On the tenth day of the first lunar month, Ma Yang Hanming, a county governor of Tang, Guizhou, received an order from his brother-in-law to send a quick horse, asking him to deliberately give up Guizhou and let Yuxi Timur's 80,000 Tubo cavalry pass.

Then...

After receiving the letter, Yang Hanming couldn't help but say to Zong Zhou: "The king has made great plans and really make the Yuan army unable to defend."

Zong Zhou, Chen Yu, Job and other major spies read the letter and smiled at each other.

Yang Hanming immediately deliberately showed fatigue and pretended to be unable to hold on. Under the fierce attack of the Yuan army, he gave up Guizhou and retreated into the mountains on the south bank of the Three Gorges.

Yuxi Timur attacked for seven or eight days in a row. When he was anxious, he suddenly learned that Yang Hanming had abandoned his guard and returned to the state. He was overjoyed and immediately went out of Sichuan and Chu, and the army was aiming directly at Jiangling.

At this time, Li Luo's army was only a hundred miles away from Jiangling.

Lu Wenhuan, who was attacking the coalition forces of Wu Yan and Xiao Yin, was a famous general of the Yuan court and had a large number of troops. He was about to defeat Wu Yan and Xiao Yin, but at this time he heard about the disastrous defeat of Hengyang.

When Lu Wenhuan heard the news, he was shocked and even complained.

Lu Wenhuan is convening a military convention in the Yuan army camp outside Jiangling City.

"Now our army is about to defeat the bandit army and take down Jiangling. However, the Hengyang official army was defeated in disgrace, hundreds of thousands of troops were wiped out, and even the King of Yunnan was captured."

Lu Wenhuan said worriedly, "Li Luo has personally led a large army to support Jiangling, and our army must retreat to Sichuan."

Lan Ding, general of the Barbarian War, said: "Master General, I heard that the Tubo army led by Yuxi Timur is already attacking Guizhou. As long as they come to join us, our army still has the power to fight. Why should we retreat?"

Lu Wenhuan shook his head: "It's useless. It's hard to be Li Luo's opponent when the two armies merge. The hundreds of thousands of troops of the King of Yunnan were defeated by him, let alone us. Now the best strategy is to withdraw the troops immediately and join forces with Yuxi Timur to defend Sichuan."

He looked east and looked worried, "I'm worried about Yang Hanming. He might deliberately let Yuxi Timur into Chu, and then join forces with Lingxiao City to attack Chengdu. Sichuan's troops are empty, and Yang Hanming takes advantage of the opportunity to enter, and Sichuan will be in danger."

After he led the Sichuan army out of Sichuan, Sichuan had only 10,000 troops left behind, and it was difficult for him to stop the joining forces between Yang Hanming and Yi Shiying of Lingxiao City.

If the Sichuan slaughter falls into the hands of the thief, the situation in the south will be really irreversible.

"Report!" A message soldier hurried into the camp, "Master General! Yu has commanded 80,000 cavalrymen, and is about to arrive in Jiangling!"

What?

If this news had been heard a few days ago, Lu Wenhuan would have been overjoyed, but now, he was very worried that Yuxi Timur would come!

Because Li Luo's army is almost here!

"Go and tell the Yushuai, just say that Hengyang was defeated and the King of Yunnan was captured. Li Luo had personally led a large army to the east. The war in the south was no longer possible! Retreat to Sichuan is the best strategy! Please ask Yushuai to return to the army quickly and retreat to Sichuan! I will withdraw my troops too!" Lu Wenhuan quickly ordered.

"Zhe!" The message soldier rushed out of the camp.

"Send the order!" Lv Wenhuan shouted, "The army sets out the camp and opens the waves, and withdraws back to Sichuan!"

He looked at the generals with a serious expression and sighed, "The situation of the battle is corrupt, so that's all. I hope it's still time. You hurry up and restrain your troops and evacuate Jiangling quickly!"

"Zhe!" The Han and barbarian generals took the order together and hurriedly left the tent.

Yuxi Timur had just entered Chu one day and was only a hundred miles away from Jiangling, and he received the bad news of Hengyang's defeat.

The defeat in Hengyang was eight days ago.

Li Luo has already taken the power of a great victory and personally led the army westward!

"Send the order! Withdraw back to Sichuan!" Yuxi Timur was shocked and quickly made this decision. At this time, he had not received Lu Wenhuan's advice, but he also made the same choice as Lu Wenhuan.

As long as you are a good general, you will definitely choose to retreat to Sichuan at this time. This is the only reliable method right now.

The deputy general, Ma Dasi, was puzzled, "Master, our army has 80,000 cavalry. We finally left Sichuan, why didn't we fight?"

He also wants to go to the Southeast to rob.

With 80,000 iron cavalry in hand, what's there to be afraid of?

The left-ranking chief of Sichuan, Sapurer, who was accompanying the army, was also unwilling to withdraw his troops. "Master General, Lu Wenhuan has more than 100,000 troops, plus our 80,000 cavalry, how can we fight? Why should we retreat to Sichuan?"

Yuxi Timuer said with a pale face: "The King of Yunnan has more than 100,000 cavalry and hundreds of thousands of troops in Hengyang, but he was defeated. Don't think that the rebels' firearms must be very powerful. Li Luo is not a mediocre person, so it is difficult for this person to deal with. Once our army is defeated, Sichuan will also fall into the hands of the thief. I dare not gamble, nor can I gamble! Withdraw the troops!"

"Zhe!" All the generals had to accept the order.

"I inform Lv Wenhuan that he would not attack Jiangling again, and ask him to withdraw back to Sichuan as soon as possible!"

But here Yuxi Timuer just mentioned, a fast horse ran from the west.

"Master General, our army had just left Guizhou, and Guizhou was taken back by Yang Hanming!" The horse's cavalry reported.

What?

Bastard!

When he left Sichuan, Yang Hanming defended Guizhou, which made him unable to enter Chu for a long time. But now he is about to enter Sichuan, Yang Hanming defended Guizhou again!

How can I bear this?

"What's going on! What about the eight thousand soldiers and horses in Guizhou?" Yuxi Timuer said angrily.

When he left Guizhou, he left eight thousand Sichuan Han troops to defend the city. Of course, Yuxi Timur would not do anything stupid about leaving no way out.

The eight thousand Han troops guarded Guizhou, which was easy to defend but difficult to attack, were they lost so quickly?

How can Yuxi Timuer not be angry?

The knight said, "The defenders who escaped from Guizhou said that when Yang Hanming abandoned Guizhou, he dug a secret passage leading to the outside of the city. After our army occupied Guizhou, Yang Hanming sent troops to enter from the secret passage at night, occupied the Ximen, and sent troops to attack the city. The defenders were invaded by the bandits before they could regain the Ximen."

Yuxi Timur was so angry that he whipped in the air, "I was fooled! Yang Hanming had deliberately given up Guizhou before! In order to let our army enter Chu! When our army enters Chu, he attacked Guizhou again and blocked our army's retreat to Sichuan! This must have been instructed by Li Luo!"

Yuxi Timuer gritted his teeth, "Li Luo is going to fight our army in Jiangling! Humph, he thought he would definitely win?"

At this time, if you want to return to Sichuan, you will have to take Guizhou again. However, Guizhou cannot be defeated in seven or eight days, and it is too late to return to Sichuan!

For the sake of the present, I can only fight Li Luo in a decisive battle!

"Hahaha! OK, OK!" Yuxi Timur laughed instead of anger, "Li Luo, it is indeed worthy of being the former Melgen uprooted capital! Then let's fight! I want to see what methods do you have!"

"Send the order! Continue to march! Join forces with Lu Wenhuan to fight against Jiangling!" Yuxi Timuer said gritting his teeth.

"The Grand Marshal is wise!" Sapler slapped, "Li Luo's thief must have used conspiracy to defeat the King of Yunnan. Yu Shuai will not be fooled by him!"

Yuxi Timur looked west, "Sichuan, I'm afraid it's no longer safe!"

Although he knew it, he could not imagine it at this time.

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Yuxi Timur guessed correctly. Yang Hanming only sent 10,000 people to guard Guizhou, and personally led an army of 30,000 to attack Chengdu!

At the same time, Yi Shiying from Lingxiao City also received news from Yang Hanming. Yi Shiying immediately raised the banner of the Tang army and officially announced that Lingxiao City will return to the Tang Dynasty. Then, Yi Shiying led 7,000 troops out of Lingxiao City and joined forces with Yang Hanming.

The 37,000 army, dominated by Miao soldiers and supplemented by Han soldiers, was as powerful as a storm of the Tang army, and was as powerful as entering a deserted land, heading north to attack Chengdu!

The Tang spies who had long been lurking in Sichuan immediately launched a response from the people. For a moment, the land of Sichuan and Sichuan was surging. I don’t know how many rebels responded to Lingxiao City and started the incident under the banner of the Tang army.

At the same time, the secret agents of Tang, who had invaded the Sichuan officialdom two years ago, also announced their return to Tang.

One prefect, three prefectures, and nine county magistrates killed Daluhachi on the same day and revealed his identity. Then, they led the local township heroes and yamen runners who had already started to train, and announced their uprising to fight against the Yuan Dynasty.

When military information was sent to the case of Tieshan on Pingzhang, Sichuan, the urgent Tieshan was like an ant on a hot pan. Now Sichuan and Sichuan are rebelling everywhere, but the official army has empty forces and only 10,000 troops. How to suppress it?

While Tieshan posted a message to compile the Lichuan Yong, he also sent a message to the chieftains from all over the country, asking them to draw troops and horses. At the same time, he sent someone to report to Dadu.

Yang Hanming and Yi Shiying were extremely fast, and on the 17th day of the first lunar month, they were already at the city of Chengdu.

Sichuan local officials who revealed their identity as Tang State also led the village heroes who had been prepared long ago to Chengdu.

Chengdu was immediately surrounded by all sides.

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At this time, Jiangling was already overthrowing the city, and a war was about to begin. The two armies finally met.

Lu Wenhuan and Yuxi Timur, who could not return to Sichuan quickly, joined forces with a force of up to 200,000.

Li Luo and Xiao Yin's Tang and Liang coalition forces were nearly 400,000.

The two armies had 500,000 or 600,000 troops, covering the fields south of Jiangling City. I don’t know how many winter wheat was trampled by the army and would be left unharvest.

Not to mention the Yuan army, even the coalition forces had destroyed many crops along the way. Huguang was short of food, so I wonder how many people would be hungry at that time.

This decisive battle in the south was full of wars and chaos. The only place that was not affected by war or disaster was the rule of the Tang Dynasty.

Li Luo's phoenix flag of fire faces is far away from Yuxi Timuer and Lu Wenhuan's Canglang battle flag. The two armies remained as if they were standing in a stern way, and all directions were killed. A magnificent and majestic painting was slowly opened by the hand of God and presented between heaven and earth.

The scattered cavalry kept shuttled between the two armies to explore the military situation in front of the enemy. It added some movement to the huge still picture scroll.

In the Yuan army's formation, men with the red horses on the plateau were majestic and full of fighting spirit. The pair of big eyes unique to the Tubo people were full of rebellious expressions. Even their Tubo horses were taller than Mongolian horses.

However, Yuxi Timuer couldn't help but worry. Looking at the vast rebels opposite, the confidence in his heart melted unconsciously like the ice and snow that had seen sight.

He had 80,000 cavalrymen, and Lu Wenhuan had 10,000 cavalrymen, which totaled 90,000!

It sounds amazing. Just looking at the war horses all over the mountains can make people terrified and amazing.

But Yuxi Timur did not have much confidence in these cavalrymen.

Because they can't ride and shoot.

Lu Wenhuan's cavalry was mainly chieftains and Han cavalry. It was useful to charge the formation, but if they rode and shot like Mongolian warriors, it would be too embarrassing for them.

The same is true for the 80,000 cavalrymen of the Tubo tribes. They don’t know how to ride and shoot, but their ability to ride and shoot is common compared to Mongolian cavalry. If you expect these 90,000 cavalry to play Manguda and peeling tactics like Mongolian cavalry, don’t even think about it.

The Tubo cavalry is not without merit.
To be continued...