Competing in the morning and evening

The Northern Qi army was brave and good at fighting, so it was extremely disciplined. There were quite a few 30 troops, but it only took more than two hours to count them.

"Your Highness, nothing abnormal was found." Zeng Li said nervously.

"They've already left." Li Yan sighed and turned back to Jingzhou Mansion.

Li Zeng glanced at the dark army in front of him with a wry smile. If he hadn't rushed to attack Jingzhou City like an elephant jumping at ants, how could Yuan Xizheng escape from the 30 army calmly in such a simple way.Every time Zeng Li thought of this, he didn't dare to look into Li Yan's eyes.

"When will the army's food and grass arrive?" Li Yan suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

Zeng Lilian: "It should be within these ten days."

Li Yan nodded and said: "Divide the 30 troops into [-] teams, and search all the roads from Xuchang to Xiangyang for me."

Zeng Li nodded. Although Yuan Xizheng ran away, the battle still had to be fought. It was really not safe for Yuan Xizheng and his group to hide behind them.

Li Yan ordered all towns on the ground in Jingzhou Prefecture to implement food control. As soon as this order came out, Yuan Xizheng's troops came out to grab food several times.However, Li Yan's troops soon discovered another problem. Although the ground in Jingzhou was not large, Yuan Xizheng was accompanied by a bandit who had roamed here for ten years. No one knew the local terrain better than him.These people haunted the mountains and deep forests. Li Yan's troops insisted on meeting them several times, but they all escaped.

The news that the grain and grass had come out of Xuchang had been transmitted to Daying, Li Yan frowned and kept staring at the sand table.

Zeng Li has been patiently waiting for Li Yan's order. The reason why he was sent by the Northern Qi Emperor to supervise Li Yan is because of this extraordinary patience of soldiers. Only in this way, the commander representing Li Xu will arouse the arrogance of Li Yan. disgust.

"Notice, the soldiers near Shipan Mountain will retreat." Li Yan tapped on the sand table and said.

Zeng Li was taken aback, and said: "In this way, Yuan Xizheng will definitely seize the opportunity to break out of the encirclement."

"I just wanted him to break out of the encirclement!" Li Yan held the ruler tightly in his hand and said slowly: "Otherwise, how could I meet him... in Xinyang!"

Zeng Xin immediately understood Li Yan's meaning. If it wasn't for leading the snake out of the hole, wouldn't it be possible that their 30 troops would be dragged north of the Han River by these [-] riders? It is food and grass, as long as we cooperate secretly, not only can we keep the food and grass intact, but we can also annihilate Yuan Xi Zheng in one fell swoop!"

Li Yan didn't answer his words, nor did Zeng Li appear happy, but turned around and left the camp.

Zeng Li hurriedly followed Li Yan out of the camp, the setting sun melted into gold, the evening clouds merged, Shipan Mountain became a thick silhouette in the night, Li Yan looked at Shipan Mountain silently, Zeng Li could see that Li Yan's mood was not bad.

Yuan Xizheng took Tang Cihu and Yan Liang through Shipan Mountain smoothly, and hid near Xinyang.

This season is almost deep winter, and after the heavy snow drifts by, Xinyang is completely covered by heavy snow.Looking from afar, I can only feel that the land is a vast expanse of whiteness, and the occasional cock crowing and dog barking can not dilute the feeling of loneliness and boundlessness.In fact, there are lofty mountains in the west and south of Xinyang, but the north is flat and flat, and it is already very close to Xiangyang.

Tang Cihu didn't understand why Yuan Xizheng was so sure that the grain and grass delivered to Li Zuan's camp would definitely leave from Xinyang.

But the food and grass army actually appeared...

In the distance, Tang Cihu was stunned by the momentum of the horses transporting food and grass. He saw a huge boat-shaped ship that looked like a large ship gliding quickly in the snow, as if walking on flat ground, with snow more than two feet thick. The ground was crushed into mud under the huge hull.The two ends of the land rowing boat were raised high, and the forks were split. The food officials riding around the iron boat drove the land rowing boat forward and controlled its direction.

Land sailing is very big, but it seems that there are not many food officials pulling the boat, and it seems that they are able to handle it with ease, and even more often need to work hard to keep up with the speed of land sailing.

Tang Cihu controlled the shock in his heart, and with a wave of his hand, Qibaiqi appeared at the same time, drew his bow and set up an arrow, and shot like the food officials.

The number of these grain officials was not many, and the arrows flew up. After a while, these grain officials were all shot down. The land boat that lost control still rushed out to a lot of land, and then crashed into a dirt slope and stopped. down.

As soon as Yuan Xizheng's cavalry arrived, there was a bang, and someone broke through the door on the bow of the iron boat, and a handsome young man came out. It was Li Yan, who faced Yuan Xizheng face to face, and turned from behind A silent young man came out, but it was Wen Qing.

Yuan Xizheng lowered his eyes slightly, and said: "I said where did the senior brother go, it turns out that the senior brother is the food security officer."

Wen Qing remained silent and did not reply.

Li Yan sneered lightly, and said, "I know that Ziqing's 30 riders crossed the river, and what they did was probably the food and grass for this boat. How dare an army of [-] go south without food and grass.

Yuan Xizheng smiled, and said: "The Second Highness has such a sharp weapon for transporting grain, no wonder the Northern Qi Dynasty dares to go south in winter."

Li Yan patted the bow of the boat lightly and said with a slight smile: "It is thanks to Ziqing's half scroll of pictures that our skilled craftsmen in the Northern Qi Dynasty can design such an ingenious and heaven-defying weapon. Not only can it store food, but it can also store people. There are too many people, so naturally you can’t hide too many people, but if you have five or six hundred people more than 700 people, you can still hide them.”

Wen Qing only sighed softly at this point, and said: "Ziqing, you surrender, there is nothing to hide here, and the 30 troops have already surrounded this place."

As soon as his words fell, more than 1000 people rushed out from the bow, drew their swords, and the two teams faced off.

Yuan Xizheng smiled, took a bow and arrow, and said, "Senior brother, do you know why the senior brother only drew half of such a sharp weapon?"

Wen Qing frowned, and said: "It takes a lot of effort to draw half a scroll for such a complicated land sailing boat. Probably when you said you were blackmailing Senior Brother, he hadn't finished it yet!"

Yuan Xizheng shook his head slightly, his slender fingers were full of bows and arrows, and smiled: "Because I told him that the thing he designed is worthless!"

Li Yan frowned slightly, Yuan Xizheng had already shot an arrow, only to hear the sound of a flutter, the arrow ignited into a fireball in the air, was blown more vigorously, and soon nailed to the bow of the ship.

Li Yan turned pale with shock, and said: "He wants to burn the grain ship and put out the fire."

The seven hundred riders behind Yuan Xizheng were in an orderly manner, shooting rockets one after another, and those arrows were nailed to the boat one after another.

Although the bottom of the boat on land is supported by two huge iron plates with both ends raised high, the hull is still made of wood. The people on board took off their clothes and beat them desperately. fireball.

Yuan Xizheng waved his hand, and Qibaiqi took out small jars from his horse's luggage, and threw them far away towards the land rowing boat. The jars landed on the rowing boat, and immediately fell to pieces, and the liquid inside rolled away Come out with a strong aroma.

"Wine, it's wine!" the Northern Qi soldier exclaimed.

As soon as the wine touched the flames, the flames exploded and swept everything under the blowing of the north wind.

Li Yan's eyes were bloodshot, and he suddenly shouted: "Abandon the ship, take Yuan Xizheng for me."

"Withdraw!" Yuan Xizheng said decisively.

Although Yuan Xizheng reacted quickly, Qibaiqi was overtaken by Wen Qing, who was alone, within a few miles.

Yuan Xizheng was forced by him to dismount to fight, even though Tang Cihu commanded [-] cavalry to besiege Wen Qing with Yuan Xizheng.

Wen Qing remained calm with one sword and one sword, and abruptly left Yuan Xizheng and Qibaiqi in place.

Only a muffled sound flew across the sky, and a red firework appeared in the sky. Tang Cihu knew that it was Li Yan who was notifying the 30 troops of their current location.Tang Cihu was even more anxious. He knew that the strongest of the Northern Qi Army was the marching army, especially their cavalry. Tang Cihu's eyes turned blood red because they were approaching in an instant.

In the distance, the snowflakes splashed by the hooves of the horses could be faintly seen, but Wen Qing was still orderly and deft.

Soon Li Yan arrived first with his people, only to hear him shout: "Take Yuan Xizheng for me!" After speaking, he jumped off his horse and joined Wen Qing and Yuan Xizheng's battle group.

Apart from seeing Li Yan go hunting, Yuan Xizheng has never actually seen Li Yan make a real move. In Yuan Xizheng's mind, Li Yangui is a prince, and swordsmanship must be just a pastime. Their first fight in Yuancun also showed that Li Yan His sword skills are far inferior to his own.However, it is obvious that Yuan Xi made a mistake in the fight. Li Yan's swordsmanship has improved by leaps and bounds in the past two or three years, and he is not weaker than himself at all. With his joining, Yuan Xi can't compete with three or two moves, and he appears to be decadent. .Yuan Xizheng looked left and right, fine sweat gradually appeared on his smooth forehead, and finally under Wen Qing and Li Yan's combined attack, Yuan Xizheng stepped back a few steps, but Li Yan's sword had already reached his chest.

Yuan Xizheng smiled wryly, and the scene in his mind was like a fleeting image. First, the figure of his mother twisting clothes, then Yuan village full of flames, and finally Li Yan coming under the moonlight. Yuan Xizheng closed his eyes.In the first fight between Li Yan and Yuan Xi, he was just a proud young man who came here with power. He thought he was smart and unworldly. When he saw the only person who had ever touched his heart, he didn't want to give up easily. , even if it was shocking; he thought it was just a harmless joke, but what Yuan Xizheng set was a trap that could make him never recover.

No wonder the person in front of him never let go of saying that he likes him, even though they seemed to forget everything in the world when they kissed, but it turned out that the only person who gave his true love was him, Li Yan.Li Yan really hated the person in front of him for that moment, but when the sword was about to touch Yuan Xizheng's chest, he almost instinctively held the sword with his left hand, and blood immediately ran across the sword And splash.

At the same time, the sky was full of silver needles, and Li Yan, who was in severe pain, had no time to react, and was hugged by Wen Qing, and all those needles like a drizzle hit Wen Qing's back .

Yuan Xizheng was stunned for a moment, Li Yan's blood was still on his fair face, the warmth made Yuan Xizheng's heart ache unbearably.Li Yan hugged Wen Qing, looked back at Yuan Xizheng, the hatred in that glance made Yuan Xizheng take another step involuntarily.

Yuan Xizheng has never seen Li Yan hate anyone. The casual Li Yan seems to have a kind of chic and careless like a dude. Even though he is being chased by his elder brother, Li Yan talks with a smile, as if saying something funny thing.

"Let's go!" Tang Cihu finally used the hidden weapon that Chu Yin gave him in the nick of time. He originally wanted to kill Li Yan, but he didn't expect Wen Qing to risk his life to save him.The sound of horseshoes in the sky was getting louder and louder. Tang Cihu didn't care about Yuan Xizheng's daze, so he dragged Yuan Xizheng onto the horse.

With just this one word, Yuan Xizheng was already in tears, and he murmured to his senior brother, and Tang Cihu took him far away.The group of them could not run very far, Tang Cihu ordered everyone to flee in all directions. He raised his arms and said, "Brothers, today we have made great contributions to the Southern Dynasty. Whoever can run back to the Southern Dynasty will enjoy the rewards." All the splendor and wealth! Brothers, I am waiting for you to drink and celebrate with you in the Southern Dynasty."

These cavalrymen knew that this time they were close to death, but when Tang Cihu said this, they all wanted to fight to the death, raised their knives and shouted long live, before they bid farewell to Tang Cihu and fled in all directions.

As soon as the people dispersed, only Yuan Xizheng, Tang Cihu and Yan Liang were left, Tang Cihu turned his face and said: "Master Yan, I will trouble you to lead the way where we are going."

Yan Liang hesitated for a moment, Tang Cihu sneered, and said: "Yan Liang, if we can't escape today, then that's fine, at most we're a prisoner. But when you were leaving, Take away all the money of all the families in these cities, and leave these civilians as scapegoats, I wonder if Li Yan will use you as a favor, and mention his local popularity here!"

Yan Liang didn't know how powerful this was, but he was a little bit unwilling to give up his hiding place, and he couldn't help but want to use it to bargain.Before he could speak, Yuan Xizheng was upset, so he snorted coldly at this moment.

Yan Liang immediately swallowed the words that came to his mouth, and said with an apologetic smile: "Xiaochen, Xiaochen remembered that he is in Xiangyang City."

"Inside Xiangyang City!" Neither Yuan Xizheng nor Tang Cihu thought that Yan Liang's hiding place would be set up in the enemy city of Northern Qi, but after thinking about it carefully, Xiangyang City was originally the city under Yan Liang's jurisdiction, I'm afraid this arrangement I don't know how many years it has existed, but I can't help but admire this old oil in my heart.

Tang Cihu took Yuan Xizheng and Tang Cihu for half a circle. So many people in the Northern Qi Army couldn't catch them. Tang Cihu's tracking skills played a key role. Those who are good at tracking naturally know how to escape tracked by others.

After erasing the traces, Tang Cihu killed Yuan Xizheng and their three horses with a dagger, and then let Yan Liang lead them all the way to the outskirts of Xiangyang.Yan Liang picked out a wild dog's hole from a pile of weeds, pointed to the hole, and flatteringly said: "My lord is here."

Yuan Xizheng and Tang Cihu both frowned, Yan Liang crawled in along that path.Tang Cihu and Yuan Xizheng looked at each other, and had no choice but to follow him and climb in.Yuan Xizheng fell into the cave, only to find out that the cave is very small, only for one person to walk forward on his knees, perhaps because of this, this secret road has not been discovered by the Northern Qi army for four or five years.The three of them climbed for an hour before they reached the city. Both Yuan Xizheng and Tang Cihu couldn't help admiring Yan Liang's resilience.

The entrance of the cave was sealed, Yan Liang knocked it hard with the hilt of his sword a few times, and the mud fell off. It turned out to be a family's woodshed.