Thirty miles away, Wei Yunqi also got the news that the thieves stopped moving forward, and he was secretly proud, this is the effect he wants, as long as the forward is ambushed, the main force of the thief army behind will inevitably act cautiously, this is human nature.

Wei Yunqi's purpose is to hold back the enemy army, and prevent the thief army from launching a siege battle before the reinforcements arrive, at this time he has already mastered the strength of the thief army, and now the thief army only has 4,000 people left, and the combat effectiveness is not high, if he can find a way to weaken the strength of the thief army by another thousand, then even if they attack the city, there is no need to be afraid.

At this time, a scout rushed back and reported: "Qi Qi Changshi, we found a thief army of spies, there are only more than ten people, ten miles away, do you want to annihilate them?" ”

Wei Yunqi smiled slightly, "You don't need to annihilate them, bring Yang Sanpin to me." ”

After a while, the soldier brought the father of the father and son prisoners of war up, and Wei Yunqi smiled at him: "The time has come for you to make meritorious service, and when the matter is done, I will not only reward you with money, but also let your father and son go home, if you dare to betray me, I will cut off your son's head, understand?" ”

"The villain understands that the villain will never dare to betray the officers and soldiers."

Wei Yunqi whispered a few words to him, and Yang Sanpin nodded again and again, "The villain understands." ”

"Bear with me, I'll let you go!"

A soldier stepped forward and stabbed him in the leg, then released him, Yang Sanpin tore a strip of cloth to bandage the wound, he endured the pain, looked back at his son, waved his hand again, and limped away from the Sui army.

Seeing that he was gradually walking away, Wei Yunqi immediately stood up and shouted, "Stop resting and return to the mound garrison!" ”

The resting soldiers got up one after another, and Wei Yunqi led five hundred soldiers to a mound two miles to the south.

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A group of about ten thieves was running cautiously through the woods, and the leader was very careful, looking left and right as he directed his soldiers to run south, knowing full well that they would surely die if they were surrounded by the Sui army.

But fortunately, they had advanced more than 20 miles to the south. Still not discovered by the Sui army, at this moment, a faint shout came from the southeast, "Help!" ”

All the soldiers were terrified. Lying motionless in the grass, there were several more shouts, "Help me!" ”

The thief scout felt that there was no big problem, so he got up and ran towards the shouting place. I saw one of their soldiers sitting under a big tree, his legs covered in blood, and the leader of the team was pointing his spear at him and asking, "Who are you and why are you here?" ”

The soldier raised his hand and said: "The villain is a soldier of the fifth battalion, named Yang Sanpin, following General Guo Song, the villain was caught by the Sui army and escaped while they were unprepared." ”

"Where is the Sui army?" The leader of the team asked urgently.

"It's on the mound ahead, five miles at most!" Yang Sanpin said with a guide.

"How many troops?"

Yang Sanpin thought for a while, "About two or three thousand people!" I don't know exactly how much. ”

The leader of the team instructed several of his men, "Take him back first." The rest of the brothers came with me. ”

The thief scout sentry divided into two ways, one helped the wounded thief army back, and the other continued south to explore the details of the Sui army.

Thousands of thieves were resting in a forest on the west bank of the giant ocean, and the main general An Shouxi paced back and forth restlessly, he was very upset, the king actually told him that there was no garrison in Beihai County, and if there was no garrison, where did the Sui army that ambushed them come from?

Zhang Jin's misjudgment made him very confused, and he didn't know whether to attack Yidu County or not, and now he could only wait for the spies to come back.

At this time, a soldier ran over and reported: "General." The outpost found a brother who had escaped from the Sui army. ”

An Shouxi's spirits perked up, as if he saw a ray of light in the dark, and hurriedly said, "Bring him over!" ”

In a moment, several soldiers brought Yang Sanpin up. The stab wound on his leg had been medicated and re-bandaged, and he walked with a slight limp, but he was no longer in serious condition.

He stepped forward and knelt down and saluted, "The villain sees the general? ”

An Shouxi glanced at him and asked, "What's your name, how can you escape!" ”

Yang Sanpin cried: "The villain Yang Sanpin is a subordinate of General Guo. The villain was arrested, because he was injured in his leg and couldn't walk fast, the Sui army wanted to execute the villain, but fortunately, a fellow villager secretly let me go, so I escaped. ”

An Shouxi nodded and asked, "How many Sui troops are there who ambushed General Guo?" ”

"The villain hasn't counted either, maybe about two thousand!"

"Two thousand!"

An Shouxi's heart suddenly became heavy, there were actually two thousand people in the Sui army, he stayed for a long time, and then asked: "What is the name of the commander of the Sui army?" ”

"I don't know much about his position, it seems that one is a civilian official, their name is Wei Changshi, and the other is very young, with two sledgehammers, and the soldiers call him General Pei."

"Pei Xingyan!" An Shouxi was frightened for a while, it turned out that Pei Xingyan was still in Beihai County.

Pei Xingyan is known as the first fierce general of the Flying Eagle Army, the hammer shook Shandong, the thief army was all frightened, no one dared to fight against him, at this time An Shouxi heard that Pei Xingyan stayed in Beihai County, he began to secretly regret in his heart, he knew that he should not take on this task.

After a while, he asked again, "How many defenders are there in the city, and have they leaked?" ”

Yang Sanpin shook his head, "The villain doesn't know!" ”

This is Wei Yunqi's cleverness, only let Yang Sanpin say one or two key news, if he knows too much, the enemy general will definitely be suspicious, but it will be self-defeating.

An Shouxi asked a few more questions, Yang Sanpin answered plausibly, An Shouxi also knew that he couldn't know too much, so he nodded, "You go down to recuperate first, and then call you if you want to ask something." ”

Yang Sanpin was thinking about how to escape from the thief army to pick up his son, so he bowed and retreated.

Not long after, the sentinel team also returned, and he did find the Sui army in the area of the mound mentioned by Yang Sanpin, and he reported to An Shouxi: "General, although the lowly position cannot go up to the mound, it can be inferred from the number of Sui army's battle flags and spears that the strength of the Sui army is between two thousand and three thousand, and they seem to be resting, and they are likely to ambush us again." ”

The news of the team confirmed Yang Sanpin's information, and An Shouxi let out a long sigh, "It seems that it was a wrong decision for us to come to Beihai County. ”

The generals asked, "So what should we do?" ”

At this time, An Shouxi's confidence had gradually been lost, and he already wanted to collect his troops and return to Qinghe County, but if he went back like this, he couldn't explain to Zhang Jincheng, and he was at a loss.

At this time, a subordinate general suggested: "Why don't we go to Linzi County by the way, get some money and food, what does the general think?" ”

An Shouxi pondered for a long time, Linzi County was far away from here, at least one hundred and fifty miles, but he also knew that if he didn't grab a little money and food, I was afraid that the soldiers would not be able to appease him, so he nodded and said to the generals: "Okay! Let's turn back immediately and go to Linzi County! ”

The four thousand thieves no longer went to Yidu County, but turned around and killed in the direction of Linzi County

Wei Yunqi soon got the news that the thief army was rerouted to Linzi County, which made him happy and worried, happy that his plan was successful, deceived the enemy's main general, and made them give up attacking Yidu County, but the worry was that the thief army was unwilling to retreat, and turned to Linzi County, and there was not even a soldier on the Linzi County side.

Captain Du Yunsi understood Changshi's worries, and said with a smile: "The thief army is at least one hundred and fifty miles away from Linzi, and it will not arrive until tomorrow morning at the earliest, I think the reinforcements should also rush to Beihai County, and together with our army, we can fight with the thief army." ”

After experiencing an ambush battle, Du Yunsi found that the combat effectiveness of the thief soldiers was extremely weak and vulnerable at all, and he also had confidence, and even felt that his five hundred soldiers could fight to the death with the thief soldiers, and he didn't need any reinforcements, but he didn't dare to say this kind of crazy words in front of Changshi.

"I know a small road, at least nearly fifty miles than the route of the thief army, if you speed up, you can reach Linzi County first."

Wei Yunqi pondered for a moment and said to the two scouts: "The two of you immediately go north to take the Pingbei Official Road, receive our reinforcements, and let them divert to Linzi County!" ”

The two scouts saluted and hurried away.

Wei Yunqi wrote another note, handed it to another soldier and said, "Go back to Yidu County immediately, give this note to Liu Sima, and go quickly!" ”

There was an exchange of pigeon letters between Yidu County and Linzi County, and Wei Yunqi wanted to use the pigeon letter to inform Linzi County to move people from outside the city into the city and close the city gates, and it was best to recruit some strong men.

Wei Yunqi finally arranged for more than a dozen soldiers to escort the prisoners of war back to Yidu County, and then he, together with Du Yunsi, led hundreds of people to march quickly to Linzi County on a small road, and they had to rush to Linzi County before the thieves.

Time passes little by little, and everyone is racing against time to see who can take the lead first. (To be continued.) )