The more than 300 men at the front took the time to rest, while Han Bao stared at the battle map and fell into deep thought.

Choosing the former may alert the enemy in advance.

If the enemy forces divide their forces and enter the Heifeng Valley, they may block their access to the Jingshui River Valley, making it impossible to directly enter the Jingshui River Valley and sealing the enemy's retreat route.

Choosing the latter, if the main force of troops on the south and west wings cannot advance into Chiyang in time, they may not be able to withstand the life-threatening force of 40,000 to 50,000 enemy troops without strong armor and heavy shields.

Fight into the Jingshui River Valley.

What a dilemma!

"Commander of the Brigade, Deputy Envoy Feng has sent people over!" At this time, several more scouts sent to the front climbed over the plateau beam in the south, slid along the steep slope, and slid directly into the ditch. They brought back two mountain men dressed as hunters.

Dark and thin man.

In the past four days, Han Bao had passed through the maze-like loess plateau beams. Han Bao had no way to get in touch with the Baqiao Camp, and he had no idea about the situation of the German and German troops escaping north and intercepting the enemy troops on the southern line and on the west flank.

, this was also the reason why it was difficult for him to make a decision just now.

At this time, seeing Feng Xuan sending someone to contact him, Han Bao stood up excitedly. Regardless of the painful pain when his bloody feet were stuffed into his combat boots, he limped over and asked eagerly: "Feng Xuan is leading the brigades."

Have the cavalry all come from Fengxiang?"

"Generals Wang Mao, Wang Da, and Wang Qi have led more than 10,000 German troops on foot to set up defenses along the Moyu River. They plan to cross the river from Heiniutan and enter Chiyang County this morning..."

The visitor was a mid-level soldier from the Longyou Xuanwei Envoy's Office. He looked familiar to Han Bao, but the visitor had traveled over mountains and ridges day and night, covering more than a hundred miles of mountain roads, and had to disguise himself and pass through enemy-occupied areas. He looked more like

They are still embarrassed.

After verifying his identity, he didn't have time to clean up, so he came directly to see Han Bao. In the dim morning light, it was natural that he couldn't see his true face.

After hearing the name, I found out that the person who came was Tian Mao, the second son of Tian Cheng, the counselor of the Nanneishi Prefecture. He had been in the army for several years and had been serving as a military attaché beside Han Qian. Han Bao had met him twice before.

Tian Mao requested years ago to follow Feng Xuan and lead the cavalry brigade into Longyou to participate in the battle. Then he followed Feng Xuan and others from Tianshui to the east along the Weishui River and entered Guanzhong.

Feng Xuan knew for sure that Han Bao was leading 2,000 light-armored infantry across the plateau valley at the northern foot of Jiuji Mountain and marched westward. He was worried that Han Bao would be unable to contact the southern front within three or four days and would be unable to accurately estimate the war situation south of Chiyang.

, sent a large number of scouts to cross the hills and mountains in the upper reaches of the Moyu River, on the one hand to harass the Pingxia and Qiang tribes heading south from the western front, and on the other hand to facilitate the messengers to pass through the Jingshui River Valley, which is still under the control of the enemy.

Go through and wait for Han Bao to come and contact you among the hills to the east.

Tian Mao was unwilling to receive preferential treatment because of his status. He had no experience in leading troops in combat and did not expect to go to the front line to charge into battle, so he took the initiative to contact Han Bao, the surprise attack force.

Seeing that the first batch of more than 300 horses who followed Han Bao to the east side of Heifeng Valley were all miserable, Tian Mao couldn't bear to ask him to lead these remnant soldiers out of Heifeng Valley to contain ten times the number of people.

The elite of Pingxia.

"How many scouts did Feng Xuan send to explore the hills and mountains on the west flank of the river valley?" Han Bao asked after listening to Tian Mao's dictation and marking the deployment of troops and horses on the southern front and the west flank on the combat map.

Feng Xuan knew clearly that even if they arrived on the east side of the Jingshui River Valley in time, they would be miserable. He hoped that they would let Li Siqi's Pingxia tribe Qiang ride over first, and then when the time was right, they would enter the Jingshui River Valley from the side and destabilize Heiniutan.

Just improve the morale of the enemy troops and reduce the difficulty for them to forcefully break through the Heiniutan defense line.

If this is the arrangement, the battle at Heiniutan will be unimaginably fierce.

After all, once the Heiniutan crossing battle begins, the Chengde Army will inevitably realize where Feng Xuan's breakthrough focus is. In addition to Li Siqi's reinforcements, the Chengde Army can mobilize a large number of reinforcements from Liquan and Chiyang.

Once the German army used heavy shields and spears to form a formation east of Heiniutan, and Feng Xuan only used his cavalry to seize the beach and cross the river, how many people would have to die to defeat the enemy?

"Currently, there are more than two hundred of our scouts west of the river valley." Tian Mao said.

"Two hundred elite scouts are enough!" Han Bao said. "The Pingxia people know that the small group of soldiers and horses in the hills on the west flank can only be scout troops. The number will not be large. They also need to leave a small number on the west flank.

The defensive strength is enough, and we cannot attract their troops. But if we fight out from Heifeng Valley, he will definitely shrink his troops to the entrance of Heifeng Valley. He will never dare to go south easily again! We can defeat these three thousand Xia Qiang.

Ride and hold!"

"This..." Tian Mao looked at the more than 300 people staggering around. If it weren't for the newly-made war crossbows of the Ordnance Institute, which mainly use winches to open the string, he would have doubted how many of these people could pull the war crossbows, and even more so.

Not to mention picking up swords and spears and fighting against the brave Pingxia people in the plateau valley.

"The Pingxia people waited until this moment to decide to go south to rescue the German troops and flee north. To put it bluntly, they were not willing to take much risks." Han Bao summoned the few soldiers and battalion generals who followed him to his side.

Said, "We don't necessarily have to fight them in formation at the west entrance of Heifenggou. What's more important is to let the Pingxia people know that if they continue to go south, they will bear the risk of being blocked by us. Li Yuanshou is ambitious, but Pingxia

The small number of people in the tribe cannot support their huge ambition. There are more than 200 elite scouts on the west wing to support them. As long as we confirm that the Pingxia people have stopped going south, we can fight and retreat in the Black Wind Valley and wait for the troops behind.

come over……"

The once ignorant young slave boy was now a senior general of Daliang who had experienced the test of war.

Although Han Bao looked very embarrassed after three days and four nights of forced march, his tone revealed firm confidence.

He knew very well that if they could successfully drag the Pingxia people into the Jingshui River Valley at this time, it would mean that the interception force deployed by the German army on the east bank of Heiniutan would only be 40 to 50% of the planned number; Feng

The first wave of assaults organized by Xuan on the west bank would most likely penetrate the much thinner defense line than expected, instead of having to use cavalry to crush the enemy's heavy armored infantry formation on the narrow Heiniutan.

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The advantage of cavalry lies in roundabout maneuvers, and it is difficult to take advantage of heavy armored infantry formations.

"There is no need to send people to report, as long as three bonfires are lit high on the plateau, the west wing will gather the scouts to respond when they see it!" Tian Mao said excitedly.

There are not many soldiers and horses entering the mountains on the west wing, but the situation is much better than here. The only problem is that Li Siqi knows that they only have a small number of scouts on the west wing who have climbed over the mountains and crawled in, and they cannot hold back the main force of the Pingxia Qiang Cavalry.

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However, plans have already been made for various tactics. All it takes is Tian Mao and Han Bao to meet up and send a simple signal using bonfire or smoke.

Han Bao immediately divided the more than 300 people who arrived at Heifenggou into two groups. The more than 100 people who were in slightly worse condition stayed in Heifenggou to rest and coordinate their retreat if necessary. The other 200 people, who had slightly better physical strength, followed

He went to the Jingshui River Valley to kill and attract the attention of the Pingxia people.
Chapter completed!