There are not many pedestrians on the streets of the county town, which seems a little deserted, almost half of the shops are closed, and several shops are in a mess, and there are still large blood stains on the ground.

At this time, a burst of crying suddenly broke out not far away, only to see a dozen soldiers in a shop carrying large bags of boxes and burdens running out, a middle-aged woman pulled the last soldier's burden and cried loudly, several soldiers were annoyed, rushed forward and held down the woman to punch and kick, a middle-aged man who looked like a shopkeeper knelt on the ground and begged, but a soldier kicked over.

Several of Guo Song's subordinates were furious and wanted to rush forward, but they were stopped by Guo Song and glared at them fiercely, "Are you crazy?" Now is the time to fight? ”

Several of his subordinates bowed their heads in shame, at this time, the shopkeeper and his wife were beaten to the point that their heads were bleeding, lying on the ground unable to move, more than a dozen soldiers carried their belongings and drove away, and neighbors came out one after another, helped the couple up, and denounced the banditry of the Huaixi army.

Guo Song continued to travel east, and when he walked near the east gate, he saw the military camp, which was stationed in a large open space, composed of hundreds of large tents, surrounded by a camp fence, and there were four soldiers standing guard at the door.

There is also a watchtower next to it, but the wooden ladder to the top seems to be damaged, and there are no sentinels on it.

Guo Song then walked to the back of the camp and looked, the back is close to the city wall, it seems to be a warehouse, which is full of all kinds of items, judging from the shape of the cages and baggage, it is basically all kinds of civilian property they looted, this garrison is not a light disaster in Linhuai County.

"Let's go!"

Guo Song took a few retinues directly out of the county seat from the East City Gate and returned to the army station.

.........

At the time of the third watch, 900 soldiers did not ride horses, followed Guo Song to the west city gate, Liang Wu led dozens of soldiers into the city, controlled the two gatekeepers, and then opened the city gate, Guo Song led 900 soldiers to quickly rush into the city gate, they did not stop, straight to the military camp in the east city.

There were two lanterns hanging at the gate of the barracks, and the four soldiers were leaning on the gate of the camp and fell asleep.

Guo Song took a bow and arrow, and gave Liang Wu a look, Liang Wu understood, and touched it with a few soldiers, at this time, Guo Song took out an arrow, pulled the string with a bow, and shot an arrow, the arrow was like lightning, 'Poof! Hit the sentry by the throat, and the sentry clutched his throat and fell on his back in the watchtower.

Liang Wu led several people to pounce, covering the soldiers' mouths, and before they could wake up, the sharp dagger cut their throats, they opened the camp gate, and Guo Song led nine hundred soldiers to kill them........

The battle ended in less than a quarter of an hour, most of the soldiers were killed in their sleep, and the few who were awakened were powerless to resist the wolf-like enemy, and they were instantly decapitated.

At this time, the soldiers escorted the three generals to Guo Song, the main general bowed his head and said nothing, the other two knelt on the ground, trembling, Guo Song said coldly: "As long as you summon the fleet on the other side, I will let him leave Linhuai County, only one has this opportunity, say it!" Who wants to get this opportunity? ”

"I say! I say! ”

One of the lieutenants crawled a few steps on his knees and pleaded, "I know how to summon the ship, but I beg to spare my life." ”

The lord general was furious and glared at the general, "Wang Jun, you want to betray the lord? ”

Guo Song made a look, the soldiers behind him raised their knives and fell, cutting off the head of the main general, and the bones rolled out a foot away, and the third general was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body, and shouted: "I also know how to summon a ship, the general spares my life!" ”

Guo Song ordered: "Take them down and ask them for confessions." ”

The soldier took the two of them down, and after a while, the soldier stepped forward and reported: "Both of them have the same statement, light three bonfires on the shore, and the fleet on the other side will come!" ”

Guo Song looked at the sky, and it was only four watches, and he immediately ordered: "Light three bonfires on the shore!" ”

The soldiers of the Tang Army immediately lit three bonfires on the shore, the flames soared into the sky, and the opposite bank was seen very clearly, and hundreds of soldiers stationed on the opposite bank found the bonfires and immediately urged the boatmen, and more than 100 large ships started one after another and sailed towards the opposite bank.

The two generals also explained a lot of details, including the command of the ship after it arrived at the shore, fifty of Guo Song's subordinates, standing on the west bank of the canal with torches in their hands, standing one person every twenty steps, which was to tell the fleet where the ships were stopped.

One by one, the big ships sailed into the canal, anchored near the west bank, and the leader stepped off the big boat, and asked in a loud voice, "Where is the lord?" ”

The general, named Wang Jun, stepped forward and said, "The lord is waiting in the city, let the soldiers get off the boat and gather, and the lord asks General Lu to go and report immediately." ”

He didn't dare to be the slightest abnormal, he knew that there were dozens of crossbows aimed at him in the dark, and if something happened, they would be shot immediately.

The general with the ship did not suspect it, he turned around and ordered: "The soldiers get off the boat and gather!" ”

He himself walked quickly into the city, and as soon as he entered the city, he was ambushed on both sides and slashed the general to death.

At the same time, hundreds of cavalry killed like a whirlwind, and the hundreds of Huaixi soldiers who were gathering were instantly surrounded by cavalry, and the cavalry was ruthlessly killed, and the Huaixi soldiers almost did not bring weapons, and they could not resist, and they were all killed by hundreds of cavalry in just a moment.

The soldiers of the Don army rushed to the big boat, drove all the boatmen off the big boat, they put more than a hundred ferries together, piled with hay and sulfur, sprinkled with lamp oil, and the cavalry rushed with torches in hand, and they threw the torches on the boats, and the fleet of boats for several miles began to catch fire, and the fire grew bigger and bigger, and in a short time, more than a hundred ferries were completely engulfed in the raging flames.........

Li Zhongchen's army plundered a large amount of property and women in Chenliu County, and returned with a full load, but it also brought greater side effects, it seriously slowed down the Huaixi army's march, marching less than 50 miles a day, and when Guo Song burned the boats on the Huai River, the 30,000 Huaixi army had just arrived in Fuli County, and it was still more than 200 miles away from Linhuai County.

At this time, Li Zhongchen received the news that about 15,000 cavalry were watching them dozens of miles away, and Li Zhongchen began to panic, and ordered the whole army to abandon all the captive women, and the whole army accelerated to the south.

15,000 Tang cavalry unhurriedly followed the 30,000 Huaixi Army, the main general Ma Sui obeyed the prince's order, and was not in a hurry to attack Li Zhongchen, at present, the Huaixi Army has robbed a lot of money, it is the time when morale is high, although he is a cavalry, even if he defeats the other side, it is a disastrous victory, and he must wait for the opponent's morale to gradually decline, then it is a good opportunity to attack.

At this time, Ma Sui got the news that the enemy army was speeding up its retreat to the south, and the general Li Chongqian hurriedly said: "Marshal, the enemy army has realized the crisis and began to accelerate its retreat to the south, if we don't chase and kill, I'm afraid they will escape." ”

"Don't worry! They can't escape. ”

Ma Sui said this because he had received instructions from His Royal Highness the Prince, who had sent a secret army to cut off the retreat of the Huaixi army, and they followed the enemy army without hurry, just to buy time for the other army.

Ma Sui was very aware of the existence of this special army, the warships of the Hebei army were burned, Tian Yue's army had no way to retreat, and then Li Lingyao was assassinated, and Chen Liucheng was broken without attack, which has proved the ability of this special army.

Li Chongqian didn't know about the existence of this army, and he was anxious and couldn't do anything.

At this time, a soldier came to report that there were thousands of women in front of them, crying and walking towards this side.

This must have been the women who were captured by the Huaixi army, and now they have become a burden, and the Huaixi army threw them off, so Ma Sui hurriedly ordered the marching Sima Zhao Houde to lead a thousand cavalry to escort these women back to Chenliu, and gave them some dry food, and at the same time asked the government to take care of these poor women along the way.

In the evening of the next day, the 30,000 Huaixi troops were still thirty miles away from Linhuai County, but Li Zhongchen unexpectedly found that there was not a single boat in sight on the canal, which made him have a bad feeling, he ordered the army to camp on the spot, and at the same time sent people to Linhuai County to summon ferries to go north.

In the night, Guo Song led 300 cavalry to watch the Huaixi Army camp in the distance, the camp had no camp fence, only a big tent, surrounded by carts on the periphery, and thousands of soldiers were on guard in front and behind the carts.

The Huaixi army obviously prevented from being attacked by fire, and the spacing between the big tents was relatively large, about 1,000 tops, stretching for nearly ten miles.

But it was impossible for the barracks to have wagons that stretched for ten miles, so there were no carts in the southeast, and there were not many soldiers on guard.

Guo Song waved Fang Tian's halberd and shouted, "Follow me in!" ”

Guo Song galloped on horseback, three hundred cavalry followed him closely, they were all wearing bright light armor, wearing eagle helmets, holding spears, and carrying war knives at their waists.