The sky broke dark, the rebels finally retreated, Pei Jing looked at the corpses all over the ground, and finally couldn't support his butt and fell to the ground. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

"General, General......"

Several generals were shocked, for fear that Pei Jing would be injured and fall to the ground, if this is the case, the 20,000 people in the rear army of the Shenwu Army will be more than lucky. But after a cadre helped Pei Jing up, he checked his body, and there were no fatal injuries except for flesh wounds oozing blood, so he breathed a sigh of relief.

"General Pei, the rebels have retreated, and the guards have died well, please don't grieve excessively. ”

It was Chen Qianli who spoke, and this was also going to Pei Jing's heart. After a night of scuffle, almost all of the hundreds of his relatives who had been following him since the restoration of the Shenwu Army were killed, how could he not feel distressed and want to die? He only felt that his heart was dripping blood, and the pain was twitching unbearably.

But Chen Qianli was right, although all the guards were killed in battle, but under their leadership, the rear army of the Shenwu Army successfully blocked the surprise attack of the rebels, preserved the rear army of the Shenwu Army, and avoided the danger of annihilation.

"If you don't take revenge, you swear not to be a man!"

He swore hatefully, completely lacking the calm and calm bearing of the commander of the army, but the rear army of the Shenwu Army was ignited by this emotion, and they shouted to kill the thief.

"Kill the thief, kill the thief!"

The siblings of the comrades who were still playing and frolicking the day before were separated by yin and yang in just one night, how can it not make people sad and angry?

"Count the men and horses, and immediately retreat to the Lonely Mountain!"

After all, Pei Jing was not carried away by anger, he knew that he had to take advantage of the temporary retreat of the rebels to leave this place as soon as possible, if they launched an attack during the day, it would be an extremely tragic battle. What's even worse is that 90% of 100,000 arrows were used up overnight, if there are no arrows, the heavy crossbow is not as good as scrap iron, and the lack of training in the rear army of the Shenwu Army, and the weakness of little combat experience is completely exposed in front of the rebels, frontal hand-to-hand combat has never been the strength of the Shenwu Army, and Qin Jin repeatedly emphasized at the beginning of the formation of the Shenwu Army that unless it is absolutely necessary, it must not face the enemy head-on with the rebels of the anti-Hu army.

Otherwise, even if you win this battle, you will kill a thousand enemies and lose eight hundred, and in the end, winning will be no different from losing.

Influenced by Qin Jin's concept of valuing people, Pei Jing no longer had the illusion of defeating the rebels in a battle after thoroughly understanding the true strength of the rebels, and immediately chose to retreat.

"Give up the camp, the baggage that can't be taken away, a fire will burn!"

On this expedition, the army carried a lot of well-built siege equipment, as well as enough military rations for a large army to support half a month, if you carry these heavy materials, it is almost impossible to shake off the pursuit of the rebels. Pei Jing also made a rare decision to kill, and without hesitation, he ordered that all the materials that could not be taken away be burned. Even if you can't take it away, you can't cheapen the rebels.

"General Pei, why don't you leave these burdens to the rebels?"

"What do you say?"

Pei Jing glared at Chen Qianli viciously, the blood stains on his body made him tainted with too much anger, and the previous gentleness was swept away at this time, and there was a flame of anger in his eyes. Chen Qianli explained unconsciously:

"If the camp is burned down at this moment, it is tantamount to informing the rebels that we have withdrawn, so the baggage cannot be burned, the general thinks about it, and leaves these materials, once the rebels attack, they will inevitably be distracted by this, and will buy time and opportunity for our army to get out of danger. There is another one, even if we retreat, we must beat drums in the camp non-stop, creating the illusion of going down the mountain to counterattack, so as to paralyze the rebels. ”

Pei Jing calmed down and felt that Chen Qianli's suggestion was very reasonable.

At the northern foot of Jishan Mountain, the halfway up the mountain is covered with mulberry forests, which can provide cover for the retreat of the army, otherwise if they want to hide their whereabouts, they can only wait until dark, but they have no time to wait until dark, after noon, the rebels will definitely launch another surprise attack on the camp.

The army immediately organized and evacuated in an orderly manner, and Pei Jing, as the chief general of the first army, personally stayed behind, and Chen Qianli also stayed with him.

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As soon as the sky dawned, Qin Jin felt that his right eyelid was beating endlessly, although he didn't believe in any of the claims of the disaster of his right eyelid, he was always upset and difficult to be quiet. It wasn't until after breakfast, when Pei Jing's military report returned to Hedong City, that he understood the reason for his uneasiness.

In a big battle, the losses of the rear army of the Shenwu Army were not small, and the number of people killed in battle and seriously injured and difficult to treat exceeded 5,000. This is already equivalent to a quarter of the total number of rear troops of the Shenwu Army. With such a high battle loss ratio, it is extremely rare for the rear army not to collapse.

Qin Jin came to the map again, looking for the northern foot of Jishan Mountain in Pei Jingjun's newspaper, but on this rudimentary map of non-field surveying and mapping without contour lines, he only found a small piece of ink, and the word Jishan was marked on the right side.

Although he couldn't find more information about the battlefield terrain on the map, Qin Jin could still imagine that the rear army of the Shenwu Army proudly withstood the onslaught of the rebels, thanks to the location chosen by Pei Jing to camp in.

Qin Jin's finger slowly moved three fingers west on the map, landing on another ink blot, on the left side of which was written the word Lonely Mountain.

Jishan Mountain and Gushan are both branches of Zhongtiao Mountain, the two mountains look at each other from afar, and the terrain is even more complicated, Pei Jing did not act rashly, but chose to retreat to Gushan, which is indeed a wise choice. However, to the north of Gushan is Wanquan County, and Pei Jing can only withdraw here, if the rebels occupy Wanquan, it will be equivalent to cutting off the connection between the front army of Lu Qi's army and Hedong City.

In other words, the rear army led by Pei Jing must fight the rebels to the death in Gushan, and must not let the rebels gain Wanquan and cut off the back road of the front army of the Shenwu Army.

After Qin Jin pondered in front of the map for more than half an hour, he immediately sent people to deliver letters to Lu Qi and Pei Jing's front and rear armies respectively.

More than a dozen messengers hurriedly left Hedong City and headed north along the river. The reason why more than a dozen messengers were sent was to prevent accidents, so that the letters could not be delivered in time.

When Lu Qi received Qin Jin's urgent military letter, it was already the evening of the same day, after an afternoon of feints, the defense of Zhengping County had reached the end of the crossbow, and he was sending people to actively contact the city to strive for the rebel generals stationed in Zhengping to join the Tang Dynasty.

When Lu Qi read the military letter sent by Qin Jin, he immediately changed his mind about steady and steady fighting, and he didn't even care about repairing, so he ordered to pull out the camp overnight, cross the half-dried muddy water, and go straight to the rebels' old nest in Jiangzhou County.

Qin Jin analyzed in the military book that Pei Jing encountered at Jishan with at least 20,000 rebels, in other words, the main elite of the rebels. At the same time, the intention of the rebels is also obvious, their idea is to concentrate their forces and break them individually, the reason why they chose Pei Jing's rear army as the primary target of attack may be that they know the details of the two armies in front and behind the Shenwu Army.

As long as the rear army of the Shenwu Army is defeated, the lone front army will fall into the dangerous situation of cutting off the back road. On the surface, the situation of the Shenwu army in Jiangzhou was reversed by the unexpected surprise attack of the rebels, and then fell into a disadvantage, but there was no shortage of opportunities in the meantime.

After weighing it again and again, Qin Jin finally chose the most risky strategy, using Pei Jing's rear army to drag the main elite of the rebels in Gushan Wanquan, and then using the elite of Lu Qi's front army to attack Jiangxian directly, as long as this tactical goal is achieved, regardless of whether Jiangxian can be broken or not, the rebels' battle plan will still be completely disrupted.

Lu Qi also smelled the smell of opportunity from it, he has never liked to drag mud and water, since he chose to take the risk of hitting Jiangxian directly, he will not give up halfway, in his opinion, Jiangxian has become the bag of the former army.

Of course, before leaving, Lu Qi did not forget to continue to persuade the Zhengping guards to surrender, and sent envoys into the city with the attitude of having dates and not hitting three poles, perhaps the Zhengping guards were frightened, and the city surrendered that night and joined the Shenwu army.

This made Lu Qi overjoyed, but since the army had decided to go south, he could not leave this kind of rebel general alone, so he ordered Zhengping, which was almost empty, to be burned clean.

The Zhengping guard general is also surnamed Lu, and he has the cheekiness to climb the same clan with Lu Qi. The boss of Lu Qi is not happy, and it is undoubtedly an insult to him to climb the same clan with such a capricious villain. However, now is the time to employ people, and he will not push them out of the door because of personal likes and dislikes.

patiently asked about the family tree, this guy is really a side branch of the Fanyang Lu family, which is really a shame for the Lu family.

At this point, Lu Qi is also convinced that this person is indeed of the same clan as himself, and in this era, impersonating a big family is a big crime to kill the head, and I believe that this rebel general named Lu Zhishan will not joke with his life.

"General Mingjian, the humble thief is also involuntarily, although the humble is in the thief camp, but he has always been committed to the Tang Dynasty, and now he is under the command of the general, it is really a blessing for three lives. ”

Lu Qi secretly sneered, what body can't help himself, his heart is to the Tang Dynasty, if he really wants to the Tang Dynasty, he has to meet him when his troops are under Zhengping City, why do you still resist? It's just that he didn't take the Shenwu Army in his eyes, thinking that the Shenwu Army and those vulnerable places are all the same dog, and now that he has tasted it, he has to return to the Tang Dynasty.

Despite this, Lu Qi did not expose the repeated lies of the traitor Lu Zhishan, but smiled and praised a few words:

"Being able to understand the righteousness can be regarded as atonement, and it has not disgraced Fan Yang Lu's family. ”

In fact, the Lu Zhishan family is just an insignificant collateral branch in the Fanyang Lu clan, and it is very rare to be affirmed by the descendants of Lu Qi. Maybe he got hooked up with Lu Qi and could make his branch flourish, but it is not known.

Lu Zhishan had this thought, and he was even more respectful to Lu Qi, and no matter why Lu Qi burned Zhengping City, he hurriedly went south. However, when the army arrived at Jiangxian County, Lu Zhishan almost peed his pants in fright, although he knew that Lu Qi's Shenwu army was quite combative, but he didn't think that he could confront the authentic Fanhu rebellion head-on.