On the official road, the Sui army cavalry was racing towards the east. They wanted to arrive at Huazhou Prefecture to govern Zheng as soon as possible. If they missed the time, they might have a big problem.

The Yanzhou rebels occupying Tongzhou have already moved south and are at Xingdejin, the Wei River Ferry Crossing. Once the opponent crosses the Wei River and enters the south bank, it is less than fifty miles away from the Zhengcheng City, Huazhou Prefecture.

This is still the previous news. Now the other party may have entered the boundary of Huazhou. Dongyangyi where Yang Guang is located is about forty miles away from Zhengcheng. If you cannot enter the city before the Zhou army, you will be in a dilemma: there is interception in front and pursuers behind.

If you retreat to Weinan, it will be easy to be besieged by the Zhou army chased by Chang'an. Zheng has many defenders, so the Yanzhou rebels may not be able to surround him. It is much easier to summon cavalry to break through from Zheng at that time than to break through from Weinan.

Twelve miles east of Dongyang Post is Chishui Valley, where there is a place where you can rest and stay, called Chishuidian, and twenty-five miles east is Zhengcheng.

After rushing past Chishuidian, the Shidi water would pass through the Shidiyu in front of it. This water flowed out from Shidiyu on the south. Since the Han Dynasty, Shidiyu has opened a road to the south to Shangluo. The Sui army camps guarded the entrance of the valley, and the Zhou army was guarded from then on.

Shidiyu is located to the west of Zhengcheng, and Wengyu is located to the east of Zhengcheng. They are all ancient roads to Shangluo and are also the entrance of the valleys that the Sui army strictly guarded. As a result, after all the defenses, the Zhou army came out of the Qinling Mountains and burned Guangtong Cang.

"Your Highness, there is a stone bridge on the water of the stone embankment. After a while, you will cross the stone bridge and go ten miles east to the east. Zhengcheng is immediately summoned soldiers when you enter the city and sent cavalry to break east and intercept the rebels, and enter Tongguan to challenge Luozhou to invade the emergency."

"Do you want to stay in Zhengcheng to defend? What about Pengcheng Duke?"

"The lower official will naturally stay and help His Highness defend the city."

Yang Guang has become a frightened bird, but he has to stay in Zheng to stabilize the morale of the army, so Yu Qing also wants to stay and take charge of the overall situation.

Only by stabilizing Huazhou can the defenders of Weinan have the confidence to gather defeated troops to defend. Of course, Weinan cannot defend for long, but it can delay the pace of Chang'an Zhou army's advance eastward and buy time for reinforcements from Luozhou and Hedong to advance westward.

So it is the most important thing to enter Zheng quickly. After a short while, a bridge appeared on the horizon ahead, and a river running north and south was also vaguely visible.

The noise of fooling came. When Yang Guang looked closely, he saw a crowd fleeing north along the river at the entrance of the valley upstream of the river. They were all wearing yellow clothes and wearing Sui army flags, which looked very embarrassed.

Not far behind him, another group of people chased him, dressed in black, placing...the flag of Zhou Jun!

"It's the Zhou army! The Zhou army has captured Shidiyu!"

......

Aiming, shooting arrows, hit the back of the neck, the target fell to the ground, and the other general Chen Wudi, who was chasing, continued to bend his bow and arrows. Today, he led the Hulin Army to change his clothes, pretended to be Sui soldiers and headed into Shidiyu to resist the Zhou army, and successfully captured the valley entrance.

The careful plan was not only to attack Guangtongcang. After Duke Yuwen of Zhu Guo led the elite Hulin Army to attack Guangtongcang, the next target was originally Shidiyu.

After walking a rugged road across the Qinling Mountains, it is naturally impossible for horses to travel with you. He burned Guangtong Cang and went northwest to enter Shayuan Weiqu Reed Marsh to hide. He was joined by Antulu, a Sogdian businessman who acted as a guide, and obtained horse transportation from the Sogdian family in Tongzhou.

After changing into the Sui army uniform, Huazhou was facing south, and fished in the muddy waters and walked into Shidiyu and walked back to Shuyang, Shangzhou.

The attack on Guangtongcang was to advance and retreat, not come and go. This was the initial plan, but there was a change in halfway: I heard that the Yanzhou army of the Sui State went south and passed by Chaoyi of Tongzhou. Duke of the State of Gui single-handedly said that Dugu Kai, who was leading the army, was "anyway".

No Hulin Army soldier agreed with Yuwen Wen's adventure, but this person was a stubborn donkey and couldn't hold him back. When he really told the Dugu Kai brothers to lead the troops "anyway", Chen Wudi and others could no longer describe their feelings at that time.

When the Yanzhou army joined its own camp, the plan changed accordingly: Shidiyu still has to go to, but the purpose is to lead troops out of theyu.

In the original plan, under the leadership of Wang Bian, a surrendered man in the Juyang, General Shi Wansui, walked north on Shitiyu and pretended to attack the Sui army camp at Yukou, but "can't catch it for a long time", which was actually a response.

This also gave Yuwen Wen and others the opportunity to pretend to be reinforcements from Sui Army to enter Shidiyu to "assist the battle" and take advantage of the opportunity to escape. However, Chen Wudiyu today cooperated with Shi Wansui, and broke through the Yukou camp of the Sui Army and entered the Guanzhong boundary.

"No general, there are Sui cavalry on the official road ahead!"

Brother Chen turned around and saw that there were a large number of cavalry rushing from the west to the official road ahead. It seemed that he happened to pass by. He slowed down the horse speed and discussed with Shi Wansui who was catching up with him: "Is it the reinforced Sui cavalry? Shi Kaifu, what do you think?"

"What's the point of being brave when we meet on a narrow road?"

"Well said, then we will divide the labors separately, and the cavalry will be handed over to Shi Kaifu!"

Shi Wansui shouted and led his soldiers forward to fight with the sudden appearance of cavalry. After squatting in the Qinling Mountains for a long time, he finally came to the plain and finally ran away happily!

Under the leadership of Wang Bian, they set out from Jiyang and headed north, walking the rugged ancient road. Although there were horses, they were not many. Thanks to the fact that Chen Wudi brought many war horses this time, Shi Wansui and his subordinates were finally able to turn back into cavalry.

The Hulin Army burned Guangtong Cang and made great contributions, and our troops could not fall behind!

The Shitiyu defenders were retreating when they suddenly ran into friendly forces passing by. They were overjoyed and finally mustered up the courage to turn back and fight again, but were caught up by the horse-riding infantry led by Chen Wudi.

Horse-riding infantry is a strange army, because it is not a cavalry that can be called a cavalry by riding a horse. A qualified cavalry not only needs to practice riding skills such as riding, shooting, and horse lances, but also has to be mastered, and it is not practiced overnight.

Yuwen Wen's Hulin Army still lacked horses, so he could not get a large-scale cavalry, but his request was also strange: all soldiers must be able to ride horses, so he created "horse-riding infantry".

If there is no horse, it is pure infantry. If you march with your feet, you will use horses, donkeys and even mules, then you will use this to travel, marching with animal power, and then reaching the battlefield and fighting on foot.

Brother Chen Wu was already a veteran before joining the Hulin Army, so there was no problem in fighting on horseback, but most of these soldiers were only able to ride horses and could not rush to the formation, and their cavalry capabilities were basically zero. Therefore, when dealing with the Sui army that turned around in front of him, they were still dismounted and fought.

If you want to play, just play with your heartbeat and shoot with a strong bow in close shot!

With the armor on his body, he quickly rushed to less than twenty steps to shoot arrows. The armor-breaking arrows shot at such a close distance could not be blocked by ordinary crotch armor and squid armor.

Just one round of arrows shot the Sui soldiers overturned the group. Then the Hulin soldiers drew their swords and continued to charge, crashing directly into the opponent's loose formation. Several feathered arrows were inserted into their bodies, howling and slashing hard.

The physical training over the years has given the Hulin Army soldiers the strength to engage in hand-to-hand combat while charging on foot. The sword techniques, melee skills and teams of three people have no three-combination enemies in front of them.

With the well-made armor and steel-filled swords, the soldiers of the Hulin Army who were fearless in death instantly defeated the Sui soldiers. Wang Bian, who was following behind, was stunned when he saw this.

After being captured, he returned to Juyang according to Yuwen Wen's request and persuaded him to surrender. He received support from the tribe and persuaded the county magistrate to "remain" offering the city of Juyang, and acted as a guide to lead the Zhou army to Shidiyu instead of Wengyu to the north. He went all the way and looked at the qualities of these Zhou troops with admiration.

Wearing armor, carrying quiver, hanging a sword, holding a spear and dry food, walking on dozens of miles of mountain roads every day without breathing. How did these soldiers train?

Wang Bian has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, proficient in riding and shooting, and has been doing business for several generations, so his family is well-off and he has no worries about eating meat. He has practiced hard for many years, but it seems that there is nothing special about this group of soldiers.

Let’s look at this general Chen led the Hulin Army to conduct infantry battles. He charges directly without using a shield. He shoots a strong bow and then fights hand-to-hand. He can only use the word “brutal” to describe it. Such a battle is simply crazy.

The war horses neighed, and Wang Bian turned his head to look, and saw that the Kaifu General Shi Wansui had led the cavalry and the Sui cavalry to charge together. The number of Zhou cavalry was barely half of the number of Sui cavalry.
Chapter completed!