Gu Liangchen and the 40,000 troops who withdrew from the clouds took four days, ran from the clouds to this place called Longweiji, originally like a sleeping dragon crawling in the foothills of Dingzhou, the mountain has only a little tail tip left here, and then go one hundred and thirty miles to the west, it is Liangcheng, if you go south, go out of thirty miles and turn southeast, you can reach Dingping.

It is the intersection of the paths between Liangcheng, Dingping and Yunzhong, if in previous years, there are a lot of businessmen and local residents here, although it is not as prosperous as the big city, but it is also very lively.

It's a pity that now that Hu Meng has entered Dingzhou, the people of Longweiji have either taken refuge in the city, or dragged their families to their relatives in the south, making it extremely depressed.

After running all the way for hundreds of miles, it is impossible to say that he is not tired, seeing that Liangcheng is in front of him, Gu Liangchen estimated that he would rest for one night with the ready-made farmhouse and homestay here, and set off early tomorrow morning, and he would be able to arrive at Liangcheng City at ten o'clock in the evening.

So the originally deserted Dragon Tail Collection, because of the arrival of these 40,000 people, returned to the light and became lively, and the tense nerves and depressed atmosphere for several days were fully released here, and the soldiers took out the food collected from every corner of the Dragon Tail Collection, and the rest of the body, all took out, anyway, they will arrive in Liangcheng tomorrow, and they are still afraid of hunger?

But it seems to be a generous meal, but it's just that everyone has a little more oily smell.

The place where Gu Liangchen temporarily settled was a house that seemed to be a local rich family, although the house was well repaired, but the things left in it were not as good as those in an ordinary people's house, in the words of a battalion commander under his command, these guys took away everything they could take, and what they couldn't take away, except for this house, they were all smashed and taken away.

On the table, there was a braised pork knuckle, and a plate of fried lung slices, a bowl of hot white rice made Gu Liangchen feel for the first time that eating was such a happy thing, he pulled two mouthfuls of rice, and picked up two delicious lung slices and put them in his mouth, closed his eyes, chewed comfortably, and in a room where no outsiders were present, he used an undisguised expression to express the happiness that this meal brought him.

After swallowing, he couldn't help but clamp the elbow, maybe because it was cold, his hands were a little trembling, or maybe the elbow was too heavy to clamp it, and he tried twice and failed, Gu Liangchen simply put the chopsticks to the side of the table, grabbed the gluttonous elbow and sent it to his mouth, and when he bit it, the oil was stained all over his mouth.

"Hmm......" Gu Liangchen nodded comfortably, he had never felt that the original elbow was so delicious, it is said that this pig was found in the backyard of a family, and such a pig was found in the entire Dragon Tail Collection, if the owner of that family was there, he really wanted to say thank you to the other party in person, so that his stomach, which had been shaved by the bread and dried radish, felt the beauty of the oil again.

Just as Gu Liangchen was intoxicated with the satisfaction of gnawing his elbows, a guard chief guarding outside the house suddenly reported: "Gu Shuai, the spies who went out have an urgent military report." ”

"Tell him to wait in the main hall for a while, and I'll be right there." Gu Liangchen accelerated the speed of gnawing, divided by two in three times, and incorporated all the remaining parts into his abdomen, and then looked at the bones that fell into the plate with some regret, and always felt that he could pull a few more strands of meat down, but unfortunately there was no time for the time being, so he decided to come back after a while and gnaw them one by one.

Gu Liangchen walked all the way, stuffing his teeth with his tongue all the way

The meat tendons in the seam, sighed in his heart that he was old, he had never eaten beef so stuffed his teeth back then, and the place where he ate and put it was in the side hall, and it was separated from the main hall by a door, so three or two steps later, Gu Liangchen's figure appeared in the main hall, where in addition to his chief guard, there were four personal guards, and there was also a soldier who was dusty, standing in the main hall with a tired face, waiting for Gu Liangchen's reception.

When the soldier saw Gu Liangchen coming out, he immediately beat his spirits, knelt on one knee, clasped his hands into fists, and reported loudly: "Qi Gu Shuai, I found our army rout ten miles away. ”

Gu Liangchen was using his tongue to push against a meat tendon that was about to come out, and he didn't care when he heard the soldier's report, now that the Dingzhou soldiers are in chaos, it is normal to have one or two routed soldiers.

However, he complained about the generals under his command who were in charge of scouting, did he still need to deal with this matter himself?

"Why, why did they fail?" Finally pushed out the meat tendons that were stuffed with sore teeth, Gu Liangchen felt comfortable for a while, and he was in a good mood, so he asked casually, after all, it was all in front of him, so he dealt with it easily.

The soldier swallowed his saliva, and then said with some caution: "According to them, it was from the side of Liangcheng. ”

Gu Liangchen's tongue between his teeth suddenly froze, he looked at the soldier in front of him in disbelief, and then asked again, "Where?" ”

"Marshal, they said they retreated from Liangcheng."

This time, even if Gu Liangchen's ears were not good, he heard this sentence clearly, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, so that he almost couldn't stand, so he had to sit down on a chair on the side, and muttered sneeringly: "Liangcheng is lost!" Liangcheng lost? How could Liangcheng be lost? How could such a perfect defense facility, such a rich material reserve, and so many heavy troops to guard it? ”

"Marshal, those more than ten defeated soldiers have now been detained by us and others in the army, and the marshal can interrogate them at any time if necessary." The kneeling soldier felt that his legs were already a little sore, and his knees were also cold because of kneeling on the floor, and he was already very tired from the clouds, and when the army stopped to rest, he, as a scout, had to continue to inquire about the news, and he didn't rest properly until he came back, so at this time, he didn't care about Gu Liangchen's groaning, and was a little eager for the other party to give a reply.

Sure enough, after Gu Liangchen heard this, he immediately went to see the more than ten defeated soldiers, and then the first thing he did after coming out was to order the troops to continue to drive and go to Dingping.

Here Gu Liangchen took advantage of the night to lead the troops to Dingping, and Ge Cheng'a over there finally woke up from a coma the next night, and saw that he was in a carport, the car was shaking, making a creaking sound, and the messy and footsteps and some scattered horse hooves could be heard outside the car, he wanted to speak, but it seemed that he had been in a coma for a long time, his throat was too dry, as if his throat had been stuck together, and he was very uncomfortable as soon as he opened his mouth, and he only had time to "ho".

"Marshal, you're awake." A voice came from outside, and then someone was seen lifting the curtain of the carport, holding a bowl of warm water in his hand, and handing it to Ge Cheng'a's mouth.

Ge Cheng'a nodded at the visitor, then picked up the water bowl and drank it all, only then did he feel that the dryness in his throat had been relieved, and then he asked, "Tianxu, what's the situation?" ”

This person called Tianxu, whose full name is Guo Tianxu, is a battalion commander under Ge Cheng'a.

Guo Tianxu's expression darkened, jumped out of Fang Cai's joy, shook his head and said: "It's not good, Liangcheng has completely fallen, Hu Meng sent cavalry to continue the pursuit, before we went out of the city, we saw Yan Zhiyun, he was with the patrol battalion under his command, but then he was separated, I think I also abandoned the city." ”

Ge Cheng'a sighed, until now he didn't figure out how Liangcheng fell, there was no enemy siege before, and there was no fierce shouting outside the city, everything seemed to happen quietly, and there was only one situation that could achieve this effect, that is, there were Humeng spies in the city, and they secretly opened the city for the Humeng people.

Guo Tianxu has followed Ge Cheng'a for so many years, of course he understood the meaning in his eyes, nodded his head, and affirmed the other party's guess, "According to the soldiers who retreated from the east gate, it was Yan Zhiyun's nephew, and it was Yan Chai who helped the Humeng people deceive the gate of the East City. ”

"Yan Zhu?" Of course, Ge Cheng'a had an impression of this person, and beat his chest with remorse, "I knew that I shouldn't have been soft-hearted at that time, and directly beheaded this person out of court, there is nothing to do today." ”

Guo Tianxu shook his head and smiled bitterly, "This person is also a member of the royal family, and he will actually collude with the Humeng people and harm the ancestral foundation, such a court ......"

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Ge Cheng'a's words, "Don't talk nonsense, scum is everywhere, and the royal family is also made of flesh and blood, he Yan Zhiyun is an example, but it is impossible to involve the court." ”

"It's the last general who is reckless." Guo Tianxu nodded.

"What about the casualties of the troops?" Ge Cheng'a asked another question that he was most concerned about, the fall of Liangcheng was already an ironclad thing, so thinking about it, the news of the fall of Xiema Town received a few days ago was also true, plus in the clouds, half of the land of Dingzhou had fallen into the hands of the Humeng people.

"There are 13,000 people we brought out of the city, plus the stragglers gathered along the way, a total of 18,000 people, but ......" Guo Tianxu paused, and said: "However, after Zhihe led 5,000 elite soldiers, there has been no news so far, so the marching team at this time has a total of 13,000 people." ”

Ge Cheng'a shook his head and smiled bitterly, "Maybe there has never been a failed general like me in history, and before I had a head-to-head confrontation with the enemy, I had already lost forty percent of my troops." ”

Guo Tianxu didn't think so, shook his head and said: "If Dingzhou really falls, it is also his own work by the royal family, no wonder others, as the saying goes, day and night, it is difficult to prevent thieves, and his royal family lost things, so that they did not take care of their own people." ”

This time, Ge Cheng'a didn't interrupt Guo Tianxu's seemingly rebellious annoyance, and now in his heart, he also thought like Guo Tianxu, and couldn't help sighing, the current Yan army is really not as good as the Yan army before Yan Youchu's rebellion.

"How long do you have until you get to Dingshui?"

"Soon, the vanguard in front has already docked with Liu Zhilong in Dingshui, and I think we will be able to arrive in Dingshui at noon at the latest."

Ge Cheng'a nodded, maybe his mind was too heavy before, so now he is starting to be drowsy again, Guo Tianxu saw this, hurriedly helped him lie down, said "You have a good rest" and withdrew.

Looking at the road ahead, he was once again worried about the future of the Yan army, not knowing what else was waiting for this army that was almost destroyed in the hands of his own people.