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After hearing the news, the three people hurriedly climbed up the mountain and looked up. Sure enough, they saw smoke and dust billowing in the distance, heading straight east.

"They are quite cunning." Master White Lotus spat: "They knew we were waiting here, so they had to take a detour back."

"We can't let them run away. Such a good opportunity will never come again." Shi Chenglu said hurriedly. He really needs the heads of those brothers to stabilize the hearts of the Ming Cult.

"You go and give chase." Leader Maitreya also said: "Don't be reckless this time, entangle them, and wait for me to follow with the infantry."

"Okay." Shi Chenglu and Leader Bailian nodded, and the former reminded: "Those brothers are very cunning. They want to prevent them from cutting off their tails and deliberately distracting us."

"Hahaha, how much loss have you suffered from them? Are you so careful?" The leader of the White Lotus smiled disdainfully: "They only have so many troops in total, and they still dare to divide their troops? That's just boring!"

"What you said makes sense. Let's do this. I will take 3,000 people to the north to see the situation." Master Maitreya said.

"Okay." Shi Chenglu nodded. Looking at the smoke and dust in the distance, the main force of the Ming army should be heading east. Even if there are some left, there won't be many. Three thousand people are enough.

Shi Chenglu and the leader of the White Lotus hurriedly mounted their horses and led the crowd away.

Master Maitreya also called to his subordinates and followed them with 5,000 infantrymen. He himself led the remaining three thousand people and went north along the road.

~~

But he said that Shi Chenglu and Bailian Cult Leader chased him more than ten miles eastward, and felt something was wrong.

"Why are they so fast? Aren't they afraid of tiring the horses?" Shi Chenglu asked doubtfully. For war horses, running with a fully armed cavalry on their backs is extremely physically demanding. Therefore, when the cavalry is marching, the horses are allowed to walk, and only when fighting are willing to let the horses run.

"Just trying to escape." The leader of the White Lotus said: "The lives of those princes are so valuable? What if we run away all the horses to death? As long as they don't die."

"Hmm..." Shi Chenglu thought about it, gritted his teeth and twitched his hips and said: "Follow me!"

The war horse was in pain and kept running wildly!

In this way, he chased for twenty miles and finally caught up.

After seeing the truth clearly under the smoke, Shi Chenglu and others were dumbfounded.

They saw that the number of horses was far less than they imagined, only thirty or forty. The reason why they run with ten times the momentum of war horses is because they have branches tied behind their butts...

The number of Ming troops on horseback was even smaller, only a dozen, and most of the horses were empty.

"Hahaha, you must have been fooled." Ming Jun saw that he was seen through, and he taunted loudly. After changing horses in front of them, he didn't rush to escape. He just watched from a distance whether they should pursue him or not.

"Damn, I'm so angry!" The leader of the White Lotus Church said with anger: "Kill them before we start!"

"Don't waste time, go back quickly, Lao Huang's side is probably doing bad things!" Shi Chenglu was not interested in getting angry, he only wanted to assassinate Wang Shajia.

After saying that, he turned around and ran back with his men.

The leader of the White Lotus and his men wanted to catch up with the dozen Ming troops. However, the horses under the opponent's crotch had been running in vain before. Their physical strength was much better than their horses. After chasing for a while, the distance became farther and farther. The leader of the White Lotus then returned helplessly.

~~

But it was said that the King of Jin used a simple strategy to lure away the main force of the enemy army, while his brothers and Yulin soldiers lurked under the mountain ridge where the enemy army was hiding before.

They originally planned to wait until dark before rushing to Qishui at night, but soon the scouts came to report that three thousand enemy soldiers were heading towards them.

"Hey, you, your plan didn't work." The second brother said with a teasing smile.

"It still worked." The fourth child lay on the ground and listened for a while with Yafu, then stood up and said solemnly: "The people who came are all infantry, which means the cavalry has been led away."

"That's natural." Lao San smiled proudly and said without any nervousness: "Three thousand infantry? A native chicken and a wag."

The relaxed confidence of the three His Highnesses infected the Habayashi soldiers and made them relax.

"Brothers, follow me." His Highness King Yan was neatly dressed, standing on horseback with his sword drawn, and said with heroic Qianyun.

"Kill them and go home to celebrate the New Year!" His Royal Highness the King of Jin also raised his gun and mounted his horse, with a white horse and a silver gun, looking heroic.

"Do it!" His Highness King Qin only said one word, but he was riding on a big black horse with a mace of unknown human tissue hanging in his hand, which was the best declaration.

"Here!" All the soldiers also picked up their weapons and followed the three His Highnesses to ride their horses out of the mountain ridge and face the enemy.

Seeing the more than 400 horses approaching, Master Maitreya knew that he had been deceived, and he naturally complained in his heart. On the face, he had to shout loudly and encourage: "Believers, don't panic, they only have three or four hundred people, we have three or four thousand. Four thousand versus four hundred, the advantage is mine!"

"Whoever kills one person is a Bodhisattva of one abode, and whoever kills ten people is a Bodhisattva of ten abodes!" Then the "Arhats" under him chanted verses loudly.

Three thousand believers also started to recite it, repeating this sentence over and over again:

"Whoever kills one person is a Bodhisattva of one abode, and whoever kills ten people is a Bodhisattva of ten abodes!"

Then, a magical or terrifying scene appeared in the Maitreya teaching formation. The expressions of the believers gradually became more ferocious, and their breathing became much heavier.

Although the Maitreya Sect has a tendency to merge with the Ming Sect and the White Lotus Sect, it also has its own secret techniques that the other two schools do not possess. For example, this method of brainwashing believers and distributing psychotropic drugs. At ordinary times, it can firmly control the thoughts of believers, and at critical moments, it can also use specific methods to make believers feel no pain in a short period of time, and they are not afraid of death.

At that time, Ming Yuzhen relied on this trick of Maitreya Religion to establish the Great Xia Kingdom in Sichuan, banned Buddhism, built Maitreya Buddhist temples extensively, and established Maitreya Religion as the state religion.

However, this trick also has serious side effects. The believers will feel confused and seriously ill afterwards, so the Maitreya Cult does not dare to use it easily.

But Master Maitreya knew very well that if he didn't use this move, hundreds of cavalry would rush over like thunder, and his infantry would definitely be frightened, and they might even collapse without a fight...

~~

After a cup of tea, the distance between the two sides was no more than a hundred feet.

The first one to launch the charge was actually the Maitreya Sect's army. Wearing white hats and white coats, they were holding long and short swords, roaring and swarming up like a tide.

"Charge!" Zhu Di clamped his horse's belly and rushed out first.

Zhu Ping followed closely behind.

Yu Lin's soldiers also urged their horses, gradually accelerating, and after a dozen steps they were already running like thunder!

"Shoot!" Zhu Zhang bowed his arrow and released the bowstring as soon as he entered the shooting range.

The long arrow whizzed through a Maitreya soldier who was wearing no armor. The arrow was not exhausted before it shot into the chest of the believer behind him.

The soldiers of the Yulin Army also shot long arrows, causing as much damage as possible.

Then when the two sides were about twenty feet apart, His Royal Highness the King of Jin suddenly whistled, and the Ming army divided into two teams well-trained, and swept towards the left and right wings of the enemy army, with no intention of engaging in close combat.

When cavalry fights infantry, only fools get close.