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Huang Chao's army was defeated and retreated to Juancheng, Puzhou, and the generals were convened to discuss the matter. Strategist Zhao Zhang said: "At present, although the official army of the six towns was burned by our army, although it defeated our army, it had to temporarily retreat to Caozhou Jiyin, but our army was defeated this time, and there were only 20,000 soldiers left, and the morale of the people was not shaken, especially when Wang Dutong led the cavalry to the south alone, and the morale of the army was even weaker. There are six towns in the west, and there are two interceptions in six towns in the east. There is the Yellow River in the north, and Hebei is strong. The west, east, and north are not allowed to go, and now the officers and soldiers of the six towns in the west should retreat, and immediately lead the troops south and leave this place. ”

Another strategist, Gai Hong, immediately retorted, "You can't go south, if you want to go south from Puzhou, you must first pass through Cao and Yan'erzhou, and now Baigou and Surabaya are intercepted by the official army, Caozhou has six town official troops, Yanzhou also has Taining army, not to mention that Song and Xu Erzhou are stationed with soldiers and horses, and it is not a good strategy to go south at this time." I thought it was better to go east. According to the report of Tanma, Wang Jingwu of Qizhou recently played against the Pinglu army, and he won consecutive battles, so he could go to the rendezvous. ”

"Brother Gai, don't forget that there are still Li Jing and Zhenguo Army in the east!" Zhao Zhang said.

Huang Chao's face was very bad, pale and bloodless, and this defeat hit him hard. Listening to the constant arguments between the two strategists under him, he frowned a little impatiently, but when he looked up, he happened to see Zhu Wen sitting there solemnly. couldn't help but say, "Brother Zhu thinks you should go in which way?" ”

"I thought I could go east!"

"On what basis?"

Zhu Wen sorted out his thoughts and replied seriously: "In the current situation, I think it is inappropriate to go south. To the south, you must pass through Cao and Yan'erzhou. Even have to pass through Song and Xu Erzhou. The six towns now have to retreat temporarily because the grain and grass have been burned. If we send it to the door ourselves, then they are desperate. We have just fought two consecutive battles with the soldiers and horses of the Six Towns, and now we have suffered heavy casualties, and we are simply unable to fight against the soldiers and horses of the Six Towns, which still have as many as 80,000 soldiers and horses. ”

After a pause, Zhu Wen also became more and more fluent as he spoke, "But to the east is different, General Gai also said just now, Wang Jingwu of Qizhou is now fighting and winning battles. We are now heading east to meet Wang Jingwu. It only takes time to regain strength. Moreover, compared with the 80,000 officers and troops in Caozhou, we went east, but we faced very few officers and troops. At present, the soldiers and horses of the three towns of Tianping, Zhenguo, and Taining in the east are intercepted in the east, but they are very separated. The Zhenguo army is the strongest, but it is stationed in Qianfu City by the Wenshui River under Mount Tai. We don't have to face him, we can directly follow Jishui through the defense area of the Tianping Army, Xue Neng of the Tianping Army has very few soldiers and horses, and it is a little reluctant to hold Yuncheng. Can't intercept us. ”

"Will Li Jing sit back and watch us pass?" Huang Chao said worriedly. In the face of the Six Towns Alliance, he also dared to summon up courage. The whole army attacked at night. But if it was Li Jing's Zhenguo Army, he had a lot of concerns. The name of the person, the shadow of the tree, Li Jing's fame is too great.

Zhu Wen chuckled: "Dashuai, I think that as long as we don't go to Yanzhou Qianfu City and choose Yunzhou Xue Chongbu to break through, Li Jing will never come to stop us." ”

Huang Chao was surprised, "Why is that?" ”

"I also stayed in the Zhenguo Army for a while, although it was not for a long time, but I also knew a little about Li Jing's use of soldiers. Li Jing uses soldiers, he has always seen rabbits and eagles, likes to clarify the purpose, and pays attention to the strategic layout. For the sake of the overall strategic plan, he can even ignore to abandon many tactical successes that are contrary to the overall strategy. In the current situation, I thought that it would not be much good for him to destroy us, so he would not send troops to intercept us. ”

The words strategy and tactics are very fresh, but when Zhu Wen carefully explained these new words learned in the Zhenguo Army, everyone felt that these words were very reasonable. Especially the fact that the Zhenguo Army defeated the Grass Army before, but let Wang Xianzhi escape, made Huang Chao believe it a little.

Clenching his fists, Huang Chao twisted his eyebrows and pondered, and after a long time, he finally smashed his fist on the case and said loudly: "The whole army is going east!" "Huang Chao decided to take a gamble, the last time I listened to Zhu Wen's words, I took a gamble, although I was still defeated after the worst, but in fact, it can be said that it was a victory, at least the official army was repulsed. Now, he wants to gamble again, betting that Li Jing really won't come to intercept him.

Immediately, Huang Chao ransacked Juancheng, plundered all the gold, silk, money, grain, and young men and women in the city, and marched eastward.

Not far from Juancheng, Yuncheng is the seat of Yunzhou on the north shore of Juyeze!

Xue Chong heard that the Yellow Nest was coming, and he hurriedly summoned the generals to discuss the strategy of resisting the enemy.

Xue Chong covered his head and said weakly: "Marshal Li of the Zhenguo Army has sent a messenger to convey the military order of the Ximen Metropolitan Supervisor, so we must not intercept the grass thief and prevent it from escaping eastward." Li Zhenguo is currently leading the army to garrison the Qianfeng City of Yanzhou and stick to the front line of Wenshui. The commander of the Li Department of the Taining Army was stationed in Yanzhou and held the first line of Surabaya. And we, the Tianping Army, must stick to the front line of Jishui. Now, the Grass Thief King Xianzhi led his troops to flee south, running towards the Taining army, and Huang Chao led his troops to the east, heading straight for us. Tell me, how to deal with it? ”

Cao Quanxi, the envoy of the soldiers and horses, said directly: "Although the yellow thieves were defeated and fled eastward, there are still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Our army is now under-strengthened, so it is only advisable to go deep and fortify and hold on to resist it. However, in the middle of the month, the soldiers ran out of food, and the generals and soldiers of Caozhou and Yanzhou were killed together, and the thieves were defeated at that time. Then our army went out of the city to lead troops to chase after it, and it was invincible. ”

Xue Chong's face was full of disappointment when he heard this, he had been defeated by the grass thieves several times before, and almost all of the entire Tianping Army had fallen into the hands of the thieves. Xue Chong knew very well that as soon as the grass thief was destroyed, he would inevitably be settled by the Queen of the Autumn, and at that time, he might be locked up and taken into Beijing for questioning. Therefore, Xue Chong knew very well that unless he could win a big battle now, otherwise, even if he did what Cao Quanyang did, it would be difficult to wash away his guilt.

"Cao Xianxian, is there a good plan?" Xue Chong looked at Cao Cunshi, hoping that this young general, who had always been aggressive, would be able to put forward different opinions.

Cao Cunshi insisted on sending troops last time, but as a result, the 8,000 elite Tianping army was wiped out, and he has been decadent during this time. Now that he heard the suggestive words of the section commander, he immediately couldn't help but say: "The grass thief is newly defeated, and he fled in a hurry, this is the time to annihilate the grass thief in one fell swoop." His subordinates are willing to lead the soldiers and horses in the city out of the city to ambush the grass thieves, behead the yellow thieves, and dedicate them to his command! ”

Cao Quanhui was furious, "The erector is talking nonsense, if you go out of the city today, you will be defeated." ”

Cao Cunshi said coldly: "If my army is defeated, I am willing to be beheaded!" ”

Cao Quanxi didn't expect his nephew to be so extreme, so he had to sigh. However, he still persuaded a few words, and after no result, he made a plan for his nephew, "There is Liangshan in the north of Yuncheng and on the north bank of Jishui, and its road is steep, but the ambush can be here." ”

Xue Chongnai handed over Yuncheng to Cao Quanyang, leaving only five hundred old and weak to him. Since he and Cao Cunshi led 3,000 men and horses to the foot of Liangshan to ambush.

In the afternoon of the next day, Huang Chao led his army to the city of Yuncheng. Cao Quanyang wore armor and personally sat at the head of the city, and flags were planted all over the city, and there were many people. Huang Chao looked at the city and saw that the banner was strong, so he had no intention of attacking the city. Seeing that the head of the city was closed and holding on, there was a loud voice, "Incompetent Xue Chong, he is really cowardly!" "The Huang Chao army showed off its might under the city for a while, and then went directly to the east.

The grass army swaggered under the city of Yunzhou, and no one in the city dared to go out of the city. The grass army couldn't help but laugh loudly, and couldn't help but be a little proud. In the evening, the grass army camped on the spot.

At the fourth watch of the night, Xue Chong, Cao Cunshi, Cao Xiang, Cao Yi and others led 3,000 soldiers and horses suddenly came out from behind the mountain and rushed straight to the grass army camp. The grass army was raided, and chaos broke out in the camp, and Cao Cunshi and others only cared about rushing and killing everywhere.

Huang Chao woke up from his sleep, and when he heard that the Tianping army was attacking the camp, he couldn't help but be furious, and Zhu Wen rushed to the horse, "My subordinates are willing to take Xue Chong's head for the marshal!" ”

Zhu Wen and the three of them were originally stationed in the rear team, but they were not dispersed at this time, and they all came to kill the headquarters at the moment. Cao Quanyang's eldest son, Cao Yizheng, led his troops to kill, and the two fought in a scuffle. Zhu Wen had already seen that Cao Yi was wearing a treasure armor, and he must be the general who led the troops, so he rode a horse and a spear to kill directly. Cao Yi is seventeen years old and invincible. Zhu Wen bullied him when he was young and came to stab him with a gun, but he couldn't fight a few times, and he was stabbed off the horse by Cao Yi.

Cao Yi was about to take Zhu Wen's head, but Zhu Zhen had already arrived and yelled: "Don't hurt my brother!" ”

The two fought several times, Zhu Zhen was also stabbed off the horse, Zhu Cun rushed to the horse again, Zhu Wen and Zhu Cun re-mounted the horse successively, the injury was not serious, and the three surrounded Cao Yi and fought together. Unexpectedly, Cao Yi was brave and fierce, and the three of them were not opponents. When he was in the middle of the day, Zhu Wen saw a vacancy, and pressed a sleeve hidden crossbow hidden on his right arm, and the crossbow was in the middle of Cao Yi's face.

Cao Yi fell off his horse, Zhu Zhen and Zhu Cun rushed forward, and one of them made up a shot to kill Cao Yi.

As soon as Cao Yi died, the soldiers and horses of the battalion of the department were ownerless, and under the cover of the army led by Zhu Wen and the three of them, they soon fled. Zhu Wen and the three of them took advantage of the situation to chase and kill, Xue Chong, Cao Cunshi, Cao Xiang and others were blocked by the generals of the grass army, and then the grass army rushed to the rear army, and was immediately defeated, and the grass army chased all the way to the city of Yun, fortunately, Cao Quanyang saw the bad momentum from a distance in the city, and hurriedly led five hundred soldiers and horses out of the city to respond, and a burst of tearing and killing, and Xue Chong and Cao Cunshi and Cao Xiang were brought into the city after the most reluctance.

The 3,000 soldiers and horses who went out of the city, plus Cao Quanyang's 500 soldiers, were less than 1,000 when they returned.

Huang Chao had already interrogated the captives at this time, and learned that the garrison in Yuncheng was empty, so he took advantage of the victory to attack the city. After Cao Quanyang returned to the city, he heard that his eldest son was killed in the chaos, and he fainted immediately. The grass army outside the city attacked the city, Cao Quanyang was unconscious again, Xue Chong was so frightened that he refused to defend it, and directly let people open the south gate, and took Cao Quanxi and more than 100 other people straight to the shore of Juyeze, jumped on the boat and fled directly to Daze.

Yuncheng has no owner, there is a big chaos for a while, the defenders do not hold for a long time, and when it is almost dawn, Yuncheng is broken through the city gate by the grass army. Tens of thousands of grass troops poured into Yuncheng, looted and burned, Yunzhou City was reduced to ruins, Huangchao robbed the money, grain, gold and silk in the city, and young men and women, as well as ordnance and armor, etc., ordered to set fire to Yunzhou City, and then wrapped in the population, transported the looted money and grain, and fled along Jishui to Jeju in the northeast. (To be continued......)