Hulala!

A huge flag with the word "Zu" on it fluttered in the wind.

Looking at the flag, the Guanning Army soldiers began to whisper, "Zu? Is it General Zu Dashouzu?"

"It should be."

"Isn't Master Zu in his hometown of Ningyuan? When did he come to Fushun?"

"Has the court already re-employed Lord Zu?"

“It’s hard to say, but it’s possible.”

"We are all soldiers trained by him. Since the old general is here, shouldn't we at least say hello?"

"right!"

After the discussion.

The Guanning Army soldiers waved their weapons at Zu Dashou and Zuo and shouted.

Wang Pingfan's face turned green instantly.

After thinking for a moment, he led his personal soldiers forward to meet Zuo and Zu Dashou.

After all, the other party was once his boss.

Zu Dashou asked directly: "Wang Pingfan, do you also want to be nailed to the pillar of shame in history?"

Wang Pingfan smiled and said, "I don't think I have the qualifications. Even if someone is nailed to the head, it should be your nephew, General Wu."

"Since you are so stubborn, there is nothing more to say." Zu Dashou waved his hand to signal him to go back.

When Wang Pingfan returned to the camp and was about to organize his troops to launch an attack, he found that many soldiers, led by low-level generals, tore off the white cloth on their right arms and ran towards the Ming army camp in the chaos.

When Zu Dashou was in power of the Guanning Army, these grassroots generals were still ordinary soldiers.

At that time, the Guanning Army received the highest salary among the border troops and ate the best rations.

They were grateful to both the imperial court and Zu Dashou.

Now that Zu Dashou was on the side of the Ming army, these grassroots generals quickly and spontaneously figured out the truth behind Wu Sangui's rebellion.

In their view, the so-called arrears of wages and food were most likely Wu Sangui's problem.

Furthermore.

Their families were all in Shanhaiguan and Ningyuan areas, and following Wu Sangui in rebellion would only bring disaster to their families.

So...

They immediately fled from the Guanning Army and threw themselves into the arms of the Ming Army.

Wang Pingfan's face was greener than emerald.

He shouted with all his might: "Keep the formation, anyone who leaves will be killed without mercy!"

But no matter how he shouted, he couldn't stop the soldiers from escaping.

In the blink of an eye, one-fifth of his soldiers ran away.

Wang Pingfan was furious.

He personally swung his sword and killed two soldiers, trying to intimidate his subordinates in this way.

But...

This move not only failed to prevent the soldiers from deserting the team, but instead exacerbated the situation.

Because the soldiers discovered that the two soldiers were killed simply because they ran too late and too slowly.

In other words...as long as you run early enough and run fast enough, you can survive!

Guided by this idea, the soldiers under Wang Pingfan accelerated their pace of escape.

An interesting scene appeared.

On the battlefield where fighting should have been taking place, there were soldiers of the Guanning Army fleeing everywhere.

After Wang Pingfan stabilized the formation and re-formed the team, he found that only one in ten of his soldiers was alive.

The remaining several hundred people were all his personal soldiers.

"Sir, how do we fight?" the soldier beside him asked very straightforwardly.

"Fuck you!" Wang Pingfan's face turned from green to black, darker than charcoal. He said unhappily, "Just the few of us are not enough to fill their teeth."

"Then let's..."

"Retreat!" Wang Pingfan gave the order to retreat without hesitation.

Li Dingguo arranged the surrendered soldiers into battle formation as quickly as possible and rushed towards Wang Yongji's central army flag.

Wu Sangui was still besieging Wang Yongji.

In order to capture Wang Yongji, he also sent out the elite Zhenbiao Dingying.

But even so, they still failed to capture Wang Yongji.

Just when he was about to go into battle himself, a scout came to report: "Sir, the Cavalry Commander, Wang Pingfan has been defeated! Li Dingguo and Huang Degong's tens of thousands of troops have penetrated our right wing and are heading here!"

"Ah?" Wu Sangui was so surprised that he almost fell off his horse.

He asked in disbelief: "Wang Pingfan is my elite, isn't he defeated too quickly?"

"this..."

When the scout didn't know how to explain, Wu Sangui asked, "How many soldiers and horses did Wang Pingfan lose?"

"It seems... only one scout died."

"Huh?" Wu Sangui was extremely surprised. "Is this even human language? We are defeated just because one scout died?"

"Yes!" The scout replied in a low voice: "After the two armies met, the Ming army sent out a man who was forced back by our scout. Then five or six people rushed out from the Ming army, one of whom shot our scout off his horse, then rode his horse and trampled him to death, and finally raised a general flag with the word Zu in it in front of everyone!"

"Zu Zi General Flag?" Wu Sangui repeated softly, his face suddenly changed, "Oh no, it's my uncle! Hasn't he been staying in Ningyuan? When did he come to Fushun?"

You should know that the Guanning Army is a collection of generals from Liaodong.

Although Zu Dashou left the Guanning Army for several years, his prestige remains.

Prestige is a reflection of ability.

Abilities include marching and fighting, as well as...fighting for the interests of the Liaodong generals.

He, Wu Sangui, rebelled in order to survive.

Many generals in Liaodong only cared about their immediate interests and did not care about Wu Sangui's life or death.

Otherwise, we wouldn’t have fought for so long without being able to capture Wang Yongji.

When Wu Sangui realized this problem, he began to consider retreating.

But he still had a question: How did Wang Pingfan lose?

Before he could continue asking, Li Dingguo had already led his troops to attack.

All the fleeing soldiers on the right wing rushed towards Wu Sangui.

"Run! Li Dingguo is coming to kill us!"

"And Huang Degong is coming with hundreds of red cannons."

Amid the noise, Wang Pingfan ran to Wu Sangui with his personal soldiers.

He panted and said to Wu Sangui: "General...General, retreat quickly!"

Wu Sangui looked into the distance and found that, led by the fleeing soldiers on the right wing, the entire Guanning Army stopped fighting and began to collapse.

The trend of defeat has already been formed and cannot be stopped at all.

Wu Sangui looked up to the sky and sighed: "Alas! God is not helping me!"

Then he turned his horse around and fled eastward.

Some Guanning Army generals who were still resisting immediately gave up fighting and either fled or surrendered after seeing Wu Sangui's central army flag moving eastward.

The entire battlefield was in chaos.

In the chaos, Wu Sangui loudly asked Wang Pingfan: "How did you lose?"

"I...I didn't lose!"

"Since we are not defeated, why retreat?"

"Because... because I have no more soldiers."

"Where are the soldiers?"

"They were all... persuaded to surrender by General Zulao."

Wu Sangui: ...

On the battlefield, Li Dingguo suddenly had a bad feeling.

Because he looked for a long time but didn't see Wang Yongji's central army flag.

He remembered that he was standing in the air before, but disappeared after the defeat.

In order to find Wang Yongji.

He formed his troops into a long horizontal formation and began searching from west to east.