Whether it was the withdrawal of Suzhou's Bright Army from Suzhou or the withdrawal of Laizhou's Bright Army from Laizhou, it was Yuan Hao's strategy.

On the battlefield in the area where Tongzhou and Linzhou meet, the Guangming Army has shown a disadvantage, and the Guangming Army in Laizhou and Suzhou is also at a disadvantage in the battle with the Shijia coalition army.

In order to change the situation in Laizhou, Suzhou and Tongzhou, the three-way Guangming Army must make a change, after careful consideration, Yuan Hao directly issued an order to the Laizhou Guangming Army and the Suzhou Guangming Army, so that the two states of the Guangming Army retreated to Tongzhou, and gave Laizhou and Suzhou to the family.

At this time, a very serious question arises: when Laizhou and Suzhou are completely under the control of the Shijia coalition army, will the Shijia coalition army launch an attack on Tongzhou?

Yuan Hao thought about it carefully, and finally decided that there was more than seventy percent of the possibility that the family alliance would not attack Tongzhou, the family clan has never been one heart, most of the time they are thinking for themselves, and will not do things that are harmful to their interests, once the bright army of the two states withdraws, the family alliance in the two states is very likely to stop, or even the alliance is broken, and the probability of them sending troops to attack Tongzhou is very low.

With seventy percent certainty, Yuan Hao felt that he could give it a try, so he had the current situation.

After the Guangming Army withdrew from Laizhou and Suzhou, the family alliance forces in the two states did stop.

After confirming that the Guangming Army had withdrawn and engaged the rebel army, the alliance of the two major families of Laizhou, the Boling Wang clan and the Chungling Sun clan, although not broken, was already in harmony, leaving only 30,000 troops in the northern part of Laizhou, and began to seize the time to consolidate the territory under their control.

The situation in Suzhou is not as "calm" as Laizhou, originally there were only two families in Suzhou, such as the Thorn Tong Sha clan and the Lu family in Miyang, but now there is one more Guo who escaped from Tongzhou, Guo now has as many as two counties in Suzhou, and there are only nine counties in Suzhou. So much so that the family alliance army in Suzhou had no intention of launching an attack on Tongzhou.

The war has lasted for almost a year, and the early Guangming Sect is strong, so that the major families are tired to deal with, in fact, the families of Laizhou and Suzhou are tired, and they have ambitions in their hearts, so they can't consume their own strength in vain, only Xiang Yunhua Yun's clan seizes the time to recuperate and accumulate more strength to have a chance to realize their ambitions.

The combined forces of Laizhou and Suzhou were stagnant, and no one could stop the great battle in the border area between Tongzhou and Linzhou.

What does a big war with more than 300,000 troops on both sides look like?

A small number of recruits in the counterinsurgency army saw this tragic scene and peed their pants directly, and even some soldiers who had seen blood did not dare to look directly at the battlefield.

A war with a total strength of more than 300,000 troops cannot end so quickly, depending on which side can not hold on first, but on the first day of this large-scale battle, the Guangming Army lost more than 11,000 dead and seriously wounded more than 5,600 people, and there are 163,000 people who can still fight, and more than 18,000 people killed and more than 14,000 seriously wounded in the counterinsurgency army, and there are nearly 120,000 people left who can still fight.

The battle loss ratio of the Guangming Army and the counterinsurgency army reached 1 to 2, and if the battle continued, the defeat of the counterinsurgency army was a foregone conclusion.

"Damn, how can the strength of the anti-thieves increase unabated, where did the anti-thieves in Baoqing County come from? Alas, if the Sky Wolf Rider hadn't been transferred, the situation wouldn't have turned out like this. "In the big tent of the counterinsurgency army, Guo Wei is about to die, if it continues like this, it must be the counterinsurgency army that loses, what should I do?

In the big tent, all the generals bowed their heads, and none of them spoke.

After a long time, Hou Yuan spoke: "My lord, stay in Qingshan and don't be afraid of no firewood, withdraw the army, defend the city, our army will be able to withstand the anti-thieves, and then wait for the reinforcements to arrive, our army will definitely be able to defeat the anti-thieves." ”

Hou Yuan started to speak, and the other generals spoke one after another, all expressing their agreement with Hou Yuan's opinion - withdrawing the army, anyone can see the disadvantages of the counterinsurgency army, and if they don't want to die, they can only withdraw and retreat to Linzhou, so that they can resist the Guangming Army and have a chance to defeat the Guangming Army.

Guo Wei slowly came back to his senses from deep thought and said, "Withdraw the army? All the monarchs agree to withdraw the troops, so let's withdraw, Hou Yuan. ”

"The last general!"

"This commander ordered you to lead your headquarters as a rearguard, resist the thieves, and buy time for the retreat of the army." Guo Wei said with a majestic face, and those words were not allowed to be refuted by anyone.

"The end... Will comply with... Life! After hearing Guo Wei's order, Hou Yuan's face suddenly turned pale, what happened after this mat, ten deaths, how could he talk so much, he got a mortal mission, Hou Yuan couldn't resist Guo Wei's order.

"The princes go back and order the headquarters to have a good rest, and at three o'clock, the army will be pulled out."

"No!"

……

"Kill!"

"Coming to the world!"

"The light shines and dispels the darkness!"

At this time, the counterinsurgency army was ready to retreat, but it did not expect the Guangming army to attack suddenly, which made the counterinsurgency army a little flustered.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up, Hou Yuan, you lead your men and horses to resist, and the others hurry up and retreat." Guo Wei calmly gave orders.

"No!"

The counterinsurgency army was divided into two parts, a small wave of about 15,000 people fought with the Guangming Army under the leadership of Hou Yuan, and most of the remaining counterinsurgency army retreated in unison.

Seeing this, the generals of the Guangming Army directly shouted: "The official army has been defeated!" The officers and soldiers fled! ”

"The officers and troops are defeated! The officers and soldiers fled! The other Light Sergeants shouted along.

Hearing the shouts of the Guangming Army, most of the soldiers in the rear troops led by Hou Yuan had no intention of fighting again, some of them directly threw down their weapons and fled backwards, and some of them directly threw down their weapons and threw themselves to the ground to make a surrender form......

In the end, the counterinsurgency army led by Guo Wei fled back to Linzhou, but the losses of the counterinsurgency army were even more than Guo Wei expected, and only more than 90,000 people were able to fight.

After the counterinsurgency army withdrew to Linzhou, Yuan Hao ordered to stop the pursuit.

Linzhou is the most difficult bone in the eleven states of the Dali Empire, it is very difficult for the Bright Sect to take Linzhou, even if it can take Linzhou, the loss of the Bright Sect will be very large, and in the end it will only be benefited by the family, it is better to give up Linzhou for the time being, wave troops to the north or south, and then take a state from the hands of the family, and one more state as the base of the Bright Sect, the strength of the Bright Sect will be even stronger.