In the afternoon of the next day, Fenyinjin.

After a fierce battle, the Fenyin ferry only fell into a short silence for a while, and then turned into a busy and tense river crossing process.

Zhang Xiu and Li Ru took the largest wooden boat at the ferry, and Zhang Xiu's own soldiers shook the oars, slowly sailed away from the east bank, turned to the wide river, and headed for the west river on the opposite bank.

He personally led the troops to seize the ferry, and Zhang Xiu, whose armor was still stained with the blood of the ferry guards, stood at the stern of the boat, pressing his sword, and looked at the east bank where he was slowly moving away.

In the field of vision, some of the soldiers under their command are still untying the cables, some have rowed the boats off the riverbank, and some are setting fire to the remaining boats, plank roads, and water villages, preparing to burn everything here.

The firelight was inconspicuous in the daytime, but the rising smoke was still enough to attract Siye's attention.

After this fire, the retreat of Guo Yan's army was cut off by his own hands.

Zhang Xiu looked at the tongue of fire that began to spread in all directions, and thought secretly.

It's just that this feeling of holding a knife in his own hands didn't bring much happiness to his heart. Maybe his own knife was just transferred from one person's hand to another's hand.

"Major General, this time you have achieved great success, but you are standing alone in the stern, do you have other concerns?"

Li Ru walked out of the cabin with a smile and came to the stern.

Looking at the young man in front of him who had been in great prowess not long ago and personally led his soldiers to seize the ferry, Li Ru's smile was full of appreciation, and he also began to think about it in his heart.

Zhang Xiu turned his back on Guo Yan at this time and entered Zuo Fengyi, if he wanted to gain a foothold, he must rely on Li Dao, the strongest force among the three auxiliaries, but Zhang Xiu was isolated and helpless whether he was in the court or in Li Dao's army.

Maybe I should reach out and give him a hand at this time.

After all, among the generals and colonels of the Xiliang Army, supporting and cultivating his own comrades and minions has always been one of Li Ru's good means.

Xu Rong and Yan Xing in the Dong camp, including Bai Bo Yang Feng, who was later favored by him and rebelled against Guo Yan's camp, were all his comrades and minions in the army.

It's just that Xu Rong and Yan Xing have turned their backs on him, Xu Rong threw himself into the court, Yan Xing chose to stand on his own, and Yang Feng, a minion in the army, abandoned Guo Yan and cut off the retreat of Guo Yan's army, Li Ru abandoned him after a little consideration.

He is also in Guo Yan's army, in case the news leaks out half of it, it will be dead and there is no place to be buried, Guo Yan's methods of torturing those who oppose him, Li Ru has already seen from the tragic situation of Zheng Duo being shot alive as an adult target, he doesn't want to trap himself in it, and experience Guo Yan's vicious methods in person.

Therefore, Li Ru did not hesitate to choose Zhang Xiu, who was on the verge of splitting with Guo Yan, who was on the verge of splitting when his uncle died.

And Zhang Xiu, after making a decision, rushed to Fenyin and seized the ferry, which also fully showed that he had enough courage and military strategy.

Even in him, Li Ru saw the shadow of Xu Rong and Yan Xing back then.

This is really a good discovery, Li Ru thought to himself.

"I wonder what General Hou will do after hearing that the ferry in Fenyin Hejin has been burned down. If you fight a decisive battle with the soldiers and horses of Hedong, is it a victory? Is it negative? ”

Zhang Xiu looked at the river bank and said.

After listening to Zhang Xiu's words, Li Ru smiled, stood on the river, and he was in a good mood when he was done and out of danger, and immediately smiled leisurely:

"General Hou is also a veteran general in the army, knowing the strength of the army, the top priority, naturally abandoned Anyi, and found another way to retreat, maybe now the whole army has withdrawn westward. As for the decisive battle with the soldiers and horses of Hedong-"

When talking about Hedong soldiers and horses, Yan Xing's calm and respectful face inexplicably appeared in Li Ru's mind, the smile on the corner of his mouth slowly retracted, and his voice became serious and solemn.

"As long as Yan Xing's main force is three days late, then the general will still have a chance to fight a decisive battle, if it is three days early, then the general's westward retreat army is afraid that it will be dangerous!"

Speaking of "Danger! As the initiator of instigating Guo Yan's use of troops to the east of the river, Li Ru also looked at the blurred horizon on the east bank, and his voice unconsciously trembled a little.

As for whether it was excitement or fear, he couldn't tell.

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"It's hateful, Xiao'er wants to trap me to death!"

During the march, Guo Yan, who was sitting on horseback, learned that Zhang Xiu, who had seized the ferry, had burned down all the water villages, plank roads, and boats in Fenyindu while crossing the river.

Wu Xi, who was following Guo Yan as a military counselor, looked at the furious Guo Yan, shrunk his neck a little fearfully, waved his hand to let the soldiers who reported to him retreat, and then reminded Guo Yan softly:

"General, the fire broke out last night, and Li Ru and the soldiers who monitored him were gone, I'm afraid this matter is a conspiracy that started early in the morning!"

After being reminded by Wu Xi, Guo Yan, who was furious, was shocked in his heart, his eyes suddenly widened, and his fists were clenched tightly.

Last night, the camp of Guo Yan's army suddenly caught fire, and a group of soldiers appeared out of nowhere, and they rushed to Guo Yan's camp to kill the generals, disturbing the chaos in Guo Yan's army, thinking that the camp was attacked by Hedong soldiers and horses at night, and even Guo Yan was awakened in the middle of the night.

As a result, there was a lot of trouble for a long time, and after the chaos subsided and the attackers were killed one by one, Guo Yan got a report that the person who set fire to the camp and attacked the camp at night turned out to be Zhang Ji's own soldiers!

Frightened and angry, Guo Yan immediately sent someone to Zhang Ji's camp to summon Zhang Xiu to come, and learned that Zhang Xiu and his two hundred cavalry took advantage of the chaos in the camp to open the camp gate, and fled west overnight, without a trace.

And Li Ru and the soldiers who were in charge of monitoring him were also gone.

This series of strange things suddenly aroused the suspicion in Guo Yan's heart, although he did not know the details, but it prompted him to step up his determination to withdraw the army, but the retreat of the army at night was not an easy thing, so Guo Yan's army still had to wait until today to start retreating westward.

Although the whole army pulled out the camp and withdrew during the day, the defenders in Anyi City were also worried that it was Guo Yan's army to lure the enemy out of the city, so they did not dare to take a little risk, and kept watching from the city, without the slightest sign of going out of the city to pursue.

However, not long after Guo Yan withdrew his troops, he learned the news that Fenyindu was attacked by Zhang Xiu on the road.

Now, connecting these things one by one, as Wu Xi said, is like a huge conspiracy.

It's a big conspiracy to put yourself in a desperate situation!

The pores on Guo Yan's back instantly stood up, even though he was wearing armor, he still felt cold behind his back.

Wu Xi's voice of reminder sounded again.

"General, now that the Fenyin ferry boat and plank road are burned, the back road has been cut off, and we need to plan early and find another way out!"

Guo Yan was pulled out of the conspiracy by Wu Xi's voice, and subconsciously touched his pocket, and then settled down a little.

As Wu Xi said, the retreat of Fenyindu has been cut off by Zhang Xiu, an ungrateful child, and the top priority of his army is to find another way to retreat.

At present, it is impossible to collect boats and build pontoon bridges in Fenyin, which not only takes time and half the effort, but also is easy to suffer from the attack of the soldiers and horses in Hedong and the interception of Zhang Xiu's soldiers and horses on the other side of the river.

The only way to retreat at the moment was to recapture the crossing of one great river, and use the boats of another ferry to cross the great army.

There are three ferries to cross the river in the east of the river and enter Zuo Fengyi, one is Fenyindu, and the other two are Pi's in Puban.

And the current situation is that the Pusaka defenders Biqiu Xingxin was defeated by his own army, but the distance is far, the city is strong, and the Pi clan is closer, but there are still Wei Qi and Niu Song soldiers and horses entrenched in the vicinity, and recently they have even repeatedly sent soldiers and horses to threaten the rear of Guo Yan's army, and it is even rumored that Yan Xing's main force has arrived in Ji County.

Therefore, Guo Yan had to decide as soon as possible whether to turn south along the Great River and attack Puban, or cross the Fenshui River and go north to attack Pishi.

After hesitating for a while, Guo Yan finally made a decision, and the army sped up, turned north, and after resting for the night, crossed Fenshui tomorrow to capture Pi's ferry.

Turning south to attack Pusaka, not only is the distance far away and time-consuming, but if Biqiu Xing has become a frightened bird, directly before Guo Yan arrives, the boats, trestle bridges, and water villages of the ferry will be burned down, and then the walls will be cleared, and the city will be retreated into the city to defend it, then Guo Yan will become a time-consuming battle.

On the contrary, it turned north to attack Pi's, looking for an opportunity to defeat the armies of Wei Qi and Niu Song, who had frequent activities and did not passively avoid battles, and captured Pi's Hejin and ferries in one fell swoop, which seemed more secure and more likely.

So, in the sound of the order, the army carried out Guo Yan's order, drove the looted goods, grain, people, livestock, accelerated the march, and turned to Pi's.

As a result, the scouts of the army heading north soon encountered the Hedong scouts in the direction of Pi's.

The cavalry of both sides suddenly encountered in the field, and the scouts of Hedong took the lead in pulling the suspension of the crossbow machine, so after a short exchange, the scouts of Hedong, who had the upper hand, took the initiative to withdraw from the battlefield.

It was only not long after that the forward scouts of Guo Yan's army found a number of Hedong Army scout cavalry in the field ahead.

Guo Yan had to send more troops and horses to clear and expel the haunting scout cavalry of the Hedong Army, and then rushed to the foot of Jieshan Mountain, temporarily built a large army camp, and sent additional night watchmen, and spent a sleepless night worriedly.

As for the scout cavalry that frequently appeared in the direction of Pi's family, the generals saw it, some thought that Wei Qi and Niu Song were in the maze and bluff, and some thought that they were afraid that Yan Xing's main force had already arrived in Hedong, so they would make such an abnormal situation.

In this regard, Guo Yan undoubtedly has scruples, but the arrow is on the bow, and he has to do it, and now, it is impossible to turn around and go south, and he can't be scared of his army fleeing south in a hurry just because there are a few enemy scouts in the Pi family.

The night passed, and after the next day, the army still had to cross the Fenshui north to seize the crossing of the great river of Pi's.

It was here that Li Ru trembled and finally happened!