Zhou Hui was slapped flat on the snow by Li Dang's slashing saber, and before he could get up, several swords pointed at him. The decisive battle of the cavalry is always so fast and cruel, but after a cup of tea, the five thousand cavalry of Pinglu were scattered, and they had already collapsed at this moment.

Zhou Hui closed his eyes.

When he saw Li Ze's pro-Wei Yicong appear in front of him, he already knew that defeat was inevitable.

Although everyone is a cavalry, there is still a big difference between cavalry and cavalry.

The difference between the Pinglu cavalry and Li Ze's pro-defense is not only the difference in equipment, but also the difference in combat effectiveness and combat will.

When the battle between the two armies reached a certain scale, the difference in numbers did not have much impact on the outcome of the war, otherwise there would not have been so many typical examples of winning more with less in history, and in the most disparity of battles, one side defeated the other side with nearly 100,000 men with less than 1,000 cavalry.

Because there is always only a small part of the people who come into contact with the battle.

Just like the war between Li Ze and Lu Long and Zhang Zhongwu, both sides made it clear that this was a big battle of life and death, but none of the soldiers and horses mobilized by both sides on various battlefields exceeded the number of 50,000. Because this amount is the limit of what their logistics can support now, and the duration of the operation must not exceed three months. Otherwise, if you don't have to fight anymore, you will collapse.

Fighting is never just about the soldiers on both sides facing each other, and sometimes, it is even the seemingly unimportant auxiliaries and civilians in the rear who determine the direction of the war.

Zhou Hui was escorted to Li Ze.

Seeing this Pinglu general with a pale face and a trembling body, Li Ze felt a wave of disdain in his heart.

"What's your name?"

"Zhou Hui!"

"Oh, it's you, the commander of the military horse in front of the palace, and the high-ranking official of the fourth grade!" Li Ze looked at the other party jokingly: "Are you afraid of death?" ”

"Afraid of death!" Zhou Hui replied very calmly, which made Li Yu, Li Kang, and some other guards beside Li Ze laugh happily.

"Since you're afraid of death, and now you're being captured alive by me, do you think you're willing to surrender to me?" Li Ze said jokingly: "But when you come to my side, I'm afraid that you won't be able to be the commander of the military horses in front of the palace." ”

"No surrender!" Zhou Hui's answer made the laughter around him stop abruptly. Everyone was a little surprised by the adversary's answer.

"If you are afraid of death, why are you unwilling to surrender?" Li Ze was also surprised and asked curiously.

Zhou Hui hung his head, and he could see that his heart was indeed afraid, "There is no way to surrender, because I got very little after surrendering, but I paid a lot, so it is better to die." ”

Hearing Zhou Hui's answer, Li Ze fell silent all of a sudden, looking at the other party's eyes was a little complicated, Li Yu was also thoughtful, tilting his head to think about something, but Li Dang looked at the other party with disdain.

After a while, Li Ze nodded, didn't say anything more, just said: "Those fugitives don't have to chase them, clean up the battlefield, take General Zhou, and we'll go to Shanghe." ”

Shanghe County, the battle situation has fallen into the most intense stage, Li Hao from the beginning did not think about what to climb the wall ant to fight, this season, dripping into ice, the city wall was splashed with water by Tian Chong and others, the bright sparkling is all ice ballast, the ladder ant is attached to the battle, can only waste people's lives, anyway, he is not worried about the problem of time, so just let the five giant trebuchets a strong point of the bombardment, light half a day, the outside of the rammed city wall is wrapped with green bricks, and finally can't parry, in the loud noise, Most of them fell.

The city wall, which was originally more than three zhang high, fell halfway, revealing a large gap of more than 100 steps, and at this time, Li Hao was no longer polite, and the armor soldiers rushed up and began to attack along this gap.

With the city wall to follow, the villagers can achieve a good replacement ratio with the armor, but if the two sides face each other in hand-to-hand combat, it is not on the same level.

The people who can wear the armor of these villagers are the cronies and descendants of these heroes, and the number is not a handful, and the rest of them have a piece of leather armor that is good, and more is just a big cotton jacket on their bodies. When you look at it with a knife and stir up a spark on other people's armor, and when someone slashes it down but it is a blood spark, no one has much interest in such a battle.

It takes courage to fight, but you can't die in vain.

So when Li Ze arrived in Shanghe County, the battle had changed from siege warfare to street fighting. I have to say that Tian Chong and the others' will to resist is still extremely strong, and until this time, deep down in their hearts, they were still expecting the cavalry from Pinglu to give Li Hao a fatal blow.

When Li Ze ordered Zhou Hui's general flag to be hung above the city, this already somewhat senseless battle was immediately declared to have come to an end.

A large number of villagers surrendered.

Tian Chong and others, who were unable to surrender, were finally captured alive by Li Hao and others.

After Li Zeduan sat down on the big case, Zhou Hui was also placed on a stool to sit next to him, and watched with a pale face as Tian Chong and other rebel leaders were escorted over and pressed down on the snow, one by one to correct the law on the spot, and the bloody and bloody heads were packed into wooden boxes one by one and placed in front of Zhou Hui.

"Whether or not all the captives sent to Texas to work as coolies will be pardoned depends on their performance." Li Ze waved his hand. "These rebel leaders have been sentenced, their families have been sent to Zhuo County, and their family property has been confiscated."

Listening to Li Ze's cold and emotionless words, Zhou Hui's heart was also cold, the so-called sending to the front of the army to serve was basically equivalent to announcing the death penalty of these people.

And Li Ze set the tone for the verdict of these people in Shanghe County, and the fate of those who participated in this rebellion in the entire Dizhou should basically be based on this standard.

After dealing with these rebels lightly, Li Ze turned his head, but a smile appeared on his face again: "General Zhou, I admire you very much. ”

"The general of the defeated army, please don't laugh." Zhou Hui said dejectedly. "If the marshal wants to kill me, kill me quickly, there is no need to kill chickens and monkeys."

Li Ze laughed: "General Zhou is really temperamental, not pretentious, I didn't want to kill you, but, these heads, you take them back to Hou Dashuai for me, and tell him, but one can not be three, next time he fights my idea, then don't blame me for raising the army to talk to him." ”

"Let me go back" Zhou Hui was stunned and raised his head to look at Li Ze.

"Well, let you go back!" Li Ze smiled and said: "As I said earlier, I appreciate a person with a true temperament like you, maybe in the future, we will still have the opportunity to cooperate, right?" ”

Zhou Hui was stunned for a moment, stood up, and arched his hand: "Then Zhou Hui will thank the Jieshuai for his grace of not killing, but if they meet again on the battlefield in the future, Zhou will still meet the Jieshuai sword soldiers." ”

"That's nature." Li Ze said disapprerovingly: "To say that General Zhou is not strange, I still like to meet your sword soldiers." ”

Zhou Hui's face suddenly turned red, and he seemed to want to have a seizure, but he couldn't have a seizure, and he really struggled.

"There is one thing, I want to ask General Zhou, Hou Dashuai, what kind of ambitious leopard dare to come and provoke me?" Li Ze asked: "General Zhou is his confidant general, so he must know something, right?" ”

Zhou Hui hesitated for a moment and said, "Our festival marshal has formed an alliance with Xuanwu Zhu Wen. ”

Li Ze nodded: "I see." "Xuanwu and Pinglu are not bordered, but Zhu Wen can take a leg with Hou Xiyi, naturally because Zhu Wen has solved the problem, compared to Zhang Zhongwu, this guy who is silent, but has developed a huge force, is his real enemy.

It's a pity that now he is really lacking in skills, so he can only sit back and watch his power grow step by step.

"Aren't Zhu Wen and Tian Chengsi connected?" Li Ze suddenly asked.

Zhou Hui shook his head: "No, the contradictions between the two sides are extremely deep, and there are quite a lot of disputes in the spheres of influence of the two sides. ”

"That's it." Li Ze breathed a sigh of relief, if Zhu Wen and Tian Chengsi also got together, it would be a big trouble, but according to the temperament of these two people, they can't get together if they want to, and no one is willing to be a deputy second.

"Let's go!" Li Ze waved his hand, "I also released fifty of your captured men, the commander of the palace, it's not like a lonely person to go back, if you run fast, maybe you can still pack up some people halfway." ”

Zhou Hui didn't dare to say anything more and hurried away.

"Such a guy, it's enough to kill him with a knife, Childe, what are you doing with his life?" Li Dare said unhappily.

"I said, this man is really temperamental, he is very afraid, but he insists on not surrendering, what does it mean? He is not really loyal to Hou Xiyi, but this person has a strong sense of responsibility to his family and family, if he surrenders to me, I am afraid that Hou Xiyi will have to clean up his people. Li Ze said with a smile: "This person's weaknesses are grasped a lot, and his partial ability is still good, after he goes back, Hou Xiyi will probably have to use him, so ah, this person doesn't need it now, maybe he will be able to use it in the future." It's a pity to kill with a knife. ”

This time the rebellion in Dizhou, before and after only three days of effort, it was declared completely suppressed, after this vote, the original Dizhou survivors of the landlords Haoqiang, clan forces, was swept away by Wuwei, Yang Wei after this incident, but also with the old forces of Dizhou completely broken, in this battle, he made a great effort.

Dizhou was also completely in the hands of Wu Wei.

When Li Ze left Dizhou, Lu Guan had already begun to conduct a thorough survey of Dizhou.