Chapter Seventy-Eight: Reaping the Consequences

Feng Guihua led 100,000 troops to kill Yangjiang. Because of the extreme hurry, the soldiers only brought five days' rations. Due to low morale, soldiers kept fleeing. After three days, when they reached the riverside, there were less than 80,000 left.

Feng Guihua was a little uncomfortable with so many troops for the first time, and he didn't send spies to explore the way in advance, and when he arrived at the riverside, he saw that the pontoon bridge had been destroyed, so he thought that the Jiangyang section was the narrowest, so he wanted to cross the river from Jiangyang.

When he came to Jiangyang, Feng Guihua saw that the river was not wide and the river was gentle, so he ordered his soldiers to start crossing the river.

Feng Guihua was impatient and ordered the troops to continue to move forward, many soldiers in front did not dare to move forward, and the soldiers in the rear were driven forward, and the two sides were hedged, trampled up, and many soldiers died.

Feng Guihua saw that the situation was not good, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers to retreat, and in a quarter of an hour, the river was full of blood and corpses.

Feng Guihua came back with a little soldiers and horses, and found that those who fled and died died, and there were only more than 50,000 soldiers left. So they went down the river again and went in the direction of Wuyi.

After another day, when the grain and grass they carried were insufficient, they ordered the soldiers to eat three meals and make one, but the soldiers were already very tired and could not get the food and grass to replenish them.

After arriving at the Wuyi section, Feng Guihua's eyes lit up, and a pontoon bridge had been erected on the river. Hurriedly called the soldiers to march quickly to the pontoon bridge.

Unexpectedly, the troops were halfway through, but they found that the remaining 100 zhang of the pontoon bridge was broken, and they could only swim over. Feng Guihua himself took the lead, jumped into the cold river, and flowed towards the opposite bank.

When the soldiers saw the commander like this, they didn't say a word, they all jumped into the water and set off. After about a stick of incense, the troops had traveled a third of the way.

At this time, the sound of killing on the other side was like thunder, and I saw Liu Chengzhi taking the lead, dressed in white and robe, coming to the bank of the Yangjiang River, and shouting: "Feng Guihua, don't you surrender quickly?"

When Feng Guihua saw Liu Yunli, he didn't answer, and shot him over. His soldiers also shouted and marched forward.

Liu Chengzhi didn't love war, and went back to his camp to hide. Feng Guihua saw that he was leaving, so he performed light skills and rushed forward.

At this time, the Chengzhi army and Feng Guihua's soldiers fought, because the soldiers led by Feng Guihua were very tired and had an empty stomach, and their combat power was greatly reduced, while the Chengzhi army was all elite soldiers, and the combat strength was far from each other.

In a short time, the soldiers who came ashore were either captured or killed. Cheng Zhijun took advantage of the fact that the rest of the soldiers did not go ashore, so they shot with bows and arrows, and Feng Guihua's troops did not go ashore, nor did they stay in the river, and most of them were wiped out after a while.

Feng Guihua was fighting fiercely by the riverside, surrounded by dozens of Chengzhi legions, and the three of them formed a tiger formation with amazing power, and after a while, Feng Guihua was captured.

There was no threat to the rear of Chengzhi's army, but Liu Chengzhi knew that it was definitely not the time to win a complete victory, and Liu Xing's body was like a stinger behind his back. He ordered Li Xiuqi and Liu Yan to divide their troops into two routes, all the way to Zhenjiang, and all the way to besiege Jinling.

He didn't wait any longer, and hurried back to the front line in Mianzhou with Zhang Shuwu.

At this time, Liu and Zhao Hongsheng were distressed by the current situation.

Liu Xingshen said: "The grain and grass in Guang'an City were burned by Xiang Wuji and his troops last time, and the grain and grass in the army can no longer last for two days, I don't know what to do!"

Zhao Hongsheng said: "General Liu, the last general has been wondering about something!"

Liu said: "General Zhao, but it doesn't hurt to say it!"

Zhao Hongsheng thought for a while and said, "Why was Liu Xiaoqi able to occupy Guang'an City unknowingly when General Liu occupied Gukou last time, and this time it was the same!"

Liu Xingshen's expression froze, and he said, "That's true, I'm careless!"

Zhao Hongsheng made a look, Liu Shiing's body went over, and the two talked quietly for a while, and then returned to the camp.

On the second day, Liu kept his men fed and drunk, and then arranged a small number of troops in the battalion. The horses and people were silent, and quietly withdrew the troops to the Wolong Slope.

The day before, Lau had already asked his subordinates to familiarize themselves with the road, and at the same time removed several secret sentinels. Therefore, the troops successfully detoured the path and fled quickly to Xiang Wuji's rear.

Xiang Wuji arranged 2,000 soldiers on both sides of the path, but first, he did not expect Liu Xingshen's soldiers to be so fast, and second, he did not expect Liu Xingshen to withdraw all the troops and abandon the original camp.

Two thousand soldiers could not resist the attack of 100,000 people, although they released a signal to Xiang Wuji, but they could not resist Liu Xingshen's withdrawal. Liu Shiingshen knew that the opportunity could not be lost, and led the troops to quickly flee to the field outside Mianzhou City!

Half an hour later, Xiang Wuji prepared his men and began to pursue. Due to the extremely fast evacuation speed of Lau's detachment, it was very difficult for them to reconnoiter behind, so the distance was shortened, and before Lau's troops were stationed, they could not determine the location.

Liu Xingxing did not attack the city, he went south quickly, and stopped at the junction of Mianzhou City and Kunyang Province called Shangliang, he knew that the troops had no grain and grass at this time, and there was only one way - that is, to take grain from the enemy, and a granary of the Chengzhi army was here.

Although Xiang Wuji stationed 5,000 soldiers here, due to the rapid advance of Liu's troops, the 5,000 soldiers could not react, and they were annihilated after a quarter of an hour of fighting.

Lau used the original defensive facilities of the granary and began to build a camp. Due to the abundance of grain and grass here, there is no need to worry about food shortage for the time being.

However, the whole army knew that Jinling was besieged, and the troops no longer had any foreign aid and base areas, so their morale was very low, and deserters continued to appear.

Liu Shiingshen and Zhao Hongsheng used thunderous means to behead several deserters, but the phenomenon of floating military morale could not be stopped.

At this time, Liu Chengzhi and Zhang Shuwu had already rushed to the front line of Shangliang.

Liu Chengzhi quickly summoned Xiang Wuji and Liu Xiaoqi to lead 150,000 troops each, and surrounded Shangliang City. He and Zhang Shuwu led 50,000 elites to ambush under the city, just waiting for the night to get dark.

After three hours, the sky was dim, and he couldn't see his five fingers, Liu Chengzhi came to the bottom of the city wall, and suddenly he was vertical, five zhang full, and his feet were on the city wall, and it was five zhang, so twice, he came to the city wall.

And Zhang Shuwu took out a short blade, which was about four zhang under a vertical, and then used the short blade to insert it into the city wall, and the short blade was not known what material it was, but it was intact. With the power of this insertion, he rose five zhang high, and under the two ups and downs, he also reached the city wall.

After the two came to the city wall, they each performed their own stunts.

As Zhang Shuwu stepped forward, the long knife waved, and a hundred sword lights condensed, turning into a heavenly sword, and slashing down with a bang! Suddenly the rocks were splashed, the smoke and dust rushed into the sky, and the sharp edge was dazzling, and hundreds of steps were taken, and corpses were scattered all over the ground! In a few clicks, he broke out a bloody path and came directly to the location of the mechanism where the city gate was opened.

And Liu Chengzhi is like a flying immortal, his spirit is flying, where his body passes, but flesh and blood are flying, no one dares to respond to his edge, and after a while, he came to the city gate order.

The city gate commander held a long sword, stepped backwards, his legs trembled, and looked at Liu Chengzhi's eyes with horror.

Liu Chengzhi's long sword waved again, and the weapon in the hand of the city gate order wanted to block, but who knew that Liu Chengzhi was a false move, a force was revealed, and the long sword of the city gate order had already been shocked out a few meters away, Liu Chengzhi pointed at the city gate order with a sword, and shouted: "Give the order quickly, open the city gate!"