In just one night, Caozhou changed hands again, I have to say, Qin Mufeng is too fierce, and among the generals, the most daring to take risks, even if there is a chance of winning, he also takes a risk, this battle is to take a great risk, once they encounter the city is not the infantry of Shanhaiguan, but the elite cavalry of Manchuria, then more than ten of them are absolutely unable to hold on, even if they can retreat, but want to occupy the city gate, to buy time for the elite cavalry behind, it is simply impossible to complete, Groups of cavalry rushed up, even if Qin Mufeng was in the Yongguan Third Army, he would definitely not be able to withstand the cavalry's assault.

However, Qin Mufeng is such a personality, support the bold and starve the timid, Lao Tzu has no other ability, he knows that he can be supported to death, but he can't be starved to death!

Only three or two hundred Shanhaiguan infantry, if you want to kill Qin Mufeng's more than ten people, it is much worse, at least, in a short period of time, if you want to clean up these people, it is impossible, Qin Mufeng overnight, defeated the elite infantry of Shanhaiguan, and then defeated hundreds of elite horsemen in Manchuria and occupied Caozhou.

Qin Mufeng is very benevolent, and he doesn't chase after him, just take Caozhou, those routs are not worth chasing, and now Qin Mufeng has more important things.

"Zhao Xin, pass the order, immediately go out to Anmin, recruit the strong, you only have two days at most, you must recruit more than two thousand strong, to assist you in defending the city!"

Qin Mufeng said in a deep voice.

Zhao Xin was taken aback, and said in amazement: "My lord, in two days, you asked me to recruit more than two thousand strong people to defend the city?" ”

"Yes, now that Caozhou is in our hands, it won't be long before the Qing army will get the news, first of all, Mandahai, who attacked Lanyang, will return to Caozhou as soon as possible, trying to recapture Caozhou; Second, Azig will definitely not let Caozhou lose it, and will definitely send elites to Caozhou, now your task is to hold Caozhou City, at least within five days, you can't let Caozhou fall into the hands of the Tartars, and after five days, you don't have to worry about it! ”

Zhao Xin said blankly: "My lord, will you hand over Caozhou to me for defense?" What about you? ”

Qin Mufeng said angrily: "Stupid, use your brain, of course I want to ambush the Tartars, you know, when we entered Henan to exterminate Li Zicheng, the first battle was fought in the Lanyang area, and Li Zicheng was hand-to-hand, and I am familiar with the terrain in this area, hum, if we let Mandahai still attack unscrupulously in Lanyang, stirring up Henan day and night, then we will be in vain!" I will leave you with 200 elite horsemen to defend the city, and the rest of the people will all ambush Mandahai with me! ”

Qin Mufeng is full of confidence, in the Lanyang area, fighting with the Tartars, he has taken the lead, and his strength to deal with Azig may not be enough, but against Mandahai, he is still holding the handle!

This is also the reason why Qin Mufeng did not chase and annihilate the Qing army, he had to leave a living mouth to send a letter to Mandahai, Mandahai, who got the information, was afraid of suicide, Caozhou City, this is the most critical part of the Azig strategy, thousands of elites guarded Caozhou, so easy to lose, even ten heads are not enough for Azig to cut off, Mandahai will definitely fight hard to rush back, and strive to recapture Caozhou.

This undoubtedly gave him the opportunity to ambush the Manchurian Tartars, although there were thousands of elites in Mandahai, but once they were calculated by themselves, there was only one ending, and they would definitely lose!

Zhou An on the side asked, "My lord, where are we going to ambush the Tartars?" From Lankao to Caozhou, it is almost a horse and a flat river, we only have a thousand elite cavalry, and we have to leave Zhao Xin with two hundred elite cavalry to sit in Caozhou, the number of troops we can use is only eight hundred, and it is too difficult to ambush the thousands of elites who are full of people......

Qin Mufeng spread the map on the table, and said with a confident smile: "This matter can be difficult to stop you, but it is difficult for me, and it is even more difficult for Brother Yifan, when we were in Henan to exterminate the thieves, Brother Yifan once explained to me many times the mountains and rivers of Kaifeng and the Daimyo generation, there are indeed not many places in this area that can deploy ambushes, but it does not mean that there is no place, and there is still an excellent place, which is here!" ”

Zhou An and Zhao Xin looked in the direction of Qin Mufeng's finger, Malinggang, this is one of the few mountains in Caozhou, although Malinggang is only a small mountain range, but the jungle is dense and the mountain is steep, but it provides a natural barrier for laying ambushes.

Qin Mufeng sneered: "You can see clearly, the official road from Kaifeng, through Lanyang to Caozhou just passed through Malinggang and came out of the Malinggang Mountain, if you want to rush back to Caozhou quickly, you must advance along the official road, they can't get around Malinggang!" All we have to do is wait for them to come to the door at Malinggang! ”

Qin Mufeng can be said to have benefited a lot from Xu Yifan, he is also a teacher and a friend, one-third of his skills come from Zhu Jie, and one-third of his skills are learned from Xu Yifan.

Eight hundred troops, for thousands of Qing troops, is indeed insufficient, but if properly deployed, it may not be impossible to defeat the elite cavalry of Mandahai.

"Zhou An, you immediately go down and prepare, collect all the sulfur flame nitrate in Caozhou City, and we will deploy them all under Malinggang, hehe, it's late autumn now, the crops and fields are about to dry up, let's set them on fire on the mountain, ambush the eight hundred cavalry at both ends, and burn them by surprise, and then give them a few waves of musket attacks, completely beat them out of temper, and finally launch a surprise attack, even if they can't be wiped out, There is still no problem with the casualties of thousands of elite riders, most of them and their vitality is seriously injured! ”

Qin Mufeng ordered the deployment one by one and began the operation, from Caozhou to Lanyang, a distance of two hundred miles, but from Caozhou to Malinggang was only thirty miles away, giving Qin Mufeng the opportunity to deploy calmly.

Lanyang City, now Mandahai has besieged Lanyang City for seven or eight days, Liu Fangliang led the remnants of Kaifeng Town, plus the strong people of the county town are defending the county, although Mandahai is fierce, but it is difficult to take Lanyang City in a hurry, after all, Mandahai has no artillery, and it is difficult to attack the county seat with his infantry and cavalry, and the difficulty has suddenly increased a lot.

Liu Fangliang is not a mediocre person, although Yuan Zongdi is seriously injured and cannot participate in the battle, but Liu Fangliang is enough to hold Lanyang City, at least there will be no problems in the short term.

When Man Dahai was anxious, a general stumbled into his handsome tent!

"Bei Ziye, Bei Ziye, it's not good, it's not good!"