The boss led the army to pursue in the direction of the rebels' retreat, and the momentum along the way was like a bamboo, and in just half a month, he recovered Huazhou City, the capital of Beihua County, and two-thirds of the other territories, and drove the rebels to the narrow strip south of Yongding Pass and north of Huazhou City.

According to the report of Tanma, the rebels have made peace with the demon soldiers, using Yongding Pass as a base to prevent resistance and Yue Zifeng in the west is attacking fiercely at this time, and has forced the western rebels into Yongding Pass and dare not fight.

However, at this time, the boss suddenly ordered the troops to stop the attack and retreat to camp eighty miles away from Yongding Pass to rest.

"Why don't you take advantage of the victory to pursue?" the old second-hand hand carried the blood treasure knife and broke into the camp tent of the Chinese army with a fierce momentum.

The boss looked at the second child and smiled, and said, "Second child, how is your calligraphy?"

The second child was confused when asked: "What do you mean by this?"

The boss smiled wickedly: "I heard that your calligraphy has made rapid progress these days, and among our three brothers, you are the most talented." Let's go back and practice calligraphy. ”

As he spoke, the boss pushed the second child out of the tent, and although the second child was extremely reluctant, he did not dare to disobey, so he had to return to his tent stupidly.

For three whole days, the 50,000 army of Cloud City did not move for a long time, and Yue Zifeng sent people to send letters many times to ask the two armies to work together, but the boss has always turned a deaf ear and did not say a word about the decisive battle, and the 50,000 army of Cloud City still did not move. At this time, the rebels got a respite and took the opportunity to retreat to Yongding Pass, while Yue Zifeng's troops had to camp on the west side of Yongding Pass, ready to attack again.

But with the passage of time, the rebels began to gather the remnants again, and with the assistance of the demon army, they attacked Yue Zifeng's troops many times, although they were all repulsed, but they also caused a lot of losses to the Phoenix Army. However, the army of Yunjian City lost contact at this time, and Yue Zifeng began to send people to ask for help directly from the imperial capital, and sent more than a dozen batches of heralds in a row, but they all disappeared like mud cows into the sea, which made Yue Zifeng even more anxious.

Yue Zifeng led the army on a long-distance expedition, the grain and grass reserves were quickly exhausted, and the supplies could not be put in place for a long time.

In order to be able to resolve the battle as soon as possible, Yue Zifeng had to divide his troops and go around to the east side of Yongding Pass, preparing to rely on the strength of the Phoenix City army to flank Yongding Pass from both sides. At the same time, Yue Zifeng continued to send letters asking for help in the two directions of the imperial capital and Yunjian City, expecting to get a response.

At this time, the emperor's envoys continued to pour into Yunjian City, urging Su Hongzhen to march and cooperate with Yue Zifeng to attack Yongding Pass. After receiving the order, Su Hongzhen sent people to the front-line military camp many times to inquire about the battle situation and convey the emperor's orders, but the army still did not move.

When Su Hongzhen was in a hurry, the boss suddenly asked Su Hongzhen to bring back a secret letter, in which he explained that Yue Zifeng had besieged Yongding Pass for a long time, and most of Yue Zifeng's troops were deployed on the east side of Yongding Pass, as if he was suspected of preventing himself from marching, so for the sake of safety, he did not move.

Yue Zifeng didn't believe this, but the reports of several batches of heralds he sent were no different from the contents of the letter, and then Su Hongzhen began to wonder if Yue Zifeng was suspected of colluding with the rebels. So, Su Hongzhen wrote to the emperor, stating the situation, and asked for a thorough investigation of Yue Zifeng.

When the emperor saw Su Hongzhen's report, he was extremely worried, he was worried that once Yue Zifeng conspired with the rebels, at that time, the entire northern frontier would completely fall into the hands of the rebels, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

So, the emperor sent a secret edict to Ouyang Yi, who was supervising the battle in Yunjian City at the time, asking Ouyang Yi to find out the situation and report to him immediately. At that time, Ouyang Yi sent his second son Ouyang Zhen to the camp of the two brothers to check on the situation.

At that time, the 50,000 troops of Yunjian City had retreated to a place three hundred miles south of Huazhou City, and there was no sign of fighting, and the eldest and second brother personally went out of the camp for thirty miles to meet Ouyang Zhen, and Ouyang Zhen was very satisfied with the over-standard reception of the two brothers.

That night, the two brothers prepared a grand welcome ceremony for Ouyang Zhen, which made Ouyang Zhen feel very valued. During the banquet, the boss sent someone to prepare a beautiful woman for Ouyang Zhen to accompany him. One night later, Ouyang Zhen was about to take people to Yongding Pass to check the situation, and the two brothers accompanied him.

The three of them rode horses and stood on a hill fifty miles away from Yongding Pass, and sure enough, on the east side of Yongding Pass, there was a garrison, which was Yue Zifeng's troops, but judging from the size of the camp, there were only about one-third of the troops here.

The boss said: "Second son, look, Yue Zifeng is indeed suspected of rebellion, right?"

Ouyang Zhen looked at it and said, "Impossible, judging from the layout of the camp, this team is obviously going to attack Yongding Pass, otherwise how could Yue Zifeng expose the back of the camp to us? Moreover, the number of troops here is only one-third of Yue Zifeng's army at most." ”

The boss smiled and said, "I don't know what position the second son is now?"

Ouyang Zhen looked at the boss suspiciously: "What do you mean by this?"

The boss said: "As far as I know, the second son also has an elder brother, right? Brother Ling seems to be the young commander of the Imperial Forest Guard, and he is also the chief governor of the Imperial Forest Guard, and his position is ranked below Ling Zun, and the second son is just a deputy general under Brother Ling. ”

Ouyang Zhen's face was gloomy, and he said in a displeased tone, "So what?"

The boss looked at Ouyang Zhen and continued: "In the future, the position of commander of the Imperial Forest Guard will inevitably be inherited by Brother Ling, and as far as I know, Brother Ling will not let the second son sit in the position of the Great Governor." ”

Of course, Ouyang Zhen understands that his elder brother's temper is the same as his father's, domineering and domineering, and he is power-hungry, even if he sits as the commander of the Imperial Forest Guard, he will not give up the great governor with the right to command the army to himself, but concurrently serve it himself or hand it over to his son.

The boss saw that Ouyang Zhen didn't speak, and continued: "If Yue Zifeng rebels, then the army that the emperor can send will be left with only 50,000 imperial guards in Ling Zun's hands, and it must be Brother Ling who will lead the imperial forest guards at that time, right?"

Ouyang Zhen looked at the boss, seemed to understand what the boss meant, and asked, "What do you mean?"

The boss replied: "It doesn't matter what I mean, the important thing is that the second son is really willing to send someone for the rest of his life?"

Ouyang looked at the boss in shock, he did have the intention of replacing the eldest brother, and he had always been dissatisfied with his father's preference for the eldest brother, but he buried these things deep in his heart, and never told outsiders, and the person in front of him seemed to be able to see through his own thoughts, which made him a little surprised.

Ouyang Zhen looked at the garrison in front of him, thought for a long time, and said in his heart: "Yue Zifeng rebelled!"

The corner of the boss's mouth smiled slightly, nodded, and said, "Yue Zifeng rebelled!"

Returning to Yunjian City, Ouyang Zhen reported Yue Zifeng's rebellion to his father, Ouyang Yi was convinced of his son's words, and sent someone to send the information to the imperial capital that night.

Sure enough, the emperor immediately ordered Ouyang Yi to lead his troops and the defenders of Yunjian City to annihilate Yue Zifeng's troops and the rebels. Ouyang Zhen leaked the news to the boss in advance, and the boss sent a secret force to attack Yue Zifeng's convoy, burning Yue Zifeng's grain and grass, and completely cutting off Yue Zifeng's back road.

Ouyang Yi ordered his eldest son Ouyang Kui to be the vanguard of the Imperial Forest Guard, and led 40,000 Royal Forest Guards to cooperate with the remaining defenders of Yunjian City, a total of 80,000 people, and marched towards Yongding Pass. At this time, the boss sent someone to contact Yue Zifeng, and handed over a secret letter from Su Hongzhen to Yue Zifeng, saying that the two armies should be merged in one place and jointly attack the gate on the east side of Yongding Pass, etc.

After receiving the news that the boss was attacking the rebels together, Yue Zifeng did not hesitate at all and immediately prepared to deploy the attack.

According to the agreement, Yue Zifeng's troops took the lead in launching an attack on Yongding Pass, and the reinforcements of Yunjian City first covered the siege troops from the flanks, and then the two armies joined forces. Although Yue Zifeng had doubts about this, he originally planned to break into Yongding Pass from the west, because after several days of repeated attacks, the city defenses there had been basically destroyed. But when I think about it, most of the rebels have been damaged, and once the battle starts, the rebels will definitely merge with one West Gate, which is the weakest to protect, and the East Gate will definitely be empty at that time, so I don't think much about it.

On the day of the decisive battle, the boss sent a team of only 5,000 men to circle from the south to the south of Yongding Pass, while Ouyang Kui's troops slowly approached Yue Zifeng from the east side.

Yue Zifeng's western defenders slowly approached the eastern side, and when the troops were completely merged, Yue Zifeng anxiously waited for Ouyang Kui's arrival. It's just that Yue Zifeng was not waiting for Ouyang Kui, but the five thousand light cavalry sent by the boss, this light cavalry did not wait for Yue Zifeng's troops to gain a firm foothold, and immediately launched an attack on Yue Zifeng from the hillside, the attack speed was so fast that Yue Bu had no time to react, and a hole was immediately torn out in the rear. Yue Zifeng saw that the situation was not good, and immediately organized people to fight back.

This counterattack doesn't matter, it happened to be seen by Ouyang Kui who had just arrived, Ouyang Kui immediately ordered the troops to put into the attack on Yue, and the two sides immediately started a melee under the city of Yongding Pass, and the defenders of Yongding Pass saw it, and they were immediately blinded by the situation under the city, and the general defending the city immediately sent someone to report the situation to Su Hongfang.

Su Hongfang immediately ordered someone to open the city gate and attack Yue Zifeng from behind. The battle was very fierce, the battle lasted for a whole day and a night, the next morning, outside the entire Yongding Pass, corpses were all over the field, blood flowed like a river, due to no preparation in advance, plus most of the officers and soldiers of the Phoenix Army were in a state of confusion, the resistance to Ouyang Zhen's attack was insufficient, and the Phoenix Army was quickly defeated.

Yue Zifeng didn't figure out what was going on until he died, and Su Hongfang, who went out of the city to attack Yue Zifeng, was finally killed by Ouyang Kui. The 80,000 troops of Yunjian City who came to quell the rebellion were also lost, and only 20,000 remnants were left to prepare for the return of the division.

Just when Ouyang Kui was about to return, suddenly a large army came from Ouyang Zhen's rear, this army of 20,000 people who had just experienced a tragic battle and had not yet rested, in the eyes of the army behind, was like a group of powerless scholars, slaughtered by others, and Ouyang Zhen rushed out of the encirclement under the protection of Hu Zhen and returned to Cloud City.

In less than half a day, the 20,000 army was slaughtered, within a radius of ten miles, corpses were everywhere, although Ouyang Kui said that he stopped the men and horses from resisting desperately, but after all, he was outnumbered, and died on the battlefield, and the attacking army after the victory returned to the original station to rest according to the agreement.