Zhao Hu and the generals returned to the city with victory, ordered the marching room to record the meritorious soldiers on the military merit book, and ordered the reward of meat and money. Then he summoned the generals in the city to come to the general's mansion to discuss matters. After the generals' ceremony, Zhao Hu asked the chef to serve food directly and discuss matters with the generals while having dinner with the generals.

Li Xu and his uncle and nephew of the Zhao family returned victoriously and fought a big victory, and they were very happy. However, Zhao Feng looked solemn and stopped everyone's request for alcohol.

"What does the commander-in-chief mean?" Li Xu asked: "Today, the commander-in-chief led us to defeat Gao Pian's vanguard and killed more than a thousand enemy cavalry. It can be said to be a great victory. After this defeat, the Huai thieves were afraid that they would be scared for a while and would not arrive immediately within one or two days. Have some wine and celebrate!"

Zhao Yu was covered in dust and his armor had not been removed. He shook his head and said, "Today, the defeat of the enemy is because the Huai Army is careless, and the other is because we are pursuing the enemy's carelessness. But An Yi is not a strong city fortress, this is a small city, not far from Yangzhou, far away from Shanyang, Xuyi and other heavy cities. Gao Pian suffered a loss this time, and he will be more cautious in the future. Gao Pian is also a powerful general on the battlefield, with 60,000 troops. If he really comes up, he will not be able to defend for a long time. Tonight, we will leave this city at night."

Li Xu and the generals were stunned. After a big victory, the coach wanted to abandon the city and flee. This...

"Brother, your highness, your highness, orders you to stay in Huainan with us. If you leave without a fight, wouldn't this betray your highness?" Zhao Xu said loudly: "I don't think Gao Pian is scary. Even if he was a powerful general at the time, he has become a toothless tiger. If we don't leave, we will fight Gao Pian here."

"Damn it!"

Zhao Huo shouted loudly and scolded his brother.

"Before leaving, Your Highness had specifically instructed someone to stay in Huainan and act as a camera. The most important thing is to preserve power. At that time, Hu Douzhou's 11,000 soldiers were unable to evacuate in time, and almost all the troops were lost."

Li Xu said excitedly: "Hu Douzhou's 11,000 soldiers were almost completely wiped out, but with more than 10,000 rural soldiers, they finally destroyed nearly 30,000 Liang Zhang, and they were defeated. What's more, we are not just rural soldiers for training in autumn and winter. We are the most elite Qin army soldiers of hundreds of battles, how can we escape in the battle?"

Zhao Lun had a much gentler attitude towards Li Xu. Li Xu was a nephew of the Qin King clan and a senior general of the Navy, not ordinary people. "Li Junmen, Your Highness said this: if the land and people lose people, both people and land will be lost. If people lose people, both people and land will be preserved. Although we are in Huainan, we must obey the overall strategic situation. The task of the Jianghuai camp is to act as a barrier for the Huai and Si side, and to restrain the Jianghuai forces. Your Highness let us be here. It is not to let us fight Gao Pian desperately."

"Besides, we just gave up An Yi, not to give up the entire Chuzhou. Now that Gao Pian is attacking in a large scale, we have few soldiers, so we can temporarily retreat into Shanyang and rely on the dangers of Hangou and Huaihe River, the strong city of Shanyang, and the back of Huaisi, the west is connected to Xuyi, Zhongli, Huaiyin, and Dingyuan towns. Plus Linhuai and Lianshui on the north bank of the Huaihe River, forming the Huaihe River defense line, and the army is watching and supporting each other. Even though we have few soldiers, we are not afraid of Gao Pian. As long as we can defend for three or five months, Gao Pian will not be able to hold on for a long time, and we will retreat at that time. When the enemy retreats and we chase us, we can take back the outer cities of An Yi and others in one fell swoop."

After a moment of words, the generals couldn't help but feel silent.

"Is this what Your Highness meant?"

Zhao Hun nodded, "Although your highness didn't say so in detail, he did leave a general instruction."

Since this was the intention of the King of Qin, Li Xu and other generals naturally no longer objected. So they passed the orders, and the generals packed their equipment and immediately withdrew back to Shanyang City after dark.

However, the central army of Gao Pian's troops took a boat to the north of the Hangou Canal, but the rivers near the Anyi River were mostly blocked by Li Jing's shipwrecks, so they had to send people to clear the river. The first troops sent Feng Shou and Lei Man to lead 3,000 cavalry to go first on land.

When it was dark, only a small half of the river was cleared. As soon as the entire army was ordered to go ashore to camp, the guards reported that Feng Shou and Lei Man had returned.

When Gao Pianxuan saw it, he saw Feng Shou and Lei Hai were in a mess. As soon as the two entered the tent, they immediately knelt down and apologized for the crime. They stated the matter of today's military launch. "The thief general Zhao Feng first deliberately went out of the city to fight with five hundred cavalry to slow down our morale. Then when the two armies were fighting, they suddenly threw the thunder firearm. The firearm was extremely terrifying. Our army was shocked and the front army was in chaos. Then the Zhao thief dispatched a thousand cavalry to kill from left to right. The thief's arms were sharp and threw non-stop. Our army could not stop it. The army was shocked and defeated. Fortunately, General Lei responded halfway and fought with Zhao Feng and other six Qin thieves and other six generals, thousands of elite cavalry, who came out of the city behind, and then defeated the Qin thief. The last general was incompetent, and the general was defeated. He had no face to meet the prince. Please punish him!"

When Gao Pian heard that more than 1,500 cavalry were lost in one battle, he couldn't help but curse: "There are only more than 8,000 thieves in the city. You two lead 6,000 elite cavalry and almost all the elite cavalry under your command were defeated in one battle, losing nearly 30%. You still have the face to come back!"

He was both shocked and angry, and what was shocked was that An Yi was just a small county town in the southernmost part of Chuzhou. At this time, there were only eight thousand people in the city. He also found out clearly that the town general Li Xu was also a navy general. He also sent 3,000 troops to guard Yancheng to the east and patrol the sea. Although Zhao Yuan personally led 3,000 cavalry to help, there were only five thousand people in the city.

But with just a few people, Feng Shou had three thousand men in field battles with others, and was beaten to the point of falling into the water in one round. Later, he joined Lei Man's three thousand barbarian cavalry and was defeated. He couldn't believe this was true. Zhao Yuan and Li Xu were not famous. Two mere names actually destroyed one quarter of his most elite 6,000 cavalry in one battle.

Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi looked at each other, and both of them smiled slightly.

Lu Yongzhi and Zhang Shouyi and others were just soldiers of the martial arts world. By observing their faces and being clever and pretending to be magic, they were able to get high positions and become high-ranking vocational officers in the Huai Army. However, Liang Zhang, Feng Shou, Chen Qi and other veterans have always looked down on them, and even Yu Gongchu, who recommended him, drew a clear line with him, which made them very nervous about their relationship with these veterans. Lu Yongzhi and others had long wanted to overthrow these veterans and replace them.

The last time Liang Zhang was defeated, he has been demoted by Lu Yongzhi and others, and the two brothers Gao Jie were also treated coldly. Feng Shou was defeated again. They immediately saw the opportunity to take action.

Lu Yongzhi immediately sneered and said, "General Feng followed Sushilang to defend Huaiyin last time. He was defeated. Later, he fled to Shanyang. Not long after, Shanyang lost again. This time he led his troops again, but three thousand cavalry were defeated by five hundred cavalry of the Qin army. He led his troops three times and three times defeated."

Feng Shou looked at Lu Yongzhi coldly, "What do you want to say?"

Lu Yongzhi snorted coldly: "Victory and defeat are common in military affairs, but it's just a strange thing. Why did General Feng lose three battles and three times in a short period of time? But he lost more than once, but he could come back safely every time. Could it be that General Feng has a god to protect his body?"

As soon as these words were said, fire almost spurted out from Feng Shou's eyes. Although Lu Yongzhi did not say anything bluntly, his words were already extremely vicious and accusing him of notifying his followers. Sure enough, Gao Pian's face immediately became gloomy, and his eyes were already cold and sharp when he looked at Feng Shou.

The account was extremely quiet for a moment.

After a moment, Gao Pian snorted coldly and slapped the table suddenly: "Pull it out and behead it!"

The last defeat. Gao Pian has not settled the score with the generals, but Feng Shou has been defeated again today. He was so unbelievable that he was still defeated. In a rage, whether Gao Pian really believed Lu Yongzhi's words, he now wanted to push Feng Shou to take the blame and kill Feng Shou, one to shock the generals, the other to let Feng Shou be the crime of Gao Yu's defeat in the last battle, and the third to use this to wipe out the unfavorable atmosphere of successive defeats.

In the tent, Yao Guili and other Huai Army generals knelt down to apologize for Feng Shou, but Gao Pian became more and more angry.

"If anyone dares to plead again, he will also launch a beheading."

As soon as these words came out, everyone had no choice but to retreat.

Lu Yongzhi waved outside the tent, called the soldiers of Moyedu, and escorted Feng Shou out and beheaded. After a while, the soldier came in with a plate, and Feng Shou's head was placed on it.

The generals watched the old brother die like this, and each of them felt sad about the death of the rabbit and the fox. However, Lu Yongzhi and several others were secretly satisfied.

Gao Pian's aura was slightly calm at this time, and he felt a little regretful when he saw Feng Shou's head. However, he could not hold his head down and could no longer be installed. He could only wave his hand and let someone take the head out to pass the entire camp.

While he was talking, suddenly a horse outside the tent came to report.

Gao Pian summoned him in, and the horse newspaper reported that he found that the defenders in Anyi City had left the city overnight and fled north, and Anyi left only an empty city.

Lu Yongzhi reported: "The Qin thieves were frightened by the power of the county prince's army and fled overnight. An Yi would defeat him without attacking him."

Gao Pian was a little proud when he heard the news. At this time, Lu Yongzhi, Zhang Shouyi and others asked to go to war and were willing to go to pursue the Qin army. Gao Pian agreed and ordered Lu Yongzhi to lead Zuo Moye to Anyi.

Lu Yongzhi rushed his troops overnight and arrived outside Anyi City near dawn. At this time, people had already left the city and could not see half of the Qin army. Even many wealthy families in the city took their families and followed the Qin army to flee to Shanyang. The rest of the city were ordinary people.

A general asked whether to pursue him. Gao Pian smiled and said, "There are still Qin troops left in the city, and we should wipe them out together." So Lu Yongzhi ordered his subordinates to break into the city, kill more than a thousand innocent young men, cut off the heads and call them Qin soldiers, and then threw their bodies into the canal. He sent troops to search and rob, seize all the money, and finally led the troops to rob women at will.

Gao Pian received the report from Lu Yongzhi. Although he was a little confused when he saw the head of the ship, he was still very happy and was promoted to Lu Yongzhi's official title in public.

Two days later, Gao Pian dredged the canal and led his troops to Anyi. At this time, Anyi had become a ghost town and almost fell into ruins. Lu Yongzhi boasted of the fact that it was because he led his army to fight with the remaining Qin army.

Gao Pian only rested in Anyi City for half a day, and then led his army to attack Shanyang.

Two days later, the army arrived at the foot of Shanyang City. At this time, Zhao Hu had mobilized 12,000 troops from Linhuai, Xuyi and Zhongli cities to defend the city, and temporarily recruited 20,000 young and strong people in Shanyang City to form auxiliary troops, and distributed equipment to help defend the city.

Gao Pian arrived at the foot of Shanyang City, Chuzhou, and did not take a break, so he ordered the siege.

Zhao Lu responded calmly. The two sides fought from afternoon until dark. The bodies under Shanyang City piled up a gentle slope, filling several avenues of moats, but in the end, the Huai Army still failed to break the city.

It was dark and it was withdrawn. In the middle of the night, Lu Yongzhi offered his plan to use the Qin army's method of breaking Shanyang that day, and sent people to intercept Hangou and flood Shanyang. Gao Pian transferred tens of thousands of people to dig up the soil and fill the river overnight. After filling it for a day and a night, he saw that the embankment would be built. As a result, at that night, Li Xu led the navy to suddenly enter the canal from the Huai River, and then directly transported several ships of gunpowder to blow up the embankment that had been hard-working.

Gao Pian did not give up and filled in twice. Although he sent heavy troops to guard the coast, he was in the end without exception. The dam that had been hard-working to build halfway was still blown up. Three times, Gao Pian finally had to give up his plan to block the canal and flood the city, and had to continue besieging the city helplessly.
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