Although Jing Ce Nian died, there were still generals Zhuang Wei and Hou Dejing under his command who were in chaos in Yuqiu and Gangtou, and there were still tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in their hands.

In fact, Lin Xiaodao and Zhang Beifeng were ambushed before, in addition to the losses of their respective teams, Zhuang Wei and Hou Dejing, who were fighting against them, also lost some people.

In the final analysis, the strategy formulated by Jing Ce Nian before his death was actually to fight to the end, and the soldiers had no choice but to hold the determination to annihilate the whole army.

It can be said that Jing Ce Nian's intention to consume Chen Ziqian's troops in this battle is very obvious, and it is also very successful.

As Jing Ce Nian's subordinates, Zhuang Wei and Hou Dejing were actually very aware of this intention, and even put forward other opinions when formulating strategies, but Jing Ce Nian did not adopt them.

There is no way, as subordinates, they have no choice but to carry out the order.

But now that Jing Ce Nian is dead, is it still necessary to desperately implement the combat strategy formulated before?

Only they know that.

For these two people, Chen Ziqian is actually quite optimistic, and he can block Lin Xiaodao and Zhang Beifeng, which shows that they both have their own talents.

Yong'an is currently in urgent need of a general, if they can, these two people can fight for one or two.

On the side of Zhou County, Chen Ziqian ordered Luo Taibai to lead the army to Yuqiu, and at the same time contacted Lin Xiaodao, who had regrouped, to formulate a new round of targeting strategies.

Yuqiu is not as good as Zhou County, except for a long corridor that can ambush tens of thousands of soldiers, and the rest of the place is almost an endless plain.

This kind of place is extremely disadvantageous to the defenders, especially when the disparity in strength is so huge, and holding on to it is tantamount to self-destruction.

Hou Dejing is not stupid, there is no backup in Yong'an, how can he defend it?

Moreover, the news of Jing Ce Nian's death has spread widely, and the morale of his subordinates will be hit when they learn the news.

In addition, Luo Taibai's tens of thousands of soldiers and horses came over, and under the siege of both ends, except for abandoning Yuqiu and rushing to Gangtou to join forces with Zhuang Wei, there was only one left to be killed.

In fact, Hou Dejing learned that the general trend had gone, and he did not hesitate to lead the remnants to abandon Yuqiu and go straight to Gangtou.

As soon as he ran here, Lin Xiaodao entered the Yuqiu Promenade by the way, and the momentum was like a bamboo, and he successfully recaptured Yuqiu County without waiting for Luo Taibai's tens of thousands of troops to arrive.

In order to avoid Hou Dejing and Zhuang Wei from converging and attacking Zhang Beifeng's department with all his might, Lin Xiaodao didn't even care about the gate of Yuqiu County, led the soldiers and horses to go into battle lightly, pursued along the way, and finally surrounded Zhang Beifeng left and right, and trapped Zhuang Wei and Hou Dejing in Gangtou County.

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A day later, Luo Taibai led an army of 10,000 to the head of the post to meet Lin Xiaodao, and the three lines of soldiers and horses were combined, and the number of troops was still 18,000, and the battle was unconsciously lost 7,000 soldiers and horses.

In the big tent outside Gangtou City, Luo Taibai and Lin Xiaodao Zhang Beifeng met to further formulate combat strategies.

Zhang Beifeng arched his hand and said: "There are about 10,000 remnants in the city, and our army has set up roadblocks everywhere around, Zhuang Wei and Hou Dejing have no other way out unless they flee into the desert in the rear. ”

"They are now hostages to tens of thousands of people in Gangtou, and they are all the lord's sons and people, and it will inevitably damage the reputation of the lord if they continue to consume." Luo Taibai shook his head and said, "Captain Lin, I heard that you fought with General Zhuang Wei in Hemen, and the lord has the heart to recruit this person, if you are sent to surrender, can you be sure?" ”

"Forget it, Zhuang Wei's temper is ugly and hard, he was knocked off his horse by me at Hemen, and he would rather die than compromise, and now Jing Ce Nian has died at our hands, he is afraid that he hates us to death, how can he be willing to surrender." Lin Xiaodao shook his head and said.

He recognized Zhuang Wei's strength, and his character was impeccable, but it was precisely because of this that it was more difficult to recruit Zhuang Wei.

Luo Taibai nodded, after all, he was a general who came out of Jing Ce Nian, how could it be so easy to surrender.

However, just when this side was at a loss, a guard outside the tent suddenly came in and reported: "General Qiqi, there is a messenger outside the camp who asks to see him, saying that he is under the order of General Hou Dejing, and he has something important to discuss with the general." ”

"Oh!?" Luo Taibai raised her eyebrows, and someone sent a pillow as soon as she dozed off, which was really a coincidence.

Glancing at each other with Lin Xiaodao and Zhang Beifeng, Luo Taibai waved his hand directly: "Bring people in." ”

"Whoa!" The guards were ordered to leave, and not long after, a soldier disguised as an ordinary person entered the tent and presented a letter from Hou Dejing.

Luo Taibai opened the letter and looked at it, a sneer couldn't help but appear on his face, and while handing the letter to Lin Xiaodao, he said to the messenger: "If you can get General Hou's help, the overall situation of the post can be determined, you go back first, and tell General Hou that as long as you take Zhuang Wei, he will have made a great contribution!" ”

"Whoa!" The messenger beamed with joy and took the command.

In the big tent, Luo Taibai, Lin Xiaodao and others looked at each other and smiled.

"This Hou Dejing is really not a thing, he can do anything for self-preservation." Zhang Beifeng said with a disdainful face.

Lin Xiaodao shook his head and said, "This person has been undefeated in more than ten rounds of confrontation with General Fang, and his strength is not bad, but this character is really not good. ”

"It's no wonder that he is to blame, if you want to blame that Zhuang Wei is too strong, he really wants to lead more than 10,000 people to escape into the desert." Luo Taibai smiled bitterly and shook his head, the desert behind the gang, if you go in, you will die a life.

Maybe Hou Dejing is greedy for life and afraid of death, maybe people are thinking about those brothers under him?

Anyway, with Hou Dejing's help, this time it saved a lot of things.

"Could there be any fraud in this?" Zhang Beifeng was a little uneasy, Hou Dejing briefly introduced the situation in the city, and proposed to take Zhuang Wei, and tomorrow he led his subordinates to take the initiative to surrender the city.

Luo Taibai shook his head and said: "Anyway, we don't have any losses, Hou Dejing led the team to surrender afterwards, just disperse those remnants to other departments, and there will be no chaos." ”

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It was night, the stars were in the sky, and the moon was shining on the ground.

On the upper floor of Gangtou City, Zhuang Wei looked at the enemy camp at the end of the plain in front of him, and his face looked a little gloomy.

The battle was like this, in fact, he guessed it when Jing Ce Nian gave up treatment.

It's just out of trust in Jing Ce Nian, and he always thought in his heart that Jing Ce Nian would leave a way for the brothers to live, but he didn't expect that Jing Ce Nian never gave him any withdrawal order until he died.

To be honest, Zhuang Wei did have a little resentment about this, but he was the commander of the army, and if there was no new military order for him, he would have to continue to complete the previous plan, even if it was to the last soldier.

I wanted to take the remaining more than 3,000 horses and horses and continue to kill in the direction of Pingshou, but I was stopped by Hou Dejing, who had been defeated.

Hou Dejing is right, there is no point in continuing this battle.

The task of their trip is to suppress Zeng Yuanqi, kill chickens and make an example of monkeys, so that the other county guards can keep to themselves, instead of fighting Chen Ziqian here.

Even if he didn't think about himself, he should have considered the brothers under him, and his morale was gone, so it was indeed not appropriate to fight again.

"General!" Just as Zhuang Wei was in a trance, a soldier suddenly ran over in embarrassment and said: "Oh no, General, General Hou, he, he has rebelled!" ”

"What!?" Zhuang Wei frowned slightly, and said with a puzzled expression: "Good and dignified, why is General Hou like this?" ”

"My subordinates don't know, we were on the orders of the general and were preparing the supplies needed for tomorrow, but who knew that General Hou suddenly brought people over, and without saying a word, he detained all the brothers and put them in prison."

"Hou Dejing!" Zhuang Wei's face suddenly gloomy when he heard this, it was his intention to abandon the city and run away from the desert, although Hou Dejing did not explicitly oppose it, but he didn't seem to be very supportive, and now he suddenly made trouble, he must have made enough preparations: "Go, bring someone to follow me over to have a look." ”

"No, General, General Hou already has a different heart, aren't you a sheep in the mouth of a tiger now?" The soldier knelt down and said.

Zhuang Wei snorted disdainfully: "He still dares to kill me?" ”

"General Zhuang is too worried." Not far away, Hou Dejing hurried over with a team of people, looked at the isolated Zhuang Wei and said with a wry smile: "The situation is compelling, Hou is also forced to be helpless, General Zhuang, offended." ”

"Hou Dejing, what are you going to do!?" Zhuang Wei had a dark face, and before he could resist, he was held up: "There are enemy troops outside, and you are still provoking internal strife at this time, aren't you afraid of ......?"

Speaking of this, Zhuang Wei reacted immediately: "You have surrendered to the enemy army?" ”

"Hou is also thinking about the brothers, going into the desert to die nine lives, with the unknown nature of his death, it is better to take the brothers to surrender on their own initiative." Hou Dejing shook his head and said, "It's better to die than to live, General Zhuang, come down!" ”