After marching fifty miles overnight, the sky was bright, Wu Yingying ordered the army not to rest, and continued to march until it was a hundred miles away from Jinling City, and only allowed the soldiers to rest, but they were not allowed to make fires to rebel, and the whole army and Wu Yingying himself had to eat breakfast on dry food on the ice and snow, and after a short rest, they advanced south at the speed of a rapid march, and rested every twenty miles. Just marched like this, the soldiers were exhausted, and they could barely march thanks to the hard work of Wu Yingying's tooth battalion and the officers at all levels of the Divine Guard Army. It wasn't until later that Wu Yingying suspected that as long as he encountered a Song army of 2,000 people on the way, his army might not be able to withstand it, and finally saw the camp of Heiyundu.

Compared with the Shenwei and Tiande army foot soldiers who forcibly marched all the way from Jinling, the situation in Heiyundu was much better. Although the cavalrymen did not ride horses when they were on the road, and nearly half of the horses were tired and sick, horses could help the cavalry carry a lot of things. Moreover, although Heiyundu is the main force of the Hukou battalion, the backbone of the Hukou battalion itself is still a reorganized Jinfan infantry army, so Heiyun is not in a hurry to rush back to assist in the defense, and the time for marching is relatively easy, and he arrived at the rendezvous camp two days early. In the eyes of the cavalrymen, who had been fully repaired for two days, they were busy grabbing hot porridge to drink as soon as they saw the big battalion, and these infantry soldiers who fell asleep in the camp tent after drinking the porridge were simply called Hanako.

However, there was an infantry army that won the respect of all the cavalry, and when they arrived at the camp they maintained a strict formation, and when the other troops rushed to divide the porridge, they were on guard all around, and at last they lined up neatly to receive their own food, and after leaving the necessary sentry posts, the foot soldiers ate in a circle of ten people according to the squad, and kept their swords, guns, bows and crossbows by their side, ready to rise up and fight. After the whole army had a meal, the sentries had a proud expression and Wu Yingying, who was also the centurion of the first capital of the Ya military camp, had dinner with a proud expression.

Modern people are more impatient with hunger than ancient people, and although Wu Yingying is hungry, he is still willing to enjoy the honor of the last meal with the most elite soldiers in his army. He deliberately cultivated a sense of honor in the army, and the last meal was a qualification and honor, just as he encouraged his soldiers to fight for the honor of the first row of each phalanx. When his soldiers developed such a unique feeling, death, hunger, and exhaustion were nothing, and they believed that they could survive.

"Are you ready?" Xiao Jiu asked Jin Ji beside him in a low voice, since he forced the soldiers defending the city to eat the corpses of the Song soldiers. Whether it was the Divine Guard Right Army or other Tang troops defending the city, the eyes that looked at Xiao Jiu were a little more inexplicably in awe, and his own personality became more and more gloomy, and many specific military affairs were handled by instructing the captain to take the blame.

"Report to my lord, there were 11,523 officers and men in our army, and 4,651 were killed in seven days, and 5,435 were able to participate in the breakout. Seeing Xiao Jiu's burning eyes staring at him, Jin Ji hesitated for a moment, and then said: "There are still 1,437 people who are injured and unable to participate in the breakthrough, and the last general has already placed all of them in the state government and distributed seven days' worth of water. ”

As soon as Jin Qi's words fell, the captains who participated in the military meeting began to talk one after another. Several generals from the outside department even began to look at Xiao Jiu, the commander of the Shenwei Right Army and the Changzhou soldiers and horses, with contempt. Although the state government and other cities were cities within cities, and they could resist a wave of Song troops by refusing to defend them, the placement of wounded soldiers in the state government still did not intend to hand them over to the enemy, especially if the enemy outside the city hated the defenders to the core.

Xiao Jiu glanced at the generals coldly, his sharp eyes were like substance, and the generals who were whispering immediately stopped talking. Xiao said in a deep voice: "In the battle of Changzhou, the temple has already made a plan. You just need to know that we are not abandoning our comrades. He didn't care whether his subordinate generals believed it or not, and continued: "If only the wounded soldiers are left in the state office, it will indeed be difficult to resist the Song army. Now it is necessary for the brave general to lead a battalion of sergeants to stay behind to guard the state government and support our army to return victorious. After finishing speaking, he glanced at the generals present with aggressive eyes, and several generals who were boldly looking at him just now unconsciously lowered their heads, and a few people slandered Xiao Jiu in their hearts and even took this opportunity to cut off dissidents, which was really ruthless.

Seeing that none of the generals responded, Xiao Jiu couldn't help but sigh slightly in his heart, if it was Xin Gu's subordinates, I am afraid that there would be brave generals who would come forward. Just as he was waiting for him to speak out, Jin suddenly came out of the crowd, bowed and saluted, and said loudly: "Jin is willing to stay in the state with his three hundred brothers." ”

Xiao Jiu was slightly stunned, looking at Jin Jiu's resolute face, in a trance, he was a little similar to his comrades in the Shu army who were stubbornly guarding the Guan Kou Village to fight for the escape time for his brothers, and after a little hesitation, he said in a deep voice: "That's it, send another two hundred elites from the Ya military camp to you, and go to get a thousand crossbows and fifty thousand arrows." Seeing that someone who stayed behind in the state government took the initiative to take the initiative, the atmosphere of the military discussion was suddenly much more relaxed, and several captains from the Divine Guard Army even felt a little guilty.

Until late at night, the Song army held torches and candles high as usual, while constantly throwing stones and crossbow arrows at the head of the city, and on the other hand, did not send the daring elite to try to climb the city, most of the soldiers rested in the camp.

Suddenly, the west gate of Changzhou City was opened, and the Tang army out of the city ignored the random arrows and flying stones, and did not entangle with the Song army under the city, and went straight to the north from the unfinished trench and low wall of the Song military camp at this time.

If the defenders had abandoned the city at first, or had resisted for two or three days and then left, the besieging army might have let them go. However, the two sides have been fighting for many days, many robes have died in the city, and the bodies of some fellow villagers or brothers who get along day and night cannot be found, and it is privately speculated that Xing may have been cooked and eaten by the Tang army in the city. It is because both the Song army and the Wu Yue army are holding back a breath of anger, and no matter how they defeat the city, they will kill on a large scale. Under the excitement of the crowd, Sun Chengyou, the deputy envoy of the two armies of Zhenhai and Zhendong, the general of the Wu Yue army camped outside the west gate, reported to the camp at the south gate, and at the same time, despite the fact that the number of soldiers in the camp was less than the number of enemy troops breaking through, he chased after him with his own ranks, and tried his best to entangle the Tang army that broke through before the main force felt it.

Ding Deyu, who was sleeping soundly in the southwest, heard that the Tang army defending the city wanted to flee back to Jinling, so he hurriedly got up, didn't even care about putting on his armor, turned on his horse, and led the hastily assembled 800 cavalry around the west of the city to the east to chase after him. And Qian Yu, the king of Wuyue, couldn't stand the generals on the left and right asking for orders, and commanded 30,000 Wu Yue troops to pursue them north. Shen Chengli, the commander of the two Zhejiang capitals, led an army of 5,000 troops to Changzhou, and extinguished the fires that the Tang army had lit with fierce oil in various parts of the city before leaving, especially at the city gate.

After Xiao Jiu personally led the two battalions of the right army to break off, on the one hand, he had to closely follow the Tang army, which fled north in a panic, and on the other hand, he had to resist the Song army that occasionally overtook his own army. The brigade marched slowly, and it didn't take long for more than a thousand lightly armed foot soldiers led by Sun Chengyou to catch up, Xiao Jiu stopped with the broken rear soldiers, and fired several rounds of crossbow arrows in a row, and the dense rain of arrows shot the enemy soldiers in light armor couldn't raise their heads, and saw that the army marched a certain distance, so they left the pursuing enemy army and ran to chase the army. Not long after running, the pursuers led by Sun Chengyou followed up again, this person was very cunning, if Xiao Jiu didn't care about it, he was posted up to fight in close quarters, then he really kept it, but if he stopped and gave him a rain of arrows, he retreated beyond the range of crossbow arrows, in short, the ghost followed behind, so that Xiao Jiu's broken army was exhausted, how could he not shake off such a tail.

Sun Chengyou's bitter struggle had an effect, Ding Deyu led the eight hundred cavalry is the second army to catch up, the advantage of the cavalry in the pursuit of the battle is undoubtedly played, their appearance not only makes the broken troops get rid of the enemy army into an almost impossible task, and Ding Deyu in order to leave the entire Tang army, but also boldly surpass the Tang army's broken rear troops, constantly harassing the marching column in front, although because the number of cavalry is small, and the Southern Tang army has a strong anti-cavalry ability of the Shenwei Army as the backbone, Ding Deyu can not rely on only eight hundred cavalry to break down the five thousand Tang army, but his harassment does greatly reduce the speed of the Tang army。 Rao is king of Wu Yue spent nearly half an hour to gather 30,000 Wu Yue troops, and they still caught up with the Tang army who had lost their armor and fled from Changzhou at dawn.

Xiao Jiu urged the generals of all departments not to scatter and flee, and on the other hand, he had to take only more than 500 people to break the army, this short two or three hours of night march seemed to him longer than the previous seven days, seeing that the east was white, and the footsteps secretly calculated in his heart were approaching, he became more and more nervous, and said in his heart: "Wu Yingying, for this big victory, Xiao can be regarded as shirtless, sacrificing his life and forgetting death, you don't let me down." Finally, he heard the surprise cheers of the other Tang troops fleeing in front one after another. Xiao Jiu temporarily handed over the rear army to the commander of the first battalion of the right army beside him, Murong Zang, and ordered him to stop caring about the harassment of the enemy army behind him, and catch up with the front army at full speed, while he led several personal soldiers to speed up the pace forward.