Li Er hastily bypassed Huang Ziying's rear army and marched eastward. When Pegasus chased to the position of the Dingyang Army's central army, the Dingyang Army's central army brigade led by Liu Wuzhou was already in chaos, and the generals at all levels shouted. Constantly, the army was required to advance faster, and the soldiers were in a hurry, whipping cattle, mules and donkeys, and pushing the vehicles carrying military supplies forward. In the dark night, people and vehicles were mixed, and the torches were dazzling.
Luckily, Liu Wuzhou was pretty smart. First, he had let the cavalry leave the central brigade ahead of time, and went out to the open north to form an army alone, so as to avoid the confusion of infantry and cavalry, and also let the cavalry of the Dingyang army be ready to fight on the battlefield at any time. But just as Li Er expected, Ding Yang's cavalry really focused their attention on the rear, scouting sentry horses kept reporting back and forth about the battle in the rear, and did not send a large number of scouts to the north to scout the dark place, obviously not guarding against the possible advance of the Sui army. Ambush in the dark to the north.
Loudly reminded General Ding Yangjun Xunxiang and Zhang Wansui, who commanded the cavalry, to beware of the sudden enemy coming from the north. Li Er hurried all the way, and finally found Liu Wuzhou's commander-in-chief. Second, wait until Liu Wuzhou agrees before going up to see him. Li Erlang didn't dare to delay even the slightest bit of time. Regardless of the guards' obstruction, he just opened his throat and yelled, "Brother Wu Zhou! Brother Wu Zhou! My little brother Li Erlang has something urgent to see! It's a matter of urgency! It's a matter of urgency!"
Even Li Er's voice was loud, and his shouts were still heard by Liu Wuzhou amid the yelling and horse neighing. Although he had gradually begun to dislike Li Er's future brother-in-law, in order to keep abreast of the situation in the rear battlefield, Liu Wuzhou still let Li Er Er stepped forward to meet him, and then Liu Wuzhou couldn't wait to shout at Li Er: "How did you lose so quickly? I heard from Huang Ziying's messenger that your army was defeated before it lasted even a moment. Why are you so incompetent?"
"Little brother's soldiers have been fighting for days and are too tired..."
Li Er quickly explained with a bitter face, but Liu Wuzhou waved his hand and interrupted the words, and then Liu Wuzhou shouted: "I'm too lazy to listen to your excuses, and I will settle accounts with you later for the incompetence of the queen, tell me quickly, How is the situation after that? How is the fight between Huang Ziying and Chen's bandit army? How many chasing troops did Chen bandit come? How far is it from us?"
"When my younger brother came, General Huang had just started fighting with Chen's chasing troops, and my younger brother didn't have time to know the details of the battle." Li Er replied truthfully, "Chen's front army has already caught up with our army's rear, and the central army brigade It's no more than five miles away from here. It's too dark, and I can't judge how many chasing soldiers Chen Thief has, but judging from the number of torches, there are at least 10,000 people, and maybe more than 15,000!"
Liu Wuzhou's face stretched longer than a donkey's, but Liu Xiaomou, who was next to him, scolded directly, saying, "Trash! If you don't know anything, if you say it, it means you didn't say it!"
At the critical moment, Li Er didn't care about these petty quarrels with his beautiful fiancée, but hurriedly said to Liu Wuzhou: "Brother, our danger is not only in the back, but also guard against the north. My little brother is sure that Chen Yingliang's traitor has already arrived at our front." There is an ambush on the way to withdraw troops, if we don't deal with it early, we will definitely suffer a big loss!"
"Chen thief has already arranged an ambush in advance?"
Liu Wuzhou's shock was no small matter. When Li Erfei quickly introduced the clues he found while observing the enemy's situation and his analysis of the Sui army's situation, Liu Wuzhou's expression changed involuntarily. He subconsciously looked up to the north, but saw It was pitch black to the north, and there was nothing unusual about it. Li Er hurriedly said: "Brother, don't worry, we should not have entered the ambush circle of Chen's bandit army. The terrain in this area is relatively narrow, with many rocks and trees, and it is not very suitable for bandit cavalry to fight. I dare to conclude that Chen The bandit ambushes should still be in the relatively open terrain ahead."
After quickly observing the terrain, he found that as Li Er said, this area is not very suitable for cavalry raids. Liu Wuzhou hurriedly asked again: "In my opinion, how should our army deal with the possible ambushes arranged by Thief Chen?"
"Brother, it is not possible for the Chen thief to ambush, but it must exist! Otherwise, the Chen thief would never chase our army with light infantry!" Li Er hurriedly corrected, and said quickly: "Brother, there is only one plan for now." The solution is to immediately abandon all the baggage vehicles, block the roads with these baggage vehicles, then ignite them, and set off a big fire to stop the main force of the Chen bandit infantry. Then our army went straight to Yuci City with light armor, and the cavalry had already prepared to ignore the rear. When the ambush soldiers come out to fight immediately, the infantry take the opportunity to rush to Yuci first, as long as the infantry enters the city, it is very easy for the cavalry to retreat!"
Liu Wuzhou opened his mouth wide, and asked in surprise, "Then what about the rear of our army? The Chinese army ignited and cut off the road. Didn't Huang Ziying and the others have no way out?"
Li Er was silent for a while, then cupped his hands and said: "Brother, at this point, we can only save more soldiers and horses if we make some necessary sacrifices. Otherwise, Chen thief's main force will chase after him, and his ambush soldiers will suddenly kill you." Come out, under the attack from front to back, brother, your 30,000-strong army will not be able to hold on."
"Brother, don't listen to him!" Liu Xiaomou, who was quite obedient and never interfered in military policy decisions, finally couldn't help it, and objected: "Brother, don't listen to this nonsense of Li, his heart is too vicious. Brother, they have more than 4,000 troops, and he threw away more than 4,000 soldiers and let them die in vain, what about their families? What about their parents, wives and children?"
"Brother, I know it's cruel to do this, but kindness doesn't lead soldiers, you have to make a choice!" Li Er hurriedly said again: "For your main force, you can only do this! Besides, General Huang and the others will be killed by fire!" Even if the road is blocked, they can still be broken up into pieces and continue to retreat to Yuci, there is absolutely no way that the entire army will be wiped out!"
"Shut up!" Liu Xiaomou couldn't bear it any longer, whipped his horsewhip directly at Li Er, and said angrily, "You vicious bastard, you have a heart of snakes and scorpions, get out of here, my brother won't listen to you! I will never marry you either! I Even if I'm a concubine, I won't marry you!"
Liu Xiaomou's whip was grabbed by Li Er, and he yanked the whip hard to prevent Liu Xiaomou from pulling it back. Li Er ignored Liu Xiaomou's scolding and Ding Yang's angry eyes, but tried his best to persuade Liu Wuzhou to accept his suggestion. The rear army retreated at full speed after giving up immediately. When Liu Wuzhou was hesitant, the other generals of the Ding Yang Army couldn't bear it any longer. While yelling at Li Er's vicious heart, they all said to Liu Wuzhou: "Your Majesty, you can't listen to this bastard's nonsense. Brother Huang was your old man when you raised troops in Mayi. Brother, throwing him down to die in vain, we can't bear it! Leave him alone, let's continue to retreat, tell him to roll as far as he can!"
"Yes, this man has been talking nonsense and bragging since we met!" General Ding Yang pointed at Li Er and scolded: "You man! Don't be alarmist and talk nonsense here, why is Chen thief always divorced every time you fight? Chen thief revenge, what you said has come true? Where is the Chen thief you said to ambush? What Chen thief had predicted that our army would retreat to Yuci tonight, I can see that you are the one who told Chen thief in advance That’s why Thief Chen was already prepared, you still want to help Thief Chen eat us up bit by bit, right?!”
Faced with the accusations from the generals of Ding Yang's army, Li Er remained silent, just looked at Liu Wuzhou and waited for his reply. Unfortunately, after gritting his teeth and thinking for a while, Liu Wuzhou still flattered his horse and continued to advance eastward, without saying a word: "Order the whole army to speed up. Send orders to Xun Xiang and Zhang Wansui to divide the cavalry into two, and find Xiang led three thousand cavalry to help the rear army at critical moments, and Zhang Wansui led the rest of the cavalry to cover the flanks and guard against raids by bandit cavalry!"
All the generals of Ding Yang's army sang their promises in unison, followed their orders, and shouted loudly to order the troops to speed up. Liu Xiaomou also struggled to get back the whip, spat heavily at Li Er's feet, and then chased Liu Wuzhou without looking back. left Li Er stunned in a daze, with only one thought left in his mind, "Why do I meet Li Jiancheng and Liu Wuzhou, all of them are a group of benevolent and incompetent rats? Why don't they know, poisonous snake Wrist-biting, a strong man breaking his arm, is the real hero?"
After the generals of the Ding Yang Army and Liu Wuzhou left, Zhu Jie and Liang Jianfang, who were previously blocked by the guards, were able to come forward to Li Er. Although they were too far away to hear the conversation between Li Er and Liu Wuzhou, But just seeing Liu Wuzhou and others leave and Li Er's distraught appearance, Zhu Jie and others already understood that Li Er's suggestion must not be adopted by Liu Wuzhou. So after hesitating for a while, Zhu Jie said to Li Er: "You Dudu, since Liu Wu and Mr. Zhou Pifu refuse to listen to your good advice, there is no need for us to accompany him to die. , let's go north to leave the battlefield, and then find a way to come back for revenge."
"Is there any chance for me to come back and take revenge?" Li Er felt extremely bitter in his chest, and secretly said: "My capital has basically been wiped out, Li Jiancheng has been offended by me to death, and I will definitely not be allowed to enter Taiyuan City again, Liu Wuzhou The disastrous defeat is imminent, and Dou Jiande is restrained by Luo Yi and unable to enter Jingxingguan. Although the world is big, where is my shelter? Do you want me to be a countryman and live incognito for the rest of my life? How about the rest of these people looting and looting everywhere? They are displaced and may die under the knife of an unknown rat at any time?"
After thinking for a while, Li Er gritted his teeth, and finally said: "Follow up with Liu Wuzhou's central army. After all, Liu Wuzhou has many soldiers and generals. It's not so easy for Thief Chen to eat him up. Liu Wuzhou won't listen to me now, wait for him When you regret it, you will know how important we are!"
After hearing Li Er's decision, Wang Huaiwen and Liang Jianfang, who were loyal to Li Er, had nothing to say. Zhu Jie wanted to object but knew that he could never change Li Er's decision, and could only accept orders silently. With only five or six hundred soldiers left under his command, the defeated generals gritted their teeth and followed the flank march of Liu Wuzhou's central army. Fortunately, Liu Wuzhou did not send anyone to stop him, allowing Li Er and the others to follow eastward.
At this time, the rear of the Dingyang Army was already fighting in full swing. In order to cover the retreat of the main force, General Huang Ziying of the Dingyang Army led his troops to fight desperately, forming an array to block the road and fighting very hard and firmly. Kan Leng and Qiu Xinggong also charged with all their strength regardless of casualties. They fought face-to-face with Ding Yang's army.
Time is a hundred times more precious than gold. In order to kill Huang Ziying as soon as possible and open the way to enter the army, the brave general Qiu Xinggong simply took off his armor and went into battle shirtless. Arrow is still fighting endlessly. And Huang Ziying also proved at this moment that Liu Wuzhou was reluctant to abandon him for a reason. Even though the army was panicked and a strong enemy was present, Huang Ziying still worked hard to make the army panic and not panic. The opportunity for the Sui army to completely overwhelm his team.
Also relying on Huang Ziying's rear army's desperate battle, the front army of Ding Yang's army and the main force of the central army successfully walked out of the narrow road and came to the open road more than 30 miles west of Yuci. Liu Wuzhou, who had been warned by Li Er, He was also somewhat worried that the Sui army's ambush was really in ambush in this place suitable for cavalry operations, but seeing that there was still no movement in the north, and at the same time sent out scouts for preliminary reconnaissance and found no enemy, Liu Wuzhou felt relieved again, and first secretly scolded Li The second was alarmist, and then ordered the cavalry team in the north to pay attention to keeping a distance from Huang Ziying's rear army, and was ready to dispatch cavalry to respond immediately when Huang Ziying retreated into the open area, attacking the flanks of the Sui army's pursuers to share the pressure on the rear army.
What should come will always come. Just as Liu Wuzhou's order was conveyed, there was a sudden change. The former army led by General Song Jingang of the Dingyang Army suddenly heard a gunpowder bottle explode in front of it. The cavalry suddenly appeared, shouting and charging directly at the front of the Dingyang Army's front team, with thunderous horseshoes and dazzling torches, the momentum was astonishing. Liu Wuzhou and Li Er were also taken aback at the same time, and said in unison: "The bandit Chen ambushed his troops, unexpectedly he was ambushing in front of the road?!"
After the shock, Li Er added, "Tie Chen has a big appetite, and he wants to chase after Liu Wuzhou and eat him in one bite. If you underestimate Liu Wuzhou so much, he won't be afraid of losing his teeth!"
Li Er was right again this time, the Sui Army cavalry suddenly came out from the front, which was beyond everyone's expectations, but after the initial shock, Ding Yang Army Song Jingang, who was good at using soldiers, immediately came back to his senses Come, immediately command the former army to fight in formation, set up a strong bow and crossbow to entertain the enemy. Liu Wuzhou also made a decisive decision here, and shouted: "Command Zhang Wansui, tell him to attack immediately, and be sure to repel the ambushes of the Chen thieves!"
The order was conveyed, and General Zhang Wansui of the Dingyang Army, who was in charge of protecting the main flank, immediately followed the order and led the cavalry to charge to cooperate with Song Jingang against the Sui Army cavalry. He is definitely worth the money. A shot of random arrows made the cavalry of the Sui army howl and howl, and they were forced to rein in the horse's head to give up the advantage of charging and put on a bow and arrow to shoot at Song Jingang. Because of the infantry, it is at a disadvantage in the shooting battle.
Song Jingang won the contingency time, and the cavalry of the Dingyang Army had a chance to fight back. After a fast horse sprint, more than 4,000 cavalry of the Dingyang Army led by Zhang Wansui rushed to the front battlefield first, and detoured to charge the flank of the Sui Army cavalry. The cavalry of the Sui Army had to turn around and retreat after being attacked on both sides. Zhang Wansui pursued with all his strength without hesitation, and the two armies chased each other and quickly moved away from the battlefield.
At the same time, Huang Ziying's rear army also retreated into the open area while fighting. Qiu Xinggong and Kan Leng continued to bite Huang Ziying, and the main force of the Sui army behind them also took the opportunity to speed up their pace, trying to detour forward to meet with Ding Yang's army. The main force is at war. Seeing this situation, without Liu Wuzhou sending an order, Xun Xiang had already led the main force of Ding Yang's other cavalry to attack, and rushed forward to stop the Sui army's pursuit.
The ambushes in the front have been killed and retreated by Song Jingang and Zhang Wansui, and the pursuers in the rear have also been temporarily blocked by Huang Ziying and Xun Xiang. Although Ding Yang's army has been attacked before and after, it is temporarily as stable as Mount Tai. Seeing these situations, Liu Wuzhou breathed a sigh of relief , Hurry up and order the front and rear troops to speed up and retreat to Yuci City as quickly as possible. At the end, Liu Wuzhou couldn't help smiling, and muttered: "Chen bandit cavalry, that's all."
While Liu Wuzhou chuckled, Li Er, who was following the left wing of Dingyang's brigade with a faceless face, secretly wondered, "Why is Chen Thief's ambush so vulnerable? Although they have too much appetite to directly attack Liu Wuzhou's front army They are looking for death, but didn’t they lose a little too quickly?”
After pondering this, a gust of night wind blew. Although the weather was still not cold in the late summer, after it blew on Li Er, Li Er, who was sweating profusely in the fierce battle before, couldn't help shivering, subconsciously Wrapping the black cloak tightly around his body, Li Er glanced at the northwest side where the night wind was blowing, and secretly said: "The wind direction has changed, and the rainy season is coming soon, brother, you can stay in Taiyuan City and wait for it to be flooded. I will not accompany you, little brother."
After finishing speaking triumphantly, when Li Ergang turned back to look at the battle ahead, he suddenly froze, looking at the pitch-black Zhengbei as if possessed by a demon—the Zhengbei, which was no longer covered by the cavalry of the Dingyang Army, and then Li Er went to His whole body trembled involuntarily, and he murmured in a low voice, "Understood, I understand everything. Thief Chen, you are ruthless, you are ruthless enough, you are too ruthless."
"You Dudu, what's the matter with you? What happened?"
Wang Huaiwen, the captain of the guard next to him, found something was wrong, so he hurriedly asked Li Er, but Li Er's voice was so hoarse that he didn't seem to be human, and he said in despair: "That stupid pig Liu Wuzhou has been tricked, we have to kill him too!" Bad luck. Chen Bandit's frontal ambush was just to lure the tiger away from the mountain and deceive Liu Wuzhou's most reliable cavalry. The real main force of Chen Bandit's ambush is still in the north. We will soon bear the brunt of it."
"call out!"
Before Li Er finished speaking, there was a whistling sound, a red spot of light suddenly rose into the northern sky, exploded in the night sky, and a huge beautiful flower bloomed, and then, the flames flared up, the horseshoes thundered, The Sui Army cavalry, which was so large in number that it could compete with the Dingyang Army cavalry, rushed out, pointing their blades at the main flank of the Dingyang Army who had lost the protection of the cavalry. Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin both took the lead, shouting excitedly, " Kill! Kill! Capture Liu Wuzhou alive! Capture Liu Wuzhou alive!"
Seeing this scene, the main brigade of Ding Yang's army was of course in chaos, screams and screams were heard endlessly, Li Er couldn't help but smiled bitterly and muttered: "You have to keep what you say, if you want to arrest Liu Wuzhou, go and arrest him, I will never stop you. But you mustn’t just stare at me when you see me on the battlefield as usual.”