The river is flowing and sparkling. Li Yanyi stood by the river for a while, then turned around and walked towards the town. This "finishing" work sounds simple, but in fact it is extremely complicated, involving a wide range of things and at the same time very trivial. This is also why, those generals of Zhao Ying would rather go into battle to fight than take the initiative to take over this errand, and at the same time, Zhao Dangshi thinks that only Li Yanyi can be perfectly qualified for the "finishing" work of Yankou Town, and he can leave steadily.

But Zhao Dangshi never imagined that at the moment when he boarded the ship offshore, the seemingly stable Yankou Town was actually shrouded in Tongyun.

"Yi'er." Walking on the road, Li Yanyi inadvertently glanced at a pretty figure flashing by the fence, and he changed his original solemn expression to a friendly smile.

"He's got a lot to say." It was Ru Pingyang who spoke, she looked at the end of the river and said indifferently.

Li Yanyi smiled awkwardly and said, "It's all about military affairs, so I have to listen to it." What, are you tired of waiting? ”

Ru Pingyang glanced at him, and said angrily: "It's okay." With that, he turned his back and left. Seeing it later, Li Yanyi smiled, "hehe", and followed step by step.

Originally, Ru Pingyang, who had a "grudge against his father" with Zhao Ying, was reluctant to stay in the camp even if he was to death, but Li Yanyi did not give up, and persevered in persuading and comforting her, and later, when he learned that Xue Feixian, who had forced his father Ru Jinsheng to death with his own hands, had corrected the law for Zhao Ying, Ru Pingyang's heart was as hard as iron and stone, and he was finally moved by Li Yanyi's sincerity.

Li Yanyi's kindness to Ru Pingyang is seen by others. No matter how busy he is with military affairs on weekdays, he will definitely take time out of his busy time and go to Ru Pingyang to ask for warmth, and because of the convenience of serving in the rear camp, he takes care of Ru Pingyang even more meticulously, and even on the several dangerous roads on the march, he disregards the difficulties and carries Ru Pingyang on his back. Speaking of being considerate to women, if you ask casually in the camp, most people will give Li Yanyi a thumbs up.

Zhao Yingzhong explicitly forbade personal relations between men and women, and even Wang Laixing, who was the most favored by Zhao Dangshi, never dared to associate with Qin Shilu unscrupulously. However, Li Yanyi and Ru Pingyang are exceptions. On the one hand, there is Zhao Dangshi's intentional connivance in hoping to use Ru Pingyang to appease Li Yanyi's heart, and on the other hand, it is also caused by Ru Pingyang's own extraordinary reputation.

What does it mean to be "extraordinary"? It can probably be explained that Ru Pingyang is not a quiet girl who likes to sit in the boudoir in the traditional sense. Her love for martial arts and military affairs even surpasses that of many Zhao Battalion generals. Speaking of martial arts, with Li Yanyi's face, Ru Pingyang was able to worship Li Pichao and Ge Haishan as teachers in the camp, she is talented, and often fights with Li Yanyi, Qin Shilu and others in the future, in just a few months, martial arts can almost be called advancing by leaps and bounds. Li Pichao deliberately asked her to practice before leaving Zhao Ying to go south to Guangdong, but it was hard to imagine that the thin Ru Pingyang had been able to hold on to twenty moves under Li Pichao without any flaws. Among them, there is naturally Li Pichao's release of water, but it is enough to be admired that a weak woman can achieve such a result.

In the green forest and grass, he has always only believed in the strong, and what old rules and customs are all bullshit. Take Li Zicheng's new wife Gao, who is heroic, bold and capable, and is the object of reverence of the generals and leaders. No one cares if she is a woman, whether she has good means and skills in line with her identity, or whether she is sneering. On the contrary, her ability was widely recognized by everyone, and everyone thought that only a woman as powerful as her was qualified to stay by King Chuang's side.

It's the same when it comes to Ru Pingyang, she is keen on dancing with guns and sticks, she has no interest in female celebrities or anything, and often mingles with the generals, and the generals are familiar with her, like her heroism and ease, and no longer have prejudice against her, but admire her very much. It was Li Yanyi who stayed with her, and the couple was envious of others. Everyone compares Chai Shao and Princess Pingyang in the early Tang Dynasty to the two, and the two get along with each other in the same upright, which has long been passed down as a good story, and it will not arouse everyone's dark and filthy suspicion like the sneaky Zhang Miaobai and Wu Liangjie at the beginning.

At the beginning, Ru Pingyang didn't have any special feelings for the diligent Li Yanyi, but when getting along day and night, a woman's mind is the easiest to change, and today, she found that she couldn't do without this man, this man has invisibly penetrated into every corner of life, and unconsciously became her closest person.

Even though she shook her face at Li Yanyi now and walked away quickly without saying a word, in fact, whenever she saw Li Yanyi's innocent and friendly smile, her heart was as happy as a flower.

"I'll walk with you, maybe I can only walk for a while, there are still some things in the town that I need to deal with......" Li Yanyi scolded himself for being stupid more than once. On weekdays, when dealing with the affairs of the rear camp, he is always eloquent and easy, but whenever he comes to Ru Pingyang, he is either not in the mouth of the horse, or he is like a stuffy gourd.

When Ru Pingyang heard this, he stopped and glared at him: "I didn't want you to accompany me, you just have something to go." As he spoke, he took a step forward, "I'm alone, and I'm at ease." ”

Li Yanyi's face was slightly red, and he was anxious to explain that he couldn't help himself, but before the hurriedly prepared statement could be spoken, a Bai general manager around the corner flew over with a panicked look.

"What's the matter?" Li Yanyi's color changed suddenly, and at the moment of business, he instantly forgot about Ru Pingyang.

The Bai Zong's footsteps were chaotic, and he almost tripped over a stone several times, and it could be seen that something was wrong. Sure enough, when the Bai Zong came closer, he pointed to the east and gasped sharply: "The officials and troops are coming from the east and east, and it is less than ten miles from here!" ”

Ten miles of road, if the officers and soldiers are fast, they can be completed in less than an hour. Li Yanyi's heartstrings tightened, and he asked: "How many officers and soldiers?" Where did it come from? "As soon as Zhao Dangshi and the main army left, this official army came to the door, needless to say, it must be the cunning officer and army general who has been planning for a long time.

"The exact number is not known, but according to the brothers who came to report, it is estimated to be nearly 2,000."

There were only five hundred soldiers left in Yankou Town to "finish", and their combat effectiveness was very poor, and Zhao Dangshi didn't leave any guns to guard in the town before, so he basically wanted nothing. It is really hard to imagine what good-looking results can be achieved by using such a weak army against the official army. The biggest possibility is that it will collapse at the touch of a button, and the whole army will be annihilated.

"This ......" Li Yanyi listened to the situation and immediately began to weigh it. There is still an hour before the arrival of the officers and troops, and it will not be a problem to use this time to organize all the soldiers up and down Yankou Town to immediately board the ship and evacuate. It's just that in this way, Zhao Dangshi's task of "finishing" will definitely be in vain.

It stands to reason that in the face of this situation, as long as people with a little sober mind will choose to retreat. The difference in strength is too great, and making meaningless resistance is not bravery, but recklessness. In particular, Zhao Dangshi did not give Li Yanyi a death order to complete the task, he said before boarding the ship that Li Yanyi would adapt to the situation. Even so, there are no worries, but Li Yanyi is hesitant now. He hesitated, to say the least, that in his mind, the idea of not planning to withdraw still prevailed.

The reason why I don't want to retreat so easily is for no other reason than a sense of honor.

It's okay to fail, but only if there's an effort. This is a sentence that Li Yanyi has taken as a guideline from beginning to end. Just like when he was defending Yuchu County, he could ignore the fierce soldiers of the Zhao battalion and fight to the death in the lonely city, or he could follow the general trend and surrender to the Zhao camp after the city was broken. This does not mean that he is incorruptible and shameless, in fact, the time in Chuxian County, he agreed to surrender because of the protection of Ru Pingyang, but on the side, he also considered himself to have done his best.

Plans are in the sky, and after the failure of hard work, he swallows his heart and swallows.

Back to the present, Li Yanyi is not dead-eyed, what he holds in his hands is 500 lives, and it is undoubtedly the safest choice to avoid the enemy and leave Hong Kong. However, a sense of honor drove him to think hard about whether he still had a chance to fight.

When mediocre people encounter problems, they are often constrained by inertial thinking, either not thinking about the consequences and burning jade, or looking ahead and backwards, and cowering. And Renjie can often resist the interference of natural emotions and look for even a glimmer of opportunity in the midst of all difficulties. Li Yanyi belongs to the latter group.

"Staff ......" Mr. Bai scratched his ears and cheeks, anxiously waiting for Li Yanyi's response, but after waiting for a long time, the other party was silent as if he had settled down, and he couldn't help but call it softly.

Li Yanyi couldn't make up his mind for a while, and pursed his lips and said nothing, but Leng Buding's shoulder was patted. He turned his head and looked at it, and Ru Pingyang's pretty face came into view.

"Oh, I forgot about her." The corners of Li Yanyi's mouth twitched slightly, secretly blaming herself, and at the same time quickly glanced at Ru Pingyang, and found that she seemed to be a little unhappy and uncomfortable.

"The soldiers will block, and the water will cover the earth. The war waits for no one, what are you waiting for? To Li Yanyi's surprise, the reason why Ru Pingyang put on a stinky face was not that he was snubbed, but that he couldn't stand his hesitation.

"I ......" Li Yanyi was stunned for a moment, and almost said, "I can't do it", but fortunately, he came back to his senses, swallowed the words back into his stomach, and re-brewed before saying, "I'm thinking about how to arrange it." ”

Ru Pingyang pouted and said, "You are really stupid." ”

Li Yanyi didn't understand what he meant, but seeing that the general manager around him was anxious, he said first: "You go to the town quickly, and order everyone to come to the threshing floor in the town in a quarter of an hour." "No matter what happens next, the gathering of forces is the first to bear the brunt.

Mr. Bai had a complicated expression, glanced at Li Yanyi and Ru Pingyang respectively, had nothing to say, closed his mouth and saluted, and flew away.

A few miles away, along the mountain road east of Kou Town, several officers and soldiers diverged their ways.

Speaking of which, they are not officials and soldiers from nearby prefectures and counties, but from Yangdao Town, Jiangjin County in the south. As one of the military towns guarding Chongqing Prefecture, Yangdao Town has a reinforcement battalion and a member of the town guard general. This time, it was Guo Qizhu, the general of the Yangdao Town Reinforcement Battalion, who led the troops to rush straight forward.

In the north, especially in the nine-border region, it is common to set up a division of staff and generals, and basically under the leadership of the general army, they are divided into a defense area, which is called "all the way". It is common to guard the road, or to be sent by the general army to cooperate with other troops. However, in the south, unlike the sub-guard generals, there are also many town guard generals. Not only did they have to train their military horses, repair cities, and defend against prisoners in the designated defense areas, but they also often took on the role of guerrillas, leading troops to help other places.

Guo Qizhu recently received an assignment to set off from Chongqing Prefecture to the north to help. The number of soldiers in his battalion was originally less than 1,200, and before he set out, he temporarily forcibly recruited 300 people as people, so it was about 1,500 people.

At first, Guo Qizhu was one of the officers and soldiers who were ordered to go to Chengdu to relieve the siege of the camp. However, when he arrived in Chengdu, Li Zicheng had already withdrawn from the siege and led his army north. He threw himself behind his ass and beat for a while, because he was brave and good at fighting, and he had some combat achievements. Subsequently, due to the great momentum of Zhao Ying's flow, he was transferred to pursue Zhao Ying. It's just that by the time he arrived in Shehong County, Zhao Ying had already passed through Shenshui and went south. Several other officers and troops were unfavorable one after another, and he had little friendship with Kong Quanbin and other Shaanxi generals in the north, so for the sake of insurance, he took people to Baoning Mansion.

There, he and Xia Shiheng, the commander of the Northern Sichuan Army, and Zhang Zuokai, the deputy general of Sichuan, beat Yuan Tao and his henchmen in the chaotic mansion, and Yuan Tao was defeated and hid in the mountains. He saw that there was nothing to do here, and Wang Weizhang, who summoned him to the north, was dismissed again, so he transferred to the south and wanted to return to Yangdao Town. Unexpectedly, Zhao Ying turned around and went to the territory of Dingyuan County. In this way, even though Guo Qizhu didn't want to fight Zhao Ying, now in order to open up the way back, he has to correct his mentality and deal with Zhao Ying.

It should be said that Guo Qizhu still has some military acumen. At least during the period when he drove the army from Baoning Mansion to Shunqing Mansion, the work of hiding his whereabouts was very well done, and although the sentry agents of the Zhao camp were widely dispersed, they did not detect the movements of this official army. Therefore, this fish that slipped through the net was able to quietly touch the territory of Dingyuan County along the east bank of the Jialing River. If Zhao Dangshi had known in advance that there was such an official army as Guo Qizhu waiting in ambush on his side, he would never have dared to arrange such an army to go north.

Guo Qizhu understood the situation of the enemy and us, and did not show his head during the period when the main force of the Zhao battalion was stationed in Yankou Town, but was stationed in Yuechi County, not far east of Dingyuan. He was always paying close attention to the movements of Zhao Dangshi's army, and only when he learned that the main army of Zhao Ying's army had gone up the river did he give the order to attack. In fact, he could have waited for Li Yanyi to leave before going out, but in the face of Li Yanyi's troops with only 500 people left, he didn't want to lose the great battle of "killing thieves and returning to the town" in vain.