?Huaiyang County, Wanqiu City.--.

Due to sudden heavy snowfall, 250,000 Jianghuai troops had to go ashore from the Yingshui River and enter Wanqiu City for a temporary avoidance of cold. Suddenly, a heavy snowfall was like a thunderbolt falling from the sky, leading the Nanchen Army Marshal Chen Faxing and Wang Zhihui and other generals to the outside of the thunderbolt.

This Northern Expedition was a huge expedition. Nanchen mobilized 300,000 troops to go north to Henan, and Li Mi of the Yu Alliance to fight against Chen Kefu. No one had ever thought that just halfway through the way, God would have caused such heavy snow. The soldiers of the Southern Army were all from the south, fearing the cold and not the heat. Therefore, this expedition was also a good time for early summer. Three hundred thousand Nanchen Army, wearing thin clothes, took a boat and headed north along the Yingshui River.

When the heavy snow suddenly encountered heavy snow, the logistics supplies battalion of the Southern Expedition Army was completely worried and at a loss. The logistics battalion brought a large number of weapons, armor and equipment for this Northern Expedition, and even a lot of large equipment such as catapults and siege rams, but they didn't bring any clothes to protect the cold. No one would have thought that it was about to enter the midsummer day, so how could it suddenly fall and the temperature drop sharply?

Thousands of Chen's army were frozen to death, tens of thousands of people were seriously injured, and more than half of the remaining ones were slightly injured. Although Chen Faxing brought his army into Wanqiu City to avoid the cold, the sudden heavy snow caused the Chen's army to reduce its non-combat troops by about 10%.

After finally overcoming the snow in Wanqiu, the sun shone brightly, the temperature warmed up, and the weather finally returned to normal. But then, a team of Wei soldiers escorting Li Mi's helping envoys arrived again.

Li Mi's defeat in Luokou made all the Chen army generals so surprised that they could not speak. No one expected that Li Mi, who claimed to be the most soldiers in the world, had been defeated so miserably in less than a month. He was simply defeated and could not be defeated any more. Although the envoy still said that Li Mi took the initiative to retreat, and was currently retreating to the Daliushan area of ​​Xiangcheng County with 100,000 troops.

But the messenger's embarrassing appearance and eager begging them to lead the troops north immediately, Chen Faxing and others secretly understood that Li Mi's situation must be worse than this. Maybe Li Mi had only a few hundred remaining soldiers left at this time. He fled south in panic.

After resettling the envoy, the main generals of the Chen army finally had another dispute over the Northern Expedition. King Zhihui of Yue refused to continue to go north, but instead demanded that the vanguard army be recalled immediately and withdraw the troops immediately. He said that the heavy snowfall this time was a warning from heaven, telling them not to go north to Henan.

Wang Zhihui's words attracted a large number of generals - Wugong //. However, the commander of the formation army, Chen Faxing, insisted on resigning. In Chen Faxing's words, they were thriving here and summoned hundreds of thousands of troops to fight north. Now the army is thousands of miles away from the country and is about to reach the battlefield. At this time, they returned in vain and did not count the countless money and food they had consumed before. Moreover, the morale of the soldiers in the power and the court inside and outside the court has greatly declined.

Just when the two sides were still arguing in Wanqiu City, Wang Xiongdan returned with the seriously injured vanguard commander Du Fuwei. Those who came back with him were about 30,000 defeated vanguards.

"How are the casualties of the brothers? Where are they now retreating?" suppressing the panic in his heart, Wang Zhihui asked in a deep voice. What he wants to know most now is the whereabouts of his adopted son Du Fuwei. The 50,000 vanguard army in this Northern Expedition was led by his adopted son Du Fuwei. All the 50,000 vanguard army were Wang Zhihui's Huainan army.

The 50,000 soldiers and horses were clearly the Southern Army, but in fact they were the si army of his Wang family. In these chaotic years, there was everything. The Xie family, which was once as famous as the Wang family and the Shen family, and the Gu family, lost the troops in their hands, and now they finally fell from the center of the court. Wang Zhihui has always been able to fight against Shen Faxing because he has 130,000 Huainan Army.

"The brothers died in battle. Most of the others were captured by the Hebei Army." Wang Xiongdan, who was covered in gray, secretly looked around and tried to slow down his voice. "My father and commander, my father and commander Xiong were shot in an arrow. He fainted for two days and was awake today. However, he still couldn't go to the ground and was recovering from the military camp outside the city at this time."

"What about the others? Ximen Junyi and Kan Ling and others? Didn't you bring the 5,000 recruits with you this time? Why did you encounter this great defeat? How many people did the Hebei army mobilize?" Wang Zhihui asked anxiously.

"When Kan Ling fought with the enemy, Xiong was also stabbed in the mouth and was still in recuperation. When Ximen Junyi covered everyone to retreat, the war horse was injured by the crossbow arrows of the Hebei Army. He fell off the horse and was injured. The squad was gone, and the squad was gone." Wang Xiongdan said gritting his teeth.

"How could the Shangzuo disappear? He is our most elite soldier, with a total of five thousand troops."

Not only was Wang Zhihui shocked, but even Shen Faxing, Shen Luoyan and others were shocked. If they really wanted to select the most elite troops from the Southern Chen army, then everyone would pick out Du Fuwei's five thousand recruits. This is a Huainan army that can compete with the Jianghuai army's platoon soldiers, the Imperial Guards and Xiaoguo Army and other strong troops in the world. Such a army was gone in one battle, so why didn't they shocked?

Wang Xiongdan held his head in pain. These days, the battles that day have come to his mind again and again. Compared with the Hebei Army, there is indeed no one in the Shangzu Army. However, even if the brothers of Shangzu tried their best, the result was still not changed at all.

"The other party is 20,000 Hebei Light Cavalry, led by Chen Kefu's confidant generals Lu Shishen and Guo Xiaoke! They ambushed us outside Yingchuan City. Although the brothers fought to the death, we were still defeated in the end. Five thousand people were killed in battle, most of them died, and the rest were injured and captured. Five thousand people were recruited, and none of them came back with them."

Miao Haichao, a general under Shen Faxing, said to Wang Xiongdan, "Fifty thousand to twenty thousand, they were beaten to flee in panic. Not only were the chief general injured, but even the five thousand elite troops were completely wiped out. In the past, I always heard how powerful General Du Fuwei was, how brave the Huainan army was, and how brave the Shangzu fought to the death. But I didn't expect that it was not entirely true under the reputation. What I was a little curious about was that since the five thousand governors were fighting to the death, why did our General Wang Xiongdan, General Du Fuwei, General Kan Ling, and General Ximen Junyi all ran back? Why didn't you fight to the death?"

Fu Gongyou shouted at Miao Haichao angrily, "How powerful is the Huainan Army? You have not experienced it before. What are the faces of the defeated generals of the Huainan Army today?"

Miao Haichao once defected to Du Fuwei, and the two of them later became accused and unintentional. Although Miao Haichao was determined and unintentional, he was finally defeated by Du Fuwei. It was also that defeat that Miao Haichao later defected to Shen Faxing. At this time, when he heard Fu Gongyu mention the old things again, he couldn't help but blush and shut up embarrassedly and retreated aside without saying a word.

After the drink dropped Miao Haichao, Fu Gongyu took Wang Xiongdan's hand and asked, "You are back from Yingchuan, do you know what the situation is in Luoyang? How strong does Li Mi have?"

Wang Xiongdan smiled bitterly, "When we retreated, we sent scouts to investigate. The battle between Li Mi and Chen Kefu was over. Huangfu Wuyi and Duan Da and others from the Eastern Capital all surrendered to Chen Kefu. They sent troops from the Eastern Capital. Wang Xuanying sent troops from the north, and Chen Pojun attacked from the east. The three armies attacked together, and Li Mi was completely defeated. After his last battle of 150,000 troops, Li Mi only fled south with 50,000 people and fled to Daliu Mountain in Xiangcheng County. Before we were ambushed, we were going to Daliu Mountain to meet Li Mi."

After a pause, he continued, "According to the information we found, after the Luokou War, Wang Xuanying's Jianghuai Army suffered heavy casualties, and now there are about 30,000 troops stationed in Yanshi. Chen Kefu has led his troops into Luoyang. He heard that he had a great title to the Dongdu officials and nobles in Luoyang. There are also rumors that he had married the daughter of Wei Shou of Hua Guo. He gave great rewards in Dongdu and opened warehouses to the people of Dongdu. Now the whole Dongdu people are singing Chen Kefu's good words. Moreover, the spies sent out also heard that Chen Kefu is constantly transferring troops from Hebei and Liaodong to Henan. It is said that Chen Kefu not only transferred Lu Shishen, but also led troops south to the Yang Shanhui of Jiangdu, and Yang Shihong led 30,000 troops to attack our rear route Shouchun."

The room suddenly became silent, and the news Wang Xiongdan said was astonishing as one by one, and worse than the other.

After a long time, Wang Zhihui said with a ugly face, "Chen Kefu was dispatched from Hebei to Henan at this time. Could it be that Wei Daoer had been defeated?"

"Impossible!" Shen Luoyan denied loudly. The wind and snow of the past few days also caused Shen Luoyan to suffer from a cold. At this time, her illness had not yet recovered. She heard that the vanguard army had retreated and forced her to discuss matters with her sick body. She was wearing a buckle with a ferret fur, and her face was much haggard than before, and even her eye sockets were a little deeper.

"The Hebei army is stronger because of their elites, not their number. Chen Kefu has always followed the elite strategy. Compared with the elites of the Hebei army, the number of Hebei army is very clear. If the village soldiers were eliminated, the number of Hebei army was not even larger than that of our court. Moreover, this also included a coalition of all ethnic groups outside the border with more than 100,000 people. At present, Chen Kefu used troops everywhere and had to send troops to stay in the rear. His troops had long reached the limit, and it was impossible for him to have enough troops to annihilate Wei Daoer's hundreds of thousands of troops in Hebei when he went south to fight Li Mi this time."

"If Shouchun is broken, our retreat will be cut off. I still suggest that we withdraw our troops immediately and retreat to the south of the Huai River before the Hebei army surrounds us on both sides. With Huainan as the boundary, we will fight a defensive battle with Chen Kefu. This is a wise move." Wang Zhihui said expressionlessly.!.

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