Dongguang and Botou were drummed down by the Yizhou army, and Yang Wei, the former Dizhou assassin stationed in Nanpi, was shocked inexplicably, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers and horses stationed in those two places, how could they be easily beaten by the Yizhou people like paper paste? The information brought by the rout soldiers who fled from the two places, the other party simply did not have much effort.

Yang Wei, who was drumming in his heart, didn't hesitate for long before quickly making a decision.

Run.

The strength of his troops is naturally not comparable to Zhu Jun and He Chong, these two are generals under Zhu Shou, and they do not have their own territory, but he Yang Wei is also the assassin of Dizhou, although now Dizhou has been ceded to Pinglu Hou Xiyi. Even after suffering a crushing defeat in Texas, he still scraped together thousands of armor soldiers, which was the foundation of his life. It must not be buried in front of the people of Yizhou.

In Li Ze, Cao Xin was still on the way to Nanpi, and Yang Tingshi had already taken his 3,000 armor soldiers, tens of thousands of soldiers, and a large amount of ordnance, grain and grass to slip away.

Interestingly, the target of his retreat was not Cangxian, where Zhu Shou was now preparing to fight to the death with the Yizhou army, but returned to his former old nest Dizhou.

In other words, he's about to change bosses.

For Pinglu Hou Xiyi, Yang Wei brought three thousand armor soldiers to him, which was naturally a good thing. In these days, the more troops there are, the better, especially experienced soldiers like this.

Hou Xiyi led 3,000 soldiers and 10,000 soldiers stationed at the junction of Dizhou and Cangzhou, which was one of the exchange conditions for him to get Dizhou from Zhu Shou. If in the decisive battle, Zhu Shou is in danger, he will send troops to respond, threatening the Yizhou army, if Zhu Shou wins, he will also play a role in helping Zhu Shou beat the Yizhou water dogs.

For the latter point, Hou Xiyi is very happy to do it, but for the former point, Hou Xiyi decided to look at it when the time comes. If the two sides fight a lose-lose situation, or the Yizhou army wins a miserable victory, then of course he is playing the role of a messenger of justice, and the Lifa army will overturn the Yizhou invaders, and by the way, take his army to Yizhou for a walk, maybe he can also take Yizhou into his arms! As for Henghai, who is about to become a dead dog, for him, it is dispensable, firstly, Henghai was ruined enough by Zhu Shou, and it is a burden for him to get his hands, and secondly, Henghai is now Lu Long's dog's leg, if he really sweeps Henghai, Lu Long and Zhang Zhongwu will inevitably be unhappy. He didn't want to annoy the Northland boss right now.

As a party guard, Hou Xiyi naturally has his own intelligence channels. Don't look at Chengde's use of troops everywhere now, in full swing, in fact, the richest festival town in the north is already crumbling. If it weren't for that, he hadn't planned to get into the troubled waters.

But since Chengde is about to change, he might as well take this opportunity to get a little more benefit for himself. Get Dizhou from Henghai, if you get the Yizhou of Chengde again, plus the Texas in between, your own strength, it will be a big increase!

With this capital, his weight between the court and Zhang Zhongwu will undoubtedly be greatly increased, and how to choose when the time comes, the initiative is in his own hands.

Hou Xiyi felt that he was very restrained, and just sent troops to be stationed on the border between Dizhou and Cangzhou.

But Shi Zhuang didn't think so.

After accommodating Yang Wei's 3,000 armor soldiers, Hou Xiyi had already stationed 6,000 armor soldiers on the Cangzhou border, tens of thousands of government soldiers, even if he was motionless, it would be a huge threat to the upcoming Cangxian decisive battle.

Therefore, Shi Zhuang unceremoniously took his 2,000 armor soldiers, 2,000 cavalry and 5,000 soldiers directly into Dizhou. It was stationed in a big way, and it was only ten miles away from the camp of Hou Xiyi.

The little boy said that the outstretched claws must be cut off. Dizhou is the inherent territory of Henghai, and it is naturally the bag of the son, and now Hou Xiyi inserts a foot halfway above it, which is tantamount to snatching food from the tiger's mouth. If you don't cut off the claws that stretch out, then those festival envoys around Chengde, won't everyone think that the current Chengde can be bullied, and everyone wants to step on it?

This precedent cannot be set.

Shi Zhuang's patrol cavalry was only a stone's throw away from Hou Xiyi's camp when it was close, and Li De even stood on top of the tall horse outside the opponent's camp with great pomp, and pulled a soak of urine at Hou Xiyi's camp.

He was able to do whatever he wanted in this place, of course, because the scouts on both sides had already done a battle, and Li De's rangers won a great victory in this battle, killing a large number of Hou Xiyi's scouts, forcing those scouts to retreat back to the camp.

Such a reckless provocation made Hou Xiyi furious.

"Nameless child, dare to bully me!" Hou Xiyi slapped the table and shouted: "Since you don't put me in your eyes like this, then I will destroy this nameless person first, and then go to meet Cao Xin Li Ze for a while." ”

"The Lord shall not be angry and will not be discouraged and cause war. This thief is nothing more than that! Receiving the news that Hou Xiyi came in a big way, Shi Zhuang laughed, "Let's wait for work and destroy this dynasty for Gongzi, so as to warn those who have bad intentions and dare to peep at my virtuous people, just like this." ”

"Yes!" Shen Congxing, Li De, Chen Changfu, Chen Changgui and other generals hugged their fists together to receive their orders.

Nanpi, Cao Xin looked at Li Zedao with some concern: "Childe, in fact, in my opinion, it is really not appropriate to have a conflict with Hou Xiyi at this time, this person has won Dizhou for nothing, he must have been satisfied, Chen Bing's boundary, but he has the intention of picking up cheap, we don't take the initiative to provoke him, he will never take the initiative to provoke us, you let Shi Zhuang take the initiative to attack, once you fail, it will affect the overall situation." ”

"It is precisely because this person is not strong in fighting and half-hearted that I want to fight this battle even more." Li Ze shook his head and said, "Gong Cao, this is Liwei." Not just for now, but for the future. Even if we take Henghai this time, and face Lu Long in the future, there will still be a constant war, if we don't let the people around us see our great martial arts, we should not be insulted, and when we reach a critical moment with Lu Long in the future, some people come to insert a knife, it will be fatal. Zhang Zhongwu is not Zhu Shou's waste wood. ”

"Childe is looking at the problem from a higher level, and I'm just worried about the success or failure of Shi Zhuang's battle, once he loses, it will ruin the overall situation." Cao Xindao.

"Shi Zhuang also has 4,000 armor soldiers in his hands." Li Zedao: "Hou Xiyi reached 6,000 armor after accepting Yang Wei's 3,000 armor soldiers, but Yang Wei is obviously the boss of Dizhou, but this time Hou Xiyi took Dizhou away, it would be strange if he was comfortable, this battle, I am afraid that it will be even more difficult to want the two of them to work together." Hehe, when the two armies are gathered together, it is difficult to unify the order, and the order is prohibited, although the number of people is large, it will become a breakthrough that can be used. Shi Zhuang will definitely grasp this point tightly and give Hou Xiyi a blow to the head. ”

Cao Xin didn't know much about Shi Zhuang, and the first time he learned that Shi Zhuang was extraordinary was in the last Battle of Texas, Shi Zhuang led the cavalry to pursue Zhu Bin for hundreds of miles, and killed Zhu Bin with a blow to the city of Dezhou. But this time it was a confrontation between the two armies, and he didn't know what Shi Zhuang was. Therefore, I have to worry.

Cao Xin was worried, but Li Ze was full of confidence.

In Dizhou, the war between Hou Xiyi and Shi Zhuang has already begun.

As Li Ze expected, Hou Xiyi didn't really want to go to war in his heart, but was angered by Shi Zhuang, and when the army was launched and officially confronted the Yizhou army, Hou Xiyi became half-hearted.

This lack of firmness in the position was immediately reflected in the command of the battlefield. And even though Yang Wei of Dizhou knew that it was both glory and humiliation now, he still had the intention of preserving his strength. The two armies fought jointly, but there was a great incongruity in their cooperation with each other.

This immediately gave Shi Zhuang the best chance.

Shi Zhuang defended his own position with Shen Congxing, withstanding the attack of Hou Xiyi's main force, while he himself personally led Chen Changfu, Chen Changgui's 1,000 armor soldiers, and Li De's cavalry to launch a fierce attack on Yang Wei.

Shi Zhuang rushed into Yang Wei's army formation before, and his strong personal force made him embedded in Yang Wei's army like a red-hot tongs, Li De's rangers followed up, Chen Changfu and Chen Changgui followed closely to expand the results, and the battle was only half an hour, and Yang Wei, who didn't want to fight this battle, couldn't withstand Shi Zhuang's attack and retreated.

As soon as he retreated, he exposed Hou Xiyi's main flank to Shi Zhuang's attack surface.

Chen Changfu and Chen Changgui led 1,000 armor soldiers, 2,000 soldiers stared at Yang Weida, and Shi Zhuang led Li De's rangers diagonally across the battlefield to attack Hou Xiyi's main force from the flank and rear.

The main force of the Hou Department is fighting with Shen Congxing is inseparable, Shen Congxing is deployed with 1,000 armor soldiers and 3,000 soldiers, and he is defending like an iron bucket, but the Hou Department has been attacking for a long time but has made no progress, but at this moment he was taken back by Shi Zhuang, and it was suddenly in chaos.

In Shen Congxing's military array, the war drums sounded suddenly, with the soldiers in front and the government soldiers behind, and a counterattack began.

Yang Wei saw this situation and ran faster.

This seemingly evenly matched battle began an hour before ending with the complete collapse of the Yang coalition forces. Hou Xiyi, Yang Wei fled to Dizhou in embarrassment, Shi Zhuang, Li De led two thousand cavalry to chase for dozens of miles, along the way, corpses were all over the field, Hou Yang and the two, and finally only brought some personal guards to get out of the battlefield. Tens of thousands of government soldiers, wolves and rats, all over the mountains and fields are full of outlaws and fleeing soldiers.

The first battle was successful, but Shi Zhuang didn't bother to pay attention to those defeated troops anymore, so he collected his army, and the whole army turned to the direction of Cangxian, preparing to join Li Ze in Cangxian.

And Hou Xiyi, Yang Wei fled all the way to Dizhou City, and then he took a breath. In the next few days, although thousands of defeated troops were collected one after another, after this battle, Hou Xiyi had no courage at all, let alone Yang Wei.