Chang Yuchun carefully told Laihong to take a look, selected tens of thousands of elites, titles, horses picked up bells, and went straight to Hailing City.

As Chang Yuchun expected, the 70,000 Wu and Chu coalition troops originally stationed in Hailing City dispatched more than 60,000, of which 20,000 horses surrounded the remnants of Qin Ming and Huarong, and the other 40,000 were ambushed in the grassy Yongping Gang.

The defenders in Hailing City were less than 10,000, and most of them were Chu troops, with weak morale, low combat effectiveness, and lax defense. When Chang Yuchun led his troops to kill under the city wall, the defenders of the city reacted.

"The one who climbs the city wall first will have a reward of 1,000 taels, and the official will be promoted to one level!"

Chang Yuchun was covered in armor and personally led the army to charge, and the morale of the Sui army was greatly boosted, and they all climbed towards the city wall without fear of death. There was no general in Hailing City to preside over the overall situation, and the army was discouraged, and after barely resisting the attack of the Sui army for more than an hour, the whole line collapsed, and the drawbridge was cut and the city gate was opened. Chang Yuchun led his troops into the city like a tide and captured Li Baiyao, a civil official who remained in the city.

The defeated soldiers in Hailing City fled from the city in a hurry, and went to Xunlongling to seek reinforcements in embarrassment.

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At the foot of the Dragon Patrol, Liu Zhiyuan looked at the Qin banner of the Sui Army on the main peak mountain with a straight face, and his eyes showed a terrifying murderous intent. Although he was rescued by doctors, his right arm was not saved, and he became a one-armed general. The image is ugly, but it is secondary, the most important thing is that his force has been greatly reduced by losing his right arm, if Yang Gao tests him in front of him at this time, he will find that his force value has dropped from 98 to 85, from a first-class general to a second-rate general.

Looking at his empty right arm, Liu Zhiyuan couldn't help but hate and scolded: "Qin Ming, you'd better pray that you die early, otherwise when I destroy Chang Yuchun and capture the main peak, I will definitely make your life worse than death!" ”

"Urgent, urgent!"

A hurried sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a Wu army scout turned over and dismounted at the camp gate, and rushed into the camp with a rolling run, shouting in his mouth, "Urgent, urgent!" ”

"What are you doing in such a hurry? The sky can't fall! Liu Zhiyuan has always been in a bad mood, and he couldn't find a place to be angry, and when he saw this scout like this, he immediately stepped forward and reprimanded him sharply.

When the scout saw that it was Liu Zhiyuan, he immediately smiled and said, "General Liu, it's not that the villain is in a hurry, it's really urgent!" ”

Liu Zhiyuan glanced at the scout and asked, "What's wrong?" ”

The scout replied in a low voice: "General Qiqi Liu, yesterday Chang Yuchun led his troops to attack Hailing, and now Hailing City has fallen into the hands of the Sui army!" ”

"What?" Liu Zhiyuan's eyes widened, and he immediately came back to his senses, and shouted at the soldier who had just been attracted by his voice: "What do you see? Get back to your seats! ”

After driving away these soldiers who were making a fuss, Liu Zhiyuan whispered to the scout: "You, follow me!" He turned around and left. The scout obediently followed.

Liu Zhiyuan led the scout to a secluded place, there was a sudden murderous flash in his eyes, and he said that it was too late to say that it was too fast, and his left hand suddenly pulled out his sword, and instantly slashed the scout's throat.

"Whew!"

The scout clutched his neck in pain, looked at Liu Zhiyuan in disbelief, and slowly fell to the ground.

Liu Zhiyuan carefully disposed of the scout's body, and immediately returned to the big tent to find Wu Yunzhao and Shen Faxing, and informed them of the news of the loss of Hailing City.

After listening to Liu Zhiyuan's story, Shen Faxing said with a dissatisfied face: "Liu Zhiyuan, why did you kill the scout under Lone?" ”

Liu Zhiyuan said expressionlessly: "If I don't kill him, the news of the loss of Hailing City will immediately spread like a plague, and then the soldiers of your and my armies will have no intention of fighting!" ”

"Then you shouldn't kill him, my Shen Faxing's subordinates can't take your turn to decide their life and death!" Shen Faxing took the case, looked at Liu Zhiyuan angrily and said, "It depends on the master to fight the dog, if it weren't for the lone army to come to the rescue of you, I'm afraid you wouldn't even be able to deal with Qin Ming's five thousand men and horses!" ”

Wu Yunzhao saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly became a peacemaker, "His Royal Highness King Wu, please calm your anger, now that the Sui army is pressing the border, we should still cooperate sincerely, resist the strong enemy together, and don't do anything to fight in the nest!" ”

"Humph!" Shen Faxing snorted heavily, slowly sat down in his seat, and didn't look at Liu Zhiyuan.

Seeing Shen Faxing sit down, Wu Yunzhao breathed a sigh of relief, turned his head and asked Liu Zhiyuan, "Zhiyuan, you look at the current situation, what should we do next?" ”

"What else can I do, hurry up and retreat!" Shen Faxing suddenly stood up again and said loudly, "The grain and grass of our more than 60,000 people can be supported by the food hoarded in Hailing City. ”

"Can't be withdrawn! It must not be withdrawn! Liu Zhiyuan also raised his voice at this time, "The enemy retreats and I advance, Chang Yuchun is well versed in the way of soldiers, if our army retreats south, he will chase and kill, and at that time our army will inevitably suffer heavy losses!" ”

"That's better than annihilating the whole army!" Shen Faxing was not to be outdone, and also yelled.

Liu Zhiyuan glanced at Shen Faxing with disdain, and said in a deep voice: "Who said that we would be wiped out, at the moment, Chang Yuchun led his troops to attack Hailing, and his camp must be empty, so we will use the way of others to govern his body, raid his camp and seize his grain and grass!" “

Shen Faxing snorted coldly, "Joke, you yourself said that Chang Yuchun is well versed in soldiers, wouldn't he have thought that you would go to attack his camp to get food?" ”

Liu Zhiyuan said without humility or arrogance: "Then you have to try, this is the only chance for our army to turn defeat into victory!" ”

"Crazy, you're such a madman!" Shen Faxing shook his head, "Lone will never joke with the lives of his soldiers, now that Hailing is lost, there is no need for Lone to stay here, Lone will return to Wu County!" ”

"King Wu.. King Wu! “

Wu Yunzhao was in a hurry when he saw this, and hurriedly shouted. But Shen Faxing didn't look back, and walked out of the big tent quickly.

Looking at Shen Faxing's distant back, Wu Yunzhao sighed helplessly and asked Liu Zhiyuan, "Zhiyuan, what should I do now?" ”

Liu Zhiyuan said hatefully: "Shen Faxing is timid and afraid, now Jiangnan can't stay, I'm afraid we have to leave Jiangnan!" ”

Wu Yunzhao asked suspiciously: "Zhiyuan, do you want to go to Li Mi?" ”

Liu Zhiyuan shook his head, "Although Li Mi has the qualifications of a hero, but his killing of Zhai Rang is undoubtedly a bad move, although he is powerful at the moment, but in less than three years, his people will die, we will go to Guanzhong to defect to Li Yuan!" ”

"Li Yuan!" Wu Yunzhao was taken aback, "Zhiyuan, are you crazy?" Guanzhong is thousands of miles away, how did we, the tens of thousands of horses, get to Guanzhong? ”

Liu Zhiyuan shook his head, "It's not tens of thousands of horses, only I will go to Guanzhong with you!" ”

"What?" Wu Yunzhao was obviously taken aback again, "It's just you and me?" ”

Liu Zhiyuan explained: "Yunzhao, most of the tens of thousands of people under our command are Jiangnan people, if they are allowed to follow us to Guanzhong, one is too big, and the other is that there will be dissidents in the army, rather than one of them can't go, it is better that only you and I go to Li Yuan, with the talents of you and me, we will be able to be reused in the Tang Dynasty, and it is still unknown to make a comeback at that time!" ”