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Huaiyang County, Wanqiu City.

Due to the sudden heavy snowfall, 250,000 Jianghuai troops had to go ashore from Yingshui and enter Wanqiu City to temporarily escape the cold. Suddenly, a heavy snowfall was like a thunderbolt falling from the sky, scorching the marshal of the Southern Chen Army, Shen Faxing and Wang Zhizhi, and other generals.

This Northern Expedition can be said to be an all-out country, and Nan Chen mobilized 300,000 troops to go north to Henan at one time, wanting to ally Li Mi to resist Chen Kefu. No one would have thought that just halfway through, such a heavy snow would fall. The officers and men of the Southern Front are all southerners, and they are not afraid of cold and heat. Therefore, this expedition also picked a good time for early summer. 300,000 Nan Chen troops in thin clothes took a boat all the way north along Yingshui.

When heavy snow suddenly hit, the logistics baggage battalion of the Southern and Northern Expeditionary Army was completely at a loss and helpless. For this Northern Expedition, the logistics battalion brought a large number of weapons, armor and equipment, and even a lot of large equipment such as catapults and siege rams, but they did not bring warm clothes at all. No one would have thought that it would be difficult for the day to enter the height of summer, how could it suddenly snowfall and the temperature drop sharply.

Thousands of Chen soldiers were frozen to death, tens of thousands were seriously injured, and more than half of the rest were lightly injured. Although Shen Faxing led the army into Wanqiu City to escape the cold, this sudden heavy snow caused Chen Jun's non-combat attrition to about 10%.

I finally survived the snow in Wanqiu, ushered in the bright sun, the temperature warmed up, and the weather finally returned to normal. But immediately after, a group of Wei soldiers escorting Li Mi for help arrived.

Li Mi's defeat at Luokou. All the generals of the Chen army were speechless in surprise. No one thought of it. Li Mi, who is known as the most soldiers and horses in the world, and Li Mi, who has 6,700,000 troops, has been defeated so badly in less than a month. It was simply defeated and could not be defeated again, although the envoy kept saying that Li Mi had taken the initiative to retreat, and he was currently retreating to the Daliu Mountain area of Xiangcheng County with 100,000 soldiers and horses.

But the embarrassed appearance of the envoy, and the eagerness to beg them to lead their troops north immediately, still made Shen Faxing and the others secretly understand that Li Mi's situation must be even worse than this. Perhaps, Li Mi had only a few hundred remnants left at this time. Flee south in panic.

After the envoys were settled, the main generals of the Chen army finally broke out a dispute about the Northern Expedition. Wang Zhizhi, the king of Yue, resolutely refused to continue northward, but demanded that the forward army be recalled immediately. Withdraw immediately. His words were very resolute, and said that the heavy snowfall this time was a warning from heaven not to go north to Henan.

Wang Zhizhi's words attracted a large number of generals to support // the fastest text update.shumilou.No pop-ups, no ads// hold. However, Shen Faxing, the commander of the army, insisted on refusing to retreat. In Shen Faxing's words, they poured out the country here and gathered hundreds of thousands of troops to the north. Now that the army is thousands of miles away from the country, it seems that it is about to arrive at the battlefield, and it is in vain at this time, and the countless money and food that have been spent before are not counted. Moreover, the morale of the officers and men in the power army and inside and outside the court has dropped greatly.

Just when the two sides were still arguing in Wanqiu City, Wang Xiongdan came back with the seriously injured forward commander Du Fuwei. He came back with about 30,000 defeated strikers.

"What about the casualties of the brethren, and where are they now?" Suppressing the panic in his heart, Wang Zhizhi asked in a deep voice. What he wants to know most now is actually the whereabouts of his son Du Fuwei. The 50,000 vanguard army of the Northern Expedition was led by his righteous son Du Fuwei, and the 50,000 vanguard army was all Wang Zhizhi's Huainan army.

These 50,000 soldiers and horses are obviously the southern army, but in fact they are the private army of his royal family. In these chaotic years, where there are soldiers, there is everything. The Xie family and the Gu family, who were once as famous as the Wang family and the Shen family, were because they lost the soldiers and horses in their hands, and now they have finally fallen from the center of the imperial court. And he, Wang Zhizhi, has always been able to fight Shen Faxing, and it is precisely because he has 130,000 Huainan troops in his hands. …,

More than 5,000 brothers were killed in battle. Most of the others were captured by the Hebei army. Wang Xiongdan, whose face was covered with ash, secretly looked around, trying to slow down his voice as much as possible, "My father is handsome, my father is handsome, and he was hit by an arrow in the chest." I was in a coma for two days, and today I am awake. However, he still couldn't get off the ground, and at this time he was recuperating from his injuries in the military camp outside the city. ”

"What about the others. What about Ximen Junyi and Kan Ling? Didn't you bring 5,000 with you this time? How could there be such a big defeat, and how many people did the Hebei army dispatch? Wang Zhizhi asked anxiously.

"Kan Ling was also stabbed in the chest when he fought with the enemy, and he is still recuperating. When Ximen Junyi covered everyone's retreat, his horse was injured by the crossbow arrows of the Hebei army, and he fell from his horse and was injured. Recruitment, recruitment is gone. Wang Xiongtan gritted his teeth.

"How can there be no such thing as a fundraiser? He's our best soldier, 5,000 men. ”

Not only Wang Zhizhi was shocked, but even Shen Faxing, Shen Luoyan and others were also shocked. If one of the most elite soldiers and horses was really to be selected from the Southern Chen army, then everyone would single out Du Fuwei's 5,000 recruited troops. This is a strong Huainan army that can fight with the Jianghuai Army's platoon soldiers, the Praetorian Guard Xiaoguo Army and other strong armies in the world. Such a group of soldiers and horses actually lost all the battles, how could this not shock them.

Wang Xiong held his head in pain, these days, the battle of that day has appeared in his mind again and again. Compared with the Hebei Army, there is indeed no one in the Shangzheng Army, but even if the brothers in the Shangzheng try their best, the result still has not changed at all.

"The other party is 20,000 Hebei light cavalry, led by Chen Kefu's henchmen Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke! They ambushed us outside the city of Yingchuan, and although the brothers fought to the death, we were finally defeated. Five thousand were raised, most of them were killed in battle, and the rest were wounded and captured. ”

Miao Haichao, a general under Shen Faxing, said to Wang Xiong lightly, "50,000 against 20,000, but they were still beaten and fled, not only the main general was injured, but even the 5,000 elite recruited troops were wiped out." In the past, the general always heard how powerful General Du Fuwei was, how brave the Huainan army was, and how decisive and daring to fight was when he was recruited. But I didn't expect that under the original fame, it was not all true. The general was a little curious, since the five thousand recruits were all fighting to the death, why did our General Wang Xiongdan, General Du Fuwei, General Kan Ling, and General Ximen Junyi all run back? Why didn't you fight to the death? ”

Fu Gongqi shouted angrily at Miao Haichao, "How is the combat strength of the Huainan Army, you didn't understand it at the beginning, the Huainan Army was defeated in the past, what kind of face do you have to speak up here today?" ”

Miao Haichao once defected to Du Fuwei, and the two later joined each other, but although Miao Haichao had no intention, he was defeated by Du Fuwei in the end. It was also that defeat that Miao Haichao later took refuge in Shen Faxing. At this time, when he heard Fu Gongqi revisiting the old matter, he couldn't help blushing for a while, and he closed his mouth and retreated to the side.

After drinking Miao Haichao, Fu Gongqi took Wang Xiongdan's hand and asked, "You have come back from Yingchuan, do you know what the situation in Luoyang is?" How much strength does Li Mixian have? ”

Wang Xiongdan smiled bitterly, "When we withdrew, we sent scouts to investigate. The Battle of Luokou between Li Mi and Chen Kefu has ended. Huangfu Wuyi and Duan Da and others in the eastern capital were attached to Chen Kefu, they sent troops from the eastern capital, Wang Xuanying sent troops from the north, and Chen Po's army attacked from the east. The three armies attacked together, and Li Mi was completely defeated. After the battle of his last 150,000 soldiers and horses, Li Mi fled south with only 50,000 men and fled to the Daliu Mountains in Xiangcheng County. Before we were ambushed, we were going to Daliu Mountain to join Li Mi. ”…,

After a pause, he continued, "According to the information we have inquired, after the first battle of Luokou, Wang Xuanying's Jianghuai army also suffered heavy casualties, and now there are about 30,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Yanshi. And Chen Kefu has already led troops into Luoyang, and I heard that in Luoyang, he was a great official and nobleman of the Eastern Capital. There are also rumors that he has married the daughter of Wei Shou, the prince of the slippery country, and he has rewarded him in the eastern capital, and opened a warehouse to release grain to the people of the eastern capital. Now the people of the entire Eastern Capital are singing Chen Kefu's good words. Moreover, the spies sent out also heard that Chen Kefu was constantly transferring troops from Hebei and Liaodong to Henan. It is said that Chen Kefu not only transferred Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke to lead his troops south, but also transferred Yang Shanhui and Yang Shihong from Jiangdu to lead 30,000 troops to attack our rear road Shouchun. ”

The room fell silent for a moment, and the news Wang Xiongdan said was more amazing than one another, and one was worse than the other.

After a long time, Wang Zhizhi said with an ugly face, "Chen Kefu transferred troops from Hebei to Henan at this time, could it be that Wei Dao'er has been defeated?" ”

"Impossible!" Shen Luoyan loudly denied that the wind and snow a few days ago made Shen Luoyan also suffer from the cold. At this time, her illness was not yet cured, because she heard that the forward army had retreated from defeat, and she forced her sick body to discuss the matter. She was dressed in a ferret's fur, her face was much more haggard than before, and even her eye sockets were a little sunken.

"The Hebei army is strong because of their elite, not their numbers. Chen Kefu has always followed the strategy of elite soldiers, and compared with the elite of the Hebei Army, the number of the Hebei Army is very clear. If you don't get rid of those township soldiers, the number of Hebei troops is not even as large as our imperial court. And this also includes as many as more than 100,000 people of the coalition army of various ethnic groups outside the Serbia. At present, Chen Kefu is using troops everywhere, and he has to send troops to stay behind the rear. His soldiers had already reached their limit, and it was impossible that there would be enough soldiers and horses to annihilate Wei Dao'er's hundreds of thousands of troops in Hebei when he went south to fight Li Mi in a decisive battle. ”