In the mountains north of Sanmen County, Taizhou Prefecture, the "Pingyu Coalition Army" jointly formed by the imperial court military horses and the Hengwang rebels had been defeated by the three Japanese forces of "Zhongtiao Yidaoliu", "Jiahe Ninjutsu" and "Kendo Small Soldier's Art" after the battle of Gu Yuncheng.

Later, under the leadership of Xie Yixiang and General Sun Xin, the "white-armored angry horse," the remnants of the hundreds of people marched through the mountains and wilderness, making every effort to evade the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese invaders; in just one month, they fought more than 10 battles with the Japanese invaders, large and small, with casualties on both sides, and the situation became more and more critical.

During this period, the two sides of the alliance also requested reinforcements. First of all, Yan Sidao released a flying pigeon to pass the book, and transferred a thousand military horses from the base camp of the rebels of King Heng in Fujian, but who knew that they were given the news by the Japanese in Gu Yuncheng, and they actually ambushed and attacked on the way, killing this reinforcement of 1,000 people without leaving a piece of armor.

Later, Xie Yixiang also asked for help from General Yang Fengbo Yang in Ningyi City, but unexpectedly, before General Yang's reinforcements left the city, the Hengwang rebels stationed in the south of Ningyi Cheng were ready to move, and they had the intention of attacking the city. Ning Yi was too frightened by the iron clothes of the guard, and he was still too busy to take care of himself, where would he dare to send reinforcements? Xie Yixiang questioned Yan Sidao with this, but Yan Sidao put on a hippie smile and put all the blame on Tang Xiankai, the leader of the rebels outside Ningyi City, "Immovable Iron Tiger", claiming that he was in exile and did not know about it.

As a result, the remaining hundreds of people could not wait for reinforcements, and they had to deal with the encirclement and suppression of the Japanese at any time, so they could only temporarily recruit new troops in the local area. General Sun was well versed in geography, and under his leadership, the remnants of the army passed through Huoluping, Yingzui Mountain, and Luoyandang in the north of Taizhou Prefecture, and successively went to several villages that had settled in the wilderness for generations, intending to recruit troops in the villages. Unexpectedly, because the scourge of the Japanese in Jiangsu and Zhejiang has not happened overnight, the imperial court has already come to recruit soldiers many times, although there are still some men in the village, but most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and more are women and children left behind in the village.

As a result, not only did they fail to recruit new soldiers, but because of the arrival of the remnants of the army, they brought encirclement and suppression of the Japanese invaders to these villages, during which the people had to drag their families to pack up and leave their homes to walk with these hundreds of remnants of the army in order to survive. Later, the number of people in exile increased, and roughly calculated that there were thousands of people, which not only greatly delayed the pace of the march, but also made it a problem to make ends meet.

In this regard, General Sun proposed many times to abandon these people who accompanied the army, but Xie Yixiang vetoed it, and said: "This time, we will join forces to clear out the Dongying Japanese Invaders, which is for the sake of the people of Li on the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang. If, for our own selfishness, we had to sacrifice these people to preserve our remnants, wouldn't it be perverse and perverse, and if it weren't for our presence, these villages would not have been exposed to the butcher's knives of the pirates, and these people would not have been reduced to homeless refugees.

Regarding Xie Yixiang's insistence, Yan Sidao just sneered, but he didn't object much. Since the battle of Gu Yuncheng, because he was dissatisfied with Xie Yixiang's private transfer of troops, he was still sulking secretly at this moment, and he couldn't say a few words all day, so he naturally didn't express his position. General Sun argued, and in the end he had to follow Xie Yixiang's wishes and take thousands of old and weak women and children with him.

It is said that on this day, everyone continued to march north, and after crossing a mountain range, there was a large area of uninhabited forests in front of them, stretching for more than 30 miles; as long as they continued to the north through the woods, they would leave the boundary of Taizhou Prefecture and arrive at the south of Ninghai County. Because he carried thousands of people with him, the movement between the marches was too great, and finally attracted the pursuit of the main force of the Japanese invaders. This time, the green forest master who came with a son went to explore, according to the young village master of "Tianma Mountain", "Yin and Yang Double Fan" Fan Shentong said, it was actually the "Jiahe Ninjutsu" and "Kendo Small Art of War" The two forces of Japanese invaded together, with a total of three or four hundred people.

At the same time, Xie Yixiang also led more than 20 green forest experts to lure the enemy and lure the Japanese to the west. As for the remaining remnants of the army and all the people, they continued to travel north along the forest under the leadership of Yan Sidao and De Yizi, and took refuge in Ninghai County in the north.

Then General Sun and Xie Yixiang went their separate ways and went their separate ways. The Japanese who came to encircle and suppress the Japanese were extremely murderous, and they refused to let go of even a living mouth, and sure enough, they fell for Yan Sidao's plan to lure the enemy, and the soldiers chased in the east-west direction in two ways. Staying like this until it was dark, the main force of the remnants of the army and the people fled seven or eight miles north, and they could no longer afford to hurry, so they camped down beside a stream to rest. The dry food that the people carried with them had already been exhausted, so they had to pour water into the stream to satisfy their hunger, and pick up some grass roots to eat their stomachs, and suddenly they cried and wailed.

Half an hour later, more than 20 people from General Sun who had gone to lure the enemy had arrived safely, and although they were exhausted, fortunately there were no casualties. As for Xie Yixiang and his party, it was not until late at night that they caught up with everyone and took stock of the heads, but they had already lost seven green forest masters, all of whom died under the ghost tricks of "Koga Ninjutsu", and even Xie Yixiang was injured in the shoulder, so tired that he couldn't speak.

After everyone rested, General Sun endured his sleepiness and discussed countermeasures with Yan Sidao, the military advisor. At the end of the conversation, General Sun couldn't help but sigh and said: "At present, the mountains and rivers are exhausted, even if we can avoid the pursuit of these two Japanese bandits and take these people to Ninghai County in the north, I am afraid it will be in vain." Even if there are still some soldiers and horses of the imperial court in Ninghai County, they will definitely not be able to resist the combined efforts of these three gangsters, and the local imperial court officials may not be able to tolerate us rebellious ministers and thieves, so please make a decision as soon as possible!"

Up to now, Yan Sidao's face was still free, and he immediately smiled: "General Sun doesn't have to worry too much, if he just breaks these widows in the border of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, it will be just a gesture for me." The real problem is how to postpone the rebellion for another hundred and fifty years, so as to fulfill the promise made to Mr. Aota. As for the current predicament......"

Speaking of this, Yan Sidao couldn't help but sigh and said with a wry smile: "Such a situation is indeed a bit of a headache. You must know that you and I will die here, but if we continue to entangle with these Japanese robbers, thus delaying the great cause of King Heng, it will be more than worth the loss...... In that case, I can only pull down this old face and beg him cheekily to see if I can end this matter as soon as possible. ”

After that, Yan Sidao asked General Sun to rest earlier, and walked alone through the people resting in the forest, and came to the place where the imperial court was stationed. He walked around the crowd, but when he saw that all the sergeants and a group of green forest masters were asleep, and only a few of the sergeants on night duty were still holding on, he went around the place where they were all stationed and walked towards a small hill opposite.

At this time, it has passed the third watch, the moon is like a disk in the night sky, and the stars are swaying; under the light of the stars and moon, there is a small flame jumping on the hill, and from a distance, it looks like a firefly in the forest. Yan Sidao walked up the mountain, and came to the place of this burning flame, only to see a handsome young man in white sitting cross-legged by the fire, his eyes closed, and his white jade-like skin was bright and dark in the firelight.

Seeing that there was no one else on the hill, Yan Sidao immediately took a deep breath, laughed dryly, came to the fire and sat down, filled a bag of dry tobacco by himself, and lit it on the fire. After half a ring, he saw that there was no movement on the other side of the fire, so he sprayed a puff of smoke towards him, and said with a smile: "Why, is the little Taoist still unwilling to talk to me, a 'dog thief'? ”

After that, seeing that Yizi still didn't react, he continued to laugh and said: "A few days ago, Xie Yixiang's girl wanted to transfer reinforcements from Ningyi City, but was blocked by Tang Xiankai who was stationed outside the city, and this matter was indeed my instruction. As for why I did this, I think Xiaodao knows it. ”

After a pause, he said in a deep voice: "Before, I transferred a thousand troops and horses from Fujian as reinforcements, but unexpectedly, the Japanese invaders learned the news, and they actually set up an ambush and attacked halfway, so that the whole army was annihilated. And if you leak the news of this support army to the people of the Japanese Kou, if you think about it, there will only be you who is the head of the road. Regardless of the fact that you and I have already stopped the war now, we should have worked together to exterminate the Japanese Invaders as our own responsibility, just to say that it seems like this kind of behavior of killing my Chinese compatriots by the hands of foreign Japanese Bandits, hehe...... Is it too ruthless for the Taoist to do this?"