With Huang Laiheng's shout, the cavalry who followed him all drew their swords and slashed at the officers and soldiers on all sides. If it is a normal battlefield, Huang Laiheng has three or four hundred people, and he has more than 1,000 people in Zuo Liangyu, and he hedges once or twice, and there will be nothing left. If it was during the day, even if it was a sneak attack, Zuo Liangyu's more than 1,000 people could easily kill Huang Laiheng's three or four hundred people without leaving a single piece of armor, and their own casualties would not exceed fifty. But now it was night, and the place where the battle broke out was still in their own ranks. At this time, everyone fled for a whole day, and they were already exhausted, and they had just relaxed, when suddenly a thief army appeared from their side, and in the darkness they only heard the sound of shouting and killing, the sound of slashing people, and the screams were loud, and I don't know how many thieves there were. The thought immediately popped into everyone's mind: "It's broken, it's an ambush!" ”

In the dark, it is quite inconvenient to distinguish between friend and foe. And in order to run fast, Zuo Liangyu and his family members did not wear armor. So no one can afford a knife. In the chaos, the knife is much faster than the mouth, and if you use the mouth to interrogate first, I am afraid that you will be inserted five or six times into the body. Therefore, everyone's approach is that as long as anyone dares to come to their side, they don't care about 3721 first, and then cut it. So the whole team was a mess at first. Then they scattered.

When the attack happened, Zuo Liangyu knew that something was wrong. This kind of melee in the dark night is the most dangerous. Everyone slashed indiscriminately, and I don't know how many of their own people will hack their own people to death, it is him, if he is still trapped in this melee, maybe, if he is not careful, he will be cut down by his own guards. Moreover, he was also worried about the sudden attack, and there were more ambushes for the thief army.

So Zuo Liangyu made a decision, and ran first with some of the guards around him, and while running, he heard someone shouting behind him, "Hugh is leaving, Zuo Liangyu", "Zuo Liangyu is dead" and something like that. Then he heard the sound of horses' hooves disperse in all directions—many of them had the same idea as Zuo Liangyu.

At this time, a cloud suddenly floated in the sky, which just covered the moon, and in an instant, there was darkness around him. Huang Laiheng had just cut down an opponent and was about to rush towards another opponent, but suddenly it was dark around him, and he couldn't see anything.

Huang Laiheng was startled, knowing that it was extremely dangerous to stay here in such a completely invisible darkness, so he couldn't care about anything else, so he urged the war horse and blindly ran in one direction, and after running for a while, there seemed to be no sound around him. He stopped his horse, but still held his sword in his hand.

After a long while, the clouds in the sky slowly drifted away, and the moon leaked out again. Huang Laiheng hurriedly looked around, and there was no one around.

"Holy shit," Huang Laiheng scolded, "I scolded Zhang Bo for losing his horse just now." In a blink of an eye, Lao Tzu was disgraced, and hundreds of people were lost. Is...... It's a shame. ”

At this time, like Huang Laiheng, he sighed that he was embarrassed, but there was Zuo Liangyu. After the moon came out, Zuo Liangyu looked left and right, but there were only more than 20 people left around him.

However, Zuo Liangyu's performance was different from Huang Laiheng's, he first counted the number of people around him, and then said: "I heard that after Huang Zide suffered a defeat in Tongguan, there were only eighteen people left around him. Now calculated, there are still twenty-two people around Lao Tzu, four more than Huang Zide, do you think Lao Tzu can make a comeback like Huang Zide? ”

The 20 or so family members and generals who were still following him said together: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and the marshal has his own time to make a comeback." ”

When Zuo Liangyu heard this, he laughed. He added: "Let's rest first, and when the day dawns, we'll see how many brothers we can get back." ”

……

After dawn, Huang Laiheng spent a lot of effort to find more than 100 people, and the rest of them either died in the melee, or, I don't know where they ran away. When I found Zhang Bo, I found that he was alone, riding a horse and holding three horses in his hands. As soon as he saw Huang Laiheng, Zhang Bo greeted him with joy and said, "Little general, little general, I have found three horses." ”

"The original owners of these three horses were all cut down by you?" Huang Laiheng was a little surprised.

"How can it?" Zhang Bodao, "Last night, the knife under my subordinates was stuck when it was inserted into the stomach of the first officer, and then the knife fell. Then the moon was obscured by the clouds, and then as soon as the moon came out, the subordinates saw the horses. ”

When Huang Laiheng heard this, he sighed: "You rabbit cub is lucky." Last night was so dangerous, you didn't even have a knife, you didn't have anything, and you got three horses! You are a blessed general! Speaking of which, you don't lose your horse now, but Lao Tzu, alas, after a messy fight last night, you have only found a hundred people now. Lao Tzu is embarrassed this time. ”

"How can there be immortals in war? Besides, the other brothers are not necessarily dead, most of them are scattered, and they can be recovered. Moreover, the little general took hundreds of people and defeated more than 1,000 people of Zuo Liangyu. This record is really a rare ...... that can be compared in the past," Zhang Bo said.

", throughout the ages, it's much more powerful than this." Huang Laiheng pursed his lips, "You don't know ...... Su Dingfang back then?"

On the other side, Zuo Liangyu did not dare to gather troops in the same place for a long time like Huang Laiheng. Because he knew that if he stayed any longer, Huang Zide's thief army would chase after him. So he went directly to the south, but on the way to the south, he kept encountering some soldiers and horses who had been scattered last night, and after walking for half a day, he also gathered more than a hundred people. In addition, Ding Qirui, who ran away, actually ran back. Zuo Liangyu knew that in the melee last night, the soldiers must have suffered a lot of casualties, but most of them were scattered. If the thief army does not chase after it and continues to besiege Kaifeng, it is likely that many people will be able to escape.

Zuo Liangyu decided to go to Weishi County tomorrow to rest for a while and see how many people could run back.

"If I can get a thousand people back, then I can probably stand up." Zuo Liangyu thought so.

After running for another whole day, Zuo Liangyu took a hundred people to Weishi County. Previously, Weishi County had been conquered by Huang Zide, and the county magistrate saw that the city could not be defended, so he hanged himself. However, Huang Zide did not destroy the city gate and city wall of Weishi County, anyway, this is only a city wall more than a zhang high, and there is no big obstacle for the revolutionary army. As a result, after the revolutionary army retreated, the local squires came back and asked an old county magistrate who had retired from his post at home to take the lead and lead a group of civilian troops to defend the county again. Who knew that when Zuo Liangyu led the army north to "beg for thieves", he happened to pass by here. So he snatched Weishi County again. And Zuo Liangyu and Huang Zide are different, Huang Zide now has ambitions, to be a "benevolent monarch", to "hang the people and cut down the crime", "to relieve the people from hanging", so when robbing, basically only rob the things in the treasury of the government, or ask the squires to borrow them, and also open IOUs. But Zuo Liangyu is different, as the so-called "thieves come like combs, soldiers come like grates". The squires guarding the city naturally didn't dare to let Zuo Liangyu in. Zuo Liangyu slandered them as thieves, and then led his troops to attack them, looting and slaughtering Weishi County. Now that Zuo Liangyu has returned to Weishi County, the city gates of Weishi County are still open, and the streets are full of rotting and stinking corpses and crows screaming. Zuo Liangyu stopped in the city, left more than a dozen of the more than 100 cavalry around him, and scattered the rest, looking for the people who had run away in all directions, especially to the north, and acting as a guard.

After sending these people out, Zuo Liangyu sat down on the threshold of the city tower, leaned against the edge of the door, and took a nap. Ding Qirui didn't care about his image, and also sat on the threshold and dozed off the edge of the door.

After an hour like this, the cavalry sent out came back one after another, and they also brought back more people, and now the number of cavalry around Zuo Liangyu has also increased to more than one hundred and fifty. Zuo Liangyu counted and found that in addition to the new ones, among the people sent out just now, there were still two people who had not returned. Zuo Liangyu waited for another half an hour, but saw two cavalrymen galloping from the north on horseback.

As soon as he saw them flying over, Zuo Liangyu knew that something must be wrong. In last night's chaos, Zuo Liangyu lost almost all of his pack horses carrying soybeans on his back. So there is no guarantee of the staying power of their horses. In such a situation, if there is no urgent matter, everyone will not let the horse run like this.

The two dismounted under the city gate, boarded the city vigorously, and bowed to Zuo Liangyu as soon as they saw it: "Marshal, the whole army of thieves has gone south!" ”

When Zuo Liangyu and Ding Qirui heard this, they were both scared into a cold sweat. Zuo Liangyu hurriedly asked, "What did you say?" What do you see? ”

The two cavalrymen replied, "Marshal, the two of us went to the north, and suddenly we saw a dusty sky in front of us, as if a large army was marching. So we found a small forest and hid in it. After waiting for a while, I saw a large army of thieves coming towards this side, boundless, at least tens of thousands of people, maybe more. We didn't dare to look more, so Pegasus came back to report the news. ”

"The thieves didn't notice you?" Zuo Liangyu asked again.

"A couple of thieves have spotted us. But they didn't catch up with us. ”

Ding Qirui's face turned pale and said, "General Zuo, you say, where do you say they are going?" ”

"I'm afraid I'm going to Huguang." Zuo Liangyu thought for a while and replied, "There are still officials and troops in Anhui, and what are there in Anhui?" Only Huguang, it's really ......"

It's just that this is not the time to sigh about this, since the thief army has gone south, it is natural to run away. Otherwise, I'm afraid that it won't be long before the cavalry of the thief army will come.

"Get on your horse at once, and go south." Zuo Liangyu said, "Today, let's run back with our lives and kill the horse, and we will return to Huguang before the thief." ”