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Zhao Gui immediately turned around and glanced at it, and only then could he fully see that the soldiers behind him were roughly estimated to be only a few hundred, and all of them were burned by the fire to tattered clothes, their faces were gray and black, and they were even scattered, they were completely stragglers, where did they still look like the six armies of the Great Wei?

With this amount of troops, and he had just suffered heavy losses, Zhao Gui really had no confidence in these soldiers. He guessed that Gao Cheng would definitely send someone to chase him, and if he didn't rush to Luoyang as soon as possible, he was afraid that his life would be difficult to protect.

Several times before and after the battle of the two Weis, both sides have won and lost, and the critical situation has not been encountered before, but such a real danger has really never been encountered.

The smoky suburbs were barren and desolate, and Yu Wentai led the Western Wei army to run wildly in the direction of Luoyang. At this time, the sky slowly overcast, and the dark clouds became thicker and thicker. After a short time, it started to rain. The Western Wei army, which had just been burned last night, was poured by the torrential rain at this time, and they were all miserable.

The rain was so heavy that it was as if a large basin of water was pouring down from the sky. I couldn't see anything clearly in the rain, and I wasn't even sure if I was going in the right direction. But after a while, the road was muddy. The remnants of the defeated Western Wei army will trek on a muddy road full of rain, one foot deep and one shallow, and it will be very difficult to walk.

There are no rainproof equipment, and even Yuwentai was also watered by the heavy rain. Especially this rain is still a cold rain in late autumn, which really makes people cold all over their bodies, from the inside out. The weather was completely different from the sweltering heat of the previous two days. At this time, when I think about it, the sun moxibustion roast a few days ago is simply an unattainable luxury.

It's not just people who can't walk, but horses too. The horse's hooves slipped, and the Dawan horse carried Yuwentai in the mud and struggled forward step by step. At this time, Yuwentai had no dry place on his body, and even his boots and socks were soaked with water. He opened his eyes wide in the pouring rain, trying to make out what was around him, and the rain was running down his cheeks, and he almost couldn't open them.

Zhao Gui thought that if the Eastern Wei army really chased after them at this time, they would all be captured alive without much effort. The rain is so heavy, it's better to find a place to take shelter for a while. Presumably, the rain comes and goes quickly, and it is better to go again when the rain stops.

"Lord!" Zhao Guiti immediately stepped forward and caught up with Yu Wentai, "The rain is too heavy, please take shelter for a while." ”

Yu Wentai understood, but he didn't speak, and his eyes looked around. It is surrounded by a countryside, and there are no hills, except for a wooded area a little farther away, which may be a place to take refuge. But Yuwentai hesitated. The rain was so heavy that it was not practical to take shelter in the woods. And if the Eastern Wei army is coming at this time, the Western Wei army is all in the woods, and the Eastern Wei army will be outflanked, isn't that sitting still?

"My lord, people are sleepy and can't go anymore." Zhao Gui persuaded. He and Yu Wentai thought slightly differently, and felt that if he ran out of energy at this time, it would really be a dead end. Luoyang is still far away, and it is not a breath away.

"Yuangui, the rain is light." Yu Wentai wiped the rain from his face.

Sure enough, the rain was light. Since the rain is light, it is easier to walk. Of course, it is also more conducive to the pursuit of the Eastern Wei army. Anyway, Zhao Gui has nothing to say.

"Prime Minister! Prime minister! Panicked shouts were heard from the back of the line. Dongkou is coming! ”

I didn't expect the Eastern Wei Army to come so quickly, and Zhao Gui suddenly had a feeling that his heart sank to the bottom. However, the hussar general Zhao Gui immediately drew his sword under his waist, but he was arrogant. Since the left and right are one death, it is better to fight to the death to resist the thief.

Yu Wentai also drew his sword in his hand at this time, and shouted angrily, "What is so terrible about being a mere thief? Just kill it. ”

The Western Wei army, which was originally a little flustered, saw that the prime minister and the hussar general were so fearless, and finally reluctantly settled down.

Sure enough, I heard the sound of shouting and killing, and the sound was already close in front of me. Yuwentai raised his sword and returned to Tima to meet him.

"The lord dismounts!" Zhao Gui suddenly stopped him. He had an idea in a flash of inspiration.

"What is Yuangui's plan?" Although Yuwentai did not get off the horse, he also understood what Zhao Gui must have had in mind.

The shouting of killing was getting closer and closer, and there was no time to hesitate or hesitate, Zhao Gui put all his worries aside, turned over and dismounted first, and then grabbed Yuwentai, who was still on the horse, and pulled him off the horse. Zhao Gui used his greatest strength, Yuwentai was wearing Mingguang armor, and he was unable to move, so he was torn off the horse and fell to the ground.

Zhao Gui didn't care about helping Yu Wentai up, he first took off the hood on Yu Wentai's head, and threw it far away with all his might, letting the hood roll into the muddy water, and he didn't even look at it again. Then he picked up Yuwentai again, and when he stood up straight, Zhao Gui went to remove his armor with his hands and feet.

"Yuangui! The thief is the best! "Yuwentai didn't understand what he was going to do, in a hurry.

Zhao Gui acted rudely at this time, his hands and feet were quite heavy, and he didn't care about answering his words at all. He called his soldiers to come up and help. Finally quickly took off the dozens of pounds of Mingguang armor on Yuwentai's body. Zhao Gui ordered the soldiers to hide farther away, and even lead the horses farther away.

At this time, Yuwentai was completely different. The bun is so messy that it has no shape at all, and it is almost a messy hair covering. There are only hakama folds left on the body, which are also broken and dirty. Zhao Gui looked at it and looked at it, and went up to pull Yuwentai's bun and made it more messy, Yuwentai's bun immediately fell apart, and it was completely distributed, and he couldn't even see his face clearly.

The hakama was tattered enough, and Zhao Gui was quite satisfied, but he stared at Yuwentai's feet.

"Take off your boots for the prime minister!" Zhao Gui held down Yuwentai and ordered the soldiers at the same time. Zhao Gui saw the hesitation of the soldiers, and immediately shouted angrily, "Hugh has to ask more!" ”

At this time, Yuwentai didn't ask anymore, obviously he understood in his heart. I just don't know what mood he's in right now.

Zhao Gui himself asked the soldiers to help at this time, and hurriedly threw away his armor and unloaded his armor. When he had also packed up and ordered his soldiers to hide their horses and armor, he suddenly heard a loud shout, "The general is here!" Wait for the West Thief, why don't you say where the Yuwen Black Otter is hiding? ”

The three words "Great General" were clearly poured into Yuwentai's ears. It's Gao Cheng here! He understood immediately. By this time, the rain had turned into a light rain, and he could see it clearly, and sure enough, a silver-armored general wearing a hood had already lifted his horse in front of him and was looking at him condescendingly.

Those green eyes are sharp, who else would it be if it wasn't Gao Cheng?

The person who shouted loudly was Gao Cheng's cangtou slave Liu Taozhi. said that it was a cangtou slave, but in fact, Liu Taozhi's identity was far from being as simple as a house slave. No one dared to treat him as a slave. Following the general's westward expedition, Liu Taozhi naturally does not have a little strangeness to the battlefield, how to say that he is also a person who has experienced the battle of life and death in Heqiao.

If Liu Taozhi hated Hou Jing for not saving Gao Aocao when the metropolitan governor was in danger, then he also hated Yu Wentai and Li Hu, the general of the Zhu State who finally killed Gao Aocao. For the entire Western Wei army, Liu Taozhi hated it. He knew that last night the general ordered General Chen Yuankang to set fire to the river bridge, and he took Heyin City again, and Yuwentai's life and death would be in it.

Since no one has found Yuwentai's body to confirm his death, Yuwentai is not dead. Knowing that the defeated troops of the Western Wei army wanted to flee to Luoyang, the general ordered General Chen Yuankang to guard Heyin City, and personally led his troops to chase after him, so that he must find Yuwentai. Liu Taozhi also wished that he could capture Yuwentai alive with his own hands to comfort the spirit of the metropolitan governor in the sky.

However, seeing the hundreds of embarrassed Western Wei soldiers in front of them, Gao Cheng and Liu Taozhi were disappointed. This is simply a deserter who has been dispersed, panicked like a lost dog, and there is not even a general who leads the army, where is the shadow of Yuwentai?

Seeing that no one answered him, Liu Taozhi shouted angrily, "Where is the Yuwen Black Otter?" He asked as he pointed the tip of his sword at the Western Wei soldiers beside him.

Gao Cheng's eyes swept over hundreds of people at the same time.

"How can the prime minister sit here and wait for death and get away early!" At this time, the soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty were not afraid of heavy swords and said one after another.

Gao Cheng was hopeless in his heart.

Liu Taozhi looked at them one by one. He saw Yu Wentai at a glance, and saw him standing there motionless, although his hair was barefoot and his clothes were dirty and torn, but that shocking appearance made Liu Taozhi feel that he was very strange. The point is, why did a few Western Wei soldiers rush in front of him?

Zhao Gui saw that the situation was wrong at this time, he suddenly kicked away the soldiers who wanted to protect Yuwentai a few times, and then picked up the horse whip in his hand and whipped it towards Yuwentai. He scolded angrily, "Minion, you lost my horse, and you dare to come back alive? Then he angrily rebuked the soldiers, "If you ask for his life again, I will kill him with you." ”

When this whip went down, Yuwentai immediately opened his flesh. Zhao Gui really used a lot of strength, and he was really ruthless.

Yu Wentai was pumped to the ground, and the whole person rolled in the mud, and now his head, body, and face were covered with sludge.

"Er, a horseman, whose fate is like a mustard, dares to lose my BMW horse, it is really asking for death." Zhao Gui caught up, turned around and protected Yu Wentai, turned his back to Gao Cheng and Liu Taozhi, raised the whip in his hand and whipped it down again and again.

After a few whips, Yuwentai was already covered in blood, and even his face was full of whip marks. As if he couldn't bear the heavy whip, he curled up in the muddy water in pain, rolling back and forth, but he just didn't speak.

Gao Cheng saw movement in the distance, and at this time he came up. Hearing Zhao Gui shouting angrily, he recognized Zhao Gui by his voice and asked, "Isn't it Brother Yuangui?" ”

Zhao Gui heard Gao Cheng's voice behind him and knew that he had already come. He simply turned around, stepped forward, and smiled at Gao Cheng on the horse, "Don't come to the general?" I don't want to meet here again. He blocked Yuwentai, who was still curled up in the muddy water, without a trace.

Zhao Gui revealed his identity, but at this time he was calm. Gao Cheng saw that it was indeed Zhao Gui, so he attracted all his attention. The fatal arrow outside Heyin City was shot by Zhao Gui, and at this time, it was really an enemy who saw each other, and he couldn't wait to break his body to pieces.

"Since Brother Yuan is here, presumably my uncle is not far away." Gao Cheng knew that Zhao Gui was Yuwentai's most confidant, and he would never leave him.

Zhao Gui laughed and said, "I am here to wait for the general, and my lord has already arrived in Luoyang City." ”

Gao Cheng looked left and right, and indeed saw no trace of Yuwentai, but he ignored the person who was lying in the muddy water and lost his original face, so he smiled and said, "I haven't seen Brother Yuangui for a long time, and I am thinking about drinking and talking, it's really a coincidence, Brother Yuangui will go back to Heyin with me, okay?" ”

Zhao Gui took a few steps forward to meet him, and laughed, "The words of the general, how dare Yuan Gui disobey his orders?" I am willing to return to Heyin City with the general. ”

Gao Cheng glanced at Zhao Gui, lifted the reins and turned the horse's head away, and commanded, "Liu Taozhi, give General Yuangui a horse." He is the confidant of his uncle, how can he be slow. ”

Liu Taozhi responded to the order. Although he didn't find Yuwentai, after all, he caught Zhao Gui, and Liu Taozhi could be considered comfortable in his heart.

The horse led to Zhao Gui, Zhao Gui turned over on the horse, and followed Gao Cheng to Heyin, without looking back again.

It wasn't until the Eastern Wei army disappeared again that the soldiers of the Western Wei army helped Yuwentai up from the muddy water.

Yu Wentai was covered in wounds, but he could no longer feel the pain of the whip marks. I tried my best to endure it just now before I made a sound. If he spoke out and was discovered, the result would definitely be that he and Zhao Gui were taken away by Gao Cheng. Only by enduring it can he escape with his life, and he can quickly go to Luoyang to find Yu Jin to discuss countermeasures to defeat Dongkou and save Zhao Gui.

"Prime Minister, the hussar general is really ruthless." The soldier looked at the scars on Yuwentai's body and sighed.

"The black otter wishes that the whip marks will never be there." Yu Wentai sighed.

The Western Wei army and the Eastern Wei army were temporarily quiet after a battle. Gao Cheng took the captive Zhao Gui back to Heyin and discussed with Chen Yuankang what to do later. At the same time, wait for the news of Yubi, Yangzhou, and Xuanjiao.

Yu Jin, who was in Luoyang City, when he heard the report of the general guarding the city that the prime minister led the remnants to arrive, he immediately opened the city gate and greeted him.

Not only Yu Jin, but also Gao Zhongmi, a rebel general of the Eastern Wei Dynasty who had just attached himself to the Western Wei Dynasty. He wanted to see this powerful minister of the Western Wei Dynasty as soon as possible, a real and unknown son of heaven. Gao Zhongmi is already a traitor in Yecheng, and he has lost his wife, and even his younger brother Gao Jishi has torn his face, and he has no possibility of going back. What his future will be in the future is all on this great prime minister.

Yu Jin and Gao Zhongmi also left room for getting along, and naturally Gao Zhongmi would not be allowed to go out of the city with him to welcome Yuwentai into the city. knew that Yuwentai was defeated, but Yu Jin didn't understand what was going on, for fear that it would be inconvenient for Gao Zhongmi to speak in the middle. I'm even more afraid that Gao Zhongmi will see any clues from this.

Even so, Yu Jin was still startled when he went out of the city to see Yu Wentai. Seeing Yuwentai embarrassed as if he had been caught by his master and whipped to the point of being a fugitive slave, this is the strangest thing. Even if he encountered the Eastern Wei army, he was not beaten and whipped.

"Why did the lord come to this?! Who did this?! Yu Jin was more shocked than angry, thinking that there must be a reason.

"Sijing, Gao Cheng Xiaoer burned the river bridge, captured Heyin, and has arrived in Henan from Hanoi, you and I will go into the city to discuss, how to capture Xiao'er?!"

At this time, the sky was dark, the hills outside Luoyang City were undulating, the wind was blowing and the grass was low, the sun was about to set, and the last glory was in the distance. The city of Luoyang was in a state of desolation.

"The prime minister will enter the city first, and then we will discuss it later." Yu Jin felt that it was inconvenient to speak outside the city, "Situ Gao Zhongmi is still waiting in the city, and it is not too late to see him again in a few days when the prime minister repairs." Yu Jin felt that it was very inappropriate to let Gao Zhongmi see Yuwentai's appearance with whip marks on his face.

Hearing Gao Zhongmi's person, Yu Wentai was not happy at the moment. Although Gao Zhongmi surrendered according to the Tiger Prison, and the Western Wei army took advantage of the situation to conquer Baigu, Luoyang, and Kim Yong, but was defeated by the River Bridge, how can we know whether Gao Zhongmi surrendered by fraud? Maybe it was to lure the Western Wei army to the bait?

"Sijing, Yuangui was kidnapped by Gao Zihui, Yuangui is the enemy who almost shot him, how can I not be in a hurry?" Only then did Yu Wentai tell the truth. But he didn't say a word about Gao Zhongmi's suspicions.

"Is that so?" Yu Jin was also surprised. But he didn't say a word about anything else. (To be continued.) )