The wind in his ears was whistling, and Gao Jie kept urging the war horse to gallop forward. Bai Guangen, who was a little ahead of him, was also driving the horse and galloping desperately. Some of the cavalry had already begun to fall behind because of the exhaustion of their horses. In particular, those who rode horses that were originally used to trailer fell behind one after another, and some horses (mainly horses) even died on the side of the road foaming at the mouth, and the people who originally rode them had to run on foot. They called for help to their comrades who were leaving, hoping that someone would give them a ride, but at this time, no one would stop because of this, and if they still wanted to run, they would have to rely on their own two legs.

However, relying only on two legs, in fact, compared to a four-legged war horse, it is not completely without advantages. For example, the target is much smaller, as long as you leave the road and walk farther away from the road, for a while, there will be no thief cavalry who has eaten too much and does not chase after the big target, but runs to find these rangers to borrow their heads. Besides, it seems that the thief army does not use human heads to calculate battle exploits.

After another quarter of an hour or so, the cavalry of the revolutionary army chased after Bai Guangen and Gao Jie where they had fled frantically. These cavalrymen were not numerous, only a dozen or so. It's just that everyone's war horse is dragging a branch behind it, and when the war horse runs, these branches are dragged on the ground, which can raise more dust. In this way, although there are only more than ten horses, it is easy to mistake them for a large number of people when looking at the smoke and dust they raise from a distance.

Now the cavalry slowed down and finally stopped. The leading cavalry captain said to the cavalry next to him: "According to the requirements of the mission, it is enough for us to chase here." Well, naturally, someone else will deal with it later. Well, untie the branches. Just now we were on the road, and we saw a lot of dead horses, and the people riding them must have run on both sides of the road. But they certainly won't be able to get far. Let's look for it and see how many we can get back. ”

The smoke behind him gradually disappeared, and Gao Jie let out a long breath, looking at his horse, there was already some white foam around his mouth and nose. He slowly reined in his horse, then jumped off the horse. At this time, Bai Guangen also got off the horse, led the horse and walked over and said, "Old Gao, Huang Zide is chasing so closely." But they set off later than we did, and their horses should be dying. We should be able to catch our breath. In another hour, it will be dark. As soon as it got dark, it was safe again. If there is no accident this time, we will escape. ”

Gao Jie knew that Bai Guangen had a lot of experience in escaping, and he was also relieved to hear him say this.

Bai Guangen said again: "Now they can't catch up for a while, let's stop for a while, let the horse rest, and eat something." ”

When Gao Jie heard this, he nodded and said, "I listen to Mr. Bai." Then he turned to the other horsemen and shouted, "Stop and have something to eat, everybody." Let the horses eat something too. ”

They all stopped, took out of their horses' pockets and took out their dry food to eat, and brought out beans to feed the horses. While he was busy, someone suddenly shouted again: "Thief! The thieves are chasing after them again! ”

Everyone hurriedly looked behind, but saw that there was yellow dust raised high behind them.

"Dogs, aren't they afraid to run the horse to death?" Bai Guangen said, "Can you chase like this?" Lao Gao, it's all you, damn Huang Zide, for your life, you're going crazy! ”

Gao Jie's face turned pale and asked, "What should I do now?" ”

"What to do? Get on the horse and run! Now it's up to them to see if their horses die first, or ours if they die first! Bai Guangen said as he jumped on the horse, urged the war horse, and ran forward.

"Lao Bai, wait for me." Gao Jie also hurriedly got on his horse and chased after him.

After a rush of flights, more people were left behind. Now there are only about 200 cavalry behind Gao Jie and Bai Guangen, but the smoke and dust behind them have also disappeared.

"Lao Bai, I didn't chase after you." Gao Jie gasped and said to Bai Guangen.

"Come down, come down and rest. Lead the horse and walk slowly! Bai Guangen jumped off his horse.

Hearing Bai Guangen say rest again, remembering that every time he rested, a thief army immediately caught up, so Gao Jie hurriedly turned his head and looked back.

"Don't worry, they won't catch up this time. A large number of their horses had already run away. Bai Guangen said.

Hearing Bai Guangen say this, Gao Jie was shocked again, and he turned back to look behind him - this time there was really no yellow dust rising behind him. So Gao Jie smiled embarrassedly and said: "Lao Bai, speaking of which, you are a bit like Cao Cao on Huarong Road." It's just that Cao Cao is smiling, and there are ambushes coming out, and as soon as you stop, there are ambushes catching up. It made Lao Tzu a little scared. ”

Bai Guangen laughed when he heard this: "Old Gao, when you say that, well, I'll take a look, ah...... Do you see the woods over there? Hahaha, it's ridiculous that Huang Zide is a fool and a fool, and Liu Jiexuan is a stupid and young man. If Lao Tzu uses soldiers, put an ambush behind this wood, even if the number is smaller. Hehe, you and I are sleepy at this time, as soon as they come out, we will be in a bad situation, hahaha......"

Gao Jie laughed twice at first, but in the midst of this laughter, a horse's hoofs suddenly sounded from behind the woods on the other side in front. Immediately afterwards, a group of brightly armored cavalry appeared in front of the two men. A "thief general" laughed and said: "Gao Jie, Bai Guangen, Lao Tzu has been waiting here for a long time. ”

Gao Jie took a closer look and unconsciously shouted "bad" in his heart. He recognized that the laughing thief general was Huang Zide's general Dang Shouyi, and there were a few people beside him, namely Liu Erhu and Huang Guo. Behind them were brigades of cavalry, which looked like at least one or two thousand men and horses.

"General Gao, let's go!" , Li Chengdong rushed forward as soon as he urged the war horse.

"Take care, brother!" Gao Jie shouted, turned the horse's head and ran, but at this time he saw that Bai Guangen had already run more than a foot away. Fortunately, Bai Guangen was still very righteous, and turned around and shouted while running: "Old Gao, follow me." ”

Gao Jie answered, and urged the horse to chase after him. saw Bai Guangen throwing away all kinds of things that were in the way, such as knives and so on, while running. Gao Jie did the same, throwing away those things while leaning towards Bai Guangen.

"Lao Bai, why is the party Shouyi waiting here on the dog day?" Gao Jie threw away the scabbard and shouted at Bai Guangen.

"Yes, of course...... Lao Tzu told him! Bai Guangen waited for Gao Jie to come closer, and suddenly out of nowhere he found a three-eyed gun with a sawed handle broken. As he spoke, he used the three-eyed gun as a war hammer and slammed it against Gao Jie's chest.

Gao Jie was caught off guard and was slammed on the chest by this guy. His mouth was sweet, and his body shook and he fell off his horse.

Bai Guangen reined in the horse, then jumped off the horse, walked in front of Gao Jie, looked at him condescendingly, and said with a smile: "Brother Gao Jie, don't blame me. We came out to mix up for the sake of wealth. Now that the imperial court is no longer good, Marshal Huang is probably going to sit in the world. We also have to live for ourselves. You say, don't you? ”

Gao Jie stared at Bai Guangen with wide eyes, he tried hard to get up, but Bai Guangen's guy just now was very uneasy and broke two of his ribs. When he fell off the horse, he injured his arm again and couldn't struggle for a while. He opened his mouth and wanted to scold, but as soon as he opened his mouth, his chest hurt, and he couldn't open his mouth in pain, but he could only stare angrily.

At this time, another horse stopped beside him, and a person jumped off the horse, but it was Bai Guangen's subordinate Zheng Jiadong, and he was still carrying a bloody human head in his hand, but it was Li Chengdong's head. It turned out that just now, when Li Chengdong rushed up, Zheng Jiadong also made a look of going up to cover, but he attacked from behind, stabbed Li Chengdong to death, and cut off his head, and then came here.

"Dashuai, Li Chengdong's head is here." Zheng Jiadong said.

Then a few more people came over, but it was a few who were righteous and righteous.

Gao Jie held back the pain and shouted towards the party Shouyi: "Old party, for the sake of our previous friendship, give me a happy one!" ”

Dang Shouyi snorted and said, "Dog thing, who has a relationship with you!" Tie him up and take him back to the marshal's disposal! ”

Several soldiers pounced on him and tied Gao Jie tightly with ropes. Dang Shouyi glanced at Gao Jie, then turned his face to Bai Guangen and said, "Lao Bai, I still want to trouble you, go and open the city gate of Nanzhao......

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A month and a half later, Xuan Yi in Chengdu received a report about the battle. After eliminating the officers and troops who broke through the siege, Dang Shouyi, with the cooperation of Bai Guangen, who took the initiative to surrender, called open the gate of Nanzhao City, and captured Nanzhao without much effort. Then they took the captured Gao Jie and the others back to Sun Baigu, who was still stubbornly guarding. At that time, because Sun Baigu's army was cut off from water, there were no soldiers running out of the camp and surrendering to the "thieves". When Dang Shouyi and others appeared with prisoners, the people in the camp knew that the general trend was gone, and Sun Baigu completely lost control of the army. When the soldiers themselves opened the gate and surrendered, Sun Baigu committed suicide in the barracks.

After defeating Sun Baigu, Huang Zide's confidence was greatly boosted, and he decided that in order to ensure the complete stability of the Jingxiang area, he would launch a preventive attack on the surrounding officers and troops. He planned to follow the example of Tiancong Khan and lead a large army to the area controlled by the imperial court to "feed the enemy", firstly, to weaken the imperial court, and secondly, to seize more resources for Jingxiang.