After receiving the order from Nanyang, Yuan Shizhong didn't really want to rush out like this to help the officers and soldiers fight against Tian Jianxiu's army.

You must know that Tian Jianxiu brought 40,000 horses, while his Xiao Yuan battalion only had more than 20,000 people, and this was only the vanguard force.

If Sun Chuanting and Yang Sichang can't beat Li Zicheng together, then he will inevitably bring people to Nanyang to find a place.

Yuan Shizhong refused to use all his strength, in fact, he was afraid of Li Zicheng's revenge, which was also a common disease of the rogues who surrendered to the imperial court, and always wanted to leave a way back for himself.

Another point, Yuan Shizhong has always regarded himself as a rebel in the past, but now he has turned into an officer and soldier, and he wants to call his former self a thief, and he can't turn a corner for a while.

But fortunately, Liu Yuqi was next to him, and as soon as he explained all kinds of truths to Yuan Shizhong, he said them all.

Liu Yuchi's meaning is also very simple, saying Brother, you have no other way to go now, if you don't go all out to help the prince of Nanyang to destroy Tian Jianxiu's lone army first, Xiao Yuanying will be gone soon.

Li Zicheng's order was to directly take the heads of our brothers back, take 10,000 steps back and say, even if you can go back, you won't be a grandson all the time.

Be a general in Nanyang and go back to be a grandson, which one to choose?

Otherwise, what his brother said was reliable, at least he wouldn't turn out, Liu Yuchi persuaded him like this, and Yuan Shizhong made up his mind, and ordered Yuan's soldiers and horses to abandon the inner countryside and go straight to Tian Jianxiu's rear.

After Yuan Shizhong set off with a large army from the inner countryside early in the morning, in order not to let Tian Jianxiu find out, he took the mountain path.

Due to the cover of the mountain trails, horses cannot be ridden in some places, so the marching speed of Xiao Yuan's camp is not very fast, dozens of miles, and he walked for half a day.

When they marched to the halfway point of a mountain called Xiangshan by the locals, they saw Bai Minghe leading people to run and throw down a lot of weapons and armor.

This kind of little trick, how could Yuan Shizhong not understand, he could see at a glance that these two goods were playing a trick to lure the enemy, but he didn't dare to act rashly and decided to see what happened.

Yuan Shizhong handed over 10,000 horses to Liu Yuqi and asked him to find Tian Jianxiu, if Zhu Youhua's Chinese army had already fought with Tian Jianxiu's main force at the bridgehead, these 10,000 horses would be a surprise army.

Liu Yuqi's 10,000 small Yuan camp was not mentioned, only saying that Yuan Shizhong left these 10,000 people by himself.

Since there were less than half of the people and horses, Yuan Shizhong didn't dare to move, he ordered them to rest in the mountains, after all, after running for half a day, they also needed to recuperate.

It was during this period when Xiao Yuan's battalion was repairing in the mountains that Nanyang Wei commanded Yang Feng's thousands of men and horses to be killed by Bai Minghe and Liu Xiyao on the way to pursuit, and fell into a bitter battle.

In the later battles, Yuan Shizhong could see clearly from the top of the mountain from the perspective of God, and he saw that people from the Nanyang camp arrived one after another, and slowly surrounded the middle.

He also saw that Yang Feng's men and horses were intercepted by the Nanyang camp after they were dispersed, and he had to go back and fight the thieves.

Although the men and horses of the Nanyang battalion surrounded Bai Minghe and Liu Xiyao's army, after all, the number was not large, only more than 2,000 people, so they were just watching from the wall.

Xiao Yuan Ying is different, Yuan Shizhong still has more than 10,000 people in his hands, which way is enough to form an overwhelming advantage.

If he goes to fight the Nanyang camp, Zhu Youhua will be defeated, but if he goes to break into the camp, this 40,000-strong rogue army will also be completely dispersed.

But at this time, there is obviously no second option.

Yuan Shi found that the Weisuo army was gradually weakened, but although Bai Minghe and Liu Xiyao were in an absolute advantage, it was difficult to defeat Yang Fengshi for a while, and said to his subordinates:

"It seems that I have to go down and help the officers and soldiers."

The old camp glanced at him meaningfully, and said, "Master Yuan, you have to think about it, do you want to completely break with King Chuang?" ”

Yuan Shizhong understood that many people in the Yuan camp at this time had the same idea as him, and they were compromising in various forces in order to achieve the safety and independence of the Yuan camp.

Xiao Yuanying has always been in the house, no matter how big the movement is, in fact, he has never thought about becoming bigger, and has always pursued the policy of relying on others.

"I understand what you're thinking." Yuan Shizhong smiled bitterly: "But at this time, you and I can only be the next one to break through the sky, he Li Zicheng is not a good man and a woman!" ”

After speaking, Yuan Shizhong gave an order and led people to rush down from the mountainside.

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As soon as the war drums on Xiangshan sounded, and when they saw the outfits of the people who came, Liu Xiyao and Bai Minghe knew that it was the rebels who came.

Liu Xiyao sent a horse team to meet him quickly, asking if Tian Jianxiu's main force was coming, on the other hand, Bai Minghe also personally led people and pressed Yang Fengbu in the middle with all his might.

But soon, Liu Xiyao found the clue.

He found that the rebels who rushed down the hillside were extremely numerous, at least nearly 10,000, and they were not in the right direction, as if they were coming towards themselves.

Suddenly, he realized something.

If this rebel army is not here to help them, then rushing from the side, they will not be restricted by the terrain at all, and they will soon be able to cut and surround their men and horses.

Sure enough, this rebel army, which they thought was reinforcements, directly killed the oncoming horse team, and then crashed headlong into the side of the middle rogue without any resistance.

At the same time, Lei Dahu on the other hill also discovered that something was wrong, and he thought it was another rogue who was reinforcing the rogues, but he fought with Bai Minghe and Liu Xiyao in the middle.

Isn't this a dog-eat-dog!

"What's going on?" Lei Dahu looked confused, "Let's see what's going on, we can't fight in full swing, but we don't know anything!" ”

Several horsemen rushed out of the army and rushed to the battlefield from the army, and when they returned, there was only one man left, who was covered in blood, and clenched his fists and shouted:

"President Qi Qian, it was Yuan Shizhong's men and horses who came from the inner countryside, and they were attacking the side of the Liukou, saying that we should quickly go down the mountain to support!"

"This Yuan Shizhong really came all the way over?" Lei Dahu laughed, "The prince is really clever, God!" Brethren, follow me down the mountain! ”

At the sound of an order, the Nanyang battalion, which had been in formation for a long time, started one after another, forming a circle and surrounding the mountain, and the soldiers raised their swords and guns and shouted slogans.

"Surrender and don't kill, surrender and don't kill!"

Speaking of which, the saddest thing is Yang Fengyi, who was surrounded in the middle.

Now this is the situation, the Nanyang battalion is surrounding the Liukou outside, but the number is small and they dare not act rashly, and the Liukou is concentrating all their firepower to attack Yang Feng, who is surrounded by them in the middle.

If it weren't for the fact that there was no way to escape, and the soldiers were all dead, Yang Feng's department might have collapsed a long time ago, where would it hold out for so long.

Bai Minghe personally went into battle, and the attack of the rogues became more and more ferocious.

Bai Minghe rushed over and wanted to play a decapitation, and even rushed in front of Yang Feng with a gun.

This Yang Feng is still a battle-hardened veteran, facing this leader of the gangsters, looking at the disdainful ridicule on his face, Yang Feng, who has been retired in Nanyang for many years, feels that the man's self-esteem has been insulted, and he has a strong heads-up ability.

Yang Feng swung his knife and cut off Bai Minghe's gun, and in the face of the opponent's unabated saber slash, Yang Feng accurately slashed the opponent's left leg and cut him off the horse.

The strength and accuracy of these two knives were something that Bai Minghe, the leader of the rogue Kou, did not expect, and he didn't understand at all why a general of the Ming army, who was bent on escaping not long ago, had such a strong combat effectiveness.

In fact, in the first half of his life, especially in the battle against the captives in the next few months after the winter of Chongzhen's eleventh year, Yang Feng experienced many thrilling fighting scenes.

During the battle in Liaodong, he was often covered in blood, and he crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood again and again, but he did not get the due reward, so that the veteran gradually lost his initial enthusiasm for serving the country on the battlefield.

When he came to Nanyang, he only thought about messing around, and he didn't train his soldiers, and he didn't care about the guards, because he knew that no matter how hard he tried, it would be of no great use.

But in this battle that was surrounded in the middle, in order to continue to live, General Yang Feng lifted the big knife that he hadn't held for many years.

Now he seems to have returned to the time when Liaodong fought with Jiannu many years ago.