Northern Prefecture Rivers and Mountains

Chapter 166 Injury

The battle was finally won.

Murong Long did not wait for Ping You, but Liu Daogui waited for Liu Yu.

There was a chase, corpses everywhere, very few enemy soldiers escaped, and the ownerless war horses wailed in the mud.

The captives kneeling on the ground are only waiting for the butcher's knife.

There is no mercy on the battlefield. If Ping You's reinforcements arrived first, Liu Daogui's fate would not have been much better.

"All scouts, go find Liu Heibin, Meng Ganzhi and the others." Liu Daogui had a bad feeling in his heart.

Ping You's troops disappeared, and there was no news of Liu Heibi either.

"I will personally lead people to find them." Liu Guangzhi, regardless of his fatigue, found a few war horses and hurried north.

"Is Agui okay?" Liu Yu walked out of the pool of blood. Perhaps it was too hot, so he took off his armor, revealing a body covered with wounds of all sizes, new and old.

If it were an ordinary person, he would have been unable to get up after suffering these injuries.

"Brother is injured?"

When they met again on the battlefield, Liu Daogui felt a sudden pang of sadness in his heart.

These injuries can be endured when one is young, but as one gets older, old injuries will recur. Many old soldiers of the Northern Palace died in this way.

"It's just a minor injury. I'll be fine after my uncle treats it. I've already taken over Lu County and will leave it to you to take care of. It's a pity that we didn't encounter Murong Long and Murong Zhou in this battle. We only killed Murong Hui. Otherwise, we brothers would have been very successful."

"Murong will die?" Liu Daogui was stunned.

Liu Yu said calmly, "He's just a good-for-nothing. In my opinion, Yan is strong on the outside but weak on the inside. The descendants of the Murong family are getting worse with each passing generation. Only Murong Chui is left struggling to hold on."

A thousand people defeated more than five thousand people, destroyed the army and killed the general, and even broke through the city. It was really too fierce.

Liu Daogui struggled for such a long time, but he only managed to hold back Murong Long and Murong Zhou.

But everyone's style is different.

The Yan army focused their attention on Liu Daogui. Three groups of troops blocked the enemy back and forth, and Liu Daogui saved the lives of his soldiers to the greatest extent possible.

Liu Yu suffered heavy casualties when he captured the city. Even he himself was injured, not to mention the other soldiers.

Liu Daogui said, "Murong Chui is almost seventy years old. I'm afraid he won't be able to hold on for many more years."

"This time we killed his grandson and defeated Murong Long and Murong Zhou. I'm afraid Murong Chui will come seeking revenge. In my opinion, we should quickly relocate the population of Lu County to Lanling to prevent any accidents."

Liu Yu opened the water bag and took a big gulp.

Defeating Murong Long and Murong Zhou does not mean that the battle is over.

Murong Chui has never suffered such a great defeat since he founded his country, and he will definitely take revenge.

Liu Daogui was depressed. After fighting so many times, he still couldn't take over Lu County.

Huatai is only five or six days' journey from Lu County. If you ride fast, you can reach it in three or four days.

"Didn't this trip seem to be in vain?" Liu Zun finally interjected.

He was particularly honest in front of Liu Yu, like a mouse seeing a cat.

Liu Yu said, "Not entirely. If my predictions are correct, Murong Chui's real intention is not Luoyang or Yuzhou, but rather—Murong Yong of Western Yan."

There is no room for two tigers in one mountain. Murong Chui and Murong Yong were both from the State of Yan.

Murong Yong killed most of Murong Chui's descendants and family members, and this hatred was much greater than that of the Northern Palace Army.

Moreover, Murong Chui is not stupid. The Jin Dynasty is not Zhai Wei, and the current national strength of Yan State is not as good as that of Jin Dynasty. Once it is caught in a stalemate, it will give other opponents an opportunity to take advantage.

The core of Yan State was in Hebei, and it was surrounded by tigers and wolves.

Two years ago, Tuoba Gui of the Wei State attacked and destroyed the Tiele tribe, their eternal enemy, and broke into their capital, Dailai City. He captured Liu Zhilidi, the son of Liu Weichen, and beheaded more than 5,000 members of his clan, and their bodies were thrown into the Yellow River.

Only one youngest son, Liu Bobo, escaped death.

Without the Tiele tribe to hold them back, Wei's energy had already been redirected to Hebei. If Yan were to fall into the quagmire of the Jin Dynasty again at this time, it would be the end of Yan.

"I bet Murong Chui is a person who understands the overall situation. When his wife Duan was openly taken away by Fu Jian, he also endured it in silence." A strange smile appeared on Liu Yu's face.

Liu Daogui had also heard of this matter. Fu Jian was a difficult person to describe. He wiped out the entire Murong family, regardless of gender.

After the Battle of Feishui, Murong Chui, with 30,000 troops under his command, did not take action and even sent Fu Jian back to Luoyang. This was already very considerate...

"There is such a thing? Oh my, when will I get a woman from the Murong family to try my hand at..." Liu Zun immediately became excited.

"So, it seems that Murong Chui stationed his troops at Huatai and deliberately pretended to march south in order to confuse Murong Yong and make him lower his guard?"

Lu County was certainly a piece of fat meat for Liu Daogui, but for Murong Chui it was just an insignificant buffer zone.

"Nine times out of ten."

After saying so much, Liu Yu looked tired.

He had fought his way all the way from Lucheng, had gone through a bloody battle, and had been injured, and was already exhausted.

Liu Daogui asked someone to take him to rest while he cleaned up the battlefield.

The soldiers had already been cleaning up the corpses, leaving no armor, weapons, flags, food, or dead horses behind, and even stripping off the clothes from the corpses.

Nine hundred war horses were captured, but most of them were injured, and only more than six hundred were usable.

"Agui..."

At this time, Liu Guangzhi came with scouts, his face not looking good.

Liu Daogui's heart skipped a beat, "They..."

"Hei Xiong and Hu Jianfu died in the battle, 131 people were killed, and 27 survived..." Liu Guangzhi's face was full of sadness.

He and Liu Heipi are as close as brothers and have the closest relationship.

Although I already knew the result, I still felt sad when I heard it with my own ears.

The joy of victory was quickly diluted, and everything in front of me became dim.

Of the five people who initially joined the Zhenglu Army, Liu Zhen was disabled and Liu Heibin was killed in battle in just three years. If it weren't for him running around all these years, Liu Daogui wouldn't have been able to gain a foothold in Lanling so quickly.

Although they were all subordinates, Liu Daogui always treated him and Liu Guangzhi as his brothers.

And the soldiers who died in battle were all loyal to Liu Daogui and willing to die...

In this battle, if they had not fought to the death, Ping You's tribe would have joined forces with Murong Long long ago, and the outcome of the battle would have been hard to predict.

Even if Liu Daogui won, the casualties would never be so small.

Liu Yu arrived more than three hours later, when the battle was almost over.

How could he just disappear? How could he just disappear? He owed me fifty strings of cash and three women…” Liu Zun burst into tears.

No one knew what he was crying about, which made Liu Daogui upset. "Where's the body?"

Liu Guangzhi said: "We have brought back all the bodies that could be brought back. Meng Ganzhi, Gou Zhong and others are still behind. The black bear only found a head."

Liu Daogui's eyes became hot and tears flowed out. It was not difficult to imagine how brutal their battle was.

As the commander of an army, I shouldn't be like this, but I just can't help it...

"Brother Heibin, you died so tragically..." Liu Zun howled again, tears streaming down his face.

It made other people around cry too.

Liu Guangzhi's face was calm. "The person is gone. It's useless to grieve. One day, it will not be too late to take revenge."

"Kawachi Taira." Liu Daogui silently memorized this surname in his heart.

(End of this chapter)