Perhaps the Taiping Army had exhausted its trend or had insufficient strength, or it could no longer take out a built-in heavy cavalry to raise the formation; as the rear guard, Li Siyuan was able to retreat to the vicinity of Linfen City, who was strictly guarding for cavalry pursuit and raids, but he was able to retreat completely to the vicinity of Linfen City.

But when he arrived at Linfen City, he realized that compared to his suspiciousness, the situation of the other groups of people was not so good; because the peaceful thieves had already taken the lead in penetrating into them.

Therefore, on the road to retreat separately at night, they were constantly attacked and harassed by sporadic firearms, and they also hit the trip mascot and a firearm that exploded at any time, making the entire team feel particularly nervous in the darkness of the night.

Although the actual casualties can be caused are minimal, the constant disturbance and fear of being afraid has a great impact on the morale and morale of the army during the retreat; and because they avoid the main road and take off many long roads, the itinerary was further delayed.

As a result, after arriving at Linfen City, they counted their own troops and found that due to various accidents and accidents along the way, there were many people who were separated one after another. Especially the troops who had suffered the most damage to Shi Jingsi, who had only two or three hundred people left to follow him.

It can be said that when this retreat overnight, they lost 10% to 30% of the people out of thin air. As for the vassal cavalry gathered under Xiangling City, they were even more out of reach than they did when they saw that the situation was not good, and they could not count on them for a while.

In addition, the towns, garrisons, garrisons, township soldiers gathered in those places, and the united soldiers of some states were abandoned as bait to deal with and attract thieves. Naturally, it was no longer fortunate.

Therefore, in a sense, because Li Siyuan left the slowest after breaking the rear, he was able to withdraw his troops from the headquarters because someone had cleared the subsequent obstacles and ambush for him.

Despite this, after joining the local army-based troops of Li Sizhao, Linfen, the Shangzhou city in the central wilderness of the cross-border Fen River Basin, has gathered nearly 50,000 again, and they are all relatively elite and strong, with all Hedong soldiers with sufficient horses and stances and abundant food and equipment.

Therefore, Li Siyuan, as the general manager of the South Road marching, could not help but have a new idea and plan to counter and fight the Taiping Army approaching the south. However, this time, he was firmly opposed and objected to the commander of the Fan Han horse-bureau Commander Li Sizhao, who was the deputy, and others.

The reason for Li Sizhao and others is also very simple. Since the cavalry attacks that the Hedong army relies on are good at, it is difficult to shake the array of firearms that the Taiping thieves are steadily advancing in the wild wave battles; and the vassal cavalry that are attached to assist in the war are even more unbearable, so they can only learn from their lessons and play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.

For example, when the enemy strategy is changed, the strong walls of the big city are used as a cover and support, and the crossbows are prepared, and the large equipment is used to resist the city's defense. Then, several cavalrymen are wandering outside to respond and restrain, so that they can't catch up for a long time, reveal flaws and opportunities to take advantage of, and then attack them with a core.

Instead of continuing to rush to launch a counterattack, wasting the troops that had finally been collected and the morale that had been restored; just seeking a front line for a moment of impetus may cause the enemy to suffer a setback.

However, for Li Siyuan, this means that the many vassal generals who were damaged by the power of his leadership will lose control of the war situation in disguise and give up the dominance of the southern army.

Because according to the key to this layout, they all had to lead the horse team to take risks and wait for the opportunity, which was undoubtedly unacceptable. However, Li Sizhao, who had been showing his head in the army, suddenly chose to attack the opportunity.

In the later statement, although Li Siyuan insisted on taking advantage of the enemy but not firmly established himself and decided to fight back quickly, it was obvious that the objection and other propositions put forward by Li Sizhao seemed more reasonable and impeccable, and the army received many echoes and echoes.

Even the uncle who led troops from Qinzhou to support Li Kening, Datong Defense Envoy, Du Yuhou Li Cunzhi, Li Cunhao, Li Cunshi and others deliberately supported him openly and secretly, which seemed to be more stable.

In addition, compared with Li Siyuan and others who were on the front and most of the capital were damaged, Li Sizhao and others who were left behind in Linfen were relatively safe and well-maintained the keys of city defense and grain equipment.

Therefore, now the two sides can take out the bargaining chips and power comparisons of the game, which have been invisibly reversed, and are heading towards an unfavorable direction that shakes Li Siyuan's authority and influence.

You should know that according to the system and conventions inherited from the North of Dai and outside the Great Wall, all the adopted sons of Zhu Xieyi Sheng/Li Keyong's confidant each had a group of soldiers who had been through many battles and were obeyed by orders, as a direct subordinate to Ruo's arm; as a trustee for controlling and suppressing other troops.

Therefore, even if Li Siyuan, as the general manager of the South Road, could certainly reward and punish or replace some of them, thinking that they would be dealt with on-the-spot situations in front of the battlefield; but he was not qualified to go beyond them and directly command these men; he could not ignore the opinions of the majority and act completely arbitrarily or do whatever he wanted.

In the end, it was the same Jiulang Kang Junli. Seeing that the situation was not good in the vague opposition, he quickly jumped out and complained on the spot, laying a reason for the dilemma of Li Siyuan, thinking that the conditions for compromise and compromise were in disguise.

That is, Li Sizhao's general framework for the defensive counterattack plan of the invading thieves was maintained as the basis of the Linfen City as the support and evidence; however, as a restraining and echoing cavalry force, it also needed great strengthening to be a decisive means;

Therefore, after a long and provocative argument, Li Siyuan pinched his nose and reluctantly agreed; he asked the cavalry units leading the outside of the South Road General Manager Li Siyuan to give priority to the selection of troops in the city to make up for and strengthen them, and at the same time, he also took away almost all the livestock and horses and half of the food and grass accumulated in the city.

However, after the mighty cavalry led by Li Siyuan drove out of Linfen City again; Shi Jingsi, who had changed into a conspicuous white battle robe, couldn't help but say to Li Siyuan who was riding his horse:

"Master, where should we go next..."

"Of course, we went north to Nanguan (Yindiguan) to repair it first..."

Li Siyuan said without hesitation:

"What?"

Shi Jingsi couldn't hide his surprise and said: You know, this Yindi Pass is in the mountains north of Linfen, which is somewhat contrary to the tasks they are currently taking.

"Since Erlang is determined to attack this and wants to divide my military power to devote himself to this merit, then I can only achieve his whole heart."

Li Siyuan rode his horse and accelerated, while almost motionless, he said lightly:

"Anyway, this Nanguan is only twenty or thirty miles away from Linfen. If something really happens in the future, it will be just a quick opportunity."

"Since the appointment with my second brother is waiting for the opportunity outside, we naturally have to choose a safe enough place to think of the retreat and the backing! Besides, if you are wandering outside, you will be enemies, so don't talk about the difference between east, west, south and north...."

Another general who had just returned to his command, Li Sien (Luo Yangxing), also took the initiative to echo.

(PS: Yindiguan: 50 miles southwest of Lingshi County, Shanxi Province, today, when Emperor Taizong of Tang took Huoyi, he stayed here. Because another narrow section of the Fenshui River Valley was about ten miles north of Lengquanguan, it is commonly known as Yindiguan as Nanguan.)

——I am the dividing line between east, west, south and north—

In Chang'an City, where the heat is over, with the cooler temperature, a new day is coming after the light rain in the early morning with a shallow wetness;

"What is this? Is it a new invention of means of persuading you?"

Zhou Huaian, who had just gotten up and soaked in the soup pond and ate breakfast, looked at the news in front of him with some ridiculousness:

It can be said that since the Taiping Army defeated the Western Army and gained a foothold in the pass, and obtained the effect of Zhu Laosan, who occupied the Eastern Capital, various incidents of reporting auspiciousness and strange signs began to emerge one after another.

For example, in the Daxingshan Temple where Zhou Huaian Station had once been stationed in Chang'an City, purple zircon as big as a cover suddenly grew; for example, the moment before Zhou Huaian entered Chang'an, someone saw with his own eyes that outside the Dongyingluo courtyard was hit by thunder and fire, and the sudden dead tree that had been dead for many years suddenly came to spring;

Some time ago, there was a magpies as big as a chicken and said, "The purple air is as high as the sky, and the saint is in the palace." It looks like a kind of habitual routine that has been passed down for thousands of years and has been unchanged by various dynasties and generations.

Not long after the attack on Hezhong Prefecture, someone had already seen a ferry rushing into the sky at night outside the Yellow River Ferry where Dayu Temple was worshipped by the Dayu Temple near Shoushan. An ancient sword with a color of copper rust and green was salvaged. On one side of the sword, the sun, moon and stars were vaguely engraved with the blade, and on the other side were mountains, rivers, plants and trees.

Then what happened became even more nonsense; because there were some famous people who swear to the spot that this was probably cast by the bronze of the ancient gods Caishou Mountain by Huangdi, and later he was told to Xia Yu and returned to the Yellow River with the control of the flood. Now the Emperor of the Eternal Emperor was born and no longer obsessed.

This is not a few nonsense. You should know that there are certainly legends in history that Emperor Xuanyuan used a sword to determine the geography of mountains and rivers. However, these two characters of sun, moon, stars, mountains, plants and trees are not something that Zhou Huaian brought directly from later game anime when he told stories in Canton in his early years.

Is this saying that lies have been spread a thousand times, ten thousand times, hundreds of thousands of times, and then they become the final result of the truth? At this time, a notice came from the outside world again:
Chapter completed!