Wang Kai hurriedly walked into the tent and crossed his hand to Xu Ping: "After a strategy, the thief is leading the headquarters to break through to the east." Yang Wenguang, who was the first to intercept, took the initiative to get out of the way, and the thieves had already gone up the mountain. ”

Xu Ping nodded, agreed, looked at the map on the table for a while, and said, "Go and ask Zhang Kang and Tian to come over." ”

The two entered the account, and Xu Ping pointed to the map and said to them: "Hao thief is fleeing eastward, the overall situation of this battle has been decided." Cao Keming's department needs to watch the thieves in Zhuoluo City, Liu Jianji's department is entangled by the thieves with broken tails, and Sang Yi and Gao Daquan's department have to divide a part of the troops and horses to guard several other small passes that can climb the mountain, and now the only troops that can be used are we here. ”

Zhang Kang crossed his hands: "In the battle ahead, we have nothing to do here, and the soldiers have asked for battle many times." This is exactly when the morale is high and the morale of the army is available, if there is anything to be done for us, just give us orders! ”

"Okay, I'll set aside 4,000 soldiers and horses here, and put them under your command, along with your troops. Immediately march north along the east bank of the Kara River, no matter how many thieves there are under the mountain now, all of them will be locked up in this valley and gather together to annihilate! As for the thieves who had already gone up the mountain, they had to let them go and forcibly stay, and the consequences of the thieves' death and net breaking were unpredictable. After the group of thieves on the mountain go, you go up the mountain and eat the tail of the thief who broke off his tail to survive, let Yang Wenguang's department go around to the front, and finally bite the thief again. In this battle, we are doubling the way, and we are not well prepared, with 50,000 against 30,000, being able to eat 10,000 thieves is a victory, and 20,000 is a big victory! ”

Zhang Kang promised, and the two of them went out of the account together with Tian Kuang, and ordered soldiers and horses to fight.

Seeing the two go out, Shi Quanbin said to Xu Ping: "Jingluo has repeatedly said that the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, how can he send out his own commander's department?" Originally, I didn't think anything, but you have repeatedly said it, but now that there is no one around, I am a little panicked. ”

Xu Ping said with a smile: "We are coming from the south, and even the thieves know to break through from the north of the city, because once the war starts in the south, they will find that the more they fight, the more soldiers and horses there will be." At this time, we are surrounded by soldiers and horses of this dynasty, how can it be under the dangerous wall. I have left the 1,000 people under Tan Hu's department here, which is already too cautious, and the cabinet chief is too worried. ”

Now this result is related to Xu Ping's thoughts, he didn't want to fight this battle, so he made a temporary attack, hoping to scare Yuan Hao and boost his morale after being defeated by Sanchuanguchi. So far, the progress has been smoother than he originally expected, and it is inevitable that he will be conservative in the end. Really desperately fighting, whether Yuan Hao can stay in this area, it seems difficult to say now. But once Yuan Hao is not retained, no matter how big the results are, it will not be cost-effective to fight the main force that Xu Ping has managed to accumulate. The biggest achievement of this year is not that Sanduchuan destroyed Yuzang Huama in the first battle, nor that he defeated Yuan Hao in a surprise attack now, but that he initially pulled up a shelf of an army that can fight well. As long as this army is still there, Yuan Hao will not be able to run away sooner or later.

Now that the end is beginning, the battle situation has been under control, and the loss itself will not be too large, which is an ideal situation. It not only won the enemy, but also had the effect of training the army, and it was easy to be bitten back if it was too greedy.

At this time, Yang Wenguang's department fell into a bitter battle, and was pressed back step by step by the superior party army, and the avenue of the ridge had been completely caught. Yuan Hao led the brigade to swarm by, and strictly ordered Wulinu to resist the Song army desperately, and was not allowed to retreat without a military order.

Wulinu himself also knows that he is the same as Yeli Yuqi, and is regarded by Yuan Hao as the second tail of survival. Without waiting for the brigade to pass, he could only fight to the death with the Song army. As one of the ten captains of Yuan Hao's personal guard iron cavalry, Wulinu had no choice but to fight to the end with the opposite Song army.

Dressed in iron armor, Jia Kui walked like a fly on the gentle hillside, leading his headquarters to desperately resist the strong attack of Wulinu on the opposite side. If it weren't for Yang Wenguang's emphasis that he could only fight and retreat, and not be reckless, he would have taken his headquarters to counterattack a long time ago. The thief general on the opposite side was tall and had a fierce face, and he stared at it for a long time, but he didn't have a chance to meet him face to face.

When the battle was inextricable, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves was heard at the bottom of the mountain, and the cavalry of the Song army galloped from south to north along the foot of the mountain. Wulinu only felt that his eyes were dark, at this time, the Song army still had reinforcements, how could this battle be fought?

At this time, there were still five or six thousand people in Yuan Hao's department who stayed under the mountain, and they were cut off by Zhang Kang's vanguard cavalry, and they were soon involved in the Yeli Yu beggar army in the Hun War in the north of the city. Reinforcements from the southern Song army continued to come in, and the remaining party troops no longer had the will to fight.

As soon as the reinforcements arrived, Jia Kui immediately felt that the pressure on him from the opposite party and Xiang Army had relaxed, and shouted: "Kill, there are no reinforcements for the thieves, go up with me and leave them all here!" ”

As soon as the words fell, Yang Wenguang's herald came to his side and said, "Marquis Yu, the commander told you to fight and go, quickly assemble in the back, don't fall in love with war!" ”

This is a strategy that has been set a long time ago, Jia Kui originally wanted to take advantage of the arrival of the herald to counterattack and see if he could cut down the Wulinu on the opposite side, but he didn't expect Yang Wenguang's military order to be issued so quickly. Taking a sip to the opposite side, Jia Kui said: "If it's a little bit late, I have to cut the thief on the other side." Looking at his face, he is not a good person, just to kill and relieve anger! ”

Slowly retreating to Yang Wenguang's side with his headquarters, Jia Kui said: "Ning Shuo's army is coming so fast, wait a little longer, and I will be able to disperse the thieves on the opposite side." That general looks like a wicked man, I've been looking at him unpleasantly for a long time! ”

"What are you doing with all this idleness? The thieves on the other side are already dead, so why bother with them! When the men of the Ning Shuo army came, we immediately rushed to the east along the mountain path, and when we arrived at the mountain side tomorrow morning, we might be able to fight the last battle. ”

Jia Kui nodded, and then said no more.

There are all dirt mountains here, and there are many rivers and valleys in between, but the terrain is not as broken as the Yanyan Road. Generally speaking, there are roads to be found in the valleys, and there are many trails in the mountains that can be crossed. It is precisely because of this that Xu Ping did not dare to block the avenue, otherwise let the party army disperse into the path in the mountains, and how many people could be left in the end could only depend on luck. Yuan Hao is the same, let his subordinates enter the path to escape, and he is out of his control, and he will not do that unless he has to.

The path out of the mountain has been explored a long time ago, not only here by Yang Wenguang, but also by other departments that are blocked on the mountain. An army of tens of thousands of people crossed the mountains and faced with encirclement, pursuit, and interception, and it was impossible to be neat, and many stragglers who had fallen behind would inevitably be left behind. Xu Ping let Yuan Hao's brigade go, and all these stragglers who fell behind would be left behind.

After waiting for a long time, a general of Ning Shuo's army came up panting with his horse and saluted Yang Wenguang.

Seeing that it was Zhao Zi, Yang Wenguang said: "Why are you here?" Don't you stay by the side of the scripture? ”

Zhao Zi gasped and said, "With Tan Hu by Jing Liu's side, what else is there to worry about?" Most of the people who came here were the Ningshuo Army Headquarters under the original Sanya, and I had some friendships in the capital before. Just go, and I'll take it here. ”

The path under the mountain was guarded by the Song army, and Zhao Zi led a small number of infantry and came down the path to replace Yang Wenguang.

Yang Wenguang's department retreated, Wulinu did not die and came up, he was the one who was blocked, and it was a good thing to get out early. At this time, Zhang Kang's Ning Shuo army had already forced up the mountain from behind his buttocks, and preventing them was Wulinu's top priority.