Huan Yuan looked at the defeated soldiers of Minyue by the river and was anxious. ''　　　　　

He had guessed this scene, but he still didn't want to see it. Because it all showed that things were moving towards his worst expectations.

Things may be worse than he thought.

There were more than a thousand people deployed on the left wing of the north shore, and more than 500 people were facing Yu Shan and Liu Ju. In order to prevent accidents, he also deployed several archers from Houyi Camp, hoping to use their excellent shooting skills to persist for a while so that the soldiers on the boat could dock and support it in time.

However, in just two drums, the Minyue Army collapsed and was driven to the bank of the river. The soldiers on the water were blocked by Liu Ju's warships and had not yet found a suitable location to get ashore.

Who is it? Could it be the Kuaiji County soldiers led by Dou Qufei?

Huan Yuan did not dare to be negligent and quickly called Liu Ju who had just climbed onto his warship. "Your Highness, you should not stay here for a long time, leave immediately."

Liu Ju was so scared that she kept trembling with the mast. He looked at Huan Yuan and hesitated for a long time. "Let's go? How do you go?"

"Your Highness, Wuxian is only thirty or forty miles away, and it will be reached every night. Once they arrive, we are trapped in the river and we will be unable to get up and down. We will collapse without fighting. It is too late to regret it. Before they arrive, Your Highness will take a small boat and have a chance to break through."

Jing Zhao climbed up with the help of two personal guards. He happened to hear Huan Yuan's words and coughed majesticly: "Your Highness's ship is damaged, and more than a hundred soldiers are trapped in the boat. You will leave before they come out. Are you afraid that the soldiers will feel heartbroken? Besides, there are many treasures on the boat. If you are not rescued, will your Highness return to Dongzhi and drink the wind to fill your hunger?"

Huan Yuan could no longer hold it back and was furious. "General Jing, you were also a general of Wu back then. Don't you know the water feelings of Songjiang at all? Now that the ship is damaged, it will soon sink. How can you rescue the treasures on the ship? I'm afraid that the treasures will be snatched out. You don't have the chance to take them away. Are you planning to present them to Dou Qufei as a meeting ceremony? Otherwise, you will also bring your highness's head?"

"Huan Yuan, you are slandering." Jing Zhao also blushed and furious. "My loyalty to Your Highness is understandable. Where were you when I escorted Your Highness to Dongye? What is the dilemma today? It is not because of your collusion between your master and apprentice and your disciple..."

Huan Yuan's face was sunk and cold. "If my master colluded with inside and outside, you can still stand here and talk."

Zhongli Shi waved his hand. The archers from Houyi Camp immediately surrounded him, set their bows and arrows, aiming at the subordinates of Jing Zhao who were trying hard to climb up. Jing Zhao looked around and took a breath of cold air. He immediately closed his mouth and showed fear. Only then did he realize that the situation was wrong at this moment. Liu Ju's ship was damaged, so they could only move to Huan Yuan's warship and stay under someone else's roof. If Huan Yuan wanted his life, it would be a small task.

Jing Zhao regretted it and winked Liu Ju repeatedly.

Liu Ju also realized the danger and swallowed two saliva with difficulty. He squeezed out a smile on his face and said good things. "General Huan, the situation is urgent. General Jing is wrong for a moment. General Jing doesn't care about it. Just follow the general's words, it's better to leave as soon as possible. General, look..."

Huan Yuan snorted angrily, walked to the side of the side, raised his hand and ordered. "Beat the drum, attack forward, and call everyone to give in. Those who dare to block the road will kill you!"

The archers responded with a loud noise, lined up on the side of the ship, shouted in unison, and ordered other warships to give way. The sound of war drums exploded, and the oarsmen rowed hard, driving the warships to break through the waves, and squeezed the warships blocking the way aside. Some warships were overturned, and the soldiers on the ship fell into the water and cursed. Some warships simply turned their heads and prepared to steal the way. Huan Yuan raised his bow without saying a word, and the strings sounded and shot several people in succession.

Screams were everywhere, and seeing Huan Yuan standing at the bow of the boat with a look of evil look on his face, the archers from Houyi Camp opened their arrows, and no one dared to fight for the strife, and they all avoided them.

Huan Yuan's warship accelerated quickly and left the sinking warship. He directed the warship to Yu Shan's ship. Yu Shan's ship was also pierced by the iron spear underwater, and was busy retreating to other warships. When he saw Huan Yuan and others coming, he kept calling for help.

When Huan Yuan told Yu Shan about the current danger, Yu Shan was also surprised. However, he was different from Liu Ju. He followed the good luck and immediately gave up the treasures, took the guard camp, squeezed out other warships, and drove downstream first.

Liu Ju had not had many people, and more than a dozen ships were loaded. When they saw Liu Ju retreating, they followed him one after another. Yu Shan's army had no time to greet him, and only a small half found the ship and followed Yu Shan to retreat. The rest were trapped on the big ship or simply fell into the water.

Huan Yuan led Yu Shan and Liu Ju broke out of the siege and stopped.

"General, Your Highness, you retreat first, I will gather the remaining soldiers."

Yu Shan was still in shock and nodded repeatedly. He ordered someone to take his own flag and hand it over to Huan Yuan. "Everything has been entrusted to the general."

"Don't worry, General." Huan Yuan pointed heavily, bowed to Liu Jushen, took Zhongliqi to jump onto a small boat and returned to the chaotic battlefield. Yu Shan sighed. "A loyal and righteous general."

Liu Ju's face was ashamed of pig's liver, and she was ashamed of herself. Jing Zhao's face was gloomy and his eyes flashed.

Huan Yuan returned to the center of the battlefield and boarded a medium-sized warship. He ordered people to raise Yu Shan's battle flag and ring the war drum. While commanding the army to reorganize and evacuate in an orderly manner, he ordered Zhongliqi to take Houyi's camp to ashore and organize counterattacks to avoid being rushed to the ship by the enemies on the shore.

The sound of war drums sounded and the battle flag was raised. The panicked Minyue soldiers found their backbone and gathered towards Huan Yuan together.

...

On the shore, Li Jiao had commanded all the troops to squeeze the remaining soldiers of the Minyue people off the bank of the river, and then ordered everyone to come forward to shoot. The Minyue people were curled up on the narrow shore, stepped in the wet mud, and were struggling with difficulty, being shot in a mess, one by one, fell into a pool of blood. The blood stained the wet mud red, gathered into a stream, seeped into the river, drifting with the waves, and dizzled into dark red.

Zhongliqi led the Houyi camp archers to arrive and shoot together, and finally stabilized the situation.

When Liang Xiao saw the battle flag of Houyi Camp, he immediately signaled Li Jiao to retreat. Although Li Jiao was still unsatisfied, he still adopted Liang Xiao's suggestion. He could also see that although these Houyi Camp archers were still quite far from Liang Xiao, and were even worse than those of them, they still had an advantage compared with the domestic slave soldiers formed by the powerful Wu County. Once the stalemate was in a row, the casualties of the domestic slave soldiers were likely to surge.

"It's a pity that if the soldiers of Kuaiji County were here, none of these thieves would escape."

"The soldiers of Kuaiji County should not be far away." Liang Xiao looked at the western horizon and glanced at the excited domestic slave soldiers. "It's time to hide them."

"Why?"

"Du Taishou cannot not know the strength of these big surnames, but he doesn't want to be troublesome, so he pretends not to know. If he doesn't hide it, can Dushou Dou continue to pretend not to know?"

Li Jiao frowned. "Dou Qufei is so timid and afraid of things, and he is not like the descendants of the Dou family at all. The Empress Dowager is still there, so they are so weak. In the future, the Empress Dowager will die. Will they still have a place to stand?"

"The Dou family has difficulties with the Dou family. The Empress Dowager is over 60 years old and has been suffering from eye disease for many years. I am afraid that it will not last long. The Dou family's children are also preparing for the future and have the foresight. Otherwise, when the Empress Dowager dies, it will be too late to change the course."

Li Jiao looked at Liang Xiao in surprise, smacked his lips, thought for a while, and then said, "What you said makes sense, but I still feel depressed. Wei Qihou was so chivalrous back then, but now he is so in such a state, which really makes me feel disappointed."

Liang Xiao didn't say anything. I was so heartbroken now. After two years, there will be something that makes you even more heartbroken. Of course, your Li family is not much better. You should think more about yourself and don't just worry about the Dou family.

...

Yan Zhu and Dou Gofei shared a chariot and arrived at the battlefield.

The river surface has recovered from peace. Apart from some overturned ships and the bodies of the drowned Minyue soldiers, there are no more people. Huan Yuan gathered the remaining soldiers and walked down the river for half a day.

The only significant results were the three or four hundred people killed by Liang Xiao and Li Jiao by the riverside. Because of the help of Zhongli period, nearly two hundred people who had no way to escape returned to the warship.

It was embarrassing to see Wang Xing coming to greet him. If he had heard Wang Xing's suggestion and sent county soldiers to set up an ambush by the river as soon as possible, the results would have been that these few hundred people would have been the only one. It would have been possible to capture Liu Ju or Yu Shan.

What a great opportunity, now it's all flowing along the river.

Dou Qufei said to Liang Xiao and others with an apology: "Thank you all for your hard work."

Li Jiao snorted and glanced at Yan Zhu. Liang Xiao pulled his sleeve, pushed him, and came to Yan Zhu. Li Jiao raised her head and pretended not to see Yan Zhu. Liang Xiao had no choice but to kick Li Jiao secretly and wink him. Li Jiao glared at him dissatisfiedly, and bowed to Yan Zhu reluctantly, but didn't say a word.

Yan Zhuo was also embarrassed and said lightly: "Thank you for your hard work. This time I returned to Beijing, Zhuo will definitely ask for me."

After hearing this, the men's faces calmed down a little.

Liang Xiao smiled bitterly and thought to himself that these guys are so straight, they don’t even have any turns. He said he would ask you for me, but you believe it? Are you all three-year-olds?

"It's all because of the good command of the adults. I can only do my best. It's not worth mentioning." Liang Xiao said modestly and reminded: "Although the Fujian and Yue retreated, the mission of the adults has not yet ended. When will the adults start and arrange it as soon as possible, we can make some preparations. These days, the war horses are very hard. If they lose their horses, they must be carefully adjusted. There are still a few horses that have died in battle, so I will also ask the Lord Dou to issue a document. We can cancel it when we return to Beijing."

Dou Qufei showed a little surprise in his eyes and looked at Liang Xiao intently.

Yan Zhu's color was alleviated a little. "Don't worry about this. You report the horses that died in battle. I will prepare documents for you. As for the mission, Liang Xiao, do you have any good suggestions?"

Liang Xiao shook his head repeatedly. "We only know how to gallop and kill the enemy, but we don't know what national affairs are. What arrangements are made by our Lord? We will do our best."

Yan Zhu was silent, but Dou Qufei laughed silently. He looked at Liang Xiao and looked at Wang Xing again-

(To be continued.(.))
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