The sudden heavy rain did not make Qiu Liju and Collapse have any obvious touch, because when the two uncles and nephews came to the bank of the Daling River and saw the corpses of the red and white Wuhuan cavalry and thousands of new Han reinforcements all over the ground, they had already collapsed on the spot.

Qiu Liju on the east bank of the river had no time to cross the river, so he could only stand on the riverside and be speechless, while the collapse on the west bank of the river was panicked and resentful, and immediately issued an order to attack, in order to break through the Han army's obstruction and find the traces of Gongsun Xun. But after searching all night, the Wuhuan cavalry, which was extremely exhausted and had no structure at all, could not organize an offensive in the gradually heavier rain, not to mention that Wei Yue relied on the reinforcements behind him, so he chose to fight and retreat.

The dripping spring rain is something that everyone will praise on a daily basis, because it represents everything that is alive in the coming summer. However, as the cavalry behind him kept reporting that it was difficult to move forward, the cavalry in front of him kept falling to the ground because of the wet and slippery ground, causing non-combat attrition...... In the end, even Wei Yue began to curse the sudden heavy rain!

It was precisely because of the appearance of the rain that Han Dang, who was originally only half a day's trip, waited until the evening of the same day to lead 5,000 cavalry to the crossing where Gongsun Xun was located, and camped here overnight. Correspondingly, the more frustrated and embarrassed Collapse finally chose to strike the battle under Qiu Liju's successive orders, and retreated to the riverside crossing to set up camp.

This action seems to be that he still has a military advantage on his side, if the rain stops tomorrow, it is not that he can no longer attack more and less, and take advantage of the Han army's support to seek another victory. In fact, on the morning of the second day, the whole army of Qiu Liju crossed the river.

However, on this day, the rain was big or small, but it was still continuous, the ground was soaked, whether it was the Wuhuan people who had barely gathered the main force, the Han army who built a village to wait for help, and even the Zahu tribes that survived locally, they were all helpless...... Looking at the sky and sighing.

"That's a good thing!" Unexpectedly, Xi Zhong became reinvigorated because of this rain. "The cavalry of the Wuhuan people lost their mobility because of this, and Gao Suqing, Tian Yu and others on the other side of the river, as well as other scattered soldiers and horses, although it was also hard this time, they were able to escape back after all!"

Han Dang also agreed, but he said from a military point of view: "It's really a good thing, Daling River is in the middle of Liucheng and Guanzi City, and the Wuhuan people are as difficult to supply as us, but our logistics are more adequate than theirs and can withstand consumption, so when it rains, Qiu Liju and Collapse can't hold it at all, maybe they will have to retreat immediately, and the prince will be completely safe." ”

Xi Zhong is not wrong at all.

With the rain and a large number of local Zahu guides sent before, more and more scattered troops of the Han army successfully returned, although there were some casualties, but Tian Yu and Gao Shun and other main elites were finally able to get out, and even after careful calculation, there were many more people in the Han army here - Gongsun Xun pointed to the river and swore that some Zahu tribes were frightened, God knows if it was those Zahu who followed the Wuhuan people before, seeing that the situation was not good, they actually ran here.

In this regard, Gongsun Xun did not take it seriously...... He can't be more serious, because many of these people are the kind of people who break bones and connect tendons, just like the twelve parts of the Qi Fen clan, there are on both sides, maybe there are still people in the Qi Fen clan who follow Ke Bineng or even Yan Rou at this time, but because of the Black Otter Heavenly King's benchmarking achievements, do you want to pursue the problem of those people? Moreover, this time is not the time to be more serious, the main force of the Wuhuan people is still there.

Han Dang was also right.

The rain continued intermittently for another day, and when Lou Zibo arrived from the rear with great difficulty, Mudun and Qiu Liju finally chose to withdraw their troops in despair.

Like Mo Huqi, before packing up the barracks and leaving, Qiu Liju wrote a letter with extremely sincere and humble words, begging for forgiveness. And Gongsun Xun's reaction was the same, he tore the letter under his feet in public...... Are you kidding? Now, if Gongsun Xun can't completely crusade against the Wuhuan people, or even clean up the entire Liaoxi, how can he compensate for his shame in Hedong'an?

"That's a bad thing!" At noon on this day, knowing that the Wuhuan people had begun to cross the river and withdraw their troops in a big way, inside the military tent gate, as a bunch of middle-level officers and bearded people left here, Lou Gui looked down at the ground that had been soaked with rain, but he gave a completely different opinion from Han Dang and Xi Zhong. "In my opinion, this rain is a big bad thing......"

"What did Mr. Zibo say about this?" Tian Yu, who had just returned from escorting Gongsun Xun White Horse Banner with hundreds of Yi, was curious for a while.

"I came from Guanzi City, and the rain was so continuous along the way, which shows that this rain is very wide." Lou Gui looked back and sighed. "The terrain of western Liaoning is complex, there have always been many hills and rivers, and there is no supply for hundreds of miles, which is difficult to run, and now the rain is flooded with wetland, and it is difficult to ride a car, so I am afraid that it will be more difficult to march in the short term...... Think about it, the terrain of Chengde is so dangerous, such weather, how to fight? Liucheng is more simply, not to mention how to transport grain and grass, only to say that more than ten miles in front of us is the Daling River, stretching for hundreds of miles to cover Liucheng, if the rain is urgent, the water level of the Daling River skyrockets, cutting off the road, how can we go to Liucheng? ”

Everyone in the tent, from Han Dang and Xi Zhong, to Gao Shun and Tian Yu, who had just returned, and Zhao Yun, who joined Bai Ma Yicong for the first time, were all silent in an instant. In other words, they were a little silent because of this frustration, but there is no doubt that when Lou Zibo said this, they just couldn't say anything they wanted to.

In the entire Chinese military tent, there was a silence, only the rain that hit the tent overhead still did not stop.

The drama of sitting in front of the brazier in his clothes stopped talking, but this time he finally remained silent.

Of course, having said that, we can't ignore some of the objective reasons why Xi Zhong and Gongsun Xun chose military adventures just because they made mistakes before...... In fact, even if you don't need to emphasize and analyze it, there are some things that everyone knows, such a situation does not mean a military defeat, but it is likely to mean that Gongsun Xun wants to waste his time here.

A road of several hundred miles takes more than ten days to walk back and forth, and it is necessary to consider military confrontation, battlefield casualties, and post-war disposal...... God knows if it's been turned upside down in retrospect? And the grain and grass accumulated in Tuntian for several years made Gongsun Xun still in this kind of broken place?

Moreover, even if you don't think about whether you can turn around and ask He Jin for that Jizhou Mu, just considering the situation in Youzhou, if the war drags on, it will only allow Liu Yu and Zhao Bao to gain greater political and military prestige - these two people are originally empty gloves white wolves, and earning one point is one point.

Of course, this reason can't be said now, because this is a military discussion, and just when the military discussion was held, Gongsun Xun had already officially released a self-review in public, asking everyone to take the military as the basis and abandon ideas other than the military - it is not that political influence cannot be discussed, in fact, if there is no political reason, there will be no war at all, but that political reasons cannot be allowed to interfere in the formulation of specific military actions.

Besides, when Lou Zibo pointed to the rain in the sky and reminded everyone, what can you do if you have a political reason?

At this time, apart from withdrawing the troops back to Guanzi City or even Lulongsai and waiting for the dawn, is there any other military action to choose from?

In an almost frozen atmosphere, Gongsun Xun suddenly stood up, and then walked behind Lou Gui in everyone's eyes, came to the military tent gate, and looked up at the waterline that slipped down at the tent door...... Didn't move for a quarter of an hour.

"Uncle Zi." Gongsun Xun suddenly turned around and said, but his tone was strange. "I thought the rain was a good thing."

Lou Gui, who was waiting on the side, was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Please Junhou Mingjian." ”

"What if we cross the river now?" Gongsun Xun's face remained unchanged, and his tone was serious and serious. "Cross the river at this time...... No, what about crossing the river tomorrow? Will it be unbearable? ”

Lou Gui wanted to speak and stopped, but he still replied reluctantly: "Of course you can cross the river tomorrow, the water of the tributaries has not come down yet, and the Wuhuan people are crossing, so we can naturally follow behind...... But the prince, if the water level rises sharply after crossing the river tomorrow, I am afraid that I will not be able to come back! What if the Wuhuan people find out? ”

"I didn't cross the river to ask for a field battle, but I said that after crossing the river, I braved the rain to go to Liucheng." Gongsun Xun is opposite. "And after crossing the river, you can wait for a day and then go to Liucheng."

Lou Gui pursed his lips and did not speak, but turned over and thought carefully.

"What about the baggage?" Lou Zibo suddenly turned around and asked. "How to transport it in such weather? I arrived in a mess. ”

"No vehicles, no people." Gongsun Xun was expressionless and replied quickly. "The wounded and the weak were all left in the camp, and the whole army chose 15,000 strong men to carry only bread, clean water, armor, and weapons, and used war horses as pack horses, and followed behind the other side from a distance, and the whole army went to Liucheng."

"Junhou, I know what you mean, you are trying to take Qiu Liju by surprise, if you can drop out of it and enter Liucheng, you can easily win." Tian Yu couldn't help but stand up and admonish. "But if you say something like this, I'm afraid that all the war horses of our army will be abolished! Our cavalry will also be useless! There will also be many people who leave the team because of the hard work of the rain. ”

"In such weather, is the cavalry of the Wuhuan people useful? If they all walk the same way in the rain, will the Wuhuan people with worse supplies get sick? Gongsun Xun asked awe-inspiringly. As for the war horses, they are all abolished...... If you can exchange the life of a horse for a human life, why not? You only talk about such behavior, but there are military loopholes, and there is no need to talk about the loss of these lives...... Will there be any reinforcements suddenly in Liucheng? ”

"No!" Lou Gui also responded in a deep voice. "The water level of the Daling River is about to rise, not to mention whether Kebi can have the courage to do so, even if it does, it is too late to help Liucheng!"

"Then if we can really come to the end, will we not be able to capture Liucheng?" Gongsun Xun turned around and came to the tent, sat down slowly, and then continued to ask questions.

"If you can follow Liucheng, how can you lose?" Gao Shun immediately responded. "The people who relied on them were just bows and horses, and now it was raining heavily, the horses could not be used, and the bows were jerky. Not to mention, in such a situation, maybe you can surprise and succeed in a direct surprise attack. ”

"Is it possible that there will be an ambush on the other side?" Gongsun Xun looked around the account and asked again. "Just like before, they used their Wuhuan cavalry to set up an ambush between the Da Ling River and the Xiao Ling River."

"No!" Han Dang suddenly responded. "Not to mention that Uncle Zi arrived, our army is not weak, and we are not afraid of ambushes at all...... Just one thing, when I was a teenager, I traveled to and from Liaoxi with the Amway to sell horses, and I had a lot of contact with the Wuhuan people. The most precious thing for these leaders and leaders is their war horses, which is the foundation of their lives. And in such weather, as Gao Sima said, the cavalry is almost incompetent in combat, and the bow and arrow will be jerky. And even if Qiu Liju has this courage, the leaders of his subordinates will never agree, and the leaders of his subordinates will agree, and the ordinary Wuhuan cavalry will rebel! ”

"That's what the prince means." Lou Zibo suddenly sighed. "We are willing to lose tens of thousands of troops and horses, and we are willing to abandon the advantage of cavalry, but the Wuhuan people are reluctant to ...... So we are going to use these tens of thousands of troops and horses in exchange for the pacification of Liaoxi. You're right, you're right, this rain is a good thing...... Crossing the river at this time, in terms of military affairs, is a sure victory! ”

The people in the tent were stunned...... This kind of military action that goes the other way is obviously beyond people's habitual thinking, but it cannot be refuted.

"Then immediately reorganize, tell the whole army, and those miscellaneous beards, and just say that we will also withdraw our troops...... But early tomorrow morning, he will go straight to the Daling River and cross the river to Liucheng. Seeing that everyone had no reason to refute, Gongsun Xun did make a decision immediately, but halfway through, he couldn't help but look at Zhao Yun, who was standing in the tent without saying a word. Zilong can go with me in righteousness, and in this battle, I will borrow your bravery, get rid of Qiu Liju and Collapse, and clean up Liaoxi! ”

Zhao Yun bowed and promised.

At the same time, on the bank of the Daling River, in fact, the spring rain is still dripping, Qiu Liju, Collapsed, and Lou Ban are not riding, but just standing on the hillside where Gongsun Xun stood before, looking at the sky and sighing. And in the shallows under their feet, a large number of Wuhuan cavalry were crossing the river with difficulty.

In the face of such a situation in the sky and the river, it is okay to be in the building shift, and the real family members of Wuhuan in Liaoxi, that is, the uncles and nephews of Qiu Liju and Mudun, are simply mixed at this time...... Especially Crash, who has always felt frustrated that he didn't arrive in time to block Gongsun Xun, he doesn't know whether this small but continuous rain is a good thing or a bad thing.

said that it was a bad thing, naturally because the arrival of this rain directly made the Wuhuan people lose the last hope of capturing Gongsun Xun; It is said that it is a good thing, naturally because this rain has no intention of stopping, and the slowly accumulating precipitation will force the Han army to give up military maneuvers, thus giving the Wuhuan people a chance to breathe.

"Don't think about it." Qiu Liju's face was full of exhaustion at this time, but he seemed to see through his nephew's thoughts. "This rain is a good thing. Since General Wei has escaped the river and there are reinforcements behind him, we can't catch him again with or without this rain. On the contrary, the rain continues, and the water level of the Daling River and the Liao River rises in two days, so we can take advantage of the geographical advantage to temporarily repair one or two...... Then if you can send a surprise army to Liaodong to support Su Muyan, capture Zhao Bao, who is slightly inferior...... Maybe there's room for manoeuvre. ”

Collapse was silent for a while, if he couldn't catch Gongsun Xun, could he definitely catch Zhao Bao?

But is there any other way to go at this point? Why didn't you just go to Guangyang to find General Wei's family attachment when you encountered difficulties at the beginning? Why did you feel like you could do it after General Wei left? Uncle clearly said that the Han people themselves were going to be in chaos, and General Wei was going to fight for better things in the south, and he wouldn't look back at them, how did he become like this again?

What does the south side look like?

What exactly are the Wuhuan people?

"Grain, cloth, pottery...... Nothing is enough. "After thinking about it for a long time, he was dressed like a Han nobleman, and suddenly turned his head in the rain and spoke, revealing his face full of stubble." For this ambush, we emptied our family funds, and after a rush, there were too many dead war horses...... Our ......, my lord."

"I know." Qiu Liju frowned and shook his head and sighed. "Before, we were fought by a Han army downstream and killed a lot of us. There are also those miscellaneous beards, seeing that the situation is not good, and fleeing one after another, even our own people are also complaining, and some people even think that the expeditions are too frequent and want to return to the tribe...... But collapse, now that the matter is now, take care of the present, and you will be cut off in the back...... It's not broken, the main thing is to watch their own people, let them take care of the war horses, first unify back to Liucheng for a while, and then decide whether to go back to the tribes to repair, and not leave the team without permission. ”

With that, Qiu Liju walked straight down the slippery hillside with the support of Lou Ban.

After all, he was his biological uncle who raised him, and he looked at his back, and swallowed the sentence he originally wanted to ask - the so-called Wuhuan, with only 20,000 or 30,000 horses, is he really qualified to be independent of this world?

The rain is still not urgent, and it is certainly not related to the heavy rain, but after a night of dripping, the water level of the Daling River has begun to rise significantly. This was not a direct result of the overnight rain, but the rain of the previous two days that had been channelled into the Daling River through countless tributaries, and in the next few days, the water level would continue to rise in a straight line as the ground water content was already saturated, making the otherwise easy river crossing extremely dangerous.

In fact, on the morning of the second day when the Wuhuan army turned around and left, the Han army encountered a non-combat attrition of dozens of people when crossing the river, which was unimaginable for the Han army, which gathered the strength of the five counties, led tens of thousands of military horses, and crossed the river in an orderly manner.

Obviously, the water level has only changed from below the waist to up to the waist, why do people die?

But Gongsun Xun knew that this was an inevitable thing for a large-scale army march, and it was an inevitable casualty after expanding the base.

In addition to crossing the river, in the next few days, many people will die of illness on the road due to simple water diversion problems, there will be warriors who will die in an almost comical way because of the slippery roads, and thousands of military horses will be completely disqualified as war horses after this battle......

But it's all worth it because it avoids more casualties!

"Is there really no danger this time?" As a person left behind, Xi Zhong, who was drenched all over, saw Gongsun Xun and his main force slowly disappearing on the opposite side of the hill, so he couldn't bear it anymore, and grabbed Lou Gui's sleeve by the river on the spot, and asked each other seriously. "Isn't it that the prince is impatient and rushed?"

"Zhicai, don't be bitten by a snake for ten years and be afraid of the well rope." Lou Gui, who was also wet, couldn't help laughing when he heard this. "In my opinion, this rain is not only a good thing, it is simply a gifted prince, and it can be called a sign of destiny! The matter of Liaoxi has been decided today! ”

Xi Zhong lost his soul and was still looking at the river and couldn't imagine it...... How did it happen that the previous venture was the end, but now it is a sign of destiny to cross the river and rush under even worse circumstances?

"Why don't you go back to the camp to play cards?" Lou Gui walked a few steps and found that Xi Zhong did not follow, but he had no choice but to turn around and ask.

——————I am the dividing line of the Manifest Omen of Destiny——————

"The Taizu of this dynasty tried to conquer Wuhuan, met with misfortune, worked hard to cross the Daling River, relied on Zhao Yun's bravery, broke the thief in front of him, and was about to leave, and suddenly heard that Wuhuan collapsed and led more than 10,000 cavalry to, but secretly sighed that there was no destiny. Before long, the rain fell like a flood, the ground was slippery and muddy, and the Wuhuan cavalry could not move forward, but took off. After traveling more than ten miles, he saw Lou Gui leading more than 10,000 soldiers and horses to the city, and he was safe. When Gui heard about the past, he pointed to heaven and said: 'This talent is a clear and righteous man, and the destiny of heaven is also a sign, and it can be broken again.' —"Shilin Miscellaneous". Yan. Recorded by Anonymous

PS: Special thanks to the collection of books in the new alliance leader Qili Valley...... The Twenty-Second Alliance...... Why do I say especially?