Hearing Zhai Wenting's request, Chen Xianqi was still a little hesitant, because in fact, before Li Xilie left, although he let him serve as the queen of Shenguang Cai Sanzhou, he also had a precautionary heart for him, and only gave him 5,000 soldiers and horses, and the rest of the soldiers and horses were divided into the Wu brothers, or Han Shuanglu, Feng Youlin, Liu Rongxu, etc., so he asked him to act against other Huaixi rebel generals at once, which was quite a bit of a feeling of being more than enough and not enough.

So Chen Xianqi discussed with several henchmen: We will first withdraw our troops from Tangcheng, return to Lixiang and garrison, and then send envoys to contact Gao Yue, Cao Wanggao and others, and wait for their reinforcement promises, and then wait for the opportunity to do so.

The next day, on the city of Tangcheng County, several Pinglin disciples suddenly raised the torches in their hands, shook and danced, and looked up to the sky and shouted.

Liu Changqing, who was wearing court clothes, climbed the city wall excitedly, and then looked at the north on Tangcheng Mountain, the trumpets sounded endlessly in the dawn, and Chen Xianqi's men and horses lined up in several teams, along the passage between the mountain passes, and left in the northeast direction.

"Coo-dong", Liu Changqing actually knelt at the head of the city, raised his face full of scum, burst into tears, raised his hands high, and grabbed the morning glow in the sky, "Suizhou, I finally saved it!" ”

It's been a hard time for years! The name of my loyalty should reach the ears of the Holy Lord, and after that, I will finally be qualified to return to Jingshitai Province and become Langzhong in Southern Province, and the next step is to step towards the Zhongshu Sheren.

Soon, a small group of cavalry galloped at the south city gate, and called us to be the children of the Baicao Army of Xingyuan Mansion, and asked Liu Yuanjun to answer.

Liu Changqing leaned on the female wall and looked down, "Is it Yisong's soldiers and horses?" ”

"Shaoyin has marched to Tongbai, Tangzhou, and I urge Liu Zhijun to dispatch the children of Pinglin to recover Sui County and Guanghua County, and gather in Anlu City with the Sannanxing camp. Chen Xianqi must have retreated, and asked Liu Yuanjun not to delay the fighter. ”

"Okay, okay, this time, So-and-so's life was finally saved by Yi Song." Liu Changqing was happy and excited, his voice trembled a little, and he said to the scout cavalry of the White Grass Army who raised their heads under the city.

The group of cavalry clasped their fists on horseback and saluted, then raised their whips and ran back in the direction of Tongbai.

In front of the ruined public palace in Pingshi County, Gao Yue stood at the head of the gate with a horsewhip, and the scout who came from Tangcheng County turned over and dismounted, telling him: "The Sannanxing camp has besieged Anlu, and the rebel general Chen Xianqi has given up attacking Tangcheng and retreated to Li Township. ”

"Very good, this news has finally been confirmed-everyone, we don't have to stay here any longer, we will cross the ochre water immediately and go to the county and Jia Xiang Guild to join the division."

By the time the Baicao Army and the baggage army marched westward to Yuxian, the combined forces of Jia Tan, Han Tan, and Wei Gao had used the column-bellied flying cannon to smash the city towers and city walls of Qixian County, breaking the Huaixi soldiers and mountain shed disciples stationed inside.

"Where is Feng Youlin?" Jia Tan personally interrogated the captives.

The answer was that Feng Youlin's men and horses had retired to Nanyang.

"Where's Lee Hee-yeol!"

The answer is unknown.

At this time, Gao Yue, who came to meet the division, suggested Jia Tan: "Xianggong, the top priority is to recover the Jingshi, and since you have to get the county, you can march from the northwest and march along the Wuguan Road to intercept Li Xilie." ”

Jia Tan nodded in agreement, and then he asked Du Huangshang and Meng Hao to draft a good report, pass through Shangjin Road, fly to Fengtian City, and report the good news to His Majesty the Emperor, and then ordered that the general of the southern army of Liushan, Ma Guide, lead 3,000 soldiers, and stay in Liuxian County, and monitor the rebel general Feng Youlin in the Nanyang area, while he led the main force of Shannan, the Fengyi Army, the Xishan Army, and the Baicao Army, a total of 20,000 people, drove directly to the inner countryside, and entered the front line of Shangyu and Lantian, preparing to encircle and destroy Li Xilie's army.

Within a few days, the autumn wind was fierce, Jia Tan's army went north along the turbulent water, carrying ten days of dry food, passing through Chuyan, Xincheng, and Lintuan Zhudi, and then crossing the turbulent water, looking at the inner countryside with the back of the Xishui and going, "Once you reach the inner countryside, continue to seize Wuguan!" ”

At the same time as Jia Tan's action, the armies of Hun Xuan, Duan Xiushi, and Cui Ning were also arrayed thirty miles outside Xianyang City, and the drums and horns shook the sky, terrifying Li Xilie who was camped at Xiweiqiao.

So Li Xilie summoned Li Yuanping and said to him very frustratedly: "I listened to your plan at the beginning, although I got Chang'an City, but it didn't last long, Tianzuo is still in Li Tang's house, and now I want to do my best before listening to the mandate of heaven - go to Li Huaiguang and protect Hezhong Mansion together, how about it?" ”

Li Yuanping said: "King Chu, Zhu Zhu, or Li Huaiguang, they can't be trusted. ”

Li Xilie was very anxious, "I regret not listening to you earlier, and returning to Shangzhou Dengzhou, but I have been disturbing patrolling the Chang'an territory for so long, and now Duan Xiu is really in front, Li Sheng and Jia Tan have each cut off the back road, what can they do?" ”

Li Yuanping said: "The king of Chu can lead the mule army to quickly turn back, cross the Qipan Mountain in Lantian, and fight with Jia Tan for Wuguan and the inner countryside. Huaixi mule soldiers have always been known for their bravery, if they break Jia Tan, they will go to Nanyang through the turbulent water, and meet with General Feng Youlin, and retire to the land of Shenguang Cai, if the court will then concentrate on crusading against Li Huaiguang in the river, we can take the opportunity to make peace with the court, and the king of Chu will remove the king's name, submit to the court, and rely on the Ziqing Festival to make Li Na and Wei Bo Jie make Tian Yue, and go down. ”

Hearing this plan, Li Xilie had no choice but to nod and decide where to come from and where to go back.

Immediately, Li Xilie burned down all the troops in Xianyang, and the fire stretched for more than ten miles, and then more than 10,000 Huaixi mule soldiers, head to tail, followed the direction pointed by the leopard tail gate gun flag, and plundered several Qi counties in the south of Chang'an City, completely forgetting the promise made when they entered Beijing.

Lantian Qipan Mountain, the peaks gather like waves, the road twists and turns, the wind and rain are continuous, the circling road is full of mules spreading their hooves, and the cavalry of the Huaixi Army who sit on it and limps, they are traveling day and night, and they are also running in the direction of Wuguan.

It's a pity that Li Xilie got the news just after he arrived in Wuguan that Jia Tan's army had been allocated to the inner countryside, between him and Nanyang Feng Youlin.

Moreover, Jia Tan also received assistance from Fan Ze: Previously, Fan Ze and Wu Xianfu went out of Manchuan Pass, cleared Shanyang, and rushed to the inner countryside to join Jia Tan.

Today, Jia Tan's troops are nearly 30,000.

Li Xilie became timid again, thinking that it was difficult to compete head-on with Jia Tan, who was waiting for work and had an advantage in numbers, so he wanted to bypass the inner countryside and force himself to cross other ferries in Xichuan to meet Feng Youlin.

"Since the king of Chu thinks so, his actions must be decisive, and he can set off at night." Li Yuanping said.

However, most of the musketeers, tooth generals and fake sons under Li Xilie's command disagreed, thinking that outside Wuguan, the entire Danshui River Valley to Xishui Road was dangerous, and if it was too dangerous to go at night, it was better to wait for dawn to set up a virtual army first, and then lead the main force to cross the Xichuan River.

Li Xilie couldn't resist it, so he could only agree.

As a result, after dawn, the Huaining army found that there was no need to set up false troops at all - all the ferries on the bank of the river more than ten miles wide opposite Xichuan had been controlled by Jia Tan's army, and wooden fences and barracks had also been built, and it seemed that they had been waiting here for a long time.