Chapter 418: Xigui's pursuers
"Where is the front?" Li Dingxing sat on a horse, and behind him was an army of 50,000 Nanhuai, and when he arrived in Chuxiang, he was not familiar with geography, so he summoned a guide and asked.
The guide was an old local man, thinking that he had seen the world, and replied without humility or arrogance: "If you go back to your grandfather, there will be Yucheng less than fifty miles ahead." After passing Yucheng, even if you enter Sichuan and Shu. ”
Chu Xiang has already been collected by the imperial court, and Chu Xiang's widows should be collected and beheaded, so there is no obstacle along the way. It took less than a month for Li Dingxing to travel all the way west from the capital to Yucheng, the western border of Chuxiang.
"Frozen to death, no wonder the art of war says that it is not appropriate to use troops in the middle of winter." Yi Xiaoling put his hands to his mouth to warm up and sighed.
Li Dingxing pulled off his gloves and threw them to Yi Xiaoling: "Put them on." ”
Yi Xiaoling smiled "hehe", what she liked the most was Li Dingxing's meticulous care, and she didn't twist it, she generously put Li Dingxing's gloves on it, put it on the tip of her nose and sniffed the taste of the gloves.
"The whole army will speed up its pace and camp outside Yucheng City tonight to rest." Li Dingxing gave orders to the herald, and after the herald got the order, Pegasus rushed to the rear of the army and gave orders one by one.
Fifty miles sounds like a long time, but for a military army that marches and fights all year round, it is really a blink of an eye. Although the Nanhuai army was not good at land warfare, its march was not slow. The sun was setting in the west, the temperature was gradually dropping, and the army had also arrived at the foot of Yucheng.
The army was busy setting up camp, and Li Dingxing took Qin Xiangqian, Bai Xinglong and others to leave the camp to survey the terrain. Li Dingxing has studied the art of war since he was a child, and whenever he goes to a place, he must personally survey the terrain and keep it in mind.
The crowd had traveled less than a few miles to the west, and they saw a group of people in the distance hurrying towards them.
"Alert!" Li Dingxing gave an order, and everyone held weapons and became vigilant. Qin Xiangqian held two guns in his hand, and went to check the situation in advance.
After a while, he saw Qin Xiangqian rushing back: "Grandpa, it's an unassisted guard!" ”
"Unguarded!?" Li Dingxing also heard that the imperial court had already sent the unassisted guard to pick up the fallen county lord of Sichuan and Shu, and originally thought that he had gone wrong with them, but he didn't expect that almost a month had passed, and they had just arrived in Yucheng.
"Come with me." Li Dingxing dialed his horse to look, and everyone followed, walked for a while, and finally saw this group of people.
The other party was already in full array, the spear was erected, the long knife was unsheathed, and it formed a circle, protecting the hundred or so people in the middle.
"Where is Sun Weichang?" Li Dingxing took the lead and shouted loudly to the opposite side.
Hearing Li Dingxing's shouting on the other side, the soldiers and horses on the opposite side made way of a road, and a woman in battle armor walked out: "Unassisted Wei Sun Hong, meet the loyal prince!" ”
Li Dingxing waved his hand: "Sun Weichang doesn't need to be polite, what's wrong with you?" "It wasn't until I got closer that I found that everyone on the other side was injured and hung with colors.
Sun Hong turned his head and beckoned, and only then did everyone behind him relax their vigilance, one by one they were so tired that they staggered, and some people couldn't stand anymore and collapsed directly to the ground.
Sun Hong said with a little dejected: "Alas, I rushed to meet the county lord on the order of His Majesty, and I don't want the Xigui army to chase and kill all the way, and I can't rest for a moment." If it weren't for the fact that there were still a lot of Sichuan Shu army and Tang Sect disciples around the county lord, I would be afraid of relying on my hundreds of unassisted guards..."
Li Dingxing frowned and said, "This is almost in the territory of Chuxiang, and the Xigui army has chased it all the way?" When was the last time you fought them? ”
Sun Hong replied: "At noon, when we were about to bury the pot and rebel, the Xigui army rushed out. Fortunately, a group of Tang Sect disciples sacrificed their lives to stop them, and I waited until I escaped with the county lord. ”
"Where is the county lord?" Li Dingxing asked.
Sun Hong beckoned to the back, and the soldiers came to Li Dingxing with a woman, although the woman's clothes were not ragged, but there was no clean place on her body, and she was stained with dust and blood.
"County Lord, you're frightened." Li Dingxing recognized that this person was Peng Baobao from Sichuan and Shu, and hurriedly dismounted and greeted him with a group of people behind him.
Peng Baobao looked up and saw Li Dingxing and Yi Xiaoling, although they only had a few faces, they were acquaintances in the end. Peng Baobao sighed in his heart, the last time he met, he was still a dignified lord of Sichuan and Shu, and he still had 100,000 soldiers in his hands, but now he has fallen into the situation of ruining the country. Thinking of this, Hyun suddenly wanted to cry.
Yi Xiaoling was kind-hearted, and she couldn't see this the most, so she strode forward, not afraid of the blood and dust on her body, and gently hugged her: "It's okay, it's okay anymore." ”
Peng Baobao endured his grief, wiped his eyes, and said: "Be careful, the loyal prince must be careful, the Xigui army is menacing, most of the soldiers and horses in Sichuan and Shu, and the people have been hunted down and killed, and they have been plundered!" I'm afraid that in a few hours, they will chase after here. ”
Li Dingxing nodded: "Captain Sun, since it is His Majesty's will, you quickly take the county lord away, and I will stop the pursuers here." ”
Sun Hong nodded, beckoned everyone to help each other up, and hurried by. Li Dingxing noticed that among these teams, there were only more than twenty Tang Sect disciples left.
"It seems that the Western Guijun is indeed a bad comer." Li Dingxing realized that the Xigui army was even more difficult than he imagined, and ordered: "Feng Nan, Chu Zhou, just now we passed through a valley, and the two of you each led 10,000 soldiers and horses to ambush both sides of the valley, and as soon as the Xigui soldiers and horses passed, immediately defend the valley mouth!" ”
"Chen Guang, you pretend to be the county lord in your cloak and lead hundreds of people to wait here, and if the Xigui army arrives, you will immediately retreat and lead the Xigui army backwards into the valley." Li Dingxing is worthy of being familiar with the art of war, and in a hurry, he immediately thought of a trick Li Dai Taozhuang to lure the enemy deeper.
It's just that he didn't know the geometry of the chasing soldiers, in order to seek stability, Li Dingxing pressed all the soldiers and horses, and warned the generals that if there was a change, they could act cheaply.
Yi Xiaoling interjected on the side and said, "Let me go, at least I am a woman, and I look much more like Chen Guang." ”
"This..."Li Dingxing didn't want her to take risks, but before the army, how could she show favoritism?
"Madam, let's listen to Grandpa." Chen Guang persuaded on the side.
Yi Xiaoling nodded, and Li Dingxing said: "I led more than 1,000 people to go around the valley from both sides, from above and down, and shoot the enemy generals. One more person is needed to lead the remaining army to block the Western Gui army on the other side of the valley. I meant to let you block Taniguchi..."
Yi Xiaoling shook his head: "I don't know how to command soldiers and horses, you give me so many soldiers and horses, and I don't know how to command." It's better to kill the enemy yourself. Chen Guang is a general of Nanhuai, and he is more suitable than me to command the troops and horses. ”
Li Dingxing saw that Yi Xiaoling had made up his mind, so he didn't say anything anymore, and turned his head to look at the two guest generals, Qin Xiangqian and Bai Xinglong.
"Rest assured!" The two replied in unison. Li Dingxing was above the valley, there was no danger, they naturally followed Yi Xiaoling's side to protect Yi Xiaoling's safety.
After the arrangements were made, everyone hurriedly left and went to carry out the military order.
Li Dingxing also led 5,000 crossbowmen and made a detour to the valley.
Yi Xiaoling took off the armor on his body, his cloak was scattered, and he tore his clothes in several places, putting on a look of running for his life in embarrassment. I still felt unsafe, and rolled on the ground twice, stained with a lot of mud, and nodded with satisfaction.
Qin Xiangqian and Bai Xinglong were a little stunned on the side, this loyal prince's wife could actually do this. Mo said that she was the wife of the grandfather of the country, and she was an ordinary peasant woman, and she couldn't just get out on the ground.
After Chen Guang selected hundreds of capable soldiers to leave for Yi Xiaoling, he repeatedly explained to these soldiers to protect the safety of his wife, and then led the troops to the valley and deployed an ambush.
"Madam, do you want me to go to the front and check the situation?" Bai Xinglong was quite good at light skills, and asked Yi Xiaoling.
"Then there is Lao Bai Shaoxia."
Qin Xiangqian and Bai Xinglong nodded and signaled, a spear was already in their hands, protecting Yi Xiaoling's side, Bai Xinglong carried light skills and rushed towards the direction of Sichuan and Shu.
Sichuan and Shu are mountainous, Bai Xinglong didn't go far, and there is a high mountain in front of him. On the cliff, you can still vaguely see some wooden stakes embedded in the cliff.
"This must be when the Sichuan and Shu troops fled, they demolished the plank road. In this case, the Western Guijun should not be able to catch up. Bai Xinglong looked at this cliff and knew it in his heart. It is not a big problem to step on these wooden stakes with your own light skills and climb over this mountain, but not everyone in the Western Guijun is excellent in light skills, so there is nothing to worry about.
Thinking of this, Bai Xinglong was about to turn around and leave, when suddenly a loud noise came from behind him, a rumbling sound, like a landslide and a crack, very terrifying.
"What? The earth dragon turned over again? Bai Xinglong almost couldn't stand on his feet himself, and hurriedly turned back to check the situation.
Looking back at this, the white star dragon gasped, and a cyan snake tail like a giant pillar actually hung down from the cliff!
"This..."Before the White Star Dragon could react, several snake tails hung down, the same as the cyan snake tail, but not as thick as this, slightly thinner.
On the cliff, the girl Cao Qingxing poked out her head and saw Bai Xinglong at a glance: "Another beautiful man!" After speaking, he jumped onto the green snake and slid down the tail of the green snake.
The white star dragon drew his sword and retreated, pulling away the distance. As soon as they stood firm, several more people slid down the tail of other big snakes from the cliff like Cao Qingxing, and the number of people gradually increased.
"Let's go!" Seeing that the other party was numerous, Bai Xinglong didn't hesitate anymore, turned around and ran.
"Xiaoqing, don't worry, don't worry, that little girl can't run away! There are so many people around her, you will definitely be allowed to steal a few when the time comes! The cyan serpent slowly climbed down the mountain, spitting letters, tracking the remaining scents in the air.
The rest of the people also have their own weapons and want to share the credit, but no one dares to rush in front of Cao Qingxing, they are all led by her.
Bai Xinglong had just come back, and Yi Xiaoling couldn't wait to greet him: "How is it?" Are there pursuers chasing after you? ”
Bai Xinglong remembered the cyan snake tail just now, and there were still some palpitations in his heart: "Madam, the chasing soldiers are... It's just..."
"Are there a lot of people?" Qin Xiangqian couldn't help but ask on the side.
"I suggest that the ambush be evacuated, but I am afraid that it will be self-defeating when the time comes..."Bai Xinglong hesitated and didn't know whether to say it, and only put forward his own thoughts.
Yi Xiaoling was an anxious person after all, and was about to ask, when he accidentally saw Bai Xinglong in the distance behind him, stunned...
Bai Xinglong glanced back and said with a wry smile: "It's okay now, no need to explain..."
A big cyan snake, holding its head high, like a mountain, like a god..."God's head", there is a little girl with a crisp breast, Qingxing...