After nightfall, the visibility was extremely low, and the pursuit became difficult, Ye Feng's army was more cautious, because they knew that there was still a battalion of soldiers and horses in the rebel army that did not move during the day, and although the other party was defeated, they still had the ability to bite back.

After the rebel army ran for more than ten miles, they found that the enemy army was chasing slowly and carefully, and the rebel army no longer ran indiscriminately.

Along the way, the soldiers cut pine branches and lit them as torches, and the whole forest was lit with fires, and when you looked left and right, it looked like stars in the sky.

In the daytime battle, both sides suffered heavy casualties and the rebels were defeated, but the main forces of both sides did not receive a decisive blow; However, the situation on Zhang Wen's side was even worse, because their base in Tingzhou, Fujian, was occupied by Ye Feng's forces, and now there was only one Shicheng county left, with no foundation, and it was difficult to supply, and the longer it was, the more unfavorable it would be for them. Now even most of the tents for the march have been discarded, but fortunately it is late autumn in September, there are no mosquitoes, and there is little rain, otherwise it is really miserable.

Zhang Wen asked the generals of each battalion to count the number of people, it was not easy to count the number of people when marching at night, so they could only estimate and summarize the number of people killed in battle and fleeing by several thousand, and now the remaining number is less than 10,000.

He discussed countermeasures with Mu Xiaoqing and other generals overnight, and some advocated that a decisive battle with the enemy soldiers should be set up in the jungle early tomorrow morning; Some were very pessimistic, believing that it was impossible to defeat the well-equipped Ye Feng army, and felt that they should retreat to the west and move closer to Shicheng County.

Zhang Wen said to the generals: "In today's battle, although we lost for a while, the casualties of the two armies were basically equal, because we effectively avoided the enemy's bird fire and successfully got close to the close combat; If we put on a dead end, our casualties will definitely be much greater, and we will even be disabled and will no longer have the strength to deal with the enemy, so the method of frontal impact will not work! ”

A big-mouthed man said: "There is not much grain and grass left in the army, why don't we go back to Shicheng?" The stone city has city walls, grain and grass, and there is no need to run around, and the enemy soldiers have no way to take us for a while. ”

Zhang Wen said coldly: "The enemy army has artillery, what is the use of the city wall of a county town?" Besides, firearms have a longer range than bows and arrows, can the city be defended? I decided to move southwest early tomorrow morning and follow the forest around the forest a few times! ”

After hearing this, most of the generals disagreed with Zhang Wen's "decision", and some people said: "We are all dragged down by running around, the soldiers and horses are tired, what kind of battle are we fighting?" "Zhang Junshi and we are not the same people! Why should we listen to you? ”

Speaking of this, Mu Xiaoqing, the former army marshal, the left post marshal and other Han Amei's people immediately stood on Zhang Wen's side, and they all helped: "On this expedition, the sect leader and the holy aunt have already said, let Zhang Junshi command, what does it mean that you are a family talking two words and disobeying the orders of the sect leader?" ”

Zhang Wen adjusted his tone and said categorically: "As long as you still recognize yourself as a member of the Divine Sect and a subordinate of this army, you must listen to the orders of the main general, General Mu, and the division of this army!" Anyone can resist below, you say to the east, he says to the west, everyone goes their separate ways, can such a battle still be fought? ”

Everyone was silent after hearing this, and Zhang Wen changed his tone and said kindly: "The brothers are all men who are a few feet tall, what are you afraid of?" Don't we still have 10,000 people, and it is not yet known who killed the deer! For a few days, we need fighters, and when the opportunity arises in our favor, we will turn around and face the attack. ”

Generally speaking, Zhang Wen's performance in today's battle was not bad, and it was not easy to face an absolutely well-equipped enemy army, and he could still kill and wound a large number of enemy troops and retreat with his whole body. Therefore, in the hearts of the generals, they were still very confident in Zhang Wen, and after some persuasion, everyone agreed to Zhang Wen's method.

The two armies were less than ten miles apart, and this kind of march was uncomfortable for both sides. Ye Fengjun, who was pursuing behind, was worried about being ambushed, so he was always cautious; The rebels who fled in front of them walked casually, but they were worried about being caught up and bitten, so they were still worried.

The battalions were reorganized, and most of the soldiers were gathered into ranks, and military discipline was maintained; Because the enemy was still chasing behind, everyone could not rest, so they could only rush overnight. After the reorganization of the army, the rebel army could not take much care of it, and began to march more; And Ye Fengjun was worried about being ambushed, so he always squeezed the surrounding situation and didn't dare to go too fast. In this way, the distance gradually widened.

By dawn, Zhang Wen had gotten the report from the sentry horse and had already thrown off Ye Fengjun's nearly twenty miles. At this time, the Chinese army was exhausted and hungry, so Zhang Wen ordered to bury the pot and cook food, and rest for half an hour by the way. After eating, I continued to march, and I couldn't help it if I was tired, and there were chasing soldiers behind.

After another day's journey, many people who were weak and unable to support themselves were abandoned, and the army was reduced by several hundred. I didn't sleep for a day and a night, and it was estimated that everyone's body would not be able to survive if I walked down, so Zhang Wen ordered to rest on the spot, while sending scouts to probe the distance of the enemy.

After resting in the middle of the night, the scouts reported that the enemy had marched five miles away, but had set up camp to rest.

Tomorrow there will be another bad battle! Five miles, the cavalry will soon be able to run, and after daybreak the enemy cavalry will surely chase after them, and the infantry will follow; The rebels had no cavalry, and the only way to resist the cavalry was to use infantry, and once they turned back to resist the cavalry, they would be dragged and then bitten by the infantry.

Zhang Wen pondered, he could only sacrifice a few hundred people. He was so tired that he fell asleep next to a tree.

He was worried about things, and after a sleep, he woke up, and it was not yet dawn. Zhang Wen soon showed water droplets on his head, and his clothes were also wet: Is it raining? Zhang Wen hurriedly got up, it was not raining now, but the surrounding fog was thick, as if he was in billowing smoke, and he could only see the bonfire lit up in a blurred vision.

Zhang Wen laughed and shouted, "God help me!" Come on, blow the trumpet and assemble immediately! Call General Mu over. ”

At the command of the order, the camp soon became lively, the trumpets whimpered, and the fog made the army talk. Mu Xiaoqing and other generals walked in front of Zhang Wen before they could see the figure clearly. Zhang Wen said: "The fighter plane has arrived, and now you can immediately turn back and attack the enemy!" Heavy fog, wind, and rain all have a great impact on the use of firearms, Ye Fengjun's long-range advantage no longer exists, and it will cause panic, and the fighter should not be missed! ”

After hearing this, the general's confidence was greatly increased, and Zhang Wen said loudly: "Transfer all the archers to the front army!" The fog was damp, and the enemy wanted to use muskets to light torches to roast, so everyone listened and shot at the bright light! ”

Zhang Wen then seized the time and ordered the whole army to drop the mules, iron pots and other materials of camel food, and go into battle lightly, carrying only weapons and arrows. The battalions used the drum frequency as a signal to communicate far and near, and gathered the whole army to turn around and march eastward!

When the rebels rushed to Ye Feng's barracks, they heard a noise ahead, and the enemy had not had time to retreat, and had just begun to set up the formation. Everything is very favorable!

Zhang Wen immediately ordered the army to move closer to the enemy camp, only to see a little fire in the fog, and soon the sound of fire guns sounded "bang", but the fog was thick, and no human figures could be seen, and it was completely chaotic. Zhang Wen has long had experience in this situation, and when he was on the Salhu Mountain, he was attacked by the Jianyu soldiers in the fog, and he was almost not directly destroyed.

"Whoosh...... There were many dark shadows in the fog, and arrows flew towards those fires, and the two armies soon began to shoot at each other. The hillside was uneven, and the opponent's lead bullet was not accurate, so it was very easy for the rebel soldiers to dodge, and the torches that the opponent baked gunpowder were undoubtedly live targets!

It was already dawn, but the sun was not visible in the east, and the weather was very bad. Zhang Wen knows, the old man said that after a long drought and fog, it will rain! Maybe it will have to rain, haha, so Ye Feng's burning sticks don't want to come in handy.

The rebels besieged from three sides, and the archers surrounded the enemy camp and shot arrows, shouting and screaming, and Ye Feng's army, which was defending in the camp, was shot by bows and arrows and couldn't find the north. The rebels did not charge, but scattered among the mountains and rocks to release arrows.

About an hour later, the east wind blew. The cold east wind brought the message of rain, and Zhang Wen seemed to smell the smell of the wind from the sea. He then ordered the main forces to gather to the east and occupy a downwind position.

As it approached noon, another wind blew and the fog gradually dissipated, but there was a light rain in the sky and the air was unusually humid. After a while, the rain became heavier and heavier, and finally it began to rain heavily. The fog has almost dispersed, replaced by layers of rain curtains, the fire guns in the enemy camp have been completely extinguished, and they can only use bows and arrows to fight back, but Ye Feng's bows and arrows are limited, arrows are sparse, and the two sides are in an extremely disadvantageous situation in the arrow battle.

Zhang Wen placed his heavy troops on the east side of Ye Feng's army, in a downwind position, and his bow and arrows shot farther, with the wind on his back; The enemy in the camp shot arrows against the wind, and the rain carried by the oncoming wind made them almost unable to open their eyes, and their bows and arrows were not accurate.

The long-range advantage has been completely tilted towards Zhang Wen's side. In the past, Ye Fengjun was unwilling to fight with the rebel army and wanted to occupy a long-range advantage; And now, Zhang Wen didn't want to see the enemy rush out and fight hard. Zhang Wen then ordered the archers to concentrate on the east side, close to the fence of the enemy camp, and shoot arrows intensively inside.

After a while, the enemy troops in the east could not stand the arrows and were shot everywhere, and Zhang Wen saw that there was a commotion in the enemy camp. Don't miss the opportunity! Zhang Wen immediately ordered the front army to rush in.

At this moment, the morale of the rebel army was greatly increased, the sound of killing shook the sky, the drums were loud and rushed up, and the people tore down the fence on the east side of the camp and burst into the camp. The rain-soaked mud had long since been trampled into mud, and the mud was splashed and bloody, and the soldiers on both sides were dirtier than beggars.

The enemy army that failed to form a phalanx was easily broken through from the center led by Zhang Wen, and the two sides fought and unfolded, with swords and swords, and the blood flowed almost like a river, and the heavy rain in the sky could not wash away such blood. Countless people were hacked to the ground, blood still steaming white in the icy air, and many covered their wounds and screamed in horror.

The rain flowed down Zhang Wen's helmet, he reached out and wiped his face, shook off the water in his hand, he stared at the battle in front of him with wide eyes, and shouted: "Order the brothers from the north and south to rush in together!" ”

At this time, the rebel army had already put all its forces into it, attacking from three sides, and the barracks were in chaos. Ye Feng's army lost the initiative, and there were no fortifications to rely on, and even a camp was not formed, and it was completely at a disadvantage, with heavy casualties. Zhang Wen deliberately left a gap in the west to give them a chance to escape.

Ye Feng's army is not weak in combat effectiveness, and they have fought for a while, but they are also people, not gods, and in the face of despair, they gradually lost control, and the armies rushed to the gap in the west. When Zhang Wen saw the enemy soldiers rushing out of the camp from the west, he laughed and shouted: "The victory is decided, the whole army pursues and expands the results!" "While fleeing, chasing and killing, after forming such a situation, the winner has been decided! Thousands of men and horses were scattered, even if they were genius generals, they couldn't stop the frightened defeat, and no one could support the mountain.

Zhang Wen rode a horse and followed the army to the west with Mu Xiaoqing and others, all the way were full of corpses, one by one the corpses were trampled in the muddy water, miserable, the muddy water was red, it was the blood of the soldiers!

Zhang Wen was also covered in mud with people and horses, and his whole body was soaked by the rain, and the cotton clothes became heavier after being soaked in water, Zhang Wen was tired, but his heart was happy. Ye Fengjun, an elite army, was defeated and fled by Zhang Wen with a group of grass robbers, and was killed and wounded. Zhang Wen's heart was filled with an endless sense of achievement, his self-confidence was extremely inflated, and he now completely felt that he was a genius who was good at fighting!

Many of the rebels pursued on horseback, most of which had been snatched from the enemy camps. Zhang Wen hurriedly ordered the soldiers with horses to gather together and handed them over to the former army commander to search for Ye Feng's Chinese army. Zhang Wen really wanted to live Ye Feng, and wanted to see the expression of this fight after defeat.

Zhang Wen has great enthusiasm for killing Ye Feng, Ye Feng once defeated the Wenzhou camp that Zhang Wen worked so hard to establish, Zhang Wen wants to take revenge!

Zhang Wen led the army to chase and kill for an afternoon, Ye Feng's army was killed and wounded, most of them did not die on the battlefield, but died in the mud of escape, dozens of miles of muddy mountain road, is the burial place of Ye Fengjun. Zhang asked all the people below, they were full of revenge against Ye Fengjun, regardless of fatigue, they chased after them and killed them all!

In the evening, the former army came to report and captured Ye Feng and more than a dozen of his staff! When Zhang Wen heard the news, he almost jumped for joy, and ordered the Chinese army to stop advancing and wait for the front army to escort the prisoners over. The army found some captured tents, and set up a large camp of the Chinese army on the mountain, Zhang Wen took off his armor and asked someone to boil water and bathe.

The soldiers outside the tent were excited and cheering, and they worshipped Zhang Wen to the extreme. Zhang Wen's prestige among the rebel army participating in the war increased dramatically because of the victory, and all kinds of cheers of "Zhang Wen, Zhang Wen......" and "God will give the god general, long live the god religion......" resounded throughout the world.

Ye Feng and other prisoners were escorted to the Chinese army at night, Zhang Wen was anxious, and asked someone to send them to the Chinese army's big tent overnight, and met Ye Feng with Mu Xiaoqing and others. When Ye Feng was escorted in, he saw that he was wet and dirty, his head was scattered, and his armor was full of mud, and he was embarrassed.

Ye Feng saw Zhang Wen sitting in the middle and didn't stand up, he said hatefully: "At the beginning, I treated Master Zhang with courtesy and sincerity, and I didn't want you to turn your hand to help my enemy deal with me!" Why are you doing this? I've really lost my eyes on you! ”

Zhang Wen laughed and said: "Victory and defeat are commonplace, Ye Gongzi doesn't have to be so ignorant." ”

The sergeant behind Ye Feng shouted: "Don't kneel down when you see the military advisor!" On your knees! ”

Zhang Wen hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't, Ye Feng treated me politely at the beginning, and I said that I would remember it." Come on, show Ye Feng a seat. ”

"Humph!" Ye Feng sat on the chair next to him very unhappily, he saw Zhang Wen smiling from ear to ear, and said angrily, "If you succeed in one move, the villain will be successful!" ”

The generals sitting next to Zhang Wen heard Ye Feng scolding Zhang Wen, their faces were full of anger, especially the generals of the former army and the several Shenggu factions in the left outpost, who now loved Zhang Wen very much, and they all scolded, and some people asked to directly pull Ye Feng out and cut him down. And after Zhang Wen was scolded, he himself was not angry, but still said with a smile: "The generals are not impatient, I Zhang Wen has principles in life, who has even a little care for me, I also remember." Ye Feng didn't let me suffer at the beginning, so we can't be too thin on him. After a while, I will take Ye Feng down to take a hot bath and arrange a place to live. ”

Zhang Wen turned back to Ye Feng and said, "What does Ye Gongzi need, what to eat, what to use, ask someone to tell me, you're welcome." ”

Ye Feng heard Zhang Wen say sincerely, he was silent for a while, and said, "I am being held by you now, and there is nothing to say." If Lord Zhang really remembers the original favor, I only have one request, one of the generals captured by you is my brother-in-law, and he has no ability, please let him go back and take care of my wife and children. For me Ye Feng, if you want to kill or chop, I have no complaints! ”

Zhang Wen groaned, "Release the prisoners...... It's hard for me to explain to the sect leader and the holy aunt! Besides, you took care of me to eat and drink well, but you didn't let me go, this is not a favor, right? At most, I will ask someone to take care of your life, so that you will suffer less, and it can be regarded as a return for the peach......"

Ye Feng's face was full of displeasure when he heard this, but he didn't do it, he took a breath and said: "Okay, since Master Zhang is in trouble, I won't force it, so it's okay for you to put a personal soldier and bring a letter to my family so that they can leave Tingzhou, right?" I hope that Master Zhang has the mind of a big husband, what is coming to me Ye Feng, my wife and children don't understand anything, they are not guilty. ”

A cold light appeared in Zhang Wen's eyes, and then he said with a smile on his face: "I said, what you do to me, I will do to you." Your favor is only to take care of my life, and I will do the same for you, and as for whether to kill you or not, it is not my right. Come here, take Ye Feng down, and arrange food and lodging. ”

Ye Feng's face turned blue with anger when he heard this, he pointed at Zhang Wen's face with his index finger, and gritted his teeth: "You...... You villain! Come to a sticky end! ”