The attack of the state army, so that Wanrong County paid more than 200 casualties, most of them were injured, only more than 40 people died, compared with the Puzhou army to die less, some of the dead and wounded were because of throwing down the rolling log, when the stone was beaten, the body leaned out of the city wall and was shot by the Puzhou army under the city, some of the Puzhou army was killed after landing in the city, and several unlucky ghosts died in the hands of Yang Yong's guards.

The corpses were carried down from the city, the wounded were all withdrawn, and the red blood could be seen everywhere on the city wall.

Miao Meng's face was heavy again, and he was ashamed to come to Yang Yong's side to ask for guilt, and several of his cronies were killed by the other party like chopping melons and vegetables as soon as they went into battle, and even he almost died.

Although he was disappointed in the combat power of the government soldiers, Yang Yong did not blame Miao Meng, and now the city wall of Wanrong County still needs to be guarded by the government soldiers, Yang Yong gently comforted Miao Meng a few words.

"Your Highness, Liang Shiyan has withdrawn." Just as Yang Yong was comforting Miao Meng, a guard hurriedly came to report.

"Retirement? Let's go, go and see. Yang Yong was greatly surprised, although he had exposed his strength due to the advance dispatch of his guards, but at best there were only a hundred ambush soldiers, how could a veteran like Liang Shiyan retreat after a failed attack. Yang Yong didn't know that it was the veteran who had been through a hundred battles who would know how to give up and blindly fight and rush, which only young people who are just starting out would do.

Standing on the city tower, Yang Yong and the others could clearly see that the cavalry below had discarded those siege equipment and were turning and retreating, and the people they captured were also left in place and did not move, which was indeed the appearance of retreating soldiers.

"Your Highness, the last general asks for pursuit."

"Your Highness, the last general asks for pursuit."

Seeing the enemy retreating, Qu Tutong. Duan Da and the others asked for battle, but Yang Yong ignored them and turned his gaze to Lu Mulin: "Lu Aiqing, do you think they really retreated or are they pretending to be pretending to lure our army to attack?" ”

"Your Highness, I think that the other party is mostly luring our army to attack." Lu Mulin replied.

"Oh, how?"

"Your Highness, please see, the other party discarded the instrument and did not hide it. If it is really a retreat, why do it so obviously? ”

Indeed, if the other party really retreats, he can pretend to be suspicious in the camp, but Yang Yong is used to seeing the reality of later generations, but it is not easy to judge in his heart, since Liang Shiyan has arrived in Wanrong County. There is no reason to let him go back safely, but if he pursues, he vows to take a certain risk, and this risk should not be taken.

Many Puzhou soldiers turned back as they walked, looking at Wanrong County with hatred. Such a small county cost them the lives of fifty of their brothers, and now they have to accept the fate of defeat and retreat. There was a deep sense of shame in everyone's heart.

"Father, will they pursue?" It's such a big retreat. Although Liang Wu is not as good as his elder brothers, he rarely goes to the battlefield. But in the end, he was born in the door. I know a little bit about the art of war.

Liang Shiyan barely rode on the horse, and felt a faint pain from the fall a few days ago. How could he have the leisure to answer Liang Wu's question, Xue Mo'er looked at Liang Shiyan's pale face with pain, and hurriedly continued: "Back to the fifth prince, look at the expressions of the soldiers, the other party is pursuing, it just so happens that we will kill a horse pistol, if we can defeat the opponent's elite soldiers, it will not be too late for us to return to Wanrong County." ”

Liang Wucai suddenly realized, it turned out that his father was still unwilling to retreat, so he deliberately exposed his intention to retreat, if the other party saw through it, it didn't matter, and then he really retreated.

Seeing that they had withdrawn for twenty miles, and there was no sign of chasing soldiers in the rear, Liang Shiyan and Xue Mo'er glanced at each other helplessly, and when Liang Shiyan was about to give the order to speed up the march, a personal soldier shouted: "My lord, look, there are chasing soldiers behind." ”

Liang Shiyan turned his head back, only to see a puff of smoke and dust rising four or five miles behind, which was a sign of cavalry pursuit, Liang Shiyan was overjoyed: "Stop advancing and prepare for battle!" ”

"Phew." All the ground cavalry hurriedly stopped their mounts, stopped, and with Liang Shiyan's order, they all entered the woods on both sides and lurked, waiting for the other party's pursuers to arrive.

After a while, the sound of hooves sounded "splashing thorns, splashing thorns", and the Puzhou troops lying in ambush on both sides became nervous, and secretly said in their hearts: "Coming, coming." ”

It's just that they were disappointed that there were only four horses in front and behind on the road, and the four horses were separated by a distance, and the hurried ambush of the Puzhou army left a lot of flaws, and the hoof prints on the road and the insects on both sides easily exposed the location of the Puzhou army. As soon as the front rider entered the ambush of the Puzhou army, he found an anomaly in the woods on the left and right, and immediately pulled the reins and ran back.

The Puzhou army ambushed on both sides was caught off guard, and could only watch the other party's scouts escape, and reluctantly returned to the main road from the forest.

Although Yang Yong knew that the other party might lure him out of the city to pursue, but in the end he had to send troops out of the city to pursue, although he had issued an edict to the counties that Liang Shiyan was plotting against him and conspiring to coerce the prince, requiring the counties to organize government soldiers to attack Liang Shiyan, and Yang, which was connected to Puzhou, and the county orders of the two counties of Linjin Yang Yong were even more personally confessed, but Liang Shiyan retreated too quickly, and the reinforcements from the counties were too late to arrive, and the county orders of Yang and Linjin counties only had a few days to prepare, and Yang Yong could hardly expect the two counties to have the ability to prevent Liang Shiyan from returning to Puzhou.

To prevent Liang Shiyan from returning to Puzhou, the only way to send people to pursue and harass him and delay their speed can make the government soldiers of other counties be able to concentrate calmly, there are more than ten counties in the entire Hedong County, if all the government soldiers are concentrated, there will be at least ** thousand people, plus the 2,000 reinforcements that Fenzhou caught up, at least tens of thousands of people, as long as half of the government soldiers are dragged to catch up, Liang Shiyan's cavalry is no matter how elite it is, and it can't fight too many people, so it can only be dragged to death.

It was based on this situation that Yang Yong finally ordered Duan Da to pursue with two hundred cavalry, Duan Da had followed Yang Shuang to lead the troops for many years, and his experience was far richer than that of Liu Hu and Qu Tutong, not to mention that most of these two hundred people were Duan Da's subordinates, and Duan Da led the troops.

The Puzhou army soon found that they were in trouble, and the pursuers behind them followed them for two or three miles like hanging shoes, they were fast, and the enemy behind them was fast, and they were slow, and the enemy behind them was also slow, and when they turned around to meet them, the enemy

Just run.

Miles away. For the impact of the cavalry is only a very short period of time, although the enemy behind is not much, but there are also two hundred horsemen, a little slack, the other party is likely to attack, which makes the Puzhou army full of anger, and have to tremble, when they eat, the other party has to make a momentum. When they camped, the other party had to make all kinds of strange noises in the distance, so that they could not rest, and the march speed of the Puzhou army suddenly became extremely slow.

Today is the third day of evacuation from Vang Vieng County, and it only took four days to travel from Puzhou to Vang Vieng County, but now we have not even completed a third of the journey. Moreover, these Puzhou troops could feel that the people along the way were full of hostility towards them, and as soon as they saw them coming, most of them hid, that is, the people who did not hide. He was also unwilling to cooperate with them, and as soon as he saw them, the door was closed, and even the Puzhou army could not buy food with money in his hands.

The world has finally been peaceful for several years. Of course, the people did not want to fall back into the war, and heard that Liang Shiyan was going to rebel. Everyone was scolded, and of course they didn't have a good impression of Liang Shiyan's Puzhou Army. Although Liang Shiyan also said that Wanrong County ordered the prince to be held hostage and rebelled. It's just that the edict of the crown prince is more believable.

It's not that Liang Shiyan didn't think about expelling the nasty tail behind him, or simply coming to an ambush. The two hundred horsemen were completely resolved, but the other party was extremely shrewd, and some people took the initiative to report to Duan Da, and several ambushes were unsuccessful, just wasting time in vain.

On the fourth day, the whole Puzhou army could not bear this kind of endless harassment, and Xue Mo'er suggested: "Gong Yu, it is better to throw away the heavy objects, march with all your strength, and get rid of them." ”

Liang Shiyan is difficult to decide, of course the full march can temporarily get rid of the other party, but the horses are easily tired, when they come, they can march with all their strength, at that time because Hedong County and he are allies, do not have to worry about the attack, now the prince has issued an edict, indicating that he rebelled, who knows if there will be an enemy waiting for them in front, and then dozens of miles will be the county of Yang, once the county order to organize the government soldiers to block them, what should be good if there is no horsepower, and then a flank attack will be a big defeat.

"No, we're going to keep the horsepower up all the time." Liang Shiyan thought about it, but still rejected Xue Mo'er's suggestion, if there was no horsepower, the cavalry would become foot soldiers, and this situation was too dangerous. What's more, Liang Shiyan himself is in pain, and it is still a question whether he can stand the galloping of the horse.

Xue Mo'er had no choice but to give up, although he realized that too slow speed could cause danger, but he was not without self-control in his heart, if he delayed for a long time, the five hundred cavalry led by Liang Mo might also arrive.

On the second day after the Puzhou army retreated, first the government soldiers from the nearby counties rushed to Wanrong, and then the two thousand Fenzhou troops also came to Wanrong, hearing that the prince was besieged, Li Shun of Fenzhou was scared half to death, and personally led the troops to come, although the state soldiers were mostly composed of government soldiers, but they were much more elite than the government soldiers sent by the counties, Yang Yong immediately sent Li Shun to join the counties to come to the local government soldiers to pursue Liang Shiyan.

On the fifth day, when Liang Shiyan passed through the county of Yang, he was finally blocked by the county commanders of Xuanyang County and Linjin County, and the county commanders of Linjin County were encouraged by Yang Yong, and after returning to the county office, the enthusiasm rose greatly, and the county soldiers of the county were concentrated in a few days, and the two organized a total of 2,000 troops to stop Liang Shiyan on the road to Puzhou.

In peacetime, Liang Shiyan didn't have to worry about the army composed of 2,000 soldiers, but after five consecutive days of marching and high mental tension, their combat strength couldn't help but be discounted, and they did not break through the blockade of Ji Dun and Quan in one go, but after Duan Da launched a surprise attack on them, they had to switch from attack to defense.

"Your Highness, great joy, great joy, Liang Shiyan has been surrounded in Yang." A herald hurriedly stepped into the county office and shouted loudly.

Yang Yong suddenly stood up from the chair he was sitting on, took the letter and looked at it, and immediately overjoyed: "Okay, okay, this palace is going to Yangyi in person." ”

When Yang Yong arrived at Yang, Liang Shiyan had been besieged for three days, and in the past three days, Liang Shiyan commanded his subordinates to rush left and right countless times, but he had gathered five or six thousand troops on the periphery, and it was still increasing, and the Puzhou army under the leadership of Liang Shiyan, every time it attacked, it was like falling into a vast ocean, and the enemy seemed to be boundless, and finally could only be trapped on a small hillside, and the number of people around him also dropped to two hundred.

As soon as Yang Yong came to Yang, Duan Da, Li Shun, Ji Dun and Quan and other county commanders at all levels came to visit, because they sent troops to rescue the prince, so the county government soldiers were basically led by the county commander and the county lieutenant.

"How's it going?" As soon as he saw Duan Da, Yang Yong couldn't wait to ask.

Of course, Duan Da knew what Yang Yong was asking, and hurriedly replied: "Your Highness, Liang Shiyan has been trapped on the hill in front of him, and there are only two hundred people around him, if you are not worried about death and injury, you can capture them immediately." ”

"Are there many casualties?"

Duan Da hurriedly said: "Back to Your Highness, Liang Shiyan fought back frantically, and the casualties of the county government soldiers have exceeded 1,500. ”

As soon as it came to the casualties, Ji Dun and Quan suddenly cried with sad faces, as if they were dead, and the excitement just now was completely gone, and their two counties began to bear Liang Shiyan's attack independently, and more than half of the two thousand government soldiers were killed or wounded.

Yang Yong was taken aback when he heard this, Liang Shiyan's cavalry was indeed elite, and it could even cause several times the casualties of the government soldiers in the case of being besieged, if it weren't for the large number of people, it would be really difficult to surround it.