The 30,000 army led by Zhang Xuan killed at dawn under the city of Jixian County, only five hours away from the Youzhou army leaving the city to Lushuicang, this is a very accurate action with time and rhythm, and it can not be discovered by the Youzhou army, Zhang Xuan's army bypassed the sentry post on the official road, and marched north by taking the small road under the cover of night, and through a large amount of information from the scouts, Zhang Xuan's army finally killed Jixian County as accurately as a scalpel.

However, the gate of Jixian County has been closed, the drawbridge is pulled high, and the defenders at the head of the city are nervous and uneasy to look at the tens of thousands of Qingzhou Sui troops who seem to have fallen from the sky, the head of the general is called Jin Wenyan, who is about forty years old, a native of Beiping County, has been an official in Youzhou for more than ten years, and he is also very confused and uneasy in his heart, Luo Yi has obviously deployed three sentry posts in the south, why is there no news, and the Qingzhou Sui army is killed?

What especially frightened Jin Wenyan was the opponent's battle flag, which turned out to be the yellow background green dragon flag in Phnom Penh, which was the king flag of the Qingzhou Army, and its appearance meant that Zhang Xuan was in the team.

The camp of the Sui army in Qingzhou was stationed two miles away, and this is, a tall and thin old man rode to the city gate, he raised his head and shouted: "Who is the lord of the city?" ”

A soldier reported to Jin Wenyan, Jin Wenyan hurriedly came to check, he recognized the old man under the city at a glance, it turned out to be Cui Hongsheng, the former Zhuo County Taishou, he knew that Cui Hongsheng participated in the first battle of Goguryeo as General Zuo Wuwei, and was unfortunately captured, and was rescued by the Sui army two years later, so he returned to his hometown to retire, but he didn't expect him to appear at this time.

When Yuan Hongsi was the governor of Youzhou, he had a brutal personality, harsh governance, and often scolded his generals for no reason, and many people were killed because of this. Jin Wenyan is one of them.

Jin Wenyan didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to open the city and let Cui Hongsheng enter the city.

Since Cui Hongsheng was rescued by Jang Hyun in Goguryeo, he has been recuperating in the old house of Boling, living in a simple house, although his body has gradually recovered. But he no longer asks about the affairs of the imperial court, but only studies with the children of the Cui family, a professor of ethnology, and this time Zhang Xuan invited him to go out of the mountain, and he had to agree.

On the one hand, Zhang Xuan saved his life back then, and he owed Zhang Xuan a lot of favors, but more importantly, Cui Zhao's father and son brought great harm to the Boling Cui clan and seriously ruined the reputation of the Boling Cui clan, and Zhang Xuan visited almost all the major families in Hebei, but did not come to the Boling Cui clan. This brought tremendous pressure to the Boling Cui family, and for the sake of the family's fate and future, Cui Hongsheng had to go out of the mountain again.

Cui Hongsheng rode into the county seat of Jixian County, Jin Wenyan had already come down from the city, stepped forward and bowed, "Is Gong Cui well?" ”

"It turned out to be General Jin!"

Cui Hong got off the horse and said with a slight smile: "I'm in good health, General Jin seems to be mixing well!" ”

Jin Wenyan smiled bitterly. "Although I went up one level, there was a lot of pressure. I can't really talk about the word 'good'. ”

"This is also, the world is in chaos, everyone is confused, even I, an old man, can't recuperate anymore, so I'm here to talk to the general."

Jin Wenyan knew very well Cui Hongsheng's intentions, and he actually hoped that there would be another way out. Whether the negotiation can be successful is secondary, the key is that Zhang Xuan is willing to talk to himself, which shows that Zhang Xuan is still sincere.

"Cui Gong, please!"

Jin Wenyan invited Cui Hongsheng to sit down in the city tower, and let the soldiers serve tea, Cui Hongsheng said slowly: "If I remember correctly." General Jin has been in Youzhou for almost 20 years! ”

"Cui Gong has a good memory, I have been transferred from Hejian County to Youzhou in the seventeenth year of the emperor's reign, and now I am the oldest one in the Youzhou army, and even the governor came to Youzhou two years later than me."

"The general is from Beiping County, and his parents and family are in Lulong County, does the general really want to leave his family and leave his hometown to become an official in Guanlong?"

Jin Wenyan's face changed, "What did Gong Cui say?" ”

Cui Hongsheng took a sip of tea unhurriedly, and said: "My intention must be that General Jin knows very well that the King of Qi is the son-in-law of the Lu family, and he has a good relationship with the son of Luo Dudu, so he doesn't want to attack the city, and he doesn't want to slaughter the soldiers of Youzhou, he just wants to settle Youzhou peacefully, this time the King of Qi led an army of 80,000 to march into Youzhou, and the 30,000 you see now is only a part of it, and the other 20,000 cavalry went to rescue Lushuicang, and 15,000 people marched to Beiping County from the waterway, and Xu Shiji led 15,000 people to enter Shanggu County from the western front, And the Tang army that you are all looking forward to is still confronting Liu Wuzhou in Bingzhou, it can be said that the overall situation of Youzhou has been decided, I am here to talk to the general, if the general is willing to lead the army to surrender, the king of Qi will be the general of the Beiping military envoy, Lulong County Marquis, sitting in Linyu Pass, if the general is unwilling to surrender, he can also leave on his own, but the army can not be taken away, and the king of Qi will not stop it. ”

Jin Wenyan sighed for a while, "The governor treats me well, and now that his situation is unknown, how can I take the lead in betraying him, this is really too ruthless and unjust." ”

"What if the situation is clear?" Cui Hongsheng asked again.

"This"

Jin Wenyan smiled bitterly, "For the sake of Duke Cui, I can only say that I don't want Jixian County to suffer from military disasters and wars, and I can only go to this step." ”

"Huh! I understand, then I will no longer embarrass General Jin and leave first. ”

Jin Wenyan hurriedly got up and asked people to send Cui Hongsheng out of the city, looking at Cui Hongsheng's back, he also felt very confused in his heart, Luo Yi really treats himself well, but if Luo Yi is defeated, does he really want to abandon his family and follow him to the state?

In the evening, Zhang Xuan got the exact news that Pei Xingyan's cavalry defeated the main force of the Youzhou army near Lushui, and the Youzhou army was being routed to the west, Zhang Xuan immediately led 20,000 troops to the east to surround it, and he must completely defeat the Youzhou army if he wants to prevent Luo Yi from regrouping the defeated army.

The fierce battle that occurred thirty miles west of Lushui was very tragic, although the Youzhou army was well-trained and had strong combat effectiveness, but it still could not withstand the fierce attack of 20,000 elite cavalry, they were divided into dozens of small pieces by the cavalry, and the formation gradually became chaotic, under the repeated impact of the Sui army, the whole army was finally defeated, but the Sui army did not wantonly kill the defeated soldiers, but surrounded and coerced, the soldiers of the Youzhou army had no way to retreat, and they surrendered on their knees.

In the chaos, Luo Yi fled to the north with dozens of defeated soldiers, Luo Yi knew in his heart that he knew that he could not run west, there must be the main force of the Sui army in the west, and he could only throw himself into the net when he fled to Jixian County.

Luo Yi was flustered, kept beating the horse and galloping, dozens of personal soldiers followed him all the way to urge the horse to gallop, gradually, the shouting of killing became farther and farther, and the sound of the chasing horse's hooves gradually disappeared, Luo Yi ran out of thirty miles in one go, and the personal soldiers behind caught up and pulled the reins of his war horse, "Lord, the chasing soldiers are gone." ”

Luo Yi was shocked, he straightened his crooked helmet, took a few breaths and asked, "Where is this?" ”

"This should be Wudongling."

Luo Yi suddenly remembered, and then continue to walk north for thirty miles is Huairou County, now Jixian County is in the southwest direction, he turned his horse's head and ran towards a hillside, and soon ran up the hillside, looking at the battlefield in the distance, the battlefield was obscured by the woods and was invisible, even the sound of war drums disappeared, there was only the sound of the wind blowing through the mountains and forests, and it was exceptionally quiet, if it weren't for the bloodstains on his and his own soldiers, it was hard to imagine that a tragic battle broke out half an hour ago, Luo Yi stared into the distance for a long time, He burst into tears.

"Lord Wang, shall we go back to Jixian County?" A pro-soldier asked in a low voice.

Luo Yi let out a long sigh, his voice was a little choked, "The whole army is annihilated, what face do you have to go back to Jixian County to see the villagers?" ”

"But there are still 5,000 troops in Jixian County, and if you recruit young and strong, you may be able to hold the fortified city of Jixian County, and then wait for the Tang Army to rescue."

Luo Yi's eyes were very melancholy, why didn't he want this, but would Zhang Xuan give him another chance?

"Let's go to the military capital, let's go to the state!" Luo Yi made up his mind.

At this time, there was a sound of horses' hooves from the rear, everyone was shocked, and they pulled out their swords, only to see a cavalry team of more than ten people rushing out from a small road next to them, and the person at the head turned out to be Luo Yi's brother Luo Shou, Luo Yi was suddenly overjoyed, and urged the horse to meet him, "Second brother, how is the situation?" ”

Luo Shou obviously cried once, the tears on his face were not dry, he shook his head and said gloomily: "I originally led 3,000 people to retreat north, but was cut off by the enemy cavalry, I killed a bloody way to escape, and the soldiers behind all surrendered, fortunately I met this patrol, otherwise I wouldn't be able to find my eldest brother." ”

Luo Yi's heart sank into the abyss completely, he was completely desperate, and said to Luo Shou for a while: "I plan to go to the military capital to go to the state, you can go with me!" ”

"Of course I follow the eldest brother, but the sister-in-law and them"

Luo Yi smiled bitterly: "That's his aunt, what can he do"

Only then did Luo Shou think of the relationship between Zhang Xuan and his eldest brother, and said helplessly: "Since that's the case, let's go!" ”

"Let's go!"

Luo Yi shouted, urging the horse to gallop, he looked back in the direction of Jixian and muttered, "One day... One day, I, Luo Yi, will come back! ”

He whipped his horse fiercely, and dozens of people urged the horse to run along the Sanggan River in the direction of Juyong Pass, and gradually disappeared into the lofty mountains. (To be continued.) )