On December 29 of the third year of Dade, the Youzhou Army led by Shen Lindong also arrived in time, and the Youzhou Army had been fighting against Haikou for a long time, and the 6,000 Youzhou Army led by Shen Lindong raised the Qinglong Army to a combat level. In order to make full use of the Youzhou army, Zhang Xiaowu appointed Shen Lindong as the commander of the 25th Regiment, and the army was expanded to 14,000 men, and 8,000 recruits were allocated to him.

Shen Lindong immediately asked himself to be the forward to replace Zhou Cheng, and Zhang Xiaowu laughed: "No hurry, no hurry, tomorrow is Chinese New Year's Eve, and the second year of junior high school will march again." ”

Shen Lindong and other generals also laughed.

The armies of the Qinglong Army celebrated Chinese New Year's Eve while reorganizing, but unfortunately the battlefield was slaughtered, and they could not celebrate it in any case. After how to Daizhou, the people were very sparse, although it could not reach thousands of miles of uninhabited, but there were almost no people in large villages and towns, only some villages hiding in remote places or mountains and forests, and the people were lucky to escape the plunder of Inuyi.

Everyone was suspicious of the purpose of the dog Yi to plunder the population, and they should know that although the population of more than 100,000 people was taken hostage, the Han army would definitely destroy them. On the contrary, Zhang Xiaowu was worried, as a traverser, he naturally studied the history of Wuhu Chaohua, and knew that in history, the Hu people regarded the Central Plains people as two-legged sheep as food, so he was worried that these plundered people would also become the food of the dogs.

On the second day of the first month of the fourth year of Dade, the whole army marched and continued to march to Daizhou City, the capital of Daizhou.

On the sixth day of the first month, the 25th Regiment of the forward unit of the Qinglong Army arrived in Daizhou City, and the Rakshasa people saw that there were few Han soldiers and immediately sent troops to fight. Shen Lindong fought with the Rakshasas for the first time, and was extremely unaccustomed to the tactics of the opposite side, he pretended to be invincible and retreated ten miles in a row, and then personally led the cavalry to counterattack, killing five enemy generals, and the 25th Regiment won a complete victory.

On the seventh day of the first month, the 25th Regiment fought again, but the Rakshasa people closed their doors, and Shen Lindong led troops to attack the city, and was repulsed.

On the tenth day of the first month, the Qinglong Army arrived at the city of Daizhou, the 120,000 troops of the Qinglong Army waved their flags, and nearly 50,000 volunteers from all over the country, a total of 170,000 people surrounded Daizhou City. Zhang Xiaowu immediately sent people to persuade him to surrender, but the Rakshasas killed the messenger and tied hundreds of people to the city wall, warning them that if they dared to attack Daizhou City, they would kill the people and bury them.

Zhang Xiaowu was so furious that he brazenly ordered the siege of the city, and the Rakshasas then killed a thousand people and engaged the besieging Han army. At the same time, Zhang Xiaowu ordered Cao Li to be in charge of digging tunnels, hundreds of military drums rumbled, and tens of thousands of soldiers feinted, just to cover up the sound of tunnels.

On the twelfth day of the first month, the Han army continued to attack the city, and the people in the city suddenly broke out in an uprising, and the two sides should work together to almost break the city, but the Rakshasa people immediately opened the city gate and let the people attack the Han army besieging the city. The people fled for their lives and disrupted the formation of the Han army, resulting in the Han army's reinforcements being unable to rescue, and the army that attacked the city was isolated and helpless, and was immediately wiped out by the Rakshasas.

Zhang Xiaowu looked at the Daizhou City that was almost conquered, and threw the whip angrily, but when he saw the scene of tens of thousands of people crying bitterly, he couldn't help but sigh helplessly, nearly 50,000 people escaped this time, all of them were Daizhou people, how could he not manage it. However, in order to avoid the gap from being mixed in, Zhang Xiaowu handed over these people to Chen Guanxi to manage, and Chen Guanxi really found nearly a hundred dog gaps in front of the people, these people are all Tatars or Beiyi people, because they are all yellow people who are easy to mix, but as long as they speak, they will be exposed.

Zhang Xiaowu sneered and asked people to hang these gaps in front of the battle as a warning.

On the thirteenth day of the first month, the Han army attacked the city again, and the Rakshasa army could not hold out.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Rakshasa people sent envoys to beg for peace under the pretext of the Han Lantern Festival. After thinking about it, Zhang Xiaowu replied: "Allow Inuyi to withdraw to Saibei." Subsequently, he ordered a way out and allowed the Inuyi to leave Daizhou City, and the Rakshasas immediately released another 50,000 people, expressing their willingness to let them go home for the festival.

That night, when the moon was shining on the fifteenth, the Rakshasas suddenly opened the south gate, and 5,000 Tartar cavalry attacked and killed the main camp of the Qinglong Army. However, he fell into a trap halfway and suffered heavy losses, and Zhang Xiaowu often attacked the enemy camp, so he guarded against the enemy's sneak attack day and night. This time, the Rakshasa suffered a big loss, and he immediately ordered the 5,000 dogs to be slaughtered. At the same time, some of the Rakshasas withdrew overnight along the north gate, including Ivanov, the Rakshasa Bear King.

On the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, the Han army attacked the city again, and Inuyi held on for a day.

On the seventeenth day of the first lunar month, the tunnel leading to Daizhou City was finally dug through, and Cao Li personally led a battalion of 500 dead soldiers into the city. Zhang Xiaowu immediately ordered that Zu Gongmao led the army to attack the east side, Shen Lindong led the army to attack the west side, Hu Li led the army to attack the north side, Jin Sheng led the army to attack the south side, and the four armies attacked at the same time.

The defenders of the dog in Daizhou City took some of the Rakshasas as the supervising army, and the rest of the main forces were all servant armies such as the Wuhuan people, the Uzi people, the Beiyi people, and the Tatar people. They beheaded the Rakshasa prison army, hung a white flag and announced their surrender to the Han army, and the city of Daizhou was finally conquered.

Zhang Xiaowu then ordered Shen Lindong and Zu Gongmao to lead 20,000 men each to hunt down the Rakshasa and take over Daizhou City.

After four months of falling, the city of Daizhou finally returned to the hands of the Han army, but the city was full of white bones, and the people who survived were all the walking dead. 400,000 Daizhou people were slaughtered by the dogs, 100,000 escaped, 100,000 starved to death, and they ate nearly 20,000 people as military food.

Seeing this situation, Zhang Xiaowu was furious, he first ordered porridge to be cooked in various parts of the city to save the people, and on the other hand, he ordered all prisoners of war to be killed. The Uhuan, Uzi, Tatars, and other prisoners of war immediately shouted and said that they should abide by the agreement and release us and return to the north.

"Back to the North? Returning to Saibei? Zhang Xiaowu's eyes were red, and he gritted his teeth and said, "You guys are dreaming!" Kill them all, kill them all! Subsequently, 30,000 foreign prisoners of war were buried alive under the city of Daizhou, and the wails and surging grievances attracted spring rain and spring thunder.

Zhang Xiaowu looked at the flat land and said unconsciously: "I heard that human flesh is the best fertilizer, and next year, the grain planted on it will definitely be harvested." ”

"But where are the people?" Wu Song smiled bitterly and asked, "How many people are lucky enough to survive in Daizhou?" It will take at least fifty years to restore Daizhou. ”

Zhang Xiaowu listened to it, and his heart was sad. Ruan Qingwen came to report that the White Tiger Army had captured the Two Wolves Pass, and the Rakshasa Inuyi was trapped and died in the Central Plains, Zhang Xiaowu's mood finally improved, and at this time, someone came with a carriage, saying that it was Zhang Xiaowu's wife.

Zhang Xiaowu wondered, could it be that Emperor Dade was showing favor to himself by releasing his wife? When he walked into the carriage and lifted the curtain, his mouth suddenly opened wide in surprise, and there were two young ladies of the Gu family, Gu Qingxi and Gu Ruoxi, sitting in the car.

Why are they here? Zhang Xiaowu's mind was a little dazed for a while.