On the post road leading from Yuzhou City to Tongguan, you can see the remnants of the defeated soldiers who have lost their armor everywhere, and these people are the rebels of Cui Qianyou's department. They were so embarrassed not because they were defeated by the Tang army, but by the raging fire and billowing smoke.

"There are countless dead and wounded, and now the generals are all soldiers who dare to fight......"

With a snap, Cui Qianyou's hand rose and fell, and he slapped it the general who was kneeling on the ground to report.

"What do you mean countless? Give you half a day, and if you can't count the losses, let's come and see you!"

The general was also stubborn, and after being whipped, he did not retreat resignedly, but stiffened his neck and protested loudly: "The general might as well kill me now, the fire and smoke came suddenly, and everyone ran away, from Yuzhou City to here for more than 20 miles, all over the department, let alone half a day, even if the whole day's work can be collected eighty percent of it is fast!"

Everyone held their breath, waiting for Cui Qianyou to be angry, everyone knew what the consequences would be if they collided with him, and beheaded him in public to make an example of You's lightest punishment. Who knew that Cui Qianyou actually let out a long sigh.

"I don't blame you, it's Ben who miscalculated and underestimated the power of the wildfire. ”

In fact, in addition to the dispersion of his subordinates, Cui Qianyou is now facing a more serious problem, that is, a shortage of food. Originally, each of the soldiers carried three days' rations with them, but on the way to escape from the billowing smoke, most of them not only discarded the food in order to lighten the weight on their bodies, but some even threw away the heavy Mo knife.

At this moment, the rest of the people around Cui Qianyou are even worse than the defeated soldiers.

All around, both in the east and in the south, there was billowing smoke and wildfires that spread to me at an unknown time and place. Even if the fire in the mountain has not had time to spread, Cui Qianyou will not dare to plunge into the mountain with his subordinates easily, in case he is trapped by the fire and smoke, it is really called the heavens and the earth.

Cui Qianyou originally wanted to continue to wait to gather his troops, but who knew that the partial division sent to the area of Dagu Pass did not reply for a long time. According to the agreement, the various ministries were to send ranger messengers to communicate with them at least daily.

Seeing that the whole day had passed, there was still no news. Soon, the rangers sent out brought back shocking information that there were signs of movement of the army in the direction of Tongguan.

At first, Cui Qianyou only thought that it was an ordinary movement in Tongguan, or it could be a ranger who was a soldier exploring horses and plants, but as more and more people brought back this kind of information, he couldn't help but gradually become nervous.

Look at these so-called combatable soldiers around them, one by one, they have lost their armor and have no will to fight. Cui Qianyou looked up to the sky and sighed, he couldn't imagine that he was not defeated by the Tang army, but he was indirectly defeated by a big fire set by the little vertical man surnamed Qin. And after the little vertical man surnamed Qin set the fire, it was possible that he would go to Shaanzhou to defect to Gao Xianzhi.

After thinking about it, Cui Qianyou didn't dare to take the risk of continuing to gather his troops, so he immediately left the post road with only the available three or five thousand cavalry around him, selected farmland and wasteland, and fled to the north.

As the saying goes, when the lights are dark, those Tang soldiers would never have thought that Cui Qianyou planned to escape all the way back to Mianchi along the Yellow River.

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When the sky was dark, a group of Tang troops left Tongguan and were marching from west to east along the post road. Seeing that the smoke and dust in the east were getting thicker and thicker, and there was a fire looming between the thick smoke and clouds, this Tang army showed hesitation, and the speed of progress was not much faster than that of the turtle crawling. The Tang general led by the Hangu Pass was Tian Jianye, who was ordered by the Son of Heaven to go out of the pass to the east to sweep away the remnants of the rebels.

However, Tian Jianye's face was more of a look of death like a mourning examine, and he kept cursing in a low voice: "Bastard, eunuch, personal vendetta!"

Obviously, a few days ago, the general of the prison gate was humiliated outside Tongguan, and he still held a grudge, but Tian Jianye was also glad to admire it, and the general of the prison gate was like the sea. As a result, before this was done, the retribution had already arrived.

"Where are the two bastards Qian Wu and Geng Qi? Get over to Lao Tzu!"

The Tang people used to call ranks, and this informal title was more prevalent in the army. Qian Wu and Geng Qi were the two soldiers who dared to pick up the pants of the prison general, and in such a situation, the two of them no longer had the prestige of the overseer, and knelt in front of Tian Jianye's horse, crying and begging for mercy: "The general spares his life, spare his life!"

Tian Jianye's angry speech was a little incoherent, pointing at these two bastards who were not long-eyed, "Lao Tzu also wants to spare you, but who spared Lao Tzu?"

Tian Jianye also felt wronged in his heart, and when he received these envoys who were close servants in the palace, he was one hundred and twenty points careful, but who would have thought that he would be mixed up by the two fools in front of him.

"Order the two of you to go ahead and explore the way, and if there is an enemy within ten miles, report back immediately!"

The two of them trembled like chaff, but they could only promise in unison, because if they disobeyed the military order, Tian Jianye could directly cut off their heads in accordance with military law.

In the eyes of Qian Wu and Geng Qi, when they went to the front to explore the way, it was clear that they were killing people with a knife, they had already repented of their intestines, why did they open their eyes so much and meet the eunuch Bian Lingcheng!

It was not only Qian Wu and Geng Qi who were sent out to explore the way, but there were dozens of people in total, and these people pushed forward one after another, and they didn't find any changes all the way out for seven or eight miles.

Just when Qian Wu and Geng Qi were secretly glad that there was no enemy false alarm, they suddenly found that more than a dozen foot soldiers who looked like armor in Beidi had turned at the intersection in front of the post road.

"Yes, it's a dog!"

Geng Qi reacted the fastest, and immediately noticed that something was wrong, and after shouting, he pulled out his legs and ran. Who knew that those foot soldiers chased fast, and within a few dozen steps, they caught up with these two greedy people who were afraid of death.

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After climbing over a mountain beam and passing through a woodland, Huo Ran was open in front of him, and the Yellow River was already in sight. Cui Qianyou had deliberately tried to climb over the mountain and then follow the post road in the direction of Shaanzhou, but the scale and speed of the fire far exceeded his expectations, not only beyond the range of Daxian Mountain, but also beyond the post road, and even spread to Taolin County on the south bank of the Yellow River through the medium of dry grass and woodland.

The post road to the east is completely blocked, and it is no longer possible to make illusions in a short period of time. So, Cui Qianyou took people straight north to the bank of the Yellow River.

Cui Qianyou stationed on the south bank of the Yellow River and looked at the frozen river stretching straight to the eastern sky like a streamer.

Suddenly, he thought of the abandoned Yan army foot soldiers, but he was still as hard as iron, and he could only blame them for not having war horses, not cavalry, and staying in that dangerous place for a while could bring endless changes.

In fact, it is not abandoned, but these people follow their steps in the name of breaking off, and follow the path they have walked, and they also come all the way to the north. But after all, they are foot soldiers, and whether they can avoid the Tang army's rangers and armies is another matter.

Cui Qianyou has always believed that as long as the Lord is there, there will be countless invincible soldiers. After losing tens of thousands of people, it's a big deal to go back and recruit another batch, and after fighting for a year or two, they will be an elite soldier who can fight well. If there is no main general, no matter how strong the soldiers are, they will be scattered!

Moreover, there are still 50,000 troops in Michi. Cui Qianyou was sure that as long as he could go back safely, he would be able to raise troops and go straight to Shaanzhou City. The Great Fire of Kushan can cut off his way back to the east, and it also cuts off the connection between Shaanzhou City and Guanzhong, as long as the time is properly mastered within ten days, and Gao Xianzhi who is entrenched in Shaanzhou will be defeated in one fell swoop, and his sin of losing his teacher will be easily resolved.

When the time comes, he will capture the little man who fled to Shaanzhou, and he will definitely taste what it is like to regret it. In turn, Cui Qianyou felt that the little vertical man surnamed Qin was a rare lucky general, and it was a pity to slaughter him with one sword, if he could recruit this person to his command, wouldn't it be like a tiger with wings? I'm afraid that no one around him would have imagined that his own master would be in such a situation, and he was still thinking about the initiator of the Da Xian Mountain fire!

After the surface of the Yellow River froze, the snow was not deep. Under the cover of night, four or five thousand cavalry galloped straight to the east.

When the sky was bright, suddenly a ranger who had explored the way first came back to report:

Five miles ahead, the surface of the Yellow River has been cut open, and it is difficult to pass anymore!"

Cui Qianyou's heart was suddenly shocked, who was actually digging the surface of the Yellow River at this time? This is so unbelievable that all kinds of possibilities rose up in his mind in an instant, and in just a moment's effort, he was full of mud.

Taking the Yellow River is already a dangerous move, if it is delayed any longer, once dawn, it will face Gao Xianzhi's more than 100,000 troops. To the north of the Yellow River is Wangwu Mountain, mostly mountainous, the road is rugged, and only along the south bank of the Yellow River is a narrow impact plain. However, there were artemisia grasses more than one person tall everywhere on the riverbank, and they could barely continue to move forward by looking for the path that the villagers had stepped on, but the speed of movement suddenly slowed down.

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In Shaanzhou City, Qin Jin stayed up all night and discussed with Zheng Xianli, Qi Bihe and others for a whole night, and finally he made a final decision and finalized the strategy of using troops east of Shaanzhou.

To sum it up, it can be summed up in eight words, "disturb the hearts of the enemy's soldiers, kill and wound life!"

This time, the goal is not to attack the city and seize the land, but to attack the heart first, kill and injure the rebels' living forces, so as to achieve the goal of stopping the rebels. After all, there are few of them, and it is very rare to be able to protect themselves. If it weren't for the fire and the fact that Cui Qianyou didn't know whether he was alive or dead, Qin Jin would have ordered to withdraw from Shaanzhou early in the morning, and he would not have been a useless dying struggle.

Now, the only thing that bothered Qin Jin was that Gao Xianzhi did not clearly explain his future strategy in his reply. In fact, it is reasonable to think about it carefully, Gao Xianzhi has been a festival envoy all the year round, and he is also the deputy marshal of the world's soldiers and horses, how can he explain the reason for the plan to move troops to the district governor Shi?

Just as everyone was about to disperse to rest, suddenly there was a sound of hurried footsteps outside, and the door was opened a moment later.

"Report! There is an enemy situation!"

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