my wife is mulan

"What can we do about injustice? We are now restrained by the dry army. If we continue to fight, not only will Hanzhong be lost, but Bashu will also be in danger. The situation is not conducive to our country, and there may be people in the south of the Yangtze River who will be restless!"

Zang Zhi angered Shen Wenxiu: "Now our army is not dominant, and Zhao Junsheng personally led tens of thousands of troops to help. The morale of the dry army will definitely be boosted. If they cut off their retreat, the consequences will be disastrous!"

Liu Yikang was dizzy from the noise of these people, and he slapped the table angrily: "Enough, stop arguing! I have made up my mind, the whole army will withdraw to Pengcheng first, and we will withdraw tomorrow!"

All the generals looked at each other and could only clasped their fists in agreement: "Observe the order!"

At the foot of Mt. Meng, there is the camp of the Southern Expeditionary Army of Qian Kingdom.

A fast horse ran into the camp, and its knight jumped off the horse at the gate of the commander's tent and ran into the tent to report: "Marshal, the king's army has arrived in Xingyang and is advancing towards Xuzhou!"

Hua Mulan immediately took the military newspaper and opened it to take a look, with a smile on her face and a little relief in her heart.

Ever since she led the army to march south, she has been under a lot of pressure in her heart. Counting the soldiers and horses brought by Wang Huilong and Lu Gui, there are more than 8 soldiers in the whole army. Along the way, many county soldiers, county soldiers, and state soldiers were recruited, and the total strength reached [-].

She had never commanded so many soldiers and horses. These soldiers and horses amounted to dozens of armies, and commanding them was very cumbersome.

Now that she heard that Zhao Junsheng had arrived with troops, she also breathed a sigh of relief.

Hua Mulan put away the battle report and asked, "Liang Yi, is there any movement from the Southern Dynasty army?"

Liang Yi stood up and clasped his fists and said: "For the time being, we haven't noticed any major moves by them. Most of the troops are still deployed in Kaiyang, and the other two are deployed in Lanling and Jiqiu respectively. These three cities are the horns of each other. No matter what our army attacks Whichever city, the other two cities can send troops to reinforce! If our army divides up and attacks, and the strength of each side is too weak to break through the city, the Southern Dynasty can even concentrate their forces to counterattack my way!"

Hua Mulan had to admit that Liu Yikang, the emperor of the Southern Dynasties, still had some strategic vision. Kaiyang was a north-south transportation hub. With Kaiyang as the center, Liu Yikang divided his troops to garrison the two guard cities of Lanling and Jiqiu. The passage for her [-] troops to go south.

"Send spies to closely monitor every move of the Southern Dynasty army, don't relax!"

"Yes, Marshal!"

Early the next morning, Liang Yi came to report: "Marshal, just now the spies came to report that the army of the Southern Dynasty is retreating towards Xuzhou! The time for their departure should be last night!"

"Oh?" Hua Mulan was startled, "Nanchao received the news so quickly. The army led by the king had just set off from Xingyang to Suiyang, and they guessed that the army on the way was heading towards Pengcheng. go!"

After speaking, Hua Mulan shouted: "Hua Xiong!"

Younger brother Hua Xiong is now working as a dental officer under Hua Mulan's tent. The so-called dental officer is to drive in front of the teeth. He walked in from outside the tent and clasped his fists and promised: "Yes!"

"Go and inform Guo Sheng, Wang Huilong, Yuan He, Lu Gui, Bai Jinguang and several military ministers to come to discuss matters!"

"As ordered!"

Soon, some generals and military ministers who were notified arrived one after another.

Hua Mulan looked at the crowd and said, "The spies just came to report that last night, the army of the Southern Dynasty left Kaiyang and was retreating towards Pengcheng!"

Several generals looked at each other, and the minister Xu Yan stood up and said: "It seems that the Southern Dynasty should have received the news that the king's troops are marching towards Xuzhou, and they are worried that they will be cut off by the king's troops, so Liu Yikang led the army first. Withdrew to Pengcheng in one step! Marshal, I think our army should pull out its camp and go south to press hard on the army of the Southern Dynasty. The opportunity for the army of the Southern Dynasty to ambush and sneak attack made it impossible for them to use their schemes and tricks, forcing them to confront our army head-on!"

Hua Mulan nodded secretly. Although Xu Yan's reputation is not obvious, he has a strong view of the overall situation and often sees problems to the point.

"Pass down the order. After an hour, the army will set off and head south, pressing against the army of the Southern Dynasty! Liang Yi, I order you to be the vanguard, and lead [-] cavalry to open roads and bridges for the army in the front, and be responsible for the enemy's investigation!"

"As ordered!"

Hua Mulan thought for a while, and shouted to the outside: "Hua Xiong, come in!"

Hua Xiong clasped his fists when he heard the voice coming in: "Here!"

"The commander-in-chief has ordered Liang Yi to lead the way with 3000 men and horses. The commander-in-chief will give you [-] cavalry to follow Liang Yi's vanguard army. The two armies will keep a distance of ten miles and keep in touch at any time. Once you find Liang Yi's vanguard Encountering enemy troops, you have to rush to reinforce as soon as you receive the news, and at the same time send a messenger to report to the commander!"

"Yes!"

A day later, Hua Mulan and his army arrived in Kaiyang. Kaiyang City was empty, and the Southern Dynasty army left nothing behind.Huamu didn't stop at Kaiyang, and turned the road to the southwest.

That afternoon, the army arrived at Lanling. Lanling was also an empty city. The officials sent here by the Qian Kingdom had already been killed, and some county soldiers were also killed.

The weather was so hot that people continued to suffer from heatstroke, and the combat effectiveness and mental state of the soldiers were greatly affected. Hua Mulan had to order to slow down the marching speed, and changed the marching time from Mao to Si in the morning, and from Wei to You in the afternoon. Do not march during the hottest two hours at noon.

Even so, the speed of the march was greatly affected, because the Qian army was chasing troops, and they had to worry about being ambushed by the Song army of the Southern Dynasty, so they dared not march at night, while the army of the Southern Dynasty did not have this concern. They marched at night, Resting during the day, the marching speed and efficiency are much higher than those of the dry army.

The vanguard general Liang Yi was inexperienced after all. In order to increase the efficiency and speed of the march, he extended the marching time in the evening to Xu time.

Although the time was only extended for an hour, the situation was discovered by the Southern Dynasty army's cavalry scout post and reported to the Southern Dynasty army general Xiao Sihua in the rear.

After Xiao Sihua heard the report, he immediately decided to set up an ambush. He chose the Erlao Mountain as the location of the ambush. Erlao Mountain is not actually a mountain, but a higher hill with dense forests on it.

In the evening of that day, Liang Yi led his army to the vicinity of Erlao Mountain. According to the normal marching situation, they should set up camp at this time, but Liang Yi wanted to take advantage of the darkness and the temperature to drop for an extra hour, so he continued to march.

At the foot of Erlao Mountain, half of Xu time had passed, and it was completely dark at this time, but Liang Yi did not give the order to stop, but continued to march and ordered the whole army to light torches.

Of course, for safety's sake, Liang Yi still set up scout posts in front.

"General, the members of the scout team haven't come back to report safety for an hour!" The lieutenant reminded Liang Yi.

Liang Yi frowned and asked, "Where are you now?"

"Under the Erlao Mountain!"

Liang Yi turned his head and looked to the side. The hills in the distance were pitch black, and he couldn't see anything clearly. He felt that something was wrong. In the past two days, the scout team had never reported safety after exceeding the time limit. Something must have happened up.

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to stop advancing, and send people to investigate on the hill on the right!"

Before the deputy general had time to agree, he heard countless torches appearing on the hill, a lot of shouts of killing, and arrows flying non-stop.

The generals of the Gan army were shocked. After being hit by the arrows, people were shot down one after another, and their horses fell to the ground and neighed.

Liang Yi immediately yelled: "Don't panic, listen to my order, throw out all the torches, the team will be separated from the middle, the front will move forward, the rear will turn back, and turn around when they are out of the enemy's attack range!"

The order was delivered a bit late. As soon as the vanguard army reacted and threw out the torches, a large number of Southern Dynasty troops rushed down from the forest. However, this round of throwing torches frightened the horses of many Southern Dynasty cavalry cavalry. Once slowed down.

The Qian army lost more than 300 cavalry, and then hurriedly followed Liang Yi's order to take two steps and quickly escaped from the attack range of the Southern Dynasty army.

The army was fast, the rear team could have escaped, but thought that the front was still ahead, if the rear retreated first, the front would be blocked and surrounded, and the rear, led by the lieutenant general, would turn around and fight with the Southern Dynasty army , The front of the dry army quickly turned around after running for a certain distance and fought with the chasing Southern Dynasty army.

Xiao Sihua, who was sitting on the horseback on the hillside in the distance, frowned, "It is said that the army is well-trained, disciplined, and well-coordinated. Today, I saw that it was really extraordinary. The leader general reacted quickly, and the army general After encountering an ambush, they didn't panic, hiss——today, we have gnawed a hard bone!"

"General, our ambush has turned into a strong attack. Even if we annihilate the vanguard of this dry army, the casualties of our army will not be small!"

Xiao Sihua felt helpless and bitter, he was already on the verge of riding a tiger, and now that the two sides had been fighting together, how could it be so easy to get out of the battle and get rid of the cavalry?

After thinking for a while, Xiao Sihua immediately ordered: "Xiao Chengzhi, lead 1000 people to outflank the left wing!"

"Obey!" Xiao Chengzhi agreed with clasped fists and quickly led 1000 men from the left flank to outflank the Qian army. He was Xiao Sihua's army commander.

Xiao Chengzhi led 1000 people and quickly outflanked from the left wing and launched an attack. The lieutenant general and soldiers under his command were caught off guard, and they were in chaos for a while.

After beheading several cavalrymen of the Southern Dynasty army one after another, the deputy general had no choice but to order: "Follow me to break out and join the general, kill—"

"kill--"