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On the first day of the eighth month, the Holy Lord and the Imperial Palace arrived at Luhe, an important town in western Liaoning.

The report of the Liaodong base camp is attached to the report of the front command of the expeditionary force. Under the coercion of the expeditionary force, the Goguryeo people were forced to sign an alliance with the city, and the high command decided to withdraw from the Pyongyang battlefield on the 24th.

Although the Holy Lord and the Central Command had ordered the expeditionary force to withdraw on the 25th and implement the "two-step" strategy, the expeditionary force used the right to dispose of the situation without receiving the edict and resolutely withdrew, still showing the military's tough attitude and determination to maintain the military power of the defense government.

The Holy Lord was very depressed, haunted by the fiasco of the Sailors, and was even more worried about the situation of the Eastern Expedition, worried that the military would use the threat of "sticking to the Yalu River line" to force the central government to cede more military power.

In the early morning of the second day of the first lunar month, the Holy Lord was woken up in his sleep by Nayan Suwei.

The Liaodong base camp is urgent, and the report of Wei Wensheng, the general of the right waiting guard, is attached. The expeditionary force was defeated at Sasui. The Goguryeo people attacked it halfway through, dug a dam and released water, so that our five armies were trapped on the east bank of Sasu, and there was a danger that the whole army would be annihilated

The Holy Lord was extremely shocked, and suddenly he felt a sense of collapse.

If Yu Zhongwen's 6-way expeditionary army suffers another fiasco, then even if he kills Laihu'er, kills Yu Zhongwen, and kills all the expeditionary commanders, it will not be able to save the Eastern Crusade, and the authority of the Holy Lord and the center will not be saved, and what is more strict is not the crisis of the Eastern Capital and the political crisis caused by this, nor the obstruction of the great cause of reform caused by this, but the rapid deterioration of the situation between China and foreign countries caused by the double defeat of the Eastern Expedition in military and political affairs. In particular, the relations between the North and the South will inevitably evolve from tension to conflict, and from conflict to war, and once the Civil War breaks out, it will inevitably further intensify the internal contradictions.

The Holy Lord was furious. Choi Hongsheng had already seen the Goguryeo barrage dam in the upper reaches of the Sashui River, and had already made an analysis and deduction and called the police, but the front command of the expeditionary force not only did not pay enough attention to it and did not make corresponding countermeasures, but turned a blind eye and fell into the trap of the Goguryeo people with his eyes closed. Is it tolerable or unbearable, these people all deserve to die, and they are innocent of death.

Su Wei, Pei Shiju, Yu Shiji, Pei Ju and others advised the Holy Lord that things might not be as bad as they imagined. At present, the news obtained is sent by Wei Wensheng, who was the first to withdraw to Yalu Shui, and the five armies trapped on the east bank of Sashui will not necessarily be wiped out, after all, Cui Hongsheng called the police in advance, and with Yu Zhongwen's strategy and experience, even if he does not pay attention to it, he will be on guard, and the sailors who came to Hu'er and Zhou Fashang are in the coastal waters of Pyongyang and can support in time, so even if this battle is defeated, it will not be defeated badly, and there should be hope that the whole division will return.

However, this hope was completely destroyed in the early morning of the third day of the new year.

The Liaodong base camp played urgently, and attached a report from the front command of the expeditionary force. The front command recounted in detail the defeat of Sashui. Overnight, the five armies trapped on the east bank of Sashui were all wiped out, and although the remaining four armies withdrew to Yalushui, there were natural dangers in front and chasing soldiers in the rear, no food, no morale, and they could not hold out for long.

The Holy Lord collapsed, his feelings were out of control, and he was about to kill.

Even if there is no hope of returning without the whole division, at least it will be better defeated, but the expeditionary force actually lost about 150,000 soldiers of five armies overnight, plus nearly 40,000 soldiers of Pyongyang who were defeated by the naval division, and the loss of forcibly crossing Yalu and Sashui in the early stage, the 360,000 expeditionary force actually lost more than 200,000 people, and lost more than half of it, which not only directly buried the Eastern Expedition, but also dealt a heavy blow to the 12 guards of Middle-earth. What's next? Is the Crusade still fighting? What is the supplement for the Northern Xinjiang garrison? What about the garrisons of dozens of counties in Shandong? The loss of more than half of the sailors has a very great impact on Jiangzuo Zhenshu, how to make up for the lack of Jiangzuo Zhenshu?

Su Wei, Pei Shiju and other central core ministers were stunned for a moment, and their minds were blank. 200,000 soldiers were killed and wounded, what is this concept? Fortunately, if it was placed in the three-legged period of Middle-earth more than 20 years ago, if any kingdom lost 200,000 horses in a war, it would definitely be destroyed, and there would be no chance of turning over.

This is not the worst, the worst thing is that if the four armies that fled to Yalu Water are wiped out again, and the more than 300,000 soldiers of the expeditionary force are all killed and wounded, then the Eastern Crusade will be completely over, and a series of crises caused by this, such as the crisis of the Eastern Capital, the crisis of domestic rebellion, the crisis of the Northern Xinjiang Suppression, the crisis of the Great War of the North and the South, and many other crises will explode together, which will inevitably shake the national Zuo and shake the great cause of the unification of the Middle Earth. Whether the unity of Middle-earth can be maintained.

Is there any hope of preservation for the remaining four corps of the expeditionary force?

Fortunately, in the early morning of July 23, the Holy Lord ordered Li Jing, the general of the Right Military Guard, and He Chou, the general of the Shaofu Inspector and the General of the Right Tunwei of the Inspection School, to rush to Yalu Water to support the expeditionary force.

Judging from the distance and the degree of march, if nothing else, they should be able to reach Yalu Water around the first day of August. If they received a request for help from the expeditionary force on the way, they should be able to reach Yalushui one day earlier, and Yu Zhongwen, Yuwenshu and Cui Hongsheng led their troops to withdraw to Yalushui on the 27th, that is, as long as they held out for three days, at most four days, they could get support.

After some analysis, the remaining four armies of the expeditionary force had a very great hope of survival, which made the Holy Lord's out-of-control feelings gradually recover, and the central core ministers had no intention of dealing with state affairs, and everyone sat together, except for secretly praying to God, it was helpless to wait.

At this time, the Holy Lord suddenly said a word, if all the remaining four armies of the expeditionary force are saved, the credit will be Cui Hongsheng, and Cui Hongsheng will be a great contribution.

Only then did the core ministers of the center think of Cui Hongsheng and Cui Hongsheng's overstepping report. At that time, the Holy Lord and the Central Center both thought that Cui Hongsheng was sensationalist and alarmist, and wanted to shirk responsibility and pass on the responsibility, but the facts gave the Holy Lord and the Central Center a big slap, and Cui Hongsheng's deduction became a reality, and more importantly, if there was no Cui Hongsheng's overstepping report, without his advance warning, the Holy Lord and the Central Center would not have known that the Navy Division was defeated in Pyongyang, and they would not have speculated that the expeditionary force was going to withdraw from the Pyongyang battlefield, so they would not have decisively implemented the "two-step" strategy to stabilize the front in Yalu Water. He would not have sent Li Jing and He Chou to lead the army to Yalu Water in time. And the reason why Li Jing and He Chou were sent to Yalu Water in a hurry to support the expeditionary force was fake, and forcing the expeditionary force to stick to Yalu Water was the real purpose of the Holy Lord and the center, but now Li Jing and He Chou have become the life-saving straw of the expeditionary force, and the life-saving straw of the Holy Lord and the center.

Late at night on the fifth day of the first month of August, the Liaodong base camp played urgently, with a report from Li Jingzuo, the general of the Right Military Guard. On 29 July, Li Jing and He Chou led their troops to the west bank of Yalu Water and began to make all-out efforts to rescue the soldiers of the expedition who were trapped on the east bank

The Holy Lord sighed for a long time, God forbid, finally there was no worst situation, but the series of crises caused by such a fiasco still existed, and it was too difficult to resolve or alleviate these crises, which made people exhausted, so even if the Holy Lord's feelings were a little better, they were still full of sorrow.

The central core ministers were also relieved, but like the Holy Lord, their feelings were very poor, and they felt a big mountain pressing on them, heavy, suffocating, painful, and even desperate.

People are rescued, but what about the Crusade? This is a matter of urgency.

Will the crusade continue?

The consequences of the fiasco were completely contrary to the strategic objectives of the Eastern Crusade, which not only failed to effectively ease the relations between the North and the South and effectively alleviate the domestic contradictions, but instead increased the deterioration of the situation between China and foreign countries, detonated a series of old crises and led to a series of new ones.

If the crusade continues, it will be necessary to resolve this series of crises, and if they are to be resolved, the Lord and the Center must have supreme authority. The supreme authority represents strength, represents order and rules, which is the premise for solving the problem of one qiē and the basis for solving all crises. If there is no supreme authority and no strong strength to back it up, then there will be no order and rules, there will be no laws to follow, and law enforcement will not be strict, so nothing will be accomplished.

However, the Eastern Crusade failed miserably, and the most severe losses were the authority of the Holy Lord and the Center. The reason why the Eastern Crusade exerted all its national strength was to achieve victory, to win martial arts, to consolidate and increase the authority of the Holy Lord and the center with victory and martial arts, and then to use the supreme authority to resolve contradictions and resolve crises.

How to Earn Authority? War is the best, fastest and most effective means of gaining authority, so the crusade must continue, and the authority of the Holy Lord and the Center must be re-established with victory and martial arts, and this is the only most convenient and cost-effective way to re-establish the authority of the Holy Lord and the Center. Only authority can solve problems, and without authority, no problems can be solved.

However, under the unfavorable situation of the crushing defeat of the Eastern Crusade, the explosion of old and new crises, and the simultaneous deterioration of the situation between China and foreign countries, if we want to continue the Eastern Crusade and win the support of the government and the opposition, it will be difficult not to be ordinary, but to climb to the sky.

However, although it is difficult to reach the sky, there is still a glimmer of hope, and this hope is that of all crises, the north-south crisis is the most important crisis that overwhelms the one-qiē crisis.