Liu Liangzuo's camp is in Wengjia Village, which is more than six miles north of Qingjiang County, and the main reason why Liu Liangzuo chose this place is that there is a large reservoir in Wengjia Village near here, which has enough water for the army.

When marching and camping, the water source is the most important, and if it is inconvenient to get water from the camping place, it will have a great impact on the army.

Originally, it was very unsafe to camp like this in the plains, but Liu Liangzuo felt that he was strong and strong, and he was not afraid of the thieves in the city attacking him, so he chose this place.

It's a pity that Liu Liangzuo's rhythm was disrupted by Mo Qian's raid on Fengcheng, which led to him having to adopt the most undesirable method for the two armies to fight - siege.

Liu Liangzuo saw the direction of the camp behind him blazing, and his heart was immediately chaotic.

The camp was full of gold, silver, treasures, grain and grass that his army of 20,000 had worked so hard to rob!

Once the grain and grass are burned, then his 20,000 horses will not be hungry to fight against the thieves.

At this time, there were constantly routs in the north escaping, and Liu Liangzuo grabbed a few routs and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

The rout replied: "General soldier, anti-thief... Thousands of thieves suddenly appeared and attacked our camp, and all the grain, grass and baggage were burned..."

"What?" Liu Liangzuo suddenly felt a little dizzy.

After a while, Liu Liangzuo came to his senses, and he immediately ordered: "Mingjin collects his troops and returns to the division camp immediately." ”

The officers and soldiers who were besieging the city heard the sound of gold behind them, and immediately gave up the attack, and immediately turned around and ran back.

After Liu Liangzuo gave the order to withdraw the troops, he called the guerrilla general of the cavalry battalion to him and ordered: "Take people to the big camp immediately, no matter who sets fire to my big camp, you must keep all of them for me, and no one is allowed to escape, otherwise I will cut you down!" ”

The guerrilla general saw that Liu Liangzuo was so angry and knew the seriousness of the matter, so he immediately gathered 3,000 cavalry in the battalion and immediately led the team to the direction of the camp.

When he returned to the camp with his troops, he saw that the camp was in flames, and there were countless dead bodies inside and outside the camp.

Liu Liangzuo scolded angrily, and after scolding, he calmed down, and after a while, he said: "Order the cavalry, follow me to the east to chase those thieves!" ”

Although the camp was burned, Liu Liangzuo's mind quickly sobered up, there was no shelter north of the Qingjiang River, all paddy fields, and there was no cavalry in the anti-thieves, they marched on two legs, once they were caught up by their own army, they would inevitably be wiped out.

There was only one way for the thieves who set the fire to go, and that was to cross the river east to the ferry north of Zhangshu Town.

Liu Liangzuo was right, Lu Zhao did escape according to his route.

But Lu Zhao fled not because he was afraid of Liu Liangzuo, but because Mo Qian gave him an order to preserve the strength of the righteous army.

Although Liu Liangzuo had 3,000 cavalry, these 3,000 cavalry could only be divided into dozens of squads to fight, and there was no way to assemble and fight.

The most important factor in this is the southern ground factor.

There are too many paddy fields in Jiangxi, and the river network is dense, and the three thousand cavalry look very powerful, but it is simply unrealistic to really assemble and charge.

However, one or two hundred cavalry could not destroy thousands of infantry, not to mention that the infantry could not defeat and could run into the fields at any time.

At this time, the rice was halfway growing, and the fields were full of water, and people could walk in the fields when they entered, but the war horses could not do it, and when they fell into the paddy fields, they couldn't even pull out the horses' hooves.

Liu Liangzuo was dizzy, thinking that his cavalry could still be interspersed as casually as in the north.

When he led the cavalry to crisscross the official road, he soon discovered this problem.

But at this time, Liu Liangzuo didn't want to withdraw his troops, he was bound to catch up with the thousands of thieves and annihilate them all, so as to let out the evil breath in his heart.

Ten miles east of Wengjia Village, Lu Zhao was galloping all the way with 3,000 soldiers and horses.

Last night, he took 3,000 soldiers and horses out of Xinyu Beicheng, made a big circle all the way to the north, and waited until this evening to sneak into Liu Liangzuo's camp.

Liu Liangzuo only left 2,000 old, weak, sick and disabled in his camp, and these people could bully and bully the people on weekdays, but as soon as they encountered the 3,000 soldiers and horses led by Lu Zhao, they immediately became a pot of porridge.

Three thousand rebels attacked from all over the camp, and the two thousand old and weak who were killed were crushed, and as many as five or six hundred were beheaded, and the rest fled in all directions.

Lu Zhao did not chase these routs, but led his men to set fire everywhere in the camp, and immediately led the army to the east after lighting the fire.

According to the commander's instructions, he must immediately evacuate east to Zhangjiashan after setting fire, and cross the Ganjiang River by boat into Zhangshu Town, so as to get rid of the pursuit of Liu Liangzuo's cavalry.

Lu Zhao led 3,000 men and horses to gallop all the way, not even daring to rest, all the way to 20 miles, and finally arrived at the Zhangjiakou ferry after more than half an hour.

The defenders of camphor trees at the ferry had already prepared hundreds of boats, and soon took over the three thousand men and horses across the river.

When Liu Liangzuo arrived at Zhangjiakou, he found that there was no boat at the ferry, and he only saw hundreds of boats in the Ganjiang River slowly heading south.

When Liu Liangzuo saw this scene, he was immediately angry, and he didn't pay attention to falling off the horse, and this scene happened to be clearly seen by Lu Zhao, who was watching from the boat, with a diorama.

Liu Liangzuo was sick with anger, and he was the kind that couldn't afford to be sick, and the news spread not only among the official army, but also among the righteous army.

Lu Zhao immediately came to Qingjiang by boat and told Mo Qian about Liu Liangzuo's fall from his horse, Mo Qian was overjoyed when he heard it: "Okay, eliminate Huama Liu, just today, give the order to go down, the whole army will cross the river and go north, chase me!" ”

As soon as this order came out, the faces of the owners present suddenly changed greatly.

Lu Zhao hurriedly stood up and persuaded: "Dashuai, the brothers have been fighting for a day, I'm afraid I don't have the strength to chase after me anymore!" ”

Qian Dayou and several other generals also nodded, feeling that Lu Zhao was right.

But Mo Qian didn't care at all, he waved his hand and said: "We are tired, the officers and soldiers who have besieged the city for a day are even more tired, his camp of Hua Ma Liu was burned by you, and all the grain and grass were buried in the sea of fire."

Now there are not more than 10,000 officers and soldiers outside the city, but 10,000 hungry pigs, at this time the officers and soldiers are disheartened, if they don't take advantage of the victory tonight, they don't know where to run until tomorrow.

Let the brothers work harder, and when we win this battle tonight and annihilate Hua Ma Liu's troops, I will give everyone a seven-day vacation! ”

When the generals heard this, they immediately felt that what the marshal said was right, and they no longer spoke out to persuade each other.

Of the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Qingjiang County and Zhangshu Town, except for those who were injured and could not move, the remaining 11,000 people poured out of the nest and went directly in the direction of Zhangjiakou.

The officers and soldiers who were slowly retreating in Zhangjiakou saw that the general soldiers were unconscious and the dragons were leaderless, when they suddenly heard the earth-shattering shouts of killing behind them.

I saw that behind them, I don't know how many large armies were holding torches and killing them.

Those armies shouted loudly as they ran: "Annihilate all the dog officers and soldiers, capture Hua Ma Liu alive!" ”

Several officers under Liu Liangzuo's command, such as the general guerrilla commander, immediately panicked when they saw that the thieves actually led the army to chase after them.

And the officers and soldiers who lost the siege during the day and suffered heavy casualties still had the heart to fight at this moment, and as soon as they heard the shouts of killing, they threw off their arms and ran away without waiting for the officers to shout to organize.

What does it mean to be defeated like a mountain, the gang under Hua Ma Liu perfectly interprets this word.

The 20,000-strong army, in addition to the more than 3,000 people who lost during the day, left more than 16,000 people, and the superior strength of the 5,000 troops far exceeded the 5,000 of the righteous army, and the whole army was defeated.

The first to be defeated were the miscellaneous troops under Liu Liangzuo, who killed many brothers during the siege during the day, and they originally had complaints in their hearts.

Now when he saw that the thieves were actually counterattacking, he simply took off his weapons and armor, and ran north directly.

This part has the largest number of people, more than 10,000 people, and when they ran, the 3,000 elite soldiers under Liu Liangzuo were also stupid, they wanted to fight a field battle with this gang of anti-thieves.

However, when I saw so many torches behind me, I knew that the number of people was not less than 10,000, and the disparity in strength was too great, and there was no chance of winning at all.

Huama Liu's deputy general, Zhou Dingfang, the deputy chief soldier of the official army, saw that the general trend had gone, and couldn't help but say gloomily: "Let the brothers all withdraw, if you can run one by one!" ”

The deputy commander-in-chief has spoken, and the rest of the generals are no longer willing to insist, this battle is already very difficult for them, and now the battalion has been stolen again, all the grain and grass have been burned, and the general soldiers are in a coma again, their fighting spirit is gone as early as that moment, and they have long wanted to return to Susong.

More than 16,000 people threw off their armor and scurried in the darkness of the night, destroying hundreds of acres of crops.

They ran in front, and the soldiers of the Righteous Army chased after them, and in less than half an hour, the soldiers of the Righteous Army chased this group of routs to two miles north of Guniuling.

Guniuling is a very small mountain, and two miles to the north is a small river that is ten zhang wide.

There is no bridge over the river, and although it is not wide, the water is very deep, it must be a foot deep, and the water is very fast.

Most of the officers and soldiers were northerners and did not know how to water, and the defeated soldiers were chased to the river, and when they saw the turbulent river, they immediately made a difficulty.

A soldier took a torch and looked at the other side of the river and said loudly: "Brothers, the river is not wide, let's cross it directly!" ”

At the moment of life and death crisis, no one cared about anything, so he took off his armor and jumped into the water.

Thankfully, it was already Mayday, and the weather in the south was getting hotter, and the river wasn't too cold.

The river is not cold, but the current is very fast, and many officers and soldiers who do not know how to water are directly washed away after entering the water.

Some officers and soldiers did not dare to jump anymore when they saw this scene, but there was still a steady stream of routs behind them.

Thousands of people crowded the river's edge, and from time to time soldiers were pushed down the river, and then soon drowned in the rushing water.

At this time, Zhou Dingfang also came to the river with his cavalry, and when he saw the ten-zhang wide river, Zhou Dingfang and a group of generals also panicked.

"Are we all going to die here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the damn voice came from behind him.

"Annihilate all the dog officers and soldiers, and capture Hua Ma Liu alive!"

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