Two cavalry chased and fled.

Behind were the scout cavalry of Jiang Shangyan, with about one hundred people, and in front was a fire phoenix army cavalry of fifty or sixty people.

Since Jiang Shangyan entered Xingzhou, this kind of small battle has happened all the time. These small Fire Phoenix Rangers never clashed with Jiang Shangyan’s cavalry head-on, but were like hyenas, patrolling around the Jiang Shangyan’s large army, looking for all possible loopholes to exploit to sneak attack.

There is no logistics team in the cavalry of Jiangshangyan. The soldiers are each carrying the logistics needs themselves, and they usually prepare for consumption for about ten days. This basically makes the rangers of the Fire Phoenix Army basically unable to find an opportunity.

The only annoying thing is that they will launch feint attacks again and again after the troops camped at night. This is very annoying. It is like in summer, although you sleep in a mosquito net, there is always a mosquito buzzing in your ear outside, which is also annoying. What's more, if you accidentally get your arms and legs close to the mosquito net, they can still bite you through the tent.

Originally, Jiang Shangyan was too lazy to pay attention to these racists. Their purpose was nothing more than to delay their actions. But after several days, Jiang Shangyan was finally annoyed. The clay man was also rustic! So a cavalry team of more than a thousand people started a chase and strangle with these Fire Phoenix Army.

The Fire Phoenix Army did not dare to meet with the large army of Jiang Shangyan, but after more than a thousand cavalry vanguards were divided into several small teams, they naturally had the confidence and courage to fight.

Overall, the two sides were evenly divided in this mutual strangle battle. The Fire Phoenix Army was the leader of the Chu State, and its personal combat effectiveness was quite outstanding. The disadvantage was that it had too little combat experience. The cavalry team of Jiang Shangyan was slightly lacking in personal abilities, but they were constantly polished on the battlefield. They were the kind of troops who knew how to maximize their limited combat power.

Such mutual strangulation began from the Jiangshangyan entering Xingzhou, and continued to move towards the edges of Xingzhou and Xiangzhou as the large army of Jiangshangyan advanced as the overall advance.

Since the fight, Jiang Shangyan's vanguard scouts have already gained an absolute advantage because they were injured and killed and could be replenished immediately from the large army. The number of rangers in the Fire Phoenix Army in Xingzhou is limited, and Sun Chenglong cannot invest too much of his elite in this kind of guerrilla warfare. After all, his purpose is only to delay the opponent's advancement speed.

The fleeing Fire Phoenix Army will turn around and pull out the cavalry bow and shoot feather arrows from time to time. The rushing technique is a very advanced skill for the cavalry. Jiang Shangyan's cavalry does not. In fact, among the entire Ming cavalry, not many people have this kind of cavalry. The entire army can have this technology, probably only Qin Feng's personal guard camp, the Fire Death Camp. It is an almost omnipotent force.

Like the cavalry of Jiang Shangyan, the cavalry is equipped with a cavalry crossbow specially built by the Ming army for cavalry. This cavalry crossbow can only be equipped with one crossbow arrow at a time. The disadvantage is that it is very close and needs to be launched when the opponent is about twenty steps away. This is extremely comparable to the cavalry bow. The advantage is that it can be installed in advance before the battle and is easy to operate. Originally, the Ming army also launched cavalry crossbows, but in actual combat, this thing was quickly abandoned, because in high-speed cavalry combat, twenty steps were only in the blink of an eye. After firing this arrow, most experienced cavalrymen immediately threw away the cavalry crossbows in their hands and prepared to fight. Many soldiers paid the price of their lives because they were reluctant to abandon this cavalry crossbow.

For the feather arrows like the Fire Phoenix Army that were shooting at about 70 or 80 steps, the cavalry of the Jiang army who were chasing behind could only endure it. The good thing is that the shooting accuracy of the Fire Phoenix Army was also poor, and each shot would slow down their speed, which would instead bring the pursuers behind them closer to them.

The chasing cavalry of the Jiang army was very excited because this was the first time they occupied an absolute majority in the number of people. Based on the combat experience during this period, as long as they could catch up with the Fire Phoenix cavalry, it was not a dream to be able to wipe out them all. During this period, their casualties were not small, and everyone was holding a fire in their hearts.

But obviously, they were so excited that they did not pay attention. The speed of the enemies in front was sometimes fast and sometimes slow, not like they were running for desperate times, but instead seemed to be hanging them. And their location has now reached the edge of Xingzhou, very close to Xiangzhou.

The cavalry of the Fire Phoenix Army in front flew across the fields, and the horse's hooves mercilessly trampled through the green seedlings on the fields. There were piles of haystacks by the fields. No one noticed these things, because this scene was so common in rural areas.

The Fire Phoenix Army flew past quickly, and when the unprepared Jiang tribe cavalry flew past these haystacks, the sound of feather arrows breaking through the seemingly ordinary haystacks suddenly came from the linoleum, and rows of feather arrows shot out from the haystacks.

More than a dozen cavalrymen near the haystack screamed and turned over and fell off the horse.

The rest of the cavalry were shocked and immediately rode their horses to scatter. As the haystack flew, rows of people appeared on the haystack, condescending toward the cavalry.

The cavalry of the Jiang tribe roared and rode their horses. In addition to the heavy losses when they were attacked for the first time, the archers on the haystacks then had a limited threat to them. Judging from the outfits and techniques of these people, they were not well-trained soldiers, but like some local armed forces, and to be more precise, they were just some villagers who could barely draw their bows.

Some of the cavalry approached these haystacks at high speed, while the other part rushed towards the Fire Phoenix Army who had rushed back.

The villagers on the haystack quickly slipped down from the haystack, ran forward, and many people even threw away the longbow in their hands.

But the two legs were obviously not as good as the four legs. The cavalry of the Jiang tribe quickly approached, and the crossbow in their hands had been taken out. With the sound of linoline, crossbow arrows were nailed to the backs of the fleeing villagers and shot them one by one.

Throwing away the crossbow in his hand, the cavalry took off the spears from the saddle bridge, leaned down, and began to accelerate the sprint, preparing to overturn all these enemies to the ground.

The second round of attacks arrived at this time.

One by one, the tripping ropes bounced among the green seedlings, and the chasing cavalry suddenly turned over. More people stood up from the canal in front of the farmland, from the haystacks in the distance, from the half-man-high green seedlings, holding all kinds of weapons in their hands, and some even held hoes and sheep forks and killed them.

More than a hundred cavalrymen disappeared in a blink of an eye. When the remaining cavalrymen saw that the situation was not good, they immediately turned around and fled. They might be able to kill more enemies, but if they were entangled by these people, and if there were Huofeng Army cavalry hunting outside, they would probably be wiped out.

While chasing and fleeing, the situation changed instantly. This time it was the turn of the cavalry of the Jiang tribe who ran away in a panic.

Tens of miles away from this battle, Jiang Shangyan's cavalry had already set up a camp. Not long after, Jiang Shangyan, who was discussing the military, received a report of two and three forward scouts who were ambushed and suffered heavy losses.

"Five consecutive attacks on our scouts, and they happened within one day, with a region of fifty miles, and we lost a total of 200 scouts." One general said angrily, "When our brigade of cavalry rushed over, those people had already run away, and our soldiers were cut off their heads, stripped away their armor and all their weapons, and even their clothes were stripped away."

His words immediately made all the generals in the tent angry.

"Have you found out clearly? Where are these ambushers from?" Jiang Shangyan suppressed his anger angrily, killed the enemy, took away weapons, and stripped off his clothes. This matter was not new, but he had cut off his head and took it away. He hadn't encountered it for a long time.

"Find it clearly." The general said in a low voice: "The enemy comes from the Bao family and the Cha family in Yafan County. These two big families are now located in Erlong Mountain and Shituo Mountain, and each gathers about 3,000 young and strong people. They should have received assistance from Sun Chenglong, Xiangzhou. Some Chu army officers can be seen in these armed forces. More importantly, there is a Chu army of about 3,000 people stationed between Erlong Mountain and Shituo Mountain. Behind them is the only bridge of Gaoliang River."

Jiang Shangyan turned around and looked at the map hanging beside him, "Horizontal in Erlong Mountain and Shituo Mountain?"

The general nodded and said, "These two families are local wealthy families in Yafan County and have built their own fortresses on Erlong Mountain and Shituo Mountain along the mountain. We caught some local villagers and learned about the situation of these two fortresses from them."

"It's not easy to fight?" Jiang Shangyan asked.

"For our cavalry, it is indeed difficult to fight. For them, they have relatively many choices, and they can attack or defend the village. If it really doesn't work, they can escape into the mountains." The general said a little annoyed.

"I'm not afraid!" Jiang Shangyan sneered, "But I don't know the general trend and I'll destroy myself. How far is Suqian's troops from us?"

"We are still ten days away." The general replied.

"What is the distance between Erlong Mountain and Shituo Mountain?"

"About ten miles, three thousand Chu troops camped on this journey, forming an inverted shape with the two mountains. General Jiang, are we going to wait for General Su's troops to come up before launching an attack?"
Chapter completed!