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The rainy season in the Far East is over, and at this moment the command of the expeditionary force is negotiating with the Goguryeo, the commanders of the armies are ready to retreat, the naval division is watching from the cold sidelines of the coastal waters, and Cui Hongsheng and his soldiers are digging trenches on both sides of the Sashui River and laying back horses to strengthen the bridgehead defense.

On July 21, the Holy Lord's edict in code language was delivered to the front line in Pyongyang.

Since the expeditionary force crossed the Yalu River, because it was too far away from the Liaodong Palace and the secret agents of the Goguryeo people along the way, it was very difficult to transmit information, and under special circumstances, it had to send a team or even a brigade of elite cavalry to escort the messengers. This edict was issued ten days ago, just as the expeditionary force had forcibly crossed the Sasui River. The Holy Lord estimated that the expeditionary force was about to advance to Pyongyang, and specially issued an edict to the front command that it must follow the decision of the Eastern Expedition and cooperate with the naval division to attack Pyongyang, and the palace is doing its best to organize manpower and material resources to deliver grain, grass and baggage to the front line in Pyongyang. In order to prevent the front-line command from improperly exercising its power to deal with the situation on the spot, retreating without a fight, or from retreating after a short battle, the Holy Lord specially issued a stern warning to the front-line command, saying that the expeditionary force was not allowed to retreat without the Holy Lord's edict, and if it retreated without authorization, it would be severely punished.

What does it mean to follow the Crusades? This is what the Holy Lord said on June 11 when he inspected the battlefield south of Liaodong City, resolutely destroying Goguryeo by force and resolutely not accepting the surrender of the Goguryeo people. But what is the front command of the expeditionary force doing now? It is negotiating with the Goguryeo people, is accepting the surrender of the Goguryeo people, and has given up attacking Pyongyang.

What was the attitude of the Front High Command towards the Edict of the Holy Lord? Sneer at.

The Navy Division was defeated by attacking Pyongyang ahead of schedule, and the political conspiracy of the Holy Lord and the Central Committee had been exposed. A group of commanders in the military even wondered if they were so angry that they would vomit blood when the news of the defeat of the sailors reached the palace, and the Holy Lord and the central center would shoot themselves in the foot with stones and bring humiliation on themselves? When the expeditionary force returned to Liaodong with the Goguryeo surrender, how would the Holy Lord and the Central Committee face the questions of the military commanders? It is foreseeable that at that moment, in order to cover up their conspiracy and protect their face, the Holy Lord and the Central Authority will have to compromise with the military, and they will not be held accountable whether the front-line command has improperly exercised the right to dispose of the situation.

Still, the edict worked. Liu Shilong, who was in charge of the negotiations, read out the contents of the edict to the Goguryeo people, threatening the Goguryeo people that if you do not sign the surrender document today, we will attack Pyongyang City tomorrow.

The Goguryeo people were forced to sign and detach.

The front command was overjoyed. The purpose of the Goguryeo people was to delay, unlimitedly, but the expeditionary force really could not afford to delay, and there was not enough food, so it was decided to withdraw from the Pyongyang battlefield on the 22nd. This edict of the Holy Lord came at the right time, and the front command immediately turned it into an ultimatum to the Goguryeos, and the Goguryeo people did not dare to hold on and decisively signed the surrender. This kind of trick Goguryeo people play very skillfully, drag it for a moment, sign and draw a charge if it can't be delayed, and then turn your face and tear up the surrender document, and then fight again, and if you can't fight, you will continue to surrender, so the Goguryeo people don't care, for them the interests are paramount, and credit is a piece of

The Middle-earthers took the surrender and turned around and left.

On 22 July, the expeditionary force began to withdraw from the Pyongyang battlefield one after another. On the morning of the 24th, the front headquarters, as well as the Yu Zhongwen Department, the Yuwen Shu Department, and the Right Waiting General Wei Wensheng Department began to cross the Sashui River, and it was normal.

In the afternoon, the wind and clouds suddenly changed, the flood roared, and the pontoon bridges, floating rafts and other river-crossing tools on the river were instantly swallowed up by the flood peak, and thousands of soldiers who were crossing the river were buried in the river in a blink of an eye.

The officers and men of the expeditionary force were shocked, and the commanders of the armies were even more shocked, but fortunately, Cui Hongsheng had already called the police, and the commanders of the commands and armies knew that the Goguryeo people had built a dam somewhere in the upper reaches of the Sashui to block the water, and they wanted to attack the expeditionary force halfway, and since the Goguryeo people did not dig a dam and release water when they blocked the attack, it was very likely that they would be killed when the expeditionary force retreated, so everyone was on guard, and they would rather believe that they had it than that they did not, once this thing came true, the lethality was very amazing, just because of overconfidence in their own strength, coupled with a hint of illusion about the "credit" of the Goguryeo people, as a result, when the Goguryeo people dug a dam to release water, attacked halfway, and completely turned their faces, the expeditionary force was still a little caught off guard, and chaos was inevitable.

The flood was raging, the water was cut off, and about 150,000 Middle-earth soldiers of the five armies trapped on the east bank quickly turned to the defense, among which Xue Shixiong, the general of the Right Yiwei, who was about to cross the river, lined up on the spot to defend the bridgehead, while the General Xin Shixiong, who was originally cut off, immediately occupied favorable terrain to block the frontal attack of the Goguryeo. Zhang Jin, the general of the right imperial guard, and Zhao Xiaocai, the general of the right guard, each led their headquarters to block the enemy on the north and south flanks. Zuo Xiaowei's general Jing Yuanheng has the highest official position, and naturally assumes the responsibility of the commander-in-chief of the battlefield, and leads the people of the headquarters to respond in the center

On the west bank of Sashui, Yu Zhongwen decisively ordered Wei Wensheng, the general of Wei Wei, to rush to Yalu Water as quickly as possible, rush to cross Yalu Water, ensure the smooth passage of Yalu Water, and ordered Wei Wensheng to send a team of 100,000 elite cavalry to Liaodong for help.

The Yalu River is wide and requires a large number of river crossing equipment, but the river crossing equipment brought by the expeditionary force has been swept away by the flood, and the Yalu water has become an insurmountable obstacle. Therefore, Wei Wensheng's most important task is not to seize the Yalu water channel, but to rush to Liaodong to ask for help, if the reinforcements from the Liaodong base camp rush to Yalu water as soon as possible, replenish food for the expeditionary force, and set up a pontoon bridge, then the expeditionary force may be able to save the lives of half of the soldiers.

Yu Wenshu is desperate, Pyongyang has been defeated in the first battle, he has an unshirkable responsibility, and what is even more terrifying is that the Holy Lord and the center will suffer a heavy blow because of this, and a huge political storm will brew, which will soon sweep the eastern capital, and countless people will be buried in the storm.

Liu Shilong couldn't believe the life in front of him, he saw the soldiers of the expedition dying one by one, and he also saw that the shadow of death was rapidly approaching him.

Yu Zhongwen was angry, monstrous and angry. When he was in Liaodong, he refused to carry out Duan Wenzhen's last policy and was vetoed. While in Yalu Water, he refused to cross the river to attack Pyongyang and was vetoed. While under the city of Pyongyang, he built a hasty retreat, which was again vetoed. He is the supreme commander of the expeditionary force and the commander-in-chief of the expeditionary front, why can't he just say his word? Why was his opinion overruled and why could his orders not be carried out? Well, as you wish, I will give you a certain name and this head.

Yu Zhongwen ordered that the troops of the headquarters and the army of Yuwen Shu immediately set up a formation to block the attack of the Goguryeo. Cui Hongsheng's subordinates and their craftsmen and people immediately rushed to make tools to cross the river, and did their best to rescue the soldiers trapped on the east bank at any cost.

On the eastern shore of Sasu, the Goguryeo appeared, and their elite army began to attack the Middle-earth army.

At dusk, on the west bank of Sashui, a Goguryeo army rushed out and fought to the death with the Yuwen Shu tribe.

Soon, night came, and the Goguryeo people continued to attack, never dying.

The water level of Sashui was soaring, the water was turbulent, the expeditionary force lacked safe and secure means to cross the river, and the night was dark, so there was no way to cross the river.

Cui Hongsheng asked Yu Zhongwen for help from the sailor, if the sailor went all out, he would soon be able to rush to the battlefield, with the size of the sailor's warship and the "surplus food" on the ship, he would be able to save most of the trapped soldiers. In order to save people, Yu Zhongwen didn't care about anything, and immediately sent a messenger to the sea by boat in the name of the front command of the expeditionary force to ask for help from the sailors. This boat belongs to the sailor, and the last time he sent supplies, Cui Hongsheng found a reason to keep it, but luckily, it was not destroyed by Hong Feng, which just gave the command the opportunity to ask the sailor for help.

However, the Goguryeo people did not give the people of Middle-earth time to breathe.

Under the cover of night, under the cover of continuous attacks by the armies on both sides, the Goguryeo people dug the embankment of the Sasu River a few miles away from the Middle-earth army, and dug up the embankments on both banks. The flood roared out of the breach and rushed towards the Middle-earth army.

On the west bank of Sashui, the Goguryeo army retreated sharply to the high ground. Before Yuwen Shu had time to catch his breath, he saw the flood roaring, and suddenly he was in chaos and dispersed.

On the east bank of Sashui, in the melee, Xin Shixiong, the general of the right guard, was killed, which directly hit the morale of the headquarters, and the defense line of the expeditionary force soon collapsed, but at this time, the flood rushed out of the darkness, quickly flooded the position of the expeditionary force, and completely destroyed the morale of the expeditionary force, and more than 100,000 horses immediately fell into chaos, and there were countless people who fled suddenly, only some commanders and senior officers "showed their powers" under the protection of the guards, and struggled to escape.

On the west bank of Sashui, Yu Zhongwen was caught off guard, but there was no chaos, and the fire withdrew to the high ground.

Cui Hongsheng had already taken precautions, the camp was originally built on the high ground, and important materials were also piled up in the camp.

Late at night, Yu Zhongwen urgently told Cui Hongsheng that the Goguryeo people flooded the five armies of Middle-earth on the east bank of Sashui has been a fait accompli, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the five armies are no longer able to save, even if the sailors are going day and night, it is too late, and what is even more strict is that Goguryeo's move is too poisonous, and it is almost effortless to annihilate the five armies of Middle-earth, and then the main force of the Goguryeo people will definitely cross the river overnight to encircle and intercept the Middle-earth army on the west bank of Sashui, so Yu Zhongwen was forced to have no choice but to order Cui Hongsheng to discard all the baggage and retreat overnight, Be sure to reach Yalu Water before the Goguryeo army, so that it is possible to cross Yalu Water and escape from Nature.

After thinking about it, Cui Hongsheng replied to Yu Zhongwen that all the soldiers in our department are doing their best to make tools to cross the river, and they can cross the river to save people at dawn, so he implored Yu Zhongwen to give him a morning. Cui Hongsheng was worried that Yu Zhongwen would not agree, Yu Crisp put it bluntly, there are five commanders and many senior officers on the other side, at least they must be rescued, and the benefits of saving these people back can be imagined, on the contrary, if they are left alone and left to fend for themselves, it is not one or two wealthy families who will be offended, these people will attack them, not to mention that Cui Hongsheng's head is not reported, even Yu Zhongwen will die without a place to be buried.

Yu Zhongwen agreed, and asked Cui Hongsheng to do his best to save people, first to save senior officers, and then to save grassroots officers, as much as he could, as for ordinary guards, he could only give up.

Yu Zhongwen also urgently told Yu Wenshu and ordered him to put his headquarters in order before dawn and prepare for a bloody battle with the Goguryeo people tomorrow. He also urgently ordered Wei Wensheng, the general of the right waiting guard, to urgently transfer 5,000 men and horses to turn back, and at the same time contain part of the Goguryeo army, and at the same time respond to the retreat of the large army.