After Yang Xingmi captured Yangzhou and other five states and were captured by various generals, his confidence increased greatly. However, these were partial victories and would have little impact on Sun Ru for a while. Yang Xingmi sent Tian Kai and others to face Sun Ru head-on, but they failed.

He was defeated by Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin one after another. Sun Ru camped in Lingyang, and the troops were approaching Xuanzhou. Yang Xingmi then personally led his army to try to stop the advance of Sun Ru's army. Yang Xingmi came first to challenge, and the two armies fought. As a result, Yang Xingmi's

Although the army attacked to resist, they were defeated time and time again. Yang Xingmi had no choice but to adopt the strategy of holding on.

Sun Ru faced Yang Xingmi's army with a large iron barrel and turtle formation, and repeatedly attacked, but to no avail. After being defeated for a long time, Sun Ru suddenly came up with a vicious plan. He frequently sent envoys to write to An Renyi, recounting his old friendship and giving him gifts.

A precious gift, hoping that he would return. Sun Ru thought in his heart that even if An Renyi did not return, it would arouse Yang Xingmi's suspicion. An Renyi's troops are one of the three main forces that Yang Xingmi currently faces against him, and the other two are Tian.

Kai and Liu Wei.

Under Sun Ru's deliberate arrangement, his secret letter to An Renyi was intercepted and handed over to Yang Xingmi. Yang Xingmi opened it and saw that it was actually written by Sun Ru to General An Renyi! In the letter, Sun Ru talked about the past and the

An Renyi had an old friendship with him when he was in Caizhou. He welcomed An Renyi's willingness to abandon the dark side and join the army in Caizhou. He also reminded An Renyi to pay attention to confidentiality, not to act rashly, and to wait until the time is right before he strikes back! An Renyi is going to rebel! Yang Xingmi ponders.

After a moment, he made up his mind, waved his hand, and ordered his subordinates: "Go and invite General An Renyi."

After a while, An Renyi came. Yang Xingmi handed the secret letter to An Renyi and said, "General An, please take a look." An Renyi took it and looked at it. His face suddenly changed and he knelt down in fear! Before he could wait, An Renyi

An Renyi complained, but Yang Xingmi had already taken the secret letter back with a smile, put it on a candle and burned it, saying: "Don't worry, General An, how could I be deceived by such counterintuitive tactics! Tomorrow I will let the general serve as the deputy marching envoy, and cooperate with him."

Tian Kai, guard the four gates of Xuanzhou."

An Renyi didn't expect that Yang Xingmi could still trust him so much after seeing such a secret letter. He burst into tears of gratitude and swore: "I will fight to the death! Defeat Sun Ru! Repay the commander for today's great kindness!" An Renyi did what he said, and immediately met with Tian Bo.

They jointly launched a night attack and destroyed several of Sun Ru's camps. Sun Ru was furious when he learned that he had stolen the chicken but lost the rice.

Sun Ru ordered Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin to lead strong troops to attack. Tian Kai and Liu Wei fought, but were severely defeated and forced to flee around the camp. Sun Ru sent troops to besiege Yang Xingmi's other camps, and Yang Xingmi's troops saw Tian Kai and Liu Wei.

After being severely defeated, people were panic-stricken and retreated to Xuanzhou City like water bursting through a dike. Although Sun Ru approached Xuanzhou City, facing this fortified city that Yang Xingmi had managed for a long time, he repeatedly forced his soldiers to eat bricks.

But apart from increasing casualties, nothing was achieved.

Yang Xingmi pulled all the elites to the city gate and closed the city gate to show that there was no way out. Sun Ru was unable to capture Xuanzhou in one fell swoop, and the two sides fell into a stalemate in Xuanzhou. As time passed, news from Yangzhou and other places

Gradually, the news came, and people in Sun Ru's army suddenly became uneasy. Sun Ru placed most of his troops in the corner from Guangde to Xuanzhou, abandoning the entire rear area. As long as the battle could not be won quickly, the army's

The situation will naturally get worse and worse.

Some soldiers who were dissatisfied with Sun Ru wanted to learn from Sun Ru's heroic deeds of killing Qin Zongheng, and began to plan a mutiny. They planned to change the boss, but because they were not secretive, Sun Ru noticed it. Sun Ru was shocked and immediately punched him hard.

They attacked, beheaded the leading soldiers, and searched for his accomplices. A general was brought up as an accomplice. When Sun Ru saw it, he saw that it was Chai Zaiyong.

This Chai Zaiyong is from Runan, Caizhou, and he is extremely filial. When he was seven years old, he encountered Pang Xun's rebellion. The whole family was so frightened that the whole family fled, but the ancestral drum could not be moved away, so Chai Zaiyong had to be left to guard it alone. The thieves were seen.

He did not kill him, but just retreated. Therefore, he was very strange in the village. When he grew up, Shen Yi had a break, faced Heizhou Iron, was good at riding and shooting, and was known as Chai Heizi.

Later, Qin Zongquan recruited brave men, and Chai Zaiyong was selected because of his superb archery skills. He was assigned to Sun Ru's tent as the chief of the cavalry. Once after a battle, he was resting in a forest, and a bandit took him to sleep.

Then he stole his horse. Chai Zaiyou was awakened and hurriedly got up to look for the horse. The bandit hadn't gone far yet, so he had to hide behind a tree. Chai Zaiyou was furious when he saw it, and shot the arrow away.

He actually penetrated the big tree and stabbed the bandits behind the tree to death! The other bandits were so frightened that they threw away their horses and fled in all directions. Only then did he snatch their horses back.

Later, Sun Ru learned about this incident, and he promoted Chai Zaiyong very highly. Chai Zaiyong lived up to Sun Ru's high expectations, made many great contributions to Sun Ru, and became Sun Ru's confidant. Sun Ru saw that Chai Zaiyong was Chai Zaiyong.

Zai Yong, angry and a little puzzled, asked: "You have always treated you well and regarded you as a confidant and beloved general. How could you participate in the rebellion?" Chai Zai Yong did not answer, so Sun Ru asked again, Chai Zai Yong

Zaiyoucai replied: "I am indeed a life-and-death friend with the small school boy who wants to rebel. His rebellion is equivalent to my rebellion. If the commander wants to kill him, he will kill him. Why are you so verbose?"

Sun Ru secretly marveled when he saw it. He had killed a lot of people. Except for those guys who didn't know their lives were at stake, there were only a few people who could be so calm and fearless before death. Sun Ru had always valued him.

, and cherished Chai Zaiyong's talent. Sun Ru decided not to kill Chai Zaiyong, but said to Chai Zaiyong: "You are my confidant, and I trust you. Continue to work well for me from now on."

, I will still reuse you!" Chai Zaiyong immediately knelt down and kowtowed, swearing allegiance to the death.

When Sun Ru and Yang Xingmi were facing off in Xuanzhou, Zhu Wen, who had coveted Huainan for a long time, wanted to take advantage and took the opportunity to send troops to invade south and reach Chuzhou. Zhang Xun, who was guarding Yangzhou, could not tolerate it and went with Li Decheng to attack the Bianzhou soldiers.

The two armies met at Shouhe. Zhang Xun and Li Decheng won a great victory and captured Chuzhou. Zhang Xun said to Li Decheng: "Commander, we have cut off Sun Ru's retreat. Now we have pacified Yangzhou, and Sun Ru has no soldiers left in Jiangbei."

One soldier. He is currently at a stalemate with the commander in Guangde, relying on the food supply plundered from Zhejiang and Zhejiang. They boarded the ship from Anji Pier and traveled to Guangde by water. How about you stay in the north of the Yangtze River and I will cross the river to Anji? "

Li Decheng readily accepted.

Zhang Xun crossed the river overnight and took a small road into Anji. After learning about the route and date of Sun Ru's grain transportation, he led his troops to ambush on both sides of the mountain road. As soon as Sun Ru's grain transport convoy arrived, Zhang Xun launched an all-out attack. The escort troops dispersed and all the grain and grass were intercepted.

Then, Zhang Xun took advantage of the victory and occupied Anji. Sun Ru's army's lifeline was completely cut off. Food was exhausted, the army's morale was slack, and its fighting spirit was low. The soldiers fled in large numbers. Sun Ru ordered people to pursue him, but most of the pursuers ended up in the sea.

Sun Ru was greatly annoyed. He, Liu Jianfeng, and Ma Yin went to inspect the military camps to put pressure on each battalion. On the way, they found a group of soldiers fighting each other in a depression on the roadside. The group threw their weapons aside and went into battle shirtless, punching and kicking each other.

The fight was excruciating. Next to a pile of new soil not far from them, there was a dead mule lying down. They were obviously fighting for the dead mule.

Liu Jianfeng pulled out his long knife and roared: "Stop!" The group stopped, and when they saw it was Sun Ru and others, they were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy. Liu Jianfeng pointed the knife at them and shouted, "Why are we fighting?" A black-faced man

The big man raised his head and replied tremblingly: "The younger one found a wild dog digging for something here, so he went back and called a few brothers to hunt it. The wild dog failed to be killed, but we found a mule buried here. We dug up the mule.

We came out and prepared to take it back for cooking, but these people came and said that the mule belonged to them and they wanted it to be returned to its original owner. What we dug up was a dead mule buried in the ground. This is really unreasonable!"

Another person raised his head and said: "This mule belongs to a villain. It was this mule that transported weapons last time. The mule was ill at that time. The captain asked me to wait here until the mule recovers before going back."

As a result, the mule died four days ago and I buried it here. In the past few days, the little man had not eaten anything and was so hungry that I called a few people to cut the mule meat, but these people refused to give in at all and even beat him.

us!"

Ma Yin quickly said: "The mules are dead of illness and cannot be eaten! In such a hot weather, the meat will rot and cannot be eaten. Eating randomly will kill people! Just be patient, we will have food soon."

Liu Jianfeng shouted: "Get out!" The group kowtowed, took their clothes and weapons, and ran away quickly. Sun Ru was speechless all the way and inspected several barracks. He didn't see a single lively person, and all the soldiers were weak.

, like an eggplant beaten by frost, withered heads and brains.

The food shortage problem has become quite serious. How can the soldiers go into battle in this state? Sun Ru said to Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin: "This cannot continue. After a while, our army is in danger of collapse. Each of you will bring a few thousand troops."

Thank you for the food and ease the situation." Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin hurried back to the camp, and each led several thousand troops out to search for food. However, Yang Xingmi had already implemented a clearing of the country, and the territory of Xuanzhou was like being washed by water. Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin kept looking for it.

Jiangxi border is still empty-handed.

It was now May, and the weather in the south of the Yangtze River was hot and rainy again. The physical condition of Sun Ru's hungry soldiers declined sharply. Coupled with eating indiscriminately, an infectious disease broke out in the army. It spread from one person to ten, and from ten to hundreds. Even Sun Ru was infected.

Dysentery and malaria. He had constant vomiting and diarrhea, fever and chills. He hoped that Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin would return quickly and bring back food to save his life. He did not get good news, but got bad news. The Guangde camp was attacked by Yang Xingmi.

Although Yang Xingmi was trapped in Xuanzhou by Sun Ru, he already controlled the eight states of Xuan, Chi, He, Chu, Yang, Chu, Chang, and Run. Food from these places was continuously supplied, plus money.

With Li's aid, he would be invincible as long as he defended Xuanzhou. In order to speed up the collapse of Sun Ru's army, Yang Xingmi asked Zhang Xun, who had captured Anji, to send a surprise force to sneak attack the rear of Sun Ru's army.

Grain harvesting base: Guangde Camp.

Since Sun Ru's main force was all on the Xuanzhou front line, Guangde's defenders were weak and there were no generals in charge. They were suddenly attacked, and there was chaos. Within a day, Guangde fell. Most of the family members of the generals who stayed in Guangde were killed.

Captured or killed. Fortunately, Ma Yin left Ma Bin behind and led more than a thousand troops to protect him. In addition, Xinglan had 300 female soldiers. After a fierce battle, Guangde was finally killed. Although Xinglan brought her son Ma Xizhen,

Nephew Liu Yanxin had already escaped, but Ma Bin, who was behind him, was injured and captured.

Sun Ru was so angry that he fainted on the spot. After being rescued by his soldiers, Sun Ru hurriedly called Zhang Ji for discussion. Zhang Ji suggested that he should withdraw his troops immediately and return to Suzhou, the only town he still controlled. Originally

Anyone with some sense, in Sun Ru's position, would accept Zhang Ji's suggestion. But at this time, Sun Ru was anxious and sick, so he refused Zhang Ji's suggestion.

Sun Ru just asked Zhang Ji to quickly find Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin and urge them to bring back grain. He believed that as long as Liu Jianfeng and Ma Yin could come back with grain, all problems would be solved and he could still defeat Yang Xingmi. Zhang Ji saw that he was stubborn

own opinion,

He had no choice but to leave as ordered. After Zhang Ji left, Sun Ru struggled for nearly a month.

In early June, Yang Xingmi got the news: Sun Ru was suffering from malaria and could not get up anymore! At this time, Zhang Xun occupied Guangde and blocked Sun Ru's retreat to the east. Li Shenfu also led his army from the north. Yang Xingmi was overjoyed! "

"Taking advantage of your illness and taking your life" is not something a hero would do, but for a demon like Sun Ru, Yang Xingmi naturally has no regard for benevolence, justice and morality. Besides, this is a life-and-death battlefield, and the winner is king.

On June 6, Yang Xingmi's main force, which had been dormant for a long time, suddenly opened the city to attack. Yang Xingmi also ordered Li Shenfu and Zhang Xun to dispatch from the northeast at the same time. The three armies launched a general attack on Sun Ru! It happened to be raining heavily that day, and there was lightning in the sky.

Lei Ming and Sun Ru's military camp is a company camp composed of many small battalions. Under this environment, if a small battalion is attacked, there is no way to know about the small battalions farther away, which is very conducive to Yang Xingmi's army to defeat them one by one.

General An Renyi took the lead and was unstoppable, defeating more than fifty small camps of Sun Ru's army in succession. Sun Ru's soldiers were hungry and sick, and were weak to walk. Going into battle was simply an empty talk. When they saw Yang Xingmi's army, they resisted slightly

They surrendered. Tian Wei and Liu Wei rushed to Sun Ru's commander's camp. Seeing the enemy soldiers coming, Sun Ru's guards brought a horse and asked Sun Ru to get on the horse and run for his life. Sun Ru waved to the soldiers and asked the guards to retreat.

At this time, Sun Ru was violently ill. His whole body was shivering like chaff, and his upper and lower teeth were chattering. He had no idea of ​​getting up. Tian Wei entered the tent and hacked Sun Ru's guards. Liu Wei used the tip of his knife to open up the covering of Sun Ru.

Sun Ru looked up at Liu Wei and said with a shiver: "I heard that the general came up with this plan to defeat me. If I had someone like the general to help me, how could I fail?" After finishing speaking, Sun Ru closed his eyes and waited.

He died. Tian Kai rushed over, chopped him with a sword, and took his head out of the tent.

The sky cleared up the next day, and Sun Ru's camp had been wiped out. Most of Sun Ru's remnants who could not escape surrendered to Yang Xingmi. Of course, some generals, such as Chen Zhang, Wang Tan, Xu Wan, etc., chose to surrender to Qian Liu.

Through several years of competition, Yang Xingmi has a deep understanding of the bravery and prowess of the Tutuan Baitiao Army. Now that it is his own, of course he must cherish it.

Yang Xingmi selected 5,000 of the bravest Caizhou veterans and gave them the most favorable treatment to form an elite force. Ma Bin was also selected, but no one reported that he was Ma Yin's younger brother. First, because those who knew were originally

Not many. Secondly, people who knew him knew that Ma Yin had always been a generous man, so they couldn't bear to report him. Yang Xingmi had high hopes for this army, and they all wore black clothes and armor, so they were known as the "Black Cloud Capital".

Heiyun was composed of soldiers surrendered by Sun Ru, so Yang Xingmi naturally wanted to choose his confidants to take control. He appointed Zhu Yanshou as the first general of Heiyun. Zhu Yanshou was his wife's brother and a fellow countryman. He can be regarded as a senior general in the army. He has made military exploits in battles with Qin Yan, Bi Shiduo, Zhao Kun, Sun Ru and others. He has a rough personality and is fierce and easy to kill.

The deputy of Heiyundu chosen by Yang Xingmi was Chai Zaiyong. After Chai Zaiyong was captured, he surrendered to Yang Xingmi. Later, he performed many military exploits for Yang Xingmi and won Yang Xingmi's respect. In addition to Chai Zaiyong, there was also another member of the Sun Rujun army who surrendered. The general also received special attention from Yang Xingmi. This person was named Zhang Hao. Zhang Hao was from Caizhou and was extremely brave. He seemed not to have been incorporated into Heiyundu because he was sent to his hometown by Yang Xingmi immediately after the surrender. Yang Xingmi hoped that he would persuade Cai Chou, the governor of Luzhou, to surrender.

Unexpectedly, Cai Chou had other ideas. He did not believe that Yang Xingmi would let him go. Cai Chou incited Zhang Hao, who came to Luzhou, to join him in revolting against Yang Xingmi! Zhang Hao immediately agreed and turned against him again. He became Cai Chou's right-hand man. Using the power of Luzhou to fight against Yang Xingmi, who had already conquered eight states, was of course insufficient. Cai Chou first formed an alliance with Ni Zhang, the governor of Shuzhou, and prepared to surrender to Zhu Wen.

In order to win Zhu Wen's trust, Cai Chou dug up the tombs of Yang Xingmi's father and grandfather! Then Cai Chou asked the envoy to go to Bianzhou with the seals of Lu and Shuzhou and present them to Zhu Wen. After Yang Xingmi learned about it, he naturally Full of grief and anger, he immediately sent Li Shenfu to lead an army to attack. Cai Chou was no match, and Li Shenfu quickly broke through the city and killed her on the spot. As a result, Yang Xingmi gained another state.

Yang Xingmi then left Xuanzhou and returned to Yangzhou, where he had been away for five years, and took up the post of Huainan Jiedu Envoy. Yang Xingmi immediately awarded the title of meritorious official, leaving Xuanzhou to Tian Kai, and recommended him to the imperial court to be the successor of Ningguo. At the same time, An Renyi was recommended as the governor of Runzhou. Yang Xingmi began to painstakingly manage the hard-won territory, laying the foundation for the future founding of the country.

After Sun Ru's fall, Qian Liu also gained a lot. In addition to regaining Suzhou, Qian Liu also had a considerable number of Sun Ru's remnants who defected to his command. Qian Liu organized them into an elite new army: " "Wu Yong Du". The first military envoy appointed by Qian Liu to Wu Yong Du was his trusted general Gu Quanwu. After that, Gu Quanwu and Wu Yong Du under his command became the sharpest weapon in Qian Liu's hands. The sword was used to conquer the south and the north, and made the greatest contribution to the founding of the Qian family in Wuyue.
Chapter completed!