Ma Sui still led the army to follow fifty miles behind the Huaixi army, he now admires the secret general sent by the prince, who is this person, he only led three hundred cavalry to kick the camp, this kind of courage, this kind of bravery, even he is ashamed.

He also destroyed Li Zhongchen's Huai River ferry, making it impossible for his army to return to Huaixi.

The fifteen thousand cavalry had rested for the night and were ready to set out, when several of the horsemen brought a messenger, who saluted on his horse and presented a letter to Ma Sui, "This is a letter from my envoy to Marshal Ma." ”

Ma Sui took the letter and asked with a smile: "Can you tell me who your envoy is?" ”

The messenger hesitated and said: "My envoy is the envoy of Fengzhou Thorn History and the envoy of the Three Towns Jing Strategy Guo Envoy. ”

"It turned out to be him!" Ma Sui suddenly realized that this person was good at surprise soldiers, and the prince deployed him in the shadows, which was indeed a wonderful move.

He opened the letter and read it carefully, the letter said that there had been a large number of deserters in the Huaixi army, the army's morale was about to collapse, and the evildoers could not be allowed to escape, and the opportunity to attack was ripe.

Ma Sui nodded and said to the messenger: "Tell your family envoy that I coincide with him and will attack on all fronts today." ”

After sending the letter to the soldiers and leaving, Li Chongqian stepped forward and said to Ma Sui: "Wasn't Guo Song dismissed?" ”

Ma Sui said lightly: "He was promoted by the Son of Heaven, how could he be easily dismissed, the so-called dismissal must be to cover up people's eyes, and then secretly send him to the Central Plains and deploy him as a surprise soldier, the effect is very good!" Neither Tian Yue, Li Lingyao, nor Li Zhongchen discovered the existence of this army, and they all suffered his great losses, if it weren't for him this time, even if we finally defeated Li Zhongchen, we would have suffered heavy casualties, and he saved the lives of at least thousands of brothers. ”

"Dashuai is right, what should we do now?"

Ma Sui looked at the generals around him, straightened his waist and said: "Presumably, everyone has been waiting for a long time at this moment, pass on my order, the whole army will attack, and take the merit with the head!" ”

Fifteen thousand cavalry suddenly launched and slaughtered the Huaixi army fifty miles away.......

Three thousand deserters appeared, so that Li Zhongchen did not dare to go west, he ordered the soldiers to cut down trees on the spot, make a raft to cross the Huai River, this is also a way to cross the river, but it is more dangerous, but Li Zhongchen can no longer take care of so much.

His own soldiers used dozens of big trees to make a raft overnight, surrounded by wood, like a small boat, and made two oars, but this raft was too heavy, it weighed 2,000 catties, and it was more difficult to move to the Huai River, which was two miles away.

While the soldiers were busy setting up their rafts, all of a sudden, the earth began to tremble slightly, and everyone was surprised and looked around, and someone suddenly pointed to the east and shouted, "What is that?" ”

I saw a black line appear in the distance, and gradually, the black line became thicker and thicker, the yellow dust rolled, and the earth trembled more violently.

Li Zhongchen suddenly understood, and shouted: "The whole army is assembled and ready to fight!" ”

The horn sounded urgently, and more than 20,000 Huaixi troops gathered in a hurry, the formation had not yet fully stood, and even the bow and arrow arrays had not had time to be arranged, and the 15,000 Tang Army cavalry had already been killed in front of them, and groups of violent war horses were killed into the ranks of the Huaixi army like a storm........

It was a battle without suspense, and the Huaixi army only supported for a quarter of an hour, and then the whole army was defeated, and the soldiers scattered and fled, or knelt down and pleaded bitterly, but the crown prince Li Shi issued an order to kill, did not accept the surrender of this army, and slaughtered his entire army.

The cavalry scrambled to kill the enemy, cut off their heads, and a bloody massacre unfolded on the ten-mile-long battlefield on the north bank of the Huai River, and the 30,000 Hexi Army led by Li Zhongchen was almost wiped out.

Even the soldiers who had slipped away as deserters had mostly died at the hands of local peasants, and the Huaixi army had always been brutal, often plundering Huaibei, making the local people hate them to the core, and finally only a few hundred of them fled back to their hometowns.

Li Zhongchen was surrounded by dozens of soldiers and rushed westward, their rafts were too heavy to carry, so they had to give up.

Escaped more than ten miles in a blink of an eye, and there were gradually no pursuers behind, Li Zhongchen slowed down his horse slightly, and took a breath, at this moment, a powerful arrow shot head-on, as fast as lightning, and in an instant, it was too late for Li Zhongchen to hide, this one 'poof! In the middle of the eyebrows, the sharp arrow shot into the head, and the tip of the arrow penetrated from the back of the head, Li Zhongchen shouted, and immediately fell from his horse, and died of anger when he landed.

When dozens of his own soldiers were panicking, a thousand Tang cavalry had surrounded them, and Guo Song immediately ordered: "Leave no one behind, kill them all!" ”

..........

Li Zhongchen was not able to return to Huaixi in the end, and the whole army was wiped out on the north bank of the Huai River, and he himself died tragically under the arrows of Guo Song, and his ambitions and dreams were all vanished at this moment.

When the news of Li Zhongchen's death reached Hefei, his nephew Li Xilie launched a mutiny that night, killing Li Zhongchen's remaining general, Zhang Huiguang and his son, Li Zhongchen's eldest son Li Chao and several other sons, and he inherited Li Zhongchen's army and territory.

Li Xilie immediately went to the table of the Son of Heaven, willing to cut off the title of the feudal town, loyal to the imperial court, the Son of Heaven Li Yulongyan Dayue, issued a decree to seal Li Xilie Huaixi to stay behind, and the king of Xin Li Zaoyao led the Huaixi Festival envoy, Li Zao did not go to Huaixi to serve, Huaixi is actually still in the hands of Li Xilie.

........

In the imperial study room of Daming Palace, Li Yu, the son of heaven, was in a very good mood, he received a report from the prince Li Shi early in the morning, Li Zhongchen's 30,000 Huaixi army had been completely annihilated, which made Li Yu applaud.

Li Zhongchen's army burned and raped in Songcheng County, looting the whole city, which made Li Yu angry, Li Zhongchen's army was brutal and harmful to the people, he had heard of it, but he did not expect to be so unscrupulous and violent under the nose of the Tang army.

Li Yu finally couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately approved the proposal of the crown prince Li Shi, and ordered that Li Baochen's army must be completely annihilated.

Li Yu read the report again, including the final praise of Guo Song, who not only led the army to burn the ships of the Huai River, cut off Li Zhongchen's return route, and made Li Zhongchen's plan to occupy Yangzhou come to naught, but also finally shot Li Zhongchen, drawing a complete plan for the total annihilation of Li Zhongchen.

In particular, the crown prince Li Shi praised Guo Song in his report for leading 300 horsemen to kick the enemy camp, burning hundreds of large tents, and killing more than 2,000 enemy soldiers, but he himself did not die or injure a single person.

Li Yulong's heart is happy, Guo Song's success is his Li Yu's success, which shows that his secret chess move is extremely exquisite, and he paced back and forth in the room with his hands in his hands, considering the reward for Guo Song.

At this time, the eunuch said at the door: "Your Majesty, Han Xiangguo asks to see!" ”

"Let him in!"

After a while, Han Yun hurriedly walked in, bowed and saluted, "See Your Majesty!" ”

"Han Xiangguo came just in time, you look at this report."

Li Yu handed the prince's report to Han Rong, who smiled and said: "Weichen has also heard that Ma Jiedu led 15,000 cavalry to defeat Li Zhongchen on the north bank of the Huai River and rescued thousands of captive women, which makes people feel hatred in their hearts!" ”

"Relieving hatred is one thing, but we can't ignore some of the meritorious people behind it."

Han Yun was stunned, and hurriedly opened the report to take a closer look, and after a while, he was stunned, Guo Song was actually on the battlefield in the Central Plains, he didn't resign.

"Your Majesty, what's going on with Guo Song?"

Li Yu said lightly: "He is a secret chess move that I have planted in the Central Plains, he is good at surprise soldiers, and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats on the battlefield of the Central Plains, including burning warships in the Yellow River and Huaishui, cutting off the back road of Tian Chenghe's army and Li Zhongchen's army, followed by assassinating Li Lingyao, so that his group of dragons was leaderless and surrendered."

Secondly, he played a crucial role in the defeat of Li Baochen, and both the prince and Ma Sui believed that he accounted for seven points of credit, although it was a slight exaggeration, but he and Ma Sui's credit was recognized by five or five to half. ”

Han Rong understood what the Son of Heaven meant, and he hoped to get his own approval in the matter of Guo Song.

Han Yun bowed and said: "The truth of the Jinshan fiasco Yan Gong has been investigated, the fundamental reason is that Li Huaiguang's troops killed and looted the people of Xue Yantuo, arousing the public anger of other tribes in the grassland, Xue Yantuo twenty-one ones, he killed fourteen of them, and even the children of a few months were not spared, this is too brutal, and it is reasonable to trigger the intervention of the Sijie Department and the Hui Ministry.

But if Li Huaiguang could stop immediately and quickly evacuate Jinshan, the war could still be avoided, but he refused to give up the property plundered in Xue Yantuo, and he had a tough attitude towards Sijie, which eventually led to a big war between the two sides, and finally the Tang army was defeated. ”

Li Yu sighed, "His achievements in defending the land have not even been commended, he not only defended Fengzhou, but also killed the chief of Xue Yantuo in the war, but he did not receive any commendation from the imperial court, and was forced to resign, which is really unfair to him." ”

"Your Majesty, it is indeed very unfair, just impeaching him for roaring at the imperial court, and committing the following crimes, but ignoring the reason for his subsequent crimes, is because of the slander of his personality and the unfair trial, Chang Xiangguo has a stain on this matter, and at the same time he also has an unshirkable responsibility for appointing Li Huaiguang as the envoy of Shuo Fang Jiedu, after the investigation report of Yan Gong was sent to the imperial court, many ministers were very sympathetic to Guo Song and had a lot of complaints about Chang Xiangguo."

Han Yun was also quite dissatisfied with Chang Gon's monopoly on power, and he took this opportunity to criticize Chang Gon mercilessly today.

Li Yu nodded, "I remember his merits clearly, in fact, letting him resign is just my strategy, I know that he has nothing to do with the defeat of Jinshan, and when he comes back, I will definitely reuse him, and I will not care about Chang Xiangguo's attitude." ”

"Your Majesty is wise!"

Li Yu smiled and asked, "Han Xiangguo is in a hurry to see me, what's the matter?" ”