Yang Huaidu sat in his tent, looking at the man in front of him, his eyes were full of excitement: "You mean three days?" After three days, the plan will go ahead as promised? ”

"Yes. My master said that in three days everything would be ready, and then the battle would be over with a great victory. So Mr. Yang only needs to let the army continue to hold out for another three days......" this one also replied respectfully.

"Good...... Good! Yang Huaidu suddenly stood up excitedly and paced back and forth in the tent before he could suppress the ecstasy in his heart.

After a while, he stopped and said, "Then you go back and tell your master, and I will arrange everything." At that time, we should cooperate with the outside world, and Jiangnan will belong to our vertical and horizontal society! ”

"Yes, the little one retired first." The man agreed, bowed his head and was about to withdraw.

But at this moment, an anxious voice came in from outside the tent door: "Childe ......" said, and even the low-hanging curtain was quickly lifted by him, which made the expressions of the two people inside change, especially Yang Huaidu, who reprimanded: "Bold!" Dare to break into my military tent, do you want to die? ”

The henchman who was in a hurry and directly opened the curtain to see that his master reacted like this, and hurriedly knelt down and bowed his head: "Little confession, please listen to me and deal with it after I finish the matter......"

Yang Huaidu snorted, and then signaled the man immediately. After the man left, he said in a cold voice, "Say, what happened." If you don't have a reasonable explanation, you know what will happen. ”

He swallowed his saliva uneasily, then raised his head slightly, and said in a low voice: "Guo Shuai has an order, tonight the army will retreat thirty miles and give up the north bank of the Yangtze River to the Jiangnan army......"

"What?" Yang Huaidu suddenly changed color, and his whole face was distorted with anger, "He dares!" ”

As he spoke, he rushed out of the military tent in a few steps, looked to the rear, and sure enough, he saw some men and horses in the rear camp starting to pack their tents and bags, and planned to retreat backwards, which verified this statement with facts.

Seeing this, Yang Huaidu couldn't hold back at all, and he didn't care about punishing his subordinates who broke into the account at will, so he ran straight towards the handsome tent not far away.

As soon as the guards in front of the tent wanted to stop them, they were scolded by him with a calm face: "Get out, I want to see Guo Yan!" Under the anger, he didn't care about the superficial respect.

The quarrel was quickly known by the people inside, and reported to Guo Yan, who also had a gloomy face. This made him hesitate slightly, but he still spoke: "Let Mr. Yang come in and speak." ”

A moment later, Yang Huaidu had already broken into the handsome tent in a hurry, staring at Guo Yan with almost flames in his eyes: "What do you want to do?" Why did he suddenly order the withdrawal of troops, when he had already told me to fight for a few more days to see the situation, why did he go back on his word now? Not to mention ......"

"Yang Huaidu!"

A loud shout interrupted his questioning, but it was not Guo Yan who spoke, but Huang Zhen on the side, he was also angry, and shouted: "You have to know your identity, the commander of the army is not you, whether you are fighting or retreating, and it is not something that you can put a beak on your little counselor!"

"If you dare to talk nonsense again, be careful of Lao Tzu's military law against you!"

With his reprimand, inside and outside the tent, more than a dozen personal soldiers immediately stepped forward a few steps, many of them unkindly pressed the knife in their hands, looking like they might teach a lesson at any time.

This made Yang Huaidu's body also shake suddenly, and he stared at Guo Yan: "Guo Shuai, is this what you mean?" ”

"Stand down." Guo Yan sighed helplessly, waved his hand and said.

After these loyal soldiers had withdrawn, he looked at the other party's angry face and said, "Mr. Yang, I did just promise you to fight for a few more days, but the battlefield is changing rapidly, and it is not possible to say for sure.

"Do you know that just a few days ago, there were successive rebellions in Huainan behind us, Ruzhou, Pingzhou, and Fenzhou...... More than 10 state cities and more than 30 county towns have risen up one after another to seize the cities, and the soldiers and horses we left there have either been killed or surrendered.

"In fact, we have lost control of most of Huainan, and behind us are a large number of enemies who are about to be slaughtered.

"If you don't retreat quickly at this time, it will really be a disaster for the enemy!"

The words made Yang Huaidu stunned, and the anger on his face was quickly replaced by horror and doubt: "This ...... How is this possible......"

In fact, after Guo Yan said that there was a rebellion in Huainan, he had already lost his soul a little, and he didn't take the rest of his words to heart.

And the Huainan rebellion alone has had a great impact on him, and that is the root of their Zongheng Society.

"Mr. Yang, there will be no falsehood in this matter, and no one dares to lie about such a big thing. And I believe that this news cannot be hidden, and it will not be long before not only the officers and men of our army will spread, but also the Jiangnan army on the other side will definitely know about it.

"At that time, the fighting spirit of our army is gone, and the morale of the enemy army has risen greatly, if we kill again, do you think we will still have a chance of winning?"

Guo Yan's question, Yang Huaidu naturally couldn't give an answer, he still stood there, stammering, not knowing what to do.

Huang Zhen watched from the side, and his eyes showed a deep disdain, such a guy with such a heart would dare to come to the army to supervise the army, it was really a monkey, ridiculous!

Guo Yan didn't mean to laugh at the other party, and still explained in a deep voice: "On the contrary, if we withdraw now, we can still ensure the safety of the army." The Jiangnan army on the south bank may not dare to risk pursuing without knowing what to do.

"As long as we distance ourselves from them and give us a certain amount of time, I believe that with the elite of my army, we will be able to take back a few cities in a short period of time, and clean up the chaos in Huainan!"

"So this time we must withdraw from the army, and I hope you can send a message to the superiors and let them cooperate with each other."

A calm analysis and a correct countermeasure not only showed Guo Yan's talent as a general, but also finally allowed Yang Huaidu to recover.

Although he was still full of reluctance, it was only a few days before this battle would completely fall to his own house because of the previous arrangement.

But he could only accept the facts at this time, and nodded helplessly: "Then withdraw from the army according to Guo Shuai's wishes." I will send a letter to Huaibei immediately, so that the other side can also make arrangements. ”

On the night of 25 September, after nearly four months of confrontation across the river and a head-to-head water battle, the Liangzhou army finally chose to retreat and leave the Yangtze River.

At the same time on this night, on the water surface of the Yangtze River, more than ten miles away from the battlefield of the confrontation between the two sides, two small boats with lone sails quickly approached the south bank from the north of the river without children, and found each other's existence in the center of the river......