15. Sit back and watch
Ma Sui beat the drum with his own hands. The Hedong Army was pioneered by the five thousand long sword hands. Infantry, cavalry, archers, and chariots followed closely. The blades were facing the Wei Bo Army. Tian Yue and Tian Xu were shocked. They no longer had the courage to fight to the death. They just held the horse's neck and mingled in the tide of defeated troops. They rushed left and right, and could not find where they were.
In the direction of the camp, the Shence Army led by Li Sheng also bravely marched forward, defeating the Chengde Army and Pinglu Army in front of him one after another. All the rebels were in a state of congestion. When they saw that the three floating bridges were burned by Ma Sui, they could only cry and call their parents. They all squeezed on the edge of the Huan River and were cut down by the Hedong Army, Shence Army and other officers and soldiers who came forward and were beheaded.
The sound of the trumpet sounded - Li Baozhen rode a horse, led 20,000 elite Zhao Yi army, and came out of the ambush in the slanting thorns. Before this battle, Li Baozhen had just taken fifty golden elixirs, and his face was rosy as clouds. He stood under the coach's banner and shouted: "Catch up and shoot all the rebels with bows and arrows to death."
At the same time, Li Baozhen's eyes turned and called Jia Lin, the general under his command: "The sheepskin tie we prepared in advance is now useful. You bring three thousand elite cavalry, don't walk all the way, cross the Huanshui. Remember to be sure to chase Tian Yue's flag, most of whom he wants to escape back to Weizhou. Remember, once you catch Tian Yue, you will chase him and kill him. The first contribution to suppressing the rebellion is from Zhao Yijun!"
At the edge of the Huan River, Zhaoyi army approached, countless bows and swayed, and rows of powerful arrows shot out one after another. The rebel soldiers who jumped into the cold water blew continuously. Their necks and backs were constantly hit by arrows, and the casualties filled with arrow feathers were piled up, floating with ice, and the dirty blood and turbid water mixed, exuding a fishy smell.
Somewhere in the shallow stream, Jia Lin, who was ordered by Li Baozhen, led three thousand Zhao Yi cavalry, tied her legs with sheepskin tied to resist the cold. After wading through the Huanshui, which was cold and marred, he didn't care about capturing Anyang City at all, but followed the route of Tian Yue's retreat and chased him relentlessly.
Tian Yue didn't care about gathering the fleeing team at all. He took off all his armor and lay on the saddle of his mount, and wade through the Huanshui with difficulty. Tian Xu's horse was shot to death, so he stepped into the waist-deep ice water. He just pulled Tian Yue's mount's tail and almost froze to death.
After getting on the other side, the cousins only brought a few hundred trusted soldiers, collected some defeated soldiers along the way, gathered a thousand people, and indeed went straight east and fled to the Wei Mansion.
Jia Lin's two thousand elite cavalry held torches, and the man was unable to untied his saddle and chased him like lightning.
The rebels in the three towns of Wei Bo, Ziqing and Hengji, who were abandoned by Tian Yue, totaled more than 30,000, were killed in the Huan River. The corpses were blocked in the rivers and blood was connected, and the Huan River did not flow.
Soon when he was counting the captives, when he learned that Li Baozhen sent Jia Lin to pursue Tian Yue by himself again, Ma Sui was furious: "Li Ashi has started to compete for merit again!" Then he asked Li Ziliang and other generals to enter the Weizhou territory, but he did not go along with Li Baozhen. "Li Ashi goes to Wei County, and we will go to Neihuang!"
On the southwest road of Weifucheng, the mountains and forests on both sides were towering. Tian Yue and Tian Xu were in a mess. They led the defeated army day and night. They fled here with wind and cranes. Then they passed through here and saw the old river embankment south of the city, winding for several miles, crossing the dry riverbed. On the other side was the "Yu River" of Yongji Canal, with the sound of water rumbling.
"I am Tian Yue, open the door quickly!" Tian Yue rode his horse and rushed to the gate of Nanguo, Weifu City, and raised his hand and shouted.
At this time, torches were raised on the horses on the city wall - Li Changchun, the general who stayed in the Wei Mansion, Fu Lingqi, was behind the female wall, and saw Tian Yue and Tian Xu under the city, but shouted: "Shangshu Tian should be in Huanshui at this moment, you are fake!"
It turned out that Fu Lingqi had already thought of surrendering to the court at this moment, so he quietly persuaded Li Changchun, who was left behind, to occupy the entire Weifu City, when Tian Yue led his troops to fight, and Tian Yue, who was left behind, was even closed at this time, and he could not let Tian Yue come in.
Tian Yue immediately knew that Fu and Li had turned against each other. At this moment, torches on the old river bank were scattered, and the sound of horse hooves came - Jia Lin's pursuit was not far away, and if the other party wanted to catch up, he would be finished.
So Tian Yue jumped off the horse crying, and together with more than a thousand defeated soldiers beside him, he knelt under the Nanguo city wall and shouted: "I am really Tian Yue! Huanshui was defeated, and the 30,000 Wei Bo's children turned into war ghosts. Even if I don't let me in, I have to let the families of the Wei family know!"
The cry of the defeated soldiers was shrill, and soon all the inner city and outer capitals of the Wei Mansion were heard, "Huanshui was defeated, and Wei Bo's children returned more than one ten!"
In the entire Weibo Town, soldiers and their families were hugging each other tightly. Behind a rebel was a family that resisted the court. When he heard this bad news, the families of tens of thousands of soldiers in the city wall were wailing, rushing to the gate of Nanguo, knelt on the streets in a dense manner, begging Li Changchun to open the city gate and let Tian Yue in.
There were defeated soldiers outside, family members inside, and there were city walls and gates in the middle. Li Changchun stood on the city tower and began to waver and hesitate again, but Fu Lingqi tried his best to persuade Li Changchun. He pointed to the fire on the other side of the old river embankment: "That must be the official cavalry who pursued Tian Ni. Just wait for another hour, the general will achieve great achievements that will never come true!"
Li Changchun looked here and there, and his head was covered in sweat.
After chasing Jia Lin all the way to the city walls of Weifu City, he saw the walls of Weifu City in the distance full of torches and shouting from people everywhere. He was frightened and did not dare to move forward hastily. He ordered his cavalry to retreat two miles and go to Weidian to camp.
Almost at the same time, the Hedong Army led by Ma Sui arrived in Pingyi, southwest of Weifu City, only more than twenty miles away from Tian Yue. "Don't move forward, set up a camp for me!" Ma Sui dismounted and stepped into the Buddhist temple in Pingyi.
At this time, several cavalry soldiers sent by Jia Lin came and knelt in front of Ma Sui, "Please join hands to join forces to advance to the Wei Mansion."
Ma Sui sneered and said, "Please repay Li Zhaoyi - my Hedong soldiers are chasing me here, and they are trapped and exhausted. You can only continue to drive after the food in this Buddhist temple!"
On this night, 20,000 Hedong soldiers camped around the Buddhist temple in Pingyi, making fires and feeding war horses, without moving forward a little.
Capturing Tian Yue's opportunity and just slipped away.
During the Ming Dynasty, the people in the Wei Mansion became more intense. Li Changchun, who was afraid, could not see the pursuing army of officials and could not bear Tian Yue's coercion and inducement, and in the end he did not listen to Fu Lingqi and opened the Nanguo City Gate.
Tian Yue and Tian Xu rushed in. The first thing was to close the city gate and send troops to defend it. Then he grabbed Li Changchun and Fu Lingqi and tied it to the wooden stake in the military yard. Tian Yue cursed at him with a sword: "I usually push you and take food and clothes off, why do you want to betray me!"
Li Changchun was only pounding the wooden stakes on the back of his head, and he kept complaining about regret.
Fu Lingqi, who was 79 years old, scolded Li Changchun for being confused and angrily scolded Tian Yue: "We are all from the court, how can we be with you and the remnants of Anshi? If you want to be rebellious, you Tian Yue are the ones."
Chapter completed!