Seventy miles south of Shunzhou, the southern Sichuan coalition army camp.

In the camp that stretched for more than ten miles, there was an air of despair everywhere.

The faces of all the leading warriors were filled with helplessness, chagrin, and even confusion......

Because in these days, they lost too quickly and too badly.

After the reinforcements from northern Sichuan arrived, they almost never took advantage of it, and fought with the opponent's vanguard, whether they were defeated, fought again, and defeated again, they could only retreat backwards.

Then after the arrival of the main force in northern Sichuan, as soon as the battle was engaged, they were defeated again, and in the end, they could only rely on the camp that had just been built to defend themselves to prevent a round of onslaught from the enemy.

However, after the main force of northern Sichuan launched another surprise attack at night, the ten allied armies were defeated again, and they could only abandon the camp they had worked hard to build and retreat more than 20 miles again before they regained their foothold.

It was only when they set up camp again and checked the damage of the soldiers and horses that they found that not only were the casualties huge, but also that two soldiers and horses had disappeared while they were in a hurry.

Although these two people are not the strongest among the ten, they each have 10,000 warriors, but they didn't even say hello, so they took advantage of the chaos to flee at night.

Whether they really fled south to the tribal territory, or simply threw themselves to the other side, it was another heavy blow to the whole of the southern Sichuan coalition army, completely breaking up what little morale they had left.

If it weren't for the fact that the northern Sichuan army also slowed down its offensive for some reason, I am afraid that the ten coalition armies at this time would have fallen apart and disappeared.

However, these eight barbarians, who are still living together in the same battalion, have long since deviated from morality, and it is difficult to trust and cooperate with each other, but more of them blame each other, believing that it is a wrong move of the other party that caused their own soldiers and horses to be damaged.

And among them, the most criticized is naturally Yang Jianting, who advocates union with the imperial court and is the chief general of the ten coalition armies - oh, now his identity as the chief general has long existed in name, and no one buys his account anymore.

"Patriarch, I saw that the Teng Snake Department was packing up, and it looked like it was about to leave......" Yang Yunbao hurriedly came to the big tent with an indignant expression.

After sitting at the desk, Yang Jianting, whose eyes fell on the extremely simple topographic map of Sichuan and Shu without focus, let out a sigh after a while, and then sighed: "This is also reasonable, I'm afraid that the other parts have the same idea." ”

"But they didn't think that the enemy troops on the other side would watch them withdraw? Even if they do retreat, will they be able to sit back and relax? I'm afraid that it won't be long before the Mu army will drive in front of their walled city and sweep them all away. Yang Yunbao said excitedly.

Yang Jianting smiled bitterly: "What if you know?" I've said everything I have to say in the past few days, but they don't listen...... Nowadays, we are already difficult to ride a tiger, and the only way to survive is to fight to the death, even if we can't defeat the northern Sichuan army, we have to bite a large piece of meat on them, that is the real self-preservation.

"Otherwise, the more we are afraid, the more we flee and disperse, the more we will boost the arrogance of the Mu Clan, let them go south without scruples, and annihilate us one by one!

"But look at those people, from top to bottom, who still has the courage to fight against the Mu army? They have long since seen the future, and only think about the present, and only think about taking their people back to escape, thinking that then they will be safe. ”

Yang Yunbao was also bitter and uneasy: "That...... Is there really no way? Knowing this, we shouldn't have believed the nonsense of the Han court in the first place......"

"This is our only way out and hope." Yang Jianting stared at his clan brother, full of anticipation, "Since he said that he has a way to cut off the grain route of the northern Sichuan army and let them completely cut off the grain, we can only believe that he can do it!"

"Delay, support, one more day, one more hope!"

Yang Yunbao was stunned: "Patriarch, do you still believe their nonsense?" If it had been so easy to cut off the food routes of the Northern Army, we would have won a long time ago. And, I'm worried...... Could this be a conspiracy of the Han Chinese?

"Could they have actually returned to the rear a long time ago, taking advantage of the exhaustion of our elites and the emptiness of our cities and villages, and sent troops to capture all our cities?"

This speculation made Yang Jianting suddenly excited, if this is the case, then all the departments in southern Sichuan will be finished, including their Banzhou Yang clan.

But soon, he shook his head vigorously, as if he was denying the other party's conjecture, and as if he was trying his best to convince himself: "Impossible, the emperor is not so stupid." Even if he relied on this conspiracy to seize all parts of southern Sichuan, his foundation was unstable, and he would still not be able to hold it when the northern army arrived.

"Only by cooperating with us and breaking the Northern Army in a war is the right choice for him to really gain a foothold in Sichuan and Shu......"

"But right now, ......" Yang Yunbao wanted to say something more, but someone outside the tent hurriedly reported: "Patriarch, someone from the north has been sent over, saying that he wants to talk to us." ”

"Huh?" Yang Jianting was stunned at first when he heard this, and then squinted his eyes and thought for a moment, "Let him come to see me." ”

It didn't take long for a personable Han scholar to come to Yang Jianting's tent, and with him came the leaders of several other departments in southern Sichuan, and it was obvious that this person had already sent someone to inform them.

"Under the account of Xia Muheng Tusi, Counselor Zhou Chang, I have met Patriarch Yang and the leaders of the Tusi." Zhou Chang had a warm smile on his face, and after entering the account, he first gave a gift.

Yang Jianting just nodded slightly, but the other patriarchs all nodded at each other, and sent him to salute, and some of them hurriedly asked, "Mr. Zhou came on the order of Mu Tusi?" Did he have any commands? ”

Zhou Chang glanced at it before he smiled: "I don't dare to take orders, but I am indeed here under orders, and I want to talk to you about things that are beneficial to both of us."

"In fact, we are all native of Sichuan and Shu, and we can even say that we are from the same source, so there is really no need to fight each other for some outsiders.

"Before, Lord Tusi was also for the survival and interests of our ministries, so he raised troops to come south, just to destroy those Han people who messed with my Sichuan and Shu.

"But you, as members of the same clan, stood up regardless of it, and attacked Shunzhou, wanting to invade the northern Sichuan tribes, which is really too domineering. My Mu clan has been in northern Sichuan for many years, and I have already been sincerely subdued by all departments, how can I watch them be bullied like this?

"That's why there's this big war. However, after all, this battle was caused by a misunderstanding or instigated by others, which is really not the blessing of my Sichuan and Shu departments, so what Muheng Tusi means is that we will strike our troops now, go back separately, and then discuss a strategy to deal with the Han people. I wonder what you think? ”