Li Xian's sudden arrival caught Liu Fan a little off guard, and before he determined the purpose of his trip, Liu Fan still forced himself to suppress the tension in his heart.

As a lieutenant general, Li Xian has cavalry under his command to use, although dozens of cavalry soldiers are not much large-scale combat power, but in terms of mobility, it is far from comparable to foot soldiers.

Quickly came to Liu Fan's side, "Bo Chang, after I returned to the official office, I remembered that after the waist card was taken away by Na Du Yu, I was afraid that it would be difficult for you to get out of the city gate, so I hurriedly rushed over." ”

"What are you still doing! Hurry up and get out of the way, the three departments can also be delayed? Be careful that I cut off your heads! When the words fell, before Liu Fan could react, Li Xian had already scolded the captain of the city gate angrily.

The captain is an old man who follows Li Dao, so he naturally knows Li Xian, and when he heard the words, he snorted a few times, slapped the horse's ass on the horse's leg, and at that moment, he hurriedly beckoned his subordinates to get out of the way.

At this time, Liu Fan also reacted, and looked at Li Xian with a grateful face, he was really grateful this time, "General Li Zhonglang, thoughtful, it was Fan's negligence!" ”

"It doesn't have to be like this." Turning over and dismounting, Li Xian handed the reins to Liu Fan and said, "Now that there is turmoil outside the city, it is dangerous to pursue the thieves, if I don't have the duty to guard Your Majesty, how can I let you take risks." This horse is the famous horse I brought out from Xiliang, and I will send it to Bochang, and I will succeed in your horse! ”

Holding a gun and holding a fist with one hand, Liu Fan was excited, "Zhonglang will be high-minded, and Fan will live up to expectations!" ”

After that, Liu Fan took the reins of the horse, got on the horse, and then clenched his fists to Li Xian, and then led the soldiers to chase outside the city.

Standing in place with his hands in his hands, Li Xian looked at Liu Fan's figure gradually moving away, and muttered to himself: "I treat Bo Chang like this, Bo Chang should serve me to death!" After that, he looked at those neatly armored Lang Wei again, and couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "I never thought that Bo Chang would use such an elite for me. ”

At that moment, he was full of emotion, and after standing for a long time, Li Xian turned around and walked back slowly.

At this time, Liu Fan's people, who had broken away from Chang'an City, fell into silence as a whole. In the crowd, Liu Dan and Xu Huang glanced at each other silently, and they both saw a trace of helplessness in each other's eyes.

Yes, sometimes people's luck is so unpredictable.

The originally carefully calculated things were carried out smoothly at every step, but no one expected that something would go wrong at the last step, but just when everyone was in a dilemma, someone personally rushed to deliver charcoal in the snow and solve the urgent need.

After hesitating for a long time, Liu Dan, who was running forward with Liu Fan's side, couldn't help but say, "Actually, Li Xian is still very good!" ”

Nodding silently, Xu Huang didn't make a sound, but he also echoed silently.

Holding the reins of the horse with one hand, Liu Fan stared into the distance, and for a long time, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, "He is afraid of death, war may break out at any time outside the city, and he lost his waist card and had to find a way to get it back, so he will double down on me." ”

"Do you really think he's so kind?" You sneered, and Liu Fan said again: "If I die, there will really be no one to recover the waist card for him." ”

Glancing at each other again, Xu Huang and Liu Dan did not speak.

Speaking of which, the reason why his waist card was lost was not the credit of someone. Now he has regained the benefits of this lost waist card. I don't know if Li Xian will lose trust in this world after finally figuring out all these things.

"Brother, what are we going to do next, is it to find Du Yu and them to join together?" Restraining his mind a little, Liu Dan no longer said Li Xian, but focused on the next action.

Hearing this, Xu Huang also turned his head to look at Liu Fan, waiting for his instructions. Although their 500-strong Lang Guard army was elite everywhere, the key was that they didn't carry much military rations.

It was a feigned pursuit, and it was unrealistic to carry military rations, and because they carried armor, swords, and bows and crossbows, they couldn't carry much dry food at all, only enough for them to eat for three days.

In fact, according to the normal journey, they could actually rush to Baqiao to join Ma Teng's army in three days.

But Liu Fan didn't want to go to Ma Teng, first, the premise of their original contact with Ma Teng was to make an internal response in Chang'an City, and now out of the city, if they go to find Ma Teng again, they can only be reduced to a soldier and horse, which will not play much role. This is not what Liu Fan wants to see.

Second, in Liu Fan's calculations, after he used Ma Yu to manage Jia Xu together, it was impossible for him not to retaliate, and Jia Wenhe's tricks were not too clear to him, so at present, only guerrilla warfare is the most secure for their force.

"For the time being, I can't join Du Yu, I think it won't be long before there will be pursuers in Chang'an City, and the direction should be in the direction of Ma Teng Changpingguan. Therefore, we should avoid there at this time and withdraw directly to his rear position, Yixian. ”

His expression moved slightly, Liu Fan judged the exit, Xu Huang and Liu Dan were also surprised, they really didn't think that the Xiliang Army in Chang'an City would chase them out, and after Liu Fan's analysis, they realized that there was this possibility.

When Liu Fan and others analyzed the situation, in Chang'an City, the strategic deployment of Ma Teng's army outside the city was also launched.

Che Riding General's Mansion

At present, several powerful warlords in the Xiliang army are all in the hall, and the first Li Dao is sitting there. There is no way that he is the strongest among these people, after all, the old department of the Flying Bear Army, which Dong Zhuo was proud of back then, was commanded by him.

Therefore, in terms of the elite level of soldiers, in the entire Xiliang Army, Li Dao has the most right to speak. However, with the reoccupation of Chang'an by the Xiliang army, the generals are also constantly expanding their armies, and their strength has also improved.

Looking around at the generals of the Xiliang Army in the hall, Li Dao said in a deep voice: "Ma Shoucheng asked me for an official before, and I wanted to give it, but you don't agree, and now he is raising troops to attack, and I ask you to give a way." ”

When the words fell, a strong man below immediately buzzed and said: "With his ability alone, he wants to be General Zuo, and I, Fan Chou, am the first to disagree." ”

Fan Chou's words came out, and Guo Yan, who was sitting opposite him, glanced at him silently, and said in the same steady voice: "Ma Shoucheng can't even fight Han Wenyue in Xiliang, and he was just a powerful man who Xiangguo was ready to use back then, and he is not qualified to sit on an equal footing with us." ”

Nowadays, Guo Yan is the rear general, and Fan Chou is the right general. And Ma Teng was holding soldiers and horses at that time, but he didn't have the slightest credit for counterattacking Chang'an, so he wanted to seal General Zuo and Guo Yan and Fan Chou, but they didn't want to agree to anything.

"Right now, he Ma Shoucheng is dissatisfied with my reply and is raising troops to attack the city, how do you two think you should resist the enemy?" Seeing that the two were still dissatisfied with Ma Teng, Li Wei kept an eye on it, and in order to weaken the strength of the two, he was ready to hand over the matter of Ma Teng to them.

Hearing this, Fan Chou glanced at Li Dao, and then said in a humming voice: "I'll go, I'll go, I'm still afraid that a Ma Shoucheng won't make it!" ”

frowned slightly, but at this time, Guo Yan softened and said: "Ma Teng's troops are not weak, and he has joined forces with Han Sui, but with General Fan, I think I'm afraid it will be difficult to deal with, it is better for General Che Cai to lead us to fight with them, and we will fight to the death!" ”

Glancing at Guo Yan, Li Wei didn't respond, and looked at the scribe on the side after a moment, "What does Wen He think?" ”

When the words fell, the eyes of all the generals in the hall all looked at this middle-aged man who was thin but always half-squinted. If he hadn't persuaded Li Dao to gather the remnants of his army to counterattack Chang'an, maybe these people in the hall would have already been in a different place now.

Therefore, all the generals will seriously consider his words.

After pondering for a moment, Jia Xu slowly said steadily: "What General Hou said, although it is conducive to winning the war, it is not conducive to stabilizing Chang'an. ”

Looking around, Jia Xu said lightly: "You should know that in fact, the families in Chang'an City still have resistance to our Xiliang Army. ”

The eyebrows condensed slightly, Jia Xu spoke, and the three people who said it all frowned. Even when Dong Xiangguo was in power, he was still attacked by their alliance in the end, not to mention that they are now warlords who do not have much background.

They still know about their own catties.

"The wind and waves in Chang'an City are calm, where is there such a mystery as Wenhe said?" At that moment, Guo Yan chuckled and said to Jia Xu.

Looking at him with a smile, Jia Xu knew that he was not reconciled, so he told the steward of Ma Yu's mansion that he had collaborated with the enemy outside the city, and later Liu Fan and Du Yu defected out of the city.

As soon as the words fell, the faces of the three people in the hall finally became gloomy.

Guo Yan bowed his head and was silent, and for a long time, he did not say anything to question. Raising his head and glancing at Jia Xu with a complicated expression, he said to Li Wei: "Since Wen He has already said this, I will be cowardly if I don't fight again!" In this battle, I will lead the troops with Fan Chou, if we win, I hope that I will not hesitate to show my merits! ”

"That's natural, if the two of you win this battle, I will show my merits to the Son of Heaven!"

Looking at Li Wei with a smile on his face, Guo Yan was not as happy as him, but turned his head to look at Jia Xu, and said silently: "If we are defeated, please also ask Wen He to find out in time and inform Zhiran to send troops to help in time." You know, we are one! ”

Gently bowing his head, Jia Xu's expression was steady, "General rest assured!" ”

Seeing him nod his promise, Guo Yan's face looked a little better. It's not that he doesn't believe Li Dao, but he's really afraid that this guy will still have the idea of consuming their strength at that time, and sit on the city tower to watch the success or failure.

Of course, they also went to this battle with the determination to win.

The matter was decided, and Guo Yan and Fan Chou went back to prepare a little, and then they could set off to meet the enemy.

As for Li Wei, his face was relaxed at this time, and he looked at Jia Xu and asked with a little curiosity: "I don't know how Wen He dealt with Liu Fan and the others who escaped?" ”

With a slight chuckle, Jia Xu raised his hand and gently twisted his short beard under his chin, and said, "At this time, there should be a result!" ”

At the same time, outside Chang'an City, thirty miles away from Changpingguan

The two forces of soldiers and horses confronted each other, and the expressions of both sides were very solemn.

One of them was Liu Fan and others who had just escaped from Chang'an City, and Changpingguan was only fifty miles away from Chang'an City, which means that they drove out of Chang'an only twenty miles away, and they were caught up by the Xiliang army.

And in order to chase them this time, the Xiliang Army was also ruthless, and even sent nearly a thousand cavalry out.

This is also something that Liu Fan did not expect.

His gaze swept coldly over the faces of the generals of the Xiliang Army on the opposite side, and Liu Fan said in a deep voice, "General Li Zhonglang, I just want to return to Yizhou, and I don't want to die in the turmoil of this Chang'an War, can't this be let go?" ”

Silently holding the war knife in his hand, Li Meng looked at Liu Fan indifferently, "General Liu Zhonglang, it's not that I don't want you to live, but what you did made Wen He jealous, and he asked me to take you back!" ”

Li Meng, a native of Guzang County, Wuwei County, and Jia Xu's fellow townsman, originally joined Li Dao's counterattack on Chang'an with Fan Chou and Wang Fang, but because of his lack of meritorious service, he only won the position of general of the Fu army after the victory.

This time he was originally going to participate in the battle of Changpingguan, but before leaving, Jia Xu asked someone to send him a letter and ask him to come out to do something. He also specially told him to lead a thousand cavalry, and now seeing Liu Fan himself, Li Meng breathed a sigh of relief, this person did not look as fierce as he imagined.

At this time, Liu Fan, who was on the other side, heard Li Meng's words, and his face was completely cold. Jia Xu is still unwilling to let him go after all, and it is also said that strategists like Jia Xu like to compete with others the most.

Especially now that he is sitting firmly on the Shangshutai, he has suffered this loss in his own hands, and it is understandable that he wants to use his head to sacrifice the flag.

But unacceptable!

In fact, Liu Fan was also very helpless, he had already planned to go south before, avoid their war, and retreat to Yixian in a roundabout way. However, the world is unpredictable, he has not gone far, but Ma Yu and Chong Shao led Du Yu and them to find it by themselves.

It turned out that the three of them were combined, and the secret edict of the Son of Heaven was still in Liu Fan's hands, and if they wanted to have a status in Ma Teng's army, they had to hold the secret edict in hand to give orders to them, so they turned back to Liu Fan and his party.

So, as soon as the two parties merged again, and after the time was delayed for a while, they were directly chased by Li Meng's cavalry department.

"I have no enmity with Wen Hegong, and now Ma Teng is attacking, the victory or defeat of the general is unpredictable, my father is Yizhou Mu, if the general wants to take refuge in Xichuan in the future, I can also be recommended, now let me go, why rush to kill!" At the moment, Liu Fan made a strong statement and constantly brought out the gains and losses to persuade Li Meng.

And Li Meng couldn't help but fall into deep thought when he heard his words, everyone has to think about their lives in troubled times, and Jia Xu may not be able to help him for a lifetime.

His eyes swept back and forth on Liu Fan and the others, and after a while, Li Meng said coldly: "You can go, they must stay!" ”

"Liu Bochang! We are doing righteousness at the command of the Son of Heaven, how can we commit ourselves to the thief because we are dead? At that moment, Du Yu suddenly shouted loudly, and as he spoke, he turned his head to look at Liu Fan, and sneered, "I look down on the same Zhonglang general!" ”

After saying that, Du Yu directly raised his big knife and rushed towards Li Meng.

Only Liu Fanton was left stunned in place.