Chapter 1070: Just to avoid it
Li Zuxin's plan was successful.
The collapse of more than 10,000 Southern Army soldiers caught the Northern Tang army off guard. The battlefield situation was completely chaotic, but one side was fleeing, while the other side was chasing.
The escaped people were not established and became a mess. The chasers slowly separated one after another, divided into small teams of basic branches and branches, chasing them everywhere.
Under such a situation, the two Southern Army troops that still broke through in an established manner naturally attracted the attention of the Northern Tang army.
Li Gan led a team of people to chase the troops that broke through the east with the banner of Xiangzhen Central Army. Liang Han led another cavalry to pursue the other Southern Army that broke through the west.
Neither Shi Zhuang nor Li Mi expected that Xiang Zhen, whom they wanted to catch the most, was now wearing the clothes of ordinary soldiers, and under the close protection of seven or eight close guards, he slipped out along the chaotic battlefield as he saw some trouble.
The rain was too heavy, and such a small team did not attract much attention. When they encountered the Tang army in a large brigade, the small army would immediately hide, while for a few Tang army, the small army would directly kill them.
When I saw the river flowing in Yanzi River, Xiang Zhen cried with joy.
At this time, it was almost noon, the rain was getting lower, and the water level of Yanzi River surged. The roaring and surging river water now became Xiang Zhen's life-saving talisman.
There are only three of the eight personal guards with excellent martial arts skills left at this moment.
Without caring about the exhausted body of the half-day battle, the three guards quickly cut down several trees as thick as bowls. They originally wanted to lay a simple raft, but behind them, there was a faint sound of horse hooves.
They didn't know whether the visitor was a friend or an enemy, so they didn't dare to take any risk. Several people looked at each other, gritted their teeth, pushed the tree into the river, untied their belts, tied themselves up on the trunk, and then wade towards the deep water area step by step.
When the foot was empty, the river water had already rushed downstream with them.
There are a lot of debris in the river, and several trees are rising and falling with the waves. It is difficult to find that there are still a few people hiding on it.
The river took them out of the battlefield, but at the same time, it also led them to unknown risks. No one knew what they would encounter in the next moment.
Li Zuxin was covered in blood and half-dead on his horse and ran forward. Around him, less than a hundred cavalry surrounded him, and beside him, there was also a person dressed in dress, all of whom looked like Xiang Zhen.
Li Zuxin led the Xiang Zhen's direct personal soldiers who were not under the banner. They fought in the middle of the night, and there were only more than a hundred cavalry rushing out with Li Zuxin.
And behind them, Liang Han was chasing him reluctantly.
The war horse's hooves were soft and fell to the ground. Li Zuxin was also thrown out. The war horse neighed and raised its head, trying hard to stand up, but it was in vain after struggling for a long time.
More than a hundred cavalrymen stopped, and several people turned over and dismounted and helped Li Zuxin up. Only then did they realize that Li Zuxin had many wounds of all sizes. The blood had stopped flowing at this time, and the wounds were rolling back, revealing white granulation.
"Can't run anymore," Li Zuxin sat in the mud and waved his hand: "If you can still run, run quickly! One run is one!"
More than a hundred knights stood silently, but none left.
Li Zuxin smiled bitterly and stopped talking.
This army has been with Xiang Zhen for many years and has been established completely in accordance with the Northern Tang army. If the entire southern army was established in this mode, then it would not be impossible to compete with the Northern Tang army. Unfortunately, this team of more than 10,000 people almost exhausted all of Xiang Zhen’s energy.
The high salary, benefits, generous pensions for disability and death, and special care for the family have made this army really devoted themselves to the enemy.
But this is made of money.
In the south, except for such an exception, it is impossible to build this on a large scale. There are also such troops around the governors and observers, but the number of people is too small, and the maximum number is only a few thousand.
Li Ze's Northern Tang had hundreds of thousands of troops like this.
Li Zuxin sighed.
A sudden sound of horse hooves came from afar. Li Zuxin tried hard to raise his head. A team of cavalry appeared in his sight, and was heading at lightning. It was in this battle that he fought with him many times, and Liang Han, a general of the Northern Tang Dynasty who was left with many scars by his opponent.
More than a hundred soldiers from the Southern Army did not get on the horse. Like Li Zuxin, their war horses had long lost their strength. They would die faster when they boarded the horse and fought with their opponents. They surrounded Li Zuxin in the middle.
Liang Han stopped dozens of steps away from them, looking at the defeated soldiers who had made him chase dozens of miles, and searched up and down.
Li Zuxin Chang laughed, but stood up hard, reached out and pulled someone beside him, laughing and said, "General Liang, are you looking for him?"
The man's helmet was taken off, and under his armor, a face similar to Xiang Zhen appeared in front of Liang Han.
Xibei goods!
Liang Han was furious and knew that he had been fooled by others this time. When he was fighting with his opponent, more than two thousand cavalrymen kept protecting this man in the middle, even if they were only one or two hundred people left in the end, this man was still in the middle of them.
This made Liang Han believe that the person they protected was Xiang Zhen.
Although the team that Li Dan chased for escaped with the shaky Xiang Zhen flag was also elite enough, it would never be Xiang Zhen. Liang Han had sufficient experience in this. When fighting against the Khitans on the desert, they often used this trick.
Just when I thought I was going to capture the real person alive, I found that I was the one who was deceived, and I was really annoyed.
"Li Zuxin, you were also an officer of the Tang Dynasty before. After only five or six years of leaving Zuo Xiaowei, did you die for Xiang's death with such a heartless heart? What's going on in the north? Are you more clear than those in the southerners?" Liang Han said angrily.
Li Zuxin smiled and said, "General Liang is right. The north is indeed better than the south. At least ordinary people live better than the southerners. But what does this have to do with me?"
"When I was at Zuo Xiaowei, I was just a small lieutenant officer. Later, when I arrived in the south, General Meng valued it, promoted it all the way, and became a third-rank general, and had the opportunity to confront people like General Liang. If I were at Zuo Xiaowei, I was afraid that I would have retired and become a farmer at this time, right?"
Looking at Li Zuxin, Liang Han shook his head and said, "At least you will live and marry a wife. There are dozens or hundreds of acres of land, working from sunrise to sunset."
"I also want to make achievements, I also want to be successful, and I also want to be famous in history!" Li Zuxin said lightly: "General Liang, the Zuo Xiaogu officers and soldiers who went to the south with me all thought so."
Liang Han was extremely angry, and his spear was stabbing, buzzing in the air.
"Now, you are all dead, aren't you?"
"I'm willing to accept the loss!" Li Zuxin said. "If you die, you will die. What's the big deal? Even if you die at this time, my name will be left on the history books in the future. On a certain year, a certain month and a certain day, the two armies fought against Guangshui, and the Northern Tang army won a great victory, and the enemy was killed. Then there will be a high probability that the names of the generals who were killed on the spot will be listed below. Hahaha, General Liang, I think you will remember me many years later, because you were cheated so miserably? Was it?"
Liang Han's face turned red and his spear was lifted: "Do you want to die?"
"Not bad!" Li Zuxin lifted the knife, but put it on his neck: "General Liang, please let your impression be deeper."
Amid the screams of everyone, Li Zuxin squeezed hard, and blood splattered, pouring the people around him all over his body, and his body fell down with a bang.
"Kill!"
"Avenge the general!"
More than a hundred soldiers of the Southern Army had red eyes, carrying swords and guns, rushed towards Liang Han and others.
Liang Han did not move, but the cavalry behind him rushed out, slashing his sword and stabbing his spear. In just a moment, there were already corpses on the ground.
Before he slowly rode his horse to Li Zuxin's body, Liang Han looked down at the body that had no life or death, shook his head and said, "Damn it, you said it right, you really made me feel deeply about you. I was a great man in the Tang Dynasty, but he died like this. Qin Zhao Jin Shiren, you are very harmful to others!"
Back then, if it weren't for Qin Zhao and Jin Shiren, how could people like Li Zuxin go to the south? These people died, but Qin Zhao is still alive in Wuyi. Jin Shiren traveled across the ocean and went to the Meizhou that Li Xiang mentioned. Now, it's a prosperous place, with a very good look.
"Xiang Zhen ran away!" Shi Zhuang looked at Li Mi and spread his hands. "The battlefield has been completely cleaned up, and no body of this guy was found. It seems that as the captured Southern Army officers said, this guy was hiding in the chaos, and he was quite capable."
"If you leave, you'll leave." Li Mi didn't care: "This army is the strongest unit in the Union of the Southern Army. This time we wiped out all the way, which is a major and irreparable loss for the Union of the Southern Army. The next time I meet him again, I'll just catch him again."
"Xiang Xun suffered a heavy blow and his strength was greatly damaged. His voice in the Southern Alliance will be greatly reduced. In the future, there will be more times when they bite dogs!" Shi Zhuang smiled and said, "But there is still a bad news to tell you."
Li Mi frowned, "What is it?"
Chapter completed!