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"General, Ziwu Town is ten miles ahead!" The scout rode over to report.

"Okay, hurry up and occupy this place first!" Deputy Commander-in-Chief Luo Shangwen heard this and couldn't help but ordered quickly.

The ancients believed that "Zi is due north and Wu is due south", and Ziwu Valley happens to run north-south, so it is called "Ziwu Valley".

In history, anyone who tried to take the Ziwu Valley generally did not end well.

Cao Zhen, the great Sima of Cao Wei, tried to attack Shu Han from Ziwu Valley. "It rained heavily for more than thirty days and the plank road was cut off." Cao Zhen had to return without success.

In February of the 10th year of Yonghe reign of Emperor Mu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, general Huan Wen sent troops to the Northern Expedition and sent Sima Xun to attack the former Qin Dynasty from Ziwu Road. As a result, the former Qin Prime Minister Fu Xiong led 7,000 cavalry and defeated the entire army.

The historical "Chuang King" Gao Yingxiang was defeated here by Sun Chuanting who waited for work. He was also captured alive and sent to Lingchi in the capital to be executed.

As a martial artist, Naluo Shangwen didn't know much about the history, but he couldn't help but walk through the Ziwu Valley himself.

Because this Ziwu Road is so pitted, it is rugged and narrow inside, and can be called the "Ocean-intestinal Bird Road."

In many places, soldiers even had to climb vines and vines, climbing over mountains and ridges like apes.

Fortunately, Na Luo Shangwen led Sichuan soldiers who were accustomed to marching in mountains. If they were soldiers from other places, they would have to return halfway.

There were only a dozen soldiers who accidentally fell down the mountain and were shattered to pieces.

Before they even left the valley, this sneak attack cast a shadow.

Luo Shangwen also stayed in the valley for one more day, and had a dark view of the situation in Guanzhong.

He couldn't help frowning and thought to himself: I don't know if Wang Pu, who agreed to raise troops in Lantian, has started to take action. It seems that he needs to grab a "tongue" to ask about the situation.

While Luo Shangwen was thinking, suddenly another soldier next to him pointed at a place and said, "General, look, there are thieves and spies!"

When Luo Shangwen heard this, he followed the soldier's finger and saw three or five cavalrymen wandering on a hillside in the distance.

"Oops, go to Ziwu Town quickly!" Luo Shangwen frowned and calculated in his mind: Ziwu Pass is sixty miles away from this town, and Xi'an City is forty miles away from Ziwu Town.

From the time the bandits sent out the signal when Ziwu Pass fell, they traveled a hundred and forty miles back and forth. How could they catch up?

I have many spearmen but lack of cavalry, which is not conducive to field battles. Why not occupy Ziwu Town first and then make plans?

Luo Shangwen had a good idea, but he never expected that the rebels would come this time with cavalry, and they were the most elite cavalry drawn from "Cao Camp".

Luo Shangwen led the infantry over the mountains and ridges, and it took nearly two days to travel from Ziwu Pass to the vicinity of Ziwu Town, while Yang Chengzu's cavalry only took half a day to reach Ziwu Town.

When the Sichuan troops marched five miles away from Ziwu Town, the ground suddenly trembled, and densely packed cavalry appeared on the horizon.

"Formation, formation!" Luo Shangwen was immediately heartbroken and quickly ordered his soldiers to form formation.

Sichuan soldiers like to use Zhangliu spears. With this formation, they are like hedgehogs. Even the elite cavalry cannot easily break through.

Yang Chengzu was standing on the top of the mountain. When he looked down, he saw that the Sichuan soldiers were in a mess. Where could they sit still?

He couldn't help but quickly ordered: "Form up and charge!"

When cavalry tactics developed in the late Ming Dynasty, they were no longer the type of fighting that involves rushing forward in a chaotic manner.

The cavalry of the Ming Dynasty often used sentry units as units and formed a dense horizontal formation to charge repeatedly, which was quite similar to the "wall charge" style of later generations.

Yang Chengzu's three thousand cavalry were divided into thirty sentries, each with about a hundred cavalry. They were divided into three layers and ten columns for repeated charges.

"Tiger, tiger, tiger!" these cavalrymen roared as they charged towards the advancing Sichuan soldiers along the gentle slope.

The Sichuan soldiers had no time to form a large formation, so they had to follow the slogans of various officers and gathered four or five spear formations, large and small.

The first ones to bear the brunt were the spearmen who had no time to enter the formation, and were chopped to the ground by the roaring cavalry.

Secondly, those large formations whose formations were not complete enough had already been slammed into by the cavalry. Suddenly, people were knocked down, and for a while, no one knew how many people were knocked down and how many spears were broken.

It was easy to survive the first wave of impact, but the second wave of charges came again.

After three more spear formations were defeated by the rebels in succession, Luo Shangwen and the spear formation next to each other became horns with each other, like two hedgehogs, densely packed with countless spears sticking out.

Yang Chengzu frowned when he saw this, and sent someone forward to shout: "You have failed in this sneak attack, so don't make any more useless struggles!"

"The former Shizhu, the chieftain soldiers of Chief Yang and the soldiers of the Sichuan army have all surrendered to King Shun and are highly valued. If you continue to resist to the end, there is only one way to die!"

"Stop talking nonsense, if you want to fight, come and fight. If we break this formation, I will lead the way and be killed. If we can't break this formation, it's just talk!" Luo Shangwen, the deputy commander, couldn't help shouting after hearing this.

It's over, it's all over!

Despite Luo Shangwen's tough words, he was actually feeling cold in his heart.

The formation of the rebel army was almost the same as that of the Ming army. Just based on how the rebel army had formed ten formations and charged repeatedly, Luo Shangwen had already guessed that these were three thousand elite cavalry sent by the "thief".

A total of three thousand fine cavalry, Luo Shangwen almost cried. He only brought out two thousand spearmen in this battle.

Not to mention being attacked by thieves, even if they were fighting in formation, they might not be able to defeat the "thieves" with just this few manpower.

"Clean up the perimeter first!" Yang Chengzu frowned and ordered with a cold face.

This is not because he has any kind heart, but he is just worried that the Jingqi under his command will suffer too much loss.

These cavalrymen under Yang Chengzu were the best of the best. The horses were half-dressed, the men wore cotton armor with iron arms and hands, and they were armed with three-eyed blunderbuss and waist knives. They were armed to the teeth with elite cavalry.

It would be a big loss if we only attack these few birdmen who are already trapped beasts still fighting.

So he planned to clear up the defeated spearmen outside before arguing with him.

The other cavalrymen immediately dispersed after hearing the order, and began to harvest the remaining soldiers in units of sentries, while Yang Chengzu personally led more than a thousand soldiers to wander outside the formation, not giving Luo Shangwen any chance to take advantage of them.

"Spare your life, spare your life, ah~"

"Son, I will fight with you, ah~"

"Formation, formation, ah, ah~"

Seeing Paoze outside the formation being massacred by the "thief" cavalry without any resistance, Luo Shangwen and his spearmen couldn't help but change their expressions.

"Don't kill them all, keep some for later to drive them into the formation!" Yang Chengzu looked at the cavalry outside who took pleasure in killing people and couldn't help but ordered and scolded them.

He is a "Cao thief" and is not a rebel from "Shunying". How can he have any kindness?

Although they are now subdued by Zhang Shun, they dare not harm innocent people.

But when dealing with officers and soldiers, they naturally have no scruples and use whatever ruthless means they can.

Luo Shangwen's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and he quickly shouted: "Don't kill, don't kill, can't I surrender?"

"I just hope you can abide by the agreement and don't ruin King Shun's good reputation!"

"It's too late!" Yang Chengzu couldn't help but snorted coldly after hearing this, "I didn't want to kill you before, but I didn't think of a way to avoid damaging my elite cavalry."

"Now that I think about it, your surrender is worthless!"

"I" Luo Shangwen heard Pao Ze's screams outside, and suddenly he was in pain.

How to do how to do?

Do you want to watch all the people who followed you on the expedition being slaughtered?

Thinking of this, Luo Shangwen couldn't help but close his eyes in pain and shouted loudly: "Stop, stop! I have important information to inform King Shun, and I ask the general to show mercy!"