Lu Yuan listened to Luo Ren's words and knew that his previous thoughts were wrong. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info He corrected his mistake and immediately said, "Then speed up the gathering of the army." Otherwise, tell them that the pursuers are coming. ”

Luo Ren immediately said: "No! Although the morale has recovered slightly, it is still not high, if they are told now that the pursuers have caught up, then it is estimated that the morale of the army will be greatly disturbed, and the army is likely to be completely chaotic and scattered, and we will have no chance at all. ”

The reason why Luo Ren tried his best to plan for this army was not that he still had any hope for the rebellion, but that he still wanted to return to Qingzhou City to see his son, maybe there was still hope for his son to escape, and there would be no hope if he died here.

Lu Yuan also knew Luo Ren's purpose, but since Luo Ren's statement made sense, he immediately adopted it, and specially instructed the people guarding the city gate to strictly guard the news and not disclose it.

The cavalry sent by Xie Cheng did not disperse and parade around, because the three guards of the King of Qi also had cavalry, and the total number was more than 6,000 people. Although more than 2,000 people did not come, there were still 4,000 cavalry here, more than their total strength. Therefore, the chief general who commanded the cavalry of the various guards in Shandong did not dare to be careless, and the whole army patrolled around Zhangqiu County but did not dare to get too close.

In this way, the rebels in the city completed their assembly, and immediately went out of the city after breakfast, and deliberately chose the north gate, which was the farthest away from the cavalry of the Shandong Metropolitan Division, instead of the most convenient east gate.

The soldiers in the city will naturally not be quiet and silent when they go out of the city, especially now that their military discipline is a little scattered, so the cavalry of the Shandong Dusi, which is still shaking at the south gate, immediately rushed to the north gate.

However, they were also always on guard against the cavalry attack of King Qi's three guards, so they still maintained their position. Since they maintained the formation, the speed was not particularly fast, and Luo Ren and Su Chieftain drove all the troops out of Zhangqiu City as quickly as possible, even if the infantry had no formation at all except for the cavalry, but in the end, the whole army left Zhangqiu County before the cavalry of Shandong Dusi arrived.

Seeing the cavalry of the Shandong Dusi, the remnants of the Qi Wang Sanwei immediately made an uproar, but at this time they had already left the city, and it was impossible to enter the city again. Although the morale of these soldiers is not high now, they are always managed by military generals, and even hundreds and thousands of households have experience in fighting, and they know that if the formation is chaotic at this time, it will be completely over, and the formation is finally maintained.

In fact, at this time, if the cavalry of Shandong Dusi resolutely assaulted, most of the 4,000 cavalry of the three guards of King Qi would not be able to defeat their 3,000 because of low morale; But who let the commander of the army not know, so although they have been embellished, they have not attacked.

However, the rebel side did not dare to let the cavalry drive out the cavalry of the other side, and the speed of the march was slowed down, and finally it was caught up by the army led by Xie Cheng on the east bank of the Women's River in Zichuan County.

That night, Luo Ren and Chief Su sat in Lu Yuan's big tent, and Chief Su said to Lu Yuan: "Lu Yuan, now I can only take advantage of the night to disperse and break through." Tonight is the best time to do it. ”

"Xie Cheng is also a hero, it is impossible not to guard against us to break through at night, but he only caught up with us at night, he has to consider the situation of our breakthrough, but also guard against the situation of us holding on to the river, so we must set up camp first, otherwise if we are not in the camp, although our morale is not high, it is estimated that we can also disrupt them by sneaking up on them at night."

"And it always takes physical strength for the soldiers to set up camp, and they can't defend ourselves against breaking through at night."

"So tonight, the second watch will call all the soldiers up, and the third watch will break through!"

Lu Yuan then asked, "But it's not that easy to break through, right?" How to break through? ”

Chief Su said: "Naturally, there is a suspicious plan. But just as he was about to tell his suspicions, suddenly there seemed to be a voice outside the tent, and the soldier guarding the tent came in and said something. Just these words completely changed their deployment.

On the seventh day of the ninth month of the second day, Xie Cheng commanded the army out of the camp to launch an attack. And last night, the rebels did not break through at night, and at this moment, the whole army also came out of the camp and confronted the army led by Xie Cheng two or three miles away.

Not only did Chief Su and Luo Ren ponder that last night's breakthrough was the best way, but even the generals on Xie Cheng's side, whether it was Xie Ben himself, or the commanders of the guards below, Xia Zi, Zheng Ben and Xie Sanqi, all felt that last night was the best time to break through. Yesterday, they only watched for a while, and they could see that their morale was low.

But the rebels did not choose to break through, and they are not very surprised. After all, it is also very dangerous to break through, the soldiers of the Shandong Dusi have night blindness, and the soldiers of the three guards of King Qi also have night blindness, if their suspicious tactics do not work, the possibility of being killed in the middle of the night is not small; And during the day, using infantry to engage them head-on to drag them down, and then using cavalry to escape and escape is actually not low, so they are not surprised.

At this time, the two sides faced each other, and Xie Cheng began to deploy troops to fight the enemy. Xie Cheng left a guard to protect the artillery, and then the rest of the army pressed on the whole army, and the cavalry roamed on both sides of the infantry formation to sweep the formation, preventing the cavalry of the three guards of King Qi from attacking the large formation from the flanks.

Of course, the cavalry of King Qi's three guards was also mobilized. This was their only advantage, 4,000 cavalry against more than 3,000 cavalry of the Shandong Dusi.

Sue chieftains lead the cavalry into battle. He gathered all the cavalry together, and now because the cavalry of the Shandong Metropolitan Division was going to sweep for his side, they were divided into two sides, and there was already less cavalry than them.

However, it was not feasible to rashly attack the cavalry of the Shandong Metropolitan Division with the superiority of cavalry. Although the cavalry is a raid for the infantry, the infantry on both flanks can also help in the cavalry battle, at least the archers can shoot arrows. And all the cavalry attacked in a certain direction, and the cavalry deployed on the other flank of the Shandong Dusi was also liberated to come over to help or harass the camp of King Qi Sanwei, and in general it was impossible to take advantage.

All the generals of the Shandong Metropolitan Division were speculating about how the Su chieftain would use this cavalry. But in the end, Chief Su's use of cavalry surprised them, because Chief Su actually directly led the cavalry to attack the large array of the Chinese army under the command of Xie Cheng!

The large array of the Chinese army is the place with the largest number of troops, although the cavalry has an advantage over the infantry, but the formation of the Shandong Dusi is still very strict, and it is absolutely impossible for the cavalry to rush away with a charge. Then the cavalry is likely to be caught in a charge and encircled and finally destroyed.

But something that surprised them even more happened, the large array of the Chinese army led by Xie Cheng actually seemed to be unable to withstand the impact of the cavalry led by Chief Su, and retreated.