About ten days later, the southern expedition army led by Wang Yanzhang and Fu Cunshen arrived at Rangcheng, the capital of Dengzhou. Soon after setting up the camp, they dispatched various military troops to take turns to fight and began to attack the key pass here.

The first batch of siege equipment that arrived in front of the city soon launched a fierce attack on the city walls under the control of the Wei army. The heavy whistling sound of the crossbow that was about to shake the eardrums broke through the wind. The human-operated stone catapult shot out a huge stone bullet with the shouts of the Lifu army, which rolled rapidly in the air, and then smashed towards the city with a heavy whistling sound. Each stone bullet hit the ground, splashing the gravel bricks mixed with blood.

Fu Cunshen personally presided over the offensive matter, which was reserved. Although he ordered the infantry troops to approach the city wall and constantly put pressure on the city wall, he did not blindly adopt the tactic of ants attacking the city, but sacrificed the lives of more soldiers in order to seize the city gate as soon as possible.

Since Tangzhou has been lost, the Liang army general of the Dengzhou capital was in panic and unable to rest assured. Before Wang Yanzhang and Fu Cunshen led the army to the city, they anxiously sent Ma Nan to Xiangzhou to report their emergency to Gao Jichang. At this moment, they could only grit their teeth and fight hard, and couldn't sleep all night like an ant on a hot pan, hoping that Xiangzhou could send troops to aid as soon as possible.

Just as Fu Cunshen expected, Gao Jichang knew that if he lost Dengzhou again, not only could Li Tianqu's invasion army attack Xiangzhou at any time, but he could also seize the territory under the rule of Shannan East Road. The slow knife cuts the flesh even more uncomfortable. Instead of being a turtle, waiting for death, it would be better to try to fight again!

As for Suizhou, which is also facing a fierce attack by Zhang Guiba and the Xu Si army led by Zhang Guihou. Gao Jichang also had another preparation. He sent a quick horse to the other side's neighboring forces and demanded troops to provide assistance to Suizhou; while Gao Jichang's general Ni Kefu was responsible for the heavy responsibility, and ordered 40,000 troops to go north to help Rangcheng, the Dengzhou capital.

The military flag was waving and fluttering in the strong wind. Although the size of 40,000 soldiers was not small, the many soldiers in the marching queue looked very uneasy, and they seemed to realize that this battle was difficult to fight. After all, with the precedent of Liang Emperor Zhu Wen, the defeat of more than 200,000 troops, the Liang army generals who had to rescue Dengzhou according to the military order were naturally unsure.

In the middle of the marching team, Ni Kefu drove his horse forward. He wore a muddy iron mattress, a mountain chain mail, and a knife. He looked very majestic in appearance. However, only the closest officers of his relatives could notice that Ni Kefu also showed some worries in his eyebrows.

I heard that Wang Yanzhang is brave and brave, brave and good at fighting, and Fu Cunshen also has strategies and strategies... They led their troops to attack Dengzhou, and they probably wanted to lure the Xiangzhou defenders to send troops north, and intend to surround the points and attack support...

However, even though Ni Kefu realized that the enemy troops besieging Dengzhou were waiting for him to go, he had to go. The strategic situation was too passive and could only deal with the moves. If Dengzhou did not go to rescue him, he would definitely not be able to defend himself. The barriers and barriers on the north side of the East Road in Shannan were all lost, so Ni Kefu was naturally very clear about the consequences.

To confront famous generals under Wang Yanzhang, Fu Cunshen, etc., Ni Kefu also knew that the odds of victory were not very high, and whether he might resist the enemy's invasion would have to try to know. Ni Kefu knew that he had become a relative of Gao Jichang and shared honor and disgrace with each other. How could he easily give up the foundation he had laid in Jingxiang?

During the march, Ni Kefu also sent an order to keep up with all branches and instructed them to always be on high alert. Passing Gande County to the north of Xiangzhou (the Guanghua Army was set up in Xiangzhou during the Song Dynasty, and later in the north of Laohekou City, Hubei Province), it was only 120 to thirty miles away from the Dengzhou capital that was under fierce attack.

Suddenly, the noise and screams from behind the marching array suddenly stirred Ni Kefu's sensitive nerves again. A military academy urged the horse to gallop and immediately reported:

"Report! General Ni, the enemy troops suddenly emerged from behind the army, almost all of them were horse soldiers, probably nearly ten thousand cavalry!"

Wang Yanzhang, Fu Cunshen was indeed planning to have to go to Dengzhou to help, so he sent a cavalry to intercept the rear?

Ni Kefu's face was as deep as water. He immediately turned around and rushed to the back formation to rush to the cavalry. He didn't have to give an order. The generals and Zuo, who had rich experience in the battle formations, also shouted loudly. The front formations of each branch changed to the back formation, and the soldiers of various units immediately raised their arms and shields to form a dense infantry gun formation as soon as possible.

The formations of the Liang army in various departments were just arranged, and Ni Kefu and his companions rushed to the rear of the array. Looking at them, they saw four groups of cavalry about two or three miles south, with each formation of about two thousand cavalrymen. Looking around, they saw countless war horses and horses neighing and galloping. They could also feel the surging explosive power contained in those cavalry formations.

Ni Kefu looked at the enemy cavalry formation in the distance, and could still vaguely hold up the shiny weapons to the forward. It would probably not take long to urge the horse to rush to the front of his military array... He thought that the opponent was not yet stable, so he took the opportunity to raid, trying to disrupt the formation, and use fierce charge to cut our army into several sections, and then divide and annihilate them?

However, Ni Kefu looked around at the soldiers gathered into a formation around him, and the arrays were roughly arranged neatly. With the command of the generals of the camp, rows of long spears were arranged in an interlaced manner, holding them up like a forest, flashing with the cold light of the blade under the reflection of the sun. When he was in it, he suddenly felt a bleak and killing aura soaring into the sky.

It seems that there are only more than 8,000 cavalrymen who intercepted the rear, so they want to eat my 40,000 horse and infantry?

Ni Kefu snorted coldly, thinking that even if the cavalry formed a certain scale and immediately formed a formation to destroy the infantry formation using the rushing momentum, it was necessary to maintain a high-speed galloping state. The soldiers riding on the war horses were not born with steel and iron bones, but also physical bodies. As long as they could drag down the enemy's rushing momentum, they would be dead.

He has been on high alert all the way, and now his army has formed a dense formation. Ni Kefu thought that if the other party tried to charge and break through the formation, the enemy cavalry that could be trapped in the formation could only stop fighting, then they would come to the door to seek death.

Previously, in the battle of Dahu Mountain in Tangzhou, two hundred light cavalry actually defeated 5,000 of its own tribes. Even though Ni Kefu knew about it, it was because there was no array between the foothills, and instead gave the enemy cavalry an opportunity to take advantage of it. He went straight to the middle formation and killed his general Shi Yanming... and took the head of the general from thousands of troops. This kind of case is not uncommon on the battlefield, but strength, timing, luck... is indispensable, and it is full of accidentality. If you say that rushing into the enemy formation is like taking objects, it is purely an exaggeration.

Shi Yanming was too careless. The commander of the army died and all the rest of the people were dispersed. But if it were me, I would not give you any chance to break the formation easily now!

The neighing sound of war horses and the sound of iron hooves hitting the surface became clearer. There were also whistle riders who came forward to visit and returned to the formation. After reporting the banners raised in the opposite riding formation, Ni Kefu looked into the distance again and said in a deep voice:

"Gao Siji? I heard that he was a figure in the northern part of Yanyun. His previous nephew, King An of the emperor, attacked the Ziqing Army, was defeated and died in Qingzhou. Gao Siji assisted Li Tianqu and also led his army to fight. He also insisted on being an enemy of our dynasty... If the order is continued, the soldiers of all departments must strictly guard the situation, and see if he dares to come!"

Opposite the military formation arranged by Ni Kefu's 40,000 troops, Gao Siji, Gao Sixiang, Gao Silun and Gao Sixue, each commanded a group of cavalry. Seeing that the enemy troops on the opposite side had already formed a formation, more than 8,000 cavalrymen were trotting on their war horses, and yet they had not yet galloped with all their strength. Gao Siji rode his horse and held a gun, and looked at the military formation ahead, and suddenly said in a long voice:
Chapter completed!