The three generals of the Sui army were robbed by the rebels in Wuzhou City overnight on the night of the meeting of the two soldiers and horses. Li Che, Lai Hu'er, and Yu Wenshu couldn't swallow this bad breath, so they waited for the next day, and each led their headquarters to launch a fierce attack on Wuzhou City, wanting to capture Wuzhou City before the marching marshal Yang Su arrived at the former enemy, capture the rebel leader Li Ling, and save some face.

However, what is strange is that the three generals each led their troops and horses to storm for most of the day, not only failed to attack Wuzhou City for half a step, but also received a flank attack by an unknown rebel army that did not have any banner at noon, and Li Che's men and horses lost nearly 1,000 soldiers and fought a great defeat.

So, at the suggestion of Yu Wenshu, the three generals had to urgently withdraw their troops, retreat to the camp, gather in one place, and seriously review the reasons for the successive defeats.

Looking at the wound on his shoulder that had been hastily bandaged and brought to the battlefield with an injury, Yuwenshu, as a landlord, took the lead in reviewing without guilt: "The defeat in this battle is all caused by Berton's underestimation of the enemy. When the Duke of Yue Guo arrived at the former enemy, Bo Tong must have pleaded guilty to him, and the two generals did not have to bear the slightest responsibility. ”

Lai Hu'er led the army to kill for a long time with his wounds, and finally felt physically exhausted due to excessive blood loss, leaned on the cushion, and scolded angrily: "If Lao Tzu catches the assassin last night, Lao Tzu must skin him alive!" ”

Among the three, only Li Che was the most calm-headed, looking at Yu Wenshu and asking: "Bertong, I remember that when you and my two armies met, I heard you say that the small rebel army within a radius of 100 miles from Wuzhou City has been annihilated by your army, and according to a certain person, the men and horses that raided our army this afternoon were not sent from Wuzhou City. If you think about it carefully, are there any rebels near Wuzhou who have slipped through the net? ”

Yu Wenshu was also a little puzzled by the fact that Li Che's unit was raided by unknown rebels in the afternoon, and nearly a thousand sergeants were lost, and replied in a deep voice: "As far as I know, among the large rebel army, only the rebel army led by Gao Zhizhi in the south has this strength, and can send thousands of strange soldiers to launch a surprise attack on our army, but the part of the rebel army on the south road closest to Wuzhou City should also operate in the Maoshan area three hundred miles away, so it will not be able to carry out a surprise attack on our army in one or two days. ”

Li Che listened to Yu Wenshu's words, got up and walked to the map placed in the tent, carefully checked the distance between Maoshan and Wuzhou City, repeatedly compared the position of the unknown rebels when they launched a surprise attack, and then thought about Yu Wenshu and Lai Hu'er and said: "Is there such a possibility, as early as before our army marched to the vicinity of Jiankang and defeated the rebels of Cai Daoren all the way, Li Ling in Wuzhou City had already asked for help from the rebels on the South Road, and the rebels on the South Road set off from Maoshan three hundred miles away before our two soldiers and horses met and rushed to reinforce Wuzhou?" Only by estimating the marching schedule in this way can we explain where the unidentified rebel army came from, otherwise it ......"

"Quanta doesn't have to suspect that there are still remnants of the rebels near Wuzhou." Yu Wenshu had already heard the meaning of Li Che's words, and hurriedly interrupted him, "But to say that Li Ling had asked for help from the rebels on the South Road long before the two generals led the army to defeat the Cai Daoren rebels, I don't think it is possible. It must be known that among the rebels in the south of the Yangtze River, the earliest to rise up, and the latest to accept Chen Junfan's canonization was Li Ling Yiyi, from which it can be inferred that Li Ling relied on the large number of troops under his command, and was unwilling to accept Chen Junfan's canonization at first, if it was not at a very critical juncture, he was most likely unwilling to ask for assistance from the rebels on the South Road. ”

"This is strange, Chief Yuwen claimed to have swept away the rebels within a radius of 100 miles near Wuzhou, and said that Li Ling would not ask the rebels on the South Road for help in advance, so where did the rebels who raided the headquarters of the Guangda Gongsu come from today? If you want me to say, let's wait for the arrival of the army led by Yue Guogong with peace of mind, and report this situation to him truthfully, and let him make a judgment. Lai Hu'er listened to Li Che and Yu Wenshu arguing for a long time, but he couldn't say why, so he took the lead in getting up and wanted to go back to the tent to rest.

"Youshan has a shoulder injury, so let's go back to the sleeping tent and rest first." Yu Wenshu personally escorted the child out of the tent, turned to Li Che at the tent and said, "I thought of a possibility. Guangda, you have been in the north for a long time, have you ever heard of the army of the halberd army in the Jianghuai area? ”

Li Che nodded and replied, "Not long ago, I heard His Royal Highness the King of Jin mention that when he first arrived at the former enemy, he was almost plotted by this row of halberd troops. ”

"That's it. It is said that they can travel 300 miles a day and still maintain an overwhelming position against the enemy. Today, when I look at the fact that the unidentified rebel army, which has a total number of only three or four thousand people, can kill and wound a thousand sergeants of our army in one hour, I can't help but think that it may have been done by the Halberd Army. Yu Wenshu looked directly at Li Che and said.

"Three hundred miles a day, you can still protect the overwhelming momentum of the enemy army......" Li Che muttered and repeated Yuwenshu's words, shaking his head and questioning, "But according to King Jin, this platoon of halberds is very different from other branches of the army, whether it is the armor or stomach on its body or the weapons it wields in its hands, and others can identify their identities at a glance. I look at the unidentified rebels today, but they are holding ordinary swords, will they be the halberd army? ”

"Guangda didn't know that when the king of Jin led the three armies to attack Chen the previous time, in order to confuse the defenders of Nanchen, he specially left more than a dozen towns in Jiangbei that were not destroyed, but he did not admit that he wanted to destroy Nanchen, and when he turned back and wanted to clean up these Nanchen towns in Jiangbei, thousands of defenders in more than a dozen towns disappeared. It must be known that most of these towns stationed along the river were the halberd troops that Sima had trained after he surrendered to Chen in the early years of the emperor's reign. Judging from the situation when the men and horses of the Quanta Institute were attacked today, I suspect that it was probably the work of this halberd army that fled from Jiangbei. Even if they only hold ordinary swords in their hands, they can be worth ten in terms of individual combat power. Yu Wenshu explained meaningfully to Li Che.

"Still not right." Li Che nodded in approval of Yu Wenshu's statement that the single combat power of the Halberd Army was strong because he had seen it with his own eyes during the day, but then another question arose in his mind, "Bertong just said that Li Ling would probably not ask for help from the rebels on the South Road who were active in the Maoshan area before our army defeated the rebels led by Cai Daoren, so according to the time when Li Ling sent people to steal the camp last night, he should have sent people out of the city to steal the camp, and after finding out the strength of our army, he felt that the troops in the city were insufficient, so he would ask for help from the Maoshan rebels." However, Wuzhou City is 300 miles away from Maoshan Mountain, and even if Li Ling sent people to Maoshan on fast horses overnight, I am afraid that it would not be too late to ask for reinforcements to launch a surprise attack on our army this afternoon. ”