The crossbow arrows were as dense as a torrential rain, shooting strongly and ruthlessly at the cavalry on the official road, the sudden attack did not have the slightest warning, and the Zhu army, which was in extreme excitement, seemed to fall into the quagmire of hell all of a sudden, the screams of the arrows, the neighing of the war horses, and the ranks were in chaos, and nearly 2,000 cavalrymen fell to the ground in an instant.

"Retreat! Retreat! In the panic, Zhu Xueren screamed wildly while taking a shield to resist, his right arm suddenly had a sharp pain, a stray arrow hit his arm, he screamed, and dozens of guards around him immediately rushed up, using shields to form a defensive wall, guarding him to retreat.

He gritted his teeth and pulled out the arrow on his arm, the arrow had a barb, and there was a bloody piece of flesh hanging from the hook, and the severe pain almost made Zhu Xueren faint.

By the faint moonlight, I saw the three words Lin Jiuhan engraved on the arrow shaft.

Zhu Xueren gasped suddenly, how could there be Zhang Huan's army here?

"Retreat!" He shouted again, turned off his horse's head, and fled first, but as soon as he ran less than a hundred paces, a guard general rushed forward in a panic to report, "General, the back road has been cut off, and the enemy is about a thousand."

Before he could say anything, suddenly the head flew up, and the blood in his neck rushed out of a zhang high, Zhu Xueren kicked him off the horse in anger, and scolded viciously: "Did a thousand people scare you out of your guts?" ”

"Rush out and kill the whole team and come back!" He roared loudly and galloped north with his long knife.

Rushing out of two miles away, he had reached the end of the team, Zhu Xueren was stunned, only to see that the ground was full of corpses, and his cavalry rushed outward like crazy, but he couldn't rush out.

Not a thousand people. At least five or six thousand troops intercepted the retreat, and he suddenly found that there was a strange army among them, indeed only a thousand men, and said that they were strange because they were all infantrymen, all tall and long-armed, wearing heavy armor, lined up like a wall, especially their weapons were something he had never seen before. It is about two feet long. The double blades are extremely long, they do not rush forward, they only stand still, wielding their long blades vigorously at the waist, and once their cavalry approaches, they are immediately split into pieces by the men and horses, this army is simply a cavalry nightmare.

The reason why their own cavalry could not rush out. It was the presence of these thousand people, around them, piled with the corpses of men and horses, and the blood flowed like a river, which was horrific to see.

"Mo Dao Army!" A slightly older veteran next to him suddenly screamed in horror.

Zhu Xueren was taken aback, he had heard that the Modao Army, which had made great achievements in the Anshi Rebellion, gradually disappeared. I didn't expect to see it again now.

But the situation in front of him didn't allow him to think too much, he was ambushed by Zhang Huan's army, and he didn't even know how many enemy troops there were, at this moment. A cavalry of about 3,000 men rushed diagonally towards him, and the horses swept forward like a wind, rushing and slashing, violent like a storm, and the iron lance and war knife pierced the iron armor, making a piercing sound, and the cry and scream suddenly rose. Cut a bloody path in the dense enemy army. This cavalry was extremely brave, trampling everything, overwhelming everything, and invincible in the bloody road. Divide Zhu's army into two, and together with the army intercepted in front, surround Zhu Xueren's more than 1,000 people.

Zhu Xueren saw that his elite was like a scarecrow in front of them, he was furious, urging his war horse and gun to rush back, wanting to break out of this encirclement.

I saw a general smashing it with a spear, and Zhu Xueren raised his gun to block it, and he was stunned! There was a loud bang, a sharp pain in his arm, and the iron gun flew out of his hand.

"Does that arrow taste good?" Zhu Xueren saw a smiling face, and then a knife slashed at him, and he suddenly felt that he had become two people, and his vision suddenly expanded

"Kill! Not a single one is left. ”

With the death of Zhu Xueren, the whole battlefield became a one-sided slaughter, the surging Xiliang army was like a wanton and unbridled iron stream, they rushed to kill, advance, smash everything, rushed forward, slashed and slashed, until the hands were weak and the strength was exhausted, Zhu Jun shouted, fled to the field in the dark night, and from time to time stumbled into the pit and fell, or knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but it was difficult to escape death.

About an hour later, the battle finally came to an end, as a group of desperate Zhu soldiers were surrounded by hundreds of Xiliang troops and hacked to death, so far, the 10,000 vanguard army only escaped less than 100 people, and the rest were all killed, and none of them survived.

This battle lasted until a few years later, and there was also the imperial history to impeach Lin Jiuhan for not accepting the surrender of the enemy army at that time, which was too brutal.

On January 27, the last boat of refugees sailed out of Changshou County, also on this day, the outer city of Xiangyang was broken by Cui Qinggong, Wang Ang's fighting spirit was lost, led 30,000 Cui Qinggong to surrender, Cui Qinggong then went south, but encountered an ambush by Zhu's main force in Nanzhang County, the former army general Yang Hao was killed, Cui Qinggong's army was defeated under the light enemy, he himself was also injured, and had to retreat to Xiangyang, at the same time, Zhang Huan's 100,000 army has also arrived in Yongqing County, and the three formed a delicate confrontation situation.

At this moment, Cui Qinggong's old nest Ruyang came with a news that shocked him extremely much: there was turmoil in Huaibei.

Qian County, here is the main grain producing area controlled by Cui Qinggong, Li Huaixian took advantage of Cui Qinggong's westward expedition, sent his son Li Deqing to the east to take Cui Qinggong's garrison of several states and counties, but when taking Suiyang County, there was a skirmish with Cui Qinggong's left-behind general Zhou Li, Zhou Li had few soldiers, gave up Suiyang County and returned to Qian County, but Li Deqing did not relent, chased after him, defeated Zhou Li in the north of Zhenyuan County, occupied Zhenyuan and Qian County in one fell swoop, and Zhou Li was defeated and retreated to Chengfu County.

Qian County is where Cui Qinggong's granary is located, here, Li Deqing accidentally discovered that Cui Qinggong intercepted the Jiangnan Cao Yun, there were millions of stone of grain and 500,000 yuan, he immediately sent someone to report to Li Huaixian, and invited his father-in-law to come to the scene to inspect.

Li Huaixian, who received the news, was overjoyed, he happily decided to go to Qian County to admire the magnificence of millions of stone grain, after the Yuan Festival, he came to Qian County under the protection of a thousand guards, and Li Deqing personally went to Zhenyuan County to welcome the arrival of his father-in-law.

On a mountain road in the south of Zhenyuan County, Li Deqing and two hundred soldiers slowly came from afar. At this moment, the corners of his mouth lost the kind smile he used to have, and became cold and serious, and there was even a trace of sadness in his eyes.

He was reminiscing about the past, many years ago, when he was reused by the head of the family as the most humble concubine of a family, but in the battle of Jincheng County, he made a mistake in judgment and took the risk to pursue Zhang Huan. In the end, he fell into his ambush. The 3,000 army was completely annihilated, and although he desperately escaped for his life, he had no shame to go to see the master of his family again.

Since that war, Wei Deqing, the son of the Wei family, has died, and what is alive is just a family sinner full of sorrow and guilt, he came to Shandong incognito, and became a pawn in Li Huaixian's camp. Changing his name to Deqing, this is just a glimmer of hope in his heart, almost slim hope, in the world's most powerful family, can he find a chance to get ahead?

Cold and summer, year after year, he practiced martial arts with anger, day and night, and never left the barracks. He hadn't even seen a woman in three years, and in this way, he had developed a strong martial art, but he was still a pawn.

The opportunity to get ahead comes from turmoil. Two years ago, he entered the training camp of the Chen Liutuan alone, and single-handedly fought his way out of the encirclement, so that the 2,000 regimental training troops were scattered without a master, and he became famous. was considered a righteous son by Li Huaixian. and became his confidant.

Li Deqing, no! We should call him Wei Deqing. After many years of loneliness and suffering, he never forgot his great sin, the Wei family lost its foundation because of him, and since then it has been slumped, as if it is a scar in his heart that can never be healed, only by atoning for his sins, he can return to his hometown to see his mother who thought he was dead.

"Look, general, the camp of the marshal!" One of the soldiers shouted from afar, pointing to a large white tent at the foot of the mountain.

Wei Deqing rode on his horse and silently watched the camp in the distance, in the west of the camp, the whirlpool meandered south like a jade belt, after a long time, he finally made up his mind, turned around and ordered a few words to a personal soldier, and the personal soldier took the order and immediately turned around.

"Let's go! Let's meet the marshal. Wei Deqing smiled coldly and urged the horse to gallop down the hill.

Li Huaixian has never been so happy as now, the praying mantis catches cicadas, the yellow finch is behind, Cui Qinggong attacked Xiangyang in a big way, but it brought himself such a big opportunity, his righteous son easily defeated Zhou Li, the second place of the four heavenly kings under Cui Qinggong, and won millions of stone grain, which is tantamount to great news for Li Huaixian, who has been suffering from lack of food and grass.

Li Huaixian looked at the map in the camp with great interest, and after taking the county, he would immediately attack to the east, and take the three counties of Peng, Linhuai, and Donghai before the end of Cui Qinggong's Xiangyang campaign, so that his territory would be expanded to eight counties, which would be enough to compete with any force, and his strategy of taoguang and obscurity for many years could also come to an end.

Li Huai first lightly tapped Peng County (today's Xuzhou) with his thick index finger, and couldn't help but fall into deep thought, the three eastern counties can be managed by their eldest son, and Qian County and Huaiyang County can be controlled by the second son, as for the righteous son Li Deqing, it is better to stay by his side, this time he attacked Qian County without authorization, it can be seen that he is not such a reliable person.

"Report to the marshal, General Deqing has arrived." The sound of the pro-soldier interrupted Li Huaixian's train of thought.

"Order him in!"

He stood up with a smile, only to see the door curtain lifted, Li Deqing's vigorous figure walked in from outside the door, he stepped forward, knelt down on one knee and said: "The child is late to greet his father, I hope to forgive my sins!" ”

"My son is not guilty!" Li Huaixian smiled and helped Li Deqing up, and the moment Li Huaixian's hand touched his arm, Li Deqing's heart suddenly surged with a strong **, at this time, he was completely sure that Li Huai would die first, but he had developed restraint for many years and suppressed his idea stiffly.

But Li Huaixian was already experienced in a hundred battles, and he immediately sensitively sensed Li Deqing's trace of murderous aura, he took a step back, his hand pressed the hilt of the sword, and stared at his righteous son vigilantly.

Li Deqing didn't seem to feel anything, he stood up and shook his head, and said ashamedly: "This time, Zhou Li was already trapped and could be killed in one fell swoop, but I didn't expect him to have a stand-in, which made the golden cicada run away and failed." The child really had no face to come to his father. ”

Only then did Li Huaixian understand that the murderous aura on Li Deqing's body was aimed at Zhou Li, not himself, he slightly relaxed and smiled: "It doesn't matter if a Zhou Li dies or not, the important thing is that you have won the territory and got such a huge amount of money and food, this is the big thing that makes my father happy." ”

Speaking of this, he glanced at Li Deqing's hand cautiously again, and continued: "However, Cui Qinggong's grain and grass base is occupied. He will inevitably return soon. We don't have many troops, so my father decided to take back your 30,000 troops and 20,000 to defend Cui Qinggong with all your might, and you can take 10,000 troops to take Peng and other three counties, maybe you can do it? ”

"The father has an order, and the child will never give up!" Li Deqing simply took out the golden arrow in his arms and put it on the table without hesitation.

Li Huai picked up the golden arrow first and nodded proudly. Secretly thought: Fortunately, he took back his military power in time and did not cause trouble!

Suddenly, he seemed to faintly hear the sound of killing in the distance, his face changed greatly, and he shouted and asked, "What's going on?" ”

Li Deqing's face also turned pale, and he lost his voice: "It's bad." This must be Fu Dawei to come to the aid of Zhou Li, I'll go and take a look! ”

After speaking, he strode away from the handsome tent, how could Li Huaixian let him go. He yelled, "Stop!" ”

Li Deqing stood still, motionless, his eyes showed a look of pain, he didn't want to kill his father-in-law with his own hands, but

"Let me ask you, what's going on?" Li Huaixian stared at him fiercely and asked. He didn't believe in any Margarine reinforcements at all

Li Deqing sighed. He turned around slowly and said calmly, "It's true that it's not Ma Dawei who came to help. This is the army I deployed, and in fact, there are no millions of stone food and 500,000 yuan of money, it is just a pretext I made up, just to lure my righteous father to come to the county. ”

At this time, there was a sound of fighting outside the tent, this was Li Deqing's personal soldiers and Li Huaixian's people fighting.

"Good! Good! What a righteous son. "Li Huaixian completely understood everything, attacking Qian County was a trap carefully designed by Li Deqing, and everything was for today.

"The old man treats you so kindly, promotes you from a pawn to a former army general, and recognizes you as a righteous son, but I didn't expect you to be an ungrateful person and a wolf with ambition!"

Li Deqing shook his head sadly, and said: "Actually, my surname is Wei, my name is Wei Deqing, I lost Jincheng County five years ago, and came to Shandong incognito, I want to atone for the Wei family, which is really more important than my life, but my father-in-law is also kind to me, and the child has nothing to repay, but he can only apologize for his sin!" With that, he gritted his teeth and pulled a sharp dagger from his boot.

"What are you going to do?" Li Huaixian pulled out his long sword and pointed it at him, and said in a trembling voice.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Wei Deqing raise his knife and cut off his left arm, shooting bloody arrows everywhere, snapping! A whole arm falls to the ground.

Wei Deqing snorted, the severe pain made him unable to stand anymore, and fell to the ground on one leg, Li Huaixian was stunned at first, and then he was overjoyed, when the opportunity came, he slashed at Wei Deqing's head with his sword, "Little bastard, you go to die!" ”

However, he couldn't cut it down, he looked at it in disbelief, a sharp dagger had already shot through his throat, and Wei Deqing's arm blood was still flowing on it, and his strength quickly disappeared, Li Huai's hand was loosened, and the sword fell to the ground.

In the blur, I saw Wei Deqing kowtow heavily to himself, and heard his last words in the world: "Father-in-law!" The child will wear linen and filial piety for you, and there are two brothers, and I will never let them die a painful death. ”

On the seventeenth day of the first month of the seventh year of Xuanren, the warlord Li Huaixian of Chenliu was said to have been ambushed and killed by Zhou Li in Zhenyuan County, and his righteous son Wei Deqing rushed back to Chenliu, in the name of avenging his father, he took over the rest of Li Huaixian, and then commanded the army to attack Chengfu County, and broke through the county seat in only one day, killed Zhou Li with his own hands, and sacrificed his head to his deceased father,

The three armies felt his sincerity and supported him as Li Huaixian's successor, but Wei Deqing regarded himself as a one-armed man and refused to accept it, wanting to transfer military power to Li Huaixian's eldest son Li Tan in Chenliu.

He immediately declared his allegiance to the imperial court, allegiance to Cui Xiaofu, and with practical actions for the court, for Cui Xiaofu to share worries, on the 25th day of the first month, he led an army of 50,000 to connect the two important towns of Ruyin and Shenqiu, and the soldiers pointed directly at Cui Qinggong's old nest Ruyang.

Cui Qinggong was shocked, seeing that Zhang Huan's 100,000 army had arrived, and there was Zhu blocking the road in front, he knew that the Shannan strategy had become a chicken rib, Cui Qinggong immediately made a decision, ransacked Xiangyang City, and escorted Wang Ang back to Ruyang with hatred.

As soon as he left, Zhang Huan's vanguard Liu Shuai led five thousand light cavalry into Xiangyang, he ordered people to extinguish the fire and pacify the people, two days later, Zhang Huan's army arrived in Xiangyang, released military grain to help the hungry, and sent someone to report to the imperial court, recommending Yang Yan, the Shannan transfer envoy, to be reappointed as the Xiangyang Thorn History and Shannan Province Observation Envoy, and the Shannan transfer envoy was served by Liu Yan, the deputy envoy.

At this moment, the 30,000 Shuzhong army arrived at Jiangling County along the Yangtze River, Lin Jiuhan's 30,000 troops were eyeing Fushui County, Zhang Huan's 100,000 troops were as dignified as a mountain in the north, Zhu was already embattled, and the army's heart began to disperse.