The next afternoon, Fenyinjin.

After a fierce battle, the Fenyin Ferry crossing was only in a short silence for a while, and then it turned into the busy and tense process of crossing the river.

Zhang Xiu and Li Ru rode on the largest wooden boat at the ferry. Zhang Xiu's personal soldiers shook the oars and slowly sailed off the east bank, turning to the wide river, and heading towards the west river on the other side.

Zhang Xiu, who personally led his troops to capture the ferry, was standing at the stern of the boat, pressing his sword and looking at the east coast where he was slowly moving away from.

In his vision, some of the soldiers under his command were still untiing the cables, some had rowed their ships off the river bank, and some were setting fire to the remaining boats, plank roads, and water villages, preparing to burn everything here.

The fire was not conspicuous during the day, but the rising beacon smoke was enough to attract the attention of the four fields.

After this fire, Guo Si's army's retreat was cut off by himself.

Zhang Xiu looked at the tongue of flames that began to spread around and thought to himself.

But this feeling of holding the knife in his own hands did not bring much pleasure to his heart. Perhaps his knife was just transferred from one person to another person’s hands.

"Major General, this time, he has achieved great success, but he is alone at the stern. Could it be that you have other concerns?"

Li Ru walked out of the cabin with a smile and came to the stern.

Looking at the young man in front of him who had shown great power not long ago and personally led his soldiers to seize the ferry, Li Ru's smile had a look of appreciation and began to make a conspiracy in his heart.

At this time, Zhang Xiu betrayed Guo Si and entered Zuo Fengyi. If he wanted to gain a foothold, he would have to rely on Li Jue, the strongest among the three auxiliary forces. However, Zhang Xiu was isolated and helpless in the court or in Li Jue's army.

Maybe I should lend a helping hand and support him at this time.

After all, among the generals and schools of the Xiliang Army, supporting and cultivating their own accomplices and minions has always been one of Li Ru's good methods.

Xu Rong and Yan Xing in the Dong camp, including Bai Bo and Yang Feng who were later attracted by him and turned against Guo Si camp, were all his accomplices and minions in the army.

However, Xu Rong and Yan Xing both turned against him one after another. Xu Rong threw himself into the court. Yan Xing chose to be independent. Yang Feng, the minion in the army, abandoned Guo Si and cut off Guo Si's army's retreat. After Li Ru thought about it for a moment, he abandoned him directly.

He is also in Guo Si's army. If the news is leaked, he will die without a burial place. Guo Si's means torture the opponents. Li Ru has seen the tragic situation where Zheng Duo was shot dead as a target. He doesn't want to trap himself and experience Guo Si's vicious means in person.

Therefore, Li Ru chose Zhang Xiu, who was on the verge of division without hesitation, when his uncle died, and with Guo Si who chose to withdraw his troops, he walked to the brink of division.

After making a decision, Zhang Xiu rushed to Fenyin and seized the ferry. This series of troops used by him fully demonstrated that he had enough courage and military strategy.

Even in him, Li Ru saw the shadow of Xu Rong and Yan Xing back then.

This is really a good discovery, Li Ru thought.

"I was wondering what would the general do after hearing that the ferry in Fenyin Hejin was burned out? If he fought against the Hedong soldiers, would it be a victory or a loss?"

Zhang Xiu looked at the river bank and said so.

After hearing Zhang Xiu's words, Li Ru smiled and stood on the river. The task was done. He was in a good mood as he escaped from the dangerous place. He immediately smiled:

"The latter general is also a long-time general in the army. Xiaoming's military force is the most urgent task. Naturally, he abandoned Anyi and found another way to retreat. Maybe the entire army has now set off the camp and retreated west. As for the decisive battle with the Hedong soldiers-"

When talking about the soldiers and horses in Hedong, Li Ru's calm and respectful face appeared in his mind for no reason. The smile on the corner of his mouth slowly closed, and his voice became serious and solemn.

"As long as it is Yan Xing's main force, the Buqi will arrive three days late, then the next general will still have a chance to fight. If it is three days earlier, then the next general's retreating army will be in danger!"

When he said "It's dangerous!", as the initiator who encouraged Guo Si to use war in Hedong, Li Ru also looked at the blurry horizon on the east bank, and there was a hint of tremor in his voice.

As for whether he was excited or afraid, he couldn't tell.

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"It's hateful that the child wants to kill me!"

During the march, Guo Si, who was sitting on the horse's back, learned that Zhang Xiu, who had captured the ferry, had burned all the water villages, plank roads, and boats that had crossed the river with fire. He was so angry that he smoked and scolded him sternly, which scared the soldiers who reported that they did not dare to get up.

Wu Xi, who was following Guo Si, who was counseling military affairs, looked at the furious Guo Si, shrank his neck in fear, waved his hand to let the soldiers who reported to retreat, and then gently reminded Guo Si:

"General, the fire broke out last night, and Li Ru and the soldiers who monitored him disappeared. This matter was probably a conspiracy that had been colluding early in the morning!"

After receiving Wu Xi's reminder, Guo Si was furious and suddenly opened his eyes wide and his fists clenched tightly.

Last night, the camp of Guo Si's army suddenly became popular. A group of soldiers emerged from somewhere. They rushed to Guo Si's camp and killed the generals, which disturbed Guo Si's army. They thought they were attacked by Hedong soldiers at night. Even Guo Si was awakened in the middle of the night.

As a result, the trouble took a long time. After the chaos subsided and the attackers were killed one by one, Guo Si received a report that the people who set fire at night and attacked the camp were Zhang Ji's personal soldiers!

The shocked and angry Guo Si immediately sent someone to Zhang Ji camp to summon Zhang Xiu, but he learned that Zhang Xiu and his two hundred cavalrymen were under his command. Taking advantage of the chaos in the camp, he opened the camp gate and fled west overnight, missing.

Li Ru and the soldiers who were responsible for monitoring him were missing.

This series of strange things that happened suddenly aroused suspicion in Guo Si's heart. Although the details were unknown, it even prompted him to step up his determination to withdraw. It was just that the army retreated at night, which was not an easy task. Therefore, Guo Si's army still had to wait until today to start retreating westward.

Although the entire army was deporting the camp and withdrawing the troops during the day, the defenders in Anyi City were also worried that it was Guo Si's army's plan to lure the enemy out of the city, so they did not dare to take any risks, and kept guarding the city and watched without any sign of pursuing the city.

However, shortly after Guo Si withdraws his troops, he learns the news that Fenyindu was attacked by Zhang Xiu on the way.

Now, these things are connected one by one, as Wu Xi said, it is like a huge conspiracy.

It is a big conspiracy to put yourself in a desperate situation!

The pores on Guo Si's back instantly stood up. Even though he was wearing armor, he still felt a chill behind him.

Wu Xi's reminder sounded again.

"General, now that Fenyin crosses the boats and the plank roads are burned, the rear roads are broken, so we need to make plans early to find another way out!"

Guo Si was pulled out of the conspiracy thoughts by Wu Xi's voice, and subconsciously touched his pocket, and then he calmed down a little.

As Wu Xi said, the retreat route of Fenyindu has been cut off by Zhang Xiu, an ungrateful child. The most urgent task of his army is to find another way out.

Now it is impossible to collect boats and build a floating bridge in Fenyin. This not only takes time and takes half the result with twice the effort, but also prone to attacks from Hedong soldiers and intercepting them by Zhang Xiu soldiers on the other side.

The only way to retreat at the moment is to seize the ferry of one big river again and use the boats from another ferry to cross the ferry to cross the ferry.

There are three ferries that cross the river from the east to Zuofengyi, one is Fenyin Ferry, and the other two are in Puban and Pi.

The current situation is that the Puban defender Wuqiu Xingxin was defeated by his army, but the distance was far away and the city was strong. The Pi family was close to each other, but Wei Ji and Niu Song were entrenched in the neighboring place. Recently, they even sent troops to threaten the rear of Guo Si's army. There were even rumors that Yan Xing's main force, Buqi, had arrived in Ji County.

Therefore, Guo Si must make a decision as soon as possible whether to turn the road along the river and attack Puban, or to cross the Fen River and go north to capture the Pi family.

After hesitating for a while, Guo Si finally made a decision. The army accelerated and headed north. After resting for a night, they would cross the Fen River tomorrow and go to capture the Pi's ferry.

It was not only a long distance to attack Puban, but it took time to take, but if Wu Qiuxing had become a frightened bird, he would burn the boats, trestles, and water villages at the ferry directly before Guo Si arrived, and then he would clear the walls and clear the fields, and retreat into the city and stay in the dead. Then Guo Si would be a time-consuming and defeated.

Instead, he turned north to attack the Pi family, looking for opportunities to defeat Wei Ji and Niu Song's army, who did not passively avoid the war, and captured the Pi family's Hejin and ferry boats in one fell swoop, which seemed more secure and more likely.

So, amid the call, the army carried out Guo Si's order, driving away the plundered goods, grain, population and livestock, speeded up the marching, and turned toward the Pi clan.

As a result, the scouts from the north quickly encountered the scouts from Hedong in the direction of the Pi family.

The cavalry of both sides suddenly encountered in the field. The scouts of Hedong took the lead in pulling the hanging knife of the crossbow machine. So after a short confrontation, the scouts of Hedong, who had a little upper hand, voluntarily evacuated the battlefield.

But soon afterwards, the striker of Guo Si's army found a number of cavalry cavalry responsible for harassing and spying on the Hedong Army.

Guo Si had to send more troops and horses to clear them up, expel the gloomy scout cavalry of the Hedong Army, then rushed to the foot of Jieshan Mountain, temporarily built a large army camp, and sent additional night patrolmen to spend a sleepless night worriedly.

Regarding the frequent appearance of scout cavalry in the direction of the Pi family, the generals saw each other. Some thought it was Wei Ji and Niu Song who set up a maze in the old direction and bluffed his voice, while others thought it was probably because Yan Xing's main force, the Buqi, had already arrived in Hedong, so he made such an abnormal situation.

Guo Si was undoubtedly worried about this, but the arrow was on the string and had to be fired. At this point, it was impossible for the army to turn around and go south. You can't scare his army to flee in a hurry just because Pi had a few enemy scouts.

The night disappeared, and after the next day, the army still had to go north to cross the Fen River to seize the Pi family's Dahe Ferry.
Chapter completed!