In this long-lasting war, in the confrontation between the two armies, they held each other for several months, and the heat gradually worsened, and the heat was unbearable. In order to reduce the heat of the summer, Yuanhua scattered the original military villages one after another, making the barracks hundreds of miles deep before and after, and the battalions were far apart. In addition, in order to end the war as soon as possible, Yuan Hua put all the troops in the front into the battle of attacking the fortress. In the face of the frenzied offensive of the Jin army, the Qing army could only hold on to stubborn resistance, and suffered heavy casualties, and more than half of the battalions of the Pukuang Department suffered casualties.

Pu Kuang was afraid that the soldiers and horses would be too badly damaged, so he reported to Wang Yu and asked him about his plan for defending the war. Wang Yu said to the visitor: "Tell General Pu Kuang that he must hold on for another ten days!" The person who came was a little embarrassed and said: "General, if we continue to fight like this, our Qing army will be wiped out!" Wang Yu's face was solemn, and he said word by word: "In any case, you must block the Jin army for ten days, and tell the general that you must not let go of the Jin army within ten days, and when the men and horses are exhausted, let him go on his own!" and asked someone to change the war horse for the envoy, so that he could quickly return to his life. Wen Ping on the side asked: "Today is already the twelfth, according to what the general originally said, retreat after the twelfth, why do you still let General Pu hold on for another ten days?" Wang Yu sighed and said: "I originally calculated that it was a decisive battle on the day of the great heat, and a total of four passes were set up, and each pass only needs to be defended for twelve days." However, our third pass defense was only held for two days before it was breached, so the pressure on this fourth pass defense was heavy, and it was difficult for General Pu Kuang!" Wen Ping could only sigh and be silent. Wang Yu suddenly asked, "How is Zhang Shun?" Wen Ping replied: "He was imprisoned by His Majesty, and he said that he would be dealt with according to military law after the end of the war." Wang Yu nodded and said: "It's okay, I was also angry that day, in today's extraordinary times, there is an urgent need for generals, if you kill him, it would be a pity." ”

Besides, Zhang Shun was imprisoned in the camp tent, feeling guilty in his heart, he didn't think about tea and dinner every day, just wore a cloak and sat silently on the ground, bowing his head and saying nothing. The jailers did not dare to neglect him, and waited for him every day with good wine, good food, and good life. On this day, the door of his tent was pushed open, and Xu Ning walked in with the armorers. Seeing that Zhang Shun was silent, he shouted loudly: "Your Majesty's command, Zhang Shun will take the order!" When Zhang Shun heard this, he looked up and hurriedly leaned over and kowtowed. Xu Ning read aloud: "Your Majesty said, although General Zhang listened to slanderous rumors, he did not strictly restrain his subordinates, and rashly attacked, resulting in the defeat of the army. Although his crime is great, he remembers that his hard work is high, and it is at a time when the country is in an emergency, so he commuted the criminal law, punished 100 military sticks, and demoted to a deputy general, so as to see the after-effects!" Zhang Shun was puzzled and asked: "The last general underestimated the enemy's rash advance, and borrowed my responsibility alone, why did he listen to slander?" Xu Ning helped him up with a smile and said: "General Zhang's benevolence and righteousness come first, so he naturally doesn't want to say it." However, the last general learned from several of your lieutenants that you had listened to the words of your lieutenant Fu Rong and attacked rashly. The last general will make this matter known to His Majesty, Your Majesty is sacred, so the next oral message. Zhang Shun clasped his fists at Xu Ning and said: "Thank you General Xu for your grace in whitewashing, and you will definitely be rewarded in the future!" and requested: "Although my deputy general Fu Rong is reckless, he is a fierce man, and since he has died in battle, please don't pursue his fault again." Xu Ning said: "If he really sacrificed his life for the country, there is nothing more to say, Your Majesty will not pursue it." So, Xu Ning took him to see Lu Ji.

At this time, Lu Ji was discussing the war with the generals, and when he saw Xu Ning bringing Zhang Shun to see him, he stopped and smiled at them. When Zhang Shun saw Lu Ji, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, three times in a row, and cried: "The sin will thank Your Majesty for not killing!" Lu Ji raised his hand and said with a smile: "It's not that I don't kill you, but you don't deserve to die, get up." Zhang Shun was grateful, and then got up tremblingly. Lu Ji then said to the generals: "At present, it has entered the summer heat, and in a few days it will be the great heat, which will be even hotter. The Jin people have been fighting in our country for more than a month, and now their morale is exhausted and unbearable in the summer heat, and the day of our counteroffensive is coming!" The generals were in great spirits and elated, looking at each other and saying, "It's finally time to counterattack, and I am about to suffocate myself every day when I shrink in the pass!" "Yes, after enduring so many days, I am finally going to have a decisive battle!" Wang Yu stepped forward, signaled the generals to be quiet, and said: " This decisive battle decided the life and death of our Qing Dynasty, and if we win, we will be powerful in the world, and there will be no strong enemy Koubian, and if we are defeated, we will be ruined, and then the country will be ruined. When the generals heard this, they all fell silent and listened quietly.

Wang Yu pointed to the map and said: "The Jin army, north to my Fanyang Mountain Range, south to Ningzhou City, stretching for hundreds of miles before and after, although its soldiers are numerous, but they are sprinkled with each other, there are gaps between each other, if we are attacked, it is difficult to take care of each other in a hurry." Ningzhou and Fanyang Mountains are separated by the Yuema River, the river flows in an east-west direction, the river is wide and the waves are rapid, we can send people to lie on the bank of the river, waiting for the opportunity to tear down the bridge, cut off the connection between the Jin army on both sides, and for a time the Jin army is unable to prepare a ferry to cross the river. The Jin army in the Fanyang Mountains is about 70,000, and our army plus the new soldiers and horses in various places are about 90,000, and the Jin army is mostly a tired division, and its combat power is greatly reduced. I will ask General Pu Kuang to abandon the fourth line of defense in ten days, Yuan Hua after several months of fighting, at that time is already arrogant and impatient, and will definitely push forward with all his strength in order to break through my last line of defense as soon as possible. In this way, the battle line of the Jin army will be longer and longer, and the gap between the front and rear will become larger and larger. General Kang Chao led 20,000 troops to the north bank of the Yuema River to hold the place, not only to prevent reinforcements from forcibly crossing the river, but also to prevent the Jin army from retreating southward in the Fanyang Mountains. The 10,000 horses led by General Xu Ning were responsible for continuing to harass the enemy army on the south bank, and if the enemy army was scattered, he could wait for the opportunity to capture Ningzhou. The rest of the generals can counterattack on all fronts with His Majesty and the generals to annihilate the central force of the Jin army. As soon as the generals heard this, the generals had already understood the marching strategy, and they were immediately full of confidence and acted according to the plan. After the generals dispersed, Lu Ji asked: "How sure is the general?" Wang Yu shook his head and said: "The big war has not started, it is difficult to say success or failure! Now, I am most worried about General Pu Kuang, if he does not hold out for ten days, the Jin army breaks through, and my last line of defense will be completely exposed to the offensive of the Jin army, and at that time the generals' troops and horses will not reach the agreed place, and the situation will be in favor of the enemy. ”

As Wang Yu said, the fourth pass defense was fiercely attacked by the Jin army, and the Jin army gathered the most elite 40,000 troops to attack the defense day and night. Under the personal leadership of Pu Kuang, the Qing army in the pass fought a bloody battle, and the battle was extremely fierce. The two sides fought desperately and scuffled together, and there was still a steady stream of Jin troops climbing up at the pass. Pu Kuang killed several enemy generals by himself, ignoring the wounds on his body, and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the eldest husband Ma Ge shrouded in corpse, and the Jin army must not be allowed to take the pass!" After speaking, he shouted, and became involved in the fight with the Jin army. The war lasted until the ninth day, and there were only more than 200 soldiers left around Pu Kuang, and although the Jin army suffered heavy casualties, it was still replenishing its forces and continuing to attack the pass. Pu Kuang had more than a dozen sword wounds in his body, panting, sitting on the stone steps on the side, looking at the Jin army that was rushing up in a steady stream, and those soldiers who were fighting for life and death, he knew that today was the ninth day, and he had to stick to it for another day, these people were destined to sacrifice their lives for the country, and his heart was calm, he wiped his bloodstained face with his hand, picked up the knife that had been chopped off, roared, pushed a Jin soldier away with one kick, hugged a Jin army sergeant, and wiped a knife on his neck. Under his desperate slashing, the Qing army, which disregarded life and death, actually repelled the Jin army that charged this round. Pu Kuang knew that the next round of Jin troops would rush up soon, so he called the remaining more than 100 Qing army soldiers to his side, spat on it, and said, "Brothers, are you afraid?" Everyone replied in unison: "Not afraid!" Pu Kuang nodded at the soldiers and said with a smile: "Okay! Brothers, return the horse leather shroud, and shed blood for the country!" After speaking, he stood up, lifted the huge wood and boulder on the ground, and planned to smash it into the Jin army that rushed to the pass. At this moment, the sentry cavalry in the rear of the Qing army rushed to come and shouted: "General! The general has an order to withdraw from the pass!" When Pu Kuang first heard this, he thought that he had heard it wrong, and it was not until the sentry cavalry repeated it again that he believed that Wang Yu ordered him to withdraw the army. He let go of the giant wood and boulder, wept with joy, and hugged the soldiers and cried. The sentry hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and evacuate the general, the Jin army is about to come up!" Pu Kuang reacted at this time, and hurriedly asked the sergeants to leave, and when he left, he overturned the brazier and turned the entire pass into a sea of fire.

After the Qing army withdrew, the Jin army immediately captured the fourth pass, and Yuan Hua knew that the time allowed the Jin army to fight was running out, and immediately ordered the Jin army to continue advancing. Xu Chao had a vague sense of foreboding, and hurriedly suggested to Yuan Hua: "Your Majesty, the last general feels a little weird, the Qing army has been defeated, but its main force has never shown the dew, I am afraid that there is fraud, the last general asks the emperor to carefully consider it, don't rush into the army!" Yuan Hua was as Wang Yu expected at this time, and his heart was arrogant, and he refuted: "What hasn't shown the dew? Aren't you fighting the Qing army these days? The widow sees that you are afraid of being beaten by the Qing army, since you are afraid, then you should be stationed here!" Xu Chao hurriedly replied: " Since the emperor is determined to march, he will swear to follow!"

In the first year of Qing Xiangxing and the sixth year of Jin Jianwu, Yuan Hua led the Jin army to march quickly and directly took the fifth pass defense of the Qing army, but was strongly blocked by the Qing army in the pass. Just at the time of the stalemate between the two armies. Generals Wen Ping and Lu Wen each led 30,000 troops to kill from the left and right, cutting off the connection between the Jin army and the rear. At the same time, Kang Chao led the men to demolish the bridge of the Yuema River and hold the north bank.

Wang Yu immediately made a decision and ordered the Qing army in the pass to go out and encircle the Jin army of the Yuanhua Division. Xu Chao planned to break through the siege backwards, but was bitten by the Wenpin Department, and the Qing army killed from all directions, narrowing the encirclement of the Jin army in the continuous rush.

Looking at the Qing army that was killing in all directions, watching the Qing army of the Jin army struggling painfully under the iron hooves, watching the Qing army rushing all the way to kill the soldiers of the Jin army, and then looking at the Jin army panicking, without the intention of fighting again and trampling on each other, Yuan Hua looked up to the sky and sighed: "God, why do you treat my Jin Kingdom like this?" Cao Ran on the side hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, we have been tricked and surrounded by the Qing army!" Yuan Hua pointed at the Qing army and scolded: "The Qing army did not dare to confront us head-on, and even resorted to such a treacherous plan to harm the widow!" Cao Ran suggested: " The soldiers are not tired of deceit, why don't we fake surrender, wait for the Qing army to relax their vigilance, and then wait for the opportunity to sneak attack them?" Yuan Hua looked at the Qing army's wolf-like offensive, sneered a few times, and said: "Do you think the Qing army will let us surrender? They don't plan to let the widow go back alive!" Cao Ran listened and said: "Don't be discouraged, the emperor will escort you out!" After speaking, he took the soldiers around him to slash and kill the Qing army rushing all the way, wanting to kill a bloody way for Yuan Hua. At this moment, in the middle of the Qing army, a general was killed, his face was as thin as a knife, his skin was bronzed, he held a spear, and said with a smile: "Cao Ran, do you still recognize your grandfather?" Cao Ran was shocked when he saw him, and asked: "Li Zhong, weren't you shot to death?" That will be Li Zhong, after recuperation, his body has just healed, and when he heard about the decisive battle between the Qing army and the Jin army, he was unwilling to rest, carrying a spear, and asking for his life to kill the enemy. He smiled and said: "General Cao Ran, I, Li Zhong, will repay you, you shot me more than a dozen arrows that day, and I will stab you more than a dozen times today!" Cao Ran was a little timid, but behind him was Yuan Hua, so he could only bite the bullet and wave his long knife to kill Li Zhong. Li Zhong flashed sideways and fired a shot straight into Cao Ran's back. Before Cao Ran could come back to his senses, he shot another backhand and stabbed Cao Ran under the ribs. Cao Ran was shot twice in a row, but he still fought hard, and he waved his long knife and was about to slash at Li Zhong. Li Zhong quickly stabbed a shot and pierced him through the throat. only heard a "clang", the long knife fell to the ground, Li Zhong pulled out the spear, and Cao Ran fell to the ground. Yuan Hua watched Cao Ran fall to the ground, and suddenly laughed, first shook his head and smiled bitterly, then laughed loudly, and finally laughed with tears, silently chanting "Foolish loyalty, foolish loyalty!" The rest of the Jin army soldiers also rushed up, and were assassinated by Li Zhong one by one, he pointed a gun at Yuan Hua, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, do you dismount and be captured by yourself or will the last general ask you to dismount?" Yuan Hua sneered a few times and said, "You are not worthy of captivity!" After speaking, he drew his dragon sword and wanted to kill himself. At the last moment, Xu Chao Pegasus came to kill, picked Yuan Hua's sword with one shot, and shouted: "My emperor leave quickly, the last general will break the queen for you!"