On the afternoon of October 23, Zhao Yu and Yang Ding led their pursuers to Beiwuyang.

North Wuyang, located in the north of Dingling, including Dingling and North Wuyang at that time, all belonged to the boundary of Wuyang, and later divided into three pieces, from south to north, that is, Wuyang, Dingling and North Wuyang.

Compared with Wuyang and Dingling, Beiwuyang can not talk about prosperity, initially there was only one ferry near the Shahe River, called Beiwuyangdu, and then slowly developed into a small county, but in terms of scale, compared with Kunyang, it is still a little worse.

After the Changsha Yishi led by Guan Shuo occupied Zhaoling, some nearby small counties were successively occupied by his Changsha Yishi.

However, a few days ago, Wang Yan and Wei Chi received news from Yang Ding, and learned that the rebel army led by Guan Shuo was trying to withdraw from Kunyang to Zhaoling, so they led the army from Dingling to Beiwuyang and occupied this small county as a place for the army.

Immediately afterwards, Wang Yan and Wei Chi used Wuyang in the north as a stronghold and set up defenses in the area of Jiahu and Nihe in the south, trying to intercept the rebels there.

Although Jiahu has the word lake, there are also hills next to the lake, although the time is in a hurry, Wang Yan and Wei Chi did not have time to establish a camp in the mountains, but considering that the terrain in this area is narrow because of the relationship between the mud river, Wang Yan and Wei Chi finally decided to set up heavy guards on the south side of a hill in Jiahu and the north side of the mud river, on the road that the rebels must pass to withdraw to Zhaoling.

Unexpectedly, Jiangxia Yishi Qu Shuai Chen Miao guessed from Zhou Hu and Yang Ding's relentless pursuit that there must be 'Yexian blocking troops' ahead, and Zhu Yuan, Huang Kang, and Liu De, who took the lead in retreating in advance, launched a search, so the blocking troops led by Wang Yan and Wei Chi were found by Zhu Yan and others.

The so-called intercepted army needs to cooperate with the main army, just like the cooperation of Zhao Yu and Yang Ding when they broke the second army of Zhai Shang and Tian Xu before, one stepped forward in advance to contain it, and the other quickly broke through in the rear.

The army led by Wang Yan and Wei Chi was forced to face this problem: when the main pursuers led by Zhao Yu and Yang Ding had not yet arrived in this area, Zhu Yu and others, who had retreated one step forward, launched a fierce attack on the army led by Wang Yan and Wei Chi, trying to fight their way out.

Although Wang Yan and Wei Chi fought desperately with the Nanyang soldiers and Yexian county soldiers led by them, they had to give up holding on because of the gap in strength between the two sides.

Wang Yan and Wei Chi, who were responsible for interception, were retreated, and the rebels naturally passed through this long and narrow section smoothly, which means that Zhao Yu and Yang Ding have no chance to continue the rebels - not that they really can't, but that they are not worth it.

After all, Zhao Yu and Yang Ding have been chasing for three days, and they have chased a full sixty miles, don't look at the three days of chasing sixty miles seems to be nothing, but take into account the current weather.

You must know that on October 22, that is, yesterday night, it had already begun to snow, although it was not yet a goose feather snow, but considering that his soldiers did not carry quilts and winter clothes, Zhao Yu was already thinking about retreating at that time.

After all, if they don't retreat, their 'four-county coalition army' will freeze to death on this snowy land if they don't do it.

However, Wang Yan and Wei Chi had not yet been defeated at that time, so Yang Ding opposed the immediate withdrawal of troops.

In this regard, Zhao Yu privately said to Chen Mo, Wang Qing, Ju Sheng and other generals: "This Yang Ding is really on paper. The army of our four counties braved the wind and snow to pursue the rebels, and the rebels on the opposite side would definitely guess that there must be a blocker in front of us, so they would continue to pursue...... Although Guan Shuo is arrogant, he is not an ignorant person, and besides, there is that Chen Miao, how could he not think of this? As long as he repels the blocking troops of Wang Yan and Wei Chi in advance, then we can only run in vain. ”

Wang Qing shrugged his shoulders and said, "What's the harm in trying? …… Anyway, the group of cubs at the bottom are very morale. ”

Indeed, in terms of the morale of the soldiers, among the four county coalition forces, the black tiger thieves and county soldiers belonging to the Kunyang side had the strongest morale, and the pursuit was more vigorous, for a very simple reason, because Zhao Yu promised them that every captive they captured could get twice as much merit - that is, killing one person would get three points of merit, and capturing one captive would be six points of merit.

Six points of merit is equivalent to sixty dollars, and when they captured the Green Forest thieves yesterday, three or five Kunyang County soldiers were able to catch ten times as many prisoners as them, so you can know how strong the desire of these people is to continue the pursuit.

In the end, Zhao Yu still agreed to pursue for another day to see if he could successfully form a front and rear encirclement of the rebels with the Yexian blocking army led by Wang Yan and Wei Chi.

Sure enough, Yang Ding's strategy of 'encircling the rebels' that could only exist on paper ultimately failed.

In this regard, Yang Ding secretly hated, but Zhao Yu didn't care, anyway, he had already earned enough this trip, after all, he Kunyang had captured at least 10,000 prisoners in this pursuit battle, although it was still not enough to make up for the casualties in his Kunyang County in this war, but at least there were enough strong men in construction and spring ploughing.

What's more, if he can negotiate terms with Yang Ding, the thousands of captives captured by the Ye County army will not be able to be delivered to him Kunyang - Zhao Yu has already thought about how to negotiate terms with Yang Ding on the way.

Near the time of Shen, Wang Yan and Wei Chi led the defeated army to join Yang Ding, and told the latter about the process of defeat.

A moment later, when Zhao Yu was standing beside Jiahu Lake and looking around at the surrounding snow-covered hills, Yang Ding walked to Zhao Yu's side and said with a regretful face: "You guessed it, the rebels realized the ...... of Wang Yan and Wei Chi's resistance."

"Huh."

Zhao Yu shook his head with a smile.

He wasn't proud, after all, what he said yesterday was not clever, even Chen Mo, Ju Sheng and others could guess a few points, not to mention the 'prodigy' around him?

But Yang Ding still insisted on trying, which shows that this person is eager for quick success and quick success, and is happy - considering that Yang Ding has been in Handan before, this is the first time that he has been sent abroad as a county commander, Zhao Yu can somewhat understand Yang Ding's idea of 'wanting to make some achievements'.

『…… You're a young man just starting out.'"

Zhao Yu, who was actually eight years younger than Yang Ding, thought secretly.

"What are you laughing at?"

Hearing that chuckle, Yang Ding's face was a little unbearable.

The bandit leader in front of him made a 'paper talk' evaluation of him a few days ago, and he was quite concerned, even if he also understood that he was indeed inferior to this bandit leader in terms of using soldiers.

"Nothing."

Zhao Yu didn't bother to quarrel with Yang Ding, and said slowly: "Since your strategy of 'encircling the front and rear and catching them all' has failed, it is better to withdraw your troops quickly, and if you drag it out, even if you don't consider whether the rebels will fight back, this weather alone is not something that you and I can bear...... It is not surprising to me that many people will be caught in the cold when I go back this time, which is another trouble. ”

『……』

Although Yang Ding was a little dissatisfied with Zhao Yu's tone, because of his personal cultivation, he was still subjectively able to accept Zhao Yu's suggestion, and immediately nodded and said, "Then retreat." ”

It can be seen that although Yang Ding is a little like Zhao Yu said, he is eager for quick success and great success, but after all, he still knows how to advance and retreat, and will not force those things that cannot be done, such as continuing to pursue the rebels.

So, Zhao Yu and Yang Ding respectively ordered to lead the chasing soldiers of the four counties to return along the original road.

At this time, the army led by the two of them was much less than three days ago, at least half less, and most of them were Kunyang soldiers under Zhao Yu.

These missing soldiers were not all killed in battle, but returned to Kunyang with the prisoners first.

For example, almost all the brigade wolves who were wounded in the battle of Kunyang actually left the team as early as the evening of the first day of pursuit, escorting the captives who far outnumbered them to return to Kunyang, and the remaining brigade wolves also left the team one after another yesterday.

On Yang Ding's side, there were actually some similar soldiers who left the team and escorted the prisoners back to Ye County.

Originally, no one cared, but unexpectedly, on the way back from the withdrawal, Yang Ding received a news that a black tiger thief had robbed the prisoners escorted by the soldiers of Ye County.

Yang Ding was not happy at that time.

You must know that in this pursuit of the rebels, the army of Ye County at least exerted six or seven points of strength, and the army of Kunyang, Runan, and Xiangcheng counties only accounted for three points at best, can it be said that the army of the three counties is not as good as the chasing soldiers of Ye County?

Of course not!

Although nearly half of Yexian's pursuers are Nanyang soldiers, don't forget that the Black Tiger Thieves and Kunyang County Army, who have experienced the Battle of Kunyang, are now not inferior to Nanyang soldiers in strength and equipment, how can they only give three points of strength?

The reason is that because of the private instructions of a certain bandit leader, the pursuers of Kunyang, Runan, and Xiangcheng counties were busy catching prisoners, so Kunyang was able to capture three times the number of prisoners captured by the Yexian army.

The gang is busy taking prisoners, who cares to continue chasing the rebels?

Yang Ding saw this matter in his eyes a few days ago, but at that time, he wanted to completely solve the threat of Ye County, and he asked Zhao Yu, so it was naturally not good to turn his face with the latter, but now, it's time to settle the new accounts and the old accounts - you can't always suffer losses, right?

Riding side by side with Zhao Yu, Yang Ding said the question of the captive, and then asked Zhao Yu: "...... Leader Zhou, what do you think? ”

At this time, Zhao Yu had not received the relevant news, but he did not disbelieve what Yang Ding said, after all, he had a large group of restless guys under him, who dared to guarantee that these people would really not rob the prisoners captured by the Ye County army?

A few captives, in fact, it is not a big deal, Zhao Yu is only worried that Yang Ding will use the topic to play, after all, he also knows that Yang Ding has been on fire for the past two days.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Yu said with a smile: "It should be a misunderstanding." …… For example, the prisoner captured by your sergeant wanted to escape, but was caught by our sergeant halfway, so there was a misunderstanding between the two sides, but Yang County Order, please rest assured, I, Zhou Hu, have always been true to my word, it should not be mine, I will not take it lightly; But if it's mine, then I'll have to get it! ”

Yang Ding frowned slightly, and then deliberately asked, "By the way, does Leader Zhou have so much grain to feed such a huge number of captives?" ”

Zhao Yu sneered secretly, and said quietly: "Thank you Yang County for your concern, if there is not enough food at that time, Zhou will borrow grain from your county at ......that time."

Yang Dingqi was happy, and said angrily: "I'm afraid Ye County won't be able to help ......"

"Don't say that." Zhao Yu said with a smile: "Kunyang and Yexian are neighbors after all, and they are each other's lips and teeth, and Zhou thought that they still had to help each other......"

"......" Yang Ding's complexion changed slightly.

After a while, he said coldly: "Leader Zhou's 'cunning' is really practical. …… Admire under it. ”

"Where, somebody has to buy it, what does Yang County Ling think?"

"Huh."

"Huh."

The two who rode side by side glanced at each other with tacit understanding.

『…… Sooner or later, this guy will have to be dealt with!'

The two thought in unison.