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After Guo Yi gathered dozens of rafts, the main force of the Zhou army that came to meet them was also rowed on a raft under the leadership of Li Jing. After the two armies converged, they marched forward, only to see that the Han River had become a roaring river, and all the trees on both sides of the river bank were washed down, and one of the big trees that was washed away by the flood and only left a bare trunk was embedded in the fork of the tree, and there was a red tasseled helmet of the Tang army, which looked strange.

The floating corpses of the Tang army can also be seen everywhere in the river, most of them are soaked by the flood and their cheeks are swollen, and their condition is unbearable.

Some of the Tang troops, who were more water-oriented, were swimming in the floodwater, and some of them had just reached higher ground. At this moment, these survivors who survived the disaster saw Zhou Jun's brigade rushing over on a raft, and their hearts were suddenly terrified, and their fighting spirit was completely lost. One by one, they knelt down and kowtowed and begged for mercy, expressing their willingness to surrender.

After taking in the captives for more than an hour, the Zhou army slowly arrived at the location of Hanzhong City.

It's just that now the Hanzhong City has long been in ruins, and it will be all broken walls washed by the flood, and there are few people left alive in the city. Originally, the Tang soldiers in the city, as well as the houses, supplies, and even the city gates in the city were all washed away.

Li Jing immediately ordered the troops to be divided into two, one led by him, the remnants of the enemy inside and outside Hanzhong City, and the other led by Lin Mo, to kill the mountain behind Hanzhong City, and pursue the Tang army who might swim to the mountain for refuge.

However, Li Jing's order was an unexpected gain.

Lin Mo was on the side of a high slope on the mountain and found Li Jiancheng, who was soaked and shivering half to death.

Therefore, he immediately ordered Li Jiancheng to be tied up and taken to the new camp together with other captured Tang soldiers.

After the war, after the careful inventory of Sima in the army, the Tang army was drowned and killed more than 60,000 people in this earth-shattering flood, another 50,000 people were captured, and about 40,000 people escaped and disappeared.

The Zhou army, on the other hand, suffered very few casualties. In the first few days of the assault operation, more than 2,000 people were killed and wounded, and the vast majority of officers and men were unharmed, which can be regarded as an unprecedented victory.

Moreover, among these soldiers, a large part were recruits recruited by Li Jing in the land of Bashu. These recruits who have never been on the battlefield, after a real battlefield test, can be regarded as having seen blood, and there is also an iron and blood in their eyes, and they will slowly grow into real warriors.

After rushing out of the canyon area around Hanzhong City, this monstrous flood entered the plain area, and the water gradually slowed down. Several counties downstream have been notified to evacuate early, so there were no casualties in the floods, only houses and fields were washed away.

For those villages and towns that were evacuated, Li Jingjun ordered the local yamen to count the losses suffered by the flood, and then reported them to the finance minister Sun Wujian, asking the imperial court to allocate funds to compensate them twice and rebuild the damaged houses.

"Marshal, it is not easy for the eldest grandson to ask for money, and she is careful about every penny she spends. We've created a great flood, will she allocate the funds? Lin Mo was a little puzzled.

"Yes! Ben Shuai is very clear about Wuji's thoughts, you just need to tell her, if you storm Hanzhong City, how many people will die, so many soldiers' pensions, compared with building thousands of wooden houses, which is more cost-effective! Li Jing is confident.

Nowadays, the pensions of the soldiers of the Zhou army are very high, but the houses of this era can be built with some cheap bricks and wood, which is very cheap. And now it's winter, the fields are all barren, and there is no need to worry about the farmland being flooded, resulting in a bad harvest.

After Lin Mo heard this, he also suddenly realized, so he hurriedly went to do this.

Although some surnames were a little dissatisfied with the fact that their homes they were accustomed to living in were washed away by the flood, they were relieved considering that this was a necessary measure to unify the world and end it as soon as possible since the end of the Sui Dynasty, and that the Great Zhou court had given double compensation.

After Hanzhong was conquered, the local officials in the nearby counties, who were still a little hesitant, saw that the Zhou army was indeed worthy of being the nemesis of the Tang army, and annihilated the 100,000 Tang army led by Li Jiancheng in one fell swoop. They all sent envoys to the camp of the Zhou army, expressing their willingness to accept the takeover of Marshal Li Jing and surrender to the Great Zhou.

While Li Jing sent people to accept these places, he marched towards Lingxiang Wuguan. Along the way, all over the country suddenly looked at the wind and fell. He soon led the Zhou army to the city of Wuguan. As long as you break this level, you can enter the level.

While Li Jing played a triumphant song, the other two armies also won victories.

In Shuofang, north of Guanzhong, the Tang and Zhou armies fought fiercely. Li Yuanji breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the general of the Zhou army who led the troops was Wei Chi Jingde, not Yuming, who he was most afraid of. He said that he wanted to defeat Wei Chi Jingde and avenge the battle of Luoyang. However, after the battle with Yu Chi Jingde outside Shuofang City, he was defeated and shrunk in the city and did not dare to come out.

Wei Chi Jingde challenged outside the city gate several times, but Li Yuanji said that he would not fight.

Although the deputy general suggested that he could launch a siege war and attack Shuo Fang hard, with the current strength of the Zhou army, it should also be able to conquer the city. However, Wei Chi Jingde thought that this would cause heavy casualties and affect the next war to attack Xiaoguan.

After discussing with the generals in the army, Wei Chi Jingde imitated Zhuge Liang's plan back then, and sent someone to send a set of women's clothes to Li Yuanji, with a letter attached, saying that if he still wanted to stay in the city as a turtle with a shrunken head, he would simply put on this set of women's clothes and sing and dance in the city, then the Zhou army would immediately withdraw without hesitation.

Seeing this, Li Yuanji was immediately furious. He could no longer care about the opposition of his generals, and personally led the army out of the city to fight with Wei Chi Jingde, but he was ambushed outside the city and ended up in a situation where the whole army was annihilated. Shuofang City was also taken by the Zhou army.

Originally, the Zhou army had the opportunity to capture Li Yuanji, but Wei Chi Jingde ordered to give up this low-hanging fruit and let Li Yuanji go back to Xiaoguan.

All the generals were puzzled, and hurriedly asked Wei Chi Jingde why he returned to the mountain.

"Is he a tiger? I think it's just a stupid donkey! Wei Chi Jingde smiled slightly: "This person is not skilled, but he is self-righteous. Li Yuan has been defeated repeatedly, but he still wants to use him as a general, just because he is his own son, don't worry about him surrendering! With such an enemy general, we are only afraid that he will fall out of favor and will not be able to lead the troops, so how can we arrest him? ”

"If we really capture him, then when we attack Xiao Pass in the future, we will probably face generals like Qu Tutong or Hou Junji, do you still dare to say that you will win?" Wei Chi Jingde explained at this time.

Only then did the generals suddenly realize, and secretly praised General Wei Chi for his clever calculation.

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In the first battle of Shuofang, Wei Chi Jingde defeated Li Yuanji, annihilated more than 40,000 Tang troops, and successfully occupied Shuofang City. Li Yuanji led the remnants of the army to retreat to Xiaoguan, but it was also dangerous.

At the same time, in the west, the battle between Luo Cheng and Li Shentong also ended and had a result.

The biggest difference between Luo Cheng's Western Army and the other Zhou troops is that most of his troops are cavalry, and the only 10,000 infantry are also mounted infantry equipped with war horses, so they have strong mobility and fast movement.

Less than five days after their departure, they fought from Hetao to Xiliang, and the Tang army led by Li Shentong had just left the pass at this time and was still in Longxi.

Due to the flat terrain in the Xiliang area, there is no strong city. The Tang army was small in number and scattered, so under the attack of the Zhou army's iron cavalry, it surrendered. It only took Luo Cheng five days to lead his army to conquer Xiliang. Subsequently, he waved his army into Longxi and launched a fierce battle with Li Shentong.

Although the terrain in Longxi is somewhat undulating, in general, there are still mostly plains, and there are many grasslands, which are very suitable for cavalry operations.

Li Shentong also knew that the city walls of the counties and counties in Longxi were not only low, but also mostly made of mud, and it was okay to defend against foreign cavalry who grew up on horseback such as Tuguhun, Turkic, and Tubo. It is simply impossible to resist an army of the Central Plains like the Zhou army. As soon as there was a trebuchet, several boulders fell down, and the city wall collapsed immediately. Therefore, he was also ready to engage in a cavalry battle with Luo Cheng, and was ready to rely on the Tang army's familiarity with the terrain in the field to defeat the cavalry of the Zhou army in a battle.

can start a cavalry battle, which is Li Shentong's opponent of Luo Cheng, who started with cavalry? You must know that the previous cavalry of the Luo family was known as the world's first Youzhou cavalry. In addition to being defeated by the Liaodong cavalry, it can win any cavalry unit in the Central Plains.

Moreover, the Zhou army was not unfamiliar with the terrain. As early as when Luo Cheng conquered Xiliang, he recruited a large number of Qiang people from the local area as guides. The geographical situation of Longxi was drawn into a map, and all roads, rivers, and cities were marked.

On the 25th day of the lunar month, Li Shentong and Luo Cheng agreed to conduct a decisive battle between the western armies of the two sides in the wilderness of Jincheng County, and a total of more than 200,000 cavalry were invested.

Luo Cheng set up a crab formation in the war, and he deliberately placed the infantry with weak combat effectiveness and a part of the old and weak cavalry in the middle, and the hoplite cavalry with strong combat effectiveness on the wings. In this way, after the start of the war, the Zhou army began to lose and was forced to retreat.

Li Shentong also thought that he had commanded properly, and the Tang cavalry was stronger than the Zhou cavalry. So he happily ordered a general attack. The main force of the Tang army swarmed out and took the way of breaking through in the center, and it was deeply embedded in the formation of the Zhou army at once.

At this time, Luo Chengfang ordered the heavy cavalry on both flanks to launch a flank attack, killing the flanks of the Tang army to the point that people were overturned, and the queue was a little chaotic.

Just as Li Shentong was about to adjust his shape and change to the two wings to face the battle, the 10,000 ironclad cavalry that Luo Cheng had already ambushed suddenly appeared. And then from the rear of the Don army.

On this plain, there are no traps and ditches and other obstacles, and the impact of the ironclad cavalry is almost unstoppable.

The cavalry of the Tang Army was mainly light cavalry, how could it resist the attack of the ironclad cavalry? Their only way to cope was to spread out their formation, taking advantage of the slow movement of the ironclad cavalry due to their thick armor. and its blind fighting, consuming its troops.

But now they couldn't do that, because both wings were so tightly blocked by the heavy cavalry of the Zhou army that they couldn't spread out at all.

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