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With the issuance of the military order, the commanders and envoys in accordance with An Renyi's arrangements in advance, ordered Liu Yuanzhi to lead 2,000 people as the vanguard to open the way, those wounded soldiers and baggage followed, and his other henchman general led the Chinese army of more than 4,000 people with Zhang Hao to move slowly, and An Renyi led the remaining 2,000 elite soldiers to break off.

An Renyi, as a veteran general in the army, knew the danger of withdrawing from the front of the battle, and if he was not careful, he might be taken advantage of by the enemy, so he chose to personally lead the army to break off, and walked slowly along the way, without revealing the slightest flaw.

In the city of Changzhou, Li Yuzheng, the assassin, was standing on the city wall in armor, watching the actions of the rebels under the city from afar.

"General Chen, do you think the rebels really retreated, or did they deliberately lead our army out of the city, and then eliminate me outside the city?" After looking at it for a while, Li Yu turned around and asked.

Standing beside him was the reinforcement general sent by Xu Wen, the assassin of Suzhou, named Chen You, who was Xu Wen's henchman.

He thought for a while and said: "The last general thinks that it should be a real retreat, An Renyi has known the envoy for many years, and knows the envoy's temperament well, so he must know that with the envoy's caution, even if he goes out of the city to pursue, he will not give him a chance to destroy the envoy in one fell swoop." And what he lacks most now is time, the cavalry of the prince has reached a thousand, and the rest of the army may arrive at any time, so he should not dare to continue to stay here. ”

Li Yu nodded in agreement, and after some time, the scouts came to report that An Renyi's army had left the city for ten miles, and it was impossible for the enemy army to attack the city even if they returned quickly at this distance, so Li Yu left a thousand soldiers, including the wounded, and led the remaining five thousand people out of the city in pursuit. Soon after, the cavalry led by Yang Wu also arrived to join them.

"Shizi, after seeing An Renyi personally lead the army to break up when he withdrew the army, he obviously also took into account the possibility of our pursuit, and now it is only difficult to defeat them in one fell swoop!" As soon as he saw Yang Wu, Li Yu said straight to the point.

Why is it dangerous when withdrawing? The main reason is that if the people after the break are incompetent or cowardly, and cannot effectively resist the pursuers, then they may be broken through the broken army formation by the pursuers and killed the unprepared soldiers on the march, causing chaos in the entire army.

But now that An Renyi personally broke off, there would naturally be no incompetence and cowardice, and if the pursuers were pressed too tightly, An Renyi might turn around and fight Yang Wu in a decisive battle; If he didn't dare to pursue An Renyi with all his might, he would return to Runzhou unharmed, and the plan to weaken the rebels outside the city was naturally impossible.

"Let's follow them first, keep a distance of five miles, don't get too close, but not too far, the distance of five miles is just right. An Renyi will not dare to march with all his strength in order to prevent us from attacking, so it will take time for him to return to Runzhou, so we can take a look at the situation first. ”

Today's situation is like a lion trying to catch a buffalo that is much bigger than him, if the buffalo keeps vigilant and uses the sharp horns on his head to face the lion, the lion will not be able to get the buffalo, and even accidentally poke a few holes in the body with the sharp horns of the buffalo; However, if the buffalo wants to turn and run away, then he will expose his vulnerable parts, which will give the lion a chance.

At present, An Renyi's buffalo is still vigilant, but according to Yang Wu's estimate, it will take at least three days to return to Runzhou at An Renyi's current speed, and the fleet of the rest of the army under Yang Wu's command should enter the Yangtze River during this period.

"By the way, General Chen just arrived last night, and he entered the city from Dongcheng again, presumably An Renyi still doesn't know the news that the reinforcements from Suzhou have arrived, right?" Yang Wu suddenly remembered and hurriedly asked.

Li Yu's eyes lit up and said, "What does the prince mean?" ”

"Well, we can let General Chen's reinforcements follow us and stay hidden, and we may be able to do wonders at a critical time!"

Immediately, Yang Wu led the army to follow behind the rebels unhurriedly, always keeping a distance, An Renyi advanced, they also advanced, An Renyi stopped, and they also stopped, tightly pestering them.

The first day passed quickly, and the rebels had only advanced more than 40 miles, and there were still about 100 miles to go from Runzhou, and at this rate, I am afraid that it would take two and a half days to return to Runzhou.

In the camp, when An Renyi convened the generals to discuss, some generals couldn't help but be a little anxious.

"Envoy, the enemy army has always followed us and is ready to bite us at any time, everyone has been vigilant in order to guard against the surprise attack of the enemy army, and they are all tired all day long! The last general felt that the enemy army was not numerous, but he was afraid that he might not dare to engage our army, and the reason why he was pestering us now was just to slow down our march! A general surnamed Huang spoke.

"In the opinion of the last general, it is better to go back and engage the enemy army, the enemy army has few troops, our army has many troops, as long as everyone fights hard, it is not difficult to defeat the enemy pursuers!"

"General Huang said it easily, but the enemy forces are so cunning that it is impossible to engage us head-on. If our army returns to look for the enemy to engage, they will definitely retreat to avoid the battle! ”

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The generals put forward their opinions one after another, and the feeling of being targeted by a poisonous snake made them feel uncomfortable, and they thought of many ways along the way, such as suddenly speeding up, or stopping suddenly, but the pursuers also acted like them, always maintaining a distance of five miles, neither too far nor too close.

"Enough, what does it look like to be noisy?" Seeing that the generals on the scene were arguing, An Renyi couldn't help shouting, and the field was suddenly quiet.

"What does General Zhang think?" An Renyi turned his head to look at Zhang Hao again, although he was disdainful of this person, but Zhang Hao was also a veteran, and he was also a member of the Caizhou Army back then, knowing that this person had some skills, he couldn't help asking.

"The last general thinks that the enemy army is pestering our army like this, there must be some conspiracy! As General Huang said before, the enemy has few soldiers, and it is impossible to win a frontal battle with us; The enemy army has been entangled, either to wait until we show our flaws to launch a surprise attack, or, as General Huang said, to delay the speed of our withdrawal! ”

"Slow down our withdrawal? Is General Zhang saying that the enemy may have reinforcements arriving, and the time is only in these two days? An Renyi is also a person who is familiar with military affairs, and he understands what Zhang Hao means when he hears it.

"Yes, the last general feels that the enemy's reinforcements will definitely arrive in the next two days, so the general must quickly get rid of the pursuers and speed up to rush back to Runzhou!"

"What you say makes sense, but if our army accelerates, the enemy will also speed up, and even seize the flaws of our army to launch a surprise attack; And if our army returns to engage them, the enemy may avoid the battle, I wonder if General Zhang can defeat the pursuers? An Renyi nodded.

"Since the enemy will launch a surprise attack if he catches a flaw in our army, why doesn't the general deliberately show a flaw?" Zhang Hao laughed.

"Deliberately showing flaws?" An Renyi's eyes lit up, and he suddenly became interested.

PS: Sorry, the second chapter is late, and the third chapter may be late as well.