The battle was soon over.

The blow from the back of the two cavalry of the Wudang battalion made the rogues on both wings quickly rout, especially after seeing Tuoyangkun and Zhang Fatzi and others flee first.

Whether it is an ordinary rogue or an elite of the old battalion, they all fled in a hurry and ran around.

Emperor Guan's army stepped on their horses one after another, and the troops intercepted the fleeing rogues in separate ways, especially those elites of the old battalion.

Qin Chuan originally wanted to find Tuoyangkun, Zhang Fatzi and others, but he couldn't find those people in the chaotic army, so he simply took the red-clothed attendants to chase a group of elite soldiers of the old battalion on horseback nearby.

Liukou's military horses are far inferior to those fat and strong war horses in Qin Chuan, and they can't run far at all.

When Qin Chuan came back with dozens of heads and dozens of old camps of Liukou, Zhao Wu and Liao Sangun also came back with Tuo Yangkun's head and Zhang Fatzi, who was tied up tightly.

Qin Chuan was overjoyed, and hugged Zhao Wu and Liao Sangun's shoulders for a good time.

"My lord, Wang Guangen's drama ran away, and he disappeared as soon as he slipped through the smoke, and he couldn't catch up no matter how he chased him." Zhao Wu said apologetically.

"It's okay, it's okay."

Qin Chuan patted him on the shoulder again: "Cutting Tuoyangkun and catching Zhang Fatzi, you are already a great achievement." ”

Liao Sangun took over and said with some annoyance: "I wanted to capture Tuoyangkun alive, but that old boy was a thief and poisonous, and he kept making tricks, and I saw that I really couldn't catch it, so I simply killed him with one shot." ”

"It's okay, it's okay, it's slaughter."

Qin Chuan also patted him on the shoulder: "It takes a few catties of food to keep alive, how easy it is to raise a head, not to mention, among these thieves, Tuoyangkun's head is the most valuable." ”

Zhao Wu suddenly frowned, and said: "My lord, we have a big victory in Mianshan, beheading Li Yangchun and capturing Liu Guoneng, seizing Fire Township and breaking Zhang Bingzhong's 30,000 army, beheading countless people, and capturing countless people, why has the court not believed it until now?" Not to mention that he was knighted, he didn't even have a silver ingot. ”

"It shouldn't be the credit of those dog officials who hacked adults, right? I used to behead many Tartars and Jiannu with Brother Wu, but all the credit was hacked by those dog officials, and Brother Wu is still a small flag after so many years. ”

Qin Chuan laughed twice, patted him on the shoulder again, and said, "Actually, it's best if the imperial court doesn't give us a reward, and I'm afraid that that kid Chongzhen will give me an official indiscriminately." ”

"My lord, isn't it good to add an official to a lord and hold authority? Why are you afraid of the court's reward? ”

"Hey, hey, hey, because we can make a difference with merit, and we can make a merit with merit."

"My lord, I'm a rough man......"

Zhao Wu took over with a smile and said: "What my lord means is that the credit of the last battle in Mianshan is worth the responsibility of killing the Fan family and the Zhou family in Zhangyuan Village. ”

Liao Sangun suddenly realized, and couldn't help but stretch out his thumb: "My lord is smart, mark and admire!" ”

"Hey, hey, hey."

Qin Chuan smiled again: "This time, I haven't figured out which big family to rob, but it's a pity that the big families in this area have been beaten away by the Liukou." ”

Zhang Fatzi, who was tied into a dumpling on the side, suddenly shouted: "Adult, the small one knows where there is a big family, and the small one is willing to serve the adult, and he will never give up." ”

Qin Chuan walked up to him and said with a smile: "Forget about your fat body, it's better to take it to me in exchange for some credit." ”

"Adult, small ......"

"Tell me, has Leping County been scraped by you?"

"It's empty, it's empty, when Xiao and Tuoyangkun arrived in Leping, it had already been scraped empty by others, and there were thousands of people left in the county, and many people were dying of hunger, and there were originally two or three thousand people, and I heard that most of us were starving to death before we came."

Hearing this, Qin Chuan's face suddenly sank.

Zhang Fatzi realized that he had said the wrong thing, and hurriedly rolled on the ground with a fat body, and banged his head: "Adults spare their lives, adults spare their lives, this matter has nothing to do with the small ones, before the small ones came, Leping had already run out of food." ”

Qin Chuan asked with a calm face, "What about the people who survived?" ”

"...... I was forced by Tuoyang Kun to attack Pingding City......"

Qin Chuan's face became more and more gloomy: "Is there any living mouth?" ”

"I didn't ...... Yes, there is a living mouth, I just saw a group of Leping people running to the east, and I don't know where they went. ”

"Give him a hard time, don't beat his face, lest Xu Dingchen can't help who he is, and ask those captives, if there are any people from Leping."

Qin Chuan coldly left a few words, then turned around and left.

Zhang Fatzi panicked: "Adult, my lord spares my life, my lord ......"

Liao San threw the big gun to the ground and walked over with a cruel smile.

……

The casualties and gains of this battle are roughly counted, and the Guan Emperor's army suffered 370 casualties, of which 125 were killed in battle, 32 were seriously wounded, and the rest were minor injuries that were not a big problem.

Even if there are sharp firearms, even if the tactics of breaking through in the middle are very successful, there are still many casualties in the open field.

The main reason is that there are too many Liukou troops, fighting in the open field, the side with a large number of people has a great psychological advantage, the morale of the Liukou is very high, and Tuoyangkun and Zhang Fatzi they keep persecuting, which leads to the fact that the Liukou obviously suffered a lot of casualties, but they can rush over and fight each other in close combat.

After all, this army has been established for less than a year, and its combat power is not too strong, and there will be casualties in short-handed battles.

Even so, this battle can be regarded as a complete victory.

More than 2,000 rogues were killed, more than 6,000 captives surrendered, and only about 1,000 escaped.

Mainly because there are very few rogues who have mounts, and the soldiers of Emperor Guan have horses, and in the open land where there is nowhere to hide, it is impossible for a two-legged one to outrun a horseman, and no matter how far he runs, he will be chased back.

According to preliminary estimates, among the rogues killed and captured, there were at least six or seven hundred elite battalions, most of whom were hiding behind sword and shield soldiers, and wanted to raid the ribs of Emperor Guan's army, and many of them were beaten into a sieve by artillery.

There were countless swords, guns, and clubs seized, only about 30 pairs of armor, and more than 400 horses, and the food was pitiful, only 170 stones, which was not enough for the 10,000 rogues to eat for two days.

When screening the prisoners, Qin Chuan asked Emperor Guan's army to camp on a mound not far away, and sent people to Pingding City to ask for food.

Xu Dingchen said that he would ask the prefectures and counties along the way to provide him with grain and grass, but when he passed through Yuci and Shouyang, the government of those two places closed the city gates, not to mention the grain, and did not give him a sip of water to drink.

Now, if Qin Chuan hadn't arrived in time, Pingding City would have been breached by Tuo Yangkun, Zhang Fatzi and others.

The officials and gentlemen in the city should thank him, and they can't say anything if they don't give five or six hundred stone of grain.

As soon as the people were sent out, their subordinates came over with more than a dozen skinny and soulless people, saying that these were the people of Leping County who had been coerced.

Qin Chuan asked his subordinates to bring them boiling water, and when they drank the water in large gulps, Qin Chuan asked, "Fellow countrymen, how is the situation in Leping?" ”

Some of the people suddenly retreated, their eyes showing horror, and some of them still held their heads, looking like they had lost their souls.

Qin Chuan frowned: "Don't be afraid, fellow countrymen, we are the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, we will not harm you, in Leping City, but there are still people?" Those who have been coerced with you, but there are others alive? ”

The people were still retreating in horror, and a man who was sitting on the ground with his head pulled suddenly said to himself: "It's gone, it's all gone, it's all dead......

As he spoke, the man suddenly fell to his knees and cried, shouting all kinds of names in his mouth.

When he cried, more than a dozen other people also collapsed to the ground, crying together.

Qin Chuan's brows furrowed tightly.

After they cried for a while, Qin Chuan walked up to a slightly conscious man, squatted down, and asked slowly, "Are all the people in Leping City dead?" ”

The man raised his head, glanced at Qin Chuan, and hurriedly retracted his gaze, nodding with a crying voice: "It's all dead, it's all dead." ”

"How did you die?"

"Many were killed by the rogues, many others were taken away, and the rest were ...... Most of them are ...... They all starved to death......"

"Starved to death? Pingding City is less than sixty miles away from Leping, and after the Liukou is gone, doesn't the government there go to help the people? ”

"The government went and set up a porridge shed in the city, but after only a few days of porridge, there was no food to eat."

"Don't the big gentry in Pingding Prefecture take food out for disaster relief?"

"No, I haven't heard of anyone giving them food."

Hearing this, Qin Chuan's face sank completely.

Two or three thousand people, most of them starved to death, but dozens of miles away, the Pingding City officials and gentry did not save them......

At this time, the men sent to Pingding City to ask for food came back, and shouted angrily from afar: "My lord, the dog official of Pingding City said that there is no food in the city, so he can only give us eighty stone of food." ”

"Eighty stones?"

Qin Chuan's face turned cold, and then he asked the people just now, "Are there many big families in Pingding City?" There are also many large households in the surrounding villages and villages, how many are there? Is there a lot of food? ”

The man thought for a while: "Many, Pingdingzhou is the main transportation route between Hebei and Shuntianfu, there are several well-known gentlemen who do business and business, and there are also a few families with thousands of acres of land at home, as well as several families in the surrounding villages. ”

"That's good."

Qin Chuan nodded, stood up, and said, "Send them down to rest, and when they have lunch, give them an extra bowl of porridge." ”

"Send a few more people to Pingding City to spread the word, saying that I want 2,000 stone of grain, 2,000 stone of beans, and 200 carts of forage, and after two hours, I don't see enough grain and bean feed......"

"Let's go in and grab it!"

"Yes!"

"Go and inform Liu Youzhu and Li Dingliang that all the old camps of the rogue have been cut down, except for Zhang Fatzi, there will be no other old camps left, so as not to waste our food."

"Inform the brothers, after eating, hurry up and rest for a while, and fight to pacify Dingcheng in the afternoon."

"Yes!"