Wang Yanzhang began to attack Majiakou New City, and Guo Chongtao died in the city. The two armies fought fiercely for a long time, and the Liang army, which was crowded and powerful, gradually gained the upper hand. The small city was about to fall! At this moment, a large number of Tang army troops and ships suddenly appeared on the other side of the Yellow River, and reinforcements arrived!

Li Cunxu personally led a large army to the Majiakou Ferry. Seeing the royal flag opposite the river, the morale of the Majiakou defenders was greatly boosted and cheered! The Liang army, who was sieging the city, looked depressed and showed fear. The situation here is different from that of Yang Liu not long ago.

When Yang Liu faced Li Cunxu, the Liang army had already built a solid circular camp, which could attack and retreat or defend, and the soldiers had to rest. In Majiakou, the Liang army had no position to rely on. Moreover, when Li Cunxu's army arrived, they were fighting hard for a long time and were very tired!

Wang Yanzhang knew that it would be a good fortune to fight Li Cunxu at this time and place. He had to order the attack to stop and the army retreated to Zoujiakou, south of Majiakou. Li Cunxu led the army across the Yellow River, met with Guo Chongtao, and headed straight to Zoujiakou. Wang Yanzhang was forced to abandon Zoujiakou and retreat to the Liang army camp outside Yangliu City. The contact between the Later Tang Dynasty and the Li Siyuan tribe in Yunzhou was reopened, and Wang Yanzhang's combat target had failed.

On July 12, a war report that disaster never came alone came from the rear to the Liang army's Yang Liu camp: another unknown Tang army successfully crossed the river upstream, and defeated a small team of Liang army in Qingqiuyi, south of Desheng South City. The news came, and all the generals of the Liang army were panicked. Deputy Commander Duan Ning took the opportunity to criticize Wang Yanzhang in front of the generals and said: "You are incompetent in command, and you shouldn't go deep into the enemy's territory! Now, there are enemies in front and behind, and we are all in the pit!"

Under the exaggeration of Deputy Commander Liang Duan's statement, the morale accumulated by the Liang army's surprise attack on Desheng not long ago was completely eliminated. They regained their fear of the Tang army and Li Cunxu, and their combat power naturally weakened. Needless to say, expanding the victory, Wang Yanzhang even wanted to save the previous little result, which became a luxury.

On July 17, Li Cunxu took Li Shaorong as his vanguard and launched a rescue war against Yang Liu along the south bank of the Yellow River. After a day of battle, the Liang army could not resist Li Cunxu's attack, and Wang Yanzhang was forced to lift the siege of Yang Liu and retreat eastward.

Yang Liucheng had run out of food before the rescue. The military and civilians in the city had not distributed any food for almost three days, but they survived. Li Cunxu came to Yang Liu and said excitedly to the guard general Li Zhou: "If it weren't for your persistence, my major event would be almost over!"

Now the big thing is about to be over, the Liang army. The Tang army counterattacked in full swing and took advantage of the victory to recover all the southern bank fortresses that had been lost before! The Liang army retreated in a panic. Although Wang Yanzhang was unwilling to give up, he retreated and launched multiple counterattacks on Desheng South City and other fortresses. However, the general situation was hopeless. The Liang army paid more than 10,000 casualties and a large amount of military supplies. All counterattacks failed! The Liang army finally retreated to Yangcun and retreated to the starting position four months ago. Unlike four months ago, their confidence disappeared, their personnel decreased, and there was insufficient supplies.

This was the last fierce battle between the Zhu family and the Li family in the 40 years of long battle for hegemony, and both sides suffered heavy losses. In terms of situation, there was almost no change compared to before the battle. But psychologically, it was undoubtedly another failure of the Liang army. Because the one who laughed to the end was Li Cunxu. The company represented the Liang army the strongest at this time.

General Wang Yanzhang also lost, and Houliang could no longer produce a trump card that could fight against the Tang army! The Houliang Empire took another big step towards the end of destruction that was no longer far away!

Li Cunxu's alternative comrades in Bianliang, Zhao Yan, Zhang Hanjie and others had been waiting for this day long. To a large extent, this result was inseparable from their careful layout and hard work. Therefore, Zhao Yan, Zhang Hanjie and others, who were "victory" like Li Cunxu, quickly took advantage of the iron to chase the remaining bravery and impeach Wang Yanzhang to Zhu Youzhen: He was drunk all day in the military camp and underestimated the enemy to fight indiscriminately, so he lost his troops and humiliated the country! It is recommended that he be dismissed and replaced by the loyal, brave and diligent deputy commander Duan Ning.

In Daliang, it is not the first major figure who does not want Wang Yanzhang to achieve great success. In fact, it is not the turn of Zhao Yan and Zhang Hanjie! Although the result is not very ideal, it is not unacceptable. So, Zhu Youzhen naturally issued an order: to transfer Wang Yanzhang back to Bianliang and accept the question.

Wang Yanzhang left the front line with a hint of grief and anger, returned to the capital, and entered the palace to meet Zhu Youzhen. When he saw the emperor, Wang Yanzhang explained in detail the entire battle and analyzed the reasons for the victory and defeat. In some places, he could not explain clearly with his mouth, so Wang Yanzhang used the ivory tablets he had attended to the court to draw pictures on the ground to explain. However, before the military lesson he taught Zhu Youzhen, he was impeached by the etiquette officials instructed by Zhao Yan: Wang Yanzhang actually wrote randomly on the ground with the tablets given by the court, which shows how he despised the court and regarded the great emperor's kindness as a donkey's liver! For such rude people, how could he let him defile the court? He should be dismissed immediately, go home and wait for punishment!

But the Emperor of Daliang was kind, and Zhu Youzhen only removed Wang Yanzhang from the position of recruiting envoys from the north and had another appointment. Dong Zhang had been attacking Zezhou for several months and could not take it down. General Wang went to help him.

Just in time, Li Cunxu, who had gained an advantage on the eastern front, was also planning to send a partial army to rescue Pei Yue from Zezhou. The Emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty sighed to his left and right, "Where did I treat Jiang Tao badly? Where did I treat Pei Yue well? Pei Yue knew what is supreme and what is rebellious, and would never rely on the thief party. My elder brother was really unfortunate, and he gave birth to such a beast!"

After saying that, Li Cunxu ordered Li Shaobin, the commander of the inner-fanged horse and infantry army beside him, saying, "Zezhou is a small place, it doesn't matter if it can't be saved. As long as you help me rescue Pei Yue."

Li Cunxu said this, it is not that Zezhou is really irrelevant and dispensable, but because it is already lonely in Houliang. In this area, the Liang army has obvious advantages. Unless Li Cunxu is willing to give up the advantages that have been gained in the east and transfer the main force to the western front that cannot directly threaten Bianliang, it will be difficult to change the strength and weakness of the Zezhou battlefield.

Therefore, Li Cunxu only gave Li Shaobin five thousand elite troops to complete the arduous task of rescuing Pei Yue. What's bad is that since Weizhou and Luzhou were all in the hands of Houliang at this time, the three shortcuts of the Tang army in Hebei to Baixing, Taihangxing and Fukouxing in Zezhou were all under the control of the Liang army. Li Shaobin had to set out from Yang Liu, take a big bend northward, walk the Qingshankou, pass the Taihang Mountains, turn south, and go to Liaozhou to Zezhou. The journey is at least four or five times that of Wang Yanzhang to Zezhou.

As a result, before Li Shaobin's cavalry could see the shadow of Zezhou City, Zezhou was already under attack by the Liang army and Pei Yue was killed. Li Cunxu felt very sorry for this, but he could do nothing. No matter what, Dong

The line is closer to Bianliang, and can control the Houliang more to death, keep the advantage of the Eastern Front, and still gain the upper hand.

In Bianliang, Zhu Youzhen was also nervously planning with his confidants how to deal with the current situation. Obviously, the small victory in Zezhou will not help rescue the crisis on the Eastern Front, and the Eastern Front is fatal! It seems that the Liang army will defeat Li Cunxu's main force on the Eastern Front is an unlikely task. What should we do?

Someone came up with a ruthless trick: Since we can't defeat the Tang army on the Eastern Front, we might as well turn the Eastern Front into a death line. No one can use the road to the Eastern Front! The specific method is to use the most powerful weapon of mass destruction: the Yellow River. So Zhu Youzhen ordered Duan Ning to be responsible for the implementation, and Liang army dug the Yellow River embankment in Xuanzao County, the south bank of the Yellow River west of Huazhou City! A huge man-made disaster quickly fell on the heads of countless innocent people downstream.

The Yellow River water rushed out of the river and surging down. At that time, people called it "Guojiashui". "Guojiashui" absolutely did not protect the people. They roared across the fields and flooded the vast plains between the Yellow River and the Wuzhang River and the Jishui River. The battlefields and fortresses that had been killed for ten years, such as Desheng Nancheng, Yangcun, Yang Liu, Huliupi, etc., were all transformed into a marina or surrounded by mud.

More "Guarding Water" continued to rush to the southeast and injected into the ancient Onozawa, which increased the water level of Onozawa and expanded rapidly. Originally, there was a hill called Liangshan north of Onozawa. After Onozawa expanded, it wrapped it up and turned into an island in the lake. Since then, Onozawa gradually had a new name: Liangshanpo.

This is the third time that Zhu Liang has done such a shameless bad thing. The first time happened when Zhu Wen was to rescue Huazhou City, which was threatened by the flood; the second time was that Xie Yanzhang opened the north bank of the Yellow River to prevent Li Cunxu from crossing the river. However, compared with Zhu Youzhen's breach, the first two seemed too small and harmed too few people.

After finishing this matter, Zhu Youzhen and his confidants finally breathed a sigh of relief: Li Cunxu should not be able to get through, and the Eastern Front is at least temporarily safe. They decided to take this opportunity to counterattack from Weizhou and Zelu, and lead the war to their dominant places.

The commander of the counterattack will be Duan Ning, who was strongly recommended by Zhao Yan, Zhang Hanjie and others. This order has just been issued, and it aroused a lot of opposition. Zhang Quanyi, a veteran of the imperial army and deputy marshal of the world, wrote a memorial to Zhu Youzhen, saying: "As the deputy marshal of the country, although the old minister is old, he can still defend the northern border for His Majesty. Duan Ning is too young, and no matter his achievements or reputation, he cannot convince the public. Everyone is talking about it, thinking that using his words may bring trouble to the country."

The old minister Jingxiang dissuaded without any face: "The appointment of the general is related to the survival of the country! Now, the country's situation is so critical that your Majesty, why don't you pay special attention?" But no matter how fierce the remarks of these people are, Zhu Youzhen cannot empathize with it.

What he could see in this Daliang Emperor, who had never been to the front line, was that in the processed battle report, Duan Guojiu was a military genius who had won many battles! Even if there were defeats in the front, it was the people recommended by the old guys that were incompetent, and it was not Duan Ning's responsibility! These old guys insisted on turning black and white, but they thought they were simply unable to see the newcomers coming to power, and they were psychologically unbalanced!
Chapter completed!