Shi Wansui took a team of personal soldiers to break away from the brigade, galloped towards the mountain, and disappeared into the dense woods after a while, after half a sound, one of Shi Wansui's personal soldiers ran down from the mountain quickly, and the Xuanlong army was taken aback, could it be that Shi Wansui was in danger so quickly, and could only send someone for help.

Luo Yi, Shi Tao and others are already eager to try: "General, please allow the humble position to go and respond." ”

Li Quan, Du Mingda, Da Xihong, Zhang Xingzhi, Qu Tutong and others on the periphery were all stunned, but Wang Shu glanced at the two of them contemptuously. They have been in battle for a long time, so naturally they will not be as impatient as a hairy boy like Luo Yi.

Yang Tian glared at them: "Rest easy, wait for someone to come." ”

Shi Wansui's personal soldiers galloped directly to Yang Tian's side before reining in the horse, and as soon as he stopped, he hurriedly said: "Back to the general, General Shi sent the villain to report, and the mountain is his own person." ”

Own? Everyone was amazed, it was even more unbelievable than the discovery of the enemy, and which army would hide in the mountains.

"Well, do you know which team it is and how many people there are?"

The soldier shook his head: "Back to the general, it's not clear yet, General Shi is afraid that the general and others will be in a hurry, so he will let the villain pass the order first." ”

"Okay, then you go down."

Seeing Shi Wansui's personal soldier go down, although everyone was full of worries, they had to wait for Shi Wansui to come back. Fortunately, this time it didn't make everyone wait too long, Shi Wansui and his party had already appeared in the mountain pass, in addition to Shi Wansui's own personal soldiers, there were hundreds of ragged people, which is the army, they are more like a group of refugees.

When those people got closer, everyone saw that although these more than 100 people were in tattered clothes, they were really wearing the military uniforms of the Great Zhou, and several of them still had armor and weapons in their hands.

Yang Tian urged him to step forward immediately, and was about to ask Shi Wansui about it, when a middle-aged man walked out of the group of refugees and asked, "Is it Pu Liuru's nephew?" ”

Yang Tian looked at the middle-aged man carefully, he didn't know it, he couldn't help frowning, the soldiers behind Yang Tian were very unhappy when they saw that person call him his commander like this, Zheng Xiong pulled out the long sword in his hand, and shouted: "Bold, this is the emperor's personal commander of the front-line march, Boping Hou Hussar General, and he is not polite." ”

Although the hussar general was also a high-ranking official, many of the governors of various states and provinces were above Yang Tian's official system, in order to give Yang Tian the right to mobilize front-line soldiers and horses, Emperor Tianyuan temporarily granted Yang Tian the post of head of the front-line march.

Li Chong was taken aback, he thought that Yang Tian was just a hussar general, his official position was still above Yang Tian, he was the same generation as Yang Jian, and it didn't hurt to call him a virtuous nephew, and now Yang Tian was named the head of the front-line march, which was equivalent to seeing the official level and becoming Li Chong's boss, Li Chong had no choice but to hug his fists: "Pinggao County Guard Li Chong has seen the chief manager." ”

Yang Tian and Li Chong had met several times in the capital, at that time Li Chong's face was majestic, and there was no resemblance to the embarrassment on his face now, no wonder he couldn't recognize it, Yang Tian looked at it carefully, and hurriedly jumped off the horse: "It turns out that it's really Uncle Li, Uncle Li is still alive, it's really great news." "Everyone thinks that Pinggao County is lost, and Li Chong, who is the county guard, is of course dead.

Li Chong hurriedly shook his hand: "There is a difference between the upper and lower levels of the army, and the chief should not be called so." "He is a guilty body, after knowing that Yang Tian is the head of the march, how dare he hold it up in front of Yang Tian.

Yang Tian was no longer polite, directly called him General Li, and began to ask why Li Chong was in the mountains, it turned out that after Li Chong escaped from Pinggao County, the Turks chased after their team of deserters, rushed out of hundreds of people, and successively reduced the number to more than 100 people, and had to hide in the mountains in a panic, which escaped the pursuit of the Turks.

After the ancestor of the Li family was the captain of the Han Dynasty, Li Ling, from the beginning of the Western Wei Dynasty, the Li family took Pinggao County as the land of the clan, Li Mu and Li Xian were both born in Pinggao County, in addition to Chang'an, Pinggao County also lived most of the Li clansmen, and now Pinggao County has fallen, and the Li clan people inside are all dead and wounded, although there is a relationship with Li Mu, Li Chong will not necessarily be guilty when he returns to the court, but Li Chong does not have the face to return to Chang'an to see his uncle, so he has to guard in the mountains with his subordinates, if he waits until the court army comes, he can help the army counterattack Pinggao County, and he can also atone for his crimes.

They have been hiding in the mountains for five days, and today they saw the banner of the Great Zhou coming, and hurriedly took the initiative to shake the flag in the mountains, so that they would be discovered by the Xuanlong Army. ”

Everyone looked at each other and recovered Pinggao County? If these 2,000 people went to attack the fortified city guarded by the 40,000 Turkic army, it would not be enough to stuff people's teeth, and even if they encountered it on the plain, they would have to retreat.

Zheng Xiong replied beside him: "My family is the leader of this defense against the Turks. ”

Although Yang Tian was appointed as the head of the march, but the military commander of the Great Zhou Dynasty can not be all the way, sometimes he can appoint more than a dozen roads in a row, or even dozens of roads, the head of the march is just to control the states and counties under his jurisdiction during the war, Li Chong also began to think that Yang Tian is just one of the roads, when he heard that Yang Tian is the president, a ridiculous feeling surged in his heart, and there was a glimmer of hope in his heart: "How many soldiers and horses does the commander have under his jurisdiction?" ”

Yang Tianchao pointed to the back: "The general's soldiers and horses are all here, General Li, you have also worked the mountain, go down first to eat something, and rest for a while." ”

Looking at the 2,000 soldiers and horses in front of him, Li Chong turned from hope to disappointment, he was sitting on a fortified city, and he couldn't hold it with 4,000 soldiers and horses, not to mention taking 2,000 people to fight with the Turks, even if the Turks were willing to give up the advantage of the city wall, the two sides could not compare.

The more than 100 people behind Li Chong are all members of the Li clan, they are eager to take back Pinggao County, although they know that their families may not be there, but they still have a little illusion, and now when they know that Yang Tian is only two thousand people, this illusion is suddenly shattered, although they have stayed in the mountains for five or six days, relying on wild fruits and hunting some prey to satisfy their hunger, they have long been hungry, when they heard that there was something to eat, most of them did not react, but many people whimpered and cried, and the whole team was suddenly filled with a sadness.

"Okay, General Li, bring your team down, and after you finish eating, you will set off immediately."

"Yes." Although Li Chong was even more disappointed than those soldiers, he still obeyed Yang Tian's orders.

"General, the Turks are too strong, it is better for our army to retreat." Li Quan cautiously put forward his own views.

Yang Tian thought for a while and said, "No matter what the Turks have in mind, we must at least contact each other, pass on my order, and the whole army will rest for half an hour and set off after half an hour." ”