Chapter 464: Xiao Yuanying threw himself into Shandong
Yuan Shizhong's original nearly 100,000 people were scattered by Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo, and less than 50,000 people were gathered, only more than 3,000 horsemen, and the rest were foot soldiers, and they didn't run fast at all.
When the Shun army mobilized, Yuan Shizhong had already run east for several hours, but the guided Shun army pursued like divine help, and the gap was gradually narrowing.
Xiao Yuan's camp had lost several battles in succession, and ran around with Yuan Shizhong, and the army's morale had fallen to the bottom, and he originally came to Xiangyang and felt that he could be stable for a while, but suddenly heard that he was going to run.
Originally, Yuan Shizhong wanted to go to Zhang Xianzhong, but this thing has been beaten by Zuo Liangyu to only have more than 1,000 rides left, and he went to Sichuan to start all over again.
In a hurry, he could only go to Shandong.
defected to the Shandong Army, and there was a lot of apprehension in the center of Yuan Shi, this kind of apprehension was because he was afraid that Wang Zheng would not take him in, but it was not a new account and an old account to be counted together.
Because Xiao Yuanying had never dealt with the Shandong Army, he couldn't say that he had any deep hatred.
On the way, Yuan Shizhong kept inquiring, and later learned that the Shandong army was divided into internal and external departments, and many of the foreign soldiers and horses had been peasant armies, and the most famous one was Liu Guoneng.
Liu Guoneng used to be one of the thirteen families of the Rongyang Conference, and when he had 200,000 under his hands, Li Zicheng was just a general under Gao Yingxiang.
When he was recruited by the imperial court, Liu Guoneng did not hesitate at all, and resolutely dispersed his subordinates to follow the imperial court to suppress the thieves, and often boasted of his loyalty.
However, at the beginning, he was suppressed by various generals, and his official rank was just a garrison, and it was said that he did not live well.
At that time, everyone was ridiculing, saying that it was not good to wear it in the righteous army to do that loud breaking into the sky, and it was boring to go to the court to ask for it.
At present, the feng shui is taking turns, Liu Guoneng has found a good backer Wang Zheng, and he has been the chief general of a government in Kaifeng, and the official rank in the court has also been promoted to a guerrilla general, but he is a well-known figure in the foreign department of the Shandong army.
Yuan Shizhong heard that Li Guo and Li Zicheng personally led the horse team to chase, and he hated to fly directly to Shandong.
At this time, Yuan Shizhong knew that his little Yuan camp had been mixed with Li Zicheng and Niu Jinxing a lot of eyes and ears at some point, and he kept making noise in the army when he ran, causing people's hearts to scatter, and thousands of people have been scattered so far.
Yuan Shizhong's cronies were not to be left behind, and they all knew that it was a life-and-death moment now, and they were desperately urging their subordinates in the army to catch the spies of the Shun army, which barely stabilized the small Yuan camp that was about to collapse.
"General, the front is the small Song set, after the small Song set, it is the boundary of Cao County, the capital of Wengzhou, Shandong, the Shun army has long been afraid of the Shandong army, and it must not dare to catch up again."
As he was running, a cronie was carrying a bloody knife, pointing to the front and saying, hearing this, many people were relieved.
Yuan Shizhong glanced behind him and said:
"You can't be careless, if you are caught up by Li Zicheng and Li Guo, you won't be able to survive, and it will be safe to go to the Shandong border."
Suddenly, a horseman galloped over and shouted from afar:
"Leader, the Shunjun horse team is less than ten miles away!"
Hearing this, Yuan Shizhong and the surrounding Xiao Yuan camp were shocked, and they hurried away all night, but they were still caught up by the Shun army.
Seeing that he was about to reach the boundary of Shandong, he died in the hands of Li Zicheng, Yuan Shizhong was unwilling, on the one hand, he sent a few horsemen to rush to Cao County on the fastest horse, and on the other hand, he could only enter the Xiao Song Ji with his cronies.
But after coming in, Yuan Shizhong was full of black lines in his head, and his heart was about to kill me.
According to Yuan Shizhong's idea, the army can enter the small Song Ji to repair and wait for the Shun army horse team, which is really not good, and it can also resist for a while with the help of the city wall, which is somewhat safer.
However, this little Song Ji is a deserted and rotten town at all, I don't know how long it has been abandoned, except for yellow sand and ruins everywhere, there is no terrain at all.
The people of Xiao Yuanying looked at this scene, and their hearts couldn't stop trembling.
At this time, the rear team of horsemen rushed back to report that the Shun army had reached within three miles, and with their speed, they could reach Xiao Songji in less than half an hour.
Yuan Shizhong knew that Xiao Yuanying was the foundation of his life in the troubled times, and it was also the crystallization of years of hard work, and he had to die together.
In the face of the aggressiveness of Li Zicheng, the king of Xinshun, he could only order his subordinates to set up a position in Xiao Song Ji in a disorderly manner, Li Zicheng and Li Guo had more than 12,000 elite cavalry, and there were more than 40,000 people in Xiao Yuan's camp, but the victory or defeat could not be simply calculated by the number of people.
Yuan Shizhong, Li Zicheng and Li Guo, they are all people who have fought in the north and south, and fought old battles with the official army, so many peasant armies were exterminated, surrendered to the official army, and were annexed by Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Luo Rucai, and now they are the only ones who have survived to the end, which shows that their personal skills are not ordinary.
Looking at the white Shunjun elite cavalry opposite, Yuan Shizhong felt bitter in his heart, he used to always say that he drank wine in a big bowl and ate meat in a large piece, and his life was extremely happy, but now that he thinks about it, it is really a big irony.
In the past, those so-called brothers were all at odds with each other, and at this time, they became enemies for a little thing.
As soon as I thought of this, I saw someone on the opposite side riding out of the battle, it turned out to be a tiger Li Guo, I saw him holding a big knife, pointing forward with a sharp point, and shouting at the top of his voice:
"Yuan Shizhong, King Chuang has always been kind to you, but now, you are taking revenge, treacherous, and leaving aside our brotherhood, which is really shameful and hateful!"
When Yuan Shizhong heard Li Guo's words, he knew that he was fanning the flames and making a reasonable explanation for Li Zicheng's internal fighting and his own actions, but he also secretly sneered at the moment and did not reply.
He beckoned Wu Shijie, the leader of Xiao Yuanying's horse team, to come over, and whispered to him:
"Lao Wu, you go and gather all our brothers on horseback, don't fight hard with Li Guo's horse team, if you really can't win, you can only run directly to Cao County."
Speaking of this, Yuan Shizhong looked behind him and muttered to himself with some apprehension:
"I don't know if the eagle face will send troops to save it, if the Shandong army doesn't accept itself, it'll be all over."
Wu Shijie was just as uneasy in his heart, so he could only nod pretending to be stubborn, so that Yuan Shizhong could rest assured, and hurriedly turned his head and ran to gather the horsemen.
Li Guo was still shouting over there, and those who didn't know thought he was right, Yuan Shizhong had a ghost in his heart, so he didn't dare to answer.
As a last resort, Yuan Shizhong could only shout in the formation:
"A tiger brother said well, Chuang Wang Gaoyi, but we can't afford this Gaoyi, back then, I Yuan Shizhong took nearly 200,000 soldiers from the small Yuan battalion to defect, and now, how many are left?"
"King Chuang, back then, I Yuan Shizhong was the first person in the whole of Henan to come to you, and I think I have always been conscientious in doing things, but what about you, have you ever summoned Lao Tzu to enter the account to discuss matters, even once!"
Speaking of this, Yuan Shizhong seemed to be a little indignant, and continued with a smile:
"For more than a year, whenever fighting with the officers and soldiers, Lao Tzu's Xiao Yuan battalion has always been at the forefront, but the captured cattle and sheep, young and strong, and heavy clothes and armor, have they been allocated a little bit!?"
Yuan Shizhong stood up, shook his head and said:
"King Chuang, it's not me talking about you, you are not worse than King Gao Chuang! If it goes on like this, my Xiao Yuan Ying is definitely not the last, your various ways are simply too chilling. ”