Xilin Mountain, not high or dangerous, but the location is relatively remote.

Originally, this was the nest of a small group of mountain bandits, but unfortunately, during the operation, they killed people indiscriminately and were discovered by Zhao Xun. Needless to say, the result is to be wiped out by taking advantage of the trend. As for his lair, it was occupied by Zhao Xun.

It is said to be a nest, but in fact there is nothing, it is a simple village. Thousands of people are scattered among the mountains, but they are not very conspicuous, and under the trees, they can also hide from the sun.

The wooden house with the cubicles was built very simply, and this is now the meeting hall.

Zhao Xun and the four lieutenants and dozens of fruit chiefs sat there quietly, all silent.

"Sun Zhuang, the messenger you sent out has confirmed the scope of Siyang City?" Guan Lin asked at the top of his voice.

"Captain Guan, can this matter still be faked? The subordinates have sent a large number of people since eight days ago and in a row, and they are sure that they have passed the range of Siyang City. Sun Zhuang, who was in charge of intelligence, orders, and information, said in a deep voice.

"Then why is there no one in Boping City? Boping had already lifted the siege eight days ago, and even let the Tang army return with a big defeat. How to say, after Boping got reinforcements, he should pursue the Tang army to the north and attack Siyang County by the way. In that case, coupled with our response from behind, Siyang County may be ours, and we can kill it back as soon as possible. Guan Lin said angrily.

"It may be that Boping City has suffered large losses, insufficient troops, and insufficient grain and grass!" Lu Yu interjected with a stiff face. But the expression on his face was obvious, and even he didn't believe it.

"Not enough troops? Insufficient weight of grain and grass? Isn't it supported by an army of nearly 10,000? Why are the losses large and the troops insufficient? I heard that five days ago, the lord of Boping City, General Ye, also ordered five thousand Shanyang Mansion reinforcements to retreat! What does that mean? Could it be that in the eyes of General Ye, the thousands of us are not as important as letting the people in the city provide thousands of troops to attack Siyang City and respond to our army's southward movement? Or do some people not want to make such a great contribution and go back to the generals who are famous in Shanyang Mansion and Liangzhou Mansion? Qin Xiao, who had a scar on his face, shouted coldly. He is not from the Shanyang Mansion Army, let alone Ye Xuan's command, so he naturally has no scruples about Ye Xuan.

Qin Xiao's words made Guan Lin, Lu Yu, Li Guochang, and the faces of the dozen or so people who followed Zhao Xun from Boping change suddenly. Especially Lu Yu and Li Guochang, the faces of the two of them are not ugly.

Now, the right general of the Tang army withdrew to Siyang City, causing the Shanyang army to be trapped here, surrounded by enemies on all sides, and it was difficult to follow the hundreds of miles across the city and rush through the jurisdiction of Siyang County. Therefore, these 4,000 people not only mobilized the Tang army back and forth, but also sent messengers to rescue Boping, hoping to get the other party's troops to respond. It's just a pity that so far, there has been no reply.

Guan Lin, Lu Yu, and Li Guochang naturally knew the antagonistic relationship between Ye Xuan, Feng Ziming, and Li Feng, and they knew better that the two parties were fighting for the actual control of Shanyang Mansion. Especially now that Shanyang Mansion is ostensibly under the jurisdiction of Xu Jie, but in fact, after breaking away from the other party, it is also the most normal to compete for power. In the eyes of the three of them, it was entirely possible for Ye Xuan to fight Feng Ziming's forces.

Zhao Xun said loudly: "Qin Xiao, this can't be nonsense, how can anyone in Boping not want us to go back?" Something must have happened to the Messenger. ”

Everyone's hearts are secretly stirring, what happened to the messenger? How can there be a problem with seven or eight in a row. Moreover, even if they had problems, according to General Lee, he had already reported his activities here to Boping, and Boping should have reacted. But why is it that now, Ye Xuan, the lord of Boping City, has withdrawn half of the reinforcements from Shanyang Mansion? This has to be suspicious, and it has to be shocking. If you are fighting on the front line, but the rear is plotting against you, you will not have a good feeling. Not to mention, this is still their savior.

At this moment, some of the fruit chiefs who were originally under Ye Xuan's command rushed to the cold heart, and they couldn't help but regard Li Feng as the commander of this army. In the past ten days, Li Feng's expression has naturally made everyone admire it very much, and it is much stronger than Ye Xuan. As for the soldiers who were recruited later, they naturally regarded General Li as the main one, and as for Ye Xuan or something, they naturally didn't know anything about it.

"Well, that aside, for now, our immediate priority is to get out of here and go back to the south. In the past ten days, the brothers plundered the land, fought the rear of the Tang army, and became a mess. Our prestige has also spread far here. However, after all, this is the territory of the Tang Army, and we do not have the support of the rear, and we do not have sufficient logistical supplies, so we need to evacuate here. Zhao Xun said in a deep voice. Everyone's thoughts are what Zhao Xun wants. Maybe Ye Xuan really didn't want them to go back, maybe not. But having soldiers in hand is the most important thing. As for the messengers, they are no longer the focus of attention.

These 4,000 people are in the forefront of the Shanyang Mansion Army, and even in the Yanzhou Mansion Army, and even, on the battlefield, these 4,000 people can completely defeat the 8,000 Yanzhou Mansion Army. Now that they are ready to withdraw, Zhao Xun doesn't want them to get out of his hands. As for the mountain bandit army controlled by the eight families in the four counties in the south of Liangzhou Prefecture, Zhao Xun was also ready to let them stay here to see if they could play a greater role.

"General, now, which direction should we move?" Qin Xiao said in a deep voice. Because of the chaos of the war, Qin Xiao, who was originally not on the field, was also forced to be helpless and attacked his former colleagues, and the scars on his face were left by participating in the war.

"The troops were divided into two routes, marching southward, and as for how to act, the decision was made according to the actual situation. As for now, we will replace all the clothes and armor on our bodies and hand them over to the rebel army in Pingxi. Remember, even something with our mark can be given to them implicitly. Zhao Xun said in a deep voice.

"The general wants them to be our stand-in, attacking the enemy army and heading northwest."

Zhao Xun nodded and said, "Well, if this is not the case, it will be difficult for us to act." Now, the right general of the Tang Army is mobilizing a large army in the city of Siyang, and it seems that there are signs that he is going to completely eliminate us. But don't forget, it was we who led the Tang Army to retreat on the front line, and the southern counties of Liangzhou Prefecture were in chaos. They want to kill our hearts, obviously, so to speak, they hate us to the core. ”

"In addition, Wumeng, who has been biting us tightly, seems to have stopped and started a large-scale cleansing of small groups of mountain bandits, and used them to last time to make the villagers brave and angry." Zhao Xun said in a deep voice.

Lu Yu sneered: "This Wumeng has finally come to his senses, I really don't know, how can a person like him who is bored and only chases us become a lieutenant who leads the army of four or five thousand." ”

It is not unreasonable for Lu Yu to be so sarcastic. Every time Zhao Xun took a place, after taking all the war horses and a certain amount of food, he distributed the rest to the people, and if he took down the armor and equipment, he gave it to the mountain bandits and rebels. As a result, Wumeng did not catch up with Zhao Xun, and there were more and more mountain bandits and rebels. Wumeng also encountered the raids of mountain bandits from time to time, you say, if you go on like this, how can you be willing to work so hard when you only know how to chase the countrymen who are bored and only chase?

However, now that Wumeng has not continued to act, it means that the enemy's new military order has come down, and he is afraid that he will launch a big operation against this Shanyang army. After the completion of this mission, Zhao Xun naturally did not want to continue to stay here.

In addition, Zhao Xun also wanted to know how Xu Jie, the governor of Yanzhou, dealt with Shanyang Mansion. What about Xu Jie's actions against the Wu Wei Army? Whether they can get the benefits in the confrontation between the two sides in Yanzhou.

Siyang City.

"Right General, the general's herald has arrived!" Meng Zhao, who was thinking about the battle of Boping before and after in the study, was immediately stunned when he heard the report from the soldiers outside the door, and hurriedly got up to greet him.

Dozens of horsemen and guards dressed in white cloaks rushed over, and at the gate of the county ya, Meng Zhao and his lieutenants greeted him.

"Right General Meng Zhao, this is the general's military order, take the order!" The knight approached, and after saying a word, he folded the bronzing text in his hand and said, "General Right, the general is still waiting for your reply, please read it and give me a message." The white-robed knight said lightly.

After Meng Zhao bowed slightly, he picked up the text fold and looked at it, there were no superfluous words on it, no reprimand for his defeat in Boping, and no anger at failing to achieve the expected goal with Xu Jie. Just a few words: shame and courage! Can you make Liangzhou Mansion the territory of our army, and can you fight again?

"My lord, please reply to the general, his subordinate Meng Zhao, and he will never live up to the general's hopes." Meng Zhao said loudly.

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Sanyo Mansion, Juye Castle.

"Xu Jie, I really wish we had died earlier!" Looking at the plain military order in his hand, Feng Ziming casually threw it aside and sneered.

"Oh? So, he's urging our army to move again? Tang Bin, the commander of the right capital of the Shanyang Mansion Army, said with a smile.

"What else can Xu Jie do besides this? On the surface, he didn't dare to do anything to us, after all, we defeated the Tang Army and Boping, and prevented the Tang Army from taking it, which can be regarded as a first-class hero, how dare he act rashly? Secretly, I have to be busy with the actions of the Wuwei Army, and I am afraid that he will not have time to take care of us. Feng Ziming said with disdain.

Tang Bin shook his head and said: "On the surface, it is a reward for all of us, but the actual content is not at all, but because of the war in Shanyang Mansion, we are asked to pay the arrears of taxes and silver." At the beginning of the war, Xu Jie said that the tax and silver of Shanyang Mansion would be kept for himself to resist the invasion of the Tang army. Now while letting us attack the Tang Army in the north, we are also required to pay taxes and silver, how can there be such a good thing. ”

Feng Ziming said in a deep voice: "In addition to the sake for us to fight against the Tang Army, Xu Jie is also worried that we will affect his and Xuzhou Army's joint actions against the enemy. After all, when we and him betrayed Shanyang Mansion, we were no longer of the same mind. From today onwards, the Sanyang Prefecture Army will be changed to the Shanyang Army, and it will live up to the name of the Prefecture Army, and tell the people of the Sanyang Prefecture that we are independent. ”

Tang Bin was stunned and said, "Now? I'm afraid it's not a good time now, what if Xu Jie uses this as an excuse to take action against us? Now we are carrying the Tang army in the north, and if we provoke Xu Jie in the south, we will be attacked on our backs. ”

Feng Ziming said with a smile: "No, now is the most appropriate time, Xu Jie has no time to consume with the Wu Wei Army anymore." I don't know if the Wuwei army is impatient, and now the actions in the south of Yanzhou are becoming more and more arrogant, and there is a great chance that when Xu Jie's rectification of the Yanzhou government army, it is like gradually encroaching on the land of Yanzhou. Now, Xu Jie doesn't want to, and he doesn't dare to stand up to us. Don't forget, we defeated one of their tripartite alliances. In addition, he also knows that we are aware of his actions. But we didn't make it public, which means that we don't mean to go against him head-on. So, now Xu Jie only wants us to focus on the north, not on him. At this time, it is the best time to break away from him. When they join forces and fight with the Wuwei Army, our Shanyang Army can take advantage of the opportunity, and it will not be morally justified. ”

"I see, very good! I have been preparing for a battle on the battlefield for a long time, and they have been training all day long. After hearing about the Battle of Boping and the actions of the lord in the rear of the Tang army, he was even more impatient to go to the battlefield. Tang Bin said with a smile.

"You didn't reveal the identity of the lord, did you?" Feng Ziming said with some concern.

"No, General Lee! Then explain the general's operations behind enemy lines, and let the soldiers know that the Tang Army is still the defeated general under our general. Second, it was also on the orders of the generals to let the officers know how to fight behind enemy lines and in the field. Tang Bin explained carefully.

"Yes! It's a good idea to kill two birds with one stone. For officers, it is also much more useful than a separate and boring explanation of theoretical knowledge. By the way, that Ye Xuan, how did you check? Is he credible? Although he leaked Zhang Ting's thoughts to us this time, it does not mean that he is his heart to us. What we are doing now should not be careless. ”

Tang Bin said in a deep voice: "Ye Xuan, I'm just afraid that he is still a little unwilling now, otherwise, how could he be sick and train soldiers in Boping City?" He thought, let's fight with Zhang Ting first, and then make other plans. Of course, it is not excluded that he really has the intention of turning to us. But this mind can only be when there is no power in his hands. ”

Feng Ziming nodded and said, "So, I'm relieved." In addition to these, he was afraid that he also planned to let the general train the thousands of soldiers who were taken away by the general for him. ”

Tang Bin said with a smile: "Lord Feng is really outstanding, it is true, after the general entered Boping City, he had such a mind. It's just ......"

It's just that he didn't expect that the general would take his remnants of three or four thousand men directly to the rear of the enemy army, and the enemy wolf was unbearable. Now, he also knew that those thousands of people would not be able to return. Feng Ziming continued.

Tang Bin stretched out his thumb and said, "Lord Feng said it!" This is the way it is, after the Tang army retreated, it was also ready to send people to contact the three lieutenants under the general's command, and the result was naturally needless to say, it was impossible at that time. In addition, there were more than 3,500 people at the beginning, but now there are only 2,000 soldiers, and the rest of the soldiers died in battle, and the wounded were left in the cottages by the generals, while recuperating from their wounds, they were also used to increase our control over the mountain bandits in the counties south of Liangzhou Prefecture. These mountain bandits are of little use on weekdays, but when it is critical, or when it is appropriate, he will have extraordinary effects. This price reduction can go smoothly under the close pursuit of the enemy army, and it also loses these mountain bandits and rebels. ”

Feng Ziming said with some worry: "But now that the general is behind enemy lines, is it too dangerous for us to send troops to respond?" After all, that's after the enemy. ”

Tang Bin said in a deep voice: "In this matter, the general also has an order, let us stay put." If Siyang City had not been destroyed, the grain, grass, and armor of the 10,000 army had not been obtained by the general, and perhaps we would have attacked with a large army at this time. But now there are no soldiers and no food in Siyang City, and the enemy army thinks that our army is in the western area of Liangzhou Prefecture, even if the enemy army moves, they will go along the northwest and will not stay in Siyang City for too long. ”

In this way, it leaves a strong condition for the general to go south. The general can run back and forth behind the enemy without being discovered, and naturally he can sneak to the land of Siyang County and go down around Siyang City. Moreover, if the general looted so much grain, grass, materials, and armor from the enemy, the other party would definitely not give up lightly. If they are because we are heading north, and the army gathers in Siyang City. When the time comes, it may lead to a big war. Although we have only defeated the Tang army, it is also due to many reasons, fighting head-on, I am afraid that our existing manpower is really not an opponent. ”

"Now, what we need is for the general to quietly withdraw, and the Don Army is too busy recuperating from its wounds to no longer rush to act against us. And we also increased the defense of the perimeter of Boping, so that the Tang army no longer attacked us lightly, and even attacked their eyes on the camp road to Xuzhou. Tang Bin explained Zhao Xun's current general arrangement.