The head general of the Tang army's rear army was named Li Duozuo, and he was appointed as the General of the Right Guard. He followed Wu Youyi from the capital. Wu Youyi was originally the governor of Tongzhou, but was temporarily appointed as the General of the Right King because of this northern expedition to Khitan. He had no connections in the army and had no experience in leading troops to fight. Faced with many experienced generals, Wu Youyi could only rely on the strong power of the Wu family to oppress the generals and obey.

Li Duozuo was about fifty years old. He served in the army for 30 years and participated in countless battles. He had rich war experience. However, in this battle to fight against Liaodong, he, like other generals, chose to remain silent. Whether it was Wu Youyi's previous stance or his rash advance to Liaodong, Li Duozuo did not make any statement.

In fact, Wu Youyi did not give them a chance to express their opinions and ordered the army to go north. Although Li Duozuo had no objection and obeyed the order to go north, he still had deep doubts about the Khitan peace talks. You should know that the Khitan peace talks are actually surrender. Once the Tang army occupied Yingzhou, how much capital does the Khitans have to settle peace talks?

If peace talks are really needed, it should be to reach an agreement before giving up Yingzhou. Of course, perhaps as the Khitans themselves said, the Turks attacked their nests, but even so, they should not promote it, but secretly divided their troops back to rescue, and then left a part of the army to station in Yingzhou to negotiate with the Tang army, so that they could gain the greatest benefit.

Now, all the troops retreat northward and wait for the Tang army to occupy Yingzhou. Either the Khitans were extremely stupid or a trap. Li Duozuo thought of Li Jinzhong's cunning, and he still felt that the latter was more likely. Based on this concern, he tried to slow down his marching speed and wait for news after the main force ahead entered Yingzhou City.

At this time, the voice of Chen Zi'ang, who joined the army, came from the big tent, "General Li, can I come in?"

"Add to join the army and ask for an introduction"

As soon as the curtain was lifted, Chen Zi'ang walked in. Because of Di Renjie's entrusted, he was able to regain his post. However, Wu Youyi really didn't want to see him again, so he sent him to the rear army and served as Li Duozuo's rear army staff.

"General Li, I have some doubts and want to talk to the general." Chen Zi'ang was as frank as ever and straightforward.

"Please sit down and talk to the army"

Li Duozuo asked him to sit down, and ordered his personal soldiers to serve tea. Then he smiled and said, "Please tell me if you join the army."

"General, this Khitan peace talks will inevitably be a fraud," Chen Zi'ang said impatiently.

"How can I see it?"

"Did the general expect that? General Wu Da was responsible for military affairs and war against the Khitan, while Prime Minister Di was responsible for military affairs and negotiations with the Khitan. Di was fully responsible for peace negotiations. Li Jinzhong had dealt with the court for a long time. Did he not know this? He sent the messenger to contact the general and deliberately bypassed the Prime Minister Di, which obviously did not conform to the rules. If the Khitan had sincere peace negotiations, they would not make such a mistake. Therefore, their purpose was obviously military, and it must be a trap to lure the enemy Tang army to the north."

Li Duozuo nodded, and Chen Zi'ang discovered the loopholes in the Khitans from another direction. He sighed and said, "Actually, I also feel that the Khitans are not sincere, but Wu Youyi insists on doing his own thing and does not listen to others' advice at all. It is said that even the advice of the Prime Minister Di is not listened to. What can I do?"

"But General Li has thought that if the Khitans ambush the Tang army, the first thing they do is to attack the Tang army's food and supplies, and we will be the first to be the ones."

Li Duozuo bowed his head and said nothing. How could he not have thought that, but the military orders are like mountains. He can't turn around and go south again. If he offended Wu Youyi, he would offend the entire Wu family. He could not afford the consequences.

"General, why not contact Di Xiangguo again and listen to his suggestions?" Chen Zi'ang seemed to understand Li Duozuo's embarrassment and further advised.

Li Duozuo shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Let me think about this matter."

At this moment, a report from a personal soldier came from outside the door: "General, General Li, the inner guard, sent someone to report something urgent."

Li Duozuo was stunned. What's going on? He immediately ordered: "Please come in."

After a moment, the scout quickly walked into the tent, knelt down on one knee and bowed, "After the order of my general, come and send an emergency information."

The scout handed over the letter. Li Duozuo took it and was not in a hurry to open it. He asked again: "Where is your general now?"

"Our general is now in the White Wolf Valley"

Li Duozuo was even more surprised. He immediately opened the letter and read it quickly. He was shocked and couldn't help but stand up. How could this be possible.

As night fell quietly, Li Zhen led 500 elite soldiers to approach the entrance of the rift valley. In order to prevent alarming the other party, the remaining large troops followed three miles away.

"General, the Khitan army has entered the rift for more than an hour." Yang Honglie, the scout team leader, whispered beside Li Zhen.

Li Zhen nodded. He could see clearly under the moonlight. The other party also left more than 300 people to guard the valley entrance here, among which a sentry stood on each of the three big rocks, about 300 steps away from them.

Li Zhen's eyes fell on a natural stone trench more than 70 steps away next to the rift valley. If the Khitan army relied on this stone trench to resist, it would also bring significant losses to the Tang army. It must seize the stone trench before the enemy discovered the Tang army.

Li Zhen looked at the three sentries on the big stone again, and then the three sentries became the top priority. He pondered for a moment and whispered to the three inner guard archers.

These three are the samurai with the highest archery skills of the inner guard. Although they cannot be compared with Li Zhen’s high riding and shooting, they can still hit every shot and shoot fixed-point archery without any mistakes.

Li Zhen gave a few instructions to the three of them. The three of them understood each other and each brought a pair of crossbow arrows to slowly crawl from the ground to the entrance of the rift. With the help of the ground shrubs, they gradually moved closer to the three sentries on the big rock.

The three archers each deal with one sentry, and the three sentries were about thirty steps apart. The three archers of the Tang army touched the sentry tower from the south, east and north. Any of these three archers, if any of them were discovered, would trigger an alarm from the Khitan army.

Among the three sentries, the sentry in the middle is the most difficult to deal with. Not only was he sitting on the big rock, but he was not far from him and there were ten soldiers resting and chatting. As long as any of these soldiers were discovered, they would fail.

People should be smart, not too many. These three people are the most elite inner guards. The leader is a team leader named Mo Tingzong, a native of Luoyang. He ranks first in the Yulin Army. Especially his crossbow arrows can be said to be a hundred shots, and he can basically kill him with one arrow aside from a hundred steps. He almost caught up with their general Li Zhen's archery skills. In order to recruit him, Li Zhen took a lot of verbal talk to convince the Yulin Army to release him.

The five archers slowly moved closer to the Rift like ghosts. They were very careful and used all the terrain they could use. After rushing fifty steps, they jumped into a drainage ditch washed out by rain and rushed towards the Rift.

The drainage ditch is about five feet deep and three feet wide, leading to the entrance of the rift. It is this trench that allows three archers to quickly approach the enemy sentry. The three stopped about sixty steps away from the sentry and walked forward, and they are likely to be discovered.

Mo Tingzong squinted his eyes and observed the sentry and the soldiers not far behind him. In fact, he had just run and observed it. He had just discovered a small special place. It seemed that there were no soldiers behind the other two sentries. He looked carefully for a moment and finally saw the clues. It was not that there were no soldiers, but that the other soldiers were curled up in the corner and fell asleep.

It's no wonder that even their chief general did not realize that the Tang army would come from the south, let alone these soldiers.

Mo Tingzong observed for a while and saw two Khitan soldiers getting up to Xiaojie and soon came back to sleep. The entrance of the Rift Valley was quiet and there was no one to see. Only soldiers in the Rift Valley seemed to be chatting in a low voice.

At this time, his eyes turned to the three sentries. The sentry in the middle seemed to be about to fall asleep, leaning on the big stone and taking a nap. The person on the left was a lazy spirit leaning on the stone without any energy, hanging an iron bell above his head. When he discovered the enemy situation, he would ring the iron bell and call the police.

Mo Tingzong observed for a moment, and he pointed at the other two Tang soldiers' arrows in the throat, and pointed at the crossbow arrows, just asking them, "Sixty steps outside the throat, may it be possible?"

The two subordinates nodded, and Mo Tingzong made another gesture, meaning to shoot arrows together.

The three of them raised crossbow arrows. Their crossbow arrows were specially made by inner guards. They were small in size and portable, but their strength was very powerful, and they could shoot a five-inch-long iron crossbow arrow two hundred and fifty steps away.

Moreover, crossbow arrows are very special, only half of the length of a normal crossbow arrow. There is a bleeding groove on the arrow and there is a highly toxic coating in the groove. This highly toxic poison comes from Aunt Gongsun. Just a little medicine is used to enter the human body and it can be fatal in an instant.

At this time, the three of them slowly aimed at the soldiers on the big stone. Mo Tingzong imitated Ye Xiao and shouted. This was the signal. The three of them pulled the crossbow hanging knife at the same time. "Crack, three light sounds, and three poisonous arrows shot towards the sentry like lightning.

The sentry in the middle was awakened by Ye Xiao's cry and just yawned. Before he could react, the poisonous arrow shot his throat in pain. He strangled his throat in pain but couldn't shout it out. He grabbed his hand in the air and slowly collapsed.

At the same time, the other two sentries were shot down, and the arrows in their throats could not make any sound.

Mo Tingzong was overjoyed and turned around and waved to the Tang army in the distance. He led two Tang army to rush to the stone trench first. At this time, dozens of Khitan soldiers more than ten steps away were still sleeping.

They had been through a long journey and were very tired. The three sentry soldiers were killed and did not wake them up at all, nor did they alarm the soldiers in the valley entrance.

Li Zhen has been watching the three Khitan sentries at the entrance of the Rift Valley. When he saw the three sentries falling down at the same time, he knew that the three subordinates had succeeded. A smile appeared on the corner of Li Zhen's mouth. He immediately turned around and ordered: "Roar up."
Chapter completed!