Chapter Seventy-Four: Retreat

At this time, on a hill not far from the west of the battlefield, there was a tall and long-bearded warrior with a bitter yellow complexion, surrounded by everyone, looking at the old Hui Hui who had been defeated by the Ming army, and saw the banner of the Ming army, and gasped: "King Lu Yan, Qin Liangyu, Gao Qiqian!" It's such a big battle, no wonder Lao Hui was defeated so quickly! ”

The rest of the leaders also nodded, Lu Xiangsheng and Qin Liangyu naturally needless to say, their prestige was killed on the body of the Liukou, Zhang Xianzhong had also seen the forbidden army when he was in Chuzhou, and knew that these guys who were wrapped in steel armor all over their bodies, although they were only in the first battle formation, they may not be fierce enough compared to the Liukou, but they were definitely well-trained, and they were familiar with the formation, and the eunuch prison army still had some level that should not be underestimated.

Zhang Xianzhong glanced at the Ming army who was chasing and killing Liukou at the moment, turned the horse's head without hesitation, and beckoned to the small leaders around him, "King Lu Yan and others are here, the official army is invincible, Luoyang can't stay for a long time, let's retreat to Huguang and take the opportunity to act!" ”

With Zhang Xianzhong's order, the army of the department immediately prepared to retreat, a heroic young general dressed in armor and eight feet tall rode a horse in front of Zhang Xianzhong and whispered in private, "Eight kings, Lao Hui belongs to the same righteous army, is an ally of the eight kings, this siege of Luoyang is also because of the eight kings called, if you don't save it, I'm afraid that the old Hui Hui will hate the eight kings in the future, at this time the Ming army is also in chaos, it is better to let me lead an army forward, that is, I can't defeat the Ming army, but also to pick up the old Huihui!" ”

"Dingguo, you don't understand when you're young, where do we have any allies in the righteous army, the reason why King Chuang is King Chuang is just because he is strong, if he doesn't have the tens of thousands of heavy armor elite horsemen under his command, who do you think will pay attention to him? Lao Hui is defeated today, if you see me next time, you have to lower your voice, beg me to pull him! Everything in this world is fake, only the strength in the hands is real. Today, the Ming Dynasty is strong, we will take refuge in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty is weak, we will kill the officials and rebel, next time I want to pretend to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, I don't have to obediently give me the title of official for fear of serving me badly, now even the gods in the heavenly palace have come down to find me, as long as I assist the king well, give me a god in the future, what is the reason? It's not because Lao Tzu has soldiers in his hands! Zhang Xianzhong said disdainfully.

"What the Eight Kings said is extremely true, we can be so comfortable, even the Heavenly Palace Zhengshen and the Ming Dynasty court have to please us, relying on these elites under their hands, these elites are not easy for the Eight Kings to accumulate, as long as they are still there, no matter how we lose, we can make a comeback, how can we lose it because we want to save this old return! This guy used to rely on his strength to drink to the eight kings, but now he deserves to be defeated by the Ming army, and it is best to die at the hands of the Ming army! Sun Kewang echoed.

Li Dingguo's face showed a look of shock, he looked at Zhang Xianzhong in disbelief at all, and only after a while did he come back to his senses and persuade, "Eight kings, even if we don't save the old man now, then we have to send someone to inform Cao Cao, right?" Otherwise, let's retreat here, Lao Hui has been defeated again, the Ming army and others will regroup their positions, and when Cao Cao arrives, if he rushes in, he will be surrounded by the Ming army, and I am afraid that the mistakes of Lao Hui will be repeated! ”

Zhang Xianzhong turned his head to look at Li Dingguo in disbelief, and saw that he was looking at himself with a persistent expression, and he was whipped in Li Dingguo's face.

Li Dingguo looked at the oncoming whip, and didn't dare to dodge the whip, a bloody mark appeared on his face instantly, and he didn't make a sound but lowered his head.

Zhang Xianzhong let out a sigh and then snorted coldly, and pointed at Li Dingguo with a gloomy face and scolded: "Hmph! You are my Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, why do you always look to outsiders in your heart? You deserve to whip you, if it weren't for the fact that you are brave and loyal to me on weekdays, Lao Tzu would have beheaded you! ”

After saying that, Zhang Xianzhong hit the horse and left, Sun Kewang waited for Zhang Xianzhong to go away, and then walked to Li Dingguo's side, with a smile on his face and comforted, "I said second brother!" But you did something wrong, now that Lao Hui has been defeated, if Cao Cao doesn't get in all his heads, then it's not that the Ming army will have to come to hunt us down! Alas, why do you say that you don't have a long memory, and who doesn't know the temper of your father-in-law? You still dare to disobey him like this, but fortunately, your father-in-law is worried about your daily achievements, otherwise there would not be one or two righteous sons who were directly beheaded because of a sentence that angered their father-in-law! ”

"The eldest brother has learned a lesson, but Cao Cao is also the leader of my righteous army, if he is defeated because of this, the loss will always be the strength of my righteous army, if we want to overthrow the unrighteous tyranny, we must unite to have hope, my father-in-law acts like this, I am afraid it will be ......!"

Before Li Dingguo could speak, he was interrupted by Liu Wenxiu on the side: "Second brother, be careful!" How the Father-in-law acts, is it beyond our recklessness to speak! ”

Li Dingguo also knew the severity, just now he couldn't help but blurt out because of the depression in his heart, and looked at Liu Wenxiu's words gratefully, Li Dingguo lowered his head sullenly and hurried away without speaking.

A trace of disappointment flashed in Sun Kewang's eyes, and then he disappeared in an instant, and began to talk with Liu Wenxiu and the others again.

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But on the other side, Yang Su had already discovered Zhang Xianzhong's movements, but seeing that Zhang Xianzhong had no intention of sending troops to help, but retreated in a hurry, Yang Su was also happy, after all, Zhang Xianzhong's strength was stronger than Luo Rucai's, and at this time, it was definitely not as smooth as a sneak attack on Lao Huihui, and the difficulty of the two armies to engage and kill Zhang Xianzhong was self-evident.

And Luo Rucai at this time according to the night monitoring him continued to report, there are still more than ten miles away from the south gate of Luoyang, and Luo Rucai is from the north, Yang Su only needs to defeat Luo Rucai in one battle, and then block his retreat to the south, or it will not be long before Luo Rucai can be destroyed.

Calculating the time, Yang Su ordered the army to stop chasing and killing the defeated army of the Liukou and rearrange the formation to prepare to meet the enemy.

When Luo Rucai led the army to arrive, what he saw was that there was only a piece of wreckage left in the camp that had returned to the old man, and the bones piled up everywhere next to it, and the Ming army in front of him was already ready to fight.

Looking at the three bloody flags fluttering in the wind, the number of the Ming army was even more invisible, and it had just experienced a battle, and the Ming army at this time was like a rainbow, Luo Rucai couldn't help but swallow his saliva, and muttered in shock, "Can this still be fought?" Where is Zhang Xianzhong? He's closer than me, can't he have arrived yet? Could it be that something has changed? ”

Hearing only a cannon sound, I saw that the Ming cavalry began to charge slowly, and the foot soldiers also followed closely behind with armor, Luo Rucai pulled the horse's head and exclaimed, "Retreat!" Retreat! ”