Chapter 269 Hu Yanzhuo's Defeat in Qingzhou
Pantuo Road is a semi-natural formation transformed by Zhujiazhuang over several generations according to the terrain.

It is easy to break the formation. Just turn when you see a poplar tree, and you can avoid the ghost walls and various traps set.

Ever since Liangshan wiped out the entire Zhu family, they began to renovate the formation here.

This obvious flaw had already been fixed by Gongsun Sheng.

Hu Yanzhuo led the linked horses and rushed in headfirst. The outside was going smoothly, but once they got one mile inside, they were trapped in a maze of obstacles.

In this way, they tossed around in the maze-like winding road for half an hour, galloping back and forth for several miles. The linked horses, wearing vests and carrying heavily armored knights, gradually became exhausted, and white foam came out of their mouths and noses.

Hu Yanzhuo looked back and was shocked, saying inwardly: "The officials of Dongping Prefecture are harming me!"

This is not a den of thieves that can be easily wiped out. This is a ferocious beast with its claws lying in wait.

Although he was extremely angry, Hu Yanzhuo managed to hold back his anger and slowly retreated with his linked horses.

Mu Hong hid in the shade of the trees, appearing from time to time to tease them. When he saw this situation, his face lit up with joy: "Brother Li Ying, the enemy's horses are tired, this is the time to defeat them! I am willing to lead the army to charge for a while..."

Li Ying knew the ability of "No Shakeslant", but he still persuaded him, "Brother Mu Hong, don't worry, at least give him another hour. If we can delay until nightfall, it will be even better. Mr. Yiqing has set up a water mist formation here. At nightfall, the forest will be covered in white, and he will be unable to escape."

Although Mu Hong was impatient, he still listened to the advice and suppressed his restlessness.

The merit of capturing Hu Yanzhuo alive is much greater than the merit of defeating him.

At this moment, "Ghost Face" Du Xing and "Flying Tiger" Hu Cheng prepared firewood, then poured water on it and lit a dozen smoke stacks to create fog.

The choking smoke quickly spread out, and under the blowing of the cold wind from "Ghost Face", it swallowed the Pantuo Road like a ferocious beast.

At the foot of Dulonggang, the "Invincible General" Han Tao had already become impatient.

He led his troops here to ensure that Hu Yanzhuo would have no worries, but when the linked horses galloped into the Pantuo Road, they completely disappeared.

Seeing the smoke rising, they no longer dared to stay and wanted to rescue their commander Hu Yanzhuo.

If Hu Yanzhuo lost, there was no need for him to go back, he could just throw the ball into the grass where he was.

Unexpectedly, before they had gone far, an ambush was set up on Dulonggang, and countless arrows flew out from the woods on both sides.

His subordinates were light infantry and light cavalry, who were caught off guard and were shot down in large numbers in an instant.

Several commanders screamed: "Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

The 300 archers in ambush were all trained by Hua Rong himself. Each of them had extraordinary archery skills. After three or four rounds of arrows, they had already shot down more than 700 to 800 officers and soldiers.

In the absence of Hua Rong, Hua Baoyan went into battle fully armed and equipped, and was not inferior to her brother in any way. She fired several arrows and killed several commanders and guards who tried to line up for counterattack.

The officers and soldiers were suddenly attacked and their generals were shot dead, causing chaos.

Sun Li's army was as elusive as ghosts. They appeared and attacked shortly after the officers and soldiers were in chaos.

Suddenly, the officers and soldiers were completely defeated and were killed so badly that they cried for their parents.

Han Tao barely gathered more than a thousand men and fled. Looking at Dulonggang, he said in shock: "The general is still blocked on the Pantuo Road. What should we do?"

"Ha ha ha ha……"

Before Han Tao could catch his breath, another group of soldiers and horses appeared in front of him. Shi Wengong raised his iron spear and shouted, "Don't be a man, the situation is hopeless, why don't you dismount and surrender?"

Han Tao saw this and said angrily, "Bullshit! You little bandit, so what if you won two games?"

After saying this, he held a jujube wood spear and led his personal cavalry to meet the enemy with a sharp arrow formation, shouting: "The Victorious General Han Tao is here! Kill him!"

Shi Wengong laughed and said, "There was a Tianmu general before who was just like you. You will be defeated today despite your hundred victories!"

With a spear in hand, no matter how hard Han Tao tried, he could not defeat him. As for his soldiers, those defeated soldiers were no match for the elite soldiers of Liangshan.

The guns were in full force like a forest, and they killed people like butchering dogs.

Seeing a flaw, Shi Wengong poked Han Tao in the waist with his spear and knocked him to the ground with his clever strength. The Victorious General was quickly captured by the minions behind him.

As for the defeated soldiers, no one came forward to rescue them, and they just scattered.

On the way to Pantuo, Hu Yanzhuo realized that he had been plotted against.

He was different from other generals whose brains were filled with muscles. After exploring the formation for more than half an hour, he had figured out the rules of the formation.

He actually forced his way into the formation and killed everyone.

Seeing that he was about to break out of Pantuo Road, Li Ying would not let the credit he had obtained be lost, so he immediately sent Mu Hong as the vanguard to forward to contain him, while he took the opportunity to split up those heavy cavalry.

The horses under the heavy cavalry had already run out of strength, but Hu Yanzhuo's horse was a thousand-mile horse, which still had the strength to fight. He waved his whip and shouted, "Whoever stands in my way will die."

With a sprint, he smashed the breastplates of several soldiers, and they didn't know whether they were dead or alive.

"Follow me out!" Hu Yanzhuo raised his arms and shouted.

"No restraint." Mu Hong personally led people to block the way. Under the two steel whips of Hu Yanzhuo, he was like a person in an empty place and was really killed by him.

However, not many of his cavalry followed suit.

After taking a look at the dozens of riders who followed him out to charge, Hu Yanzhuo sighed to the sky.

As the saying goes, a defeat is like a landslide. In this situation, Hu Yanzhuo is powerless to reverse the situation.

But he was not a general who would give up easily. He forced his way out of Dulonggang and soon arrived at the location of the rear army led by Han Tao.

At this time, some of this group of people were killed and some surrendered. The Liangshan army was commanding the civilians and prisoners to pack up the baggage that had not been burned.

Hu Yanzhuo roared and saw soldiers chasing him from behind. He had no time to gather his cavalry and infantry, so he rode on his snow-stepping black horse and galloped onto the main road.

On a distant hill, Cao Jie looked at Hu Yanzhuo's receding figure and commanded: "There is no need to capture him. Just drive him to the direction of Qingzhou. We have a clever trick to lure him up the mountain."

For example, "Tianmu General" Peng Qi, although he was captured for more than a month, he never surrendered.

How could a man like Hu Yanzhuo surrender easily?

The words are divided into two parts.

Cao Jie sounded the horn to call his troops back to the mountain and asked for rewards.

Most of the eight hundred linked armored horses were trapped on the Pantuo Road; more than half of the more than two thousand light cavalry escaped.

The five thousand infantrymen had nowhere to escape, and most of them were surrounded by the naval leaders, taken onto the boats, dragged across the beach, and captured and brought up the mountain.

Han Tao and Peng Qi also recovered from their injuries, and they also had to move their entire family into the mountain village.

As for food and supplies, they were countless.

The money that the government had plundered from the people in order to help Hu Yanzhuo suppress the bandits ended up in the hands of Liangshan.

Now only "Double Whip" Hu Yanzhuo is left. He has lost many soldiers and horses, so how dare he return to the capital?

He was chased by the Liangshan heroes again, so he rode his black horse Kicking Snow alone, tied his coat and armor to the horse, and fled eastwards on the road...

(End of this chapter)