The next day, the Song army again bypassed the camp and went to harass the eastern and western cities of Luzhou.

This time, the Song army seemed to be a little carried away, and when he left late, he was actually seen by the thief army.

Another day, the thief army reacted quickly, and as soon as the Song army went around to Dongcheng, they pounced, and although they didn't really catch up, they also shot a few arrows in the direction of the other party's escape.

At night, Duan Er was discussing in the camp, looked at the generals and said: "Ben Shuai sees that this Song army is a little carried away, and is no longer as cautious as before, do the generals have a plan to break it?" To prevent future troubles! ”

Zhang Shou offered a plan: "Marshal, I think it is better to bury an ambush army outside the city and inside the city, and when the Song army comes to harass again, the two ambush armies will be launched together, and they will definitely be able to destroy each other." ”

Duan Er said: "The ambush army in the city is easy to bury, but the east and west are empty outside the city, and there is no dense forest to cover it, how to ambush?" ”

Zhao Ta said on the side: "Marshal, you don't have to be ambushed outside the city, as long as you prepare people and horses here, don't wait for the scouts to report, and kill them immediately if there is a slight movement over there."

Duan Er thought for a while, and stretched out his hand to pat the handsome case: "What the two generals said is extremely true, just act according to this law, and you will definitely destroy these thieves before you can relieve the hatred in your heart!" ”

Fang Han said at this time: "If you really chase and kill all the way, will you fall into the ambush of the Song army instead?" ”

Duan Er was stunned for a moment, pondered for a moment, and said: "There are few mountains and no forests around this Luzhou City, where can the Song army ambush?" ”

Fang Han thought for a while and laughed at himself: "But I think too much, this Zhao Ta'er is good at ambush operations, and rarely fights head-on, when I think of chasing and killing, I think of ambushes." ”

Duan Er shook his head and smiled: "Fang Shumi, don't worry, if you want to ambush, you have to rely on the favorable geography, there are few ambushes on the four sides of Luzhou, and it is a blue sky and daylight, even if Zhao Ta'er is good at this, there is absolutely nothing to do!" ”

After speaking, he immediately ordered the cavalry in the camp to be transferred and arranged, the Song army was cavalry, and if you wanted to catch up with the Song army, you could only use cavalry.

There are about more than 10,000 cavalry in the camp north of the city, and Duan Er is directly divided into four teams, only waiting for two ambushes in the east and west city gates early tomorrow morning, and two more outside are ready at any time.

In the blink of an eye, in the early morning of the next day, sure enough, the Song soldiers continued to attack, the thieves acted according to the plan, one ran out of the city gate, and one ran through the camp north of the city, and the Song army was taken by surprise, but only slightly resisted, and fled all the way.

The two Song armies each had more than 1,000 people, but there were more than 5,000 cavalry chasing behind, and these thieves had been tossed enough by the Song army for a few days.

Duan Er sat in the tent and listened to the situation on both sides of the Tanma report, and couldn't help laughing: "This time I destroyed these two cavalry of the Song army, I think that Zhao Ta'er will never dare to send someone to attack and disturb again." ”

When the generals heard this, they all showed a relaxed expression.

But at this moment, a panicked voice suddenly came from outside the tent: "Marshal, urgent military situation!" ”

Duan Er looked at the tent door and frowned: "Come in and talk." ”

Hearing that a small soldier came in outside, seeing that he was dressed as a probe horse, he knelt down on one knee, and said in a hurried voice: "Marshal, I found the Song army five miles to the north, and it is rushing in the direction of the big camp!" ”

Duan Er was stunned for a moment, and stood up "Huh": "Five miles away? How to report! ”

The little soldier said bitterly: "Marshal, the small one is the scout of these five miles, and the farther one can't be detected, it is estimated that the comrades in front of him were killed by the Song army, and the small one also found out about the enemy situation and came back to report, estimated, estimated ......."

"Estimate what?" Duan Er said angrily.

"The little one rode a fast horse all the way back, but the Song army was also a cavalry in front, and it was estimated that it would be there soon." The little soldier said tremblingly.

"Cavalry?" Duan Er's expression suddenly changed when he heard this: "You said cavalry? ”

Xiao Bing didn't dare to speak at this moment, just nodded tremblingly.

"Ahh Duan Er's face instantly turned pale at this time, his mouth opened, and he couldn't speak.

Fang Han's expression on the side also changed greatly, and said: "It's not a good thing, this Zhao Tan'er repeatedly harassed the city, not thinking about ambushing our army at all, but, but, ...... Turn the tiger away from the mountain! ”

Even if the generals below were born in the green forest, they never read and they didn't know a few words, but they all knew the meaning of this tune.

Although this is a plan in Tan Gongce, it is also an allusion, which everyone is familiar with.

"Prepare your troops, prepare your troops, prepare for battle!" Fang Han looked at Duan Er, who was in a daze after the handsome case, stomped his foot fiercely, and shouted at the generals.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance outside, and the generals were anxious to run out, and the Song army still had cavalry at the moment, but they had nothing.

In such an open field, there were no cavalry, and there were no complex fortifications, and once the battle opened, they had no choice but to flee.

After leaving the village, I saw people shouting and neighing not far ahead, smoke and dust billowed in front of them, and the Song army had already arrived at the edge of the fortifications of the camp, and was erecting various trenches to destroy traps and horse pits.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!" Fang Han shouted, it was impossible to take the initiative to attack at the moment, he only hoped to delay for a while longer, and wait for the cavalry that had gone to chase the Song army to come back.

At this time, the generals had already found their horses and rode them, scattered everywhere, and commanded the soldiers in the camp to shoot arrows outside.

The Song army also had arrows flying, and the Daoqiao soldiers in front of them continued to lay trenches while holding shields to block arrows.

But this big camp in the north of Luzhou City is too long, even if there are constant arrows inside, but the Song army outside is attacking extremely fiercely, and there are shields, and wooden carts are blocking the front.

At this time, I heard someone in the Song army shouting: "Brothers, kill in, the thief army has no cavalry, and it is our world when you enter the camp!" ”

Someone shouted again: "The commander ordered, kill one thief and reward the same money, and kill ten thieves and reward five taels of silver!" ”

Song Junbing Ding immediately red-eyed when he heard this, this is not the time when money can be exchanged for one or two pieces of silver, one or two pieces of silver can almost be exchanged for three or four pieces of money, and five taels of silver is about twenty pieces of money, almost more than a year's salary.

At this time, someone shouted loudly: "The marshal also ordered that these thieves have all the gold and silver they have looted, but if they are killed, they will all be their own, and they don't need to be handed over!" ”

This time, the Song army is not only red-eyed, but his eyes are about to pop out, these veteran soldiers of Gyeonggi, although the guns and sticks are not very brave, and even many fighters have never even played on the field, but they listen to books and watch dramas on weekdays, and they all know where to get money when it comes to fighting.

The battle of counterinsurgency and rehabilitation is the fattest, and the thief army has the most oil and water on its body, especially Wang Qing, who has almost all the way down, and will almost raid the big thief army in other states and counties except Luzhou, with the most gold and silver goods, which is not comparable to the ordinary mountain king.

At this time, I saw that the Song army took the lead in rushing out of a young general, with a silver helmet and silver armor, a Suluo battle robe, a white dragon horse under his crotch, and a gentian bright silver spear in his hand, which was Zhang Xian, the ninth commander of the Dragon Guard Army.

Zhang Xian brandished the silver spear, kept shooting down the feather arrows, and came to the front of the wooden fence, and then the spear shook and flew away the hardwood fence, and suddenly a gap appeared in the thief barracks.

The cavalry of the Song army in the rear rushed up one after another, although there were still feather arrows flying in the tent of the thief barracks, but the distance was too close, and the power had been weakened a lot, and the Song cavalry charged and killed into the camp.

With the opening of this gap, several places in the northern camp of Luzhou were broken through, and there was chaos in the camp for a while.

Zhao Ta was riding on a horse at the moment and watching the battle situation ahead, at this time, no one paid attention to what he was doing, and those generals were all scurrying like headless flies, and they were already at a loss under the pressure of the Song cavalry.

He quietly turned his horse's head back to the Zhongjun tent, and looked in through the gap in the cowhide curtain, only to see Duan Er still sitting behind the handsome case.

He thought for a while, and suddenly shouted: "Marshal, the enemy army is unstoppable, and it is dangerous here, so let's hurry back to the city!" ”

Duan Er was so frightened by his shout in the tent that he shuddered, originally he failed to use his troops, but he didn't know what to do, but at this moment he realized that the Song army had actually entered the camp.

Duan Er hurriedly got up and ran out of the tent, and when he looked from a distance, he saw that the flesh and blood were already flying in front of him, and the thieves under his command were retreating one after another, that is, several generals were directly picked to death by the generals of the Song army at this time.

Duan Er's heart suddenly became frightened, although he was also a splash who was not afraid of death before he rebelled against Wang Qing, but after the rebellion became an official, he cherished his own life more and more, most of Wang Qing's army won battles before, and he had never seen the scene in front of him a few times.

"General Li......" Duan Er looked at Zhao Ta and opened his mouth.

"Marshal, hurry up and withdraw to the city, if you don't leave, I'm afraid it's too late!" Zhao Ta looked anxious and shouted hoarsely.

"Back to the city?" Duan Er nodded hurriedly when he heard this: "Okay, Ben Shuai will go back to the city now!" ”

Zhao Ta went to the big tent and pulled a war horse, handed the reins to Duan Er, and said, "Marshal, go quickly!" ”

After Duan Er got on the horse, he looked farther away, only to see the Song army surging over like a tide in the distance, and the thief army in the camp couldn't resist it at all, so he couldn't help but be even more frightened, and hurriedly said: "General Li went to pass on the commander's order, go back to the city, go back to the city!" ”

Zhao Ta watched Duan Er ride his horse to the city gate, smiled slightly, and then yelled ahead: "Marshal military order, retreat back to the city!" ”

Then, he smacked the yellow horse's ass with the iron gun, and the yellow horse kicked off and chased in the direction of Duan Er......

The battle did not last long, not even half an hour, before it was over, and the Song army won a complete victory.

Before the northern city of Luzhou, the original camp had long been broken, with blood stains everywhere, and the corpses of the thieves were everywhere, and many Song soldiers were touching the corpses, not knowing what to find.

Under the banner of the handsome character in the rear, Zong Ze's face was solemn, and he said after a slight sigh: "The two generals of King Lu, quickly lead people to meet the two cavalry, be careful not to make mistakes on the road." ”

Lu Junyi and Wang Yu received the order, each with a sentry and a horse to divide the things, and went to meet the two cavalry that harassed Luzhou.

Zong Ze originally planned to send two cavalry to harass Luzhou according to the strategy of saving money, and then lured the thief army to follow up and set up an ambush again, but later sent scouts to check the terrain of Luzhou and the east and west, and found that there was no place to ambush.

Zong Ze said again at this time: "Pass the order, clean up the battlefield, and retreat three miles to dig fortifications." ”

Cleaning the battlefield is an inevitable thing, usually the winning side does it, there are too many corpses of the thief army, and it is impossible to bury them, so they gather in one place, sprinkle fire oil, and burn things down with a fire.

At this time, the city of Luzhou was already a pot of porridge, and the camp in the north of the city was defeated, and only part of the remnants of the army ran back to the city with the retreating generals, and the number was more than 10,000 people.

Originally, there were 50,000 soldiers in the north camp of the city, of which 10,000 cavalry were separated to chase the Song army, and there were only so many of the remaining 40,000 soldiers.

A big defeat, the people in Luzhou City were panicked, Wang Qing jumped like thunder above the court, Duan Er was trembling on the ground, and he didn't dare to say a word.

"Rubbish!" Wang Qing pointed his finger at Duan Er and scolded: "Bastard, you can still eat such a defeat with your back to the city, it is because your brain can't let the dog eat it, where are those cavalry, those lonely cavalry!" ”

Duan Er snorted: "All of them, they all went to chase the two harassing Song armies......"

"Lone is asking now, how are those cavalrymen now!" Wang Qing was so angry when he heard this, he reached out and grabbed the inkstone on the case, and hit it hard, and the middle of the two foreheads hit him "ouch", and the blood immediately flowed down his forehead.

Duan Er complained bitterly in his heart, how did he know how the cavalry was now, but so many cavalry should not be able to make a big incident, even if there was really an ambush by the Song army, he could run away if he couldn't beat it.

"Minister...... I don't know. Duan Er hurriedly kowtowed, and the blood donation on his head stained the ground: "Maybe, maybe you're rushing back, right?" ”

"Come on, put Duan Er in prison alone!" Wang Qing was so angry that he smoked, that was 10,000 cavalry, how many cavalry were there under him? This is the capital accumulated from one war after another, and it was thrown out of the city by Duan Er at this moment, regardless of it, I am afraid that it will not be more auspicious.

"Prime Minister!" Wang Qing turned his head to look at Li Zhu: "What should I do now?" Do you send a message to other state cities to send troops to help? ”

Li Zhu shook his head and sighed: "Your Majesty, the other state cities are only a few thousand infantry each, even if they are all sent, what can they be worthwhile?" For now, I just hope that the 10,000 cavalry outside the city will come back soon. ”

Wang Qing frowned: "Now there are only more than a thousand cavalry left in the city, and the infantry can't go to meet ......."

Li Zhu said: "After the Song army won a big victory in front of the city, it will definitely send people to chase and kill those cavalry, but the Song army's combat strength is weak, and these cavalry may not be able to run back by themselves." ”

Wang Qing was stunned when he heard this: "Prime Minister, is there really no other way to respond?" ”

Li Zhu shook his head and said: "There is no way, although the cavalry of the Song army surpasses our army, it is impossible to send them all, they also have to use the cavalry to suppress Luzhou, so that they can camp in the village, our army has 10,000 cavalry, they will send this number to chase and kill at most, as long as the cavalry of our army does not love to fight, at least half of it will not be a problem." ”

"Half?" Wang Qing's eyes widened: "Prime Minister, the other party will send a maximum of 10,000, and our army will also send 10,000, how can it be that only half of it will run back?" ”

Li Zhu glanced at him and said, "Your Majesty, now that the Song army is coming to the city, even if all the 10,000 cavalry return, does the king think that the Song army will let them enter the city safely?" ”

Wang Qing's eyes straightened when he heard this, and he sat on the chair with his mouth open, and he didn't say anything for a long time.

(End of chapter)