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Chapter 181: Return from a Fiasco

That night, Li Zicheng left only a few people to defend Fuzhou City, but he led his main force to flee to Ganquan City not far from the north of Fuzhou overnight.

After Sun Chuanting learned that Li Zicheng had abandoned the city, he was very happy and immediately ordered to step up the attack on Fuzhou City. As a result, because of the high morale, the soldiers used their lives and took only a quarter of an hour to capture Fuzhou City.

At this time, because the official army entered Yan'an Prefecture, the army was progressing rapidly, and the problem of insufficient food and grass had been initially revealed. Sun Chuanting hoped to use war to support the war and obtain supplies after invading Fuzhou City to solve the urgent problem.

However, after conquering Fuzhou City, I found that there was almost no food and grass there, only some mules and horses left.

There was no choice but to order the mules and horses to slaughter them to satisfy their hunger, but these mules and horses were only enough for them to last for three or four days.

Fortunately, a batch of food was transported at this time, which could be used by officers and soldiers for ten days and half a month, temporarily solving the problem of hunger.

Seeing that the food problem was solved, Sun Chuanting prepared to continue attacking Ganquan City. However, Sun Chuanting did not expect that the other party would come to challenge.

Sun Chuanting was unaware of him and felt that this was exactly what he wanted, so he led a large army to fight the rebel army. The date of the decisive battle was five days later.

However, the day before the decisive battle, Sun Chuanting suddenly heard a news that Li Zicheng had built a plank road openly and secretly traveled to Chen Cang. Taking advantage of the decisive battle with the government army, he ordered the general Liu Zongmin to lead an army of 10,000 quietly lead the army to the rear and cut off the food route of the government army!

Sun Chuanting was shocked when he heard the news. He knew that once the food road was cut off, the army would have a difficult life in the future, and it might even lead to a great defeat on his side.

Sun Chuanting couldn't help but regret that he had not protected the food route and was deceived by the other party, which led to his own threat.

At this time, different opinions appeared in Sun Chuanting's camp. Some advocated finding ways to open up the grain channel first, while others advocated that this was a good opportunity to fight against the government. It was better to take the opportunity to fight the decisive battle with the government army. Once the victory was won, the grain channel would naturally be opened.

Sun Chuanting thought about it. He felt that if he took the opportunity to fight, his winning rate would be relatively high. After all, Zuo Liangyu had already restrained a lot of the troops of the rebel army. Moreover, when the battle was before, the official army still won more than the fewer than the other party. At least in terms of morale, it was much stronger than the other party.

So Sun Chuanting immediately made a decisive decision to fight the rebel army.

However, when Sun Chuanting came to the battlefield of the decisive battle, he saw that the rebel army had already repaired the fortifications.

It turned out that the rebel army did not intend to fight head-on, but instead used defense instead of decisive battle, because the rebel army knew that the food route of the official army was cut off, and as long as they held for a few days, the official army would collapse without fighting after they had no food and grass.

Sun Chuanting couldn't help but scold the thief for being cunning, which made him waste a day in vain and consumed a lot of food and grass.

Now the army's food and grass can only last for three days. In this case, Sun Chuanting only has one way, which is to open up the food channels.

So Sun Chuanting ordered Cai Maode to lead Shanxi soldiers to stay in Fuzhou City, and personally led Shaanxi soldiers to open up the food route.

However, as soon as Sun Chuanting's army left, the Shanxi soldiers became unbalanced. They felt that they would stay and endure hunger and suffer from rain, but they were just a scapegoat for the Shaanxi soldiers. In a angrily heart, they followed the Shaanxi soldiers to retreat.

Cai Maode was shocked when he saw this and immediately ordered people to kill the deserter, but he could not stop it at all. The official army was in chaos for a while.

Li Zicheng saw this scene from afar and immediately organized troops to take the opportunity to launch an attack. This made the situation even more chaotic and the official army was defeated and fled.

At first, Sun Chuanting didn't know what was going on behind, but seeing that all the soldiers of the army were running away, he could only escape. It was not until he arrived at Yijun City that he finally understood what was going on, so he immediately ordered the deserters to stop them, and set up a formation to fight the rebel army again.

This time, Sun Chuanting made up his mind and personally led his army to launch an attack. For a moment, the Ming soldiers were full of morale. The soldiers fought bravely, and the rebel army suffered heavy casualties. The army was shaken. As he was about to lose, Li Zicheng was about to lead his army to escape.

When Sun Chuanting saw this scene, he naturally knew what happened. He was quite happy. This decisive battle was clearly a carriage and horse. The rebel army not only did not take any advantage, but suffered a great loss. As long as one side took advantage of the victory, he believed that he could defeat it in one fell swoop.

"I have been fighting thieves for ten years in the Ming Dynasty. Is it finally over now? I didn't expect that the God of Luck was so favored that he would make this contribution fall on me, get promoted and be rewarded, and leave a name in history. Needless to say, I don't care about these things, but I was finally able to meet my wife again. From then on, we can stay together forever. This is why God pity our husband and wife, both of us have a sincere heart?"

Sun Chuanting's eyes were blurred, and a beautiful figure appeared. The other party stared at the direction he was in a daze, waiting for his arrival...

However, at this moment, a dull sound of horse hooves suddenly came from a distance. Sun Chuanting looked in the sound and saw a military horse coming quickly. The army rolled up smoke and dust in the sky, looking quite powerful.

"I don't know which army this is? Could it be Zuo Liangyu's Huguang soldiers?"

Sun Chuanting thought about it and then rejected this idea, because if it were Zuo Liangyu's army, it should have come from the southwest, not the northwest, unless Zuo Liangyu completely defeated the Li Chuang army who confronted him, but he heard that he was confronting Zuo Yu, but the elite soldiers of the Ge Zuo Camp in the Chuang army were all very brave. Although Zuo Liangyu's team was not weak, it would be difficult to defeat the Ge Zuo Camp in the short term.

"Then is the soldiers of the Gezuo Camp who came to this end? It's awful. It must be that the other party used bluffing to hide from Zuo Liangyu, the idiot, and then led the main force to attack our army..."

Thinking of this, Sun Chuanting immediately ordered the entire army to retreat.

However, it was too late at this time. The team in the distance had arrived in front of him, rushing into the official army like a torrent. In an instant, the official army was washed away by the torrent and could no longer maintain its formation.

At the same time, Li Zicheng, who was about to lose, was suddenly ecstatic and immediately led the army to launch a counterattack.

Among the official army, Zuo Yi, who was entrusted with important tasks by Sun Chuanting, fled first without hesitation. Under his leadership, the officers and soldiers fled across the board and could no longer organize an effective counterattack.

"It's over, it's all over. Zuo Liangyu, the idiot, was actually put on a trick by the enemy. Now, he loses everything in one move..."
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