530 Siege

The Moro army didn't know how many men and horses the Dongliang army was chasing at first, so there was a brief panic and haste to retreat.

But it soon became clear that the pursuit behind was only a squad of about 10,000 people, they were no longer in a hurry, and quickly made response and deployment after calming down, the army in front continued to retreat in an orderly manner, and 20,000 elites were dispatched to meet the Dongliang troops who were chasing and killed.

Bai Ziqi has been rushing to the forefront, he is riding on a captured war horse, and from a distance, he sees a team of men and horses appearing in front of him, waiting for them to rush forward in a neat and orderly manner.

Bai Ziqi gave instructions to pause, instructed everyone to repair on the spot, and sent spies to the front to investigate.

The time soon came to the evening, the remnant sun was like blood, dyeing most of the western sky red, Bai Ziqi found a water source, and everyone took out dry food and dried meat on the spot to eat and drink with cold water.

Because this battle was carried out in pursuit of the fleeing Moro army, the killing was very painful, although there were casualties, but compared with the dead Moro palace army, it was simply not a casualty.

Everyone was very happy, and sat down around Bai Ziqi one by one, munching on dry food, laughing and joking, telling the joy of Shi Shi using his hands and feet to expel the Moro thief today!

The spies at the front quickly reported back the news: the Moro Army in front of the troops only stayed for a short time to ensure safety, and Dongliang's side did not continue to pursue, and they did not have the intention of returning to fight, but accelerated the overall retreat.

"They have no intention of fighting, they just want to leave quickly and get out of the land of Dongliang, haha, we are scared-" The black face of the black crane bared out white teeth and smiled happily.

"Now we can all relax for a while-" Bai Ziqi looked at everyone, "hurry up and eat and drink, after this dinner, we still have to continue to move forward, as long as they retreat, we dare to continue the pursuit, at this time, we can fight a few more times, if we can grab more knives, guns, bows and arrows and war horses, we can grab more horses, maybe drive away the Moro people, and then we have to continue to fight with our own people behind us." ”

"My own people, Qin Jian won't be so desperate, we have made meritorious contributions this time!" someone questioned.

"That is, even if Qin Jian, this kid, has no heart and no liver to do any work, the court will not watch him come nonsense, and since Mo Luo has withdrawn, he Qin Jian must not withdraw to the southwest camp?"

"It's just that the court in front of us is pretending to be confused, after all, the Moro army is pressing, and the emperor Lao'er is far away in Beijing and doesn't know the truth, and it is understandable that he was fooled by Qin Jian, but now that the foreign enemy has been cleared, does the court continue to pretend to be confused?"

"Then are we going to be cornered and really want to rebel against the court?"

…… The soldiers were talking about it, their eyes were looking at the young man in front of them, although he was still very young, but after today's beautiful battle, they all saw hope, the grandson of General Bai is worthy of being the queen of the general, he not only has the blood of General Bai, but also inherited the talent of General Bai's full of military advisors.

Therefore, no matter how old or young they are, they can't help but pin their hopes and expectations on this young man.

Bai Ziqi looked at the lovely faces in front of him with passionate eyes, for some reason, he really felt that he had become a leader today, a real soldier, and a kind of pride in defending the family and the country was rushing in his chest.

The breeze blew, and a confident smile appeared on his young face, "There is no endless road, as long as we have a force in our hearts that does not fall, and a pot of fire does not go out, I believe that any difficulties will pass, and any difficulties will definitely be able to get out!"

"That's no problem, I love to hear it!" Hei He laughed, "If Zhengxi Xiao'er is really the loyal and treacherous emperor who can't distinguish between the unconscious and unbearable emperors, and doesn't give us a way to live, we simply learned from the first emperor of the year, and also provoked a big banner to rebel, if we really want to set up a counter-flag, the situation will definitely be much better than now, so who knows how many grievances we have suffered, and when the banner of the Bai Family Army is erected, there will definitely be many people who will come to defect, and more Li people will also support it- We simply hid in the people to fight guerrilla warfare, and in the last ten or eight years, maybe we can build a great country like the first emperor!"

"Old Black!" shouted Old Cloud.

Lao Yun's face darkened, and he trembled with anger, "Why don't you change your open-mouthed problem?

The old black bared his teeth and protested angrily: "How can I talk nonsense? This is the truth! Didn't you still sigh to me about this the night before? I just think that people should live happily like they do today, live if they can, and fight if they can't, it's a big deal! Why do you have to endure like this day and night? I know that the dog emperor is not a thing, but I have to open my eyes and talk nonsense, touting that he is a generation of Ming Jun! I have had enough!

After saying that, I stood up and wanted to leave.

Lao Yun stopped him and persuaded him earnestly: "It's not that you are alone in your heart, ask the brothers in front of you, everyone has fire in their hearts, and it is not easy for us to live as a soldier! But you can't think about it, this situation is completely different from that back then! And we don't have a virtuous, capable, talented and ambitious person like the First Emperor to support the emperor, let alone the kind of mutual acquaintance and perfect cooperation between the First Emperor and General Bai. At that time, the people's lives were not guaranteed, and their lives would be at risk at any time, so they gave up everything to follow and support those who hoped to lead them to a good life; and now, everyone has finally lived a good life for a few days, and few people will be willing to support us! The change of dynasty can lead the people of Li to exchange their blood and lives for a new dynasty -- have you forgotten the deaths, injuries, and tragic scenes we witnessed back then?"

The faces of the soldiers surrounding Bai Ziqi and the others all showed pain and hesitation, and Lao Yun was telling the truth.

"To rebel now is to seek death. Lao Yun's eyes were like torches, with compassion, "Our situation, as early as when the old general was alive, we have analyzed it more than once, if we could really fight a bloody road and fight a future like back then, he would definitely have led us to do so! Why do you keep delaying so much, how many brothers' lives have been lost, even the old general himself has been put in, for what? It's because this is a hopeless road--so Brother Bai would rather die than take everyone to this road of no return—— Besides, the external worries have not been completely resolved, so how can we once again set off civil strife? You certainly don't want to see tens of thousands of people in Dongliang once again drawn into a large-scale bloody war, right?"

Bai Ziqi's young face showed a touch of pain, and he looked up at the northeast, where was the hinterland of Dongliang Kingdom, what kind of emperor was sitting there.

Suddenly, he stood up, his pupils instantly changed color, and they were filled with blood, because he saw behind him, in the direction where the Dongliang army was stationed, a big mountain was quickly and silently outflanking along the horizon.

"It's broken!" he snapped.

"It's bad - someone wants to make us dumplings!" Lao Hei quickly made a judgment, "It's the Dongliang military uniform system, it's the Dongliang banner, it's our own people!"

The brothers stood and looked behind them.

What they had been worried about and guarded against was the Moro soldiers in the southwest, but they didn't expect that Dongliang's own army would surround them at this time.

"It won't be here to give us reinforcements, right?" Xiao Lingzi's immature voice suddenly came out, "We are all Dongliang people, how can there be a reason for our own people to fight our own people?"

"Could it be that the foreign enemies of Moro have not been expelled yet, and these people really want to do a desperate thing of cannibalism?" Lao Yun looked at the approaching crowd of black oppressors, and muttered to himself suspiciously, even if he had lived for such a long time, even if he had followed Bai Feng through the sea of swords, swords, mountains and fires.

"Nothing is impossible-" Bai Ziqi took a deep breath of cold air, and his mind flashed through the three-year civil war launched by the Kuomintang after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

"This is the inferiority, narrow-mindedness, and cruelty of human beings, and in combination it is the nature of the beast!" he finished speaking word by word, holding the long sword at his waist tightly, and looking at the brothers in front of him like a knife, when he came out of the mouth of the gourd, there were 19,000 people, and after today's battle with the troops behind the Moro Palace, there were about 1,000 dead and wounded, so there were more than 17,000 people who could continue to fight in front of him.

The siege ahead is getting closer and closer, so close that you can already see the two big Chinese characters on the flag of Dongliang Kingdom: "Dongliang".

More than 10,000 bodies stood upright, looking at the approaching crowd with complicated eyes.

The flag used to fly high above their heads, the word Dongliang used to make them swear to defend it, and the crowd used to be their own people, compatriots, who shed the same blood, ate the same food, and wore the same uniforms.

However, when you meet here, you have to meet each other, and you are dead or alive.

A sense of surprise, anger, and fear quickly spread through the crowd.

Everyone straightened up and tightened their grips on their weapons.

"Array—" Bai Ziqi calmed down and said steadily.

At the same time, walk slowly and stand at the front.

"Pay attention to safety, young master!" reminded Kurotsuru.

Bai Ziqi smiled silently, "Be ready to fight at any time - but don't do it yet, let's see what they want to do?" Also, even if we do, it is not us who will take the lead in launching an attack on our compatriots, we are General Bai's troops, no matter what kind of situation we come into, we will always be the army of benevolence and righteousness." ”

"That's right, let's salute first and then soldiers, and see what excuses these people come up with to do something with us!" Lao Yun echoed.

The crowd is closer.

Sure enough, it was the Dongliang Army, the army of the Southwest Battalion stationed in the front.

"Fence—" a voice shouted, and as it spoke, the horse's hooves curled up in a gust of wind, and the figure on horseback galloped closer.

It's Qin Jian.

"Sure enough, it's this villain!" the black crane gritted his teeth.

Qin Jian didn't continue to get closer, grabbed the reins of the horse, and the big black horse circled in place, and bursts of dust rose on the ground.

A pro-soldier flashed out from behind the dust, pulling his neck and shouting: "Anti-thieves, you listen - our General Qin said, quickly and obediently raise your hands and surrender, you have been surrounded like buckets, and you are cornered!"

"Anti-thief? He really came to encircle and suppress us!What should we do?" Lao Yun approached Bai Ziqi and asked in a low voice.

"Don't panic—" Bai Ziqi made a downward pressure movement behind him, signaling them not to be impulsive, not to rush to resist.

"General Qin Jian—" Bai Ziqi stepped forward a few steps, clenched his fists, and shouted loudly: "General Qin Jian must have misunderstood somewhere, there are no thieves here! We are the regular army of Dongliang Kingdom, and just half an hour ago, we fiercely pursued and attacked the rear troops of the Moro army, and it is initially estimated that tens of thousands of people were killed! And the last time we infiltrated the rear camp of the Moro army, the fire burned down the grain and grass, and it was also us who picked up the Moro banner. We are all Jiazi soldiers, but the Jiazi soldiers were the regular troops set up when they followed the first emperor to conquer the south and the north, how did they become thieves?"

"A little white face-" Qin Jian looked at Bai Ziqi from afar, "Who are you?" Bai Feng was connected to foreign countries, and in the end there was no good end, what about you, are you the heir he cultivated? You also want to follow in his footsteps and be a little spy?"

"Qin Jian thief, keep your eyes open, he is the grandson of Old General Bai, Young Master Bai Ziqi!" The black crane shouted angrily, before the words landed, the big bow in his hand was full, and before Qin Jian could dodge, the featherless arrow had already shot out, heading straight for Qin Jian's door.

Qin Jian had already prepared, how could he wait to be shot. "Old horseman!" he picked up the big knife in his hand, cut down the long arrow with one sword, and reined in a circle, "I haven't seen you for many years, and my arm strength has not decreased, is it that this ability to draw a bow and shoot arrows has not been put down for a day, and you have been practicing hard every day! It can be seen that you people are thieves who are not dead, although they are retiring on the surface, in fact, they are preparing to rebel at any time every day." ”

"Ahh

"Old Black Grandpa, what's the use of being angry with such a scum!" Bai Ziqi suddenly shouted, raised his arms high, and waved towards the army of the Dongliang Southwest Camp opposite.

The men who came to besiege them were 30,000 men.

In other words, what he and the brothers left behind by Bai Feng will face will be a one-to-two battle.

Since a vicious battle is inevitable, he must use his brain to make a final effort for his own side, which is at a clear disadvantage, before making a move.