Before Xu Chen went out, Zhou Kang rushed in.

Li Lun died, the news came a little suddenly, after learning it, although Xu Chen was not shocked, but somewhat emotional: "So fast?"

It is indeed a bit fast, when Xu Chen was just about to make a move on Senior Brother Ma, Li Lun had just arrived in Huaiyin County in the north, and the 100,000 troops allocated by the imperial court had not been in place. It's only been three days, and Li Lun is dead!

"How did you die?" Xu Chen was curious if this guy died on the battlefield.

"Don't mention it! The day before yesterday, as soon as the 30,000 troops allocated by Hebei County arrived, this guy couldn't wait to go south, leading 30,000 cavalry all the way to Yang Shou, but he was made dumplings, and the 30,000 army was wiped out, and he himself died at the hands of the rebels. Zhou Kang sighed helplessly, not that he was sad for Li Lun's death, but that it was a pity.

The truth of the matter is naturally not as concise as Zhou Kang said, but in the final analysis, it is nothing more than Li Lun's earnest meritorious service and reckless attack.

Jiangnan has long surpassed Guanzhong in recent years, and has become an important tax place for the imperial court, and the imperial court attaches great importance to this rebellion in Yangzhou, and does not hesitate to allocate 100,000 soldiers and horses for Li Lun's deployment, in order to complete his work in one battle, do his best to quell the rebellion in Jiangnan, stabilize the situation, and restore taxes.

The cavalry of Hebei County are all strong troops transferred from the border, and their combat effectiveness is undoubted, but it is precisely these strong soldiers that make Li Lun's confidence skyrocket. Some of the modest cautions that were retained by the veteran generals when they left Chang'an also disappeared completely after the arrival of the 30,000 cavalry.

South Boat and North Train, such common sense, as Li Lun, who was born in a Jiangmen family, will not forget it. There are many mountains and rivers in the south, and it is not suitable for large-scale cavalry battles, and Li Lun will certainly not be stupid enough to forget this. Therefore, Li Lun chose Yang Shou in the northwest of Yangzhou as a breakthrough, although Yang Shou is also surrounded by mountains and rivers, but the terrain is relatively gentle, the river is shallow and narrow, and the distribution is not dense, and there is still a place for cavalry.

And in order to take the rebel spies by surprise and not give the rebel spies a chance to report the news, Li Lun ordered the 30,000 cavalry to go south to Yangzhou on the day they arrived in Huaiyin. The 30,000 cavalry were all one man and two horses, and the cavalry rode on horses, all the way to Huaiyin, but in fact, the body did not consume much, so it was not a tired soldier.

It can be said that before the start of the war, Li Lun did not make much fault in the entire deployment, except for some meritorious service.

However, the only thing he didn't expect was that the leaders of the rebels were too smart! Or maybe they had just done enough preparations, and long before the 30,000 cavalry went south to Huaiyin, Li Yi, Huaqing, and other rebels had already made thousands of ideas, that is, pre-war plans. Li Lun could think of using cavalry to raid, how could Li Yi, a group of wise and demonic guys, not think of it?

Of course, it is unrealistic to say that Li Yi laid a net in Yang Shou at the beginning and waited for Li Lun to come, the rebels did not have many people left north of the river, and since the thousands of plans were made, they naturally needed corresponding manpower to implement them, and Li Yi actually did not have many manpower arranged in Yang Shou.

But the problem is that when Li Lun is advancing all the way, the movement is too big, and the movement of 30,000 cavalry and 60,000 war horses is not big and impossible. And Li Yi has been preparing in Yangzhou for many years, and the speed of information transmission has already reached the point where it is much faster than the speed of cavalry advances.

In this way, where can Li Lun's thousand-mile raid still have a surprise effect?

After a short period of weighing, Li Yi transferred all his troops and horses back and arranged them all in the mountains west of Yang Shou, and the canal was not far to the east of Yang Shou, and the rebels' sailors were not weak. In the past few days, there have been a few heavy rains, but the water level of several rivers in Yangshou is low, and Li Lun, who is in a hurry, has not noticed this.

When Li Lun waded across the river, a torrent suddenly appeared upstream......

At this point, there is not much suspense about the battle situation. Although the Hebei cavalry was brave, they were really deep in the mud on the flooded riverbank, and after the river rose, the rebel sailors' boats easily drove in.

Under the attack from both sides, Li Lun had no choice but to lead the people to retreat north, but he did not expect that Li Yi deliberately ordered Qin Gang to detour hundreds of miles from the northeast and turn here, cutting off Li Lun's retreat.

In this battle, the main general Li Lun was killed, 30,000 cavalry suffered heavy casualties, less than 5,000 people fled back to Huaiyin, and more than 60,000 war horses were robbed by the rebels. Speaking of this, Zhou Kang became more and more distressed!

"What's the matter? Have you ever thought about Huo Qu's addiction?" Xu Chen laughed, and he was naturally clear about the fourth child's careful thoughts.

"Don't you want to lead tens of thousands of cavalry across thousands of miles of generals these days?" Zhou Kang replied as a matter of course.

Xu Chen shook his head helplessly, the Tang cavalry is invincible in the world, and the longing of horses stepping on mountains and rivers flows in the blood of every Tang teenager. It's just that this kind of longing is not too tempting for Xu Chen, an outlier.

"Okay, go back and let Zheng Tai run back to eat a big meal, and bring you some big food horses, so that you don't have to worry about it every day. You must know that the big horse is much better than the horse of the Tang Dynasty!" Xu Chen scolded angrily when he saw that the fourth child was still there.

"Zheng Tai comes back this time, I don't know when he will go to sea again next time! I have to wait for him to bring the horse back, this rebellion will be over long ago!" As a trainer of the teenagers, Zhou Kangke has a more intuitive understanding of the problem of lack of manpower, and he knows that after Zheng Tai comes back this time, he is afraid that he will not be able to go to the sea for a while.

"By the way, in fact, there is a way!" Zhou Kang suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and hurriedly said: "According to the analysis of the eldest brother, plus the news from Huaqing, the rebels in the north are just delaying time, since their real purpose is to pass through the Fujian and Zhejiang regions, then they will definitely not be able to develop large-scale cavalry, the captured war horses this time are a burden to them, and it is difficult to retreat at that time, so can we let Huaqing help buy some war horses from the rebels?" In this way, they will have less trouble and more money and food, and they will all be happy!"

Looking at Zhou Kang's unusually excited appearance, Xu Chen stared at him and said, "If you let the teacher hear this, it will break your legs!"

Zhou Kang replied with a smile: "Big brother's leg is afraid that it will break first!"

"Who kind of people did I teach!" Xu Chen sighed.

"Hehe!" Zhou Kang smirked.

"Okay, okay, let's wait until we get rid of the swarm of flies outside the city!" Xu Chen waved his hand and said.

"Hmm!" Speaking of the guys outside the city, Zhou Kang also became serious again. Wan An had already arrived in Shengzhou, and Zhou Kang could guess more or less about his intentions, plus he was in charge of the city defense of Shengzhou City these days, and he knew exactly what people were coming to the city, so he opened his mouth and reported: "Like outside the city, there have been many people in Shengzhou City in the past few days, and they should be those masters of the Grandmaster Realm that Wan An said!"

"Where are they?" asked Xu Chen.

"There are a lot of people who come, there are more than 20 of them, but the ingredients are very complicated, they enter the city one by one, and after entering the city, they scatter in all directions, and they don't meet other people, these guys have high kung fu, and they are bent on hiding, and it is difficult to find them!" Zhou Kang replied.

After hearing this, Xu Chen's brows couldn't help frowning.

"Big brother, the guys outside the city have now gathered together, in addition to the eight who have already met, there are still twelve left, once these people gather together, the combat power is not comparable to the two in a group at the beginning! I think those guys from the Grandmaster Realm must have also seen people get together, and it is difficult to start with a large number of people, but they are not willing to leave like this, so they will hide in the city and wait for news. If we want to rely on these Grandmaster Realm guys to fight the enemy, I'm afraid it will be very difficult!" Zhou Kang said.

Xu Chen nodded lightly, was silent for a while, and asked, "Where did Yang Xun, who attacked the city a few days ago, go?

Zhou Kang didn't understand why the eldest brother suddenly led the topic to Yang Xun again, but he still replied quickly: "No! Yang Xun suddenly withdrew from the army yesterday and is now stationed in Jiangpu in the north of the river. ”

"Oh......" Xu Chen listened and nodded slightly.

Although the 30,000 cavalry is gone, the remaining 70,000 soldiers and horses that the imperial court ordered are still rushing towards Huaiyin County. Although Li Lun is now dead in battle, presumably the imperial court will soon send another general over, and this time the military generals should not succeed again, and it must be a battle-hardened general. Xu Chen said to himself.

Zhou Kang was a little puzzled when he heard this, so he had to ask, "Are these helpful for us to unify this group of Grandmaster Realm masters?"

Now there are more than 20 Grandmaster Realm masters who have come to Shengzhou City, and it seems that the number is already very large, after all, according to Lu Zhi, there are only 100 people in the whole world, and this is not counting the news that they are rushing to Shengzhou.

However, there were as many as twelve cultivators outside the city, and according to the previous practice on the rivers and lakes, if you want to kill a group of two-person cultivators, you need at least four or five grandmasters with tacit cooperation to join forces to have a glimmer of hope.

But now the more than 20 masters of the Grandmaster Realm who rushed to Shengzhou are not subordinate to each other, and even have a lot of contradictions with each other, and now they are only afraid of the cultivators who are peeping outside the city, so they have not picked up the contradictions between them, but it is impossible to let them unite to resist the enemy!

Xijing was changed to Zhongjing, and Shu County was changed to Chengdu Prefecture. The bureaucrats of Fengxiang Mansion are also known as Sanjing. His Li Xin, Lu Yi, Yan Gaoqing, Yuan Luqian, Xu Yuan, Zhang Xun, Zhang Jieran, Jiang Qing, Pang Jian, etc., immediately posthumously presented them, visited their children and grandchildren, and favored their officials. The third grade of civil and military has been given a first grade, and the fourth grade has been added to one order. Five days. The king of Nanyang is the king of Zhao, the king of Xincheng is only the king of Peng, and the king of Yingchuan is the king of Yan.