On the bank of the Xiaoqing River, Li Qi, who was covered in blood, strode up to one of the captives kneeling by the river, and the man was kneeling on his knees, trembling.

Li Qi stopped, looked down at the man, and after a moment looked sideways at Liu Ge, he didn't ask, but Liu Ge immediately said: "When he captured this person, he kept shouting, saying that he was the son of Lao Shuize, the great leader of the White Mountain Thieves, named Lao Yi. ”

Li Qi nodded, and looked at Lao Yi again.

Lao Yi knelt there, his voice trembled, and he said tremblingly: "This matter was a misunderstanding from the beginning, and if you want to blame this matter, you have to blame Na Luo Geng......"

Li Qi stretched out his hand.

Liu Ge pulled out the knife and handed it over, Li Qi took the knife and walked behind Lao Yi, holding the standard horizontal knife with both hands, the long knife swept, the edge passed, and the head fell.

Li Qi returned the knife to Liu Ge and glanced at the corpse: "I didn't let you explain." ”

He looked up, and the entire river bank was full of prisoners of the White Mountain Army kneeling there, densely packed, as if he couldn't see the edge at a glance.

Tang Pidi walked over, first looked at Li Qi's face, and then asked softly: "There are more than 10,000 prisoners, how to deal with them?" ”

Li Qi replied flatly: "I said it before the fight." ”

Tang Pidi nodded, turned around and shouted, "Kill!" ”

The wolf-like soldiers of the Ning army drew their knives and slashed one by one, and some of the people kneeling on the ground were so frightened that they got up and jumped into the river, and were swept away by the turbulent water.

The entire east bank of the river seemed to have become a Shura hell in an instant, and the heads of the people were cut off one by one, and the blood gathered into a small stream and flowed into the river, and the Xiaoqing River was no longer clear.

"Take all the heads with you!"

Li Qi shouted loudly: "From now on, military merits will be judged by head, and if you are afraid of forgetting, you will tie the severed head to your belt!" ”

The soldiers of the Ning Army, who were all dressed in blood, answered neatly.

"Whew!"

The soldiers picked up the heads, tied their hair around their belts, and each had several heads hanging from them.

"After this battle, the enemy's head did not frighten the soldiers, they only took the enemy's head as their own merit."

Li Qi raised his hand to wipe the blood on his face, turned around and walked towards the war horse, and said loudly as he walked: "Dispose of the corpse, take the head and follow me back to the cottage!" ”

The soldiers of the Ning army disposed of the corpses on the spot, buried them, and pushed them into the river, and there were blood stains everywhere, and the smell of blood was in the air.

There were so many corpses in the river that they were silting up there, and I don't know how long it would take for the river to wash all the corpses out of sight.

The team regrouped, and the soldiers of the Ning Army with their heads had a bit more fierce aura on them, and everyone looked like bloodthirsty devils.

The team pulled out and headed towards the cottage that had already burned down.

Di Chun, the general of the Baishan Army, who had fled far away, stood on a high place and watched, and he saw the corpses of more than 40,000 Baishan soldiers killed by thousands of Ning troops all over the field.

The enemy who can think of such tactics is no ordinary person.

He also saw the Ning soldiers chop off the heads of all the captives and hang them on their belts.

This was the first time Di Chun had seen such a scene, and even he had been on the battlefield for a long time was so frightened that his back shivered.

"The soldiers trained by that person are not soldiers, they are a group of tigers and wolves."

Di Chun thought that the White Mountain Army had provoked such an enemy this time, and maybe he would fight with such an enemy on other battlefields in the future, and the chill behind him became heavier and heavier.

It was as if it had fallen into the frozen lake in an instant, and as long as it moved, a sharp ice blade would poke into the flesh.

"General......

A leader of the Pu Dao Battalion said with some fear: "The young master is dead, if someone escapes and tells the big boss, let's ......."

Di Chun breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It was Lao Yi who was looking for death by himself, I persuaded him several times, but he didn't listen...... However, even if we go back and tell the big boss truthfully, he will definitely not believe me, you are all my soldiers, and if he wants to kill me, he will kill you together......"

Speaking of this, Di Chun paused for a moment, as if he had made a lot of determination, and said loudly: "Let's just not go to the big boss, you follow me back to Yanzhou, go back to our own home, in a place we are familiar with, there are knives, guns and brothers, let's do something ourselves!" ”

Actually, he carried it before

When the Park Dao battalion withdrew from the battlefield, it had already considered this.

If he had fought to the death with the Pu Dao camp at that time, he didn't think that Li Qi could win so smoothly, but he didn't want to.

The one who took advantage of him and wanted to kick him away made him disgusted and resentful.

If the Baishan Army didn't have him at the beginning, how could it have its current strength, and when the team developed, Lao Shuize wanted to get rid of him, but he was still a little reluctant.

robbed half of the soldiers of the Pak Dao battalion that he had carefully trained, and turned him from a general commanding the whole army into a servant.

This kind of resentment, how can Di Chun, who finally seized the opportunity, not vent it?

He deliberately killed Lao Yi by the hand of Yanshan Ying, and the resentment in his heart was released.

"Come back to Yanzhou with me, let's kill a piece of the world by ourselves!"

Di Chun roared.

The 5,000 soldiers of the Pudao Battalion responded and shouted one after another.

Yanshan Camp.

Li Qi returned here with the team, devastated and devastated.

There were corpses everywhere, many more had been charred, the camps had been burned, and the grain and grass warehouses had been burned down.

The place that Yu Chaozong has worked hard to operate for many years is completely destroyed this time, even if everyone wants to re-establish Yanshan, how easy is it to talk about?

There is no grain and grass, and now that there is a shortage of crops, how to solve the team's rations has become the most urgent matter.

"Pile the heads on them!"

Li Qi gave an order.

The soldiers of the Ning army piled up the heads of the enemies they had brought back in the open space of the cottage, and soon piled up a hill.

Li Qi walked to the earthen tomb, there was a wooden board in front of the tomb, on which were written the words "Tomb of the Heavenly King Yu Chaozong", which was erected by the people of the Baishan Army.

Li Qi knelt in front of the grave and kowtowed heavily.

All the soldiers of the Ning Army knelt down on one knee and clenched their fists towards the tomb.

"Big Brother ......"

Li Qi knelt there and said in a low tone, "Now I know that you are right...... There are wolves everywhere in this world, and as you said, if you don't provoke those wolves, those wolves will think about how to swallow you. ”

"It is impossible for people to get along with evil wolves, people think that as long as they take a step back, they can be safe, but evil wolves only want to eat human flesh and blood."

"I used to think that it was not possible to accomplish the goal only by killing, but now it seems that if you don't kill, the wolf will not be afraid, but the wolf is still a wolf if you are afraid, and killing it all is the best way."

He said this and prostrated again.

"Big brother, this time I brought back tens of thousands of heads to commemorate you and the brothers who died in battle, but it is not enough...... I will go and bring back the head of Lao Shuize and place it in front of your grave. ”

After saying this, Li Qi got up.

He turned his head to look at Tang Pidi and said, "Tell the brothers, search carefully, first, to bury the bodies of all the brothers who died in battle, and second, to see if you can find some food and supplies." ”

Tang Pi responded, walked up to Li Qi, patted him lightly on the shoulder, he passed by Li Qi, and whispered four words in Li Qi's ear.

"Mourning, trying to be strong."

Li Qi nodded heavily: "I know." ”

Ten days later.

After the Yanzhou army stormed Jizhou for many days, it was never able to break through Jizhou, which made Yanzhou Jiedu incomprehensible to Zhou Shiren.

Most of the defenders in the city were the original Yuzhou army, and these people and Jiedu made Pan Nuo inevitably deviate from virtue.

But why did the defending soldiers still have high morale after so many days of fighting, and they don't seem to be afraid of the city breaking and dying.

There have been more than 20 days of fierce attacks before and after, and Jizhou City is still as solid as a rock, which is very unreasonable.

All Zhou Shiren had to wonder, there were really only tens of thousands of old and weak soldiers in this Jizhou city?

After nearly a month of siege, the grain and grass of the Yanzhou army have also run out of urgency, and it will only last for another three or five days at most.

If he can't take Jizhou again, the heart of the Jizhou army is still there, and the heart of his Yanzhou army is afraid that it will collapse.

Therefore, Zhou Shiren personally went into battle to boost morale, personally beat drums and cheered, and on this day in May, the Yanzhou army once again launched a fierce attack on Jizhou City.

Zhou Shiren didn't want to wait any longer, and he couldn't wait any longer, so this time he spelled it all the same, like a gamble

In the end, I bet on everything.

The Yanzhou army besieged Jizhou on all sides, fought a bloody battle for a whole day, and finally broke through a city gate in Jizhou before dark.

That night, the Yanzhou army continued to attack, but in the middle of the night, the army of Zhou Shiren of the Baishan Army suddenly killed and bit from behind the Yanzhou army.

The Yanzhou army was in chaos suddenly, I don't know how many people were killed that night, how many people fled, and the team of more than 100,000 people broke up overnight.

After dawn, the Baishan army, which had been fighting all night, was still excited, and they defeated the regular army of the imperial court with such a strength, which was an unprecedented victory.

But before they had time to be happy, Luo Geng personally led a large army to pounce on them from behind, and at first pretended to come to send food and grass supplies, but suddenly attacked.

The Youzhou army blocked the iron cavalry with the help of Yunliangcao's convoy, and the Baishan army was still immersed in the joy of defeating the Yanzhou army, and the Youzhou iron cavalry came in battle.

Another day and a night of fighting.

The Youzhou army won a complete victory, and Lao Shuize, the leader of the Baishan army, was stabbed to death by Luo Jingyi, and was trampled into pulp by the chaotic army.

Outside the city of Jizhou, it became a meat grinder, an incomparably huge meat grinder, and hundreds of thousands of people died here in just a few days.

Outside the city there were corpses everywhere, and rivers of blood flowed.

However, at this time, Pan Nuo, the envoy of Jizhou Jiedu, who thought that he had no power to fight back, suddenly led the army out of Jizhou City, and there were still tens of thousands of elite soldiers.

Luo Geng was shocked, knowing that he had been calculated, but it was too late.

This is the clever plan set up by Prince Wu Yang Jiju.

Prince Wu's army came from behind and defeated the Youzhou army with Panno's internal and external attacks, and even Youzhou's invincible heavy armored iron cavalry lost most of it.

Luo Geng vomited blood again, Luo Jing fled with the remnants of the defeated army, and the Youzhou army lost seventy or eighty percent and collapsed.

At that time, in front of the battle, Prince Wu said a few words, and he vomited blood from Luo Geng's horse.

Prince Wu pointed at Luo Geng with a horsewhip and said with a smile: "Luo Zhizi, the news you have learned is just that I sent someone to deliberately spread it, Brother Li in Southern Xinjiang did not raise troops at all, and Yang Xuanji in Shuzhou did not raise troops, I just used a fake news to let you be exposed, and you are still smart, plan everything for this king, and then send yourself to this king." ”

Prince Wu knew that the biggest hidden danger in Jizhou was not any rebel army, but Youzhou Luo Geng.

Only by destroying Luo Geng can Jizhou have a long period of stability, otherwise, Jizhou will be in chaos sooner or later.

He deliberately let people spread the news north of the Nanping River, saying that Yang Xuanji of Shuzhou led an army of 200,000 out of the mountain, and Prince Wu had no choice but to lead the army to block it.

There are many people who say it, and Luo Geng believes it.

Then there is no need for Prince Wu to make any more arrangements, Luo Geng will arrange everything properly for him.

Zhou Shiren of the Yanzhou Army led the army to enter Jizhou, which was to catch cicadas for the praying mantis, and Lao Shuize of the Baishan Army thought that he was a yellow finch behind.

However, Luo Geng felt that he was the yellow sparrow, and Zhou Shiren and Lao Shuize were just two praying mantises.

How could Luo Geng know that he was the third praying mantis, and Prince Wu was the real yellow sparrow.

Jizhou city head.

Pan Nuo's face was full of joy, he pointed to the north and said: "Lord Wang, this time get rid of a few major troubles in one go, and pacify the northern border is just around the corner, let's take advantage of the victory to pursue and take Youzhou, and the northern border will really ......."

Before he finished his words, Prince Wu shook his head and said, "I can't go after Luo Geng, nor can I attack Youzhou, the northern border still depends on you......"

Pan Nuo was taken aback and hurriedly asked, "Why?" ”

Prince Wu was silent for a moment, and after exhaling a long breath, he said in an extraordinarily heavy tone: "Because it's all true...... Brother Li has indeed claimed the king, and Yang Xuanji has indeed sent troops. ”

He looked at Panno and said, "I don't have time, this is the limit of what I can postpone sending troops, Your Majesty has already sent people to urge me three times." ”

The old man let out another long breath, his face full of exhaustion.

He looked up at the sky, and after a long time, he said in a low voice, "Your Majesty needs me ......"

Prince Wu looked at the corpses scattered all over the outside of the city, and patted his hand on the battlements, very hard.

"Pan Nuo, guard Jizhou for Your Majesty, I'm leaving now, I've done my best to deal with the affairs of the north, Jiangnan, there are more things waiting for me."