There were no twists and turns in the course of the war.

The Southern Army was crossing the water, and the cavalry of the Northern Army began to attack from all sides.

The thunderous sound of horses' hooves suddenly sounded, rolling in from a distance, the earth trembled, and the armored cavalry of the northern army appeared around the southern army.

The strength was superior, Yuan Xingqin also played a "half-crossing attack", the southern army did not have time to form an army formation, and the cavalry of the northern army launched a charge.

The Northern cavalry used armored cavalry as the assault force, and the light armored cavalry followed.

The cavalry occupied an obvious advantage in the face of the hastily formed infantry army, and Yuan Xingqin seemed to be old and treacherous before, but in the choice of combat methods, it was simple and rude, that is, relying on the advantage of cavalry, direct assault.

Before the armored cavalry broke into the temporary formation of the Southern Army, the non-commissioned officers of the Southern Army began to collapse in the face of the charge of the heavy cavalry. Then chaos began to spread, and the officers were no longer able to stop the army from fleeing.

Li Congrong, who had not yet crossed the river, saw the cavalry of the Northern Army appear, and then saw that after those cavalry launched a charge, before the two sides had made contact, the armies under his command collapsed one after another, and he couldn't believe his eyes.

It's just that Li Congrong is worthy of being born as a general, and when he saw the cavalry of the Northern Army and the infantry army under his command fleeing from all sides, he wanted to lead his own army into battle.

Driven by a strong desire to survive, his subordinate Kang Yicheng stopped in front of Li Congrong's horse and begged Li Congrong to abandon the defeated army and flee back to Xiangzhou immediately. Li Congrong was willing to agree, insisting on fighting to the death with the Northern Army. In a hurry, Kang Yicheng said to those pro-soldiers: "We are responsible for protecting the safety of Your Highness, which is related to the future of your future......

When a group of relatives heard this, they tied Li Congrong to the horse, and then under the command of Kang Yicheng, they turned around and ran. Taking advantage of the fact that the cavalry of the Northern Army had not yet closed the siege, these 3,000 cavalry soldiers rushed desperately to kill, and finally broke out of the weak encirclement of the Northern Army and fled all the way to Xiangzhou.

The cavalry of the northern army just chased and drove away the rout of the southern army, shouting in their mouths, "Disarm or kill!" "As long as the Southern Army surrenders, it will not be pursued. The reward for this head is consistent, and the reward for capturing a captive is two, which is half of the income, and everyone can clear it.

Seeing that the northern army did not pursue and kill, the southern army's resistance was even weaker, and in the end it simply surrendered. In just over an hour, a big battle has reached the stage of clearing the battlefield......

Li Congrong fled back to Xiangzhou with more than 2,000 remnants, and Duan Ning, the envoy of Xuanyi Jiedu, heard of his defeat, and directly ordered the army to pull up the drawbridge and close the door. Li Congrong scolded for a while under the city of Xiangzhou, but he was helpless and switched to Liyang. That section of the Ning faction contacted the Northern Army and directly surrendered to the Northern Army.

Yuan Xing Qinwen Duan Ning surrendered to Cheng, and led the army straight to Xiangzhou, Weizhou, and Heyang. Wang Jing and Guo Wei have just led the army to capture Gongcheng, and Yuan Xingqin's army has also won in Weizhou. The two armies then joined forces and occupied Huaizhou and Mengzhou, which were almost undefended.

Li Qi walked from Fukou to Handan, and Yuan Xingqin had already led the army to sweep Heyang, and his own thoughts were all wasted. It's just that I was a little surprised that the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army was so weak.

So far, in addition to Youzhou and Cangzhou north of the Yellow River, only the two cities of Liyang and Lanzhou, which are close to the north bank of the Yellow River, are still in the hands of the Southern Army.

When Li Siyuan, the superintendent, heard that Li Congrong's army was defeated and the land north of the Yellow River was lost, he couldn't help but exclaim: "The erector caused my whole family to die and have no place to bury!" "In a panic, I had a stroke. After Li Siyuan was rescued, his right leg was inconvenient to move, and his thinking was a little sluggish, and people in the Luoyang court were also panicked, and some ministers sighed, only blaming themselves for standing on the wrong team.

Yuan Xingqin and other generals all asked for battle, intending to take advantage of the emptiness of Luoyang, take advantage of the victory to pursue, and capture Luodu in one fell swoop.

However, Li Qi asked all the armies to rest and recuperate, and except for continuing to besiege the two cities of Liyang and Shanzhou, the whole army suspended the attack.

"The territory is expanding too fast!" Li Qi, who had already come to Xiangzhou, stretched out his hand and gestured on the map, and sighed helplessly.

He didn't expect that the Southern Army was so distracted, and it was so unbeatable.

The strength is growing too fast, and it is on the verge of spiraling out of control, and now it is necessary to stop and digest the results of this year. It will take two or three years to gradually digest and control these newly acquired territories. The generals who commanded the army have made more and more contributions, and they also need to change a group of people to command future operations.

From the point of view of maintaining internal unity, the advantages of retaining the "enemy" of the South for the time being outweigh the disadvantages.

Forcibly expanding the situation without being fully straightened out and under control internally will only lead the situation out of control. It's like when Zongzhuang only took eight days to wipe out the Liang Kingdom, it was too easy to win the world, and the ambitions of the generals swelled, which eventually led to chaos in the situation, and finally it was out of control.

You have to eat the rice one bite at a time, and it's easy to spoil yourself if you have too much appetite.

Seeing this, Zhang Yun simply abandoned Hanzhong and followed Li Congke to "reinforce" Luoyang.

Zhang Jingda easily occupied the entire Hanzhong without much effort.

Li Qi stiffly grabbed the reins, causing the galloping chariot in Hedong to stop suddenly.

He needs to wait for the students of Jinyang Academy to grow up, and then pacify the south of the Yellow River.

In the confusion of the generals, Li Qi ordered Lu Wenjin to be the envoy of the Baoyi Festival in Xingzhou, An Xianqi to be the envoy of the Xuanyi Festival in Xiangzhou, and Yang Chengxun to be the envoy of the Heyang Festival, and then announced the victory of the class. Lu Yan was also sent as an envoy to Luoyang, and the river was drawn as a boundary with the south, and the matter of the army was temporarily dismissed.

After a series of victories, he took the initiative to sue for peace with the south, which was the most frustrating place for his generals.

But Li Qi's attitude was very tough, and no one could do anything about it.

The most depressed may be Xia Ruqi, who has the envoy of the Chengde Army on his head, but ordered him to sit in Wei Bo, and Wei Bo Military Town is the direct fief of the Son of Heaven.

Subsequently, Li Qi ordered Li Jiyan to move to Jingzhao Mansion and concurrently served as the Yin of Jingzhao Mansion, but he still held the title of Fengxiang Festival Envoy, and Zhang Jinda's name of Youguo Festival Envoy was not changed, but he became Yin of Xingyuan Mansion. Yao Yanchou led the army to sit in Qinzhou, and the name of the envoy of the Yisheng Festival was not changed.

Now everyone can see it more clearly, the Son of Heaven is planning to make all the festival envoys into false titles, and this is the beginning of the process of canceling the feudal town.

Under the prestige of the successive victories of the Northern Army, even if some Jiedu military towns have opinions, they can only endure it.

In this general trend of the world, those who follow it advocate it, and those who go against it die. Everyone understands the truth, but once it comes to vital interests, it is inevitable that there will be those who take risks.

The problem is that Li Qi has now suddenly stopped his troops and made peace, and the hundreds of thousands of troops gathered in Hedong and Hebei have suddenly become idle, who would dare to be in the limelight now?!