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The officers and soldiers crossed the river overnight, and the momentum was very loud, but the scolding was also one after another.

Before, Wei Yunqi retreated in a hurry before he saw the shadow of the rebels, but now that he has more soldiers, more weapons, and more courage, he not only takes the initiative to cross the river to attack, but also chases after him, ignoring the danger of the official army falling into the rebel encirclement. The villagers didn't know anything about the battle situation, but the regiment leaders saw it very clearly, and they had calculations in their hearts, so they went against the yang, slacked off the battle, and advanced very slowly.

Although Yang Qian did not dare to disobey Wei Yunqi's orders, he was quite skeptical about the decision to go south to pursue and kill.

The changes in the battle situation are actually not complicated, since the white thief dares to go north to face the battle, since he dares to show his troops to confront the official army on the north bank of the water, it can be seen that he has his own place to rely on. Now the white thief has not made a single arrow, turned around and fled, but the escape is not slow, orderly, obviously there is a suspicion of luring the enemy, and the official army does not find out the truth of the rebels in the case of ignoring the pursuit of all efforts, what if the plan is hit? Wei Yunqi has such a small number of people in his hands, once the whole army is annihilated, he will not want to make a comeback in the short term, whether it is the Zheng family of Xingyang or Yang Qing, the king of Xun, they will not give unlimited support, and the eastern capital will also fall into greater passivity, and Yang Nan, the king of Qi, has no choice but to go out of Beijing in advance to fight the rebellion, which is obviously not in the interests of the king of Qi.

The best time for the king of Qi to go out of Beijing to fight the rebellion was July, which was the consensus of the top and bottom of the eastern capital. The reason why several wealthy families in the Eastern Capital compromised and formed an alliance, and the reason why Wei Yunqi inspected the Tongji Canal, were all for this goal, but Wei Yunqi's decision at the moment was in danger of putting the officials and soldiers to death, and obviously deviated from his goal of leaving Beijing, which made Yang Qian have to speculate about Wei Yunqi with the worst malice.

What is Wei Yunqi's purpose? Why did they change their minds? Whether this has anything to do with the subtle changes in the political situation in the Central Plains?

The increasingly severe disaster situation in Henan originated from the fierce struggle between the Guanlong people and the Shandong people, and the Henan disaster victims entered Yuzhou and received relief from the Yingru nobles.

Heluo and Henan belong to the Central Plains regionally, and the Central Plains is located between Guanlong and Shandong. During the period of the third division of Middle Earth, the Central Plains was the place where the Three Kingdoms were at war, but most of its territory belonged to Guanlong, so the Heluo aristocratic group was classified as the territory of Guanlong. After the reunification of China and Turkey, the Central Plains were more inclined to Shandong, both in terms of historical and cultural origins and regional interests, and the interests of the aristocratic groups in the Central Plains and those in Shandong were also more consistent.

What is the purpose of the Yingru aristocratic group to save the victims of the disaster in Henan? Will it take the opportunity to attack and weaken the Henan aristocratic clique, or will it use this as a threat to coerce the Henan aristocratic clique to make compromises and concessions in politics? From the perspective of the overall interests of the Central Plains region, the latter is more likely. If the Heluo aristocratic group formed an alliance with the Henan aristocratic group, and if the white thief and his rapidly growing rebel forces set off a shocking storm in the Central Plains, then once these three forces formed a joint force, it would definitely bring heavy changes to the political situation in the eastern capital and even the situation in Middle-earth.

From the standpoint of Yang Lan, the king of Qi and the Wei clan of Guanzhong, if they want to achieve their goal, if they want to make Yang Lan, the king of Qi, ascend to the throne of the prince, they must win the support of the emperor and the center dominated by reformers, which is crucial, and for this, they must do something, and to turn the possible changes in the political situation in the Central Plains into reality, so that the emperor and the center are now hidden by their "enemies", is the most simple and effective means.

Yang Qian had to admit that with the acceleration of the reform process, the political game between the Guanlong people and the Shandong people became more and more intense, and the reform has actually become a tool for the bloody struggle between the two major political groups. Once the reform related to the fate of Middle-earth becomes a tool of political struggle, the result can be imagined, its failure is inevitable, and the failure of reform will inevitably hit Middle-earth, and the fate of Middle-earth will become very pessimistic.

Yang Qian forced himself to calm down, and 100,000 urgently reported to Yang Qing, the king of Xun, and Yang Gongren, his father who was far away in the Eastern Capital, and made a detailed analysis of the deep-seated reasons for Wei Yunqi's "suicide" decision. In order to achieve the goal, Wei will do whatever it takes, not only to put the Zheng family in Xingyang to death, but also to drag the Hongnong Yang family into the water, and once the truth of the situation in the Central Plains of Xingyang Zheng and Hongnong Yang is revealed to the world, they will inevitably be charged with destroying the Eastern Crusade by interrupting the Tongji Canal, so that the political storm will rise again, and the civil war will be inevitable. The emperor and the central center were defeated on the battlefield of the Eastern Expedition, and were hit by the civil war, and their authority was lost, so that the resistance to the change of the imperial system was greatly reduced, and the king of Qi was very likely to leap to the throne of the emperor.

In other words, once Wei Yunqi succeeded in "committing suicide", Yang Lan, the king of Qi, would leave the capital in advance, and with the advent of the war against thieves, the situation in Henan would be in chaos, and the Tongji Canal would fall into a crisis of being cut off, and the Eastern Expedition might fall short or even fail because of this. In Yang Qian's view, it was not only the conservatives in the court who tried to destroy the Eastern Crusade, but also the King of Qi Yang Lan, and Yang Lan was now relying on the power of the local aristocratic group in Guanlong, not only to blame the political opponents for destroying the Eastern Crusade, but also to provoke a civil war, chaos and pave the way for the throne.

The ambition of Yang Nan, the king of Qi, and his supporting forces is too great, they don't want the prince, the position of the prince is too unreliable, and it will overturn at any time, so the emperor either does not fight, or if he wants to fight, he will be in place in one step, and he will be the emperor directly, once and for all.

However, no matter how much Yang Qian speculated about what was behind the current chaos, and no matter how desperate he was to get support to reverse the situation, he was powerless.

The officers and troops advanced to Kuragaki on the afternoon of the second day after the river crossing.

The Sixth Army of the Alliance under the account of Meng Hai was held in the city. Lü Xingxing and Cao Kun led the Second Army of the Alliance to retreat to the ditch water west of Cangyuan to prevent the officers and troops in Junyi City, forty miles away, from advancing eastward to support. Xiahou Zhe commanded the First Army of the Alliance to retreat to the east of Cangyuan City, and formed two lines of defense with the Seventh Army of the Alliance, which was moving north from the direction of Xiaohuangcheng, to ensure that in the unfavorable situation of the battle, the First Army and the Sixth Army could be covered to retreat to Xiaohuangcheng along the Bianshui.

Yang Qian commanded the four township regiments in the front to attack the ditch water, trying to tear a gap from the rebel army's defense line, open up the connection with Junyi City, and ensure that the army could rush across the ditch water and withdraw to Junyi City at a critical moment.

At this moment, Lu Xingxing had already received a secret letter from Li Fengyun, knowing that Li Fengyun led the three main armies of Huben, Fengyun and Hussar to pounce up from the rear of the official army, and Zhai Rang also led the Wagang army to cross the river, and he was going to attack tonight, striving to fight a battle and annihilate Wei Yunqi, so Lu Xingxing must hold this "pocket" and drag the official army in the "pocket".

Lu Xingxing didn't want to fight, his strength was not at the same level, he couldn't beat the official army, once the Second Army was defeated like a mountain, collapsed, and scattered, the "pocket" was not broken, but even the "pocket" was gone. When Lu Xingxing and Cao Kun were hesitating, the scouts came to report that the officers and soldiers who were attacking in the direction of the gutter water stopped and stopped, their movements were slow, and their morale did not seem to be high.

Lu Xingxing decided to leave five regiments in one province in front of the battlefield, and fifteen regiments in the other three prefectures to evacuate first, so as to ensure that nothing goes wrong, even if the battle is defeated, the loss will only be one province, and it will not lead to the rout of the whole army, so that the entire "pocket" is gone. Considering that the official army is close at hand, the large-scale adjustment and deployment will inevitably attract the attention of the other party, and once the other party is given the opportunity to pounce, it will be troublesome, so Lu Xingxing ordered to set up a suspicious plan. Soon, the drums and trumpets in the battle array of the righteous army were in the sky, the flags were flying, the cheers and shouts came one after another, and the horses galloped and rolled up the smoke and dust to the sky.

Lu Xingxing's suspicious plan immediately worked, and the officers and soldiers were shocked, afraid that the front was the main force of the opponent, so Yu Crisp stopped.

Yang Qian knew that the white thief was insidious and cunning, and he was quite jealous in his heart. Now that the situation is unknown, it is possible to fall into the death by rashly attacking, and several township group leaders have no intention of fighting, so Yang Qian thought twice and decided to ask Wei Yunqi for help. Yang Qian analyzed the current battle situation in detail and believed that immediately opening up the gutter water and establishing a connection with Junyi City in time could ensure that his army could get the support of Junyi City in the first time, so that his army could advance and retreat without worry. For this reason, Yang Qian begged Wei Yunqi to transfer the main force to the first line of the ditch water, and strive to defeat the rebels before sunset and capture the ditch water.

Wei Yun caught fire and recovered, and the main force to attack the ditch water formed a backwater battle, if the traitors were surrounded and killed on three sides, our army would be defeated, and there was a danger of annihilation. Wei Yunqi concluded that the traitors were in a suspicious position, and in order to gain more time to escape, he deliberately lured his army to the gutter water to deviate from the direction of pursuit. Wei Yunqi's reason is also very sufficient, Junyi City is forty miles away, Chen stayed sixty miles away, especially Junyi City, there is the main garrison of the eastern defense area of the Tianqian Pass, once the two sides start a war near Cangyuan, Junyi City's army will soon be able to support it, so the rebels will not dare to fight in Cangyuan at all, and will only flee south faster.

Yang Qian had no choice but to send his cronies to cross the river under the cover of night, urgently report to Junyi, and call the police to Cui Baode, the governor of Xingyang, and Fei Yao, the general of Wu Benlang, for help.

The night was peaceful, but the slaughter came before dawn, Li Fengyun commanded the three main forces and Zhai Rang's Wagang army, and rushed sixty miles to the outside of Cangyuan City, and launched a surprise attack on the sleeping official army.

The officers and soldiers were caught off guard, collapsed in an instant, and had no choice but to disarm and surrender.

Wei Yunqi, Wei Baoluan, Yang Qian and others, under the protection of their respective personal guards, desperately broke through.

Li Mi went to the battlefield fully armed, joined forces with Xu Shisan, the commander of the Fengyun Army, and did his best to hunt down Wei Yunqi.

At the same time, Lu Xingxing, who was setting up a formation to block the enemy in the ditch water, received Li Fengyun's secret order, and immediately opened a gap, allowing the officers and soldiers who broke out of the encirclement to escape. Although Lu Xingxing was puzzled, he still faithfully carried out this secret order.