Yang Zhen's deployment was completed and everyone split up.

About a stick of incense later, Zhang Chen and Li Lu led their men, brought enough gunpowder, bullets and flying generals, crossed the bridge to join Hu Dabao's men, and quickly headed south along the post road.

After Zhang Chen and others left, about a quarter of an hour passed before Lu Pinqi's men were finally packed up and ready to go.

Yuan Jin also made arrangements for the retreat and stay behind, leaving behind half of the boatmen and rowers of the Juehua Island fleet, a total of 120 people, and handed them over to a camp commander named Miao, who was led by Yang Zhen.

Control and command.

Yuan Jin himself led the fleet's big boat and other boatmen and oarsmen to evacuate to the sea at the mouth of the river carrying the heads and trophies captured in the previous round.

After Chen hour, the ebb tide at the river mouth accelerates, and the water level in the Xiangshui River will drop sharply. After another half hour, once it reaches around Si hour, they will be unable to leave even if they want to.

It is precisely because the Tatar garrison in Xiongyue City knew the ebb and flow of the tides on the Xiangshui River that they did not send heavy troops, such as sending Niulu, the garrison full of Tatars in the city, to garrison Shiqiaozi, but they could rest assured

Shiqiaozi was handed over to Er Tatar Tianzhu soldiers from Xiangshui Henan to be responsible for patrolling.

Of course, things in the world are always like this, there must be a cause and a result, one link after another.

Zhang Chen, Li Lu, and Hu Dabao set off south first to find an ambush location, and then Yuan Jin also led the ship to leave first.

At this time, at the Shiqiaozi Pier two miles outside the south gate of Xiongyue City, only Lu Pinqi and his 100 cavalrymen who were ready to go, and Miao Naicheng, the commander of Yuan Jin's camp, and the 120 men they brought ashore were left.

A selection of rowers.

Of course, there was also Yang Zhen himself on the dock, as well as the personal team directly under Yang Zhen - Dunn, Ma Keqing and the small artillery team under Dunn.

This time, Yang Zhen stayed until the end. He wanted to take the horses brought from Songshan and the horses captured from the battlefield in the morning to act together with Lu Pinqi's cavalry team.

Originally, he wanted to stay here, but after much deliberation, he still felt that ambushing the two Tatars who came to Xu Guanbao for reinforcements was more important than guarding against another attack by the Tatars in the city.

Moreover, Miao Naicheng, the commander of the camp left by Yuan Jin, was in his forties, mature and prudent, which made Yang Zhen feel more at ease. He immediately decided to follow Lu Pinqi, and then handed over the important task of leading the troops to stay in Shiqiaozi to Miao Naicheng.

and Dunn.

Let's say that when Yang Zhen saw that all Lu Pinqi's troops were on horseback and ready to go, he immediately called Deng En and Miao Naicheng and said to them:

"After General Lu Shen and I leave, Shiqiaozi will be left in the custody of you two! Dunn's command will guard Shiqiao with five tiger cannons and five Folangji guns! Miao Naicheng's command will be one hundred and two

Ten people, all with flying generals, guard the trenches on both sides of the road!

"The Tatars in the city will not leave the city. Once they send people out of the city to seize the bridge, they must hold the stone bridge! If it is a last resort, remember that ten thousand enemies have been placed in the two holes at the south end of the bridge. You can evacuate the troops to the bridge when the time comes.

Nan, set fire to the stone bridge!

"However, you two must remember that blowing up this bridge is a last resort! You must not make this move until the last moment today!"

According to the information obtained from the previous interrogation, there should be a Niulu Aliha Chaoha in Xiongyue City, and together with the accompanying servant Aha, there are not many people who can fight. If Jia La Zhang Jing Zhang Ku Shan takes them

If everyone is armed and goes out to attack the city, it is indeed possible that Yang Zhen's plan will fail.

But Yang Zhen still believed that since the Tatars had sent troops to the south to ask for reinforcements, before the reinforcements arrived, especially when the Tatars in the city had already suffered a defeat outside the city and did not know much about the situation outside the city.

, should not send people out of the city to attack for the second time this morning.

Therefore, the next main battlefield should not be Shiqiaozi, but the ambush battle against Xu Guanbao's Tianzhu soldiers.

In this case, how could Yang Zhen, the commander-in-chief of Songshan's armies, stay on the side of Shiqiaozi, which was far away from the main battlefield?

After Yang Zhen finished explaining his orders to Miao and Deng, he felt relieved when he saw the two men bowing down to accept their orders without saying a word, and immediately sent them away to prepare for battle.

Then, he asked Ma Keqing to bring the war horse, turned over and rode it, whistled, and took the lead on the post road, then crossed the bridge and galloped south.

Lü Pinqi led his hundred vigorous cavalry forwards, not far behind Yang Zhen, with the roar of their horses' hooves as they headed south.

To the south of Shiqiaozi, Yang Zhen had not been there during his previous expedition, but he still knew the topographic and landform characteristics of the southern part of the Liaodong Peninsula.

After crossing Xiangshui River and heading south to Fudu River, the overall terrain is undulating. Except for some scattered small valleys and plains, it is all shallow hills and hills.

Especially in the Xiongyue area, the highest altitude of Shipeng Mountain is not more than a hundred meters above sea level, but only a few dozen meters.

An ancient post road running from north to south, sometimes crossing the hills and sometimes passing through the valley, is like a long snake, meandering in and out of this shallow hilly area.

Moreover, wherever the post road passes, whether on the hills or in the river valleys, there are thick bushes and lush woods everywhere.

This means that the places along this ancient post road are full of excellent battlefields suitable for Yang Zhen's advance battalion to carry out small-scale ambush operations.

In Yang Zhen's mind, he had already planned several good ambush battlefields in advance, such as at the foot of Shipeng Mountain.

The terrain there is undulating and the trees are lush. It is easy for our soldiers to hide their whereabouts. When the other party's cavalry passes by here, their horses will naturally slow down. Once they encounter an ambush, it will be difficult to rush past them.

Such a place is very suitable for setting up an ambush.

However, Yang Zhen also knew that on the battlefield, the situation was changing rapidly and there were no certain rules. Only the generals on the front line knew best which place was most suitable for setting up an ambush.

Therefore, he did not specify a location, but gave the power to choose the ambush location to Zhang Chen and Li Lu. More specifically, he actually gave it to Zhang Chen, who was experienced on the battlefield.

He believed that Zhang Chen would make the most correct decision under the current circumstances.

However, what he never expected was that the ambush location Zhang Chen chose was not at all in Shipeng Mountain, where the ambush conditions were the best for his side, or in Qingshi Ridge, where the ambush conditions were second only to Shipeng Mountain.

We found the Jiulong area where the ambush conditions were the worst.

Jiulongdi is not far from Xiongyue City. It is on a wilderness surrounded by shallow mountains on the south bank of Xiangshui River. It is four or five miles away from Shiqiaozi.

Yang Zhen and Lu Pinqi led their cavalry across the river and headed south. Not long after they left the boundary of Shiqiaozi, they heard the sound of muskets and muskets coming from a hillside not far ahead.

Just when Yang Zhen, Lu Pinqi and the others were in shock and confusion, there was another rumbling, rumbling explosion sound coming from outside the hillside.

Hearing this thunderous rumbling sound, Yang Zhen instantly understood in his heart that this was the sound of the explosion of ten thousand enemies of the Grenadier Corps - Zhang Chen, Li Lu and the others were already at war with the Tianzhu soldiers from the source!

Yang Zhenben was in the lead. When he heard the gunshots and explosions ahead, he immediately accelerated and rushed forward. Soon, like a gust of wind, he rushed up the hillside ahead.

The hillside was not high, but Yang Zhen, who reined in his horse and stood on it, had a panoramic view of the plain wilderness below the hillside.

Yang Zhen first took a look, and in the wilderness more than a mile ahead, there was a group of horses coming from south to north, about four to five hundred people, forming a long dragon, which seemed to be heading towards his place along the post road.

The impact comes from the direction.

Yang Jin reined in his horse and took a closer look. The long queue of horses coming along the post road had not only lost speed, but had also been divided into several sections.

Violent explosions continued to occur on the post road, causing earth and rocks to fly and smoke filling the air, just like huge flowers blooming one after another on the post road.

At the same time, in the bushes on both sides of the post road, some people kept throwing grenades into the cavalry on the post road. Some grenades exploded on the ground, and some exploded in the air, "Bang", "Bang", "Bang", "Bang"

"The ground was filled with thunder.

The entire battlefield is narrow and long, like a man opening his mouth to the incoming enemy and deliberately elongating his left and right arms, or like opening his arms to embrace the incoming enemy.

Yang Zhen knew at a glance that the ones blocking the road from the front were Zhang Chen and the musketeers led by Zhang Guogan, while those on the wings acting as arms were the grenadiers led by Li Lu, Pan Xi and Hu Dabao's Rabbit Island Pirates.

Team.

Yang Zhen reined up his horse and stopped on the slope. He saw clearly the situation below and saw that the two sides were fighting fiercely. He took the blunderbuss from his waist, pulled the dragon's head, and was about to ride his horse to charge down.
Chapter completed!