After receiving the military order, Tan Zhen quickly mobilized his troops to the direction of Qingyang Town. Now he has 40,000 troops. The deputy generals of the military department also respect him quite a lot. Li Yunfei and Zhang Haocun even regarded Tan Zhen's battle as a classic.

I had to compete with Tan Zhen every now and then, and I benefited a lot. At this moment, Tan Zhen gave the order to set off directly with his team.

There was only a distance of two hundred miles between Chuzhou and Qingyang Town. After two days of urgent march, they reached an open space twenty miles outside Qingyang Town.

The terrain here is high in the southwest and low in the northeast, making it a strategic location. Marching here, Tan Zhen was about to give the order to find a high ground to set up camp, but he saw scouts rushing towards him.

Li Yunfei tightened the reins and the war horse neighed, but said: "Why are you so anxious?"

The scout turned over and dismounted: "Come back to the general, we are leaving the city. The enemy troops in Qingyang Town are attacking, with over ten thousand soldiers and horses."

"How much is over 10,000?" Li Yunfei whipped him: "Damn it, let me guess?"

"Ten thousand, ten thousand, at most ten thousand..." The scout did not dare to dodge, and he was whipped hard before he could finish his words.

Li Yunlong looked towards Tan Zhen: "General, this place is a bit open..."

Guo Shaojie thought for a moment and smiled: "That's great..."

"What does the military advisor mean by this?" Zhang Haocun asked in confusion: "Ten thousand people rushed down at the strategic point. Even if we take a roundabout way, it is too late now."

"Then let them in." Guo Shaojie was silent for a moment and finally said it with a smile.

All the monks were confused, but Tan Zhen on the other side smiled.

"General Li, you lead 10,000 soldiers and horses south. Everyone must take a flag. It is best to take all the flags here. When the battle begins, rush out. No need to chase. Just beat the drum and shout."

"General Zhang, you lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to the north, armed only with long swords, take off their armor, and when you see the flags waving in the south, then fight out from the north. The faster, the better."

"The general marched normally in the middle army, walking in a long snake formation, ignoring each other, waiting for them to make dumplings." Guo Shaojie said.

Tan Zhen nodded: "Without further delay, let's go quickly..."

Everyone took orders and ran around. The army changed formations and formed a long snake formation, but the beginning and end were not connected.

"Haha, what nonsense? Tan Zhen, he doesn't even know how to set up the long snake formation. Let's go and teach him a lesson." Wang Renli laughed in front and pointed at the men and horses in the distance.

"Brothers, kill them for me. The cavalry on the left and right will outflank them, cut off the central army, and intercept and kill them separately. This is my first victory." Wang Ren shouted loudly, pulled out the sword on his horse, and rushed over.

The shouts were loud and loud. After encountering such a strong terrain impact, the vanguard troops wanted to organize a resistance, but found that their formation had changed at some point and hurriedly retreated.

At this moment, Wang Ren had already led his troops to rush into the forefront of the team and began to kill. A thousand cavalrymen on the left and right directly intercepted the five thousand people and turned around to encircle the five thousand people. When the encirclement was completed, Wang Ren's remaining eight

Thousands of troops had already arrived, and a melee broke out.

Wang Ren had the advantage of good location and surprise attack. As soon as he appeared, he showed the aura of being battle-hardened. His men were not sloppy. They raised and lowered their swords without any hesitation, and scattered Tan Zhen's men in a moment.

Tan Zhen was in the rear army, with the sword in his hand raised high. The soldiers arrayed behind him quickly changed their formations and formed a second-class formation. There were 5,000 infantrymen on each side of the army. They quickly surrounded him from the outside to the inside, with 5,000 people in the middle.

Like an arrow, it attacks toward the center point.

Wang Ren only had 10,000 soldiers and horses. He originally wanted to eat the 5,000 people inside. The remaining soldiers and horses did not dare to chase. There is high ground behind them. If there is an ambush, they can eat as many as they can. They will eat 5,000 people.

He turned around and ran away, achieving his goal of winning the first battle.

From the time he received the news from the scouts to now, it had only been an hour. Even if he arranged his troops, it was too late. What's more, even if Tan Zhen's army knew that he had arrived with 10,000 people, according to the speed of the scouts' horses, the time left to him would be

There was only a quarter of an hour, and it was impossible to mobilize tens of thousands of troops to change the battle formation. That's why Wang Ren dared to attack so decisively.

"It's time to take action..." Guo Shaojie waved the flag in his hand, and the drums sounded loudly behind him. In an instant, ten thousand people ran out from the south, flags fluttering, the drums thundered, and smoke and dust billowed behind him, like thousands of troops.

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Wang Ren heard the sound of drums, looked to the south, and his expression changed drastically. There were at least five thousand flags, and more than thirty thousand including men and horses. However, he saw that the infantry on the left and right had begun to outflank, and the encirclement in front was also attacked, and he could have eaten it.

The fallen 5,000 men and horses had already started to counterattack at this moment, but the direction of the counterattack was not to break through, but towards him. It was like two sharp arrows superimposed together, rushing towards him.

"No, we were ambushed..." Wang Ren's expression changed drastically, and he waved his hand: "Withdraw, go north..."

If the ten thousand troops retreated directly towards Qingyang Town, they would be directly pursued. Under such a pursuit, they might have already invaded before they all entered the city.

Just as he turned his horse's head, he saw a sudden black mass of five thousand men and horses from the north, wearing light armor and holding long knives in their hands, rushing toward them at an extremely fast speed. Although the number of people was small, the speed was extremely fast.

"Damn it, go back to the city... quickly..." Wang Ren was already desperate and had no choice but to retreat.

"Don't leave, thief. Come and fight your grandfather for three hundred rounds." But he saw a man standing on his horse, pointing at Wang Ren and yelling curses. It was Li Yunfei.

At this moment, he also admired Guo Shaojie very much. Forty thousand troops faced off against ten thousand. Although the force was absolutely overwhelming, he still treated it with the most rigorous attitude and achieved the greatest victory with the smallest loss.

Wang Ren didn't have any fighting spirit at the moment, he just patted the horse and left without looking back.

Li Yunfei chased for several miles, fearing that there was a response ahead and Qingyang Town was right in front of him, so he led his men back. Along the way, he killed 700 enemy troops and captured 2,000 alive, and escorted them back to the army.

Everyone returned victoriously and marched towards Qingyang Town. Wang Ren walked away in panic. He even lost his helmets and armor along the way. Ten thousand horses left the city, and only more than three thousand came back.

After putting down the suspension bridge, Jiang Ning and Ning Buhui stood at the top of the city. Wang Ren came up to the city in disgrace and cursed: "Damn, what a loss. I wanted to catch him off guard, but this guy killed five thousand soldiers and horses.

The village owner will let you know how to deal with it."

This is really a case of stealing the chicken but losing the rice. I wanted to win the jackpot, but who would have thought that I was tricked by others, so I had to admit my defeat.

Jiang Ning said strangely: "The general rushed out in a surprise attack. Calculating the time, even if they changed formations, it would be too late. Why did they suffer such a big loss?"

"Hey, don't mention it..." Wang Ren recounted the experience of his narrow escape just now. Naturally, he wanted to talk more about how brave the enemy was and how many people there were. Finally, he said: "I'm damn lucky to be able to come back alive.

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Jiang Ning clicked his tongue: "Tsk, tsk, no, no, Tan Zhen has capable people, otherwise it would be impossible to change the formation so quickly and prepare the pockets, haha, interesting."

"Say Cao Cao, Cao Cao is here." Ning Buhui raised his eyes and saw a dark crowd appearing in his field of vision. Ten miles away, Tan Zhen's troops had begun to set up camp.

"Weird things, strange things..." Guo Shaojie, Tan Zhen, and Ma Liu walked a few miles away and looked at the defenses in the north of Qingyang City from a distance. They couldn't help but secretly claim to be strange.

"How?" Ma Liu couldn't see any clue.
Chapter completed!