The bonfires that remain of sparks smoke curl up with the evening breeze of dawn.

The green smoke drifted past the patrolling soldiers, the figures of the campfires, the silhouettes of the war horses in the distance, far and near, and the shallow conversations of people.

Occasionally, a song with a thick accent sings softly in the silence. This is the temporary military camp of the Fengsheng Army of the Wei State that stretches for several miles.

After two days of fighting, many soldiers were exhausted, the camp was quiet, and there was no sound, but in the big tent of the Chinese army, Zhao Guiyan looked at the old fat man standing in the middle with an extremely ugly face.

“…… So Chen Quan of the West Road was killed, and his 20,000 people ...... Then how did you escape from Yan Jun's hands? With your little skill, and a group of soldiers who carry food, you want to escape the pursuit of iron hooves, I don't believe it. ”

An Lushan hurriedly clenched his fists and half-knelt down: "Zhao Langjun, what I said is true, and there is no lie...... On the way, we were indeed attacked by the soldiers and horses of the Yan Kingdom, and we ...... We repelled them by vehicle, but ...... They may have attacked General Chen's Western Route Army before, but they were too tired, so they didn't use all their strength to attack us. ”

"You're a fluke."

Behind the long case, Zhao Guiyan pressed the desk, and when he heard the words behind him, he finally felt a little more reasonable, and nodded: "No matter what, you intercept the other party's attack, exposing their purpose of attacking my rear, and it is also a great achievement, when I return to Luyang, I will ask for credit for your majesty!" ”

"Lang Jun, are we still fighting now? After all, Chen Quan of the West Road ......"

Next to him, Wang Zhiwen, who was the supervising army, had a gloomy face, and he knocked on the table: "An Lushan, this matter is decided by General Zhao, how can you ask about it."

He glared at An Lushan, and turned his head to look at Zhao Guiyan who was in the first place, "The other party will definitely attack my rear, and it may not be easy to win the Xiliang army in front, General Zhao thinks that next, should we advance or retreat?" ”

"An Lushan, you go down first!" Zhao Guiyan waved his hand at the old fat man below, some words were not suitable for the other party to listen to after all. The fat old man smiled and arched his hand towards both of them, keeping a bowed posture and slowly exiting the big tent.

The curtain shook slightly, and after the people left, Zhao Guiyan slowly spoke: "That Xiliang army can't be taken down in a short time, and in the past two days of fighting, the other party has indeed lived up to its reputation, and it is inseparable from the Fengsheng army; Chen Dujun is still more than 90 miles away from here, and it is close at hand, but he can't get even closer to that side, which is really unwilling! ”

Wang Zhiwen stroked his beard and slowly spoke: "Since Chen Dujun can't be rescued, and there are no soldiers and horses on the west road, it's better to retreat, at least you can save the lives of the current soldiers." ”

As a general of the clan, Zhao Guiyan still remembers the grand wish he made in his heart when he came, but he didn't expect the slap in the face to come so quickly, "Inform the whole army...... Immediately pull out the camp, retreat back, withdraw into Xingwu County, and return to Luyang from there! ”

The same night.

Xiahou Yuan, Zhang He, Ma Chao, and Ma Dai received the information from the Western Front, and after reading the above content, the faces of the four of them were a little stunned, and they had been fighting with the elite of the Wei State in front of them with restraint, just to let the Western Front have enough time to eat the 20,000 people, and then take a detour to the battlefield and completely annihilate the Fengsheng Army.

But now that the battle has ended, what came was a simple sentence, eat the other party's part, cripple the holy army, and let An Lushan fish for military merit.

"Why procrastinate when you can annihilate it?" Zhang He slapped the table, although the fighting in the past two days was mainly entangled, there were still dead people after all.

"It's strategy, not tactics!"

Xiahou Yuan sat in charge of the overall situation of Cao Wei's Western Front back then, and naturally saw the meaning of the order, "Even if it is annihilated, for the entire Wei court, at most there will be one less elite, which may have an impact, but it can't destroy the Wei State, if An Lushan, who is good at flattery, has a step to climb, it is equivalent to mastering a lot of soldiers and horses of the Wei State." ”

"Huh." Ma Chao sat beside his clan brother with a spear, poured a sip of wine, and said coldly.

The fall of the words is also the continuation of the war and the spread of blood.

As soon as the sky was bright, he received a report from the scouts, the opposite Wei Fengsheng army was pulling out the camp and moving to the southeast, Xiahou Yuan immediately personally led more than 18,000 soldiers of the Xiliang Army, with Zhang He as the front to quickly pursue, and then was ambushed by Zhao Guiyan, the main general of the Fengsheng Army, three battalions of soldiers and horses, entangled and fought on both sides, Xiahou Yuan led the army to catch up and go around the side to kill into the battle group, most of the 6,000 Fengsheng army was killed, and only more than 2,000 people broke through.

The corpse continued to extend along the route of the retreat of the Fengsheng army, and the superintendent Wang Zhiwen saw that things were not good, and led the soldiers and horses in front to turn back, meet the defeated Zhao Guiyan, organize the rout, and then counterattack back, Ma Chao, Ma Dai's Xiqiang cavalry also cut into the battlefield in due time, and Zhao Guiyan's whole team of two battalions of soldiers and horses blocked in the south of the battlefield.

The battle, which was originally just a break and an ambush, instantly turned into a large-scale melee, and the flames of war were rekindled, pushing from the wilderness to the boundary of Xingwu County, which was dozens of miles away, and a large number of people fled in panic to avoid the military disaster elsewhere. The fields that were about to be harvested in this land were destroyed in an instant, and the prosperous official roads were full of lighted carriages, or slaughtered merchants, and the people fled in droves, and from afar they saw cavalry rushing or fighting crowds, crying and rushing into the mountains.

Soon, Zhao Yun, who arrived from the Western Front, led 5,000 Youyan troops into the battlefield.

Almost all of the Fengsheng troops who originally retreated were pulled into the whirlpool, and they were shattered, and the soldiers and horses of battalions and battalions were exhausted. The two or three thousand soldiers and horses of Xingwu County wanted to come to the rescue, but seeing the war rising to such a tragic level, the county lieutenant of the county was already frightened in his heart, and he only guarded the city wall and city gate, for fear of leading the war to the city.

This is war.

The county lieutenant stood on the city wall, looking at the fields burning in large quantities outside the city, the cavalry running back and forth, and the Fengsheng army retreating while killing, and only felt that his heart was cold.

Fortunately, not long after, on the fifth day of the first month of October, the tide of battle began to turn, and the remnants of the Fengsheng Army who were cut off from the grain route found that a group of more than 2,000 Wei soldiers were killed from the southwest and entered the battlefield.

Just more than thirty miles away from Xingwu County, Zhao Guiyan, who was covered with scars, was rescued from a mound, and the entire battle of chasing and fleeing finally came to an end.

There were only more than 5,700 of the 20,000 elite Fengsheng army left, and under the embarrassed leadership of Zhao Guiyan, they retreated into Xingwu, and then turned south, and after a two-day march back to Luyang, Gyeonggi, he took off his robe, went naked, and walked into the palace with a whip in his hand.

In the palace at this time, there are books, pen and ink in one place.

Zhao Chuanting, the emperor of the Great Wei Dynasty, stood in the study, furious, and several civil and military officers close to him lowered their heads and did not dare to speak.

"Shame!! The Fengsheng Army has been an army for 70 years, not to mention invincible, but it is not like this, what about Zhao Guiyan? ! I'm going to whip him up! Only more than 5,000 people were left who defeated my elite, and let an old soldier rescue him, so that he could survive, what kind of general is he a general! ”

"Your Majesty!" Yuan Feng, the secretary of the military department, stepped forward and arched his hand: "At present, Chen Dujun is still under siege, but continue to increase troops to rescue?" ”

"Rescue? I lost 30,000 soldiers and horses, thinking that I was the Beigong Ye of Yan Kingdom?! smashed all the family into it, and lost so much that he couldn't even defend the imperial city?! ”

Zhao Chuanting sent a fire, feeling comfortable, he stepped on the pen and ink, and walked back to the desk, "What does Yuan Qing think to do next?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that they can talk together, now that it has entered the Mid-Autumn Festival, they will definitely not be able to fight, and the re-dispatch of troops from Gyeonggi will take a certain amount of time to prepare, and when it is ready to enter the winter, maybe rely on joint talks to rescue the besieged situation of Chendu County, without spending a single soldier."

Yuan Feng said softly, and a eunuch came in outside to report: "Your Majesty, Jianwu General Zhao Guiyan is kneeling outside with a whip, he wants to see Your Majesty." ”

"Let him kneel and reflect on it!"

The fire that the emperor had originally suppressed jumped up again, slapped the table a few times, and waved his hand: "Yuan Qing, you send people to peace talks to test their sincerity, and by the way, delay the time, it is best to delay the siege of the Yan army!" ”

"Plus!" Zhao Chuanting tapped on the table with his fingertips, he didn't say this to Yuan Feng, but the eunuch at the door, "Summoning the An Lushan who turned the tide, I want to see him!" ”

(End of chapter)