Chapter 357: Whipping the Northern Regions
The generals Zuo Pengju and Sun Tai saw that the troops under their command mutinied, and hurriedly shouted gongs and drums to restrain the soldiers. But at this moment, the army's heart was shaken like a landslide, and even if the two of them had three heads and six arms, where could they hold it down.
Liu Shaoyang was on top of the Juyong Pass Tower, and he saw that some of the officers and soldiers under the ridge came east to join the Yan Division, and some shouted and mixed with the soldiers and walked around. Knowing that the opportunity was rare to break the enemy's move, he immediately jumped down from the city to put on his horse, and personally supervised the men and horses in the center and led the army to the west to cover and kill.
Peng Ju, the commander of the official army, saw that the general trend had gone, and his heart was cold, so he turned his horse's head and whipped away. But he was killed by Mo Lingtao until the Chinese army caught up from behind, and the cold mangs of the silent tide sword came out of the sheath and beheaded his body in a different place.
The rest of Sun Tai was very brave, fighting like the wind in the chaotic army, shouting and ordering his subordinates to rush left and right to overturn many people. But it happened to crash into the Yan Army's crossbow array, and dozens of sky-splitting crossbows flew like rain of arrows. In the end, it was difficult to settle down, and he missed the shot, and when he fell off the horse, he was trampled into meat by the rebels.
As soon as the commander of the former team of the officers and soldiers died, the rest of them scattered and fled for their lives in the direction of Huailai. When escaping to the Wuding River, the water was surging, and the Yan army was pressed very tightly, and the officers and soldiers rushed over the pontoon bridge, and the tragic scenes of people and horses trampling into the water appeared one after another.
Song Zhong's camp in the west of the Wuding River has been completed, so that the army is full of food and is about to wave his army to the east to respond, but the front army is defeated by mutiny. When he wanted to drink and stop asking the reason, his side of the formation had been scattered.
Liu Shaoyang led the people of the Five Elements Gate and the elite of the Yan soldiers to ride in front, closely following the group of officers and soldiers. The crossbowmen in Song Zhong's military camp were afraid of accidentally injuring their own soldiers and horses, so they hesitated for a while and couldn't use them. Liu Shaoyang and the others took the opportunity to get close to the left and identify the position of the Shuai Qi pro-army who came to attack Song Zhong.
He swung his sword and rode in front of him, just like chopping the waves and splitting the waves, and the swallows followed him like heavenly soldiers and tigers into the flock. Song Zhong looked at the Shuai Tai for a moment and felt frightened, seeing that the general trend was overwhelmed, he secretly sent Yu Yao to command the enemy, and he ran down the Shuai Tai to fight the rear camp Pegasus and fled back to the city.
There are still 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers in the official camp at this moment, but the commander has fled and killed the Yan army like a tiger wolf, where is he willing to use his life. Regardless of Yu Yao's dispatch in the Chinese army, he hurriedly rushed to the city and fled.
Liu Shaoyang rampaged among the officials and soldiers as if he had entered a no-man's land, and saw Song Zhong abandon the brigade and flee back to the city from a distance. Qing Xiao summoned the people behind him, and rode his horse and whipped straight into Huailai City.
Mo Lingtao and the others shouted and followed him, rushed away and retreated, and the officers and troops were about to rush into the city. The remaining generals in the city saw that the Yan army was going to take advantage of the situation to rush in, and ordered to collect the demand, and wanted to raise the drawbridge to close the city to resist the enemy.
How could Liu Shaoyang's eyes be fast, and he flew and swung his sword to cut off the sling. At this moment, the defeated army is not yet halfway in, and the city gate is crowded and cannot be closed. Many people stumbled and stumbled and fell into the trench.
In such chaos, the two armies entered the city, and in the blink of an eye, the east urn city was full of Yanshi flags, and most of the officers and soldiers bowed to the ground and turned against the water.
Liu Shaoyang first ascended the city tower to recruit soldiers to restore order, and ordered Mo Lingtao, Jin Xuance and others to guard each gate, so he brought the elite soldiers of the headquarters to the government office to capture Song Zhong.
However, he said that Yu Yao couldn't stop the rout and escaped into the city, and wanted to find the governor Song Zhong to get an idea. Who knew that when he arrived at the government office, he only heard that Song Zhong had entered but could not find it, and when he was about to go by himself, the Yan army of Xuanfu had surrounded the front and back of the palace, and he was captured from the back wall.
Liu Shaoyang ordered the soldiers to search the house carefully, and actually found Song Zhong in the corner of the east toilet of the government office, and the smell was unbearable. When everyone saw that the commander of his army had fallen into such a wolf, they all laughed.
Within a few days, Tongzhou, Jizhou, Zunhua and other cities were either fought or surrendered, and they were also captured by Zhu Neng and Zhang Yu. Liu Shaoyang bound Song and Yu back to Beiping, and Zhu Di raised the tent to set up a banquet to reward the three armies.
Liu Shaoyang couldn't bear to kill more people, and said from the side: "It's useless for these two people to be defeated and captured, it's better to surrender to an idle errand and show His Highness's magnanimity and mercy!"
Zhu Di looked hesitant and was about to agree, but Dao Yan, the national teacher on the side, shook his head and said: "General Liu's words are wrong! These two people have been enemies of my Jingnan righteous teacher several times, so it can be seen that their hearts cannot be left in the court, so it is better to kill them to set an example." The poor monk thought that His Royal Highness should be powerful when raising troops and ruthless, so that the lands of northern Xinjiang would be subdued by the wind!"
Zhu Di was silent for a long time when he heard this, and ordered the knife and axe hand to push Song and Yu out and behead them, and then gently exhorted Liu Shaoyang: "It's not that the lonely king doesn't want to spare these two people's lives, it's just that there are still more than 100,000 people in the puppet court between the several cities that are waiting for the thistle. If you don't kill the two of them and make an example, other guards will only be easy to bully when I am a master of Yan, and this king will not be obedient to the end. This time, the virtuous brother has made a lot of contributions to the promotion of Juyong and Huailai, and when the lonely king sits firmly in the northern territory, he will allocate people and horses to be under your command!"
Liu Shaoyang couldn't bear it for a while, but he also knew that Zhu Dixiao's ambition was reasonable. At the moment, he put down the compassion in his heart, and said that he would not express his gratitude for the time being