The day gradually dawned, the camp of the Qi army had been burned to a white ground, and in the battle of stealing the camp in one night, the Qi army was killed more than 6,000 people, more than 1,000 escaped, and the rest were all taken prisoner.

A clearing was filled with captured Qi soldiers, and around them were hundreds of rebel bandits armed with guns and knives and wearing various military uniforms.

The captured soldiers really looked down on this group of rebel bandits in their hearts, but they were afraid in their hearts, and everyone bowed their heads and remained silent.

At this time, a bearded general came and shouted in Yunzhou dialect: "All the death row prisoners listen to Lao Tzu!" ”

The prisoners of war raised their heads one after another, and the general shouted: "General Shi takes pity on your parents, wives and children in your family, so he has decided to let you go back to your hometown, and you are not allowed to join Liu Mazi's army again. ”

The prisoners of war were overjoyed and were finally about to be released, and they all said that they would no longer join the army, and the guards were released in groups, and each soldier was given a few liters of food, and then fled in panic, and no one was willing to stay here anymore.

In the distance, Yan Qing watched the prisoners of war being released one after another, and he turned around and asked, "How many casualties do we have, have you counted them?" ”

"It has been counted that twenty-three brothers were wounded, and none of them were killed."

"Is anyone missing then?"

"Nope!"

Yan Qing nodded, urging the horse to walk towards the river, the Ruan brothers led a thousand sailors to capture all the enemy's hundreds of logistics transport ships, most of the fleeing enemy troops came from here, they were responsible for standing guard on the shore, the fire in the camp made many experienced soldiers immediately abandon their armor and flee, and there were more than 700 soldiers who fled.

But they couldn't take away the materials of the fleet, and all of them fell into the hands of the Song army.

This time, in addition to the 10,000 elite Song army, there were more than 1,000 sailors, led by Ruan Xiaowu and Ruan Xiaoqi, and they also took over some of Zhang Rong's water thieves and transformed them into navy soldiers.

At this time, hundreds of logistics transport ships have set sail and headed for the hinterland of Liangshan, when Yan Qing rushed to the shore, he saw Ruan Xiaowu commanding hundreds of soldiers to carry the grain bags piled up like a hill on the ship, this is a batch of grain in the northwest corner of the camp, the northwest army of the camp is a warehouse area, and there are special camp fences and trenches to block it, and the Song army deliberately let go of this area, the warehouse area was not affected by the fire, and it was fortunately well preserved.

All the grain and grass in the warehouse area were moved to the shore, and then the soldiers carried them on ships and transported away.

At this time, Yan Qing came over and asked, "Fifth brother, when will it end?" ”

Ruan Xiaowu looked at the grain pile and said, "It will be over in about half an hour!" ”

Yan Qing nodded, "Fifth brother let his army go back first, leaving Zhang Rong's men to deal with the food, and soon there will be enemy spies coming, you should be careful yourself." ”

"Let's all go first! We'll leave when we're done here. ”

Ruan Xiaowu asked again: "Has the enemy commander been caught?" ”

"Liu Yi's body was found, he was pierced through the body by a spear, and died in the camp, probably due to infighting."

Yan Qing looked around again, except for this side of the river, everything else was cleaned up, and he immediately ordered, "The whole army assembles and leaves the battlefield!" ”

The battlefield was almost cleaned up, and Yan Qing needed to leave immediately with his army and wait for the next attack.

Yan Qing immediately led 10,000 troops to leave the battlefield, and quickly retreated to Liangshanbo according to the original route, and half an hour later, the last dozen ships also left the battlefield, and the battlefield was finally deserted.

At this time, more than a dozen Qi army spies appeared on the battlefield, they gathered the opponent's intelligence in all directions, picked up a few broken flags, and found some weapons left by the enemy, so they quickly left the battlefield and galloped north on horseback.

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The war did not end, and the Song army's target turned to the 20,000 Qi army in the north, which was also the enemy they had to annihilate this time, but this time it was not the Song army that fought alone, or even the Song army as the main force, but Zhang Rong's army as the main force, and the Song army cooperated in the battle.

Chen Zhiyuan chased Zhang Rong's bandit army all the way, and stopped in Pingyin County, the northernmost part of Yunzhou, and Chen Zhiyuan had received news that Zhang Rong's army was in Changqing County, fifty miles away from him.

At this time, Chen Zhiyuan had already realized that something was wrong, the opponent's tactics were exactly the same as the last time he annihilated Zhang Jian, first retreating to open the opponent's defensive line, and then sneaking into the rear of the enemy's army.

Chen Zhiyuan, who found that something was wrong, immediately stopped the pursuit, and sent more than a dozen spies back to the main camp to remind Liu Yi.

At dawn, Chen Zhiyuan finally received the information, and what he was most worried about had happened, Liu Yi's 10,000 troops had been wiped out by Zhang Rong's army, and this news made Chen Zhiyuan dumbfounded.

There were more than a dozen generals gathered in the big tent, and from the perspective of personal feelings, they were not sympathetic to the annihilation of the 10,000 Yun Congjun, and even a little gloating, and the special treatment of the Yun Congjun had already made them seriously dissatisfied.

General Zhou Hang rummaged through the items brought back by the spies, and said to Chen Zhiyuan: "Obviously, the other party succeeded in attacking with fire and sneak attack at night, to be honest, the last general does not think how strong the enemy army is, this is completely Yun Congjun's own problem, they are too light on the enemy." ”

All the generals agreed, judging from the flags and weapons picked up by the spies, the other party was simply a rabble with very simple equipment, the spear was actually a homemade earthen spear, the war knife was also an ordinary iron knife made by a blacksmith shop, and the pole of the battle flag was also peeled and cut with branches, all this evidence showed how stupid Yun Congjun was, it was completely a fancy army.

Chen Zhiyuan sighed and said: "Yun Congjun may have underestimated the enemy, and General Liu's whereabouts are unknown, and he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead, what should we do now?" Let's talk about it. ”

Zhou Hang said: "General, now we should withdraw our troops immediately, we have no food replenishment, the warehouses in each county are empty, and now the enemy army is ready to defeat us with food, whether the other party is a rabble or not, but first of all, we must ensure that our army will not be defeated due to lack of food." ”

Everyone unanimously agreed with Zhou Hang's opinion, Chen Zhiyuan nodded, he knew that Zhou Hang was right, if the back road was cut off, they would fall into a serious shortage of food, and soon, the army would be completely defeated.

Chen Zhiyuan opened the map and looked at it, there was no food in Juye County, so they had to at least retreat to Yingtianfu.

He immediately ordered: "Order the whole army to immediately withdraw from the camp and retreat south!" ”

The 20,000 Qi army immediately packed up and turned around and retreated, but at this time, Zhang Rong led the army to follow and pursue, but they were not in a hurry to catch up with the Qi army, but maintained a distance of three to forty miles.

In the afternoon of the next day, the 20,000 Qi troops retreated to a distance of 15 miles south of Xucheng County, when they received information from the spies that an army of 10,000 men appeared ten miles ahead of them, forming a battle formation, cutting off their retreat.

At the same time, Zhang Rong's 20,000 troops had also arrived in Xucheng County, fifteen miles away from them, which meant that the Liangshan Righteous Army had finally attacked.

Chen Zhiyuan was also an experienced veteran, he was a general of Zong Ze, and after their army surrendered after being surrounded by Jin soldiers, he was reused by Liu Yu.

This time, he was sent to cooperate with Liu Yi to suppress the bandits, that is, he wanted to rely on his experience and make up for Liu Yi's lack of experience in warfare.

Chen Zhiyuan knew that this battle was inevitable, and immediately ordered 20,000 troops to line up and prepare to fight the enemy to the death.

An army of 20,000 quickly formed two phalanxes in the wilderness, and the 10,000 troops to the south remained unmoved.

At this time, the 20,000 army led by Zhang Rong also went south from the north, and also lined up a mile away, the two armies were far away, Chen Zhiyuan looked at the sky, it was not early, he had to defeat the other party within an hour, otherwise it would be late, and the wolves were on the side, which was extremely unfavorable to him.

He drew his sword and shouted, "Brothers, kill!" ”

His 20,000 troops began to run, rushing towards the other party's large array, and Zhang Rong also drew his sword and shouted, "Expelling the Tartars, killing the traitors, brothers, the time for revenge has come, kill!" ”

"Kill—" Zhang Rong's army also shouted angrily, the soldiers galloped, Zhang Rong took the lead, followed by Shi Xiu and Liu Tang, and 20,000 soldiers rushed towards the Qi army with boundless murderous aura.

If you look down from the sky, you can see that the two armies are getting closer and closer, and finally they collide, and an army of 40,000 is fighting in the wilderness.

The biggest mistake Liu Yu made was that he regarded Zhang Rong's subordinates as a rabble, but he didn't know that there were more than 100,000 righteous men who came to join Zhang Rong, but Zhang Rong and others only selected 20,000 people, and these 20,000 people were either the elite of Liangshan in the past, or the former high-class forbidden army, all of them were strong and powerful men, and they could become a sharp army after a little training, and they were by no means a rabble.

The two armies were inextricably killed in the wilderness, at this time, the sky was already dark, and the vision was not so clear, at this moment, a low horn suddenly sounded from the south, and the 10,000 troops led by Yan Qing appeared, and then the drums beat loudly, and the 10,000 army was launched, and they were like a sharp knife, slashing behind the Qi army.

Chen Zhiyuan was desperate, who said that this bandit army was a rabble, who said that this army did not understand strategy, who said that this army had no combat experience, 10,000 bandit troops stabbed into their vests from behind at their most critical time, this battle, the Qi army was attacked from front and back, and it was undoubtedly defeated.