Chapter Ninety-Three: Escape
Liu Bao smiled and said: "Naturally, you can't talk about clever plans, but there are still bad ideas!" This group of prisoners in front of him is a good thing to break the enemy, how can Brother Luo let them go? ”
After midnight that night, there was no rest in the camp of the Xingtian Army, Luo Li and Liu Bao personally led their troops, holding these nearly 400 prisoners of war, out of the camp at night, and went straight to the outside of the official camp.
Originally, their group of officers and soldiers came from Guide Mansion, basically it can be said that they are all villagers, and even some soldiers are related to each other, and the officers and soldiers who surrendered can almost call out the names of many people by name, just calling the names of friends or relatives they know, shouting that they should stop following Liu Ruming and other officials to do it again, and persuade them to come out quickly and surrender to the heroes of the Xingtian Army, and the heroes of the Xingtian Army will not fight or kill them, how good they will be to them, Those who are injured will be treated, and those who want to go home will be sent to them to return to their hometowns, in short, don't be enemies with the Xingtian Army anymore.
In the middle of the night, so many people shouted, the sound could be heard far away, and the shouting spread to all corners of the official and military camps, and many officers and soldiers were sitting in the camp tents, staring at the big black lights and listening to the shouts coming from outside the camp, and from time to time someone whispered: "It seems that someone called my name!" That's right, it's called me! ”
There was gradually a commotion in the official and military camps, and even some soldiers poked their heads out of the camp tents and began to look around.
The shouts outside the camp and the commotion in the camp were heard by Liu Ruming and other generals, Liu Ruming felt a chill in his heart, and he also knew that now the soldiers had been offended to the extreme because of the fact that he had discarded his soldiers during the day, and now the thief army had resorted to such a method to deal with them, which was really a retribution in the world! How to choose as a soldier, he really didn't know the bottom of his heart, so he didn't dare to sleep all night, sat in the middle of the military tent, and sent all his generals down, so that they were optimistic about their subordinates, and strengthened the ammunition and suppressed the soldiers, so as not to have an accident.
And the generals under his command are also nervous to death one by one, with their respective families in the camp to patrol, scolding the soldiers to go to the tent to sleep, no one is allowed to go out of the account, otherwise the military law will be engaged, for this reason really caught some soldiers out of the account, and cut them in public, even the normal night patrol camp work simply did not dare to transfer ordinary soldiers out, directly ordered their respective families to top, so that it will be bitter for the family, the night is cold, they were originally the best treatment, but now they have to do this drudgery, But if he didn't do it, he couldn't do it, so he had to scold and scold out to patrol the camp to prevent being attacked by the thief army, and even Liu Ruming pulled out the family and watched the big tent of the Chinese army for him, in case of accidents.
The entire official army camp was caught in a storm, but the officers and soldiers who surrendered to the Heavenly Army outside the camp were living a good life, Luo Li did not hesitate to take out the dried meat and cook the broth for them, and brought it out for them to eat and drink vigorously, so as to keep out the cold, so these soldiers were also very energetic, and they went to shout and shout in shifts, and they quarreled all night.
When Liu Ruming arrived at dawn, there was finally no camp roar in the camp, which finally made him breathe a sigh of relief, and after leaving the big tent, he saw more than a dozen heads hanging at the gate, all of which were the heads of the soldiers who were beheaded last night without permission, and their bloody teeth were swinging in the wind.
At this point, he also knew that he would definitely not be able to stay here in Yichuan County, and if the thief army came twice, he believed that the remaining three or four thousand soldiers under his command would definitely give him a big break, and it would be too late for him to run away at that time.
So as soon as the morning dawned, he immediately beat the drum to convene the generals under his command to discuss the matter, and said that he wanted to withdraw the troops and return to the German Mansion, and the generals all agreed with it, and the toss of this night made them all frightened to stand on end, for fear that they would rebel in a gang at night, and now Liu Ruming proposed to leave, of course they were willing, so the generals immediately decided to withdraw the troops.
Before noon, Luo Li and Liu Bao heard that the scout reported that there was movement in the official army camp, so Luo Li and Liu Bao immediately left the camp, climbed on a mound on the north side of the official army camp, and looked condescendingly towards the official army camp.
Looking down from the mound, there was a busy scene inside the camp of the officers and soldiers, the tents were removed and put onto the carts, the mules and horses were also pulled out and put on the carts, and many officers and soldiers were finally packing up their hands and began to line up in the battalion.
"The officers and soldiers are going to run!" Luo Li put down his clairvoyance and immediately shouted.
Liu Bao also put down the binoculars and nodded: "Yes!" The officers and soldiers want to run away! ”
Luo Li strode down the mound without saying a word, and instructed as he walked: "Pass the order, prepare to leave the camp immediately!" Thinking of beauty, I still want to run under Lao Tzu's nose! Where in the world is there such a cheap thing! ”
Liu Bao naturally did not raise objections, and returned to the camp with him, and after a short time, the men and horses of the two battalions and the soldiers of the new battalion were all ready, just waiting to go out of the camp to pursue.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the scout to report to Luo Li and Liu Baodao: "The two generals of Qiqi, the official army has begun to flee out of the camp in the direction of Yichuan County, and it is not clear where they are going for the time being!" ”
Luo Li waved his hand and said, "Let's go!" Can't let them run into Yichuan County! Rush them around Yichuan County, Brother Liu, bother you to block their way into the city from the left, and I will lead my troops to chase them behind! ”
Liu Bao immediately nodded and said, "Just do what Brother Luo instructs!" ”
After a while, the Xingtian Army also left the camp in two ways, hurried all the way to Yichuan County, and chased the officers and soldiers all the way.
Liu Ruming shouted and scolded the soldiers, telling them to hurry up, he knew the current situation very well, it was impossible for them to hide from the scouts of the thief army with such a big movement, judging from the situation of the thief army, it was impossible to let them escape so easily, they would definitely send troops to chase, whether they could run away, it depended on whether they could run to the east bank of the Yi River during the day, if they could not cross the Yi River before the thief army caught up with them, then his army of soldiers and horses would be finished, so what he was fighting for was time, at this point, he couldn't care so muchAfter hearing the news that the thieves had begun to pursue them from the people behind the palace, he frantically urged his soldiers to speed up, and at the same time ordered to throw away the baggage and other things that were not easy to carry, hoping that the thief army could compete for these baggage and slow down their pursuit.
Luo Li led the army all the way to hurry up, crossed the empty official and military camp, and also saw the heads hanging at the gate of the official and military camp, and soon began to see some materials discarded by the official army on the road.
Some of the generals of the Xingtian Army began to collect these materials along the way, and more and more of these materials were discarded by the officers and soldiers, so that the speed of the march gradually began to slow down.
"Pass the order, no one is allowed to pick up things on the side of the road, Fang Erbao, you order the new battalion to leave a company to collect these supplies along the way, and the rest of the people will speed up with me to catch up!" We can't let this group of officers and troops withdraw across the Yi River! Fast! Luo Li realized that this was not the way to do, and immediately shouted an order.
Fang Erbao was a company commander under Luo Li's previous subordinates, and now he was transferred out to serve as the battalion commander of the new battalion, for Luo Li's orders, he was naturally very obedient, and began to act according to the order, and the Xingtian Army's soldiers and horses suddenly moved much faster, and even in order to speed up the speed to catch up with the fleeing officers and soldiers, Luo Li also ordered to be lightly armed, leaving all the things that were not needed, and leaving them to the soldiers of the new battalion behind.
Liu Bao was not idle, led his soldiers and generals, after leaving the camp, they immediately went straight to the direction of Yichuan County, they also hurried at the speed of forced marching, and finally rushed in front of the official residence, blocking the road for Liu Ruming to retreat to Yichuan County, and turned to the direction of the official army brigade to approach the past.
Liu Ruming while urging his soldiers to run all the way away, while sending a sentry to investigate the movement of the Xingtian Army, when he heard that a sentinel of the Xingtian Army had blocked their way to Yichuan County, without saying a word, he ordered to turn around, and went straight to the wooden bridge on the Yi River, from the actions of the Xingtian Army, he has seen that the Xingtian Army's action speed is much faster than him, and has prevented him from leading his troops to retreat into Yichuan County, if he does not quickly retreat across the Yi River, retreat in the direction of Dengfeng, It is likely to be blocked on the west bank of the Yi River and wiped out.
On the west bank of the Yi River, a drama was suddenly staged, and the two battalions of the Xingtian Army were like pincers sandwiched between a large group of officers and soldiers, don't look at the official army camp is only less than ten miles away from the Yi River, but it is the distance of these ten miles, but it determines the life and death of Liu Ruming's officers and soldiers along the way.
After noon, when Liu Ruming was about to flee to the bank of the Yi River, dozens of scouts of the Heavenly Army appeared on the wooden bridge that crossed the Yi River.
The leader of the team is Lin Luo, the captain of the second battalion scout team under Luo Li, who is young but has become the captain of the scout team, equivalent to the company commander of the war battalion, if you haven't forgotten him, I'm afraid you still remember that Lin Luo was a pawn under Li Zicheng, and was brought back to the Xingtian Army by Xiao Tianjian because of his injuries during the Battle of Longzhou, and since then he has stayed in the Xingtian Army as a soldier, and now he has grown from a pawn to a general, and today he was ordered to lead the scout team to rush in front of the official army to block the way of the official army.
After setting off, Lin Luo led his scouts to rush all the way to the front, and along the way he had already fought with the night of the official army several times, and successively defeated several night teams of the official army, and finally rushed to the wooden bridge across the Yi River.