No wonder Hong Chengchou, the governor of the five provinces, almost fainted on the spot. The command of the Gansu general Wang Chengen's army, the deputy general Ai Wannian's army, and the commander of the He Renlong army, a total of 15,000 troops.

If he lost it together, then he would only have more than 16,000 people under his command. Just for this number of people, not to mention the length of a day of fighting with the rebel army, I would probably be unable to take care of the guards and the officers and soldiers.

Chai Shihua and Zuo Guangxian also knew the seriousness of the matter, so how could they dare to provoke him? The two of them quickly responded and trotted all the way to arrange personnel.

As a result, the two of them had just left and hurriedly ran back to report: "The deputy general Ai Wannian has returned, and they will come to report on the military situation in a while!"

"What is more important than meeting me?" Hong Chengchou asked unhappily with anger in his heart.

"This..." Zuo Guangxian and Chai Shihua hesitated for a while before responding in a low voice, "Ai Wannian was a little injured and had difficulty moving. Please wait for the supervisor."

Hong Chengchou was bored by himself, so he had to suppress his anger and avoid causing trouble, but waited for Ai Wannian to come.

Soon, two soldiers were indeed limping towards Hong Chengchou with one person. Hong Chengchou looked closely and saw that this was not the deputy general Ai Wannian, which one was it?

This is the time to use people. No matter how unhappy Hong Chengchou felt, he had to swallow it back.

He quickly drove forward a few steps and asked with a deep pain: "General Ai, what's wrong with you? Why is this?"

Ai Wannian smiled bitterly in her heart and quickly responded: "Supervisor, Ai has insulted his mission, please forgive me!"

"On that day, I followed the supervisor's plan, held the man and tied his mouth, wrapped his hooves, and went all the way to the east gate of Luoyang City. But I never expected that the thieves were ready. But when our army approached the city, we heard a cannon sound, and immediately, the Yamaru was fired, and countless officers and soldiers were killed or injured."

"There is another guy Cao Bianjiao who personally led hundreds of cavalry to charge the battle. Our army could not resist and had to retreat and about. I ordered the soldiers to lights and line up to fight with the thieves at night. Both sides were fighting back and forth, but I didn't expect that Zhang Sanbai, who had originally guarded Ziweixing Fort, had also secretly left the city for some reason."

"After the thieves were attacked by the front and back, our army was defeated. Cao Bianjiao knew my name, but he just chased me tightly. He was anxious and I couldn't help but get angry and went back to fight him. Unexpectedly, if the battle was not three times, my horse broke its front hooves in the dark night, and almost got caught by him."

"Fortunately, the left and right fight to the death, and Cao Bianjiao didn't know who was injured, so he was determined to chase most of the other defeated soldiers. Only then did Bei Yi save his life."

"I took advantage of the night to walk and gather the soldiers. Along the way, I couldn't tell the difference between the east, south, west and north. We bumped into the thieves like headless flies, and accidentally ran out of the encirclement of the thieves. By dawn, I could recognize the location of the camp, and then rushed back to the camp in a panic."

"Then how was your division damaged? Can you see Wang Chengen and He Renlong division along the way?" Hong Chengchou was shocked when he heard this and asked quickly.

"Uh..." Deputy General Ai Wannian paused for a moment and replied in a low voice, "I got some news on the road. I heard that the general He Renlong had actually surrendered to the thief and lived a life of silence; while the general general of Lintao, Wang Chengen, was surrounded by the thieves and could not escape, and died in a fierce battle!"

In fact, Ai Wannian's words are true and false, and it turns out that Ai Wannian was actually attacked by Cao Bianjiao and Zhang Sanbai, and was defeated by the rebels and suffered heavy losses.

This guy was afraid that Hong Chengchou would punish him, so he had to gather the defeated soldiers all the way and retreat. As a result, he unexpectedly had more and more defeated soldiers, and even his accent was different from his men.

After inquiry, Ai Wannian realized that there were other battalions of troops who had gathered along the way.

Although Ai Wannian is a martial artist, he is somewhat financially savvy under the influence of his family. This can be seen from the fact that his father Ai Yingjia lent usury grain to Li Zicheng for huge profits during the famine period that year.

Seeing this, he had a plan and took the opportunity to gather the defeated soldiers of other battalions together, and act as the amount of his troops under his command to conceal the fact that he had suffered heavy losses.

In the end, more defeated soldiers were gathered, so he learned from the defeated soldiers that the officers and soldiers were defeated. He even learned that He Renlong had no hope of surrendering to the enemy and Wang Chengen was besieged outside the city.

Unfortunately, his men and horses were originally mobs that had just been gathered, and he had no desire to fight. How dare he rescue him?

Ai Wannian pretended not to know and refused to save him. When the rebel army sent a large group of troops to siege Wang Chengen, the general officer of Lintao, he escaped from the gap between Ziweixing Fort, Luoyang City and Wang Chengen's defensive positions when he was waiting for an opportunity to lead his mobs to escape from the gap between Ziweixing Fort, Luoyang City and Wang Chengen's defensive positions.

As for whether Wang Chengen, the general officer of Lintao, died or lived, he actually didn't know. Ai Wannian was just worried that Hong Chengchou would have a whim and ordered him to lead his crowd to rescue Wang Chengen.

At that time, the troops under his command will collapse at once, and I am afraid that the fact that he has gathered his troops to serve as his own soldiers will be exposed.

So Ai Wannian, who had escaped his life by chance, deliberately broke his legs and feet before he led the crowd to limp back; while pretending that Wang Chengen was dead, he completely wiped out Hong Chengchou's thoughts.

Then Hong Chengchou was not suspicious when he heard this? His huge fear was like a big hand, and he grabbed his heart hard and twisted his hands twice.

Hong Chengchou couldn't help but cover his chest and took two steps back, raised his hands, and shouted loudly: "Alas, Tianshen I am, Tianshen I am!"

In this era, cold weapons, primitive muskets and cannons are actually not very lethal. More deaths still occur when the failure is being chased all the way.

Originally, although Hong Chengchou was defeated here, it only affected the morale of the officers and soldiers. Since the battlefield was close to the officers and soldiers' camps, the actual losses were not very large.

At that time, he only needs to use the camp facilities to win a few defensive battles and rebuild the morale of the officers and soldiers. The outcome is still unknown.

But he never expected that in this battle alone, he actually lost a general and a general, and injured a deputy general. His men and horses were afraid that they would lose more than 10,000 people, how could they fight this battle?

Deputy General Ai Wannian looked at Hong Chengchou's expression and felt a little proud. He quickly responded: "Don't worry, the generals, in fact, our troops have not suffered much loss. Although I dare not say that I still have the power to fight, I will bring them all back."

"Oh? How many people are there under your command?" Hong Chengchou calmed down when he heard this, as if he had finally heard good news today.

"I...I really don't know!" Deputy General Ai Wannian responded a little embarrassedly when he heard this, "But, please be careful, I'll count it, and you will get rewarded in a moment!"

"Okay, I will give you another hour!" Hong Chengchou nodded after hearing this.

Ai Wannian couldn't help but suppress the cheers in his heart and quickly took the order. But for a short while, he was stunned.

It turned out that when he went to attack the East Gate of Luoyang, the governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, gave him 5,000 troops. Among them, there were many empty salaries and the elderly and weak, but after he counted them, there were 513 more people under his command. How can this be explained?
Chapter completed!