Li Er hurriedly bypassed Huang Ziying's rear army and marched eastward, and when Pegasus chased to the position of the Dingyang Army's central army, the Central Army Brigade of the Dingyang Army led by Liu Wuzhou himself was already a crowd of chickens and dogs, and the generals at all levels kept shouting and shouting, asking the army to speed up its advance, and the soldiers were in a hurry, constantly whipping oxen, mules, and donkeys and struggling to push the vehicles carrying military supplies and baggage forward.

Fortunately, Liu Wuzhou is still very smart, and he has already let the cavalry leave the Chinese army brigade in advance and go out to the open north to form a separate army, so as to avoid more chaos in the mixing of infantry and cavalry, and also let the cavalry of the Dingyang Army be put into battle on the battlefield at any time. But as Li Er expected, the cavalry of the Dingyang army really focused their attention on the rear, and the reconnaissance sentry horse kept reporting the battle in the rear back and forth, and did not send a large number of scouts to the north to reconnoiter the dark place, obviously not preventing the Sui army from lying in ambush in the dark place in the north in advance.

Loudly reminded the generals of the Dingyang Army, Xun Xiang and Zhang Wansui, who commanded the cavalry, to beware of the sudden enemy from the north, Li Er hurried all the way, and finally found Liu Wuzhou's handsome banner, and tried to take Liu Wuzhou but was stopped by Liu Wuzhou's guards, and asked Li Er to wait until Liu Wuzhou agreed before he could come forward to meet him. The military situation was like fire, Li Er didn't dare to delay for half a moment, regardless of the guards' obstruction, he just tore his throat and yelled, "Brother Wu Zhou! Brother Wu Zhou! The younger brother Li Erlang has an urgent matter to see! 100,000 urgent events! 100,000 urgent! ”

Even if Li Er's voice is loud, his shouting is still heard by Liu Wuzhou in the shouting and neighing, although he has gradually begun to look at Li Er, the future brother-in-law, unpleasantly, but in order to keep abreast of the situation on the battlefield in the rear, Liu Wuzhou still asked Li Er to come forward to meet him, and then Liu Wuzhou couldn't wait to yell at Li Er: "Why did you lose so quickly?" Listen to Huang Ziying's messenger, your army was defeated before it lasted a moment, and your people are all eating dry food, why are you so incompetent? ”

"The junior brother's corporal has been fighting day after day, and he is too tired ......."

Li Er hurriedly explained with a bitter face, but before he could say anything, he was interrupted by Liu Wuzhou waving his hand, and then Liu Wuzhou roared: "I'm too lazy to listen to your excuses, I'll settle accounts with you in the future when His Royal Highness is not effective, tell me quickly, what is the situation behind?" How did Huang Ziying and Chen Thief's army fight? How many pursuers did the thief come? How far are we from it? ”

"When the younger brother came, the general had just begun to engage with the Chen thief's pursuers, and the younger brother didn't have time to understand the specific battle situation." Li Eryi replied truthfully, "The front army of the thief Chen has caught up with the rear of our army, and the Chinese army brigade is no more than five miles away from here. It was too dark for the younger brother to judge how many pursuers the thief had in Chen, but judging from the number of torches, there were at least more than 10,000 people, and maybe it might have exceeded 15,000! ”

Liu Wuzhou's face was longer than a donkey, but Liu Xiaoyan next to him directly scolded and said, "Waste! I don't know if I ask three questions, and if I say it, I don't say it! ”

At the critical moment of burning his eyebrows, Li Er couldn't care about these trivial things with his beautiful fiancée, but hurriedly said to Liu Wuzhou: "Brother, our danger is not only in the back, but also in the north, the younger brother expects that Chen Yingliang and the traitors have arranged an ambush on our withdrawal road in advance, if we don't deal with it early, we will inevitably suffer a big loss!" ”

"Thief Chen has already arranged an ambush in advance?"

Liu Wuzhou's surprise was not trivial, and when he listened to Li Er's quick introduction of the clues he found when observing the enemy situation and his analysis of the situation of the Sui army, Liu Wuzhou's face couldn't help but change, and he subconsciously looked up to look at the north, but saw that the north was dark, and there was no abnormality at all. Li Erbu said again: "Brother, don't worry, we should not have entered the ambush circle of the Chen thief army, the terrain in this area is relatively narrow, there are many rocks and trees, and it is not very suitable for the cavalry of the thief army. ”

After quickly observing the terrain again, and found that as Li Er said, this area was not very suitable for cavalry raids and charges, Liu Wuzhou hurriedly asked again: "Then according to the opinion of the virtuous brother, how should our army deal with the ambush soldiers that the thief Chen may arrange?" ”

"Brother, the Chen thief ambush is not possible, it must exist! Otherwise, the thief Chen would never have pursued our army with light infantry! Li Er hurriedly corrected it, and said quickly: "Brother, there is only one way to do it now, which is to immediately abandon all the baggage vehicles, use these baggage vehicles to block the road, and then ignite the fire, and set fire to block the main force of the Chen thief infantry." Then our army went straight to Yuci City lightly, the cavalry had already prepared and ignored the rear, the enemy ambushed and killed immediately to meet the battle, the infantry took the opportunity to rush to Yuci first, as long as the infantry entered the city, the cavalry could be very easy to withdraw! ”

Liu Wuzhou opened his mouth wide and asked in surprise: "Then what should we do with our army's rear team?" The Chinese army ignited and cut off the road, Huang Ziying, didn't they have no way to retreat? ”

Li Er was silent for a moment, and then he arched his hand and said, "Brother, so far, we can only save more soldiers and horses by making some necessary sacrifices. Otherwise, the main force of the Chen thief was in hot pursuit, and his ambush soldiers suddenly came out, and under the front and rear attacks, brother, your army of more than 30,000 people would not be able to keep it. ”

"Brother, don't listen to him!" Liu Xiaoyan, who was quite well-behaved and never interjected in the resolution of military policy, finally couldn't help it, and objected: "Brother, don't listen to the nonsense of this surnamed Li, his heart is too vicious, Brother Huang, they have more than 4,000 troops, and he threw away more than 4,000 soldiers with a word, let them die in vain, what should their families do?" What about their parents, wives and children? ”

"Brother, the younger brother knows that it is cruel to do this, but Ci is not in charge of the army, you must make a choice!" Li Er hurriedly said again: "For the sake of your main army, you can only do this!" Moreover, even if General Huang and his people were blocked by the fire, they could still break into pieces and continue to retreat to Yuci, and it would never be possible for the whole army to be wiped out! ”

"Shut up!" Liu Xiaoyan couldn't bear it anymore, and whipped directly at Li Er, and said angrily: "You vicious puppeteer, snake and scorpion, you get out of me, my brother won't listen to you!" I will never marry you! I won't marry you even if I am a concubine! ”

Liu Xiaoyan's horsewhip was grabbed by Li Eryi, and he dragged the horsewhip hard to prevent Liu Xiaoyan from having a chance to pull it back, Li Er ignored Liu Xiaoyan's scolding and angry scolding and the angry gaze of the soldiers of Dingyang Army, but tried his best to persuade Liu Wuzhou to accept his suggestion and immediately give up the rear army and retreat at full speed. When Liu Wuzhou hesitated, the generals of the Dingyang Army next to him couldn't bear it, and while scolding Li Er's vicious heart, they said to Liu Wuzhou one after another: "Your Majesty, you can't listen to the nonsense of this puppet, Brother Huang is your old brother when Ma Yi raised the army, throw him down and send him to death in vain, we can't do this!" Ignore him, let's keep withdrawing, tell him to roll as far as he goes! ”

"That's right, this puppet has been talking nonsense and bragging since they met!" There was also the general of the Dingyang Army who pointed at Li Er and scolded: "Piff! You don't talk alarmist nonsense here, what Chen thief must first separate in every battle, you must take revenge on the thief, what you said has come true? Where are the Chen thieves in ambush? What Chen thief had long expected that our army would definitely withdraw to Yuci tonight, I think it was clearly you, the horseman, who told the Chen thief in advance, so the Chen thief was prepared, and you still want to help the Chen thief eat us bite by bite, right?! ”

In the face of the accusations of the generals of the Dingyang Army, Li Ertie was silent with a blushing face, just looking at Liu Wuzhou and waiting for his reply. However, it was a pity that after gritting his teeth and thinking for a while, Liu Wuzhou still patted his horse and continued to march eastward, and he didn't say anything: "Send an order to the whole army, accelerate the advance." Give Xun Xiang and Zhang Wansui an order, let them divide the cavalry into two, Xun Xiang led 3,000 cavalry to be responsible for returning to the rear army at a critical moment, and Zhang Wanzai led the rest of the cavalry to cover the flanks and strictly prevent the thief cavalry from raiding! ”

The generals of the Dingyang army sang their promises in unison, each acting according to the order, shouting loudly to order the army to speed up, Liu Xiaoyan also struggled to regain the horse whip, spat heavily at Li Er's feet, and then chased Liu Wuzhou without looking back, leaving Li Er in a stunned state of despair, and there was only one thought left in his mind, "Why are Li Jiancheng and Liu Wuzhou I met all incompetent rats who are a group of women?" Why don't they know that poisonous snakes devour wrists and strong men break their arms are the real heroes and heroes? ”

After the generals of the Dingyang Army and Liu Wuzhou left, Zhu Wei and Liang Jianfang, who had been blocked by the guards, had to come forward to Li Er, although they were too far away just now to hear the answer between Li Er and Liu Wuzhou and others, but just seeing Liu Wuzhou and others leaving and Li Er's dejected appearance, Zhu Wei and others already understood that Li Er's suggestion was definitely not adopted by Liu Wuzhou. So after hesitating for a while, Zhu Wei said to Li Er: "Right Governor, since Liu Wuzhou Pifu refuses to listen to your kind words and persuasion, then there is no need for us to accompany him to death, while the Chen thief ambush has not yet appeared, we will go north to get out of the battlefield first, and then find a way to come back to take revenge." ”

"What other chance do I have to come back for revenge?" Li Er's chest was extremely bitter, and he said secretly: "My capital has basically run out, Li Jiancheng has been offended by me to death, and he will definitely not allow me to enter Taiyuan City again, Liu Wuzhou's fiasco is imminent, and Dou Jiande is restrained by Luo Yi and can't live in Jingcheng Pass?" Although the world is big, what place do I have there? Do you want me to be a country boy and live incognito for the rest of my life? Or like a rogue, take the rest of the people around to rob houses? Wandering around, you may die at any time under the knife of a nameless rat? ”

After thinking for a while, Li Er gritted his teeth, and finally spoke: "Keep up with Liu Wuzhou's Chinese army, Liu Wuzhou has many generals after all, it is not so easy for Chen Thief to eat him in one bite, Liu Wuzhou doesn't listen to me now, and when he regrets it, he will know how important we are!" ”

After listening to Li Er's decision, Wang Huaiwen and Liang Jianfang, who were loyal to Li Er, had nothing to say, Zhu Wei wanted to oppose but understood that he could never change Li Er's decision, and he could only silently accept the order. Fortunately, Liu Wuzhou did not send anyone to stop him, and let Li Er and others follow eastward.

At this time, the rear team of the Dingyang army was already in full swing, in order to cover the retreat of the main force, Huang Ziying, the general of the Dingyang army, led the men and horses of the headquarters to fight desperately, and the formation blocked the road and fought very hard and firmly. Kan Ling and Qiu Xinggong also carried out an all-out impact regardless of casualties, and faced a knife-to-knife hand-to-hand battle with the Dingyang army.

Time is a hundred times more precious than gold, in order to kill Huang Ziying as soon as possible and open the way to enter the army, the brave general Qiu Xinggong also simply took off his armor and went into battle shirtless, carrying a big knife in the Dingyang army formation, killing people when he saw them, cutting them when he saw the enemy, and the two knives and two arrows in his body were still fighting. And Huang Ziying also proved at this moment that Liu Wuzhou was reluctant to abandon him for a big reason, even if the army was panicked and there was a strong enemy, Huang Ziying still tried to make the army panic but not chaotic, leading the Dingyang army to fight and retreat, and not give the Sui army a chance to completely crush his team.

It was also by relying on the sacrifice of Huang Ziying's rear army that the front army of the Dingyang army and the main force of the Chinese army successfully walked out of the narrow road and came to the open place of the road more than 30 miles west of Yuci, Liu Wuzhou, who had been warned by Li Er, was still a little worried that the Sui army's ambush was really ambushed in this place suitable for cavalry combat, but when he saw that there was still no movement in the north, and at the same time sent scouts to conduct preliminary reconnaissance and did not find the enemy, Liu Wuzhou put his mind at ease again, and first secretly scolded Li Er for being alarmist, Then he ordered the cavalry team in the north to pay attention to maintaining a distance from Huang Ziying's rear army, and prepared to send cavalry to respond immediately when Huang Ziying withdrew into the open field, attacking the flank of the Sui army's pursuers to share the pressure on the rear army.

The order of Liu Wuzhou was conveyed just down, a sudden change occurred, and the front army led by Song Jingang, the general of the Dingyang Army, suddenly exploded in front of a gunpowder bottle, and the firelight was great, and a very large number of Sui cavalry suddenly appeared, shouting and directly impacting the front of the front team of the Dingyang Army, the horse's hooves were like thunder, the torches were chaotic, and the momentum was very amazing. Liu Wuzhou and Li Er were also taken aback at the same time, and said in unison: "Chen thief ambushed soldiers, and he was actually ambushed on the front of the road?!" ”

After being shocked, Li Er added, "Chen Thief has such a big appetite, he wants to chase Liu Wuzhou and eat it in one bite, he is not afraid of breaking his teeth if he looks down on Liu Wuzhou so much!" ”

Li Er was right again this time, the Sui cavalry suddenly killed from the front to everyone's expectations, but after the initial shock, Song Jingang, the Dingyang army who was good at using soldiers, immediately came back to his senses, and immediately commanded the front army to fight in formation, and set up a strong bow and crossbow to entertain the enemy. Liu Wuzhou's side also made a quick decision, and shouted: "Summons Zhang Long live, let him attack immediately, and be sure to repel the Chen thief ambush for me!" ”

The order was conveyed, and Zhang Wansui, the general of the Dingyang Army, who was responsible for protecting the flank of the main force, immediately followed the order and led the cavalry to charge to cooperate with Song Jingang to meet the Sui cavalry, but Song Jingang also quickly proved that Liu Wuzhou gave him half of the family property and a sister It was definitely worth the money, and a random arrow shot made the Sui cavalry cry wolf howl, screaming continuously, and was forced to restrain the horse's head and give up the charge advantage, and replaced the bow and arrow to shoot at Song Jingang, and because the range of the horse bow was slightly inferior to the foot bow, it was at a disadvantage in the shooting battle.

Song Jingang won the time to respond, the cavalry of the Dingyang army also had a chance to counterattack, after a fast horse sprint, Zhang Wansui led more than 4,000 Dingyang cavalry cavalry took the lead to the front of the battlefield, roundabout to rush the Sui cavalry flank, the Sui cavalry on both sides of the enemy had to turn around and retreat, Zhang Wansui did not hesitate to pursue with all his strength, the two armies chased me quickly away from the battlefield.

At the same time, Huang Ziying's rear army also retreated into the open area with a fight, and Qiu Xinggong and Kan Ling continued? Huang Ziying, and then the main force of the Sui army behind also took the opportunity to speed up the pace, trying to come forward in a roundabout way to engage the main force of the Dingyang army. Seeing this scene, without Liu Wuzhou sending an order, Xun Xiang had already led another main cavalry force of the Dingyang army to attack with shouts, and quickly stepped forward to stop the Sui army's pursuit.

The ambush soldiers in front have been jointly killed and retreated by Song Jingang and Zhang Wansui, and the chasing soldiers in the rear have also been temporarily blocked by Huang Ziying and Xunxiang, although the Dingyang army is temporarily stable as Mount Tai although the enemy is in front and behind, seeing these situations, Liu Wuzhou quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and quickly ordered the front army and the rear army to speed up their advance and retreat to Yuci City as quickly as possible. At the end, Liu Wuzhou couldn't help but smile and muttered, "Chen thief cavalry, but that's it." ”

While Liu Wuzhou chuckled, Li Er, who was following the left flank of the Dingyang Army Brigade with a dead face, was secretly wondering, and said secretly: "Why is the ambush of the Chen thief so vulnerable? Although they had too much appetite and directly attacked Liu Wuzhou's front army, they were looking for their own death, but did they lose a little quickly? ”

Thinking about this, a gust of night wind blew, although the weather was still not cold at the end of summer, but after blowing on Li Er's body, it still made Li Er, who had sweated profusely in the fierce battle before, couldn't help but shiver, and subconsciously wrapped the black cloak on his body, Li Er glanced at the northwest side where the night wind hit, and said secretly: "The wind direction has changed, the rainy season is coming, brother, you just stay in Taiyuan City and wait to be flooded, I won't accompany you, little brother." ”

After saying it proudly, when Li Er just turned around to look at the battle situation in front of him, he suddenly froze, as if he had been enchanted and looked at the dark north - there was no longer the north covered by the cavalry of the Dingyang Army, and then Li Er's whole body trembled involuntarily, and he muttered in a low voice, "I understand, I understand everything." Chen thief, you are ruthless, you are ruthless enough, you are too ruthless. ”

"Right Governor, what's wrong with you? What's wrong? ”

Wang Huaiwen, the captain of the pro-soldier next to him, found that something was wrong, and hurriedly asked Li Er, but it was Li Er's hoarse voice that did not seem to be human, and said in despair: "Liu Wuzhou's stupid pig has been tricked, and we are going to be unlucky." The frontal ambush of the Chen thief was just to divert the tiger from the mountain and deceive the most reliable cavalry under Liu Wuzhou's command, and the real main force of the Chen thief's ambush was still ambushed due north. We're about to bear the brunt of it. ”

"Whoa!"

Before Li Er's words fell, there was a loud sound, and a red point of light suddenly rose into the northern sky, exploded in the night sky, and bloomed a huge beautiful flower, and then followed, the firelight was great, the horse's hooves were thunderous, and the Sui cavalry of the Sui Army, which was so large that it could fight with the cavalry of the Dingyang Army, shouted and killed, and the blade pointed directly at the flank of the main force of the Dingyang Army that had lost the protection of the cavalry, Qin Qiong and Cheng Biting Jin Er both took the lead, and roared excitedly together, "Kill!" Kill! Capture Liu Wuzhou alive! Capture Liu Wuzhou alive! ”

Seeing this scene, the main brigade of the Dingyang Army was of course in chaos, screaming and screaming endlessly, Li Er couldn't help but muttered with a wry smile: "You have to talk about it, if you want to arrest Liu Wuzhou, I will never stop it, but you must not just stare at me when you see me on the battlefield as usual." “