The next day, after the golden autumn sun rose, all the white clouds in the sky were burned to the same color, reflected on the gentle Xichuan River, and in the agitated drumbeat, Li Xilie greeted the dazzling east sun, squinted his eyes, and looked at the opposite riverbank.

Jia Tan, Fan Ze, Gao Yue, Wei Gao joint venture vast, on the shore of the Gao, all lined up isolated horse rejection fence, the fence hung with well-made signs, the vertical and horizontal key passages stuffed with wheeled leather carts, all kinds of flags in the morning breeze drumming, its cavalry quietly stretched out in a team, the horse's head shook from time to time, snorted, and the foot soldiers behind carried crossbow machines, carrying long knives, overlapping and stacking, waiting for the battle.

And all the ships on Xichuan were also collected by Jia Tan in advance.

Obviously, it is difficult to cross Xichuan, let alone rendezvous with Feng Youlin.

Seeing this scene, Li Xilie was even more afraid, he sighed, rode on the mule, and said deflating words to Li Yuanping beside him:

"It seems that when I went out of Wuguan Dao to commit the Jingshi, I was indeed careless, and now my 15,000 Huaining army disciples are all trapped in the square inch from Wuguan to the inner countryside, and there is nowhere to maneuver!"

"Don't be like this King of Chu, the Caizhou Mule Army has always been known for daring to fight, as long as you sacrifice your life to attack, you may not be able to kill a bloody road." Li Yuanping is still unwilling to give up.

At this time, Li Xilie laughed on his back, and then he pulled the reins, turned back and asked all the door gun generals and tooth generals, who is willing to force the Xichuan River, hit Jia Tan's camp, and instigate the king to escape?

As a result, everyone looked at each other with a look of fear.

So Li Xilie asked again, but no one answered.

At this time, the king of Chu was helpless, and said to Li Yuanping that the army's heart had festered to this point, and it was really a lack of skills to return to the sky!

"King Chu, do you want to be killed? Yuan Ping's three-foot life, a scholar, still has the will to die, as long as the king of Chu can rush back to Huaixi, there is a place to live. If you give up in front of this Xichuan now, then this fifteen thousand Huaining disciples who are accustomed to fighting will be completely destroyed and defeated to the point of worthlessness. Although Li Yuanping was short in stature, he also held the horsewhip at this time, and his voice was fierce.

"Rush back to Huaixi, rush back to Huaixi,......" Li Xilie muttered, and then he looked at the iron-walled Jia Tan camp on the other side of the river, and then his face flashed with a hint of mortal fanaticism, "What is Huaixi going back to now?" Yuanping, let's just gamble again and take Gucheng. ”

"Takyo Castle?" Li Yuanping was immediately surprised.

Li Xilie gritted his teeth and said yes, we simply did not go to Xichuan, but followed it south, crossed the mouth of Xichuan and Danshui, broke through Jingzi Pass, and then occupied Gucheng.

As long as you occupy Gucheng, you can not only get supplies, but also cut off the transportation of Xiangyang City and Yunxiang and Hanshui between Shangjin.

What's more, in the Jingshan area, there are also mountain sheds Li Shuwen and Mo Liuhun who are willing to follow me in Huaixi, and they can also get their guides.

As a result, as soon as Li Xilie's words came out, the generals of the Huaining Army suddenly stopped, and they were unwilling to follow this to Wudang Mountain as a grass coward, so they got off the mules one after another, and Luo Bai was around Li Xilie, begging him not to be rash, and everyone was willing to protect him and return to Huaixi.

At this time, Li Xilie saw that he had the initiative, so he said to everyone, is this really the case?

Everyone nodded and said that the fox died in Shouqiu: We would rather die on the way back to Huaixi than go to Gucheng and Yunxiang and become ghosts in a foreign land.

"Okay, let's not go to Gucheng, but Jia Tan is on the other side now, and he took away all the boats, just to force us to cross Xichuan, and he attacked halfway through, so we threw ourselves into the net." Li Xilie then pointed the horsewhip to the north, "We just didn't fulfill his wish, let me go north, to the old stork river, where there are boats and the water is shallow, you can cross it by yourself, and go to Nanyang to meet Feng Youlin along the southern foot of Funiu Mountain." If Jia Tan follows, I will ambush a strange army and wait for an opportunity to defeat them. ”

After the plan was decided, several soldiers of the Huaixi Army carried huge horns, and the people behind them puffed up their cheeks and whined, and then Li Xilie's banner was raised, and began to lead 15,000 mule soldiers to the north.

On this side of the riverbank, behind the wooden fence of the camp, Jia Tan, the envoy of Shannan Dongdao, and Fan Ze, Gao Yue, Wei Gao, etc., were also closely observing the movements of the Huaining army on the opposite side.

"Princess, Li Xilie wants to go to the Old Stork River, what do you think?" Jia Tan twisted his beard and patted the wooden pole of the fence and said.

"If we cross the Lao Stork River, Li Xilie can use Funiu Mountain as a barrier, saving a wing of soldiers and horses to face us, although our army has the advantage of 30,000 people, I am afraid that it will not be able to exert it." Fan Ze said.

"It's better to cross Xichuan and follow Li Xiyeol to attack." Wu Xianfu suggested.

"No, Li Xilie has always known soldiers, and he may set up an ambush in a steep place behind the palace." Wei Gao hurriedly dissuaded, and then he looked at the situation of the mountains and rivers, and suddenly said, "It's better for us to make things strange with surprises." ”

"Oh?" Jia Tan slowly asked this question, waiting for Wei Gao's statement......

In the days that followed, Li Xilie was surprised to find that Jia Tan seemed to have remained in the camp in the inner countryside of the Xixia without any movement, and that his army had reached the shallows of the Lao Stork River without hindrance, and was neither intercepted nor followed.

At this time, Li Xilie looked at the green and purple woods on both sides of the riverbank, and the storks that kept flying, his heart was pounding, and out of caution, he first sent twenty dummies to ride mules across the crystal clear river, and went deep into the other bank five miles to investigate.

After that, the whole army of the Huaining Army rested by the river, and the people and mules buried their heads, and they all made bursts of sipping sounds: the water of the Lao Stork River is much better than the water of Chang'an City.

And Li Xilie and Li Yuanping were both sitting on the edge of a lying stone covered with moss, and their mood was not as relaxed as others, always looking at the other side of the riverbank, waiting for the "return" of the sentry mule soldiers.

"King Chu, look!" Li Yuanping, a small man, stood on the lying rock, and excitedly pointed to the canyon on the opposite bank.

There, a puff of fireless smoke came out.

This is the signal of the sentry scotts: there is no hostility on the land on the other side.

Li Xilie's beating heart finally stopped, he stood up with his hand on the rock, and then waved his arm to the generals beside him, his voice was uncontrollable excitement, "Cross the river!" ”

Next, the sound of the water was loud, and the mule soldiers waded through the Old Stork River in a group.

Soon, in the valley on the bank of the river, a murderous group of mule soldiers also poured out, catching up with the large army crossing the river.

This is an ambush set up by Li Xilie in the woods on the mountainside in advance, during this time he never dared to slack off, every time the military camp rested, he had to set up an ambush in a steep place, just afraid of when Jia Tan's brigade would catch up.

After completely crossing the Lao Stork River, all the soldiers of the Huaining Army let out irrepressible cheers.

Next, Li Yuanping also excitedly asked: "King Chu, now drive directly to the east of Jutan City, seize supplies, and prepare to join General Feng Youlin." ”