Burning the rebels' food and achieving the goal of the ambush, Lu Qi didn't want to continue to delay on the road from Shaanzhou to Tongguan, which was the hinterland occupied by the rebels after all, and if it was discovered and entangled by most of the rebels, it would be difficult to get out. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 Seeing that he could no longer be saved, he ordered the men and horses to gather and prepare to return to the north of the Yellow River under the cover of night.

"General, there's a discovery!"

As they were about to evacuate the scene, it was discovered that the fires on several of the carts were extinguished after a few moments, and after the embers on the surface were cleaned up, a lump of gold and silver was exposed. This thing can withstand high temperatures, so naturally it cannot be burned. Lu Qi didn't attach much importance to valuable goods such as gold and silver, and planned to ignore them, but some deployments persuaded him to bring them back, anyway, it was dark now, and they had a whole night to move and retreat. Otherwise, wouldn't all this gold and silver be cheapened for the rebels?

Lu Qi thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he asked the deployment to clean up as soon as possible, and actually cleared out seven carts, which were full of gold and silver, no wonder ordinary pack carts only had one horse or mule, but each of these pack carts needed two or even three horses.

However, it's a pity that the horses and mules of the pack cart have been slaughtered, so you can't let the war horses pull the cart, right?

After some entanglement, Lu Qi finally chose to give up and took the cold, hungry and exhausted soldiers to the north in the direction of the Yellow River.

Since the ambush battle has been fought, there is no need to deliberately hide their whereabouts, the neighing of the war horses, the panting of the soldiers, gathered together, and can be heard clearly outside of Lixu.

Of course, this was not the complacent slack after Lu Qi's successful sneak attack, but a decision made after sending out enough rangers. After all, the soldiers under his command have been lying in the snow for a whole day, and now that they have burned the grain and grass of the rebels, they can relax appropriately.

In front of it is a nameless river that has been frozen, and after crossing the river, ten miles north is the south bank of the Yellow River. At this time, it was a cold winter, and even the surface of the Yellow River had been frozen with thick ice, so they did not have to think about the ferry, they could step on the ice and cross the Yellow River by themselves, and after crossing the Yellow River, as long as they entered Wangwu Mountain, even if the rebels chased them, they were fearless.

However, ambushing the rebel grain convoy on the main road south of the Yellow River was a long-term operation, and if they found a large number of grain trucks heading from east to west, they had to sneak south of the Yellow River and take advantage of the fire.

The horse's hooves made a brittle and strange sound on the river soldiers, and Lu Qi only felt a little uneasy, always feeling that there would be trouble somewhere. The horse on his side suddenly neighed and fell to the ground, and the knight on horseback also fell heavily on the ice. Seeing this, a foot soldier hurriedly stepped forward to help the knight who had fallen off the horse, but he could not pull it up despite his strength.

"Blood, blood...... He's dead!"

It wasn't until one of the soldiers touched the dark red blood on his hand that he realized that the knight who had fallen on the ice had a long arrow stuck in his chest.

"Enemy attack, enemy attack!"

After a moment of stunnedness, the experienced Shenwu soldiers immediately realized that they had been attacked by the enemy.

The shouts of the enemy attack have not yet calmed down, the sound of breaking the sky comes and goes, and the rain of arrows falls from the darkness one after another, and more than a dozen people immediately fall to the ground.

Lu Qi was shocked, it turned out that his uneasy premonition was confirmed here.

From the direction of the rain of arrows, it can be roughly judged that the enemy attack came from the east, and a wave of arrow rain only shot down a dozen people, and it can be judged that the archers should be about 1,000 people.

"Formation, counterattack!"

The military order was issued, and the panicked Shenwu Army immediately instinctively formed a formation according to the process that had been trained countless times, and the bows and crossbows fired in a volley in the general direction of the enemy's attack.

The equipment of the Shenwu Army is all the divine arm crossbows developed this year, the crossbow body is relatively light, but the power has not been reduced at all, so that the soldiers can carry more arrows, so they have an absolute advantage in the reserve of arrows and the speed of the salvo.

After a few rounds of firing at each other in the dark, the two sides fell into a silence that was more torturous than the battle, and at this time the enemy was dark and clear, and Lu Qi felt that he had just despised the 5,000-strong rebels who had fled halfway.

It seems that when the situation between the enemy and the enemy is unclear, the other party did not choose to rush reinforcements, but secretly watched, until he was looking for an opportunity to suddenly strike and fight hard.

"Kill, kill!"

The sound of killing was rushing forward, and Lu Qi was terrified, because this shout of killing came from the west behind them.

It's not good, it's a trick!

The rebels attracted the attention of the Shenwu army in the east with a small number of crossbowmen, but the main force was secretly ambushed on the west side, quietly approaching and then bursting into a surprise attack.

Fortunately, the Shenwu Army was well-trained, and it also had this whole set of drill procedures to deal with the enemy who was sneaking up in the rear, so they turned to the formation according to the usual training method and prepared to meet the enemy.

The people south of the Yellow River brought by Lu Qi were all horse infantry with at least three or more combat experience, which ensured to the greatest extent that he could not be in chaos, and the facts proved that his choice was right. The military spirit of these soldiers quickly regained their composure under the general's order, and the next moment the two armies handed over, they fell into a bitter battle of hand-to-hand combat.

The rebels were menacing, like beasts descending from the mountain, disrupting the formation of the Shenwu Army with just one blow. Lu Qi's eyes lit up, he had full confidence in his subordinates, and he would definitely burst out with an extraordinary will to fight.

Directly entering the bitter battle of hand-to-hand combat, in Lu Qi's consciousness, is definitely the next policy. Regardless of the outcome, the Shenwu Army will lose both. But since the other party insists on a bloody battle, he can't let the other party's idea succeed and bargain. Even if only the last person is killed, these cunning rebels must be slaughtered.

Lu Qi gave up the horizontal knife, used the huge Mo knife instead, and also jumped into the melee......

The sky was bright, the fish belly was white, and Lu Qi only felt extremely numb and painful, as if his body no longer belonged to him. Before dawn, the rebel ambush was finally repulsed, and they didn't even have time to take the corpses of their comrades. It's just that the fighting power of the rebel ambush is too terrifying, and even if they use their strength, they have failed to repel it several times.

Later, it was the opponent's main general who was injured by a stray arrow, and the rebels were ambushed and had no choice but to retreat.

Taking advantage of this moment, Lu Qi did not hesitate to hurriedly cross the Yellow River with soldiers who could still march, completely leaving the rebels behind.

Although the operation of burning the grain and grass of the rebels was successful, it also made Lu Qi's 10,000 people suffer. After a night of fighting, less than 7,000 people had returned to the north bank of the Yellow River. A big battle destroyed thirty percent of the troops, which was already a shameful defeat for Lu Qi.

In fact, even if any army loses 30% of its strength in World War I, it can definitely be regarded as a heavy loss. You must know that often in a big battle, if the casualty rate exceeds 40%, the whole army is in danger of collapse.

Lu Qi learned from the pain, and felt that he was still a careless rival in love, and when he was competing with Cai Xide's department in Hedong Province before, he won a series of battles, and his heart inevitably produced the feeling of pride and arrogance and contempt for the enemy. Fortunately, last night's battle did not hurt his muscles and bones, and although the proportion of casualties was large, it could be regarded as a wake-up call for him. The Anshi rebels are definitely not as easy to deal with as they imagined.

As soon as they arrived at the southern foot of Wangwu Mountain, a ranger arrived on a flying horse.

"There is news from Luoyang, and another convoy is transporting grain and grass to Guanzhong, and it is estimated that it will arrive in ...... five days later."

After hearing this, Lu Qi's spirit was shocked, the more difficult it was to gnaw the bones, the more he wanted to gnaw them clean, and he would definitely not let a grain flow into Guanzhong.

……

Tongguan Guancheng, the city head of the big Yan banner listlessly drooped, a team of bloody and wounded cavalry into the city, when the guard Tian Chengsi saw these wounded soldiers, he was furious.

"Tang Jun is too blind to no one, and he actually stretched out his hand to the hinterland of my Dayan, is it unbearable!"

"The general is angry, according to the judgment of the last general, these Tang troops must be from the Shenwu army in Hedong, I heard that Cai Xide was beaten by the Shenwu army in Hedong and fled back to Hebei alone, it can be seen that this ** is not easy to deal with. ”

It was Li Baochen, the commander of the Ma Army, who slowly spoke out to persuade him. Tian Chengsi also listened to the advice of his generals, calmed down, and pondered silently.

"The grain road is the lifeblood of the Yan army in Guanzhong, and there is absolutely no room for failure, so I can only personally take people on a trip to ring the alarm bell for those Shenwu troops. ”

Li Baochen said:

"Why do you need the general to go out in person, the last general will take a trip on his behalf, and the grain road will be safe!"

Li Baochen has been under Tian Chenghei for many years, Tian Chengsi knows that this person is by no means easy to match, since he can pat his chest and guarantee, he is at least more than seventy percent sure, so he happily said:

"Then there are Brother Lao, but remember not to despise them!"

Tian Chengsi had also heard that Cai Xide was almost wiped out by the Shenwu Army in Hedong, so he was afraid that Li Baochen would also follow in Cai Xide's footsteps because of the light enemy.

Li Baocheng said with a smile:

"General rest assured, how have you ever seen the last general underestimate the enemy's carelessness? When we fought with Feng Changqing in Luoyang City, our brothers never suffered a loss, and the surnamed Qin did not have three heads and six arms, and most of the Shenwu Army was still farming cottage villagers a year ago, so why be afraid?"

Although it was easy to say, Li Baochen attached great importance to this dispatch of troops to sweep and clear the grain road, not only brought his henchmen for many years, but also brought 20,000 elites, divided into two armies, separated by ten miles, and patrolled eastward.

On the day of departure, Li Baochen received an official letter from Luoyang, and another grain transport team set off from Luoyang and was about to be sent to Guanzhong, and ordered Tongguan to send an elite to respond.

Tian Chengsi and Li Baochen's inquiries were all overjoyed, they were worried that they had nowhere to start, and now they could use the grain transportation team from Luoyang as a bait to lure the men and horses of the Shenwu Army into the Yan, and then encircle and annihilate them, completely eliminating the remnants of the Tang Dynasty that infiltrated the hinterland of Dayan.

The 20,000 elite left Tongguan and marched all the way east, and they had to catch up with the grain convoy from Luoyang before the Tang army.