Chen Yingliang has always been very good at dealing with old stubbornness, listening to Chen Yingliang's urging, Wei Xuan finally stopped being stubborn this time, and honestly followed Chen Yingliang to march quickly, while Liu Changgong's team in front of him continued to cut down roadside trees, piled up in the narrow section of the road and ignited them, so as to block and delay the pursuit and harassment of the rebel cavalry, and ensure the speed of marching to Hongnong in the case of a short delay.

Of course, there is another problem, it is still the body of the Sui army's team, in the case of losing can no longer lose, Wei Xuan is stubborn and has to consider the tactics of retreating to Tongguan with all his might, as a result, after careful calculation, Wei Xuan quickly made this big problem in Gaxian County, and asked Chen Yingliang again: "Chen Ji Room, have you thought of this, after our team withdrew to Hongnong, if Yang Rebel's team also chased Hongnong, then what should we do?" Liu Changgong's team did not have the body to enter Tongguan overnight. ”

"Regarding this, the villain originally thought of Hongnong and then made a statement to you." Chen Yingliang said respectfully: "His Royal Highness King Cai and the villain have also considered this issue before, and we have agreed to obtain your consent to allow Hongnong's garrison to move westward, and rush to Tongguan overnight to reinforce the garrison, and General Liu's team will take over Hongnong's defense on the spot." ”

"Let Hongnong's garrison go to reinforce Tongguan, and let Liu Changgong's team take over Hongnong's defense on the spot?" Wei Xuan's eyes lit up, and he said happily: "Wonderful plan, why didn't the old man think that there would be this method, let the new army continue to enter Tongguan in the west, and the tired army will stay to defend the city, so that you don't have to worry about the physical problems of the Tongguan reinforcements." ”

"Exactly." Chen Yingliang nodded, and said respectfully: "The guard stays behind, Hongnong only has more than a thousand defenders, and he has to leave some troops to help General Liu's team get familiar with the city defense, at most he can only send a thousand troops to Tongguan for reinforcements, even if he adds the villain's team, there are less than 2,000 people, and the troops are too small." Therefore, the villain is bold, and I want to ask you to send the garrison of Ruxiang County to Tongguan to participate in the guard, plus the two thousand defenders of Tongguan, which is about 5,000 people, which is enough to stop Yang rebels for a period of time and win the main force of my Great Sui to come back. ”

"Yes!" Wei Xuan agreed, and said: "After arriving at Tongguan, the old man will not only mobilize the defenders of Ruxiang to participate in the battle, but also immediately transfer the army reinforcements from Huayin, and he will not let Yang Xuan feel a rebel step into the pass." ”

"Hopefully that won't happen." Chen Yingliang sighed secretly in his heart: "I hope that Yang Xuangan's advance speed can be slower, if Liu Changgong's reliable team can rush to Tongguan to participate in the battle, with some local township soldiers, as well as those unreliable Guanzhong troops, in fact, I dare not guarantee that Tongguan will be able to hold it." ”

In the tense torment, when the sun set in the middle of the unitary hour, the exhausted Liu Changgong team finally saw the towering Hongnong city wall, and also entered the relatively open terrain around Hongnong, without waiting for the exhausted Liu Changgong team to cheer, the Sui army team suddenly killed like thunder behind the Sui army, the previous rebel cavalry team came from behind, Chen Yingliang was forced to order the Baoguo army to line up to meet the battle, intimidating the rebel team chasing behind, the result was that Chen Yingliang miscalculated, The rebel cavalry team actually killed directly in front of the team of the Baoguo Army this time, Chen Yingliang was caught off guard and almost suffered a loss, Xin Debao **** soldiers' response speed was far above Chen Yingliang's reaction, and immediately raised their guns and swords to fight fiercely with the rebel cavalry.

I don't know why, the attack of the rebel cavalry is obviously a little unreasonable, in the case of the number of troops is far from the number, it even rushed directly to the Baoguo army formation, and directly with the Baoguo army that has been waiting for work in the past few days to carry out close combat, not only lost the inertia advantage of the war horse charge, but also because the soldiers seemed very tired, in front of the superior Baobao soldiers were completely at a disadvantage in strength, and were soon killed by the infantry and cavalry to fight the Baoguo army team turned over on their backs, and retreated again and again.

Bao **** has the upper hand, but Chen Ying's conscience is full of confusion and incomprehension, because the rebel cavalry on the opposite side is very tenacious, even if it is at a disadvantage, it will not leave, at most it will only retreat slightly to reorganize the formation, and immediately kill again to entangle the newspaper ****, forcing the Baoguo Army to continue to fight to the death with them, Yang Wanshuo, who led the team, is also the first soldier, and the soldiers of the Baoguo Army fought bloodily, and the two guns and one knife in the body are still undefeated and do not escape, and still insist on entanglement with the soldiers of the Baoguo Army.

"Are the Yang brothers looking for their own death?" , Chen Ying's conscience was even more dazed, and said secretly: "Why did the rebels do this? Wheel warfare consumes the body of the ****? Hold us back and wait for reinforcements? No, we all went outside Hongnong City, and we could withdraw to Hongnong at any time, whether it was a wheel battle or holding on until their main force arrived, it wouldn't have much effect on us? Also, the body of this rebel cavalry is also obviously very inadequate....... ”

"Ahh Don't......?! ”

Suddenly thinking of a possibility, Chen Yingliang's little face immediately changed color, and he was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, and immediately turned to Liu Changgong next to him and shouted: "Brother Liu, hurry, let your team go!" Don't ask why, right away! ”

He had never been ordered by Chen Yingliang, who had always been gentle and elegant, and seeing Chen Yingliang's grim expression in the sunset, Liu Changgong didn't think much about it, and immediately yelled and ordered a general attack, ordering the already exhausted team to go up to help, but when the Baoguo Army had the upper hand, the soldiers of the Sui Army under Liu Changgong also took a tired step and rushed up to help, pinning down and interfering with the enemy for the Baoguo Army.

"Boy, your team has the upper hand, and Liu Changgong's team is tired like this, why bother with them?" Wei Xuan asked Chen Yingliang.

"Wei Shangshu, I'll explain it to you later." Chen Yingliang replied with a solemn face: "I hope my guess is wrong, but for the sake of safety, we must do our best to kill this traitor team, the sooner the better!" ”

With the help of Liu Changgong's tired division, the Baoguo army continued to gain the upper hand, and the rebel cavalry team finally couldn't resist, and began to flee for their lives one after another, although Yang Wanshuo who led the team was still fighting with wounds and death, but his soldiers did not have the tenacity and determination to fight to the death like him, and fled faster and more and more, and soon, Yang Wanshuo's side was only surrounded by a dozen horsemen and the Sui army.

"Catch it alive! Catch it alive as much as you can! Chen Yingliang yelled, but Wei Xuan's eyes were about to pop out of his sockets, not only wondering why Yang Wanshuo wanted to commit suicide and fight to the death, but also angry that he didn't have such luck to meet such an easy chance to win.

Finally, the spear in Yang Wanshuo's hand was smashed into the air by Chen Ci's wrought iron rod, and then two soldiers of the Baoguo Army who fought on foot dragged Yang Wanshuo off the war horse, and captured Yang Wanshuo, who was already seriously injured, and then the last two cavalrymen around Yang Wanshuo also put down their weapons and surrendered, ending this purely suicidal attack and raid.

Although he won the victory, Chen Yingliang still didn't have the slightest joy, he just ordered the soldiers to put Yang Wanshuo, who was shot three times and two stabs in his body, in front of him, and then picked up Yang Wanshuo, whose face was covered with blood, and asked loudly: "Your partial division team has been interspersed there?" ”

Yang Wanshuo's dying lips moved slightly, as if he was saying something, the anxious Chen Yingliang hurriedly put his ear to Yang Wanshuo's mouth, who knew that Yang Wanshuo suddenly spit on Chen Yingliang's face with a mouthful of blood, and then his head was crooked, and he died on the spot, before he died, only the last word was left, "Phew!" ”

After confirming that Yang Wanshuo was dead, Chen Yingliang quietly wiped away the blood foam on his face and shouted, "Are there any other captives?" All of them are staked. ”

Seven or eight rebel prisoners with varying degrees of severity were escorted to Chen Yingliang, and when Chen Yingliang asked the previous question again, several prisoners shook their heads and said they didn't know, and they didn't even know if there was a rebel team interspersed forward, Chen Yingliang was furious and shouted: "Until now, do you still want to stubbornly resist and send them to death?" I don't know if your team is interspersed forward, what are you doing with suicide charges and sending them to death in vain? ”

"General White, we really don't know." A rebel soldier who was relatively lightly injured said with a crying voice: "We only know that just now when we were still putting out the fire, Deputy Military Division Li caught up with us and said something to the fifth general alone, and then the fifth general rushed directly with us." ”

"Okay, you Li Mi, in order to buy a little time, you can even use the ruthless trick of letting Yang Wanshuo die in vain!" Chen Yingliang stomped his feet angrily and shouted: "You don't have to clean the battlefield, enter the city immediately!" ”

The worst finally happened, when the Sui army team arrived in front of the east gate of Hongnong, although Yang Zhiji, who had returned to this place in advance, led the officials in the city to greet Wei Xuan and Chen Yingliang and his party, after meeting, before Chen Yingliang opened his mouth to ask, Yang Zhiji had already smiled bitterly and took the initiative to say: "Chen Ji room, you are a step late, when you fought with the traitor cavalry just now, I sent a scout Pegasus on the official road to the west to report, there is an unknown number of traitor team, has detoured back to the east of Hongnong from the mountain road in the south, Quickly went in the direction of Tongguan. There is also the ancient road of the Qin Dynasty to the north, where an unknown number of rebel infantry teams have also been found. ”

"Sure enough! Sure enough, it fell short! Chen Yingliang's heart sank, and his childish little white face suddenly became whiter than rice paper.

"How is that possible?!" Wei Xuan screamed in disbelief: "The fatigue of the traitor team is not much easier than ours, how can they still penetrate in front of us?" ”

Xiao Wang also found it unbelievable. Yang Zhiji smiled bitterly and said: "However, the traitor team is interspersed in front of you, as for why the traitor team has such a body, Xiao Wang doesn't know." ”

"I know that the traitors are to dismount their cavalry and intersperse them on foot." Chen Yingliang replied weakly: "When I saw that the cavalry under Yang Wanshuo's command was insufficient just now, I had already thought of this possibility, the traitors let their real cavalry team dismount and intersperse on foot on the mountain road, so that there would be enough body to intersperse in front of us." ”

"Ahh Yang Zhiji was rarely shocked, and blurted out: "How did I forget this method? There are not many traitor cavalry, and yesterday it didn't cost much to march hundreds of miles in one day, and if you walk through today, it is possible to penetrate in front of your tired army! ”

"Tongguan, it's over! Guanzhong, it's over! Wei Xuan, who knew his own family affairs and knew the situation in Tongguan, screamed stubbornly, and directly fell off his horse, fainting without knowing it.

If you want to know what will happen next, please see the next chapter, "The Dog Jumps the Wall"!