Chapter 4: Subversion (Part 8) Li Xu was less than a foot away from Wang Bodang. He only needed to take another half step forward on his horse, and he could capture the enemy alive. But in this half step, Black Wind However, it refused to step forward anyway. It was very spiritual and realized that the attackers on the opposite side were numerous and powerful. It would not lead its owner into danger unless it was absolutely necessary.
"Hey - slip - slip!" Teller Piao let out an angry roar, kicked his front hooves, and stopped abruptly. "Hush!" Hundreds of war horses on the opposite side neighed and stopped, their hooves clawing like faces. Facing a bloodthirsty beast
"Woo-wu-wu-wu!" The sound of the horn came through the thunder, the sound was slow, the sound was broken, and the sound was like a knife
"What a good brat!" The person who came here was by no means mediocre. After a moment of confusion, he noticed that there were not many guards around Li Xu. He smiled, and the expression on his face instantly relaxed, "Our two families will call it a day. Zhai I will return your head to you, what will General Li think?"
"Why don't Mr. Zhai try to kill us and reverse the situation?" In a moment, the expression on Li Xu's face returned to normal. He shook his head gently and asked as if he didn't even see the Lin Jifeng behind Zhai Rang.
Judging from the person's age and tone of voice, Li Xu guessed that this person must be Zhai Rang, the former head of the Wagang Army. Otherwise, his speech and behavior would not be full of charlatanism. Forced by the situation, he had to consider what the other party proposed. But the more it comes to this moment, the less likely it is to let the other party see your embarrassment.
"Our boss respects you as a hero before discussing this with you. Don't be ignorant!" As expected, someone around Zhai Rang couldn't hold his breath. Before Li Xu could finish his words, they jumped out and were eager to give it a try.
"If you want to fight, then fight. Why be so wordy!" Li Xu sneered and gently raised the black knife in his hand.
At this moment, the battle was coming to an end, and the Wagang army was completely defeated. Therefore, the more than a thousand cavalry led by Li Xu had already dispersed to chase the remaining enemies. The number of people left with him was less than a hundred, but the enemy generals on the opposite side had brought enough There are a total of five hundred cavalry, and war horses continue to rush out from behind the curtain of rain, increasing one side's advantage.
A large number does not necessarily mean a strong momentum. This is not the first time that the Boling Cavalry has used less to attack more! Facing the superior enemy, Zhou Daniu and others showed no fear on their faces, but Zhai Rang's followers suddenly swelled when they saw that they could not scare the opponent. His arrogance gradually weakened again.
The two sides faced each other from a distance, ignoring the wind and rain and other things on the battlefield. Behind the rain curtain, the defeated soldiers kept running past with their heads in their hands, but no one on either side said anything to stop them. The defeated soldiers were happy to be ignored. Although many people saw Zhai The flag was given, but he was stunned, and then ran away further
It was just a few breaths, but it seemed as long as thousands of years to both sides. Finally, Zhai Rang reiterated with a wry smile: "General Li has already won this battle, so why bother to kill everyone? The package contains Zhang Xu I have ordered people to bury General Tuo’s head in fine nanmu and ask the general to accept it. How about we just let the brothers live?"
"If I let them go this time, how do I know there won't be another time? Can Mr. Zhai guarantee to Li that after they return, they will abandon evil and do good, and will not plunder again?" General Li Xu said The heart that had been raised in the throat was quietly put back into the stomach, and he continued to deal with the other party calmly.
During the confrontation between him and Zhai Rang, the trumpet sound behind him had sounded three times, each time louder and louder than the last. Zhang He was the liaison he had agreed with his trusted generals before leading the army into battle. The signal will not be blown unless there is a particularly urgent incident.
"Haha, General Li is right. Zhai can't guarantee anything?" As expected of the master of Wagang, Zhai Rang could still laugh out loud when the other party was so aggressive. He pointed with his finger and fell into the mud.
Wang Bodang pointed at the defeated soldiers who kept running past him, and continued: "What Zhai can only guarantee is that if General Li continues to fight, I will fight to the death with the sword in my hand and the brothers behind me."
You can delay the general as long as you can by dealing with the general, and protect as many brothers as you can protect him from leaving safely. Of course, if he can fight with General Li and die together, Zhai will not be called the master once in vain!
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At the end of his sentence, his words suddenly became cold, his waist straightened instantly, and his whole body was full of murderous aura.
The Wagang cavalry who followed Zhai Rang stopped making noises and slowly pulled out a three-horse deep line in front of Li Xu. The front pointed forward, and actually assumed a fish-or-death attitude.
"Daniu, lift up the general on the ground and take it to Master Zhai! By the way, take back the head of General Zhang. We will send it to Qi County for burial another day!" Li Xu knew that he could not squeeze more benefits from the other party.
He had no choice but to do the next best thing. Zhai Rang and others could not understand the sound of the horn coming through the rain curtain, but Li Xu himself understood clearly that the person who stayed in the Chinese Army today was his old buddy Zhang Jiang, who had been working with him for many years. This person had always done things well.
If Calm hadn't discovered the imminent crisis, he would never have persuaded the coach to end the battle as soon as possible at this juncture.
"Yeah!" Zhou Daniu agreed in a dull voice, thrust the battle flag in his hand into the mud, then jumped off his horse, lifted Wang Bodang, who had fallen into a coma, from the mud pit, and lifted him directly in front of Zhai Rang's horse.
The thieves in Wagang were angry that Uncle Wang had been seriously injured. They kept scolding and swaying around Zhou Daniu. However, Daniu seemed to be blind and deaf. He first attacked Uncle Wang and threw him into the air.
He threw the saddle on the horse's back, then took the package containing General Zhang's head with both hands, and strode back to the main formation.
"I can order the troops to be withdrawn, and promise not to pursue again before noon tomorrow. I hope Master Zhai, who has come from afar, can have a good rest, and restrain the soldiers to prevent the next battle from starting early!" Wait for Daniel to sit firmly on the horse.
Li Xu hugged Zhai Rang and said
"Before noon tomorrow, Zhai will not let a single soldier of the Wagang army appear within a radius of forty miles!" Zhai Rang knew that Li Xu had seen through the fact that the Wagang reinforcements were exhausted, so he agreed straightforwardly.
Since his trump card has been clearly seen, there is no need for him to make any extra arrangements. A small group of cronies supported Wang Bodang to evacuate first, and he and the other soldiers gathered the defeated soldiers while slowly retreating to the southeast.
Watching Zhai Rang leave his sight, Li Xu ordered his soldiers to blow the horns. A moment later, the sound of gongs and horns echoed in the military formation. The officers and soldiers who were chasing the remaining enemies heard the sound of gold and stopped one after another, but some were still killed.
Not satisfied, he complained impatiently, "Why did you withdraw your troops just when you were killing so much and let these bastards go! General Li is so kind-hearted!"
"Don't chase the poor! The general naturally has the principles and abilities of the general. You don't need to listen to the general. You can find someone else to fight such a beautiful victory and see!" Immediately, a low-level officer raised his voice and yelled at the complainer.
Since the death of Zhang Xutuo, the officers and soldiers from all walks of life have rarely won against Wagang. This time they were able to defeat the enemy that they couldn't afford to offend. It really made everyone overjoyed. Even those who were scolded were not upset. They explained with a smile.
Said: "Don't you want to wipe out the Wagang thieves as soon as possible! Let's go home early!"
"Why are you anxious? With General Li here, how many days can the Wagang bandits be able to survive?" Someone took the conversation and responded confidently.
However, everyone was happily cleaning the battlefield under the organization of the team leader, while talking a lot, looking forward to the day when Wagang was completely wiped out. General Li was undefeated. Both the soldiers of the Boling Army and the County Army firmly believed in this, and they were all convinced of this.
no doubt
They are so simple-minded that they cannot see through the dark clouds above their heads, let alone that behind the dark clouds, an unprecedented storm is brewing.
Li Xu from the Chinese Army hurried back without even bothering to wipe the water off his body before walking into the Chinese Army's tent. What greeted him was several faces twisted with anger.
"Xu Maogong broke through the Hulao defense line. The forwards have arrived in Yingze and General Wang Junkuo, who is besieging Yingze, is leading his troops to confront him. The outcome is uncertain!" Before Li Xu could ask, Zhang Jiang held up a battle report stained red with blood and trembled.
Bring it to him
"What?" Although he had made some preparations in advance, these words still made Li Xu's body shake. He stretched out his hand to grab the battle report, read it over and over several times, wishing that he had dug out every word, and then asked in a calm voice.
: "How could this be? How could Xu Maogong pass between Hulao and Xingyang? Where are Wang Bian and Pei Renji, what do they do for food?"
Nearly 100,000 elite officers and troops could not stop a Wagang partial division. No one could believe this result, but it happened, and it happened to happen at the critical moment of the decisive battle between Li Xu and the main force of Wagang. If Li Mi could calm down.
Qi will postpone the decisive battle for one more day. Those who will be wiped out today will be the Sui army.
Thinking of this, Li Xu grabbed the battle report and read it again from beginning to end. It was still those few lines, but every word stabbed his heart like a knife.
"The scouts we sent reported that Wang Bian had withdrawn to Guancheng the day before yesterday, so when Xu Maogong passed by Xingyang, not a single soldier in the city came out to stop him! As for Hulao Pass, our brothers were all asleep, and there is still no news!
"The pale Zhang Jiang trembled and summarized the information he had collected as briefly as possible.
"Crack!" Li Xu's eyes were dazzled by the sudden lightning that struck the military tent. He supported Shuai Ben with his hands, and he managed to steady himself. Huben Lang General Wang Bian was familiar with military books, so he should know how to let Xu Mao Gongdong go.
What will be the consequences of entering? And Qin Shubao and Luo Shixin in Hulao Pass are their good brothers, and it is even more impossible for the two of them to sell their good brothers' backs to the enemy who killed General Zhang.
Unless they have a last resort reason!
"Do you think General Qin Shubao and you are of the same mind or have the same interests?" Behind the sudden thunder, he heard a voice ask quietly.
But the bones of General Zhang are still cold? The rain-soaked armor is getting colder and colder, so cold that Xu Zi can't help but chatter his teeth. In order to prevent Xu Maogong from advancing eastward, he has sent the strongest Wang Bian in the army to help the Qijun children.
, I thought that as long as either of the two groups of officers and soldiers was willing to fulfill their responsibilities, Xu Maogong would not be able to cross the Hulao defense line, but he never expected that at the critical moment, not only Wang Bian stood by, but the Qijun children were also cold-blooded.
These were two knives inserted from behind, each one covered with venom. Fortunately, Wang Junkuo, who was leading several county soldiers to besiege Xingze, was alert enough and tried his best to block Xu Maogong's approach, but Wang Junkuo was all
County soldiers, are they the opponents of Wagang's elite? Li Xu doesn't need to think about the answer!
"Jun Kuo said in the letter that he would try his best to hold Xu Maogong back for one day!" Sicang joined the army and Guo Fang knew his old friend's abilities, so he boldly walked up to Li Xu and repeated the words of the battle report in a low voice.
"One day is enough!" Xuzi responded in a deep voice. He felt an unforgettable coldness, and almost wanted to fall down and never get up again, but there was a flame in his heart that slowly curled up, providing him with the heat that he could barely sustain.
He remembered that for the sake of safety, he had made an agreement with Zhai Rang, the leader of the Wagang Army, not to attack each other before noon tomorrow. The Wagang Army, which had just been defeated, would not have thought that there was something wrong behind the officers and soldiers' backs, and they would take advantage of this day.
He seizes the time to evacuate to the mountainous area. At present, the officers and soldiers of all walks of life have just won a victory, and their spirits are higher, which can be used to carry out the third step of the bandit suppression plan that he formulated in advance.
That was the step he least wanted to take, but he had to do it in advance
Putting down the bloody military letter, Li Xu ordered the drum-beating generals. Xu Maogong's troops are the most powerful among the Henan bandits. If he is defeated head-on, the Henan bandits will never have a chance to make a comeback. If this battle is destined,
If I can't escape, I will face it calmly!" After he walked back to Shuai's case with a smile, the smile on his face became brighter and brighter. The experiences in his youth passed before his eyes like clouds, as if they happened yesterday.
"Dong-dong-dong-dong!" The thunderous drums suddenly exploded, transmitting the commander's order to every corner of the battlefield. "General, gather the generals, General Li gathers the generals!" The soldiers rode their horses in the rain.
Shuttle back and forth, like a small boat at the tip of the wind and at the bottom of the wind, the figure disappears and appears.
"I am seventeen this year, and I am your brother!" Yesterday, Xu Dayan took out a dagger from his boot with a smile, and gently inserted it into Teller's ass. Then, like a kite, he flew off the horse and killed the surviving man.
The opportunity was left to his brother
"Xu Dayan has come a long way, and his troops will be tired." Before the commanders of the county soldiers arrived, Li Xu explained to several core generals of the Boling Army, "Li Mi has suffered a new defeat, and his morale is low. Let's wait for work, and the chance of victory...
..!”
Before he could finish speaking, there was suddenly a burst of rapid horse hoofbeats outside the tent, "Oh, yes, yes, yes" coming from far and near, heading straight for the Chinese army's tent.
"Who is riding horses in the Chinese army!" Zhang Jiang, with a solemn face, turned around and shouted at the entrance of the military tent to ask Boling Army. Military discipline is strict. Except for scouts and messengers conveying urgent military information, it is strictly forbidden to gallop in the Chinese army, especially in
During the battle, the sound of horse hooves appearing in the Chinese army could easily cause the soldiers to misunderstand the military situation. Everyone's anger was frozen in the face by the cold wind. The door of the Chinese army's tent was pushed open, and the guards helped a man in.
Potbelly woman
"They want to borrow, borrow the knife...!" Seeing Xu Zi, Shi Lan could no longer hold on. He only yelled half a sentence and then collapsed softly in the arms of the guards. The muddy ground under his feet was instantly moistened with blood.
penetrating, poignant and eye-catching
"Crack!" A bolt of lightning cracked the sky. Under the gray-black sky, the Chinese army's tent was shaking.
