Chapter 178: Embattled

"Dashuai, let's go......" A miserable scream woke up Liu Zhiyuan in a daze, it turned out that a subordinate general had his right arm cut off by the one-eyed man of the Northern Barbarians in order to protect himself.

And the general of the Flying Dragon Army was also very brave, and he actually used his remaining left hand to hold the axe of the one-eyed man, desperately urging Liu Zhiyuan to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as possible.

"Da Kui......" Liu Zhiyuan let out a mournful cry from his mouth, he knew that it was time to withdraw from the battle, otherwise this good brother would die in vain.

"Let's go!" Liu Zhiyuan has led the troops for many years and knows that the opportunity is fleeting. He quickly recovered from the grief of losing his comrades, led a group of soldiers around him, turned around and killed on the periphery.

Liu Zhiyuan is a martial artist in the middle realm of the six grades, and a group of people around him are all good hands in the Flying Dragon Army, and under the crisis, everyone went all out to kill some of the Northern Barbarians who were surrounded by him, but the strange thing is that they did not withdraw from the battlefield at the first time, but rushed to the group of Flying Dragon Army soldiers who were divided and surrounded.

Liu Zhiyuan and these good men around him rampaged on the battlefield, quickly disrupting the position of the Northern Barbarians, allowing several teams of surrounded Flying Dragon Army soldiers to successfully merge with them.

The soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army, who had already been dispersed, saw Liu Zhiyuan's handsome banner moving around on the battlefield, and they also leaned over one after another, making more and more soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army converge around Liu Zhiyuan.

The Northern Barbarian King Heihan Mugu, who had retreated to the rear, saw that the red wave on the battlefield was gathering more and more, and immediately asked the herald to wave the order flag and mobilize people to outflank Liu Zhiyuan and the soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army under him.

"Dashuai, we have to withdraw, it's too late." Beside Liu Zhiyuan, a general covered in blood grabbed Liu Zhiyuan, who was about to rush to the next battle circle, and said loudly.

"There are still a lot of brothers over there, let's withdraw if we rescue them!" Liu Zhiyuan pointed to the group of Flying Dragon Army soldiers surrounded in front of him with his finger, and turned his head to the general and said.

"It's too late, Dashuai, if you don't leave, the brothers will stay here today." The general pointed to the enemy who had arrived here, and said anxiously.

Before this, Liu Zhiyuan had been engaged in the battle, without observing the situation on the battlefield, and now when he looked up, he found that the encirclement of the Manchurians was about to close, and he was immediately frightened into a cold sweat.

"Brothers, I, Liu Zhiyuan, am sorry for you." As a commander, Liu Zhiyuan knew that it was time to withdraw from the battlefield, he wiped the sweat or tears on his face, turned around and went out of the battlefield.

"It's a pity!" On the high ground behind the Northern Barbarian Army, the Northern Barbarian King Heihan Mugu, saw that Liu Zhiyuan had led people to rush out of the battle circle, and said regretfully.

The battle on the banks of the Yingshui River ended in the complete defeat of the Daning Flying Dragon Army. In this battle, less than 60,000 of the 230,000 soldiers of the Flying Dragon Army, mainly the Flying Dragon Army, successfully withdrew, while the 150,000 Northern Barbarian Army only lost more than 40,000 people.

Liu Zhiyuan, the commander of the defeated Flying Dragon Army, led the remnants of the army to retreat to Yingzhou City, trying to rely on the tall city wall to block the Northern Barbarian army. However, he fell for the enemy's plan to lure the enemy, and was once again killed by the Northern Barbarians.

Liu Zhiyuan, who was defeated, had no choice but to order all the grain in Yingzhou City to be burned, and hurriedly led his troops to withdraw from Yingzhou Mansion, but he lost his troops in the pursuit of the Northern Barbarians.

The defeat of the Flying Dragon Army led by Liu Zhiyuan caught the Daning Imperial Court off guard, and there was no army that could stop the Northern Barbarians from Yingzhou Mansion to Jinling.

What made the Daning court even more troublesome was that Daning's neighbors also began to fall into the ground, and South Vietnam in the south suddenly raised 80,000 troops to attack the neighboring Daning Zhangzhou Mansion. The island country of the East China Sea, Dongwa, also wanted to take the opportunity to get a piece of the pie, and 100,000 Japanese soldiers landed from Taizhou, and the front of the troops was directed at the hinterland of Daning. And in the Northwest Desert, although Simon has not yet sent troops, there are also signs of troop movement.

Seeing that an urgent document was urgently sent back to Jinling, the Ming Emperor Liu Gou and his important ministers were as anxious as ants on a hot pot.

At this time, the important ministers of the court were divided into several factions, and the main battle faction advocated relying on Jinling, relying on the 100,000 defenders of Jinling City to defend the capital of Daning, and ordered to summon local soldiers to come to King Qin, and form a siege of the invading Northern Barbarians?

However, some conservatives believe that the combat power of the Northern Barbarians is really strong, and the stubborn defense of Jinling City is likely to cause such a tragedy as the exile of the second emperor that year, and it is recommended to move the capital to Shuzhou in the interior of Daning as soon as possible.

There were even peacemakers, who advocated ceding Yingzhou and Chuzhou to the Northern Barbarians, and paying a certain amount of annual coins to the Northern Barbarians every year in exchange for the Northern Barbarians to withdraw their troops.

The officials who held these views argued endlessly in the court, and the Ming Emperor Liu Gou had long since lost his opinion, and he could not come up with a feasible plan for a long time, which made the entire Daning fall into a panic.

The two armies of the Wild Lion and the War Tiger in the three major iron armies of Daning must now be stationed in the southeast and southwest of Daning, blocking the soldiers and horses of the two countries of South Vietnam and the East Wa, and the Flying Dragon Army has been disabled, and now it has to retreat dozens of miles almost every day, and it seems that it is about to retreat to Jinling.

And the soldiers and horses of King Qin, which Liu Gou was counting on, were also unable to arrive in Jinling for a long time, except for some soldiers and horses who were afraid of battle, many places really couldn't dispatch manpower. Because they saw that the officers and soldiers had no time to take care of themselves, banditry in various places became rampant, and the local soldiers and horses were already overwhelmed with just suppressing bandits, so where could they send people to reinforce Jinling.

Emperor Daning stayed enough to worry every day, he really didn't expect that the entire Daning would become full of holes in this night, and under some entanglement, Liu Gou finally made a decision, that is, to move the capital to Shudi.

Shu is a huge basin, surrounded by mountains, natural barriers can block the soldiers and horses of various countries, the only fly in the ointment is that this place is too barren, if not forced to this situation, Liu Gou is absolutely unwilling to go to this place.

Just as Liu Gou was intensively preparing for the relocation of the capital, good news suddenly came from the front, saying that the Northern Barbarians had actually withdrawn their troops.

Liu Gou was really overjoyed when he heard the news, and then he wondered about rebirth, why did this Northern Barbarian army suddenly withdraw if it fought well? After many inquiries, it was finally confirmed that the more than 100,000 troops of the Northern Barbarians had indeed withdrawn from Ningtai Pass, and a large area of land occupied by the Northern Barbarians had returned to Daning.

And what forced the Northern Barbarians to retreat was not any regular army in Daning, but actually a group of bandits, which were the former Flying Eagle Bandits entrenched in the three counties of Black Mountain, Yuhe and Caoping in Yingzhou, calling themselves the Fierce Eagle Army.

Time back to the Northern Barbarian army to break through Yingzhou City, the Northern Barbarian King Heihan Mugu stood at the head of Yingzhou City with high spirits, defeating the great enemy of the Flying Dragon Army, the Northern Barbarians can be like a bamboo, directly kill the Jinling of Daning, it is very likely to reproduce the feat of his father Heihan Xiongge, and capture the emperor and civil and military officials of Daning in one fell swoop.

The Northern Barbarian army in front of him won several battles, forcing Liu Zhiyuan, the commander of the Flying Dragon Army, to retreat, but while Liu Zhiyuan was defeated and retreated, he did something that made Heihan Mugu extremely headache.

Every time he took a step back, he implemented the policy of clearing the wilderness, not only letting all the local people evacuate, but also taking away all the grain, and those that could not be taken away were simply burned with fire.

Liu Zhiyuan's move really brought a lot of trouble to the Northern Barbarian army, the Northern Barbarians are indeed powerful, but they have no food, how can they fight on an empty stomach?

Most of the Northern Barbarians are grasslands and deserts, the number of fields is too small, and the lack of food has always been a big problem for the Northern Barbarians, which is also the main reason why they have been thinking about invading Daning and forcibly seizing their land and materials.

This time, because the battle of the Northern Barbarian army was going very smoothly and the speed of advance was very fast, it brought great trouble to the supply of grain and grass in the rear, making it impossible for the Northern Barbarian army to advance quickly, and by the way, it also gave Daning some buffer time.

At this time, his subordinates made a suggestion to Heihan Mugu, which was to take down the three counties controlled by the Yingzhou Fierce Eagle Army. It is said that a lot of grain and grass are currently hoarded in the three counties, which can greatly alleviate the shortage of food for the army.

What's more, if the three counties between Yunshan Pass and Shishou Pass are taken, the rear transport team will have to reach the front line, which will save at least two days' journey.

This suggestion made Heihan Mugu set his sights on the three counties of Black Mountain, Yuhe and Caoping under Ye Ying's rule. But before Heihan Mugu sent troops to attack the Burning Eagle Army, the Fierce Eagle Army had already made a preemptive strike, bringing great trouble to Heihan Mugu's Northern Barbarian Army.

Since the Northern Barbarians invaded Daning, the lieutenant generals of the Fierce Eagle Army were very entangled, they were not only glad that they did not have to face the 100,000 Flying Dragon Army that came to encircle and suppress, but also hated the Northern Barbarians for brazenly invading and killing the people of Daning.

At present, the people of the Fierce Eagle Army also have two different views, one is to take advantage of the opportunity of the Great War between Beiban and Daning, and the team is just recuperating and constantly developing and strengthening its own strength, and those who hold this view are generally mainly old people in the army.

And many young generals thought that the Northern Barbarians should not be allowed to bully the people of Daning, and the Fierce Eagle Army should get out of the Bingyun Mountain Pass and come from behind the Northern Barbarians.

But the strange thing is that these people in the core group of the Fierce Eagle Army, from Ye Ying, the young marshal of the Fierce Eagle to Zhuge Ying, the military advisor, to the commanders of several major armies, have formed an astonishing unanimity, that is, they don't say a word about this matter, as if they don't know that such a big event has happened outside.

Just when the Blazing Eagle Army thought that the top leaders would choose to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, the army suddenly convened an emergency meeting of the commanders above the team. At the meeting, Ye Ying announced that the four major armies of the Blue Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Xuanwu under the command of the Fierce Eagle Army marched out of Yunshan Pass at the same time, and even many civilian officials in various counties, and even many ordinary people would accompany them.

If the army does not move, it will be gone, and if it moves, it will pour out. This greatly exceeded the expectations of everyone in the army, but after so many years of training, the officers and men of the Eagle Army have formed a habit of resolutely obeying orders from above.

Toguha was the grain transport officer of the Northern Barbarian Army, which was an errand he had worked so hard to obtain, and although it was very hard to transport grain and grass, he could make many benefits from it.

It is precisely with this mentality that Toguha, the grain officer, worked very hard, whether it was urging grain or transporting grain, he arranged it in an orderly manner, and did not affect the war in front of him in the slightest, and he also made a lot of money.

In order to replenish the source of troops, the Northern Barbarian King Heihan Mugu not only let people go back to the Beiban to urgently transfer troops, but also pulled out all the soldiers and horses that could be drawn in the army, and the original 5,000-person grain transportation team was also compressed to 3,000.

However, for this situation, Toguha is not worried at all, the Northern Barbarian army is currently in a state of collapse, and the Daning people have been beaten to the point that they have lost their armor, where is there anyone who dares to go deep into the rear of the Northern Barbarian army to snatch grain and grass.

However, Toguha never imagined that there would really be a group of desperate guys who would dare to beat the idea of grain and grass in his hands.