Dian Wei panted and said, "Lord! I arrived in Chang'an yesterday evening, and was about to try to break through, when there was a sudden chaos in Chang'an City, and later I heard that the defenders of the north gate were mainly the Xiliang army, and they colluded with the rebels to surrender! Chang'an has been lost! I hurried back to report the news—

Now the enemy division opposite us should not know that Chang'an has been captured by them. At most, they will know in half a day, and after a day, the main forces of the enemy may move to our side and attack our army with all their might! ”

Liu Bei was like a thunderbolt from the sky: "What? That's Chang'an! Chang'an City didn't hold it for half a month? That's impossible! Damn the mole! ”

Fa Zheng hurriedly stopped Liu Bei, who was so angry that he kicked the firewood: "Now is not the time for the lord to be angry, since this is the case, let's withdraw the troops immediately!" Now the enemy army on the opposite side can't beat us, but if the Chang'an besieging army comes, we will be finished! ”

Liu Bei was also single, and immediately decided: "Withdraw!" Dian Wei, you hurry up and rest and sleep for a while, let the soldiers prepare a little and pack up the meal, and then retreat after half an hour, the camp flags are gone, and pretend that we are still there.

In addition, when the army is withdrawn, it will be kept until noon. If the enemy surveillance troops on the other side of Luogushui cross the river in pursuit, they will turn around and fight for a while. And then retreat at full speed - these surveillance troops are not many in number, and they should still be able to fight. Just don't run into the main enemy forces. ”

Liu Bei knew that it was not bad for half an hour, and the key was to go quietly. And now is the ugly time, it is easy to trip and fall and trample on the night road along the slopes of the Qinling Mountains, it is better to march again at the beginning of the time, so that the sky will be slightly bright after walking for another hour.

Fa Zheng and Xu Huang immediately went to execute, while Dian Wei went to take a nap for half an hour first, and then changed a horse for him. The horse on the way to Dian Wei's breakthrough was almost dead, and Liu Bei knew that the horse would not be able to keep up with the withdrawal of the army, so he released it into the Qinling Mountains to fend for itself.

At the beginning of Yinshi, Liu Bei retreated lightly with more than 2,000 people (3,000 people when he came, and he lost several hundred in a few small encounters)

All the tents and flags were left in place, and even the military rations were gone, but each soldier tied a few cooked rice balls to his belt, ate two meals on the way, and asked him to run back to the Wuzhangyuan camp in Wugongshui that night and go to Wuzhangyuan for dinner.

The troops walked in the dark for two hours, and after walking thirty miles, the sky was already completely bright. Liu Bei estimated that the enemy surveillance troops on the other side of Luogushui should have also discovered that his camp tent might be empty, and would tentatively touch it to check it.

And by noon at the latest, the surveillance troops will definitely be notified that Chang'an has been taken, so there will definitely be a wave of pursuit around noon at the latest.

Liu Bei calculated the time, and when the march arrived, he felt that the soldiers must be tired, after all, most of them were infantry, so let everyone sit down and rest for half an hour, eat some rice balls and drink some water, but be careful not to sit on the flat ground by the Wei River, be sure to go up the Qinling Mountain slope in the south, and find a place with trees to hide.

The first break was a bit overly cautious and did not encounter enemy pursuit. Liu Bei's heart was shocked, and he didn't wait for three minutes, so he hurriedly asked the soldiers to stop resting and continue to retreat.

After resting and walking for more than half an hour, at about the end of noon, the broken scout cavalry rushed up, saying that sure enough, the surveillance troops on the east bank of Luogushui had caught up.

Liu Bei broke out in a cold sweat slightly, and after thinking for a few seconds, he ordered: "Divide 1,500 people and go up the mountain immediately!" Hide in the woods of the Qinling Mountains! All bows and crossbows on guard! Gongming, you take a thousand people, pretend to continue to run along Weinan, and when I stop and kill from the mountainside, you must also turn around and fight to the death! ”

Xu Huang raised the axe and promised: "Obey!" ”

In less than a quarter of an hour, the pursuers came, and there were hundreds of Xiliang light cavalry disconnected from the rear team, and thousands of people could be seen in the ten miles behind, like a long snake formation, and the journey was rolling arrogantly, without taking into account the fact that the formation was too long and disjointed during the pursuit.

Liu Bei pinched his sweat, fortunately he didn't run frantically regardless of his physical strength, otherwise if the whole army ran out of breath and ran out of strength, he would be charged by hundreds of Xiliang light cavalry pioneers, and his 2,500 or 600 people would probably be wiped out.

The Xiliang cavalry was really excited when they saw Xu Huang, and rushed up with a strange scream, and after about three or four hundred people rushed through, and when there were still two or three hundred people left behind, Liu Bei suddenly came out of the woods on the slope of the Qinling Mountains on the south side, and cut the Xiliang light cavalry of five or six hundred people into two sections.

Xu Huang also governed the army quite strictly, and actually made the Tuntian soldiers strictly disciplined, although the martial arts were not good, but he immediately turned around and killed when he heard the order.

The Han army also shouted at the same time: "The conquest of the general Yanren Zhang Fei is in the second!" The dog thief has been tricked! ”

"General Fubo Changshan Zhao Zilong is here! Who will dare to fight! ”

"The army of the king of Hanzhong has been waiting for a long time!"

The first to chase and kill was a Qu military marquis of the Xiliang Army, named Hu Che'er, his five or six hundred cavalry could kill two thousand five Tuntian soldiers if they really competed in force, but he rushed all the way to more than 60 miles without hearing a breath and did not rest, plus he didn't know the reality of the Han army, and after being cut off by the waist, he thought that there were really tens of thousands of Han troops, and he was in chaos.

Actually, some timid Xiliang cavalry rode their horses directly into the Wei River, trying to prevent being surrounded, and after rushing into the depths, the war horses threw people down uncontrollably, and they also continued to swim to Weibei.

Hu Che'er tried to restrain the defeated soldiers, but was targeted by Dian Wei beside Liu Bei, wielding a double iron halberd and slashing forward, fighting dozens of times, and cutting the panicked Hu Che'er under the horse.

As soon as Hu Che'er died, the vanguard of the chasing army became more and more chaotic, and after a while, Liu Bei actually succeeded in repelling the first wave of pursuit, and then continued to retreat.

He still had more than fifty miles left from the Wuzhangyuan camp. But because of the physical exertion, the troops also moved slower and slower, and there was a disconnect.

And this time, Liu Bei knew that it was impossible to set up an ambush to stop the pursuers, so he didn't care about the formation and only asked to run as soon as possible - the second time someone caught up, it would definitely not be such a little surveillance troops, but a large army reinforced by the main force of the rebels, and no matter how they fought, they would die.

……

Two hours after the encounter, in the evening,

The troops monitoring Liu Bei were unable to shorten the distance because of the stunned battle in the afternoon, which reduced the speed of pursuit and also paid attention to the formation.

At the beginning of the Shen period, the main force of the rebels in the direction of Chang'an finally paid attention to Liu Bei's existence, so they sent reinforcements.

Li Dao Guo Yan still had to stay in Chang'an and coerce the emperor to solve the reward problem, so it was impossible for him to come. They sent another lieutenant-level coercion to Zhang Ji, the general of the Xiliang Army, and asked Zhang Ji to be hunted down for meritorious service.

However, he was afraid that Zhang Ji would not work hard, so Li Ji also sent a prison army to Zhang Ji, which was Jia Xu.

Before and after Jia Xu arrived at the army, he first found the junior general of the failed surveillance force to inquire about the situation. It turned out that the person in charge of monitoring Liu Bei was a young general, who was Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu, who was only a crown now, and he lacked military experience in commanding wars.

Zhang Xiu pleaded guilty to Jia Xu and said: "It's all my fault for underestimating the enemy, thinking that Liu Bei fled in a cowardly battle, and chased too quickly, when the troops stretched ten miles along Weinan, so that they couldn't take care of each other, and the rear army was not able to rescue when the vanguard was cut off from the waist." Therefore, I changed to form a whole formation and chase slowly, and beware of ambushes in the dense forests of the Qinling Mountains in the south. ”

When Jia Xu heard this, he patted his thigh and sighed: "The young general is mistaken!" Liu Bei fought in the south and north for eight years, didn't he know the soldiers? You are close to him, almost close to him, and he knows that he will not be able to escape from your pursuit, so he remembers to fortify it all the time after the crack is broken.

But since he repelled you once, he knew that the next time he would come again would definitely be the main force of General Li Guoer, and he would not be able to resist it no matter what, if I were Liu Bei, at this time, I would ride a fast horse lightly, or even abandon the army and flee, where can I still take care of the vigilance!

If you catch up early, you'll win! Not to mention that Liu Bei can be captured, but at least it can annihilate the enemy's infantry! I didn't have time to explain, so I immediately pursued with all my strength regardless of the formation! Run as fast as you can! ”

Even Zhang Ji, who was next to him, felt quite ashamed when he heard this, and immediately asked his nephew to take everyone to chase after him regardless of the formation.

The size of the troops this time is almost equivalent to most of the Xiliang soldiers under Lu Bu when he was a Zhonglang general, with more than 20,000 people. Even if they didn't all arrive, and they all ran out of breath, they were much stronger than Liu Bei. And there are thousands of cavalry among them, and the cavalry is more than Liu Bei's infantry.

Zhang Xiu was ashamed and brave, and personally asked to take 5,000 cavalry under Zhang Ji as the vanguard to hunt down Liu Bei.

……

"Lord, there is the Xiliang Army chasing after you! There are a lot of cavalry alone this time! ”

When there were still twenty or thirty miles away from Wuzhang Plain, the bad news came from behind again, and several scouts were covered in arrows and blood, obviously injured by cavalry shooting.

"It's over! It's all cavalry, I'm afraid I won't be able to bring these infantry back to Wuzhangyuan! Liu Bei sighed for a few seconds, but he was still very decisive, and let Fazheng Xu Huang Dianwei, plus a total of three or four hundred people with horses, all give up the infantry and gallop wildly-

In fact, when he came out of the valley, Liu Bei didn't have as many war horses as three or four hundred, and a small half of them were the horses left by the soldiers of Hu Che'er who were caught off guard and jumped off the Wei River to escape when they intercepted Hu Che'er just now, and they were confiscated by Liu Bei.

However, the infantry of nearly 2,000 people could not be led without soldiers, and at the critical moment, Wu Lan, who was originally following his brother to recruit the northern army of the Beijing Division, came out of the crowd: "Lord! My father was able to wash away his grievances by the lord and not be implicated in Liu Yan's rebellion case, and the last general was willing to lead the infantry army to fight after the lord was broken! ”

Liu Bei burst into tears, and was ruthless: "You can delay a little, and surrender after being exposed." I don't think the rebels will kill prisoners. In the future, after the rebellion is quelled, you will return to our army, and you will say that you surrendered on my orders, and I will still give you a title. ”

After saying that, Liu Bei turned his horse and fled with other people with horses.

A few minutes later, Zhang Xiu led several thousand cavalry and collided with Wu Lan's 2,000 infantry who were blocking the Weinan River Valley.

Taking advantage of the last afterglow of dusk, Zhang Xiu's eyes were not bad, and when he saw Liu Bei Daxu in Wulan's array, he hurriedly pointed with a horsewhip and said to Jia Xu next to him: "Liu Bei's Chinese army banner is still there!" This day taught me to do this! ”

Jia Xu squinted his eyes, although it was impossible to see the faces of people hundreds of steps away from the opposite side in the afterglow of dusk, and he could only see the banner clearly, but his intuition told Jia Xu that it was not so simple: why didn't the enemy see the horses? Although Liu Beijun's main force is infantry, he can't ride a horse when he comes over the plank road, but the generals don't have horses?

But he couldn't bear to hit Zhang Xiu, so he kept silent and waited for the result.

Zhang Xiu immediately launched a charge, and in a short time he killed hundreds of Tuntian soldiers who were camping on the road, and Wu Lan's army was completely crushed after half an hour. At least seven or eight hundred Tuntian soldiers immediately surrendered on their knees and were captured because of their lack of will to fight, and the strength of resistance became weaker and weaker.

The whole resistance and delay lasted only a quarter of an hour, and when Zhang Xiu's spear danced wildly through Liu Bei's banner array, he realized that it was not Liu Bei at all.

"Dog thief! Dare to falsely call Liu Bei! That's it, I don't have time to settle accounts with you now, surrender and lead the way to spare you from dying! ”

Wu Lan had already fallen to the ground injured, and spitted: "Qiang dog!" What a Han general! ”

He was killed in battle.

Later generations have poems to praise and say: Chang'an rescued the big soldiers, and Jia Xu won after chasing the enemy and defeating. To death, he still scolded the Qiang dog, Wu Lan was worthy of the Han general.

"Keep chasing!" After destroying Liu Bei's infantry, Zhang Xiu ordered angrily.