In fact, what the sentinel saw and heard from a distance was not the whole reason and the real situation of the rout of Yintuo's army.

Li Dan sent Shen Wu and others to take advantage of the opportunity of the enemy's Mingjin to withdraw his troops at night to infiltrate the enemy camp, and released the "false news" that the old camp of Jiyang Mountain was occupied by the Lou family, and the grain, grass, and family members were transported away.

Although this news was denied by the generals, the fact that Deng Zhongjun was beaten by Hua Jian's men and rushed back became more and more widespread, indirectly confirming the "news" that began to circulate at night.

Yang Dayi didn't expect that his trick would become a stroke of genius, and Li Dan didn't know this.

This incident not only affected Yintuo's judgment, but also greatly disturbed the mood and motivation of his subordinates when attacking.

Under the sudden appearance of ambushes and the bombardment of the generals, the Yintuo tribes began to generally believe that they were really deceived by the Lou family and coaxed to be a meat shield, and Yinshuai was tricked by them!

The defeat and casualties made them angry and frustrated, and the officers were worried about the safety of their own families and could not concentrate on commanding, resulting in a series of deaths or serious injuries among the main generals, and the team inevitably fell apart.

What's worse is that Yintuo has been focused on how to attack from the beginning, ignoring the necessary precautions.

In order to facilitate the rapid attack and rotation of the team, he forgot to order the arrangement of facilities such as rejecting horses in the front, which led to the rout army rushing directly to the Chinese army, and the panicked Chinese army killed the rout, and the two sides fought each other as much as a counterattack, and the scene was completely out of control.

Seeing that he was unable to return to the sky, Yintuo had to retreat quickly surrounded by his own soldiers to avoid being injured by the rebels.

Saying that he wanted to retreat to Wutang to reorganize the team and fight again was actually a cover-up, because the defeated army that was rushing to run no longer listened to the command at all, and only wanted to return to the camp of Jiyang Mountain.

In addition, his banner and golden drum were lost in the chaos, and he could not summon his subordinates to re-array. As a result, when the rout army came to the shore of Daihu, it was blocked and intercepted by Yang Dayi and others.

Yintuo saw that the retreat was broken, and a large number of soldiers began to ask for surrender, knowing that the momentum was not good, he hurriedly took his own soldiers to the northwest, but successively encountered the three hundred officers and soldiers from Tie Linglong and Fengshan to intercept and kill.

When he broke out of the encirclement, Yintuo himself was injured, not to mention, and there were only a dozen people left around him.

Originally, he thought that Sun Gu's Dayuan Village still had nearly 3,000 people and could regroup. It was easy to rush to Dayuan to learn that Sun Gu had been killed in the battle formation last night.

After the inspection, Yintuo found that there were less than 1,000 people left in the village, and the grain and grass were burned due to the attack, and then they were looted by the rebels, and the loss was not small.

He was helpless when he saw it, knowing that Dayuan would definitely not be able to gain a foothold, and the officials and troops would soon find here, so he led everyone to carry a certain amount of grain and grass, burned the camp and fled to the northern mountains.

Even if he left in time, half an hour later, Ma Jiu led the escort to cross the river by boat and boat to the right bank, and after reconnaissance, arrived at the camp that was already blazing.

Two days later, it was confirmed that the baggage and family had arrived safely in Chashan, and Lou Shiming and Lou Shifan led more than 1,200 core troops, together with about 2,700 people from the original Yintuo Department who had been incorporated and collected, and left the camp of Jiyangshan with satisfaction, and went to Chashan to join Liang Xie with Lou Zishi's department. Behind him was an empty barracks for the officers and soldiers.

At this time, a large number of armed forces had been gathered at the foot of the mountain, except for more than 1,000 Li Dan's subordinates who were under the banner of Geyangwei Regiment training (Yang Dayi, Tie Linglong, etc., who were not suitable to show up, were either cleaning the battlefield and searching for remnants, or had already gone to Dayuan to join Ma Jiu, Lin Shuntang and other three squadrons were also stationed on both sides of the Shangban Bridge to rest and replenish personnel), as well as Sheng Huaien's department, they were also about 1,500 people after being incorporated before and after.

In addition, there were 500 Guangxin defenders, 600 Shangrao water troops, and 2,000 officers and soldiers who came out of Shangrao City later.

These people had to have a unified command, and after thinking about it, General Yu and Tateshi sent his own lieutenant Li Ting to take charge.

This person is a guerrilla rank, and when he fought against the Japanese invaders, his luck suddenly broke out, and he was promoted to four levels in a row.

But because he was too belligerent, he later attacked and killed his leader when he appeased the Miao people, and as a result, he was thrown to Shangrao to become an idle guerrilla.

This time, it was borrowed from Lou's blessing, not only reactivated, but also performed quite well when defending the city, so he was selected by the generals.

Learned about the enemy on the mountain

The army retreated, and the officers and soldiers immediately held a military meeting. Li Ting was about to pursue, Sheng Huaien hurriedly proposed not to hurry, divide the troops into two roads, one to monitor its retreat, and the other way to go up the mountain to recover the Jiyang camp.

Li Ting agreed, he took the local soldiers up the mountain, Sheng Qian always led the regiment to practice monitoring, and the Guangxin soldiers were the backup.

Sheng Huaien knew that he wanted to get this recovering merit, and he was happy to send him a favor, so he wished him a favor, and he took Li Dan to chase the enemy first.

The battle was won, and everyone was in high spirits and morale along the way. Li Dan asked Sheng Huaien, "We've been working hard for days, why don't you let them chase after us?" Now that we're in the camp, we can get a good night's sleep."

"Capturing the enemy camp and recovering the lost territory is a great achievement, and it is good for Li Guerrilla to give it to him if he wants." Sheng Huaien replied very casually:

"Anyway, I have a lot of credit along the way, and if I have soup, I should let others dip it in, this is a big man with a heart!

Besides, the general has already been promoted to the top, and in three months, I will remove the "test character" of the thousand households, and I can't say that I still have to be a colleague with Li Guji, so why not be a personal favor?"

"I didn't expect you, Master Shan, to learn to be gentle and round." Li Dan laughed.

"Alas, if you don't understand it as well as you kid after so many years, wouldn't you want to make you laugh and lose your big teeth?" Sheng Huaien pouted: "I've been messing with you all day long, and the white pig has also been dyed black!"

"Don't talk nonsense, that's called Zhu Zhechi!" Li Dan corrected him.

Sheng Huaien laughed a few times, stroked his beard leisurely and said, "No matter what, this journey has finally been thrilling, and I actually got things done, thinking about it is like in a dream. Li Sanlang, I thank you so much, you have contributed a lot along the way!

But I still haven't figured out why you're willing to take risks with me.

And this battle is more and more thrilling every time. I know what I'm doing for fame, for the general's feather on that helmet, why are you?" He looked at Li Dan:

"It's strange enough that you don't do a good job as a young master, and you take the initiative to go up and fight the traitors. Do you think your life is too big or do you know that the traitors don't live long? Where did you get the guts? Tell me, what are you for?"

"For the sake of a woman, are you satisfied?" Li Dan glanced at him angrily: "I said, Master Sheng, when did you learn to inquire about the story?"

"I wonder, isn't it still possible?" Sheng Huai'en was happy: "For a woman? At such a young age, who did you fall in love with, or which family of Jin Lian do you plan to seduce?"

"I didn't do that, how can you think of me like that?" Li Dan was silent for a while, and then told him about Meng'er being taken to Nanjing and exiled to the northwest with his family because of his father's guilt.

"She doesn't want to leave her father behind, so she still chooses to live and die with the whole family." Li Dan was depressed when he talked about this, he was too focused for so many days, and he still thought about it again.

"So what?" Sheng Huaien asked.

"At first, I wanted to do something, and I was busy talking about it every day, so that I could think less or not think about it. Later, I thought that this is not bad, at least I have done inspections, so can I do higher tomorrow?

When she became an official, she would have the opportunity to meet powerful people in the court, or even the emperor, and she could ask them to help say good things or pardon her family.

So no matter how difficult the battle is, no matter how many enemies there are, I will try my best to defeat them, in order to spread my reputation!"

"Are you really?" Sheng Huaien was surprised, he thought that Li Dan was just joking, but he didn't expect that he really wanted to overturn the case for the Chen family.

"Little brother, listen to my brother's advice, this is not just talking." Sheng Huaien shook his head and said:

"You look at General Yu and Li Guerrilla, which one is not full of merit, leading troops for more than ten or twenty years, how many people have the opportunity to meet the senior officials of the court? Not to mention the face saint!

I see, that's an idea for you, and it's hard to implement. If you really want to help the Chen family, it is better to send someone to send them some silver taels, and it will be convenient for them to take care of their lives, then it is serious."

"That's why I'm going to work hard to make money!" Li Dan turned his face and said seriously, "I've thought about it, it took so much effort to get a sesame mung bean official from the ninth grade, when did I climb to the Jingguan and get it?" I'm afraid my beard is white!

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"No!" Sheng Huaien agreed.

"So, I'll have to prepare for both. Not only can I earn money to help them, but I also have to feed my aunt and my brothers. My current thinking is, if the path to becoming a ruler is too slow, can I use money to atone for their sins?"

"Redemption?" Sheng Huaien's eyes widened: "That can't cost tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of silver?"

"Silver is not difficult, you just say is it possible?" Li Dan now has more than 20,000 taels seized from Hua Arm, and this time he has a lot of money to find out about it, so he doesn't take the silver seriously at all.

Sheng Qian always frowned and thought about his beard, "It's hard to say. Ordinary crimes, but anything that is not heinous can be redeemed, but a case like the Chen family offended the emperor's ....... Tsk, it's hard to say, it depends on the mood of the saint."

"Okay, if I give the emperor 200,000 taels, do you think he can feel better?"

"Huh?" Sheng Huaien blinked his eyes for a long time before saying, "You, you're really spending a lot of money!"

"I thought about it, if 200,000 taels is not enough, I will add another 200,000, I don't believe that the emperor is not moved!"

"Shhhhhh Sheng Huaien was so frightened that he almost pounced and covered his mouth: "Look at you, why don't you close the door for a woman?" He complained, looked back and pondered, and said:

"Eh, I said Saburo, in fact, there may be a faster and cheaper way than you to throw money at it, why don't you take this path?"

"You mean the imperial examination?" Li Dan grinned and shook his head helplessly. After living for 50 years in his previous life and fighting for 40 years against examination-oriented education, Li Dan really doesn't want to get involved in the imperial examination in this life.

Of course, it is impossible for him to have a clear memory of his past life in his mind, but hating the imperial examination is an instinctive reaction that he has had since he was a child.

Although he didn't have much trouble reading books that others thought were obscure, and for some reason he naturally knew how to break sentences when he read them, and it was effortless to understand, but he just didn't have much interest in participating in the township examination and the general examination.

"What, you're afraid of exams?"

"Joke, I'm not afraid to go into battle to kill the enemy, I'm not afraid to sit face-to-face with the Second Heavenly King, will I be afraid of the examiner?"

"Isn't that what happens?" Sheng Huaien encouraged him: "You, unlike a rough person like us who can only read half a book, you are the son of the prefect.

For example, if I say that I am participating in the scientific examination, the people around me will laugh to death, and the examiner will say that you are a martial artist with soldiers, what do you do with this thing? I won't be able to pass the test!

But if Li Sanlang wants to say that he will take the exam, which one dares to say? Even if you're wearing armor right now, and you're followed by a thousand hundred children, that's called 'Wenwu said it's all right?'

"Come on, don't put a big hat on us, what the hell are you trying to say?" Li Dan couldn't interrupt him and asked.

"I want to say, don't you want to enter Beijing, don't you want to go to see the emperor?" Sheng Huaien pointed north with his horsewhip:

"Then don't you have a title on the gold list? said that if you don't have the opportunity to go to the palace and answer correctly, can't you ask the emperor about pardoning the Chen family? At that time, if the emperor still refuses, it will not be too late for you to offer 200,000 taels in person!"

"Eh, if you want to say that...... it seems to make sense!" Li Dan tilted his head and thought, "At least I have a chance to meet the big officials and even the emperor."

"That's right!" Sheng Huaien was happy: "This person, you must be open-minded and lively. Just like before I met you, how could I ever think that I could fight like this in a war? If you can't go this way, or that road is difficult, why don't you go the other way, or go both ways together......

"You are so active in asking me to participate in the scientific expedition, I'm afraid it's not for the sake of the Chen family, right?" Li Dan suddenly stabbed him.

"Hehe, of course I won't be for the Chen family. But if there is a friend like you Li Sanlang in the court, it will naturally be a lot of benefits, right?" Sheng Huaien showed a mouth full of white teeth and narrowed his eyes like a fox.

At this moment, a knight came in front of him, and he saw that the armor was the sentinel of the famous officer's army. He came close and grabbed the gray mule under his crotch, and gave a military salute and reported:

"Mr. Qian, we were far away from the enemy guards, and we found that they did not go up, but went in the direction of Chashan! Do you want to follow along?

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"Oh? Didn't go to Shangrao?" Sheng Huaien left the brigade and pulled the reins (he has now changed to Yintuo's mount, the Snow Green Lion, so he is very proud) looked back at Li Dan who was following him, and asked suspiciously:

"These two heavenly kings are really different. San Lang, guess what's this business partner of yours playing? He didn't go to join forces with his father, couldn't he be planning to set up his own door?"

"How is this possible?" vaguely knew that although Lou Zishi was defeated later, it should not be now, and he withdrew the first time he did not succeed in surrounding Rao, Li Dan thought for a moment and replied: "Lou Zishi withdrew his troops."

"What did you say?" Sheng Huaien looked at him in surprise.

"Lou Shiming is stationed in Chashan to prepare to be a guard for his father. In other words, Lou Thief should soon withdraw his troops from Shangrao. You can order the sentry to investigate in the direction of the crossings of the Raobei River, and if the enemy is preparing boats and pontoon bridges, then you can sit on the matter."

Li Dan said, secretly anxious in his heart, I don't know what happened to Feng Shen, it's been five days, why hasn't there been any return yet? Can't it have been found in Lou Zishi's old camp? Thinking of this, he frowned.

Sending the sentry horse, Sheng Huaien ordered the whole team to stop, rest in place and let Dou San'er arrange a guard, he walked to a plane tree and sat down, and when Li Dan came to sit down, he opened his mouth to remind:

"Just said the Second Heavenly King, do you want to continue with his deal? He's a traitor, so be careful not to mistake yourself!"

"Thank you brother for reminding me, since I have an appointment with him in advance, I don't plan to break my promise." After Li Dan finished speaking, he jokingly said, "Don't worry, your Yicheng is indispensable!"

"Am I worried about this profit? I don't want you to stumble because of this!"

"I know. I'm going to be secretive, so it's hard for people to get their hands on it." Li Dan said, his tone changed: "But...... Lou Shiming is different from his father and brother."

"What's different?"

"This man is wise, and knows how to advance and retreat, and understands reason. In short, he is a person who can communicate. He is not as deep as Lou Zishi, nor is he as dedicated to Li Shimin as Lou Shiyong.

You see that he restricts his troops, rarely burns and loots, and the team has strong combat effectiveness, which shows that this person is not only a good material for leading soldiers, but also has courtesy, righteousness and shame in his heart, at least he has not lost his light.

I mentioned Zhao'an to him last time, and I also reminded him not to hurt the people and cripple the people.

Although Lou Shiming did not agree to turn back, he could see that he was still sympathetic to the people, so I think that if I support his position within the Lou family, it can not only make the place not easy to erode, but also establish a strong opponent for Lou Shiyong.

Instead of letting them work together externally, it is better to make internal contradictions and antagonisms. Just like this time, if it weren't for the disagreement between the Lou family and Yintuo, how could it have allowed us to take advantage of the loophole? It is impossible to say that the Yintuo army has caused a rout due to its own disorder."

Li Dan felt that he not only had the intention of supporting Lou Shiming, but also had some sympathy for this opponent, of course, this would not be told to Sheng Huaien, after all, he was an official and a soldier, and he might be disgusted by this.