Chapter 49 Withdrawal to the Central Plains

The five hundred horsemen were thrown to the grassland by ghosts on a dark and windy night in the moon, and the hundred horsemen were close together, listening to the howl of the wild wolves in the distance made them extremely nervous, they didn't know if the other hundred horsemen could find them before they were eaten by the wolves, as for whether they would be eaten by the wolves, the black army was lazy at all, for the enemy, they were never soft, in the end, these few did not become the dinner of the wild wolves, watching a few of them gobble up food, Li Zong frowned, He didn't understand why the Black Army let them go, was there any conspiracy inside, after listening to the torture they described, he immediately felt that someone under his command might have betrayed the Hundred Horsemen, but who among these five people? You can't kill them all, can you? This is definitely not good, because every hundred horsemen are hard trained by them, just like Li Yong's ghost, I can't think of any other good way, I can only monitor them temporarily, they have more important tasks, those hundred horsemen because they were thrown to the grassland with black hoods in the dark night, the trace of the black army has long been gone, it is not so easy to find this group of black soldiers in this vast grassland, Li Zong did not dare to disperse the hundred horses, in case a few more were captured, then he was really going crazy, after some calculations, He arranged for these captured hundred horsemen to go north to investigate the affairs of the Jinhe Army and monitor Li Jing and others, he took the other hundred horsemen to the south to look for the black army, he guessed whether those black soldiers were going to prepare to return to the Central Plains, because their losses this time were very large, and it was no longer enough to continue the battle, Li Zong deserved to be the long history of the Hundred Cavalry Division, and his analysis was not wrong at all, Li Yong and they did retreat to the south to the west of the nest. Now Li Yong is either lying on a stretcher and being carried around all day long, or sleeping in a tent, and Xue Rengui is commanding how to withdraw the army and march. There are two routes to withdraw to the old nest in Xishan, and now there are two in front of Xue Rengui, the first is to return the original way, pass through Xiangcheng, cross the Evil Yang Ridge, and the other is in the clouds of Xu Shiji.

"Commander, I think it's better to go back the same way, we are familiar with the road over there, although Xu Shiji in the cloud led the army to intercept Jieli is not there, but the Tongmo army in the cloud is the head snake in that area, it's not easy to do."

"Do you think it's easy to go the same way? The current Zhanxiangcheng can be said to be the logistics city of the Tang Army, and Wei Chigong is also so easy to provoke, I think it is better to go to the clouds, first, the road over there is easier to walk, which is suitable for our current situation where the wounded soldiers are full of camps, and second, everyone will think that we will take the battle line, but we just go to the clouds and give them a surprise. ”

"Listen to the commander, and go to the clouds."

"Walk in the clouds."

After clarifying the direction of retreat to the clouds, the black army erased the traces of the march to prevent the hounds of the Hundred Cavalry Division from smelling, while slowly approaching the clouds, Li Zong, who had been tracking the black army, took the hundred horsemen to keep searching, knowing that the black army would definitely withdraw to the Central Plains, but to retreat in that direction, which made it difficult for him to judge, he knew that if the black army passed through the pass, it would be a fish into the sea, and it would be impossible to find them, otherwise they would not be able to find any clues of the black army after checking in the Central Plains for so long, It's like they've never been there, but once there is something big in the country, they pop up like spring shoots, which makes the big BOOS behind them have a headache to get rid of them, but after they came to the grassland, they were caught off guard by them in the first fight, and they were captured alive, and now who betrayed or all of these five betrayed, he didn't figure it out, Li Zong rubbed his swollen temples. When he was about to approach the clouds, Xue Rengui was ready to make a noise to attack Chen Cang, he let a team of 100 light horsemen under the leadership of ten ghosts, set off to the clouds first, and left obvious traces, and he led a large army to hide on the spot, the purpose was to let those hundred horsemen find traces, those arrogant and suspicious hundred horsemen must think that he was playing tricks, in fact, the purpose was to occupy Xiang, and so on to lead them to the direction of Zhanxiang, he led the large army to continue to retreat to the clouds. Li Zong really did as Xue Rengui expected, and after discovering the traces of the black army's obvious fall, he sneered and said.

"Hmph, these tricks of the black army really look down on our Hundred Cavalry Division, we have been looking for a long time and can't find any trace of you, and suddenly it is so obvious, are you treating us as fools? Sure enough, I guessed right, you want to go back to Zhanxiang, go, hurry up and inform Zhanxiang City, inform the Duke of Eguo to take precautions as soon as possible, and you must not let the black army return to the Central Plains alone. ”

Xue Rengui learned that all the people of the Hundred Cavalry Division had rushed to Zhanxiang City, and he showed a smug smile.

"You're still too tender, tell the team to move on and join the outpost."

The outpost of the black army of one hundred and twenty people was still ten kilometers away from the clouds, and then picked up the large troops behind, Xue Rengui and a few officers looked ahead, as long as they passed through the clouds, they could go home.

"Tonight, the ghost entered the city as a hundred horsemen, and as a reward for the whole army, he added drugs to stun all the people in the city, and we passed through the clouds overnight, and only after the clouds did we be safe."

The ghost's drug is not an anesthetic, just some simple versions of sleeping pills, after being simply purified in the research institute, it can only make people fall asleep for two or three hours, and if the movement is too big, they will wake up, so the ghosts don't like to use this thing very much, because it is not very reliable, but now there is no way, they went to the logistics support side to get some alcohol, and then mixed it with water, in order to ensure the efficacy of the medicine, their sleeping pills were added to the alcohol mixed with water one after another, and the corners of Xue Rengui's mouth twitched.

"Hey, is that all right? Don't drink people to death. ”

"Don't worry, Commander, we're not here for everyone, if it's missing, if you wake up halfway, it will be troublesome."

Xue Rengui also felt that it made sense when he heard it, so he only let them get it, those ghosts were carrying the wine that had been added to the car, changing into the clothes seized by the five hundred horsemen last time, as well as the identity waist card left by the hundred horsemen who had betrayed the mutiny, and those who did not have the clothes of the hundred horsemen changed into the armor of the Tang Army, pulled the car and led the sheep, and walked towards Cloud City. The people in Cloudsdale found that a group of people under the city were pulling dozens of carts and hundreds of sheep, and shouted vigilantly to the people below.

"Stop, who are you, don't you know that this is Datang Cloud City? Quickly retreat. ”

The ghost of the leader took off his belt card and raised it to the soldiers in the city in a loud reply.

"We are a hundred horsemen, a hundred horsemen, and by the will of the saints, our army fought bravely, and we will give the palace wine to reward the three armies."

It was not yet dark, and it was just evening, and the black army had come at this time for dinner, and the defenders in the city did not dare to make too much noise when they heard the hundred horses, and felt that they had notified their captain to report the situation, and a captain in armor appeared on the city tower.

"You said you were a hundred horsemen, do you have a certificate?"

"You put down the hanging basket, I and the waist card you see."

The captain asked people to put down a hanging basket, the ghost put the waist card into the basket, and after the captain inspected, he ran back to the city to report to their guards, the guards of Cloud City were Xu Shiji's deputy general Zou Guogong Zhang Gongjin, Zhang Gongjin took the waist card handed to him by the captain and looked at it, confirmed that this was a real waist card, and he also knew what the purpose of the hundred horses was, so he asked the captain to let the black army come in, and the leader ghost saluted Zhang Gongjin and took his waist card.

"My lord, please take a step to speak."

Zhang Gongjin frowned, but still turned around with him.

"My lord, the saint has spoken ......"

When Zhang Gongjin heard this, he was so frightened that he wanted to salute quickly, but the ghost grabbed him and shook his head and said.

"Adults don't have to salute, you and I pretend to be fine."

"Okay."

"The sage said, now that the war is going well, the black army is rampant, and the army must cooperate with the hundred cavalry to exterminate it."

"Yes, what do you call this lord?"

"I can't afford to be an adult in front of adults, and the lower official Dai Jin has seen Zou Guogong."

"We're not polite, let's talk about it when we go home?"

"Zou Guogong, the sage also asked us to bring some palace wine to the armies this time, and asked the fat sheep to reward the armies, the lower officials don't know if they can touch your light tonight?"

"Haha...... It's a trivial matter, come on, treat the whole army tonight, and wash the dust for the angels. ”

So when people heard the main general say that they would drink wine and eat meat tonight, they were happy, the entire camp of Cloud City was intoxicated in the sea of joy, and those black soldiers kept wandering among the soldiers, and they also helped roast sheep and stir-fry vegetables, in fact, they were drugged inside, and those defenders in the clouds who didn't know what to add ingredients to, drinking wine and eating vegetables, because in wartime, such a situation has never happened, unless there is a reward from the imperial court first, Zhang Gongjin also pushed the cup with the ghost of the leader.

"This palace wine is good."

"This is a new tribute to the palace's good wine, today I have a chance to drink it with the light of the adult, thank you."

"They are all people in the army, let's not talk about crepe, drink."

Zhang Gongjin picked up the wine bowl and started to do it, the leader ghost took advantage of his inattention to pour out the wine in his bowl, and the other black troops also went well, those soldiers on duty at the city gate watched the city eat and drink and swallowed their saliva, and soon they also joined in at the instigation of the black army.

"Brother, you have also worked hard, you also go down to eat and drink, we will guard it for you, and if it is too late, there will be no bones."

The soldiers on duty finally couldn't resist the temptation and thanked the black army brothers.

"Thank you brothers, let's go eat and come back."

Watching the soldiers on duty go down one by one, the black soldiers looked at each other and smiled, Xue Rengui led the large army to look at the bright and noisy Cloud City from a distance, knowing that his opportunity was successful.

"Tell us to go down, not to make any movement, to wait for the signal, we must enter the city quietly, and do not shoot any guns."

Soon, in Yunzhong City, one soldier after another was "drunk", and Zhang Gongjin was also confused.

"This royal wine is amazing, good~"

"Bang~", Zhang Gongjin poured directly on the wine table, the ghosts began to check if there was anything that had not been put down, and after careful inspection, they opened the gate of Cloud City after confirming that it was correct, and responded to the large army that had been waiting outside for a long time, seeing the city gate open, Xue Rengui made a gesture to set off, and the entire black army quietly walked into Cloud City, Xue Rengui and others looked at the first cloud defender and smiled. On the second day, Zhang Gongjin got up with a headache and found that the generals and soldiers around him were lying down and sleeping, thinking that it was not good, he stood up with the table and shouted loudly.

"Hurry up, where are the hundred horsemen?"

The generals and soldiers who were woken up looked at him with a confused expression, and then had an ominous premonition in their hearts, and ran out of the house with a hangover headache, good guys, all the soldiers were lying staggered, they hurriedly woke up those soldiers respectively, looking for those hundred horses, and finally found that those hundred horses had already disappeared, Zhang Gongjin and they knew that they had been tricked.

"Damn the Black Army, we don't share the sky with you, my head~"

Xue Rengui took the black army to hide and rest in the dense forests in the mountains, and after a night's march, everyone was tired, but they finally withdrew from the Turks, and they were secretly relieved in their hearts, because as long as they returned to the Central Plains, it would be their home field, and if they wanted to find them, they would be sad to climb to the sky.