Wei Qionglou ordered:

"Pick half of the sergeants to ride two horses, and immediately travel lightly, and the rest will stay and repair, and then follow up in batches, and escort grain and grass by the way."

Lan Ziyi was already dizzy and confused, and the Tao brothers were almost holding him to send him back to the tent.

Hearing this, he still insisted and said:

"Never!"

Wei Qionglou asked:

"Why not?"

Lan Ziyi's expression had already begun to be in a trance, and he tried his best to say:

"The enemy has captured Xiangcheng, the next step is to go north, and now the expedition to chase the thieves and thieves may not be effective, and there is an army of thieves in Yiling. The art of war is cloudy: to cause people but not to people. You can't do that......"

魏qiong楼 says:

"We were the vanguard of the army, but we fell for the plan of the thief Li Dai Taozhuang, and let the main force of the thief cross the river into the north. If we don't pursue the thieves and wait until the court condemns the crime, we will be exiled at the least, and we will be killed at the worst, and it will be too late to regret it!

The most important thing is that the main force of the thieves is going north, and there is no enemy south of Xiangcheng. “

Lan Ziyi wanted to say more, but there seemed to be a big whirlpool in his head, sucking everything in.

Lan Ziyi felt that his body was out of control, and he completely collapsed to the ground, and the call of the Tao brothers in his ears was getting farther and farther away, and after the last bit of thought was drained, Lan Ziyi felt a sense of relief from sin,

"I can finally rest," Lan Ziyi thought,

All that remains is endless darkness.

I don't know how long it has been, how many years have passed, Lan Ziyi just feels that in the dark, his body can no longer feel his body, he can only feel himself, tossing and turning in the dark, and then finally stopped rolling, and Lan Ziyi finally fell asleep.

It took a long time for Lan Ziyi to wake up from his deep sleep, and the first reaction when he opened his eyes was where was this? Why not your own study? Later, I slowly remembered that I had left Luoyan Pass for a long time, and now, the place where I stayed now should be Jiangling.

Thinking of this, Lan Ziyi suddenly woke up, and then there was a burst of dizziness, but this time the dizziness did not last long, and it seemed that the fever had subsided.

Lan Ziyi turned his head to look aside, Tao Zhutu was sleeping on the table, snoring like thunder,

It's really strange, why didn't Lan Ziyi hear snoring at all before seeing Tao Zhutu?

In addition to the sound of snoring, there was also a sour smell wafting from Tao Zhutu.

Tao Zhutu must have been keeping vigil for the past few days, and I don't know how many days of vigil, it's really hard.

Lan Ziyi couldn't bear to wake up Tao Zhutu, tried his hands and feet, and still had strength, so he sat up from the bed by himself.

Lan Ziyi wanted to stand up, but his hands and feet were really weak.

originally thought that Tao Zhutu was sleeping steadily, but the movement of turning over still woke him up.

When he turned around and saw Lan Ziyi sitting up, he hurriedly got up and asked:

"Young Master, you're awake!"

Lan Ziyi nodded and asked:

"How long did I sleep?"

桃追兔 says:

“…… Wei Hou has been sleeping for two days. “

Lan Ziyi asked:

"What about General Wei?"

Peach Rabbit replied:

"I took someone with me that night."

Lan Ziyi sighed and did not speak

Tao Zhutu was busy beckoning the maid to come over to serve Lan Ziyi, and by the way, he asked someone to find Tao Zhuhu and Tao Zhulu.

Lan Ziyi heard that Tao Zhuhu and Tao Zhulu were not around, and asked:

"Big ...... Where have you been? ”

Peach Rabbit replied:

"The eldest brother arranged for the soldiers to stay, and gathered the stragglers of the Jihu battalion who came from Jiangcheng. The second brother worked with Boss Ma and Squire Yan to transport grain and grass, resettle the people, and receive the military supplies that were transported. ”

Lan Ziyi asked:

"Military supplies?"

桃追兔 says:

"Exactly, the military supplies have been sent from the battalion, mainly horses, and counting the ones collected from the vicinity, and now the brothers under his command can have one horse in their hands."

Lan Ziyi was going to let Tao Zhutu mobilize people to chase Wei Qionglou now, but was stopped by Tao Zhutu.

After a while, Tao Zhuhu and Tao Zhulu rushed over, and Lan Ziyi proposed to go to support in the starry night, but the two of them opposed it to death, and the main reason was, of course, Lan Ziyi's physical condition.

Lan Ziyi saw that he couldn't resist the two of them, so he asked:

"Is there any news from General Wei?"

Tao Zhulu replied:

"It's only been two days since we left, and there's no news. A lot of grain was evenly distributed in Gangneung City, which could be supplied to the whole army. “

兰子义 says:

"Then let's hurry up and send the grain and grass to the round with General Wei."

Tao Zhuhu replied:

"Wei Hou had a high fever a few days ago, and Lang Zhong couldn't even prescribe medicine, God bless and finally got better, what should I do if I get sick again if I set off now? If anything goes wrong, it will not be enough for the three of us brothers to die to apologize! “

Lan Ziyi sighed and said:

"Then tomorrow, tomorrow at the latest, we have to go, no later! Where is the big camp going now? ”

Tao Zhulu replied:

"Xunyang."

Lan Ziyi sighed and said;

"Well, it's faster than the other day."

Then Lan Ziyi asked:

"Wei Qionglou, why don't you stop him?"

The Tao brothers looked at each other, and Tao Zhutu said:

"At that time, they were busy saving Wei Hou, and they didn't care about stopping him at all."

桃淚虎 says:

"Wei Hou is one of the arms of King De on this expedition, he is the deputy marshal, it is only right to stop him Wei Qionglou, we are just Wei Hou's family, we are not qualified to stop him from transferring troops."

Lan Ziyi sighed and said:

"Just to give an explanation to the court, I have to jump into the pit with the soldiers, alas!"

桃扵鹿 says:

"It's hard to say whether it's a pit or not, after all, the main force of the thieves is attacking Xiangcheng, and Yiling is just a suspicious soldier, maybe it's the same as Jiangling. Besides, Brother Wei and Wei Hou are from different backgrounds, and they look at problems from different angles. He was in a hurry and there was a reason why he was in a hurry. “

Lan Ziyi was silent after hearing this, and said after a while:

"It's really not the right time for me to get sick, and if I don't do it, I will delay the military plane."

Peach Rabbit smiled:

"It's not all, at least Wei Hou's fat body is gone."

Lan Ziyi smiled bitterly, and did not pick up the peach and rabbit stubble,

Tao Zhutu thought that everyone would laugh like before, but he didn't expect Lan Ziyi to face each other coldly, and his heart was cold as if he was spending winter.

So everyone didn't say anything more, and let the servant greet Lan Ziyi and rest after dinner.

Nothing happened that night.

The next morning, Lan Ziyi got up and went to the army garrison accompanied by Tao Zhutu.

The sergeants who had not participated in the battle before, and the sergeants who stayed in the Jiangcheng barracks and the sergeants who came one after another on the road who fell ill had already gathered in Gangneung, and after a few days of repair, everyone's illness was almost healed, and the horses had regained their strength.

Exactly three thousand after the count, and there were no morning losses in the previous march and battle.

Lan Ziyi took the time to meet with Boss Ma and Squire Yan again.

The two gentry had already disbanded most of the local people who had been pulled up to defend the city, and the rest were just right to maintain law and order in Gangneung.

In the past two days since the recovery of Jiangling, the surrounding counties and townships have sent people to contact each other, and the situation has been stabilized, and the bandits have already gone north, so there is no threat around Jiangling for the time being.

Lan Ziyi wrote a letter in front of the two of them and sent it to the capital, specifically commending the merits of the two, and also making a list to commend the heroes listed by the two gentry.

After everything was ready, Lan Ziyi put on his armor and mounted his horse, and led the three thousand knights of the Eastern Tiger Battalion to go north along the road to Xiangcheng along the grain and grass supplies of the packing cart.

The first two days of the march were uneventful, although the weather was gloomy, but the rain finally stopped, and the roadside was mostly wasteland, not like the previous road, there were paddy fields everywhere, and there were no traces of fighting.

Although Lan Ziyi still muttered a little in his heart, it seemed that the main force of the thieves had fled north, and he only needed to speed up and catch up with the vanguard led by Wei Qionglou as soon as possible.

But reality doesn't make it so easy,

At noon on the third day, when the army was marching, the scouts in front suddenly pulled their horses and turned back, and the deputy general Wei Qionglou, who was covered in blood, passed through.

Seeing this, Lan Ziyi and the Tao brothers knew that something was wrong.

The deputy general was brought to Lan Ziyima, and after taking a breath, he knelt down and cried:

"Wei Hou! Go and rescue the General and the other brethren! ”

Lan Ziyi stared at the deputy general, his face seemed to be frozen, cold and without any emotion, and asked:

"You have one person and two horses, travel lightly, you should go to Dangyang in four days, what happened?"

The adjutant cried:

"The general led me to wait for the starry night, wanting to rush to Xiangcheng as soon as possible, and the people who traveled here were sleepy and tired, but I didn't expect that there would be an army of thieves and robbers in ambush here."

Lan Ziyi asked:

"How many are there?"

Adjutant General Says:

"At least forty thousand!"

Lan Ziyi gritted his teeth and scolded when he listened:

"Didn't you say that there were only 50,000 soldiers to fight for? There are 40,000 here, and Gangneung has been cleaned up by us for 10,000, so there are 50,000 people! ”

桃扵鹿 says:

"Rogues are like snowballing, if not controlled, they will only increase."

Lan Ziyi scolded again, and then asked the adjutant general:

"There are at least 40,000 thieves, and you only have 2,000, how did you survive?"

The adjutant cried:

"We were all cavalry, and after discovering the ambush, we fought and left, and tore apart the bandits several times, but because of the large number of thieves, we were finally surrounded in a forest.

The thieves were very cunning, and knew that the bow and arrow could not penetrate the armor on our bodies, so they specialized in shooting horses, and my handsome man rushed out to report that he had used up all the remaining horses, and now General Wei led the rest of his brothers to fight on foot and stick to the forest. Wei Hou, hurry up and rescue the brothers! “

Lan Ziyi heard that he didn't ask any more questions, and hurriedly ordered Tao Zhuhu to divide the whole army into two teams, and the rear team of 500 people to protect the baggage and retreat first, and he and the Tao brothers led the others to follow the deputy general to the battlefield.

After arriving at the battlefield, Lan Ziyi knew what trouble was, and the black pressure in front of him was full of thieves and soldiers, and layer after layer surrounded a forest in the middle, surrounded by water. Lan Ziyi wanted to send someone to get in touch with Wei Qionglou first, but he couldn't do it.