Xun Qi was attacked by Liang Han and was caught off guard and was defeated. Lost all the foot soldiers and most of the cavalry, and only fled back in the direction of Gongzhuling with hundreds of cavalry, but when he was a few miles away from Gongzhuling, he saw the location of his original camp in Gongzhuling, and the fire was blazing, and his heart suddenly cooled down for most of the time.

And the messenger who had been waiting for his return nearby finally waited for Xun Qi and relayed Liu Xinda's words to the general who was almost a bare pole now.

Helplessly, Xun Qi could only take his hundreds of remnants of the defeated army and flee all the way to Xianren Ridge.

Gongzhuling can't go back, the messenger saw with his own eyes that at least tens of thousands of Tang troops had attacked Gongzhuling, and when he went back, he could only be boiled by the opponent.

It turned out to be a serial strategy. Guangshui held on, Yanzi River crossed the river and attacked, surrounded Xu Yong to lure Xun Qi to help, and then attacked halfway, but the other team crossed the Guangshui River by detour and took Gongzhuling.

On the way to escape, Xun Qi finally understood the way of the opponent, but what else can this kind of afterthought do? In the blink of an eye, the 50,000 horses they thought they could hold on to the Tang army lost 20,000.

The only thing that can be relied on now is the camp of Xianrenling.

But the problem is that in Guangshui, there are no steep mountains, the so-called Xianren Ridge is just a hill more than a hundred steps high, and those steep mountains in the south cannot be compared at all, naturally there are not many natural dangers to rely on, even if it occupies a condescending terrain, but now it has lost several battles in a row, and the morale is gone.

And the combat effectiveness of the two sides, but also the Tang people occupy an absolute advantage, on the Xianren Ridge, it is said that there are 30,000 people, but the real soldiers, only 20,000, the remaining 10,000, are auxiliary soldiers, people, young and strong, these people do civil engineering, repair camps, transport grain and grass is naturally no problem, but expect them to be able to confront the Tang army, that is a dream.

All the way back to Xianrenling, without waiting for him to ask Liu Xinda for his guilt, Liu Xinda had already waved his hand to signal that he was exempted.

"It's a blessing that you're back." Liu Xinda said: "I have already fought with Shi Zhuang once today. ”

Entering the camp tent and seeing the dilapidated scene inside, Xun Qi already knew that there had been a battle here during the day.

"It looks like they're not taking advantage!" Xun Qi said.

"It's just a tentative attack." Liu Xinda said: "And it was not Shi Zhuang's headquarters that attacked, but the Right Qianniu Wei led by Li Kang. This right thousand cow guard was newly reorganized after Liu Ruyan arrived in Yangzhou, and it is completely different from the right thousand cow guard led by Li Yu. But even with such a team, I didn't get any advantage. The opponent calmly attacked, and tried everywhere, and then calmly retreated. ”

"With the ability of a general, of course he will not be exposed by Shi Zhuang!" Xun Qi flattered, this time he led his troops to support Xu Yongdao to Gongzhuling without a military order, Xianrenling lost its flanks, and more than 10,000 men and horses collapsed, Liu Xinda did not blame him, let him be grateful, you know, if you really want to talk about it, Liu Xinda slashed him with a knife is not an exaggeration.

"Shi Zhuang doesn't need to see any flaws!" Liu Xinda smiled bitterly: "My strength is here, although the Xianrenling camp was built by Fu Xiaotian and is quite sturdy, but in a hurry, it is a good woman who can cook without rice." ”

"There is plenty of food in the stockade, and we always have no problem guarding it for a while." Xun Qi said: "General Xiang is only three days away from us, and his forward is only one day away. As long as you arrive at the general, everything will be solved. ”

Liu Xinda nodded. "This is the only way out for us. To tell you the truth, the grain and grass in our village can only last for ten days, and the water on the Immortal Ridge is insufficient, if Shi Zhuang blocks the water source under the mountain, we can hold on for a shorter time. ”

"Three days, how can you hold on."

"In the past three days, we must face a bitter battle!" Liu Xinda said: "General Xun has worked hard today, go down first to rest, and rely on the general's courage tomorrow!" ”

"Thank you, General Liu!" Xun Qi clasped his fists and saluted, turned around and retreated.

Fu Xiaotian watched his back disappear, and then said in a low voice: "If you don't follow the military order and send troops privately, why can the general still tolerate him?" If this person doesn't kill, how can he be disciplined? ”

"What's the good of killing him now?" Liu Xinda sighed: "After all, he is a strong general, and he can still be used to charge into battle, even if he wants to investigate the responsibility for the failure of the lost teacher, it is also after this battle." ”

"When General Xiang comes, will they, the Lingnan generals, still be punished as they deserve?" Fu Xiaotian shook his head and said.

"That's not my business." Liu Xinda smiled and said, "Old man, what do we want to do so much?" After we live, we can discuss this slowly. ”

"Xu Yong, I'm afraid that this time it will be difficult to escape!" Fu Xiaotian hesitated for a moment and said.

Liu Xinda didn't make a sound, turned around, and looked at the entire Xianren Ridge defense map hanging behind him.

Fu Xiaotian didn't say anything more, bowed and saluted, turned around and retreated.

He didn't know, but Liu Xinda was also hesitating at this moment.

War is like this, one wrong step, and then one step into the abyss. Liu Xinda hesitated when he entered Guangshui, but in the end, he still couldn't resist the so-called overall situation above. I jumped into this trap in one step, and now I want to get out, which has become a big problem.

One of the big problems that plagued him now was whether the real purpose of Shi Zhuang's department this time was just to rescue Guangshui, or whether he had a further goal.

If there is, it can only be Ezhou.

If their appetite was really so great that they wanted to swallow the entire Eyue in one fell swoop, Shi Zhuang's strength alone was obviously not enough. Shi Zhuang took advantage of this time difference in order to kill himself and at the same time attract Xiang Zhen to come to the rescue. Drag these two main forces in Guangshui.

Which one will attack Ezhou?

Li Mi!

Liu Xinda grabbed the defense map of Xianren Ridge, and stared at the black line on the big map below, which was the Yangtze River. Li Hao's sailor has not appeared since the outbreak of the war. Even if Yueyang was being besieged by Ding Taiyi, and Qian Biao was beaten in disarray, they didn't go to support, if they wanted to, they could easily enter Dongting Lake from the Yangtze River.

Tian Guofeng faced Cao Bin's army of 50,000 in Xiangyang, and at the same time there were many difficulties.

Li Hao could go down the Yangtze River and then enter the Han River to support, but he didn't go.

Ding Jian faced Tian Mantang's 50,000 army in Yiling, but he was only barely guarding, and Li Hao's sailor did not go.

What did Li Hao do?

Where is he?

There is only one answer, his sailor, at this moment, he is afraid that he is carrying Li Yu's right Qianniuwei and rushing to Ezhou.

Cold sweat trickled down, he walked a few steps to the back of the big case, unfolded the paper, picked up the pen, and wrote a few words on the paper, but where it froze.

He wanted to write to Xiang Zhen, telling him not to come to Guangshui, but to return to Ezhou, with Xiang Zhen's 50,000 troops stationed in Ezhou, Ezhou will definitely be fine.

But what about yourself!

Sweat was dripping down his face.

If Xiang Zhen retreats back as he said, Ezhou will be saved, but what about himself?

He was about to be annihilated by Shi Zhuang on this Immortal Ridge.

Like a trapped beast, pacing back and forth in the house a few times, Liu Xinda finally crumpled the unfolded paper into a ball and threw it under the desk.

He is not a subordinate of the Lingnan lineage, and when Xiang Zhen wooed himself, he just took a fancy to the territory of Ezhou and wanted to take this big piece of fat from the Northern Tang Dynasty. And he was able to gain a foothold in the Southern Alliance, not because the other party took a fancy to his talent, but because he still had 20,000 soldiers under his command.

Xu Yong and Xun Qi are both from Lingnan, but it's a pity that the Shengbao brothers have been with them for so long, but this time they are lost.

If you don't have your subordinates, will you still have a foothold in the Southern Alliance?

Without Ezhou, you can retreat into Jiangxi.

Liu Xinda once again walked to the map and looked at it carefully.

On his own, it was almost impossible to get rid of Shi Zhuang's attack and retreat into Jiangxi. But if it is difficult to be true, it will be different, an army of sixty or seventy thousand, whether to fight or leave, there are more choices at that time.

And if everything is as he guessed, Xiang Zhen will not choose to fight Shi Zhuang at all, because once Ezhou falls, then they will be attacked by the enemy, and there is no other way to go except to withdraw their troops immediately.

Thinking of this, he breathed a long sigh of relief.

His eyes also became gloomy.

If Ezhou is lost, it will be lost, what does it matter to you?

It is Xiang Xun who wants to compete for this world.

And himself, if he didn't have his own cronies, he really had nothing. Even if he retreats to Jiangxi, as long as there are still these tens of thousands of soldiers and territory in his hands, are you afraid that there will be none?

The sky was bright, the drums were rumbling under the mountain, and Liu Xinda, who had not slept all night, walked out of the tent, he already had a plan in his heart, and the next thing was to guard hard and wait until Xiang Zhen's army arrived.

At this time, in Guangshui, Xu Yong finally did not wait for the reinforcements he hoped for, but saw the Northern Tang army shoot the banners of Xun Qi's department one by one into the camp with crossbow arrows.

These flags mean that Xun Qi is also finished.

It was not only Xu Yong who was desperate, but also the soldiers under his command.

When Liang Han and Ren Xiaonian launched another fierce attack in two directions, his camp finally collapsed.

When people are desperate, they can hold their breath and die to the end, but once this breath is vented, they will really become the walking dead and be slaughtered.

Now Xu Yong's department has become like this, when the camp was broken through a corner, the other triangles could obviously be supported, but they were still collapsed at that moment.

Xu Yong, died in battle under Guangshui City.