In the cold winter of Layue, even if the weather is fine, standing on the north gate tower of Kuocheng, the cold wind blows on the face, it is like scraping a knife.

In the distant sky, the frozen Yellow River is like a plain white cloth belt meandering in the brown-yellow vast wilderness, full of shade and coolness, and there is no green at all. A dozen groups of refugees who had retreated from the north were sparsely scattered, and looking at their staggering appearance from afar, they knew that they had endured all the hardships along the way, and that they did not feel much life in their ant-like creeping procession.

The tighter the battle, the higher the frequency of reconnaissance as the outpost rangers entered Jinan Mansion, the bigger and heavier the clouds in everyone's hearts, and occasionally a few birds that flew out of the field seemed to be the only living creatures left between the world and the wilderness.

Suddenly, a group of cavalry came out from the side of the hill facing the river due north, and galloped quickly through the field. The refugees who crept like ants seemed to have been doused with boiling water, and suddenly they stirred, and they scattered in panic without bothering to pack up their belongings.

There were only more than 60 cavalrymen, with two or three horses on their backs, bows and swords, and brown armor.

"Thief's!" Lu Jing scolded sternly, the outpost rangers in the east have many horses, good foot strength and superb riding skills, two or three hundred miles deep, dozens of horses, more than 100 horses dare to intersperse at will, as if entering no man's land, but there is no good way to deal with it here.

Most of the Eastern Fujian soldiers were foot soldiers, with only hundreds of cavalry guards, and they could not be released to chase the Dongyu outpost, and the key was that the horses they brought from the south could not adapt to the severe cold in the north for a while, and they could not pull away.

There are more than 2,000 cavalry in the local garrison of Jinan Prefecture, but they are all one person and one horse, and they can still bite if they chase it out in a short distance of ten miles and twenty miles, and no matter how long the distance is, it will be easily thrown away. The horsepower was weakened, and the horsemanship was not as good as that of the eastern captives, and the cavalry three or four times that of the enemy chased them out, and after chasing them out for a while, they often chased and beat the outpost rangers of the eastern captives in turn; If there were two or three of the rangers in the vicinity, the casualties would be even more terrifying.

When the Dongyu outpost rangers first came to Jinan to harass and reconnoitre, the garrison also sent cavalry out to drive them away, and after suffering several large casualties, they watched the Dongyu outpost ride over and kill the refugees outside the city, but they were indifferent, and only closed the city.

Before the Eastern Fujian soldiers finally decided to go or not, Lu Jingyan took the initiative to take over the errand of assisting in the defense of the northern city, and when he saw the appearance of the Eastern Sentinel Cavalry, he did not dare to be useful or useless, so he planned to send a team of foot soldiers out of the city: how could he not sit and watch the Eastern Sentinel Cavalry kill the refugees so rampantly outside the city, which would hurt the morale of the soldiers defending the city too much......

When Lu Jing was about to give the order to send troops out of the city, a group of cavalry galloped in the direction of the mouth of the Yufu River in the northwest, about 1780 people, first in two teams of linear parallel gallop, about two miles away from the Dongyu Sentinel Cavalry, fan-shaped scattered to outflank the Dongyu Sentinel Cavalry, at this time from the northwest of the city also galloped out a team of more than 100 cavalry to the Dongyu Sentinel Cavalry to meet in person.

"Jiangdong Left Army!"

Hearing this exclamation, Lu Jingyan glanced back, it was a commander under his command who was making a fuss.

Lu Jingyan didn't say a word, the garrison outside the west city was only the fifth battalion of the left army of the Jiangdong Qinwang Division under the command of Lin Tie, although the two cavalry teams that were sent to meet the enemy did not put up their flags, but he knew that except for Lin Tie, no one could send out a horse so quickly, and the cavalry team at the mouth of the Yufu River should have been ambushed a long time ago.

Lu Jingyan gave up his plan to send troops, and stood under the city gate tower and looked at the cold wind like a knife in the north.

The sentry cavalry that broke into the wilderness north of Jinan City did not panic because nearly 300 cavalry came to encircle, but first broke the refugees on the avenue, regardless of the back road, and gathered the cavalry that galloped out to the northwest of Jinan City, intending to defeat the three separate cavalry forces.

"It's too big!"

Lu Jingyan glanced back, across the north gate of Jinan City, the generals of the defending army, I don't know when Yue Lengqiu came from the other side of the city road to the city gate, he also looked at the north field with a solemn expression, and commented in a low voice, I don't know if he was dissatisfied with Lin Lian's tactical arrangement of dividing nearly 300 cavalry into three groups to deliberately surround the Dongyu Sentinel Cavalry, or was dissatisfied with Lin Lian's decision to lead the Jiangdong Left Army to enter Yannan alone.

The sentinels sent out by the Donglu to penetrate in depth are all elite, even the Jiangdong Left Army also has some elites, Lu Jingyan thought to himself that Lin Lian divided the three hundred cavalry into three groups in the field and encircled the elite of the Donglu cavalry. Even though each cavalry team of the Jiangdong soldiers had a numerical advantage of 100 cavalry to 70 cavalry, the gap in the quality of the soldiers was quite large, and the distance between the three cavalry teams was too large, leaving enough time for the enemy cavalry to break through.

Lu Jingyan didn't have much affection for Lin Lian, who was a rising star of the Chu Party, and a few days ago he openly bought the armor of the remnants of the fleeing soldiers in the west of the city, making it clear that he was digging the foot of the wall of Jinan Mansion - these remnants should have been absorbed by the Shandong Governor's Mansion. However, from Lin Tie's claim that he wanted to lead the troops into Yannan alone, and at this time he sent troops to meet the enemy, Lu Jingyan's perception of Lin Tie was slightly better, and at this time, there were few officials and generals who could actively meet the main battle in Jinan Mansion, and he didn't know whether Lin Tie could achieve good results against the small stream of enemies interspersed in front of him.

The cavalry clashed, four or five miles was only a blink of an eye, Lu Jingyan saw that the cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army galloping out from the northwest of the city to meet the enemy was holding a big crossbow before it met the enemy cavalry, and then left the avenue and turned to the field of the left flank.

No matter how elite the Eastern Sentinel is, in the first round of engagement, the crossbow is much more convenient than riding a bow. Although it was very difficult to reload the arrows on horseback with a crossbow on horseback, Lu Jingyan saw that this cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army had no intention of fighting with the enemy at all, and after shooting the empty arrows, he hung up the crossbow and beat the horse north, regardless of whether the formation was chaotic.

"This is a ...... strategy" Lu Jingyan said secretly in his heart, with the two teams of cavalry in the north responding, the eastern sentry cavalry who disrupted the formation did not dare to let their horses go in pursuit, and more than 100 crossbow arrows were hit on the side, and there were many casualties among people and horses.

At this time, Lu Jingyan really saw several groups of foot soldiers slowly marching out from the northwest corner of the city, and dozens of "flying contradictory cars" were running rampantly in front, pausing for more than 100 meters per line to reorganize the formation, pressing the Dongyu sentinels who were stagnant on the avenue.

The outflanking cavalry in the north increased to more than 300 cavalry, except for the two teams of cavalry that were originally outflanked from the mouth of the Yufu River and were still sitting on horseback, the more than 100 cavalry that had been diagonally inserted from the flanks all dismounted, reloaded the crossbows with their arms, and did not mount their horses again, but formed a formation between the two groups of cavalry.

On the back of a fast-galloping horse, the accuracy of the crossbow arrows was greatly reduced, but when they dismounted and formed a formation, there were less than seventy people who could ride horses, so they naturally did not dare to charge the crossbow array from the front, but the flanks of the crossbow array were protected by the two teams of cavalry, not giving them a roundabout gap.

Although there is still a large gap on the flank of the entire northern battlefield for the Eastern Sentinel to intersperse and highlight the encirclement, this Eastern Sentinel Cavalry obviously did not hurt and stayed on the avenue and hesitated, depending on the situation, they still wanted to impact the current infantry formation.

Since the Dongyu cavalry broke the border, especially after the Jinzhong soldiers led by Yang Zhaoqi were completely annihilated, they have not encountered a decent opponent, and it is normal to have such a mentality.

Lu Jingyan also knew at this time that Lin Jian was taking advantage of the enemy's arrogant and contemptuous mentality to lure the enemy into the inner line, so he calmly laid down the encirclement......

The Dongyu Sentinel Cavalry tried to break through the array of Jiangdong's left soldiers from the flank three times, but all of them were repelled by the infantry array of spears, swords and shields, swords, and crossbows. When this group of Dongyu sentry cavalry was covered with wounds and wanted to break through, a battalion of soldiers and horses of the Jiangdong Left Army had already completed the encirclement of them, and the gap left behind was only an arrow away.

When they were determined to break through, they first attacked the flank corner of the infantry array regardless of casualties, pressed the infantry array to the inner line to scatter the formation, and then did not hesitate to gallop to the edge of the infantry array to the outer line and flee to the banks of the Yellow River.

The Jiangdong Left Army divided a group of cavalry to bite the tail and pursue, chased to the banks of the Yellow River and shot several people off their horses, cut off the head and then turned back to catch up, only more than ten Dongyu sentry cavalry crossed the Yellow River and fled north; In the northwest corner of the city, the wounded and fallen sentinel cavalry had also been cleanly killed at this time, and their heads were cut off together.

When the pursuing cavalry returned, a group of cavalry was divided into the Jiangdong Left Army array in the northwest corner of the city, each carrying a few severed and bloody heads, and threw the heads down at the north city gate.

The bearded man led by the bearded man shouted towards the city gate tower: "The first battalion of the left army of the Jiangdong Qinwang Division has cut fifty-seven barbarian heads, please send someone to inspect the ...... of the Shandong Governor's Office" Immediately afterwards, the cavalry rode back to their original place, gathered the formation and headed towards the Sanyuzhuang camp.

"That one on horseback seems to be Ao Huzi under the command of General Chen, I heard that when General Chen led his troops north, he instigated dozens of people to flee with him, and the sea fishing documents were also sent to Zhaowu - how could he be in the Jiangdong Army?" The commander behind Lu Jingyan whispered.

"Don't talk nonsense." Lu Jingyan commanded in a deep voice, it was not a big deal for Lin Jian to take in a few fugitives in the Jiangdong Army, and the incident made Chen Zhihu's face ugly, and Lu Jingyan asked the chief of the guards behind him to stop mentioning this matter. He also had some impressions of Ao Canghai, the deputy commander of the forward battalion of Chen Zhihu's department, he was not a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and he was also very brave when he led the cavalry to fight just now, maybe he had other difficulties in leading people out of Chen Zhihu's department. Of course, Lu Jingyan was also very puzzled by Ao Canghai's defection to Lin Tie, who was only now the capital supervisor of the seventh grade, and several battalion commanders under his command had only been awarded the rank of low-level military attache of the ninth grade, and Ao Canghai was already a middle-level military attache before he left Chen Zhihu's department.

Yue Lengqiu went down the city gate building with a stiff face, and the northern city guard sent someone out of the city gate to take back the head of the Dongyu Sentinel Cavalry to record the merits.

Lu Jingyan looked at the dozens of bloody heads in front of the city gate, and thought thoughtfully, thinking that Lin Jian threw more than fifty heads of Dongyu in front of the city gate, probably to show his determination to enter Yannan alone. It's no wonder that Yue Lengqiu's face is ugly, he originally planned to move to Jinzhong with Lalin; Lin Jian didn't mean to give him face at all, and he proposed to enter Yannan alone, which made him even more embarrassed.

Such a small victory had no impact on the entire northern war situation, and from Lu Jingyan's point of view, the Jiangdong soldiers were still very tender. They lured more than 70 Dongyu sentinels into the encirclement of a battalion of troops, and before the encirclement was completed, they still managed to break through to nearly 20 people, which was far from being a strong army in the world. However, for all the garrisons, guest troops and deserted troops who were stranded in Jinan Prefecture and were afraid of the enemy, the Jiangdong Left Army, which showed a firm will to fight and was even arrogant enough to advance into Yannan alone, was so dazzling.

Lu Jingyan looked from a distance, and on the north avenue, the refugees who had been scattered by the Dongyu Sentinels but escaped to the fate of brutality had escaped with their lives, and many of them knelt on the avenue and kowtowed to the Jiangdong Left officers and soldiers who were returning to the Sanyuzhuang camp. The soldiers watching the battle on the left and right of the city gate tower saw the battle that took place in the northwest corner of the city, and seemed to have regained some courage, and the north gate guard also sent a team of soldiers and horses to drag back the headless corpses scattered on the field, shouting loudly to take the heads and headless corpses to the city and hang them for public display.

Lu Jingyan instructed the military attachés under his command: "Study carefully, don't look down on the newly recruited pawns of others, the fifty-seven heads under the city are not all paper paste." There are also enemy cavalry attacking, you have to use some brains to fight, you can't even get back thirty or fifty heads, right? ”

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