The Longxi soldiers are indeed stronger than the Sui army in Guanzhong in terms of combat effectiveness, even if they encounter Li Jingjun, the strongest partial division of the Sui army in Guanzhong, Li Jingjun, who is the best at formation warfare and knows the most about formation warfare among the Sui army, still beat Li Jingjun out of breath in the camp battle, and forced the god of war Li Jingdu to give up the outer camp to shrink the defensive line, basically as long as Chen Fuliang did not dispatch the main force in time to force Xue Ju to return to the division, Xue Jujun's main force to annihilate Li Jingjun is indeed very sure.

But it's a pity that the Sui army's bias was originally a trap, and although the main force of the Sui army, which fought with Xue Jujun for the first time, didn't know much about Xue Jujun, it also successfully created a series of illusions, so that Xue Jujun's decision-makers Yan Zòng misjudged the combat effectiveness of the main force of the Sui army, and even believed that Chen Fuliang, who no one dared to believe in the Central Plains battlefield, was unable to command the battle because he was sick, and stupidly ran into the depths of the mountain road to fight for the annihilation of the Sui army's partial division, and Yan zhòng weakened the strength of the Eastern Front. When the main force of the Sui army attacked in a big way and showed its true strength, Xue Jujun was dumbfounded.

If it is on the plain terrain, it is good to say, the distance of fifteen miles between the east and west lines can be regarded as non-existent for Xue Jujun, who has many cavalry, but Xue Jujun is fighting on narrow mountain roads, and there is no road in the south of the east and west, and although the mountain beams in the north are relatively low, they still strictly limit the mobility of Xue Jujun's ace cavalry, and finally coupled with Xue Jujun's own camp and fortifications, Xue Jujun's activity space has actually been compressed to a rather terrible point. With the continuous strong attack of the main force of the Sui army and the partial division, this space is getting smaller and smaller.

It is even more painful to be pinched in a narrow space, and what is even more painful is that there are bronze artillery that can be thrown and bombarded on the main side of the Sui army, and later the Sui army artillery simply does not need to aim, only need to blast the shells out at the maximum elevation angle, and it is absolutely impossible to make a mistake, and a cannon can also kill more than a dozen Xue Jujun soldiers, the shells roar and fall to the ground irregularly, and the Xue Ju soldiers fell to the ground one after another, either broken tendons or spitting blood, and countless people who were smashed internal organs were smashed and their heads were smashed. Xue Ju's soldiers screamed incessantly, running to avoid bullets not only disrupted the queue, but also dealt a heavy blow to the morale of the army, and magnified the weakness of Xue Jujun's military discipline was not strict enough, so countless soldiers only cared about fleeing for their lives, and had no mind to resist the battle.

The defeat has been decided, even if the command of Xue Jujun has the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, it cannot change this situation, Xue Ju was forced to have no choice, and he could only order to abandon the camp and retreat, preserve his strength as much as possible and retreat to the way he came, and prepare to return to the current base Changwu City to reorganize the troops and horses to make a comeback, and for the Sui army in Guanzhong, this battle is undoubtedly a God-given opportunity to solve the problem of the western front in one fell swoop, so not only Chen Fuliang immediately issued an order to let the main force pursue with all his might, but the exhausted Sui army Li Jingbu also disregarded the huge consumption of the body, resolutely joined the pursuit battle, and a pursuit battle that determined the future direction of Guanzhong also kicked off.

The flames rose in the camp of Xue Jujun, and the soldiers of Xue Ju, who were scrambling to flee for their lives, knocked over the fence, tore down the camp tent, overturned the baggage grain cart, and the bonfire used for heating and cooking ignited the camp tent grain cart, the smoke was billowing and the flames were tumbling, but Xue Ju soldiers did not have time to consider whether these fires were burning precious military supplies or burning more precious grain and grass, and they strode north from top to bottom, fleeing to the direction of Randian, which was open terrain. The soldiers of the Sui army in pursuit also did not have time to take care of these precious trophies that were reachable, and strode only to chase the fleeing enemy in front, swords and axes, desperately harvesting the lives of the enemy, and the slogans of surrender and not killing came and went, but these slogans were completely drowned in the deafening shouts and noises.

The infantry of the Sui army led by Kan Liang was like a thick iron nail, firmly nailed to the north gate of Xue Jujun's camp, and the Mo knife rose and fell, constantly chopping, cutting down the soldiers of Xue Jujun who took the initiative to approach or were pushed close by their companions, and also completely shattered Xue Jujun's dream of fleeing on a large scale. The fortification fence on the north side of Xue Jujun's camp was also overturned by his own soldiers, trampled into pieces, and above and below the fragments of the fence were layers of corpses of Xue Jujun's soldiers that were almost like meat sauce.

Cheng Yanjin and Qin Qiong under the mountain were also frantically slashing and killing the defeated soldiers of Xue Jujun, and snatching precious war horses as much as possible, and replaced them with the Longxi cavalry who usually ate on horseback and lived on horseback when they were young, and they didn't need to be afraid of the Sui cavalry trained by the farming people, but at this moment, the Longxi cavalry who were skilled in archers and horses had no desire to fight, even if they saw the Sui cavalry rushing towards them, they were unwilling to raise their swords and guns to fight back, but they just tried to avoid fleeing north, The cavalry of the Sui army, who were inferior to them, were wantonly slaughtered like machetes and cut vegetables, including Xue Jujun's general Yan Shizheng, who was stabbed off their horses by two unknown Sui cavalry in this chaotic army, and then quickly trampled into meat sauce by the horse's hooves, and died with no bones left.

Although the Sui army on the northern front fought quite well in the interception battle and won a huge victory, to borrow a famous saying from a certain general in later generations, even if it was 50,000 pigs, it was impossible for a bandit to catch them in three days and three nights! In addition, the time is in the daytime, the light is abundant and the terrain in the north is relatively open, the probability of accidental injury by trampling on each other is far smaller than that of the night, and there are also more than 50,000 troops Xue Jujun was chased tightly, and was beaten badly by the Sui army on the northern line, still more than half of them rushed through the interception of the Sui army on the northern line, and fled into the more open terrain around Randian, which also included Xue Ju himself and his baby son Xue Renguo, as well as Zong Luohu, Hao Jin, Zhai Changsun and Liang Lishu and other important ministers of Xue Jujun's civil and military affairs.

Chen Fuliang and his cousin Li Jing met in a hurry in the camp of Xue Jujun, and after persuading his cousin to return to the camp to rest and was refused, Chen Fuliang was not reluctant, but quickly said to Li Jing: "Uncle Cousin, then you take the army to be in charge of the Randian battlefield, I will lead the main force to chase into the shallow water plain, I have already gone to the order on the side of the big camp, they are already pulling the camp north, after you and Du Ruhui will meet, they will go north to the shallow water plain to meet me, I have already explained that the rear army is under your command, pay attention to keep in touch with me." ”

Li Jing agreed, and then asked, "Virtuous nephew, have you arranged an ambush in the north?" ”

"I asked Guo Feng and Chen Ancestral Hall to report to the national army to the north, and ambushed Randian on the way north to the shallow water plain." Chen Fuliang replied.

"It's too little, only six regiments of more than 1,200 cavalry, too little." Li Jing shook his head and said: "Virtuous nephew, your only deployment mistake in this battle is that you left too many reserves, the mountain roads are narrow, these reserves cannot be put into the battlefield immediately, it is useless, if you send some more troops to the north to ambush, we will be more sure of annihilating the main force of Xue Ju's thief army." ”

"I didn't expect it to go so smoothly." Chen Fuliang replied rather depressedly: "Xue Ju's thief army has quite strong combat effectiveness, in order to ensure the breakthrough of his eastern defense line and his camp, he left too many reserves on the eastern front. ”

"Forget it, it's useless to regret it, you are also to ensure victory, and you have sent too many troops north, it will definitely be difficult to hide from the eyes of Xue Ju's thief army, it is also useless." Li Jing comforted his nephew, and said: "Virtuous nephew, fighter planes are rare, you lead the main force to pursue the enemy, you must no longer be cautious and conservative, even if you chase Changwu City, you must go all out to kill Xue Ju and his son!" Xue Ju's thief army still has tens of thousands of soldiers and horses left in the area of Changwu City, and there are also more than 50,000 troops left in Laochao Tianshui, if Xue Ju escapes back, it will only be more difficult to completely annihilate him, so no matter how difficult and bitter it is, you must chase it to the end, and you must not leave Xue Ju a chance to breathe! ”

Chen Fuliang agreed, and immediately led the main force to pursue north, and at this time, Chen Fuliang found that in addition to mistakenly retaining too many reserves in this battle, there was also a mistake that he did not give Qu Tutong an order in advance, otherwise, if Qu Tutong took his remaining thousands of troops to the south in time to fortify in Shallow Water Plain, not only was he destined to win a greater victory, but he was also much more sure of killing Xue Ju's father and son in Shallow Water Plain.

After regretting that it was useless and asking himself to keep these two mistakes in mind, Chen Fuliang secretly comforted himself, and said in his heart: "There is also a report to the national army, and the newspaper **** has always been very lucky in capturing the thief and capturing the king first, and he will definitely be able to catch Xue Ju himself, and maybe he will capture Xue Ju's father and son alive in front of me like capturing Yang Xuangan and the Turkic Khan." ”

Chen Fuliang is just a traverser, not a god, it is impossible for everything to be like a god, today Chen Fuliang was wrong, in terms of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, the good luck of the national army did see Xue Ju's handsome banner, and immediately attacked to cut Xue Ju. But the good luck of the Baoguo Army ended here, with Xue Ju's immediate order to put down the handsome flag, the **** soldiers who were a little far away immediately lost their target, and when Xue Ju's father and son, who had already changed into ordinary soldiers' clothes, rushed straight to the shallow water plain with the cavalry, it was more difficult for the Baoguo Army to find Xue Ju himself than to ascend to the sky.

Fortunately, as long as it is confirmed that Xue Ju is hiding in this cavalry, after hacking to death a lot of Xue Jujun's infantry knights in the charge, the Baoguo army did not hesitate to follow the enemy brigade into the shallow water plain, biting the enemy army where Xue Ju was hiding, while slashing and killing the enemy as much as possible, while looking for Xue Ju's whereabouts.

However, soon, Guo Feng, Chen Ci and Zhao Yu gradually realized that the situation was not good, and the shallow water plain with too open terrain not only gave Xue Jujun cavalry too much space to escape, but also gave Xue Jujun cavalry the opportunity to shoot kites with their best hands to report the **** soldiers. As a heavy cavalry, although the Baoguo army even wore horse armor and had a strong defense against bows and arrows, it was naturally limited in speed, and it could not catch up with the cavalry of Xue Jujun, who threw down a qiē, and not only failed to close the distance with Xue Jujun's cavalry during the pursuit, but was thrown farther and farther away.

"Fuck it! Get out! "It's not okay to take some risks without taking some risks at this point, Guo Feng shouted: "Chen Ci, Zhao Yu, just take off our iron armor and horse armor!" Light Horse Pursuit! Anyway, we still wear gauze in our underwear, and it is easy to treat if we are injured by an arrow! ”

Chen Ci and Zhao Yu also knew that the fighter plane was fleeting, so they immediately yelled and agreed, and loudly ordered the soldiers to take off their heavy armor and throw down their horse armor, and go into battle lightly to chase and kill, leaving only a small number of wounded soldiers and recruits with insufficient combat effectiveness to guard the equipment. At the same time, when he turned around and saw that the **** soldiers had disarmed their equipment, Xue Ju was also ruthless and shouted: "All the horses, re-establish my handsome flag, turn around and kill the whole team, and kill this group of white-robed horsemen!" ”

"Your Majesty, let's go back to Changwu Fort first." Hao Ying wiped his sweat and said, "We will be safe when we return to Changwu Fort, and then it's not too late to take revenge!" ”

"Fuck off, a thousand cavalry, I'm still afraid?" Xue Ju pushed Hao Ying away and shouted loudly: "The whole team, the whole team, we still have 5,000 horsemen here, turn around and kill the white-robed soldiers, and let him Chen Yingliang cry too!" ”

The Longxi soldiers were indeed brave, and they did not hesitate after listening to Xue Ju's order, and immediately reined in the whole team to form a charging formation, and also raised Xue Ju's handsome flag again as required, and then launched a charge under the leadership of Xue Ju, and killed the Baoguo army that had changed from heavy cavalry to light cavalry, and although Guo Feng and Chen Ci and others did not expect Xue Ju to have such a hand, they still did not hesitate to charge on horseback, collided head-on with Xue Ju's cavalry, and launched the most cruel cavalry hand-to-hand battle.

This day is also the most dangerous day since the **** became an army, and the **** soldiers who have long been accustomed to heavy cavalry tactics suddenly became light cavalry, or to fight cavalry hand-to-hand combat with extremely high requirements for defense, whether it is mentality or habits, it is inevitable that some are not accustomed, brave generals such as Guo Feng Chen Ci, because they are not afraid of sudden attacks and are injured on the battlefield, plus the number of cavalry of Xue Jujun is at least four times that of the national army, and it is difficult to defeat the four hands of the two fists, and the **** is reported For the first time, he was at a disadvantage on the battlefield, and was killed by Xue Jujun's cavalry who jumped over the wall in a hurry.

If it weren't for that accidental coincidence, Bao **** would definitely be defeated today, but probably because a young monk recited a peace mantra for his brother all day long, a Sui army that no one expected in advance suddenly appeared on the edge of the battlefield, and rushed to help the battle without hesitation. Taking a closer look at the banner of this mysterious Sui army, Xue Ju was also dumbfounded with the generals of the Baoguo Army.

"Qu Tutong?!" Guo Feng and Chen Ci, who were at a disadvantage, shouted in disbelief in surprise, "When did the army of the old general Qu Tu come here?" ”

"Qu Tutong? Why did that old puppet suddenly appear? Xue Ju screamed even more in disbelief, and said with chagrin: "I didn't use all my strength to take down Ding'an, and put Qu Tu's old horseman into a sack and trampled it to death with 3,000 war horses, which is simply the biggest mistake in my life!" ”

No matter how much you regret it, it's useless, the cavalry of Xue Jujun, who has already started a melee with the Baoguo army, is in a hurry, and it is impossible to regroup the army to intercept the sudden appearance of Qu Tutong's army, let alone quickly get rid of the battlefield to get rid of entanglement, and the infantry under Qu Tutong's command is riding on foot, relying on the physical advantage of the new army, rushing into the battlefield like flying, and the flexible swimming fish is like a swimming fish entering the battlefield, stabbing the enemy up and cutting the enemy horse, and killing the cavalry of Xue Jujun's army, which is too close to parry. The Baoguo Army, which was once at a disadvantage, also took the opportunity to fight back, relying on its martial arts experience to slash and kill the Xue Ju cavalry, which had hastily encountered the enemy and fell into chaos, completely turning the tide of the battle.

There was also a Sui infantry detour back to the north, when the road blocked Xue Jujun's north escape road, the panicked Xue Ju shouted bad luck, did not dare to continue the war, quickly ordered to collect the troops, in a vain attempt to take the cavalry around the Sui infantry to intercept the north flight, but the cavalry of Xue Jujun, who had been caught in the melee, wanted to withdraw from the battlefield again, and the hasty retreat was either stabbed down by the Baoguo army or cut down by the infantry under Qu Tutong, the casualties were quite small, and the Sui infantry in the north also advanced in formation, quickly compressed the activity space of Xue Jujun's cavalry, and also continued to shoot Xue Jujun's cavalry who fled alone.

Due north is Jingshui and there is no way to go, behind is the Sui army chasing soldiers, turning back is looking for death, the northwest direction leading to Changwu City was blocked by the Sui army infantry, the tired Xue Jujun cavalry is difficult to break through, at the moment of crisis, Xue Ju can only run south with the army, Xue Jujun cavalry in the hasty retreat of their own chaos, fled all over the mountains, and at the same time threw down Xue Ju's damn handsome flag, the national army shouted the slogan of capturing Xue Ju alive and chased after it, and the Sui army infantry who participated in the melee also relied on their bodies to chase after the cavalry, Biting the tail of Xue Ju's defeated army.

On the battlefield, there is also a cavalry belonging to the new force has always been immovable, the number is very small, only about 600 people, this army is the last capital of the cavalry under the command of the veteran of the Sui army Qu Tutong, commanded by himself himself, seeing the defeat of Xue Ju's army, the left and right persuaded Qu Tutong to immediately launch a pursuit, but Qu Tutong shook his head and refused, just ordered the infantry in the formation not to move, to help intercept the defeated soldiers of Xue Ju's army that was gradually fleeing behind, and at the same time a pair of eagle falcon eyes stared at the battlefield to find Xue Ju's whereabouts.

After looking for an enemy in conspicuous armor for a long time, Qu Tutong came to a conclusion and said: "Xue Ju Pifu must have changed into the clothes of an ordinary soldier, and there is no target for reporting ****, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find Xue Ju Pifu himself." ”

"So what do we do?" The subordinate asked.

"I can only try my luck by catching up." Qu Tutong sighed, and said with a wry smile: "It's just that the old man's luck has ...... in the past few years, alas——! ”

With a long sigh, Qu Tutong, who had memorized the idea to the extreme in recent years, still launched a pursuit with more than 600 cavalry, and handed over the infantry to the deputy for temporary command, but after catching up with the cavalry of Xue Jujun with a full body, Qu Tutong was extremely sad to see that the battlefield was full of stragglers, not only could not even see the slightly large-scale cavalry of Xue Jujun, but even the sky was getting dark, and it was even more difficult to find Xue Ju than to ascend to the sky.

Unwilling to give up, he continued to chase wildly with the cavalry, until he reached the near entrance of the narrow road in the north of the shallow water plain, Qu Tutong did not find Xue Ju's shadow, and he didn't ask for a decent confession after catching a few prisoners, saying that he had run away with Xue Ju, and he didn't know Xue Ju's whereabouts at all.

The subordinates on the left and right refused to give up, and built a yì Qu Tutong chased into the narrow road, and ventured to approach Changwu City to find Xue Ju's whereabouts, Qu Tutong was a little tempted, but did not immediately adopt it, after a little calculation, Qu Tutong also pulled out an arrow from the quiver, touched the arrow with both hands and faced the sky, and said solemnly: "God, the old man's fame, in the past few years, has been completely lost, today is the best opportunity for the old man to be ashamed, I hope you have mercy, for the old man to point out the location of Xue Ju's husband!" Heaven forbid! ”

Roaring, Qu Tutong threw the feather arrow away with both hands, and when the feather arrow landed, the tip of the arrow pointed in the direction of the mountain forest due north.

"Old general, the hexagram you bought points to the northwest mountains and forests, where there can be Tibetans, and there must be a small road into Changwu City, let's chase it." A ministry will build yì road.

Qu Tutong was silent, staring at the feather arrow for a moment, Qu Tutong suddenly shouted, "The old man doesn't believe in my good luck!" Just believe in my bad luck! Head south! Go in the opposite direction! ”

Roaring, Qu Tutong turned his horse's head and walked south with the cavalry, the soldiers of the Sui army couldn't cry or laugh, but the main general didn't dare to object when he gave the order, so he could only quickly pat his horse and follow. As a result, they walked almost two miles to the south, Qu Tutong and the others not only did not see Xue Ju's shadow, but also did not even see the ordinary soldiers of Xue Jujun's two, the soldiers of the Sui army secretly lamented, and Qu Tutong's face became more and more pale.

The sky was about to get dark, and Qu Tutong, who was hopeless in looking for the thief chieftain, was lamenting his moldy star, but a soldier suddenly pointed to the south and shouted: "Old general, there are people in front, more than a dozen!" ”

Qu Tutong quickly raised his head, and saw that there were indeed more than ten enemies wearing Xue Jujun's uniform in the snow, and one of them was also wearing a literati costume, Qu Tutong also suddenly roared, "There are civil officials!" It's probably Xue Ju! Pursue! Surround them! ”

Roaring, Qu Tutong took the lead in clapping the horse forward, with more than 600 cavalry tide covered, the dozen Xue Jujun cavalry saw the shock, and hurriedly slapped the horse to flee for their lives, but the war horses were all exhausted, the speed could not be fast in any case, and before they could escape into the mountains and forests where they could hide, they were surrounded by the Sui cavalry that came like a tide, and then Qu Tutong came out of the horse, pointed at the man in literati clothes with a horsewhip, and asked: "Who are you?" Where is Xue Ju? ”

There is no way to go to the sky, there is no way to go to the ground, but the middle-aged literati who was covered with blood and dirt on his face was silent, hanging his head and not answering, while a strong man in his thirties next to him raised a knife and crossed his chest, looked at Qu Tutong vigilantly, and asked: "A thousand taels of gold, change the road, okay?" ”

"Of course not." Qu Tutong shook his head and said with a smile: "The old man has been carrying his back for several years, and he finally caught a few decent prisoners, how could he let them go?" However, if you know where Xue Ju is and take the old man to find him, the old man will promise to protect you from death in front of the prime minister! ”

After smiling, Qu Tutong shouted again: "Put down your weapon, don't force the old man to do it!" ”

"Lay down your arms!" All the soldiers of the Sui army shouted in unison.

The strong man gritted his teeth, and the horse seemed to want to fight a fish to break the net, but an equally thick arm grabbed him, and then a tall man in his fifties slapped his horse out of the ranks, shook his head at Qu Tutong and sighed, and said calmly: "It is my bad luck to deliberately go south and be surrounded by you, and it is also my fate, since it is fate, then I can only accept my fate." I am Xue Ju, and I surrender. ”R1148