Xuanyuan Lie led more than fifty cavalrymen and said that he wanted to kill the enemy scouts to boost morale and regain the flag.

The ten scouts on the opposite side were showing off their power two or three hundred steps away with flags. Obviously, they were quite confident in their riding skills.

It was obvious that a man could be seen standing on the horse's back, wrapping the snatched Qi flag around his body, like a cloak, then took off his pants and peed at the Qi camp.

Several people also used some languages ​​that the people could understand and cursed some dirty things about Tian’s family. Most of them were very old gossip stories, and there were indeed many such things about Chen Tian’s clan.

Xuanyuan Lie cursed: "The power of insulting my monarch is irreconcilable! I must kill them today!"

He spoke fiercely, trying to boost the soldiers' aura.

But I didn't expect that those riders had never seen the world. They had never heard of many stories, but they showed the expressions of those people who were listening to the stories in the Si Shang Teahouse, and listened in a daze how the ancestors of the king rubbed a woman with their three ministers.

Si Shang is the birthplace of urban culture in recent years and the popular place for vernacular Chinese dialect. These stories make these Qi people riders feel itchy when they hear it. The crotch is really hard. In fact, it is just a very simple story, even just a few words, but at this time there were no too complicated novels.

A few words are Wushan, and both are straightforward and obscure are clouds and rain.

At most, riders from these villages, who were born in the community, had only been wild and had known that the city people or noble gentlemen were so good at playing, which really opened their eyes, but thought it was difficult for three men and one woman to be.

How could Xuanyuan Lie bear it? In other words, he was also the Tian family's Yuanzhi, and the other person was also his ancestors. Of course, he was different from those villagers who did not have surnames.

He swung his whip and whipped a rider who was so excited about it, and set up a formation, divided it into three directions, and rushed towards the opposite side.

The officer from the Mo family detective cavalry opposite smiled and said to the partner who was shouting stories: "You kid is not married yet, do you know a lot?"

The rider smiled and did not answer. The officer handed over the loaded musket, and the man who was peeing in the flag was finished. Ten people retreated to the back.

When the officer came, he became familiar with the terrain here. There was a small river next to him. He wanted to play with the riders opposite him. He knew that there were many scouts behind him, so he lured him back there.

Xuanyuan Lie followed closely and bit him tightly, but the scout on the opposite side was very cunning. There were several times when a team of people on the flanks were about to bite him, but they still ran away.

After crossing the river, there was a small forest next to it.

After Xuanyuan Lie crossed a small river and passed through a Yanglin, his vision suddenly became clear, and the scenes several miles away shocked Xuanyuan Lie.

On the autumn field, a group of black people were marching here. The dust pedaled by steps in the autumn field made this black team look like a dragon winding on the ground.

At this moment, a burst of gunfire came from the side, and another team of cavalry appeared.

Obviously, it was not just the ten people who were scouting, but the Mo family had many scouts nearby.

Xuanyuan Lie did not care about the idea of ​​killing the generals and snatching the flag to boost morale, and wanted to bring the news back as soon as possible.

"withdraw!"

He shouted, and the rider beside him quickly turned his horse's head.

At this moment, there was another gunshot from behind the woods, and the two riders of the same man fell off their horses.

The scouts who had just been walking around with them bravely and carefully relied on horseback and hiding behind the woods without walking too far.

Xuanyuan Lie saw several Mo family scouts behind the woods shaking the flags they had just rushed into the camp and took away, and from time to time, they used the Si Shang dialect that they could basically understand, and had some scent of the same language, insulting them again.

Xuanyuan Lie cursed secretly that when he was pursuing more people just now, these people did not show off their power. Now that there are too many detective cavalry around them, they will do so.

He couldn't help but think of a story called fox and tiger power that he learned after entering the school from the Black-clothed Guard. It was also a fable circulating in Si.

Although I cursed in my heart, I could only bear the insults from the other side, but I did not dare to rush over.

Once you fight with the opponent and are surrounded by the scouts gathered around you, you may have to explain it to you here.

The ten Mo family detectives behind the woods were insulting and blocking their way back.

Xuanyuan Lie did not choose to fight out from behind, but wanted to bypass it.

He thought that the ten people on the opposite side just wanted to continue to seduce them, so he would not dare to take the initiative to attack. At most, he would seize the opportunity like a mosquito in summer and take a bite.

But I never thought that just as they were about to withdraw from the side, the ten people seemed crazy and didn't care about the number of people, but rushed over in a diagonal thorn.

At this time, Xuanyuan Lie and others' horses had already risen up and it was extremely difficult to turn to face the front. They fired two more shots on the other side, and their formation was completely messed up.

The Mo family detective cavalry who were surrounding the other teams of people who were also rushing towards this side at full speed. Xuanyuan Lie only felt a sharp pain in his ear, and a hot lead flew over his face, fortunately he did not hurt him.

The ten madman-like Mo family detectives had rushed to them, swept across their backs, and divided the seven or eight riders of Qi to the back, and had already started a fight.

Xuanyuan Lie thought that if he turned back to rescue him at this time, he would have to be entangled. When the Mo family detectives arrived in the distance, he would have many dangers.

So he ignored the back and ran away with the rest.

After running a few steps, the war horse under his crotch was extremely lucky. He stepped on a mouse hole. With a click, the horse's hooves were broken and he fell to the ground with a bang.

The Mo family detective cavalry around him had already surrounded him. He knew that if he was caught, it would be a good thing. He resisted the severe pain of being thrown just now and shouted a few words.

The Qi Renbing, who was fleeing in front, finally had a good relationship with him. He rode his horse back and shouted at him: "A gentleman pulls his ponytail and runs with him!"

The rider came back to save him and was very righteous and did not dare to stop at all. He quickly turned around and let him pass by Xuanyuan Lie.

This is a common way of escape by cavalry. If the mount is killed or injured, and the enemy is nearby, if there is a companion who asks you to pull his ponytail and run with him, it will be a great kindness.

A person will definitely not be able to run a horse, but if he pulls his ponytail and runs to the death, he can run for a while. The more difficult the horse is, the faster the faster it will be. The two legs of a person will not keep up, but they will not fall. They can run much faster than a person's normal running.

In the interweaving, Xuanyuan Lie suddenly became angry. Just after the man who came back to save him approached, he suddenly grabbed the man's thigh and threw the man who came back to save him directly to the ground.

I grabbed the stirrup and jumped onto the back of the horse, thinking to myself: It’s not that I’m unkind, but that you are a bitch. The Mo family will not kill even if they catch the bitch. I am a gentleman. If I am caught by the Mo family, I will definitely be worse than death.

While the horse was racing, Xuanyuan Lie faintly heard the man behind him asking loudly, "Why is a gentleman like this?"

He didn't answer, buried his head between the horse's hair, clamped his legs to the horse's back, and ran back.

…………

"The Mohist army was dispatched more than ten miles away."

The terrible news immediately detonated the Qi army's camp. Xuanyuan Lie thought that the rider who was pulled off the horse seemed to be rewarded even if he died, and he brought back such important news.

The Qi nobles in the camp were panicked and asked, "How many people are?"

Xuanyuan Lie didn't know how to answer, because he did not determine the number, so he said: "At least thousands, the marching team is very long and the cavalry is quite large."

Hearing the words "There are many cavalrymen", the chief general who surrounded Daicheng, couldn't help but take a breath.

If the Mohist school was the main force in combat, it was a habit of artillery bombing, cavalry raiding, and infantry resistance.

If there are many cavalry, then the number of infantry is at least two or three times that of cavalry or even more.

At this time, the important thing is not to send someone to determine the situation, but to make a judgment immediately. What should I do?

Both hostile sides have their own purposes.

Just like the Mohist right wing who was marching here at this time, their mission was to lift the siege of Daicheng, go south to Gucheng, strengthen the defense of Daicheng and Chengkuang, cut off the logistics supply of the main force of the coalition forces, and at the same time join the decisive cluster when necessary or block the road for the coalition forces to retreat south.

However, this purpose is difficult to judge if the information is unknown, so the commander of the Qi army near Daicheng cannot know the purpose of the Mo family.

In other words, even if you know, there is no way to remedy it.

When he heard Xuanyuan Lie say that there were a large number of cavalry, he knew that the total strength of the Mo family opposite would be certainly not small.

But where is this unit?

Did the Mohist troops from the Taoyi direction come to support me? Did those who were afraid that the losses were too great and did not go to attack Taoyi but chose to confront each other?

Or is this the main force of the Mo family that besieged Yongqiu before? Want to eat himself and cut off the supply of the coalition forces, thus forcing the main force of the coalition forces to return to aid to relieve the pressure on Shangqiu?

Or... the main force of the Mo family gave up Laiwu and retreated from the front line in secret? But how could it be so quickly?

After thinking about it, it is difficult to make a judgment on the root cause at this time, so the general can only think about what to do with these five thousand people.

Now, the Mo family's troops do not need to come too much. If it is really one of the main troops with official numbers, even if there are only five or six thousand infantry and one or two thousand cavalry, it is probably difficult for him to support it.

There are also some defenders in Daicheng City. In addition to the local people, these defenders have an established unit that can steal the camp, attack at night, and fight back when they retreat.

Now that I am camping around Dai City, the troops have been deployed, and the camps that are deployed are internal rather than external. It is difficult for such camps to be held under the attack of the enemy outside.

The troops are different from whether they are deployed or not. Whether they are deployed for defense or attack is still different.

Now the Mo family's forward is twenty miles away. Once it attacks, if he doesn't prepare in advance, he will definitely be defeated.

The only way to retreat is to retreat.

Where can I withdraw?

Going west and retreating to Yongqiu is a road.

Go south, retreat to Chengkuang and join with Chengkuang's five thousand troops, so that he can still take the initiative to defend, retreat or fight.

Going east to Ningling and joining the main force of the coalition forces, it seems the safest, but there is still a long way to go from Daicheng to Ningling. Will it be surrounded in a plain?

Retreat in three directions, only one can be selected.

According to the purpose of the Mohist school, withdrawing in these three directions has different effects.

If the Mohist family wants to attack Yongqiu quickly, approach Daliang, and burn food and grass, then retreating to Yongqiu is the best choice.

Yongqiu was originally an important fortress built by South Korea. At that time, the Mo family could not capture the city on the twelve days. If they retreated to Yongqiu and defended the city, they could not only ensure that these 5,000 troops were not lost, but also ensured the logistics and food safety in the direction of Daliang.

If the Mohist family wants to fight to siege, then retreat to Ningling and join the main force, that is the right choice.

For every five thousand more troops the main force of the coalition forces had to put in place to encircle and annihilate Dasheng, the more troops the Mohist family had to put in, and the more flaws it might block.

If the Mohist family wanted to cut off Dai Chengkuang, then it would be correct to withdraw to Chengkuang.

If you consider the overall situation, you should be judged in this way so that you can make a judgment.

But the nobles of Qi who besieged Daicheng did not use this idea to judge how they should go next.
To be continued...