The sun has just fallen, but it is the hottest time of the day, and people are like being scorched.

But at this time, Xiao Kuian felt more comfortable.

In this ghostly hot weather, you will sweat after walking dozens of steps, let alone use a shield and a knife to break through obstacles and fight.

The wandering army couldn't bear the hot weather, so they retreated to rest temporarily, and the Duhuai army blocked in the earthen fence could also take a breath.

Xiao Kuian was as tired as if he was semi-paralyzed, and sat in the shadow of the earthen enclosure, the wind was blowing, and the pores were comfortable. He took the leather bag that was handed the water and drank it in small sips. said that he was extremely thirsty, but he was almost out of strength in the fierce battle, sweating like pulp, and it was most taboo to pour herbal tea into his stomach.

Seeing Liu Tingzhou coming, Xiao Kuian wanted to stand up and salute.

Liu Tingzhou pressed his shoulder and said, "Take a break, I don't know when the bandits will attack again...... He didn't care about any manners, and sat on the ground against the cool adobe wall.

A junior colonel next to him crawled over on his knees and asked Liu Tingzhou in a low voice: "Lord Liu, when will the reinforcements of the brigade of the envoy come, only four or five hundred cavalry are hanging bandits far away on the periphery, and they can't relieve us of such pressure." Shouldn't we be in the same position? ”

"Eat the rations, grab the knife in your hand, and kill a few more thieves is the right thing," Xiao Kuian glared at the colonel and reprimanded, "Can you say these words?" That's what you're supposed to ask? ”

Liu Tingzhou smiled slightly, didn't mind the junior colonel asking him so, and said: "The envoy is a person who believes in his words and does what he says, the Jiangdong Left Army attacked the east in the north and the Fujian thieves in the south, and there is no disadvantage, and it is to send a cavalry first, which is to strengthen our belief in sticking to and waiting for help." Of course, we also have to take into account that there are many people in Si, Yi, and Shu, and we must give more time for the system, and it will take a few days for the reinforcements to come, and tell everyone that we must not lose confidence at this time......

Xiao Kuian looked up at the tops of the elm tree in the distance, through the dense leaves, the scorching sun shone brightly, and the worry in his heart was hard to dispel, he glanced at Liu Tingzhou, and saw that his face was solemn again, thinking that he also had the same worry in his heart, what he said to Xiao Xiao just now, I'm afraid he doesn't have a little bottom in his heart, right?

The cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army had appeared on the periphery, but the number was too small to shake the bandit army on the periphery. Although the appearance of these four or five hundred cavalry gave hope to the four or five thousand people trapped in the earthen enclosure, who knew that this was not a perfunctory thing by Lin Tie and used to block the mouths of people in the world?

Since the last time, a messenger from the Jiangdong Left Army pretended to be a bandit and broke in to report the news, the bandits have become much more cautious and the blockade has become stricter.

Xiao Kuian: They have been trapped in the dirt fence for many days, and they have never received any news from the outside world, and they don't know how the fight is going outside.

In their opinion, the Jiangdong Left Army should have landed from Surabaya in the east or Huaishui in the north, and after these days, only four or five hundred cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army appeared on the periphery, and it is no wonder that they are suspicious and think too much.

The Jiangdong Left Army came from Shukou, no matter how difficult it was, it couldn't have passed for six or seven days, and there was still no shadow of the main force to be seen!

In the past few days, Teng Xingyuan, the magistrate of Shanyang, has been seriously injured and died, and Tao Chun has also been seriously injured, and the nearly 6,000 people who were evacuated from the village have lost more than one-third. There is no medicine for the injured and sick, and there is no medical treatment, lying in the courtyard of the ancestral hall moaning and wailing and waiting for death; The weather was hot, and the air was filled with the smell of rotting corpses, if it weren't for the appearance of four or five hundred cavalry of the Jiangdong Left Army on the periphery three days ago, the generals would have collapsed.

At this time, there was a commotion in the enclosure, and the battle was like this, for fear that someone below would not be able to hold on and collapse first, Xiao Kuian and Liu Tingzhou jumped up as if they were pressing, and looked into the village, not knowing what happened.

I saw Liu Tingzhou's old family member Liu An stumbling to him, kowtowing, knocking dusty, wailing for help: "My lord, since you entered Beijing to take the exam, Da Qing'er has been by your side, hard-working, and never complained." From Feixiaji to Siyang, it was Da Qing'er who took two arrows for you, you can't be ungrateful and let people kill Da Qing'er. The old slave has lived sixty years old, and he has lived enough, and he has dozens of catties of old meat. When you want to break through, you still have to count on Da Qing'er to give you a ride......"

"Bring Da Qing'er here." Liu Tingzhou said.

Others brought a skinny old horse, and the green trees and grass in the village were cooked as military food, and the livestock naturally had no forage, and it was a miracle that they could not die after living these days.

Liu Tingzhou came over and touched the horse's neck, the old horse that had been with him for ten years came over and rubbed his forehead, Liu Tingzhou was in tears, resolutely pulled out the saber on his waist and cut it towards the horse's neck. Liu Tingzhou's trembling hands, without much strength, couldn't cut the throat, couldn't cut it, and blood gushed out from the horse's neck. The old horse didn't struggle, he fell down, his nose exhaled like a fan, and the muddy horse looked straight at Liu Tingzhou.

Xiao Kuian came over, took the knife in Liu Tingzhou's hand, and cut the horse's throat so that the old horse would not suffer more. This is already the last horse, and it is only enough for everyone to fill in the gaps between their teeth, and the Jiangdong Left Army has not come to help, is it really like Liu An said, is it going to start eating human flesh?

As soon as the dead horse was carried down, the lookout post on the top of the small watchtower in the stockade excitedly shouted downward: "Reinforcements, reinforcements, in the north!" Reinforcements came from the north. ”

Liu Tingzhou didn't care about the horse blood on his body, and looked at Xiao Kuian, unable to believe such news: How could there be reinforcements coming from the north?

No matter what happened to Liu Tingzhou and Xiao Kuian, the generals in the village were as excited as if they had eaten a thousand-year-old ginseng tonic, and they climbed up to look north at the nearest high place, cheering wave after wave, and the ordinary soldiers had already decided that there were reinforcements coming from the north.

Liu Tingzhou and Xiao Kuian hurriedly climbed the watchtower and looked north.

There were several strands of soldiers and horses entangled together, rushing southward, like a mighty flood that overflowed the wasteland, wading through hills, ditches, and trees, and there was no edge in sight, and it was impossible to see how many people there were.

Between several forces of soldiers and horses, arrows came to shoot at the edges, horses rushed to men, and they were still fighting. Although it was still far away and he couldn't see the flag clearly, if this group of people didn't have reinforcements from the Jiangdong Left Army, Liu Tingzhou thought that he would kill himself, so as to leave a way for Xiao Kuian and his generals to abandon their weapons and surrender.

At this time, the bandits surrounding the stockade also moved quickly. They did not organize men to storm the village, and quickly formed a formation on the north side of a ditch that was not too wide, obviously to guard against the enemy from the north, and the bandits outside the stockade also quickly closed on both flanks to prevent reinforcements from attacking from the north.

"It's reinforcements!" Xiao Kuian said, "I didn't expect it to come from the north!" ”

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From Suining to Siyang Village near the mouth of the Surabaya River, there are 110 miles along the south bank of the Surabaya River.

After the Surabaya River leaves Xuzhou, it flows to the southeast at an angle of almost 45 degrees.

Liu Tingzhou led the Huai army to land at Feixiaji, and after the plan, he broke through to the northwest, and then finally trapped in the stockade 30 miles northwest of Siyang, and the actual distance from the straight road of Suining was only more than 80 miles.

Not only did Liu Miaozhen lead 6,000 elite soldiers to chase and bite away, but not long after Lin Jian left Suining, Sun Zhuang led nearly 5,000 elite soldiers to fight out of Suyu.

There are a large number of wandering people and very few elite soldiers, but with such a large base, thirty or fifty thousand elites can still be scraped together, otherwise it is impossible to trap Yue Lengqiu's Changhuai army in Xuzhou City with only a large group of rabble.

Coming out of Suining, the Jiangdong Left Army attracted tens of thousands of main elites of the Liumin Army, including a large number of cavalry, and the pressure was extremely great. In order to avoid heavy casualties, Lin Jian was forced to choose a place to form a formation during the day, and chose to break through to the south at night.

For a distance of more than 80 miles, Lin Jian led the Changshan camp and Feng Li to walk for three days and three nights.

Lin Jian rode into the dilapidated village, and there were blackened and smelly blood marks everywhere inside and outside the village, and there were broken arms and stumps that were not cleaned up in time, which was extra shocking. The adobe wall was full of arrows, Lin Jian was happy to see it, and said to Zhou Pu, who followed him into the village, "I shot all the arrows along the way, what should I do if I am still worried, these can just add some ......"

Xiao Kuianan waited for Liu Tingzhou to change his official robe and come out, and when he heard Lin Jian talk about the arrow, he also looked up. In the past few days, the bows and crossbows in their hands have collapsed, and arrows have come in and filled the earthen walls, and they have no access to them.

Liu Tingzhou's official robe was splashed with horse blood, he found a clean green shirt, changed it out to see Lin Bin, and bowed down: "Huai'an prefect and the general system of the Huaihuai Army Liu Tingzhou visited the envoy, thank you for the envoy who led the troops to help ......."

"I am the envoy of Huaidong, and I am the official and son-in-law under my command, how can I have the reason not to save me when I die?" Lin Jian stood on a mound to accept Liu Tingzhou's salute, he didn't expect to save Liu Tingzhou once, so that he could be grateful to Dade and forget his court, his king. Lin Jian raised his hand towards the generals of the Duhuai army who came over in the village and said, "Generals, you have suffered here, I want to ask more, have you ever been worried, you are trapped here, but the Jiangdong Left Army is like a turtle with a shrunken head, and does not dare to come to help?" ”

"No!"

"No!"

"No!"

The following response is wave after wave.

Lin Lian smiled faintly, waved his hand, and said: "Whether you have been worried or not, I can tell you today that you can rest assured from today onwards, I, Lin Lian, will not let you die and let you go!" ”

Lin Jian also gave a speech in a free manner, which aroused the morale of the remnants of the Duhuai Army, completely forgetting that although the Jiangdong Left Army broke through, it also increased the number of soldiers and horses of the outlying homeless army to nearly 30,000.

Although Liu Tingzhou was grateful to Lin Tie for leading his troops to help, after seeing that Lin Tie entered the village, he did not forget to win over the hearts of the generals of the Duhuai Army, and became more and more convinced: If the situation continues to develop, no one will be able to curb Lin Tie's self-righteous ambition.