Qin Zhao turned around, under the gradually brightening sky, Tongguan was magnificent and mighty. For a moment, he couldn't help but burst into tears. This time he left the seclusion, but he didn't know when he would be called back.

Teams of Yuan Cheng passed by the imperial guards, and they couldn't help but look back and saw the heavy atmosphere spread in everyone's heart.

"General, we will be able to fight back soon." Deputy General Niu Qianjin pulled his horse to Qin Zhao and said word by word. "It will definitely be soon!"

"Yes, we will be able to fight back soon." Qin Zhao suddenly woke up by Niu Qianjin. If he showed weakness at this time, it would be afraid that the soldiers would be even more frightened.

"Let's go to the north to see the scenery of the north, and then come back with a strong and proud look." Qin Zhao waved the iron mace in his hand and galloped forward.

As Qin Zhao led his team to the north, the fact that the emperor was not in Chang'an could no longer be concealed. Cao Huan, the commander of the Xuanwu Pioneer Army who was entering Tongguan, reported to Zhu Wen of Luoyang at the first time, and also sent a cavalry team to pursue Qin Zhao.

One day later, Qin Zhao stopped, and the scouts behind him brought news of the enemy cavalry chasing him.

“How many people?”

"About three to four thousand people are Cao Huan's Tianping Army. The general who led the team should be Yi Hong, the general of Tianping Army." The scout said.

Qin Zhao thought for a moment and looked at the generals around him: "It seems we must fight a war. Although we can get rid of them, if they keep chasing them, we will take them around His Majesty and increase the difficulty for His Majesty to break through. Get rid of them and then go to His Majesty."

The generals led by Niu Qianjin nodded and said yes.

"They thought we would run away, but we were going to turn around and hit them off guard." Qin Zhao took a deep breath: "I ordered the entire army to rest for half a day today, and then the entire army turned around and fired a good shot."

As Qin Zhao imagined, General Yi Hong of Tianping Army was unprepared for the sudden return of the imperial guards and came back. After chasing the escaped imperial army for two days, the distance between the two sides had narrowed to a day. After Qin Zhao gave up for half a day, the distance between the two sides was reduced again.

Qin Zhao, who had hidden himself, successfully deceived Yi Hong's scout. He disguised himself as a large army and continued to move forward with hundreds of cavalrymen, and hid the large army in the mountains. After nightfall, Qin Zhao led the main cavalry to suddenly turn back and caught Yi Hong's troops who were camping off guard.

The cavalrymen of the Tianping Army, who had been running wildly for a day, were trapped in the horses because the scout brought back that Qin Zhao's troops were still running towards Weizhou, so they basically had no sense of defense. When more than 2,000 yuan rushed into their camp from the guards, most of these cavalry had no saddles on the horses.

A hearty victory, nearly 4,000 Tianping cavalry chasing the army suffered great losses and lost more than a thousand people were killed on the spot. The rest either surrendered or fled in a panic on their backs. Only Yi Hong and hundreds of cavalry were able to escape.

After winning, Qin Zhao did not kill all the prisoners, but just tied them up and threw them on the side of the road, then took away their war horses and supplies and let them die.

Qin Zhao, who won this blocking battle, was in a good mood. At this time, the news from Le'an made him even more excited. Qianniu Guard not only won a complete victory in Le'an, but also killed Xuanwu general Zhu Youwen in one fell swoop on the battlefield. For his tribes, he gave him a shot of a heart-warming agent. After the three thousand tribes gathered, he rushed straight to Le'an excitedly.

But for them, the road was still not smooth. Xuanwu's emergency messenger was transmitting the order to attack Qianniu Guards to all subordinates in the Xuanwu controlled area of ​​Zhaoyi. The entire Xuanwu actual controlled area began to mobilize. Towns of all sizes were completely martial law. The troops were quickly concentrated. Zhu Youwen's death alerted the Xuanwu generals, but also made them more vigilant, which caused great problems for Qin Zhao.

The road cannot be walked. If you walk on the road, you will inevitably encounter Xuanwu's garrison troops. Even if they have strong maneuverability, they will eat it when they meet a small group of troops, and if they encounter a large group of troops, they will avoid it when they meet. However, the complex geographical environment and harsh traffic conditions still inevitably reduce their speed.

At this time, behind them, a main Xuanwu cavalry led by Zhu Youzhen from Luoyang had gradually caught up.

Zhu Youzhen was in a very bad mood.

Zhu Youwen's death in battle was simply unbelievable news for him. With his absolute military advantage, he could not imagine how Zhu Youwen was directly killed by the enemy.

Zhu Youwen's death had a huge impact on the Zhaoyi area. At least, the Shence Army troops, after Zhaoyi was captured and surrendered and reorganized, became extremely unstable.

Facing Yi Hong who fled back in a panic, Zhu Youzhen didn't know what to say. However, Yi Hong was Cao Huan's subordinate, so he couldn't blame him too much. After comforting him, he sent Yi Hong directly to Weizhou to mobilize more troops to move towards Luzhou.

Since Qianniu Guards have broken Le'an, only Luzhou is the only line of defense left in front of them. Luzhou is still facing the threat of the Hedong Army and the Wuwei Army of Xingzhou. Even if you think about it, you can know that at this moment, these two armies will inevitably launch a fierce attack on Luzhou to restrain the Luzhou army, so that the Qianniu Guards can break through smoothly.

In other words, there will be a big battle around Luzhou.

Tian Yue had more than 30,000 Wei Bo elites in Luzhou, which was the legacy left by Tian Chengsi. In addition to the subordinates of the Xue brothers of Zhaoyi, the more than 60,000 army sounded a lot, but when they thought about the fact that their opponents were the Hedong Army and the Wuwei Army, Zhu Youzhen still couldn't feel at ease. He mobilized all the troops he could mobilize and fought a decisive battle with his opponent in Luzhou.

It doesn’t matter if you win or not. The most important thing is to kill Li Yan on the battlefield. As long as you achieve this goal, it doesn’t matter if you lose the battle.

Zhu Youzhen led his troops to quickly arrive in Zhaoyi area, which calmed Zhaoyi's panic caused by Zhu Youwen's death. All the troops began to move forward in the direction of Luzhou, gradually forming a huge encirclement, slowly squeezing inside.

In Le'an, Liu Ruyan's troops delayed for three days because of the nearly 5,000 Shence Army that were about to be reorganized and surrendered.

As Emperor Li Yan expected, when he appeared in front of the Shen Ce Army, these soldiers who had no energy were excited at once. Li Yan, who was forced to make a strong speech, made countless rewards to the soldiers, and successfully restored the group of scattered soldiers to their original appearance. It has to be said that the emperor still had a strong appeal and influence in front of these soldiers.

The soldiers were excited to see Tianyan, and happy to have the possibility of future official wishes, which was promised by the emperor. The emperor was happy to see the soldiers still worship him like a god, and his illness that had lasted for many days was much better. After delivering his speech, he summoned many officers of the Shence Army with great enthusiasm, which was nothing more than another wish. After receiving the swearing and swearing loyalty to death, the emperor's appetite was very good and he rarely ate a large bowl of broth and drizzled with brown rice.

Compared to the excitement of the emperor, Tian Lingzi and others, Liu Ruyan and Gongsun Changming were still worried. Whether it was the news brought back by the scouts or the news sent by some spies sent by earlier, it clearly showed that a large net was approaching them. Luzhou was not far from them, but Luzhou, which lies between them and Wuwei, was like a natural barrier. With their strength, it was impossible to fight out. Now they could only hope that Wuwei and Hedong could break the deadlock. Before that, what they had to do was to try to survive.
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