At the end of the Sui Dynasty, I am the king

Chapter 58: Raccoons of the same feather (Part 1)

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"Let go of me! Let go of me! Let go of me, this is an order! I am the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment! Daxing stayed behind! You are the team sent by Fan Zigai to reinforce me, and you must obey my orders! Stop! Stop! ! All withdraw to the camp and stick to it! All to the old man to withdraw to the big camp! Liu Changgong, you idiot! You greedy idiot who is afraid of death! Let me go! I want to join you! I want to join you!”

The arduous retreat has begun. General Liu and his troops can run or escape. When the two armies are fighting fiercely, they want to leave the battlefield with as much strength as possible and get rid of the pursuit of the rebels. what an easy task. However, this is only a small matter for General Liu. The most troublesome matter is how to deal with Wei Xuanwei, who is even more stubborn than Fan Zigai. Ken gave up the camp and retreated westward, saying that Liu Changgong's team should withdraw to the camp, and continue to contend with the rebel team by virtue of the camp's fortifications.

General Liu, who has a lot of escape experience, will return to the camp when he is stupid. The main force of the rebel army has been chasing after him. The narrow camp gate is enough for General Liu to drink a pot. When the time comes, the Sui army will trample on each other in front of the camp gate in order to survive. You push each other, and the trench dug by Wei Xuanjun before will be buried. The sharp stakes and horse-rejecting antlers, as well as the traps around the camp to prevent the enemy from sneaking in, all have to be enjoyed by General Liu in advance. If the rebel team rushes to the rear, General Liu really wants to avoid heavy casualties It doesn't work either.

Therefore, no matter how Wei Xuan yelled and shouted orders as an important minister of the Sui Dynasty, General Liu turned a deaf ear and led the team to flee westward desperately. Even in such a short distance, it can still be basically orderly and orderly, showing the awe-inspiring prestige of the chief escape master of You Wuwei, so that no matter how hard and fast the rebel team chases, they can't get into the ranks of General Liu. kill ring.

Fortunately, although there are some troops from Zuo Wuwei beside Wei Xuan, none of these friendly troops of Zuo Wuwei is willing to listen to the death order of the old and stubborn Wei Xuan under such circumstances. Everyone followed Liu Changgong's team to flee for their lives, and no one wanted to be unhappy, to prevent Liu Changgong's personal soldiers from wrapping Wei Xuan and fleeing westward.

At the same time, when Liu Changgong's team crossed the camp of Weixuan Army and continued westward, the small number of Sui troops who stayed in the camp had already opened the back door of the camp, and ran to the front of Liu Changgong's army ahead of time, leaving behind the empty strong camp and countless ordnance supplies. Rebels as trophies. Seeing this scene, Liu Changgong, who was scolded bloody by Wei Xuan before, finally had something to say, pointing to the Daxing Sui army who were fleeing quickly, he said to Wei Xuan: "Wei Shangshu, you call the end general a coward who is greedy for life and afraid of death. , No matter how greedy the general is, he will at least keep you retreating, what about your team? Have they considered your safety?"

Wei Xuan was completely speechless, and continued to cry loudly again, wailing loudly: "This old man's death of a teacher humiliates the country, and he has a disgrace to the emperor! This old man's death of a teacher and humiliation to the country is a disgrace to the emperor!"

"Husi Wanshan, please ask for blessings, this general can't save you." Looking back, seeing that Husi Wanshan's team did not follow, Liu Changgong, who didn't have the guts to go back to meet the friendly army, could only do this for the respectable friendly army. After saying a prayer, he drew his horizontal knife and shouted, "Order the whole army to turn west at full speed! Tell the brothers, tell every brother, the white-robed soldiers are waiting for us in front, as long as we escape to the white-robed soldiers, We can live! Run! Run as fast as you can!"

In fact, there is no need for General Liu to waste his energy and give orders. Those soldiers under his command who are equally experienced in fleeing for their lives have already fled westward at full speed. Only the speed, the experienced dodge the swords and guns that come from behind, the experienced adjust the team in the process of escaping to avoid trampling each other, and the more experienced leave the injured companions and stride forward, The wounded soldiers who were thrown down did not cry or make noise, and immediately rolled and crawled to the side of the road to avoid being trampled to death, then knelt on the ground and raised their hands and shouted, "I surrender! I surrender! Duke Chu Long live! Down with the tyrant Yang Guang! Surrender! I want to join Duke Chu's righteous teacher!"

In this way, even with the weeping Wei Xuan and some friendly troops, the infantry-based General Liu's team ran out of the cavalry's escape speed during the strategic turn. As a result, the rebel team who were chasing after them suffered a lot. From top to bottom, they had clearly exerted their speed to the limit. They ran so fast that their legs flew and their horses spit, but they couldn't catch up with anything. Liu Changgong's team in front made Yang Xuangan, who personally led the rebel team to chase him down, completely baffled, "How did the officers and soldiers in front get trained? Why are the infantrymen running faster than my horses?"

After chasing for more than twenty miles in one go, seeing that he still couldn't catch up with Liu Changgong's team, Yang Xuangan was so desperate that he wanted to give up the pursuit, but at this moment, Li Mi quickly caught up with Yang Xuangan's team, throwing himself and Liu Changgong's team together. Li Zixiong's analysis and judgment was told to Yang Xuangan, Yang Xuangan's face changed greatly and he didn't dare to neglect, he quickly ordered the team to continue to pursue at full speed, and he was not allowed to stop and rest until he caught up with the enemy! Li Mi also stayed by Yang Xuangan's side to assist in the command. At the same time, he suggested that Yang Xuangan arrange a team to respond, ready to cross the Sui army to seize the dangerous pass west of Hongnong and block the Sui army's way to continue westward to reinforce Tongguan. Yang Xuangan immediately adopted it. Immediately arrange for Yang Jishan to lead the army to follow Hou Ming.

The super-large-scale track and field competition has begun. This is an endurance competition with a distance longer than half that of a marathon. The prizes are survival and victory. Killing Liu Changgong's team with a combat effectiveness of five greatly reduced the difficulty and pressure of entering Tongguan, and completely avoided the bad luck of being annihilated by the main force of the Sui army in Weihan Road. If General Liu's team can not be overtaken by the rebels before they are rescued, they will have the hope of survival, win post-war rewards and rewards, and return home alive to continue the work of their wives and children.

Both sides are for survival, and both are for the hope of survival. Naturally, the intensity of this track and field competition can be imagined. In order to save energy, the rebel team gave up useless shouting, and the silent ones just strode forward , desperately narrowing the distance with the Sui army team. Shouting slogans and roaring to encourage these actions are even more useless to General Liu's team. General Liu's team also kept silent, strode westward without saying a word, and desperately opened the distance from the enemy. There were more than 10,000 chasing and fleeing armies one behind the other, except for the sound of footsteps and horseshoes, there was almost no extra sound, only the desperate cry of Wei Xuan, who was left behind in Daxing, echoed in the narrow Weihan Road, "The old man lost his teacher and humiliated the country!" , There is a negative emperor's errand, there is a negative emperor's errand!"

As time went by and the schedule progressed, the rebel team was blown up. The well-prepared General Liu's team actually took out dry food and water bags, and ate and drank tonics while competing. There were not many in the team The cavalrymen also unwrapped the packages on their horses, took out the fried bean cakes, held them with their hands and fed them to the mouths of the war horses, and advanced while feeding the horses. Some cavalrymen who were more prepared even took out bowls to hold water. Feed the horse, so that your horse can maintain sufficient physical strength, and it looks calm up and down. However, the rebel team, who hadn't thought of this match in advance, was seriously under-prepared. No matter the generals, soldiers or horses under their crotches, they could only stride forward hungry and thirsty, full of anger but helpless.

Yang Xuangan's rebel team was furious about this, and Wei Xuan, who finally stopped crying bitterly, was also baffled, and while receiving the dry rations and water bags handed over by General Liu Changgong himself, he asked in confusion: "You guys in Dongdu The team, why are you so well-prepared? I remember that I didn’t ask you to prepare dry food before the battle, did you?”

"Wei Shangshu wants to hear the truth or lies?" General Liu laughed imitating Fan Zigai's tone, "It's a coincidence that we just prepared. Don't be angry if you tell the truth. In fact, our Dongdu army has been fighting since the very beginning. I am not optimistic about this Mianchi battle, knowing that this battle is basically a sure-fire loss, so I have already prepared dry food and drinking water, so that I can eat and drink on the way when I retreat."

"Aren't you all optimistic about this Mianchi battle?" Wei Xuan's face became ugly again.

"The matter has come to this point, the last general will not hide it from you." Liu Changgong said truthfully: "Actually, before we came to reinforce you, we had already predicted that the battle in Mianchi would be dangerous, because Wei Shangshu, you are too eager to take revenge, so you must not Will be willing to defend passively, and must rush to a decisive battle for revenge. As for the Yang rebels, they have no hope of survival except for the road westward to the pass. In order to survive, they must work together and fight to the death. Yours The team is all remnants and defeated generals from the Battle of Mang Mountain, as the old saying goes, how can a defeated army be brave, Wei Shangshu, if you use a defeated army to face Yang Rebel's army that is fighting to the death and survive, what are your chances of winning?"

When things got to this point, no matter how stubborn Wei Xuan was, he could still listen to Liu Changgong's words. Because of this, Wei Xuan suddenly realized that this disastrous defeat was entirely caused by his own stubbornness. If you can listen to some good words and advice from Fan Zigai, Liu Changgong and others, how can you have today

Feeling ashamed, Wei Xuan couldn't help lowering his gray head, Liu Changgong saw his thoughts, and comforted him: "Wei Liushou, you don't need to worry, we will not be in danger, Tongguan and Guanzhong will not be in danger, Brother Yingliang Waiting for us right ahead, as long as we form a division with Brother Yingliang, we will immediately repel Yang Ni's pursuers and join forces to retreat to Tongguan. With Brother Yingliang, no matter how many troops Yang Ni's rebels have, they will never cross One step to Tongguan!"

"Chen Yingliang?" Wei Xuan raised his head again, and asked in surprise, "You have so much confidence in him, his team is only about 700 people, can he stop so many Yang Ni chasing troops?"

"It's not just the last general who has confidence in the good brothers?" Liu Changgong laughed and asked loudly: "Brothers, do you have confidence in Chen Jishi and the white-robed soldiers? Do you believe that they can stop Yang Ni from chasing soldiers, let us stop Come down and rest?"

"Confidence." "Believe." The soldiers of the Sui Army in Dongdu who were next to him agreed in a hurry, shouting as they strode forward, "As long as there are white-robed soldiers around, no matter how many traitors there are, don't be afraid!"

"Wei stayed behind, did you see that?" Liu Changgong said confidently: "Brother Ying Liang is not only brave in fighting, but also very good at using his brains. The last general would dare to bet that Yang Rebellion will not chase us to the place where we can join forces with Brother Ying Liang." Well, as long as they dare to chase that place, Brother Yingliang will definitely make them suffer enough!"

Wei Xuan stopped talking. He was amazed at the absolute confidence of the soldiers of the Eastern Capital Sui Army in Chen Yingliang, but also puzzled in his heart, "Chen Yingliang? Why does this old man seem to have heard of this name before? When I see him, I must find a chance." Ask about it."