Although there is Dangqu and Hanchang water connecting Dangqu, the road along the way is tortuous and 400 miles long. If Lei Yuan set out from Dangqu to rescue Hanchang, it would take ten days to march along the way. When he arrived, the corpses of Ju Fu and He Ping would have been cold.
Fortunately, Lei Yuan was on the way to Hanchang. When he received the emergency message from Jufu, his troops were approaching Dingshan on the southern border of Hanchang County. At that time, the entire army marched while preparing for combat. Until that night, Hu Du led the guide of the familiar terrain and arranged the next valley as a place to camp.
This valley is about twenty-five miles away from Hanchang County, and is separated from the Micang Road and Dangqu Water by continuous cliffs. Therefore, when camping at night, just be careful of the lights and will be discovered by the enemy cavalry.
However, after more than an hour of march, the team turned from the deep mountains back to the banks of the Dangqu River. The main road of the Micang Road was hidden. It would be impossible to hide. When the soldiers and soldiers saw the south of Hanchang City transformed into a large nanmu forest on the mountain, the smoke and dust of the people on their side, the birds and birds who were alarmed by the sound of the army's march and the beasts running in the forest, they would clearly reveal their traces.
The scout in front rushed over and said loudly: "Report to the lieutenant, he has come into contact with the enemy light cavalry in front. There is a sound of cavalry running behind the mountain. It should be that there is a large-scale mobilization of the enemy!"
Guo Jing nodded slightly.
Last night, the military proposal was decided to take advantage of the enemy's attack on the city as usual and advance to the small plains under Hanchang City to fight with it.
But Lei Yuan also made it clear that he should never expect Ma Chao's troops to be unprepared and sit down and watch as he calmly set up his formation. As long as the enemy launches a line to attack the city, the initiative will be in his hands. If he demands more, he will despise Ma Chao's ability to use troops.
Now that the enemy scout has appeared, let’s follow the trend and enter the response plan.
Last night, Guo actually discussed with Lei Yuan carefully: the number of cavalry in the Lei family's army is large enough to block the spy of a small number of scout cavalry from the enemy. However, since they arrived in Jingzhou, the number of war horses has gradually decreased, and the cavalry has become more and more precious. Therefore, if they encounter the enemy's large-scale light cavalry whistle probe, they must not fight directly with it.
With the cavalry that the Lei family of Lujiang finally accumulated, they consumed thousands of Qiang and Hu light cavalry, let alone one? Even if it was a ratio of three or five, Lei Yuan felt that he must have suffered a loss.
Therefore, the goal of the battle should be to try to delay the time when the other people return to the camp to report their messages; if they can choose the opportunity to annihilate one, that would be better. The specific arrangement is nothing more than a small number of troops to tempt the enemy cavalry to chase them. The team occupied the favorable terrain to encircle and block, and used a mixed tactic of infantry and cavalry to fight against a single cavalry team.
This method is simple to say. In fact, it has requirements for the training level of soldiers and the ability to grasp the timing of the generals. At this moment, Lei Yuan's generals, Lei Cheng and Ding Fengdu are more brave and slightly frivolous. Feng Xi is more like a politician, and Shamoko... He had previously thought it was hard to go back and forth, so he had sent most of the barbarian soldiers back to Jiangzhou. At this moment, he only brought more than a hundred people to Lei Yuan's team. Yesterday he was lying down and rested early and did not participate in the military discussion at all.
In this way, Guo Jing is the only vanguard in the entire army.
When Lei Yuan first entered Shu, he was worried about the roads and soil, so he almost did not mobilize the cavalry. Later, he mobilized Guo Jing under the banner of changing defense, and Ding Feng's army came, which slightly increased the number of cavalry.
The cavalry of Guo Jing's troops are different from other units, or are more appropriate to call them horse-riding infantry. This is because Guo Jing himself has been advancing and retreating on the mountain for a long time. He attaches great importance to the relationship between mountain combat. His cavalry can raid horses and fight with horn bows and spears; he can also dismount and form formations and fight with swords and shields. It is especially suitable for fighting in rugged forests and narrow terrains. It is extremely convenient.
At that moment, Guo Jing raised his hand at the forefront of the team. The team behind him stopped immediately. Guo Jing ordered the soldiers to eat some dry food to replenish their energy. He immediately distinguished the surrounding terrain and gave the students the strategies.
After a while, Guo actually led more than twenty cavalry out.
This section of the road is close to the plain where Hanchang County is located. The steep cliff between the river and the road is gradually approaching None, and the road itself is obviously becoming wider and wider. On both sides of the main road, parallel paths are also appearing for cavalry to run through.
Guo Jing led his men to spread the front and swung forward. When the road passed by the mountainside, he ran into more than ten Qiang and Hu light cavalry. These Qiang and Hu obviously missed the scouts sent by the Lujiang Lei family, so he ran all the way and was not very alert.
Guo actually noticed that although people collectively call them Qianghu, their appearance characteristics are actually different. Some of them have high noses and deep eyes, and their skin looks slightly pale; some have flat faces and a little collapsed nose; some have no difference in appearance from Han people, so for some reason they have been involved in the Qianghu tribe.
They did not have uniform military uniforms and weapons, they were wearing all kinds of animal skins and coarse cloth clothes, and some could not even be used to weigh clothes, but just wrapped them with cloth... Of course, they were not wearing armor, and the weapons on their hands were also strange in shape.
Guo couldn't help but shake his head and said, "I heard that Ma Chao drove this generation like a hunting dog. From this point of view, it seems that it is not as regular as a hunting dog."
He immediately set off his bow and arrow, shot one of his people first, and then rode up.
The Qiang and Hu cavalry were screaming, and several people were shot down by Guo Jing and his subordinates. When they were about to shoot, the horses on both sides had already been entangled and intertwined. The enemy and us were close to each other and used long and short weapons to assassinate and slash. In the blink of an eye, the casualties and wounded were all dismounted.
Guo Jing's troops were large and his armor was complete, and he immediately gained the upper hand. The Qiang and Hu cavalry were fierce but could not resist the elite, so most of them were soon dropped. Only one of Guo Jing's subordinates died and three were injured.
Two Qiang and Hu people had a bad experience. They took the opportunity of riding horses to hedge and ran straight to a high-slope forest land. Guo actually pointed to a small school and asked him to take people to chase him, and the team took a break for a while.
The knights immediately untied their skins and drank water, drank horses, and cleaned the wounds.
Guo Jing was about torture a few injured Qiang and Hu people, trying to grasp the details of the enemy's troops, but he heard Gaopo shouting. The school sent by the previous school rushed back, and the team was mixed with the detective cavalry sent by Guo Jing earlier.
Guo actually saw their military uniforms with blood from a distance, and several of them were shaking on the horses and were seriously injured. The leader of the scout cavalry was named Wang Song, who was Wang Yan's distant relative. He was not only brave and brave, but also very alert. He could make them flee back in a hurry, but also injured, and the enemy would definitely dispatch a large number of cavalry.
Guo Jing immediately went forward: "What's the situation of the enemy ahead?"
Wang Song's expression was obviously exhausted. He must have experienced an extremely dangerous encounter. He chased him. He replied: "About 300 cavalry approached quickly, including not only Qianghu, but also elites in leather armor!"
It is really generous to be able to use three hundred cavalry as a team and only undertake the task of sending out reconnaissance.
Guo Jing nodded and said, "You have a short rest, give the horses and drink water. When the enemy cavalry appears, we will evacuate together."
Wang Song shook his head repeatedly: "The enemy's cavalry is vigorous and the riding skills are also excellent. They come very quickly, so we have no time to rest..."
Before he finished speaking, the sound of iron hoofs rushing on the ground in the woodland. Under the cover of the sound of hoofs, there was also a very dense sound of weapons and armor colliding. The next moment, on the top of the high slope, people and horses began to show their heads. First, there were three or five riders, then thirty or fifty riders, and the cavalry teams behind them poured out like the tide overflowing.
Guo Jing cursed in a low voice, patted Wang Song on the shoulder, turned to his subordinates and shouted: "Go on the horse! Go! Go!"
Just when he gave the order, the enemy cavalry shot a few arrows far away in their direction. The arrows flew into the air and fell to the ground, without lethality, but it would be troublesome to shoot arrows closer to the enemy.
Chapter completed!