Advance, attack, and advance again.

  Xu Da's army marched northward, and the Northern Yuan court seemed to have tacitly approved, without sending any troops to intercept them. In fact, Toghon Temür had no more spare troops to stop Xu Da's advance, and the tribes that still had the ability to deploy troops were all pro-peace factions. If Toghon Temür did not change his policies, he would not get even a single soldier's support.

  At this time, the Right Route Army under Tang Hudie was blocked again, and it was Naha Out who blocked them. It turned out that when Naha Out agreed to attack Jinshan at the same time, the Ming Liaoyang Commander Ye Wang had built fortifications and defended against the Yuan army. Naha Out attacked for a long time without success and was held off by Ye Wang outside the defensive line.

  Just as the two armies were at a stalemate, news of the decisive battle under Ningcheng arrived at Nahachü's location. He was shocked and quickly withdrew his troops back to Liaodong. Yevon did not pursue him, after all, most of his men were infantry.

  Nahacit received a call for help from Tegus soon after the retreat, and after repeated hesitation, Nahacit decided to send troops again, this time to intercept the right route army of Tang He's Northern Expedition.

  At present, the two armies are facing each other on both sides of the Yellow River in the north. The number of soldiers and horses on both sides is equal, so neither side dares to take the next step. Tang He received an imperial edict that must be withdrawn by the end of August, but at this time, there is no way to defeat the enemy army, so he stays here. Na Ha Chuo is not in a hurry either. His original intention was to block Tang He from advancing, and now he doesn't need to fight without any loss, which is even better.

  So the situation emerged where the Yuan army on the north bank and the Southern Song army on the south bank stood facing each other, with nothing happening except for the daily exchange of shooting arrows at each other to intimidate. There was no other communication between them, and time passed day by day like this. The Left Route Army was still marching northward, they were still in a standoff, and before long it was mid-August.

  However, Tang and they didn't care about not representing others, but the lonely Song couldn't help it. Looking at the enemy army on the other side of the North Yellow River in front of him, he was itching to cross the river and kill the enemy.

  One day, while he was riding with his subordinates, they inadvertently arrived at a place upstream of the river, where they found that the tributaries were scattered and the water flow was very slow. It was just the right place to cross the river. From then on, Dugu Song had other ideas in mind. Looking at the gentle flowing river water in front of him, he made up his mind.

  "General! Dugu Song, the commander of the vanguard, suddenly led his cavalrymen out of the camp!" Tang He was furious when he heard this news. The horses he had temporarily lent to Dugu Song were not meant for him to use at will.

  "Go! Bring him back to me!" Commander Tang ordered furiously.

  "It shouldn't be like this. Although Dugu Song was a bit rude, he wouldn't leave the camp without reason, there must be something we don't know about."

  Fu Youde's words reminded Tang He, who hastily ordered his subordinates to investigate what Dugu Song had been up to recently. Only then did he learn that Dugu Song was so bold as to have been planning to attack the opposing Yuan army all along, and in recent days seemed to have made some discovery, frequently holding urgent meetings with his subordinates. But now, with over 2,000 cavalrymen under his command gone, where could he go to find out what it was all about?

  Just as Tang and a group of guards were waiting for Dugu Song to return, they heard the urgent report from the messenger outside the tent.

  "What did you say? The enemy camp on the other side of the river is suddenly in an uproar?"

  "Yes, I personally saw that the sentry post on the shore suddenly withdrew, and there seemed to be a fire at their camp."

  Tang He was stunned after hearing this, and he couldn't help but wonder if this situation was caused by Dugu Song's crazy plan. Had they really found a place to cross the river and launch a surprise attack on the Yuan army's main camp? Was this madman really daring to charge at the enemy's 100,000-strong army with just over 2,000 men? Or did he expect the commander to respond accordingly?

  "General! This is no time for dawdling. We should cross the river and attack the enemy at once!" Fu Youde hastily stood up and advised.

  "Good! Pass on my order and let the army set out at once to cross the river and attack the enemy strongly!"

  Under Dugu Xiong's nearly frantic actions, Tang He led his troops to force a crossing of the river and attack Nahahe's main camp. In fact, they forced their way across the river without encountering any obstruction and directly entered Nahahe's main camp.

  Originally peaceful for two months, Naha was suddenly caught off guard by this sneak attack, and under unprepared circumstances, he was actually rendered helpless by Dugu Song's 2,000 men. The latter set fires and caused chaos throughout the camp, and with Tang He's cooperation, Naha mysteriously lost in the midst of the chaos, and his army retreated back to the Liaodong headquarters.

  Tang He and his troops set up camp to rest and recover, and Tang He even took back the horses that Du Gu Song had given him. If he left the horses with Du Gu, who knows what other trouble would arise? Although this victory was due to Du Gu's efforts, his unauthorized departure from the camp balanced out his merits, so there was no reward for him. Du Gu didn't care about this; he wasn't in it for the merit anyway, and killing enemies was all he wanted to do.

  Xu Da's other route arrived at Qing Water Lake, a beautifully scenic inland lake, which the Northern Yuan called "Fishing Boy Sea".

  The troops are now resting and reorganizing by the lake, and the day of their withdrawal is approaching. Xu Da's gains have also been considerable, and continuing to fight would not yield any further benefits. Half a month ago, various tribes along the army's route had already received wind of their approach and either hid or fled, resulting in no enemies to fight for half a month.

  The soldiers had long since lost their will to fight, and Xu Da was also afraid that the Northern Yuan would suddenly attack, so he rested at Qing Shui Po, planning to go north again in two days. If there were no signs of the enemy, they would return with their troops intact, just before the end of August.

  "Sixth son is fierce! Is this the third fish?"

  "It's true! We haven't even caught Liu Zi yet and it's already the third one."

  Idle soldiers are catching fish in the lake to make a snack, Xiao Liu is agile and doesn't need tools, with one swift move he catches a fish, but his brothers are jealous of him.

  "This is nothing! When I had no food to eat before, I would catch fish by the river and could catch two big baskets of fish in a short day, which could be sold for a lot of money!" Liu Zi said with great satisfaction.

  "Wow, you're out of breath after just a few words! But I have to say, you're one of the best swimmers I've ever seen among northerners."

  "Never mind that, where's Director Zhang? I haven't seen him again. Didn't you call him, Liu Zi?" Ma Cheng put down his spear and looked around to see how others were catching fish. He scanned the area but didn't find Zhang Feng's figure anywhere.

  "Never mind, Zhang Da Ge recently doesn't know what's wrong, always sneaking alone in the tent, I don't know what he's doing, ask him and he won't say, also not letting me get close, not even coming to catch fish, it's really strange." Liu Zi said with his head poking out of the water.

  "Never mind, let's just forget about it, we'll catch some fish and grill them later and send them over to him."

  "Right, right, right, for now catching fish is more important."

  "Ah-ha! I've got it!" Wang Ping shouted loudly as he raised the wooden spear in his hand, on which a struggling fish was still wriggling.

  Others seeing this quickly lowered their heads and continued to catch fish, the cattle and sheep in the military camp couldn't be eaten, now that they finally had extra meat to supplement their diet, how could they possibly give up on this delicious meal...

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