Under Lan Ziyi's arrangement, the soldiers marched along both sides of the road in two columns, and while extinguishing the tents next to them and preventing the spread of fire, they bred up their spirits and prepared for possible attacks at any time.

Tao Zhulu walked in front of Lan Ziyi horse with the reins, he still paid attention to his feet when he heard the question, and after the heavy rain, the thin mud in the ground was deep and shallow and shallow, and it was really hard to walk over.

After walking a few steps to the ground, Tao Zhulu replied:

"I didn't know it, but after I went out of Beijing, I saw that the rain was heavy, so I looked for a place to shelter from the rain and walked slowly. It wasn't until I met the defeated soldiers who were retreating along the road that I knew something had happened in the camp, and I hurried back. ”

Hearing this, Lan Ziyi let out a long sigh and said:

"Fortunately, I thought that the second brother heard the news of the defeat in the capital. It's good that the news didn't reach the capital. ”

Immediately, Lan Ziyi thought that something was wrong, and he said:

"If the defeated army retreats to the capital, wouldn't the news have reached the capital now? This is not good, we must immediately send someone back to Beijing to report the situation of the battle holding the camp. ”

Tao Zhulu did not act immediately after hearing the words, he replied:

"Young master, don't worry, I met reinforcements when I came, and the reinforcements have already collected the retreating troops for us."

Lan Ziyi was completely relieved when he heard this, and sat on the horse and breathed a sigh of relief. At this time, Tao Zhulu interjected a sentence:

"Young master, the camp has become like this, how can you hold it? How can such a battalion be defended? ”

Lan Ziyi sat on his horse and looked around, the fire he and King De lit one after the other had already made the camp less transparent, and the heavy rain just now did not extinguish the fire, and now the fire is declining only because the things in the camp are about to burn out.

Lan Ziyi sighed softly and said:

"I lit the fire at the west gate."

Hearing this, Tao Zhulu shook his head, and he said:

"It doesn't matter who lights the fire, it's like the thief rushed in just now, even if you don't light the fire, young master, the demon thief will set the camp on fire."

Lan Ziyi smiled bitterly:

"Second brother, you are relieved for me again. When I lit the fire, I promised everyone that whoever had something burned would come to me and ask for money, which was a lot of money, and the second brother had to think about it. ”

Tao Zhulu smiled:

"This matter is going to be bothered, young master, you will really make trouble for me."

Lan Ziyi remembered what Tao Zhulu said just now, and then asked:

"The second brother said that the reinforcements were coming, but it was ...... who came"

Peach Road:

"Yes, it is the Eastern Army that has been guarding against pirates from all over the coast, Qi Zhun led the team, and specially divided the manpower to go to the foot of the capital to calm down the people's hearts."

Lan Ziyi was reassured when he heard the word "Qi Zhun", and he said:

"Finally, we are looking forward to a veteran, so we don't have to be so cowardly now."

As soon as Lan Ziyi finished speaking, a sergeant came over and said:

"Wei Hou! The wounded brother was found in front! ”

Lan Ziyi hurriedly cheered up and said:

"How many people? Take me there! ”

Lan Ziyi and Qiu Wenruo led the team from north to south in two ways to intersperse the camp, extinguishing fires and saving people all the way, and regathering the remnants of the army. The entire camp of the officers and soldiers suffered heavy losses, and there were corpses of officers and soldiers everywhere, and the corpses of demon thieves were very few, and the elite of tens of thousands of people could not even collect 10,000 people now, including the wounded.

The only thing worth being happy is that Qiu Xiaozhi and Tao Zhuhu are both unharmed, although the east and south gates guarded by the two of them have been broken by the demon thieves, but the eastern army came fast enough, and the demon thieves were beaten away by the eastern army before the two were completely surrounded and annihilated. And sent to the south gate to get Tao Zhutu also saved his life, the one where the rebel army stabbed Tao Zhutu was blocked by Tao Zhutu's ribs, and did not hurt the viscera, although Tao Zhutu was still in a coma, but Lang Zhong said that with his physique, he should be able to withstand it.

After joining up with Qiu Xiaozhi and Tao Zhuhu, Lan Ziyi no longer had to worry about the problems in the camp, he gave up his war horse, found a car, and arranged for people to escort Tao Zhutu back to Beijing. After seeing Tao Zhutu walk away, Lan Ziyi grabbed Tao Zhuhu's arm and said:

"Big brother! It's me who is not good, I caused the third brother to lose most of his life. ”

Peach chased the tiger for the whole battle, and when Lan Ziyi joined him, he was also embarrassed. Although he usually counts him as the most strict discipline of peach and rabbit, when his own brother fell unconscious in front of his eyes, this man who looked like a bear and tiger couldn't help crying.

Peach Chase Tiger has been defending the South Gate for a long time without reinforcements, and his own troops are stretched thin because they are assigned to support the West Gate, and Peach Chase Tiger has been struggling to defend when he was attacked by demon thieves, but even so, after Peach Chase Rabbit was sent, he still arranged Peach Chase Rabbit within his sight. When the south gate was breached, Tao Zhuhu immediately arranged for the trustworthy people around him to escort his third brother to break through, and he himself led the team to plan to die at the camp gate.

After Tao Zhutu was put into the carriage, Tao Zhuhu and Lan Ziyi, like Lan Ziyi, kept watching the carriage out of the camp, and there were more people, and Tao Zhuhu was not crying, but everyone next to him could see from his red eyes that this big brother was really heartbroken.

After hearing Lan Ziyi's apology, Tao Zhuhu couldn't hold back his crying, but he immediately turned his cry into a cough, and withdrew the hand that Lan Ziyi grabbed and wiped his face. After putting the tears oozing from his eyes into his palm, Tao Zhuhu grabbed Lan Ziyi again and said:

"Chasing the rabbit failed to protect the young master, it was his humiliating mission......"

Tao Zhuhu wanted to apologize for his words, but he choked up before he finished speaking, and Tao Zhulu hurriedly stepped forward to support Tao Zhuhu when he saw this.

Lan Ziyi saw his eldest brother like this, he couldn't hold back his tears anymore, he hugged the peach and cried:

"If the eldest brother wants to scold, scold me, I hurt the third brother!"

Tao Zhuhu couldn't help being said by Lan Ziyi, and hugged Lan Ziyi and cried:

"You and San Lang are both my brothers, what do I have to scold the young master?

Our brother came to the capital with the young master to protect the young master, and it is Saburo's duty to do so. It's just that my brother was injured like that, and my heart hurts! ”

Tao Zhulu, who was silent on the side, couldn't help crying when he heard the words, the three brothers hugged their heads and cried, and the surrounding soldiers wept when they heard it.

Qiu Xiao stood upright and quietly watched the three of them in pain, while he dealt with the military intelligence reports handed by the sergeants from various places during this time. After the three of them cried for a while to vent their feelings, Qiu Wenruo stepped forward and said:

"Wei Hou, Da Lang, Erlang, and San Lang are seriously injured, but he has been sent to the capital, and we can't go to the capital with the rest of these people. Now the sun had set, but the camp had been burned to the ground, and everyone in the army was wounded, and thousands of wounded were unable to move and needed medical attention. What Wei Hou had to think about now was setting up camp at night for the night. ”

When Lan Ziyi heard this, he let go of Tao Zhuhu and Tao Zhulu, wiped his eyes with his sleeve, and then said to Qiu Xiaozhi:

"What Mr. said is extremely true, it is Ziyi's negligence."

Then Lan Ziyi looked up and looked around, the fire he lit burned most of the battalion, and now he wanted to collect waste materials and set up camp again, but he couldn't make do it all night. Lan Ziyi, who couldn't think of a way, turned his eyes to the father and son of the enemy family again, and he asked:

"Is there anything you can do about it?"

Qiu Xiaozhi stuck to the east gate, and he fought very hard, his right arm was slashed, and he hastily treated the wound after the battle just now. Now hearing Lan Ziyi's question, he said:

"Wei Hou, as far as I saw all the way just now, the camp has been burned down, and the grain, grass, tents, and savings in the camp are all gone, and we can't camp on our own."

Lan Ziyi said:

"Does Mr. Xiaozhi want me to ask for help from the capital? Although there are things in the capital, it is already dark now, and it is impossible for us to transport them. ”

Qiu Xiao said straightly:

"Of course, it is not appropriate to mobilize materials from the capital, but there are ready-made materials, grain and grass near our army, and we can get them nearby."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"Mr. Xiaozhi said that it is the Eastern Army that came to help?"

Qiu Xiaozhi nodded and said:

"Exactly! In my opinion, we should take advantage of the fact that it is not yet dark and immediately join the eastern army camp, for the eastern army is marching, and even if the supplies are insufficient, we will be able to get enough in one night to give me something. Tomorrow, the materials in the capital will be transferred, and the army will naturally have enough to spend.

What's more, we are so defeated that we are so embarrassed, if we camp alone, what if the thieves come back at night? “

Lan Ziyi's face was embarrassed when he heard what Qiu Xiaozhi said, and he said:

"What the gentleman said is very good, but I am afraid it is not good for us to pass like this without an order."

Qiu Xiaozhi says:

"If Wei Hou feels that there is a difficulty, he can also send someone to ask for help from the Eastern Army, and ask them to share some grain and grass tents for me and others to use, although it is time-consuming, but it is also feasible."

Lan Ziyi nodded when he heard this, and he said:

"It's okay to do this, if the Eastern Army has the heart, maybe they will take the initiative to come to our side and set up camp."

Lan Ziyi waved his hand to summon someone to come over and give the order, but he heard a soldier come over and report loudly:

"Wei Hou! Guard! A Taicheng guard came to announce the order, ordering us to go to the eastern military camp, and the two armies joined forces and camped together. ”