Just now the heavy rain poured, stretched out and couldn't see the five fingers, the Jingzhou soldiers couldn't see the road clearly and walked in the mud, the speed of the march was naturally not fast, the place where Liu Pan's soldiers and horses were stationed was about five miles away from Yue Fei's army camp, and about ten miles away from the boarding dock agreed with Liu Zhuang, Liu Pan's soldiers and horses marched not fast, although it has been a while now, but now there are still seven or eight miles away from the dock where the ship is boarded, if Yue Fei's army pursues, There was no way for Liu Panjun to board the ship and leave safely.

Seeing this, Liu Pan hurriedly ordered: "Quickly send an order to all armies, speed up the march, I have ordered the water army to prepare wine and meat, as long as you march a few more miles, you can board the ship and drink; If the enemy catches up, we will all die! ”

Liu Pan gave an order, more than ten rode fast horses and flew out, and soon conveyed Liu Pan's military order, the Jingzhou soldiers heard Liu Yan's words, they could drink wine and eat meat in the march for several miles, and suddenly their hearts were overjoyed, the soldiers were hungry and cold at this time, and the attraction of wine and meat to them was too great, and under the call of wine and meat, the marching speed of the Jingzhou army was also accelerated by a few points.

……

Just when the Jingzhou army was marching rapidly, Yue Fei's soldiers, horses, and sentinels were also running everywhere, and all the soldiers were constantly searching for the positions where the Jingzhou army might stay.

The direction of Yue Feijun's right camp is close to Xiangshui, and it is also relatively close to the place where Liu Pan and Liu Zhuang agreed to board the ship, so the place where Liu Pan ambushed the soldiers just now was not directly facing the front camp of Yue Feijun, but was comparing the location of Yue Feijun's right camp.

But now it's different, Liu Pan's troops and horses attacked vigorously, and all kinds of soldiers and horses and sentry horses were all over the field, and soon explored all directions of the camp, so that the signs left by Liu Pan's troops and horses when they were ambushing and marching were also discovered by Yue Fei's army.

A team of sentry riders patrolled here, and with the help of the moonlight, they saw a large muddy land here, and now that the heavy rain had just passed, there was flowing rain everywhere, shining and reflecting in the moonlight, and it was pitch black here, which was really a little too conspicuous.

The sentry hurriedly beat his horse to come here to investigate, my God, such a big piece of muddy land, there must be soldiers and horses who once stayed here!

In such a rainy night, it is absolutely impossible for any other brigade of soldiers and horses to stay near their own camp except for the enemy army, and this must be an enemy ambush that they and others cannot find!

"Quickly sound the gong to warn, you quickly go to inform the general, you two are waiting here for the rear army to answer, you follow me to the front to investigate and pursue the enemy!"

"No, I'll take the order!"

"Bell, bell, bell!! Bell Bell Bell !! Bell Bell Bell !! ”

After making a little arrangement, the commander of the sentry cavalry led one of his sentry horses to pursue the muddy place, one sentry hurriedly went straight to the direction of the camp, and went to tell Yue Fei about it, while the other two sentry horsemen sounded the gong to warn while waiting for the arrival of the rest of the soldiers and horses.

All the soldiers and horses of Yue Fei's army were searching for possible traces of enemy troops in the wilderness, and there were also several soldiers and horses searching not far from this group of sentry horses.

"Where are the enemy troops? Why Mingjin, where is the enemy! A military captain Yue Fei led hundreds of sergeants to arrive here first, and asked loudly from afar.

The two sentry riders hurriedly replied: "We have found the enemy's garrison here, and our captain has already led the sergeant to pursue along these traces, and the captain can quickly go to the pursuit!" ”

"Good! If it is really a place where the enemy is ambushed, the general is really like a god!! ”

After Yue Fei's soldiers saw this large muddy place, their previous doubts and dissatisfaction with Yue Fei in their hearts were suddenly cautious, Yue Fei did not move, and sat back and watched the soldiers of the front battalion fight to the death without sending a single soldier to support, although the soldiers did not say it, but they were still a little dissatisfied in their hearts, if they really waited for the enemy to ambush the soldiers, it would be enough, with the great merit of defeating the main force of the Jingzhou Army, they could eliminate the dissatisfaction of the soldiers, but in the end, the soldiers of the front battalion lost more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in vain, In the end, the rear army of the enemy army that Yue Fei said was not revealed, and the dissatisfaction in the hearts of the soldiers had no place to vent, so they all held it in their hearts.

If the grievances of the soldiers are not vented, it will definitely affect Yue Fei's prestige in the army, and the reason why Yue Fei is so obsessed with sending a large army to explore the traces of the enemy's rear army is to eliminate this influence, no matter whether he can catch up with the main force of Liu Pan's troops and horses in the end, as long as the traces of this army and horses can be found, this can show that Yue Fei is still the Yue Fei who has no last resort, and he can also save some of Yue Fei's prestige.

When the sentry and the captain answered, there were two more hundreds of soldiers and horses gathered, and after a moment of words, they also figured out the matter, this place is still the highest rank of the captain, and the three soldiers and horses were combined, about nearly two thousand soldiers and horses, led by the captain, also pursued along the traces left by Liu Pan's soldiers and horses.

……

Yue Feijun's sentry cavalry captain led a sentry horse to run along the muddy traces left by the Jingzhou army, and they were getting closer and closer to the location of the Jingzhou army!

"Whoosh!! Whoosh!! Whoosh!! ”

Just as they were galloping rapidly, several waves of arrows suddenly rained down on both sides of the road, and the two of them were caught off guard, and suddenly their horses were killed by the rain of arrows and fell to the ground.

After the two Yue Fei military sentry horses fell to the ground, they stepped out of twenty or thirty horsemen from the high slopes on both sides of the road.

"It's not good, Yue Fei's soldiers and horses really found the traces of our army, it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time, I will go and tell the general about this as soon as possible!"

This group of fast horses was the ambush soldiers left behind by Liu Pan who was worried that Yue Fei's army would follow the pursuit, and now that they really found the traces of the enemy's sentry horse, they did not dare to delay time, and hurriedly beat their horses to chase Liu Pan's army.

……

When this group of light cavalry caught up with Liu Pan's soldiers and horses, Liu Pan's army had already arrived at a place very close to the boarding dock, and it was only two or three miles away from the destination.

After Liu Pan learned the news that Yue Fei's sentry cavalry had followed, he hurriedly ordered: "Speed up the march, all run, the enemy army has already pursued, whether to board the ship to drink wine and eat meat, or die here depends on this time!! ”

The officers and men of Jingzhou naturally knew what to choose, and after hearing Liu Pan's military order, they all hurriedly sped up again and ran in the mud