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Not long after, Yan Chongxi, Zhao Erdon and others all ran over quickly and came to Xiao Tianjian.

Xiao Tianjian immediately informed these subordinates of the situation of the official army, and said to them in a deep voice: "The name of Madman He is not worthy of his name, so he suffered a little loss, so he retracted and didn't dare to fight us here!" At the moment, I estimate that this guy is leading his troops to move north, and it is likely that he wants to cross the river from the pontoon bridge built by his department upstream and rush back to Longzhou City! The officers and soldiers of the two roads who have passed through the river have now retracted the pontoon bridge in the north, and they should want to protect the pontoon bridge and wait for the main force of He Renlong to cross the river, while the officers and soldiers in the south have also stopped and are unable to move forward! It also hurt a few of our scout brothers! What do you think we should do now? ”

As soon as Xiao Tianjian's words fell, Luo Li immediately argued: "General, let's just drive north, block He Renlong, and beat his mother!" He Renlong is a little more famous, in my opinion, he He is not a powerful character, so let's stop him here and cripple him and pull him down! ”

What I didn't expect was that as soon as Luo Li's voice fell, Zhao Erdonkey, who didn't like to drill his head forward very much, also stood up and argued: "Brother Luo is right, this He madman is just Erer, although he has more people, as long as we go over and defeat his subordinates first, we can block He Maniac so that he can't cross the river!" Let's see how many catties he has in the madman! ”

Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but be a little stunned, but immediately understood their intentions.

In the battle just now, just using Liu Bao's new barracks, plus some firecrackers, they beat the officers and soldiers, so that these guys with soldiers must be unconvinced, and they are a little blushing at the exploits of the new barracks, so they are willing to go to He Renlong at this time, and they can also make some military achievements, and after these two battles, everyone has little fear of He Renlong, and they must feel that He Renlong's generals are just this level, So everyone is no longer worried that they are not He Renlong's opponents, and Zhao Erdonkey jumped out to fight.

So he set his eyes on Yan Chongxi, who had always acted more steadily, Yan Chongxi saw Xiao Tianjian looking at him, so he shook his head slightly and said: "General, my subordinates think that it is not the best strategy for us to go north now to block Madman He!" Although He Renlong has been defeated twice in a row, his strength has not been greatly damaged, and his troops are still far more than ours! At this time, if we go north, the officer and army that have crossed the river will definitely desperately intercept us, and He Renlong will definitely speed up the speed of crossing the river, once He Renlong crosses the river, it will be more unfavorable to us, even if this battle is won by He Renlong, I am afraid we will lose a lot!

At present, we have lost He Renlong twice in a row, and the victory is not small! If you go to fight with He Renlong again, your subordinates don't think it's wise! It's better to let the people cross the river and return to Longzhou! We can keep an eye on the officers and soldiers in the south, and take advantage of the situation to eat and pull down the officers and soldiers on this road! It is estimated that as long as the officers and soldiers of He Renlong are defeated, He Renlong's losses will be big enough! ”

"Brother Yan, what are you talking about? How can we be afraid of the Naga madman? Since Maniac He has been beaten by us, it is better to take this opportunity to kill him at once, and he will lead the army back to Longzhou City, wouldn't this Longzhou City be even more difficult to fight? Zhao Erdonkey shook his head and said to Yan Chongxi, as if he still had a trace of disdain, a little despised Yan Chongxi for being so afraid of war.

"I said Zhao Erdonkey, you don't want to think about it, how much benefit will this Longzhou City have for us? Not to mention that Gao Yingxiang estimates that he will bring a lot of people over soon, even if it is only this Li Hongji, there are nearly 10,000 horses, Longzhou City is defeated, they take the lion's share, how much cheaper can we get? What's more, Longzhou City is strong, even if Longzhou City is laid, it is estimated that there will be no ten days and half a month, I am afraid it will be difficult to defeat this Longzhou City! Let's go and fight with He Renlong, what's the benefit to us? Hum! Yan Chongxi sneered and glanced at Zhao Erdonkey, and asked Zhao Erdonkey with a look of disdain.

As soon as Yan Chongxi asked this, Zhao Erdonkey really opened his mouth a little and stammered, comparing his brains with Yan Chongxi, Zhao Erdonkey was a little smart, but for the overall situation, Zhao Erdonkey was not as good as Yan Chongxi, a guy who had been in the border army for many years, so when Yan Chongxi asked this, Zhao Erdonkey had nothing to say.

Xiao Tianjian looked at Yan Chongxi with satisfaction, under his command, so far, although there are a few brave generals available, but the most aware of the overall situation is Yan Chongxi, Yan Chongxi thinks about the problem, more comprehensive than the other guys, often can think of a place with him, can see things farther, so this is also the reason why he has always attached more importance to Yan Chongxi.

"Yan Chongxi is right! We really can't fight to the end with Maniac He now, in that case, even if we can win, it will only be a crushing victory in the end! Since Yan Chongxi wants to return to Longzhou, let him go back! It's enough for us to keep an eye on the officers and troops along the way to the south! As long as he eats this way of the official army, the strength of the madman He will be greatly damaged, and as for fighting Longzhou City, that will be a matter for the future! Don't fight, just follow Brother Yan's advice, now go down and clean up, let's immediately head south! Xiao Tianjian finally made up his mind.

A quarter of an hour later, all the sentries will be packed up, start to line up again, the artillery team today is not a small meritorious service, but the loss is not small, a Furlong machine bronze cannon was overturned by the cannon of He Renlong on the other side, it can no longer be used, so the wreckage of this Furlong machine gun was cleaned up, and the artillery team also withdrew and returned to the formation.

With Xiao Tianjian's order, more than 1,000 soldiers of the Xingtian Army immediately took action, a group of people drove towards the lower reaches of the Wanzi River, at the back of the team, also used a rope like a sugar gourd, tied up more than 50 captured officers and soldiers, in a short time, the Xingtian Army drove away from the west end of the big stone bridge, here are only more than 200 stripped of the corpses of officers and soldiers, sprinkled with a strong smell of blood, the crows in the sky who have been waiting for a long time, saw that the Xingtian Army has left, so one after another fell.

As for the corpses of those officers and soldiers, Xiao Tianjian didn't have time to collect them at this time, so he had to hand them over to He Renlong to send someone to clean up the battlefield.

He Fang was dejected with seven hundred officers and soldiers and auxiliaries under his command, gave up the operation to the north, and began to drive westward, unlike when he crossed the river just now, now the soldiers under his command are a little depressed.

Originally, he was ordered to choose a place to cross the Wanzi River downstream, and then rushed to the direction of the big stone bridge from the flank, and cooperated with Bai Youliang, who was crossing the river upstream, to attack left and right on the other side, and wiped out this damn thief army, but he didn't think that he had just started to cross the river, and the news came, saying that He Renlong sent Huang Qiang, the general manager, to lead his troops to attack the big stone bridge again, but the thief army that was blocked in the big stone bridge was almost wiped out, and He Renlong sent someone to order him to be careful, not to act rashly, but to be taken advantage of by the thief army.

After the news came, He was taken aback, although Lu Pin was killed by the thief army in the first battle, but it was Lu Pin who took the bridge without knowing the firepower of the thief army, and was caught off guard by the thief army Quite a lot of artillery, firearms, and archers took advantage of the terrain to repel Lu Pin.

But the second time Huang Qiang led his troops up, he obviously heard that Huang Qiang had robbed the stone bridge and rushed to the west of the bridge, but he didn't think about it and was beaten by the thief army.

Because he has a good relationship with Huang Qiang, he has worked together under He Renlong all the year round, of course he knows how powerful Huang Qiang's subordinates are, in his opinion, since Huang Qiang led his troops to rush across the big stone bridge, with nearly 500 soldiers under his command, he should not be the opponent of those more than 1,000 thieves on the other side! But He Renlong sent someone to send a message, saying that Huang Qiang not only did not defeat the thief army, but was almost wiped out by the thief army, and the 500 people only fled back to Hedong, less than 200, and the rest were lost in the west of the bridge.

This time, He Fang had to re-weigh the weight of this thief army, how could He Fang not believe it, but there were only more than a thousand thief troops, and they were so capable of fighting, Huang Qiang actually ended up in this fate, so can these soldiers and generals he brought with him still be the opponent of this thief army?

But He Fang was still lucky, and felt that there was another Bai Youliang who was also crossing the river upstream, and their strength was not weaker than that of the thief army, so they should still have a chance to eat this thief army and get it back, so he continued to supervise the army to cross the river and advance in the direction of the big stone bridge.

However, soon after, He Renlong sent a fast horse to report again, informing him to give up attacking this thief army, and ordered him to lead his subordinates to immediately rush in the direction of Longzhou City, join up with his main force, and return to Longzhou City to garrison.

The successive changes made He Fang a little nervous, since He Renlong ordered him to turn to Longzhou instead, then it was obvious that Bai Youliang might have received the same order, once Bai Youliang didn't go to fight with this thief army, he would go to this thief army alone with the strength of an army, what are the chances of winning?

Where is Huang Qiang's example, since Huang Qiang is not the opponent of the thief army, then he is likely to be unfavorable, so he immediately ordered to stop advancing and prepare to go in the direction of Longzhou.

However, soon his subordinates found that in the direction of their flanks, they found several thieves scouts on horseback to find out his news, so He Fang did not dare to be careless, and immediately led more than 30 cavalry in person, and suddenly launched an attack on the scouts of the thief army.

After the first battle, five thief scouts, although they killed four on the spot, but still let one thief scout escape, He Fang could not pursue, so he had to gather his cavalry in defeat and turn back into the formation.

Judging from the appearance of these thief scouts, he knew that his whereabouts had been exposed, and the thief army should have known the location of his team of officers and soldiers, and then he couldn't guess what this thief army would choose to do next, which made him and his generals a little uneasy.

So he didn't dare to stay here any longer, and immediately urged his men to get on the road and rush in the direction of Longzhou City, and at the same time he also sent a few nights to investigate in the direction of Dashiqiao.

Not long after, a few frightened horses chased after him and said to He Fang: "Qi He Qianzong, that thief army is chasing us!" Please decide! ”

He Fang's heart tightened, realizing that the thief army they encountered today was probably not simple, the other party knew that he had nearly 700 officers and troops here, but he still dared to chase after him, obviously wanting to leave his team here, so his future would be worrying.

"Go and contact Bai Youliang immediately, please Bai Youliang lead the department to meet me in Tianjiazhuang in front! Pass the order down, speed up! Be sure to get to Tianjiazhuang before dark! As long as we enter Tianjiazhuang, the thief army will have no way to take us! He Fang immediately ordered.

The officers and soldiers also seemed to be aware of the approaching danger, and they all quickened the pace of the march, and hurried over in the direction of Tianjiazhuang with He Fang.

After Xiao Tianjian led his troops to leave Dashiqiao, he sent Li Lingfeng to lead a few scouts to continue to explore the movements of the officers and soldiers on this road, and at the same time personally led his troops to follow closely and chased in the direction where the officers and troops were located.

For this area of Longzhou, the Xingtian Army is not very familiar, if it were not for the early exploration of the scouts, this time they would not have chosen the big stone bridge as the location to block He Renlong, but after all, the number of scouts is limited, and they cannot know the surrounding situation very well, so this makes them a little passive in the pursuit of this official army.

At the same time, Xiao Tianjian also had to guard against the main force of He Renlong behind him, so when he led his troops to leave Dashiqiao, he also sent Shi Ran to personally lead two small teams of scouts to the north to guard, once he found that the main force of He Renlong's department was approaching this side, he immediately caught up and reported to him.

The beat of the marching drums fell into the grass, and when the large group of people passed, they trampled a path out of the land where there was no road.

The terrain here began to become undulating, and in order to maintain the search for a larger area, Xiao Tianjian had to disperse all the scouts available at hand to the front of the Xingtian Army brigade, and let them go high and post to search for the location of the official army.

A few miles of road was not too far, but the march of the brigade and the lack of a road to go made their speed much slower, especially the artillery carts and carts carrying the accompanying baggage, which made their march slow down a lot under such road conditions.

Xiao Tianjian, who was walking in the ranks, couldn't help but sigh a little, if he had a slightly larger cavalry under his command, then he could send cavalry to catch up with that officer army today, even if the number of cavalry was a little smaller, he couldn't eat this road of officers and soldiers, at least it could play a role in harassing and delaying them.

It's a pity that now they have nowhere to get a large number of war horses, and the consumption of war horses for grain and grass is also very strong, so he can't form a cavalry team at all, and a small number of scouts can't contain the actions of hundreds of officers and soldiers, which makes Xiao Tianjian a little helpless.

Not long after they set off, Xiao Tianjian had already realized that the officers and troops on this road were likely to have given up the action of attacking him at Dashiqiao, because if they were going in the opposite direction, they should have been about to come into contact with the officers and soldiers on this road, but until now, the scouts in front have not sent back the news, which means that the officers and troops on this road are likely to have turned, so that the originally planned battle of confrontation has turned into a pursuit battle.

The officers and soldiers wanted to escape, but they wanted to fight, between fleeing and chasing, the two sides opened up the distance, Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but start to worry a little, whether this pursuit battle would allow him to eat this road of officers and soldiers as he wished.

An hour later, a fast horse shouted to Xiao Tianjian, who was walking in front of the team, from a distance: "Report ......"

He Fang looked at the thief army behind him that had rolled over the earthen beam and rolled towards them in surprise, as well as the scarlet Punishment Heaven Banner, and his eyes suddenly widened.

There were still nearly three or four miles away from Tianjia Village, which he expected to reach, and he could already see the village wall of Tianjia Village from the Tuliang he had just gotten, but he was still chased by the hateful thief army here, and the officers and soldiers in the team were in a commotion, especially the two hundred auxiliary soldiers who were moving with the troops, and they all panicked when they saw the thief army rolling behind them getting closer and closer.

"Herald to stop advancing! Formation on the left mound! Hurry up! Kill those who dare to trespass! He Fang immediately passed down the order! Although there is only such a close distance left, if they can enter Tianjiazhuang, then relying on the wall of Tianjiazhuang, with the hundreds of officers and soldiers on his hand plus auxiliary soldiers, as well as those Zhuang Ding Xiangyong in Tianjiazhuang, even if the thief army is strong, he is confident to withstand the attack of the thief army, the thief army only has a strength of about 1,000 people, if you want to conquer Tianjiazhuang, it is a joke at all, if you can wait until Bai Youliang leads the troops to come, their two armies should be together, and it is completely possible to eat this thief army.

It's a pity that he was still half a step slower, and he couldn't get to Tianjiazhuang, although he was urging his subordinates to speed up the march along the way, but when he got here, he was still chased by the thief army, if he didn't form a formation on the spot, he continued to lead his troops to run wildly towards Tianjiazhuang, I'm afraid that just these three miles of road, it became a nightmare for his team, the thief army chased wildly behind, his people ran wildly in front, not to mention maintaining formation, and soon I am afraid that this retreat will evolve into a rout, Even if he leads his troops to Tianjiazhuang by then, I'm afraid there won't be a few people left around him.

So knowing that it would be dangerous to stop, but He Fang still ordered to stop advancing immediately, and chose the left mound on the spot to seize the high ground and start to form a formation, after all, it was close to dusk at this time, as long as it was night, He Fang thought that his pair of men and horses would be safe, even if the thief army was powerful, as soon as it was dark, he would not dare to move, as long as he insisted until dawn or He Renlong arrived here, his team of soldiers and horses would still have the possibility of retreating.

So He Fang chose to stay, meeting this thief army that defeated them twice in a row, to see what they were so powerful, that is, the difference in this thought, but let him regret it for life, and the soldiers under his command began to run towards the mound, and set up the array, and turned around to meet the chasing Xingtian army.