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Summer has not yet entered the festival, but there is no spring here in Langzhou, and it is very hot at night.

Xu Ping was in the backyard of the state government, sitting alone in the gazebo, thinking about the battle, thinking about the details, and preventing himself from neglecting something.

From the mouths of the captured soldiers, Xu Ping knew that the main general of Jiaozhi, Li Fengxiao, had been killed, but his body had already become a pulp under the rain of stone cannons. In the end, it was a famous general, Xu Ping asked people to pick up the bones, so as not to restrain them, put them in a good coffin, and wait for when they will be returned to his family.

Thinking about it, Xu Ping always felt that it was a fluke that there was such a result in this battle. According to his original meaning, it was to resist the attack of the Jiaozhi people, survive the battle, and calm down in the rainy season. At that time, his term of office had also arrived, and he returned to the capital to take up a new ministry in peace. As for what will happen here in Langzhou in the future, it is naturally up to the officials who will take over to worry about it, and they have done enough.

The moon had not yet risen, the sky was full of stars, and the night was quiet for a long time.

Xu Ping looked at the stars in the sky, watched them blink at him, and suddenly remembered the strange look when Sang Yi left during the day, and a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he finally knew why he felt wrong.

Everything seeks stability, and the goal is only to hold Langzhou, and I don't want to destroy a country.

How could I have such an idea?

With a wry smile, Xu Ping shook his head, why didn't he have this kind of thought?

He led the troops as a civilian officer. It's normal to think this way. Most of the civilian officials who lead the troops think this way, right? What if all the Cochin soldiers are wiped out? What about even destroying the country?

He is not a general. No matter how great the military exploits are, how can the ability of a civilian official be expressed by his military exploits? The fields are abundant, and the people are happy to work, this is what civil officials should do.

If it weren't for the memory of his previous life, Xu Ping wouldn't even have a strange feeling, and his years of experience as a magistrate have made him a typical civil official in this era.

If you think about it carefully, the two biggest troubles for civilian officials to lead troops are that they don't know how to pretend to understand. If you love to be in the limelight, you want to learn from the masters in the history books, and you can't do any tricks at every turn, so that the leading generals can make military orders. The other is my own mentality, everything is stable, and the first thing I want to do is not make mistakes, not to expand the results.

Of course, there are people who can overcome these two points, and with the ability to truly lead troops to fight, there are quite few people who combine these two advantages.

Thinking of this, Xu Ping stood up suddenly.

"Tan Hu!"

"Humble duty!"

"Quickly pass on my military order, and order Han Daocheng to drag the Jiaozhi army no matter what. Ordered Sang to inspect and Zhang Rong to speed up the march, even if it was to bear a certain amount of marching attrition. The Cochin army must also be left behind! ”

"No!"

As soon as Tan Hu turned around to leave, Xu Ping stopped him again and said: "Let the messenger tell these three people what I said below, 4,000 cavalry, 12,000 infantry troops, and a rout of less than 20,000 people in Jiaozhi, if you can't wipe out all the enemies north of the Fuliang River, you will be punished when you come back!" ”

Tan Hu was slightly surprised in his heart, he couldn't understand why Xu Ping suddenly gave such an order, in his impression Xu Ping had not had this impulse for several years. But after all, he didn't say anything, and turned around to give the order.

Watching Tan Hu leave, Xu Ping paced back and forth in the back garden shrouded in faint starlight, and his mood couldn't calm down for a long time. After six years of experience as a magistrate, he has become too much, although there are many things that are out of his time and have been brought to Yongzhou, and unconsciously, he has slowly dissolved into the bureaucratic system of this era.

It's hard to say whether this is good or bad, after all, being an official just wants an identity and a comfortable life in this world. But in his position, he has to seek his own government, and this era has given him this identity, so he must do his best to play this role well.

Tan Hu came back to recover his life, and Xu Ping said: "You clean up, follow me out of the valley to the south tomorrow, and catch up with Sang to inspect them." The battle of Langzhou has been tossed for a whole winter, and the final outcome cannot be sloppy! ”

Tan Hu hesitated and said: "Official, there are not many soldiers and horses in Langzhou City now, if you go out of the city, there are not many people and horses that can be taken out." Further south, after all, it is Cochin territory, so it is better to be careful. ”

"What's there to be careful about? The Jiaozhi rout was chased by a few people from the Sang Patrol, and some of the remaining local officials around, I brought two thousand men and horses enough to cross and horizontally! Let Lu Fang order 2,000 people, you take all the soldiers with you, and follow me together, Jiaozhi can go! ”

Seeing that Xu Ping had made up his mind, although he didn't know why there was such a change, Tan Hu still took the order. Speaking of so many years in Yongzhou, Tan Hu is the closest person to Xu Ping, and he is used to being cautious.

The red sun was slanting to the west, and the surrounding hills were plastered with gold edges, and the personal soldiers with him said to Li Renyi: "Official, rest here for the night." Tomorrow out of the Langzhou boundary, but in front of Tangzhou, there are many former Han settlers, the last time there was an accident in the Yanei, not far from the front, was robbed by the Chen family. We'll set out early tomorrow morning and hurry over there. ”

Li Renyi nodded, got off his horse, went to the side of the road to find a big stone to sit down, and brought water to drink. Looking to the north, Li Renyi still had palpitations in his heart, and asked his own soldiers: "I don't know what the battle situation is in the back, along the way, we have successively left 5,000 people to break the rear, and the Song army is still in hot pursuit." ”

The pro-soldier said vaguely: "Don't worry, the Song army is also chasing after the brigade, and we have to beat back our broken men and horses to catch up." As long as we don't mess up, we will reach the Fuliang River in two days at most, and as long as we cross the river, we will not be afraid of the Song army's pursuit. ”

Li Renyi sighed and didn't say anything more.

Now that the military situation is urgent, the commander-in-chief will not order to set up camp, anyway, the weather is hot, and he will rest in the open air for a night and go on the road early in the morning, rest and wait for the river to cross.

As we get farther and farther away from Langzhou, the hills become lower and lower, and large plains begin to appear, from here we slowly begin to enter the essence of Cochin.

Although there are also big and powerful families in the plains, they are no longer under the rule of local officials, and for Li Renyi and others, it is much safer. Along the way, despite the retreat of the army, some of the small groups of Jiaozhi soldiers who went out to collect grain and grass were attacked by the local officials, who were as annoying as they were biting their own flies.

In the night, the exhausted soldiers of Jiaozhi lay in the open air, looking at the shining stars in the sky, thinking of their hometown in the south, they had no courage to fight at all, and only thought about crossing the river and going home quickly.

And not far to the south of the camp of these Cochin soldiers, Gao Daquan with two thousand cavalry finally intercepted in front of them. Since sweeping the north bank of the Fuliang River, Gao Daquan took the cavalry to Wu'e Prefecture in the northwest and walked around, hurrying slowly before finally catching back.

[It's about to be 515, I hope to continue to hit the 515 red envelope list, and the red envelope rain will be able to give back to readers and promotional works on May 15. A piece is also love, and it must be better! (To be continued.) )