Guiyi Fei Tang

Chapter 172 Military encounter
"The governor!"

"Build a floating bridge!"

"Yes!"

Shang Duoluo and Zhang Chang came with 800 mounted infantry and a pontoon bridge.

As they drove the carriage to the bank of the Wei River, Lu Ruyue and Shang Yanxin, who were still worried about Zhe Buhui's injury, suddenly widened their eyes.

When the pontoon bridge was lifted off the carriages and assembled by the armored soldiers, the tens of thousands of people on the south bank of the river felt their scalps tingling.

"Retreat! Retreat to Fuqiang!!"

Lu Ruyue was the first to react and quickly ordered a withdrawal. At the same time, he sent people to carry Zhe Buhui onto an ox cart, and after a simple bandage, he began to escape.

There was a ready-made floating bridge, but the Wei River, which was only over thirty feet wide, could not stop them for long.

They did not have much time left, and tens of thousands of tribes drove tens of thousands of cattle and sheep towards Fuqiang.

But this time, there was no floating bridge for them to cut off on the road, but a flat river valley road!

Without anyone urging them, the Linwei people who wanted to survive fled madly eastward along the official road.

Looking at their chaotic fleeing team, Liu Jilian on the north bank looked back at the thousands of slaves who chose to stay.

"From now on, you are no longer slaves, but my Han people!"

"Zhang Chang, lead them to build a floating bridge, and be careful!"

"The last general takes command"

Under Liu Jilian's instructions, Zhang Chang began to build a pontoon bridge with these four or five thousand laborers who had just been granted civilian status.

Building a pontoon bridge is not difficult. First, send people to the south bank of the river on a sheepskin raft. After solidifying the ferry rope with wooden stakes and ropes, you can start building the pontoon bridge.

Lu Ruyue and his men were fleeing with their troops, and they could not flee fast at all. Liu Jilong had plenty of time to catch up with them, so he was not in a hurry at first, until Shang Duoluo brought him some bad news.

"Governor, the people said that the Qinzhou government troops are heading towards Longxi. The official road that Lu Ruyue and his men took is the Qinwei official road. It seems that they are heading to Qinzhou!"

When Liu Jilong was holding a map and trying to see where the official road that Shang Yanxin and his companions took led to, Shang Duoluoxian found him with detailed information.

Hearing this, Liu Jilong clenched the map in his hand and looked at the people who were building a pontoon bridge.

"Officers and soldiers... humph!"

"It remains to be seen who will win. Let's see who is faster, them or us!"

He closed the map and waited quietly for the pontoon bridge to be built.

At the same time, the commander of the Tianxiong army, who had crossed the river more than an hour in advance, was now leading his light cavalry to Fuqiang.

The distance of more than thirty miles would take only about an hour and a half for light cavalry that did not need to worry about horsepower.

Therefore, when Lu Ruyue and his men began to retreat hastily to Fuqiang, the light cavalry had already turned back along the official road and saw a team building a camp in the distance.

"Drive! Drive..."

More than a hundred light cavalry came galloping and soon rushed into the camp that had not yet been built.

The ordinary soldiers were stopped, and the brigade commander led two teams to rush to the front of the tent, quickly dismounted and walked inside.

"Zhuguo, the news is wrong!"

"Shang Yanxin and Lu Ruyue retreated to Longxi and were attacked by Liu Jilong for many days. Now Longxi City is in danger. The two have ordered their troops to cross the Longxi ferry and try to retreat to Fuqiang!"

The brigade commander explained the situation clearly in a few words, and the generals who had just sat down in the tent stood up one after another, their faces filled with surprise.

"How come Shang Yanxin's three killers were lost so quickly!"

"Could it be that they have teamed up with Liu Jilong to defraud us?"

"Zhuguo, Shang Yanxin and Lu Ruyue must be setting a trap!"

"That's right. Hezhou has Fenglin Pass, Linzhou has Donggu and Daxia City, and Weizhou has Weiyuan City and Longxi City."

"These cities are easy to defend but difficult to attack. How could they fall so quickly?"

For a moment, most of the generals in the tent thought that the current situation was a trap.

Xue Kui had a dark face and stared at Wang Zonghui, while Gao Pian also had an ugly expression but did not speak.

After all, if the Northern Division had not required Xue Kui to wait for the arrival of the Shen Ce Army before he could move out, Xue Kui would probably have taken Weizhou long ago.

"General Wang, do you think Shang Yanxin and the other two are up to something?!"

Xue Kui stared at Wang Zonghui, but kept asking questions to Brigade Commander Wang.

General Wang, who was standing outside the tent, was stunned when he heard this. After a moment's silence, he said, "In my opinion, it is unlikely that this is a fraud."

"The situation of the Fan army does not seem to be fake. Even if the Fan army can fake it, the fear of the Fan people cannot be faked."

Brigade Commander Wang said that was enough, and Xue Kui glared at Wang Zonghui angrily upon hearing that.

Wang Zonghui didn't care. After all, the loss of Linwei couldn't be his fault.

Even if he was guilty, Bei Si would protect him, but it was Xue Kui instead.

I’m afraid those guys in Nan Ya won’t try their best to protect him.

"Pass on my military order. Stop camping and march towards Longxi!"

Faced with the precarious situation in Weizhou, Xue Kui could only order a forced march.

However, as soon as he said this, many generals below immediately started making a fuss.

"The army has traveled fifty miles today. It's only twenty miles away. Can't we just send our best cavalry to go there?"

"That's right. The army has received an imperial decree. Once the decree arrives, Liu Jilong will definitely not dare to continue attacking the city!"

"The infantry is tired, why not send the best cavalry?"

"Zhuguo..."

All the generals were unwilling to continue marching. Upon hearing this, Xue Kui glared, drew the sword from his waist and chopped off a corner of the table in front of him.

"I have the Supreme Order. Who dares not to obey it? Just like this case!!"

Although the generals of the Tianxiong Army were transferred from other places, the soldiers were personally recruited and trained by Xue Kui after he arrived in Qinzhou.

Xue Kui knew very well what these generals were thinking. They just wanted to ask for reward money.

But this is the Tianxiong Army, and he also has his own confidants.

Anyway, he had already failed in accepting the surrender of the two states, and he would definitely be impeached by the eunuchs in the Northern Office.

Under this situation, if these foreign generals dare to cause trouble, I don't mind killing a few more people!
"The last general takes orders..."

Sure enough, seeing Xue Kui getting angry, some generals promoted by Xue Kui himself also stood up and opposed those generals who were demanding rewards.

Seeing that things were getting out of hand, no matter how ugly their faces were, they still had to obey Xue Kui's military order.

Soon, the army stopped and moved camp. The elite cavalry went in front, the infantry went away on chariots, and the civilians stayed at the end to clean up the camp.

It is now 18: and it is only half an hour away from dark.

The place where Xue Kui and his men set up camp was twenty miles away from Longxi County. The reason they chose this place was that they wanted to have a good rest for a night so that they could arrive at noon after setting off tomorrow and be able to deal with enough emergencies.

However, Xue Kui did not expect that Shang Yanxin and Lu Ruyue gave him false information, and now they are at the end of their rope.

Under the current circumstances, he could only urge the army to hurry and reach the Longxi ferry before nightfall.

While they were heading towards the Longxi ferry, Liu Jilong also sent people to build and solidify the pontoon bridge for half an hour.

Six hundred elite cavalry and eight hundred mounted infantry began to cross the river one after another, chasing towards Qin Wei's official road without stopping.

In half an hour, Lu Ruyue and the others did not run too far, only seven or eight miles.

For the Longxi army, it only took two quarters of an hour to catch up with the enemy.

When they bypassed the first pass heading south along the Wei River, the not-so-spacious pass ahead was blocked by a pile of baggage carts that were intentionally left there by Lu Ruyue and Shang Yanxin.

It didn't take much time to clear them out. In just a cup of tea, they had moved the baggage carts away and cleared the official road.

The dust in the distance exposed the distance between the two sides, and as the Longxi army continued to pursue, they soon saw tens of thousands of troops under Lu Ruyue's command.

"Leave all the baggage behind! Once we get to Fuqiang, someone will take care of our meals!"

Lu Ruyue was anxious and angrily cursed, and sent elite cavalry to whip the foreign people, causing them to abandon most of their baggage.

After leaving the baggage behind, the team's speed did increase, but the Longxi army still caught up.

"Surrender and save your life!!"

On horseback, six hundred elite cavalrymen from Longxi drew their bows and shot arrows like locusts.

Once those unarmored barbarians in the front were hit by arrows, they fell to the ground and died immediately.

"Pig-dog guys, the elite cavalry will stay with me to cover our retreat!"

Lu Ruyue was responsible. When he saw his troops being killed, he quickly reined in his horse, gathered his elite cavalry, and marched in the opposite direction of the main force.

Six hundred cavalrymen charged from the front of the team, and the sound of horns shook both sides of the Wei River at dusk.

"Uuuuuu——"

The Longxi army also sounded the charge horn. Liu Jilian led 600 elite cavalrymen to charge out, while Shang Duoluo and Zhang Chang hurriedly reined in their horses and dismounted with 800 armored soldiers to form a battle line.

The silver and brown torrents collided again, and the banners of Lu Ruyue and Liu Jilong were particularly conspicuous.

Lu Ruyue rode his horse and charged towards Liu Jillong's banner, but he never expected that Liu Jillong would charge forward on his horse alone.

After the two men fought for just a moment, Lu Ruyue felt a pain in his palm and the spear in his hand flew out of his hand.

Without time to react, Lu Ruyue quickly fell on the horse's back. He was hit on the back by the iron spear, and the pain felt as if his spine was broken.

"Qiliben!!"

When the cavalry saw that Lu Ruyue was defeated by Liu Jilong, they besieged Liu Jilong. Two small guards protected Lu Ruyue and fled.

In just one encounter, nearly a hundred of the six hundred cavalrymen fell down and they quickly turned their horses and retreated.

Liu Jilian led the elite cavalry to continue the pursuit, and Shang Duoluo and Zhang Chang also urged the infantry to mount their horses and pursue.

Lu Ruyue finally climbed up from the horse's back, but saw Liu Jilong chasing her closely, so she quickly shook the reins and ran for her life.

As for the lives of the barbarians, he was like a clay Buddha crossing the river and could not save himself, so he could not protect these barbarians at all.

Liu Jilian led his elite cavalry and horse infantry to charge into the crowd of foreigners. He did not need to draw his sword to kill anyone. The foreigners became disorderly and trampled on each other.

Lu Ruyue fled to the front army with only 500 elite cavalrymen around him, while Shang Yanxin commanded the cavalry and infantry to flee for their lives.

There was a tributary of the Wei River ahead, but the river was not wide, and due to the severe drought in Longxi, it had already dried up.

It could have been used to stop the Longxi army, but now it has become a stumbling block on the road to escape.

The dry river channel, about ten feet wide and five feet deep, could be crossed on horseback by elite cavalry and mounted infantry.

But for those foreigners who were riding in the cars, it was undoubtedly an insurmountable obstacle on the road to escape.

Liu Jilian led his elite cavalry to fight through the barbarian troops and crossed the river to chase after Lu Ruyue and Shang Yanxin. As for the injured Zhe Buhui, he was unlucky enough to be discovered by Shang Duoluo and others.

"Capture this fellow to prevent him from committing suicide. After the battle, hand him over to the governor for judgment!"

Shang Duoluo arranged for more than ten cavalry and infantry to dismount and control Zhe Buhui, but Zhe Buhui's troops had already fled with Lu Ruyue and his men.

"Woo woo woo--" The sound of the horn sounded again from behind. Shang Yanxin turned around and saw Liu Jilong chasing him relentlessly, almost breaking into the formation.

All the foreign cavalry whipped their whips and tried to escape.

Seeing that escape was impossible, Lu Ruyue stared at Zhang's pale face and ordered General Lin Ruzhen beside him:

"I will lead the elite cavalry to fight them for three rounds. You will lead the infantry to dismount and form a battle formation. Then send the light cavalry to the front to look for the government troops!"

"Leader!"

Lu Ruyue realized that they could not defeat Liu Jilong on horseback.

At the moment, they could only form a formation of infantry and use spears to resist the enemy in order to make Liu Jilong afraid. At the same time, they sent people to find Xue Kui and ask him to lead his troops to come to the rescue.

Upon hearing this, Lin Ruzhen tightened his grip on the reins and nodded in agreement.

Seeing that he agreed, Lu Ruyue quickly turned his horse around and led his elite cavalry to attack Liu Jilong.

The two sides' elite cavalry collided, and countless people fell off their horses.

"Dismount and form a battle line!"

"Beep--"

When Lin's whistle sounded, General Ru Zhen quickly commanded thousands of armored soldiers to dismount and form a battle line.

Shang Yanxin saw this and shouted angrily: "Why do you care about him?"

"Qiliben, if we don't do anything, Liu Jilong will kill us all sooner or later!"

Lin Ruzhen looked at Shang Yanxin in disbelief. Shang Yanxin was frightened by his look and could only rein in his horse and hide behind the infantry.

Seeing that Lin Ruzhen was about to form a battle array, Lu Ruyue quickly turned his horse around and retreated.

This time he learned his lesson and placed the big banner farther away from himself, so he could clearly see Liu Jilong riding his horse and attacking left and right in the formation, and no one could match his enemy wherever his horse passed.

The foreign cavalry withdrew from the battlefield, and Liu Jilian led his troops in pursuit, but soon discovered that General Lin Ruzhen was leading the infantry in battle formation.

"Blow the whistle to call the infantry into formation!"

Liu Jilian called out to the elite cavalrymen beside him, and they quickly picked up their wooden whistles and blew them.

Soon, Shang Duoluo and Zhang Chang led the infantry to catch up, and quickly dismounted and formed a battle line.

The Longxi army did not waste any time, and the first thing they did after forming their battle array was to launch an attack.

"Enter!"

"Screw rustle..."

The sky around them gradually darkened. The soldiers from Longxi held spears and advanced in formation, while General Lin Ruzhen led his men in a continuous retreat.

However, the speed of advancing is often faster than the speed of retreating, and soon the spears of the two armies collided.

"kill!"

"Dog Hannu!"

"You bastard, I beat you like a stray dog, and you still dare to curse me!"

As their spears collided, both sides kept cursing at each other, but no matter how they cursed, the Longxi army had the upper hand.

The space between the two formations was compressed, and then both sides switched to blunt weapons and started hand-to-hand combat.

The hammer and axe hit the armor, and although there was no bleeding, the screams could not be faked.

Hammers, maces, and axes were flying, and the Longxi army kept pressing forward. Eight hundred people forced thousands of foreign soldiers to retreat continuously.

Liu Jilian led his elite cavalry to raid the enemy's formation. Whenever the foreign troops were in disarray, he would lead his elite cavalry to attack.

"Beep--"

If you defend for too long, you will lose. As the foreign soldiers were constantly forced to retreat, their formation was indeed weakened.

Not missing this opportunity, Liu Jilian led his elite cavalry to attack from the flank. Seeing this, Lu Ruyue led the remaining elite cavalry to attack.

The two groups clashed three times, but this time the foreign cavalry was directly defeated by the elite cavalry of Longxi.

Liu Jilong rushed into the foreign soldiers on horseback, swung the iron spear in his hand and stabbed left and right.

In an instant, the left formation of the foreign soldiers was in chaos, and Liu Jilong also saw Shang Yanxin hiding among the foreign soldiers.

"Shang Yanxin!!"

When the thunder exploded, Shang Yanxin looked at Liu Jilian's banner in horror, but when he saw Liu Jilian rushing towards him, he quickly turned his horse and fled.

"Uuuuuu——"

Suddenly, a horn sounded from the direction of Fuqiang. When the sun was about to set in the mountains, hundreds of elite cavalry charged from the direction of Fuqiang.

"Uuuuuu——"

The horn sounded, and Gao Pian looked at the Linwei Fan army being unilaterally slaughtered in front of him. He was horrified and quickly waved his sword to give orders.

"Zhang Lin, Liang Zun, Wang Zhongren... shout at the Longxi army to stop!"

"The last general takes command!"

The three generals led their elite cavalry, sped up their horses, and charged out.

"Liu Jilong! You pig-dog bastard! I have already surrendered to the imperial court! How dare you kill me?!"

Shang Yanxin looked at the Qinzhou troops coming to support him, a smile appeared on his face, and he turned around and scolded Liu Jilong.

Liu Jilong pursued with a cold face, and seeing that Shang Yanxin dared to shout, he became furious.

"Old dog! You still dare to yell!!"

Liu Jilong hung his spear on the back of the saddle, took out his bow, drew his bow and put an arrow on it.

In an instant, three arrows hit the horse under Shang Yanxin's crotch. The horse neighed, and Shang Yanxin was caught off guard and thrown away. He rolled on the ground for several times before he stopped.

"Send the Holy Spirit, the Linwei Tubo have surrendered, the Longxi Army should stop fighting!!"

From dozens of steps away, Wang Zhongren shouted at Liu Jilong to stop him, but Liu Jilong ignored him, dropped his bow and took out his gun, and stabbed Shang Yanxin in the face when he got up.

Shang Yanxin only saw a black shadow passing by, and when he reacted, he flew into the air and fell to the ground, twitching non-stop...

"Bold!!"

Zhang Lin and Liang Zun did not know who the person who was killed was, and had never seen Liu Jilong.

When the two men saw him killing people in front of the imperial edict, they rode their horses towards Liu Jilong.

Two men came charging at him with horse spears in hand. Liu Jilong swung his spear and smashed them, but he felt the force in his hands was so strong that he turned his body to avoid the spear's thrust.

"Kill you, you're so strong!"

Zhang Lin and Liang Zun were shocked. After all, they were famous cavalry generals in the Shence Army, but even with their combined efforts, they were unable to defeat this killer.

The two men, armed with horse lances, fought with Liu Jilong. Shang Duoluo and Zhang Chang, who were behind them, saw this and rushed over on horseback.

"Which idiot is here to seek death?"

"You dare to be an enemy of my governor? You are seeking death!"

Seeing the two generals rushing towards him, Wang Zhongren rode his horse to meet them.

He was not tall, but he was able to fight with Shang Duoluo and Zhang Chang.

Liu Jilong was afraid that the two would be in trouble, so he became angry. He stole the lance from Fei Liangzun's hand, reined in his horse, and swung the lance at Zhang Lin.

Zhang Lin used his arms to block the attack with the spear, but he felt pain in his palms. The spear hit his shoulder, and he gritted his teeth and turned red in the face before he managed to block it.

Gao Pian, who was galloping over, saw this and quickly raised the imperial edict to attract Liu Jilong's attention:
"The Lord of the Divine Strategy Army, Gao Pian, has delivered a decree to Longxi Army to stop fighting!"

"Gao Pian?" Liu Jilong quickly remembered his identity after a glance, but he did not reduce the strength in his hands, but instead increased it.

The army horses neighed and fell to the ground with their front hooves. Zhang Lin was knocked off his horse by the iron spear.

Without waiting for Liang Zun to pick up the spear, Zhang Lin got up and fought again. Liu Jilong hid his horse and waved his spear. In just one move, he knocked the horse spear in Fei Wang Zhongren's hand and raised his spear to block Zhang Chang and Shang Duoluo.

"This killer is so scary!"

Gao Pian was frightened and reined in his horse. You know, Zhang Lin and the other two were brave generals he carefully selected from the Shence Army.

The two sides fought for only seven rounds before being defeated by the brave general in front of them, and they couldn't help feeling scared.

"Yu Hou..."

Zhang Lin and the other two also quickly got up, picked up the lances and returned to Gao Pian.

Gao Pian heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that the three were safe and sound, and then showed Liu Jilong the imperial edict:
"In compliance with the Supreme Emperor's order, the Longxi Army is not allowed to engage in battle with the Linwei Fan Army again!"

"Where is your defense commander? Go find him and order the army to stop fighting!"

Gao Pian showed Liu Jilong the imperial edict, but Liu Jilong said coldly: "I am Liu Jilong, the defense envoy of Helinwei Three Prefectures!"

"You are Liu Jilong?!"

Gao Pian didn't expect that this brave general was Liu Jilong, but he quickly reacted and said:

"Since the envoy is here, please order the army to stop fighting!"

After he finished speaking, Liu Jilong did not respond for a long time.

"Killing a talent, don't you even obey the imperial court's order?!"

Although Zhang Lin made a mistake, he still rudely scolded Liu Jilian.

"How dare you, a defeated general, raise your voice so loudly! Is it because my governor Tie Qiang failed to tame you?!"

Zhang Chang was not willing to tolerate Zhang Lin and immediately started to mock him.

"Provincial governor?"

Gao Pian frowned when he saw this. He didn't remember that the court had ever given Liu Jilong the position of governor.

Although the court did intend to give him the status of governor of three states, in order to facilitate the division of Longxi in the future, the court finally only gave Liu Jilong the title of Jiedushi of Longxi Army, and granted him the titles of Marquis of Changle County and Defense Commissioner of He, Lin and Wei Three States.

"Blow the whistle... withdraw the troops!"

Seeing Gao Pian deep in thought, Liu Jilong roughly guessed that Zhang Chang had said something wrong.

Now that the war had just ended, he could not break off relations with the court, so he ordered the two men to withdraw their troops.

"Yes……"

Zhang Chang agreed unwillingly, but Shang Duoluo was older and more mature after all, so he did not say anything rude.

Liu Jilong and Gao Pian looked at each other, then turned their horses around and left.

Seeing this, Shang Duoluo dismounted, picked up Shang Yanxin's body, placed it on the saddle, and led the horse back.

Watching the three people leave, Zhang Lin said unconvincedly: "Yu Hou, this killer has no regard for the court at all!"

"Okay." Gao Pian didn't want to cause any trouble, so he looked at the three of them:
"Take the best cavalry to accept the surrender of these tribes and see whether Shang Yanxin, Lu Ruyue, and Zhe Buhui are dead or alive. Do not have any more conflicts with the Longxi army. If they want to take away the baggage, let them do it."

"The last general takes orders..."

(End of this chapter)