A black shadow like a ghost at night, quietly sneaked behind the sentry, and pounced suddenly, like a fierce cheetah pounced on the prey, instantly knocking the prey to the ground, but after the sentry was knocked down, the person was dumbfounded, and the sentry that was knocked down and locked in the throat was just a scarecrow in clothes, which ...... What's going on?

The black shadows quickly withdrew and disappeared into the darkness, and after a while, several black shadows gathered together and whispered.

"The sentry is a scarecrow."

"Mine too."

These black shadows are the warriors of the second battalion, and they want to catch a few tongues and go back, but they didn't expect that the sentry posts are all scarecrows, and several people discussed in a low voice for a while, and they all sneaked under the camp fence, and lurked patiently, and found that the whole camp was quiet, without any sound, and they ventured to climb over the camp fence and sneak into the camp.

A warrior sneaked close to the nearest tent, carefully opened the curtain with a sharp thorn, and examined it carefully for a while before touching it, and the tent was empty, and there was not a single ghost, only a mess of rags, shoes, straw and something.

The reconnaissance team was worried about fraud, and carefully observed and listened to the hidden places for a while, and then cautiously touched the depths of the camp, and inspected several large tents in a row, but found that there was no one, and finally simply went straight into the tent of the commander of the Chinese army, but he didn't see a ghost.

Zhang Jiajun quietly retreated? Or is it a vacuum?

The members of the reconnaissance team were full of doubts, and after meeting, they discussed in a low voice for a while, and then searched separately, not only searched the front, middle and rear three battalions of Ainengqi, but also stored all the important military supplies in the rear battalion, they already suspected in their hearts that Zhang Jiajun had used the cover of the night to retreat quietly, but they still did not dare to be careless, and scattered again, and carefully searched the five or six miles within a radius of five or six miles, so they dared to confirm that Zhang Jiajun had really retreated, and hurriedly went back to report.

Knowing that Zhang's army had retreated, Tan Biao couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, his second battalion in addition to a lot of thunder left, there was not much ammunition left, if Zhang's army attacked the city overnight, Shanyin County really had the possibility of falling, but he still didn't dare to be careless, and sent two teams of reconnaissance teams to Xicheng to reconnoiter Zhang Xianzhong's Xida camp, and only after confirming it did he really put his mind at ease.

This repeated reconnaissance back and forth, the sky has begun to brighten, Tan Biao led the team to the county seat, Li Liancheng confirmed, only then did he dare to order the people to move the stone sandbags blocking the city gate, open the city gate, go out of the city to meet the friendly army, the soldiers and civilians on the city broke out into a shocking cheer, many excited whimpering, tears, in the face of the crazy attack of 200,000 Zhang's army, they stuck to the lonely city, held the city, and guarded the homeland.

As soon as the soldiers of the second battalion entered the city, the city's head suddenly erupted into earth-shattering cheers, and the two of them went to the city to take a look, only to see the dust and smoke billowing in the distance, waving flags, and couldn't help but be happy, and the main force under the command of the tall commander finally arrived.

At dawn, Gao Jie led the soldiers of the third battalion and the logistics baggage battalion to finally arrive, all the soldiers, even Yanxian, who has always loved beauty, were covered with dust, with a tired face, they were worried that the county town would be lost, and they hurried day and night, but the logistics baggage battalion dragged more than a dozen heavy Franc machine guns, as well as a large number of military supplies, no matter how to catch up, it was still a step slower, fortunately, the Zhangjia army had retreated, the county siege was lifted, and Gao Jie and his wife were also relieved.

In fact, the main force under the command of Gao Jie is fast enough, according to the normal marching speed, at least the day after tomorrow to arrive, Zhang Xianzhong also overestimated that when it was half a day, it would arrive in the afternoon at the earliest, and the Royal Guards Independent Battalion could have this marching speed, which was related to the usual training, ten kilometers, twenty kilometers of fully armed march training every one or two weeks, and the soldiers were used to it. Of course, the soldiers' food has been greatly improved, and factors such as physical growth and physical fitness are also included.

Knowing that Zhang Xianzhong had withdrawn his troops overnight and Li Zicheng did not appear, Gao Jie asked the exhausted soldiers to rest for half an hour, and then set off in pursuit, so as not to be robbed of military merits by friendly troops on several other routes, and at the same time sent two reconnaissance platoons to search in the west and north directions to grasp the exact whereabouts of Zhang's army.

It is estimated that all friendly forces have regarded Zhang Jiajun as a big fat sheep to earn military merits, if the action is slow, even the soup can not be drunk, although it is a great achievement to hold Shanyin County, but Gao Jie is the first time to lead the army to fight, and he wants to show his loyalty, and at the same time show loyalty to the Son of Heaven.

Zhang Xianzhong led the army to retreat overnight, but soldiers who are generally night blind walk in the dark, how fast can they go? Coupled with the drag of logistics, they couldn't go far, and many civilian soldiers were left behind along the way, most of them used the cover of night to desert and run away, Zhang Xianzhong and others had time to arrest, so they could only make the big and small leaders keep an eye on it, and once they were discovered, they would be killed.

After resting for half an hour, Gao Jie led the whole army to set off, after walking out of six or seven miles, he stopped and rested at a fork in the road, this fork left to the west, right to the north, it depends on which way Zhang Xianzhong's main force goes, but no matter which way to go, there are friendly troops in front of him, and what awaits them will be the fate of the annihilation of the whole army.

There were many traces left on both roads, and Gao Jie could not judge which way Zhang Xianzhong's main force was going for a while, so he could only wait for the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon to come back and report.

It didn't take long for the soldiers of the reconnaissance platoon who were going north to reconnoiter to rush back to report that Zhang Xianzhong led the main force to flee north, abandoning a lot of things along the way, and even throwing the wounded on the road, and the reconnaissance platoon was continuing to track forward, hanging dead behind Zhang Xianzhong's main force.

The soldiers who returned to report also reported an anomaly, a puff of smoke rising from a mountain ridge far ahead for unknown reasons, and it was not possible to confirm what happened for the time being.

Gao Jie frowned, could it be that Lu Xiangsheng, who was pressed from the north, had already fought with Zhang Xianzhong's vanguard troops? It was a pity that there were sparse woods and barren ridges on both sides, and there were no hills to climb and watch, so he could only order the whole army to speed up the march and strive to catch Zhang Xianzhong's palace troops from above.

Zhang Xianzhong led the army to retreat overnight, and ordered Li Dingguo's department to be the vanguard, and took the lead in rushing to Shepanling to make arrangements, and at the same time went out of Shepanling and set up a formation to intercept Lu Xiangsheng's troops who were pressed from the north.

Li Dingguo led his troops to the bottom of the Shepan Ridge, and saw that the battle flag of the Zhangjia Army on the ridge was still fluttering in the wind, so he breathed a sigh of relief, and he sent people to the ridge to inform his subordinates on the mountain to prepare to meet the army, and he led the main force to continue to move forward and build a defensive line to intercept Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army and buy time for the main force to retreat.

On the steep mountain ridge, Zhang Jiajun's battle flag was fluttering in the wind, the reason why Wei Shuangxi did not let people tear it off was to confuse Zhang Xianzhong, he gambled that no one dared to run back to report the rout on the ridge, and they all ran away and flashed, anyway, there was no loss if they didn't pull the flag, so just hang it for the time being.

Wei Shuangxi bet right, all the defeated soldiers on the mountain ridge ran away, no one fled back to report, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo and others did not know that Shepanling had fallen, Li Dingguo just sent a small leader and a few soldiers up the mountain, and was captured alive by Wei Shuangxi and other daredevils.

After the interrogation, it was learned that the Zhang family army had retreated and was rushing to Shepanling, Wei Shuangxi hurriedly ordered to prepare for battle, although those people were afraid, but there was no choice, so they had to prepare for war, fortunately, the road up the mountain was narrow and steep, and the Zhang family army could not be deployed no matter how many troops there were, and a large number of rolling logs were cut down on the mountain, and many large stones were dug to prepare, and it should be no problem to hold for a few days.

More than half an hour later, Wei Shuangxi, who was standing on the top of the mountain, could already see the Zhang Jiajun in the rapid march through the monoculars, and the long dragon that could not be seen was rushing towards the mountain.