Qiu Zhen went down according to Tang Yin's plan, and in order to keep it a secret, the generals did not claim that Tang Yin had cheated to death after returning to each camp, but said that Tang Yin was really seriously injured and had died.

As soon as the news of Tang Yin's death spread, the entire Tianyuan Army camp immediately fell into a state of grief, and many soldiers couldn't help but cry loudly, especially the Plains Army, who had followed Tang Yin for the longest time and had the deepest feelings, and the crying in the camp of the Plains Army was endless, and they were connected.

That night, the camp of the Tianyuan Army hung up white lights, both the soldiers and the generals tied white belts around their waists, and even the handsome flags in front of the Chinese army's tent fell.

There was no need to wait for dawn, that night, the Peng soldiers in the Yancheng tower discovered the abnormality of the Tianyuan Army, did not dare to delay, and immediately reported to Li Qiyu.

Li Qi, Ye Cheng, Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and other generals heard the news and went up to the tower of the city wall one after another, and looked at the Tianyuan army camp. Li Qi looked surprised and muttered, "Why are there so many white lights hanging in the camp of the Tianyuan Army?"

Ye Cheng's eyes rolled, and he suddenly sighed in realization, then hurriedly turned around, bowed to Li Qi and saluted: "General Li, great joy! The Tianyuan Army turned on the white light, it must be Tang Yin who is dead!"

Hearing this, Li Qi and the others' bodies were shocked. After being stunned for a moment, Li Qi came back to his senses, looked up to the sky and laughed, and sighed: "This is really the road to the heavens! I don't have to worry about Yancheng!"

"General!"

Xu Hui, Wei Xuan, and other generals bowed their hands to Li Qi one after another, and said again: "Tang Yin is dead, the Tianyuan army has no leader, and the morale is low, when will you wait if you don't attack at this time? General Li, quickly give the order to attack, don't delay the fighters any longer!"

"This ......"

Confirming that Tang Yin was indeed dead, Li Qi was very happy, and he also felt that Yancheng could sit back and relax, but if he wanted to take the initiative to attack, he still felt that it was too risky, in case the attack failed, and he suffered a crazy counterattack by the Tianyuan Army, wouldn't it be a big deal? Thinking about it, he still shook his head and said, "The matter of attacking still needs to be considered in the long run. ”

"General Lee......"

"Don't say it again! Although Tang Yin is dead, but the strength of the Tianyuan Army is still there, our side must not take it lightly, all the generals must strictly guard the city, if anyone dares to go out of the city without permission, no matter what the result is, they will be punished by military law!" After speaking, Li Qi glanced at everyone, turned around and went down the city wall to return home.

"Alas!" Looking at Li Qi's back, Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and the others all sighed. Among the generals, only Ye Cheng is the most relaxed, Tang Yin is dead, he has already made a great contribution, as for going out of the city to attack the Tianyuan army, even if he is defeated, it is just icing on the cake for himself, insignificant.

Li Qi refused to see Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and other generals for the second time, which made the generals' dissatisfaction with him to a peak.

The next morning, the sky was bright.

At this time, the sad atmosphere of the Tianyuan Army camp has been highlighted, the soldiers walking around the camp are all wearing white belts, the generals are also wearing linen and filial piety, the whole camp is lifeless, and there is not even a person to speak. After breakfast, the generals of the various legions gave orders one after another, packed up their tents, and returned to Lehu County.

The soldiers below all thought that Tang Yin was dead, and now there was no commander in their own army, and it was pointless to stay in Yancheng, people had lost their backbone, and they had no fighting spirit at all, and there was no one who even stood up to express objections to the withdrawal of the army.

Hundreds of thousands of Tianyuan Army, huge military camp, it only took one morning to clean up, and then, the Tianyuan Army began the way back. Looking up, the soldiers of the Tianyuan Army were listless, their heads were hanging down when they walked, and until this time, many people were still wiping their tears with their sleeves, and the whole army was like an army of exiles.

The Tianyuan army withdrew, but the sentry posts in Yancheng could be seen clearly, clearly, several soldiers excitedly climbed the tower with a rolling belt, and shouted again and again while running towards the city: "The Tianyuan army has retreated, we don't have to fight anymore!"

The shouts of the sentries made the city head of Yancheng in an uproar for a while, and people put up pergolas in their hands and raised their eyes to the camp of the Tianyuan army. Due to the lack of height, they could only see the outline of the Tianyuan Army's camp, and they couldn't see clearly what was going on inside, and many anxious soldiers had rushed up to the tower regardless of it, looking out, and after seeing clearly that the Tianyuan Army's camp was empty, they couldn't help shouting: "Withdraw! Really withdraw! The Tianyuan Army has withdrawn—"

The news of the retreat of the Tianyuan Army made the Peng soldiers boil, people didn't care whether Tang Yin or Zhong Tian won in the end, as long as they could save their lives, it was better than everything.

Soon, Ye Cheng, Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and other generals who heard the news also rushed to the city one after another, confirming that the news was correct, the Tianyuan army had indeed retreated, Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and others rushed down the city wall to find Li Qi and persuade him to send troops again.

At this time, even a fool knows that he should pursue the enemy, and missing such a good opportunity is like a violent thing.

Of course, Li Qi also received the rumor, but this was already expected by him, Tang Yin was dead, the Tianyuan Army had lost its core figure, and retreat was inevitable. Now, he is also thinking about whether to go out of the city to pursue. Just when he was still hesitating, Ye Cheng, Xu Hui, Wei Xuan and the others arrived.

After seeing Li Qi, except for Ye Cheng, all the other generals rushed forward, and they all intervened to salute, saying: "General Li, Tang Yin is dead, the Tianyuan army has all retreated, and now if you don't send troops to pursue, you will really miss the opportunity!"

"Yes, General Li, the Tianyuan Army has no owner, it is like a plate of scattered sand, no matter how many troops there are, it is useless, now is an excellent opportunity. ”

"This ......"

"General Li, quickly order the pursuit!"

"General Li gives the order!"

The generals' eyes were round, their faces were red and their necks were thick, you said a word, I said a word, and they didn't give Li Qi a chance to speak at all.

Li Qi swallowed and spitted, looked up at the crowd, and then lowered his head again, silent.

Seeing his hesitant appearance, everyone scratched their ears and cheeks in a hurry, eager to rush up and slap him twice to wake him up.

"General Li, what are you still hesitating about?"

After a long pause, Li Qifang said absentmindedly: "What if...... What if the enemy is using a trick?"

"It's still a bullshit scheme!" Xu Hui couldn't help it anymore, and said almost with a roar: "Tang Yin is dead, what else can they use? General Li, if he can't seize this opportunity now, he will regret it in the future." If General Li doesn't dare to go, then it's up to me to go, and in the future, the king's blame will be borne by us. However, I have to remind General Li that if you miss this fighter, your lord will blame you, and all the charges will have to be borne by you, and it is none of our business!"

"Oh......"

Xu Hui moved Zhong Tian out, and Li Qi had to be afraid of three points. He can be reused by Zhong Tian, he is also Zhong Tian's confidant, and he knows his personality very well, if Zhong Tian really knows that he missed the fighter in the future, I am afraid that he will not remember his achievements in defending the city, and will only condemn himself to the crime of being unfavorable in battle.

He weighed the pros and cons, pondered for a long time, gritted his teeth, his heart was crossed, and said in a deep voice: "Am I a cowardly and fearful person?" As he spoke, he looked around at the generals and said: "Since all the generals advocate pursuing and killing the enemy army, then according to your opinion, our army can go out of the city and chase and kill the Tianyuan army!"

"General Mingjian!" Hearing that Li Qi was finally willing to send troops, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Qi said again: "However, our army can't all go out to kill the enemy, there must be a guard in the city, I don't know which general is willing to stay in the capital?"

Everyone advocated going to war in order to go out and make meritorious contributions, but now when they heard that they would stay in the city, no one said anything, and they all lowered their heads. Seeing that everyone was silent, Ye Cheng smiled, and he arched his hand to Li Qi and said, "General Li, I am willing to stay in the capital and ensure that the capital is not lost!"

Li Qi was really afraid that there would be no one left in the capital and there would be trouble, and when he heard that Ye Cheng was willing to stay, he was overjoyed in his heart, and said with a smile: "General Ye Cheng is willing to stay in the capital, that is the best, with General Ye Cheng here, the capital can be foolproof!"

"Yes, yes! General Ye Cheng is the best person to stay in the capital!" Ye Cheng has already made a miraculous achievement, who else can he let stay if he doesn't stay?

Li Qi didn't want to go out of the city to chase the enemy, but the generals under his command had no choice but to nod and agree.

At present, there are only 60,000 defenders left in Yancheng who can still fight, Li Qi did not dare to take them out, leaving 10,000 troops to guard Yancheng, and he himself commanded the generals and 50,000 horses, and went out of the city to chase and kill the Tianyuan army.

The morale of the Tianyuan army was low, the baggage was heavy and complicated, and the marching speed was very slow, while Li Qi and the others were lightly armed, and the speed was extremely fast, although the Tianyuan army had retreated for a long time, but in the last hour, Li Qi and the others had already chased more than half of the distance.

Li Qi led 50,000 soldiers out of the city to pursue and kill the Tianyuan army, and the Tianyan and ground net spies lurking near Yancheng immediately passed the news to their own army that was retreating towards Lehu County, as well as Wu Guang and Zhanhu who were ambushed in the woods ten miles east of Yancheng.

After Wu Guang received the information from the spies, he couldn't help grinning, my lord is really clever, the defenders of Yancheng have really chased and killed! According to the information of the eyeline in the city, the strength of Yancheng is only 80,000, and in addition to the casualties in the battle to defend the city, there can be a maximum of 60,000 people left, and now the enemy army is out of the city 50,000, and the strength in the city is only 10,000.

Thinking, he turned back to his soldiers.

Wu Guang and Zhan Hu only commanded 20,000 people, but these 20,000 people are not simple, they are all the elite of the Plains Army, with super combat effectiveness and fierce combat, it is not too much to describe it as a tiger and wolf army.

Now, Wu Guang is waiting, waiting for the enemy army to leave the city long enough, and then he will launch a surprise onslaught