A soldier escorted Ma Wencai up, Guo Song glanced at him and said: "You can persuade Ma Wencui to leave prisoners of war is also your meritorious atonement, after the war, you take the people of the Ma family to live in Gaochang County, Beiting!" ”

"Thank you for your magnanimity!"

Guo Song didn't want to be verbose with the people of the Ma family, so he waved his hand and asked the soldiers to take him down, and after a while, a captured Tang Junlang would be brought up, he was Guo Jiang of the Guo family, and he had also competed with Guo Song in the martial arts arena back then.

His face was full of shame, and he knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Thank you for saving your life!" ”

Guo Song's mentality towards the Guo family in Lingzhou has also calmed down, he has nothing to do with the Guo family, so why should he take the gains and losses of the Guo family so seriously, just treat them with a normal heart.

Guo Song smiled: "General Guo, please get up!" ”

Guo Jiang stood up, and Guo Song asked again: "Except for the captured soldiers, have all the Shuofang troops been wiped out?" ”

Guo Jiang hurriedly shook his head, "Of course not, many soldiers have fled to the mountain, and it is estimated that they will come back in two days, and this time Shuo Fang is about half killed." ”

"Half is not a lot!"

Guo Song shook his head, and said to Guo Jiang again: "I'll let an army follow you and go to recruit the soldiers hiding in the mountain!" ”

"Obey the order!"

Guo Song then ordered Zhonglang to leave Xu Dapeng with 5,000 soldiers behind to take care of the Tang prisoners of war and recruit fleeing soldiers.

He himself led 25,000 men to the north.

At two o'clock that night, 30,000 Tang troops arrived ten miles away from Jingjing County, and the soldiers sat in the fields to rest, and after a short time, a group of scouts rushed back.

The commander of the first brigade knelt down on one knee and saluted: "Enlighten the envoy, the situation of the enemy army has been clarified. ”

"Speak!"

"The party troops are all in Jingjing County, there are about seven or eight thousand people, but many soldiers are wounded."

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said to his soldiers: "Go and invite Zhao County!" ”

Not long after, the soldiers took a middle-aged official in his forties to the military tent, the official's name was Zhao Feihong, who was the county commander of Jingjing County, and was invited from Lingwu County by soldiers sent by Guo Song.

Zhao Feihong bowed and saluted, "See the envoy!" ”

Guo Song smiled slightly: "Please sit down under the county order!" ”

Zhao Feihong sat down on the small stool, and Guo Song asked him: "How many people are still in the quiet county now?"

Zhao Feihong shook his head, "It's an empty city, and the people have fled to Lingwu County." ”

"What is the structure of the house?" Guo Song asked again.

"Premises...."

Zhao Feihong thought for a while and said: "On the other side of the Yellow River in Jingjing County is a large forest, rich in timber resources, and most of the middle-aged families in the county are wooden houses, but the people at the bottom are still mainly thatched mud houses. ”

"It doesn't seem to be the same as Lingwu County."

Zhao Feihong laughed, "I don't know, Lingwu County was attacked by Xue Yanren, so all the stone houses were renovated, before that, Lingwu County was also mostly wooden houses, the same as Quiet County, Mingsha County has less wood and more stone houses." ”

"I understand, thank you Zhao County Order!"

.........

At the third watch, 20,000 Tang troops surrounded Jingxian County, and a hundred whirlwind artillery guns launched incendiary balls into the city, and the Tang soldiers fired 10,000 arrows in unison.

In just a quarter of an hour, the entire county was in flames.

The Tang army immediately changed its strategy and used cyclone cannons to project clay pots filled with fire oil onto the city wall, and the city quickly burned and completely fell into flames.

Quiet County is very small, with a circumference of about ten miles, and when the county seat is engulfed in flames, there is nowhere to escape.

Thick smoke billowed in the city, the flames were monstrous, the soldiers rushed to the wolves, shouting in fear, people were constantly hit by collapsed houses, buried in the sea of fire, the whole city was like falling into hell, countless soldiers instinctively fled to the city gate, there was only one south city gate in Quiet County, this was the only way to survive, but this road was also blocked by death.

5,000 Tang soldiers with crossbows blocked the city gate, arrows like flying locusts, intensively shot at the city gate, groups of party soldiers who tried to escape fell to the ground one after another, the corpses soon piled up, the fire burned bigger and bigger, the city gate also burned, gradually, no more enemy soldiers escaped........

The fire burned until noon the next day, and the quiet county town was burned to a white ground, and more than 7,000 party soldiers were all killed in the fire, including more than 2,000 people killed during the siege of the city and 10,000 enemy troops who were ambushed and annihilated by the Tang army.

Guo Song immediately divided his troops into three routes, respectively rushed to Yinzhou, Yanzhou and Xiazhou, and wiped out all the party members, according to the practice of eliminating the Shatuo and Gelulu people, except for women, children and the elderly, all other men were killed, leaving no trouble.

After many years, Guo Song returned to Lingwu County again, compared with the warm welcome received when Liang Wu led the army into the city a few days ago, Guo Song entered the city a lot more low-key, he did not inform anyone, and entered Lingwu County with more than 100 personal soldiers.

The soldiers guarding the city gate were Liang Wu's subordinates, and when they saw that the Tang army generals who came in turned out to be the commander, they were so frightened that they knelt down on one knee and saluted.

"See the envoy!"

Guo Song waved his hand and smiled: "Everyone has worked hard, let's get up!" ”

The captain of the city guard ran down and saluted: "Please make the king wait, and I will go and inform General Liang of my humble position!" ”

"You don't need to mobilize the people, you just need to close the city gates."

"Obey the order!"

Guo Song took his own soldiers into the county seat, the county seat has calmed down, and the news of the Tang Army in Hexi annihilating the party members in Jingjing County has already spread throughout the county, and every household is filled with a festive atmosphere.

"Envoy, look over there!"

One of the soldiers pointed to a small shrine dedicated to the god of the land on the side of the road and laughed in a low voice: "The name on it! ”

Guo Song also saw that the sign of the land god on the small shrine was gone, and it was replaced by his own name, 'Guo Song, King of Zhangye County', and dozens of old people were kowtowing and worshipping.

Guo Song was embarrassed for a while, is this the legendary ancestral hall?

Guo Song hurriedly whispered: "Let's go quickly!" ”

Taking advantage of the fact that the old men did not see him, he hurriedly urged his horse to speed up and leave the shrine.

Not long after, Guo Song came to the Jiedu Embassy Mansion, and he unexpectedly found that Cui Kuan's banner on the Jiedu Mansion had disappeared, and was replaced by a white flag of the 'Jiedu Envoy Guo', and there was also a black dragon red flag of the Hexi Army next to it.

Needless to say, this must be Liang Wu's handiwork, this guy who slaps his ass, Guo Song shook his head, turned over and dismounted.

"Welcome to the envoy!"

Liang Yundao came out with more than a dozen officials, and he complained a little: "Why didn't the envoy inform us, we can also go outside the city to greet us." ”

Guo Song smiled and said, "I'm also a little tired, can't you make me a little easier?" ”

"We have no intention of making the king's words heavy!"

"Just kidding!"

Guo Song smiled at everyone again: "Everyone, I haven't seen you for many years. ”

Everyone saluted, "Thank you for saving your life!" ”

"Shut up!"

Liang Yundao was a little annoyed and said, "Can you talk about the grace of saving your life?" There is no sincerity at all. ”

Everyone was ashamed and didn't dare to say anything, Guo Song smiled and walked into the door.

Everyone came to the lobby and sat down, and Guo Song asked, "What about Li Changshi?" How not to see. ”

Liang Yundao sighed and said: "Li Changshi and Cui Kuan went to Gyeongju together, he was relatively obese and slow, and it is estimated that he has already lost his opponent." ”

Guo Song was silent for a moment, and then asked, "Tell me about the inventory situation of the Shuofang Military Mansion!" ”

Liang Yundao gave Cangcao a look at Lu Xiaozhen, Lu Xiaozhen got up and said: "The humble position is Cangcao joining the army Lu Xiaozhen, and I will report to the envoy."

"Lu joins the army, please speak."

"At present, the Shuofang army, including the Fengzhou and Lingzhou governments, has a total of 1.4 million stone of grain, 200,000 guan of money, 100,000 taels of silver, 35,000 taels of gold, 1.2 million jin of pig iron, 400,000 jin of coarse copper, 20,000 sets of various armors, and 300,000 spears......."

Guo Song smiled and waved his hand, "Needless to say so much, I only want to know the situation of money, grain and pig iron now, and I don't need to know anything else for the time being, but how can there be so much pig iron?" ”

"There is a large iron mine in our territory, at the junction of Yanzhou and Xiazhou, pig iron and copper are produced like that, with an annual output of more than 200,000 catties of iron and 70,000 catties of copper, and the inventory is a lot of savings for many years."

"I see, what about the population?"

"I'll tell you about the population!"

Liang Yundao said with a smile: "Now the entire Shuofang Jiedu Mansion has six prefectures under its jurisdiction, with a population of 83,000 households and more than 400,000 people, which does not include the Dangxiang and Qiang people, mainly Han people, distributed in Lingzhou, Fengzhou, Xiazhou and Yinzhou. ”

"How many people are there in Toyoshu?"

"There are 30,000 households in Fengzhou, and like Lingzhou, they are all 150,000 or 60,000 people, and these two states are the majority."

Guo Song nodded, "Early the day after tomorrow, I plan to go to Fengzhou to have a look." ”

After a pause, Guo Song said again: "From now on, I will serve as the envoy of Shuofang Jiedu, Liang Yundao will serve as the long history, and when I am not in Shuofang, he will be fully responsible for all government affairs." ”