The troops stationed by the Heiyan Army on the Ganquan Mountain defense line were mainly divided into four camps, the southern foot, the western foot, the northern foot and the middle peak. Among them, the western foot camp, which is the most powerful, is the main force of the Xiyuan Army. A total of 400,000 soldiers and horses were gathered, Gongliang, He Grandma Po and others, and they usually mainly stayed in the western foot camp.

In addition to the Zhongfeng Camp, which gathered 100,000 elite troops, although the two battalions of the southern and northern wings each had 150,000 troops, it was mainly to ensure that the Ganquan Mountain defense line could open a sufficiently open strategic detour space on both wings, and at the same time monitored the royal army surrounded by the two wings. Whether it was the size of the troops and the elite level of the generals, it could not be compared with the Western wings.

The main business of the North Road Daying is located in Xiaolianshui City on the northern foot of Ganquan Mountain.

Lianshui River originates from the Tianzhu Mountains where Jiyang, Heyang and Yanmen counties intersect. It gathers large and small tributaries, bypasses the west side of Ganquan Mountain, flows southward, and finally merges into a three thousand-mile-long tributary of the Chu River, which is also the geographical division between Heyang County and Jiyang County.

Several streams and rivers flow out of the northern foot of Ganquan Mountain and Huapu Ridge to the north. Finally, they gathered into a river that was 70 to 80 feet wide at the northwest foot of Ganquan Mountain. After leaving the northern foot of Ganquan Mountain, they flowed more than 200 miles northwest and finally merged into the Lianshui River.

This river is also known as Xiaolianshui.

Xiao Lianshui City is built between the gap between the northern foot of Ganquan Mountain and Huapu Ridge. In addition to Xiao Lianshui City as its main business, the Daying of the northern foot of the northern foot extends northwest along the northeast bank of the Xiao Lianshui River. Using the old villages and city walls, dozens of defense villages were built to prevent the Xiyuan Army and the various royal army from crossing the Xiao Lianshui River and entering Huapu Ridge.

Huang Shuang was quite polite to Le Yi and left Le Yi in Xiao Lianshui City to assist him in the war in the northern camp. He still had doubts about Chen Hai's identity, and believed that Ning Chan'er's temper was too strange and he could not control it as a teacher. When he returned to Xiao Lianshui City, he simply kicked Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er to Chen Shizhai, the northernmost wing of the Xiao Lianshui defense line, to serve as the guard.

Under such a general situation, Chen Hai also knew that he could not help much, so he and Ning Chan'er took a dozen medicine slaves to the north and went to Chen Shizhai, more than a hundred miles northwest of Xiaolianshui City to take over the defense.

The two stone ridges in Chen Shizhaika, two 200-meter-high, are facing the southwest of more than a hundred feet wide. In the cold winter, the small Lianshui River is frozen tightly. Behind it is Huapu Ridge, which stretches two or three hundred miles long and has a peak of only a thousand feet. To the north is the Tianzhu Mountains at the junction of Yanmen, Jiyang and Heyang counties.

"Le Yi is really a fool. Why did he take the initiative to ask for helping the defense at the Beilu Camp? We were kicked to this Qiushi Village..." Ning Chan'er asked dozens of medicine slaves to guard the mountain. She accompanied Chen Hai to the Shiling on the north side of Qiushi Village, looked at the mountains on the left and right, and said with a complaint.

Chen Hai looked at everything in front of him calmly.

Once the main force of the Black Yan Army in Ganquan Mountain decides to retreat to the Yanmen County, the small Lianshui defense line on the northern foot of Ganquan Mountain will have to bear the burden of delaying and blocking the main force of the Xiyuan Army and the Wangshi Army from all over the country, and protecting the main force of the Black Yan Army to retreat north.

With a weak army of 150,000 weak troops, it is not difficult to imagine how tragic the casualties of the Xiyuan Army and the 11th King's Army were formed to protect the retreat of the main force of Ganquan Mountain.

At that time, no matter how high the generals of the Northern Lu Camp had, they would have the possibility of dying at any time.

Le Yi took the initiative to ask to go to the Northern Lu Camp to defend this point, and he was attracted by this. He had the awareness of sacrificing for the Black Yan Army and the Red Eyebrow Sect at any time.

Although Ning Chan'er also hoped that the Black Yan Army could preserve its strength, it was far from the point where she stood up and sacrificed her life to preserve its strength.

Opposite Qiushizhai, separated by Lianshui, the one stationed on an unknown mountain was the 40,000 elite army in Hexi who were conquering the king.

Ning Chan'er suspected that once the final decisive battle broke out, the Hexi Qinwang Army alone could tear the extremely weak Xiao Lianshui defense line into a mess, not to mention that there were three other elite Wangshui defense teams on the front of the Xiao Lianshui defense line.

Ning Chan'er and Chen Hai climbed to the top of the mountain to watch the situation, and wanted to confirm with Chen Hai where their retreat route was once a large number of soldiers and horses rushed up.

Not only would she not live and die with Qiushi Village, she would not even care about the 4,000 generals and 20,000 to 30,000 refugees who escaped the war.

Chen Hai did not have the intention to live and die with Qiushi Village. He saw that from Qiushi Village, there was a Jiashi communication to the depths of Huapu Ridge. He thought that after the war could not be resisted, four thousand defenders and more refugees could escape from Jiashigou to the depths of Huapu Ridge. Most people should be able to save their lives. The most critical question now is how to persuade Le Yi, who is determined to die, to give up Xiao Lianshui City and escape with him and Ning Chan'er.

After the death of the great master Gong Qing, no one of the Red Eyebrow Cult can stand up and withstand the banner that ordered the Heiyan Army and the generals of Yunmengze to surrender. There are many internal problems and face such numerous difficulties. It is not difficult for Chen Hai to see the final outcome of the fallen apart in the near future.

At this time, Chen Hai thought about saving Le Yi. In addition to his previous friendship and his understanding of the true meaning of Taoism surpassed others, the more important reason was that in the years when the Black Yan Army rose, the light shining on Le Yi was more dazzling than any other general of the Black Yan Army.

If Chen Hai wants to as much as possible to incorporate the remnants of the Black Yan Army and the Red Eyebrow Cult, Le Yi is more important than Huang Shuang, Gong Liang, Yan Yuan and others.

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Chen Hai took over the defense of Qiushizhai, and there was no possibility of doing too much. Every day, he just took a team of generals to chisel the thick ice layer on the Xiaolian River, revealing the surging and cold river water.

The small Lianshui, which is hundreds of feet wide, is sometimes more reassuring than the city walls of Qiushizhai.

Otherwise, if Qin Muhou Dong Shou led 10,000 elite cavalry to raid to Qiushi Village, Chen Hai would be powerless and could only surrender.

Grandma He returned to Ganquan Mountain on the fifth day, and Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er were not summoned to Zhongfeng for discussion.

It was the sixth day after Grandma He rushed back that they went to Xiaolianshui City to hear the detailed plan of the Heiyan Army's retreat from Le Yi.

Songpanling is located in the southeast of Heyang County, and is more than 1,000 miles ahead of Ganquanling. It is planned to withdraw from the troops stationed in Songpanling first, break away from the Hu Ben Army, retreat to the southern part of Yanmen County, and build a second line of defense, but the garrisons on Ganquan Mountain retreated again.

Even if the great Heavenly Master Gong Qing left without hesitation, shrinking the defense line was the most likely choice for the Black Yan Army. At this time, taking advantage of the suspicion between the Hu Ben Army and the Xiyuan Army, the two main forces of the Black Yan Army could still retreat to Yanmen County north of Songdu Mountain.

The retreat plan on Ganquan Mountain is the same as Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er initially expected. The Xiao Lianshui defense line is responsible for delaying and stranding the main force of the Xiyuan Army. Even if there is a danger of being completely trapped in the encirclement, as long as it can ensure that the main elites of the Xilu Daying and Zhongfeng Daying retreat to the north of Songdu Mountain, any sacrifice is worth it.

In order to ensure that this intention can be fully realized, the Nanlu Camp will also be a victim and remain unmoved in the early stage to ensure that the main force of the Xiyuan Army cannot detour from the southern foot of Ganquan Mountain and pursue the main force of the Black Yan Army.

Although the Northern Footh Camp was responsible for the most difficult blocking task, the Zhongfeng side had no intention of strengthening the Northern Footh Camp. On the one hand, it did not want to arouse the alertness of the Xiyuan Army. On the other hand, the Northern Footh Camp has been regarded as a victim. The precious war equipment and the large amount of stored gold-tempering arrows must be retreated to Yanmen County with the main force.

When Le Yi and Chen Hai and Ning Chan'er reported their retreat plan, the troops from the Xilu camp had already transferred to the hinterland on the back of Ganquan Mountain through the valley between the Zhongfeng in a rotational training manner.

At this time, even the Xiyuan Army and the various royal army could vaguely realize the Black Yan Army's intention to retreat, but they did not make any major moves. After all, the strategic intention they initially designed was only to continuously compress the Black Yan Army's survival and activity space, and did not expect to completely annihilate the nearly two million main forces of the Black Yan Army in Heyang County in one or two battles.

In that case, it would be extremely risky to the Hu Ben Army and the Xiyuan Army, and neither armies could afford such a great risk.

In the last few days of the 78th year of Emperor Yitian, although the contacts and wars between the armies for the purpose of tentativeness became more frequent, the Black Yan army's retreat to the north was in an orderly manner.

The first batch of 50,000 elite troops retreated from Songpanling to Songdu Mountain as quickly as possible. Whether it was the Hu Ben Army, Xiyuan Army, and the various royal army, they did not dare to easily enter between Songpan Mountain and Ganquan Mountain, and enter the inside line of Heyang County controlled by the Black Yan Army to fight. They were more focused on the Black Yan Army's rear soldiers and horses in the two places, preparing to eat these troops, which could be considered as a fat year at the end of the 78th or early 79th year of Emperor Yitian.

On the front of the Xiaolianshui defense line, the troops of the kings gathered were becoming increasingly dense.

They also had the same idea. The cost of encircling and annihilation of the main force of the Black Yan army was too high, but this was obviously tens of thousands of Black Yan army soldiers behind the palace, so don’t think about being able to escape.

If they could break through the Xiao Lianshui defense line in advance, they might be able to bite another piece of meat from the main force of the Black Yan army retreating north.

If Yu Zonghu, the commander of the left army of Songpanling of the Black Yan Army, had not been rebelled during the retreat, the main force of the Black Yan Army retreated north to Yanmen County to rest and rest would not be a big problem. Even Ning Chan'er was packing up and preparing to take the medicine slaves to withdraw from Qiushi Village first. At that time, even if the news of the death of the Great Heavenly Master Gong Qing leaked out, millions of elite tigers and wolves of the Black Yan Army had contracted between the dangerous mountains and rivers of Yanmen County, and could have breathed for several years.

Yu Zonghu was not a disciple of the Red Eyebrow Sect. He was a child of the Yu family in Yanmen County. He practiced in the Xuling Sword Sect in his early years. He passed the palace selection with the title of No. 1 in the Northern Region. Later, he joined the Hu Ben Army. In the most important years when the emperor's power was fought for, he was already in the middle stage of the Daodan Realm and was promoted to General Wuwei, who led 50,000 Hu Ben Army to Yanmen County to clear out the civil unrest.

After the battle of Huang Miyuan, the Heiyan Army, led by Gongliang and Le Yi, rushed all the way eastward, blocking Yu Zonghu's retreat to the south, and besieged the 50,000 elite Hu Ben army troops under Yu Zonghu and 200,000 local military equipment in Yanmen County in Yandu City.

In the end, Yu Zonghu led his troops and local martial arts, Xuling Sword Sect and Yu's disciples in Yanmen County surrendered to the Black Yan Army. Yu Zonghu's relatives and nephews in Yanjing and all the relatives and nephews of all the surrendered generals were killed. A total of more than 3,200 people were killed outside the Wuyang Gate in Yanjing City.

Because Yu Zonghu and his direct generals had blood feuds with the Ying family, they were not rejected after surrendering to the Heiyan Army. They were appointed as gods and continued to command the elite Hu Ben Army and the 200,000 local military equipment that surrendered by Yanmen County. They were one of the most important gods of the Heiyan Army. They have also fought in Lichuan and Heyang in recent years.

Who would have thought that he would suddenly rebel again on his way northwards?
Chapter completed!