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In the early morning of July 25, in the darkness, the main army of Goguryeo under the command of Ulji Wendek began to cross the Sasu, trying to occupy the Yalu Water Passage before the Middle-earth army and annihilate the Middle-earth army east of the Yalu River.

Gao Yuan commanded the rest of the army to continue the siege of the Middle-earth army, which was trapped in the flood on the east bank of the Sashui River. At this moment, the Middle-earth army on the east bank of Sashui has suffered heavy casualties and is unable to form an army, and even if those Middle-earth soldiers who escaped from the flood swear not to surrender and fight to the end, they can only be slaughtered by the enemy because they have no food and are unable to support it.

In the early morning of the 25th, Cui Hongsheng's department went all out, used all the tools for crossing the river, regardless of life and death, and crossed the river to save people at any cost.

On the east bank of Sasu, who were able to escape the flood in last night's disaster, and were not killed by the Goguryeo people, they had to be in chaos and work together to form a group, and those with such elements were all elite soldiers, commanders of all armies and some senior officers who had experienced a hundred battles, as well as their own soldiers, and the results were obvious, their self-help played an important role in the moment of life and death, and they were all rescued by the first batch.

However, this successful rescue ended before noon, as the Goguryeo people came by boat. These ships were secretly stored somewhere upstream, and after they brought the main Goguryeo army to the west bank of Sasu, they were immediately requisitioned by Gao Yuan and carried thousands of crossbowmen down the river, completely cutting off the escape route of the Middle-earth army trapped on the east bank of Sasu.

On the west bank of Sashui, after dawn, the Yuwen Shu Department fought again with the Goguryeo people.

The Goguryeo people were desperately blocking the Middle-earthers, delaying the retreat of the Middle-earthers, and giving their main army more time to cross the river to encircle and annihilate, while the Middle-earthites had only one purpose, to fight a bloody way and flee back.

In the morning, Yu Zhongwen joined the battlefield. The Goguryeo people couldn't resist and retreated. At this moment, Eulji Wendeok rushed with a part of the main army of Goguryeo, and the two sides fought each other in short combat, fighting to the death, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere.

Yu Zhongwen urgently told Cui Hongsheng to stop asking for help and retreat immediately to avoid being surrounded by the Goguryeo.

Before noon, Cui Hongsheng ordered to discard all the baggage and evacuate by fire. All the soldiers, craftsmen, and people were lightly armed, carrying the wounded, and running wildly.

When Cui Hongsheng's troops were far away from the battlefield, Yu Zhongwen began to evacuate with the front-line headquarters and the men and horses of the headquarters, while Yu Wenshu took on the heavy responsibility of breaking off the rear and fought hard to stop the killing at any cost.

Yizhi Wende had no intention of fighting to the death with Yuwenshu, so he took the initiative to withdraw from the battle, leaving a group of men and horses to follow and kill, and the main army rushed towards the Yalu water. As long as they occupy the Yalu water channel and cut off the retreat of the Middle-earthers, then the Goguryeo people will win, as long as they surround the Middle-earthers, trap the Middle-earthers, starve the Middle-earthers, and the Middle-earthers will be completely finished.

Sashui is nearly 400 miles away from Yalu Water, and it takes three or four days to march normally, but now the people of Middle-earth have to squeeze their physical potential and run day and night in order to escape. Similarly, in order to completely annihilate the Middle-earth army, to destroy the Middle-earth people's Eastern Crusade, to maintain their hegemony in the Far East, and to survive and expand Goguryeo, the Goguryeo people had to do their best to run wild day and night.

July 25, Liaodong base camp.

The Holy Lord ordered the front-line commanders, Yu Zhongwen, Yu Wenshu and Liu Shilong, to withdraw their troops.

On the 22nd, the Holy Lord and the Central Center received Cui Hongsheng's report, and the news on this report dealt them a heavy blow.

The sailors were defeated, Lai Hu'er and Zhou Fashang were defeated under the city of Pyongyang, and nearly 40,000 sailors were buried in a foreign land.

This casualty figure is too large, and since the unification of Middle-earth, the Middle-earth army has never suffered so many casualties in a single battle, whether it is counterinsurgency at home or abroad. For the military, this is an unbearable burden, for Middle-earth, this is a great shame, and for the Holy Lord and the center, this is a heavy blow to their own authority, and the resulting military defeat is still secondary, the important thing is that the political crisis has exploded, and a political storm that has swept through Middle-earth is enough to affect the stability of the country and the future of Middle-earth.

This is the last thing the Holy Lord and the center want to see, and it is also the most unacceptable situation, but the fact is that it is so ruthless, and fate is so cruel, the situation that they don't want to see is still seen, and the most unacceptable result still appears.

The Holy Lord and the Center were very confident, especially the victory of the Western Expedition to Tuyuhun, which made their self-confidence over-inflated, so they moved the Eastern Crusade with a beautiful expectation for the future, but today's facts gave them a head-on blow, and the over-inflated self-confidence suddenly collapsed, and this sudden collapse, the huge contrast between this cruel truth and the beautiful expectation, made them unacceptable, let their psychology collapse inch by inch, and let their dreams and ideas go to irreparable self-destruction.

The Holy Lord turned white overnight, and the central ministers were overwhelmed by all kinds of complex emotions such as anger, sadness, fear, remorse, loss, frustration, and confusion.

The chief and deputy governor of Menxia Province, Nayan Su Wei, and the Yellow Gate squire Pei Shiju, after all, are old and experienced, and they have lived in the center for a long time, and they have been tempered by countless winds and waves, and they quickly calmed down from the initial shock. What has already been born is irreversible, and what has not yet been born can be saved, so we must face the reality and come up with countermeasures to minimize the bad impact of the defeat of the Eastern Crusade, and do our best to alleviate the various complex and unpredictable bad consequences brought about by it.

First of all, why did this news come from Cui Hongsheng and not from the front command? Why did Cui Hongsheng skip the level of the report? Why didn't the front command report in the first place?

It is obvious that the advance of the naval division's attack on Pyongyang exposed the "political conspiracy" of the Holy Lord and the center. Although few people know about the Holy Lord's secret edict to the water master, and after the fiasco of the water master in Pyongyang, it is estimated that this secret is even more stone-piercing, but the paper can't contain the fire, even if the holy lord and the central government will never admit that there is a so-called "political conspiracy", and the commanders of the water division such as Lai Hu'er even flatly deny that there is a secret edict of the Holy Lord, but the eyes of the magnates are bright, and if you don't admit it, it doesn't mean that the facts don't exist. Since you cover the sky with one hand, ignoring the laws of the Heavenly Constitution, ignoring the 12 Guards, and ignoring the 300,000 expeditionary soldiers, one can imagine what the attitude of the military is and what the attitude of the front-line command is.

The military was angry, the front-line commanders were angry, even if the front-line commander-in-chief still obeyed the orders of the Holy Lord and the central center to attack Pyongyang, but in the face of the failure of the strategy of the water 6 pincer, in the face of the severe shortage of food and grass, in the face of the shortness of the attack time, in the face of the anger of the front-line commanders, the battle of Pyongyang can no longer be continued, in order to prevent accidents, the only way to withdraw the troops, it is better and safer to withdraw the troops earlier than later, so the most important task of the commander-in-chief in the case of internal contradictions is to stabilize the morale of the army and seek common ground while reserving differences, is to come up with a decision, and then report to the Holy Lord and the center at one time, in fact, it is to cut first and then play. You framed me first, put me in a desperate situation, I have no choice but to exercise the right to dispose of it on the spot, cut it first and then play it, protect the army first, and then we will go back and calculate the rest of the matter.

Choi Hongsheng obviously expected this qiē, and it happened that he was in Sasu, far away from the Pyongyang battlefield, and gave him the convenience of overstepping the level and alerting the Holy Lord and the center, but could this prove that he was loyal to the Holy Lord? Can it be proved that he is trying to let the Holy Lord and the center take the initiative and come up with countermeasures as soon as possible to avoid a head-on conflict with the military? Can it be proven that he is a charcoal in the snow, and not a stone in the ground?

Comprehensive analysis, Cui Hongsheng's move is to save himself. Cui Hongsheng appeared a barrage dam of the Goguryeo people somewhere in the upper reaches of the Sashui, which endangered the safety of the expeditionary force's retreat, once the Sashui channel was cut off, Cui Hongsheng, who was guarding the Sashui, was directly responsible, but he couldn't afford this responsibility, so he directly reported to the Holy Lord and the center and asked for help, the purpose was very simple, to shirk the responsibility, let the Holy Lord and the center bear the responsibility.

After urgent consultations, the Holy Lord and the central ministers made a decisive decision to stabilize the front at Yalu Water, which was actually the "two-step" strategy proposed by the military before, which was to stabilize the front at Yalu Water this year and attack Pyongyang from Yalu Water next year.

The Holy Lord decreed that Li Jing, the general of the Right Military Guard, led the people of the headquarters, and He Chou, the general of the Shaofu Prison and the Right Tunwei of the inspection school, led 10,000 crossbowmen in the imperial camp, as well as several officials of the Ministry of Industry, thousands of craftsmen and a large number of bridge-building equipment and materials, went out overnight, day and night, rushed to the Yalu River, built a bridge on the Yalu Water and held the Yalu Water Channel, if there was enough time, He Chou led the army to support the Sashui and help Cui Hongsheng to hold the Sashui Channel and respond to the retreat of the expeditionary force.

In the early morning of the 23rd, Li Jing, the general of the Right Guard, and He Chou, the general of the Shaofu Inspector and the general of the Right Tunwei of the inspection school, led the army to Yalu Water.

At the same time, in the palace, the Holy Lord and the central ministers had a fierce dispute over the crisis caused by the defeat of the Eastern Crusade.

The first question is whether the crusade will continue? Is it going to last until next year? Should it end decisively?

If the Eastern Crusade ends here, the northern Xinjiang and even the entire western and northern frontiers of Middle-earth will explode into a crisis of suppression, and the outbreak of the crisis will force Middle-earth to increase the strength of the frontier, and the resulting continuous investment of manpower, material and financial resources will not only continue to weaken the national strength, but also severely hinder the advancement of reform. It is foreseeable that under such a bad political situation, the existing achievements of reform will inevitably come to naught, and reform will inevitably come to a standstill and retrogression.

The motion to end the Eastern Crusade was quickly rejected, and the Holy Lord and the Central Committee unanimously decided that the Eastern Crusade must continue, and from now on, while hoarding grain and grass in Liaodong, while consolidating the occupied area west of Yalu Water, in preparation for the attack on Pyongyang after the beginning of spring next year.

On the 24th, the recital of the front headquarters reached the palace.

The naval division was defeated and the strategy of the 6 pincer attack failed, and it was difficult for the expeditionary force to capture Pyongyang in a limited time with limited food and grass weapons, so the high command and the commanders of the various armies discussed and decided to deter Pyongyang by force and force Pyongyang to sign an alliance under the city. This strategy could be completed within a limited time, but if Pyongyang had taken a tough stance and deliberately delayed time, the expeditionary force would have to withdraw from the Pyongyang battlefield on the 24th due to lack of food and grass.

Taking into account the actual situation of the Eastern Expeditionary Battlefield, the Commander-in-Chief should still implement the "two-step" strategy proposed by the military before, and stabilize the front in Yalushui, but the premise of implementing this strategy is that the Liaodong base camp must send enough grain and grass to the west bank of Yalu Water as soon as possible, otherwise the expeditionary force will not be able to gain a foothold in Yalu Water at all, let alone stabilize the front, and can only reluctantly withdraw to Liaodong, so that this year's Eastern Expeditionary Expedition will not gain anything. Middle-earth spent an astonishing amount of manpower, material and financial resources for the Eastern Crusade, but in the end nothing was gained, and was beaten by the Goguryeo people to lose their armor and lose their troops.

At this point, the attitude of the military became clear.

The military has a very tough attitude and wants to implement the "two-step" strategy they put forward before, that is, in order to save face, the military wants to continue the Eastern Crusade, and from this point of view, the military and the Holy Lord, the center and the common interests exist, so the military did not seize the fact that the sailors attacked Pyongyang in advance without authorization, nor did they angrily blame the Holy Lord and the center because of this matter, and deliberately made the contradictions between the two sides public, and the two sides can still maintain cooperation, but the premise of cooperation is, The Holy Lord and the Center must return to the military the military power that they forcibly snatched, and the power that should be controlled by the military is the military's, and the Holy Lord and the Center cannot centralize power without restriction for the sake of centralization, or even unscrupulously override the laws of the Heavenly Constitution for the sake of centralization, which is extreme, from one extreme to the other, and this extreme practice will inevitably harm the country and the army, harm oneself and others, and cause endless harm.

The Holy Lord and the Central Committee collectively lost their voices, their mood was extremely bad, and their emotions were extremely complicated. There is no way, since some things have been done, it is the same whether they are denied or not, everyone has a calculation in their hearts, as the losing party, the Holy Lord and the center can only knock out their teeth and swallow blood, and they have to endure it if they can't bear it, and they have to admit it if they pinch their noses.

In fact, it was the military that suffered the most, and suffered a dumb loss and had to bear the military responsibility for the defeat of the Eastern Crusade, while the Holy Lord and the Central Lord, although they successfully evaded the responsibility for the military defeat, could not escape the consequences of the political defeat, so they had to return to the Eastern Capital immediately to deal with the impending political crisis.

On the 25th, the Holy Lord ordered the front command of the expeditionary force to agree with their decision, ordering them to withdraw from the Pyongyang battlefield and stabilize the battle line at Yalu Water.

On the morning of the same day, the Holy Lord, the central center, and the palace officials crossed Liaoshui to the west, left the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, and embarked on the road back to the Eastern Capital.