Dian Wei said breathlessly: "Lord! I arrived in Chang'an in the evening yesterday, and was about to break through, but there was a sudden chaos in Chang'an City. Later, I heard that the guard of the north gate was mainly the Xiliang army, and he colluded with the rebels to surrender! Chang'an has been lost! I hurried back to report the news-

Now the enemy's partial division opposite us probably didn't know that Chang'an was captured by them. At most, they would know in half a day. In a day, the main force of the enemy might move to our side and attack our army with all their strength!"

Liu Bei was bolted from the blue: "What? That's Chang'an! Chang'an City has not been kept for half a month? This is impossible! Damn traitor!"

Fa Zheng quickly stopped Liu Bei, who was so angry that he kicked firewood: "My lord is not the time to get angry now. Since that's the case, please withdraw your troops immediately! The enemy troops on the opposite side can't beat us now, but if the Chang'an besieged army comes, we will be done!"

Liu Bei was a bachelor, and he made a quick decision: "Retreat! Dian Wei, please take a rest and sleep first, and ask the soldiers to prepare for a little extra meal. After retreating half an hour, the camp flags were denied, pretending that we were still there.

In addition, when retreating, the elite troops are behind the hall and keep them until noon. If the enemy surveillance troops cross the river and pursue them on the other side of Luogushui, they will turn around and fight for a while. Then retreat at full speed - these surveillance troops are not large in number, so they should still be able to fight. As long as you don’t meet the main force of the enemy.”

Liu Bei knew that it was not enough to take this half hour, the key was to walk quietly. And now it was ugly, and it was easy to trip and fall and trample on the road along the hillside of Qinling Mountains at night. It was better to march again at the beginning of the Yin hour, and at least walk for another hour and then it would be slightly bright.

Fa Zheng and Xu Huang immediately went to execute, and Dian Wei took a nap for half an hour before changing him to a horse. Dian Wei's horse was almost running to death on the way to break through. Liu Bei knew that the horse could not keep up when the troops were withdrawing, so he released it into the Qinling Mountains to survive and fend for itself.

Starting from the Yin hour, Liu Bei took more than 2,000 people to retreat lightly (when he came, he had 3,000 people, and he lost hundreds of them after several small encounters).

All the tent flags were left in place, and even military rations were not needed. Each soldier had a few cooked rice balls tied to his belt and ate two meals on the way. He asked him to run back to Wugongshui's Wuzhangyuan camp that night and go to Wuzhangyuan for supper.

The troops walked in the dark for two hours and walked thirty miles away, and the sky was already bright. Liu Bei estimated that the enemy surveillance troops on the other side of Luo Gushui should have found that his camp might be empty and would tentatively touch them to check.

And by noon that day at the latest, the surveillance force will definitely receive notification that Chang'an has taken it, so there will definitely be a wave of pursuit around noon at the latest.

Liu Bei calculated the time. When the march arrived, he felt that the soldiers must be tired. After all, most of them were infantry, so he asked everyone to sit down and rest for half an hour, eat some rice balls and drink some water, but be careful not to sit on the flat ground by the Wei River. You must go up the Qinling hillside in the south and find a place to hide in trees to rest.

The first time he rested was a little overly cautious and did not encounter any pursuit from the enemy. Liu Bei was frightened and hurriedly asked the soldiers to stop resting and continue to retreat before he could wait for Chen Shisan.

After resting for more than half an hour, at about the end of noon, the scout cavalry that had cut off the back ran up and said that indeed, the surveillance troops on the east bank of Luo Gushui were catching up.

Liu Bei broke out in a cold sweat, thought for a few seconds and ordered: "One thousand five hundred people were divided into the mountain immediately! Hidden into the woods of Qinling Mountains! Be on guard! Gongming, you take a thousand people and pretend to continue running along Weinan. When you see me breaking out from the hillside, you must turn around and fight to the death!"

Xu Huang lifted the axe and agreed: "Abide by the order!"

Within a quarter of an hour, the pursuers came. When hundreds of Xiliang Light Cavalry were disconnected from the rear team, and within ten miles of the back, thousands of people could be seen like long snake formations. The journey was rolling and arrogant, regardless of the slightest concern about the formation being too long and disconnected when chasing.

Liu Bei was sweating, but fortunately he didn't care about his physical strength and escaped his life. Otherwise, if the entire army was panting and exhausted, he was rushed by hundreds of Xiliang Light Cavalry vanguards, his two thousand five or six hundred people would probably be wiped out.

As expected, the Xiliang cavalry was very excited when they saw Xu Huang. They rushed forward with a strange cry. After about three or four hundred people rushed past, two or three hundred left were left behind, Liu Bei suddenly broke out from the woods on the Qinling hillside on the south side, and cut the Xiliang light cavalry of five or six hundred people into two sections.

Xu Huang also had strict military discipline, and even made the military discipline of the military farmer strict. Although his martial arts skills were not good, he immediately turned around and killed when he heard the order.

The Han army also shouted at the same time: "Zhang Fei, the Yan general, is here! The dog thief is trapped!"

"General Fubo, Zhao Zilong, Changshan, is here! Who dares to fight with the thief general?"

"The army of Kings in Hanzhong has been waiting for tens of thousands of times!"

The first person to chase the Qu Junhou of the Western Liang army was Hu Cheer. His five or six hundred cavalry were really good at comparing force, but he could kill 2,55 military soldiers, but he rushed over for more than 60 miles without hearing it. In addition, he didn't know the facts of the Han army, so he thought there were really tens of thousands of Han troops after being cut off in half. He was in chaos.

The timid Xiliang cavalry rode their horses directly into the Wei River, trying to prevent them from being surrounded. After rushing deep into the ground, the war horses were uncontrollably thrown off the people, and they continued to swim in the water toward Weibei.

Hu Cheer tried to restrain the defeated soldiers, but was targeted by Dian Wei beside Liu Bei. He waved his two iron halberds and rushed forward. He fought for dozens of rounds, cutting the panic-hearted Hu Cheer under the horse.

As soon as Hu Che'er died, the pursuit vanguard became more and more chaotic. After a while, Liu Bei successfully retreated from the first wave of pursuit and continued to retreat.

He was still more than fifty miles away from Wuzhangyuan Camp. However, because of the excessive physical energy consumption, the troops were getting slower and slower, and there was a disconnection.

This time, Liu Bei knew that it was impossible to set up an ambush to stop the pursuers, so he didn't care about the formation and just wanted to run as soon as possible. When someone caught up with him the second time, it was definitely not like this. Instead, the large army that received reinforcements from the main force of the rebels would be killed no matter how hard they fought.

...

Two hours after the encounter, in the evening,

The troops monitoring Liu Bei's troops reduced their pursuit speed and paid attention to their formation because of the confusion in the afternoon, so they failed to shorten the distance.

At the beginning of Shen Shi, the main force of the rebels in Chang'an finally paid attention to Liu Bei's existence, so reinforcements were sent.

Li Jue and Guo Si had to stay in Chang'an to force the emperor to solve the reward problem, so he could not come. They sent another lieutenant-level threat to follow the general of the Western Liang army, Zhang Ji, and asked Zhang Ji to pursue him for his crimes.

However, fearing that Zhang Ji would not work hard, Li Jue also sent a military supervisor to Zhang Ji, which was Jia Xu.

Before and after Jia Xu arrived at the army, he first found the young general of the failed surveillance unit to ask about the situation. It turned out that the person responsible for monitoring Liu Bei was a young general, Zhang Ji's nephew Zhang Xiu. He is only worthy of the crown this year and lacks military experience in commanding the war. He followed his uncle to be a Sima of the individual troops.

Zhang Xiu apologized to Jia Xu and said, "It's all my fault that I underestimated the enemy. I thought Liu Bei fled because of the fear of fighting and chased him too quickly. At that time, the troops stretched along Weinan for ten miles, so that the head and tail could not look after each other. When the vanguard was cut off in the waist, the rear army could not be rescued. So later I changed to a complete army to form a formation and chase slowly, and beware of the ambush in the dense forest of Qinling Mountains to the south."

After hearing this, Jia Xu slapped his thigh and sighed: "The Major General is wrong! Liu Bei fought in the south for eight years, don't he know the soldiers? You are close to him and almost stood close to him. He knew that he would definitely not be able to escape your pursuit, so he remembered to defend himself at all times with his elite soldiers.

But since he repelled you once, he knew that the next time he would definitely be the main force of General Li Guo Er, and he would not be able to resist it anyway. If I were Liu Bei, I would be able to ride a fast horse and even abandon the army to flee. How could I be wary of it!

If you catch up early, you will win! Not to mention that you can capture Liu Bei, but at least you can annihilate the enemy's infantry! If you don't have time to explain, immediately pursue the formation without regard to your formation! Run as fast as possible!"

Even Zhang Ji next to him felt ashamed when he heard this, and immediately asked his nephew to lead everyone to chase him regardless of the formation.

The size of the troops this time was almost equivalent to the majority of the Xiliang soldiers under Lu Bu's general, with more than 20,000 people. Even if they didn't arrive, they were all out of breath, but they were much stronger than Liu Bei. Moreover, there were thousands of cavalrymen, and the cavalry were even more numerous than Liu Bei's infantry.

Zhang Xiu knew the shame and bravely asked to take Zhang Ji's five thousand cavalry as vanguards and chase Liu Bei.

...

"Lord, behind it is the Xiliang army chasing us again! There are many cavalrymen alone this time!"

When Wuzhangyuan was twenty or thirty miles away, the bad news came again, and several scouts were covered in blood with arrows, obviously injured by riding and shooting.

"It's over! They are all cavalrymen, and I'm afraid they can't bring all these infantry back to Wuzhangyuan!" Liu Bei sighed for a few seconds, but he was still very determined, let Fa Zheng Xu Huangdianwei, plus a total of three or four hundred people with horses, all give up the infantry and run wildly-

In fact, when Liu Bei left the valley, there were not as many war horses as three or four hundred. A small part of them were the horses left by the soldiers who jumped into the Wei River and fled when Hu Cheer was intercepted and killed just now. They were confiscated by Liu Bei.

However, these nearly two thousand infantry soldiers cannot be left without a soldier. In a critical moment, this time, Wu Lanyue, who was responsible for surrendering the Northern Army of the Capital, came out: "Lord! My father, thanks to the lord's grievances, was able to avoid being implicated in the Liu Yanni case. The last general is willing to lead the infantry to beat the lord's flag and cut off the rear!"

Liu Bei burst into tears and made a cruel heart: "You just delay a little, just surrender after being exposed. I think the rebels will not kill prisoners. After suppressing the rebellion in the future, if you return to our army, you will say that you surrendered by my order, and I will still be named a marquis for you."

After saying that, Liu Bei tied up his horse and ran away with other people with horses.

A few minutes later, Zhang Xiu, with thousands of cavalry, collided with Wu Lan's two thousand infantrymen who were arrayed to block the Weinan River Valley.

Taking advantage of the last ray of dusk, Zhang Xiu's eyes were pretty good. When he saw Liu Bei's big banner in Wu Lan's formation, he quickly pointed at the horse whip with excitement and said to Jia Xu next to him: "Liu Bei's central army banner is still there! This day teaches me to achieve such great achievements!"

Jia Xu narrowed his eyes. Although it was impossible to see the faces of the opposite person hundreds of steps away in the afterglow of dusk, and could only see the flag clearly, his intuition told Jia Xu that it was not that simple: Why didn’t the enemy see the horses? Although the main force of Liu Bei’s army was all infantry and he could not ride a horse when he walked on the plank road, did the generals have no horses?

But he couldn't bear to attack Zhang Xiu, so he kept silent and waited for the result.

Zhang Xiu immediately launched a rush, and in a short while he killed hundreds of military camp soldiers who were camping. After half a minute, Wu Lan's military formation was completely destroyed. At least seven or eight hundred military camp soldiers immediately knelt down and surrendered because of insufficient fighting will. Their resistance became weaker and weaker.

The entire resistance and delay lasted only for a quarter of an hour. When Zhang Xiu danced his spear and killed Liu Bei's flag formation, he realized that it was not Liu Bei at all.

"Dog thief! How dare you pretend to be Liu Bei! Forget it, I don't have time to settle the score with you now. Surrender and lead the way to spare you!"

Wu Lan fell to the ground after being injured and spat: "Qiang Dog! Why are there any generals of Han surrendered!"

Then he died in battle.

Later generations wrote a poem to praise: Chang'an rescues the lords and fights against the enemy. Jia Xu won after chasing the enemy and was defeated. He still scolded Qiang Dog until his death, and Wu Lan is worthy of the Han general.
Chapter completed!