Zhuge Dewei stood on the corridor with his hands tied, listening to the sound of water dripping from the eaves of the corridor. He was silent for a while, and then suddenly crossed his hands and smiled bitterly:

"General Linghu is holding a sword in his hand. I only sacrificed a city. Now you and I are just like swords and axes and fish meat. So is this a false surrender? Is it considered an internal response? Isn't it General Linghu's words?

And decide?"

Linghu Xing was stunned for a moment and couldn't help but laugh: "What Leader Zhuge means is that if I say you are an internal agent, you are an internal agent; if I say no, then you are not?"

Zhuge Dewei did not say a word, but continued to stand with his hands crossed.

Linghu Xing nodded, and unexpectedly changed the topic: "Then let me ask you something that Leader Zhuge has the final say... Leader Zhuge is from the gang, does he know the true nature of the thief?"

"I know a little about this, but I am considered a subordinate in the gang. I am rarely appointed and I don't know much." Zhuge Dewei still answered with his hands crossed, but he frankly told the gang information he knew about the gang.

After a while.

From the list of high-ranking gang members to the rise of several factions within the gang, Hebei and Henan are at odds with each other; Chen Bin and Dou Lide are at odds with each other in Hebei; and a group of gang veterans led by Shan Tonghai in Henan cannot lower their arrogance and surrender to Chief Zhang; naturally,

There is also the matter of Li Shu and the newly established Daxingtai. Finally, it is inevitable to mention the fact that Dengzhou was marginalized and the leader of the Hebei rebel army was idle.

Linghu Xing listened attentively and asked a few questions from time to time. It was indeed a bit of a questioning attitude.

After waiting for a while, the other party finished speaking. Linghu Xing was thoughtful, but finally let go of his hand holding the knife: "Is the gang system so complete? The lower level is the same as the imperial prefectures and counties, and the upper level is the same as when the Zhou Dynasty was split.

Hun, Sima Hong seems to be the so-called Bafu Xingtai?"

"Roughly the same."

"I see." Linghu Xing nodded slightly and continued to ask, "If that's the case, who do you think Chief Zhang Xing is?"

"He is an extraordinary person." Zhuge Dewei blurted out. "Although there are so many factions in the gang, which one is not like this? Where is it not like this? On the contrary, he is a vanguard in the North and a gangster in Jing'antai.

Shou, there is a saying that the Black Emperor clicks, but I don't usually use this to bluff people. I just rely on eloquence, strategy, cultivation, and virtue to integrate people's hearts and open up places. In the end, I actually became one of the top powers in the world. This kind of

If people are not great, who can be so?"

"Then why do you still want to surrender?" Linghu Xing couldn't help but laugh. "Wouldn't it be better to follow a great person and hang out with one of the world's most powerful forces?"

Zhuge Dewei glanced at the drizzle that was still continuing outside, clasped his hands, and smiled bitterly: "I would like to follow Chief Zhang to do big things, but Chief Zhang doesn't want to lead me to do big things... After Bai Hengqiu left

, the establishment of Hebei Province, I have no place in Daxingtai, and the military power has also been taken away. If I were to be a local official, I would have been hanging around in Dengzhou and Hebei, so it was fine to leave it to me, but he didn't even let me stay in Hebei.

Cheng Zhili was also asked to stay in the state, and instead he pushed me to a border county where the territory is unstable. What can I do? After working together for half a life, I have to have something to look forward to, right? "

"I understand, I understand." Linghu Xing smiled half-heartedly. "I've seen a lot of people like Leader Zhuge... It's just a pity."

"It is indeed a pity." Zhuge Dewei's eyelids twitched and he immediately handed over his hand. "However, when we get to the Eastern Capital, General Linghu will have to look after us."

"Easy to say, easy to say." Linghu Xing nodded repeatedly and turned around.

Zhuge Dewei sighed, and when the other party left, he breathed a sigh of relief again before leaving the side corridor.

Moreover, due to the sudden nature of the war, many places outside the battlefield did not realize how far the situation had progressed. Therefore, Zhuge Dewei and Linghu Xing, including someone drinking in the hall, could stay out of the incident.

According to this logic, the vanguard and rearguard of the Forbidden Army, namely Tu Wan Chang Lun and Yu Ji Luo, should stay out of the situation and enjoy themselves. After all, they are not even in Qiao County.

But in fact, it is impossible for these two veterans to just find a big city to drink and hide from the rain like a certain prime minister. Among them, the first one to react was Yu Jiuluo, who didn't even receive the military messenger.

, As early as this morning, the old general smelled danger.

Specifically, he discovered that Jun had disappeared.

The several battalions of the army that had been harassing and obstructing the Yujiluo tribe on the northern and western fronts suddenly left... Wu Changzai, Li Zida, and Xiahou Ningyuan, these three battalions during these seven or eight days.

His actions were enough to let Yujieluo and his subordinates know their roots.

A disciple of Han Bolong, a remnant of the Wu family, and a madman in martial arts practice. He couldn't control himself when he saw the officers and soldiers under the banner of the Wei Dynasty, and harassed him day and night; a local who couldn't tell whether he was from the Huaiyou League or the gang.

Relying on their familiarity with geography and climate, they led thousands of local spearmen to repeatedly attack their weak points, which was the family that encountered the greatest obstacles to their march; the last one was said to be the confidant of the bandit leader Dan Tonghai, and seemed to be one of the three.

The leader is always scouting from behind, trying to connect the other two companies to build a big one, but in the end he always hesitates and goes around and around without making a move.

And now, they suddenly disappeared.

Li Zida and Xia Houning disappeared during the day on May 15th, while Wu Chang, who was like a mad dog, launched a surprise attack in the evening, and then suddenly disappeared.

To be honest, when things got to this point, Yujieluo was already frightened.

But that's not all. In the morning, there were sentries and flying horses to report. The Huaiyou Alliance launched a large-scale attack from the Xuzhou direction in the east. Kan Leng led the Taibao army in the lead. Du, Fu, Miao, Yue, and Ma flags did not avoid the rear.

The wind and rain are all lined up, and I don’t know if the total number is 30,000 or 50,000, but it’s just like the black clouds are coming!

This is not right!

How could Yujieluo not know that something was wrong?!

On the one hand, he is desperately abandoning himself to the west, and on the other hand, he is desperate to leave his comfort zone to pursue himself. This can only show that the army has made great moves... And considering the state of his troops and the embarrassing position of his troops on the entire battlefield, he

We have to further consider the most critical and common problem on the battlefield.

That is life and death.

"Go west! Throw away the baggage, except for weapons, armor and the food you can carry with you, don't worry about the rest!" Yujieluo, who was already on the march, was stunned for a few breaths when he heard the news from the direction of Xuzhou.

He waved his whip on the horse and gave the most correct order with the fastest speed and the most severe attitude. "Go west! Go quickly!"

"General!"

Just a moment later, Zhao Ji, the general in front, came flying over, obviously dissatisfied. "We are the rear guard, and we have few supplies. The thieves are harassing us all the way. If we don't have the baggage, we will collapse in a few days."

"Zhao Ji!" Yu Jiuluo turned his head on his horse. With his ferocious eyes, his white hair and beard almost "bloomed" out of his helmet. "You know that I am a general, but you also know

The word military law?!"

When Zhao Ji saw the other party like this, he was immediately startled. Then his mind turned to the other party's legendary experiences, but he quickly responded, stopped caring, and left to carry out the military order honestly.

However, Yujieluo, who could make people succumb to his power with just one glance, watched the opponent go away, but put away his expression, and then couldn't help but sigh up to the sky.

Without him, although Yu Jiuluo's cultivation and qualifications are here, sometimes being overqualified is not a good thing... He and Tu Wanchang discussed joining the army during the previous dynasty, and they hung out with the Sima family, and later became famous and successful.

In the early days of the founding of the Wei Dynasty, the two of them followed the Du Desert, one in the east and the other in the west. For more than ten years, they defended the eastern Wu tribe and the central Wu tribe with relatively few troops, and destroyed the Qi Dynasty for the Wei Dynasty.

Mie Chen created excellent conditions.

My cultivation was also accomplished at that time.

But the good times did not last long. The new emperor came to the throne and was afraid of the old ministers. So they were deliberately idle as early as the first conquest of Dongyi. The three conquests of Dongyi destroyed countless people's hearts, but for them, it was only a few years ago.

At the same level, the biggest thing that can happen is that one of his descendants suddenly loses his bearings.

When the Wei Dynasty collapsed, these two men, as the theoretically most prominent force in Guanlong and closest to the officialdom, were suddenly recruited to clean up the bandits and fight public security wars for the Wei emperor who was preparing to live in peace in Jiangdong.

However, not to mention old age and frailty, and not to mention strangers in a foreign land, even the Imperial Army is unfamiliar to them. Except for a few generals who are somewhat good-looking, the rest of the army has changed a lot.

Where can we command properly? In the end, we simply became the biggest scapegoat for the worsening situation in the south.

The emperor no longer trusts them, the self-organized imperial army rejects them, local forces regard them as enemies, and they cannot return home even if they have a home.

After finally setting off to go home, it didn’t matter that Sima was on his guard. Who cared about military power at this time? But we encountered this kind of thing again on the road... Is this Sima Huada good at all? How did Sima Changying teach this?

?!

After feeling angry, he still had to leave.

The troops dropped their baggage and headed westward with all their strength. They walked for half a morning and half an afternoon. Just when they completed the encirclement, they had actually arrived at Huanshui, which was extremely fast.

But difficulties also arise.

"The Huaiyou League in Xuzhou is chasing them too fast." Zhao Ji took the initiative to talk to Yujiluo. He seemed to be worried about the military situation, but his tone was not very nervous. "They are all locals, and they are not like us.

We have been marching for a long time and are so tired, and we only have two boats and insufficient building materials to build a pontoon bridge. If we continue like this, we may be bitten by them."

"Then what do you think?" Yu Jiuluo asked with a frown.

"Set up an ambush here." Zhao Ji raised his head and raised his chest and suggested. "The whole army is waiting for work, and then we can use the great general's power to counterattack and defeat them! That way we will have no worries!"

Yu Jiuluo looked at the lieutenant in front of him as if he were a fool, and after a long while he said: "Do you think we are in such a hurry to go west to escape the pursuing soldiers?"

"Isn't it?" Zhao Ji was stunned.

"The danger is not in the back, but in the front!" Yu Jiuluo said angrily. "The thieves left us to go west. They must concentrate their forces to launch an attack on the main force of the Forbidden Army! And the task of those in the Huaiyou League in Xuzhou is to drag us down.

To hold us back...then whether they bite us, stop us, or fight us to defeat themselves, it will be considered as holding us back, and it will be considered a success, and even if we win, there will be no benefit!"

Zhao Ji was obviously panicked: "So, we should risk everything and go to the west to join the war as soon as possible?"

Yu Jiuluo glanced at the other person and wanted to wake him up, but by some strange mistake, he took back his words and just nodded.

"If this is the case." Zhao Ji was still panicking. "We still can't escape. It's too slow to cross the river from here, and we will definitely be bitten by the other party..."

"Are there no other ferry pontoons upstream and downstream?" Yujira was a little annoyed again. "Just cross the river separately."

"Upstream is where the gang controls... When Wu Erlang and those people leave, they will demolish them when they need to and smash them when they need to!" Zhao Ji explained helplessly. "Downstream..."

"How's it going downstream?" Yujieruo asked.

"There are no crossing bridges downstream except for entering Huaikou." Zhao Ji said sternly. "But that's because there was a town called Huankou at the mouth of the river. There were many ships and several large pontoon bridges in it. When the bridge was gone, a makeshift bridge was built, and the houses

There are also sufficient building materials...the former army passed through Huankou."

"Then go to Huankou." Yu Jiuluo said speechlessly. "What else is there to argue about?"

"But Huankou is too far south and east." Zhao Ji reminded seriously. "Since we are going to support, according to the previous communication, the main force of the Chinese army should be north of Qiaojun on both sides of the Guoshui River, that is, to the northwest of us

...If we cross the river from Huankou, first going southeast and then northwest, we will be delayed."

Yu Jiuluo nodded, thought about it seriously, then shook his head again: "Then what good idea do you have?"

Zhao Ji was naturally speechless.

"That's good." Yu Jiuluo sighed. "Let's divide our troops! If the whole army crosses here, they will be bitten by the Huaiyou thieves if they don't finish the crossing, so we might as well divide half of them and go out through Huankou, and half of them will go through Huankou.

Cross the river from here and go directly to the west to join the war! How about that?"
To be continued...