Looking back, he saw the white robes who had swept up from behind to report to the national army. Li Er was so regretful that he kept cursing himself that he shouldn't have delayed too much, that he shouldn't want to confirm whether Liu Wuzhou was surrounded and captured by the Sui army. After someone came out and knelt in front of his arch-enemy Chen Sangliang, he shouldn't have carefully looked at where Chen Sangliang's commander-in-chief was. The result is good, Chen Sangliang's eyes are the same thief and traitor as Li Er's, and he recognized Li Er who had changed into Ding Yang's soldier's uniform after just one glance, and then, to Li Ersu Chen Sangliang, who was willing to be ruthless, immediately brought his absolute lineage to serve the national army to hunt down and kill him.
It was okay for Li Er, he reacted quickly and realized that Chen Sangliang's expression was wrong, and immediately took the last three around him to follow Zhu Can, Liang Jianfang and Wang Huaiwen to flee for their lives, and fled to the place where Chen Sangliang was at the first step. To the west, when the Baoguo army turned their horses and started to pursue, Li Er and the others had already opened a distance of 170 to 80 steps from the Baoguo army.
On the battlefield, a rare spectacle that was absolutely rare in a century was born. Facing a group of defeated Dingyang soldiers who fled all over the mountains and plains, and countless civil and military officials of the Dingyang Army hiding in the crowd of defeated soldiers, as the coach of the Sui Army, Chen Sangliang not only didn't even bother to take a look, but also held up his handsome flag and led thousands of elite cavalry to chase after only four Dingyang soldiers. The defeated soldiers of the Yang army, and the countless defeated soldiers of the Ding Yang army who were exhausted and had no strength to resist were lucky enough to save their lives. There were also countless soldiers of the Ding Yang army who were at a loss, "Who are those people? They don't look like ours. Your Majesty? Why did Thief Chen go after them personally?"
Cheng Yaojin, the cavalry of the Sui Army who rushed over afterward, was also taken aback. Then Cheng Yaojin said that Chen Sangliang had spotted Liu Wuzhou's trail and chased him himself, and quickly led the cavalry under his command to leave the main battlefield to chase Come, then Chen Sangliang naturally immediately ordered someone to turn around and send an order to Cheng Yaojin, saying that he had captured Liu Wuzhou, and asked Cheng Yaojin to continue to pursue the main defeated troops of Dingyang's army, and they must chase for more than 30 miles before withdrawing. As a result, Cheng Yaojin was confused when he heard this, and hurriedly asked: "Then what is His Highness going to the west? Who else are you going to hunt down?"
"Your Highness said, to hunt down an old enemy of his for many years. If you don't kill this enemy, His Highness will not sleep well even if you go to bed." Chen Sangliang's personal soldier who came to pass the order replied: "So Your Highness must hunt down to the end no matter what, let I will send an order to you, General Yuchi, and the others, ordering you to pursue the troops for thirty miles and return to Yuci City to assemble."
Cheng Yaojin nodded, and waved his hand to let Chen Sangliang's personal soldiers holding the order talisman continue to pass on the order. Then, while commanding the cavalry to continue northward to chase down the defeated Yang army, he wondered in his heart, "Who is so hated by His Highness? Is it another Li Erlang? What did that kid do, why is His Highness hating him so much? Make His Highness insist on beating him up every time?"
Of course, Li Er didn't understand why Chen Sangliang would give him such special treatment, but Li Er absolutely didn't like Chen Sangliang's overly enthusiastic and grand treatment. Going forward at full speed, Zhu Can, Liang Jianfang, and Wang Huaiwen, the three last confidants of Li Er, did the same. They all swung their whips and kicked their horses desperately, forcing their horses to speed up. Clearly, if they are caught up by the Nationalist Army, their fate will definitely be a hundred times more pitiful than the current situation of the horses under their crotches!
While Li Er was speeding his horse desperately, Chen Sangliang, who was not good at riding, was also racing his horse desperately at the risk of falling off the horse, because Chen Sangliang knew very well the dangerous consequences of letting Li Er escape to Mayi. The second chance is to make a comeback, so with Li Er's ability and the special terrain in Mobei, Chen Sangliang will have to spend ten times or even hundreds of times the price to destroy Li Er! Therefore, Chen Sangliang absolutely didn't want to miss the chance to kill Li Er again, and would rather try to kill Li Er with less gains in the pursuit battle.
It was not bad for Chen Sangliang. When Li Er fled for his life, he did not flee to the direction of Mayi in the north, but fled in the direction of Taiyuan in the west. Chen Sangliang was secretly happy for a while, and said that Li Er I was confused in the midst of desperation. However, after chasing to the west for more than ten miles, Chen Sangliang gradually became dumbfounded, because the road ahead has gradually become rough and uneven, and the number of hills and trees on both sides of the road has also increased significantly, and then Chen Sangliang suddenly remembered, Li Er had lived in the Taiyuan area for many years, and he was definitely more familiar with the terrain in this area than he was. His flight to the west was definitely not in a panic, but premeditated.
Although they are cavalry like Li Er and others, the Baoguo Army is heavy cavalry and has very strict requirements on the terrain. It is far more affected by rough roads than light cavalry. Chen Sangliang made a prompt decision, and immediately ordered Guo Feng and Chen Ci to disarm their armor, take off their Mingguang armor and horse armor, and take only weapons and dry food. Hand it over to Yu Lejun to carry it back to Yuci.
In this regard, Guo Feng and Chen Ci, who had already suffered such a big loss when chasing Xue Ju and his son before, reminded Chen Sangliang to pay attention to safety, and Chen Sangliang replied: "Don't worry, here is five miles away from Taiyuan." There will be no ambush for ten miles, and we will chase for another twenty miles, regardless of whether we can catch up with the retreating soldiers!" Guo Feng, Chen Ci and others reluctantly agreed, and Yu Le also said that he would stay where he was and wait for Chen Sangliang to come. Sangliang knew that he meant well, so he agreed.
At the same time, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Baoguo Army to temporarily stop advancing and disarm the equipment, Li Er, Zhu Can and the other four finally got rid of Chen Sangliang's pursuit for the time being, but just when Li Er was slightly relieved However, Zhu Can, who was in the front, pointed to the southwest direction again, and shouted: "You Dudu, there are people over there!"
Li Er, Wang Huaiwen and others hurriedly followed the sound, and they really saw a knight who was also wearing the uniform of Ding Yang Army. He seemed to have lost his way and was looking for the way. He saw Li Er and others wearing the uniform of Ding Yang Army People, the knight let out a cheer, hurriedly patted his horse over, and shouted in a female voice from a distance: "General Dingyang over there, I am your Majesty's little sister, my brother and I got separated and got lost, Take me to see him quickly!"
"Liu Xiaomou?!" Li Er was dumbfounded. He never thought that during his escape, he would meet Liu Xiaomou, who disappeared last night, and his fiancée who had already concluded a marriage contract with him. Then, Li Er suddenly thought of what kind of favorable situation he would win in Mayi if he could bring Liu Xiaomou back to Mayi smoothly. Li Er couldn't help but secretly rejoiced, and secretly said: "God help me."
"Why is it you?" Liu Xiaomu obviously didn't expect that he would just run into Li Er, and as soon as he ran close to see Li Er's appearance, Liu Xiaomu immediately exclaimed and asked, "Why are you wearing the military uniform we ordered Yang Jun?" ?”
"Xianmei, let's talk about other things on the way." Li Er waved his hand gracefully, and shouted: "Let's go, Chen thief is about to catch up!"
"Why should I go with you?" Liu Xiaomu almost blurted out this sentence, but after hearing the violent sound of horseshoes coming from the west, the very assertive Liu Xiaomu still closed his mouth obediently, and galloped along with Li Er's fast horse , and asked impatiently: "Why are you dressed like this? Where is my brother? Where is my brother's army?"
Li Er was not in a hurry to answer, first he turned his head to carefully inspect the situation of Chen Sangliang's chasing troops, and then said: "Sister Xian, you have to be mentally prepared, what I said is all bad news, my brother decided to make the main force of Yang's army!" It's over, brother Wu Zhou seems to have captured the traitor Chen Yingliang alive."
Liu Xiaomou was shocked, and hurriedly reined in his horse to see Li Er. Li Er hurriedly pulled Liu Xiaomou's horse rein, and while pulling Liu Xiaomou's horse to continue forward, he quickly introduced the situation of the battle last night, and finally saw himself in the distance who was suspected to be Liu Wuzhou. The person knelt down and surrendered to Chen Sangliang and said about it, and finally comforted Liu Xiaomou: "Xianmei, you don't have to be afraid, Brother Yu will definitely find a way to rescue Brother Wu Zhou, as long as Brother Wu Zhou is not killed, I will definitely can save him."
To Li Er's surprise, Liu Xiaomou never shed a single tear even though her beautiful eyes glistened, and after wiping the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand, Liu Xiaomou said to Li Er seriously, "Take thanks, brother!" , if the elder brother can really save my elder brother, the younger sister will be like a cow and a horse, and tie a grass ring, and I must repay the elder brother for your great kindness."
"There's no need for you to make a straw ring and act like a cow or a horse, as long as you obediently accompany me to bed."
Li Er first muttered a big truth in his heart, and then hurriedly looked back to see the situation of the Sui army's pursuit of soldiers. What made Li Er angry and helpless was that Chen Sangliang not only kept chasing after him, but also kept the flag far away from Li Er. Within the line of sight of the second-class people, it is possible to catch up at any time. At the same time, what worries Li Er, who is familiar with the terrain, is that the terrain in the vicinity is not suitable for cavalry operations. If you turn around and run northward for less than five or six miles, you will enter the open plain, and if you continue west, it will be seven or eight miles at most. , will also enter the open area where the Sui army cavalry set up an ambush last night-and on that kind of terrain, the possibility of Li Er and others being chased by the Baoguo army will undoubtedly be much greater.
"You Dudu, just a short walk will lead to open land." Wang Huaiwen also reminded: "Our war horses are already very tired, and we haven't eaten fodder since last night. It is difficult to run past Thief Chen in the open land. War horse. How to deal with it, please make a quick decision!"
He looked back again, although he couldn't see the ugly appearance of his love rival Chen Sangliang because of the trees and hills, but the equally ugly handsome flag was far away, and he kept a distance of more than 300 steps from Li Er and the others all the time. There is also a gradual shortening trend - the Sui army had sufficient preparations before the battle yesterday, and the horses of the soldiers of the Nationalist Army took the time to eat during the interval between the battles, so the physical strength of the horses is naturally much stronger than that of Li Er and others.
"Tie Chen's speed is too fast. If this continues, I will die. What should I do?"
With this thought in mind, he accidentally caught sight of Liu Xiaomou who was also wearing the uniform of Ding Yang's soldiers. Li Er's eyes lit up immediately, and he said without hesitation: "This is the only place in this area that is barely suitable for cavalry combat. If we continue to escape like this, there must be a dead end! There is only one way to do it now, we retreat separately, so that Chen thief can't find the target to pursue, and then we take the opportunity to escape."
"How to retreat separately? Please give instructions from the right commander!" Liang Jianfang asked quickly.
"I'll go west alone and go back to Taiyuan for help, and the four of you will go north." Li Er said very calmly: "When you reach the open ground, immediately divide into two, retreat in two directions, and then We will meet at... , in the city of Taiyuan."
Li Er was a little hesitant when he agreed on the meeting place, and almost wanted to say that he would meet in Mayi, but considering that the journey was far away and there was no food or drink, and there were too many dangers along the way, if he was not careful, he might die inexplicably, so Li Er changed his mind and decided to go back to Taiyuan to take a break—fortunately, Li Er still has his fourth brother Li Yuanji as an ally in Taiyuan City, and Pei Ji is also secretly leaning towards Li Er. Now Li Er may lose his head when he goes back not big.
After listening to Li Er's order, Wang Huaiwen and Liang Jianfang, who were loyal to Li Er, did not hesitate, and immediately clasped their fists and sang promises. Liu Xiaomou also nodded in agreement, while Zhu Can rolled his triangular eyes and sneaked in Looking at Li Er, but seeing that Wang Huaiwen and Liang Jianfang were still between Li Er and him, Zhu Can's eyes dimmed quickly again, and he secretly cursed the traitor, but he didn't dare to say anything, he could only be obedient Obedience.
After agreeing on the method of retreat, Li Er went straight to the west without hesitation, while Liang Jianfang, Wang Huaiwen and others surrounded Liu Xiaomou and turned back to the north, and Zhu Can reluctantly followed. Then, not long after, the officers and soldiers of the Reporting Army saw Liang Jianfang and the other four people turning northward in the gaps between trees and rocks. Liu Xiaomou also joined Li Er's team during the disarming of the soldiers of the National Army, so the soldiers of the Bao Guo Army just saw that there were four enemies. Chasing after his old enemy Li Er who has been entangled with him for many years.
Chasing the enemy with cavalry in the woods is of course as painful as it is, but fortunately, Liang Jianfang, Wang Huaiwen and others who dare not leave their horses are also riding on horseback. They are also affected by the terrain and the speed is not fast, so their physical strength is relatively superior. After pursuing another five or six miles, the Baoguo army finally caught up with Liang Jianfang and others at the edge of the forest area. Liang Jianfang, who had already entered the open area, saw that something was wrong, and hurriedly ordered: "Zhu Canhuaiwen, you run to the northeast, and I will escort Miss Liu to the northwest."
Wang Huaiwen agreed without hesitation, but Zhu Can said calmly, "General Liang, let me escort Miss Liu to the northwest, and you and General Wang to the northeast."
Hearing this, Liang Jianfang was stunned for a moment, then immediately came back to his senses, and roared: "Are you afraid of losing money? Although the northeast is far away from Taiyuan, there must be a large number of defeated Dingyang troops there, which can just cover you! "
"Then why don't you suffer, General Liang?" Zhu Can asked back with a smile, then suddenly pointed at Liang Jianfang's back, and said in surprise, "You Dudu! How did he come back?"
"The right governor is back?" Liang Jianfang and Wang Huaiwen were both startled. When they subconsciously turned their heads together, Liang Jianfang suddenly felt the wind blowing in the back of his head. Already flew into the air!
A sneak attack killed Liang Jianfang with a knife, and Zhu Can immediately swung his knife to kill Wang Huaiwen. Unfortunately, Wang Huaiwen was already prepared, and while raising his knife to hold Zhu Can, he roared and asked, "Zhu Can, are you crazy or stupid? Why do you want to fight?" Kill Brother Liang?"
"You are the ones who are stupid!" Zhu Can sneered and said, "Li Erlang told the four of us to go north, and he went to Taiyuan alone to ask for help. It sounds nice. He obviously wanted to use the four of us as dead ghosts and lure him away. Chasing soldiers, let him take the opportunity to escape! You are stupid, I am not a fool, I can still see this! Our war horses have already started to foam, how can they outrun the chasing troops led by His Royal Highness Tang himself? "
"Even if this is the case, we should take it for granted!" Wang Huaiwen said angrily: "The right governor has treated us as much as a mountain, and it is our honor to die for him!"
Wang Huaiwen stopped him even for two cuts, and Zhu Can, who guessed that he would not be able to take down Wang Huaiwen for a moment, took a step back. His left arm suddenly strangled Liu Xiaomou's neck, and the saber in his right hand quickly rested on Liu Xiaomou's neck, laughing ferociously. Send to: "Wang Huaiwen, there is a good thing for you. If you are smart, you can dedicate this little girl to His Highness Tang Wang with me. This little girl is not bad, and she is the wife of Li Erlang who has never been married. His Highness Tang will definitely like it. Our prosperity and wealth will be there soon.”
Wang Huaiwen roared wildly, came up and slashed at Zhu Can with a knife to try to rescue Liu Xiaomou. Zhu Can tightened Liu Xiaomou's neck while wielding the knife carefully to parry. I shed crystal tears, bitter and sorrowful in my heart, but I didn’t know why I was crying. I didn’t know whether I was crying for the tragic end of being a prisoner, or because my brother was captured and the main force was destroyed, or because I was abandoned by my fiancé as a dead ghost. …
When the distraught Liu Xiaomou came back to his senses, he was surrounded by nationalist soldiers in fluttering white robes. Wang Huaiwen lay down a dozen steps away and turned into two parts of his body, while Zhu Can knelt obediently. In front of a man's horse, saying something begging for his life, when Liu Xiaomou raised his eyes to see the appearance of the person accepting Zhu Can's kneeling, the face of Chen Sangliang, who had seen once before, appeared in front of Liu Xiaomou again. .
After listening to Zhu Can's report on Li Er's plan to get away with a livid face, Chen Sangliang's expression was as ugly as it could be. Seeing these situations and seeing Chen Sangliang's terrifying face, Liu Xiaomou's heart couldn't help but hang in his throat again, subconsciously thinking of the tragic end of the enemy's family members captured by Ding Yang's army.
Fortunately, Chen Sangliang is also a person who is very good at controlling emotions. After taking a deep breath, Chen Sangliang forcibly suppressed his unhappiness, raised his head and smiled at Liu Xiaomou: "Sister Xian, we meet again."
"You... , what do you want to do to me?" Liu Xiaomou asked tremblingly.
"I won't do anything to you." Chen Sangliang smiled and said, "Don't worry, sister, not to mention that you and Li Erlang are only engaged and unmarried, even if you are married, I have never abused the enemy." As a family member, you will be treated well in my army, and I will let you meet Liu Wuzhou, and I will not kill you. It's just..."
Speaking of this, Chen Sangliang paused, and then added: "It's just that you will definitely not be able to formally marry Li Erlang again, and I will not marry you to a vicious villain who uses his fiancée as a tool to get rid of golden cicadas. It's like pushing you into a pit of fire."
There were more tears in Liu Xiaomou's eyes, and finally she couldn't help but covered her face and burst into tears. Zhu Can kowtowed desperately to beg for mercy, begging Chen Sangliang to spare his life and give him a chance to make amends. Chen Sangliang originally wanted to hack to death this cannibal who had always had zero loyalty, but after a second thought, Chen Sangliang changed his mind and said to Zhu Can: "Well, it seems that you still have the chance to repent. For the sake of citing, I can consider giving you a chance to redeem yourself. But now... come here, cover his face with a cloth, take him back to Yuci and let him go slowly."