Please ask me to be the emperor

After some of Cao Bianjiao's soldiers crossed the river, he had already sent scouts to stay on high alert. When Zhang Shun arrived with his cavalry, he also discovered the movement of the rebels.

The officers, soldiers and scouts hurriedly waved the flags desperately while sending cavalry to rush to the river to report.

Fortunately, the people on guard by the river were not careless and saw the warning from the scouts at high altitude in time. He quickly reported it to Cao Bianjiao.

This time the imperial court dispatched three generals, Mu Ziqiang, Cao Wenzhao, and Zhang Quanchang. These three were all good at fighting. They were called up by the imperial court to reinforce Xuan Da, but all their men and horses were injured.

Cao Wenzhao only had about 2,000 men under his command, and Mu Ziqiang and Zhang Quanchang each had more than 1,500 men. The total number of troops was not beyond the rebels' expectations, about 5,000.

After Zhang Shun took over the cavalry under the second master "Zijin Liang", his strength has exceeded that of the general commander of a town.

If multiple towns are used to carry out coordinated operations, they often do not trust each other and cannot form a joint force.

Therefore, Zhang Shun was indeed a very difficult person to deal with for the imperial court, which often relied on the general soldiers to fight independently.

Fortunately, Zhang Fengyi, Minister of the Ministry of War, is not a person who has gained fame in vain. When he learned about Zhang Shun's information, he recommended these three generals to Chongzhen.

These three people are all brave and good at fighting. Especially Cao Wenzhao, if he has all his troops and horses, his strength is no less than Zhang Shun.

Zhang Fengyi took advantage of the opportunity of these three people being convicted for their inability to resist the Jin soldiers, and asked them to perform meritorious service. He tried his best to avoid the problem of the three people passing the blame to each other, and wanted to combine the efforts of these three people to completely capture Luoyang and annihilate Zhang Shun.

Although Zhang Fengyi had a good idea, these three people also had the ambition to work together. Just after leaving Shanxi, Cao Wenzhao proposed to assemble three of his elite cavalry and let his nephew Cao Bianjiao personally lead the expedition to seize Mengjin Ferry, but a dispute arose.

It turns out that the ratio of infantry to cavalry among officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty is generally 70 to 30. The three of them have about 1,500 cavalry under their command, all of whom are their own elites and servants.

Now that Cao Wenzhao wants to gather these people under his command, how can the other two tolerate it?

You are a general military officer, and I am also a general military officer. Although the imperial court ordered you to be the governor of our three troops, it did not say that we would hand over our elite servants to you?

All our elite servants are paid double wages, and they are three-paid people. Everyone keeps a scholar for several years, not just to look good. They were expected to wear double armor, charge into battle, and seize wealth and wealth for themselves and others.

Now let alone Cao Wenzhao, even governors and governors cannot act like this!

Although Cao Wenzhao issued the correct order, he could not carry it out, so he had no choice but to make peace with himself. Zhang Quanchang negotiated: "We have all heard about the ferocity of the Shun thieves. Perhaps they are not as ferocious as the Jin soldiers, and I am afraid they are not comparable to ordinary thieves. "

"Now, once the Mengjin Ferry is captured by thieves, we will be unable to advance or retreat, and we will not be able to make meritorious deeds. Wouldn't it be adding insult to injury?"

"I know you two can't trust me. I have the most cavalry under my command. I want to send them all under the command of my nephew Cao Bianjiao. You two will each send out 150 cavalry to make up the number of 1,000 cavalry. We will seize the Mengjin Ferry first."

"As long as the army has crossed the river, it will not be too late to return to the two of you. I, Cao Wenzhao, will never covet the two of you, not to mention that this generation was raised by the two of you. How can I make a decision with just one word? "

Commander-in-Chief Mu Ziqiang and Zhang Quanchang discussed in private for a long time and felt that if they did not shed some blood, they would indeed be unable to clear themselves of the charges. They had no choice but to send their cronies to lead them, and follow Cao Bianjiao to seize Mengjin Ferry.

Cao Bianjiao actually only led 700 cavalrymen under Cao Wenzhao, and 150 cavalrymen each under Mu Ziqiang and Zhang Quanchang.

Cao Bianjiao couldn't trust Mu Ziqiang and Zhang Quanchang's men, so he personally led his own men to cross the river first.

Now Cao Bianjiao heard that the rebels were coming to attack. At that time, he only had more than 300 men in his hands. He quickly ordered the soldiers whose horses could not cross the river to form a formation to resist, and at the same time ordered the remaining soldiers to mount their horses to harass the delayed rebel cavalry attack.

There seems to be a huge disparity in strength between one thousand cavalry and three hundred cavalry. When it comes to defeating the enemy in front of them, things are not that simple.

There are about a hundred officers and soldiers who do not have horses, and there are more than two hundred who have war horses. Under Cao Bianjiao's order, the more than one hundred people used their lances to form a simple circular formation with their backs to the river.

The remaining two hundred cavalrymen, led by Cao Bianjiao, retreated first and wandered back and forth on the periphery, waiting for opportunities to counterattack.

This small formation of 100 people has a very small area to engage the enemy. Even if there are about 1,000 people involved in the attack, there will not be many people actually fighting.

Fortunately, He Jin and He Yilong have been colleagues for a long time, and even if there were some conflicts in the past, it did not affect their tacit understanding.

He Yilong saw that Cao Bianjiao's cavalry group happened to be on the left side of the officers and soldiers, so he led the team to turn left and rushed towards the cavalry led by Cao Bianjiao on the river bank.

When He Jin saw it, he understood He Yilong's good intentions, and divided his men into two, and then surrounded the officers and soldiers arrayed on the river bank again.

The rebel cavalry took the lead in fighting the arrayed officers and soldiers. The Art of War says: Don't attack the majestic formation. Now it's an emergency and you can't care much about it.

After a burst of shooting that was better than nothing, the galloping cavalry violently collided with the infantry in front of them. Accompanied by a huge impact, the long lances pierced the flesh and blood of both sides fiercely.

However, relatively speaking, the officers and soldiers in formation were more tragic. In addition to those who were stabbed to death by cavalry, many others fell under the collision and trampling of war horses.

However, these officers and soldiers were not afraid. Taking advantage of the moment of pause after two or three rows of infantry in front of him were knocked away by the cavalry. They counterattacked one after another, using their spears and three-eyed blunderbuss to kill the cavalry in front of them.

However, the cavalry quickly retreated to the side and broke away from the infantry as soon as possible.

Just when these cavalrymen turned around and moved to both sides, a second wave of cavalrymen carrying long spears attacked again.

He Jin, the "King of Zuojin", was rather ruthless. He was worried that entangled with these hundreds of infantrymen for too long would not be conducive to destroying Cao Bianjiao's tribe who had crossed the river.

Therefore, he simply ordered his cavalry to charge one after another, preparing to use wave after wave of repeated charges to wear down the enemy in front of him.

These infantrymen, who were forcibly beaten by the rebel cavalry, felt aggrieved. All of them are good players who have been well-received by Cao Wenzhao. In the past, they had the iron armor of the Jingqi, and even if they encountered the Houjin Jingqi "Baya La", they would dare to hedge.

Clinker also suffered the same fate today. Instead, he was pressed against the river by a group of "thieves" with cavalry.

Then how could Cao Bianjiao not know that these people were the hard work of his uncle Cao Wenzhao throughout his life? He saw from a distance that these elite soldiers were surrounded by rebel cavalry. It was like a bloody mill, charging and killing them repeatedly, and his heart suddenly felt like a knife.

A good man knows that he can't escape now. He picked up his spear, shouted loudly, and led the crowd to charge towards the rolling cavalry of He Yilong's cavalry!