The two sides formed a strange confrontation situation on the banks of the Chishui River.

The Ming army set up a defensive formation, and was not in a hurry to attack, and confronted Li Dingguo's headquarters ten miles apart. It's just that from time to time, sergeants were sent to attack and destroy the camp in the corner, but all those who belonged to Li Dingguo's personal soldiers were not killed, but were released to Li Dingguo's military camp. belonged to the sergeant sent by Zhang Xianzhong to help, and he cut it directly without saying a word.

Li Dingguo is now in a dilemma by Fang Yuan's sudden move.

Let's defend! The Ming army took advantage of the night to pick a weakly defended camp to attack. And only killed Zhang Xianzhong's sergeant, not Li Dingguo's personal soldiers. This intention is already known to everyone in Sima Zhao's heart, that is, to sow discord.

But Fang Yuan's plan of discord was aimed at Zhang Xianzhong, and the initiative was not in Li Dingguo's hands. Will Zhang Xianzhong be suspicious of this, and Li Dingguo can influence it? !

Of course, Li Dingguo also had a choice to take the initiative to attack, and use his performance on the battlefield to prove that there was no secret collusion with the Ming army. But the Ming army had already dug trenches and built fortifications, and the combat strength of the Great Western Army was already a big difference.

At this point, Li Dingguo could not attack, and he could not defend passively, so he could only stand still and stalemate with the Ming army.

The two sides were in a stalemate on the banks of the Chishui River for three days, and all the silver had been transported across the river, and the next step was the withdrawal of Li Dingguo's broken troops.

At present, on the Chishui River, there are only two pontoon bridges, and with these two pontoon bridges, the speed of retreat is not fast. It will take at least two days for 30,000 or 40,000 troops to cross the river, and it will definitely not be able to hide from the ears and eyes of the Ming army.

There is a cloud in the art of war, and attacking it halfway is the most dangerous juncture of retreat. Whoever crosses the river first and who stays behind is the difference between life and death.

The soldiers and horses that Li Dingguo brought with him this time were his own soldiers, and the other was the reinforcements sent by Sun Kewang to support.

In order to show his loyalty to Zhang Xianzhong, Li Dingguo wanted to order the generals and sergeants of Sun Kewang's department to cross the river first, and his own troops would cut off the rear.

However, this military order was collectively resisted by the generals of Li Dingguo's headquarters. The combat effectiveness of the Ming army has already frightened these generals and big-headed soldiers.

The Ming army had always been the troops that killed Zhang Xianzhong before, and let go of Li Dingguo's personal soldiers, who were originally the most promising to cross the river and escape. Why did they want to stay behind and give up this chance to escape to the army sent by Sun Kewang, while they would carry the most dangerous one? Who doesn't have a wife and children? Whose wives and children are not waiting for them to return safely?

These big-headed soldiers didn't understand politics at all, and they didn't know how ruthless Fang Yuan was in this move.

Li Dingguo sharply reprimanded the generals that they must abide by military orders, otherwise they will be dealt with according to military law. When the generals are at the moment of life and death, where will they be afraid of military law? One by one, they still refused to obey, and there were only two choices for Li Dingguo, either the headquarters of the troops withdrew first, or they crossed the river with their ability.

The generals were unanimously opposed, and the generals were still brothers who had been born and died with Li Dingguo for so many years.

Li Dingguo's embarrassment did not last long, because at night, the generals of Li Dingguo's personal army, worried that Li Dingguo would be used as a bargaining chip to show loyalty to Zhang Xianzhong, and took the lead in crossing the river from the pontoon bridge.

As soon as the rear army moved, the whole army discovered the movement.

At this moment, Sun Kewang's generals and sergeants also sensed that something was wrong. These days, they have been regarded as the first target of attack and slaughter by the Ming army, and they are already holding back their anger. Now the officers and soldiers of Li Dingguo's department actually took advantage of the night to sneak across the river, making it clear that they wanted to leave them behind and send them to death.

These 10,000 sergeants have long been suspicious of whether Li Dingguo and the Ming army are secretly colluding, so they are even more convinced that Li Dingguo has malicious intentions and has long been in collusion with the Ming army.

At the moment of life and death, who the hell is polite! Lao Tzu recognizes you as Zhang Xianzhong's righteous son, and the knife in Lao Tzu's hand is unrecognizable!

The 10,000 sergeants immediately began to run towards the pontoon bridge of the Chishui River, with only one goal, to grab the pontoon bridge and cross the river!

When the two waves of soldiers and horses met in the Chishui River, they all had to take advantage of the night, and the Ming army had not yet noticed that they should cross the river first, and there was no dispute.

At the beginning, it was a clash of words, I fuck your mother, you fuck my eighteenth generation ancestor. As time went by, as dawn approached, Sun Kewang's sergeant ran out of patience and directly began to draw his knife and forcibly grab the pontoon bridge.

What was supposed to be an organized evacuation turned into a serious infighting that broke out over the pontoon bridge.

Li Dingguo, who heard the news, personally led the army to stop it, but he could only command the truce of his own troops, but he could no longer command the soldiers and horses of Sun Kewang's department.

The truce is observed by both sides, and if one side does not abide by it, there will be a truce.

After a brief truce, the larger infighting of the Onisai Army finally broke out.

The two sides killed by the Chishui River and the blood flowed like a river, and when dawn came, the Chishui River really became Chishui.

The internal strife of the Great Western Army, the Ming army had already discovered the movement, Gan Hui and Hao Shaoqi wanted to send troops to attack overnight, but they were stopped by Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had foreseen this infighting in the Great Western Army, and the rogues were the rogues, after all, they were inferior to the military discipline of the regular army. In addition, Zhang Xianzhong's Sun Kewang and Li Dingguo are not united, and it is common for infighting to break out at the moment of life and death.

Fang Yuan said unhurriedly, "It will take at least two days for the Great Western Army to cross the river, let's wait for them to kill each other until dawn!" As soon as we attack, they will join the enemy, stop their internal strife, and point the finger at us. ”

"Nourish your spirit first, wait for the dawn to come and make a fire, and it's not too late to fight when you're full!"

The generals of the Ming army obeyed his orders and began to assemble in the barracks, preparing for battle. At dawn, they began to make a fire. The Great Western Army was still killing each other in order to seize the pontoon bridge, but the Ming Army was eating breakfast unhurriedly.

After breakfast, all the soldiers had reached the best state of physical strength, military spirit, and morale, and Fang Yuan ordered the whole army to attack. Of course, the goal of the attack is still the same, the camp of Sun Kewang's department.

As soon as the powerful offensive of the Ming army arrived, the banks of the Chishui River became a pot of porridge.

The most important thing is to specially pick Sun Kewang's soldiers to cut and kill, which relieves the huge pressure on Li Dingguo's headquarters soldiers and horses.

Li Dingguo saw that the general trend had gone, and if he stayed any longer, he would inevitably be captured alive by Fang Yuan, so he could only give up the idea of breaking off the post, and ordered the whole army to cross the river and retreat at full speed.

Even Li Dingguo himself gave up the break, and the sergeants of Sun Kewang's subordinates who remained on the banks of the Chishui River were all lifeless.

I can't snatch Li Dingguo's personal soldier forward; In the future, the Ming army singled them out to slaughter!

In less than two hours, less than 1,000 of the 10,000 soldiers who could have escaped the river were slaughtered to death, drowned, and surrendered.

The Ming army eliminated all the sergeants under Sun Kewang's department, but unexpectedly stopped pursuing them and allowed Li Dingguo's troops to cross the river.

Of course, Fang Yuan ordered the captured soldiers of Sun Kewang's department to see all this. Moreover, Fang Yuan also ordered the Ming army to shout at the retreating Li Dingguo, "The regent greets General Li Wan'an, General Li must not forget the previous covenant with the regent, and if he comes to surrender after the early success, he will definitely be the marquis and the prime minister, and the wife and son!" ”

As soon as the Ming army made such a fuss, whether it was the sergeant of Li Dingguo's department or the sergeant of the captured Sun Kewang, almost all of them unanimously agreed that Li Dingguo must have colluded with Fang Yuan.

Li Dingguo knew that this was another conspiracy by the Ming army, and the other party hated it so much, but he was helpless. He couldn't argue, so he could only return to Chengdu first, and then explain to Zhang Xianzhong in person.