The Liang army turned around, returned along the original road, and marched towards Jingning City.

Liang Jun left Jingning City for a short time, only about two hours. After Xu Liang issued the military order to return the same way, the battalions of the Liang army did not have too many doubts, and immediately carried it out from the leading generals to ordinary soldiers.

This is what distinguishes the Liang army from other imperial armies. In Liang Jun's daily training, there is an extremely boring training project, standing in a military posture! Standing for three or four hours, let you wind and rain, and you shall not be disbanded without the order to disband. At first, many generals did not understand this training project, and even Dai Feng, the instructor at the time, was skeptical, and finally it was carried out under Xu Liang's rare tough attitude.

It is also a small project of standing in a military posture, which has been trained for many years and has developed a good military discipline that is forbidden by orders in the Liang army.

That's why Liang Jun's reaction was so fast.

On the way back, Tanma kept sending the latest news to Xu Liang. Jingning City is almost out, and there are not many defenders left in Jingning City, and Jingning City is almost equal to an empty city.

The thieves and rebels did not stop all the way, and kept advancing to the south.

When Xu Liang heard these news, his brows furrowed slightly. The thieves took advantage of the withdrawal of the Liang army and sent people out of the city, to the south, to the north, to the east, to the west, no matter which direction they advanced, Xu Liang could understand. However, it is incomprehensible to easily give up Jingning City, which was finally obtained.

Xu Liang knew that Li Jiajun had lived in the mountains for nearly a month, and he was eager to build a city as a place to stay. However, Li Jiajun actually abandoned Jingning City in his hands, this is no longer a question of understanding or not, but no normal person would do such a thing!

Xu Liang's brows furrowed deeper and deeper. He couldn't think of the enemy's intentions, and he was distressed.

Far away. The Liang army rushed to the outskirts of Jingning City, and Xu Liang could even see the high tower of Jingning City when he looked up. A look of horror on the faces of the sparse defenders.

Jingning City is indeed equivalent to an empty city.

If you don't take advantage of it, that's a bastard! Xu Liang was about to wave his hand to order the Liang army to attack, when he suddenly saw another horse galloping towards him.

"Report! Your Excellency, the Li Jiajun and the rebels have divided their troops thirty miles outside Jingning City. ”

"Huh?" Xu Liang raised his head suddenly and asked in surprise, "Where did Li Jiajun go?" How many centaurs are there? ”

Tanma Hui reported: "The Li army is due south, and the rebels are turning southeast. The Li family soldiers had nearly 20,000 soldiers. ”

Xu Liang nodded and said softly, "Interesting." ”

Why did they divide their troops? Set off together, go halfway to divide the troops, don't want to rush to the terminal together? Xu Liang thought of something. He smiled slightly, and then ordered: "Order, Xing Zhongshan leads three thousand men and horses, and must take Jingning City!" Cavalry battalion, catch up with the Li family's army! ”

Xu Liang gave an order, and the Liang army also divided its troops. Xing Zhongshan led 3,000 Liang troops to approach Jingning City. Wan Wenshan led 3,000 cavalry to go away, and Xu Liangqin led the remaining more than 5,000 foot soldiers, threw away some baggage, and went into battle lightly. Run forward.

Directly south of Jingning City is Tongwei County in Gongchang Prefecture. Looking at the direction of Li Jiajun, they are going to get through Wei County! Xu Liang wanted to catch up with Li Jiajun before he arrived at Tongwei County. And fight to eliminate it.

If the Li Jiajun and the rebels in Guyuan Prefecture had not divided their troops, Xu Liang would not have dared to attack the Li Jiajun with only more than 10,000 Liang troops under his command. After all, Guyuan's rebels were once the army of the imperial court. The Li Jiajun, whose combat effectiveness is higher than that of the mud legs, is more than one and a half cuts.

If the rebels were there, Xu Liang would not dare to make a move. The rebels left. Xu Liang didn't want to give up this opportunity to make a move.

Horseshoe Ridge is a mountain range between Pingliang and Gongchang, and it is composed of two east-west mountains. It is flanked on either side by fields, and in the middle is a valley two miles long.

The 20,000 horses of the Li family army came to Horseshoe Ridge. Although the number of Li Jiajun's troops is although, half of them are family members. Although Li Xinbei urged the team to speed up once, because there were nearly 10,000 family members, the marching speed was still not fast.

The Li family's army, which has tens of thousands of families, is actually very weak in its ability to deal with risks, and it is precisely because of this consideration that Li Xinbei and the Shunyi army walked out of Jingning City thirty miles before they began to divide their troops, each going their own way.

There were more than 10,000 Shunyi troops on his side, walking safely for thirty miles. Whether it is Li Xinbei, Li Chaoqin, or the fourth lady Li Ting, they all think that Liang Jun is really gone and will not catch up and attack again.

Now that it is safe, there is no need to go with the Shunyi army.

So the Li Jiajun and the Shunyi army divided their troops.

Li Jiajun drove for three hours in a row, and the soldiers were already exhausted, and the family members at the back of the team were even more complaining and scolding. Some generals in the army proposed to set up camp, make a fire to make food, fill their stomachs and leave.

The trees of Horseshoe Ridge are lush, and although it is a cold winter, the ridge is green. The two-mile-long passage was quiet and looked safe.

Li Xinbei brought the team to the middle of the passage and began to rest in place, the soldiers picked up firewood from the slopes on both sides of the passage, and the gang leader began to bury the pot and make rice.

The soldiers cleaned up a clean flat land, spread mink fur on it, and helped Li Xinbei to sit down slowly. The fourth lady looked at this long passage and faintly felt that something was wrong.

"Grandpa, this ridge is steep, the trees are thick, and it is very easy to set up an ambush, if the officers and soldiers seal both ends, we will wait to be trapped in the passage, let's cross this ridge first and then rest."

"You know what?" Li Xinbei sat on the mink, raised his head and glared at the fourth lady Li Ting, feeling a little sour, so he simply stopped looking at the fourth lady, but pointed to the two straight entrances and exits of the passage, sneered, and said: "This place is exactly located in the middle of the passage, our army is camped here, whether it is the officers and soldiers of Gongchang Mansion or the Liang army of Pingliang Mansion, our army can turn around and run to the other side before the arrival of the official army." The general order of the Ming Dynasty must not be willed, otherwise he must not transfer troops out of the palace to fight at will. ”

Li Xinbei was proud and said: "In this way, as long as we see that the situation is not right, we immediately retreat to the other end, and the officers and soldiers who are chasing and killing will be so angry that they vomit blood." ”

When the fourth lady heard this, she didn't say anything, she looked at the passage under her feet, and the secret passage was only two miles away at best, it was really not good, and it was easier to retreat to the other end.

The smell of rice wafted all around, and the rice in the dozens of pots in the army was almost cooked. A gang leader scooped up half a leg of mutton from the boiling water, held it on a larger cutting board, and delivered it to Li Xinbei. The fourth lady squatted down, carefully cut off slices of mutton with a knife, packed them on a small plate, and placed them in front of Li Xinbei one by one.

Li Xinbei smiled, took out a pair of silver chopsticks, picked up a small plate of mutton, and ate it with salt.

After eating a piece, Li Xinbei went to clip the second piece, but suddenly the chopsticks shook and failed to clamp it steadily, and the mutton slices fell onto the precious mink. Li Xinbei was a little distressed that the mutton stained Liang's white mink, and bowed his head like a shrimp to grab the piece of mutton again.

Clamped, lifted, and smoothly sent to Li Xinbei's mouth.

For no reason, the chopsticks in Li Xinbei's hand shook again, and the mutton slices fell down and fell on the precious mink again. Li Xinbei cursed in a low voice, and thought of clamping it again, but suddenly saw that the fourth lady waiting next to her had a wrong face, and her eyes were staring at the knife on the cutting board.

The knives were shaking, and there was a crisp sound of the hair cutting boards colliding.

Ding Ling......

The trembling was getting stronger and closer. Li Xinbei and the fourth lady were shocked at each other, and both of them got up and looked in the direction of the entrance of the passage.

At the entrance of the passage, a cavalry was like waves in the sea, facing the soldiers and family members of the Li family army who were resting in the center of the passage.

Both of their faces turned pale in an instant.

Duh! Duh! Duh! The sound of sharp arrows breaking through the sky sounded above Li Jiajun's head, and they were connected!

"Enemy attack!"

Terrible, frightened screams tore through the entire Horseshoe Ridge passage.

The cavalry battalion of the Liang army arrived from the entrance of the passage, and in a scream, rushed into the rear of the Li family's army. The rear of the Li family army is the family of the Li family soldiers.

For a while, the dust was flying, and people turned on their backs. The cavalry of the Liang army was like a beast that had just come out of the cage, ruthlessly rushing into the Li family's army, and the swords were everywhere. An elderly woman was feeding porridge to a five- or six-year-old girl next to her, and she didn't have time to react to the sudden disaster, so she was cut off her head with a knife, and the blood that spurted out from her neck sprayed onto the little girl, the little girl was stunned for a while, and cried out, but the crying only lasted for a while, and then she was hit by a Liang cavalry and flew up. (To be continued......)