Although Zhang Xiongshan has a rough personality, he is not a stupid person. Seeing the Huaidong cavalry attack and retreat from the mountains and forests so quickly and orderly under the weak moonlight, we know that although the Yuanzhou cavalry he led is said to be elite, it is not as good as Huaidong.

The elite cavalry is far from the same level.

The night battle between the mountains and rivers was definitely not going to work, so Zhang Xiongshan ordered some of them to give up their horses, and the formation marched on the outside of the cavalry with swords, shields and crossbows to resist the Huaidong cavalry. As long as it lasted until dawn, the gap between the soldiers of the two armies would be

The gap will be reduced, and with more troops, they will be able to regain the initiative.

In addition, in Zhang Xiongshan's opinion, as long as they survive tonight, the main force of Chen Zishou's Chinese army can reach the foot of Xinyu City and defend the city, and there is no fear that Huaidong's main force of infantry and cavalry in Yuzhang will arrive in two days.

From the middle of the moon to the twilight of dawn, the Huaidong cavalry, although small in number, occupied the main force in night operations. They entered and exited from the mountains, forests, shallow streams, and hills and gullies to harass Zhang Xiongshan's troops. The harassment lasted for six months.

Each time, thirty or fifty cavalry attacked in batches, but after dawn, the Huaidong cavalry suddenly withdrew.

At dawn, the sky was dim, and the morning light shrouded the mountains in a mist. Seeing the Huaidong cavalry withdrawing, Zhang Xiongshan sent people to reconnoiter the terrain, and found that they had been fighting and marching all night, and had reached the Chitu Gang area at the eastern foot of Mengshan Mountain.

, falls about thirty miles west of Xinyu City.

There is a stream to the south of Chitugang. Zhang Xiongshan didn’t know the name of the stream. Looking at the map, crossing the stream was the same road they took to Xinyu yesterday. When they rode to the stream, they saw dozens of corpses lying in disorder on the bank.

, they are all Yuanzhou military uniforms, and the blood soaked into the stone crevices and condensed into black.

Looking at the scattered hooves of horses around, it seems that a few soldiers and horses of the vanguard infantry were lured here at night to surround and kill them.

After crossing the shallow stream, a dozen remnant soldiers fled towards this side and saw an infantry colonel under his command. Zhang Xiongshan summoned him to ask about the situation in Xinyu and the Chinese army led by Chen Zishou.

"Colonel Cao Teng was ordered by the general to lead two thousand infantry to Xinyu. However, he was still more than ten miles away from the city. He called more than three hundred enemy cavalry to rush to the formation. It was already dark at that time, and the road to the front gorge was narrow.

, but the general went somewhere unknown, and saw that the enemy's cavalry had heavy armor hidden in them, and they were charging and killing them very fiercely. Colonel Cao ordered everyone to stop and form a defensive formation, and also asked us to each lead a group of infantry to attack and drive away the enemy.

The enemy cavalry was attacking from the flank. Our troops were cut off by the cavalry and could not join forces with Captain Cao at night, so we headed west instead, not wanting to meet the general here."

"You bastard!" Zhang Xiongshan spat. With more than 2,000 cavalry, only more than 300 cavalry from Huaidong were holding them back even an inch. They were only more than ten miles away from Xinyu City and could not enter. His face was humiliated to the sky.

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Zhang Xiongshan didn't care about anything else. While sending people to Chen Zishou who was parked thirty miles to the west, he led his troops to rush to the south road to meet up with the two thousand infantry and enter Xinyu City first.

They also didn't sleep a wink all day and night. Zhang Xiongshan, a dozen generals and nearly a thousand cavalry were all very tired, and the horses were a little unable to carry them. In order to save horsepower, Zhang Xiongshan and the generals dismounted and walked, and they had not yet walked east to Xinyu City.

On the road, I heard shouts of killing from both sides. From the valley and the woods, a group of men and horses galloped out to stop them and kill them.

Looking at the size of the soldiers who were killed, it turned out that more than 600 Huaidong cavalry who had entered Xinyu first were gathered here!

Zhang Xiongshan couldn't help but feel a little panic. He didn't expect that the Huaidong cavalry, which had disappeared before withdrawing before dawn, rushed here to rendezvous and set up an ambush. Zhang Xiongshan got on his horse and held a gun in his hand. The Huaidong cavalry stopped him and killed him.

Come, he can only divide his troops to attack on two sides.

Although Zhang Xiongshan's men did not sleep a wink all day and night, the Huaidong cavalry coming from Yuzhang would only be harder and more tired than them. But the more extreme the situation, the more it reflects the general's combat effectiveness.

Nearly a thousand Yuanzhou cavalry were ambushed. They were caught off guard and panicked. They hurriedly divided their troops to attack from both wings. The formations were not organized, the chaos was not smoothed out, and many people did not even open their crossbows. They called the Huaidong cavalry general.

The first arrow was drawn and rained down.

Seeing that the formation was very scattered and his troops no longer had much advantage, Zhang Xiongshan knew that it would be difficult to win, so he ignored the two scattered wings and was massacred by the Huaidong Army.

Open the distance and then adjust and reshape it.

Zhang Xiongshan's tactics are not wrong at all. Except for his cavalry, the advance infantry is more than twenty miles away to the east, and the main force of the Chinese army led by Chen Zishou is only thirty miles away from them.

Break camp and move closer to them.

Galloping up the road, going east and west, there are large groups of infantry joining our side. Naturally, we cannot ask the Huaidong Army to completely defeat and annihilate the remaining few hundred cavalry in a shallow valley.

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Seeing Zhang Xiongshan leading hundreds of cavalry to escape south, Chen Daozi, holding a machete, could only kill the enemies around him first. After meeting up with Zhao Bao, the hundreds of cavalry had already fled far away, and Lao

Driving nearly two miles.

"Master Baozi was able to arrive with the main force of the cavalry camp at noon. Chen Zishou was completely unaware of it. After dawn, he broke out of the camp and marched eastward. He was already twenty miles away. It seemed not good for us to chase Zhang Xiongshan," Zhao Bao and Chen

Daozi said, "It's better to let Zhang Xiongshan go. Let's attack the two thousand infantry outside Xinyu City first. Then we can ask Zhang Xiongshan and Chen Zishou to meet up and then rush on horseback to rescue!"

"That's fine!" Chen Daozi didn't say much, and he and Zhao Baobing split into two groups and galloped eastward between the hills and mountains.

Yuanzhou had two thousand infantry stationed on the road 12 or 3 miles west of Xinyu City. Chen Daozi and Zhao Bao led the cavalry to entangle them. Of course, these two thousand Yuanzhou troops were soldiers of Huang Binghao's guard camp and were not strong in combat.

Weak, moreover, they are united in formation, heavily defended, equipped with armor, bows and crossbows, and huddle up like a turtle. No matter how sharp the Huaidong cavalry is, they have no chance to attack.

Chen Daozi and Zhao Bao were not in a hurry. They just tried their best to monitor the two thousand Yuanzhou Army while monitoring the progress of the main force of the Yuanzhou Army led by Chen Zishou. More importantly, they blocked the communication in the north to cover the main force of the cavalry battalion led by Zhou Pu.

Enemy soldiers are not allowed to detect it in advance.

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Zhang Xiongshan first met with Chen Zishou, who scolded him bloody.

With an absolutely superior force, but careless and careless, he ordered more than 600 Huaidong cavalry to lose nearly 500 of their troops, and even beat the remaining cavalry into disarray. Zhang Xiongshan had no shame to complain to Chen Zishou.

It was learned that this Huaidong cavalry rushed to the west of Xinyu City and entangled his two thousand infantry outside Xinyu City. Judging from the situation, they actually intended to eat the two thousand infantry before the main force of the Chinese army arrived.

, Zhang Xiongshan was so angry that his blood surged: He had never been so despised by the enemy in his life.

This Huaidong cavalry force, consisting of 600 men, was entangled outside Xinyu City and refused to retreat. Chen Zishou was secretly surprised by their strong fighting spirit, but he didn't think much about it.

In the view of Chen Zishou and Zhang Xiongshan, Huaidong will send intelligence back to Yuzhang City, and then dispatch the main force of infantry and cavalry from Yuzhang to fight in Xinyu. Even if the cavalry goes first, they should at least arrive in Xinyu after dark tomorrow.

Chongqing; and as long as they drive away this Huaidong cavalry and enter the remaining city of Xinyu before dark tomorrow, they will be able to take the initiative.

"Who leads the cavalry in Huaidong, or who does Huaidong send to Yuanzhou to preside over the surrender?" Chen Zishou and Zhang Xiongshan asked not to affect the army's advance, so they went to the roadside to discuss the military situation. "They actually relied on

Six hundred cavalry stopped our 30,000-strong army from entering Xinyu before dark tomorrow, how bold it is!"

The main force of the Chinese army is less than 40 miles away from Xinyu City. There is no way they can enter Xinyu City today. However, the battle last night was so useless that Zhang Xiongshan felt depressed.

Zhang Xiongshan immediately asked Chen Zishou to allow him to lead his troops to Xinyu first, meet up with the two thousand infantry in front, and clear the passage into Xinyu City.

There are still 600 cavalrymen under Zhang Xiongshan. Although they were panicked by the killing, they are still capable of fighting. Furthermore, heading east from Chitu Gang, the terrain is relatively open, and the infantry and cavalry are advancing in chaos, so they are not afraid of the Huaidong cavalry again.

There is a chance to ambush you.

Chen Zishou dispatched another two thousand infantry and Zhang Xiongshan's more than 600 cavalry to attack the Huaidong cavalry. He also urged the main force of the Chinese army to move eastward quickly.

At this time, Chen Zishou ignored the chaotic battle in the north of Xinyu City last night, and had wiped out all the scouts they deployed in the north of Xinyu City. Without the scouts in the north, Chen Zishou would not have known that a group of more than 3,000 people
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