Horse on the World

Chapter 931 Desperate

In Changhua, it rained heavily.
It has not cleared up for several days in a row. Compared with the dark weather, the mood of the generals in the mountain wind tent is worse than the weather outside.It has been more than ten days since they stormed Changhua, but Changhua still stands in front of them. Hailing Battalion and Ruijian Battalion took turns to fight. Under the counterattack, they returned without attacking, and the loss of the siege made Xiong Dewu and Jiang Heiniu feel distressed and bleeding.Under the influence of Li Qing, the Dingzhou army is least interested in forcibly attacking a well-armed and heavily guarded fortified city, because even if they take him down, the price they will pay is unbearable, but now, the Dingzhou army has paid Although they have paid enough price, they have not achieved any results. On the contrary, the situation of the battle is tilting a little bit against them.

"It is now certain that the number of defenders in Changhua City will never be lower than ours. This can be seen from the fact that they dare to open the city gates and attack the city on a large scale every time our army is attacking the city. There are not enough troops." The other side will never fight with our army out of the city." Jiang Hei Niu said with a dark face, "We wrongly estimated Changhua's defense strength."
Li Feng let out a long breath, "It rained for more than ten days in a row, and the floods of the rivers and ditches around Changhua swelled, which greatly restricted the movement of the cavalry. The ground was so muddy that the cavalry basically could not fight. More and more The war horses began to fall ill because they were not used to this kind of weather, and this is not an option!"

"This is not the most important thing." Buyangu stood up, "General, over the years, our department has discovered that small-scale enemy troops have appeared in our rear. They destroy roads and attack logistics supplies. Although our department has many I also wiped out some of them in the first attack, but the opponent was clearly prepared, the number is surprising, and now I doubt whether the opponent knows that we are going to attack Changhua, and set such a trap for us here."

"If that's the case, we might consider retreating, Grand General," Xiong Hailing said.
Guo Shanfeng listened to the discussion of the generals with a bitter face. As early as a few days ago, he had figured everything out. Just as Buyangu said, Changhua was a trap set by Shang Haibo for him. What he said now What he was worried about was not his own here, but Qinzhou, which was the fundamental place. If Shang Haibo's goal was to occupy Qinzhou, he would never allow himself to retreat easily.If he could not return to Qinzhou, then Guan Xinglong would be in danger in Qinzhou.
His own risky attack is very likely to bring serious consequences, which will threaten the entire military advantage of Dingzhou. If Qinzhou falls, the whole state and Yizhou will be exposed to Luoyang soldiers. However, it is obviously too late for the lord to deploy troops no matter from which direction.Unless Guan Xinglong can hold Qinzhou firmly, but Guan Xinglong only has [-] soldiers in his hands after all, can he withstand the opponent's long-planned attack?
Guo Shanfeng waved his hand and said to everyone: "Okay, I know everything, you go down first, I want to be alone for a while."

"If you are too big a general, you must make up your mind early, otherwise you may make a big mistake." Li Feng said.

Jiang Heiniu stretched out his hand to pull Li Feng, pouted, and said in a low voice: "Let's go down first, let the general think hard about it!"
God didn't stay overnight, and didn't stop until the next morning, but he still didn't have the intention of keeping his eyes open. Looking at the weather, everyone was extremely depressed.
Seeing Guo Shanfeng again, the four generals were shocked. After one night, white hair appeared on Guo Shanfeng's head. You must know that although Guo Shanfeng has a high position, his actual age is less than forty!Everyone looked at Guo Shanfeng in horror, not knowing what he was thinking that night, so that he suffered so much.
"Generals, please sit down!" Guo Shanfeng seemed to have thought through a lot of things, refreshed and relaxed a lot.
"General?" Fei Yanggu was picked up by Guo Shanfeng with one hand, and when he saw Guo Shanfeng's condition, he couldn't help looking at him with concern.

"Nothing nothing!"

When the generals were ready, Guo Shanfeng looked at them, and said slowly: "This time the battle in Qingzhou, to put it bluntly, I actually took advantage of the absolute power that the lord gave to one side's commander, and just wanted to compete with other troops. This is not the same as the lord The overall strategic layout is inconsistent."

Everyone was shocked again.
"Shang Haibo deserves to be my teacher once, he plotted against me to death, he has been waiting for me in Changhua for a long time!" Guo Shanfeng shook his head self-consciously, "I thought green came out of blue, but Jiang turned out to be too old, this Once let me be taught."

"I have decided to submit a form to the Lord to resign from the post of Xingqin Governor, and to be replaced by Guan Xinglong, and to ask the Lord to deprive me of the position of General." Guo Shanfeng stood up, and took out a pair of folds from his sleeve, " After this meeting, I will send someone back to send the booklet back to Dingzhou."
"The general is not allowed!" The four generals stood up together and stopped them in unison.

Guo Shanfeng raised his hand to stop the crowd, "Everyone, Shang Haibo has a tight arrangement in Changhua, waiting for me to come, but his real purpose is not to deal with me, but Qinzhou, he must be attacking Qinzhou, Therefore, Qinzhou will usher in the most cruel battle next, and General Guan Xinglong has to deal with Shang Haibo's army with [-] people. Therefore, I must let Guan Xinglong control all resources with the power of governor. Do your best to fight this battle."

He took out another letter from his sleeve, "This is a letter from me to General Guan Xinglong. I will attach the governor's seal to the letter. Once he receives the letter, he can exercise the power of governor. In the battle of Qinzhou, we will have to abandon Xiaoaihe, Huting, Anfu Temple and other places, and withdraw all our troops to Qinzhou. In the letter, I have already stated this meaning, and General Guan will understand ."

"Flying Ancient!"
"The last general is here!" Fei Yanggu stood up, "What orders does the general have?"
"You select a team of men from among your subordinates, one man and three horses, and drive back to Qinzhouguan General Xingyuan during the starry night. There should not be too many people, but they must be capable. Along the way, there will definitely be opponents intercepting them. Let them Be sure to deliver the letter."
"Don't worry, general!" Fei Yanggu hesitated for a moment, but still took a step forward, and took the two letters and the governor's seal from Guo Shanfeng.

"Okay!" Guo Shanfeng sat down with a smile, "The next step is our side. Yesterday you suggested that I retreat, which is not feasible. Since the opponent wants to lure us here, it will be tolerated." Let's retreat easily, not to mention that the enemy in Changhua will stick to us, I am afraid that on the way of our retreat, the opponent has already prepared, Shang Haibo will never allow me to take you all back. He went to Qinzhou, if that's the case, wouldn't all his painstaking planning be in vain, so we can't leave."

"Since we can't go, let's bypass Changhua and go deeper." Guo Shanfeng slapped the table and said loudly. "I'd like to see if the enemies of Changhua come out, or not!"

"General, continue to go deeper, what about our supplies?" Li Feng said hesitantly.
Guo Shanfeng laughed, "Over the years, our Dingzhou army has relied on a strong logistics system. It seems that we will not fight without enough supplies. Hahaha, what a joke, I think back when our Dingzhou just rose , Where do we come from for logistics supplies? When I led the army to the west to open up the second front, there was a vast grassland, where to find supplies? It was nothing more than one word, grab!"
"Go ahead, Shang Haibo let me in, then I will be the Monkey King in the belly of the Iron Fan Princess, I would like to see if the new army he has worked so hard to train has the courage to follow me Let's have a field battle! He transferred his main force to Qinzhou, is there still enough troops to encircle and suppress me, if not, hmph, I will make a mess of his hinterland."
All the generals knew in their hearts that the wind of crossing the mountain was a dead end.If they continue to move forward, they will definitely fight all the way to Ningzhou and try to join the troops of Lu Tian in Ningzhou. For them, this is indeed a way to die and survive.

"Along the way, grab all the grain and grass in the fields, grab all the things you can grab, and if there are no more, then start killing horses for me, first kill mules and horses, and when there are no more mules and horses, then kill war horses, as long as Dingzhou As long as the soldiers are still there, we will be invincible." Guo Shanfeng slapped the table.
"I would like to follow the command of the general!" The four people in the tent were excited by the arrogance of the mountain wind, and they all stood up and said loudly.
"After returning to the camp, generals, act immediately. After Feiyang's ancient troops are cut off, the whole army will move out tomorrow!" Guo Shanfeng said loudly.
In Changhua City, a school lieutenant rushed over.

"General Wan, General Wan! The Dingzhou Army has retreated, retreated!"

Wan Li stood up abruptly, and looked at Yuan Fang excitedly, "Gong Yuan, Guo Shanfeng finally chose to retreat, okay, Pinglu, Chenghua, everything is ready in Tacheng, we will attack from both sides We can defeat the Guoshanfeng Department, and then take advantage of the situation to enter Qinzhou, join Generals Zhou and General Qu, and take back the old mountains and rivers!"
Yuan Fang nodded with a smile on his beard.

"General Wan!" The captain carefully glanced at Wanli.
"What's up?"
"The enemy is not withdrawing to Pinglu and other places."

"What did you say?"

"Guoshan Fengbu did not choose to retreat towards Qinzhou. The spies reported that the other side bypassed Changhua City, but continued to advance towards the hinterland of Qingzhou!"

Yuan Fang stood up abruptly, looked at Wanli in astonishment, and sat down slowly after a long while, "Guo Shanfeng is Li Qing's number one general, and he really deserves his reputation. It seems that he has seen through Shang Shoufu's position." With a series of strategies, we will never withdraw our troops to Pinglu and Changhua. I am afraid that our preparations there will be in vain."

"But the hinterland of Qingzhou is empty, so he can't be allowed to rush in like this. Guo Shanfeng completely gave up on the logistics supply line, and his idea is nothing more than robbing. The enemy is food. This bastard is a bandit, and he can't do anything. Yuan Lord, we must catch up and try to intercept them."

Yuan Fang nodded, "General Wan will decide on the battle!"
Wanli turned around and looked at the generals under his command, and said: "Guoshanfeng is at the end of his journey, and we are taking risks. It is a good time for us to eliminate him. He is advancing towards Qingzhou, and the next step is to attack Shanyang County. There are three thousand soldiers in Shanyang County." The garrison should be able to stop them for a while, we will catch up quickly and fight with them in Shanyang County. We will try our best to defeat them under the city of Shanyang."
(End of this chapter)