Although Qiu Yi didn't know the reason, he was also optimistic about the success, and ordered Zhou Ge to strictly probe the information between the two thieves in Xiangcheng, and he and the generals seized the extra time earned to step up military training. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Five days later, after nearly half a month of overtime and rapid training, the new army's various arrays were initially assembled and marched, and they were basically able to meet the requirements set by Qiu Yi half a month ago. Although he is not good at the art of fighting with five soldiers, he can still use basic skills such as spearmen stabbing forward in formation, shield soldiers blocking and slashing, and archers shooting at elevation angles, which has almost reached the state of the first expedition of the Summoning Ling Army.

If the battle is fought in formation, the new army as a whole will still be strong, and once the formation is broken and cannot be reassembled, it will not be much stronger than ordinary thieves, and it will never be able to compete with the two armies of the north and south as strong as the five Hu soldiers. In order to allow the soldiers of the new army to fight in a consistent formation, Qiu Yi had to set ten new beheadings as punishments after the chaos, so that the soldiers of the whole army could not help but be stunned.

Qiu Yi looked at the 5,000 new army in front of him and couldn't help but be satisfied. But at the same time of joy, I can't help but feel sad. After another ten days, there was no messenger in the direction of Zhaoling, but I was afraid that the situation of Zhaoling was indeed not good.

Qiu Yi gritted his teeth and muttered: "It's also time to eliminate the two thieves in Xiangcheng, and return to the north to Zhaoling to avenge my Ning'er and Yan'er." With a wave of his hand, the whole army of 5,800 people, leaving Lu Ping to lead 500 people to defend the city, and all the others were dispatched to attack the thieves of Xiangcheng in the north.

Xiangcheng He Yi and Xinyang Wu Ba fought on the outskirts of Xiangcheng for several days, each killing and wounding thousands of people, and their strength was lost. had to collect their troops and go back to the city and camp to lick their wounds.

Wu Ba poured a sip of wine syrup, sat in the main tent and asked, "Yu Laosan, did you say that He Yi made a ghost by knocking down the ambush?" After several battles and thousands of deaths, he still didn't get half of the truth in He Yi's mouth. ”

The leader of the guard, named Yu Laosan, frowned and thought hard, and then said half-loudly: "Daqu Shuai, I have asked dozens of relatives who have been released, and they all said that the person who ambushed us that time had a variety of accents from Runan. The official army in Liyang heard that it came from Zhaoling, and it should be mainly Zhaoling, but it will not be a variety of awkwardness. Secondly, when Da Qu Shuai arrived in Xiangcheng, he did it in secret, even if He Yi didn't come to Xiangcheng, he didn't know. If the official army finds out the news, returns to Liyang from Xiangcheng to report the news, and then the official army sends troops to ambush us, it will only be a day, will the official army have the time to go deep into Xiangcheng to pick a place to ambush us? Nearly a hundred miles, unless all the horsemen are still about the same. Therefore, this must have been premeditated. ”

"Also, the officers and soldiers have always attached great importance to the first rank, and for a first rank, even brothers in the same battalion have time to fight. When did Marshal Daqu ever hear that there were officers and soldiers who did not behead the army after breaking the army, but released all the enemies? This must be the reason why He Yi pretended to be mysterious. In the end, He Yi and I agreed to march south together three days later, but our army failed to send troops on time due to an ambush, and He Yi did not move for no reason. He also pretended to send someone to inquire, and when the troops were dispatched, everything was done according to the will of the commander of Daqu. When has He Yi ever been so polite? This must be the reason for the weakness of the heart......"

The leader of the pro-soldier named Yu Lao San still wanted to continue to analyze for Wu Ba, but he didn't want Wu Ba to wave his hand and said impatiently: "I know, I know, it's He Yi's right thing." It's just a few fights, we can't fight anymore, let's fight again tomorrow, ask He Yi to pay some beauty property, and spare him this time. ”

"Huh? Don't fight. Yu Laosan was stunned for a moment, and said with great pity: "Finally, when He Man's gang couldn't charge into battle due to serious injuries, he killed He Yibu and won more than he won, so he spared him?" Da Qu Shuai is not afraid that He Man will seek an opportunity to retaliate against us after he recovers from his injury? ”

Wu Ba thought of He Yi's own brother He Man, and he had a toothache and inhaled cold air. All the Yellow Turban rebels in Runan believed in the Taiping Dao, but He Man was the only one who believed in the Futu Sect. It also calls itself the name of the Yaksha in the Eight Divisions of the Heavenly Dragon, and its bravery and violence are no less than the real Yakshas. If He Man recovered from his injuries and learned that he was bullying He Yi, he would not swallow himself alive.

Wu Ba shuddered and said, "Tomorrow you must fight bravely, you must destroy He Yi, and you will not let He Man recover from his injuries." ”

On the second day, Wu Ba poured out of the camp and led 12,000 thieves to challenge under the city of Xiangxian, and He Yi once again led the army out of the city to meet the battle. When the two armies faced each other, He Yi stepped out and shouted: "Leader Wu, today is the sixth day for you to attack my Xiangcheng. I still have the same old saying, the ambush ten days ago was not my doing, you let the real murderer of Liyang City not attack, but you are embarrassed by me everywhere, it is really unreasonable. He has endured you for five days, but he doesn't want to endure it any longer. ”

Wu Ba was furious, and scolded with a halberd: "He Yi, you have to be cunning, it doesn't matter if it's you today, it's not you, I will take your life." "Let's just take He Yi with a spear and a prancing horse.

He Yi hurriedly fled towards his own formation, and with a move of Wu Ba's spear, the whole army immediately pressed on and slammed into He Yi's thief department. Wu Ba rode his horse and stabbed indiscriminately, going back and forth in He Yi's army, so brave that he killed He Yi and his soldiers on their backs, so unhappy. There was an hour of the battle between the two armies, and He Yi's thief army was defeated and retreated. Wu Ba saw that he was about to rush to He Yi's Chinese army, and suddenly a big general flashed out of the thief army, and shouted violently with an iron rod: "Wu Ba dog thief, do you recognize He Man?" ”

Wu Ba was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly saw that although the general was pale and bloodless, he was not He Man. Wu Ba didn't dare to answer, turned the horse's head and turned around and left. Wu Ba and the thieves saw that the main general had fled, and their morale was greatly depressed, He Yi took the opportunity to wave his army and attack, and the Wu Ba and the thieves were defeated, and more than 10,000 thieves were chased and scattered in all directions.

Not wanting to face an army head-on, Wu Ba, who fled first, reacted, and rushed straight out of the army, and slashed Wu Ba under the horse with a knife in the head.

After that, the army spread out in eight formations, each with 500 men, and each 100 men in a platoon, for a total of five platoons. The eight formations were divided into two columns, front and rear, with a distance of 500 paces from each other to the left and right. Eight formations met Wu Ba's Xinyang thieves, spears and bayonets slashed arrows, like fire burning withered grass, and the thieves were killed in columns. The Xinyang thieves were flanked by the front and rear armies, and soon the whole army collapsed, and people kneeling and begging for mercy could be seen everywhere.

He Yi saw the oncoming army waving the banner of the Zhaoling Army, and knew that it was someone from Liyang. Because the details of this group of officers and troops were unknown in advance, they hurriedly gathered the pursuing army and prepared for battle. Not wanting to summon the Ling army to disperse the Xinyang thieves who blocked the way, they went straight to He Yi's thief department, and the march was very fast.

He Yiwang saw the neat and majestic marching army of the Zhaoling army, which was greatly disgraced, and he was afraid that he would be defeated, so he panicked to lead the army to retreat into the city to defend the city. Suddenly, more than 1,000 officers and soldiers were killed from the flanks and rear, and the three formations of more than 400 people who were also neat and majestic came to block the road back to the city of He Yi's thief army who wanted to retreat. He Yi's thief army and Wu Ba's thief army fought for a long time, and their combat strength was not strong due to lack of food and clothing, and they were even more hungry at this time, and they were unable to break through the roadblocks made by more than 1,000 officers and soldiers with spears and arrows.

However, the eight formations of officers and soldiers in front shouted in unison at the same time, turning from line to line, and there was no formation that was too scattered between the runs. After approaching twenty paces, they quickly formed a formation and attacked the thief army fiercely. The spear tips of Rulin stabbed in unison, like a shield of the wall, and more arrows fell like rain on his head. The thieves who had not yet formed a formation until this time suddenly dispersed in an uproar, and they were behind the new yang thieves.

At this critical moment, He Man strode with his baton up, summoned hundreds of guards around He Yi, and suddenly rushed forward when he saw a group of officers and soldiers who were slightly weaker in blocking the road. He Man ran alone, holding a shield in one hand to block the rain of arrows, and slashing indiscriminately with a stick in the other, and the spears that stabbed at him broke one after another. After another sweep, the officers and soldiers holding the shield immediately broke their bones and broken tendons, and they fell to the ground with blood spurting one after another. He Man shouted again, and the iron rod danced wildly and suddenly broke a big hole in this array. The thieves took the opportunity to attack and immediately broke through all the officers and soldiers of this formation.

He Man dispersed the fleeing officers and troops, and then rushed towards the 500-strong army formation that was ready to press forward. This army was the army formation that Qiu Yi had personally trained and led, and seeing He Man's unstoppable sudden arrival, he was secretly surprised, and ordered the formation of sword and shield hands in the first and second rows to shrink again. Let the soldiers lean on their shoulders, connect the shields and shields, and support them at any time, so that He Man will not have a chance to break the formation. And Wang Dangbu, who had just been broken through, immediately regrouped fifty steps behind Qiu Yibu, and stepped forward to resist again.

He Man drank violently, and the iron rod was striking indiscriminately, and the hardwood shields that were more than an inch thick were broken one after another. But under Qiu Yi's command, every time one side of the big shield broke, there was another side behind him that came up as a substitute when He Man raised his stick, and he always maintained a shield formation like a wall. The spearmen, protected by the first two rows of sword and shield men, stabbed vicious spears from between the heads of individuals, harvesting the lives of the thieves on both sides of Homan. The archers in the last row were non-stop, constantly throwing a rain of arrows, shooting and blocking the thieves' successors.

Finally, with the help and consumption of the left and right high districts and Wang Dang's two formations, the hundreds of thieves who followed He Man's forward rush were killed by thirty percent in a short period of time, and their spirit was greatly lost. He Man's face turned from white to blue, and the iron rod became more and more powerless, and finally opened his mouth and a bloody arrow spewed out, and he couldn't help but fall weakly, and was snatched away by several guards.

However, the more than 10,000 thief army commanded by He Yi could not withstand the continuous onslaught of the eight formations of officers and soldiers like a wave, and most of the whole army broke and fled, and there was no way to form a formation at all. He Yi helplessly led more than 100 horsemen and thieves to protect He Man and hurriedly fled to the north. Qiu Yijun did not have many war horses, all of them were foot soldiers, and at this time, there were more than 20,000 thieves who still needed to be encircled and suppressed, and they were unable to pursue He Yi, so they could only watch He Yi and He Man's brothers flee again.

The officers and soldiers won a great victory, capturing more than 20,000 thieves. Xiangcheng, Xinyang, and Yilu counties were decided, and the thieves surrendered one after another. Even the thieves in Gushi and Xincai counties sent messengers to deliver the surrender letter.

It's just that Qiu Yi doesn't know this anymore, because the person standing in front of him brings Qiu Yi a bad news that is both happy and worried.