Huang Qiang returned to He Renlong in a panic, knelt down in front of He Renlong's horse with a plop, with a look of shame, and said to He Renlong: "See the general, the lowly is incompetent, this battle failed to defeat the thief army, but suffered heavy losses!" Please forgive the General! ”

He Renlong's face sank like water, without the slightest intention of appeasing Huang Qiang, he lowered his head slightly with a cold face, stared coldly at Huang Qiang who was kneeling in front of the horse, raised his hand and pointed at Huang Qiang and said angrily: "Huang Qiang!" Do you still have the face to flee back to me? You have 500 elite soldiers under your command, to deal with the thief army of more than 1,000 people, not only failed to take off the head of the thief, but was beaten by the thief army, you only brought back less than 200 of the 500 elite soldiers, and more than half of the soldiers were lost, you actually have the face to run back to see me! Come on, tie up this idiot for me to show to the public, and pass on the first three armies to set an example! ”

After several pro-soldiers listened to the order, they immediately pounced, pressed Huang Qiang to the ground, tied up the rope with his shoulders and arms, and dragged him backwards to drag him away from here to the army to behead.

Huang Qiang was so frightened that his face was pale, and he immediately shouted loudly: "The general spares his life, the general spares his life!" The general has been serving the general for so many years, please listen to the explanation of the general! Please listen to the general and explain the sin! ”

The surrounding generals were also nervous, hesitating and not knowing whether to intercede for Huang Qiang, and He Renlong was full of anger, beckoning people to bring Huang Qiang back, and asked him with a cold face: "Okay!" For the sake of you following me for many years, I will give you a chance to explain! Tell me, why did you lose so badly? ”

Huang Qiang was escorted back, pressed down in front of He Renlong, kowtowed to He Renlong with his head on the ground, stabilized his mood a little, and said: "Thank you General for giving the criminal general a chance!" General, we've definitely been fooled this time! The thief army on the other side is by no means an ordinary thief army, let alone a rabble! Judging by the criminal generals, this thief army on the other side is definitely a thief or an elite general under the command of Li Thief, but it is just a so-called Xingtian Army! It is to confuse the general with this, so that we and others will underestimate the enemy, rush to cross the Wanzi River, and then take the opportunity to catch us off guard! ”

After He Renlong heard this, his pupils shrank suddenly, and he said angrily: "What nonsense! Just now, Ben General had already sent someone over to investigate their situation, and the opponent's strength was only more than a thousand people, just a group of rabble! Gao Chuang thieves are now besieging Baoji County, and Li Hongji has suffered heavy losses not long after his new defeat in the Carriage Gorge, where will there be so many elite soldiers and horses to set up an ambush here? Huang Qiang, if you dare to talk nonsense in order to survive, I will kill you for two crimes! ”

"Sin will not dare! What sin will say is true! The general also knows that the soldiers under the command of the guilty general are not weak troops, and the guilty general is definitely not a greedy person who is afraid of death! And after crossing the river this time, I saw the main force of the thief army on the west side of the river embankment, and the people who were arranged in front of the army by the thief army just now were just their auxiliaries!

The main force of the thief army is extremely prosperous, nearly half of them are armored soldiers, and the prosperity of its military appearance and the large array deployed are only seen in their lives, and there are no less than three hundred fire guns placed in front of the formation, and they are all sharp bird guns! And its guns are extremely accurate! Just two rounds of platoon guns caused the lowly generals to lose nearly half!

And the opponent's rear team of soldiers will be armed with spears, after the spears are put down, their military formations are like forest hedgehogs, and the drums and drums march like a mountain in battle, after the spears are put down, they are even denser like guns, the law of this formation, the lowly position has never seen it before, although the lowly rank leads the troops to fight to the death, but there is no way to tear apart their formations, and the thieves are scattered on both wings and continue to fire at our department, and the thieves' artillery continues to bombard our department from the flanks. In order to preserve the strength of the generals and avoid the annihilation of the whole army, the sin general ordered a retreat.

Shogun! Whether I, Huang Qiang, am a person who is greedy for life and afraid of death, the general knows best, what the humble post said is true, the general does not believe it, and the subordinate soldiers will be recruited to ask if there is a half-lie in the guilt! If the sin general says the slightest lie, he is willing to be beheaded by the general! In order to survive, Huang Qiang couldn't care about anything, and immediately exaggerated the number of firecrackers of the Xingtian Army by more than three times, and vaguely only said the total strength of the other party, but did not say that the Xingtian Army really took out to fight him was only five or six hundred troops, kneeling on the ground and shouting vigorously.

He Renlong frowned, and also hesitated a little, so he waved his hand and sent a few pro-soldiers to find a few of Huang Qiang's subordinates to verify what Huang Qiang said.

After He Renlong heard this, his face changed, and he waved his hand: "Escort him down first, and then send him down after returning to Longzhou!" ”

It turned out that Huang Qiang's subordinates were frightened when they crossed the river this time, and when He Renlong's personal soldiers went to verify the situation with them, these people were gossiping, and one by one they exaggerated the horror of the Xingtian Army in Hexi by more than ten times, and some even simply said that the opponent's soldiers were wearing heavy armor and invulnerable, and the strength even reached more than 3,000 people, so they couldn't defeat the other party's thief army and came back defeated.

After such nonsense, those pro-soldiers had to believe that what Huang Qiang said was true, so they came back and told He Renlong what Huang Qiang's subordinates said.

The topography of this section of the Wanzi River is very strange, when it flows through here, it makes a bend to the west, because the water potential is relatively large, the river water will wash the west bank of the river more severely, so in order to prevent the west bank of the river from being washed away by the water, so in the early years, the local people built a solid embankment on the west bank of the river.

And the Xingtian Army used the embankment on the west bank that was higher than the ground to cover the figure of its main force, they could see the east of the river clearly in the west of the river, but from the east of the river, the situation behind the embankment in the west of the river could not be seen, and Xiao Tianjian deliberately placed the auxiliary soldiers of the barracks on the embankment to hide people's eyes and ears before the war, so that he paralyzed He Renlong and his generals, so that they were always a little underestimated.

And after Huang Qiang escaped back this time, in order to save his life, he deliberately exaggerated the strength and combat effectiveness of the Xingtian Army, so that He Renlong suddenly lost his square inch, and hesitated for a while not knowing whether to continue to send troops to attack Dashiqiao from the front.

While hesitating, someone pointed in the direction of the big stone bridge and shouted to He Renlong: "General, look, those thieves are on the bridge again!" ”

He Renlong immediately looked at the big stone bridge, and saw that several thieves were pushing a cart onto the stone bridge, blocking the stone bridge, and the cart did not know what it was loaded with, these thieves pushed the cart to the stone bridge, and immediately ran back, He Renlong's heart tightened, and shouted: "Not good!" They're going to destroy the bridge! ”

Sure enough, He Renlong was fed, and soon after the cart was pushed onto the stone bridge, a bright light suddenly flashed, and then a large cloud of gunpowder smoke was raised, and the stone bridge was even more gravel and the fragments of the cart scattered and flew out, everyone was still two miles away from the stone bridge, and soon felt a slight vibration under their feet, and when the smoke dissipated, the big stone bridge across the Wanzi River collapsed, cutting off the only passage on both sides of the Wanzi River.

He Renlong stared at the collapsed stone bridge with wide eyes, and his heart was even more suspicious, and he couldn't make up his mind for a while, whether he should continue to send troops to cross the Wanzi River here, or simply take a detour to another stone bridge ten miles upstream to cross the river and rush back to Longzhou City.

Huang Qiang's words cast a heavy shadow on He Renlong's heart, so that he couldn't guess for a while whether the so-called Xingtian Army on the other side was really the Xingtian Army in Huangyang or an elite under Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, his current strength is limited, and the auxiliary soldiers are only four or five thousand troops, after a fierce battle for half a day, Lu Pin was killed, Huang Qiang's department was completely disabled, and he lost more than 400 soldiers in Dashiqiao alone, which almost made him lose more than 10% of his troops, and the other party was so strong. It also made him have to believe that the thief army on the other side is indeed not easy to deal with.

At present, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng are obviously using the plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain, and transfer him out of Longzhou City, if what Huang Qiang said is right, then it is likely that Li Zicheng or Gao Yingxiang's elite soldiers on the other side, the purpose is obviously to delay his return to Longzhou City, if this is really the case, then what is the situation in Longzhou City now, he is very worried, it is a small matter to be blocked here, once Longzhou is lost, then he is definitely a general, and his top boss is Hong Chengchou, who has always governed the army very strictly, If he loses Longzhou City, then his career may be over!

What's more, behind him, there are Gao Yingxiang's nearly twenty or thirty thousand thieves, Baoji County is obviously their pretense, their purpose is actually Longzhou City, Gao Yingxiang must have learned the news that he led his troops back to Longzhou City at this time, so Gao Yingxiang may have raised troops from Baoji County and rushed here.

If he is dragged by this thief army here, once Gao Yingxiang leads his troops to come, then he will be blocked on the east bank of the Wanzi River, and once Li Zicheng waves his army again, he will form an encirclement of him, although he did not look down on these thieves before, but the strong combat effectiveness shown by this thief army on the other side of the battle today made him begin to have palpitations, if you add the main force of Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, only with this little soldier and horse under his command, one is not careful, may be wiped out by Gao Yingxiang and them.

And Hong Chengchou is still in the area of Yan'an Mansion, it is said that the Xining Guards mutiny, this matter is definitely a big deal, Hong Chengchou is leading his troops to Xining Wei to quell the mutiny, it is absolutely difficult to get out in a short period of time, come back to rescue him.

After thinking about it, the more He Renlong thought about it, the more afraid he became, he felt that this place was definitely not a place to stay for a long time, and his current plan was to rush back to Longzhou City as soon as possible, and after entering Longzhou, he didn't have to worry too much about anything! Thinking about it like this, he also felt more and more that the thief army on the other side was probably a suspicious plan by Gao Yingxiang or Li Zicheng, who wanted to drag him here, and then kill him from all sides and surround him in this place.

Thinking of this, he suddenly made up his mind, and he didn't dare to fight with the thief army on the other side here anymore, so he said to his subordinate generals: "It seems that I have fallen for the thief's trick, this thief army on the other side is definitely not a Xingtian army, it must be a thief or an elite soldier under the Li thief, who wants to drag us back to Longzhou City here!" Take the opportunity to kill us on all sides and surround us here!

We can't afford to delay here any longer! The order went down, and immediately set off to cross the river upstream, and quickly return to Longzhou City! Then send fast horses to order He Fang and Bai Youliang, so that they must be cautious, not to fight against the enemy on the other side, but to find a way to hold them back, so that we can choose another place to cross the river and return to Longzhou City! ”