But Zhong Yu felt that this was just a small defeat. The forces of both sides participated in the battle were only more than a thousand. Although the Guanning Army was defeated in a mess, it should not affect the overall situation. Moreover, he had already received the battle report of the Battle of Liuhe a few days ago. Now Xiao Ye was too fussy. He immediately asked: "Is it because of Jiannu from Yaozhou who killed all the way across Sanchahe?"

Xiao Ye could only smile bitterly and said, "Jiannu has never killed Sanchahe, but the problem is that they have not killed Sanchahe!"

Zhong Yuzheng's expression was already serious: "What happened? Guan Ning Army lost only 400 people in this defeat, so there was no loss of details!"

Xiao Ye immediately said, "Yes, the Guanning Army only lost 400 people in Yaozhou, but we have already accommodated more than 400 Guanning Army deserters in Longkou. Well, not only deserters, but also many officers!"

"What?"

Zhong Yu was shocked: "Where did the 400 Guanning troops come from?"

Xiao Ye replied: "There are all deserters, not only in Longkou, but also in Jinzhou, and in Laizhou, the number has not been counted yet, but it is definitely not a small number!"

Zhong Yu was blurting out: "Sun Chengzong is finished! The situation outside the pass is probably about to change again!"

Although the Guanning Army has been fleeing severely and there are quite a few deserters in Longkou, there have been only a dozen people for a long time. Most of the time, there are only a few people, so there is no record of 400 people being admitted at one time.

After all, if the Guanning Army escapes, it is the best way to go to the Guanning Army by land. Escape to Denglai by boat is the alternative. Only a very small number of Guanning Army deserters will find ways to go to Longkou. Now, according to Xiao Ye, Xiao Maxiong, who is in Longkou alone, has now accommodated more than 400 Guanning Army deserters. The numbers in other aspects have not been counted, but they are definitely not small numbers.

"This is still the number of contained there. There are definitely many numbers without containment. I guess there are one or two thousand people in Dengzhou Prefecture alone, and there are definitely many numbers in Jinzhou, Laizhou and even Qingzhou!"

The small battle in Yaozhou was just a small battle, but it caused a fatal blow to the morale of the Guanning Army. Sun Chengzong's policy was to "the Liao people defended the Liao territory", but he did not expect that this policy was completely out of touch with reality. The inclusion of a group of Liaodong refugees and sending them weapons and simple training did not make them brave soldiers.

On the contrary, these Liaodong refugees have long become frightened birds under the continuous killing of Jiannu. Although the Guanning Army consumes millions of meters of beans every year, the real benefits fall into the hands of the generals. These Liaodong refugees who have been hastily formed the army are often in a dilemma of shortage of wages and food. This time, the defeat of Liuhe completely shattered their psychological defense!

Avalanche! Avalanche! Or an avalanche!

According to the results of Xiao Maxiong's interrogation, the Guanning Army's psychology has now completely collapsed. They cannot see any hope of victory. Instead, they keep hearing that Jiannu wants to cross the river and cross the east. At that time, it will definitely be another Liaoshen Battle or Guangning Battle. Jiannu flocked to win easily, but Guanning Army will suffer another devastating blow, which will inevitably be the result of one in ten.

The Guanning Army suffered only a few hundred losses in the Battle of Liuhe, but the series of escapes caused by this failure had caused the Guanning Army to lose tens of thousands of people, and the escape was increasing sharply, even to the point where Sun Chengzong and Yu Yuanxing could not control it.

Hearing this, Zhong Yuzheng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Sun Chengzong is really over!"

He knew that the court had high hopes for Sun Chengzong, and even Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch party hoped that Sun Chengzong could win several battles in western Liaoning, so that the court would not have to rely on the only Haibei Army. Therefore, after the news of the Battle of Liuhe, the court tried its best to help Sun Chengzong cover it up, believing that it was just a small setback that had nothing to do with the overall situation.

However, Sun Chengzong was destined to be a strategic theoretical master, but not a qualified commander of the army. He naturally had a confusing appearance when playing a quiet war with Jiannu. However, this time the Yaozhou Battle completely exposed the weakness of Guanning Army in attack. Moreover, now "raising 130,000 troops and paying tens of millions of dollars." Guanning Army was completely collapsed because of this small defeat. Therefore, Zhong Yuzheng finally had to ask: "Do Jiannu really not cross the Sancha River?"

"Jiannu did not cross the Sancha River after taking advantage of the victory, but the Guanning Army had already collapsed and the entire army was in a panic. There were no less than ten thousand fleeing troops. The officers and soldiers were all trying to escape. Even if they didn't flee now, they had to prepare to escape. Moreover, Xiao Maxiong had a major discovery in interrogating the fleeing army this time!"

Zhong Yu immediately asked, "What is the major discovery?"

"According to these Guanning fugitives, when they fled south, someone immediately took them under the name of Liu Xingzuo, saying that they had promoted them to the third level after they arrived in Xuzhou, and gave them many real benefits, and they would pay them on the spot as long as they set off!"

Zhong Yuzheng was shocked: "Is this really the case?"

Xiao Ye continued: "It's just that they think that although Liu Xingzuo is also a general officer, he is just a miscellaneous general. His military achievements are not even as good as our young master Liu. He has no future with Liu Xingzuo, so they came to Longkou. However, according to them, this group of people helped Liu Xingzuo to accommodate a lot of fleeing troops, and they were fleeing troops with all their war horses and weapons!"

But Zhong Yuzheng immediately understood what Xiao Ye meant: "Now Yao Zheng has only one and a half brigade of soldiers in his hands?"

The head of the Haibei Army, including Liu Peng, did not expect that Liu Xingzuo could get resources from all aspects in Xuzhou. Although he didn't know who was supporting Liu Xingzuo, Liu Xingzuo took up three or four thousand troops in a short time, and even suppressed the Yao Zheng's troops sent back to Xuzhou. There must be someone behind him supporting Liu Xingzuo.

Moreover, if Liu Xingzuo could meet with this group of war horses and soldiers and armored Liaodong fugitives, it would pose a great threat to the Haibei Army.

Liu Xingzuo was also a charitable figure in Liaodong. Although this group of Longkou deserters felt that it was more promising to join Haibei Town, I believe that a considerable number of Guanning fugitives would go to Xuzhou to meet with Liu Xingzuo.

Liu Xingzuo's biggest problem in Xuzhou now is that he is a standard foreigner. Although he has absorbed the power of some local gentry and powerful people, his real headquarters is only 700 Liaodong soldiers. Even though he fought with Liu Peng in every way for the fleeing army and civilians in Liaodong, the scale of this Liaodong army has never exceeded one thousand people.

However, Liu He's defeat was a god-given opportunity for Liu Xingzuo to expand his basic troops, and Zhong Yu was concerned about another thing: "This is definitely not someone sent by Liu Xingzuo... Liu Xingzuo would never react so quickly even if he wanted to do something!"

Liu Xingzuo's troops were always stationed between Xu Huai. The news could be very closed. They would never send envoys to recruit the deceased army so quickly. Moreover, after this break from the Yellow River, Xu Huai was a standard poor mountain and bad water. Even if they wanted to recruit Guanning's fugitive army, they were powerless. Someone must be supporting Liu Xingzuo behind their backs.

"Yes! This is definitely not easy!"

Xiao Ye immediately replied: "Contacting with the series of events that happened in the last Battle of Haigai, someone must be supporting Liu Xingzuo behind the scenes. We have sent people to investigate. This matter must be investigated clearly. However, after hearing from the fugitives, these envoys who represented Liu Xingzuo to recruit them spoke standard official words, they accidentally showed a Shanxi accent several times!"

Zhong Yuzheng asked again: "Shanxi accent? That's right! Did Mr. Liu already know?"

Xiao Ye replied: "I have sent someone to notify Mr. Liu, but the most urgent task is to notify Commissioner Ding of Yanzhou Prefecture. Now Commissioner Ding is helping Song Zhifu with all his might to cure the aftermath. He never expected that Xu Huai's situation would cause trouble again!"

Zhong Yu nodded immediately and said, "Yes, please inform Ding Gong quickly. If Liu Xingzuo was asked to contain all the fugitives, the situation in the south of Yanzhou Prefecture would deteriorate dramatically again."

Although I don’t know how many Guanning fugitives Liu Xingzuo could accommodate, Zhong Yuzheng estimated that hundreds of people would be no problem, and thousands of people would not be surprised. Moreover, when these fugitives collapsed, they fled in an established manner, and often fled south with war vests, guns and cannons. They could immediately form an army under Liu Xingzuo’s tent.

"I will notify Commissioner D immediately and ask him to support Captain Yao Zhengyao immediately!"

At this moment, Ding Gong didn't know that Xu Huai's situation had changed a lot, and he was now busy with the problem of these Puzhou thieves.

Strictly speaking, these thieves from Jiangyang were not Puzhou thieves. Most of the backbones came from Kaizhou, Henan Province. They just raided the canal through Puzhou.

This is the most headache-inducing problem facing Ding Gong now. Although several prefectures and counties close to Qingzhou Prefecture have always had relatively good public security. Even if there are problems with public security, they do not dare to challenge the authority of Haibei Town. However, there are major problems in the direction of Caozhou and Puzhou in the eastern part.

Strictly speaking, this is a complex issue involving two provinces and three prefectures. Just like the thieves who raided the canal this time, they were all from Kaizhou, Daming Prefecture, Henan, but they have been engaged in Puzhou in Dongchang Prefecture for a long time, and now they are committed in Yanzhou Prefecture.

If it weren't for the major case of the robbery of the canal ship and the huge uproar of the canal soldiers of Song Zhifu's troops, Ding Gong would have been unwilling to investigate it, but the nature of this time was too serious and bad, so Ding Gong had to investigate the case clearly.

The case was actually very simple. The thieves crossed Puzhou to rob seven or eight grain ships and defeated Song Zhifu's troops in battle. The reason why Song Zhifu failed was a wish. He did not expect that there were such internal responders from Kaizhou thieves among his grain soldiers. As a result, seventy or eighty people were killed or injured, and nearly a hundred other soldiers were conquered by the rebels.

However, when Ding Gong was determined to investigate, he found that the case was not as simple as he imagined. Now Puzhou in Dongchang Prefecture and Caozhou in Yanzhou Prefecture are rampant, but many cases in the past have been suppressed directly.
Chapter completed!