The last thing left of the Mai family was only an infant baby girl, and the rest all died in prison. This baby girl later became Lu Xiuwen's wife, that is, the wife of the son that Ba Niu passed to Lu Xinghe. Since then, the Mai family of the Tiandao clan has broken its roots, and later there are many people who use the banner of the Mai family to oppose the Li family's regime, but in fact, they are all impersonators with ulterior motives. The real Mai family was completely ended in the hands of Ba Niu.

After this matter is settled, it is time to attack Changtu. He entrusted everything in the rear to Shi Chuan and Shi Xueming, and then gathered all the horses and marched towards Changtu in three ways. The first road was Sheng Shiyuan's Third Army and Liu Nanshan's Fourth Army, and the second road was Qu Boyu's Fifth Army and Xu Lishan's Sixth Army. The remaining Liu Chuanzhi's Second Army and Ba Niu's First Army plus Liu Xilie's New First Army, Lin Shidong's New Second Army, Wei Wuzhou's New Third Army, and Ma Xudong's Reserve Army, a total of 100,000 people served as the third team. Liu Nanshan's Fourth Army and Qu Boyu's Fifth Army remained on the Akiyama Peninsula until after Li Yuming's ascension to Kyoto, and when Ba Niu again proposed to conquer Mingsha Mountain and march to Kangle, they were transferred to the front.

Let Sheng Shiyuan and Liu Nanshan go all the way, it was a mistake of Ba Niu. The two of them were incompatible rivals from the very beginning, and when they subdued Sheng Shiyuan, they strongly opposed the two people, one was Tang Yulin, and the other was Liu Nanshan. He thought that after many years, the two of them were ministers in the same hall, and this contradiction should have been diluted, how did he know that hatred would only accumulate deeper and deeper, and it would be difficult to fade slowly. The reason why it has not been particularly obvious is because the two people rarely see each other and do not have many opportunities. This time, Sheng Shiyuan, as the main general of the first road, has already made Liu Nanshan angry, and now he is assigned to him as his deputy, how can he bear this tone? So after leaving Longshi Fort, he gave Sheng Shiyuan an opinion, to divide into two ways with his soldiers, Sheng Shiyuan went to the city to wait for the army to assemble, and he went around the back of Changtu from the small road to make a sneak attack. Although Sheng Shiyuan was not willing to go with him, but the military order was difficult to disobey, and now seeing that he wanted to break away from the brigade and act alone, he naturally couldn't allow it, but he didn't explicitly refuse, just said: "This strategy is very feasible, however, even if it is a sneak attack, the number of people should not be too much, and too much will be difficult to hide people's eyes and ears, so that the enemy can be prepared in advance." Therefore, if the general wants to go, I can give the general 5,000 men and horses, and then let Liu Mengli take it later."

Liu Nanshan naturally couldn't be Sheng Shiyuan's pawn, let alone watch his subordinates control him, and in this first round of competition, he would return home. However, on the issue of struggle, Liu Nanshan has always been not afraid of difficulties, and the second round of competition began.

The ultimate goal of Sheng Shiyuan and Liu Nanshan is to be stationed at the east gate of Changtu. There is a dirt mountain twenty miles outside the east gate, which is a branch of the rooster collar, called Zhangqiu. The hill was large enough to accommodate their 50,000 horses, and there was water on the mountain, and the Pomfret River ran right around the mountain. One of the main reasons is that the terrain is relatively high, which can prevent enemy sneak attacks.

Sheng Shiyuan's opinion, of course, is to set up camp on Zhangqiu, and wait until the army is gathered before making further deployments. But Liu Nanshan stood up against it, he believed that as a besieging party, stationing so far away from the city was not conducive to military scheduling, and it was impossible to launch an attack at the first time, so he advocated stationing outside the east gate, so that he could face the enemy directly and attack quickly.

Of course, Sheng Shiyuan disagreed with him, he believed that although he was the attacking side, he was also in a defensive posture before launching the attack, especially when the army had not yet assembled and our foothold was not stable. Standing firm first is the first priority at present. The two of you come and go, refuse to give in, and finally break up unhappily.

What Sheng Shiyuan didn't expect was that Liu Nanshan led the Fourth Army to camp and camp outside the east gate without informing him. Sheng Shiyuan was furious, and immediately wrote a letter to explain the situation to Ba Niu, and then stationed his troops in Zhangqiu. He knew very well that Liu Nanshan's rash action would inevitably lose his troops, and in order to avoid the suspicion of not being rescued, he ordered a group of rangers under his command to pay close attention to Liu Nanshan's situation and prepare for rescue.

After Ba Niu got Sheng Shiyuan's recital, he immediately asked Ma Xudong's reserve army to take the lead and rushed to rescue Liu Nanshan. and quickly sent a letter to reprimand Liu Nanshan, asking him to obey Sheng Shiyuan's dispatch, strictly abide by military discipline, and quickly retreat to Zhangqiu. Although his letters were fast, they were still not as fast as the rout of Liu Nanshan.

Gibran was a little puzzled when he saw that half of the enemy who had come to attack the city was stationed outside the city and half were stationed twenty miles away. However, in terms of the judgment of military aircraft, he is still relatively accurate. He soon saw that there were not many enemies under the city, and he did not have the conditions to attack the city at all, and only when he combined with the men and horses twenty miles away could he pose a certain threat. So he judged that the enemy was likely to have a situation where the commander was not in order. When he learned that Liu Nanshan was stationed under the city and Sheng Shiyuan was stationed in Zhangqiu, he was even more sure of his judgment. Such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, he naturally would not let go easily, so he immediately organized troops and went out of the city to resist the enemy.

Liu Nanshan was originally a rich general, although his background was very low, but he was not a bitter man, plus the glory and wealth over the years, it had long eroded the sharpness he had accumulated in his military career in the past, and this time it was just to compete with Sheng Shiyuan, so he broke into the tiger's den in Longtan. He also did not expect that Gibran dared to go out of the city, and now that he saw the enemy's army in front of him, he had to hesitate.

Liu Mengli had already seen through his thoughts, but now there is nothing to be done.

"Dadudu, the enemy army is in front of the formation, we don't go out, once they attack, it will be difficult to stand in position." Liu Mengli whispered: "Although we don't have many people now, we won't be defeated if we fight to the death." After all, we are victorious divisions, and our morale is high."

After listening to his nephew's words, he regained some confidence, so he hardened his head, picked up his knife and got on his horse, came out of the camp, and set up a position. I saw an old general, about sixty years old, with a kind face and white hair. On both sides of him are twelve family generals: Ji Zihan, Ji Yunhe, Ji Xiangning, Ji Nanyin, Memorial Yi, Ji Minjia, Ji Zhongyuan, Ji Jiachang, Ji Yingnan, Ji Chinese, Ji Weixiong, and Ji Yawen.

These twelve family generals were originally not surnamed Ji, but were orphans adopted by Gibran when he was in the cold, and he educated these orphans to be usable talents, and these people recognized him as their father-in-law and took his surname. Behind the twelve generals were their cavalry. These cavalrymen were never used in major battles, and their reputation was naturally little known. But Ba Niu noticed them very early, so before Sheng Shiyuan sent his troops, he specially instructed him to be careful of their cavalry and try not to clash with them head-on on the vast plains. However, he did not tell Liu Nanshan.

When Liu Nanshan saw that there was a bad old man on the other side, his confidence suddenly skyrocketed. He nodded to Liu Mengli, which meant that he should test the enemy's strength first. Liu Mengli also nodded in response, and immediately afterward, he led his subordinates to rush towards Gibran's Chinese army.

Gibran immediately opened his formation, but he did not let Liu Mengli in, but let his cavalry out. The 5,000-man cavalry, like the devil in hell, swept towards Liu Mengli with fear and death, engulfing them and devouring them almost instantly. However, their horses' hooves did not stop, the scimitars in their hands did not cool, and the bloody hurricane quickly swept towards Liunan Mountain. As soon as the armies of the two sides collided, Liu Nanshan was defeated and retreated, and what he faced was a completely one-sided massacre, and the Dongduo people had no power to fight back, and in an instant, corpses were everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed. By the time Sheng Shiyuan's army came to the rescue, there was not much left of this army of 25,000 people.

Liu Nanshan, Liu Mengli, and most of the generals of the Fourth Army were killed in this massacre, and the Fourth Army almost ceased to exist, and there were less than 10,000 of them left. At the same time, Sheng Shiyuan also suffered a certain impact, if Ma Xudong hadn't arrived in time, his Third Army would have almost been scattered. This was the biggest defeat that Ba Niu had since he started the army, and this defeat also made him start to re-examine Gibran and become more cautious.