Ba Penglai, the lord of Shicheng, reported that the Chu army lured Fan Jin (the eldest brother of the red-faced tiger Fan Yuntong, who was actually the eldest son of Fan Yuntong's adoptive father) out of the pass with weak soldiers, and as a result, the Chu army was defeated in three battles and three times, retreated again and again, and could not form an army.

The main general of this way, Ba Peng, led a large army to fight with the Chu army between Xiaoguan and Shicheng, and could not resist the high morale of the Chu people, and was preparing to retreat into Shicheng and wait for reinforcements.

This news is tantamount to a slap in the face for the eighth prince Ba Yuanan and the lieutenant general Ba Xiu.

It was only at this time that the generals of the Pakistani army came to their senses, and it was not the commander of the Chu army Yang Ming who had a decisive battle with the main force of the Pakistani army at Duting Mountain, but his deputy commander Qu Rong. The real Yangming, under the false banner of Qu Rong, pressed towards the Yushui Salt Spring in Pakistan.

Ba Yuanan and Ba Xiu knew that they were in charge of Yangming, and they hated the roots of their teeth and held an emergency military meeting.

Ba Yuanan quickly made a decision: immediately return to rescue Shicheng, and he himself led the army to retreat first, and the lieutenant general Ba Xiu personally broke the rear, and if necessary, gave the Chu army an ambush, so that Qu Rong did not dare to pursue.

At the meeting, Lieutenant General Ba Tou reported a news from the spies by the way, saying that Chu General Yangming strongly recommended his right-hand man Douying as his deputy marshal, but he was replaced by Qu Ronglai, the "general of the defeated army", and Qu Rong's first arrival in Yicheng, and the generals who have been stationed in Yicheng all the year round have not had much old friendship, and many generals do not buy his account, therefore, Qu Rong and the main general Yang Ming face and heart are not in harmony.

Based on this situation, the eighth prince Ba Yuanan's civilian officer in the army famously proposed a discordant plan that had almost no cost and little chance of success.

Ba Yuanan and Ba Xiu disagreed with this plan, but agreed that "you might as well give it a try". No one wanted to carry out this more whimsical plan, so he had to take it himself. At a loss, the dead horse should also be a live horse doctor, which is at least a ploy, and Ba Yuanan agrees to provide Chiming with any people and property he thinks he needs.

The main force of the Pakistani army evacuated Duting Mountain in a panic.

Chu general Qu Rong probed the main force of the Pakistani army to withdraw, and judged that it was his own general Yang Ming who had taken Xiaoguan and was heading straight into the territory of Pakistan, he learned the lesson of the last time he had suffered a big loss in Baxiu, and ordered not only not to pursue the Ba army, but to quickly leave Duting Mountain, and take a short road in the other direction to besiege the important military place of the Pakistani army - Shicheng.

Chu General Qu Rong wants to compete with the main force of the Pakistani army, a long-distance run that is more marathon than Malasong.

Ba Yuan'an, the eighth prince of Pakistan, hurriedly withdrew his troops back, and on the way, he got another bad news that was so shocked that he was about to vomit blood: Shicheng was lost.

The dispute between Bachu and Chu has been more than ten years, and the Pakistani people have been accustomed to tug-of-war, and they can't imagine that this time, the old opponent Chu General Yangming, who has always been unfazed, is like a changed person, and has made a thunderous big move, resulting in a sudden change in the situation, and the Pakistani army has the tendency of being defeated like a mountain. The eighth prince, Ba Yuan'an, didn't have time to take regret medicine, so he ordered the main force to run directly back to the last barrier of Yushui Salt Spring, Tingzi Pass, in an attempt to grab the last straw.

At the same time, Ba Yuan'an hurriedly sent people to order Gongjun, the leader of the Gong clan, and Hu Anbo and Yuyu, the leader of the Gong clan, to set up an ambush in the Shengui Gorge of the Qianjiang River (now Apengjiang) to prevent the people of Chu from taking the stone city and going straight down to Gongtan and entering Yushuikou;

Panicked all the way, several hundred thousand urgent orders were issued, and the eighth prince, Ba Yuanan, felt that he had never been so frightened.

The anxious Ba Yuanan ran halfway through, and an even bigger piece of bad news made him dizzy and unsteady on his feet: the Chu army captured the Tingzi Pass, which was closest to Yucheng and Yushui Salt Spring.

The eighth prince Ba Yuan'an thundered, unbelievable, and scolded Ba Peng and others.

The war has its own law of war, which is not an accidental result achieved by the people of Chu, but in order to take the Yushui Salt Spring and the vast area in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River in Baguo in one fell swoop, the lord of the Chu army Yicheng will Yang Ming carefully planned a "chain plan": first, let the deputy marshal Qu Rong play his own banner and make a high-profile Seven Poke Mountain, Duting Mountain, attracting the main force of the Pakistani army; then, Yang Ming personally led the elite, but in the name of Qu Rong, lured the Pakistani army's Xiaoguan guard, who did not pay enough attention to Qu Rong, to pursue Fan Jin in and out of the pass, and when Fan Jin found out that his opponent was his old opponent Yang Ming, it was too late, causing the loss of the Ba Guoxiao Pass; Ba Peng, the chief general of the Pakistani army's Yushui side and lieutenant general, heard the news that Fan Jin had been killed. Xiaoguan was lost, furious, and mobilized a large army to recapture Xiaoguan, thus causing Shicheng to be empty, and Yang Ming ordered his most trusted general Zhuang Fu and brave general Shen Xiao to lead a surprise army to attack Shicheng from the flank.

Ba Peng found that the Xiaoguan in front of him and the stone city behind him had fallen into the hands of the Chu people, and hurriedly chose a way to retreat to the last barrier of Yushui Salt Spring - Tingzi Pass.

The Chu army found out that Ba Peng was going to flee and chased after him behind his ass.

When he arrived near Tingzi Pass, Ba Peng found that the Tingzi Pass, which was weakly defended, had been taken by the Chu general Shen Xiao from Shicheng.

Ba Peng was furious, led the crowd desperately, fought hard to seize the pass, and was shot countless by random arrows.

There are chasing soldiers in the back, and there is Tingzi Pass in front, and when Ba Peng is helpless, he has to lead the rout through the dense forest and spare the Tingzi Pass.

Because the progress was too smooth, the Chu army's backup was too late to arrive, Yucheng had not yet been surrounded, Ba Peng entered Yucheng, had lost and lost most of the centaurs, together with his father and brother, prepared more arrows, rolling stones, and messy wood, and held the city to wait for reinforcements.

Back to the present.

One bad news after another made the command of the Pakistani army almost paralyzed, and the eighth prince Ba Yuanan felt that the sky was about to fall.

Ba Yuanan and the lieutenant general Ba Xiu, who quickly rushed back, just arrived in Yucheng not far away, and encountered an ambush by the Chu army that sent reinforcements.

When arriving, the main general of the Chu army, Yang Ming, had already arrived in Yucheng first, and the soldiers were approaching the city, and they were attacking the city, fortunately Yuhou, Bapeng, Ba Sheng, Zheng Rong, Ba Ge, Ba Xin, etc. led the people to defend to the death, and the city was strong, and it had been attacked for two days and two nights, and Yucheng was not broken.

When the Pakistani reinforcements arrived, the city was attacked inside and outside, and the Chu army was defeated and retreated.

The generals of the Pakistani army, seeing that Yang Ming had chased him to Yucheng at this time, blatantly flaunted his own banner, wishing to skin him alive and swallow his flesh alive, everyone tried their best to pursue him, and Yang Ming could not get rid of the battle to the death.

At the critical moment, a Biao Chu army was killed, headed by a general, and it was the brave general Douying who was ordered by Qu Rong to conquer Duting Mountain, and arrived first, saved Yang Ming, and retreated into Tingzi Pass.

The Pakistani army chased to the Tingzi Pass, and the arrows were fired at the pass, and the Pakistani army and the Chu army, who had no time to enter the pass, were hit by arrows one after another, and the long legs escaped with their lives.

The Pakistani army rushed through the pass several times, exhausting all its strength, while the Chu army stubbornly defended and exhausted all kinds of means. After several days of fierce fighting, Tingzi Pass was still in the hands of the Chu army.

Seeing that there were more and more casualties, and there was no good result in such a hard fight, the Pakistani army retreated five miles to the village, guarding the only passage from Tingziguan to Yucheng, and the eighth prince Ba Yuanan and others returned to Yucheng to urgently discuss countermeasures.