"Old Wang, have Bai Wuchang clean up the mess and remove all the unexploded mines. Don't hurt any civilians."
"Um!"
"By the way, how do you detonate these mines?"
"Pressure to explode."
"You've even developed a firing pressure device?" Zhang Shixun couldn't hide his excitement.
This is good stuff.
"This thing is a piece of cake for me. I can make it easily."
"Awesome! With this super cheat like you, I can do things with less worry and effort." Zhang Shixun praised casually, looking up at the sky, "I won't talk to you anymore, I have to chase after the slip of my hand."
"Wait a minute," Wang Dong called out to him. "You could have completely eliminated Toushouhua in one fell swoop. Why did you stop at the critical moment?"
"Cat playing with mouse."
"Get lost! I want to hear your honest opinion."
"My real intention is very simple. I want to keep him for a while. First, I want to use him to train my troops, and second, I want to take this opportunity to perform for the emperor and his ministers."
Wang Dong nodded and said with a smile: "This is indeed a cat playing with mouse, haha! Take your time playing, I still have a lot of things to do, bye!"
Zhang Shixun divided the cavalry into two teams, one led by him personally and the other led by Han Shizhong.
The two teams cooperated closely and chased the opponent so hard that he slipped and cried out in pain.
In order to prevent the people from being harmed again, he sent people to notify the villages along the way and asked them to organize strong men to guard the village.
In this era, all larger villages had village walls.
If a cavalry unit of less than a hundred people wants to capture such a village under well-prepared conditions, it will not be possible without paying a certain price.
The key point is that Zhang Shixun did not give Toushou any chance to plunder the villages. Once he approached a village, the cavalry of the First Army appeared behind him and chased him to continue fleeing.
Toushouhua had been a bandit for many years, and his intuition told him that there must be a conspiracy here, and there might be a trap waiting for him somewhere.
Five or six scouts were sent out, but none of them returned, apparently they were killed by the Tianwu Army.
He was now like a headless fly, running east and west, and was finally forced to flee to the west.
The two cavalry units of the First Army followed him slowly and did not initiate any attacks. Once he wanted to plunder the villages along the way, the cavalry of the Tianwu Army would press forward and give him no chance at all.
This is all thanks to the real-time monitoring system. An eagle circles in the sky day and night, monitoring Touhou's every move.
Zhang Shixun and Han Shizhong were leading their cavalry on a country road, with Ranzhuang just ahead.
As the two rode side by side, Han Shizhong asked, "Shixun, how did you know about Toushou's slippery movements? Could it be another divine trick?"
Zhang Shixun smiled but did not answer.
Han Shizhong just asked casually, and seeing that he was unwilling to answer, he did not ask any more questions.
When the team entered Ranzhuang, they saw only ruins everywhere and corpses lying here and there.
Zhang Shixun's face turned ashen and his teeth were clacking.
There was no one left alive in the headman's house, the largest "rich" family in Ran Village. The entire family, young and old, lay scattered in the yard and the house.
The younger women were stripped naked, their stomachs cut open, and their intestines spilled onto the ground. The scene was horrific.
Zhang Shixun couldn't bear to watch any longer and turned around and left the yard.
Soon, the First Army Cavalry left Ranzhuang.
The cruelty of the slippery hand made him furious.
But his anger did not make him lose his mind. He knew best what his cavalry was like.
These guys can only ride horses, and they're lucky not to fall off.
Toushouhua and his subordinates have been dealing with government troops for many years and are skilled in riding and have rich practical combat experience.
Compared with the two, they are not on the same level at all.
Even though he now has more cavalry than Toushouhua, he will not confront the enemy head-on.
That is not what a wise person does.
Based on this reality, Zhang Shixun changed his strategy and changed the two teams into four teams, with fifty people in each team.
These teams took turns attacking and harassing the enemy day and night.
Their attack method is also very cunning. They will shoot arrows as soon as they enter the range of an arrow. If they encounter a counterattack from the enemy, they will turn their horses around and run away.
After repeating this several times, Toushou slipped and became furious. He caught up with a group of Tianwu cavalry and chased them relentlessly. As a result, they were ambushed and fell into a rain of arrows, and he lost more than 20 people.
After finally escaping, they counted the number of people and found that there were less than seventy left.
At night, riding horses became inconvenient, so the cavalry of the Tianwu Army turned into infantry, constantly harassing the Toushouhua camp, leaving them no peace at all.
Under the constant harassment and attacks of the Tianwu Army, Toushouhua and his minions were in dire straits.
Without enough food or sleep, both the man and the horse were exhausted.
He knew that if he continued like this, he would be finished sooner or later.
Zhang Tianshi is a very bad man and cannot be provoked. We must escape from Weishi as soon as possible, the farther the better.
Although he highly suspected that there was a trap waiting for him in the west, he didn't care now. He had to jump in even though he knew it was a pit.
In this way, Toushouhua ran in front and Zhang Shixun chased him from behind. As they ran, they arrived at Qiligang.
He Ji was already impatient waiting.
He had been lying in ambush at Qiligang for two days. Although it was already March and the temperature had risen slightly, it was still very painful to stay in the wild for two days and nights.
On the third day, Zhang Shixun's voice finally reached his ears: "Old He, he's slithered over to your side. He should be there in about an hour."
He Ji suddenly became alert, "Military Commander, I've been getting impatient waiting for a long time. If it weren't for military regulations, I might have taken my men and left here."
"Stop talking nonsense and spread the caltrops on the road."
Caltrops, commonly known as horse nails, is a weapon that imitates the herb "caltrops". It is an obstacle with three to four spikes, which can ensure that at least one spike is facing upwards after being spread.
It can not only deal with infantry, but also with cavalry, which is the origin of the name of caltrops "horse nails".
There is a hole in the center of the caltrops, which can be strung together with a rope for easy laying and collection.
The Song army's cavalry was weak, so in order to deal with the enemy's cavalry, a large number of caltrops were produced to equip the troops.
Qiligang is located in the northwest of Weishi, with high slopes covered with pine trees on both sides and an official road in the middle leading directly to Xinzheng.
It took He Ji only half an hour to spread the caltrops he carried on the official road. To be on the safe side, he also ordered his soldiers to dig many horse traps around the official road.
After completing the arrangements, he ordered all the soldiers to lie in ambush in the pine forest and wait quietly for Toushouhua's arrival.
Not long after, the cavalry team appeared in sight.
My hand slipped and I was in a very embarrassing state.
Ever since he robbed Ranzhuang, his good days seemed to be over. First, he was hit by a landmine in the north, and half of his men were killed. Then he was chased by Zhang Tianshi and his cavalry.
The supplies he carried with him were almost gone, and he wanted to enter the villages along the way to plunder, but Zhang Tianshi didn't give him any time at all. He would attack as long as he ran slower.
My hand slipped and I had to run forward regardless of my speed.
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