Cui Yang left Li Yanzhi's Chinese army tent, and immediately returned to the camp, took off his armor, changed into an ordinary coarse cloth shirt, and then went to Tao Heng's camp and roughly informed Tao Heng of Li Yanzhi's instructions to go to Didao to contact the secret pile spies. The two chatted quietly for a long time. Tao Heng already had a general understanding of Cui Yang's liaison mission, and even if he asked Cui Yang to go to the stable to lead a horse, he watched him leave the camp, and then disappeared into the night.

Tao Heng, who turned back to the camp, thought for a moment, but felt faintly uneasy in his heart, and hurriedly went out of the tent to the cavalry camp, found two loyal subordinates who had followed him since Longxi, and ordered them to change their clothes and lead their horses, go to chase Cui Yang, and protect him in secret.

Seeing that the two of them were also dressed and dressed, and went out of the camp, Tao Hengfang was a little relieved, and then returned to the tent, blew out the lamp and candle, lay down on the couch, and soon fell asleep, followed by a slight snoring sound in the tent.

And Li Yanzhi suddenly had no sleep. He got up in his clothes, climbed the watchtower on the north side of the camp wall, and quietly watched the roaring river more than a hundred paces away.

In the Hereafter, I saw this great river as it is today. The similar surging river has witnessed two completely different worlds. In the dead of night, he often asks himself whether what he is doing now is worth it. I don't know what it will look like in the future after a few adventures in this plane.

Just like today, when he is alone, looking at this starry sky that should not have belonged to him 1,700 years ago, he often feels a little dazed. But at this point, he really has no way out. In such a world, not to mention the fate of individuals, even if there are so many separatist regimes in the north, each of them may face extinction at any time. The population has plummeted, and the land is thousands of miles away. When this scene is presented in front of you, you can know that what the history books of later generations say is true.

Witnessing all this, there is no doubt that one will cherish and yearn for stability even more. It is impossible to imagine the unique arguments of some people in later generations about the various great times. However, after actually experiencing all this, he firmly believed that a peaceful world would enable everyone in it to live, without worrying about whether they would be plundered and where to find tomorrow's food, like the people in these troubled times today. When survival is a luxury, everything else becomes less important.

Looking at the endless river, I don't know how long it took, the guards on patrol changed a few shifts, and Li Yanzhi felt a deep sleepiness rising from the bottom of his heart. He climbed down the ladder and went back to the tent to lie down to rest. It didn't take long for him to fall asleep.

The next morning, the drum sounded, and after the last group of wounded soldiers in the battalion had eaten their meals, they crossed the river from three pontoon bridges in a car escorted by more than 200 auxiliary soldiers and returned to the county to treat their wounds. Soon after they left, the guards at the gate of the big camp came to report that Zhang Fujun of Jincheng sent an envoy to ask for a meeting.

Li Yanzhi ordered Zhou Xing to invite the envoy to the big tent, and he returned to the tent, sat down after a few cases, and waited for the arrival of the envoy. After a short time, Zhou Xing opened the curtain of the tent and walked to the tent with his fists in salute, followed by a soldier in leather armor. He followed Zhou Xingxing to the tent, and hugged his fist to Li Yanzhi after the first few cases: "I've seen Li Sima." Wang Hui, the marquis of Jincheng Army, came to contact him on the order of Zhang Fujun. ”

Li Yanzhi raised his left hand and made a gesture of invitation to the seat at the bottom of the tent, and the marquis immediately walked to the first place on the left and sat down. Zhou Xing then walked to the first place on the right and sat opposite Wang Hui.

"Li Sima is injured in his left hand?" After sitting down, Wang Hui looked at Li Yanzhi's left hand wrapped in strips of cloth and said in surprise.

"Ah, I led the army to fight a hard battle with the thieves before, and I was itchy for a while, and I fought with the thieves with a knife in front of me, and I accidentally injured my hand, so I didn't tighten, I didn't tighten."

When Wang Hui heard this, he chuckled: "I don't know what the results of Sima's battle were?" ”

There was no ambiguity in his words, but with his inappropriate chuckle at this time, it seemed a little frivolous Meng Lang. Obviously asked Li Yanzhi what the results were, but in fact, he laughed at him a little. If Li Yanzhi did not achieve good results, and was not even injured by the enemy but was injured by the enemy, the meaning of this ridicule would be very obvious.

And in front of Li Yanzhi's subordinates, if Li Yanzhi forcibly bragged and exaggerated the results of the battle, he would lose his prestige in front of his subordinates. Li Yanzhi looked at Wang Hui, who was chuckling, and secretly said in his heart, the person who came was not good.

"Alas, a certain martial arts is not proficient, so he suffered this catastrophe. Originally, before the war, he boasted about Haikou and wanted to kill ten enemy soldiers. I don't intend to be stumbling on the left and right on the battlefield, and I am embarrassed. Count and kill six enemy generals......"

Hearing that Li Yanzhi said that he would kill six enemies, Wang Hui had already put away his frivolity in his expression, and peeked at Zhou Xing, but only to see Zhou Xing glaring at him fiercely, only to know that what Li Yanzhi said was true. was about to express his admiration, but he was choked by Li Yanzhi's next words.

"And ...... A thousand thieves and a horseman...... This wound on the left hand was also the same as the one he suffered when he fought with the enemy's thousand cavalry commanders......"

"Li Sima is incomparably brave, before, he was in Xia Menglang...... Wang Hui also saw the opportunity quickly, and hurriedly changed his words, and repeatedly apologized to Li Yanzhi.

"It's okay, it's okay." Li Yanzhi waved his hand, and his evaluation of this Wang Hui in his heart had dropped a lot. didn't bother to talk nonsense with him anymore, and hurriedly put the topic on the right track: "I don't know why Zhang Fujun sent Wang Duhou to come?" ”

Seeing that Li Yanzhi stopped talking and put the topic on the right track, Wang Hui was also relieved, and said: "Zhang Fujun sent me down here to ask Li Sima to pull out the camp and lead his troops to Jincheng to assist in the defense of ......."

When Zhou Xing heard this, his eyes widened, and he was about to jump up from the seat, Li Yanzhi glared at him, and he sat down angrily, and then continued to stare at Wang Hui with wide eyes. Wang Hui didn't realize it suddenly, just stared at Li Yanzhi firmly.

"This matter is forbidden." Li Yanzhi's face was as usual, and he sighed and said, "This time I sent troops here just to cover Han Du's escort of the defeated army to withdraw to Benzhou. Wang Duhou saw that there were only more than 1,000 sergeants in our battalion. And the main force of the thieves is about 20,000 people, if we attack our department, our department will be wiped out. Now our sentinel cavalry has found out, after the thieves have withdrawn, they will first go east, and then turn south and return south. Jincheng is a dangerous terrain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there is an eleven years of precedent, and the thieves are afraid that they will not repeat the mistakes of the past......"

After a pause, Li Yanzhi said again: "Even if the thieves still covet Benzhou, they will definitely not attack Jincheng." It may be used to darken the warehouse...... The marquis of Wang Du can put what I said to Zhang Fujun. Zhang Fujun has been in battle for a long time, and it has been prosperous for a long time, and it is actually the dry city of the country. The vision must be above us......"

"So, Sima refuses?" Wang Hui's tone cooled, and he still looked at Li Yanzhi quietly.

"It's not that Li is unwilling, but that he really can't." Li Yanzhi looked helpless: "Ling Ju is the gateway to Guangwu, and there is really no room for failure." In the event that the enemy crosses the river smuggling, it is bound to attack Lingju first. There are now only a few hundred guards in the city. If the thieves attack, they will fall. And then, I couldn't get away with it. I also hope that Wang Duhou and Zhang Fujun will be lenient......"

When Wang Hui heard this, his face showed a little discouraged: "The lock and key of Jincheng Benzhou, if Jincheng is lost, can Lingju and even Guangwuyan keep it for a long time?" I also hope that Sima will focus on the overall situation, move to Jincheng, and help us retreat from the enemy......"

"The enemy has retreated!" Li Yanzhi's tone unconsciously aggravated a little: "My sons and daughters are blocking the enemy at the mouth of the valley, with more than 1,000 people, blocking the enemy by nearly 5,000!" But Zhang Fujun led his troops to watch from the wall at the head of Jincheng City, letting us and others fend for themselves, and now they have come to let our troops move to Jincheng, hehe......"

Li Yanzhi almost yelled at Wang Hui: "It's impossible!" Don't say that the enemy has retreated, that is, the enemy has not retreated, and we will definitely pull out the camp and cross the river to the north bank to build a fortress to defend it, please Zhang Fujun do it himself! ”

After speaking, Li Yanzhi no longer looked at Wang Hui's face, which had gradually become a little pale, and got up and walked outside the tent. Seeing this, Zhou Xing also got up and followed, and when he left, he didn't forget to glance at Wang Hui coldly, and then followed Li Yanzhi, opened the curtain and walked out.

After a long time, Wang Hui walked out of the big tent in despair. Looking around, where is there still half a shadow of Li Yanzhi? He only walked to Yuanmen, stepped on the war horse he was riding, and then looked back at the camp of the Lingju County soldiers, then rode out of Yuanmen and galloped in the direction of Jincheng County.

After leaving the account, Li Yanzhi and Zhou Xing climbed the watchtower together and looked around. Today, there are still elite governors who were killed and scattered by the thieves before, seeing the big banner of "Liang" fluttering in this camp, and they have walked out of the mountains and forests in the distance, or went straight to the pontoon bridge, crossed the river to the north, or gathered outside the camp, trying to beg for some food from these friendly troops in their eyes.

These soldiers are the survivors of the catastrophe. However, after days of fugitive life had consumed the little dry food they had with them, they began to wear down their bodies. These remnants of the defeated soldiers were all in tattered armor, not to mention, most of them were emaciated. I don't know how much I suffered on the way to escape.

Seeing that the remnants of the defeated soldiers outside the camp had gathered a scale of more than 100 people, Li Yanzhi and Zhou Xing walked down the watchtower together and headed towards the gate. As the remnants of the soldiers gathered more and more, the sound gradually became noisy, and there was a faint sound of quarrels.

The two quickened their pace, bypassed more than a dozen camp tents, crossed a small half of the camp, and came to the gate where the rebels gathered. The quarrel outside the gate grew louder and louder, and then turned into a noisy roar of a group of people.

Behind the gate, more than a hundred crossbowmen were already gathered. It was Wei Xu who led them. And their arrival did not stop the shouting of the rebels outside the camp.

The rebels in the front row were crowded, and the auxiliaries on duty at the gate formed a wall to block it, but they still rushed forward unrelentingly. It's just that under the blockage of the energetic auxiliaries, these overly hungry rebels are unable to rush in. A rout in the front row shouted, "Let us go to camp!" He pulled out the knife at his side and held it high, looking like he was about to cut it.

The auxiliary who was blocking the rout in front was already pale. And Li Yanzhi roared angrily: "Wei Xu! What are you waiting for! ”

Wei Xu was raising his crossbow and preparing to fire, and when he saw the rout draw his sword, he didn't count whether he should release the arrow or not, but when he heard Li Yanzhi shouting the order, he aimed at the hand of the rout soldier holding the ring head knife high and detained the crossbow machine. The string of the crossbow loosened, and the bolts in the arrow slot flew towards the rout. Just as his waving arm was about to fall, Wei Xu's crossbow arrow shot into his arm accurately.

"Ahh However, after a brief period of distraction, they raised their eyes one after another and looked angrily at the Lingju county soldiers inside the gate. After the man who fell to the ground howled, he sucked in the cool air and shouted, "They put cold arrows, brothers, draw their swords——! ”

Li Yanzhi had already snatched a long knife from the guard standing outside the tent, and stood behind the auxiliary soldiers guarding the gate of the camp at the right time, looking at the rout soldiers with swords in their hands, and roared with full anger: "I see who the dares!" ”

"Damn! You were killed on the battlefield without you, and you were driven into the mountains and forests like a guinea dog. Now I see friendly troops, but I have grown my ability, and I have a top two in the nest! Your father is here today, I see who dares to come nonsense! ”

After scolding those routs happily, Li Yanzhi turned around and said, "Wei Xu, wind up!" Which bastard dares to take a step forward and shoot a fuck at Lao Tzu! ”

Wei Xu got on the string, held the crossbow machine flat, and while looking at the group of routed soldiers outside the gate, he quietly asked the soldiers on the side: "What do you mean by Sima Gang about the bastard?" ”

The soldier was holding the crossbow machine, and he was also at a loss: "Back to the hundred people, I don't understand it, I've never heard of it......"

Wei Xu glanced at the defeated soldiers outside the camp speechlessly, and then said to himself: "What's in his hands, Sima has ordered, whoever dares to come will shoot him...... You've got to take aim ......"

Looking at Li Yanzhi standing quietly, his body inexplicably exuded a murderous aura. The routs outside were inexplicably frightened by the angry rebuke of his righteous words and the crossbowmen who were ready to fire behind him. Many of them had their knives hanging down, like a pack of defeated roosters.

"Your defeat is not a crime of war, nor is it a crime of your death. Our department is to order the county soldiers, cross the river to come here, and are also crossing the river to return home in order to receive the defeated soldiers. It is not easy to escape, lack of food and clothing, and I also know it. If you ask with good words, we can still take out the grain and rice in the army to help you tide over the difficulties. However, if the soldiers meet each other-" Li Yanzhi deliberately lengthened his voice: "My soldiers killed 5,000 thieves a few days ago, how can they be intimidated by your 100 people!" ”

Roaring out all the resentment in his heart, Li Yanzhi only felt comfortable all over his body. And those routs were also exhausted at this time, except for the man who fell to the ground, who was still screaming and rolling, the rest of them were silent.

"Carry him into the camp and ask for a healer to draw arrows and heal his wounds! The rest of the soldiers sat outside the camp and waited, and later, the camp will make porridge and rice for the sake of the king's stomach! ”

Order was quickly restored at the gate, and the defeated soldiers shrank into a row under the camp wall and waited for the porridge and rice promised by Li Yanjiong. And inside the gate, the auxiliary soldiers of the duty battalion, who had already suffered a loss, sent more manpower and waited for the battle.

Li Yanzhi was about to return to the camp tent, when a soldier suddenly rushed in from outside the gate, came to him and knocked on the ground with his fists and said, "Sima, Han Governor Hu led the rest of the troops to come...... I want to go to camp and rest......"