"Hahaha, I guessed right, how can Yang Chao have the energy to deal with you. Remind you that the Zhongbei Route Army poses the greatest threat to the rest of the 16th Army Corps, and Yang Chao will borrow a knife to kill people. Jin Man looked at the depressed Ding Kui and couldn't help laughing.

"What!" the more Ding Kui thought about it, the more likely it became, "Then the junior can't delay here, I'll leave it to you here." ”

"Hey, if you don't help one of them, let's go, okay, say hello to Chief of Staff Hu for me, if he doesn't have a place to go, he can come to me. Jin Man didn't really want to keep Ding Kui.

"Uncle Man, this is not authentic for you, you have no shortage of staff officers here, and you are still thinking about Chief of Staff Hu. Ding Kui had already stood up, but now he sat down again.

"Why can't I lack staff officers? Don't you get tired of working with more people, you have enough people under your hands, don't rob me." Aren't you leaving? What are you sitting on?" Jin Man began to pick people up.

"Okay," Ding Kui got up again, took two steps, and turned back and said, "In the past few days, I have seen that your troops have suffered quite a lot of casualties, I have a junior brother named Xu Bin, from Huling City, Pingzhong County, who is mature and calm, capable and neat, and has a heart to serve the country but has no way to vote." ”

"Well, thanks. Jin Man did not refuse Ding Kui's kindness.

Ding Kui knew that Xu Bin would not come to him because he was worried about his family's affairs, so he simply recommended it to Jin Man, and it was no worse to work under the famous marshal than to defect to himself.

Outside the camp, Ao Yu asked, "Where are we going?"

Ding Kui looked at the south in a daze, Ao Yu knew that he was thinking, so he didn't continue to ask.

"Not all problems have to be solved by force, Yang Chao is worthy of being the old commander of the Military Command Department, and he seems to be better than me, the deputy commander. No, I can't let him borrow that knife and go to Nanguo County to find his own people. Ding Kui's expression returned to normal.

......

The muddy water river is the first checkpoint to test the fugitive army.

Hu Rui still chose to go to the * circle, and only rested in Jinyan City for one day, and this slightly recovered team returned to the road.

"It was reported that three platoons and four platoons had taken control of the ferry, and other troops had collected more than 50 large and small boats nearby. ”

The 1st Special Operations Battalion brought another surprise to Hu Rui, "Very good! Give up the chariot, leave the horses to the women, children, and the seriously wounded, and the troops who know how to water will wade across the river, and the rest will board the boats in batches." He immediately gave the order to cross the river.

The horses in the team were collected by Shaodian's secret people and forcibly bought in Jinyan City and its vicinity, and they barely scraped together five or six hundred horses to pull the cart, and they could not be used as war horses.

"The river is not wide, the current is not fast, in fact, the general can order people to build a bridge for boats, and horse-drawn carriages can cross. Lei Feixiang suggested keeping the car.

"No, we have to cross the river later, not every river can build a boat bridge, we can't walk the road and can't ride a horse, we carry it, the difficult mountain roads have come over, and there will be no problem with taking the flat road. ”

Hu Rui knew that the noble families in the team were already able to move after resting and recuperating.

When he disembarked and came to the other side of the river, he found a mess at the ferry, and many people wearing local army uniforms lying on the ground.

Lei Feixiang explained: "There are local guards here, and a platoon launched a surprise attack this morning, and no one was let go, and the rebels don't know what happened here. ”

"Your troops are so capricious!" Hu Rui praised heartily.

"The special operations regiment trained by Lord Ding, every soldier can go up the mountains and down to the sea, can complete various combat missions, and is most suitable for small-scale operations, so the last general said that they are the most suitable troops. Fan Yuzhen glanced at Rong Yan when she spoke.

Rong Yan didn't speak, he was still unconvinced, but he would not deny the ability of the first special operations battalion.

The special operations battalion is not necessarily stronger than the 151st Division in conventional warfare, but it is indeed stronger than the 151st Division in special circumstances.

"The lowly position has passed on our transfer plan to Lord Ding, and I believe that Lord Ding will be able to come soon. "Shaodian Secret enabled the set of first-level secret words in his hand.

"Ding Juma's ability to fight behind enemy lines is the first person in the country, and if he can come here, we will be safe. "The old man of the Bao family seems to be very superstitious about Ding Kui's ability.

"Ahem, there are horses to help everyone. Hu Rui has heard more rumors about Ding Kui in the past two days, and he has to admit that Ding Kui is powerful in front of the real record, but as the top commander of this team, he is inevitably a little embarrassed to hear others say this.

"Okay, hand you over to Brother Kui, and I'll complete the task. Ruan Xingzhu waved his small fist.

In her eyes, the Sixteenth Legion and others were just missions.

At the Ma family in Jixi County, Ma Hun patted the horse and ran into the side door, flew and dismounted in the courtyard, and did not have time to hand over the horse whip to the next person, so he ran to the study with it in his hand.

Tuk tuk, he knocked on the door of the study.

"What's the hurry! Gather your breath and come in by yourself. Ma Rong's voice came from inside the house.

Ma Hun threw the whip to the servant who came from behind, straightened his clothes, adjusted his breath, and pushed the door in when his breath was stable.

"Father, find traces of the remnants of the Sixteenth Legion. ”

"Oh?" Ma Rong was actually painting, "where? How many people are there?"

"Yesterday they captured Jinyan City, about three or four thousand people, this morning left the east of the city, the specific and location is unknown for the time being, but the child estimates that they will cross the muddy water river east. ”

"Three or four thousand people, Ding Kui is back, do you know?" Ma Rong put down his pen.

Ma Hun heard it inexplicably, obviously talking about the people of the Sixteenth Legion, why did he suddenly get involved in Ding Kui?

"Well, the boy knows now. ”

"Why did Ding Kui come back? If he didn't come early, he couldn't play, but he came when the remnants of the Sixteenth Army appeared, isn't his purpose obvious?"

"Do you mean that he came to pick up the remnants of the Sixteenth Legion?" Ma Hun was crushed by Ding Kui when he was a child, and now he is even more in awe.

"Why did Jinyan City lose it silently? You only received the news today that the Sixteenth Army Corps had just escaped from Hailin Prefecture and didn't fight Xilin City and Zhongyang City, why did you fight Jinyan City?"

"Hey, Ding Kui has come to us?" Ma Hun was taken aback, no one in the Ma family could deal with Ding Kui.

Ma Rong pointed to the teapot and motioned to his son to pour the tea, "This is not necessarily, now Ding Kui's identity is different, and he doesn't need to do it himself." ”

Ma Hun poured his father a cup of tea.

"He has a special operations unit that is specially used to fight behind enemy lines, and that unit is secretive, and it may hit the doorstep at any time, which is very difficult to deal with. Ma Rong turned the teacup with one hand.

"Isn't Yang Shuai going to send reinforcements over?" Ma Hun was a little flustered.

The Ma family's territory has a county town and a medium-sized city next to it, all the private armies add up to less than 10,000 people, and they have to defend two cities, if the villages and towns outside the city are attacked by Ding Kui's troops, the Ma family is really powerless.

"Originally, a division was ready to come over, but later because the front line was tight, Yang Chao was transferred back. Ma Rong obviously had an opinion and called Yang Chao by his name.

"Then should we take care of those people in the Sixteenth Legion?" Ma Hun had actually heard what his father meant.

"They will never stay in Jixi County, they will definitely flee to the territory over there, maybe Ding Kui will take them to Nannuma Prefecture. You take a thousand men and pretend to chase after them, but keep a distance with them for more than two days. ”

Ma Rong must make a show and show it to the other nobles of Jixi County, otherwise he, the county marquis, will lose his prestige in front of everyone, and in the future, they will support their own troops and isolate him.

Ma Hun had the courage to ask, "Why do you want to keep the two-day journey?"

"They will have to cross the river for several days on their way to the east, and you must give them a day to cross the river, and if any unknown lord of the city sends troops to block them, you must give them a day to siege the city. There's a two-day buffer and you don't really catch up with them. ”

It's not that Ma Rong thinks too much, there are really people who dare to block Hu Rui's way.

Earl Liu Dun of Linchuan City personally led 2,000 city defense troops to the Linchuan River, and prepared to intercept the fleeing army at the narrowest part of the river.

In fact, it was not that Liu Dun did not know each other, but Yang Chao ordered Jixi County and Nanguo County to round up the remnants of the 16th Army Corps, and asked his own allied army to send troops to help intercept it.

Yang Chao's original intention was to invite his own country to send troops, but he couldn't explicitly say that his army would deal with the remnants of the 16th Army Corps alone, and on the surface he wanted to call on the local armies of the two counties to act together.

In his mind, most of the local nobles would not really send troops to intercept a force with more than 2,000 regular troops, unless the county guards gathered the private army of the whole county, but Jixi County did not have time to give Ma Rong, and Mu Jing of Nanguo County had to face the threat of the 21st Legion, and it was impossible for them to gather the private army of the whole county.

Liu Dun is a dead eye, and his territory has a natural barrier, thinking that he can at least drive away the remnants of the Sixteenth Legion.

On the opposite side, 2,000 soldiers and horses set up a formation, and the 1st Special Operations Battalion did not cross the river in advance to sweep away the threat, but searched up and down the river bank for all kinds of boats.

When Hu Rui heard the news, he rushed to the front and inspected the enemy situation with a group of backbone combatants.

"The local army looks like there are only about 2,000 people. He couldn't believe his eyes.

"That's right, a whole two thousand local troops. "Pi Sanying can see it best.

"They don't have warships, so they're blocking us on the shore?" Hu Rui suspected that the other party had some clever tactics.

Rong Yan glanced at Lei Feixiang and said, "Are the local armies so powerful now?"

Fan Yuzhen stood on horseback, raised the binoculars to observe carefully, and said while looking: "The battle array is scattered, and the army is not in order, can this also be called an army?"

"The humble information shows that there are only 3,000 city defense troops in Linchuan City, and Earl Liu Dun has 500 strong private troops, but there have been no large-scale battles here in recent centuries, and half of Liu Dun's private army was sent to accompany his son to join the rebels, and the troops opposite should be the city defense army. Shaodian kept all the information in Zhongwangzhou in his mind.

"Can their bows and arrows penetrate heavy armor? I send a brigade to cross the river in groups, what will they do?" Rong Yan suspected that Shaodian's secret information was wrong.

In the eyes of the regular army, under no circumstances would a local army of the same strength dare to confront them head-on.

"Phew! It seems to be true, there are soldiers peeing on the edge of the battle formation. Fan Yuzhen took a sip. She sees things she shouldn't see.