Most of the rebel soldiers were dressed in cloth, and some of them involuntarily began to shrink back in the face of the onslaught. Xu Ping anxiously waited for the final collapse of the enemy, while he mentally calculated the next steps. At this moment, several staff officers around Xu Ping exclaimed at the same time.

Xu Ping turned his gaze and immediately saw a large group of new enemy troops appear in the field of view of the telescope, densely pouring out from behind the hills and woods several miles away. The obstacle blocked Xu Ping's view, making it impossible for him to see the number of enemies, but he could still see countless flags raised in the air.

There is no doubt that these are also rebels who have just arrived on the battlefield. They came from the direction of Jinan, crossed the Shahe River, and did not follow the official road but rushed directly to block the retreat of the Ming army. Xu Ping's hand finally couldn't help but start shaking, it seemed that this was another part of Ji Huisi's headquarters that he couldn't arrive at yesterday. On the current battlefield, the rebels have at least five to one superiority over the Ming army, which is by no means an enemy that Xu Ping's lone army can defeat.

Xu Ping lowered his head, the subordinates in front of him were still fighting hard with the enemy, and when the victory and defeat were decided, the newly arrived rebel troops would be very close, not to mention the tailgating enemy troops who could rush out of the woods at any time. Several staff officers around him were already pale, and Xu Ping said to them softly: "You are not needed here, you immediately retreat to chase Lord Wu and report the enemy situation to him." ”

Zhou Dongtian bit his lip and asked, "My lord, did you order a retreat?" ”

It stands to reason that at this time the order should be given to the general retreat, and this order is to let the soldiers escape separately. Xu Ping shook his head: "You guys leave immediately, I will personally give this order." ”

Several staff officers were still hesitant to leave, and although the Forces nouvelles had never encountered a similar situation, according to the regulations, the protection of the commander should be prioritized at this time. Seeing this, Xu Ping said angrily: "Retreat immediately!" ”

Several staff officers took a deep breath: "Obey, my lord." ”

Not only these staff officers, Xu Ping also ordered the twenty cavalry around him to protect their safety, leaving only the standard-bearer.

Seeing a small group of knights galloping away, Xu Ping raised his binoculars again to check the battlefield. If a retreat is ordered immediately, then the Ming army will collapse immediately, so Xu Ping hesitated, hoping to at least defeat the enemy army in front of him, and then let his subordinates escape. He wondered if more officers and soldiers might be able to get out of danger — maybe.

Xu Ping pondered and gave a new order, and the drums of the Ming army became rapid. The infantry was urged to step forward quickly, and began to fight with the rebels. Their commander secretly made up his mind in his heart that after defeating the force closest to the Ming army, he immediately ordered all the people, including Yu Shenhe's group, to abandon their weapons and armor and flee with all their might. The cavalry was no longer used to pursue the scattered rebels, as it no longer seemed to make sense.

While Xu Ping was nervously thinking about how to use the little cavalry in his hand to cover the escape of the brigade, the two armies that were fighting also noticed the new troops in the distance. About 3,000 enemy troops have already appeared in sight, and their follow-up is still flowing. These enemy troops shouted from miles away, like rolling thunder from the sky. Xu Ping shook his head again and again, looking back and seeing the flag bearer around him standing up immediately, still holding the flag firmly in his hand. The heroic posture of the soldiers made Xu Ping sigh secretly, as the commander of the first battalion, now he was really a little envious of these subordinates who only needed to obey orders. Xu Ping struggled to break free from his nervousness, and he looked around, trying to figure out what other strategies were available.

On Xu Ping's right, a rapid drum beat suddenly erupted, and Xu Ping saw a large number of rebels appear on the way from the forest, rushing towards Yu Shenhe's troops. Yu Shenhe's two hundred men shot fiercely, and the fierce sound of fire was quickly drowned out by the sound of fighting. Xu Ping watched the rebels pour out of the forest like a tide of rage, and when he finally saw the Ming army, they were changing formations and forming a circle formation for defense, and then a large number of rebels obscured the Ming army.

Xu Ping looked back at the front in a broken heart, and although the rebels in front were encouraged by the arrival of reinforcements, they were gradually unable to hold on. Xu Ping's last hope was to defeat these opponents immediately, so that more of his subordinates could flee the battlefield, so that Yu Shenhe's sacrifice was not meaningless.

The Ming soldiers apparently also noticed the battle in the woods, and there were no officers in the back row, who could no longer concentrate on directing the soldiers, but couldn't help but look there. Finally, a Ming soldier in the back row suddenly threw down his weapon without saying a word, turned around and ran out of the formation and ran north. Before the distraught non-commissioned officers and officers could react to stop him, two other soldiers followed his example and left the formation without permission. Then there was an uproar, and a large number of musketeers in the rear threw down their weapons and scrambled to flee north, and even the cavalry joined them.

That is, in a blink of an eye, the frontal attack and defense were completely reversed, and a large number of Ming soldiers ran and threw off their helmets, tearing off their armor from their bodies in a panic and throwing it away. A soldier who ran past Xu Ping's eyes didn't look at him, the soldier accidentally tripped and fell to the ground while taking off his armor, he got up on his hands and feet, shook off his burden, and continued to run north. The rebels, who were still on the verge of collapse just now, shouted and launched a counterattack, and more than half of the Ming cavalry covering the two wings began to retreat on their own, and their infantry brothers still had weapons and armor everywhere.

Xu Ping pulled the handcuff from the saddle with a tense mouth and raised it to his temple......

"Your Excellency!" The flag-bearer next to him waved the flag vigorously, and the flagpole slapped heavily on Xu Ping's arm, and with a "bang", the bullet in the handcuff hit the air. The standard-bearer threw down the flag, hugged Xu Ping's arm, and shouted eagerly: "My lord, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of running out of firewood." ”

The pleading voices of the soldiers in his ears still came one by one, and Xu Ping, who had escaped death, gasped for breath, feeling his heart pounding in his chest, and what caught his eye was the tragic situation of the Ming army's collapse.

"Zijun, Zijun......" A voice sounded in Xu Ping's heart: "Zijun is still waiting for me, waiting for me to go back alive......"

"But how can I go back, how can I go back to see Master Hou?" Xu Ping raised his head to the sky and let out a wail.

The standard-bearer beside him shook him vigorously: "My lord, the coming day is long." ”

In the panic, a knight rushed towards Xu Ping. It was Jiang Yizhou who came. Without waiting for the horse to stop, he hurriedly glanced around and shouted, "My lord, where is my brother-in-law?" ”

Xu Ping shook his head and stretched out his arm to point in the direction of his right hand. Jiang Yizhou looked along Xu Ping's arm, and Yu Shenhe's troops were still fighting hard over there. Jiang Yizhou turned the horse's head and wanted to rush over. Xu Ping stretched out his hand to stop: "Brother Jiang, it's useless to die in vain." ”

"We were born on the same day, the same month, and the same year, but when we got righteous, we said that we would die on the same day and month of the same year." Jiang Yizhou didn't leave immediately, but said to Xu Ping: "My lord, please go back to Hou Ye and let him impeach Hou Xun and Lu Jun's gang of miscellaneous people, and seek justice for my brother." ”

After finishing speaking, Jiang grabbed the horse's belly and rushed towards the direction of Yu Shenhe without looking back. When he drew his sword in his hand, Xu Ping heard Jiang Yizhou's last entrustment; "My lord, please."

Looking at Jiang Yizhou's back as he disappeared into the chaos, Xu Ping whispered to the standard-bearer: "Put away the flag." ”

Hearing this command, the standard-bearer jumped off his horse and tore the battalion flag off the flagpole, folded it a few times and put it in his arms. With the fall of the battalion flag just now, the last bit of courage in the hearts of the Ming soldiers disappeared without a trace, whether it was cavalry or infantry, all of them abandoned their commanders and began to flee separately.

Most of the main cavalry of the rebels were in the hands of the rebel general Chen Yuanlong, whose troops were heavily damaged by the Ming army the day before yesterday and have not yet recovered. Although the rebels have launched a pursuit, their cavalry is very small, and the rebels who are fighting against the Ming army do not have a few horses, as if there are some rangers, scouts and the like, which gives the Ming army scattered and fleeing a glimmer of life.

Xu Ping fled north with the standard-bearer. Although they started late, they quickly threw off most of the rebels on horseback. Seeing that the rebels on the official road were just a small group of people, Xu Ping turned his heart sideways and rushed straight over to escape from the road. The rebels who had just run over saw the two Ming knights approaching, and they used their clubs and spears to stop them. However, there were not many of them, and the gap was large, and Xu Ping and the standard-bearer passed through their gap without much effort. Xu Ping took a cursory look, and the scattered rebel cavalry was chasing the Ming infantry running westward into a large wheat field, and no one noticed him for the time being.

Just secretly rejoicing, Xu Ping suddenly felt a shock from the mount under his crotch, and then the horse fell to his knees, and Xu Ping on the saddle was immediately thrown out and rolled on the ground a few times. The ribs, which were still hurting, hurt even more as if they were broken, and tears were about to flow out. He struggled to sit up, and not far away his horse was lying on the ground convulsing in pain. It can be seen that a bullet has just been fired from the horse's hip, penetrating its body and exiting its abdomen, and the horse will not survive.

At this moment, the standard-bearer had already galloped a long way away, and was pulling his horse to look back at the commander. Xu Ping tried to stand up, but he was so painful that he couldn't even speak. Seeing a group of rebels rushing towards him with a shout, Xu Ping endured the pain, waved his hand at the flag bearer with difficulty, and shouted vigorously: "Hurry up, hurry up!" ”

The standard-bearer in the distance looked at the enemy who had already rushed to the commander's side, gritted his teeth, turned around and walked away. After Xu Ping saw that the standard-bearer had left safely, he turned his head and took a deep breath, struggled to stand up reluctantly, pulled out the sword with his right hand, held it flat in front of him, and dropped his armor with his left hand. One of the rebel soldiers who rushed first was armed with a spear and stabbed Xu Ping into the waist. When the tip of the spear hit Xu Ping's armor, he was bent over, and while holding the barrel of the gun in his left hand, he slashed the long sword at the rebel's head.

The rebel lowered his head and avoided Sword Peak. At the same time, another rebel had already arrived, and with a wave of his spear in his hand, he slapped Xu Ping on the shoulder. Then another shot slammed into the crook of his knee, knocking Xu Ping to his knees on one knee. The third shot hit Xu Ping's helmet, knocking him to the ground and the sword in his hand flew out.

Several rebels who pounced on him slashed and smashed at Xu Ping's body with weapons, and Xu Ping, who had completely lost his ability to defend himself, subconsciously covered his neck with his arms and lay on the ground. All I heard was the rebel soldiers shouting and clanging his armor. The helmet was slashed several times in a row, although it had not yet been broken, but it shook Xu Ping to the point that his head was split, his eyes were black, and he almost fainted.

"Zijun...... I can't go back. Xu Ping knew that he was going to die here, and he felt that his consciousness had gradually blurred. He lay motionless on his stomach, his eyes closed, and the world spun around for a while. There seemed to be no more pain in his body, but his ears were ringing, almost deafening from the sound of the dense metal knocking like raindrops.

Faintly, Xu Pingdi felt a hand grab his shoulder and turn him over violently. His body shook violently, and the pain was terrible, and then the helmet was violently ripped off. There seemed to be a ding-dong sound in his ears, so that Xu Ping couldn't hear anything clearly. He closed his eyes and waited for death, but the blade did not fall as expected. His body shook violently again, and a small voice squeezed into his ears: "Lao Xu, Lao Xu!" ”

Xu Ping struggled to open his eyes, a metal mask in front of him, and a pair of eyes staring at him without blinking. Seeing Xu Ping open his eyes, the man lifted his mask, revealing the familiar face of Cao Yun behind him: "Old Xu, are you okay?" ”

Xu Ping sat up in a daze under Cao Yun's support. There were the corpses of several rebel soldiers lying next to him, and Cao Yun was half-kneeling beside Xu Ping, and the blood-stained long knife was at his feet. Cao Yun anxiously urged: "Hurry up!" ”

Xu Ping stood up in a trance and looked around, and more rebel soldiers were coming in the distance. Cao Yun put Xu Ping on the horse without saying a word and asked, "Old Xu, can you still hold the reins?" ”

The glove had already broken a few holes, Xu Ping ripped it off, moved his fingers a few times, and found that there was nothing wrong with his hand. He grabbed the reins and shouted, "No problem, come up, let's go." ”

Cao Yun looked back at the group of rebels who were getting closer and closer, and in the distance was the rebel brigade that had arrived on the battlefield not long ago. He let go of the reins of his mount, raised his head and shouted to Xu Ping: "My lord, go quickly, and after the resignation." ”

Saying that, Cao Yun took a step back, holding the long sword tightly in his right hand, and raised his horsewhip in his left hand: "The world can be cloudless, and there can be no adults." ”

Xu Ping was stunned for a moment, and immediately reacted, this is a sentence in Cao Yun's favorite popular romance of the Three Kingdoms. He anxiously stretched out his hand to stop the whip and shouted, "Old Cao, when is it, you still have the heart to say this." ”

The whip that Cao Yun was holding high stopped in the air, and after a moment, it suddenly fell heavily, not drawing the mount but directly to Xu Ping's hand. The whipping was so heavy that it drew blood from Xu Ping's hands, and Xu Ping's hands retracted as if they were electrocuted. Xu Ping saw that Cao Yun's eyes were red, and his eyes were almost about to explode, and he shouted angrily at Xu Ping: "You want us to die in vain!" ”

Then Cao Yun slammed the buttocks of the war horse again, and the war horse jumped into the air with a neigh. Xu Ping's body shook, and he instinctively tightened his grip on the reins to control his mount. When he looked back again, Cao Yun was already more than ten meters away, staring at him with his mouth tight, with a serious and resolute face.

"Lao Cao!" Xu Ping cried bitterly, only to feel that tears were pouring out uncontrollably. In the hazy tears, he saw Cao Yun drop his mask and turn around, stand firmly with his legs spread out, and stand up to the large number of rebel soldiers who had rushed to him.

The horse galloped down the road, while Xu Ping lay on his old friend's mount, hugging the horse's neck and whimpering. I don't know how long I ran in such a drowsy state, and when Xu Ping looked up again, he found that he had deviated from the road, and there was an unknown hill not far in front of him, and this scenery must have been something he had never seen when he came.

The war horse under his crotch seemed to be tired, and Xu Ping listened to it move slowly, looking around, looking for something that could be used to discern the direction, but he never found it. There seemed to be a fire burning in his chest, and his throat was spicy. When Xu Ping saw a stream, he jumped off his horse and drank bitterly by the water. The horse also bent down its long neck to drink with him.

The cool stream water splashed on his face made Xu Ping's drowsy head sober up a lot. As this cool feeling penetrated into his body, Xu Ping felt that his eyes began to heat up again, he couldn't hold back it anymore, and with a sob, tears rolled down again. The whole body began to ache again, especially the left hand that was whipped by Cao Yun, there was a shocking red mark on it, and the entire palm was swollen, like a steamed bun. But compared to the grief in Xu Ping's heart, what is this?

After standing up, Xu Ping looked at the sun and made sure that he had gone in the wrong direction, and now not only was he not out of danger, but he was also separated from Wu Zhong's troops by the rebels. He lowered his head and carefully examined the dirt road he had just walked, and sure enough, he left his own traces on the way he came, a clearly recognizable horse's hoof prints from far and near. Xu Ping pondered for a moment, took off the armor covered with knives and put it on the horse's back, led the horse for a few steps to observe the imprints, and then he simply took off the leather armor, helmet and everything else that could be discarded, and tied it on the horse's back.

After doing all this, Xu Ping patted the war horse vigorously, watched it trot and disappear into the path ahead, and then pulled out his legs and walked in the other direction.

The handcuffs and swords were gone, and only a few small coins were left in his arms. Xu Ping broke a branch and forced himself forward. After wading in the creek for a while, then picking a rocky spot and going ashore, wiping the water off his boots, and burying the wet stains with dry earth, he went into the woods beside him. Xu Ping felt exhausted, but he knew he wasn't out of danger of being tracked. He had to pass through the woods, using the fallen leaves on the ground to cover his tracks. Only by completely getting rid of potential pursuers can it be possible to safely return to one's own army.

In view of what he saw and heard along the way, Xu Ping knew that he could not risk seeking help from the people. The money in his pocket may be able to buy some food, but it is difficult to guarantee that the villagers will not report it to the Shandong rebels immediately, especially with the current bad image of the officers and soldiers.

Xu Ping silently thought about how to make up lies and get away with strangers once he met them. He was fortunate that he had struggled through the woods until the sun went down, and that he had not encountered any woodcutters or hunters. There are some small mounds in the woods from time to time, and before the sun sets, Xu Ping stands on the mound and looks at the sparsely wooded place, and the smoke rises faintly from a small village. The desire to go in and ask for a bowl of rice was so strong, but Xu Ping calculated the distance from here to the battlefield, and finally shook his head, and decided to continue sneaking in the forest, and wait until he reached a safer place to ask for help.

At this time, Xu Ping's legs were as heavy as lead, and his head was dizzy for a while. Despite this, he kept reminding himself that he had to travel at night to continue to escape. In order to allow himself to have the physical strength to move on, Xu Ping decided to take a break. After he sat down against a tree, the feeling of fatigue suddenly overwhelming, which was also expected by Xu Ping, but the degree of turbulence was still a little beyond his imagination.

"I can't fall here, my life was exchanged for Lao Cao's life, Master Zhang, Jiang Yizhou and Yu Shenhe are still waiting for me to seek justice for them, and Zijun is still waiting for me to go back in Beijing." Xu Ping said silently in his heart. He leaned motionless against the trunk of the tree, his whole body protesting that he continued on his way, but Xu Ping's determination remained unmoved. When he felt a little regained, he said to himself, "I'll count a hundred more times, and then I'll get up and hurry." ”

"One"

"Two"

"Three"

Xu Ping counted slowly in his heart, and before he knew it, he had closed his eyes and fell asleep.

……

At the same time, the Shandong rebels had already carried out a general clean-up of the battlefield. Their leader, Ji Huisi, rode on his horse, listening to his subordinates constantly coming to report one by one. Beside Ji Huisi, there was a person with a smile on his face and walked slowly with him. He congratulated Ji Huisi and said: "The king is mighty, and the officers and soldiers are arrogant. ”

"Thank you." Ji Huisi was very polite to this person, and returned the salute when he heard this: "This defeat of the new army is thanks to the batch of gunpowder sent by King Chuang, as well as intelligence. ”

"There is no way for the faint king, and the heroes of the world fight it together. My lord and the king are in the same breath, and there is no need to say these kind words. "That's human.

Although the rebels have seized many firearms in the past, most of them are useless due to the extreme lack of gunpowder. The Shandong rebels were originally the firearms unit of the Ming army, and they had a large number of firearms in their hands after raising the rebel banner, but after more than ten years of mobile warfare, they almost completely degenerated into cold weapon troops, and it was extremely difficult to form a firearms team this time.

Fortunately, after hearing that the imperial court was going to attack the rebels in Shandong, Li Zicheng sent someone to bring some gunpowder. Although the quantity is not too large, it is a material that the rebels of all stripes are desperately lacking. This batch of gunpowder played a vital role in preventing the rebels from breaking through the Shanlan camp. The rebels' firearms were so powerful that they inflicted heavy losses on the unsuspecting Yamalan battalion in the battles of the 28th and 29th, and directly killed the commander of the Yamalan battalion.

The last time Beizhili fought in the first battle, the armor of the new army left a deep impression on Ji Huisi. Now the new army is almost armed to the teeth, not to mention the bows and arrows of the rebels, even swords and spears cannot pose a serious threat to the officers and men of the new army. "The armor of the new army is really good, almost invulnerable." Ji Hui pondered: "It seems that only by using the mountain axe and the hammer can you hurt them." ”

"Yes," echoed the messenger of the king. He brought hundreds of troops to the camp this time, and watched several battles, and the powerful weapons and sturdy armor of Huang Shi's men greatly shocked these Henan rebels who saw the new army for the first time.

"We dispatched 50,000 troops to attack 6,000 Ming troops, and in the end, most of them ran away, and my losses are still so big." Ji Huisi's voice was full of frustration, in order to shock the new army and boost morale, he spared no effort to annihilate one or two new military battalions, and even selected the two most isolated newly established battalions to fight. Although he won this battle, Ji Huisi didn't have much joy, because he knew very well in his heart that he couldn't expect the Ming army to make command mistakes every time. The Ming army, which had Huangshi behind his back, would make such a strategic mistake, which made Ji Huisi almost unbelievable.

According to legend, the new army has ten battalions and 30,000 people, if each new army is the combat strength of the evergreen battalion, then the envoy is not too confident in whether the soldiers of the new army can resist the attack of the new army.

Although Ji Huisi captured a large amount of armor this time, the new army used plate armor, and the defensive effect of this plate armor was better than the scale armor used by the Ming army officers encountered in the past. But for the rebels, it is more difficult to repair than scale armor. Those scales can be reused by replacing the broken scales, but once the plates are violently destroyed, they cannot be repaired.

"Firebolts, you need more firebolts......" Ji Huisi muttered to himself softly. Among the ordnance seized this time, Ji Huisi was most concerned about the number of firearms. The quality of the guns of the new army was far superior to that of any previous Ming army. As for the issue of gunpowder, we can only slowly figure out a way later.

A small leader of the rebel army stepped forward and reported to Ji Huisi: "King, the little one has found three more captives to verify their identity, and those two heads are indeed Cao Yun and Jiang Yizhou of the Evergreen Battalion. ”

"Hmm." Ji Weisi nodded, he knew that these two were important officers of the Evergreen Battalion. In addition, the captives also identified the corpses of several guards of the commander of the Changqing Battalion, which obviously indicated that Xu Ping's guards had collapsed. Judging from the battle reports of several subordinates, it seems that Xu Ping fled from the battlefield alone.

Ji Huisi had already ordered an all-out search of the battlefield, and also sent men and horses to pursue along the route of Xu Ping's escape, but until now no news has come back. During this period, someone came to report that the count of prisoners had been completed, and that more than 700 people had been captured by the rebels in addition to the wounded soldiers of the Ming army who surrendered in the old camp of Gema Mountain.

When his subordinates asked how to deal with these prisoners of war, Ji Huisi said almost without thinking: "Lock them up first, and it is strictly forbidden to kill indiscriminately." ”

"Yes, my lord."

The envoy of King Chuang shook his head slightly when he heard this, and when he saw Ji Huisi looking at him, he said: "If it is other officers and soldiers, even if it is 10,000 people, they will be released, but the subordinates of Zhendong Hou are different. ”

"Yes, don't look at the only a few hundred people, more than the tens of thousands of soldiers in other towns." Ji Huisi also agreed with the point of view of the camp messenger. These people don't dare to use it, in case they escape back, then they don't know how many lives they will have to exchange for next time. But Ji Huisi didn't plan to kill the prisoner, he said to the envoy who broke into the camp: "Zhang Nanshan of the Changqing Camp used to have an old relationship with me. ”

Ji Huisi talked about the past almost thirty years ago. He was only a sixteen-year-old child on the way to Lushun on the way to escape with Kong Youde and Huangshi. is also the father and brother of Kong Youde's subordinates, and died on the battlefield in order to cover Kong Youde and Huangshi to escape. Huangshi's subordinate Zhang Chengye was very good to the orphans Ji Huisi and Xiao Baiwolf, and always took care of them when they were in Lushun until they broke up. This morning, Zhang Chengye committed suicide by drinking bullets, Ji Huisi knew that he was in the plan, but still kept his promise to Zhang Chengye last night, ordered to take care of the soldiers of the New Army who remained in the camp of Jima Mountain, and told them that if they surrendered, they could avoid death.

During the conversation, a rebel hurried up and reported in a loud voice: "King, we have found Xu Ping's mount!" ”

Several rebel soldiers stepped forward holding Xu Ping's armor. They pursued the horseshoe prints all the way, and eventually found the horse grazing, as well as the armor on its back.

"When they first saw the horse's hoof prints becoming lighter, the lowly officials had doubts, but they thought that Xu Ping might have thrown away his armor and fled, so they continued to chase along the horseshoe prints. When the horse was found, he turned back and continued to look for it from the place where the horse's hoof prints had become shallow. It was as if he had fled into a stream, and I don't know if it was going upstream or downstream. ”

Because it was getting late and there were not enough people, the rebels had to come back in a huff.

Ji Huisi picked up Xu Ping's armor and examined it carefully, and after a long time, he said regretfully: "It seems that he has not been seriously injured." ”

"Yes." The little leader of the rebel army nodded, raised his head and said, "Great King, but he can't go far without a horse." ”

According to the captive's confession, Xu Ping had been wounded the day before, and he seemed to be exhausted when he fled today. The rebel leader confidently said, "This guy is likely to go to the villagers for help, at least he needs to eat." He believed that he could be found by sending people to the surrounding villages to ask if anyone had been there, or to buy food from the people in the village or from the woodcutters. ”

"Well, go ahead, live to see people, dead to see corpses."

After the leader of the rebel army was ordered to retreat, Ji Huisi saw the envoy next to him with a smile on his face, so he explained for his solemnity: "The new army, cronyism, party and selfishness, the old people's arrogance is not as good as in the past, the newcomers are almost all guts rats, they will rush to the top when they see merit, and they will scatter when they see defeat, they will only rely on the Yu Weihu fake tiger power of Zhendong Hou back then, and they are good at intrigue rather than battle formation, but I never thought that Zhendong Hou's subordinate generals, There will be people who will leave their battalions and flee without a fight, and there will be so many! Last time Zhili defeated the Dongsen battalion, I thought it was a fluke...... "This battle Ji Huisi captured a lot of new army intelligence, including a large number of new army deduction plans, at first Ji Huisi was very serious to see, but soon laughed at it, one deduction is to use the experience of Liaodong to estimate the temperature in Shandong, and the other is to refer to the regulations of Yunnan, and seriously treat the jungle of Shandong as the southwest to speculate what impact it will have on military operations, and there are many similar - Even scholars who stay at home will find the absurd and unbearable deduction of the regulations, which was actually written in a grand manner on the deduction plan of the New Army without anyone questioning it, the most ironic thing for Ji Huisi is that at the end of each report, those military generals who have been in battle for a long time will actually sign to agree with the deduction of these relatives and friends, and the staff of the New Army, Ji Huisi, really suspects that this is indeed the inheritance of the Changsheng Island Staff Division that is famous, makes the enemy smell the wind and makes him look up to the mountains?

"A few or two people are quite alive, but they are also conformists, where is there a little bit of Zhendonghou's courage back then? I thought that there was no one in the new army who dared to take responsibility, as long as the wounded soldiers of one battalion were trapped, they would trap their whole army, but I still underestimated Zhang Chengye. I am also very familiar with Fang Mingda of the Shanlan battalion, he was General Yang's personal soldier back then, I only knew that only Zhendonghou and General Yang were from, and he did not dare to take on the heavy responsibility at the critical moment, if it was Zhang Chengye who was killed by that cannon instead of Fang Mingda, it is estimated that he would sit in the camp to death, so that I could calmly dig trenches and trap these two battalions. Ji Huisi sighed, thinking about Huangshi's ruthlessness back then: "Don't underestimate Xu Ping's fang, the younger generation in the new army has the most disciplined and courageous fang, although it is far from being compared with Zhendonghou, but it has a bit of Zhendonghou's ruthless style when he was young - dare to run, dare to break the back in person." If he can't be killed this time, let him take the soldiers trained by Zhendong Hou and use the weapons made by Zhendong Hou, he will definitely be the great enemy of our generation in the future. ”

Xu Ping's perseverance in the Battle of Beizhili left a deep impression on Ji Huisi. This time, Shandong fought several times in the early stage of the first war, which caught Ji Huisi off guard, and the pressure on his flank was very great. After the siege was lifted and the war was broken, Xu Ping's actions were also extremely fast, and he almost retreated from the heavy encirclement of tens of thousands of rebels.

Moreover, the people sent by Ji Huisi to sort out Zhang Chengye's relics found that Zhang Chengye praised Xu Ping's military talent to Huangshi in several reports that he had no time to send, and thought that he must be a good general of the new army in the future: "Not long after joining the army, he dared not to be a man with his tail between his legs, and he did not avoid people to help Zhendonghou make up for the shortcomings of the regulations, which is a hundred times stronger than those wine bags and rice bags that are mixed and waiting for death." ”

"What the king said is very true." The envoy of the camp said: "Long before I came to the king, my lord and my teacher told me about him. ”

Ji Huisi knew that the mentor in the other party's mouth was Niu Jinxing, he was originally from a high background, and he was on death row for committing a crime, and it happened that Li Zicheng broke through the county seat, and Niu Jinxing picked up a life, and he also threw himself into the army of King Chuang. Niu Jinxing is the only person who has joined the rebels so far, and he is also deeply relied on by Li Zicheng. Ji Weisi couldn't help but ask, "What did King Chuang and Mr. Niu say?" ”

The envoy's face was solemn: "My teacher said: If these new army generals who are not the children of the Zhendong Marquis are defeated, they must be killed. ”

Some readers complained about the small number of updates, this is really difficult to do, more today, but there will still be fewer in the future.

The results of this round of voting are out.

Zhang Chengye, not committed suicide on the battlefield, Wu Zhong, escaped. The two options with the fewest votes in the multiple choice are correct.

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