Zuo Liangyu waited for two days, but before he could hear the news that Zhang Yingyuan captured Wuchang, he waited for the Jinyang army infantry and artillery that crossed the river from Huangzhou, as well as the powerful navy of the Huai Army.

"My father, Li Ergou's main army is all here, and the infantry, cavalry, cannon and navy are all here! It will be too late if we don't leave!" Zuo Menggeng rolled and crawled into Zuo Liangyu's central army camp and reported the bad news to him.

"We can't leave. General Zhang's 50,000 troops have not come back yet." Zuo Liangyu slapped the table, and the wine glass on the table jumped up and fell to the ground.

"General Zhang must be in danger. Li Ergou has many tricks and Wuchang is a strong city in the world. If Li Ergou had prepared for it, he might have been defeated." Zuo Menggeng advised him hard.

"Master, we really can't wait any longer," Lu Guangzu also advised him hard, "Our navy has been wiped out, and nearly half of the 300,000 army has been lost (Xu Yong's 100,000 army has been lost more than half, Zhang Yingyuan's 50,000 army has been wiped out as a whole army, the navy has been wiped out, and the 10,000 defenders in Huangzhou have been wiped out, and the Zuo family army has been lost. With other losses, the loss of the Zuo family army is nearly half). Li Zhe is dispatching troops and trying to eat us all in one bite! If the general, if he doesn't flee back to Jiujiang quickly, it will probably be too late!"

"Master, yes, if our army can return to Jiujiang, with the two strong cities of Jiujiang and Nanchang, we can still resist the Li thieves! Moreover, Jiangxi is not as rich as Huguang. If we return to Jiangxi and recruit soldiers and horses, we will soon be able to restore the 300,000 army." Li Guoying also stepped forward and persuaded.

"It is easy to get a general but hard to find a thousand troops."

Zuo Liangyu stood up in pain, as if he had made a great decision, and finally issued an order: "Retreat! Withdraw all troops and withdraw back to Jiujiang!"

The departure of the Zuo family army means that in the past six months, all Huangzhou, Ezhou, Macheng and Fankou occupied by Zuo Liangyu have been lost, and more than 100,000 troops have been lost in vain, but even a small military office of Li Guodong was not attacked.

When he came, there were only half of the troops left. The Zuo family army had lost all the navy and had to retreat to Jiujiang by land. On the way, Zuo Menggeng comforted him: "My father, I believe that General Zhang is lucky and will definitely not be able to do anything."

At this time, Zhang Yingyuan was already a loser. He did not take Wuchang and lost more than 4,000 people in vain. More than 3,000 of them were deceived into the urn and all shot to death. In addition, nearly 1,000 people were shot outside the city gate. Although the main force still exists, it is impossible to break Wuchang.

"General," a spy came to report, "the general's main army has withdrawn back to Jiujiang."

Zhang Yingyuan felt deeply desperate. More than 46,000 people were trapped in Li Guodong's territory. The Yangtze River is on the north and Wuchang City is on the west. After passing Wuchang City is on the Yangtze River, and to the east is Li Guodong's main army. Only one road to the south can escape back to Jiujiang. However, taking this road is both a detour and difficult to walk. After passing along the way, it is far away from the Yangtze River. They are all hilly terrain in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

In the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, except for the two sides of the Yangtze River and lake areas, other places are mountainous and hills, and the plains are all on the river and lakeside. However, Zhang Yingyuan dared not walk on the plains by the water. If Li Guodong encounters him, most of his more than 46,000 troops are infantry, but he cannot escape Li Guodong's cavalry.

"Go south, go around Liangzi Lake, and go back to Leishan." Zhang Yingyuan gave the order.

Zhang Yingyuan led more than 46,000 defeated soldiers and walked southwards to seek far and wide, preparing to circumnavigate the mountainous areas and fled back to Jiujiang.

On the official road leading to Wuchang in Xianning, a convoy came. The leader of a young woman was wearing mourning clothes. Looking at her swearing on her head, she knew that she was a young widow. She was extremely beautiful, but she rode a tall horse with a white wax spear in her hand. The team behind her was hung with white curtains, and two of them were carrying coffins. There was another young and beautiful woman, wearing white clothes and two maids on her head, looking like the close maid of the little widow, riding a horse and following behind the little widow.

There were about eighteen people escorting the car, all of which were strong men in black, and more than 30 other chasing the car.

"Miss, we are almost in Wuchang. I heard that the general of the Wuweibo Peace Thief was going to war in front. Miss, be careful." The pretty maid chased the little widow and whispered in her ear.

The beautiful little widow said: "Wuweibo has a very good reputation and I believe he will not make things difficult for us."

"Miss, of course Shan'er is not afraid of Wuweibo anymore. It's just that the general of fighting the thief, and the common people call him the general of the thief. Shan'er is just afraid that we will meet the thief. What should we do?"

"Although I am a woman, I am a guerrilla general appointed by the court! I don't believe that the left thief dares to touch us!" The little widow snorted coldly.

However, these two women were unlucky. As the saying goes, Cao Cao and Cao Cao arrived, they were talking about the thief general, and Zhang Yingyuan, who was under the thief general, arrived. At this time, Zhang Yingyuan's command was leaving and scattered, and only less than ten thousand people were left behind him.

"General, look, there are two little beauties over there!" A servant said, pointing to the convoy coming from the front.

Zhang Yingyuan quickly looked up and looked forward, but saw two women in white wearing horses in front of him, who were close to each other. Zhang Yingyuan looked carefully and saw the two women dressed in the master and the servant, both of whom were carrying white wax spears. The master was about twenty years old. She looked like a little widow, looking very beautiful, and had a bit of heroic spirit in her beauty. The maid looked about seventeen or eighteen years old, and she was also very beautiful.

The lustful Zhang Yingyuan drooled and didn't even notice it, staring at the little widow with his eyes straight.

"General, be careful, those two little beauties seem to be the children of the family." A servant reminded.

Zhang Yingyuan laughed: "Hahaha, I like more spicy women, that's what makes you feel good. Zhang Er and Zhang San, you go up and ask questions first, be polite."

"No!" The two servants responded and immediately walked forward with a smile on their faces.

"My two little ladies, where are you going?" Zhang Er stepped forward and stopped the little widow.

The little widow gave a greeting immediately: "The little girl's father and husband were both killed by thieves, and she wanted to transport her father and husband's coffin back to her hometown in Jiangnan."

Zhang Er hurriedly said, "My little lady, our general is about to go back to Jiujiang. When we arrive in Jiujiang, our general can send you back to our hometown in Jiangnan by boat. We just happened to go along. Are you willing to go together?"

"You general? Who are you?" asked the maid.

"We are under General Zhang. Do you know that General Zhang? General Zhang Zhankui is under General Zhang."

The widow's face changed drastically: "So it's under the command of the General of Punishing the Thieves! Go back and tell you General Zhang, if you hadn't been dragging Wu Weibo and unable to pursue and suppress the thiefs, the little woman's father would not have died!"

The two servants were disgusted and went back to report to Zhang Yingyuan in a disgrace.

Zhang Yingyuan was furious: "Bah, come here! Take these two women down! I suspect they are thieves!"

"Bold!" the little widow shouted, "I am the guerrilla general of Daozhou that the court rewarded! Whoever you are not afraid of death can come up and try it!"

"Go up! Take them down!" Zhang Yingyuan yelled.

A group of servants whistled and rushed out, surrounding the two women and their convoys, preparing to take down the two little beauties and present them to the general. Zhang Yingyuan said in his heart: If he could win these little beauties, this trip to Wuchang would not be in vain.

The little widow pointed a long spear in his hand, and eighteen black-clothed guards and more than thirty men immediately formed an array. The crossbow machine was unaware of when the black-clothed man showed up. The guys took off the long spear shield from the cart and lined up to wait.
Chapter completed!