Although this was said a little late, it also moved Sun Hao, and he hurriedly got up and said, "How can the second prince bear this word?" Now we are united in our hatred of the enemy, and only by striving to lead the whole army to retreat safely, and after accumulating strength, we can fight with the enemy army in shame, which is the right way......"

Zheng Yu nodded vigorously and replied, "Old general, this is a wise saying. But retreating with all the army is not necessarily a simple matter. If we want to leave here now and go to Jinling, there is a thief of Qiu Yizhi in front of us to harass and intercept us, and we are afraid that there are still 10,000 people guarding the city behind us to kill and pursue us outside the city, it is really difficult to take care of it! ”

Sun Hao thought for a moment and said, "Although this matter is difficult to do, it is not completely impossible. I remember that the prince of Lingnan entered Lingnan Road at the beginning of that year, attacked the barbarian cottage that did not obey the education of the imperial court, and also encountered such occasional small defeats, I remember that the prince did this at that time......"

The next day, the lifeless siege camp under Sanyin County suddenly stirred. The soldiers who had originally besieged the small county town on all sides gathered together one after another and gathered in the northeast corner of the city, and took out all the stored grain in the camp so that the soldiers could have a full meal.

Zhang Qi, who was defending the city, was condescending, and had already noticed the abnormal movements of the Lingnan army under the city, and expected that they would inevitably launch a major offensive with such fanfare, and maybe the whole army would attack the county seat of Shanyin. So he hurriedly sent an order to all the defenders of the city to concentrate in the direction of the enemy gathering in the northeast of the city, and be sure to resist the enemy's all-out attack this time.

Sure enough, after the Lingnan army under the city had eaten and drunk enough, they immediately formed a team to attack the county seat of Shanyin from the northeast, and the momentum and strength of the attack far exceeded any previous attack.

Zhang Qi did not dare to slack off at all, and did not hesitate to throw down the rolling stones, sasswoods and other objects that had been prepared long ago, and did everything in his power to block the enemy's attack.

The Lingnan army under the city is also full of energy, and even the main general Zheng Yu has personally braved the arrows and stones to supervise the battle under the city, putting on a posture of ambition.

Qiu Yizhi, who was far away in the mountains outside the county seat, was also alarmed by such a huge momentum, and hurriedly ordered eighteen personal soldiers to guard, boarded a post facing the county seat, and looked into the distance, and sure enough, he saw that the Lingnan Army was attacking very urgently, and the county seat of Shanyin was already in danger.

Qiu Yizhi was a little surprised, and hurriedly called the "black-necked toad" and said: "Send an order to Zhao Chengxiao and Wu Changxi, tell them to immediately rectify the army, I will go to relieve the siege of Shanyin County!" ”

The "black-necked toad" listened to the military order, but before he could agree, he heard someone around him say: "Wait! Your lord, this order is not right. ”

Qiu Yizhi has always been a man of his word in his own army, and he has led many victories and very few defeats in leading the battle, so there has never been anyone in the army who dares to refute Qiu Yizhi's military orders in public, and even the "black-necked toad" poked his head out curiously to see who dared to make a big statement just now.

However, when the "black-necked toad" saw the person who spoke, he was immediately convinced - the person who spoke was none other than Lin Shuhan, a strategist hired by Qiu Yizhi, only to hear him smile and say: "The mood of the adult, Lin is clear, but it is indeed not the time to send troops. ”

Qiu Yizhi glanced at Lin Shuhan and said: "Seeing that the county seat is about to be attacked, if I don't rush to the rescue, although it is a trivial matter to be attacked by Zheng Yu, it is nothing to lose troops and generals, but pity the people who are full of the city, they will suffer from the enemy's poison." And now that all the enemy's attention is on the siege of the city, as long as these hundreds of my men charge behind them, they will definitely be able to disrupt the enemy's formation, and the defenders in the city will be able to counterattack again, and they will be able to win a great victory! ”

Qiu Yizhi said a long list of words in one breath, but at the end he didn't forget to add: "When you first went out of the city, didn't you plan it like this?" ”

Lin Shuhan smiled and said, "My lord, this is too high to think of Zheng Yu." From Lin's point of view, whether Zheng Yu can do it in the matter of capturing Shanyin County is still secondary, I am afraid that he may not be able to have this self-confidence! ”

Qiu Yizhi is a smart person, and he has always liked to fight wits rather than courage on the battlefield, so Uncle Lin made him pause in a few words and asked: "What does Mr. Lin mean is that Zheng Yu's attack on Shanyin County is fake now, but he is actually preparing for a comprehensive retreat?" ”

Lin Shuhan nodded with a smile and said, "My lord is really smart. Although the enemy offensive is large, I think it is nothing more than a bluff. Your Excellency only needs to look at it, although there are many soldiers climbing on the city wall, but they have not yet been able to climb the city wall. Under the general attack, only everyone uses their lives, rushes forward, and bravely kills the enemy, where can there be such a principle of fear, gain and loss? ”

Qiu Yizhi listened to Lin Shuhan's words, and then looked at the enemy's offensive on the city wall in the distance, and suddenly seemed unusually slow and hesitant, obviously because the army knew that the retreat was imminent, so they didn't dare to use all their strength.

Seeing this scene, Qiu Yi thought in her heart: It seems that Zheng Yu is really preparing to shake a shot and then retreat the whole army, although this play is exquisitely performed, but when he encounters "Mr. Bansong" Lin Shuhan, who is observant of people's hearts, he can only wear a gang to show his stuffing. When the enemy's retreat has been decided, his hundreds of people attacking behind the enemy will only make them accelerate their retreat, and there is no way to intercept them at all.

Thinking of this, Qiu Yizhi's nervousness and uneasiness before the blink of an eye had already been left behind by him, and he said to the "black-necked toad" who was still waiting for the order: "You still go down to inform Zhao Chengxiao and Wu Changxi, let the brothers eat and drink enough, assemble the team within half an hour, there is a battle to fight." ”

The "black-necked toad" has replaced Wang Laowu's orders these days, and has learned a lot of combat doorways, and asked Qiu Yizhi with a smile: "My lord, don't you want to run against the head?" We're going to beat him up and grab more gold, silver, grain and grass!" ”

Qiu Yizhi was on the rise, and he didn't get angry when he heard what he said, and said with the same smile: "That's right, I didn't expect you kid to learn to be well-behaved." But this time, we didn't grab money and food, but a big living person. Okay, why don't you give me the order to go? ”

Sure enough, less than an hour later, the Lingnan Army's offensive of attacking the county seat of Shanyin weakened instantaneously without any signs, and instead of continuing to increase troops on the city wall, the soldiers who were already on the cloud ladder also climbed down one after another, no longer climbing upward.

Zhang Qi, who personally supervised the battle at the head of the city, saw such a scene, and only felt that it was his own resistance that forced back the siege team of the Lingnan Army. ”

Zhang Qi was stunned when he heard this, and hurriedly leaned on the edge of the city wall to look down - sure enough, he saw that the Lingnan Army had all gathered under the city and lined up in a rather neat formation, but they did not continue to attack the city wall, but gradually retreated to the mountain path in the northeast.

Although Zhang Qi is not a good general like Cui Nan and Wei Hu, he is even more like a cloud than Dai Luanxiang, but he is also an experienced general, and the situation has progressed to such a point that according to common sense, he should be able to find that the opponent is pretending to attack the city and really wants to retreat.

However, he stuck to a lonely city in Shanyin County, and was besieged by the Lingnan Army for a month, although he made full preparations in advance, he was almost captured several times. Therefore, on the city wall, although he saw the movements of the Lingnan army clearly, he did not think about the retreat of the enemy army, and thought that the Lingnan army wanted to lure him to relax his vigilance before attacking the city on a large scale.

Zhang Qi decided on this reason, so he hurriedly ordered the sergeant to continue to hold the city, not to leave his post without permission, and never to open the city gate to pursue the enemy without permission.

This was originally a very safe and feasible order, but it was this military order that made Qiu Yizhi lose the best opportunity to intercept the enemy army.

It turned out that the Lingnan army under the city had made up its mind, and did not love to fight, and listened to the order of the main general and retreated from the mountain path to the northeast in turn.

Qiu Yizhi, who was ambushing on the mountain trail, did not expect the Lingnan army to retreat so quickly and decisively, and after hearing the information from the front outpost, he hurriedly ordered Zhao Chengxiao and others to line up on the path to intercept the opponent's brigade in the deep mountains.

However, the enemy's retreat was strong, and tens of thousands of horses poured into the mountain road like a flood that burst the embankment, and it was even more unstoppable. Although the more than 200 people under Qiu Yizhi are extremely elite, in the face of such an army driven by a strong will to survive, they are afraid that it will be difficult to stop.

And Qiu Yizhi was afraid that these soldiers who were his confidants would lose their men and horses in this battle to block the rout, so he hurriedly changed the order, not to block the mountain road with his flesh and blood, but to ask everyone to immediately push the mountain gravel and wood on the road, wanting to stop the soldiers of the Lingnan Army.

However, Qiu Yizhi's deployment was very hasty, and there was not much debris temporarily piled up on the road, far from the extent that it could block the road. The Lingnan Army retreated this time, fully deployed, and had long expected that Qiu Yizhi would have such a move, and immediately the leading army threw all kinds of obstacles to the side of the road, and quickly cleared the road for the army to move.

Seeing this, Qiu Yizhi was anxious, and hurriedly ordered the crossbowmen among his elite soldiers and the archers in Wu Changxi's department to fire all the stored arrows down the mountain.

However, Qiu Yizhi can now mobilize the crossbowmen, a total of less than 200 people, the crossbow machine winding speed is very slow, although a salvo can put down more than 100 enemy troops, but after all, the opponent has a large number of people and resolutely retreated, seeing that someone on the mountain is shooting at him, he actually did not hide, let alone counterattack, but immediately by the rear team of soldiers to carry the body of the dead and wounded comrades, continue to move forward, the movement is not hindered in the slightest.

When Qiu Yizhi saw such a scene, he really hated how he had calculated everything, but he missed the scale and determination of the enemy's retreat - such a large number of troops acted in unison, and there were less than a thousand people under his command, how could he stop it?

He secretly complained about Zhang Qilai in the city - before he left the city, he had clearly told him that holding the city was just part of this operation, and when the enemy's morale was exhausted and the whole army retreated, it was the most important killing move in this battle to go out of the city to pursue - but the opponent retreated to such a point, Zhang Qi in the city still did not take any action, which was really disappointing to himself.

However, although Zhang Qi in the city reacted slowly, he could see that the Lingnan army, which had originally surrounded Shanyin County, had fled completely in the blink of an eye, and suddenly understood that the opponent was truly retreating rather than playing some tricks to lure the enemy.

He finally remembered that Qiu Yizhi had confessed to himself that once the enemy retreated and dispersed, he must wait for the opportunity to go out of the city to pursue. At that time, he also felt that Qiu Yizhi was blowing a conch - the Lingnan soldiers were numerous and good at attacking cities, and after the army was raised, there were no cities in the south of the Yangtze River that were invincible except for Jinling, how could they retreat for no reason?