Regarding Guanghan Palace's sudden proposal to let the Red Turban Army negotiate peace with the Great Jin Dynasty, that is, to let the Red Turban Army accept the recruitment of the Great Jin Dynasty, Zhang Mingqi's heart was actually very reluctant, and the temptation to replace the Great Jin Dynasty and establish a new dynasty was too great for Zhang Mingqi.

However, the strength shown by the Broken Army also made Zhang Mingqi a little hesitant, if there was no Liu Ji's Broken Army, even if the Guanghan Palace put pressure, Zhang Mingqi would never compromise, but the Broken Army was like a thorn in the throat of the Red Turban Army, swallowing it, and not spitting it out.

After arranging Pang Wenyan and Chu Xiushu, the two deputy palace masters of Yaoguang Palace in Guanghan Palace, in a house near the Jianyang City Pastoral Mansion, Zhang Mingqi then gathered several henchmen in Jianyang City, and then told the proposal of Guanghan Palace to these henchmen.

The opinions of the four strategists are very unanimous, thinking that they can see what benefits the Great Jin Imperial Court can give, if the benefits given by the Great Jin Imperial Court are enough to make people excited, it is not impossible to accept the recruitment of the Great Jin Imperial Court for the time being.

However, Liu Fengbao, who was known as the first fierce general of the Red Turban Army, said angrily: "His Royal Highness King Yue, I can't listen to the words of those ladies in Guanghan Palace, our Red Turban Army has now almost swept through the seven states in the southeast, and replaced the Great Jin Dynasty, which can be said to be just around the corner, how can we accept the recruitment of the Great Jin Dynasty at this time!" ”

After Liu Fengbao finished speaking, he glared at the four strategists fiercely, among the henchmen summoned by Zhang Mingqi, Liu Fengbao was the only general.

In addition to having the identity of the first fierce general of the Red Turban Army, Liu Fengbao is also Zhang Mingqi's cousin, when Zhang Mingqi was still the county commander, he followed Zhang Mingqi, Zhang Mingqi and the Red Turban Army can have today's achievements, Liu Fengbao is also indispensable, the most elite 100,000 troops in the Red Turban Army are currently the commander of Liu Fengbao and stationed in Jianyang City.

In addition, after the evaluation of several personal disciples of Guanghan Palace, in the new issue of the world hero spectrum that will be revealed, Liu Fengbao's name will appear on the peerless list of fierce generals.

Zhang Mingqi sighed and said: "The proposal of the Guanghan Palace is not unreasonable, this time the imperial court sent two reinforcements, among which the imperial army in Suzhou along the way, the combat effectiveness shown by the more than 200,000 broken army is really shocking, you must know that the broken army is not only more than these 200,000, in the Western Regions Protectorate and the Northern Courtyard Protectorate, Liu Ji's broken army has at least more than two million, when he thinks of the broken army, this king has trouble sleeping." ”

Liu Fengbao said loudly at this time: "Please ask His Royal Highness King Yue to let me lead troops to Qinhuai City, and I will take off Liu Ji's head and present it to His Royal Highness King Yue!" ”

Zhang Mingqi shook his head and said: "Fengbao, Jianyang City still needs you to stay and sit in the town, Qinhuai City will gather more than a million Red Turban Army soldiers there, there should be no big problems in a short time, this king ......"

Before Zhang Mingqi's words were finished, one of Zhang Mingqi's henchmen guards hurriedly walked into the conference hall with a piece of paper in his hand, "His Royal Highness King Yue, there is an urgent report from Qin Huaicheng!" ”

Then the guard strode in front of Zhang Mingqi and presented the paper to Zhang Mingqi with both hands.

Zhang Mingqi took it and looked at it, his face changed instantly, this piece of paper said that the 150,000 Red Turban Army reinforcements sent to Qinhuai City were ambushed by the cavalry of the Broken Army, and in the end, only nearly 60,000 Red Turban Army successfully arrived in Qinhuai City, and a large amount of grain and grass escorted was all robbed by the cavalry of the Broken Army.

What's worse is that another batch of military rations sent to Qinhuai City was also robbed by the cavalry of the Broken Army, and now the military rations of the 900,000 Red Turban Army outside Qinhuai City are only enough for a few days, and the commander Wu Zan is forced to attack the imperial army inside and outside Qinhuai City.

After Zhang Mingqi read what was written on the paper, he calmly told Qin Huaicheng about the situation there to several henchmen in the council room.

Then Zhang Mingqi's most trusted adviser Tang Yan said in a deep voice: "His Royal Highness King Yue, although our Red Turban Army still has 900,000 troops in Qinhuai City, the situation has been very unfavorable to our Red Turban Army, according to General Wu Zhan, the grain route of the 900,000 Red Turban Army has actually been cut off by the cavalry of the Broken Army, and forcibly launched an attack on the imperial army inside and outside Qinhuai City, the losses will inevitably be very large, and it may not be able to win, and his subordinates suggest that the army there in Qinhuai City should be immediately allowed to retreat to the south of Suzhou." ”

The other three strategists under Zhang Mingqi also suggested that the Red Turban Army in Qinhuai City should be allowed to retreat south of Qinhuai City, and only Liu Fengbao continued to ask Zhang Mingqi for battle, hoping to lead troops to support Qinhuai City.

Zhang Mingqi finally followed the advice of several strategists, and immediately sent an order to retreat to Wu Zhan, the commander of the 900,000 Red Turban Army in Qinhuai City.

When Zhang Mingqi's retreat order was delivered to Wu Zhan, the time had already reached the morning of December 30, 427 of the Great Jin Dynasty.

Wu Zan looked at this order, his face was gloomy, yesterday afternoon, Wu Zan ordered 400,000 Red Turban Army troops to launch an attack on the imperial army in the north outside Qinhuai City, and at the same time, the 200,000 Red Turban Army troops in the south outside Qinhuai City launched a siege battle against Qinhuai City.

The result made Wu Zan feel extremely frustrated, and the 400,000 Red Turban Army that attacked the imperial army in the north outside Qinhuai City was directly defeated by the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Broken Army before they even fought with the infantry of the Imperial Army, and then with the cooperation of the infantry of the Broken Army and other counterinsurgency infantry, less than 50,000 of the 400,000 Red Turban Army who finally fought fled back to the Red Turban Army camps in the east and west outside Qinhuai City.

Next, the cavalry of the Broken Army came to the south outside Qinhuai City and launched an attack on the Red Turban Army that was besieging the city, thanks to the fast running of the Red Turban Army troops besieging the city, the 200,000 Red Turban Army fled back to almost 150,000 people.

In just over an hour, the Red Turban Army lost about 400,000 people, a loss that had already scared some of the Red Turban Army generals stupidly.

For the Red Turban Army outside Qinhuai City, the only good news was that it was only enough for the whole army to eat food for five or six days, but now it can eat for almost ten days.

In a tent in the camp of the Red Turban Army in the south outside Qinhuai City, Wu Zan took Zhang Mingqi's retreat order, and said with a wry smile to dozens of Red Turban Army generals and six personal disciples of Guanghan Palace: "His Royal Highness King Yue has given us an order to retreat, let us abandon Qinhuai City, retreat to the south of Suzhou, and try to contain the imperial army led by the Broken Army in Suzhou, His Royal Highness the King of Yue has already launched a large-scale conscription in Suzhou, Qiongzhou and Lianzhou. ”

Chen Hongxin, the deputy commander of the Red Turban Army here in Qinhuai City, sighed and said at this time: "The combat effectiveness of the Broken Turban Army is simply outrageous, our newly formed troops of the Red Turban Army, compared with the Broken Army, are like ants, only a little more than an hour, 400,000 troops are gone, with our remaining 500,000 people, where can we hold the south of Suzhou?" ”

Wu Zan glanced at the six disciples of Guanghan Palace at this time, and asked in a deep voice, "Haven't Elder Wu and Elder Wen come back yet?" ”

Liu Yueting, a disciple of Guanghan Palace, shook her head and said, "General Wu, the two elders still haven't come back, and we are worried that the two elders may have encountered some accidents. ”

Wu Zan said bitterly: "If we could have Elder Wu and Elder Wen to help us yesterday, maybe we wouldn't have been defeated so badly, it is precisely because we don't have peerless generals on our side that we let the peerless generals under Liu Ji kill Zhang Qian, so that the 200,000 troops of our Red Turban Army in the east outside Qinhuai City were leaderless and routed, so that the 200,000 troops in the west were also affected." ”

Zhang Qian, as the first fierce general and the most important strategist under Wu Zhan, his death can make Wu Zhan feel distressed enough.

The six personal disciples of Guanghan Palace, Liu Yueting, Lu Xueshan, Su Ruoyu, Xie Fangfei, Tan Ruofei and Lu Yaoyi, looked at each other, and their faces showed gloomy colors, but the six women looked the same in their hearts.

In yesterday's battle, many of the inner disciples and outer disciples of the Guanghan Palace were also killed, so although Wu Zan had a lot of resentment in his heart about the disappearance of the two elders of the Guanghan Palace, he still comforted the six disciples of the Guanghan Palace: "Elder Wu and Elder Wen both have the strength of peerless generals, even if they are in danger, they can turn evil into good fortune, and the six girls don't have to worry too much." ”

Liu Yueting said coquettishly: "I hope it is as General Wu said." ”

Chen Hongxin then asked Wu Zhan, "General Wu, what are your plans next?" ”

Wu Zan hesitated for a moment and said: "Since His Royal Highness the King of Yue has given an order, then we can only act according to the order, I am ready to evacuate Qinhuai City tomorrow, and now Linhu County, Huqiu County, Xujiang County, Zhenhu County and Dongzhu County south of Qinhuai City are still in the hands of our Red Turban Army, these five counties add up to dozens of cities, we will use these dozens of cities to contain the imperial army led by the Broken Army, as for the counties occupied by our Red Turban Army in Hengjing County in the east of Qinhuai City, as well as the counties occupied by Mudu County in the west, we can only give up first." ”

Chen Hongxin nodded and said: "For the time being, we have to do this, but we still have to ask His Royal Highness King Yue to send us reinforcements as soon as possible, otherwise relying on the remaining 500,000 troops here in Qinhuai City, as well as tens of thousands of troops from other counties and counties in Suzhou, I am worried that I will not be able to stop the super powerful army." ”

Wu Zan nodded and said: "His Royal Highness King Yue should send reinforcements as soon as possible, by the way, although today is the Spring Festival, we must let the soldiers in each camp pack up their bags and grain and grass, and we will evacuate Qinhuai City early tomorrow morning." ”

Wu Zan and Chen Hongxin, as well as other Red Turban Army generals, would never have imagined that on the night of December 30, their retreat plan would be placed on Liu Ji's bookcase.

Now that he learned that the Red Turban Army was going to escape, how could Liu Ji let the 500,000 Red Turban Army easily evacuate Qinhuai City!

On January 1, 428 of the Great Jin Dynasty, the 500,000 Red Turban Army evacuated from outside Qinhuai City was pursued and intercepted by the cavalry of the Broken Army.

On the afternoon of January 2, 428 of the Great Jin Dynasty, in the tent where Liu Ji lived in the camp of the Broken Army outside Qinhuai City, Xun Yu said to Liu Ji: "My lord, the results of the battle before the Chinese New Year have been counted, our Broken Army and other imperial army have annihilated about 400,000 Red Turban Army, of which nearly 320,000 were captured, and only more than 80,000 Red Turban Army fought to the death on the battlefield, and those 320,000 prisoners, our Broken Army got more than 300,000, and the remaining nearly 20,000 prisoners were divided by the other 14th Route Suppression Rebel Army. ”

Liu Ji nodded, and then asked, "Then what are our results against the Red Turban Army that evacuated Qinhuai City?" ”

Zhang Liang in the tent said: "Lord, after the pursuit and interception of our cavalry of the Broken Army, the 500,000 Red Turban Army that withdrew from Qinhuai City can be said to be no longer a concern, and the Red Turban Army captured by the cavalry of our Broken Army alone is as high as 400,000, and there are about 30,000 or 40,000 people in the Red Turban Army who died in the chaos, and the Red Turban Army that can escape is only 60,000 or 70,000 people." ”

Zhang Liang, Jia Xu, Fang Xuanling, Fan Zeng, Li Ru, Chen Gong, Xun Yu and Xun You, these eight top ministers are all within Liu Ji's tent at this time.

Liu Ji smiled and said: "This trip to the southeast, let's not talk about anything else, we haven't caught less prisoners, how many prisoners of the Red Turban Army do we have now?" ”

Jia Xu said: "Tell the lord, when we arrived in Qinhuai City, we captured nearly 150,000 prisoners, and then annihilated the army sent by the Red Turban Army to cut off our grain route, and captured another 35,000 prisoners, and the reinforcements who ambushed the Red Turban Army captured about 67,000 prisoners, plus the 300,000 prisoners in the battle before the New Year, and the 400,000 prisoners just captured, this is already more than 950,000. ”

Liu Ji thought for a while and said: "So many captives can't stay here in Qinhuai City all the time, they must be sent back to our territory, the Western Regions Protectorate and the Beiting Protectorate are short of people, but it is not easy to send so many captives back to the Western Regions Protectorate and the Beiting Protectorate, this general is going to put these 950,000 prisoners into the Broken Army, and they will be reorganized here in Qinhuai City for a period of time, and then sent back to the Western Regions Protectorate and the Northern Courtyard Protectorate, with the salary of our Broken Army, presumably those prisoners should have no resistance to joining the Broken Army." ”

Fan Zeng frowned and said: "Although the lord's method is good, but all the prisoners of the 950,000 Red Turban Army are organized into a broken army at once, how to solve the problem of the officers?" ”

Liu Ji had already thought about this problem, "Directly disrupt the First Infantry Brigade of the Guards Corps, first according to the establishment of our Broken Army, form 20 provisional infantry brigades, and the generals and soldiers of the 1st Infantry Brigade of the original Guards Corps will be dispersed into 20 temporary infantry brigades to serve as officers, and the 950,000 prisoners of the Red Turban Army will be reorganized." ”