Chapter Thirty-Eight: Leaving the City in the Middle of the Night

Those who stood in place, looking at the more than 20 people who withdrew, had a variety of expressions on their faces, some in disbelief, some suddenly realized, and some with contempt.......

But they also have a very unified expression, that is, the thick disdain in their eyes.

The more than 20 people who withdrew all bowed their heads, ashamed, and did not dare to look at their comrades who had fought together in the past.

"We don't want to die, but we're not afraid of death either!"

A soldier standing in place shouted, and suddenly everyone seemed to have found an outlet and shouted in unison.

After shouting, it still didn't seem to be enjoyable, and everyone was gossiping about what they thought.

"Guo Duwei has rushed up, are we going to be a turtle with a shrunken head?"

"The hatred of the country and the family, why be afraid of this!"

"Let those party dog mongrels take a look, we Han people also have a species!"

"Lao Tzu kills one is enough, kills two and earns one, no loss!"

"Zhuzi, if I die, please tell my father, I didn't embarrass the family!"

"Hey, maybe one of us will die first."

Guo Wei didn't stop him, he stood next to him, quietly listening to them, this may be their last carnival, just treat it as a carnival.

For a full quarter of an hour, Guo Wei pressed his hand, and the scene suddenly became quiet.

Guo Wei inspected everyone who was still standing at the scene: "Okay, it's better than I expected, you are real warriors, I'm very pleased; After this battle, Xu will soon be forgotten, maybe many people don't know about this battle at all, no one will remember us, but what does it matter, our relatives will remember us, our enemies will remember us, and that's enough. ”

"I just said that everyone has the right to live, which is true, but I still haven't said a word, if we want to live, we must live with dignity and dignity, not live so humiliatingly and secretly live. What should we do now that gang of party members are preparing to slaughter our fathers, relatives, and friends and humiliate our wives and daughters outside the city? ”

"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”

"Okay, take the Zhuangxing wine!"

Everyone picked up a bowl of Zhuangxing wine, Guo Wei shouted: "I am a martial artist and don't understand poetry, but there is a poem I like very much, and I have always used this poem as my life benchmark, that is, 'Directly solve the battlefield and die for the country, why should I return the horse leather shroud.'" Today we are not dying for the country, but for our people, for our Weizhou, so I will slightly change this poem and send it to everyone. ’”

"Directly solve the battlefield and die for the people, why should the horse leather shroud be returned."

Everyone roared in unison, the momentum was like a rainbow, and the smell of wine was fluttering!

Suddenly, a voice suddenly appeared in everyone's ears: "Lord Duwei, I regret it, I don't want to quit, can you let me join?" ”

Everyone followed the prestige, it was one of the more than twenty soldiers who had just withdrawn, and at this time he looked at Guo Wei with a hopeful gaze on his ashamed face, trying not to let his gaze dodge, so that Guo Wei could feel his determination.

"Give me a reason!"

"I am indeed afraid of death, until now I still do not have the courage to die, but just now I have experienced something more uncomfortable than death, that is, my comrades-in-arms faced foreign aggression, and went to die, and I live alone here, I can't stand the way they look at me, I can't stand the shame in my heart, if they die this time, then I will be burdened with this disdainful look and inner torment for the rest of my life, my parents, wife and children are also in the city, if I don't stand up, who will protect them, I don't want them to think I'm a coward, and I don't want them to be looked down upon by the whole city, you're right, we all have the right to live, but this kind of life is a dignified life, not the kind of life that is trampled under the feet of others, and if you want to live an upright life, you can't help us, you can only stand up and face it, even if it is death, at least it brings hope to my family, friends and later people. ”

The soldier said a lot, and seemed to want to say all the words in his heart, but he always felt that he couldn't say the meaning he wanted to express the most in his heart, so he had no choice but to stop the topic, and bowed down to Guo Wei deeply: "Please do it, Lord Duwei!" ”

The soldiers who withdrew just now were a little regretful, as soldiers, they were timid and retreated before going into battle, they suddenly hated themselves like this, hearing the words of this soldier, every sentence knocked on their hearts, if they retreated this time, then they don't want to raise their heads in Weizhou in this life, their parents, wives and children can't raise their heads with them, can they still be considered alive if they live like this, thinking of this, these soldiers also bowed down one after another: "Please do it, Lord Duwei, I am willing to go out of the city with the adults to kill the enemy, and die without regrets!" ”

Guo Wei looked at them, but his eyes were not focused, and he seemed to be in thought.

"Please do it, sir!" The more than 20 soldiers pleaded for their lives in unison.

"Please do it, sir!" This time it was Dong Cheng who spoke out.

"Please do it, sir!" This time it was the one hundred and thirty sergeants.

Guo Wei seemed to come back to his senses, looked at the more than one hundred and fifty sergeants in front of him, and nodded: "Okay, since so many people are pleading, then I will fulfill you." ”

"Thank you, Master Chengful!" All the sergeants shouted in unison.

Guo Wei had to twist these men into a rope and explain the predicament they would face in advance, so that his soldiers would be mentally prepared to face death, and he didn't want to affect his battle arrangement because of the soldiers' timidity.

At the same time, there were too few cavalry in Weizhou City, and he didn't want to give up any cavalry, after all, one more person would give up more strength, so when the more than twenty cavalry who regretted it wanted to rejoin, he agreed in his heart, but he couldn't agree immediately, he was afraid that the original one hundred and thirty soldiers had some mustard in their hearts, and only by letting those one hundred and thirty soldiers come forward to intercede, he could agree, not only let the one hundred and thirty soldiers eliminate the mustard, but also let the more than twenty soldiers be grateful. It is conducive to the integration of the team.

After mobilizing before the battle, Guo Wei ordered each of these cavalrymen to receive five days of dry rations, rest in place, and wait for the evening to leave the city.

At the third watch, the east gate of Weizhou City was quietly opened, and under the cover of night, a group of cavalry crossed out of the city gate.

Shortly after the city gate opened, an arrow slashed into the night sky not far from the east gate.

"Rush!" Guo Wei shouted loudly and rushed out first, and one hundred and fifty Weizhou cavalry also rushed up, and the sound of Zaza closing the city gate came from behind him.

The party troops stationed a mile away from the east gate also greeted them.

When the distance between the two sides was about two hundred meters, Guo Wei shouted: "Kill!" ”

The cavalry behind him also shouted: "Kill! ”

Listening to the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the morale of the party troops on the opposite side stagnated, and in the dark night, they couldn't figure out how many enemies there were on the opposite side, so they thought about entangling each other first, the arrows had already been released, and the reinforcements stationed at the other three city gates would soon arrive.

Guo Wei was waiting for this time, and faintly felt that the formation on the opposite side seemed to have changed, and he rushed directly diagonally towards the southeast, avoiding the party cavalry on the opposite side.

Looking at the Weizhou cavalry passing by, how did Li Jiyuan, the leader of the party cavalry outside the east gate, not understand the plans of the Weizhou army, they didn't think about fighting with themselves, they just wanted to take advantage of the moment when they changed their formation, crossed their own defense line, and jumped out of their encirclement.

"Chase!"

Passing by at such a close distance, Li Jiyuan also saw that these Weizhou cavalry would never exceed two hundred, and immediately regretted that he had not hedged just now, and in order to prevent the enemy from escaping, he led his team to chase after him.

Tuoba Yewang, who was stationed at the South Gate, also caught up, and Guo Wei was able to avoid the attack of the Party troops at the South Gate and the East Gate.

Hearing the report of Li Jiyuan, the pursuer at the East Gate, Tuoba Yewang thought for a while and said: "This should be all the cavalry in Weizhou, they are going to make a desperate bet and want to fight the trapped beasts; You take the two hundred men and horses stationed at the east gate, and I will give you another hundred troops at the south gate, you don't care about anything, just follow their tracks, as long as they are entangled by our people in front, you will completely destroy them for me. ”

"No!" Li Jiyuanzun gave a military order and chased after him with 300 people.

Guo Wei ran southeast with the Weizhou cavalry for a while, and then turned south. Dong Cheng looked at the pursuers who came far behind him, and said to Guo Wei: "Lord Duwei, we can enter the mountain less than ten miles ahead, and we can get rid of them when we reach the mountain." ”

Guo Wei snorted coldly: "We are not running for our lives, what do we do without them, since they are chasing after us, then I will teach them a lesson." ”

"At the intersection in front, let's run separately, I'll give you fifty people, you take fifty people into the mountain, get rid of the pursuers in the mountain as soon as possible, you must rush to the east side of Hulukou to ambush at the right time, can you do it?"

"Obey the orders of Lord Lieutenant! I vouch for the head of the item, and I will rush to the east side of the gourd mouth to make an ambush at the end of the day! ”

Guo Wei at the front gradually lowered the speed of the horse, and the cavalry behind him also slowed down the speed, and the Dang Xiang army saw that the speed of the Weizhou army in the distance was not as happy as just now, and he was overjoyed in his heart, and he tried his best to catch up.

When there were still about two miles away from the road into the mountain, Guo Wei suddenly turned west with a hundred soldiers and horses, and Dong Cheng led fifty people straight to the road into the mountain.

Later, Li Jiyuan suddenly saw that the team in Weizhou in front of him had divided his troops, so he also divided a hundred people to chase Dong Cheng's team, and he chased in the direction of Guo Wei with a team of two hundred people.

Even with the same strength, Li Jiyuan is confident that he can crush the Han army, not to mention that he still has a military advantage, so Li Jiyuan is not afraid of what tricks the other party will play, what he has to do now is to bite the other party to the death, and not let the other party out of his sight.

After running west for about ten miles, Guo Wei turned south and ran again, and when he was about to reach the mountain pass, Guo Wei said to Wang Zhu beside him: "Wang Zhu, you take your fifty people to the southwest into the mountain, and when you get to the mountain, you get rid of the pursuers, and you must also go to the west side of the gourd mouth to ambush at the right time, understand?" ”

"Understood, obey the orders of Lord Lieutenant!"

At the mountain pass, Guo Wei and Wang Zhu divided their troops again, Guo Wei led fifty people straight to the mountain, while Wang Zhu took fifty people to the southwest diagonally.

Seeing the target in front of him and fleeing again, Li Jiyuan could only continue to divide his troops to pursue, this time he chose to pursue to the south, and divided a hundred people to chase Wang Zhu.