Bailiyan had a good plan at first, carrying chain mail and other equipment, and it should not be a big problem to run all the way for four or five miles after breaking through the gap, because the pioneer battalion pays great attention to endurance on weekdays.

The old base of the pioneer battalion was all infantry, and a little further away was the 200 infantry of the city trough transfer envoy, even after the cavalry was later replaced, the subject of running on foot was not abolished. During the combat training period for adults, they carry 20 pounds of armed cross-country land every day, and teenagers carry 10 pounds and 6 miles of cross-country every day.

But why only ten miles of land, and not twenty miles? In fact, there is no doubt that Bailiyan also wants to engage in twenty miles of off-road every day and a sixty-mile run once a month, but in the final analysis, there is no money.

The farther you run, the faster you go, the more physical energy you expend, and the more you eat.

If you cross the country for 10 or 20 miles every day, and train for 60 miles every month, you will need to consume twice as much grain, grass, meat, salt, and vegetable oil as an elite soldier, and three times as many as ordinary soldiers, or even more.

This means that the resources spent on raising a soldier with excellent physical fitness can raise three ordinary soldiers. Such a huge expense, where does so much money and food spend. Therefore, in the final analysis, it is still the national strength to raise elite soldiers and strong soldiers.

Even if Jiang Jie's group of teenagers is not there, the daily six-mile cross-country is completed without compromise, and the physical fitness is quite good. Wearing more than 20 pounds of armor, weapons and equipment, he still walked like a fly, and after breaking out of the encirclement, he ran out of three miles without even taking a breath of air.

On the other hand, Wu Deng's subordinates and his Liang forbidden army, these five or six hundred, rushed to two miles of land to die, when they came out, there were more than 700 people in total, after killing to Dongjie, there were less than 500 left, and more than 200 people were lost, and only a few people were lost by the teenagers, and the rest were these veteran soldiers, who were caught up by the rebels and killed a person from behind.

"Quick, keep up, the Prince's Mansion is ahead!"

Bai Liyan kept urging, although the rebels behind him had been pulled away for a distance, but they were only more than two hundred steps away, saying that they could be killed immediately if they caught up.

"Wei, General Wei, I really can't run, let's rest for a while!" Wu Deng panted and said, The Liang army is not much better, they are all heavy infantry of the forbidden army, wearing fine scale armor, weighing less than thirty or forty catties.

"No, there is still a mile of the Prince's Mansion, so you can't stop here."

Baili Yan sternly refused, but after thinking about it, according to the current situation, even if he killed the prince's mansion, I am afraid it would be enough to choke. If you can't recover your strength, you may be counterattacked by the rebels outside the prince's mansion.

After thinking about it, he couldn't think of any way to delay the army, and after looking at the terrain again, the fire spread to the northeast, and Bai Liyan's eyes suddenly lit up:

"Quick, this way!"

The team immediately turned northeast, completely opposite the direction from which it had come.

The direction of the spread of the fire is the Mingshui River, and there are ponds in the Prince's Mansion and the Liang State Minister's Mansion, and the living water of the pond is drawn from the Mingshui River.

When Xihuan built the prince's mansion, he was not satisfied with the simplicity of leading a waterway, but dug a large pond covering an area of more than 30 acres, and planted trees to cool off the heat, so there was a diversion canal with a width of one and a half zhang and a depth of about seven feet in the prince's mansion, which led to the Mingshui River outside the mansion.

The pursuers behind him chased closely and continued the original route to the Prince's Mansion, which was undoubtedly flanked by the front and back, so it was better to find a way to get rid of the pursuers before making plans.

quickly pulled the men and horses away, and chased the soldiers to the resting place where Fang Cai Baili Yan and the others rested:

"Where did you go?"

"I was still here just now, will I go to the Prince's Mansion!"

"It's possible, the news came before, and I want to strictly prevent the Liang army from colluding with the Prince's Mansion, they have been running to the southeast before, it must be the people of the Liang Kingdom who have gone around his way and want to get rid of us and go to the Prince's Mansion. Spread out and search for me, and I must not let go! ”

"No!"

Hundreds of people quickly dispersed to search, and the east and southeast directions became key search areas. At this time, Bailiyan turned to the northeast in the opposite direction, and found scattered night patrols of the people's army along the way, and all of them were killed by Lisuo.

Ran out of more than a mile and found the Mingshui River, at this time the fire was very large, and the streets and alleys were filled with idle people, so as to avoid the crowd as much as possible, so as not to attract pursuers again.

When they reached the river, Wu Deng and the others sat on the ground panting like cattle, Bai Liyan was glad that he did not run directly to the prince's mansion at the moment, and he was embarrassed and out of strength at the moment, and he was unable to continue to fight, so he could really make dumplings.

After resting for a while, Baili Yan ordered Jiang Jie to drag the armor and equipment, and sent someone down to the river to feel the depth of the water.

When I lived in Yicaotang, Bailiyan also came to the Mingshui River to fish, and the water in the center of the river was a little deep, to say less, it was three feet long. But obviously, it was impossible for so many people to swim over with a piece of equipment of one or twenty kilograms on their backs, so they could only touch the shallow water area close to the river bank all the way to the vicinity of the Prince's Mansion.

After about a few minutes, Jiang Jie and the other five people came ashore from the river, and the water was indeed a little deep:

"General, the center of the river is four or five feet deep, and there is no place to settle at all."

"How deep is the shallow water on both sides, and can you settle down?"

"The shallow water on the bank of the river is about four feet, and it is no problem to walk next to the riverbank."

Bailiyan pondered that the depth of four feet in the shallow water area on the bank should not be deep, as long as he maintained his center of gravity next to the riverbank, he should not fall into the river and drown. Thinking of this, Bailiyan immediately asked people to go down to the river, and moved in the direction of the prince's mansion along the shallow water area of the riverbank and touching the Mingshui River.

The speed of travel in the water is not as fast as that of the land route, although the road from the launching site to the prince's mansion is less than two miles, but it takes at least four miles to complete the journey. There was no bridge on the way, otherwise there would have been rebels guarding the bridge, and there would have been nowhere to hide under the firelight.

At this time, the fire had not yet burned to the Mingshui River, but after the south of the city was killed, there was a fire in the east of the city, affecting thousands of people, and there were people gathered sporadically on both sides of the Mingshui River.

"Look, there's someone in the river!"

Shouting, the leader of Shi Chang picked up the torch in his hand, and threw it at the opposite bank with all his strength, but when he threw it half the distance, the torch fell into the river, but the faint light exposed the traces of more than 500 people in Bailiyan.

"Hurry up and report to the general, go quickly!" The rebel commander shouted, and quickly recruited nearby militias to help.

Seeing Bai Liyan and the others continue to grope in the southeast direction, the rebels were helpless and anxious. Bailiyan and others are on the south bank, the rebels are on the north bank, the width is more than thirty paces apart, the night patrol has no crossbowmen and can only stare dryly, and the nearest bridge is on the three-mile boundary to the west, if you want to cross the river, you must either make a detour to cross the bridge or make a boat.

The rebels looked around for boats, but also found a few boats crossing the river, but unfortunately only three or four people could be crossed at a time, and a few boats could only carry more than ten people, which was difficult to play any role.

At this time, some rebels had an idea, shook the spear in their hand, and pointed at the enemy soldiers in the darkness opposite, and it was a good idea to throw the javelin from more than 30 paces, but unfortunately it was not stabbed. However, at this time, there were more rebels who followed suit, and they used the spears in hand as javelins, and threw Bai Liyan and others on the other side wildly.

Seeing the rebels throwing spears, Bailiyan immediately ordered everyone to turn sideways and squat in the water to minimize the exposure of the human body to the "bullet surface".

The so-called "bullet surface" is the probability of the effective area that the weapon and ammunition can attack, the smaller the area, the smaller the probability of being hit, and vice versa.

Aside from lying on the soles of your feet or with the top of your head in the direction of attack, the side area of the human body is undoubtedly the smallest, and lying on the soles of your feet in the direction of the attack is obviously impossible, unless you are a gymnast.

So in front of the javelins, which were not dense enough, the hit rate was obviously terrible, and more than 20 spears pierced the south bank one after another, and none of them were stabbed.

To say that these soldiers are all good hands, and the spear throwing skills are not ambiguous, and the landing point is aimed at the height of the upper body of the human body, if it weren't for Bailiyan to make people squat, with the side facing the north bank, so many spears thrown over, most of them would have died.

Now they are all wiping their helmets and sticking them in the mud, but they have also sent twenty or thirty spears to Bailiyan. As a result, the night patrol team, which originally consisted of only a few dozen people, suddenly lost half of their weapons.

With this lesson, Bai Liyan immediately quickened the pace of his steps, the number of rebels on the north bank was obviously not much, and the vicinity of the south bank was not the core area of the east of the city, and the prince's mansion was nearby, so there were no rebels gathered near the south bank of the Mingshui River now, and the rebels were concentrated in the prince's mansion and the minister's mansion.

But after a long time, the rebels on the other side of the river will bring in archers, so that except for Bai Liyan and Jiang Jie and other teenagers equipped with chain mail, everyone else may become a live target.

But time was on Bailiyan's side after all, and about a quarter of an hour later, when it was only two streets away from the entrance of the Prince's Mansion Canal, Bailiyan climbed to the south bank without hesitation.

Although the Mingshui River leads directly to the Prince's Mansion Canal, there is an iron fence at the gate of the Imperial Palace's Inner Aqueduct, and it is clear that no one wants a thief or homeless to dive into the compound. Not to mention that the rebels are in charge at this moment, and the iron fence is set up to defend against people.

As soon as he came ashore, the rebels on the north bank had already brought in crossbowmen, Bailiyan saw that the situation was not good, and pulled the men and horses to the south to hide in the streets and alleys with the help of the wall to avoid arrows, as a result, hundreds of arrows were fired in a volley, and a few terrible screams were heard in a short time, and unfortunately innocent people fell to the ground with arrows.

At this time, Jiang Jie and other teenagers were beating wildly in their chests, this was probably the first time they had been under siege since they joined the army, and before that, they were more or less facing the rear with their backs behind them, which was somewhat comforting, but now they were deep in the hinterland of the rebels, and it would be false to say that they were not afraid or nervous.

"General, General, what do you do now?" Jiang Jie asked, his voice trembling visibly.

"I'm afraid." Bai Liyan said half-jokingly.

"Don't be afraid!"

"Hehe, I'm not afraid it's fake. With so many brothers dead, no one is afraid of death, but Ben Jiang is actually afraid of death, believe it or not. ”

When Wu Deng, Jiang Jie and others heard the news, they all looked at Bai Liyan and were shocked.