Qin Zhao turned his head, and under the gradually brighter skylight, Tongguan was magnificent and mighty, and for a while, he couldn't help but cry like rain. This time, I don't know when I will be able to call back.

A team of Yuan Cong guards drove past him, and he also involuntarily looked back, and the heavy atmosphere spread in everyone's hearts.

"General, we'll be able to fight back soon." The deputy general, Niu Qianjin, reined in Qin Zhao's side, and said word by word. "It's going to be soon!"

"Yes, we'll be able to call back soon." Being reminded by Niu Qianjin, Qin Zhao suddenly came to his senses, if he showed weakness at this time, he was afraid that it would make the soldiers even more frightened.

"Let's go to the Northland, see the scenery of the Northland, and then come back with a high spirit." Qin Zhao waved the iron shovel in his hand and galloped forward.

As Qin Zhao led his troops to the north, the fact that the emperor was not in Chang'an could no longer be concealed, and Cao Huan, the commander of the Xuanwu vanguard army who was entering Tongguan, reported to Luoyang Zhu Wen as soon as possible, and at the same time also sent a cavalry team to chase after Qin Zhao.

A day later, Qin Zhao stopped, and the scouts behind him brought the news that the enemy cavalry was chasing.

"How many?"

"About three to four thousand people, it is Cao Huan's Tianping Army. The general who led the team should be Yi Hong, the general of the Tianping Army. The scout said.

Qin Zhao pondered for a moment and looked at the generals around him: "It looks like we have to fight." Although we can get rid of them, if they keep chasing them, we will bring them to His Majesty's body, making it more difficult for His Majesty to break through. them off, and then go to Your Majesty. ”

The generals led by Niu Qianjin all nodded yes.

"They thought we were going to run for our lives, and we were going to turn around and hit them by surprise." Qin Zhao took a deep breath: "Order the whole army, rest for half a day today, and then the whole army will turn around and shoot a horse pistol well." ”

Yi Hong, the general of the Tianping Army, was as Qin Zhao imagined, and he was defenseless against the sudden return of this Praetorian Guard. After two days of chasing the fleeing imperial army, the distance between the two sides had been reduced to a day's distance. After Qin Zhao gave up for half a day, the distance between the two sides was reduced again.

Qin Zhao, who hid himself, succeeded in deceiving Yi Hong's scouts, he disguised himself as a large army with hundreds of cavalry and continued to move forward, and hid the large army in the mountains.

The cavalry of the Tianping Army, who had been running wildly for a day, were sleepy, because the news brought back by the scouts was that Qin Zhao's headquarters was still running in the direction of Weizhou, so they basically had no defense. When more than 2,000 yuan rushed into their camp from the guards, most of these cavalrymen did not have their saddles attached to their horses.

A hearty victory, the pursuit of nearly 4,000 Tianping army cavalry defeated, was killed on the spot more than 1,000 people, the rest either surrendered, or rode bareback war horses and fled in embarrassment, only Yi Hong with hundreds of cavalry was able to escape.

After the victory, Qin Zhao did not kill all the captives, but just tied them up and threw them on the side of the road, and then took away their horses and supplies and left them to fend for themselves.

Qin Zhao, who won this blocking battle, was in a good mood, and at this time, the news from Le'an made him even more excited, Qianniuwei not only won a complete victory in Le'an, but also killed Xuanwu general Zhu Youwen on the battlefield in one fell swoop.

It's just that for them, the road is still not easy. Xuanwu's emergency messenger is transmitting the order to attack Qianniuwei to all the subordinates in the Zhaoyi Xuanwu control area, and the general mobilization has begun in the entire Xuanwu actual control area, large and small towns have been completely martial law, soldiers and horses are rapidly concentrating, Zhu Youwen's death made the Xuanwu generals wake up at the same time, but also made them more vigilant, which caused a great problem for Qin Zhao.

The road is not walkable. Even though they are cavalry with strong mobility, they can eat them when they encounter a small group of troops, and they can avoid them when they encounter a large group of men and horses, but the complex geographical environment and poor traffic conditions still make their speed inevitably reduced.

At this time, behind them, a main cavalry of Xuanwu led by Zhu Youzhen from Luoyang had gradually caught up.

Zhu Youzhen's mood was very bad.

Zhu Youwen's death in battle was simply unbelievable news for him, and under the absolute superiority of troops, he couldn't imagine how Zhu Youwen was directly killed by the enemy.

Zhu Youwen's death has a very huge impact on the Zhaoyi region, at least, after Zhaoyi was captured and surrendered and reorganized, the Shence Army was extremely unstable.

Facing Yi Hong, who fled back in embarrassment, Zhu Youzhen didn't know what to say. However, Yi Hong was Cao Huan's subordinate, and he didn't want to blame him too much, but after soothing him, he sent Yi Hong directly to Weizhou to mobilize more troops to advance in the direction of Luzhou.

Since Qianniuwei has broken Le'an, there is only one line of defense left in Luzhou in front of them. And Luzhou is still facing the threat of the Hedong Army and the Wuwei Army on the Xingzhou side at this moment, even if you think with your ass, you can also know that at this moment, these two armies will inevitably launch a fierce attack on Luzhou to contain the Luzhou army, so that this Qianniuwei can break through smoothly.

In other words, around Luzhou, there will be a big war.

Tian Yue has more than 30,000 Wei Bo elites in Luzhou, this is the inheritance left to him by Tian Chenghe, plus the subordinates of the Zhaoyi Xue brothers, more than 60,000 troops sounds like a lot, but thinking about their opponents being the Hedong Army and the Wuwei Army, Zhu Youzhen still can't rest assured. Gather all the troops he can mobilize and fight a decisive battle with his opponent in Luzhou.

It doesn't matter if you win or not, the most important thing is that killing Li Yan on the battlefield is the most important, as long as this goal is achieved, it doesn't matter if the battle is lost.

Zhu Youzhen led his troops to the Zhaoyi area quickly, so that the panic caused by Zhu Youwen's death in Zhaoyi was calmed, and all kinds of soldiers and horses began to march towards Luzhou in a steady stream, gradually forming a huge encirclement, slowly squeezing inward.

And in Le'an, because of the nearly 5,000 Shence troops who had surrendered, Liu Ruyan's troops were delayed for three days.

As Emperor Li Yan expected, when he appeared in front of those Shence troops, these soldiers, who had no more energy, suddenly became excited, and the strong spirit Li Yan made an impassioned speech, promising countless rewards to the soldiers, and successfully restored this group of stragglers to their original appearance, I have to say that the emperor still has a strong appeal and influence in front of these soldiers.

The soldiers were excited to see the face of heaven, and happy to have a possible future official wish, which the emperor had promised them. The Emperor was glad to see that the soldiers still worshipped him as a god, and seemed to have recovered a lot from the illness that had lingered for many days, and after giving a speech, he summoned with great interest a number of officers of the Shence Army, which was nothing more than another wish. After receiving the swears of allegiance from these officers, the emperor had a great appetite and ate a large bowl of broth and brown rice.

Compared with the emperor, the excitement of Tian Lingzi and others, Liu Ruyan and Gongsun Changming are still worried, whether it is the news brought back by the scouts, or the news sent by some secret agents laid down earlier, it clearly shows that a big net is coming to them, Luzhou is not far from them, but Luzhou, which lies between them and Wuwei, is like a moat, relying on their strength, it is impossible to kill out, and now they can only hope that Wuwei and Hedong can break the deadlock, and before that, What they have to do is try to survive.

After a bloody battle, the 1,000 black armor elites have been reduced to more than 600 people, and they fought with Zhu Youwen, and many core members, including Jiao Er, were killed. Five thousand thousand Niu Wei casualties of hundreds of people, heavy casualties, facing the situation of being surrounded on all sides, making this army set foot on the battlefield for the first time, the military heart is a little unstable, if it is not for the strict military law of Wuwei, coupled with the preferential treatment all the time, what is the situation now, it is really difficult to predict.