Chapter 377: Prince Uto wants to run away!
Cui Liang's idea was very simple, which was to use the terrain advantage of the Grand Canyon west of Guining City to flood Yang Zhengshan's seven armies.

This is not a difficult task. The water flow in the upper reaches of the Ying River is not turbulent, so it is not difficult to cut it off. The exit of the Guining City Grand Canyon happens to be the river channel of the Ying River. The exit of the canyon is only a dozen feet wide. As long as this exit is blocked, the canyon will immediately become a lake.

When needed, the exit will be opened, and the river water that fills the canyon will immediately flood a hundred miles, turning the area around Guining City into a vast ocean.

Moreover, this task is not difficult to carry out and only requires a few thousand soldiers to complete it.

After thinking of this method, Cui Liang couldn't help but feel a little excited.

He thought this was a great idea!

Since it is impossible to defeat Yang Zhengshan head-on, we will use the advantage of terrain to defeat Yang Zhengshan.

No matter how powerful Yang Zhengshan is, can he stop the raging flood?
After making the decision, Cui Liang immediately took action and mobilized two thousand soldiers to the canyon.

On the other side, Yang Zhengshan was leading his army westward.

Just as Cui Liang thought, Yang Zhengshan planned to enter Chongshan Town from the west road of Guining City.

There is no way around it, because the east-west official road of Chongshan Town passes through Guining City. If you want to get to the west road of Chongshan Town as soon as possible, you must pass through Guining City.

After the army marched west for several days, they were only a hundred miles away from Guining City. At this speed, they would be able to reach Guining City in two days.

After marching for a day, near dusk, the army began to set up camp on the banks of Ying River.

Yang Zhengshan rode on Hongyun and took twenty of his followers along the river to inspect the soldiers who were cooking.

Suddenly he looked at the river and felt something was wrong.

The source of Ying River comes from the snow-capped mountains in the west of Qianchong Mountain. Most of its water comes from melted snow on the mountains, and only a small part comes from spring water in the mountains.

Therefore, Yinghe River has a very special characteristic, that is, the water flow is relatively large in summer and autumn, and relatively small in winter and spring.

It is now the end of July, which should be the time when the water flow in Yinghe River is the largest, but the water flow in front of us is very small!

This was naturally because Cui Liang cut off the river upstream, but Yang Zhengshan didn’t think about it now. He just felt that there was something wrong with the river water.

Yang Zhengshan rode to Yang Mingzhi and asked, "Is the water in the river getting less and less?"

Yang Mingzhi looked at the river in confusion, "It is much smaller, but the further up the Ying River you go, the smaller the water flow becomes!"

"Look at the width of the river!" Yang Zhengshan dismounted, walked to the middle of the river, pointed at a pool of mud and said, "Something is wrong. The water level of the river has obviously just dwindled. Look, the mud is still wet. If the water flow had always been this strong, the mud would have dried up long ago."

Yang Mingzhi simply dug up a handful of silt, and river water immediately emerged from under the silt. It was obvious that the silt was full of river water.

"It's a bit strange indeed. Logically, the river here should be very wide. Why has it become so narrow?"

He also felt something was wrong.

Yang Zhengshan narrowed his eyes slightly. At this time, he had already thought of flooding the seven armies.

"Interesting, who came up with this plan?"

"Dad, what's wrong?" Yang Mingzhi asked in confusion.

Yang Zhengshan looked up at the upper reaches of Ying River and said, "Someone wants to drown us with the water of Ying River!"

"What!" Yang Mingzhi looked stunned.

Yang Zhengshan thought for a moment and said, "Take your men to check upstream and be careful not to be discovered!"

"Okay!" Yang Mingzhi responded, and left with more than thirty scouts.

Yang Zhengshan walked around the river for a long time. Many signs on the river bank showed that the water in Yinghe had just receded not long ago, which further proved that someone had cut off the river upstream.

About two hours later, Yang Mingzhi sent someone back to report. They searched along the Ying River for more than thirty miles upstream and found that the river became smaller as they went higher.

By the next morning, Yang Mingzhi and his team had explored to the vicinity of Guining City, and the Ying River near Guining City had dried up!
Although the location where the Ying River was cut off has not yet been found, Yang Zhengshan has already determined that someone cut off the Ying River upstream.

Faced with such a situation, Yang Zhengshan naturally would not let the army move forward.

The army rested on the spot until the next afternoon, when Yang Mingzhi sent someone back to report that the location of the diversion had been found. Only then did Yang Zhengshan breathe a sigh of relief.

The canyon west of Guining City was more than a hundred miles away from them.

Even if water is released upstream now, it will not flood them.

In the commander's tent.

Yang Zhengshan summoned a group of generals to discuss the matter.

Niu Zhuang, Tang Feihu, Qin He, Xie Yuan and others gathered in the tent.

Yang Zhengshan briefly described the situation in the upper reaches of Ying River, and everyone was talking about it.

"Who came up with this plan? It's really sinister!" Niu Zhuang said with a somewhat ugly expression. "Yes, once the water is released upstream, the first place to suffer is Guining City!" Xie Yuan felt that this plan was too cruel.

Although Guining City is not a big city, it has thousands of civilians, and there are also many military households around Guining City.

If this plan succeeds, not only they will suffer, but also tens of thousands of ordinary people and military households.

Tang Feihu was thoughtful, "If I'm not mistaken, this should be Cui Liang's doing!"

"Do you know Cui Liang well?" Yang Zhengshan looked at Tang Feihu.

Tang Feihu shook his head slightly, "I don't really know him, but I know he is extremely ambitious and always acts recklessly!"

Although he and Cui Liang were both lieutenant generals of Chongshan Town, they actually did not have much interactions. Except for meeting each other when they went to Chongshan Pass, they would never have any interactions on weekdays.

Cui Liang was Ji Feiyu's confidant. In recent years, Cui Liang had behaved somewhat domineeringly and did not take his colleagues seriously at all. Therefore, there was very little communication between them.

Yang Zhengshan nodded, "It seems that Cui Liang has defected to the Wulianghu tribe!"

If Cui Liang had not defected to the Wulianghu tribe, he should now be thinking about how to find Ji Feiyu instead of thinking about how to defeat Yang Zhengshan.

"We have discovered that Cui Liang and Prince Uto have exchanged messages, but the content of the message has not been confirmed!" At this time, Lu Hua spoke.

"What's going on with Prince Uto?" Yang Zhengshan asked.

Since Cui Liang has already defected to the Wulianghu tribe, we can no longer treat Cui Liang with the same attitude as before.

Before, they regarded Cui Liang and the Wuliang army as two enemies, but now it has been confirmed that Cui Liang has defected to the Wuliang Hu tribe, so they have to treat them as a whole.

"There is no movement. At present, Prince Uto's camp is still in Linqing Prefecture." Lu Hua said.

Linqing Prefecture was one of the seven prefectures in Liaoxi, located to the north of Dongsheng Prefecture. At this time, except for Dongsheng Prefecture, the other six prefectures of Liaoxi fell into the hands of the Wuliang army.

Yang Zhengshan looked at the map on the screen and fell into deep thought.

Prince Uto did not continue the attack at this time, but instead kept the Linqing Mansion silent?
The 200,000 troops summoned by the court had been defeated, and the remaining troops either entrenched themselves in the city of Dongsheng Prefecture or retreated to Jizhou.

Logically speaking, at this time the Wuliang army should either continue to attack Dongshengfu City or advance towards Jizhou.

But for more than ten days, the Wuliang army had been silent, which was a bit abnormal!

"Little Prince Uto wants to run away!" Yang Zhengshan said with his eyes narrowed.

"Run?" Lu Hua looked at him.

Yang Zhengshan nodded slightly, "That's right, they don't want to continue fighting, but want to withdraw from western Liaoning!"

Everyone fell into deep thought after hearing this.

Can the Wulianghu tribe defeat Darong with their strength?

Obviously it's impossible.

Even though Darong has suffered defeat after defeat in Liaoxi, the Wuliang army seems unstoppable.

This was actually the Wulianghu tribe taking advantage of the surprise attack.

Prince Qing and Ji Feiyu caused chaos in Chongshan Town, and the Wulianghu tribe tied down the troops of Beiyuan Town, which gave them the opportunity to enter Liaoxi.

Because they attacked too suddenly and the court's reaction was slow, the Wuliang army became unstoppable.

Once the court mobilizes the imperial guards or other border troops to support Liaoxi, the Wuliang army will be driven out of Liaoxi.

The Wulianghu tribe had never thought of occupying western Liaoning, let alone Beiyuan Town. They cooperated with Ji Feiyu just to gain some advantage.

Their goal is not Darong's territory, their goal is only to seize Darong's wealth.

The wealth of western Liaoning alone is enough for them to digest for a while.

At this time, knowing when to stop is their best option.

In fact, Yang Zhengshan had long thought that the Wuliang army would retreat, but he did not know Prince Wutuo. What if Prince Wutuo was a greedy person? He would most likely continue to attack Jizhou because of his greed.

Jizhou is a rich place in Liaodong. The wealth of a small Jizhou is no less than that of Liaoxi.

If Prince Uto was a greedy man, he would most likely attack Jizhou for wealth.

But now it seems that Prince Uto is a man of strong will and he did not lose his composure because of the temptation before him.

Everyone in the tent quickly figured this out and looked at Yang Zhengshan.

(End of this chapter)