The sound of rumbling horses' hooves struck the earth, shattering the pre-dawn silence, and the dark sky was clouded with a drizzle, making the sky even darker, and Li Mi and a troop of cavalry fled wildly through the rain.

As a perennial rebel, Li Mi's riding skills are okay; Even on a horse, he can change into the outfit of an ordinary soldier, and it does not affect the running of the war horse, and then put on a shabby leather armor outside, and he looks like a soldier, plus he is already black, and his face is not used as a cover. As for the morale of a person with a similar figure to him, he has become 'Li Mi', these are Li Mi's dead soldiers, and he is not worried about the soldiers betraying him.

Although the Sui army has not yet appeared, he also knows that he has fallen into an ambush on all sides, if he can't break away before dawn, then he will definitely die, fortunately, there are many hills in this area, the mountains and forests are dense, as long as you hide for a few days, you will be safe, now the Wei army is defeated in Zhongli, deserters are everywhere, and there are not many more Li Mi, even if they are caught, they can get through in the dark.

Seeing that the sky was getting brighter and brighter, Li Mi said to more than 300 soldiers: "I don't force everyone to die for me, I just hope that everyone will remember that I Li Mi has been treating you for many years, and lead away the Sui army, as long as you run out of ten or twenty miles, you can get off the horse and surrender, the Sui army will not embarrass you, everything is up to everyone." ”

He knew that the Wei army had been defeated, people's hearts were different, and it was good to have their own presence, once they were separated, it was basically impossible for everyone to fight to the death, so he gave many soldiers the choice of survival, which allowed everyone to run a little longer.

"Holy Lord, take care." The captain at the head of the school, with the soldiers, knocked his head a few times, turned on his horse, and escorted the fake Li Mi away.

"Let's go too." Seeing that the soldiers had left, Li Mi shouted in a low voice. He, Fang Xuanzao, and the remnants of the lieutenant led a dozen of his own soldiers to hide in a jungle.

For about a moment, rumbling horses' hooves sounded from the southwest, and a superb cavalry Sui army was under the noses of Li Mi and others, galloping wildly towards the northeast.

"Holy Lord, what do we do now?" A lieutenant asked.

One person said: "The Sui army must have thought that the saint went north to the Central Plains to join General Wang and General Xu, and I am afraid that he has laid down a heavy army and is waiting for us." It is better to go the other way and go to Huiji County, we have 3,000 soldiers in Huiji and Dongyang to defend Menghaigong, as long as we collect it, there will be more than 6,000 people, and the water network in that area is all over the place, and it is completely possible to make a comeback. It really couldn't be done, so he went south along the coast and destroyed Linyi, and gained a foothold there. ”

Li Mi couldn't answer for a long time, he could go to Huiji, but even if he defeated Meng Haigong, what could he do? Isn't it still a wedding dress for the Sui army? Once you fall into the south, which you are not familiar with, I am afraid that the day of defeat will not be as lucky as it is today.

"We have few people and the goal is not obvious, we can bypass Yao Junsu, and then go to Ruyin from the north and south of Huaibei, compared with the south, we still have seven counties in Huaibei, and there are more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops, if we can't defeat the Sui army, we can withdraw to the mountains of Runan." At this time, Fang Xuanzao said his opinion.

"Okay, that's it."

As soon as he thought of the army in Huaibei, Li Mi, who was unwilling to fail and unwilling to be mediocre, made a decision.

A lieutenant hesitated for a moment and asked, "But what about the prince?" ”

Li Mi's heart ached, shook his head, and ruthlessly heartfelt: "They have fallen into the hands of the Sui army, we can't do anything, whether we live or die, it's fate." ”

The hearts of the people were gloomy, and they said no more.

"Let's go." Li Mi turned on his horse, whipped hard, and ran into the darkness.

However, it was said that the more than 300 Li Mi's personal soldiers, escorting 'Li Mi', had no way out after only seven or eight miles, and there were already 5,000 cavalry members surrounding them.

The captain at the head was named Guo Han, and he looked at the soldiers and horses of the Sui army assembled in an orderly manner, and his heart was extremely desperate; Although these people are the most powerful soldiers of the Wei army, they can't be compared with the Sui army's Xiaoguo army at all, not to mention anything else, just the momentum of forgetting life and death and looking at the world is not what the Wei army has, not to mention that now there are few soldiers and soldiers, even under normal circumstances, it is impossible to be the opponent of the Xiaoguo army.

The root is in morale, and the morale of the army is based on strong national strength, and it is the powerful imperial court that gives the soldiers of the Sui Dynasty self-confidence, and they are invincible under the leadership of Yang Tong, and have the arrogance of the world's first hero.

On the battlefield of cold weapons, morale is often the key to determining the success or failure of a war, looking at the morale of the Sui army, and then looking at the lifeless soldiers of his own year, Guo Han's heart was sad.

He found out what kind of crushing state the elite of a country in a normal state is to the so-called local heroes. The so-called "master in the people" is also how unreliable.

Wang Xiongdan's heart was extremely excited, he urged him to step forward, raised the Mo knife in his hand and pointed at it, and said loudly: "Hand over Li Mi, I will spare your life, otherwise you don't want to live." ”

"General, we only have this little bit of people, and we can't defeat the Sui army at all, so surrender." A brigade commander looked at Guo Han bitterly and pleaded bitterly.

"Get out!"

A touch of murderous intent flashed in Guo Han's eyes, and he slashed it with a knife, the brigade commander was caught off guard, and was cut off half of his neck by Guo Han with a knife, screamed, and fell off the horse.

Guo Han's face flashed with a hideous murderous intent, and he looked at the surrounding soldiers calmly: "We are the internal army of the Great Wei Dynasty, wearing the best armor, using the best weapons, riding the best war horses, and leading the highest Yulu, we are the bronze walls of the saint, and we are the army that the Sui army will be punished, do you think that if we don't resist, the Sui army will let us go?" Impossible. ”

Everyone's hearts sank.

They are fierce men with a heart of loyalty. As soon as he heard Guo Han say this, he felt that it was reasonable, and immediately gave up his desire to survive.

Once a person has let go of everything, even if he is surrounded by enemies, he is no longer afraid.

"Kill."

Suddenly, more than 300 soldiers found a high-spirited momentum, although there were only more than 300 people, but the momentum was no less than the surrounding Sui army.

Opposite side.

In the army of the Sui army, a lieutenant looked at Wang Xiong in confusion and said, "General Wang, what does Wei Jun mean by this?" ”

Wang Xiongdan looked at this lonely Wei army with a cold expression, and snorted coldly: "The enemy army has already set up a decisive heart to die, complete them, Modao Army, attack!" ”

"Kill!"

The dense Sui army formation split from the middle, and a row of black-pressed heavy armored cavalry appeared behind the crowd, which was the invincible Mo swordsman of the Great Sui.

Yang Tong knew that Li Mi had a strong soldier in his hands, and in order to completely destroy it, he asked each interception division to bring hundreds of Mo swordsmen, one of them with two horses, one carrying knives and one horse.

They were in armor, like behemoths, cold and murderous, although the speed was slow, but as soon as they appeared, the amazing momentum even overshadowed everything.

"Shoot the arrows, release the arrows!"

Even if Guo Han already had the will to die, when he saw the appearance of this monster-like army, his face changed.

The scattered arrows suddenly covered the Mo Dao Army, but they could not threaten the Mo Dao warriors who were wrapped in armor at all, and only heard a dense clanging sound, and no one was injured.

"Soldiers, kill!" Wang Xiongdan raised the Mo knife, and suddenly rushed out on his horse, rushing towards the Wei army with the Mo knife hand.

As the main general, he should not go to war at this time, but as a soldier, he respects the loyal and righteous people very much, and feels that he should personally send this loyal army a ride to show his minimum respect for 'loyalty'.

"Kill!" The officers and men of the three armies were encouraged and let out a roar that shook the heavens and the earth.

Soon, the Mo knife warriors launched a charge, like a storm towards the Wei soldiers, the sound of horses' hooves was like thunder, rushing to charge with the momentum of devastating and decaying, the Mo knife in their hands was simply repeated to chop and split, under their best efforts, the knife was like a city wall, and it slashed at three hundred Wei soldiers with the momentum of destroying everything and invincible everything.

Including Guo Han, the Wei soldiers were turned into broken corpses, and from beginning to end, no one surrendered.

In the encirclement, only 'Li Mi' stood there alone, and Wang Xiong rushed up, knocked him off his horse, and let people tie him up

Wang Xiongdan said loudly: "Li Miji was captured alive and returned to his teacher." ”

The soldiers of the Sui army let out a shocking cheer.

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At this time, a blue light had already appeared on the eastern horizon.

The 'battle' of the Wei army camp had come to an end, and it was only now that some soldiers who were lucky enough to survive the civil strife realized that it was their own people who had fought with them for nearly two hours.

With Yang Tong's order, the Sui army, who had been a spectator in the middle of the night, entered the camp to take over, and groups of prisoners of war sat on the ground dejectedly, while the Sui soldiers were nervously cleaning up the battlefield and taking over the logistics area.

More than a dozen Wei generals pushed the soldiers in front of Yang Tong, they were trapped by the rout in the chaos, when the Sui army entered the camp, they were arrested, and they knelt down and begged for mercy: "Shengshang, we are willing to surrender to the Great Sui, serve the Great Sui, and ask the Shengshang to spare our lives." ”

Yang Tong smiled and teased: "As a prisoner, you only thought of surrendering, do you still want to be high up in my Great Sui?" It's late. ”

He ordered to the left and right: "Push these people down and behead them." ”

The soldiers pushed them down, and they shouted from afar, "Holy mercy...... Spare your life! ”

Yang Tong was unmoved, if he spared these people now, then all the enemies would think that Yang Tong would not kill them, and then fight to the end on the battlefield, and finally surrender if he couldn't fight, how could there be such a good thing in the world?

Dou Jiande in history is extremely righteous in life. He regarded money as dung, took all the money he had to help those in need, and fed, lived and fought with the soldiers, so that the whole army was willing to die for him.

But his benevolence and righteousness do not distinguish between enemies and friends, whenever the soldiers catch General Li Tang, as long as these people say something impassionedly, they will be praised by him in public, and then released. Therefore, General Li Tang felt that even if he fell into the hands of Dou Jiande, he would not die, so he would not surrender even if it was dangerous. Everyone has this heart, and then it brought great trouble to Dou Jiande.

Of course, Yang Tong would not commit this kind of stupidity and benevolence.

At this time, a soldier rushed to the scene and reported: "Qi Qi Sheng, General Wang Xiongdan came to report, he caught Li Mi"

Yang Tong was stunned, under the thick night, it was actually very easy for Li Mi to escape, but he didn't run away?

In fact, Yang Tong doesn't care much about Li Mi, it's good to be able to catch it, but it doesn't matter if he runs away. But since he has been caught, of course he still has to take a look, "Let Wang Xiong bring Li Mi's with him." ”

"Whoa." This one is gone.

"Bring Bing Yuanzhen." Although Yang Tong didn't know Li Mi, there were people who were serious about him.

After a while, Wang Xiongdan asked people to escort 'Li Mi', and he saluted with a spring breeze on his face: "Qi Sheng, the last general has caught Li Mi, please send the Shengshang." ”

Several soldiers pushed 'Li Mi' in front of Yang Tong and took out the rags from his mouth.

As soon as 'Li Mi' was free, he fell to his knees with a thud, "Holy Lord! I'm not Li Mi, just one of his personal soldiers. ”

Everyone was stunned.

Bing Yuanzhen came in a hurry, Yang Tong asked him to come forward to identify, Bing Yuanzhen only glanced at it, and immediately said: "Shengshang, this is not Li Mi." ”

In fact, there is no need for Bing Yuanzhen to confirm, Yang Tong feels that this is a fake, because Li Mi is a generation of heroes after all, how can he kneel and kowtow. And in the night, how could Li Mi be so easy to catch?

He glanced at Wang Xiongdan, whose face was swollen into the color of pig liver, Wang Xiongdan kicked the fake hard, and said angrily: "Why didn't you say it earlier." ”

The fake smiled bitterly: "You gag my mouth, as long as I squeak, you will slap me in the face, what can I say?" ”

The crowd couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Wang Xiong was embarrassed.

Yang Tong asked the stand-in: "Where did Li Mi go?" ”

"He and Mr. Fang hid in the mountains and disappeared."

"Take him into a prisoner camp." Yang Tong didn't blame Wang Xiongdan, he hadn't seen Li Mi, and it was not his fault that the sky was unclear.

Yang Tong looked at Bing Yuanzhen and asked, "Where do you think Li Mi fled to?" ”

Bing Yuanzhen pondered for a moment and replied seriously: "Dividing the south of the Yangtze River and taking full advantage of the Sui and Tang dynasties is the strategy set by Fang Xuanzao for Li Mi; However, when Li Mi went to the south, he did not get the support of the Jiangnan Shi clan, and the people also regarded the Wei army as an invader. Fang Xuanzao also told me that he expressed his regret, and also said that staying in the Central Plains and joining forces with the puppet Tang Dynasty was the best policy, and I think he would definitely persuade Li Mi to go north to the Central Plains. ”

"Does Li Mi accept it?" Yang Tong asked again.

Bing Yuanzhen replied: "Although Li Mi has shortcomings such as indecision, he has always taken the anti-Sui as his own responsibility and has great ambitions, and there are still more than 100,000 troops in Huaibei, he will definitely abscond to the north." ”

"Is it possible to gather forces to surrender to the puppet Tang?" Fang Xuanling next to him asked.

Bing Yuanzhen said: "Li Mi is a gambler who gambles with his life, and he will not be willing to submit to anyone if he does not lose. ”

Yang Tong understood what Bing Yuanzhen meant, and said with a smile: "If Li Mi is defeated, will he surrender to the pseudo-Tang?" ”

"I didn't think so."

Bing Yuanzhen shook his head and said: "The general trend of the world is already very clear, and the pseudo-Tang is just barely breathing, Li Mi will not know this truth." With his pride, he would never go to a mortal court. I think he coexisted with the Huaibei army and died a lot, and of course, he could also spend his life hiding somewhere like before. ”

After a pause, Bing Yuanzhen said again: "There is a faction under Li Mi, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji and I are classified as the Yuanxun faction, and Wang Bodang is Li Mi's staunchest supporter, and the contradiction between the two is extremely deep, and the saint can use this to defeat the Wei army on the battlefield." ”

"I don't think Xu Shiji is a person who doesn't know the general situation, it's all at this time, how can he fight among himself?"

Bing Yuanzhen said: "Actually, Shan Xiongxin and Xu Shiji and I have always had doubts about Zhai Rang's death, and the saint might as well take this as a result. ”

"That's not a good idea, I know what you mean." Yang Tong laughed.

Xu Shiji is no less than Li Jing in history, he hit Xue Yantuo twice and pacified the north of the moraine. Later, he broke through the Eastern Turks and Goguryeo, and became one of the main generals of the Tang Dynasty to expand its territory.

If he can be included in the Great Sui Dynasty, it will be the luck of the Great Sui and the nation. It's just that Yang Tong hasn't thought of a good way before,

Now when I heard Bing Yuanzhen say this, I suddenly discovered the cause of Zhai Rang's death, which seemed to make this possibility a reality.