When Gao Chengyuan woke up, the sound of fighting did not stop, he opened his eyes and saw that the branches of the trees around him were slanting, and the peaks and cliffs were steep, he didn't know how long the time had passed, and he didn't know where he was, but he remembered that after he was cut off the horse, his chest was immediately trampled by the enemy, and the whole person fainted.

At this moment, he was in severe pain, as if all the bones in his body had been crushed, but his heart was more regretful.

The halberd he threw before falling from his horse was obviously able to pierce the face door of Chinese Ruilin with his eyes, but he didn't want to be picked off by General Liang, and he couldn't even avenge the 20,000 sailors who died in Hongzepu.

To say that when Li Qige killed Gao Long before, there were still many things that were just speculations, but he saw the figure of Wen Ruilin wearing a robe and straddled the horse to watch the battle after the third Xuanjia ride, and instantly understood:

Chang Guogong, that idiot, didn't see through Wen Ruilin's true face, the Great Chu Sailor was all bad in his hands, 24,000 sons, he died really unjustly!

"Where am I?" Gao Chengyuan endured the severe pain of the broken sternum, and asked his generals with difficulty, "Li Xiu, Li Mo, and Chen Mingsheng didn't enter the mountain alive, did the enemy chase them into the mountain?" ”

"The general wanted to rush through the enemy cavalry formation to kill Wen Ruilin, but unfortunately fell off his horse and was trampled by the enemy cavalry, and fortunately the enemy formation was scattered by the general, so we were able to desperately rescue the general and flee to Yashan," the general was also covered with wounds, with terrible blood scabs on his face, sitting on the stone ground with his buttocks, talking to Gao Chengyuan, for fear that Gao Chengyuan would close his eyes and pass, "There is still some distance from Yashan, and unfortunately he was entangled by the enemy cavalry again......"

"And then?"

Although the enemy's cavalry formation was disrupted, but when it was re-gathered, it was still faster than the remnants of the sailor division running with two feet, Gao Chengyuan did not expect the remnants of the 3,000 sailors to escape into the mountains, but he was more concerned about how many people fled into the mountains, and who were supporting the battle in the mountain passes at this time; is more concerned about how many of the foot soldiers led by Chen Ming after his ascension to the palace, and more concerned about whether Li Xiu and Li Qi have escaped the encirclement; As for Li Chong and Xu Jing, Gao Chengyuan didn't bother to think about it......

"The commander of the Marquis of Qianyang led a group of soldiers and horses to hide on the left and right, and at the critical time he killed from the sloping valley, shot dozens of enemy horses, and scattered the enemy army, so that we were able to get rid of the entanglement of the enemy army, and finally almost more than 2,000 brothers withdrew into the Bud Mountain, we were in a valley south of the Yashan Mountain and did not know what the name was, only knew that we could walk out of the mountains for more than ten miles to the southeast, but there were already enemy cavalry infested, so we could only continue to cross the mountains and go to the southwest...... "The general said.

Wujian Mountain Range is located in the northern section of the mountain between Mopan Valley and Longyou Lake, although there is no towering mountain range, the main peaks and ridges are mostly about 100 zhang, but the southwest to the northeast direction, stretching for more than 100 miles, and the depth and width are also thirty or forty miles.

This gives the remnants of the remnants of the Wujian Mountains plenty of room to maneuver.

Even if the enemy army is willing to pay the same price to annihilate them, it will not be possible in three or five days.

As long as the enemy army could not occupy the entire territory of Huaixi in a short period of time, they crossed the Mopan Valley, walked southwest along the Wujian Mountains, and walked to the southernmost part of the Wujian Mountains.

"General Chen Mingsheng, what about them?" Gao Chengyuan asked weakly.

"General Chen Mingsheng led the rear army to go to Longyou Lake at that time, but unfortunately was dispersed by the rout. There were also ambushes on the southeast shore of Longyou Lake, blocking the way for Li Chong, Xu Jing and others, and setting fire to the reeds on the east bank of Longyou Lake, and finally I don't know how many people fled to the northeast. However, the two generals, Li Xiu and Li Mo, were really powerful, and they forcibly penetrated the enemy's encirclement from the southwest, and at this time led 1,4500 people to withdraw into Xiongyan Mountain in the west, and just sent people to contact ......"

Li Xiu and Li Qi led more than 3,000 cavalry, almost withstood the main offensive launched by the main force of the Shouzhou cavalry from the western flank, and even led half of the cavalry to retreat into the Wujian Mountains, Gao Chengyuan was also secretly shocked, thinking that although it was related to the weak fighting spirit of the Shouzhou cavalry, this was enough to prove that the prestige of the palace of Zhedong County was not in vain.

At this time, the fighting in the north gradually weakened, and it was obvious that the enemy army had temporarily stopped the attack and withdrew from the valley under the stubborn resistance of their own side.

After a cup of tea, Kong Xirong and Guo Xiao took more than a dozen people through the mountains and forests to touch over, and saw that Gao Chengyuan had woken up, and arched his hand and said: "Although we found that Emperor Liang's imperial tent was ambushed at the foot of Yashan last night, my family said that only when the Right Shenwu Army retreated decisively southward could it be possible to live some people back, so they did not make a movement in the mountains, and we don't ask General Gao for forgiveness......

"Well said." Gao Chengyuan was also shocked when he saw Kong Xirong, and struggled to sit up, but his chest seemed to be torn apart, and he couldn't help but snort twice when he was such a man, so he didn't faint from the pain.

Kong Xirong didn't know if Gao Chengyuan could carry it, but it was obvious that Gao Chengyuan's situation was no longer suitable for him to participate in military decision-making, so he could only arrange for him to recuperate from his injuries first, and the next thing he would do with Gao Chengyuan's generals to discuss.

Taking advantage of the fact that the eyes of many parties were gathering between Zhongli and Chaozhou, as well as the soldiers and civilians of Nanqiao, Yongyang, and Liyang Zhucheng fled south in a hurry, and Chaotu was in chaos, Kong Xirong, Guo Xiao, Lin Jiang and others led more than 500 elite combat forces that could be gathered at present, and infiltrated the northern section of the Wujian Mountain Range in batches.

Kong Xirong led his troops over, not to meet the breakthrough of the Right Shenwu Army, after all, whether the Right Shenwu Army could decisively choose to break through before the Liang Army's foot soldiers crossed Huai, Han Qian was not sure when he was in Tangyi, and besides, the manpower he could call at this time was too limited, what qualifications did he have to meet the Right Shenwu Army more than 200 miles away, surrounded by 20,000 Shouzhou cavalry, and targeted by the main force of the Liang Army in Xuzhou to break through?

Han Qian sent Kong Xirong over, mainly thinking that Kong Xirong would lead a small group of elites to operate in the Wujian Mountains, and it was necessary to attract the attention of more enemy troops, so that more displaced people east of the Wujian Mountains could flee south and gather in Tangyi.

Or maybe neither the Liang army nor the Shouzhou army expected that a small group of Xuzhou elites would sneak into the northern section of the Wujian Mountain Range at this time, so that Kong Xirong noticed that there were heavy armored cavalry ambushing under Yashan before last night.

Since he knew the arrangement of the enemy, when the Right Shenwu Army broke through in the early morning, Kong Xirong led his troops through the mountains and forests, and went straight to Yashan, breaking up the enemy's cavalry at the critical moment, and bringing the remnants of Gao Chengyuan's troops into Yashan.

This has a lot to do with Gao Chengyuan's decision.

If Gao Chengyuan also made a wrong decision in a panic when he saw Li Chong and Xu Jing fleeing to the southeast gap, Kong Xirong led his troops to meet Li Xiu and Li Zhen to break through the siege, and it would never be possible for more than 400 people to fight for their lives in the open area of Yima Pingchuan......

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Escaping from Gao Chengyuan's halberd, it took Wen Ruilin a long time before he came back to his senses.

At this time, the sun was slanting in the west, Wen Ruilin rode a horse, and the guards and soldiers were in parallel with Pang Xiong, and went to Zhongli City, and saw Zhao Mingting, the former Zhongli guard, standing in front of the south city gate with a group of generals.

Zhao Mingting had already led his troops to take over Zhongli City, and his subordinates were conducting a more thorough search of the entire city to ensure that not a single soldier of Southern Chu was hiding in the city.

Wen Ruilin knew that Zhao Mingting was originally the head of the Privy Council of Southern Chu, and was deeply trusted by Empress Xu, Niu Gengru and others, and was the best at doing this.

However, during the Jinling Incident, in the confrontation with Yang Yuanyan, the king of letters, Zhao Mingting began to lead the troops, quite a general, and then after the Marquis of Zhenyuan was assassinated, he came forward to lead the remnants of the Lou Boat Army.

The remnants of the Lou Boat Army were forced to retreat to Hongzepu and use Zhongli City as a base, and Zhao Mingting took charge of Zhongli City's defense.

In the first battle of Hong Zepu, Zhao Mingting was mainly responsible for dealing with Gao Chengyuan's Left Wuya Army Water Division.

Even if the Southern Chu Naval Division was doomed to a bleak end, Zhao Mingting won more with less, and the casualties were even fewer than the Xuzhou Naval Division in the north, which was responsible for besieging the Water Division of the Right Wuya Army, which was also beautiful.

After the water battle of Hongzepu, considering that Hongzepu may be frozen at any time, Zhao Mingting led the remnants of the Lou boat army to retreat to Shouzhou, at this time the warships were frozen in the water army camp in Shouzhou, and the generals were also resting, but Zhao Mingting and his generals were most familiar with the sand bank and island island in Hongzepu, and to deal with the right Shenwu army, someone needed to set up an ambush in the sand bank, island island and the east of Longyou Lake in Hongzepu, so that the right Shenwu army could walk on the ice, but it was inconvenient for the cavalry to step into the lake ice to pursue, Xu Mingzhen ordered Zhao Mingting and his generals to lead a foot soldier to participate in the battle.

Zhao Mingting also fought quite beautifully in this battle.

Wen Ruilin heard that Chen Mingsheng, Wei Huang and many other generals of the Right Shenwu Army were killed for Zhao Mingting's subordinates.

And Daliang lacks generals who are good at fighting water wars, even if Zhao Mingting is a general of Southern Chu, Wen Ruilin guesses that he should also be qualified to enter His Majesty's field of vision, right?

"General Zhao......" Wen Ruilin dismounted and saluted Zhao Mingting.

Zhao Mingting was a senior general who commanded the envoy at this time, and when he saw Wen Ruilin standing upright, he knew that he was still a miraculous person, so he smiled in his heart, and politely said to Wen Ruilin and Pang Xiong: "Xu Hou and Lord Niu and Lord Wen will arrive in a short time, Ming Ting will stay here for a while, please Pang Du and Mr. Wen go into the city to rest......"

Wen Ruilin is proud of his achievements, and he will not be lazy to Xu Mingzhen, who is destined to be deliberately enveloped by His Majesty, and said to Pang Xiong: "It's okay, I'll wait with General Zhao for Xu Hou and all the adults to come over." ”

After a stick of incense, Xu Mingzhen, the envoy of the Shouzhou Festival, and Niu Gengru, Wen Duqiao and others, who had been the "famous ministers" of Southern Chu, also met with Wen Ruilin, Pang Xiong, Zhao Mingting and others in front of the city gate surrounded by more than 1,000 guards.

Xu Mingzhen's face was gloomy, somewhat upset by the terrible appearance of the Shouzhou cavalry, but Lei Jiuyuan on the side comforted him considerately and said:

"Xu Hou served my emperor, and he was the mainstay of Daliang, but he had not leaked the slightest news to the outside world before, and the generals of Shouzhou suddenly heard this, and it was inevitable that their hearts would be shaken. This battle can annihilate the main force of the Right Shenwu Army, it is already a complete victory, Jiuyuan has no regrets, and Xu Hou does not need to be harsh. Your Majesty also said that it is ...... not a famous general to do it if he is too demanding of full merit and causes heavy casualties to his own generals."

"Li Pu has no ability, but he gave birth to a son who is unstoppable, which is really enviable." Wen Ruilin, Pang Xiong, and Zhao Mingting walked over, greeted Xu Mingzhen and Lei Jiuyuan, and said with a smile.

He didn't care much about the more than 3,000 remnants of the army fleeing into Wujian Mountain.

The most exciting prelude to the whole war has just begun, and at this time, they have almost completely annihilated the water division of the Chu State, and almost completely annihilated one of the three most elite forbidden armies of the Chu State, and the results can already be said to be brilliant.

Besides, how fast can the more than 3,000 remnants of the army flee into the Wujian Mountains, and they can gather 20,000 cavalry at any time to go around the east flank of the Wujian Mountains, go straight to Yongyang, Chuzhou, Liyang and other cities, and drink the banks of the Horse River.

"Li Yu is known as the first general of Southern Chu, and his name is well deserved, he died for more than a year, and the heritage of the palace of Zhedong County cannot be taken lightly." Lei Jiuyuan said.

His statement is different from Wen Ruilin's emphasis, but he is not trying to argue with Wen Ruilin about right or wrong, but it is still a bit of a wake-up Wen Ruilin.

Wen Ruilin may only subconsciously emphasize Li Yuan's martial arts and military exploits now, but he also unconsciously wants to show his personal miraculous skills, and even rushed to speak in front of Zhao Mingting, which is more or less rude.

Lei Jiuyuan reminded Wen Ruilin that he should not forget that Li Qi can support from beginning to end, and more importantly, there are a large number of children from the palace of Zhedong County, who are brave and good at fighting left and right with soldiers; Otherwise, Li Zhen would have been killed as a scumbag a long time ago.

Wen Ruilin saluted with a gentle face: "What the Duke of Jiuyuan said is true! ”

Seeing that Wen Rui was complacent, Lei Jiuyuan thought in his heart that it might not be a bad thing for young people to be proud, and besides, Xu Mingzhen and the others were present, and they didn't say anything serious.

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After a day of fierce fighting, most of the generals who had fought in rounds had to shrink back, or camp in the village, or enter Zhongli City to rest. For the time being, the remnants of the soldiers who fled into the Wujian Mountains were only assigned 3,000 cavalry to keep an eye on the left and right flanks, and they had more important things to deal with in the future.

As long as these remnants do not come out of the mountains, they will not be able to move fast, and the cavalry will be well rested and can outflank and intercept at any time.

The day's fighting had almost come to an end by this time.

Before noon the next day, more than 1,000 cavalry crossed the Huai River from the north and rushed over, and Wen Rui rushed to the county hall after receiving the news, accompanied Xu Mingzhen, Niu Gengru, Wen Duqiao, Lei Jiuyuan and others for a while, and saw Shen Peng and Zhong Li's guard Zhao Mingting leading several generals in.

Wen Ruilin was ordered to lurk in Tanzhou in his early years, and Liang Guo has also undergone great changes over the years, many things are not things anymore, he had to be reminded by Lei Jiuyuan to know that the person opposite is Chen Kun, the commander of the left capital of the guard's army, and Han Yuanqi, Jing Zhen, Jing Hao and others are His Majesty's most trusted generals.

Wen Ruilin followed Lei Jiuyuan, Xu Mingzhen and others to meet Chen Kun, and heard Xu Mingzhen open his mouth and ask: "When will Your Majesty be able to arrive in Zhongli?" ”

Wen Ruilin has also been extremely concerned about this issue in the past two days.

Xuzhou is more than 300 miles away from Zhongli City, and the north bank of the Huai River was rainy and snowy a few days ago, and the road was difficult to travel, but six days had passed since he escaped from the Chaozhou camp, and it had been four days since he sent someone to Xuzhou to report the news.

In any case, Wen Ruilin felt that the infantry advance of the soldiers and horses gathered in Xuzhou City might be relatively slow, but the cavalry forward of tens of thousands should also cross the Huai River today and arrive at the Zhongli line.

But, what about now?

Except for the more than 1,000 Xuanjia cavalry led by Pang Xiong and the more than 300 reconnaissance cavalry of the Chengtiansi led by Shen Peng, only today Chen Kun led more than 1,000 cavalry to cross the Huai River, and did not hear the reconnaissance cavalry say that more soldiers and horses were approaching north of the Huai River.

Seeing that Lei Jiuyuan, Xu Mingzhen and others were concerned about His Majesty's whereabouts, Chen Kun untied his cloak to protect against the cold, handed it to the guards behind him, and said to everyone: "Your Majesty personally led the cavalry to Suyu......

"What, Your Majesty won't come to Zhongli?" Wen Ruilin thought of Lei Jiuyuan's warning yesterday, and wanted to hide behind Lei Jiuyuan and Xu Mingzhen as low-key as possible, but at this time, he couldn't help but ask in surprise.

Suyu belongs to Sizhou, located in the east of Hongzepu, south of Suyu, across the Huai River, is the letter king Yang Yuanyan personally led a heavy army to sit in the Huaidong town of Chuzhou.

Wen Ruilin never thought that His Majesty did not go to Zhongli City to supervise the battle as originally planned, but ran to Suyu.

Niu Gengru and Wen Duqiao, the ministers of Southern Chu, followed Xu Mingzhen to Zhongli's broken city, didn't they plan to stay in Zhongli and wait to meet them?

Didn't he plan to wait for the royal driver to arrive in Zhongli, and Empress Xu would also lead the family members of the Xu family a little later to come over to meet him, and after offering more than 100 children of the Yang clan, he would lead the Xu family to settle in Bianjing, in essence?

Wen Ruilin didn't have a solid face last night, he was full of thoughts about what His Majesty might ask when he was summoned, how he should answer the decent things, and how to help Lei Jiuyuan arrange His Majesty's palace if he wanted to stay in Zhongli City for the past few days, but he didn't expect His Majesty to suddenly change his mind.

Lei Jiuyuan glanced at Wen Ruilin, who was making a fuss, looked at Chen Kun and asked, "Has Your Majesty confirmed that Han Qian has been in Jinling a long time ago?" ”

"Your Majesty initially only speculated that there was such a possibility, but two days ago, you sent a message that there were signs of the gathering of displaced people in Tangyi, and Your Majesty confirmed that this should be the case. Yesterday morning, I sent people to chase after me, and transferred all the 10,000 cavalry under my command who were about to reach the north bank of the Huai River directly, and transferred them to Suyu. In the future, there will still be 20,000 foot soldiers who will go south on the western front to meet us here, but just these soldiers and horses, the speed will be a few days slower, and the other soldiers and horses will go to the eastern front with His Majesty! ”

Although he had speculated that Xuzhou Shuiying might advance eastward at any time, Wen Ruilin still didn't think that Han Qian was in Jinling at this time.

However, except for Lei Jiuyuan, he saw that Niu Gengru, Wen Duqiao, and Xu Mingzhen all seemed to be like this, and Wen Ruilin suddenly realized that he had been too intoxicated with the glory of making suggestions in the past two days, and he had missed some extremely important details without noticing.

Not to mention the rest, the small-scale unidentified elite ambush that suddenly came out of Yashan yesterday should be the elite of Xuzhou, not the elite scouts sent by Li Zhihe or Huaidong.

And the reason why his identity was leaked was nothing else, it was because Han Qian was in Jinling!

This is also the only plausible explanation.

After all, he was the first to fall into the hands of Han Qian in Wuling, and Han Qian did not accept his plan to persuade Gao Long to assist Tanzhou, so Li Chong informed his father Li Pu to pick him up overnight.

The details of this may only be known to a handful of people, but no one knows it better than him.

At that time, he was still angry that Han Qian looked down on him, and afterwards guessed that Han Qian had been beaten by Emperor Tianyou before, and he became cautious and did not dare to make a high contribution.

Now it seems that he thought about it all simply, Han Qian had already realized that he had a problem at that time?!

At this moment, Wen Ruilin felt that there was a cold air that made his heart tremble from his buttocks, and he felt his neck numb, he really didn't expect that he didn't know how many times he stepped around before the ghost closed the door.

It's just that Han Qian has already recognized his identity, why has he kept concealing it?

And Han Qian is in Jinling now, so is it possible that he was already in Jinling when the Southern Chu Naval Division was dispatched?

Maybe he guessed his plan at that time, but he didn't stand up to remind Emperor Yanyou and the princes of the Southern Chu court?

Thinking of this, Wen Ruilin felt a slight surge of electricity above his head, his scalp was numb, he forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, and asked Lei Jiuyuan in a low voice: "Is it possible, Han Qian was actually in Jinling for a long time, but he was just ruthless and watched the destruction of the Southern Chu Water Division?" ”

“…… Perhaps? "Lei Jiuyuan," I also confirmed that Han Qian should be in Tangyi yesterday, but I didn't expect that Your Majesty had received information from us to reconnoiter Tangyi before, so I confirmed this, but whether Han Qian intended to sit back and watch the fall of the Southern Chu Naval Division is still difficult to say. However, Tangyi can't be attacked in a hurry, so as not to repeat the old things of Xichuan......"

Wen Ruilin set off an unimaginable shock in his heart, of course he knew that Han Qian's real success began in the battle of Xichuan, and he thought to himself, if they didn't notice, but directly pushed tens of thousands of soldiers and horses to Tangyi City, and finally failed to capture even a small city under Han Qian's hands, and finally had to retreat miserably, how much would Han Qian's prestige and power in Southern Chu increase?

Your Majesty saw through Han Qian's calculations, so he didn't get into the way, and turned to launch an offensive directly from Xuzhou against Yang Yuanyan, the king of Huaidong Xin?

Wen Ruilin's heart couldn't calm down for a long time, he claimed to be a schemer, and even after the war of cutting the domain, he once resented that the Ma clan didn't know him, so he killed himself, but at this time, he thought of the situation of being captured in Wuling County, thinking of how disdainful Han Qian was at that time to give him and the merit of seizing Tanzhou to Li Pu, and then thinking that Han Qian might have been lurking in Jinling for a long time, he really understood why Yang Yuanpu was so suspicious of Han Qian, who had made great contributions to himself.

If there is such an emperor in the stall, who can sleep at night?

At this time, someone ran over to report something to Zhao Mingting, Wen Ruilin heard a familiar name, his mind turned, and he said a few words to Lei Jiuyuan, Chen Kun and others.

Lei Jiuyuan showed an appreciative look, but looked at Chen Kun with some hesitation.

Chen Kun said: "Your Majesty specially said that all schemes directly aimed at the Marquis of Qianyang must be secretly played by him first......