At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 32, blocking the enemy

Xu Fanneng summoned all the leaders of the team and told them the news that Tan Ma Tan had heard.

Deng Zongdao: "We have armed all the young men. There should be more than 2000 people. With so many people fighting the Qin army, we may not be unable to win."

Everyone rolled their eyes, knowing without thinking that they could not defeat the Qin army.

Xu Fan said: "Now we can only divide our troops into two groups. The vanguard will take a boat down the river to reach Nanton County and break through the county seat. This will temporarily allow us to have a stronghold. At the same time, the cavalry will gather together to block the Qin army in the rear and break through for the front army. Nanton County buys time.”

Then Xu Fan looked at Chen Lin and Deng Zong and said, "You two have brought 1000 rebel soldiers to attack Nanton County. We must succeed. The lives of thousands of our troops are in your hands."

Chen Lin and Deng Zongdao said: "Don't worry, boss, we will not let you down."

Xu Fan continued: "Wu Sheng and I led the cavalry to block the Qin army and buy time for you!"

Finally, Xu Fan looked at Zhou Zhang and Chen Gang and said, "I will ask you to take care of the little boy I am waiting for."

Zhou Zhang and Chen Gang said: "My subordinates will do their best."

After arranging the tactics, Xu Fan led 100 cavalry to move towards Yang County again, while Chen Lin and other thousands of soldiers also boarded the transport ship and headed towards Nanton County.

In the countryside of Yang County, a long dragon advanced closely and orderly. The soldiers were neatly dressed in armor, and their steps were firm and uniform. They stepped on the dust and kept moving forward. Although their faces showed a hint of exhaustion, their eyes shone with determination.

In front of this army, the military flag was flying high and fluttering in the wind. Meng Shao was wearing iron armor and looked very heroic. He rode a war horse in the advancing ranks of the army, always looking ahead and guiding the march of the soldiers.

Soon, he saw smoke and dust billowing in the distance, and it was obvious that a large army was marching.

"Report to the County Supervisor and Censor, a cavalry team of hundreds of people is galloping towards our army. There is a large plume of smoke behind the cavalry team. It is estimated that the number of enemies exceeds 3,000." Tanmahui reported.

Meng Shao was overjoyed when he heard the news. He did not expect that the rebels would overestimate their capabilities and take the initiative to attack.

"The whole army stopped, taking the tun as a unit, changing from column to column, and launched an offensive formation."

The messenger rode on horseback and repeated Meng Shao's words to the thousands of people in the army.

The Qin army also quickly changed their formation, using the tun as a unit to form a horizontal offensive formation. The Qin army's spears were pointed in the direction of the sound with a cold light.

Meng Shao wanted to wait for work and wait for the enemy to reach the attack range of the army, but he waited for 2 hours. Although the sound of galloping horses around him became louder and louder, and the smoke and dust increased, the enemy was nowhere to be seen. The traces of smoke and dust seemed a little closer, but also seemed to be far away in the horizon. In short, they were not close to them, and he did not see the enemy.

Meng Shao wanted to know the enemy's situation, so he sent 10 scouts.

"Boohoo!" The neighing sounds of war horses continued to be heard in the smoke, and crossbow arrows were shot from time to time.

Not long after, a war horse that had been hit by several arrows escaped from the smoke range with a scout horse.

Meng Shao, who came to visit the horse, cried and said: "General, we have fallen into the enemy's trick. There are not many enemies in front of our army. The enemy made the smoke and dust by tying branches to the horse's tail to confuse our army."

"And these rebels are also very despicable. They shot arrows specifically at the war horses. All the brothers' horses were shot to death, so they didn't escape." Meng Shao was also extremely angry when he heard Tan Ma's words. He didn't expect to be treated as a fool by the rebels. .

He said angrily: "Advance the whole army!"

"Pah, pah, pah!" Thousands of Qin troops raised their spears and advanced slowly with firm steps.

On the opposite side of the battlefield, although Xu Fan and the others killed 9 soldiers, they still allowed one soldier to escape. This made him helpless. He wanted to drag the Qin army here for a long time, but he failed in the end.

This cavalry was established too hastily. There were only 23 real war horses, only a dozen soldiers with excellent riding skills, and even fewer who could perform mounted archery. This can be said to be an infantry on horseback.

In order to make up for the shortcomings of cavalry and archery, Xu Fan equipped this cavalry with all the crossbows in Yang County. When facing the enemy, Xu Fan also asked everyone to use crossbows to shoot at large targets such as war horses, and then surround and kill the soldiers. , but even so, they still let a Tanma escape. His plan to use tree branches to raise dust to pretend to be the main force was seen through by the enemy.

The plot was seen through, Xu Fan asked his men to untie the branches from the horse's tail, and led his soldiers to face the Qin army.

The two armies were within 300 paces.

"Hey!" Xu Fan struggled to pull the war horse. His riding skills were not very good. If it weren't for the strong balance of his body, it would be difficult for him to control the horse. Relatively speaking, the riding skills of Wu Sheng's surrendered soldiers were Not bad at all. In this era, there are still those who are brave and brave in battle. It is not too difficult to find hundreds of soldiers who know how to ride. Hundreds of cavalrymen stopped neatly behind Xu Fan. The armies of both sides were less than 300 steps apart.

Meng Shaoxi immediately stepped forward and said: "Rebels, listen, there is still a way to survive if you surrender now. If you resist again, your entire clan will be destroyed."

Xu Fan sneered and said: "We will revolt only if you don't give us a way to survive. I was originally a good wife, but I was caught by you for no reason, and I still have to build the imperial mausoleum. You have no way to survive." No, since we are all dead, why not drag you officials to be buried with us. Anyway, we have nothing, but it is worth it if we can destroy the world of you officials."

Meng Shao said with a hint of surprise: "You are Xu Fan, the leader of the rebels."

"Not bad!"

"You are indeed a traitor to the people. I should have killed you in the first place."

Xu Fan sneered and said: "Then I should have rebelled last year. I am always vengeful. If you want to kill me, I will kill you. If Qin wants to kill me, I will destroy Qin."

"Arrogant!" Meng Shao said angrily.

The two sides disagreed, Meng Shao returned to the formation, and then directed the Qin army to advance slowly.

But Xu Fan did not command the cavalry to charge into the formation. Instead, he led the cavalry to hang the Qin army 200 steps away from the Qin army. The Qin army charged, and Xu Fan's cavalry sped away. In short, the two sides did not fight, but The Qin army could not march with peace of mind.

The two sides were in a stalemate like this for a long time. Meng Shao also understood what Xu Fan was thinking. He wanted to buy time for the main force of the rebel army, but he saw that there was nothing he could do about it. The enemy had the advantage of cavalry and was wandering around the periphery of the army. , the marching speed of the Qin army must be limited.

Sure enough, the sun had set on this day, and the Qin army marched only about 15 miles today, which can be said to be a crawl.

Meng Shao could only order his soldiers to set up camp. Because Xu Fan was an enemy, Meng Shao even asked his soldiers to dig a horse trap outside the camp to prevent Xu Fan from commanding cavalry to attack his camp.

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