soldiers were unevenly equipped, with leather armor, cloth armor, and even wearing a short coat, and there were all kinds of weapons, and even hoes and wooden sticks could be seen, giving people the impression of a rabble.

But Zhang Xuan did not despise the enemy army, he knew Lu Mingyue's cunning very well, he found that the Chinese army had a lot of banners, blocking the army behind, and he couldn't see the equipment of the Chinese army clearly, and that should be Lu Mingyue's main force.

Zhang Xuan immediately ordered: "Pass my order, no one is allowed to underestimate the enemy!" (To be continued.) )