Xie Tong shook his head and said, "How can the little brother be so unwise, there is a city near Taihu Lake, named Wuxi, which is the grain reserve base of the Huangchao army, and the grain along the entire river is stored here, and it goes directly to the canal through Taihu Lake.

Lai Kezhong was puzzled, "Brother Xian's plan is indeed very wonderful, but it seems to ignore an extremely important fact, the enemy is not waiting for us to fight him in Wuxi, since we know that Jiangyin City is occupied, we must know that there is a thousand troops entering their hinterland, I am afraid that they will be surrounded and intercepted by the enemy." At that time, I am afraid that what awaits us in Wuxi is not a warehouse of grain and grass, but an army of tens of thousands!"

Xie Tong said" Brother Lai's words are very reasonable, but the enemy wants to inquire about our specific situation, I am afraid that it will still be after Jiangyin, at that time it is too late to find out our marching route, we and the enemy rely on this time and space direction, this is also the reason why the younger brother chose to go south to Wuxi, if we can not go to Wuxi to make a breakthrough, our army still has three routes, one is to go west along the Taihu Lake, by means of Yixing, the second is to go south to Suzhou, the third is to force the Taihu Lake, directly to Huzhou on the south bank of the Taihu Lake, the three routes can go directly to Hangzhou, and then the situation is making a decision！”

Lai Kezhong was finally moved, at this moment he finally believed in Xie Tong's strong thinking ability, although he was in Jiangyin, he had already outlined various situations in the future, this was not only an excellent military advisor, but also a bold and careful general, he was secretly glad that he really didn't see the wrong person, and said busily, "In this way, it seems that the old brother is too worried." With your wits, I'm afraid the enemy's backyard will be restless!"

Xie Tong smiled and said, "Brother, I've won the award." As long as you don't get chased by the enemy!"

Early the next morning, Xie Tong gathered all the sergeants. Ready to go.

Huo Zixin said dissatisfiedly, "Didn't you say that you were going to be chic for three days? Why are you only two days away, what's the hurry, Lao Tzu hasn't had enough fun!"

Xie Tong said, "Since the kid is willing to play, it's okay to stay, but according to the spy report, there is a force of 10,000 people from Changzhou, if the kid is not afraid of death, he can stay here." ”

Huo Zixin struck a spirit and said, "How can it be so fast! Could it be that all the enemies are clairvoyant and can't hear the wind." ”

Lai Kezhong said: "This shows that there must be someone in the troops in Jiangyin City who reported the news. We still underestimate the wisdom of the enemy, let's go! Don't be made of dumplings and become dumpling filling!"

The thousand light horsemen came out of the south gate of Jiangyin, walked onto the official road, and galloped away in a smoke.

Just after running for an hour, Huo Zixin quickly caught up from behind and said, "Big brother, the rear is dusty, obviously there are a large number of cavalry chasing us." What to do!"

Xie Tong was taken aback, the enemy came so quickly! At this moment, he was full of regret, if he could set off a day earlier, the enemy army would not be able to figure out his route. He hurriedly asked, "Can you determine how many people there are?"

Huo Zixin said, "I can't say for the time being, but it is definitely not inferior to our army in terms of quantity, I'm afraid it is still excessive!"

Xie Tong raised his eyes and looked forward. I saw a dense forest twenty miles ahead, and said, "Tell me to go down." The whole army sped up and marched towards the woods! T lead the brothers into the woods to prepare for the battle first, and Zixin will follow me to the rear to take a look!"

The two came to the rear of the troops, Xie Tong fixed his eyes, and sure enough, as Huo Zixin said, the dust was flying, and he used his spiritual sense to reach forward, and there were about a thousand enemies, which was the same as their number, but this had already surprised him very much. When he outwitted Jiangyin City, he had already calculated the time when the enemy army was stationed in Jiangyin, so he made a three-day repair plan, and this time he set off in advance, but he planned to avoid the eyes and ears of the enemy, and the enemy army had not yet arrived in Jiangyin, and had already chased after him.

Xie Tong packed up his thoughts, this was also an opportunity for him, the enemy army was so aggressive, presumably guessed that he was not strong enough, and decided that he would not rush into battle, therefore, it was difficult for the enemy's infantry to keep up in a short period of time, if this cavalry could be defeated, the enemy could no longer keep up with their footsteps, so that they lost their target.

Thinking of this, Xie Tong said, "Zixin, prepare to fight!"

Due to the fact that their horses were carefully chosen, it was difficult for the cavalry prepared by the enemy army to approach them in a hurry.

After Xie Tong and the others entered the dense forest, they rested for a while, and even arranged the encounter that was about to start.

The pursuers soon reached the woods, but did not follow the woods rashly, apparently smelling the danger in the woods.

Xie Tong looked outside the forest, he roughly observed, the chasing soldiers were about 1,000 people, which was indeed consistent with his spiritual sense, but the enemy did not put on an offensive posture, but sent more than 100 soldiers to go around the forest on both sides, this move made Xie Tong very puzzled, could the enemy want to outflank his two wings with such a small number of troops? This is not only unrealistic, but a very stupid move, this cavalry can not withstand Xie Tong's attack.

Outflanked cavalry on both flanks surrounded the forest, but had no intention of attacking.

Lai Kezhong also saw the abnormality of the enemy army, and leaned over and said, "Brother Xian, what is the enemy doing!"

Xie Tong shook his head, he was also thinking about this problem at the moment, this strange behavior made him feel very uneasy, he didn't fight, what kind of routine was he playing!

Huo Zixin said, "How about we rush out from the left flank, with the same strength, Lao Tzu has not been afraid of anyone!"

Xie Tong was suddenly startled, and he had already guessed the other party's intentions. The other party surrounded but did not attack, obviously waiting for reinforcements, and after the arrival of the infantry brigade, Xie Tong was wiped out in one fell swoop, no wonder the enemy outside the forest was so leisurely, so it seems that the commander of the other party is indeed a brilliant person with great wisdom, only from the pursuit route, and the decision to besiege but not attack, it can be seen that this person is very powerful. However, since he saw through the other party's conspiracy, of course Xie Tong couldn't sit still, he hurriedly said, "The other party is waiting for reinforcements, Huo boy, you lead two hundred men and horses to attack the enemy troops on the left flank for me, and you will hit them hard!"

Huo Zixin said excitedly, "Okay, let Lao Tzu taste the taste of fighting more and fighting less." ”

Xie Tong continued, "Brother Lai, you lead five hundred men and horses, if the enemy army attacks Huo Xiaozi from the front, you are responsible for blocking the enemy and receiving Huo Xiaozi."

Lai Kezhong said, "There is no problem with this."

Xie Tong said, "The rest of the people follow me, Huo Boy set off!"

Huo Zixin grabbed the horse's belly and rushed out first, and two hundred soldiers followed him, shouting and rushing out.

This move did not chill the enemy troops, and it was clearly expected by the enemy troops.

The rebels deployed on the left flank saw the Tang army rushing out, and hurriedly set up their bows and shot arrows, and the arrows shot towards Huo Zixin's side.

Huo Zixin shouted, "Brothers, shoot me."

The arrows on both sides come and go, from time to time a soldier falls to the ground with an arrow, Huo Zixin pulled out his sword, and kept pushing the arrows aimed at him to the side, and after a burst of killing, the two teams of cavalry finally fought together.

Huo Zixin raised his sword and stabbed at the enemy's body, and in a short time, he had already stabbed down three people in a row, and the Tang army broke through the enemy's left flank defense line in an instant due to the local strength advantage, and the righteous army obviously couldn't support it.

Lai Kezhong said, "Brother Xian, is it time for the eldest brother to appear, if we can break through this road, our army will jump out of the enemy's encirclement."

Xie Tong shook his head and said, "Waiting!"

Sure enough, as Xie Tong expected, the rebels in front of Lin Zi saw that the left flank had been penetrated, and hurriedly waved their troops to rush over.

Huo Zixin rode in and out of four places, and once again killed four enemy soldiers in a row, he killed it right, and suddenly saw the enemy's brigade of men and horses rushing towards them, and scolded Xie Tong in his heart, this guy must have used himself as bait. But where did he think so much, and hurriedly shouted, "Brothers, be careful, gather around me." Because of the experience of several charges, Huo Zixin also learned a lot of truths on the battlefield, that is, it is impossible for a person to set off much storm, if you want to live, you can't take risks alone, and the soldiers must be together in one place, so that they can take care of it.

The soldiers who charged with him came to him as ordered, and they penetrated the enemy's left flank defense directly before turning their horses and waiting for the enemy's main force to charge.

Xie Tong saw that the enemy was tricked, and said excitedly, "Brother Lai, it's up to you."

Lai Kezhong smiled slightly, he raised the giant bow in his hand, and said loudly, "Brothers, rush me!"

Like tigers and wolves, these 500 men and horses rushed directly out of the woods and directly rushed towards the enemy from the side.

Huo Zixin saw Lai Kezhong coming to help, and also shouted, "Brothers, rush!" He raised his sword again and rushed forward first.

The enemy's main force was instantly caught on both sides.

Lai Kezhong pulled out his huge bow, shot while rushing, and shot at the three enemy soldiers in an instant, the enemy soldiers who were hit by the arrow didn't even snort, and fell directly off the horse, his feet were still on the horses, and he was dragged far away by the frightened horses, and the corpses were blurred with flesh and blood.

Due to the enemy's rash advance, they were surrounded by the Tang army, and they were instantly in chaos, and Lai Kezhong led the cavalry to cut the enemy into two parts.

Several small units were scuffled in one place. Seeing this, Xie Tong hurriedly led the remaining troops to rush out from the front of the forest, chasing the tail of the enemy army, and surrounding the enemy army in the middle.

Xie Tong followed Lai Kezhong's example, shooting while rushing, and the enemy was shot under the horse by Xie Tong like a live target.

Only then did the leader of the enemy army know that Xie Tong had fallen for his trick, but more than 100 cavalrymen on the right flank of Lin Zi were still watching and could no longer help. He hurriedly said "retreat"

However, there was only one way out to the east, and when the enemy soldiers heard the news of the retreat, they had no intention of fighting, and turned around and fled, and they were defeated when they landed.

Xie Tong's three forces converged in one place, and chased and killed for a while before collecting troops and retreating.

The victory in this battle, with the same number of troops, actually fought more than half of the enemy casualties, and fled in the desert, not so much because of good command, but because of superior intelligence. (To be continued.) )