There were interceptions in front of them, and there were pursuers in the back, and all around were red, and the scorching flames were rolling in and almost turning everything in this world to ashes. The thieves who thought they were going to win www.biquge.info were now in an almost maddening despair. They have nowhere to go to heaven and no way to enter the earth. The original plan to see the enemy and walk around was completely shattered, and they now had to choose one of the two enemies in front and behind as their main breakthrough target to fight them. Although they were extremely unwilling, they had no chance of escaping and ascending to heaven.

Front? Behind? This is a decision that has a bearing on the overall situation. In the case of the average person, they will definitely choose the back and give up the front. Because the enemy behind is weak and easy to break through, while the enemy in front is strong, it must be much more difficult to fight with him than in the rear.

However, things turned out to be very unexpected, and the thieves finally chose to fight the enemy in front of them. They rushed towards the part of Wei Yan under Wei Yan's command without stopping.

Why? Because they have been frightened by the other party's schemes, they are worried about the other party's damn hypocrisy, and they are afraid that the three hundred people they turn to face are the elite of the other party's elite, which is enough to drag them down.

It will take some time for us to turn back, and if the other side is in the back of the elite arrangement, then we will definitely be held back by them, so that the team in front of them will attack us from behind to form a terrible encirclement of us, and finally achieve the goal of annihilating us.

This is a very terrible thing. And none of them want to see such a thing. So, they decided to take a gamble -- to bet that the part led by Wei Yan on the front was not as strong as it actually seemed, and to bet that they were false rather than real.

They rushed forward with a shout, regardless of the rules of the soldier against the general, they just waved the weapon in their hands to protect their front, and then rushed forward vigorously. This was a very strange move, and it was greatly unexpected by Wei Yan, like most people in general, Wei Yan could never have imagined that the enemy on the other side would be so brutal. They rushed towards their side with their heads bored, as if they had chosen their strong side as the direction of their breakthrough. Is that unreasonable?

Wei Yan was slightly stunned, and froze slightly. However, as soon as he paused, the thieves crashed into Wei Yan's army and mingled with his men. Because it was not a formation that had been laid out a long time ago, Wei Yan stood there with his men and horses, but there was not much sense of hierarchy. He seems to be carrying all fighting arms, and there is no archery at all. Now that the distance between the two sides is close, they quickly collide, creating a chaotic situation.

The whole land was filled with the sounds of fighting, roars, wails, and more often the sound of human footsteps and the clashing of swords. All of this is man-made, mixed with the background sound of burning with the flames of nature, which has become the main theme of the current battlefield. It's a song that doesn't know when it's going to stop, and maybe only when either of the two sides surrenders or the thieves break through that there is a real ending.

Although it was in the midst of a melee, the thieves had a clear purpose. They don't care if they can destroy the closest enemy to them, and they don't care if their team is annihilated by the other party little by little. They only care if their bodies are properly guarded, and whether their steps are a little closer. A simple goal is deep in their hearts, and at this moment they are only thinking about how to better break through the encirclement and escape from Ascension.

The blood was flowing little by little, the battle continued, and in the helpless chaos, Wei Yan frowned tightly. For such a situation beyond his control, he is the last thing he wants to see. Because in such chaos, he could not exert his ability as a general, but could only fight with a brave man who was much stronger than ordinary soldiers.

The long knife in his hand slashed wildly, and at most he could only slash through a person's body with a wave of his hand. And his subordinates struggled to resist, and they were able to stop one or two people in front of him in this staggered moment. The current battle formations are not well connected, and they cannot give full play to the overall advantages of the soldiers. When they resisted with this messy formation, the breakthrough of the thief army, and finally developed into such a melee situation, it became easy to break through further.

As soon as the chaotic battle passed, all the thieves rushed forward, like the turbulent waves on the seaside, constantly impacting the defense line formed by Wei Yan's department. Although Wei Yan and the others desperately blocked each other, how could the army that had not condensed into a battle position withstand such a crazy onslaught of thousands of people? In a short period of time, the defense line of the officers and troops has become as crumbling as a levee that has been eroded by ants for a long time, and it seems that it can no longer stop the rolling waves.

This ...... "Not good! Wei Yan also felt that the current situation was very bad. He saw the desperateness of his soldiers, the danger of the whole battle, and how weak his efforts were under the fury of the enemy. Although his soldiers still tried, it was in vain.

"I have to give up! If we continue to resist like this, we will end up with a miserable result. We're afraid all of our soldiers will be wiped out here. Wei Yan understands this very well. It's just that the current chaos makes him feel a little helpless. After all, in the midst of chaos, it is difficult for a general to control his soldiers. In this regard, he didn't want to leave it alone, but when he saw the soldiers who were still desperate at the moment, he couldn't say it.

"The whole army retreats, the whole army retreats!" In desperation, Wei Yan could only withdraw this broken voice and shouted loudly. He didn't care what his own people thought about such a decision, and he didn't care if his soldiers would be demoralized after hearing the news. All he thought about was that he had to let his soldiers quickly disengage from the group of madmen in front of him, and he had to keep his soldiers. Lord Liu Biao only dialed 2,500 people to come over. On their part, these people will not be able to replenish in the short term. No matter how you calculate it, it's a matter of hanging up one and losing one.

Wei Yan shouted so loudly, and the entire blocking front, which was already a little broken, became even more unbearable at the moment. Under the fierce rush of the thieves again, it was finally inevitable to rout, and the thieves rushed to open and close the siege. Fortunately, all those thieves thought about was how to escape from the ascension to the city and go back to Bencheng, and when they saw that the road was open, they no longer thought about how to fight, but just ran forward desperately. This also prevented Wei Yan's subordinates from suffering greater losses.

At present, the army is chaotic, and Wei Yan's troops cannot pursue for a while, so they can only reorganize their own teams by the side of the road.

After a while, Song De came up with his three hundred elites. When he saw this, he understood what was going on. He knew that it was crucial to pursue the enemy right now. Under the urgency of time, he hurriedly threw his hand towards Wei Yan, and quickly chased forward before he had time to report to his boss.

You must know that the soldiers under him are all elites selected by Wei Yan, they are cavalry, and their strength is beyond words. What other team can catch up with the enemy who has broken through? Then only the three hundred people of his Song De can do it.

Of course, his mere 300 men was too small for the thousands of people in the area. Even if he really catches up with the other party, it is impossible to encircle and annihilate the other party. Therefore, his pursuit battle could not be as rigid as Wei Yan's, and he had to master a considerable degree of softness.

"If the enemy is running and the formation is disorganized, then go as far forward as you can, and destroy the part that they have left behind; If the enemy's formation is a little neat, then hang behind the opponent not far away, and attack them with bows and arrows. Always, whether it is assault or harassment, it must be determined according to the situation at the scene. 'Everything random' is the most correct way to pursue. Song De thought, a smile of excitement appeared on his face. His cavalry was very fast, and as soon as he was distracted, he could already see the figure of the enemy in the distance in front of him.

The enemy's formation was still the same mess. They only wanted to escape for their lives, and they didn't even seem to have the time to stay and spend some time reorganizing the team. Although their escape speed never fell, in the eyes of Song Debu, who was pursued by cavalry, no matter how hard they ran, they could be slow after all. How can a two-legged man outrun a four-legged horse? For Song De and the others, the enemy in front of them is not an opponent at all, perhaps only if they have arranged their formation well and stopped fleeing, and blocked themselves with a strict formation, can they have some difficulties in their pursuit.

"Brothers, light up your knives and rush forward? The enemy's formation is so messy that it's simply vulnerable. Song De raised his excited face and shouted loudly. The enemy in front of him was not in a complete formation, and he could not block the onslaught of his three hundred iron cavalry at all. This is the time to use the first set of solutions.

The sound of horses' hooves sounded in the night, and a scream and wail ensued. Because seeing that the other party's formation was not the same, Song De rushed into the back of the thief army with his men and horses like a hard crossbow out of the box, brandished the short knife in his hand, and began to harvest life.

Although he knew that there was already an enemy behind him, and although he knew which team was crashing into his army, in the sound of the flames in all directions, these thieves, who were already exhausted to the extreme, had no fighting spirit at all. It took them almost a lifetime of strength to escape from the ascension, but in the relaxation after this tension, they did not have the strength to regain their strength and continue to fight. Most of them were afraid to turn back in a panic, and they didn't dare to slow down their pace. They only wanted to escape, quicken their pace and flee more quickly. Although they also understand that their own people will not be able to completely escape the pursuit of the other party no matter what.

The difference between life and death began to change differently in the sequence of running positions. I don't know if that guy's subordinates are unscrupulous and unscrupulous to use the hands and feet of the people running in front of him to surpass the past, and use some very bad means to achieve a higher priority position, so that everyone pays more attention to the order of escape.

In short, after Song De and his men and horses hung behind these thieves and attacked each other from time to time, the screams of people being killed from time to time made everyone's morale even lower to the extreme. In order to survive, some of the people in front of the rear army began to consciously exchange other people's lives for their own lives. They use all kinds of means to leave the guy in front of them behind, making it easier for the other party to be killed, so as to provide a better chance for their own escape. They were not the kind of people who preached etiquette in the first place, and at this moment, under the crisis of survival, they abandoned all dogma. For now, as long as they can survive, they can kill all their comrades who fought with them against the enemy.

"What a group of people who only care about themselves." Song De's eyes were sharp, and he couldn't help but shake his head lightly when he saw the self-righteous civil strife in the other team. When he saw that he was facing such a group of "beasts" who could even be used by his comrades, the anger in his chest couldn't help but burn, and the murderous aura with a chill through the bones was a little stronger.

"Kill, rush up and kill me viciously. Kill me all the people you meet. Song De gritted his teeth and said. After fighting for so long in the oppressive environment of the night, no matter how reasonable a person is, he will be a little crazy at this moment.

Since Song De had placed this kill, the attack of the three hundred chasing cavalry on the rear army of the enemy had become more fierce and frenzied. They rushed into the enemy's ranks and fought for a while, and then broke through the opponent's formation and recircled back to the opponent's formation to prepare for the next attack. That's what they've always done. It's just that now they're pushing deeper and launching more often.

Such a frantic attack soon made the fleeing thief army even more panicked. There was nothing they could do about Song De's cavalry. Even if they were in a neat formation, it would be difficult for them to resist the onslaught of the cavalry, not to mention that they were only fleeing in a chaotic formation at the moment.

Assault, constant assault, crazy assault. After more than a dozen rounds in a row, it was obvious that the thieves could not support it. Under Song De's deliberate care, they didn't have time to do those small actions in the year, so they just wanted to flee forward vigorously. With such a team hanging behind them, constantly giving them some good fruit to eat, their morale fell again and again, and finally the moment they left the woods, they were dissolved. Although the leaders and henchmen among them were still tightly hugged, their minions scattered frantically one after another. After this nightmare tonight, these creeps who joined them just for the sake of life could not endure it any longer. They had no choice but to do this, stifled by fear.

This move made Song De scratch his head, and it also made him finally give up the idea of following them to the end. For he knew that if he continued his pursuit, the enemy in front of him would be scattered more and more out of fear, so that at last he would become a skirmisher. At that time, it will become the enemy and the enemy, which will make the entire extermination operation more difficult. After all, these people are thieves, and they are all guys with a very strong vitality. If it weren't for the fact that they were already used to enjoying it, and they were very reluctant to resume the original hard underground life, I was afraid that even if Li Sheng and the others took the county seat, they would not be able to sleep and eat well. Because it is clear to everyone that it is far more difficult to deal with an enemy hidden in the shadows than it is to deal with an enemy in the open.

Song De, who broke away from the pursuit, began to clean up the battlefield honestly. Together with Wei Yanbu, who had caught up from behind, he scattered small soldiers to sweep away those who had scattered and fled. There's no way around it. Since the enemy's main force had no way to continue the attack, it had no choice but to eliminate the scattered deserters first. It is very likely that these scattered deserters will regroup into new thieves, thus threatening the rear of the official army. "No fish or shrimp is fine", as far as the safety of his own rear is concerned, neither Wei Yan nor Song De will allow any harassing troops to exist in their rear.

After a busy night, when the eastern sky was shining, Wei Yan and Song De returned to the camp that had already made a scorched land with dozens or hundreds of captives. Just now when I was about to settle down, I saw Zhou Rui coming over with an unhappy face.

"What's wrong?" Wei Yan asked him with a smile on his face. Although there were some problems in the later stages of the battle, last night was finally a victory, so Wei Yan's mood at the moment was quite good.

"The enemy I faced ran away." Zhou Rui said lightly, revealing a little silence between his words.

"Oh......" Wei Yan nodded and understood: "Run, just run." Your forces are not enough to destroy them, it is enough to hold them back and prevent them from endangering the attack in front of us. You guys have done a great job on this. As soon as he heard Zhou Rui say something like that, Wei Yan immediately understood what Zhou Rui was thinking. He knew that the young man who had just joined the battle had taken the lead and had taken something on himself that he should not have been responsible for. For this point, Wei Yan did not have a better way to solve it, he could only comfort the young man as much as possible.

"But why don't you, general, stop them in front of you? If you can do that, then we should be able to encircle them. Zhou Rui sharply raised his own questions, he felt that it was a pity to lose the opportunity like this. In his heart, he always remembered what Li Sheng said to himself before: "It is better to cut off one of the enemy's ten fingers." "He thinks that the fight just now did not meet such a standard, and it was a complete miscalculation.

"Because we had no intention of annihilating them in the first place. While we do have the strength to annihilate some of them tonight, what we get after that is not what we ultimately want. As soon as he heard about this, Wei Yan's face suddenly became serious: "I think you should remember what Zixu asked us to do here in the first place, right?" ”

"Hold off the enemy and weaken them as much as possible?" Zhou Rui looked at Wei Yan, his eyes were still a little puzzled: "If it is said that the enemy is weakened as much as possible, wouldn't it be better to use all our strength to completely destroy one of the enemies?" That's more likely to terrify the enemy. ”

"That's what it looks like in general, that's right. But let us not forget that our enemies are not a united force, but a force that rivals are forced to unite because of a greater crisis. They are not one and do not have much of a deep and friendly relationship with each other. They're only here because of our presence, so they're not very touched by the destruction of one of them. They would even like to see such destruction. Therefore, as long as we cannot eliminate more than half of their soldiers and horses at once, they will not feel the same fear as ordinary people. Before Wei Yan could speak, Luo Zhao, who came from behind, explained with a smile. He is not a general, but he has a higher understanding of the whole situation than a general.

"Because we can't deal with them with ordinary methods of attack, there is little point in stubbornly sticking to the destruction of the enemy. In order to weaken the power of the other side even more, we must use other means. In fact, these means are no less effective than the suffering caused by war, and the consumption on our own side is not necessarily much greater than that of war. Luo Zhao pretended to be mysterious.

"You mean the room?" Zhou Rui's head was not much slower than that of a pure strategist like Luo Zhao. He listened very intently to Luo Zhao's words, and soon came to such a conclusion.

"That's right." Luo Zhao nodded vigorously, "In fact, letting go of the part of the enemy that was attracted away tonight is itself part of this discordant plan." I think we can just deal with the current prisoner problem. This whole plan of discord is more than half complete. ”

"What do you say?" At this moment, not only Zhou Rui, but even Wei Yan and others felt strange.

"We can ...... like this" Luo Zhao waved his hand, letting everyone around him come closer, and then whispered his plan.

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Xiyang County is also a scene of "joy" at the moment. While some of them had bitter faces, many more were excited. They were undoubtedly impressed by last night's suffering, and they regarded that as a nightmare. To be able to escape from a nightmare, to survive such a chaotic escape, is undoubtedly something to celebrate. Despite the defeat, the smiles on their faces could not be concealed. For them right now, there's nothing more joyful than being back alive in the city.

They were happy and felt that such a thing needed to be celebrated. So, after haphazardly preparing their army, they scattered in a swarm to find their own amusement in the city. They were thieves, not officers and soldiers, so they simply didn't pay attention to the thoughts of the common people. For a time, chickens and dogs jumped in Xiyang City, and hundreds of people's cries, angry scoldings, and wails sounded. That kind of unbearable makes even hard-hearted people can't help but be moved. However, the hearts of these people are much harder than gold and iron, and they do not feel that this is very miserable, but that they feel very happy.

The thieves have the fun of the thieves, and the thieves have the enjoyment of the thieves. As early as the beginning of entering Xiyang, they received twenty or thirty women in Xiyang City who were quite beautiful and thought they were happy. At this moment, I want to celebrate, so I will hold one person and go to the wing room of the county government to spend the so-called good time together. They had been greatly frightened last night, but now they had to regain their majesty in the tactful and joyful moans of those under them. This may be another kind of "conquest".

They were frantically galloping on the white meat, and suddenly heard a report from the next person: "Liu Ji and Lord Zhou Yan will come, and they are waiting for your reception in the lobby of the county office!" ”

"This ......" their interest was interrupted. Liu Ji and Zhou Yantong are usually the bosses, and the subordinates said that they were waiting for their reception in the lobby, but everyone knew that it was just a nice thing. In fact, it should be these two bosses who were anxious to discuss the current situation with their own people and ordered someone to come in and inform them, so that they could hurry up and meet them.

"Damn, you're here to order us ...... again!" Many people feel unhappy. Because they remembered the arrogant and domineering attitude of the two bosses. At the beginning, when the forces of the Liu and Zhou families were still the largest here, Liu Ji and Zhou Yan did not treat their allies equally. They always took advantage of their own power and arbitrarily ordered them to do this and that. Although many of these things are for everyone's sake, the superior attitude is disgusting to everyone. It's just that this disgust usually doesn't show much, and everyone silently keeps it in their hearts until the current moment erupts.

"Tell me, Liu Ji and Zhou Yan, the two guys, just say that we are tired from fighting all night and need to rest. I'll talk about it in the afternoon! Let him take his own things to rest first. Someone spoke coldly, and casually found such a reason to refuse Liu Zhou's invitation. As the boss who knows more than the average thief, they still have some brains. Although they don't have many brains, they can't see the current situation clearly. They knew that right now, it was not the time to clash with Liu Ji and Zhou Yan. At the very least, they must maintain the same peace on the bright side. So, although they are angry at the moment, they just calmly refuse. They didn't want to listen to Liu Ji and Zhou Yan's arrangements anymore.