"Lord Wang! Rajah! The surrounding soldiers hurriedly rescued Luo Yi, and after a while, Luo Yi woke up, and he couldn't help but sigh, "I missed the fighter!" ”

Luo Shou hurriedly helped his brother up, and asked uneasily: "The Qingzhou army has come to the city, what should we do?" ”

"What else, immediately withdraw the army back to Jixian County for rescue, and send more scouts to investigate along the way to prevent being ambushed by the enemy."

"I'll arrange it!"

Luo Shou galloped away, Luo Yi was barely helped onto the war horse, he really had no choice, the families of the soldiers were all in Jixian County, including his own wives and concubines, if he didn't care about Jixian, no one would die for him.

After a while, the 20,000 Youzhou army didn't even want the camp tent, and began to quickly assemble and retreat, Li Jing on the city looked at the Youzhou army retreating north in great surprise, Zhao Liang had already understood, and said excitedly: "It must be the handsome man who has killed Jixian County, and Luo Yi has to withdraw the army." ”

Duan Xianda was also very excited and said, "General, let's kill it!" ”

"Don't move!"

Li Jinglao was steady, he thought of the possibility of the Youzhou army feintting to withdraw, and said sharply to the left and right: "Without my order, no one is allowed to go out of the city!" ”

The army in Cangcheng did not move, but Luo Yi could no longer take care of Lushui Cang at this time, and retreated in the direction of Beiqiao in a hurry.

Zhao Liang saw that the Youzhou army had gone away, so he whispered to Li Jing: "Old general, it is better for me to send two armies out, if the Youzhou army does retreat westward, we will simply demolish the south and north bridges and cut off their way to retreat east." ”

Zhao Liang was not his subordinate after all, although Li Jing was reluctant to let them out of the city, he also had no right to interfere too much, he frowned, "Does General Zhao think it is useful to demolish the bridge?" ”

Li Jing's implication is that if the other party uses a pontoon bridge, he can cross the river.

Zhao Liang smiled slightly, "If it's a defeated army, there will be no time to build a pontoon bridge." ”

Li Jing listened to him reasonably. He nodded, "Okay! General Zhao decided for himself. ”

Zhao Liang immediately sent 2,000 people out of the city, went to the south bridge and the north bridge respectively, and as long as the Youzhou army crossed the river to the west, the wooden bridge was immediately demolished

Half an hour later, Luo Yi led the army to the North Bridge. He left five hundred soldiers here to guard the bridge, and Luo Yi stepped forward and shouted, "What's the situation here?" ”

"Back to the prince, everything is normal here!"

"Is there anyone suspicious?" Luo Yi asked again.

"No suspicious people were found, there were basically no pedestrians in the morning, only a caravan wanted to cross the bridge just now, but was stopped by us, and they went north without crossing the bridge."

"What kind of caravan?" Next to him, Luo Shou asked.

"It was a small caravan, twenty mules, three or four strong men. It came from Hejian County, and it seemed that it was transporting private salt, and it was going to go to the grassland by Miyun Road. ”

Luo Yi didn't ask any further, there are many caravans of this kind of trafficking in illicit salt, trafficking illicit salt to the grassland, making a lot of profits, and then trafficking good horses back to the Central Plains, although it is necessary to constantly pay bribes along the way. But a trip back and forth can make thousands of dollars, and Luo Yi also knows this kind of trick. Most of the time I open my eyes and close my eyes.

At this time, several scout cavalry teams rushed over, and they all hugged their fists and reported: "Lord Qiqi, there is no abnormality within ten miles from north to south. ”

"There are no ambushes within ten miles ahead."

Luo Yi nodded, and waved his sword, "The army crosses the bridge!" ”

20,000 Youzhou troops crossed the North Bridge. Continuing to kill Jixian County in the northeast along the official road, Luo Yi also took into account the strategy of the Sui army besieging the city and sending reinforcements, so he sent a large number of scouts to explore the front road, and he did not let go of any place that could be used as an ambush to ensure that his army could go north smoothly.

Lushui is about 100 miles away from Jixian County. Luo Yi's army set off at noon, and if it was forced to march, it would take about half a day to arrive, but because the army marched overnight last night, it was really a little tired, so Luo Yi knew very well that the army could not march forcibly, and if it arrived in Jixian County and was exhausted, it would be equivalent to sending a plate of sumptuous dishes to the Sui army.

Therefore, although Luo Yi was anxious, he did not dare to march too tired, and after the army ran out of thirty miles, Luo Yi immediately ordered the whole army to rest on the spot.

20,000 soldiers sat on both sides of the official road, drank water and rested, and took out dry food for lunch by the way, Luo Yi was not at ease, riding on a horse to observe both sides, the official road was built in eight years of the great cause, very wide and flat, easy to transport grain, on both sides is an endless field, the north faintly visible majestic Yanshan Mountains, here is a fertile plain, planting winter wheat and corn, at this time it is late October, corn and beans have just been harvested, the field looks very desolate, a farmer can not see.

Luo Yi felt a little strange, when he came over yesterday, the field was still full of women and children picking tassels, why didn't anyone see anyone today?

He suddenly became a little vigilant in his heart, and shouted: "Let the scouts go to the north and south to check, and go a little farther." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the earth suddenly began to shake, and I saw that a large amount of dust suddenly appeared in the north and south, and Luo Yi's scalp was about to explode, it was a cavalry!

He shouted in a hurry, "Get up and line up, get ready to fight!" ”

Without waiting for Luo Yi's order to be conveyed, the Youzhou army was so frightened that they got up one after another, and began to quickly line up on the official road, with the crossbowmen in front and the spearmen behind, the 20,000 Youzhou troops were well-trained and extremely strong in combat, if the Qingzhou army only had 10,000 cavalry, the Youzhou army might not lose to the other party, but they faced 20,000 cavalry attacks this time.

After getting Yu Wenhua and tens of thousands of war horses, the Qingzhou army quickly formed a new 10,000-strong cavalry, also commanded by Pei Xingyan, they have trained 20,000 cavalry in recent years, but there is a lack of war horses, so when the war horses are in place, the cavalry will immediately become an army.

This is an extremely powerful cavalry, very well equipped, each soldier is draped in bright light armor and eagle prismatic helmets, strong armor to protect vital parts, equipped with sharp horizontal knives and sharp war lances.

In particular, it is worth mentioning the war lance used by the cavalry, this kind of war lance is about one zhang and one foot long, there is a spear thorn at the front end, the two sides have sharp blades, which can be split and stabbed, the appearance is slightly like a three-pointed two-edged knife, but the spear spur part is much longer, the lance rod is three dips and three exercises, the knife is constantly chopped, full of tenacity, it is the best weapon of the cavalry.

Although the war lance is not as cumbersome as the horse lance, it was also carefully built by the Great Sui Weapons Supervisor, and a total of 200,000 such war lances were built in ten years, and 100,000 elite cavalry were allocated.

Due to years of war, most of this kind of war lance has been lost, and there are less than 60,000 surviving guns, and the Qingzhou army got 5,000 stock war lances when seizing the Liaodong warehouse, and this time it got nearly 20,000 from the Xiaoguo army, so that the Qingzhou army has about 23,000 war lances in its hands, which are just rationed to the cavalry and scout army.

But as long as it is a weapon, it will be consumed, so Zhang Xuan has ordered the ordnance supervisor to rebuild this sharp war lance, and he hopes to maintain it at the level of 50,000 pieces.

20,000 cavalry in the south and north overwhelmingly, Pei Xingyan led 10,000 cavalry in the north, they were ambushed in a forest thirty miles away in the north, the private salt caravan was actually the scouts sent by Pei Xingyan, they found signs of the Youzhou army retreating north, and immediately rushed to report to Pei Xingyan, Pei Xingyan immediately sent an eagle letter to inform the deputy general Mai Mengcai in the south, and the two of them went out at the same time to kill the 20,000 Youzhou troops resting on the official road.

The cavalry galloped, and they had killed a hundred paces away with their war lances and shields, and at this time, Luo Yi shouted: "Shoot the arrows!" ”

Five thousand arrows flew into the air, like a flying locust, shooting at the cavalry rushing to the north, the cavalry raised their shields to meet each other, and the dense arrows jingled into the horses, and the horses suddenly rolled and fell, and in an instant hundreds of cavalry fell to the ground, falling to the ground in the fast galloping and dense herd of war horses, which meant that they would surely die.

But the dense arrows could not stop the hurricane impact of the 10,000 cavalry, when the second round of arrows was fired, the cavalry forward had rushed to thirty steps away from the arrow array, both sides could clearly see each other's faces, the powerful impact and murderous aura brought by the stormy cavalry was overwhelming, the crossbowmen turned around and ran towards the team, and five thousand spearmen lined up to meet the first round of cavalry impact.

At the same time, the 10,000-strong cavalry in the south under the leadership of Mai Mengcai had already entered the ranks of the Youzhou army, and the team that had just been formed was shattered, and the cavalry in the north also rushed into the ranks of the spear army, and a miserable scream suddenly sounded on the official road. (To be continued.) )