After the fierce battle, more than 30,000 officers and troops camped on the north side of the southern slope of the Huanggong Mountains, preparing to rest and recuperate first.

During this period, the general Dai Jingkui led a group of generals in the Beijing camp to thank Liu Juntao, if this battle was not for the desperate battle of the battalions under Liu Juntao, the thief Deng Maoqi would have turned the tables, and the battle against bandits would have been completely defeated!

"Liu Guerrilla should be the first merit in this battle, and after the war, the general will definitely report to the Ministry of War for Liu Guerrilla and generals at all levels to ask for merit!"

Liu Juntao smiled and clenched his fists and said, "The last general thanked the general!" This is the duty of our generation, and it is the general's command! ”

"Haha!"

General Dai Jingkui also laughed when he heard this, and then everyone greeted him again, and said: "Liu Guerrilla, this time we killed the thief Deng Maoqi, gathered and annihilated the army of 250,000 thieves, and the rest of the thieves and soldiers all gathered on Huanggongling, how should we fight the follow-up battle?" ”

The generals of the Beijing camp also looked at it one after another, after all, at this time, the various departments of the Beijing camp had already suffered a lot of casualties, and how to fight the next big war was directly related to the lives of the generals!

Liu Juntao pondered for a while and said: "General, the Huanggongling is easy to defend and difficult to attack, the terrain is dangerous, and there are 100,000 thieves stationed in it, and our more than 30,000 soldiers are destined to be unable to attack it." Therefore, the last general suggested that our army slowly move north and give the army of thieves some time! ”

Everyone couldn't help but be stunned when they heard this, and Dai Jingkui, the staff general, laughed and said, "Okay! Let those defeated thieves go back and report the news, so that the thieves and soldiers on Huanggongling know the strength of our army! ”

Two days later, more than 30,000 officers and troops slowly marched north.

In fact, the southern slope of the Huanggongling Mountains is only more than 20 miles away from the main mountain of Huanggongling, but the general Dai Jingkui led the soldiers of each battalion to walk for six days, and the soldiers of the army were like playing.

Deng Bosun, who was stationed on the Huanggongling defensive line, couldn't sit still, and the routs on the southern slope of the Huanggongling Mountains had fled back one after another, bringing back the news that Deng Maoqi's entire army was annihilated and that the soldiers were defeated and died.

At this time, the army of 100,000 thieves stationed on the defense line of Huanggongling suddenly blew up their nests, and within a day, thousands of thieves fled from the battle, and even some big and small leaders ran away a lot.

Deng Bosun was furious when he saw this, and hurriedly mobilized people to suppress the deserters, and killed many deserters, but he still couldn't stop the army from falling apart.

At this time, Deng Bosun understood that the 100,000 troops under his command had lost their morale, and no matter when the official army came over, they would not be able to hold here, so he ordered the whole army to pack up and prepare to retreat north, and first rushed to the side of Tingzhou Mansion to join Ye Zongliu.

For Deng Bosun, at this time, the forces under Deng Maoqi's command had collapsed with Deng Maoqi's death.

Deng Bosun can be sure that if Chen Zhengjing, who is stationed in Ganzhou Mansion, learns the news that Deng Mao's seven soldiers were defeated and died, he will definitely gather troops and horses from all over the country, occupy the southern part of Ganzhou Mansion by himself, and replace him!

Therefore, Deng Bosun decided to lead an army of 100,000 to the north of Tingzhou Prefecture, join up with Ye Zongliu and form an alliance, and stabilize the current situation first.

Otherwise, once the hometown of Ganzhou Mansion is stolen by Chen Zhengjing, and tens of thousands of officials and soldiers will be killed later, Deng Bosun will definitely die without a place to be buried!

The next day, Deng Bosun hurriedly led an army of 100,000 to evacuate the Huanggongling defense line and fled towards the capital of Tingzhou.

And the army of 100,000 thieves under the command of Deng Bosun was already demoralized at this time, and there were constantly people and horses fleeing along the way, and when they arrived at the capital of Tingzhou, there were only 80,000 soldiers and horses left in the 100,000 army.

But at this moment, Deng Bosun received the news that Ye Zongliu led his troops to capture the capital city of Tingzhou, and he was immediately overjoyed, and led the army to speed up, and two days later he joined Ye Zongliu's department.

At the same time, the Investigation Department also sent the news of the loss of the Tingzhou Mansion to Liu Juntao's camp, and Liu Juntao was shocked when he heard the news, so the northern part of the Tingzhou Mansion was completely lost!

Immediately afterwards, the news that Deng Bosun led his troops to escape from the Huanggongling defense line also came, and Liu Juntao immediately found the general Dai Jingkui, advocating that the army immediately kill the capital city of Tingzhou, and take advantage of the opportunity of the thieves to gain a stable foothold to recapture the capital city of Tingzhou.

General Dai Jingkui also made a quick decision and ordered the army to rush north to attack the capital city of Tingzhou, and at the same time sent a transfer document to the garrisons and Nanzhili, asking all localities to immediately mobilize troops and horses to come to help.

Two days later, more than 30,000 officers and soldiers rushed to the capital of Tingzhou, but found that the huge city had become an empty city, and the people in the city were miserable.

Liu Juntao was shocked when he saw this, he never expected that Ye Zongliu would take the initiative to give up the capital city of Tingzhou and leave directly with his troops.

On the same day, more than 30,000 officers and soldiers were stationed in the capital of Tingzhou, while appeasing the people and urging soldiers and horses from all over the country to come to the rendezvous.

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.

Ten days later, Ye Zongliu and Deng Bosun joined forces, Ye Zongliu concentrated a total of 230,000 troops from all over Tingzhou Mansion, as well as 80,000 soldiers and horses under Deng Bosun's command, and 310,000 soldiers on both sides (many of them were villagers who were captured from all over the country), and the army went all the way to Yanping Mansion in the east.

When Ye Zongliu heard that Deng Maoqi's soldiers were defeated and died, he was also shocked, and now that Deng Maoqi is dead, he has become the only target of the imperial court!

Moreover, immediately afterwards, Ye Zongliu received the news sent by Wang Neng: Chen Zhengjing, the former general under Deng Maoqi, heard that Deng Maoqi's soldiers were defeated and died, so he directly replaced him and gathered soldiers and horses to attack cities and territories in various parts of Ganzhou Mansion.

Seeing this, Wang Neng could only continue to gather the defeated troops from all over the country to Ruijin County, and gather 110,000 troops to defend the city.

Ye Zongliu was furious when he heard the news, and he was furious when he thought that tens of thousands of officers and soldiers would chase and kill him at any time, and half of the Ganzhou Mansion that he had worked so hard to fight was also lost.

At this time, Deng Bosun said: "King, for the sake of today's plan, we might as well concentrate our troops and horses to march east and recapture Yanping Mansion!" ”

Ye Zongliu listened to Deng Bosun's suggestion that he paid attention to returning to Yanping Mansion for development, after all, Yanping Mansion was his own nest, and the strength of the official army was very weak.

However, when Ye Zongliu thought of the hateful Chen Zhengjing taking advantage of the danger of others, his heart was as disgusting as eating a fly.

So, Ye Zongliu sent a letter to Wang Neng, ordering him to lead the army to launch a counterattack and fight for Ganzhou Mansion with Chen Zhengjing.

"At that time, Wang Shuai will be in Ganzhou Mansion, and if we take Yanping Mansion, we can send troops at the same time to attack Tingzhou Mansion in the east and west! In this way, if we occupy the land of Ganzhou Mansion, Tingzhou Mansion and Yanping Mansion, we will be able to achieve great things! ”

Listening to Ye Zongliu's words, Deng Bosun vaguely felt that something was wrong in his heart, but he couldn't say anything for a while, so he said some flattering words.

The two led an army of 310,000 to rush into Yanping Mansion, and Deng Bosun led 80,000 soldiers and horses to sweep the surrounding Yongan County, Datian County, Sha County, Youxi County and other places to solve the population and money and grain; And Ye Zongliu led the main army of 230,000 to Yanping Mansion City!

When the news came that Ye Zongliu led his troops into Yanping Mansion, General Dai Jingkui was taken aback, and Liu Juntao also frowned.

Immediately afterwards, the news that the thief King was able to fight with the thief Chen Zhengjing and began to fight for Ganzhou Mansion also came, which surprised the generals Dai Jingkui and Liu Juntao.

In this way, everyone began to discuss how to act, whether the army should enter Yanping Mansion in the east first, or enter the Ganzhou Mansion in the west first, or directly divide the troops.

After the generals argued, Liu Juntao said categorically: "At this time, you must not divide the troops, and the division of troops will be weak!" We are already short of troops, how can we divide our troops like this? Moreover, the army should immediately enter Yanping Mansion eastward, compared to Wang Neng, Chen Zhengjing and other bandit leaders, Ye Zongliu is the real giant, as long as Ye Zongliu is killed, the rest of the thieves are not worth mentioning, and the army can take advantage of the situation to pacify it! ”

When General Dai Jingkui heard this, he also said directly: "Guerrilla Liu's words are reasonable, now the garrisons from all over the country are coming, and after waiting for a few days in the capital city of Tingzhou, the army will immediately enter the east of Yanping Mansion and enter to suppress the thieves of Ye Zong's Liusuo Department!" ”

"Order!"