Soon after Taiping Gongshi led 8,000 elite Sui troops from Huzhou to the south, he was intercepted by a large number of barbarian troops when he passed through the mountains of southern Gansu.

However, what made Shi Wansui feel strange was that although the barbarian army that blocked his own southward way had tens of thousands of troops, enough to annihilate the 8,000 men and horses led by himself by virtue of his numerical advantage and familiar geographical advantages, he only shot more than 1,000 Sui troops in the dense forest when the two armies met, and in the process of confrontation between the two armies, he only tried to prevent the Sui army from continuing to move south, and did not encircle and annihilate the Sui army.

It wasn't until the next day that another group of about three or four thousand enemy troops launched a fierce attack on the Sui army from behind, and Shi Wansui seemed to come back to his senses: the tens of thousands of barbarian troops that were initially blocked in front were more like being invited by the enemy army behind them to block their southward movement, and the enemy army that came later was the main force that really wanted to completely annihilate his own troops.

Once he recognized this situation, Shi Wansui, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, immediately made a bold decision: he led the army to avoid a head-on confrontation with the barbarian army intercepted in front, and lured the pursuing army behind him to flee into the jungle of the northern Fujian Mountains, intending to use the jungle cover to get rid of the dilemma of being attacked by the enemy on his back and abdomen, and concentrate his forces to deal with the unidentified pursuers behind him.

Sure enough, the barbarians who were blocking the road in front saw Shi Wansui leading the Sui army to flee into the endless jungle of Dazhang Mountain, and only bluffed the flag and shouted for a while, and did not chase after him.

Soon after Shi Wansui led the remnants of the Sui army into the jungle of Dazhang Mountain, he found that only thousands of pursuers arrived behind him, and he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and immediately ordered his soldiers to turn around and launch a jungle counterattack against the pursuers.

However, once the two armies fought each other in the deep mountains and jungles, even a fierce general like Shi Wansui, who was known for his fierceness, could not help but be amazed by the enemy's strong combat strength.

This enemy army was very different from all the armies he had seen before, each sergeant was armed with a four-foot halberd, and the armor on his body was all inaccessible to swords, and often three or four Sui sergeants besieged an enemy sergeant, and they could not take advantage of it.

Shi Wansui personally swung his knife forward, killed two enemy soldiers, and found that his soldiers had been killed and wounded by the enemy as many as 100 people in an instant, and in a panic, he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to retreat to the depths of the jungle, turn the attack into defense, get rid of the entanglement of the other party, and avoid incurring greater casualties.

When Shi Wansui led the remaining five or six thousand men and horses under his command to flee into the depths of the jungle in disarray, he finally got rid of the pursuit of the enemy army for a while, and breathed a sigh of relief, and couldn't help but think in amazement: What kind of army is this, and why is the battle so strong?

After some thought, Shi Wansui decided to go out in person, go to catch a prisoner back, and ask the opponent's strength before making plans, so regardless of the opposition of his soldiers, he did not bring a single soldier, and quietly touched the enemy's temporary military camp in the jungle under the cover of night.

Shi Wansui spotted the two sentries who were standing guard outside the gate of the enemy camp, pounced on them with lightning speed, slashed the neck of one of the sentries with a wave of his sword, and slashed the other sentry with a palm, pinching him under the armpit and trying to leave.

Unexpectedly, the enemy seemed to have expected that the Sui army would come to steal the camp, and had already set up an ambush in the camp, and before Shi Wansui turned around and left, more than a dozen halberds were thrown towards him from the camp gate, and then a black shadow took the lead in rushing towards him from the camp gate.

Shi Wansui had no choice but to use the enemy sentry caught under his arm as a knife and gun, grabbed one of his arms with one arm, swiped his body in mid-air, and blocked the short halberd that was constantly thrown at him.

"It's not good, General Xu was captured by this guy, chase after him!" A panicked shout suddenly sounded behind Shi Wansui, and hundreds of black shadows chased after him.

Shi Wansui was flying and running in front, and he heard the shouts of the enemy behind him very clearly, and he couldn't help but feel excited: he didn't expect to almost be ambushed by the other party, but he accidentally caught a big fish. He didn't have much effort to get rid of the other party, returned to the military camp, threw the general surnamed Xu who was captured by him to the ground, and ordered his soldiers to tie him up and bring him to him for personal interrogation.

It is implied in the book that the person who was accidentally captured by Shi Wansui was none other than Xu Zijian, the quarryman who had sent people to lurk in Shanyang outside Guangling City to assassinate him when Yang Guang led his army to attack Chen.

Because Gao Ying suggested to Yang Guang that in order to make Han Baohu and He Ruobi cross the river to attack Chen's army on the two routes, they could play a strange role, and temporarily not annihilate the dozen or so towns and garrisons that Nanchen retained on the north bank of the river, so that Xu Zijian and other thousands of Nanchen halberd troops in the town had a chance to escape.

Xu Zijian himself was also meritorious because of his success in gathering thousands of halberd troops, and was canonized as the general of the northern expedition by Chen Junfan, the puppet emperor of Southern Chen, and led 4,000 halberd troops to follow Xiao Yan in the Maoshan area.

When Mai Tiecane was ordered by Li Ling, the leader of the rebels on the East Road, to Maoshan for the first time and asked Xiao Yan to send troops to reinforce Wuzhou, Xiao Yan first thought of the halberd army led by Xu Zijian, which was small in number but super powerful, so he sent him to lead his headquarters to rush to the aid of Wuzhou City.

Xu Zijian was quite scheming, and specially ordered the 4,000 halberd troops under his command to change their civilian clothes without any banner, and rushed to the outside of Wuzhou City, giving Li Che's Sui army a heavy blow, at the same time, for the sake of preserving his own strength, Xu Zijian planned to cooperate with the rebels in Wuzhou City to defeat the Sui army, that is, he returned to Maoshan to ask Xiao Yan for his life, but unexpectedly met Gao Qinglian who came from Huiji outside Wuzhou City, so he obeyed Gao Qinglian's order instead, and followed him south to pursue Shi Wansui's department.

However, the shrewd Xu Zijian never expected that the person who came to steal the camp tonight was Shi Wansui, the famous general who had shocked the western frontier and slashed Apo Khan, he originally wanted to charge ahead, capture the Sui soldiers who came to steal the camp alive and return to the camp, and go to Gao Qinglian, the emperor in the rebel army, to repay the merit and ask for reward, but the result was that the chicken was not stolen and the rice was lost, and he became the other party's prisoner in a daze.