Smoke and dust rose from not far away, and it was roughly estimated that there were no less than 1,000 people rushing to support from the direction of the two battalions. No matter how brave Zhao Dangshi and the night are to be surrounded by so many enemies, there is no possibility of escape.

Han Gon knew that today's death was decided, and sighed: "Brother Zhao, you can let me go." Anyway, I will inevitably die, I would rather fight to die than lie on your back and be a wreck. ”

Zhao Dangshi didn't answer, and Zhou Wenhe on the left hand side shouted loudly: "Brothers, if you protect the envoys, you will die, and you will be the last one!" ”

The night is not only elite, but also extremely loyal to Zhao Dangshi. Under the murderous situation, everyone knew that it would be impossible to escape death after all, but they did not waver and cowered at all, and when they heard Zhou Wenhe shouting, they all roared out. This roar was synthesized into a force, majestic and shocking, listening to the ears of Zhao Dangshi, Han Gon and others, the heart was shaken, and the courage was doubled.

Zhao Dangshi was enthusiastic, tilted his head and said: "Brother Han, your legs and feet are inconvenient, and you can only be beaten when you fight with others, how can you be happy?" Rather than this, it is better to borrow my feet, and before I attack, you will respond to the left and right. ”

Hearing this, Han Gon smiled first: "Wonderful, wonderful." After holding Zhao Dangshi tightly with one hand, and raising the knife with the other, "So that these miscellaneous pieces can open their eyes, and they can kill seventeen or eighteen pads before they die, and they are also happy!" ”

The voice fell, a soldier rushed forward, split his head and covered his face and swung three knives at Zhao Dangshi, Zhao Dangshi was carrying a person, it was not easy to dodge, and he barely dismantled two moves, and when he reached the third move, he saw that his body was unstable, and his right shoulder was about to be stabbed.

Between the lightning and the fire, Han Gon sent a move in time, just to point the blade away, Zhao Dangshi seized the opportunity, shook his wrist, and the waist knife was slanted out, forcing the soldier to subconsciously take two steps back. Then, without waiting for the old move, he stepped forward, straightened the head of the knife, and pierced through the soldier's throat impartially.

This set of cooperation is very smooth and tacit, the two came back to their senses, they were all surprised, Han Gon smiled and praised: "What a handsome killing move." ”

Zhao Dangshi put away the knife and praised it back: "What a handsome move." ”

At this moment, although Zhao and Han are under siege and dangerous, they are not afraid at all under the rendering of a kind of sympathy, on the contrary, they are all full of happy expressions.

At the moment, Zhao Dangshi was carrying Han Gon, looking sluggish and inconvenient, but as long as someone dared to provoke, they all died under their knives without exception. Zhou Wenhe waited for the night to see the strange state of the two, and he couldn't help laughing.

9. The reinforcements of the second fat battalion soon merged into the encirclement, and Zhao Dangshi tried his best to resist, but he inevitably lost his physical strength. Han Gon listened to his breathing becoming more and more rapid, and his movements began to lag, shaking his head and saying, "I'm afraid it's really going to be planted now." ”

Zhao Dangshi picked one person over, and replied in his busy schedule: "If you die, you will die, and it is not in vain to be able to make friends with a righteous brother like Brother Han before you die!" ”

Han Gon laughed: "Well said, my surname Han should have died a few years ago, and if I can grind until now, I can fight and die side by side with Brother Zhao, which is a well-deserved death!" ”

As he spoke, the nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi gave a death order, and the soldiers of the second battalion continued to surround them under the continuous urging. Zhao Dangshi looked up, and there was a dense crowd in front of him, and the black pressure was all moving people. These people are one after another, layer after layer, like waves crashing over, seemingly never stopping.

He was so exhausted that his mind began to dread, and the sound outside somehow became quieter and quieter. The faces kept flickering and changing, and soon, those faces slowly blurred, and in the end, they all seemed to merge into one, and it was difficult to distinguish them.

"Whew......" Zhao Dangshi sat on the ground and took a heavy breath. Behind him, a thunderous roar erupted from behind him. blinked his eyes hard, and suddenly there was a crisp sound in his ears. He was stunned, and reacted that this was the sound of the intersection of soldiers, and suddenly withdrew all his thoughts, and the emptiness in his head was also broken.

"Brother Zhao!" Han Gunfu shouted again, Zhao Dangshi looked at him urgently, and a soldier in front of him was stabbing at him again with a gun.

Without Han Gon's burden, Zhao Dangshi immediately felt brisk, regrouped his spirit, and was about to attack. Before he moved, a gust of wind swept by the side, and the soldier was knocked out in an instant with a gun.

Looking closely, where the yellow shadow jumped, a knight split several human walls like waves. Immediately afterward, the wind came again, and this time, countless knights galloped by. Like a hammer, these knights smashed into the stacked chaos, and their horses were everywhere, and their guns and bayonets were waved, and in the blink of an eye they rushed the soldiers of the second battalion to collapse.

Zhao Dangshi even rolled and climbed, avoiding the horse in time, and the "rumbling" hooves suddenly shook like thunder. He wiped his face, gulped down the grit that flew through the entrance, and vaguely caught a glimpse of the two horsemen approaching one after the other. The two riders dismounted in front of him and arched their hands, "I've seen all the envoys!" ”

These two people, one Yang Chengfu and the other Yang Zhaofeng.

Zhao Dangshi didn't respond, first raised his head and looked around, but saw that the soldiers of the second battalion were in chaos under the impact of the cavalry, and they had already lost their establishment constraints, and they were all like headless flies, and they were scattered in shock, and it was impossible to organize a large-scale battle again, so he reassured: "How is the battle going?" ”

Yang Chengfu bared his teeth and cracked his eyes, and said indignantly: "The subordinates have to scout in an emergency, and take the Ma Junsi to rescue the front first, Hou and Xu are on the way!" Don't forget to add, "I knew that these nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi were not good things, but I didn't want to be bold, and even dared to fight the idea of the capital envoy, this time if I didn't kick his second battalion into the sky, wouldn't he fall into prestige!" ”

After he finished speaking, Yang Zhaofeng added: "Our battalion horse army is divided into three routes, the left and center are empty, and the right road is real. ”

Zhao Dangshi nodded, led the horses left and right, he and Zhou Wenhe and the others stepped on the horse, and found someone to protect Han Gon, and asked in a deep voice: "What about the nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi?" ”

Yang Zhaofeng was stunned for a moment, as if he remembered something, and said, "But how many people are standing on the small mound not far away?" Then he beckoned back, and a scout replied: "Envoy, those people are nowhere to be seen at the moment." ”

Looking at the situation, the nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi saw that the situation was not good, and they had taken advantage of the chaos to escape.

Yang Zhaofeng was a little embarrassed and said, "All the envoys, the subordinates were eager to rescue, but they were negligent and let them escape." ”

Yang Chengfu crooked his mouth, revealing a fierce look, and said in a vicious voice: "Hmph, what if you escape?" Which one of those who offended my Zhao camp will get away with it? Mr. Hou Qian, they will arrive in an instant, let's gather people and horses to cover up the past, so that these thieves will know that my Zhao Ying is powerful! ”

"No hurry!" Zhao Dangshi stopped him, and followed the suspicious gaze of Yang Chengfu and others to several Tang soldiers who reported back and forth, "You wait to go back and find Hou and Xu and ask them to withdraw to the station, just say that I am all right, and then I will arrive." ”

"Both!" Yang Chengfu's face twisted into a bitter gourd shape, "These two people bullied you first, if you don't give him some color to see, you won't give people a look!" "A tooth for a tooth and an eye for an eye, this is the creed that Yang Chengfu, who has been in the market since he was a child. He was afraid of Zhao Dangshi, and it was difficult to speak foul language, but he didn't understand this kind of action in his heart, and even had some contempt.

"Go." Zhao Dangshi turned a deaf ear, and several Tang soldiers took the order and left.

Yang Zhaofeng had a long-term vision, guessed what it meant, and said: "The subordinates will collect the Ma army." "Words, go by yourself. Only Yang Chengfu was left looking at his back, blowing his beard and glaring.

Zhao Dangshi glanced at Yang Chengfu, and didn't say much, just said simply: "Let's withdraw first." "It's short, but it's a deterrent. How dare Yang Chengfu disobey, he had to put down his confusion and unhappiness, and followed behind with his head bored.

There are some things that a wise person will understand, without saying much; The same thing is said a hundred times, and some people still can't understand it. There are countless large and small Liukou in Shaanxi and Henan, and there are countless mountains. The nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi seem to be miscellaneous cards, but they are actually attached to the king of Dakou neatly. Fighting a dog depends on the owner, before the foundation and relationship network of the neat king, every pair of nine and fat step forward is no different from stepping on a landmine. When Zhao first came to Yunyang, not to mention walking on thin ice, at least before meeting Gao Yingxiang, he didn't want anything to go wrong. Besides, although the Ninth and Fat Second Battalions are weak, they add up to thousands of people. Zhao Ying came from afar, and before he had time to rest, he put it right, not saying that he would lose his men and horses in vain, but that he would be angry and friendly as soon as he came, and that this matter was looked at by other battalion leaders, what would he think? Yang Chengfu's conservative and short-sighted shortcomings Zhao Dangshi knew that he was unwilling to bother with this kind of person.

The military order is like a mountain, Hou Dagui and Xu Hui have been accustomed to obedience and discipline, and after receiving the order, without the slightest hesitation, they immediately changed the queue and turned around and retreated-this is really thanks to the restraint of military law. The military discipline formulated in Dazhou has been supplemented and revised one after another, and is now relatively complete. To Zhao Dangshi's surprise, Liu Xiaohong actually made great contributions.

The framework of military discipline was first set up by He Kewei, but after all, he was long in practice and short in learning, and he was only half-witted in terms of law. But Liu Xiaohong is different, his family history is to drill the law, and many of the talents from his ancestors are serving as magistrates, according to the judges, and even from the Criminal Department and Dali Temple. Therefore, he was familiar with the "Da Ming Law" at the age of ten, and when he became an adult, he studied the laws of all dynasties such as "Nine Chapters of Law" and "Tang Law".

He had no choice but to coerce Zhao Ying, and he was unwilling to cooperate, but Zhao Dangshi saw through his thoughts and deliberately entrusted the work of revising military discipline. Saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter, Liu Xiaohong is not a monk, but the concept of self-cultivation and governing the country has been deeply rooted in his heart since he was a child. Confucian benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and filial piety, saving the people in fire and water is duty-bound, he thought twice, he felt that through this method he could restrain Zhao Ying, who was a thief, in disguise, and contribute to the country and Li Shu, so the resistance quickly disappeared, and Yan Licheng fanned the flames beside him, he thought that he had nothing to do, so he began to concentrate on compiling Zhao Ying's military discipline on the original basis.

The efficiency of experts in doing things is not as good as ordinary people, and in a short period of time, the perfection of Zhao Ying's military discipline has made a qualitative leap compared with before. Since Liu Xiaohong takes it as his responsibility to "persuade" the rogue, he spares no effort to do things, and his talent is vividly displayed in this matter. To give an example, because considering that the soldiers of the Zhao Battalion had serious habits in the rivers and lakes and had flouted the law and discipline for many years, in formulating the regulations, he would put himself in the shoes of the people according to what he had seen and heard in the Zhao Battalion, and strive to make the generals accept it to the greatest extent possible on the principle of not touching the bottom line. At the same time, in order to let the illiterate people understand the connotation of military discipline as soon as possible, he also made great efforts to cite ancient examples as explanations after almost every military discipline. These examples are also modified with familiar characters and allusions, which will not be unfamiliar to the generals, and are also conducive to memory and acceptance.

Make the best use of your talents. Zhao Dangshi thought to himself that he did not have all-rounders like Zhuge Liang and Huan Wen, who integrated military and political talents, and what he could do was to control in the middle and put everyone in the most appropriate position. This move to selectively categorize talent is also the result of some of the principles of administration that he has only recently begun to grasp.

The 200 horse army galloped, and after a short time, it merged with the infantry army, and the Zhao battalion returned to the station. The situation was delicate, and Zhao Dangshi did not leave for Gao Yingxiang for the time being, but set up camp on the one hand, and on the other hand, he assigned some men to stay on guard at all times to prevent the nine dragons and others from retaliating and plotting.

The arrow on Han Gon's leg was removed, fortunately it was not a medicine arrow, and he felt much better after the wound was bandaged, but it was difficult to ride a horse. Zhao Dangshi felt guilty about him, and felt that he had brushed his face in front of the nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi, and he couldn't go away. Han Gon laughed at it, never mentioning how dangerous the situation was, and fought side by side with Zhao Dangshi in a straight way. The generals were worried that the people in the camp would not look down on their own people, so they took advantage of the topic to play, but they saw that he and Zhao Dangshi seemed to be like-minded, and they were a lot more stable inside.

Zhao Dangshi didn't want to move lightly, so he sent someone to carry Han Gon on his shoulder, wanting to send him back to the camp, and say a few fair words for himself about today's affairs. One of them, Zhao Dangshi, is Huang Long, and the other two have been introduced, one is Liu Zhe's henchman, and the other is Gao Yingxiang's companion.

It turned out that the story of Zhao Dangshi's fight with the nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi had reached Gao Yingxiang's ears, and now the neat king and the nine dragons and Zhang Fatzi were already in the old base camp of the camp, and the three of Huanglong were ordered to summon Zhao Dangshi to see Gao Yingxiang.

Huang Long's face was strange, he didn't know whether he was happy or worried, and said to Zhao Dangshi: "Brother Zhao, King Chuang wants you to rush to the base camp as soon as possible, first, to meet, and secondly, to stop fighting." ”

Zhao Dangshi nodded, indicating that he knew, Huang Long hesitated, but still leaned closer to speak: "There is something that you have to remind you of as a brother." When I came, King Chuang seemed to be quite angry, and my brother went to measure his own proportions. With that, he slapped him twice on the back and fell silent.

After thinking about it all night, Zhao Dangshi couldn't imagine that he would go to see Gao Yingxiang in this situation. The boat was naturally straight to the bridge, and he could only give Huang Long a bitter smile.