The five hundred cavalry soon rushed to the front of the Wuting River, and they all grabbed the reins and looked at the river in horror, the bridge on the river had disappeared, and only a few wooden stakes stood in the middle of the river.

The county seat of Wugong was a few miles ahead, and the city walls were clearly visible, but they couldn't cross the river.

The cavalrymen looked at each other, not knowing what to do, when suddenly someone shouted, "There are enemy troops!" ”

As soon as the general turned around, countless cavalry appeared behind them, and the general was frightened and shouted, "Go north!" ”

To the south was the Chengguo Canal, and they could not cross it, so they could only go one way to the north, and the five hundred cavalry turned their horses and ran to the north, and they did not go far, and a cavalry came out in front of them, blocking the way, and they fell into encirclement.

The general shouted: "Break out!" ”

Five hundred cavalry turned around and rushed to the east, shouting and shouting, trying to break out of the encirclement in one fell swoop, Guo Song coldly ordered: "Kill them all, leave no mouth alive!" ”

Thousands of arrows were fired at five hundred cavalry at the same time........

The 20,000 soldiers of the Jingyuan Army were hungry and thirsty, dizzy with hunger, and covered in cold sweats, and they walked for more than an hour, scolding Wugong County as they went, and if the scolding could kill people, the officials and people of Wugong County had been slaughtered many times.

But when they walked to the Wuting River, all the shouting and scolding stopped, everyone stared blankly at the river, there was no bridge, where did the previous five hundred cavalry go?

Wang Lianen suddenly reacted and shouted: "Prepare for battle!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a low horn sounded in the distance, "Woo-"

A cavalry of 4,000 people appeared on a high place a mile northeast behind them, looking at them coldly, the leader of the general wearing a golden helmet and holding a Fang Tian painting halberd in his hand, it was Guo Song, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu.

The soldiers of the Jingyuan Army were suddenly in chaos, and Wang Lianen shouted: "Don't mess up, assemble immediately!" ”

The premise of the soldiers of the Jingyuan army to assemble in the formation is to temporarily give up their belongings, throw away the donkeys and belongings, and then they can wholeheartedly line up to face the battle, Wang Lianen also thought of this, so he decided to go to Yongxian County first, and store the soldiers' belongings in the county to ensure safety, so that the soldiers can go all out to follow themselves and fight to the death with the Guo Song army.

But now he can't do it, there is no place for the soldiers to store it, only for the soldiers to give up their money.

Wang Lianen thought too much, the soldiers of the Jingyuan army rebelled and rebelled, just to seize wealth, how could they give up their hundreds of taels of gold and silver and a large number of jewels in order to fight, their will to war died out as early as after smashing open the Qionglin Treasury and the Daying Treasury.

If you don't want to fight, and at the same time you want to keep your gold and silver property, then there is only one way, escape!

The soldiers did not listen to the command, they threw away their armor and spears, and led their donkeys and mules to the north, first hundreds of people in the northernmost part, then thousands, and then a mass flight of 20,000 troops.

Guo Song waved his sword and coldly ordered: "Kill!" ”

Four thousand cavalry suddenly launched, like a flash flood, thousands of cavalry shouted to kill the Jingyuan army, the Jingyuan army soldiers were terrified, desperately fled, the east bank of the Wuting River quickly evolved into a one-sided massacre.

This army did a lot of evil in Chang'an, Guo Song issued an order to kill, the cavalry did not accept the soldiers' pleas to surrender, the war knife chopped people's heads, spears pierced the chest, the grass for more than ten miles was full of dead corpses, blood flowed like a river, the Wuting River was dyed red, many people jumped into the river to escape, but only a few people could swim to the other side, most of them drowned in the river.

This killing lasted more than an hour, except for hundreds of people who swam to the other side to flee for their lives, the remaining 20,000 soldiers died under the knife of the Hexi army, this is the battle of Wutingchuan that shocked the world, and the 20,000 soldiers who launched the Jingyuan mutiny were wiped out in Wutingchuan.

Part of the property they looted fell into the hands of Zhu Zhu in Chang'an, and part of the property they carried with them became the spoils of the Hexi army, and even Guo Song did not expect that the harvest of this war of annihilation would be so rich.

However, the main general Wang Lianen escaped, he was escorted by dozens of personal soldiers and desperately fled north on horseback, escaped before the encirclement of the Hexi army was closed, fled all the way to Fengtian County, and fled back to Chang'an from Fengtian County.

Guo Song immediately ordered the battlefield to be cleaned up and a temporary bridge to be built.

............

Zhang Guangsheng was summoned into Xingqing Palace by Zhu Jun overnight, he didn't know what was going on, but when he saw Wang Lianen, who was kneeling in the courtyard and covered in blood, his mind was 'buzzing!' With a sound, he understood, Wang Lianen was defeated, and he was defeated very badly, and he was defeated after only a few days of sending troops?

The hall was brightly lit, Zhu Zhu's face was full of anger, and he was pacing back and forth with his negative hands, Yuan Xiu and Yao Lingyan had already arrived first, and they were standing aside with complicated expressions.

"See Your Highness!" Zhang Guangsheng stepped forward and saluted.

Zhu Jun waved his hand, and said with anger on his face: "His mother's Wang Lianen, this idiot, owes him so many years of soldiers, his brain was eaten by dogs, I repeatedly explained to him, let him lead the soldiers to advance lightly as soon as possible, he should deal with this problem in Xianyang, but he actually wanted to go to Yongxian County to garrison troops, but was ambushed by Guo Song in Wugong County, and the whole army was destroyed." ”

Zhu Jun scolded Guo Song again: "The bastard surnamed Guo is all Tang Jun, he actually got his hands on it, he was ruthless, and slaughtered all the 20,000 Jingyuan troops!" ”

Zhang Guangsheng knew that this Jingyuan army and people were too angry, they not only robbed money, but also humiliated women, many powerful wives and daughters were ruined by them, I don't know how many people hated them to the bone, Guo Song slaughtered them all, undoubtedly to the powerful people in Chang'an handed over a beautiful vote.

He didn't kill the soldiers of the Longyou Army and the Fengxiang Army before, which shows that he didn't kill people for the sake of killing, this is actually a very clever political skill, this young man is not ordinary!

"Is Your Highness going to gather an army to fight him?" Zhang Guangsheng asked.

Zhu Jun suddenly sat down weakly like a deflated skin, pointed at Yuan Xiu and said, "Yuan Xiangguo said it!" ”

Yuan Xiu stepped forward and said to Zhang Guangsheng: "Just now I advised Your Highness, Guo Song only brought 5,000 people to Guanzhong, King Qin's sincerity is not very great, and Li Shi has issued an edict, ordering him to immediately lead all the Hexi army to Bashu Qinwang, Guo Song will definitely not agree, His Royal Highness also regrets it, he should not have listened to Wang Lianen and Li Chulin's instigation to send troops before, he should go to negotiate with Guo Song." ”

Zhang Guangsheng nodded, "This is also a lowly suggestion, Li Shi wanted to kill Guo Song and seize his military power before, how could Guo Song go to Bashu to die, it should be possible to negotiate, even if he refuses to be loyal to Chang'an, he can let him remain neutral, and everyone will be safe." ”

Genxiu sighed, "That's the truth!" ”

"You two don't complain anymore!"

Zhu Jun was a little dissatisfied and said: "Let's talk about the result directly." ”

Yuan Xiu said again: "His Royal Highness knows that the general and Guo Song have an old relationship, and wants you to negotiate with Guo Song as an envoy, and the general is willing to go." ”

Zhang Guangsheng hesitated, then nodded, and said to Zhu Jun: "I am willing to go, but I don't know what conditions His Highness wants to promise him?" ”

Zhu Jun said impatiently: "As long as he is not in charge of the country, everything else is easy to say, he can be the king and the prime minister if he wants, and even if he wants to be the emperor, I can also take Li Wei down and let him ascend the throne." ”

Zhang Guangsheng smiled bitterly, this kind of emperor Guo Song is absolutely unwilling to be.

"I understand, I'll go to Yongxian early tomorrow morning."

...........

Guo Song had already returned to Yongxian, and what he didn't expect was that Zhu Zhu's negotiating envoy had not yet come, but the proclamator sent by Li Shi had arrived in Yongxian County first.

The proclamator went north to Guanzhong from Chencang Road, and when he heard that Guo Song was fighting near Chang'an, he waited in Yongxian.

As soon as Guo Song walked into the palace, the proclamator shouted loudly: "Hexi Jiedu makes Guo Song receive the decree!" ”

Guo Song was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly waved his hand and said: "Wait a minute, let's make it clear first, whose will is it that Your Excellency is proclaiming, is it the will of Chang'an, the will of Chengdu, or the will of Taiyuan?" ”

The proclamator had no choice but to explain: "In Xia Lu Ben, the official secretary is the provincial chief secretary, and it is Ling Yue's protégé, who has just come from Chengdu to read the will of the Son of Heaven. ”

When Guo Song heard that he was his father-in-law's protégé, he immediately had a good impression of him, so he said, "Give me the holy decree!" Don't read it out, I'm afraid that I won't obey the order and make it difficult for you. ”

Lu Ben had no choice but to hand the holy decree to Guo Song, Guo Song read the decree, and sighed in his heart, how could Li Shi not make any progress at all, promote himself to the crown prince and young master, and then let himself lead the Hexi army to the king of Bashu Qin, how could it be? No wonder Cui Kuan accepted Li Zhi's will and led his army back to Shuofang.

He pondered for a moment and said to Lu Ben: "If you go back to restore the Son of Heaven, you will say that I will accept the reward, but the Tubo and Shatuo people are eyeing Hexi, I can't withdraw the army and leave, I will continue to defend the frontier for the Tang Dynasty, as for Chang'an, Master Lu can tell the Son of Heaven that I have slaughtered the 20,000 Jingyuan troops who launched a mutiny in Wutingchuan, this is my attitude." ”

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[The Jingyuan army in history is this virtue, after robbing the palace, it was like a miser, guarding its wealth all day long, even Zhu Zhu couldn't command them, whoever dared to let them fight, he would turn his face with whom, but in the end, this army was still completely annihilated by Li Sheng, and both people and money were empty. 】