Chapter 58 (Part I) A Raccoon Dog

"Let go of the old man! Let go of the old man! Let go of me, it's the order! The old man is the secretary of the criminal department! It's Daxing left! You are the team sent by Fan Zigai to reinforce the old man, and you must listen to the old man's orders! Stop it! Stop it! All withdraw to the camp and hold on! All to the old man to withdraw to the camp! Liu Changgong, you horseman! You greedy for life and afraid of death! Let go of the old man! The old man wants to join you! The old man wants to join you! ”

The arduous retreat began, and General Liu and his troops were no longer able to run and escape, and it was not an easy task to evacuate the battlefield as much as possible and get rid of the pursuit of the rebel army when the two armies were fighting fiercely. However, this is only a trivial matter for General Liu, and the most troublesome major matter is how to deal with Wei Xuanwei's old stubbornness, which is even more stubborn than Fan Zigai - because the fortified camp is still in the hands of the Sui army, Wei Xuan refuses to give up the camp and retreat westward, saying that he wants Liu Changgong's troops to withdraw to the camp and continue to compete with the rebel army with the camp fortifications.

General Liu, who has a lot of experience in escaping, will only return to the camp if he is stupid - the main force of the rebels has been chasing after the buttocks, General Liu withdrew to the camp at this time, and in the absence of elite troops to take over the protection, the narrow camp gate alone is enough for General Liu to drink a pot, and when the time comes, the Sui army will trample on each other in front of the camp in order to survive, not to mention, you push me, the trenches dug by the Wei Xuanjun before, the pointed piles and the antlers that resist horses, and the traps next to the camp to prevent the enemy's sneak attack, But all of them had to be enjoyed by General Liu in advance, and the rebel team rushed behind the buttocks, and General Liu really didn't want to suffer heavy casualties.

Therefore, no matter how Wei Xuan yelled and shouted, how he shouted and ordered as a great minister of the Great Sui, General Liu just turned a deaf ear, led the team to flee westward, led the army to flee quickly and not chaotically, and was still able to basically be neat and orderly when the enemy was close at hand, showing the majestic style of the chief escape master of the Right Guard, so that no matter how tight and fast the rebel team chased, it would not be able to enter General Liu's team and kill him.

Fortunately, although there are still some teams from Zuo Wuwei on Wei Xuan's side, but in this case, none of these friends of Zuo Wuwei are willing to listen to the death order of the old stubborn Wei Xuan, but they just follow Liu Changgong's team to flee for their lives, and no one is unhappy to stop Liu Changgong's personal soldiers from coercing Wei Xuan to flee west.

At the same time, when Liu Changgong's team crossed the camp of Wei Xuanjun and continued to march westward, the small number of Sui troops who remained in the camp had already opened the back door of the camp and ran in front of Liu Changgong's army in advance, leaving behind the empty fortified camp and countless ordnance baggage for the rebels as trophies. Seeing this scene, Liu Changgong, who had been scolded by Wei Xuan before, finally had something to say, pointing to the Daxing Sui army that fled quickly and said to Wei Xuan: "Wei Shangshu, you scold the last man who is greedy for life and afraid of death, and the last general is greedy for life and afraid of death, at least to keep you retreating, what about your team?" Have they ever thought about your safety? ”

Wei Xuan was completely speechless, and continued to cry loudly again, crying loudly: "The old man lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he had a negative emperor!" The old man lost his teacher and humiliated the country, and he had a negative emperor's errand! ”

"Hu Si Wanshan, you ask for more blessings, General Ben really can't save you." Looking back, seeing that Hu Si Wanshan's team did not follow, Liu Changgong, who did not have the courage to kill back to meet the friendly army, could only pray for the respectable friendly army, and then pulled out his horizontal knife and shouted, "Send an order to the whole army, turn west at full speed!" Sue sΓΉ brothers, sue sΓΉ every brother, the white-robed soldiers are in front of us to answer us, as long as we escape to the white-robed soldiers, we can live! Run! Spread your legs and run! ”

In fact, there is no need for General Liu to waste his strength to order, the soldiers under his command who are equally experienced in escaping have already fled west at full speed, and the experienced ones have thrown away all the unnecessary burdens except for weapons and dry food, and ran out of the speed of war horses only when they fled on foot, and the experienced ones dodged the knives and guns that came from the later, and the experienced ones adjusted their own teams in the process of escaping to avoid trampling on each other, and the more experienced ones threw down their wounded companions and marched forward, and those wounded soldiers who were thrown down did not cry or make trouble. Immediately rolled to the side of the road to avoid being trampled to death, and then knelt on the ground and raised his hands and shouted, "I surrender!" I give up! Long live Chu Gong! Down with the tyrant Yang Guang! Surrender! I want to join the righteous teacher of Chu Gong-! ”

In this way, even with Wei Xuan, who was crying bitterly, and some friendly teams, and General Liu's team, which was mainly infantry, ran out of the escape speed that only cavalry had in the strategic turn. As a result, it also hurt the rebel team chasing and killing behind, from top to bottom, they had obviously exerted their speed to the limit, running like flying legs and spitting at the horses, but they couldn't catch up with Liu Changgong's team in front of them, so that Yang Xuan, who personally led the rebel team to chase and kill, was inexplicable, "How did these officers and soldiers in front of them train?" Why are the infantry running faster than my horses? ”

After chasing and killing for more than twenty miles in one go, seeing that he still couldn't catch up with Liu Changgong's team, Yang Xuangan was so desperate that he wanted to give up the pursuit, but at this time, Li Mi quickly caught up with Yang Xuangan's team, and told Yang Xuangan about his and Li Zixiong's analysis and judgment, Yang Xuangan's face changed greatly and he didn't dare to slack off, so he quickly ordered the team to continue the pursuit at full speed, and he was never allowed to stop and rest before catching up with the enemy! Li Mi also stayed by Yang Xuangan's side to assist in commanding, and at the same time, Yang Xuangan arranged for a team to respond in the rear, ready to cross the Sui army to seize the dangerous pass west of Hongnong, and block the Sui army's road to continue westward to reinforce Tongguan.

The super-large-scale track and field competition began, this is an endurance race that is half longer than the marathon, and the prize is survival and victory, if the rebel team can catch up with Liu Changgong's army before arriving at the destination, then it can easily kill the Liu Changgong team with a combat strength of five, greatly reducing the difficulty and pressure of entering Tongguan, and completely avoiding the doom of being annihilated by the main force of the Sui army in the Cuihan Road. If General Liu's team can not be overtaken by the rebels before receiving it, they can gain hope of survival, win post-war rewards and rewards, and return home alive to continue the hot kang with his wife and children.

Both sides are for survival, both sides are for the hope of survival, the fierceness of this track and field competition can naturally be imagined, in order to save the body, the rebel team gave up useless shouting, silently just strode forward, desperately trying to close the distance with the Sui army. Shouting slogans and shouting and cheering were even more useless to General Liu's troops, who also made no noise and strode westward without saying a word, desperately trying to distance themselves from the enemy. There were more than 10,000 chasing and fleeing two armies, one after the other, except for the sound of footsteps and horses' hooves, there was almost no extra sound, only the desperate cry of Daxing left behind to guard Xuan, which kept echoing in the narrow Cuihan Road, "The old man lost his teacher and humiliated the country, there is a negative emperor, there is a negative emperor! ”

With the gradual passage of time, the advancement of the schedule, the situation that the rebel team was angry and belly exploded, and the well-prepared General Liu Da's team actually took out dry food and water bags, eating and drinking while playing, and the few cavalrymen in the team also untied the package on the horseback, took out the fried bean cake, and fed it to the mouth of the war horse with his hand, and advanced while feeding the horse, some of the more prepared cavalry also took out a bowl of water to feed the horse, so that their war horse could keep their body sufficient, Up and down is a calm and unhurried look. The rebel team, which had not thought of this game in advance, was not well prepared, and both the generals and soldiers and the horses under their crotches could only stride forward hungry and dry, angry but helpless.

Yang Xuangan's rebel team was angry about this, and Wei Xuan, who had finally stopped crying bitterly, was also inexplicable, and while receiving the dry food and water bags personally handed over by General Liu Changgong, he asked suspiciously: "Why are your Eastern Capital teams so well prepared?" The old man remembered that before the war, he didn't ask you to prepare dry food? ”

"Does Wei Shangshu want to hear the truth or lie?" General Liu learned Fan Zigai's tone and smiled: "If it's a coincidence, we just happened to prepare." Don't be angry, in fact, our Dongdu army was not optimistic about this battle of Michi from the beginning, knowing that this battle was basically a steady loss, so we had already prepared dry food and drinking water to facilitate eating and drinking on the way when retreating. ”

"None of you are optimistic about this Michi battle?" Wei Xuan's face began to look ugly again.

"At this point, the last general will not hide it from you." Liu Changgong said truthfully: "Actually, before we came to reinforce you, we had already expected that the battle of Michi would be auspicious, because Wei Shangshu you are too anxious to take revenge, you will definitely not be willing to defend passively, and you must be in a hurry to fight a decisive battle to take revenge." What about Yang rebels, they have no hope of survival except for the road to Guanzhong in the west, in order to survive, they must work together and fight to the death, and your team is all the remnants of the defeated soldiers left in the Battle of Bishan, as the old saying goes, how can the defeated army be brave, Wei Shangshu, you use the defeated army to meet the Yang rebel thief's army of death, how many chances can you win? ”

Things have come to this point, no matter how stubborn Wei Xuan is, how can he listen to some of Liu Changgong's words, and because of this, Wei Xuan suddenly discovered that this fiasco was completely caused by his stubbornness, if he could have listened to some of the good words and persuasions of Fan Zigai and Liu Changgong and others before, how could he have today?

Ashamed, Wei Xuan couldn't help but hang down his white head, Liu Changgong saw his thoughts, and comforted: "Wei Liushou, you don't have to worry, we will not be in danger, Tongguan and Guanzhong will not be in danger, Brother Ying Liang is waiting for us in front, as long as we and Brother Ying Liang will join forces, and then we will immediately repel Yang Rei's pursuers, and join forces to retreat to Tongguan, with Brother Ying Liang here, Yang Rebellious Traitor is no matter how many troops there are, don't think of crossing Tongguan one step!" ”

"Chen Yingliang?" Wei Xuan raised his head again and asked in surprise: "You have so much confidence in him, his team is only about 700 people, can you stop so many Yang Yi chasing soldiers?" ”

"How can the last general have confidence in his brother?" Liu Changgong laughed and asked loudly, "Brothers, do you have confidence in Chen Ji's room and the white-robed soldiers?" Believe it or not, they can stop Yang Reyi's pursuers and let us stop and rest? ”

"Have faith." "Believe." The soldiers of the Sui Army in the Eastern Capital next to him agreed with a big mouth, shouting as they strode forward, "As long as there are white-robed soldiers, no matter how many traitors there are, don't be afraid!" ”

"The guard stays behind, do you see it?" Liu Changgong said confidently: "Brother Ying Liang is not only brave in fighting, but also very good at using his brains, and the last general will also dare to bet that Yang rebels will not chase us to the division with Brother Yingliang, as long as they dare to chase that place, Brother Ying Liang will definitely be able to make them suffer enough!" ”

Wei Xuan stopped talking, not only surprised by the absolute confidence of the soldiers of the Sui Army in the Eastern Capital in Chen Yingliang, but also wondered in his heart, "Chen Yingliang? Why did the old man seem to have heard this name before? When he sees him, the old man must find an opportunity to ask about it. ”