The cavalry swept into the camp like a wind, and immediately shouted: "By the order of the Right Governor: Huang Wuxing, the commander of the Weishan Battalion, immediately lead the whole battalion out of the Taiping Pass to help in the battle!"

Chang Wei raised his hand and asked Ma Yuan to go out of the tent to receive the military order, but who knew that Cang Lingxuan on the side shouted: "Slow!"

She strode out of the tent of the Chinese army and said: "The officers of the Weishan battalion have suffered serious losses, and they have fought bravely to the death with the troops of Chang Wei and Zhao Yan, and now they are demoralized and exhausted, and they need many days of repair and training to recover their combat strength, don't you know the right governor?"

"Old man, see the Vermilion Bird Protector!" Hang Yuanliang jumped off his horse and saluted, before explaining: "It is true that as the Lord Protector said, the Weishan Camp is not suitable for battle. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info but 30,000 officers and soldiers are menacing, and we can't resist it. ”

Cang Lingxuan smiled coldly and said, "How can your 50,000 army not be able to resist?"

"Lord Dharma Protector, you also know that the guns of the officers and soldiers are powerful, and we are really short of manpower, so we asked the Weishan Battalion to help......"

After pulling each other's skin for a while, when Cang Lingxuan was about to run out of words, Chang Wei took the initiative to take the order. However, he said: The Weishan battalion is not under the command of others, and the route of the march and battle must be determined by himself, and in the end, Hang Yuanliang will 'lend' 300 cavalry to him.

Hang Yuanliang did not agree to any of these conditions, because Liu Yongming also wanted to take this opportunity to command the Weishan Battalion, once this kind of thing had a first time, it would be logical later, and even in the future, the Weishan Battalion could be annexed openly.

It's like a man and a woman, if you conquer once, you can even do whatever you want later, at your mercy.

After a long period of bargaining, Hang Yuanliang lost patience and moved out of Liu Yongming's military order to force Chang Wei to obey.

Cang Lingxuan threw out a sentence coldly, "King Yinglie has made Huang Wudaunt a general of Pingnan, you better be polite to me." ”

Hang Yuanliang, who was helpless, had to agree to Chang Wei's question about command, but the cavalry did not give any of them. Chang Wei held on to his words: If you don't give me cavalry, how can I assault the flank of the officers and soldiers? Without cavalry, it is impossible to defeat the officers and soldiers in a firing formation.

In terms of power, the Weishan Battalion, which has 30,000 people in his hands, is only 20,000 fewer than the Taiping Battalion, and its strength is considerable; in terms of rank, he is now a general, and Hang Yuanliang is not qualified to dictate to him at all. This kind of court official-style ruffle is much more clever than Cang Lingxuan's direct refusal, and no one can say that it is not the same.

After half an hour, the soldiers had finished eating. Hang Yuanliang really had no choice but to give him a hundred war horses, but the knights didn't give any of them, which was his biggest concession.

Cavalry is the most expensive and rare type of army in the army, and the money of ten archers does not necessarily support one cavalry. There were very few cavalry in the local guard posts of the Ming army, which basically belonged to the special arms of the border army. It is already very rare for Hang Yuanliang to give him a hundred war horses.

"Finally scraped some good!"

Chang Wei immediately asked Ma Yuan to select some people who could ride horses to form a cavalry squad, although this cavalry could not form any combat effectiveness, but it was much faster to deliver the news, and Chang Wei and other senior officers no longer needed to march with their feet.

With an order, the army of 20,000 or 30,000 well-fed and well-fed drove out of the camp in high spirits, forming a long human dragon without its head and tail in the night.

Hang Yuanliang sighed and said, "Lord Dharma Protector, no matter how you look at it, this army doesn't look like it's demoralized and exhausted. ”

Cang Lingxuan replied proudly: "This is General Huang's ...... leading the troops."

Ma Yuan led his people into a certain trail in Taiping Mountain, took the information written in ciphertext under a stone engraved with special markings, and then hid a piece of paper of the same shape, and then walked around the foot of the mountain for a long time before rushing back to report the military situation to Chang Wei.

Chang Wei immediately led a large army to bypass the foot of Taiping Mountain and cross the Xue River with the intention of attacking Xue Cheng, which was located in the plain area in the northeast of Taiping Mountain. The volunteer battalion stationed in the northeast of Taiping Mountain 'coincidentally' discovered this information, and Chang Ping hurriedly led his troops across the river valley to chase to the side of the Xue River, and saw that the White Lotus Army dismantled the pontoon bridge on the river and camped on the north bank to defend the river.

This year's drought is severe, and now it is the dry season, and the bottom of the Xue River is full of sand and gravel, so it is not difficult to wade through the water. My lord, what is your idea?"

After thinking about it for a while, Chang Ping ordered to cross the river and attack the thief army.

The width of the Xue River is no more than five zhang, the north bank is high and the south is low, Chang Wei let his troops line up in three long rows on the north bank, and when more than 1,000 people of the volunteer battalion were about to reach the opposite bank, a long horn suddenly sounded in the lower reaches of the Xue River.

But it was more than 3,000 people led by Tang Jinyi who killed, and more than 1,000 soldiers of the Volunteer Battalion on the south bank adjusted their formation under the leadership of Lu Wenmao to meet the attack, but Tang Jinyi's department only shot arrows from a distance to harass, and turned around and left when Lu Wenmao chased closer.

The musket team must maintain a tight array in order to have strong combat power, so pursuit is by no means their strong point, Lu Wenmao immediately returned to the army, and was about to cross the river when Tang Jinyi's department turned back to catch up.

Lu Wenmao wanted to return fire with a musket, but found that the other party was always one hundred and twenty paces away, which was too far for the musket to be accurate, and too close for the artillery to bombard at all.

"It's really a headache, after this battle, you have to go back to train cavalry, this weakness is simply too bad. "Although it was just an 'armed exercise' between their own people, Chang Wei and Tang Jinyi's tactics still annoyed Lu Wenmao.

However, the continuous rain of arrows harassed by Tang Jinyi's department could not cause damage to the musket team, and Lu Wenmao saw that Changping's department had crossed the river, so he divided half of his men to drive Tang Jinyi's department, and the rest of the people also began to cross the river.

After stepping on the other side of the river, more than 1,000 musketeers who crossed the river with Chang Ping first made a detour to the south to avoid the arrow rain attack in front of the White Lotus Army, and then formed a formation outside the range of the archers.

In the eyes of the petty officers who did not know the truth, under the platoon of more than 1,000 muskets, the so-called camp that had been erected in a hurry opposite could not stop several rounds of volleys. Because it was just a simple row of wooden fences, not even as good as ordinary shields.

The petty officers thought in unison: "Do you think that this thief army that escaped by luck the night before is very powerful? Do you think that with these tens of thousands of infantry you can resist our army's muskets? What a group of dirt buns who don't know whether they are alive or dead! If this thin camp is lost, the more than 20,000 thief army will definitely be defeated and retreat, and the more than 3,000 thief army on the other side have nothing to worry about, and victory is within reach!"

Suddenly, Chang Ping, who was moving forward quickly, stumbled under his feet, but fortunately, his martial arts skills were strong and his steps shook slightly, and he regained his balance, but the musketeers around him did not have this skill.

More than a dozen people in the front row fell to the ground first, and the soldiers in the back row who followed almost crashed into them, and the team was in chaos for a while, and the bad thing about the Jiajia was that the White Lotus Army Village only started shooting arrows at this time, although the distance was still far away, but the dense arrow rain was still very threatening.

Chang Ping lit the torch and took a closer look, only to find that there were potholes under the soft mud and sand floor, and there were potholes the size of bowls everywhere.

"Your Excellency, you have taken great pains. ”

Chang Ping immediately raised his knife and shouted: "Stop advancing!" (To be continued.) )