Chapter 904: Pursuit

Under Li Gui's order, the nearly 10,000 troops that had not yet gone into battle managed to maintain their formation and quickly approached the Anfeng City army in the northeast. What made them relieved was that after seeing Li Gui's troops retreating without hesitation, the coalition forces did not pursue more. They just sent cavalry to watch from a distance hundreds of steps behind, while their army quickly camped from the south. The door left, guarding thousands of baggage vehicles, heading south towards the direction of Julou County.

When Li Gui led more than 10,000 defeated troops of his own to rush to the east of the coalition camp, Ji Bao's troops had all retreated hundreds of steps to the east of the coalition camp and were waiting. Ji Bao had already received the news from Li Gui's personal soldiers. , was about to gather his troops and horses to rush to support Li Gui. Who knew that before his troops and horses set off, Li Gui had already led the defeated troops.

Seeing that Ji Bao had assembled a large army, Li Gui immediately told his lieutenants to reorganize the defeated troops, but he hurried to see Ji Bao to discuss with him the pursuit of the coalition forces.

After the two discussed for a while, they decided to slowly follow with more than 30,000 troops and horses, trying to slow down the retreat of some coalition forces. When Ji Ling's army arrived, they could gather together and annihilate them.

Soon the two reorganized an army of more than 30,000 people. After sending someone to report the whereabouts of the two armies to Ji Ling, they led the army to pursue them south. In order to quickly grasp the movements of the coalition forces, the two generals used all the dozens of war horses and went out for more than ten miles to inquire about the movements of the coalition forces.

Half an hour later, 30,000 Yuan Shu's troops finally caught up with the retreating coalition forces. However, the coalition forces were already well prepared. 20,000 infantry were waiting in formation, and there were 5,000 cavalry on both sides watching eagerly.

When the two men saw this, they no longer approached. Instead, they formed a formation three hundred steps in front of the enemy's formation and confronted them.

Just when the two of them were leading troops to confront the coalition forces, more than ten miles to the north, in the middle of the army, General Ji Ling was furious, like a man-eating tiger, staring at the two people in front of him with red eyes. , they are the county magistrate and county lieutenant of Yulou County.

After losing the county seat, the two knew that they were deeply responsible, so under the protection of soldiers, they rushed to Anfeng County overnight. Then they borrowed two horses in the county seat and quickly rushed to Ji Ling's army to plead guilty.

As soon as they appeared in Ji Ling's army, Ji Ling understood what was going on. Shu Zhao also realized what was going on and said anxiously: "No, General, the Anton army is going to run away."

At this moment, Li Gui's soldiers had already arrived at the Chinese army. Under the leadership of Ji Ling's soldiers, they hurried over to report: "General, General Li ordered his subordinates to report that the coalition forces have begun to break through to the south. General Li said Yulou may have been lost, please make a decision soon, General!"

At this time, Ji Ling could no longer control the anger in his heart. He pulled out the long sword from his waist and swung it towards the two magistrates and lieutenants of Yulou County.

"puff!"

"puff!!!"

"General!" Everyone nearby exclaimed.

"Come here, drag the bodies of these two losers away!" After killing two people in a row, the anger in Ji Ling's heart finally subsided a little. After thinking for a moment, he ordered to the soldiers beside him: "Send someone immediately to Ji Bao and Li Gui sent an order to hold off the coalition leader for an hour at all costs."

Then he ordered: "Order all the horses in the army to be collected. Soldiers who are good at riding are drawn from the army to form cavalry. Quickly send Ji Bao's army to help them hold off the coalition soldiers. General Lei Bo will immediately lead 10,000 soldiers to defend. Ten thousand soldiers attacked from the coalition camp and quickly followed, and the rest of the army quickly gathered and followed the general in pursuit."

All the generals in the army immediately took the order and left. However, when Lei Bo was about to lead his troops to leave, Shu Zhao suddenly said to him: "General Lei, when entering the coalition camp to pursue, don't be too hasty, you should be cautious. "

Shu Zhao's words put Lei Bo in a dilemma. The general asked him to pursue quickly, but the military counselor told him to be cautious. For a moment, he didn't know what to do, so he had to turn his attention to Ji Ling.

Ji Ling was also stunned and asked Shu Zhao, "What do you mean, sir?"

Shu Zhao nodded,

Said: "In my opinion, if the Anton Army Qihui gave up the camp so easily, there must be people who are afraid of arrangements, so..."

When Ji Ling thought about it, he suddenly realized it and said to Lei Bo, "Okay, let's do it according to Mr. Shu's arrangement."

The relationship between Ji Ling and Shu Zhao was originally normal, but after the Battle of Luoyang and the two were captured at the same time, the relationship between the two became increasingly close. Over the past few years, Ji Ling had admired Shu Zhao's talents very much, so he was very interested in his talent. Strategies will basically be listened to carefully.

Since Shu Zhao said there was something strange in the camp, Ji Ling readily accepted it. Upon seeing this, Lei Bo quickly nodded in agreement and turned to leave. After ordering his troops, he headed toward the Anton Army camp and killed them.

With Shu Zhao's reminder, Lei Bo divided the 20,000-strong army into three, with 5,000 defenders as the vanguard. He opened a distance and charged into the camp. There were 5,000 men in the front, followed by 10,000 heavy infantry, and 5,000 garrison troops at the rear.

After Lei Bo's army left, Ji Ling collected horses from the 100,000-strong army and sent them to the Chinese army. There were about 3,000 horses of all levels in total. Ji Ling immediately transferred more than 3,000 riding soldiers from the Chinese army. , ordered them to move quickly to support Ji Bao and Li Gui's army, one man and one horse.

Subsequently, Ji Ling's 30,000-strong army set off. At the same time, Ji Ling's order to break out of the camp was sent to the camp, and the soldiers who stayed behind began to organize supplies and prepare to enter Anfeng City.

When Ji Ling's army chased the Anton army in the direction of retreat, Lei Bo's army had already entered the camp. As expected, until the vanguard of the army entered the camp, the Anton army did not react at all. So Lei Bo ordered the vanguard 5,000 soldiers to continue to advance into the camp.

If he had encountered this situation before, Lei Bo would have led the army to rush in directly, but after the destruction of the 5,000 troops this morning and Shu Zhao's reminder, Lei Bo became very cautious. After the vanguard 5,000 troops entered, there was still no movement inside, so he stopped and then transferred the 5,000 guards behind them to follow the vanguard 5,000 troops, and put the 10,000 elite soldiers he led at the end.

Seeing that the 5,000 troops behind him had also entered the camp, but there was still no reaction, Lei Bo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to command the army to enter the camp and prepare to quickly pass through the camp to pursue, suddenly a huge fire broke out in the camp. At first there were only a few places, and soon almost half of the camp was burned.