Chapter Seventy-Seven: The Key
As soon as Zhang Zhaohua saw Liu Dezhong's plan, he immediately turned his horse and fled in the direction of the canal. Liu De led his troops to pursue all the way, but he did not find that the Yan soldiers who were "fleeing" still maintained their combat strength, and many Yan soldiers could even turn around and shoot arrows.
With the strong sound of an arrow "whoosh", a hundred households behind Liu De fell backwards and dismounted. Liu De said angrily: "Shoot quickly! Shoot them!"
After such a chase escaped to the side of the canal, Liu De only heard a cannon sound, and the Yan army rushed out of the ambush, and his soldiers suddenly panicked and hurriedly responded to the battle. At this time, Zhang Zhaohua himself led a hundred women's troops to go around behind enemy lines, cut off their way back, and made Liu Debu suffer from the enemy.
Seeing that the southern army was slaughtered in a mess, Zhang Zhaohua couldn't help laughing and said: "Wei Guogong is right, Shandong's army is empty, and it is a good opportunity to attack!"
Liu De was less than fifty meters in front of her, and he could hear it clearly, and he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the words. Zhang Zhaohua knew that the goal had been achieved, calculated the time, and knew that Sheng Yong's reinforcements would arrive soon, so he immediately waved the flag in his hand a few times. When Chen Mao saw it from afar, he immediately knew that he had left an opening to tell the southern army to break and flee.
When Sheng Yong arrived with 10,000 people, he saw Liu De leading the remnants of the army to survive, but before he could ask where the Yan soldiers went, he suddenly saw a figure on the low slope, and dozens of muskets fired in volleys, shooting at the southern army, bursting out a large area of thick smoke.
Liu De originally saw people leaving, but he also thought that there were ambush soldiers and fire guns, their salvo sound was so loud, as if the mountains were shaking, and in an instant, the fifteen or sixteen southern troops were knocked over, and a stream of blood mist rushed out of their bodies, which frightened the troops who came one after another to stop the war horses.
Because of the thick smoke, Sheng Yong couldn't judge how many people were on the opposite side, and the cavalry couldn't face the firearms and could only dodge, and they didn't dare to pursue - when the smoke passed, Sheng Yong clearly saw that these people were only dozens of horses, and he was about to order a pursuit, but Liu De hugged the horse's neck: "Dudu, I'm afraid there are ambushes!"
Sheng Yong was so angry that he gave him a whip and scolded: "You now know that there is an ambush! Where are your ears when I ordered you not to pursue just now!"
Liu Desheng didn't dare to resist after being whipped, he knew that he had made a big mistake this time, but his eyes rolled, and he suddenly said: "Dudu! The last general just heard an important military situation!"
Sheng Yong was so angry that he wanted to whip him again, but he heard Liu De say: "Dudu! Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, is suspected of collaborating with the enemy! It was the Yan army that won the victory and accidentally leaked it!"
Sheng Yong's whip couldn't go down, he said: "Wei Guogong? Wei Guogong is the pillar of the country, although he is related to the Yan Mansion, he is loyal and brave, and he cannot be slandered at will!"
In order to avoid punishment, Liu De swore and said: "The last general is not slanderous, the last general heard what Yan Jun said with his own ears, Du Du, when the Baigou River was fought, Xu Huizu didn't move a single soldier, and he met the Yan army head-on, and there was no one to fight!"
Sheng Yong's doubts in his heart also began to take root, he knew that Wei Guogong's sister was Princess Yan, King Yan was Xu Huizu's brother-in-law, and several sons of King Yan were Xu Huizu's nephews.
As soon as the Northern and Southern War began, Xu Huizu was even more self-explanatory, when Li Jinglong was defeated, there were no generals available in the court, obviously Xu Huizu was the best candidate, but no one asked him to general, which can see the emperor's meaning. If it wasn't King Yan who rebelled, Xu Huizu would definitely be reused.
Sheng Yong groaned for a moment, "Let's go, go back to the city!"
He returned to the city and began to write a note, of course he had always been very cautious, mainly to report on the situation of the small units of the Yan army harassing Texas, and finally added a sentence at the end, if nothing said about the situation.
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