Suddenly appeared on the battlefield in front of the battalion, Li Mi painstakingly arranged the local advantages that were not easy to win, suddenly became gone, Zhang Xutuo was not many elite soldiers available, but there was a camp fence to guard, as long as the narrow camp gate could be blocked from the thief army to advance into the camp, the thief army team had Zhang Xutuo in front of the road, and there was the Sui army of the Qian County on the flank, and the enemy was attacked on both sides, and suddenly fell into an embarrassment.

What's even more tragic is that Chen Yingliang brought Kan Liang, who is the most capable of fighting in the Qianjun team this time, Kan Liang, who will not cheat and dislike to be abducted and deceitful, is an alternative in the Qiaojun team that is full of bad seeds, but he is the most reliable lord to fight, under his leadership, although the charging speed of the Sui army's Mo knife team is not very fast, it is like a strict advance like an iron wall, and the Mo knife is more than a zhang long or stabbed or sharpened, flying up and down, and directly strangling the enemy on the opposite side into flesh and blood fragments, although the thief soldiers around Meng Haigong and his wife are elite, but they all had no way to use this rigorous and neat Modao tactics, and they were killed and retreated, and the formation was greatly compressed.

In the dark night, the best partner of the Mo knife tactics archer is of little use, but Chen Yingliang, who is good at using his brain, has other ways to make up for this regret, when he found that the enemy in front of him was too dense and difficult to advance, Kan Liang gave an order, and the Mo knife team in the second row immediately threw out a few gunpowder bottles, although the power of this primitive grenade is very small, it has a pretty good deterrent effect against the dense enemy, and in the violent explosion, the dense thief soldiers were not injured by the iron horns and iron nails wrapped outside the wine bottle, It was dizzy to be shocked by the violent explosion, and many thief soldiers were directly shocked to break their eardrums, and the dense crowd was suddenly in chaos, and the Sui army Mo knife team took the opportunity to stride forward and slaughter the chaotic thief soldiers with a single blow.

It is a pity that Zhang Xutuo's team has survived the dangerous period of hastily attacked, not only regaining its footing, but also launching a counterattack under the leadership of Zhang Xutuo and Tang Wanche, Zhang Xutuo's personal team is also like crazy, rushing to the enemy on the opposite side one after another, slashing and stabbing axes, holding the enemy on the ground and rolling around, desperately protecting Zhang Xutuo, Open up the way for Zhang Xutuo to charge.

Zhang Xutuo also slashed and killed quite a lot of enemies with his own hands, although every thief soldier who could get close to Zhang Xutuo rushed directly with blood-red eyes, but they were greeted by either the elite soldiers around Zhang Xutuo, or Zhang Xutuo's horizontal knife that could break stones, and the accurate and ruthless horizontal knife, many thief soldiers did not have time to see Zhang Xutuo's face clearly, and their heads had been opened or flew into the sky. Inspired by Zhang Xutuo, who took the lead, Tang Wanche's team, which was not particularly elite, also became a first-class elite, scrambling to slash and kill the enemy, making it difficult for the thief army who tried to enter the open area of the camp to move forward, and gradually regained the right to control the door of the battalion.

Another unexpected reinforcement also joined the battlefield, after learning that the thief army attacked Zhang Xutuo's Chinese army camp, the wounded of the Sui army, who should have been ordered to move to a hidden place outside the camp, not only flatly refused to transfer, but as long as they could walk, they all rushed to the front camp to help, and Zhang Zhizhi, who was ordered to organize the transfer of the wounded, could not stop it at all. The arrival of these wounded also boosted the morale of the Sui army in the front camp again, shouting the slogan of capturing Meng Haigong alive and protecting Ambassador Zhang, scrambling to wield weapons and slash the enemy on the opposite side, cutting down the thief soldiers who tried to break through the fence into the camp one after another, and then chopping them into meat sauce.

In front is the fierce Qi County Sui Army like a mad wolf and tiger, and on the side is the indifferent and calm but strict and neat like a killing machine Qì General Qian County Sui Army, in a dilemma, the abdomen and back by the enemy, under the two phases, the thief army brought by Meng Haigong can not bear the elite no matter how elite, and there are constantly soldiers fleeing to the open area to the east, although Meng Haigong and his wife tried their best to restrain them, and even personally wielded a knife to kill the deserters, but they always had little effect, and finally Meng Haigong and his wife were extremely desperate to find - their virtuous nephew Li Mi, and his only companion, Yang Jishan, has also disappeared in the chaos.

The defeat has been decided, the think tank has disappeared again, Meng Haigong has no choice but to order to break through to the open area in the east where there is no enemy and flee for his life, as soon as the order is issued, the thief army team that has long been in a panic suddenly seems to be amnesty, scrambling to flee for their lives to the east, Meng Haigong and his wife also took their only son Meng Yi to join the escape team. The Sui army of Qi County and the Sui army of Qian County joined forces to pursue, and the slogan of capturing Meng Haigong alive came and went, and the sound spread for ten miles.

It was also at this time that Chen Yingliang, who was on a white horse and white robe, met Zhang Xutuo, unlike Chen Yingliang, who likes to pretend to be almost spotless all over his body, Zhang Xutuo under the firelight was already stained with blood all over his body, and his face was full of blood and soil, and some of his own blood. After meeting, Zhang Xutuo asked in the first sentence: "Why didn't you sue me during the day?" ”

"The old general forgives the guilt, this time it's really not the juniors who deliberately hide their secrets." Chen Yingliang arched his hand and said: "In fact, it was at the last moment that the junior guessed that the real target of the thief army was you, so he hurriedly led the army to come to the rescue, and caught up in time, in fact, it was less than a tea time to arrive at the battlefield earlier than Meng Haigong." ”

Zhang Xutuo believes that Chen Yingliang's words are not a lie - because as long as you find a soldier from Qianjun and ask the time of dispatch, you can know whether Chen Yingliang is lying. After nodding, Zhang Xutuo asked again, "Then how did you guess?" ”

"The scouts under the command of the junior found out that Meng Haigong asked the people to go out of the city first, and I immediately guessed it." Chen Yingliang replied truthfully: "This afternoon, although the juniors have some suspicions that the Meng Haigong thief army is diverting the tiger from the mountain and attacking the south, they have never found any signs of the thief army dredging the south gate Yongdao, so the juniors have not dared to conclude that the thief army will break through from the south, so they can only let the army gather and wait for orders, scouts closely monitor the enemy's movements, and be ready to send troops to fill the gaps at any time." ”

"Later, when the scouts found out that Meng Haigong had let the people's team go out of the city first, the juniors immediately understood that the real target of Meng Haigong's thief army was you." Chen Yingliang explained: "Because of the normal order of the breakthrough, it should be the elite soldiers who open the way, and the people's auxiliary soldiers carry grain and grass to carry the heavy center, and then the elite soldiers will strengthen the palace." Meng Haigong let the people go out of the city first, and the juniors immediately guessed that his purpose was not to break through, but to create the illusion of a breakthrough, to contain our main elite with a lot of manpower, and to cover his real purpose. ”

"Alas!" Zhang Xutuo sighed, slashed a knife, and said with great annoyance: "The old man also received the news that the Meng Haigong thief army used the people to fight the vanguard, why didn't you immediately guess that the real target of the thief army was the old man himself?" ”

"The old general doesn't have to be annoyed, in fact, if it weren't for some special reasons, the younger generation wouldn't have guessed that the real target of the thief army was you." Chen Yingliang rarely told a big truth, because if he hadn't accidentally discovered that his old opponent Li Mi was in the enemy's army, and knew that his old opponent had a lot of tricks, he didn't dare to take anything lightly, Chen Yingliang was probably deceived by Li Mi, and focused on the Beimen battlefield where the battle was more intense.

Shaking his head again and sighing, Zhang Xutuo said to Chen Yingliang: "The old man stayed in the camp, you lead the army to pursue, just now the old man saw with his own eyes that Meng Haigong was in the ranks of the thieves, I hope you can catch him." ”

"Old general, let the juniors guard the camp for you, you go and pursue." Chen Yingliang hurriedly pretended to be humble.

"Fake politeness what?" Zhang Xutuo said coldly: "The old man wants to stay in the camp to stabilize the morale of the army, and he can't pull away, if you have the ability to catch Meng Haigong, you will catch it, the credit is yours, and the old man has no habit of grabbing credit with friendly troops." ”

Chen Yingliang smiled embarrassedly, and after thanking him first, he hurriedly led the Qianjun team to pursue the enemy, leaving Zhang Xutuo in the same place to watch him leave, and then Zhang Xutuo whispered again, "Thank you." ”

Chen Yingliang's pursuit battle is actually not easy to fight, because the east of the Sui army of Qi County is the Makeng River, which has a large amount of water, and after the thief army team who is familiar with the terrain escapes to the river, all the people who know the water take off their iron armor and jump into the river, swim across the river to escape, and those who do not know the water can flee to the upstream direction of the Makeng River, in the darkness Chen Yingliang can't judge the escape direction of Meng Haigong and his wife, and at the same time, the hoplites under the command of Kan Liang are also difficult to cross the river to pursue, and they are forced to have no choice, Chen Yingliang can only order the soldiers to divide into two ways, Let Tang Wanche's light infantry team cross the river in pursuit, and he himself led the heavy infantry to pursue upstream along the river bank.

It was also when it was time to chase the enemy with heavy infantry, Chen Yingliang found that he was still too short of cavalry, and he could still see the enemy's figure during the pursuit, but he chased and chased but found that the enemy ran farther and farther, and finally disappeared altogether. Seeing this scene, Chen Yingliang simply asked the army to give up the pursuit, clean up the battlefield and search for the remnants of the enemy, and was ready to ask the whereabouts of Meng Haigong and his wife before chasing and killing.

After some cleaning, Meng Haigong grabbed a lot of good armor everywhere, and at the same time he caught a few enemy prisoners, and finally asked Meng Haigong and his wife where they went, but several captives shook their heads and said they didn't see it, and even Meng Haigong and his wife didn't know if they had crossed the Makeng River, and Chen Yingliang, who was still worried about the North Gate battlefield, was helpless, so he had to order to collect his troops and give up the pursuit.

When leading the army to hurry back, the army of Qian County passed through a reed bush, originally Chen Yingliang didn't pay much attention to this not very dense reed, but a few Sui soldiers had sharp eyes, suddenly rushed into the reeds, and pulled out a man covered with mud from it, the man struggled and shouted, and said in a loud voice: "Jun Ye, Jun Ye, you misunderstood, I am not a thief, I am not a thief, I am just a teacher of Chengwu, my family lives in Persimmon Forest Village outside the south gate of Chengwu, we are full of persimmon trees, I'm not a thief, I'm not a thief, I'm just Chu Qiu buying medicine for my mother, and I happened to pass by. ”

The man's argument did not help, but the loyal soldiers of the county dragged him to the shore, and one of the soldiers grabbed the man's hair and forced him to look up, and reported to Chen Yingliang, who happened to be passing by: "Tongshou, catch a man hiding in the reeds, wearing the clothes of the people, and I don't know if it is a thief." ”

Chen Yingliang turned his head, and with the help of torches and moonlight, Chen Yingliang found that the man was in his early thirties, and his face was very dark, and at the same time, the black-faced man also saw Chen Yingliang's familiar ugly and vicious face, and immediately closed his eyes in despair, and said secretly: "It's over." ”

"Don't kill innocents indiscriminately, since it's a common people, let him go."

When the black-faced man opened his eyes in disbelief, he saw that Chen Yingliang had already patted his horse and walked away, and said without looking back: "For the sake of you being a filial son, I would like to remind you, when you get the medicine in Chuqiu, you will rush home, there are many thieves in Liang County, especially the group of Wagang thieves, who kill people without blinking, and are ruthless." ”

Because of Chen Yingliang's order, the soldiers of Qianjun let go of the black-faced man according to the order, re-followed Chen Yingliang's team and withdrew, but the black-faced man who escaped death was paralyzed on the ground, motionless for a long time, and his heart was at a loss, "How is it possible?" How can it be? Could it be that the night was too dark for him to recognize me? Or was he deliberately letting me go? ”

The team quickly walked away, and the surrounding area was calm again, only the river was still roaring, but the black-faced man was still lying on the ground motionless, and I don't know how long it took, before another man on horseback trotted back with a horse, and saw the black-faced man lying on the ground, the knight was shocked, and quickly dismounted and helped him up, and tried to breathe and found that he was still alive, and his eyes were still open, the knight couldn't help but be surprised, and quickly shook him and asked, "Master, what's wrong with you?" Why don't you hide in the reeds and wait for me, what are you doing when you get out? ”

After shaking for a long time, Li Mi finally spoke, and the first thing he said was, "It's terrible! He's horrible! ”

"Who's scary?" Yang Jishan, who was holding Li Mi, asked suspiciously.

"Chen Yingliang thief." Li Mi said in despair: "He is so terrible, I have lived for thirty-two years, read countless subsets of scriptures and histories, and I have never seen or heard of such a terrible person as him." ”

"What the hell is wrong with you? How can I say anything I don't understand? Yang Jishan was confused, and then urged: "The horseman who robbed your horse has been killed by me, and I have also snatched your horse back, this is not far from Zhang Xutuo's old dog's camp, let's cross the river quickly." ”

"No, we're not over the river." Li Mi shook his head suddenly, denying his previous plan to escape.

"Why?" Yang Jishan sighed, "Didn't you say before that we should cross the river and go north to look for opportunities in the Qilu area, where the thieves are the most restrictive?" ”

"I decided not to go to Qilu anymore." Li Mi replied: "The area around Qilu is very chaotic, but the rebel army is either too big or too small, it is not interesting for the too small rebel army to defect to them, and if no one introduces the too big rebel army, we will only be the icing on the cake if we go, and we will not be reused." ”

"Where to go, then?" Yang Jishan asked.

"Go to the west, find the Wagang army, and defect to Zhai Rang!" Li Mi pointed to the west, and said in a deep voice: "The rebel army there is also gradually rising, Zhai Rang's team is the strongest but has no strategy, and even the small rebel army around it doesn't know how to recruit and absorb, let's go to him and help him strengthen the team, it is easy to get reused." ”

Yang Jishan thought for a while, then nodded and said: "Okay, listen to you, it's not bad to go to Wagang, at least it's closer to Yongqiu, at the critical moment, we still have a way to retreat." ”

With the help of Yang Jishan, Li Mi rode back his lost escape horse, and galloped side by side with Yang Jishan to the vast land to the west. actually let me go, used me to raise my self-respect, and wanted me to restrain Zhang Xutuo for you, and create a great opportunity for you to be promoted to become rich and prosperous? You think beautifully! ”

"Wait, one day, I'm going to make you regret your choice today! Yixue was humiliated by the contempt and teasing that you deliberately released today! Li Mi secretly swore a poisonous oath in his heart, "If not, I, Li Mi, swear not to be a human being!" ”

At the same time, when Chen Yingliang led the army back to the Menghai City battlefield, the most fierce North Gate battlefield had also come to an end, because the elite of the thief army failed to take down Zhang Xutuo's head, and the brave and warlike Sui army of Qi County naturally never got distracted and chaotic, and the main force of the thief army who fought to the death was also gradually exhausted under the fierce counterattack of the Sui army, and could no longer continue the short-term advantage brought by the fire bull array, and was finally killed by Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin and other fierce people completely collapsed, scattered and fled, The Meng Hai Gong thief army, which once dominated one side, finally collapsed completely, and several major thieves, including Meng Hai Gong and his wife, fled for their lives, and their whereabouts were unknown, and they were destined to have little hope of setting off a big storm in a short period of time.

Chen Yingliang didn't let the Sui army of Qiaojun join the battle to clean up the battlefield, and gave all the booty in the field to the friendly team very chic - anyway, Zhang Xutuo must be embarrassed to lose the account of 30% of the money and grain, and Chen Yingliang didn't need to be the spoils of the villains to rob the friendly army. It wasn't until Zhang Xutuo summoned him that Chen Yingliang led the team to the north gate of Menghai City, where the corpses were piled up, to meet Zhang Xutuo, who had also come to the north gate.

Probably because the paper couldn't hold the fire, as soon as they met, Zhang Xutuo immediately said to Chen Yingliang: "Do you know? We missed a great achievement, the captured thief army general confessed, the court's wanted criminal Li Mi was also in the city, and he has been giving advice to Meng Haigong and formulating tactics, and when he attacked my camp last night, Li Mi was still in Meng Haigong's team. ”

"Li Mi is also there?" Chen Yingliang was taken aback and said in surprise: "That traitor, where did he come from?" How did I never know? ”

"I heard that Meng Haigong blocked the news, so even in the ranks of the thief army, there are not many people who know Li Micun." Zhang Xutuo said very depressedly: "There is also an arrogant young man in his twenties beside Li Mi, if nothing else, it should be Yang Su's youngest son, Yang Jishan. Two court criminals slipped away from under the nose of the old man, and the old man really didn't know how to explain to the court. ”

Chen Yingliang was silent, and Yang Wang next to him whispered: "Ambassador, then don't explain, anyway, there are not many people who know that Li Mi and Yang Jishan are here, more things are better than less things, just don't report this matter to the court." ”

Zhang Xutuo glanced at Yang Wang, his face showed hesitation, and he was a little unsure whether to accept Yang Wang's kindness for a while, and Chen Yingliang, who was a thief, was quietly observing Zhang Xutuo's decision, but Mulan came to Chen Yingliang's side with a straight face, and said in a very cold and blunt tone: "The surname is Chen, thank you for saving Ambassador Zhang." ”

"What did you say?" Chen Yingliang turned his head in confusion.

"I thank you for saving Ambassador Zhang, I don't have anything to thank you personally." After saying this, Mulan retreated back to the queue with a straight face.