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Chapter 856 Li Xiaoyi Escapes South

In Fuzhou, Li Xiaoyi fell into the same predicament as Li Kaigu before.

However, Li Kaigu did not know at that time that he would face the attack of 150,000 troops, and Li Xiaoyi watched helplessly as the 150,000 troops blocked him.

Li Xiaoyi, who was in a bad mood, sent people to Yuezhou and Wuzhou to inquire about the news. Among the fifty or sixty messengers, only eight came back in two days, and all they brought were bad news.

"General, the General of Chariots and Cavalry has been captured alive, and the 50,000-man Right Eagle Guard is being slaughtered in turns by the troops commanded by His Royal Highness the Prince of Qin."

"General, I haven't gathered any useful information. I only saw those soldiers not wanting to take any prisoners. Even if the Right Eagle Guard soldiers knelt on the ground and begged for surrender, it would be useless. They would be hacked to death."

Li Xiaoyi felt dizzy and couldn't believe that Yang Dacheng was captured alive before he even entered Yuezhou.

Fifty thousand troops!

That’s 50,000 pigs, and it would take Li Cunxi a lot of effort to catch them all!

What’s more, it is the 50,000 elite Right Eagle Guard army!

Ten years ago, these soldiers were the elite soldiers who followed him to fight against Li Jingye, but he didn't expect that tens of thousands of them would be killed in just two days.

"With an army of 50,000, Li Cunxi's fighting style was to slaughter them directly, leaving no one alive. This fully demonstrates Li Cunxi's attitude."

"He wants to avenge the Left and Right Yuqian Guards. Therefore, even if the Right Yingyang Guards want to surrender, they will only face a massacre."

"Even if they kill faster, the 50,000 Right Eagle Guard troops will be enough for Li Cunxi to fight for several days. Calculating the time, tomorrow is only the third day."

"If I act quickly enough, I can take advantage of Zhang Renyuan and Fang Zhe's inattention and lead the army all the way south."

Li Xiaoyi muttered to himself and turned to look at the marching map.

Zhang Renyuan and Fang Zhe will definitely not sit idly by regarding the war on the border between Wuzhou and Yuezhou. They are probably already on their way to send people to investigate.

Zhang Renyuan was not a powerful figure. At least Li Xiaoyi believed that Zhang Renyuan was no match for him. Perhaps Zhang Renyuan's messenger had not returned yet. He could have assembled his troops and marched south as quickly as possible to seek a livelihood.

To take a step back, even if Zhang Renyuan's messenger had returned with the news, Zhang Renyuan might not have been able to determine that he was going south.

If Zhang Renyuan could really judge his intentions, then Li Kaigu would not have been almost wiped out by him.

"It seems that the only way is to head south as quickly as possible."

"Go and pass on my orders. Tell them that the West Camp is well-defended. We must not let Fang Zhe's army detect that we intend to retreat. The rest of the camps must marshal their troops and horses and be ready to march south at any time."

"Here!"

Zhou Ci responded and went out to convey the order.

The West Camp faces Fang Zhe's main camp directly. If the 100,000-strong army wants to evacuate, this army of thousands of people must defend tightly without any loopholes so that Fang Zhe cannot detect any clues.

The commander of the West Camp did indeed achieve this, and the defense was increasingly tight, so that the scouts who came to spy on the camp could not see anything unusual.

However, Fang Zhe was no pushover. After hearing that Li Xiaoyi's West Camp's defense was becoming increasingly tight, he felt something was wrong, so he wrote it down in the intelligence and sent it to the Zuoweiwei Camp.

After reading this information, Dalha, who had not slept all the time, thought of the countless heads of people killed in the Yuezhou and Wuzhou areas where Yang Dacheng's 50,000 troops were stationed, and naturally thought that Li Xiaoyi had also received this news.

"General Zhang, guess why Li Xiaoyi wants to strengthen the defense of the west gate of the camp?"

Daleha smiled and turned to look at Zhang Renyuan.

Zhang Renyuan blurted out: "To guard against Fang Zhe's attack?"

"Hasn't he been guarding against Fang Zhe's attacks?"

"Hiss, that's true. Then he must have other plans."

"Think about it again."

"Strengthening the defense is definitely not the same intention as before. It means that there may be movement in his other camp gates. Strengthening the defense at the front may be to provide cover for the other gates..."

"We're already very close. Why don't you take another guess as to what he might be going to do?"

"Hmm... heading north to support Yang Dacheng?" Zhang Renyuan frowned. "We all got the news of Yang Dacheng's disastrous defeat, and he probably got it too."

"He won't go north."

Daleha smiled sarcastically. "If he really had gone to rescue Yang Dacheng, I would have looked up to him. Unfortunately, from the very beginning, he treated Yang Dacheng as a pawn to stop us. Yang Dacheng didn't want to be used as a pawn, so he resolutely headed north."

"So...he's going to run away?"

"Well, pass on my order and have General Fang Zhe strengthen the defense of the East Gate to show Li Xiaoyi. At the same time, General Zhang, you must send scouts to carefully investigate Li Xiaoyi's route south to see if he is planning to flee south."

Daleha stared at the map and continued, "The 50,000-man Left Guard is on full alert. General Fang Zhe's soldiers must prepare to march south. If Li Xiaoyi dares to escape, we can wipe out his demoralized army!"

……

It's night, midnight.

The north, east and south gates of Li Xiaoyi's camp were wide open, and tens of thousands of troops poured out of the camp. No matter where they left the city, their goal was to go south.

Li Xiaoyi left the city from the south gate, leading the most elite 30,000 Eagle Guards, and ran towards Quanzhou.

Before leaving the camp for more than ten miles, he looked back and saw a flame rising into the sky in the direction of the camp. The flame was like a winding fire dragon, burning fiercely in Li Xiaoyi's sight.

"Exposed!"

"Damn it, how did Zhang Renyuan have such ability?"

"Never mind, keep going south!"

The Yingyang Guard army that came out of the north gate turned south for only seven or eight miles and just as they met up with the Yingyang Guard that came out of the east gate, they were blocked by a powerful cavalry force.

There were quite a large number of people coming, as many as ten thousand, and their horses were galloping, making even the earth tremble.

"kill!"

"Kill them all, leaving no one behind!"

Li Kaigu roared loudly, his voice sounding like a devil in the dark night.

Next to him was Song Wuji, behind him was Liu Qi, and behind him were a group of black-armored cavalry generals and the left and right Yuqian Guard cavalry generals.

Further behind, there was a cavalry army of 10,000.

Each of them led their cavalry and charged into the army of tens of thousands of Eagle Guards.

These soldiers were originally used to cover the rear. Li Xiaoyi had no intention of breaking out with an army of nearly 100,000. He was not so soft-hearted.

However, even though these soldiers knew that their mission was to cover the retreat of the army, they did not feel any resentment and just kept waving their swords at the cavalry that were approaching them.

Far away from the east gate, the Eagle Guard soldiers on their way south were also stopped by another team. This was an elite infantry unit, all wearing heavy armor. There were only 5,000 of them, but their murderous aura was much stronger than that of an ordinary army.

Fang Zhe personally led the troops to block the road with an amused expression, as if he was looking at a group of dead people.

"Brothers, avenge the Yuqian Guard brothers!"

"Kill all these bastards, leave no one alive!"