All the officers and soldiers of Kuizhou Road ran to "regain lost territory", and Li Bao was not very clear about this.

For the sake of prudence, he left 5,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Hezhou to prevent the officers and soldiers of Kuizhou Road from killing again. With the rest of the troops, he went north to attack Guozhou (Nanchong), and joined forces with Lin Chong and Bai Qi.

Li Bao didn't even know where the friendly forces were killed, they were purely carrying out the predetermined plan.

"The thieves of Hezhou have fallen into Hanchu County." Chen Rujia put down the battle report, his expression a little desperate.

Xue Yuanjian was incomprehensible: "On the fourth road of Sichuan Gorge, the Kuizhou soldiers are the most elite, why haven't they come to suppress the thieves until now?" They don't need to storm it, as long as they are contained in the rear, the Hezhou thieves will definitely not dare to fight. ”

Chen Rujia also couldn't figure it out: "Could it be that the Kuizhou soldiers have been defeated?" ”

The Kuizhou soldiers only lost one water battle, and they are busy recovering the lost territory, and now they are about to enter the border of Bazhou. The more cities recovered, the farther away from the main battlefield, how could Chen and Xue have imagined such a tricky route of marching?

In the midst of the state government, there was silence.

Guozhou commander Weng Zhen couldn't help but speak: "It's better to withdraw to Suizhou, you have to withdraw quickly." If you wait for the two thieves to merge, then it will be too late to leave. ”

"It's a feasible idea." Xue Yuanjian agreed. He is the Taishou of Langzhou, and his jurisdiction has long fallen, so it doesn't matter where he flees.

Chen Rujia is too conservative in Guozhou, and he still wants to continue to defend his state city (Nanchong), but he hesitates and makes up his mind.

But the Hezhou thieves are coming, and if they don't leave, they will be attacked, and the soldiers under their command are obviously unwilling to fight.

Chen Rujia looked left and right, thought about it, and finally said: "Withdraw the army tonight, you will go back and prepare." ”

He wanted to fight, but he didn't dare to fight.

When you are afraid of being flanked, the officers under your command will take the soldiers to defect directly!

The waterway from Nanchong to Suining has been cut off by Li Bao, and it is necessary to take the whole road route through the hilly area of more than 100 miles.

In order to carry grain and grass and baggage, all the mules, horses, donkeys and cattle in the city were requisitioned by officers and soldiers and collected from house to house.

Searching, searching, it becomes a large-scale raid, and the target is no longer just livestock.

Two village soldiers were napping on the city wall, and one of them looked back: "What's the trouble in the city?" ”

"I don't know." The other squinted in the sun.

"It's not going to be a thief entering the city, is it?"

"I don't know."

"You're not going to say anything else?"

"Yes."

“……”

At this time, a shout suddenly came from under the city wall: "Third Brother Jiang, your cattle have been robbed!" ”

The villagers, who had been saying "I don't know", suddenly stood up and shouted: "Who the hell did this? ”

"They are all robbing livestock, arranged by the above," said the messenger, "and at first they only had livestock, but now they are all starting to grab food and money." ”

As soon as these words came out, many officers and soldiers who were defending the city left their posts and ran to the city.

Most of the soldiers were locals, some were improvised urban youths, and some were peasants who had fled to the city with their families.

For example, the third brother Jiang was born in a small landlord family, not only fled to Nanchong City with his family, but also brought his own cattle.

The officers at the head of the city couldn't hold it back at all, so they could only stupidly watch the soldiers run away.

"Whoever robs my cattle, whoever robs my cattle......" Jiang San shouted as he ran down the street, holding a shuttle dart in his hand, followed by tenants and yeoman farmers. Their dozen or so families all rely on the cow to plow the fields.

There was chaos in the streets and alleys, and looters could be seen everywhere.

The officers and the army fought with the officers and the army themselves.

It was the official soldier who lived in the city, and when he found out that his house had been ransacked, he immediately rushed up and fought hard.

"It's too guarded, it's messy, it's messy!"

"But the thieves have entered the city?"

"It's my own people who fight, I let them collect livestock, but those Qiu Ba are robbing everywhere!"

"Follow me to the press!"

Chen Rujia led his own soldiers to rush onto the street, looking at the completely chaotic Nanchong City, he no longer knew how to clean it up.

A group of soldiers rushed forward, so frightened that the looters ran away.

A little clever ghost was afraid of being killed, so he shouted while fleeing: "The thieves have entered the city!" The thieves have entered the city......"

"The thief has entered the city, run for your life!" But it was the people of the city who were so frightened that they shouted together.

Soon rumors spread and shouts came one after another, and even the guards of the city who were still holding their posts could hear them.

Jiang San and his fellow villagers had already found the ploughing cow and was standing alone on the street. But his old mother was killed, and it was not clear who the killer was, and his sister-in-law, wife and children, sister and nephew were nowhere to be found.

I couldn't find it for several streets, so I guess I was hiding somewhere.

The more Jiang San thought about it, the more angry he became, and he picked up the shuttle dart and said, "Follow me to seize the city gate and surrender to the thieves!" ”

The partners in the same village couldn't find their families, and they were full of anger and had nowhere to vent, so they followed Jiang Sanfeng to the east gate.

Lin Chong and Bai Qi had already sensed the abnormality in the city, and the whole city was shouting, crying, and roaring, and the sound had already reached outside the moat.

The sentinels guarding around the city hurried back to the camp to report.

The two of them took the troops out of the camp, Lin Chong wanted to take the opportunity to seize the city, but Bai Qi was still a little worried: "Will there be fraud?" ”

Lin Chong said: "What can be deceitful? In terms of the morale of the officers and soldiers, if the generals dare to deceive, the soldiers will really dare to scatter and flee. ”

"That's right." Bai Qi found that he was thinking too much.

They led their troops out of the moat, pushed out the bridge carts to build a pontoon bridge, and sure enough, they were not shot with bows and arrows.

Before the pontoon bridge could be built, all of a sudden, the gates opened.

The gatekeeper was a close confidant of Taishou, who was attacked by Jiang San from behind, thinking that the thief had really entered the city, so he was so frightened that he threw away his weapon and fled.

"Hold the gates!"

Jiang San ran out of the city alone, took off his clothes and picked it up with a javelin, shook it across the moat and shouted: "Come into the city, get into the city quickly, don't lose the time!" ”

"Hurry, hurry!" Lin Chong anxiously urged.

A pontoon bridge was finally erected, and Lin Chong immediately led his troops to cross the river.

Jiang San said: "General, my family is gone, don't kill indiscriminately when you enter the city." ”

Lin Chong said as he ran: "Don't kill indiscriminately, you are familiar with the road, take me straight to the state office." Promise to find your family, see people alive, see corpses dead. ”

Chen Rujia, the governor of Guozhou, is still suppressing the chaotic soldiers, and thousands of people have been collected one after another.

When he heard that the thieves had entered the city, he didn't think much of it, because there were shouts everywhere.

It wasn't until Lin Chong appeared on the street with his troops that Chen Rujia finally understood that it was true, and he raised his knife and shouted: "Kill the thief with me!" ”

Taishou gave an order, and most of the officers and soldiers around him were scattered, and only a few of them rushed forward.

Lin Chong's leopard head is ringed, his face is bearded, and his image is like the fierce Zhang Fei of film and television dramas. He rushed to the front with a gun, picking up several people one after another, and the morale of the rebels behind him was greatly boosted, shouting to follow the main general and rush to kill.

Chen Rujia turned around in confusion, there was such a big pile of people just now, and only a hundred or so rushed up at this moment, why did the others disappear?

In a daze, Chen Rujia was knocked down by the rout, and was pressed to the ground by the rebels.

"I arrested a big official, I arrested a big official!"

"I caught it, you don't want to steal the credit!"

“……”

Bai Qi crossed the river from another pontoon bridge, but he led his troops around the city and chased straight to the west of the city.

Xue Yuanjian, the Taishou of Langzhou, and Weng Zhen, the commander of Guozhou, had already fled with his family, his entourage and a small number of soldiers out of the West Gate in the direction of Suining.

Bai Qi saw it from a distance and immediately shouted: "The cavalry will follow me to chase and kill!" ”

Their partial division is composed of surrendered troops, the backbone is 2,000 Xingyuan Mansion and Sanquan County surrendered troops, and the rest are all young and strong selected from the surrendered troops along the way.

The so-called cavalry is also horses captured on the way.

Most of them were horses used to pull carts and carry goods, and only a pitiful twenty or so horses were captured for this kind of goods that could not be used on the battlefield.

Not only are the horses rubbish, but the people riding on them are also unbearable.

Only a few people have ridden horses, and the rest are just chasing ducks to the shelves, barely riding and running without falling.

As a deputy general in the army, Bai Qi naturally has the best war horse under his crotch.

He took the lead, and soon left his own people far behind, and went after the escapees alone.

Weng Zhen, the commander of Guozhou, who was fleeing, said to the soldiers around him: "Just those few thieves, kill them with me and then flee!" ”

Seeing that the enemy general stopped, Bai Qi also slowed down his horse, took out his bow and arrows and waited for his soldiers.

He is not stupid, if the enemy flees, he will naturally chase and kill. At this moment, when the enemy stops, there is no need to act alone.

Weng Zhen was even more special, the birdman found that Bai Qi stopped halfway, as if he wanted to gather more rebels, so he rode his horse and turned around and ran, even his family couldn't take care of it. As for the personal entourage and soldiers under his command, they had no horses to ride, so they could only watch the generals slip away.

"Where will the thief flee!"

Bai Qi caught up again, and dozens of officers and soldiers saw him coming, and they actually surrendered on their knees.

Weng Zhen's mount was even better, but Bai Qi began to learn to ride a horse at the age of seven or eight, and rode around the village on a pony when he had nothing to do. Bai Qi is not only more skilled in riding, but also very familiar with mountain biking.

The two chased and fled, and soon encountered the river and galloped north along the riverbank.

The farther away from the city, the more complex the terrain becomes.

Everywhere there are rice fields that have been harvested, and the water has dried up but not completely dried, and the fields are full of thin mud. And it is a hilly area, and there is a hill from time to time.

Afraid that the horse would stumble, Weng Zhen had to slow down.

Bai Qi rode an inferior horse and chased closer and closer, and he could still free his hand to draw a bow and arrows.

Shout!

An arrow was fired, and Weng Zhen hurriedly leaned over to dodge, so frightened that he whipped and accelerated to run.

After walking two miles, Weng Zhen's war horse trampled on the ridge of the field, and even the man and the horse fell into the mud. Before he could get up, he was hit by an arrow in the arm.

Bai Qi had already dismounted, stood on the ridge, and slowly set up an arrow again.

"Willing to surrender, willing to surrender, the little general must not release arrows!" Weng Zhen shouted in horror.

Bai Qi said: "Throw the weapon farther away, and your bow and arrow are also thrown away." Throw the quiver first, and don't even hold the arrow and bow in your hand. Unbuckle your belt and come over in your boots. No boots off, no ashore! ”

This young man who memorized "Silent Night Thoughts" at the beginning, although he has not fought any big battles, he can be regarded as a personal feat.

Lin Chong took Nanchong and interrogated the prisoners, only to know that Li Bao was going to kill here.

He immediately sent someone to report the news and asked Li Bao not to come.

Lin Chong and Bai Qi led their troops by land, directly inserting Tongquan, Shehong, and Zizhou (Santai).

Li Bao returned to Hezhou, advanced by land and water, took Suining (Tongnan) and Suizhou (Suining), and helped Lin Chong solve the problem of the back road.

The goal of the two righteous armies was Mianzhou (Mianyang), directly cutting off the retreat and grain routes of the main force of the official army.

The tens of thousands of officers and soldiers in Zitong, if they don't run again, they will be dumplings.

(End of chapter)