Shi Le stumbled back to Yecheng with the remnants of the defeated army, and shouted louder: "Close the door, close the door!" ”

The guards of the city looked at Shi Le, and it was hard to imagine that this was Shi Le, who had led a large army to Qinghe County not long ago.

Didn't King Zhao go to surrender, what is the situation in front of him?

But the gate order had seen the world in the end, and after confirming it, Shile immediately closed the city gate.

As soon as the city gate was closed, Wei Xiong's Yue cavalry appeared on the horizon, and the smoke and dust that drifted up seemed to be overpowered.

Shi Le never imagined that there was such a cavalry in the world, and their horses seemed to be exhausted, and they followed closely behind him, giving him a sense of breathless suffocation.

The soldiers who had managed to reorganize themselves in the rout were either shot through by them with armor-piercing arrows, or directly pulled out the bloody scimitars and slaughtered them.

It is not easy for the defeated army to re-boost their morale to compete with it, but the way in which the defeated army rode the blade and died in the bloody corpse without seeing the whole corpse directly made the soldiers just have the courage to muster up, and they just drifted away with the wind.

It can only be said that Yue Qi is a typical special class of troops that bully the weak and fear the hard.

When hitting the front, it is really a promise, any cavalry can touch it, but if you use the Yue Cavalry to defeat the army, the Yue Cavalry means that you will attack with a heavy fist, no matter what kind of troops you have, as long as you dare to fight back, Lao Tzu will kill you!

The Yue Cavalry Battalion was specially prepared for a special general like Shi Le, who had been defeated and fought many times under the instruction of Liu Tai.

Shi Le wants to gather his soldiers, wants to preserve his strength, wants to be defeated without being defeated, and dreams! All the way from Qinghe County to Yecheng.

Many of the cavalry under Shile's command ran and ran directly to their feet, and some of the unsuitable terrain was lame, and even died of detachment.

But Yue Qi was still biting them behind Shi Le, with a posture of chasing the old man to the heavens and the earth.

Among them, in addition to Yueqi's own selection of horses with excellent endurance, more importantly, Liu Tai equipped things like horseshoes on Yueqi's feet, which significantly improved Yueqi's ability to fight for a long time.

The saddle and bilateral stirrups in the three treasures of the cavalry were basically relatively mature at the end of the Jin Dynasty, but the horseshoe still needs to wait until the Tang Dynasty to come out, and it can really be used on a large scale, I am afraid that it will have to wait until the iron hooves of Genghis Khan.

And now, the horseshoe of the Yue cavalry completely broke the limit of cavalry combat that Schle considered to be the limit.

Shi Le returned to Yecheng, watched Yue Qi being isolated by the city gate, and then looked at the generals around him, and a few generals such as Shi Hu, Kui An, and Kong Chang still survived this battle royale.

As for his own soldiers, when he set out on the expedition, there were obviously 120,000 elites, but now there are less than 5,000 remnants.

Anyway, in the end, he came back, and he finally felt more or less secure when he fled back to Yecheng.

And the news that Shi Le fled back with the remnants of the army was not hidden at all, especially when Yue Qi was still outside Yecheng at the moment, while gnawing on the crushed dried meat, he was wandering around Yecheng, as if he would break through at any time!

Compared with the soldiers in Yecheng, Wei Xiong looked at Wei Xiong so vigilantly, but Wei Xiong took out his matching sword from time to time to compare with the soldiers in the city.

To tell the truth, from Qinghe County all the way to Yecheng, the killing was really passionate, and at the moment he was tired, and the other party was even more tired.

After slashing and killing all the way, although his body told him that he was very tired, his spirit was very excited, and he couldn't wait to take the cavalry to directly charge Yecheng to see if he could realize the cavalry siege!

Of course, this kind of thinking is just thinking about it in his heart, and Wei Xiong knows very well that his Yue Qi is notoriously difficult to hit head-on.

Of course, if you try your best, you can hit the horse, and you may be able to fight hard, but this is not a frontal hit.

Therefore, after Wei Xiong just took the soldiers around, he began to slowly retreat, retreated to twenty miles, chose a high ground with a wide field of vision, close to the water source, and began to arrange for the soldiers to rest in turn, while waiting for the arrival of Liu Tai's army.

Siege of this kind of thing, you definitely need infantry and siege weapons, anyway, there is nothing you can do.

At this moment, Shi Le saw Wei Xiong retreat and leave with Yue Qi, and he was relieved in his heart.

I have been fighting for so long, I have never seen such a strong cavalry, if it weren't for Yecheng, I would have been caught by the other party sooner or later.

Even so, Shi Le relaxed, recalling the soldiers he had lost in Qinghe County, but his heart ached beyond words.

This is the foundation that I have accumulated after several years of fighting in the south and the north, and once it is dispersed, this is not a big loss of vitality, this is even the foundation is broken.

Coupled with the fatigue of chasing all the way, Shi Le's whole person fell from his horse and really fainted.

There's no way, if you change anyone and be chased and killed for two days, you will be dizzy when you relax at the moment!

But it didn't matter if he fainted, but the people around him hurriedly went up to help him and sent him back to his mansion first.

When Shi Le came to his senses, it was Shi Xing, the son of King Zhao, who was standing next to him, Shi Le stretched out his hand and said, "Help me up!" ”

Shi Xing hurriedly helped Shi Le up, Shi Le pressed his mind, and said:

"I fainted in front of the public, I'm afraid that it has caused a lot of incidents, how long has passed, and who in the city is in charge of the overall situation."

"Father Qiqi, now the right marquis, the left minister, General Kui, General Kong and others are in power!" Shi Xing couldn't help but say.

"Someone, give me a good dress, I'll go and inspect the city!" Shile said in a deep voice.

Soon, Shi Le immediately went to summon his subordinates, and it can be said that these generals were relieved to see Shi Le awake.

For them, Shi Le is still alive, they still have the backbone, if Shi Le is dead, then this war will not be fought at all, and I am afraid that many people will take the initiative to surrender to Liu Tai.

"Zuo Xiang, tell me about my absence in the past few days!" Shi Le said to Diao Ying.

Zhang Bin was slightly stunned, but he didn't say anything, understanding that at the moment of crisis, his background in a Han family would still make Shi Le instinctively wary, otherwise Shi Le should let himself introduce the situation.

And Shi Le naturally understood that he asked Diao Ying to introduce the situation, which would be a little alienated from Zhang Bin.

But Shi Le knew that Zhang Bin was a Han in the end, and if he was strong, he would naturally accept all rivers, but now Liu Tai has defeated himself by holding high the banner of the Han Dynasty, as if he has become the protector of the Han Dynasty.

Under such circumstances, Shi Le really didn't dare to guarantee that Zhang Bin would not take refuge in Liu Tai.

Because Shi Le himself knows very well that he really can't take refuge, and if he could take refuge, he would have voted a long time ago!

said that therefore, now Shi Le only believes in people from mixed backgrounds, and he is somewhat suspicious of the Han people.

After all, I am also familiar with Han history, and the Han people have not always had such a sentence, if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different!

At the beginning, the Han people were no different conditions, but now the savior of the Han people is outside, Shi Le doesn't dare to gamble!

Victory makes people high-spirited, everyone dares to use it, and defeat makes people full of suspicion, and everyone looks like a thief.

At this time, Shile was the most vulnerable, because the 120,000 elites he relied on the most were wiped out in a war, and Shile's biggest reliance was gone, and this feeling was like the money he had earned in a lifetime, stud in the stock market, and only about 5% was left.

From then on, anyone will speak slowly, and do things even more forward-looking, and it is already very powerful that people have not collapsed.

Diao Ying quickly said to Shi Le, "In the two days that the king has rested, Liu Tai's army has arrived at the boundary of Yecheng one after another.

At the same time, news of the attack of the two armies of Zhao'an and Wang Sang came from Jinyang County and Anping County.

Liu Tai planned to attack us, thinking that it was premeditated, and it must have been agreed to attack in three ways at the same time! ”

"It was after I attacked Qinghe County that he gave the order, it turned out that the series of beacon flames and wolf smoke was just a signal to attack at the same time...... That's a lot of money! Shile couldn't help but sigh.

"It's okay, if you lose all those lands, you lose the battle of Qinghe County, you need to throw something out after all!"

Shi Le couldn't help but say: "When Liu Tai's army first arrived and set up camp, did he go to attack and harass him? ”

Several people glanced at each other, and finally Zhang Bin said:

"The commotion in Yecheng was suppressed by several generals, so when Liu Tai's army arrived, he couldn't spare the strength to attack!"

"Good work!" Shi Le knew that he must have fainted in front of everyone, so he caused panic in Yecheng.

And a few of them have just been defeated, and the strength in their hands has been lost, even if the chaos is successfully quelled, a lot of manpower has been lost in the process.

The only fortunate thing is that Liu Tai's infantry came slowly, otherwise he would attack Yecheng at that time, and I was afraid that Yecheng would not be able to keep it!

"Wait a while, I will go out of the city to inspect and stabilize people's hearts, but today Liu Tai's army is eyeing each other, do you have a wonderful way to solve the crisis!?" Shi Le couldn't help but speak, "Right Hou, what do you think?" ”

"First of all, we need to stabilize the confidence in the city, all materials are under military management, and if you use them sparingly, you can last for more than a year!"

Zhang Bin couldn't help but be a little silent when he said this, because Zhang Bin knew that as long as he was besieged for half a year, the next few days would be very cruel to the Han people in the city.

"It's easy to say!" Shi Le looked at Zhang Bin but asked, "What's next?!" ”

Zhang Bin came back to his senses and said to Shi Le, "We need to ask His Majesty Liu Yao for help, and recruit the peach leopard stationed along the Yellow River to lead the army back to help!" ”

"It's good to say that Ah Leopard is back, but will Liu Yao come to his rescue?" Kui An was a little incredulous.

Zhang Bin explained: "In the final analysis, the battle between Liu Tai and the king was that Liu Tai wanted to surrender the king and attack Luoyang Chang'an by means of the road to restore the national unity of the Han Dynasty.

In order to respect the national policy of His Majesty Liu Yao, the king fought to the death with Liu Tai in Qinghe County, but unfortunately lost to Liu Tai in one move.

Now trapped in Yecheng, he still needs His Majesty Liu Yao to send troops to support! ”

"So, will Liu Yao come to the rescue?" When Shi Hu heard Zhang Bin's words, he was a little incredulous.

Shi Hu's eyes couldn't help but look at Diao Ying, because compared with Han strategists like Zhang Bin, Shi Hu believed in Diao Ying, a strategist from a different race.

At least some of his own thinking is relatively similar to Diao Ying.

Diao Ying also nodded approvingly, "We and Liu Yao are at most political enemies, not enemies.

If we are destroyed by Liu Tai in the posture of defending Da Zhao and Liu Yao does not send troops to save us, I am afraid that no one will die for Da Zhao in the future.

It's just that if we are rescued by Liu Yao this time, even if we can still be independent, I'm afraid that Prince Zhao will need to go to Chang'an to be a proton!

However, as long as Liu Tai is not destroyed, King Zhao has no worries about his life! ”

When Shi Le heard Diao Ying's words, he couldn't help but fall silent, this kind of choice was quite painful for Shi Le.

At this time, Zhang Bin continued to speak, "This decision must be fast, now Liu Tai has only just arrived in Yecheng, and he has not cleaned up the outer defense facilities of Yecheng, let alone surrounded Yecheng, so we still have the possibility of sending people out to ask for help."

But if it drags on for a long time, even if we want to send someone out for help, we are afraid that we will not be able to do it. ”

Shi Le took a deep breath when he heard Zhang Bin's words, and immediately made up his mind and sent an envoy to Chang'an to ask for help.

It's just that at this time, Shi Le looked at everyone with some worry and said:

"The Yue cavalry in Liu Tai's army is extremely good at running, if we send an envoy out, I am afraid that we will be chased by the Yue cavalry!"

"The matter is simple, to drive the people of the city out of Yecheng, we divided the messengers into two groups.

A wave blended into the people, disguised as the people and walked to Chang'an. Another wave of Yiliang rode fast.

At this moment, Liu Tai's army did not surround the whole city, and it was impossible for them to intercept all the people! Zhang Bin quickly gave a solution.

Shi Le nodded, a relieved smile on his face, and said, "It's up to you to arrange it!" I went around the city to calm people's hearts. ”

Soon, Shi Le began to appear in everyone's field of vision, and with the appearance of Shi Le in the entire Yecheng, everyone's minds finally settled down.

It is certainly unrealistic to say that they can reverse Liu Tai, but at least it is feasible to rely on Yecheng for defense!

And Zhang Bin began to drive the people out of the city, and Zhang Bin immediately found his father and said:

"Arrange a few concubines to have children mixed into the homeless people, if my Zhang family encounters misfortune, I am afraid that they will need to continue the bloodline of my Zhang family!"

"Can't anyone else go?" Zhang Bin's father heard Zhang Bin's words and was a little worried.

"My Zhang family is all under the eyes of King Zhao, I'm afraid I can't escape." Zhang Bin shook his head at his father and said,

"Now that King Zhao is trapped in the lonely city, it is the time when his suspicion is the heaviest, and if he acts rashly, he will suffer unnecessary suspicion."

"I see!" Zhang Bin's father heard Zhang Bin's words and nodded solemnly.

To be honest, no one thought that Shi Le, who seemed to be extremely Tailai and whose vision was gradually entering the peak, suddenly took a sharp turn in such a short period of time and fell directly into such a desperate situation.

Even if he is a descendant of the Zhang family, he may not be able to keep it, so he can only send the concubine out first to continue the incense.

But what can the Zhang family do, this is the price that may be paid for participating in the battle for hegemony in the world!

At this time, Liu Taizheng quietly looked at Yecheng in front of him, and said, "Yecheng, meet again!" ”

(End of chapter)