At this point in the battle, this two-point encirclement and annihilation battle finally ended with the complete victory of the Tang Army and the complete defeat of the Great Western Army.

In the cheers like spring thunder, the Tang army began to quickly clean up the battlefield, and finally found that including the previous defense of the city, a total of nearly 8,000 enemy troops were destroyed, a total of more than 40,000 surrendered, and countless battlefield captures were countless.

It's just that at this time, although he captured Ai Nengqi, the deputy general of the Great Western Army, he finally let the commander of the Great Western Army, Zhang Kewang, escape with more than 10,000 remaining soldiers and horses, which is a regrettable thing.

Not long after, the deputy general of the Great Western Army, Ai Nengqi, woke up from a coma, and was immediately pushed and shouted by the Tang soldiers, and brought to Monk An, the chief general of the Tang Army.

Monk An, who was sitting on the horse, looked Ai Nengqi, who was covered in blood and was still bubbling blood on his legs and stomach, up and down, and said coldly: "Are you Zhang Xianzhong's third son Ai Nengqi?" ”

Ai Nengqi raised his head with difficulty, opened his blood-soaked eyelids hard, and said, "It's a certain family!" Monk An, are you going to kill me? ”

Monk An was stunned when he heard this, but immediately shook his head and said, "No, I won't kill you." ”

"Humph! Don't come to a fake set, we will wait for the generals of the defeated army, and we will deal with it casually, but I hope you can give a certain family a good time, so that I will continue to be humiliated here! Enchi shouted through gritted teeth.

Monk An laughed, turned over and dismounted, walked over quickly, grabbed Ainengqi's scarf, and dragged him from the ground.

"Ainengqi, you don't want to be rampant! Listen, Lao Tzu kills you like a dog, do you think this town will care about anything? Monk An had a hideous face, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he replied with a sneer: "It's just that the King of Tang has an order, saying that if you capture important generals of the Great Western Army, especially the sworn brothers of Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, once captured, you must not kill without permission, and you need to be resettled." This town obeyed the order of the Tang King, so you left your life, you bastard, don't know what to do! ”

"Hmph, do you think that if you don't kill a certain family, I will take your love, and finally like Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, the two spineless guys, I will bow my knees to you and bow to Li Xiao's thief and beg for mercy? Bah! Don't dream, tell you, Lao Tzu is a strong man, he would rather die than surrender to that dog thief Li Xiao! ”

Seeing that after Ai Nengqi was arrested, he was still scolding and scolding like this, with a tough posture of not entering oil and salt, Monk An was very annoyed in his heart, and he wanted to slaughter him with a knife in his hand, but considering Li Xiao's order, he could only swallow this evil breath in his heart.

In the end, Monk An stretched you and didn't talk to him anymore, but waved his hand impatiently, and ordered his corporal to take him down first, and hand it over to the military doctor to treat his leg injury first.

Ai Nengqi scolded loudly and was pushed away by Tang Bing. Subsequently, Monk An led his troops into the city, and Zeng Ying, the lord of Xuzhou, and Wang Xiang, the deputy general, were already ready to go out of the city to meet each other.

Seeing the two of them respectfully going out of the city to greet them, Monk An was very proud, he walked quickly to the two, and shouted loudly: "Two generals, is An too late?" ”

Zeng Ying stepped forward and replied with a grateful face: "General An came at the right time, how can I say that it is too late." I waited until General An led his troops to arrive in time, so that I was able to advance in this extremely critical situation, and I was able to keep the city of Xuzhou and his subordinates and horses, such a great favor, and Rong Zeng will report it in the future. ”

Wang Xiang, the deputy mayor next to him, also hurriedly interjected: "General An came here in time, just in time for the enemy army to attack the city with all its might." At such an opportunity, General An grasped it accurately. It was General An's timely arrival that caught Zhang Kewang off guard, suffered enemies on both sides, and finally the whole army collapsed and returned defeated. For this credit, General An should be the first to take the credit! ”

Being complimented by the two of them, Monk An's face showed a look of pride, he stroked his thick beard like a hedgehog, and replied with a laugh: "Well, if you thank you, you don't need to say anything about it." Now that the enemy army has been destroyed, but there are still more than 10,000 fish that have escaped the net, and they are heading southwest, do you know where they are fleeing? ”

"General Yu'an, in my opinion, they must have fled to Gaozhou City in the southwest." Wang Xiang hurriedly replied: "This Gaozhou City was originally the territory of the Ming army in southern Sichuan, and in the tug-of-war with the Daxi Bandits, it was lost due to insufficient troops and was occupied by the Daxi Bandits, which is a pity. The enemy soldiers fled this time, and Ding Dare expected that they would definitely live in Gaozhou City for the time being, waiting for reinforcements. ”

Monk An nodded, and said loudly: "Hmph, the monk can't run the temple, our army has come from afar, and just experienced this battle, the whole army is very tired, and recuperated in Xuzhou City for two days, and then rushed to Gaozhou, to destroy Zhang Kewang's house." ”

The three of them talked again, and Monk An's entire army had entered the city to rest. Next, Zeng Ying and others arranged a banquet and feasted on the army, and the whole army was jubilant.

On the occasion of the Tang army's feast, Zhang Kewang led 10,000 remnants of the army and hurriedly fled to the city of Gaozhou, and then closed the city gate tightly, lingering for a long time.

Zhang Kewang was in Gaozhou City, and waited until late at night, but he did not see the return of the Ainengqi Division, and in his heart, he had already thought that the fate of the Ainengqi Department must be extremely unbearable.

Sure enough, in the middle of the night, there were about 100 remnants of the Ainengqi tribe, and they fled back to Gaozhou City in embarrassment.

As soon as these people saw Zhang Kewang who came in a hurry, they immediately knelt on the ground and wept continuously.

"What about the third brother, tell me quickly, where is my third brother now?" As soon as Zhang Kewang approached, he immediately asked urgently.

"Yuping Dongwang, the three generals him, he ......"

"What's wrong with him?!"

"He was stabbed in the leg by the cavalry of the Tang Army, and was captured alive, our army was routed, and the rest surrendered. Only I waited for hundreds of people, unwilling to surrender to the Tang army, so I took advantage of the chaos to escape. ”

Hearing the reports of these people, Zhang Kewang's heart finally sank to the bottom.

Well, the worst is finally here. The deputy general, Ainengqi, eventually became a prisoner of the Tang Army and a trophy that the Tang Army could show off. And his troops, who were also the most elite troops on this expedition, were all wiped out by the Tang army and completely defeated.

At this point, the 60,000 elites who went out to fight were only themselves, and these more than 10,000 remnants of soldiers with low morale and broken clothes and armor were defeated.

Damn, it's a big fight!

Under the dark sky, Zhang Kewang looked up to the sky and sighed, looking unwilling and helpless.

I really didn't expect that this battle, which seemed to be determined by the three fingers, would end with a big defeat and a loss on the side, and an important general was broken, and the whole army was almost wiped out. With such an embarrassing result, how should I return to Zhang Xianzhong?

Zhang Kewang was so confused that he paced back and forth on the city wall for a long time, when another important and urgent question came to his mind.

That is, now there are only more than 10,000 remnants of the defeated army left, the equipment is broken, and the morale is low, if the Tang army takes advantage of the situation to attack, can it really rely on this little force to keep this Gaozhou City and several other southern Sichuan counties under the control of the Great Western Kingdom?

In fact, there is no need to ask this question, Zhang Kewang knows that with the low morale and no fighting spirit of the troops in his hands now, he doesn't need to think about it at all if he wants to hold these low-lying and under-defended cities.

Unless, Zhang Xianzhong can immediately send additional reinforcements now, and then make the whole army desperately defend the city, there may still be a glimmer of hope.

It's just that the Tang army estimates that the troops will come to the city soon, and even if they go to Chengdu to ask for help now, they are afraid that it will be too late.

In today's plan, only by personally abandoning these southern Sichuan cities that were obtained in a bloody battle with great difficulty, leading the remnants of the troops, and withdrawing to Chengdu as soon as possible, can it be possible to preserve the strength and plan for the future.

Other than that, there is no other way.

Zhang Kewang hesitated for a long time, thought hard and couldn't do anything, and finally ordered in a deep voice: "The whole army listens to the order, and early tomorrow morning, coerce all the people in the city to withdraw west to Chengdu with our army." The proximity to several county towns controlled by our army also ordered the people to evacuate as soon as possible with our army. If there is a disobedient, they will be killed! ”

"Order!"

Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Zhang Kewang took a group of remnants of the army, coerced the people of the whole city, and retreated westward.

When leaving Gaozhou City, Zhang Kewang ordered the whole army to set fire, burning the entire city to a fine light.

Two days later, when Monk An led the army to the city of Gaozhou, he could only see the entire city, which had been burned to ruins. In the midst of that city, there was still an emberking fire that had not been extinguished, and it was burning with a crackling sound.

When Monk An saw such a tragic situation, he couldn't help but sigh inexplicably in his heart.

The two armies fought each other, and the most painful ones were the ordinary people who were struggling to survive in the war.

Subsequently, Monk An sent a small number of auxiliary troops to symbolically occupy these ruined prefectures and counties, and then returned to Xuzhou City with his troops.

After Monk An returned to Xuzhou City, the next order of Tang King Li Xiao also arrived at the same time.

Li Xiao ordered that after the enemy soldiers were defeated, Monk An left the equipment of the entire army in the second town to Zeng Ying's tenth town, so as to promote the redressing and rectification of all the soldiers and horses in the tenth town.

Then, Li Xiao wanted to let Monk An's second town soldiers and horses, escort the captives of more than 40,000 people, and return to Chongqing from Xuzhou. After the whole army returned to Chongqing, the whole army was immediately equipped with the latest equipment of the Tang Army and made full preparations for the next battle.

This next battle was to take advantage of the fact that Zhang Xianzhong had just been defeated and was unable to look eastward, so that the soldiers and horses of the second town of the Tang army of Monk An would actively prepare to send troops from eastern Sichuan to western Hubei and attack the Zuo Liangyu Department of the Ming army with all their might.

The troops used to fight against Zuo Liangyu's department, in addition to the second town of Monk An, which had just joined, also included the Huang Degong Department of the Ninth Town of the Tang Army, which was originally besieging Jiujiang, and the Liu Guoneng Department of the Sixth Town of the Tang Army, which was stationed in Anqing Mansion.

The soldiers and horses of these three towns fighting against Zuo Liangyu totaled about 150,000 or 60,000 troops, and they had to attack Zuo Liangyu's troops from the east, west, and south together.

And in order to ensure that the soldiers and horses of the three towns could not be distracted and could attack Zuo Liangyu with all their might, Li Xiao also made careful arrangements on the periphery of the entire grand battlefield.

Like the Tang Army's seventh town soldiers and horses Cao Bianjiao, the main force is stationed in Xianxia Pass on the border between Zhejiang and Fujian, and the eighth town soldiers and horses Liu Zehan is stationed in Ganzhou in the southwest.

Li Xiao's intention is very clear, that is, when Jiangnan has been decided, and Zhang Xianzhong has just been defeated, he will seize the opportunity to completely defeat Zuo Liangyu, an important pillar of the Hongguang regime, when Jiangnan has already been decided and Zhang Xianzhong has just been defeated, so as to calmly deal with the possible joint attack of the four countries in the future.

In this battle plan, Li Xiao planned to let the troops and horses of the Tang Army's second Zhen'an monk send troops from eastern Sichuan, launch an attack first, directly take the western Hubei area where Zuo Liangyu's defense was the weakest, and take Shizhouwei, Shanyang Mansion, Jingzhou Mansion and other places as soon as possible, forcing Zuo Liangyu to divide troops from the east to rescue, so as to create a good opportunity for the soldiers and horses of the two towns in the east to attack.

As long as Zuo Liangyu began to transfer troops to the west, the soldiers and horses of Huang Degong's Ninth Town immediately began to attack the important town of Jiujiang with all their might, seize the southern gateway to Huguang, and then lead the troops to the north to attack and take Wuchang, its old nest.

At the same time, the soldiers and horses of the Tang Army's Sixth Town bypassed the Macheng and Susong defense lines heavily defended by Zuo Liangyu, and directly took the weakly defended southern Henan area. Strive to occupy the entire southern part of Henan, so as to completely cut off the connection between Zuo Liangyu and the northern part of Henan occupied by Li Zicheng of the Great Shun State, so that they cannot respond to each other's rescue.

Li Xiao was convinced that if the soldiers and horses of these three towns acted separately and attacked from three sides, then Zuo Liangyu's troops would be in a state of disarray, and the entire northern part of Huguang would be in chaos, and it would be difficult for Zuo Liangyu's troops to gain a foothold in northern Huguang under the combined attack of the Tang army.

In this way, Zuo Liangyu is very likely to collapse and surrender under heavy pressure, and if Zuo Liangyu insists on not surrendering and must fight to the end, he has only one way to go.

That is, he can only lead the rest of the troops to retreat south, through the south of Huguang, and then to the west, until the area of Xiangxi, with the high mountains and dense forests, according to which he will defend and temporarily survive, this is the only strategy he can choose.

By this time, Zuo Liangyu's troops had transformed from a big warlord occupying the three provinces into a local bandit force that had nothing to worry about, and had completely lost its threat to the Tang army, and could only survive like dry bones in a grave. Next, how to completely clean him up depends on Li Xiao's mood.

Once this battle plan is achieved, then the Tang Army, which has captured Jiangxi, southern Henan, and the vast part of Huzhou from Zuo Liangyu, will greatly expand its power, occupy more land, have more population, and completely occupy the most elite and potential territory in China.

In this way, Li Xiao's territory, from Shandong to Zhejiang, from eastern Sichuan to Jiangnan, can be connected in one place, completely eliminating the dangers and hidden dangers that the various forces of the Tang Army cannot take care of each other, so that they can better and more calmly deal with the future joint operations of the four countries.

Washing the soldiers, fish, sea clouds, and facing the battle, the moon is shining in the camp.

A new big war is about to start again.

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