Today is really Yu Hai's sacrifice day, the day was heavily injured by the Yuan cavalry, and he barely survived after rescue, but he no longer had the physical strength and energy to command, and had to hand over the command to Liu Zhengfeng. Unexpectedly, the Urging Ghost arrived after a few hours. This time, Yu Hai didn't dodge, he added a fatal knife wound to his body, and he didn't know who cut him in the chaos.

Wanyan Amur's investigation and judgment were very accurate, Yan Chi led the team to take Yuhai directly, and although the relatives and guards were desperately rescued, they were powerless to return to the sky.

Yu Lan saw that Yu Hai's injuries were stable after feeding her father, so she handed over to the guards to take care of her, and she obeyed her father's words to go back to take care of her mother, and she escaped by not being here.

This time it was Liu Zhengfeng who was seriously injured, and he and his guards desperately tried to save Yu Hai in vain, and he was knocked out by Yuanqi's war horse, with several broken ribs and bleeding inside. But because it was knocked to the side, the person did not suffer subsequent injuries.

Yu Shichang's eyes were red, and his father died in the hands of the Tartars!

Yu Hai was seriously injured during the day, Yu Shichang was already very guilty, and now because of his own negligence, he relaxed his vigilance, and his father died at the hands of the Tartars, and it is difficult for him to atone for his sins even if he dies! Yan Chi attacked successfully at night, did not dare to fight, and led his subordinates to rush around in the camp of the front team, and went down to find a vacancy and never returned. When Yu Zhilong and the others came, they only saw the figure of the fleeing Yuan Qi from a distance.

Yu Shichang took more than a dozen subordinates to chase after him like crazy, but everyone couldn't stop him and let him go.

The sky gradually brightened, and after everyone gathered to treat the wounded, they were depressed and speechless in the face of the corpses of the sea. Yu Hai is the backbone of the big guy after all, and for more than a year, everyone has become accustomed to Yu Hai's command and basically obeys him. Now that Yu Hai is gone, how to go forward, several big leaders have no thoughts for a while.

Yu Zhilong was remorseful, he couldn't imagine that the resilience of these Yuan Cavalry was so strong, and even after suffering defeat, they dared to launch a night attack. It seems that the vigilance of the troops needs to be greatly strengthened, and there are too many things that you need to learn to lead the army in the future! Not only reconnaissance, but also combat skills, marching, camping, command, logistics, and so on must be mastered as soon as possible.

Liu Zhengfeng was lying on a blanket, with a thin blanket on his back, his face was pale, and he coughed from time to time. Everyone looked at him with a worried face, one of the two big bosses was killed and one was injured in one day, and this loss was a bit big. Yu Lan and Yu Hai's mother-in-law, Xin, cried and fell on Yu Hai's corpse, yesterday they comforted the families who had lost their loved ones, but they didn't expect that they would lose their relatives today.

Yu Lan's eyes were already red and swollen from crying, her delicate face was full of grief, and her slender body trembled slightly in the cool morning breeze.

Finally, Yu Shichang and the others returned, but they still didn't catch up with Yuanqi. Yu Shichang jumped off the horse hatefully, came to Yu Hai's corpse, kowtowed a few times, with the help of his sister Yu Lan, the two changed Yu Hai's clothes, wiped the blood stains and mud on his face, helped his dazed mother to the side to rest, with the help of everyone, wrapped in a mat, chose a sunny slope, and buried it hastily, with a wooden plaque as a monument, Yu Shichang did not dare to engrave Yu Hai's name, just wrote "first test in the cemetery", and wrote down the year, month and day below.

Zhao Shi, Yu Zhilong and the leaders of the families in front of the sea tomb in turn after a simple memorial, left Yu Lan's mother and daughter to guard the tomb, under the request of Liu Zhengfeng, sat on the ground under a big tree at will, and discussed the way out.

Yu Shichang led people to gather more than ten Yuan Cavalry who died in the night attack, poked each of them several times, cut off their ears and noses, and stripped off their armor one by one and hung them on the trees before coming back.

"Everyone, Yu Da Dang has gone, this Tartar has finally been beaten away, the Tartar has suffered a big loss, and he will not come for the time being. Will the plan we had agreed to cross the Qingshui River continue, and if so, where will we go? Let's take a charter! Liu Zhengfeng sat on a stone and said softly, he was injured in the chest, he couldn't speak loudly, and it was impossible to fight, and now he could barely lie on the ox cart with the army, and Liu Zhengfeng insisted on sitting and presiding over the meeting.

The leader Liu Qixian said: "Since the Tartars who attacked by the sneak attack have already run away, let's quickly cross the river, get rid of the official army, and go north to the west of Qingzhou Road to operate, or continue north to Wuding Mansion." I heard that there are few people in the land, but it is a good place to hide. ”

Leader Wan disagreed, and said: "Why don't we go west to Jinan Road and go to Tai'an Prefecture, where the mountains are high and the forests are dense, and it is a good place to set up a village tree flag." ”

"I'm not leaving! The Tartars fled north, they must have joined the Meng thief, since they suffered a big loss, they will definitely urge the Meng thief to pursue us as soon as possible, we now have horses, armor, and bows, right here, let's find a place to fight hard once, to avenge my father! Yu Shichang said loudly.

Someone next to him comforted him and told him to calm down. Liu Zhengfeng looked at Zhao Shi and the others again, and motioned for Zhao Shi and the others to speak.

Zhao Shi straightened up, put his fists on his knees, and said: "The last time we discussed was to cross the river as soon as possible, and then choose the opportunity to move, I didn't expect that there would be Tartar cavalry to kill out, now our strength is damaged, it is not easy to fight hard with the official army, I think it is better not to fight with the official army, hurry up and jump out." As for which direction, I agree with Yu Qianhu's words! "What Zhao Shi said about Yu Qianhu, everyone immediately understood that it was Yu Zhilong.

Liu Zhengfeng saw that Yu Zhilong was silent at first, just quietly listening to everyone's opinions, this Yu Xiaoge has been in the limelight recently, especially today. Liu Zhengfeng knew that Yu Zhilong was a person with many ideas, and now the situation had changed too much on this day, Liu Zhengfeng wanted to hear what Yu Zhilong thought, and said to Zhilong: "Yu Qianhu also talk about it." ”

Yu Zhilong saw that Liu Zhengfeng opened his mouth, straightened out his thoughts in his mind, and said slowly: "Big boss, everyone, to be honest, our battle really hurt the Tartar cavalry, if they have no backup, they should no longer be able to pose a threat to us now." However, our losses are not small, and we will not recover in the short term. ”

"Now that the officers and troops around us are still surrounding, I believe that from tonight onwards, the officers and troops everywhere will continue to know the news of our engagement with the Tartar cavalry. If the expectation is not bad, the officers and troops around us will definitely not let go of the good opportunity of our strength being damaged, and they will soon be dispatched and pounce on us. So we can't stay here, we can't delay, we must leave as soon as possible! ”

"Tell me, Chief, where are we going?" Thousands of households interjected and asked.

"The original plan was to cross the Qingshui River, get rid of the officials and troops, and go to a place where the imperial court has little power. But after two days of fighting, not only did our strength weaken, but it was no longer possible to secretly cross the river, and the Tartars had fled to the north, and they would definitely join the Meng thief, who had already deployed his men and horses along the river. With so many of us, we will definitely not be able to cross the river quickly, and it will be difficult to escape if we are blocked by Meng Lao Thief by the river. ”

"So I suggest taking advantage of the late news of the officers and troops in the south, make a time difference, and all of them go south quickly, try to avoid the officers and troops, and if there is no chance, they will be taken by surprise! Then go east and go to Laizhou! ”

"There are a lot of officers and soldiers in the south." Qin Zhanshan sighed when he heard this.

"We now have more than 300 horses, the speed of the march can be greatly accelerated, the officers and troops are basically foot soldiers, it is difficult to catch up with us, if there is no way to avoid it, take advantage of its unpreparedness, give it a blow, the possibility of winning and rushing out is still very great! I heard that there are also many people in Lunan who gather together to stand on their own, and it would be better if we could get their support! ”

Everyone was silent for a while, although these leaders were able to lead their men to fight against the officers and soldiers, but there were not many people who had insight into the overall situation. Although Yu Zhilong didn't know much information, first, he had been in the scout team for a long time, and he had learned to sort out the various news collected, and found the context of it, and secondly, he faintly felt in his mind that Zhang Shicheng and Liu Futong in the south were not eliminated by the Yuan court so quickly, and the last Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the opportunity to fight with the main force of the Yuan army at the beginning because the activity area was more southerly, and after the Yangtze River basin fought east and west, and gradually eliminated the surrounding anti-Yuan forces, the final Northern Expedition was finalized in the Central Plains.

If there is an opportunity to go south to join Zhu Yuanzhang, is it a way out? Yu Zhilong has popped up this idea from time to time recently, but in his memory, it seems that Zhu Yuanzhang's generals and strategists did not end well, he just sought to survive in the troubled times, and in this vicissitudes of the sea, he was not even a wave.

Among these influential figures such as Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang, the current self is small and pitiful, even if it is Pingzhang or Wanhu and the like, what qualifications can be in their sight? And now it's so far away from them, with the current level of traffic, it can really be said to be thousands of miles away. There is also a large area controlled by the Yuan Court in the middle, especially the Yuan Court is constantly dispatching troops and horses to the south to suppress bandits and quell the rebellion, so many Yuan soldiers are a real existence. I want to pass through unharmed alone under the heavy army, and join the rebels in the south, and dream!

It's not feasible to go south!

It is also not advisable to go west, and now there is an endless stream of people, horses, grain and grass on the official road in Luxi, and if you hit it headlong, you will inevitably stab the hornet's nest.

The north is facing the river, and the other party must have taken precautions now, and if it continues to go north, the risk will increase.

After Yu Zhilong explained that he was powerful, he sat down and watched how Liu Zhengfeng decided. Taking advantage of the fact that the officers and troops coming from the south had not yet understood the situation of today's battle, they looked for a gap in the encirclement of the officers and troops, jumped out of the encirclement, and then marched east for a distance to observe the movements of the officers and troops of all roads. Liu Zhengfeng basically adopted Yu Zhilong's suggestion.

Yu Zhilong once again suggested that he was willing to lead part of the squadron to set off first, leaving all the wounded behind and marching with the brigade. In order to avoid the instability of the foot soldiers, all the foot soldiers with the families of the army also stayed in the rear team.

The task of the advance troops is to explore and look for loopholes in the officers and troops, and the second is to open the road, search along the way, eliminate the small units of the Yuan army on the road, and strive to obtain some food and other seizures. Zhao Shi proposed to lead some of the scouts to form a team with Yu Zhilong, with Yu Zhilong as the main and himself as the deputy, to open the way for everyone.

Liu Zhengfeng thought about it for a long time, and finally agreed to Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi's invitation.

If it weren't for Yu Zhilong's extraordinary performance in recent combat and resourcefulness, especially in the past two days, which has been recognized by everyone, in fact, Zhao Shi is the most suitable to lead the team this time.

Yu Zhilong thought that he was still young, originally a subordinate of Zhao Shi, and was still willing to serve Zhao Shi as the main general, but Zhao Shi did not change his original intention, and said: Zhao is only a charging general, and there is no material for quick intelligence. Although Yu Zhilong is a subordinate, his performance these days is already convincing and can be of great use! Zhao is willing to assist the deputy general.

Yu Zhilong retreated several times, but Zhao Shi insisted, and Liu Zhengfeng agreed.

Knowing that the military situation is as urgent as fire, after deciding everything, everyone does not talk nonsense, takes care of each other, and goes back to prepare for parting.

At nearly noon, Yu Zhilong, Zhao Shi and others gathered and set off, hastily ate a meal of wheat porridge and horse meat, checked and sorted out the weapons, sundries and horses they carried, and prepared to set off. This time, Zhao Shi took Ma Yunlong, Wu Side, Hou Ying, Qian Xiucai, and a total of more than 20 people closest to the original scout team to join, Qian Zheng originally gave Lang Zhong a hand in each team to treat the wounded, and heard that Zhao Shi and Yu Zhilong formed a team, as a pioneer, and immediately found it back and took the initiative to join.

"Zhao Tou, Brother Yu, you must take me with you this time, we have never been separated since the incident!"

Zhao Shi thought that Qian Zheng's family was now the only one left in his family, and the Qian Zheng family had taken care of his family in the township back then, and wanted to leave him in the back team, and the hope of survival was greater, but Qian Zheng repeatedly asked to accompany the team, making it clear that he was not a person who was greedy for life and afraid of death, and that he and his brothers were lifelong friendships, not seeking to live together, but to die together!

Yu Zhilong and Zhao Shi felt their words and allowed them to go along.

After two days of fighting, the original squadron had less than 50 people who could set off this time, and according to Yu Zhilong's request, the wounded and others accompanied the brigade, and those with family members also stayed. Yu Zhilong is mainly worried that the time of this mission is not easy to master, and those who have family members will inevitably worry about their relatives after a long time, and if it affects the task because of emotional fluctuations, it is not beautiful. Besides, it is difficult to say what will happen as a precursor, since the risk is high, it is more worry-free to take some singles to set off.