In a study room in the Southeast Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Prefecture, the Great Jin Dynasty, Zhang Mingqi, the Southeast Metropolitan Governor, heard that the two commanders of the Third Legion and the Sixth Legion under his command were preparing to defend Moyu City and the two barracks outside the city, and couldn't help frowning and asked the strategist Tang Yan: "Mr. Tang, do you think that with the Third Legion and the Sixth Legion, you can stop the Broken Army in Moyu City?" ”

Strategist Tang Yan hesitated for a moment and said: "Lord, to be honest, I don't have a bottom in my heart, after all, the Broken Army is a strong army that crisscrosses the Western Regions and the grasslands, and even the Great Wan Kingdom has suffered a big loss in the hands of the Broken Army. ”

Zhang Mingqi immediately asked in a deep voice: "The Second Army is in Leizhou, and the Fifth Army is in Qinzhou, what is the current situation of the war?" ”

Strategist Tang Yan immediately said: "Lord Qiqi, at present, the Second Army has captured the three counties controlled by Xu She, the former Taishou of Litang County, Leizhou, and also captured the two counties controlled by Zhao Yongzhong, the Taishou of the former Banjiang County, and the two counties in the hands of the Leizhou Prefecture Mu Lin Cheng were also captured by the Second Army Corps, and now the entire Leizhou has one city and four counties controlled by the State Mu Lin Cheng, which have not been captured by the Second Army. ”

After a pause, the strategist Tang Yan continued: "The Fifth Army has captured the five counties controlled by Yuan Xin, the former Dangyang County of Qinzhou, and the two counties in the hands of Liu Du, the governor of Qinzhou, have also been captured by the Fifth Army. ”

Zhang Mingqi frowned, "Why are the Second Legion and Fifth Legion progressing so slowly?" Until now, it has not been solved Leizhou Prefecture Mu Lin Cheng and Qinzhou State Mu Liu Du? There shouldn't be much army left in these two people's hands! ”

Strategist Tang Yan explained: "My lord, Leizhou Prefecture Mu Lin Cheng and Qinzhou Governor Liu Du have recruited a large number of young and strong men to help defend the city, so the Second Army Corps and the Fifth Army have not completely captured Leizhou and Qinzhou until now. ”

Zhang Mingqi's brows furrowed a little tighter, "Can you transfer some troops from the Second and Fifth Legions into Hengzhou at this time?" The Governor of Ben was worried that he would not be sure that he would only rely on the Third and Sixth Legions to reach the Broken Army! ”

Strategist Tang Yan thought for a moment and said: "My lord, at most two guards will be transferred from the Second Legion, and one guard will be transferred from the Fifth Legion, the war between Leizhou and Qinzhou is not over after all, in order to prevent any changes, it is best not to transfer too many troops from the Second Legion and the Fifth Legion." ”

Zhang Mingqi touched his chin and said: "Then let the Second Army send two guards from Leizhou into Hengzhou, let the Fifth Army transfer one guard from Qinzhou to Hengzhou, and then transfer three guards from the First Army of the Metropolitan Governor to Hengzhou to support the Third Army and the Sixth Army." ”

Then Zhang Mingqi said: "The governor of the city is ready to immediately set up ten new guards, the establishment is the same as the previous sixty guards, this time if our southeast wing army annexes the five southwestern states, only sixty guards is not enough, and after the five southwestern states are completely controlled by our southeast wing army, the governor of this capital is ready to expand at least twenty more guards." ”

Strategist Tang Yan said approvingly: "According to the information obtained by our Red Fox, Lu State not only formed five new ordinary legions, but also expanded three ordinary legions into the main army, and now Lu State has thirteen main army corps and eighteen ordinary legions, with a total strength of more than 11 million, in order to deal with the threat from Lu State, our southeast wing army should indeed add some more troops." ”

What Zhang Mingqi didn't expect was that he was still planning reinforcements for the Third Army and the Sixth Army of Moyucheng in Hengzhou, and there were unexpected changes on Moyucheng's side.

The southeast chamber army barracks in the north outside Moyu City, because of the relationship of time, the defense is not strong, the wall is only built with trees that have just been cut down, the Broken Army in the attack on February 22, almost has already beaten the wall of this barracks into a sieve, the reason why the three guards of the Third Army of the Southeast Wing Army, the reason why they were able to stubbornly block the onslaught of the Broken Army for a day, is completely by using human lives to fill, so that the three guards of the Third Army of the Southeast Wing Army lost nearly 130,000 people in just one day.

After the Broken Army launched an attack on the southeast chamber army camp in the north outside Moyu City on February 23, although there were still 240,000 people left in the three guards of the Third Legion, these 240,000 people were demoralized and soon had a tendency to collapse, and Zhou Jiling, the commander of the Third Army Corps of the Southeast Xiang Army, had no choice but to transfer some troops from Moyu City to support the barracks in the north outside the city, so that he could barely hold this barracks for another day.

On the evening of February 23, in the Taishou Mansion in Moyu City, Miyang County, Chen Hongxin, the commander of the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army, said to Zhou Jiling, the commander of the Third Army, with a solemn face: "Brother Zhou, the Beida Battalion outside the city can no longer continue to defend like this, the casualties are too great, and the Beida Battalion has become dilapidated, and there is no great point in holding on. ”

Zhou Jiling said with a wry smile: "The Beida Battalion outside the city really can't hold anymore, the three guards guarding the Beida Battalion yesterday lost nearly 130,000 people, and today's losses are even more than yesterday, if it weren't for the four brigades of troops from Moyu City to reinforce the Beida Battalion, the three guards guarding the Beida Battalion may have already collapsed, I am ready to withdraw the remaining soldiers in the Beida Battalion to Moyu City at night, once the Broken Army also attacks the Nanda Battalion outside the city, I am not ready to let the troops of the Nanda Battalion defend to the death, It seems that our two legions still have to rely on the walls of Moyu City to offset some of the advantages in the combat effectiveness of the Broken Army. ”

Chen Hongxin nodded and said: "It seems that this is the only way, the Broken Army should not dare to ignore Moyu City, as long as our two legions can hold Moyu City, the Broken Army will not want to interfere with our plan of the Southeast Xiang Army to capture the entire five southwestern states." ”

However, what Zhou Jiling and Chen Hongxin, the two generals of the Southeast Xiang Army, did not expect was that after the Southeast Xiang Army withdrew from the barracks in the north outside the city to Moyu City overnight, the Broken Army did not continue to attack the barracks in the south outside the city and Moyu City.

The Southeast Xiang Army only has the Third Army and the Sixth Army in Hengzhou, and at present, there are a total of eleven guards in these two legions gathered here in Moyu City, and these two legions are in other areas of Hengzhou, only three Wei troops are left, with three Wei, how can they reach the broken army with a strength of more than 900,000.

"Brother Zhou, what should we do now? After the Broken Army abandoned Moyu City, although our two legions were able to cut off the back route of the Broken Army, with the three guards in other areas of Hengzhou, where could they stop the Broken Army? Chen Hongxin said sadly.

Zhou Jiling's face was very ugly, and the unexpected move of the Broken Army disrupted all the previous arrangements of Zhou Jiling, "It seems that the Broken Army is preparing to fight to support the war, so it will not take into account that the back road will be cut off, and then our two legions can only gather troops and pursue the Broken Army that bypassed Moyu City!" We must not allow this broken army to sabotage the major event of our southeast Xiang Army's annexation of the five southwestern states! ”

Originally, the southeast wing army in Moyu City found that a large number of troops of the Broken Army had bypassed Moyu City, and they didn't care, but when all the troops outside Moyu City left, they were completely dumbfounded.

Chen Hongxin hesitated for a moment and asked, "Brother Zhou, I think we should ask the lord for reinforcements!" With only two of our legions, it seems that some of them can't stop this broken army! ”

"Alas, it has to be like this, this broken army led by Liu Ji himself is too strong in combat, in just a few days, our two legions have lost 350,000 people, I hope the lord can send more troops to Hengzhou!"

Zhou Jiling and Chen Hongxin then asked for help from Zhang Mingqi, the governor of the southeast, and at the same time began to transfer the troops of the two legions of the southeast Xiang Army in Moyu City, preparing to pursue the departing broken army.

Soon the southeast chamber army in Moyu City, sent out more than 900,000 troops, to the left of the broken army troops to pursue, the more than 900,000 southeast chamber army, led by Zhou Jiling and Chen Hongxin personally, a guard of the third army was left to continue to guard Moyu City, this guard also lost a lot in the battle with the broken army, but there are still about 100,000 people.

When Liu Ji learned that the southeast wing army in Moyu City almost poured out, he couldn't help but smile at Guo Jia, Cheng Yu and Dong Zhao and said: "The southeast wing army in Moyu City really chased after us, what should we do next?" ”

Guo Jia then said: "Lord, in the Southeast Wing Army, the cavalry establishment is very small, this time the Guards Legion has a total of five cavalry brigades to Hengzhou, now is the opportunity for the five cavalry brigades of the Guards Legion to play, we can set up an ambush circle, and then introduce the Southeast Wing Army from Moyu City into the ambush circle, and annihilate them as much as possible." ”

Cheng Yu followed and said: "As long as the Southeast Xiang Army is out of the city, in the field battle, the cavalry of our Broken Army can completely defeat one enemy and ten in the face of the Southeast Xiang Army, and our current position is relatively open, which is just conducive to the play of the cavalry troops. ”

Dong Zhao said: "I also agree with setting up an ambush circle here, the terrain here is too suitable for ambushes." ”

After listening to the words of the three top scholars, Liu Ji categorically decided to set a trap less than a hundred miles east of Moyu City to eliminate the main force of the Southeast Xiang Army in Hengzhou as much as possible.

Zhou Jiling and Chen Hongxin, the two generals of the Southeast Wing Army, led more than 900,000 troops of the two legions to pursue the Broken Army, and sent a large number of scouts, so they were afraid of falling into the conspiracy of the Broken Army, and as a result, the two of them took more than 900,000 Southeast Wing Army, and still fell headlong into the trap laid by the Broken Army.

More than 900,000 Southeast Xiang troops first encountered the surprise attack of the five cavalry brigades of the Guards Regiment of the Broken Army, and then they were ravaged by the battle formation of the Tang Dynasty Mo Sword Soldiers, and behind the battle formation of the Tang Dynasty Mo Sword Soldiers, hundreds of thousands of infantry of the Guards Army were responsible for mending the knife.

After this set of combined fists, the more than 900,000 troops of the Third Army Corps and the Sixth Army Corps of the Southeast Xiang Army suddenly collapsed on the battlefield and could no longer organize effective resistance.

The battle lasted from the afternoon of 24 February to the next morning, and in the end more than 900,000 troops of the Southeast Wing Army were wiped out, of which almost 880,000 were captured.

These soldiers of the Southeast Xiang Army, a considerable part of them are in the process of forced recruitment of the Southeast Xiang Army, forced to join the Southeast Xiang Army, if the establishment is not chaotic, there are officers and veterans of the suppression, these soldiers can still fight bravely, once the establishment is chaotic, few people are willing to be loyal to the Southeast Xiang Army, not to mention that the Broken Army is the army of the Great Jin Dynasty after all, and it doesn't matter if the Broken Army surrenders.

Only more than 40,000 southeast wing troops scattered at night to break out of the ambush circle of the broken army, Zhou Jiling and Chen Hongxin, the two generals of the southeast wing army, were lucky to escape.

Zhou Jiling and Chen Hongxin did not flee back to Moyu City, which allowed them to escape again, Liu Ji sent some soldiers of the Broken Army, disguised as the rout of the Southeast Xiang Army, deceived the gate of Moyu City, it only took more than two hours, Mo Yucheng fell into the control of the Broken Army, the 100,000 Southeast Xiang Army guarding Moyu City, learned that the city gate was lost, almost no confidence to resist, almost more than 96,000 Southeast Xiang Army chose to surrender, as long as more than 4,000 people were killed or fled from Moyu City.

Zhou Jiling and Chen Hongxin took more than 10,000 defeated soldiers and fled all the way to Zheng'an City, the state capital of Hengzhou, where there is still a guard of the Sixth Army of the Southeast Xiang Army at this moment.

In the governor's mansion of Zheng'an City, Chen Hongxin said bitterly to Zhou Jiling: "Brother Zhou, just now came the news, Moyu City has also fallen, the 100,000 defenders have almost no resistance, and our two legions are now only three guards left in a combined group, and the troops of the Broken Army are not far from Zheng'an City, what should we do next?" If we stick to Zheng'an City, we'd better transfer the other two guards to Zheng'an City as soon as possible! ”

Zhou Jiling said gloomily: "This battle was lost so badly, I still don't understand, why did our army of more than 900,000 collapse so quickly?" ”

Chen Hongxin sighed and said: "The lord is ready to transfer six guards from the first, second and fifth legions to enter Hengzhou to support our two legions, but those six guards have not yet set off, and our two legions are almost exhausted, alas——"