The Zhenbei army retreated to Zhongren Pavilion, thirty miles to the north, according to Lu Zhi's instructions.

However, rumors spread throughout the army, which inevitably cast a shadow over the morale of the Zhenbei army, and more and more officials believed that their retreat was due to the defeat of the Hejian legion.

In this way, the situation is very dangerous, they are followed by the invincible and invincible general Zhang Chong, and there is no trace of their reinforcements on the land of Hebei.

All the officials who could understand this were all depressed and miserable.

Lu Zhi realized this situation and was worried that the demoralized troops would even collapse because of this, so he ordered some of the troops who were walking in front to make fires and cook on the spot, and cook more for the troops who came behind to eat.

With caloric replenishment, the morale of the army has also recovered a lot.

At the same time, in order to avoid congestion, Lu Zhi ordered the cavalry troops to march from both flanks, leaving the straight for infantry and baggage to walk.

When the Zhenbei army walked to the area of Dingxian, it also encountered an infantry army from Yangcheng in the north, the number was about 1,000 people, and the general was Min Chun, the chief of Zhongshan, who came to join the Zhenbei army with the volunteers and troops he recruited.

Lu Zhi met Min Chun during the march and praised his demeanor of loyalty and saving the country. After learning that Min Chun's troops had not eaten for many days, Lu Zhi also gave some of the dry food of the Chinese army to Min Chun.

After that, Min Chun was subordinate to Lu Zhi's Chinese army and continued to go north with the army.

This made Min Chun's subordinates who had turned back very dissatisfied, and then saw Min Chun marching on an ox cart, so they ridiculed him even more: Min Jun opened his mouth, and the brother ran and broke his leg.

Almost all of Min Chun's troops were Qianshou disciples in the area of Dingxian County, Zhongshan, and they generally did not have much identification with the Han army, and the reason why they went south with Min Chun was nothing more than being held hostage.

Originally, Min Chun and the others said that they would give a reward for pulling out when they arrived at the battlefield, but now it is gone, because Min Chun means that they have not been on the battlefield and want any reward.

Okay, you Min Chun and the brothers play this game, and the brothers will fend for themselves.

These people first robbed a group of baggage that was left behind, and then divided it all equally, and then began to loot the houses of the bad guys along the way, and plundered people's money.

Even some local villagers who were arranged by the Zhenbei Army to take care of the wounded were robbed by this group of proud soldiers. It can be said that it greatly ruined the reputation of the Zhenbei Army.

But for all this, Lu Zhi is not clear, the entire retreat is a mess, and he has lost control of the military discipline of the team.

How far has this confusion even gone?

For example, Lu Zhi almost lost the map of the Zhongren Pavilion.

As early as when he was still in Lunu, he chose the location of Zhongren Pavilion as the place for the decisive battle. Therefore, he specially asked the mapper to draw a fine map of the area around the Zhongren Pavilion.

Originally, this map had always been in charge of Lu Zhi's confidant Yang Lin, but when he retreated, Lu Zhi found that Yang Lin was gone.

Lu Zhi asked people to look for a long time but didn't find it, and Yang Lin came back by himself.

It turned out that when he was looking for water, he met two hunters cruising nearby, and wanted to sneak attack him while he was looking for water. Fortunately, Yang Lin's swordsmanship was good, and he killed the two hunters after a fight, but he found that his mount was missing.

And the map of the Zhongren Pavilion is right away.

At this moment, Yang Lin panicked, and finally found the mount that was grazing on a grass for a long time, so that he could get the map back.

After that, Yang Lin didn't dare to run around, so he hurried to Lu Zhi's car with Yutu and waited.

The retreat of the Zhenbei Army was so chaotic.

But it's so chaotic, Lu Zhi is still arranging the military arrangements behind.

He asked for the map of the Zhongren Pavilion from Yang Lin, and then discussed it with several staff members and began to dispatch the troops that had been stationed in the area of the Zhongren Pavilion.

This map is very well mapped and mapped, and the landforms, buildings, and roads of the Zhongren Pavilion are well reflected, which provides support for the deployment of troops.

Relying on this map, Lu Zhi began to deploy troops to the corresponding battlefield.

At the same time, Lu Zhi also ordered the sentinels of the Junzi Battalion to gallop to the troops in the Zhongren Pavilion to the north, telling them that he had driven to the Zhongren Pavilion with the main force, and asked them to speed up the construction of fortifications.

Lu Zhi also wrote a military order to the defeated Hejian Army, telling the three guards to quickly rush to Zhongren Pavilion after receiving the military order, where they regrouped.

Because the location of the Hejian Legion is not clear now, Lu Zhi directly released ten sentry cavalry in order to convey the military order.

The sentinels of the gentleman's camp set out in a northeast direction with three horses and a companion with three days' dry rations, with their feathered books.

Along the way, these gentleman's battalions witnessed the chaos of the retreat of the Zhenbei army.

Because there was no one to restrain them, from time to time you could see scattered officials plundering the countryside, and the ravines on both sides of the straight road could always see overturned baggage carts, and some precious military assets were abandoned in the ravines.

There were also some wounded soldiers lying in the green shade of the straight road, looking at the sky numbly and silently, motionless.

But there are also some loyal officials who can always be seen in the queue competently, and there is chaos in the peace. In short, the sentinels of the Junzi Battalion went north this time, and they saw the unevenness of the battalions of the Zhenbei Army.

They also saw some cavalry rudely overturning the baggage wagons of the infantry because they were blocking the passage of the cavalry.

In any army, the contradiction between the cavalry and the infantry is always not small. The Han army is naturally no exception, so every time at this time, a riot is always unavoidable.

But the end result was always that the infantry lost, and the result of the defeat was that they could have walked the fields on both sides of the road, and even had to walk through some mire.

So when the infantry covered in mud monkeys appeared in front of the cavalry, there was always a laugh.

Compared to the cavalry, these infantry were undoubtedly pathetic, but compared to the infantry who were left at the head of the two battalions on the Dingting battlefield, these people were lucky.

When the sentinels of the Gentleman's Battalion managed to make their way through the chaotic ranks, they finally ran to the nearby Lunu. Here they were to look for the rout of the Riverland Legion and ask them about the location of their main force.

And it was only when they arrived in Lunu that these people knew that the chaos in the Zhenbei Army just now was really a big deal.

Since Lu Zhi led the Zhenbei Army to the south, Lu Nu's heroes have been paying attention to the battle in Dingting.

The servants of each family have to run here three times a day to keep abreast of the latest trends.

Therefore, when the Zhenbei army abandoned its position and retreated northward, and the position of the march was not Lunu in the northeast but in the southwest, the Lunu heroes panicked.

They knew that they had been abandoned by Lu Zhi, an old thief.

When they ran home covered in mud and sweat, the heroes were still eating. But as soon as they got the news of the defeat of the Han army, these heroes didn't eat, so they let the servants drive the prepared cart out of the north gate to flee.

It's not a family or two that are smart, it's not a year or two in troubled times, and these heroes have also evolved a strong ability to survive.

So one after another, the whole city began to boil, and ordinary Nulu people saw that everyone in the city fled north with their families and carts.

Some of the captives ran directly to these people's homes when they saw the opportunity, looting the remaining large items, which the heroes could not take away. Seeing such a bargain, some of the nearby Lu Zuo people also rushed into the mansion one after another, picking up those things that no one wanted.

As a result, the city of Lunu soon became a mess.

The local heroes are well prepared, and they have cars, cattle and horses, so they can go the fastest and safest. And the heroes who fled to Lunu from other parts of Jizhou can't stay at this time.

And they knew that the local powerful team was safer, so they followed behind them with their families.

So when Lu Zhi's gentleman's battalion sentry cavalry arrived at Lunu, Lunu was already in chaos.

Here, they found a few of the original routs of the Riverside Legion, and they told the sentinels that the remaining Riverland Legion was in Maoting, five miles to the southeast.

After getting the news, the sentinels changed their horses, did not rest, and ran to Maoting again.

And along the way, they once again saw wounded soldiers and apprentices along the road, and all kinds of military assets were also abandoned on the road and left unattended.

It is clear that the situation in the Interriver Corps is serious.

It turned out that just earlier today, one of Zhang Dan's outpost cavalry troops finally caught up with the noisy Hejian Corps.

The last one left in the whole army was the baggage battalion, and they panicked when they heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them.

Fear reigned against them, and their baggage was scattered.

We can't blame these people for the baggage soldiers, these people are originally some ordinary people in the army who are not brave and courageless, and they do not have combat effectiveness. What's more, he was beaten by Zhang Danjun again?

But at the forefront are the Bohai soldiers, they have honor, and a lot of those burdens are their military salaries, so they are extremely reluctant.

The Bohai soldiers turned around and went south to defend the defense, while Zhang Dan's vanguard sentry cavalry withdrew after only a few attacks because of the small number of them.

Although he repelled the pursuers and recaptured the baggage. However, as soon as the three giants of Hejian discussed, they felt that it was still necessary to go north quickly, so they ordered the whole army to carry their own baggage, and all that they could not take away were abandoned on both sides.

After doing this, they took another group of locals and took them to a forest valley where they were ready to rest.

Later that day, the sentinels of the Junzi Battalion really found the Hejian Legion, and when they handed the feather to Chen Yan, the minister of the Hejian State.

At this time, Chen Yan's face was dark, and his thick beard was sparse, he took the book and glanced at it, and couldn't help but say:

"Do you want us to go north to the Zhongren Pavilion?"

Chen Yan couldn't bear it, and said a little defensively:

"It's only been a few days since our Hejian disciples left their hometown, and they died and were wounded. Finally escaped, and let us go to the Zhongren Pavilion? I can see that the Taishan army is also a tiger and a wolf, and it is still not appropriate to go head-to-head. ”

Seeing that Chen Yan didn't want to fight, Yang Xuan, the Bohai Taishou on the side, couldn't help but say:

"Chen Xiang, there is still no need to say angry words. At this point, do we still have a choice? Either we will fight with Lu Shuai's main force and the Taishan thieves, or we will kill ourselves in this forest col now. No matter what, it's worthy of the country. ”

After Yang Xuan said this, Ling Huyu, the minister of Anping on the side, couldn't help but mutter:

"The country? What a country? One to the east or one to the west. ”

Yang Xuan glared at Ling Huyu, then stared at Chen Yan to see what he thought. Among them, Chen Yan's military strength is the strongest, and he can't do anything without his consent.

Chen Yan sighed, he really hates such days, worrying all day long, eating and living, how can people live? Thinking of this, Chen Yan thought about dying.

Thinking about it, Chen Yan was about to pull out his saber and wipe it on his neck.

Yang Xuan was taken aback, how could he have thought that this Chen Yan was so axial? Busy pulling and persuading:

"Lao Chen, we haven't reached the point of exhaustion. What kind of person is Lu Shuai, don't we know? If we don't fight uncertain battles, we will definitely win with our troops. ”

Chen Yan couldn't die, so it didn't matter, he pushed his seal and put it in Yang Xuan's arms, and said:

"Lao Yang, you understand me. I'm good at talking, and I'm really impatient with this in practice. I will give you this seal, and the soldiers of the river under my command will give it to you. But Lao Yang, you must leave me the truth. ”

Yang Xuan squeezed Xiangyin tightly, looked at Chen Yan's serious expression and said seriously:

"Lao Chen, you ask."

"Can we really win this battle?"

Yang Xuan didn't dare to be fooled and told Chen Yan his thoughts. He drew a tree branch on the ground, explaining:

"Lao Chen, Linghu, look at this. This is the location of the Zhongren Pavilion, and there is the Dingting where the Taishan Army is located in the military newspaper, and we are probably in this location. ”

Chen Yan and Ling Huyu both squatted on the ground and listened to Yang Xuan continue:

"I can probably guess three points from Lu Shuai's current arrangement. Now he is going to fight Zhang Chong's thief in the Zhongren Pavilion. In terms of the strength and combat power of the two sides, it is between the two sides. But plus we are different, as long as we rush to Zhongren Pavilion now and catch up in the time of the big battle, it will be a fatal blow to the Taishan thief. So whether we can win this battle depends on whether we can rush to Zhongren Pavilion. ”

Chen Yan is also a loyal monarch, and after listening to Yang Xuan's words, he didn't shirk anymore, and directly let him lead the army to pull out. You have to rush to the Zhongren Pavilion.

In this troubled world, he Chen Yan has had enough, and dogs are just days like this.

……

On 9 August, the rain was still pouring down.

This rain has been falling since the latest, and it has not yet been seen.

But Zhang Chong couldn't wait, he wanted to pursue Lu Zhi, who fled north, and he must annihilate him in Jizhou.

Therefore, even though it was raining heavily, the Taishan army still gathered in a clothed garment.

Four miles away, there were two battalion leaders left by Lu Zhi to snipe, 1,000 people.

Unfortunately, the battalion leaders who were ordered to stay were Dai Beihaoqiang Lu Chong and Xue Shen.

At this time, in the torrential rain, Lu Chong said loudly to Xue Shen through the thick fog:

"The enemy army is out of battle, I will take my soldiers out of the camp to fight first, and then you will take my turn."

Xue Shen nodded hurriedly, and then watched Lu Chong go down the wall.

Soon, Lu Chong went out with five hundred soldiers, and then disappeared into the rain, leaving Xue Shen alone and uneasy.

I don't know how long it took, but there was no sound of fighting in front of me, Xue Shen said secretly:

"Could it be that Lu Chong is lost?"

But soon, after Lu Chong came back with the team, there was a dense Taishan army behind him.

Lu Chong was under the wall, and his opening was a sentence:

"Xiao Xue, I have abandoned the darkness and turned to the light, for the sake of you and my fellow villagers, think about my own children, go out and surrender."

Xue Shen was furious, never expecting that Lu Chong would abandon him and surrender.

Dude, if you surrender, you will say to me, I will go with you.

You, Lu Chong, are really traitors, you really deserve to die.

Although Xue Shen hated Lu Chong to the core. But at this point, he could only go out and surrender.

In this way, the Taishan army effortlessly took down the sniper unit arranged by Lu Zhi, and the pursuit was earlier than Lu Zhi's expected time.

Lu Chong, you really deserve to die. Why don't you take me with you when you surrender?