Li Yan finally met Li Zhong. He immediately asked, "How many people did you bring here?" ”

"Two hundreds," replied Li Zhong, "but I brought the musket team with me." ”

Two hundred, plus forty of the muskets, that's just a handful of men. But for this big war, it can come in handy.

Li Yan asked again: "How is Qixian?" ”

"Nothing, everything was fine. Small bands of thieves have been dealt with at the border, and large bands of bandits have not yet come here. The big families are also very supportive of us, but Lu Xiru still can't get out of the county office. Li Zhong introduced in detail.

"Okay," Li Yan nodded with satisfaction, and ordered: "Let's drive the thieves to the south, and you can clean up the fish that slipped through the net in the back, and try to drive them to the south, and you can also capture some prisoners." ”

"Okay." Li Zhong nodded and agreed.

Li Yan put the cavalry on his horse again and ran south with the cavalry. This time they were not trying to get through the camp, but to drive the thieves south. But you can't just rush south, there are still his troops in the south. And Li Mou is planning to retreat north with his troops, if he drives the thieves directly over, it may cause chaos.

Li Yan rushed into the enemy camp with his cavalry, and at this time found that there were not many thieves in the enemy camp. Now they were much more relaxed, and began to control their direction, slowly catching up with the remaining thieves from behind, driving them to the southeast.

Like wheels, they formed a column, caught up with the thieves from behind, and after killing them, turned to the back. Then go back and catch up with the thieves again, and the cycle repeats.

"Kill!"

"嗷~嗷~嗷~"

When the cavalry was pursuing, they also made all kinds of sounds, which made the pursued thieves panic and run forward desperately. The thieves had forgotten the direction in which they had wanted to flee and were only thinking of staying away from the enemy's cavalry.

At the same time, the cavalry had to control the direction of the thieves' escape, and when they found someone running south, they chased after them and killed them. and cut into the south, and drove the remaining thieves to the east.

The remaining sporadic thieves were eliminated by Li Zhong in the back. Of course, Li Zhong and their people are few, so they can only control a short distance, and there is nothing they can do about the thieves who run in other directions.

At this time, Yuan Laoshan's team was also chaotic, but he still wanted to close the team. But as he was gathering his troops, a large crowd came around from the north, and scattered his camp into further confusion.

Shi Qian, under the protection of more than a dozen personal soldiers, searched around the camp. They finally found Yuan Laoshan, who was extremely angry.

"Master Yuan, it's not a good thing." Shi Qian said loudly: "Li Yan's reinforcements are here. ”

"What?!" Yuan Laoshan stood with his eyes and asked, "Isn't it that Li Yan wants to break through?" ”

"No, his reinforcements are coming." Shi Qian explained: "They want to cooperate with the outside and defeat us in one fell swoop." ”

Yuan Laoshan asked, "How many people did they come?" ”

"A lot, a lot." Shi Qian said a lie without blinking: "They set fire to the camp and disrupted my camp in one fell swoop." Let's go quickly, if they catch up, it will be troublesome. ”

Yuan Laoshan roared angrily: "Then you have to collect your subordinates!" Originally, I had almost closed it up, but I was rushed by your people, and it was all messed up again! ”

Shi Qian hurriedly suggested: "Master Yuan, let's leave quickly!" They had cavalry, and they immediately chased after them. ”

Yuan Laoshan hesitated for a moment, and then looked at the chaotic camp again. He called a few of his subordinates and ordered: "You gather your troops, and then go back to the old camp in Bozhou." ”

Although the subordinates were dissatisfied, they did not dare to object, so they all hugged their fists and agreed. After Yuan Laoshan left with the team that was not in chaos, these leaders also found some subordinates at random, mainly to find some people to protect them, and then also followed Yuan Laoshan's footsteps and ran south.

Li Mu still asked the team to maintain the appearance of a phalanx and slowly retreated north. At this time, you can't break up the formation, otherwise if you are attacked, you will have no power to fight back.

Li Mu and Li Zhong, who were retreating, met. The north side was lit up by a fire, illuminating a long distance, so both sides recognized each other directly and connected without much trouble.

"How's it going?" Li Zhong asked.

Li Mu said helplessly: "I was surrounded here, I was surrounded by enemies on all sides, and I resisted a battle to defeat the arrogance of the thieves, but there were also nearly two hundred casualties. I was about to break through today, second brother, you came, but you helped a lot. ”

Li Zhong patted Li Mou's shoulder and comforted, "Isn't this the beginning of a counterattack." Now regroup your troops, follow me, and we'll drive those guys south!" ”

"Okay, this time I'm going to have to clean them up!" Li Mu said happily. After that, go back and sort out the troops.

Li Yan and the others continued to chase the thieves behind, causing a lot of damage to the thieves running behind, making the thieves always in panic, and allowing them to continue to flee quickly to the south.

After a period of pursuit, the sky began to white, and their horses needed to rest. Li Yan ordered: "Go, go to the front, and cut them off!" ”

The cavalry followed Li Yan and rushed forward, and under the frightened eyes of the thieves, they overtook the thieves in the rear for a while, and then cut into it again. They focused on fighting the thieves they intercepted in the north, and those who had fled south ignored them. They circled around these three or four hundred thieves, chased after and killed those who escaped, and encircled these thieves in their place.

There were a few archers inside, but before they could react, they were shot down by Li Yan, who found it in time.

The thieves gathered in a circle, looking in horror at the officers and soldiers who were constantly circling around them, not knowing what the officers and soldiers were going to do to them.

waited for a long time before waiting for Li Zhong and them.

As soon as Li Yan gave an order, his subordinates began to slowly surround these thieves, and then began to persuade them to surrender.

"Listen, as long as you put down your weapons and surrender, you will be safe!" Li Yan asked the soldiers to shout to the surrounding thieves.

The thieves all looked at the officers and soldiers around them in horror, not knowing how to decide. Normally, when they are caught, they are basically killed on the spot, so that they can be used to repay their merits. As for the dead-free cards or anything, they hadn't heard of it and didn't believe it.

Li Zhong asked suspiciously, "What do you want these people to do?" It's not going to be a replenishment, is it? ”

Li Yan smiled bitterly and said: "It's good to return to Germany, but the Yellow River always breaks." These people are good laborers, let them build the embankment. ”

"Oh, that's good value for money." Li Mu nodded in a sudden realization.

Li Yan asked his subordinates to start eating, although it was dry food and cold water, it was also very attractive to the thieves who had run all night. So Li Yan asked his subordinates to change the content of the shouting and promised to surrender for food, which made the more than 300 thieves lay down their arms and surrender.

After eating and resting for a while, Li Yan took the troops and prisoners and marched towards Guide City.

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