(2nd Update)

Liu Renzhen didn't expect Wang Yanyan to have such an idea, and he couldn't accept this proposal for a while, and he was stunned for a while. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Withdrawing to the state of Wu is indeed Wang Yanyan's true thoughts. When the Tang army was defeated by the Tang army outside the city of Chuzhou in one fell swoop, Wang Yanyu recognized the situation, there was no way to fight this battle again, if he wanted to survive, he had to retreat south, if he wanted to break the net with the Tang army, it was impossible at all, and the final result could only be that he was unilaterally slaughtered by the Tang army.

Wang Hui's tens of thousands of troops were defeated, and the 80,000 brave soldiers of the Northern Expedition were scattered, he Wang Yanyu was just a Hezhou assassin, and his soldiers and horses were full of no more than 3,000 people, what to do to help the general of the building to fall, turn the tide, reverse the situation, and push the Tang army back? Do you really think you're the real man?

"The defeat of Chuzhou is beyond the power of manpower, and I can't help but lead the army to retreat when the general trend forces me, otherwise I will end up with the defeat of the army and death. Wang Hui was suspicious of me many times, and always wanted to get rid of me as soon as possible, so I really couldn't retreat to Quanjiao County with him after the battle, otherwise this fang would definitely blame me for the defeat. This person is mediocre in the battlefield, but he is jealous and jealous, and excludes his colleagues, but he is a good hand, and I can't take advantage of him. ”

Wang Yanyan thought in his heart, "This time the 80,000 brave northern expedition failed, the Jianghuai battle situation has completely festered, and the king has no skills to return to the sky, and it is unrealistic to compete with the Central Plains for Jianghuai." At this time, what way is there to go except to lead the army to retreat south? However, if I abandon the army and retreat south alone, I will definitely be intolerable to the imperial court afterwards, and I will be held accountable for escaping from the battlefield, so I must take Liu Renzhen to return south together, so that after returning to Jinling, we can take care of each other and not be too passive. ”

Thinking of this, seeing that Liu Renzhen still didn't speak, Wang Yanyan persuaded him: "Whether the battle of Jianghuai has reached this point is unsustainable, there is no need for a certain family to say more, presumably General Liu has already judged in his heart." At this moment, you can't do anything, how can you do it reluctantly? The Jianghuai war situation is rotten, you and I lead the army to retreat south, no matter how you say afterwards, you have the credit of 'returning the whole army', how can the imperial court not understand your and my situation? ”

Wang Yanyan thought that Liu Renzhen would agree to his proposal after careful consideration, but Liu Renzhen suddenly stared at him, and said in an unkind tone: "Fleeing before fighting, is it the way to serve the country?" When General Su Wen Wang was in Hezhou, he repeatedly repelled the northern thieves to attack, is it because of this greed for life and fear of death? ”

Wang Yan was stunned, Liu Renzhen's words were too polite, and he was a little annoyed at the moment: "General Liu! Wang fought with the Northern Thief by himself, didn't he come to the battle in person and take the lead in that time? Forcing things to do now is the way to self-destruction! Could it be that General Liu did not care about the lives of thousands of soldiers for the sake of his own loyalty?! ”

Liu Renzhen took the case and was angry: "The society is covered with dust, and bloody men should sacrifice their bodies to serve the country, is it for fame!" After that, he waved his hand and calmed down, but his eyes showed disgust, "The Tao is different, don't conspire with each other, if General Wang wants to retreat south, he won't stop him, but if he wants to be a deserter with the general, he should die of this heart!" ”

"That being the case, let's take my leave!" Wang Yanyan felt humiliated, where could he stay, and got up angrily to get out of the account.

Liu Renzhen disdained Wang Yanyan's greed for life and fear of death, and after the other party came out of the account, he angrily pulled out a knife and cut down the desk. When he finally calmed down, he pondered: "Although Wang Hui suffered a defeat in Chuzhou, it should be no problem to retreat to Quanjiao County, and it will not be chased and killed by the northern thieves in the middle of the road, and there are thousands of soldiers and horses in Quanjiao County, and when I hear that Wang Hui is defeated, he will go to respond, so that as long as Wang Hui can hold on to Quanjiao County for a period of time, this time Luzhou has Ma Renyu to open the situation, as long as a certain one has made gains in Liuhe and Tianchang, although the situation of the army is unfavorable, it is still possible to come to the future!" ”

Thinking of this, Liu Renzhen calmed down and continued to think deeply: "Hezhou has my army of 20,000, which can support Quanjiao County, and retreat can ensure that the rear of the army is worry-free, if I can overcome Liuhe, Tianchang and other places, and reverse the decline of the war, even if the war in Hezhou is unfavorable, the army can also take a boat to the east to land in Yangzhou, and then I will cooperate with the march to Yangzhou from the north, then the siege of Yangzhou will be easy to solve!" Once the siege of Yangzhou is lifted, the Jianghuai war is still promising! ”

Thinking like this, Liu Renzhen regained his confidence.

Soon after, the sergeant came to report that after Wang Yanyu returned to the camp, he did not immediately mobilize his soldiers to retreat south.

This made Liu Renzhen's heart settle down a little, and he sneered: "Wang Yanyan was originally a young man, in the past, he relied on trapping relatives and friends, killing and assassinating history to gain momentum, but he was a person who advanced when he heard the benefits and retreated when he heard the disadvantages, if I didn't retreat this time, how could he dare to risk being condemned by the imperial court afterwards and retreat south alone?" ”

Thinking of this, Liu Renzhen passed a military order and asked the scouts to go to Quanjiao County to inquire about the situation of the Wanghui Department. He secretly made up his mind that as long as he got the news that Wang Hui had successfully retreated to Quanjiao County, he would leave a few troops and Wang Yanyu here to confuse and contain Li Yanchao, and lead the main force to attack Tianchang County!

However, Liu Renzhen, who had thousands of expectations and was desperately eager to rely on his own intelligence to open up the situation for the army in a critical situation, waited left and right in the camp, but in the end what he was waiting for was not the news that Wang Hui had successfully retreated to Quanjiao County, but the bad news that the Tang army's elite cavalry was attacking rapidly!

"How is this possible?!" Liu Renzhen was stunned when he heard the news, completely incredulous, "How could the Northern Thief Horse Army appear in Liuhe?" What about General Wang? Have they given up pursuing General Wang? ”

"There is no news of General Wang yet...... Our scouts were far from getting close to Quanjiao County, and they were all stopped by the Northern Thieves and Rangers, and the disguised spies had not yet heard back......" The sergeant who came to report was sweating profusely, looking panicked, and stammered, "Listen...... Listening to the rout soldiers encountered by the scouts, the northern thieves seemed to have arrived in Quanjiao County first, General Wang...... General Wang was ambushed, and he didn't know ...... life or death."

"Shut up! That's impossible! Liu Renzhen was so anxious that he wanted to jump to his feet, the facts in front of him were too difficult to accept, all he expected was that Wang Hui would successfully retreat to Quanjiao County, Quanjiao County was only about fifty miles away from Chuzhou, no matter how you looked at it, it was not half a point of difficulty, even if Wang Hui didn't do anything, it was impossible for him to do it - as long as Wang Hui successfully retreated to Quanjiao County, he would be able to show his strength in Liuhe, attack Tianchang, set up an ambush for Li Yanchao, and reopen the situation for the army!

At this time, Liu Renzhen did not know the entire strategic deployment of the Tang Army, let alone Mo Li's military movements, if he knew these things, he would understand that the world's evaluation of Mo Li's "always anticipating the enemy first" was not groundless!

"North...... How many people are there in the horse army of the Northern Thieves? Even though the facts no longer meet his expectations, but it happened after all, Liu Renzhen had to find a way to face it, at this time, the flame of hope in Liu Renzhen's heart was not completely extinguished, the worst thing, he can always retreat to Guabu, right?

"There are more than 5,000 people in the Northern Thief Horse Army, all of them are one person and two horses!" By the time the sergeant said this, he had almost fallen to the ground.

Liu Renzhen's heart snapped and shattered, he sat on the couch, his eyes lost their luster in an instant, "Five...... 5,000 horsemen...... How can there be so many? ”

Five thousand elite horsemen pulled out the posture and galloped to kill, and it was no longer two or three times the number of foot soldiers who could resist such a simple conversion problem.

- What's more, there are thousands of Li Yanchao's soldiers and horses in Liuhe City!

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Leading 5,000 elite cavalry to Liuhe, it was the Western Ye who was ordered by Mo Li, they did not carry baggage, in addition to the matching armor and crossbows, the soldiers also only carried two days of water rations, so the speed was extremely fast, although it was not a day and a night to run 300 miles, but the 150 miles of the journey, it really took only two days to complete.

Under such circumstances, the five thousand elite cavalry naturally had spare strength, and they could launch a charge and kill the Wu army as soon as they arrived outside Liuhe City!

When Liuhe City appeared in his field of vision, Xi Ye's eyes were slightly awe-inspiring. At the other side, the soldiers of the Wu army were withdrawing from the siege battle, wanting to form a large defensive formation in front of the city. The opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come again, of course the West Ye will not let go of such a good opportunity, immediately pulled out the horizontal knife, and led forward, "Sharp arrow formation, impact!" ”

When they arrived in the open area, the five thousand elite cavalry immediately changed formations, adjusted from a marching formation to an offensive formation, and then quickly formed a sharp arrow formation, led by Western Ye, and went straight to the weak position of the Wu army's formation!

At the head of Liuhe City, Li Yanchao, Ding Mao and others were leading their troops to fight fiercely with the Wu army besieging the city, and suddenly, the sound of golden gongs sounded behind the Wu army in front of the city, and then the Wu soldiers retreated like a tide, Ding Mao looked up and saw the iron armor torrent running with dust not far away, and immediately lifted his spirits and shouted to Li Yanchao: "General Li, our elite cavalry has arrived!" ”

Li Yanchao pulled the horizontal knife out of the abdomen of a Wu sergeant in front of him, kicked the person in front of him off the city, turned his head and spit out a mouthful of blood and spit, and when he saw the banner of the elite cavalry outside the city, it was also shining in front of him, "It's the West Ye!" Command the whole army: form a formation and go out of the city and counterattack the thief army! ”

Ding Mao responded to the order, and immediately beckoned the subordinates to turn down the city, Li Yanchao stood upright at the head of the city, and the depression in his chest that had not been able to break through Liu Renzhen for several days was swept away, "Damn Liu Renzhen, keep your body separated today!" ”

From time to time, the gate of Liuhe City opened, and the Tang army in black armor and black robe formed a formation to kill, and the tiger wolf pounced on the Wu soldiers in front of the city.

Liu Renzhen had already ridden his horse to the battle, seeing that the elite cavalry of the Tang army had been killed in front of the battle, and almost all the defenders of Liuhe City were dispatched, he cried out in his heart, raised his knife and shouted: "Steady, steady!" All the soldiers obeyed the order and served the country, and at this time, all the departments followed the generals to kill the thieves! ”

Seeing the Tang Army's elite riding mountains and black clouds crushing over, everywhere they went, the people turned on their horses, the blades and banners flew sideways, and the blood and corpses danced, all of them were terrified, and they saw the Liuhe Tang Army shouting and killing, and there was a tendency to destroy the city and pull out the village, rushing into their own army formation and wantonly rushing to kill, knowing that their own side was suffering from the enemy on their backs, they couldn't help but panic.

In another place, Wang Yanyu gathered the soldiers of his headquarters, looking at the situation on the battlefield, his face was cloudy, and his generals hurriedly ran over, "General, the northern thieves are strong, and General Liu is afraid that it will be difficult to resist, is my department rushing up to support General Liu?" ”

"The straight thief who rushed at your mother!" Wang Yanyan scolded with a scolding on his face, "There are more than 10,000 northern thieves, and more than half of the horse army, what are I going to do to fight with them?" ”

"Then why don't you retreat into the camp and hold on?" A general asked tentatively.

"If the army is defeated, how can the camp be held?" Wang Yanyan's eyes were gloomy, and his face was as black as ink.

"How's that to be?" The general was crying and sad, very discouraged.

"So far, only when the northern thieves have not yet penetrated the big array, and Liu Renzhen can still resist for a moment, quickly retreat to Guabu, and find an opportunity to cross the river and retreat to the south!" When Wang Yanyan said this, he planned to use Liu Renzhen as a shield to cover his retreat.

The generals were speechless, and now, they can see the situation clearly, if they fight to the death with the Tang army, the whole army will be annihilated, since they can't fight, there is only one way to escape except surrender.

Wang Yanyan gritted his teeth and said: "Since the northern thieves can send a large number of horse troops to Liuhe, it can be seen that Wang Hui has been completely wiped out, and even Hezhou has been captured by the Hundred Battles Army. ”

When the generals heard Wang Yanyan say this, they all knew that it could only be like this, and then Wang Yanyan shouted an order, rolled up the flag and led the crowd to abandon Liu Renzhen, and fled south.

As far as Wang Yanyan is concerned, he is also in great pain at this time. He wanted to pull Liu Renzhen to retreat south, who knew that Liu Renzhen had a tendon, and now that the Tang army is attacking, he abandoned Liu Renzhen and left, the responsibility is very great, even if he successfully retreats to Jiangnan afterwards, the best result is just to save a life and survive, but fame and wealth are hopeless in this life.

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In the Wu army array, Liu Renzhen was leading his troops to fight with the Tang army, and suddenly heard that Wang Yanyan was fleeing with the crowd, and he was immediately angry, so angry that a mouthful of blood spurted out, and after withdrawing from the battle, he scolded bitterly: "Wang Yanyan, you must not die well, Liu Mou will not stand with you in this life!" ”

When the catastrophe is coming, the husband and wife who are the same forest bird have to fly separately, not to mention Wang Yanyan, who is not related to each other?

Wang Yanyu took the lead in fleeing, and the Wu soldiers, who were already frightened by the enemy, heard of this change, and their morale fell to the bottom, no matter how Liu Renzhen led his own soldiers to fight to the death, and how sadly called on his troops to fight to the death with the Tang army to serve the country, they could not stop the rout of the Wu army and surrender one after another.

After a long battle, Liu Renzhen didn't know how many Tang troops he had slashed, and he didn't know how many wounds he had on his body, when he was about to run out, Li Yanchao, who had been looking for him, led his troops to rush over, and rushed to Liu Renzhen first, and after killing Liu Renzhen's personal soldiers, a long lance slapped on Liu Renzhen's pocket and beat him to the ground unconscious.

"Tie up this thief and go back to the city!" After Li Yanchao succeeded, he happily spat blood on the ground.

In the past few days, although he has been entangled in a commotion by Liu Renzhen, he has also given birth to a bit of heroic sympathy, because he did not behead Liu Renzhen in the battle.

This battle did not last long, from the time Ye led the army to kill to the end of the war, the casualties of the Wu army did not even exceed 1,000, and the rest of the people were disarmed and surrendered.

But in a big war, the greater the proportion of surrenderers in the whole army, it means that this army loses more momentum on the battlefield, and the soldiers have little fighting spirit.

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