The two rounds of explosions killed and injured more than 3,000 people, and only a few hundred people were killed on the spot, mainly injured, especially by being shot into the body by poison nails, as many as more than 2,800 people.

When the party troops withdrew to ten miles away, the poison attacked, thousands of soldiers wailed, many soldiers rolled on the ground in pain, and several party and military doctors were helpless.

Tuoba Black Thorn was shocked, and summoned several generals forward and asked, "Do you know what the weapon that sounded like thunder just now?" ”

The generals shook their heads one after another, "General Qiyu, we have never heard of it. ”

Tuoba Black Thorn sighed and said, "We have a problem with our intelligence, why don't we wait for Ma Wencui to ask him when he arrives, what is going on?" ”

Tuoba Blackthorn led the army to the north of Quiet County, which was already an empty city, and all the people had withdrawn to Lingwu County.

When the party troops entered the county seat, they began to look for food to satisfy their hunger, and the wounded soldiers were housed.

Tuoba Blackthorn sat in the room in frustration, and although the soldiers rumored that the Han people used demon magic, he knew that it was not a demon method.

It's just that he couldn't figure out what kind of weapon that thunderous thing would be, it was so terrifying and hugely lethal, could it be that God still didn't give the party a chance to seize Lingzhou?

At this time, one of his subordinates walked in and saluted: "General Qiyu, we have caught a farmer outside Lingzhou City, he may know a little about the situation!" ”

"Bring him in!"

In a moment, a Han man with his hands tied behind his back was brought in, and the soldier kicked him hard in the crook of the leg, and the man fell to his knees, scared like chaff.

"Tell me what you know honestly, or I'll kill you with a knife!" A party soldier next to him said viciously.

"The villain is farming outside the city, and today before dawn, I saw a cavalry rushing to Lingwu County......."

Tuoba Blackthorn perked up and hurriedly asked, "Where are the cavalry?" How many people are there? ”

"I don't know where the cavalry villains are, there are about three or four thousand people."

Tuoba Blackthorn pondered for a moment and asked, "Do they have a flag?" ”

"There are flags!"

"What kind of flag does it look like? I'm asking what color? ”

"It's like..... It seems to be a red .....," the man whispered.

'Red Flag! Tuoba Black Thorn realized in his heart, and then asked, "What is the pattern of the red flag?" ”

"I didn't see it clearly, it seemed to be..... Black, kind of like ..... Dragon. ”

"Black Dragon Red Flag!"

Everyone exclaimed, this is the Hexi Tang Army!

All the doubts in Tuoba Black Thorn's heart were easily solved, it turned out to be the Hexi Army, no wonder with such powerful weapons, how could those militia groups in the city do it?

Tuoba Black Thorn suddenly thought of the army in the south, and his heart suddenly became worried, they didn't know that there was news of the arrival of the Tang army in Hexi.

........

Two days later, on the official road southeast of Lingzhou, 10,000 party cavalry with thousands of Tang army prisoners of war marched to the northwest, leaving more than 4,000 physically strong prisoners of war, Ma Wencai repeatedly persuaded his brother that there were iron mines and salt lakes near Yanzhou, and Ma Wencui was finally persuaded that the party people really needed slaves to mine and cook salt for them.

All the prisoners of war stumbled forward with their hands tied behind their backs, strung with a long rope, followed by hundreds of party cavalry on either side, and were whipped with leather whips if they moved a little slowly.

The southern part of Lingzhou belongs to a part of the Loess Plateau, where the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the mountains are numerous, the woods are scarce, the climate is arid, there are endless loess hills everywhere, only after going north into the plain, you will see a large area of oasis.

"Big brother, Lingzhou should be taken at this time!"

It was Ma Tianyou who spoke, and Guo Song had a contest in Lingzhou, and his right arm was broken during the final sword competition.

Ma Wencui glanced at the northwest direction gloomily, and said lightly: "Tuoba Black Thorn is very strong, and those big households in Lingwu County can't stop it, so they should have taken it." ”

"Big brother, after capturing Lingzhou, hand over the Guo family and the Liang family to me to deal with." Ma Tianyou gritted his teeth and said, the hatred of more than ten years ago has always been difficult to eliminate in his heart.

"People may be able to, but I'm afraid you will have to negotiate money and land with Tuoba Mou."

"I don't want property or land, I just want people, I want them to taste the most painful way to die!"

At this moment, there was a sudden chaos in front, screams, and shouts of killing, and Ma Wencui was stunned for a moment, what happened?

There was also a big chaos in the back, and when Ma Wencui turned around, he saw an army coming out of the col next to him, cutting off from the back waist of their team, and the last one was occupied by Tang Army prisoners of war.

"What's going on?"

"General, it's the Hexi Army!" The soldiers shouted.

Ma Wencui was shocked, and hurriedly shouted: "Assemble and fight!" ”

His army was cut into three sections, and the army he could command was only three or four thousand men, but he faced a flanking attack from 10,000 Hexi cavalry.

At this time, a trace of murderous intent flashed in Ma Tianyou's eyes, and he didn't say a word, urging Ma to rush over.

Guo Song's army had just arrived, and they received a report from the scouts and ambushed them on the road to Lingwu County in advance, also because the Dangxiang army marched relatively slowly with prisoners of war, which won precious time for the Hexi army.

Guo Song divided the 30,000 troops into three routes, cutting them into three from the neck and waist of the enemy ranks, and the Tang army was explosive, with galloping horses, slashing with swords, and stabbing with spears, killing mercilessly.

If the march is relatively long, the most feared thing is to be cut off by the enemy, and they will not have time to organize the army.

After they annihilated the Shuofang army, there was basically no Tang army north of Xiaoguan except for Fengzhou, unless the Fengzhou Tang army went south, but the Fengzhou army first faced the army of Tuoba Black Thorn.

It was for this reason that the Dang Xiang Army was a little careless and was caught off guard by the Hexi Tang Army that came from afar.

"Hold on! Resist! ”

Ma Wencui shouted loudly, but it was useless, his army was cut and torn into countless small pieces by the Tang army, and there were only hundreds of people around him, so he couldn't organize a formation at all.

A commander shouted: "General, we can't stand it, hurry up and order a retreat!" ”

Seeing that the defeat was decided, Ma Wencui had to sigh and say, "The whole army breaks through!" ”

He led hundreds of soldiers to break through, but was intercepted by two thousand cavalry led by Li Bing.

Guo Song had already issued an order to kill in advance, just like he killed the Shatuo people, he would not give these peoples who had been troubled in the Central Plains in history any chance, and physical elimination was the best way.

The morale of the party cavalry completely collapsed, and they desperately broke through, but they were pinned down by the Tang army and were constantly killed.

Guo Song immediately watched the changes on the battlefield, and suddenly someone shouted: "Make you beware!" ”

Guo Song suddenly felt a cold wind behind his head, he slammed his head to the side, and a wolf's tooth arrow grazed his ear, Guo Song was furious, and when he turned around, he saw a party general fifty steps away running on horseback, and his back was vaguely familiar.

Guo Song urged the horse to chase after him, he took off his bow, drew an arrow from behind, pulled the string with the bow, and the arrow shot out like lightning and hit the opponent's neck.

Guo Song urged forward, and seeing that the other party was struggling to get up, he used Fang Tian's halberd to pick it up, and the other party fell on his back facing the sky, the tip of the halberd pressed against the other party's chest, and the other party choked his neck and gasped.

Although the other party's face was distorted and his appearance was extremely hideous, Guo Song still recognized him at a glance, the most brutal and vicious of the three Ma brothers, Ma Tianyou.

"It's you, bastard!"

Ma Tianyou's breathing became more and more rapid, but he smiled fiercely, and vicious words still flowed out of his teeth, "You..... You know? If.... If your woman fell into my hands, I would ..... What do you think? ”

Guo Song's arm was strong, and the tip of the halberd pierced deep into his heart, Ma Tianyou screamed heartbreakingly, and died, ending his life of sin.

"Kill them all, and leave not a single prisoner of war behind!" Guo Song gave the order in a low voice.

The Tang army attacked in an all-out way, mercilessly killing this brutal army, Ma Wencui and hundreds of people were surrounded by 3,000 Tang cavalry regiments, they desperately broke through, but failed again and again, the number became smaller and smaller, and the spears kept picking them off their horses.

Ma Wencui suddenly heard a familiar voice shouting.

"Don't kill me, I have your book of avoiding death for Guo Zhijun!"

When he turned around, he saw his brother Marven kneeling on the ground and pleading, holding a letter in his hand.

Ma Wencui suddenly understood, no wonder the Hexi Tang Army was able to arrive in time, it turned out that his brother was an internal ghost.

Ma Wencui was so angry that he almost went crazy, he rushed out of the guards' protection and yelled, "I'm going to kill you!" ”

Without the protection of his own soldiers, dozens of Tang Army spears stabbed at Ma Wencui at the same time, he was pierced through the body by more than a dozen spears, high in the air, Ma Wencui's eyes were wide open, and he didn't look at him.

With the death of the main general, the Tang army became a one-sided massacre, there were dead bodies everywhere on both sides of the loess official road, and the party cavalry became fewer and fewer, although they desperately broke through, no one could escape, and the 10,000 party troops were wiped out.

(End of chapter)