Taishou said in the letter that now the enemy situation is clear in his heart. And the county sergeant has been ordered to actively prepare for battle. However, Li Yanzhi's request for the county government to transfer troops to assist in the defense of the residence may be difficult to satisfy. However, the order is in an important place, and the stakes are very important, and I hope that Li Yanzhi will return to the division as soon as possible. If Ling Ju is lost, Xin Peng and Li Yanzhi will be unable to escape the blame.

Although he knew that the county government was not rich in troops now, Li Yanzhi still felt incomprehensible about Xin Peng's reply. He didn't know that he had led his troops to attack before, and a trouble and storm was brewing in the state. The reason why Xin Peng's reply was so vehemently was because he was anxious about these miscellaneous matters. After all, Li Yanzhi is his subordinate, and now that he is attacking without authorization, Xin Peng will naturally be blamed by all parties.

Although Li Yanzhi's starting point is always good, there is nothing wrong with what he does. It's just that the politics he ignores are hundreds of times more complicated than pure military operations. Politics, on the other hand, is often the program for military operations. Now that Han Pu's army is defeated, the elite in the state is in dire straits, and everyone is in danger, he has such a good news, and when he makes these scholars eat a reassuring pill, he also aims the guns in their hands at this small county Sima.

In addition, Li Yanzhi's previous behaviors also offended many scholars. Although the things he did did not reach the point where the two sides fought each other endlessly, they had already planted a thunder in the hearts of these warriors. Once you seize the opportunity, you will inevitably step on him.

Under the double pressure of the outside military situation and his colleagues, Xin Peng had to write a reply letter with more fierce and harsh wording. In all fairness, in his opinion, Guangwu County can be where it is today, and Li Yanzhi's suggestions and various efforts are also inseparable. However, under such heavy pressure, it is also difficult for this prince to make a choice. However, thinking of Li Yanzhi's disobedient behavior since he went to Lingju, he finally made up his mind.

After all, Li Yanzhi's position is the Sima of Lingju County, and his duty is to be responsible for the defense of Lingju County. Now he asked the county soldiers to help him defend the residence, and from Xin Peng's point of view, there were enough reasons to refuse him. And he himself is absolutely unable to refuse his duty. If Lingju falls, but Guangwu is still there, then he can use Li Yanzhi to calm the anger of those colleagues and warriors who are about to move, and even if the governor Zhang Envoy Jun is held responsible, he can pass the buck in every possible way.

In this way, no matter what the war is, Xin Fei is already undefeated in the situation. Before, the clan brother Xin Yan retreated from Woganling, although he was a little embarrassed, but fortunately, he saw the opportunity quickly, and most of the soldiers in the county were still left. Wuxing's position is far behind Guzang, if he asks him for help, it is indeed unrealistic to repel the thieves, but it is still possible to protect Guangwu County.

Li Yanzhi watched the formation of his county soldiers slowly pass through the three pontoon bridges erected on the big river, turn back to the north, and a complicated feeling came to his heart, and he didn't know how to speak. Cui Yang beside him took a few soldiers, each of whom carried a few bloody human heads in his left and right hands. These heads had obviously just been cut off, and the necks of the heads were still dripping with blood, converging on the ground, gradually becoming a small pool of blood.

"Have all the suspected enemy spies been cleared?" Li Yanzhi glanced back at the head in everyone's hands and asked.

"Sima, these eight people all tried to impersonate their names, but they were discovered by the same Shiwu or the soldiers in the team they falsely reported, and they were indeed spies disguised as soldiers in the enemy army. There are four other people who cannot be verified, and I have ordered my subordinates to be taken into custody, and I am ready to cross the river and return to the county seat, and then take them into the county jail......"

Li Yanzhi nodded, glanced back at the heads in the hands of the soldiers under Cui Yang's command, and said, "Set up a few flagpoles by the river and tie these eight human heads to them." Standing right next to the pontoon. After we crossed the river, I passed on the order of our army to return to the county seat as soon as possible, and the pontoon bridge did not have to be demolished, so let's stay here. ”

Cui Yang was a little puzzled when he heard this: "The pontoon bridge is left here...... If the enemy army goes and returns, and crosses the river with the pontoon bridges left behind, what will happen? ”

"The vanguard of the enemy army has been newly defeated and is stagnant, obviously not knowing the reality of our army. Liu Yin was most likely afraid that his department would fall into a general situation of eleven years, so he took a detour to smuggle out, preferring to take a long road and avoid Jincheng. It can be seen that he is cautious in his heart. Now that we have beheaded the spies they have sent and erected them here, without destroying the pontoon bridge, most of the thieves will think that we have something to rely on, but they will not dare to cross the river from this easily. The thief army is powerful, if we let it find out the truth of our army, even if we tear down the pontoon bridge, will we be able to stop the thief's advance? ”

"My subordinates understood." Cui Yang clenched his fists and bowed, then took a few steps back, turned around and waved his hand at the soldiers under his command, and those bloody heads gradually disappeared in Li Yanzhi's sight.

The more than 400 defeated soldiers left by Han Pu had crossed the river with the Zhanfeng Battalion at this time. Then came the auxiliaries, and then the baggage. to the queen of the palace. The overweight of the baggage had been loaded onto ships on the river on the south side of the bank and transported to the other side. After more than an hour, more than 2,000 county soldiers under his command could be regarded as crossing the river one after another. Then they assembled on the north shore and prepared to follow the order.

"Pass the order, the whole army will rest for two moments, and then set off and return to the county seat with a rapid march!" Li Yanzhi walked down from the pontoon bridge, looked at the tired soldiers in front of him, and said in a hurried tone.

As the herald left on his own, Li Yanzhi rode forward twenty or thirty steps on horseback, and saw Tao Heng's cavalry dismount to rest. However, Tao Heng is still arranging manpower to patrol the sentry. Not long after, several horsemen of the patrol station left on horseback, and Tao Heng saw Li Yanzhi who had come from the reins.

"Quickly send a horseman, return to the county government with this letter, and hand it over to Xinming Mansion......" Li Yanzhi said to Tao Heng in a low voice. He quickly understood, took the letter sealed in a wooden tube with both hands and put it in his arms, and nodded solemnly to Li Yanzhi.

The letter said that it was just that the captive cavalry reported by Cui Yang had arrived in Caohan, and it was very likely that they would smuggle into the mouth of the Ori Yin and quickly sweep around the county. In view of the current shortage of troops, unable to defeat the enemy in the field battle, and can only rely on the heightened and reinforced Lingju county town to defend, so Xin Yan was asked to quickly mobilize manpower and forcibly move the people in the county to Guzang Zuo for temporary refuge. After all, as soon as the captives came, if they plundered in all directions, the county government would not be spared.

Ask Xin Yan to forcibly move the households to avoid trouble, and at the same time transfer the money and grain in the county government treasury as much as possible. The granary in the camp had already stockpiled enough for three thousand soldiers to feed for half a year, and Li Yanzhi was not worried that if the city would be cut off at that time. In addition to relocating money and grain households, he also asked Xin Yan to allocate funds and materials, and asked workshop craftsmen to step up the production of ordnance arrows. If the city must be defended later, these things are the few things that the weak manpower side can rely on.

In a situation where the enemy is outnumbered, the weaker side will inevitably try to increase its reliance in order to add a few weights to the balance of the upcoming war that can make it win. This is the so-called temple calculation. However, the temple is reasonable, but the war is still a desperate fight between the soldiers of the two armies face to face. There are no shortcuts until the dawn of victory. Looking at the long queue winding through the valley, Li Yanzhi was worried in his heart, and he didn't know how many of these subordinates who were still walking at this time would be able to live to the end in the near future.

Day and night, the road that originally took almost a whole day to complete, this time it only took about seven or eight hours, and at noon the next day, the leading auxiliaries and the remnants of Han Pu's troops had already marched to Lingju County.

Regarding these routs of Han Pu's department, Li Yanzhi was actually not at ease in his heart. On the way to the county capital, these more than 400 defeated soldiers were sandwiched between the auxiliaries and the battle front battalion. During the march, although the battalion had taken off its iron armor, it was still marching uncharacteristically with long knives in hand. The concern is that as soon as these routs change, they can immediately go to the bullet pressure. However, along the way, I don't know if it was the Lingju County soldiers before and after who played a deterrent role, or whether these defeated soldiers were now a little relieved in an environment where they could eat well, but the mutiny of the defeated soldiers that the generals feared did not appear. There wasn't even the slightest sign of it.

And when he led the whole army into the county seat in the afternoon sun, Li Yanzhi's heart was a little relaxed.

The county has long been full of people, but fortunately, in the direction of the flow of people, most of them go out of the north gate of the county and go to Guangwu and Guzang. Therefore, the county soldiers did not encounter much obstacle when they entered the city. After entering the city, seeing that every family was under the coercion and coercion of the errand or auxiliary soldiers, the family carried heavy luggage, drove ox carts or pushed carts on the way north, Li Yanzhi was completely relieved. I have a new understanding of Xin Yan's decisiveness.

Li Yanzhi led the army to return to the county seat in a hurry, although it only took seven or eight hours to enter the county seat from the north bank of the river. The price paid for such a rapid march was the general fatigue of the soldiers, and the baggage escorted by the auxiliaries was left behind them for more than a dozen miles. However, in order to let the soldiers return to the county seat as soon as possible before the war to start preparations and get enough rest, Li Yanzhi had no choice but to act like this.

It was fashionable to enter the county seat and felt no difference, but after half an hour, when the procession gradually reached the center of the county, it became a little crowded with the gathering of people from all directions. Seeing his subordinates moving with difficulty in the flow of people, Li Yanzhi was also at a loss.

These households were forcibly evicted by Xin Yan's order, although it was only temporary, but there were still many old and weak women and children, crying at this time, the streets of the county were noisy, if they forcibly dispersed these households in order to let the soldiers return to the camp as soon as possible, it would inevitably cause chaos. Under this concern, he had no choice but to allow the team to move slowly through the flow of people.

However, after a while, he heard someone calling him from behind. Li Yanzhi turned his head sharply, but saw Tao Heng rushing towards with a dusty soldier. An ominous premonition suddenly rose and spread in Li Yanzhi's heart.

Tao Heng ran out of breath and brought the embarrassed soldier to Li Yanzhi, Tao Heng himself gasped a few big breaths, and then said, "Sima ...... This soldier ran all the way to the end of the team to report that the baggage team behind him had been attacked by captives! ”

"Huh?" Li Yanzhi couldn't help but be shocked when he heard this: "How many captives are there?" What is the state of our army's baggage now? ”

The soldier gasped for a long time before he replied tremblingly, "The villain doesn't know how many captives there are...... Before the attack, Wang Bairen will see the smoke and dust caused by the enemy's galloping horses and the banner of the Zhao army, so he will hurriedly order the villain to come...... Report to Sima...... 100 people will bring 300 comrades to protect the baggage ......"

"Quick, gather your troops and prepare to attack with me!" After Li Yanzhi listened, he couldn't take care of it, and hurriedly said to Tao Heng. Before the words fell, he had already galloped more than a dozen steps, shouting loudly: "Zhou Xing! Zhou Xing! ”

When Zhou Xing heard that Li Sima called him by his name, he already knew in his heart that something big must have happened. Otherwise, Sima, who was firmly in the middle army, would not be so anxious, so he hurriedly went out of the queue at the moment, squeezed out of the four soldiers and households, and saw Li Yanzhi rushing towards him.

"You bring the party back to the camp! When I heard the report, the rear team was attacked by the captive cavalry, and I immediately led the cavalry battalion to the rescue. Even if things don't go well, I can take them in stride. But until I return, I will entrust you with all the necessary matters......"

When Zhou Xing heard this, he hurriedly clenched his fists and knocked on the ground: "The last general will take the order!" ”

In the team on the side, Cao Jian looked at Li Yanzhi's figure rushing to the end of the team in a panic, and his expression was indescribably gloomy.

Li Yanzhi ran to the middle of the team, led his horse, turned over and galloped towards the tail of the team along the road on both sides. Seeing the anxious look of the main general, these soldiers in the marching army also looked sideways. However, after more than half a quarter of an hour, Li Yanzhi had already returned to the rear of the team and saw Tao Heng's cavalry who was ready to go. Everyone is riding a horse, and the horses that are ready to be mounted in turn are guarded by a dozen horsemen. Hearing Li Yanzhi's order to set off, he collectively lightly clamped the horse's belly and galloped slowly.

The movement of more than 300 horses galloping up is accompanied by echoes in the valley, which is extraordinarily magnificent. However, everyone has no leisure to feel this spectacle. After leaving the city, the distance between the front and rear riders was deliberately increased, and everyone squeezed the horse's belly hard, or took out his whip and slapped the horse's buttocks from time to time, and the horseman quickly picked up his speed and galloped straight in the direction pointed by the messenger.

For more than ten miles, if you are speeding on flat ground, it may not take half an hour. However, as they marched through the valley, it took them nearly an hour, even though they tried to increase their speed, before they could see the billowing smoke and dust emitted by hundreds of paces of cavalry marching around the formation. Without Li Yanzhi's order, more than 300 Lingju cavalry immediately urged the war horses and galloped towards the place where the smoke and dust were billowing.

After marching more than 100 steps, in the interval between the captives and gallops, Li Yanzhi saw that the center of their siege was the heavy vehicles he had left behind and the auxiliary soldiers escorted in between. It's just that there is a little difference from Li Yanzhi's imagination that these heavy vehicles are now arranged in a circle, and the front of the car is outward to form a car array. And inside the formation, there are their own auxiliaries who are still resisting and fighting with spears in their hands.

"Brothers, rush with me!" Li Yanzhi grabbed the reins of the horse with his left hand, which had not yet fully healed, and regardless of the pain coming from his left hand, his right hand had already pulled out the ring head knife, and he urged the war horse first, and rushed straight towards the direction of the car formation!