Liu Desan's withdrawal was as fast and stealthy as his march, and it was on the night of Chong's victory over the black nobles. The main force of Huyan Valley quietly went out of the city and went south. Prior to this, his four battalions of longbow troops, four thousand iron shield armor and two thousand light cavalry had left the Tiande army under the support of the Hedong Water Division. Huyan Valley only has two thousand old, weak, wounded and disabled soldiers composed of the death army to support the façade, this is the tradition of the Hedong Army, if they can lose their pawns to protect the commander, they will definitely not pretend to be hypocritical, and go to the car in the end.

Yu Chongchong burned Beizhai to the ground, and then retreated into Huyan Valley to serve as the commander of the death army. This gave Jin Mili and the Manhei Five Divisions an illusion that the main force in Hedong was still in the Huyan Valley, because Yu Chongchong was still there. No matter how Yang Hao explained, the two families just refused to believe that the main force in Hedong had retreated.

The brutal black department is determined to ask Yu Chong for the skin that was ruthlessly torn off by him, and the scheming Jin Mili is naturally safer to follow the strong.

Liu Desan is worthy of being a famous general who has experienced a hundred battles, in order to confuse his opponents, he withdrew his troops at the same time, but still forced his two generals, Sui Crouching Hu and Wu Chizan, to attack the new city where Shi Xiong was stationed and Wang Ben's Zhongshou City respectively. The strictness of the order made Sui Crouching Tiger and Wu Chizan, who had followed him for many years, not expect that the coach was retreating.

Yang Hao ordered the newly restored Xiaocai Battalion and the 1st Police Battalion to cooperate with Jin Mili and the Manhei Fifth Division to attack Huyan Valley, and he led the main forces of the Leopard Battalion, Fengya Battalion, and Jinfeng Battalion to the south to attack the Hedong Army's camps along the river.

Also disbelieving that Liu Desan had withdrawn were Wang Ben and Shi Xiong, who held the city tightly until Yang Hao sent his cronies to rush with his handwritten letter, and the two were suspicious. Yang Hao asked Wang Ben to mobilize the Tiande Sailor to block Liu Desan's retreat, but the answer was that the Hedong Sailor had arrived outside the Zhongshou Surrender City and confronted the Tiande Sailor on the Yellow River.

Shi Xiong suggested that the three families concentrate their forces to attack from the shore. Among the three alliances, Shi Xiong and the Hedong Army had the most brilliant record, according to rough statistics, the two armies fought 23 times, Shi Xiong won 20 times, captured 3,000 Hedong sergeants, and captured a large number of ordnance, grain and grass. Yang Hao did not agree to attack the Hedong Army's camp along the river, on the grounds that the camp along the river was rigorous and had the help of a naval division, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, Yang Hao has another layer of consideration, that is, the five black parts. Although they were frustrated by Yu Chong outside Beizhai, they did not hurt their muscles and bones, this is a terrible force, and the slightest carelessness will cause a catastrophe. Yang Hao didn't want to let them pick up a bargain after he and Liu De were defeated.

After the three of them discussed, they decided to adopt a strategy of besieging but not attacking: the Shixiong Department would monitor the camp along the east of the river to prevent the Hedong army from fleeing east by land; Wang Ben advanced by waterway to prevent the main force of the Hedong Army from abandoning the village and crossing the river; Yang Hao led the main force of the three battalions to form a camp in the north, not only to contain the main force in Hedong, but also to prevent the rout of Huyan Valley from going south to join the battalions along the river.

Among the three, Yang Hao has the most troops, Shi Xiong has the strongest combat power, and Wang Ben is in the most favorable terrain. The Hedong Army had less than 5,000 battalions along the river, and Liu Desan's deployment was to take a defensive position in the west and north, and the cavalry led by the general Sui Crouching Tiger in the east took the initiative to attack in order to gain the initiative.

Shi Xiong, who was in the prime of his army, put out the main lineup to confront Sui Crouching Tiger, and fought fiercely for a day, each with a victory or defeat. At night, Sui Crouching Tiger ordered his soldiers to light torches, and rode a gray-haired neighing horse to lead four generals to challenge the battle shirtless.

This "pair of generals" began to fight from the end of the Youshi to the beginning of the Hai Shi, Sui Crouching Tiger won three games, and captured Shixiong and married the righteous brother Wan Tao. Shi Xiong refused to accept and wanted to go head-to-head with Sui Crouching Tiger, and Sui Crouching Tiger did not back down. The two competed with each other in front of the battle, fought for half an hour, and tired down three war horses, which was a result of not losing or winning. Afterwards, the two armies exchanged prisoners and agreed to fight again on the second day.

On the second day, Shi Xiong came to the Hedong military camp to call for battle, but the Hedong army closed the camp gate and did not see any movement for a long time. The drum was beaten three times, the camp gate opened, and a white-faced colonel came out, holding a spear and pointing at Shi Xiong and scolding: "The villain who hurts people with hidden arrows bullies no one in our army." ”

The little school was thin, with a white face and red lips, and it turned out to be a female general, Shi Xiong said with disdain: "Swords and guns have no eyes, should the girl be an embroidery field?" When the woman heard this, she was furious and urged her to come and fight immediately. After only three or five rounds, Shi Xiong no longer dared to despise the female general, and shouted with his sword: "Come and get your name!" ”

The woman sneered: "Hedong Sui Kite is also." Shi Xiong asked: "The girl accused me of secretly hurting people, Shi Xiong was puzzled, when did I do that pickled thing?" ”

Sui Yuan sneered: "My brother came back last night and was fine, but this morning he suddenly had a strange illness, unable to move his hands and unable to speak, which is clearly a symptom of poisoning." Who could it be if you didn't do it? Shi Xiong was shocked when he heard this, and then he understood why Sui Crouching Tiger didn't come out of the battle for a long time when he called the formation, Sui Yuan saw that he didn't speak, and snorted coldly: "What, do you have a disturbed conscience?" Shi Xiong said loudly: "I, Shi Xiong, am above board, how can I do that thing?" Your brother's business has nothing to do with me. Since he can't fight, Shi Xiong won't fight, and when he is wounded, we'll fight again. Then he turned his horse and walked back.

Sui Yuan was stunned for a while when he heard this, looked at Shi Xiong and shouted: "Hugh wants to leave, take your life!" "Urging the horse to chase after him. Shi Xiong looked at her out of the corner of his eye, and leaned close to her. Suddenly, he turned around sharply, and with a move of "sweeping thousands of armies", he swept the blade of the three-pointed knife as a stick. Sui Kite couldn't dodge, the red tassel on the top of the helmet was swept away by the knife shaft, and her hair bun was scattered again, and she was shocked for a while.

Shi Xiong turned around and said "offended", and was about to urge the horse to leave. I didn't want Sui Kite to suddenly pull out his sword, and shouted, "Brother, don't leave me" and wiped it on his neck. Shi Xiong was suddenly startled, and the three-pointed knife in his hand came out of his hand, which was worthy of knocking down the sword in Sui Yuan's hand. Shi Xiong shouted: "Victory and defeat are common things in soldiers, why do you bother to die? Before the words fell, he suddenly saw a strange sneer in Sui Yuan's eyes, but he raised his right hand upward. Shi Xiong felt bad and was about to turn around to dodge, but it was too late. A sleeve arrow shot head-on, and the two were only a few feet apart, and this arrow hit Shi Xiong's heart. Shi Xiong screamed and fell off his horse.

Chang Songlin and Zhang Huayang, who were watching the battle, saw that the situation was not good, and they grabbed it together. Mu Minzhong's bow shot an arrow at Sui Kite, which was easily avoided by Sui Kite. She pointed at Chang Songlin and Zhang Huayang and shouted: "If you want to save Shi Xiong's life, take the antidote!" "Say goodbye and return to the team. When Chang and Zhang snatched back Shi Xiong, Shi Xiong was already angry, and his life hung by a thread. His wounds were purple and black, and the arrow was poisonous!

Yang Hao offended Shi Xiong and fell unconscious with poisoned arrows, and before that, Chang Songlin and others asked famous doctors for diagnosis and treatment, but it was to no avail after all. Yang Hao learned that the woman who shot and injured Shi Xiong was named Sui Kite, who was the younger sister of Sui Crouching Tiger, and had worshiped the famous general of Hedong Xianlin as a teacher. Yu Xianlin, nicknamed "Yu Thirty", is the cousin of the famous general Chongchong in Hedong, and the essence of archery is known as the first in Hedong. Because he broke his arm when he was a teenager and broke two tendons, the strength of his right hand was very small, and he could not pull a hard bow. The range of the small bow he used was only 30 zhang, so he was nicknamed "Yu 30".

What poisoned Sui Crouching Tiger was the undercover agent placed in the Hedong Army by the intelligence room, Guan Suo was not there, Yang Hao didn't know who this undercover agent was, he was about to send someone to Huyan Valley to call Guan Suo back, but Guan Suo came back by himself. He brought back good news: Jin Mili promised to persuade the Manhei Fifth Division to immediately go south to attack the Hedong Army's camp along the river.

The five tribes of the Barbarian Black originally thought that the main force of the Hedong Army was in the Huyan Valley, and they judged that the grain, grass, ordnance, and gold and silver property they plundered should be piled up in the valley, as long as the Huyan Valley was breached, these things would undoubtedly be their spoils. However, they heard from the grapevine that the Hedong army had transported the plundered gold and silver to the north bank of the Yellow River and was preparing to load it back to Hedong. The reason why the three alliances abandoned Huyan Valley and attacked the villages along the river with all their might was to monopolize this batch of spoils.

In this regard, the leaders of the five departments are skeptical. But when Jin Mili personally told them that Huyan Valley was just an empty valley, and that the Hedong army had already transported the goods in the valley to the banks of the Yellow River. The leaders of the five tribes immediately believed that the rumors were true, in their opinion, Yang Hao was a Han after all, and Han people were often unreliable, while Jin Mili was their kindred, and the words of the same clan should be credible. The five leaders scolded Yang Hao behind their backs, and then decided to immediately lead the army south to besiege the camp along the river in Hedong and seize the spoils.

Jin Mili saw Yang Hao's intentions of "luring the wolf to attack the tiger and urging him to be injured twice" very clearly, and he once thought that this plan was too damaging, so he was unwilling to act as Yang Hao's lobbyist. But when Guan Suo told him that the Tiande army had made a fortune and the black nobles were already secretly discussing to tear up the alliance with Yang Hao and prepare to lie in the grassland at the northern foot of Niutou Chaona Mountain, Jin Mili's attitude suddenly took a 180-degree turn. He decided to help Yang Hao lure the wild wolf of the Manhei Department to bite Liu Desan, the tiger.

Let them fight and lose both, it's better to finish together, how can the tiger and wolf immortal grassland be peaceful?

The sudden southward movement of the fifth department made Liu Desan feel a little caught off guard. The barbarian blacks quickly swept away the perimeter and approached the core at the speed of seven camps a day. The five parts of the Wild Black fought very hard, but the gains were also very rich. The Hedong Army's ability to scrape the land is by no means under the barbarian blacks, but their methods are much more civilized, which can not only rob their children's jade silks, but also not make rivers of blood like the barbarian blacks.

Driven by huge interests, the leaders of the five departments worked very hard. However, wolves are wolves after all, and they can take advantage of the tiger's unpreparedness to bite the tiger all over the body, and once the tiger is powerful, the wolf's momentum is immediately suppressed. After suffering a series of defeats, Liu Desan adjusted his deployment in time, relying on the deep ditch and high base under the cover of the water division, and gave the wolves several times in a row. The two most ferocious wolves, Gulu Mangyue and Manrat, had been almost crippled, and they were humming and chirping back like wounded dogs, and the other three had completely lost their previous momentum. Yang Hao decided to immediately stab him in the tiger's back and help the black wolves kill the mighty Hedong Tigers.

This knife is the once powerful horse leap.

The defeat of the Hedong Army was assured, and Ma Yue, who had been a little daughter-in-law for a few months, realized that the time had come to get rid of the control of the evil mother-in-law. At the beginning, he was so desperate that he had to rely on Liu Desan, but he didn't get any benefits except for endlessly helping him raise food and salary. The white water fox has fallen, and Liu Desan's promise to himself has become a flower in the moon mirror in the water in a blink of an eye. Ma Yue felt that even if he went to be a horse bandit, it was better than being an errand for Liu Desan.

Ma Yue sent someone to contact Yang Hao, proposing to row the river with Wang Ben and rule, the thirteen counties south of the Yellow River of the Tiande Army belong to him, and he recognized Wang Ben's status as the commander of the Tiande Army, and one-eighth of the taxes of the thirteen counties will be handed over to Wang Ben, and when the Tiande Army and a third party have a war, Ma Yue will send troops to help the war or provide ordnance and food.

Yang Hao asked Ma Yue to cede the two counties south of Zhongshou City to Wang Ben, and increased the annual tax to one-sixth, and said that as long as Ma Yue could agree, he would come forward to persuade Wang Ben to reach an agreement to row the river and rule. Ma Yue, who no longer had extra chips in his hand, could only agree. And Wang Ben, who has been exhausted, also hopes to end the civil strife as soon as possible. The agreement was soon signed, and the final blow had finally arrived.