"Lord, as the saying goes, strength is weak if the troops are divided. The Ming army came in eight groups. It seemed huge, but in fact it gave us the opportunity to defeat each one..."

Time went back to Dongyue, before the Eighth Route Army entered the army. Shortly after Yang Yinglong sent Yang Chaodong, Yang Weidong brothers and Yang Zhu to lead the army to fight against the Imperial North Army. Sun Shitai, the military advisor who had gone to the Italian Alliance since the defeat of Jiangjin, was fighting.

Before he made up his mind and left secretly, he came up with an idea for Yang Yinglong that was a replica of "You can come any way, I'll only go all the way."

"What the military advisor said makes sense. The Beijing Camp Army is indeed very powerful, but it does not mean that the other groups are equally strong. As long as we destroy one group of them and give them a painful beating, we may have more armies than other groups... Hahahaha!"

Yang Yinglong, who suffered a big loss at the Fifth Army Camp in Jiangjin, couldn't help but his eyes lit up when he heard Sun Shitai's idea.

"Lord, among all the roads, Tongwuzhen along the Wujiang River has the most complicated troops, which are composed of local troops from all walks of life. With the Shui Xi'an clan on the side, we can..."

As the saying goes, pick the soft persimmon. Before leaving, Sun Shitai chose a very suitable "soft persimmon" for Yang Yinglong.

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"God is really helping me! I'm all the way to Wujiang, the closest to Yang Yinglong's lair. It seems that I deserve this song..."

Just when Sun Shitai selected Tong Wuzhen as a "soft persimmon" to Yang Yinglong, the garrison was stationed in Yanggekeng. Tong Wuzhen, who originally wanted to delay the invasion because he was very afraid of Yang Yinglong, received Wang Bing's three

After the execution, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

"My lord, the champion has strictly ordered all armies to send out troops on the first day of the twelfth lunar month. However, because Wujiang is so close to Bozhou, after sending out troops, we must not rush deep into it to avoid being besieged. It is better to wait for other armies to go deep in.

, and then march with them..."

As an inland military town that has not yet been rectified and still has a military supervisor, Yang Yinqiu, the military supervisor and inspector, was shocked when he heard that Tong Wuzhen actually planned to steal this "first prize".

There is no way, my own family knows their own affairs. Isn’t it a joke that the ‘miscellaneous army’ led by Tong Wuzhen still wants to take the lead despite the fighting strength of this group?

"Master Supervisor, you are worrying too much! He, Yang Yinglong, suffered a big loss from the Jingying camp. Now he must be focusing all his attention on the Yulin Guards and the five armies of the Jingying camp. How can he care about us?

Centaur? You literati...tsk tsk!"

Glancing at Yang Yinqiu, Tong Wuzhen shook his head with disdain.

Speaking of which, if it had been in the past, Yang Yinqiu, the supervisor of the army, would not have dared not listen to what he said.

But now, seeing that the military reform is imminent and the Supervisory Army is about to be abolished, so towards this Supervisory Army Lord who has always suppressed him, he is now as rebellious as an adolescent boy. Because of this, for the Supervisory Army,

He didn't even listen to a word of Yang Yinqiu's reminder!

"Send an order to order the Yongshun Army to seize the Wujiang River and build a pontoon bridge to prepare for the army to cross the river!"

Not only did he not listen to Yang Yinqiu's reminder, Tong Wuzhen immediately ordered the Yongshun army to capture Wujiang Pass first and prepare in advance for the army to cross the river.

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"What else can Master Supervisor say now? Hahahaha!"

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, when Tong Wuzhen led his army to the Wujiang River where a pontoon bridge had been erected, he looked at the Bozhou rebels on the other side who had fled without a trace, and immediately looked at Yang Yinqiu with pride.

"My lord, the traitors will retreat without a fight. We need to be careful of deception. The previous defeat of Governor Jiang..."

"Hmph, he is a scholar from Jiangdong... I have been leading troops for decades, how can he be compared to him?"

Seeing that Chen Yinqiu actually used the incident of the entire army in Jiangdong to 'beat' himself, Tong Wuzhen immediately turned cold.

"Send an order to order Yongshun's army to quickly capture Laojun Pass; and then order Xie Chongjue to lead five thousand troops, together with Zhenxiong and Shuixi native soldiers, to attack Hedu Pass!"

After being "beaten" by Yang Yinqiu, the unconvinced Tong Wuzhen ordered the Yongshun Army to seize Laojun Pass on the day of crossing the river, and at the same time ordered the outpost general Xie Chongjue to divide his troops to seize Hedu Pass.

But what Tong Wuzhen didn't know was that since he crossed the Wujiang River, all his actions had already fallen into Yang Yinglong's plan.

On the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, the day after Xie Chongjue led a partial force to seize Hedu Pass, he saw that the fish had been caught in the net, and he had been prepared for a long time. The rebels in Bozhou also started to close the net. The place where the net was set was Xie Chongjue

The newly occupied Hedu Pass.

"Haha, a mere three thousand people want to retake Hedu. They are really overestimating their capabilities! Send the order and the whole army will attack to annihilate these thieves in one fell swoop!"

Seeing the rebels retreating under the attack of war elephants driven by Zhenxiong and Shuixi native soldiers, Xie Chongjue suddenly couldn't help but feel his appetite grow. He led the army in the camp to press forward, wanting to swallow them in one fell swoop.

However, what he didn't know was that all this was a 'routine' of the rebels. Shortly after he led all the troops in the battalion to pursue him, as a burst of war drums sounded, the 20,000 rebels who had already been ambushing them...

Suddenly he was killed.

Not only that, the Shuixi native soldiers' war elephants, which were previously invincible, suddenly went crazy under the attack of the rebels who turned around and counterattacked, turning around and trampling on their own people.

As for the elephant sergeants on the war elephants, they had already been shot into pieces by crossbow arrows, and they were unable to control these crazy war elephants at all.

"War elephants are afraid of fire and frightened. Use firearms. Quickly use the rotten bone fire oil cannon!"

Seeing that the war elephant was out of control, the clever sergeant immediately spotted the army's "bone-rotting kerosene cannon", which was the "grenade" before the improvement of the Habayashi Guards.

However, although the idea is good, the fighting quality of these 'miscellaneous troops' is too poor. When throwing these 'rotten bones and kerosene cannons', the war statues did not injure a few heads, but directly destroyed their own formations.

It exploded into a mess and opened the door to the rebels.

"withdraw!"

Xie Chongjue, who had been full of confidence before, saw the ambush. As a general, he did not want to go over and form a new formation to resist. Instead, he immediately turned around and ran away first.

As the saying goes, it is the courage of the soldiers and the power of the soldiers. The generals ran away first, how could their sergeants stay and fight to the death?

Therefore, in just a moment, all the officers and soldiers who had been confident before turned around and rushed to the pontoon bridge to escape, regardless of whether the pontoon bridge could withstand so many people crossing the river at the same time.

"Boom boom boom!"

There was a rapid sound of the rope snapping. I don't know whether it was because it was overweight or it was a "scumbag" project. Under the stampede of thousands of officers and soldiers, the Heduguan pontoon bridge across the Wujiang River was snapped from the middle.

Thousands of officers and soldiers fell into the rolling Wujiang River in an instant. Only Xie Chongjue led a few officers and soldiers who ran away first and escaped with their lives.

"Put on your official and military clothes and go to Wujiang Pass!"

Soon, after killing the officers and soldiers who failed to escape Wujiang River, thousands of rebels who had changed into the clothes of Shuixi native soldiers began to rush toward Wujiang Pass, which was sixty miles away.

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"It's over, it's over, it's all over!"

On the south bank of Wujiang River, looking at the surface of the river full of floating corpses, Tong Wuzhen, who was completely drained of blood, could not help but feel weak, and then he fell down on the cold river bank.

Early in the morning after the fall of Hedu Pass, Tong Wuzhen, who led the army to Wujiang Pass, successfully captured Laojun Pass and Hedu Pass, and was proudly preparing to lead his army to take Luomeng.

At the time of passing the pass, they were suddenly attacked by a joint attack from Zhenxiong, Shuixi native soldiers and tens of thousands of Bozhou rebels.

Unprepared, the Tongwu Town Department, which was originally composed of various motley troops, failed to organize an effective resistance at all. They just let go of the sheep and began to scramble to cross the pontoon bridge to escape just like the Hedu Pass before.

Get up.

Facing the officers and soldiers scrambling for their lives, the rebels first cut off the pontoon bridge to cut off their escape route, and then the officers and soldiers collapsed directly and went to cover up the Wujiang River. After the battle, Tong Yuanzhen's troops were not alive, and Lieutenant General

Including Xie Chongjue, who had previously escaped from Hedu Pass, there were only three people left in total, almost completely repeating the same mistakes as those in Jiangdong.

"When someone comes, please send a message to Guiyang quickly to prevent the thieves from attacking. In addition, report the situation here to the champion immediately..."

Just when Tong Wuzhen was dumbfounded, Yang Yinqiu, the inspector who had escaped with his life, was still awake. First, he quickly sent someone to report the warning to Guiyang, and then planned to report the situation here to Wang Bing, the general manager of the broadcast.

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"Master Supervisor, if Zhenxiong and the Shuixi native soldiers hadn't colluded with the Bozhou rebels in this battle, how could our army have suffered such a disastrous defeat? Master Supervisor, please also report these details to the Champion..."

Just when Yang Yinqiu was about to send someone to report the defeat of Wujiang to Wang Bing, Tong Wuzhen, who had been dumbfounded before, came to his senses and blamed Zhenxiong and the Shuixi soldiers for the defeat.

'Rebellion' in order to avoid the responsibility of the defeated army as much as possible.

"Chief Tong, most of the Zhenxiong soldiers and horses are at Kuzhu Pass and Banbaling...Whether they are really rebelling, I think the champion will have to judge for himself!"

Obviously, not long after retreating back to the south bank of Wujiang River, Yang Yinqiu, who had already learned the news of the defeat at Hedu Pass, had doubts about the identity of the "Shuixi native soldiers" who had previously rebelled.

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"As expected by the military advisor, Tong Wuzhen is now defeated. Even if the other Ming armies do not retreat, we can move these soldiers and horses to other places, hahahaha!"

Just when Tong Wuzhen was using the excuse of the rebellion of the Shuixi native soldiers to shift the blame, Yang Yinglong, who had received the news of the Wujiang Campaign from Kuai Ma, could not help but be overjoyed.

"Come here, order Zhang Shouqin and Yuan Wushou to lead the troops..."

Since the Ming army along the Wujiang River had been defeated, Yang Yinglong naturally would not let these soldiers and horses idle at that time, and was ready to dispatch troops and horses to several other passes.

"Your Majesty, General Lou wants to see you!"

Just when Yang Yinglong was about to order the soldiers and horses guarding Wujiang Road to be transferred to other places, he learned that Lou Guo, who had been sent to guard Loushanguan by him, asked for an audience. Yang Yinglong was suddenly shocked and felt a bad premonition.

came to mind.

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