A crescent moon rose into the sky, illuminating the earth with starlight.

In Chang'an City, the Xiliang Army was already full of wine and food, ready to go, waiting for Li Dao to give the order to go out.

"Report, I just saw about 200 people in Cao Zhang's camp set off and headed west, and I can see that there is an honor guard of the Son of Heaven among them." The scout in charge of finding out the news returned to report to Li Dao.

Li Wei nodded, and then came to the front of the team, looking at the soldiers of the Xiliang Army in front of him.

These Xiliang soldiers are all old subordinates who have followed him for many years, and they are also the elite of the Xiliang army.

Li Dao stood in front of the soldiers and began to lecture loudly: "Soldiers, we fought with Cao Zhang this time, and it was indeed a bad start, and we lost troops in Luoyang. However, everyone must understand that Cao Chang is not invincible. Tonight is the perfect time for us to launch a counterattack and defeat him. ”

"I have already set a strategy, as long as everyone strictly implements it, we will definitely win the final victory!"

Li Wei's emotions began to get excited, and he said loudly: "Tonight's action can be said to be a complete battle, so I will set clear rules for rewards and punishments. If there is an unauthorized action and escape, it will be decided! As long as you fight bravely to kill the enemy, those who have the merit of killing the enemy will be rewarded! ”

"For every enemy killed, a reward of 5,000 dollars! As long as you can kill more enemies, the more bounties you get! ”

"If you kill the general of Cao Zhangjun, you can get a reward of 50,000 yuan for each person you kill! You can also be promoted to three levels! ”

"If anyone can kill Cao Zhang, he will be rewarded with 100,000 yuan, 10,000 gold, and 100 acres of fertile land!"

"I've prepared a heavy reward for you, as for who can receive what reward, how much you get, it's all up to your ability, there is no upper limit on the bounty, kill more!" Li Dao announced loudly to the soldiers.

Hearing the heavy reward amount given by Li Dao, the emotions of the soldiers of the Xiliang Army were instantly mobilized.

Killing the enemy and making meritorious contributions and getting a bounty was originally the thing that the soldiers looked forward to the most.

Li Dao offered such a heavy reward, which instantly ignited the originally low morale of the soldiers.

Seeing that the soldiers were excited, Li Wei did not hesitate at all, and immediately waved his hand to Li Shi and the other three and ordered: "Go to war!" ”

The city gate of Chang'an slowly opened, and the two groups of men and horses fought out from the west gate and south gate of Chang'an respectively, and quickly began to act according to Li Dao's deployment.

Li Ying led 5,000 soldiers and horses from the west gate of Chang'an, and marched rapidly to the west to catch up with the distant "Son of Heaven Mission".

Li Huan and Li Shi led 30,000 elite soldiers from the south gate of Chang'an and went to Cao Zhang's camp in a roundabout way......

On the banks of the Feng River at night, Xiahou Shang and Xiahou Ru followed Zhong Xuan's guard of honor of the Son of Heaven.

Li Jin led a hundred personal guards and closely protected them, and the wind on the shore blew the robes of the soldiers.

Suddenly, they felt a slight tremor coming from the ground behind them, and this shock was getting stronger and stronger, and it was obvious that there was a sign of a large army killing.

"Kill!" Shouts of killing rang out behind them.

"Report that among the Zhong servants, there are two more who have joined the army, and the enemy general Li Ying is chasing after him with 5,000 soldiers and horses!" Pegasus, the guard in charge of the broken off, came and reported to a few people.

Xiahou Shang and Xiahou Ru raised their eyes to look at the turbulent water of the Feng River in front of them, and they panicked.

Although they had a hundred guards led by Li Jin by their side, the chasing soldiers were a full 5,000, and this huge disparity in strength made them see no hope of victory at all.

But after all, the two of them are the descendants of the Xiahou family, and the fighting aura inherited from the family made them calm down quickly.

"Junlin, you and Commander Li will escort Zhong Shizhong first, and I will take someone to stay behind!" Xiahou Shang gave the order.

"No, brother, you go, I'll cut off." Xiahou Ru argued.

Li Jin looked extremely calm and calm, and stepped forward and pointed to the water of the Feng River.

Zhong Xuan turned his head to look at the river, and immediately understood what Li Jin meant, and hurriedly said to the Xiahou brothers: "Two sons, the water of the Feng River is not deep, we can quickly cross the river, hide on the west bank, and avoid the pursuers!" ”

Xiahou Shang glanced at the river and nodded quickly: "Okay, cross the river first!" ”

Xiahou Shang tightly held the weapon in his hand, he felt the momentum of Li Ying's killing, it seemed that the disparity between life and death this time could not be changed, and this moment seemed to freeze.

Li Jin commanded the personal guards, and methodically protected the people who organized the honor guard of the Son of Heaven to go down the river, and everyone quickly advanced towards the west bank.

The river was noticeably shallower than usual, and when they reached the center of the river, the water was only waist-down.

But at this time, the army led by Li Ying had also chased to the east bank of the Feng River.

"Shoot the arrows!" Li Ying pointed to the people who were in the middle of the river and gave the order.

The archers of the Xiliang Army quickly stepped forward, lined up on the bank, raised their bows and arrows and fired them at the center of the river.

Arrows fell from the sky.

Li Jin had already prepared, and he led the soldiers of the personal guard to raise a round shield to escort Zhong Xuan and others to continue to cross the river.

Under their escort, only a few of the guards were wounded by arrows, and most of them quickly rushed out of the range of the Xiliang Army and continued to wade quickly towards the opposite bank.

Li Ying saw that Zhong Miao and the others were about to cross the river successfully, and pointed to the other bank in annoyance: "Chase me!" Don't let them run! ”

Although he can now be sure that there is definitely no Cao Zhang among the targets of the pursuit, the honor guard of the Son of Heaven is always real, and if he can catch the messenger of the Son of Heaven, it will be regarded as a great merit, and of course he will not give up.

Hearing Li Ying's order, the Xiliang army also quickly rushed down the river embankment and began to cross the river in pursuit.

Li Ying urged his crotch to dismount, and also followed the team into the water to pursue forward.

At this time, Li Jin and the others had all landed on the west bank of the Feng River.

Li Jin looked back at the enemy troops who were crossing the river and were chasing after him, and understood that if they continued to run, they would soon be caught up by the enemy army, and everyone would not be able to escape death at that time.

Li Jin waved his hand to the Xiahou brothers, signaling them to take Zhong Xuan to go first, and he took his personal guards to stay behind.

Xiahou Shang looked at the approaching pursuers, realized that the situation was urgent and could not be delayed, so he could only pat Li Jin on the shoulder with water, and together with Xiahou Ru, he took ten personal soldiers to protect Zhong Xuan and others and continued to advance.

Li Jin turned around with the personal guards, everyone showed the weapons in their hands, Li Jin clenched the Qingyu Sword in his hand, his brows furrowed slightly, but his face never showed the slightest panic, ready to fight to the death with the enemy.

Li Ying had already rushed to the center of the river with the Xiliang army at this time, and he also faintly felt that the water of the Feng River today was a little strange, and it seemed to be too shallow. But seeing that he could catch up with Zhong Xuan and the others on the west bank, he didn't care about it, just urged his subordinates to move forward quickly.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a faint sound of water coming from the upstream direction of the Feng River, and the sound became louder and louder, and it was like thunder.

Li Ying felt that something was wrong, an ominous premonition flashed in his mind, he turned his head to look in the direction of the upstream, and let out an exclamation: "Not good! ”