Liu Xie was in Jin Gen's car, although he was far away from the dangerous battlefield, but the mood in his heart became more and more anxious, he looked through the car window, wanting to see where his car was about to go, and where Duan Xuan wanted to take him.

But when he looked up, the car was surrounded by armored horsemen riding horses and holding soldiers, and the layers of guards of the ironclad knights on this horse also happened to block Liu Xie's vision at this moment, making him unable to see the situation further away.

When his heart was restless, the sound of cavalry galloping came from outside the car, and there was a neighing of horses, and Liu Xie heard Duan Xuan's shouting again, and his car slowly stopped.

Liu Xie's face was stunned, and before he could ask, the curtain had been rolled up from the outside, and Fu Wan's expression and demeanor were a little hasty and unnatural, but he still saluted the Son of Heaven and said:

"Your Majesty, General Pingbei escorted the harem chariot and the princes of the court and the central government, and has come to meet outside the car."

After the coalition army defeated Li Dao's main force, Li Dao's army was dispersed, Yan Xing sent troops to search and rescue the palace people and courtiers, and the scattered soldiers also gathered one after another after seeing the reinforcements of the Son of Heaven and the escort.

In addition to the Son of Heaven, the queen of the lord of the harem and the three princes and nine kings of the court are also important figures in the Chang'an court.

For the three important ministers such as Empress Fu, Taiwei Yang Biao, Situ Zhao Wen, and Sikong Zhang Xi, Yan Xing personally led the army to escort the Son of Heaven's chariot team.

Yan Xing in Hedong has arrived outside the car!

Liu Xie learned from Fu Wan's mouth that the queen, the third prince and others were safe and sound, and he was naturally happy in his heart, but when he realized that Yan Xing from Hedong had also come to meet outside the car, he was also cautious in his heart, and hurriedly held his breath and condensed, showing the majestic face that the Son of Heaven should have.

His eyes slowly turned out of the car.

A burly military general with a solemn face was standing on his horse, his body on the horse's back leaning forward slightly, and a pair of tiger eyes looked at himself in the car.

After making eye contact with the other party, Liu Xie felt inexplicably uneasy.

The other party's gaze did not have the reverence or fear that the emperor of the Han Dynasty should have, and there was not even contempt for the fallen emperor or greed for power, which made Liu Xie feel that the other party was like looking at an ordinary person.

Since Liu Xie ascended the throne, he has never been examined by others in this way, and now he is being looked at like this by a strange subordinate, followed by an uneasy and uncomfortable emotion, and there is an indescribable sense of humiliation.

This son, how dare you treat me like this!

The young man was indignant in his heart, but he still restrained the humiliation and anger in his heart, but the hands that were tightly grasping the robe became a little pale because of excessive force, revealing green tendons.

"Your Majesty, the battlefield is dangerous, and the people who are in charge don't worship, please meet you with a military salute!"

Yan Xing's calm and powerful voice sounded, for this young son of heaven, he didn't deliberately show disrespect just now, but for the sake of prudence, he wanted to see if the person in the car was the real son of heaven.

Yan Xing had seen the Son of Heaven with his own eyes.

In the third year of the first peace, after the Xiliang army invaded Chang'an City, Yan Xing ranked in the court class on the great court ceremony that rewarded the generals, and saw the young son of heaven up close.

Now it seems that there is nothing wrong with the man, but he has grown a little longer, and a thin beard has grown on his lips.

"General Aiqing is really good! On the battlefield, with armor on the body, it is important to kill thieves to serve the country, and they are free of courtesy. ”

It's this excuse again, Liu Xie secretly scolded in his heart, this Yan Xing, and the previous Duan Xuan, the words and deeds of these arrogant generals are the same, all of them are acting like Zhou Yafu governing the army, and they are reckless in front of themselves.

Don't they know that even if the merit is as high as Zhou Yafu, the life and death of the favor must be determined by the Son of Heaven alone?

The resentment in Liu Xie's heart was not expressed, and he was already trying to squeeze out a smile on his immature face, and said with a smile to Yan Xing with Emperor Xiaowen's praise for Zhou Yafu.

Yan Xing only glanced at the smile of the Son of Heaven, and quickly withdrew his gaze and continued:

"Your Majesty, although the rebellious army of Li Dao has been repelled by the army led by the ministers, but the rout here is scattered, which is particularly dangerous, for the sake of all plans, please also ask Your Majesty to enter Tongguan with General Duan in the east first, and then rest. The minister is willing to lead the army to refuse for His Majesty, and protect the Holy Driver! ”

"The general is brave and martial, this is the theory of loyalty to the monarch and the country, everything is as invited!"

Liu Xie's smile was already a little stiff, but he still smiled, showing a wise attitude of following advice.

After receiving the reply promised by the Son of Heaven, Yan Xing bowed slightly on his horse again, and then turned his horse away.

The Son of Heaven's chariot started to set off again, and after the chariot and cavalry team merged into the chariots of the queen and the minister, as well as the remnants of the generals in the army, the momentum also increased a little.

Under the control of Duan Xuan's army, the carriage and horses slowly continued to move eastward.

After getting away from Yan Xing's coercion, the young Tianzi who was sitting in the car again gradually calmed down in his heart, but he couldn't help but sigh in his heart just listening to the sound of the car and the marching procession.

He sighed that the current situation is difficult, and even these Taishou and generals in the Kwantung region can despise the authority of the Chang'an court so much, so can they save this crumbling edifice if they seek satisfaction.

After a one-sided meeting, the sigh of the Son of Heaven in the car, Yan Xing didn't know.

Yan Xing looked at the departing team of chariots and riders, and also looked back at the battlefield not far away, he was not proud of his achievements just now, there were indeed more important things waiting for him to deal with at the moment.

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"This time it's a real defeat!"

Li Ru rode his horse and galloped on the remote wilderness path, with only three cavalry guards left by his side, and he had an arrow wound on his shoulder that had not healed, but at this time, his face was even more pale and weak in order to escape for his life.

In a state of weakness and powerlessness, he couldn't help but lament the difficulty of the situation.

However, as one of the many remnants of the defeated army, Li Ru did not choose to escape with Li Dao.

Now that the army is collapsing, those generals and generals who are clearly dressed and fleeing with men and horses have become the prey of the soldiers and horses in Hedong. You must know that the head of the great Sima Li Dao, but in the battle array, was shouted out to offer a reward of 500 gold, and the rest of the generals and military officials, who were a little famous, were also included in the bounty ranging from 10 gold to 100 gold.

For example, Li Wei's nephew Hu Feng and the general Wang Fang in the army, the two who fled for their lives were shot down by the Hedong infantry with spears in the chaos, and they were lucky not to die, but in the next moment, a group of Hedong soldiers immediately rushed up, competing for their heads, and finally Hu Feng and Wang Fang were killed by the soldiers.

Li Ru didn't want to repeat the mistakes of these generals, so he took the opportunity to abandon Li Dao, who was being pursued, and took only a few cavalrymen with him, and drilled into various wilderness paths.

Although he soon lost his way, he also escaped his pursuers, and he became farther and farther away from the disturbing battlefield.

Li Ru secretly said in his heart that it was lucky, as long as they could avoid the pursuers in Hedong, it would not be terrible to lose the road for the time being, and they would be able to find the way back to Chang'an later in the evening and re-identify the direction according to the sun.

It's just that after returning to Chang'an, how to redeem the defeat, Li Ru was also worried for a while, and he had no countermeasures.

This time, Li Dao lost the last bit of his family's background.

Regardless of the soldiers who were lost under the coalition forces for the time being, just after this battle, the soldiers and horses who were defeated and fled did not know that they could still be regained back one-twelfth.

After all, as long as he is a clear-eyed person, he can see that Li Dao's general trend has gone.

Next, even if the Son of Heaven who escaped with his life in the hands of Li Dao did not order the troops to quell the chaos, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others in Longyou, as well as the soldiers and horses of Yan Xing, Duan Xuan and others, who were fierce opponents in Guanzhong, would still have red eyes and pounce on the last piece of fat on the body of the Xiliang army.

Thinking of the armored cavalry that suddenly came out of the Hedong Army formation after a long battle, Li Ruleo had already left the battlefield and was still terrified.

The ordinary infantry cavalry in the army lined up to fight, but they were not at all the opponents of these ironclad knights who rode armored horses and charged with long guns.

As far as the naked eye could see, the iron cavalry was everywhere, there was no enemy in a round, and those men and horses who fought in array were like paper, they were rushed to pieces, and finally they were separated by other cavalry that followed and killed one by one.

I never expected that among the soldiers and horses in Hedong, there would be such strong armor soldiers!

Recalling the Lou Boat Master and the Giant Ballista Flying Cannon he had seen in Hedong, Li Ru even began to regret that he easily cut off Guo Yan's back road, and insisted on leaving Guo Yan's army in Hedong to fight a decisive battle with Yan Xing.

Yan Xing's command was originally a lot of elite soldiers and strong generals, and the current Hedong armor was so sharp, how could Guo Yanbing's fatigue be matched.

Looking back, if Guo Yan's army was still there, although it would hinder Li Wei's side, at least the current Hedong Hongnong coalition army would not dare to be so presumptuous.

It's a pity, it's a pity.

Li Ru's serious injury had not healed, and his emotions were depressed, and he was already swaying on the horse, and his horse speed gradually fell behind.

Unexpectedly, at this time, there was a rattling bowstring sound in front of him, which frightened Li Ru subconsciously tightened the reins, but his physical strength was not good, but he was broken free by the frightened beast and threw off the horse.

Ahem!

Li Ru, who fell to the ground and ate a lot of dust, was coughing in embarrassment, and tears were about to come out of his face.

The heavy fall just now was hitting his injured arm, and Li Ru estimated that he was touching his arm, afraid that it had been broken.

Li Ru, who was coughing and panting, soon discovered that his emergency behavior just now was not an illusion, and behind the dull sound of the bowstring, what was emitted was really a hidden crossbow arrow hidden in the grass of the wilderness.

Two of his three escort cavalry had died, and one of them was lucky enough to miss the crossbow, but he was also crushed by the thigh of the horse that was killed by the arrow, and struggled to move like himself, but he couldn't move an inch, let alone escort himself out of here.

Li Ru heard a rustling in the grass, and then there was a sound of footsteps, slowly approaching him, because of the perspective of falling to the ground, Li Ru couldn't see anyone, but at this time, in order to save his life, Li Ru also used his last strength and shouted vigorously:

"Don't kill me, I'm willing to surrender, willing to surrender!"

shouted a few words like this, but the other party was unmoved, and even Li Ru heard the sound of the other party slowly cutting the throat of the last struggling cavalryman with a blade, Li Ru's scalp instantly tingled, and he shouted at the top of his voice:

"Don't kill me, I can enrich you, eh, I have an important secret, don't kill me, I can dedicate it to you, I and your general are old friends, take me to see your general, you can get a heavy reward······"

When death came, Li Ru was still unwilling to give up, and pulled out all kinds of reasons to persuade the other party to let him go, but everything was obviously in vain, the blade of blood was still approaching him, and Li Ru's nasal cavity had been filled with a thick bloody breath.

"Huh!"

The person who came finally stopped urging in front of Li Ru, and with a familiar sneer, the tip of the bloody knife was against Li Ru's neck.

"It's you!"

Li Ru, who saw the appearance of the person who came, couldn't help but lose his voice.