On the Guanzhong Basin on the west bank of Jingshui, the sound of horses' hooves galloping wildly is like a war drum resounding between people's hearts.

"What, after dawn, I didn't see the vanguard cavalry of the Pingxia Department out of the Jingshui River Valley?"

It has to be reported that the scouts in the north of Chiyang did not see Li Siqi's vanguard out of the Jingshui River Valley until dawn, and Wang Mao, who was sitting on horseback and staring at the battlefield of Sanghe Bay, was suddenly overcast.

The speed of the large force of cavalry moving south was naturally not as fast as imagined, but the vanguard units such as scouts and sentry had the responsibility of exploring the road and reconnoitring the enemy's situation, and they certainly needed to appear earlier and faster than the main force.

If after dawn, Li Siqi's vanguard cavalry did not have the Jingshui River Valley, then the main force of the Qiang cavalry of the Pingxia Department would not have been able to enter the east bank of Heiniutan for reinforcements within the scheduled time!

What the hell is Li Siqi doing?!

"I'm afraid there's fraud here!"

Wang impeached the reins, stopped his horse, frowned, and said,

"The Liang army on the other side seems to have gathered a large number of soldiers and horses overnight, but the early morning offensive is weak, and it is not the style of Cao Ba's martial barbarians at all! Wang Xiaoxian's subordinates are a group of soft eggs, most of them surrendered without a fight, this way the Liang army came from Tianshui East, and they didn't catch any hard battles, and it was impossible to get tired so quickly......"

"You quickly go and gather two thousand cavalry to pull out, and follow me to reinforce Heiniutan, the speed must be fast." Wang Mao felt that it was going to be bad, and he couldn't wait for Wang to impeach Qi cavalry, so he first urgently led three hundred cavalry, and quickly whipped up his horse to reinforce the east bank of Heiniu Beach, which was forty miles away.

The horsemen around Wang Mao are all good horses in a hundred, but it is already the end of the hour when they arrive at Heiniutan.

From a distance, he saw the east bank of Heiniu Beach, which was only defended by two thousand cavalry, and the improvised defense line had been torn open several times by Liang Cai, and his heart was cold.

The large camp they were stationed behind the defensive line was also rushed in from both flanks by small groups of Liang cavalry at this time.

These Liang cavalry held torches high in broad daylight, bypassing the encirclement and interception of the pursuers, setting fire to the camp tents one after another, and constantly creating greater chaos behind the defensive line.

In addition to the Black Bull Beach, because this section of the riverbed is a whole black rock, as if the black bull is lying underwater, forming a shallow beach more than 200 steps wide, which can be directly used by the cavalry to pass through, in the upstream and downstream directions of the Black Bull Beach, there are dozens of floating rafts built by the Liang army that were logging overnight, and they were carrying the Liang army who abandoned their horses and fought on foot, crossing the river to kill.

Heiniutan is still too narrow, and there are simple fortifications built by the Wude army in the past three or four days in the front, and after the fortifications, hundreds of heavy armored foot soldiers of the Wude army hold heavy shields, crossbows, and spears to defend the defense, and there are light cavalry and armored cavalry of the Wude army on both wings.

It would be very difficult to cross the river directly from such a narrow passage as Heiniutan and gain a foothold on the east bank, and the casualties would be extremely heavy.

Build a simple floating raft and strive to cross the river at multiple points on both flanks of Heiniu Beach, so that it will be easier to bypass the defense line established by the Cheng German army directly opposite Heiniu Beach, give full play to the superiority in troops, and break through to the east bank.

Although the Cheng German army still has a small number of naval warships in the Moyu River, but yesterday night, Wang Mao judged that Sanghe Bay would be the main direction of attack of the Liang army, and the more than 1,000 naval forces of the small scale were all transferred to the mouth of the lower reaches of the Moyu River, but he did not expect that the real breakthrough of the Liang army was chosen in Heiniutan.

In addition to the three or four thousand Liang troops that had already been put into the battlefield, Wang Mao saw that the west bank was overwhelmed, not to mention that there were still four or five thousand Liang troops waiting to cross the river.

It made his eyes go black for a while.

Li Siqi's 3,000 Qiang cavalry had not yet arrived, and at this time, the elite troops of the Liang army gathered in Heiniutan were three or four times as many as theirs, and they were desperately rushing to cross the river at this time, how could this battle be fought?

No matter how difficult it was, Wang Mao also knew that he had no room to give up easily.

This side was defeated, and the Liang army directly adhered to the edge of the Beishan and marched eastward, sealing the south entrance of the Jingshui River Valley, and the Wu German army, together with the Wang family, the generals' family of 40,000 or 50,000 horses, will be trapped between Jingshui, Moyu River, and Weishui, and become a turtle in an urn, and none of them can escape.

"Sons, follow me!"

Although Wang Mao has stopped charging in the past few years, he knows that his two younger brothers are not fuel-efficient lamps, even if he is the son of the world, he does not dare to indulge in a lascivious life, and forget about military and political affairs.

He brandished his halberd to boost the morale of the soldiers behind him, pulled the reins, and was the first to ride his horse to the battlefield.

The Liang army did not build many simple floating rafts overnight, and the embankment on the east bank of the Moyu River was generally intact, which increased the difficulty of the Liang army to cross the river, which made the number of attacks on the Liang army crossing the river on both wings was extremely limited.

Wang Mao didn't care about the attack on the two wings of the Liang army, and saw that the main river crossing channel of the Liang army was still the shallow water of Heiniu Beach, and thought that as long as they could suppress the main force of the Liang army on the narrow river beach, they could not fight it, and did not let the superior soldiers and horses of the Liang army calmly unfold, and when Wang Qi and others led follow-up reinforcements to arrive, they would not lose this battle.

Even if there is no one around him to pull him, Wang Mao will not directly enter the chaotic battlefield to fight.

After boosting morale, he stopped at the edge of the battlefield surrounded by more than a dozen cavalry, and watched the three hundred elite cavalry rushing with him rush into the battlefield, and sure enough, the arrogance of the Liang army was knocked down by a few points, and the hundreds of Liang troops who had crossed the river were pressed under the remnant embankment, two or three hundred steps deep into the river beach.

However, without waiting for Wang Mao to feel relieved for long, the Liang army sent two additional teams of heavy armored foot soldiers to cross the river on horseback, and then formed a formation on both sides of the river beach, and another team of heavy armored cavalry slowly crossed the river in the middle.

The Liang army rarely used heavy cavalry to charge into battle, but this did not mean that the Liang army could not muster two heavy cavalry when necessary.

After the Liang army completed a new round of pre-war formation, more than 1,000 men and horses, mainly heavily armored foot soldiers, heavy armored cavalry, and light armored crossbow cavalry, attacked from the narrow river beach to the fortifications built next to the river embankment but had been destroyed.

These Liang soldiers gathered around with all kinds of blades and weapons, and shouted something loudly.

The battlefield was too noisy, and Wang Mao was relatively far away, so he couldn't hear what Liang Jun was calling.

"These Liang generals shouted that Li Yuanshou and Li Siqi had surrendered to Daliang, not only would they not rush over to reinforce them, but they had also captured Yongshou County and blocked our passage to the north."

The deputy general of the defenders on the east bank of Heiniu Beach rushed over to return to the Liang army, shouting something.

"! Li Yuanshou and Li Siqi will never surrender to the Liang army! Wang Mao shouted angrily.

Although he was also quite flustered at this time, he was the first not to believe that Li Yuanshou and Li Siqi had surrendered to the Liang army.

If that were the case, the Liang army would not be so fierce at Heiniutan, and Li Siqi could take advantage of their unpreparedness to attack and kill them by surprise and kill them by surprise.

I don't know what happened, maybe it is more likely that Li Siqi was timid, but he never believed that Li Yuanshou and Li Siqi had surrendered to the Liang army.

"The generals below are more concerned about where Li Siqi's reinforcements are and when they will arrive?" Extravagant asked.

They may not believe that Li Yuanshou and Li Siqi have surrendered to the Liang army, but the soldiers below, and even the middle and lower-level military attachés, are more concerned about what reinforcements can come.

Feng Xuan personally rushed to the west bank of Heiniutan last night to sit in the town, and transferred all the elites to come over, and after early morning, he organized people to rush to the beach and cross the river, and the fight was not too fierce.

On the one hand, Feng Xuan needed to destroy the enemy's fortifications on the east bank in a step-by-step manner, otherwise the cavalry would be squeezed by these fortifications and would not be able to carry out.

On the other hand, Feng Xuan was not sure when the Pingxia cavalry would come—Han Bao did not have time to send someone to cross the mountains and mountains west of the hundreds of miles of Jingshui River Valley to inform him that Feng Xuan was worried that when the soldiers and horses extended deep to the east bank, the flanks would be exposed to the front of the Pingxia Qiang cavalry who arrived at any time.

However, after seeing Wang Mao personally rushing from the defense line on the east bank of Sanghe Bay to Heiniutan with hundreds of cavalry, not only was the enemy's improvised fortifications on the east bank almost destroyed, but Feng Xuan was more able to confirm that the Pingxia Qiang cavalry led by Li Siqi was dragged by Han Bao and them in the Jingshui River Valley.

At this moment, Feng Xuan directly sent twice as many troops into the river beach on the opposite bank to strengthen the density and intensity of the attack.

I have to admit that the enemy's will is very tenacious and occupies the advantage of the terrain, but at this time, there are so many attacking soldiers and horses who cross the river from both flanks that they can assemble into cavalry and constantly attack the back of the enemy's defense line from the flanks, and the enemy army will soon be unable to support it.

Without the interception of the enemy, the cavalry was like a war spear in hand, and they fought into the east bank of the Moyu River.

Feng Xuan led a team of cavalry with Lu Ze first, and killed the Jingshui River Valley at the fastest speed.

Even if the Han Leopard Department dragged the Pingxia cavalry in the Jingshui River Valley as scheduled, but the Han Leopard Department ran 300 miles of mountain roads with their feet for three days and four nights, and the condition of the first batch of front generals who rushed to the battlefield was bound to be extremely poor.

In addition to Lu Ze leading a cavalry to the Jingshui River Valley in the northeast direction, Feng Xuan also ordered Li Zhi to lead a horse infantry to follow, but instead of entering the Jingshui River Valley, he chose a place to camp near the north of Chiyang City and the south entrance of the Jingshui River Valley, completely blocking the passage for the German army to flee north.

He personally led the remaining more than 3,000 cavalry to advance downstream along the east bank of the Moyu River, and defeated or forced back the enemy's defensive troops and horses on the east bank of the Moyu River, so that Cao Ba, Hou Mo, and a labor auxiliary army that remained on the west bank could cross the Moyu River smoothly......

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Although the Chengde army had more than 20,000 cavalry north of Weishui and west of Jingshui, nearly half of its cavalry was assembled on the north bank of Weishui opposite Xianyang City, which was used to resist the more than 40,000 elite Liang on the south bank, and organized boats to cross Weishui from the west side of Xianyang City.

Although all the boats and boats in Yongzhou were searched and inspected by Wang Yuankui, and the lower reaches of Weishui and the river channel of Bashui were blocked by sunken ships, Li Zhihe still found some boats in Fengxiang and urgently concentrated them in Xianyang to use them for the main force to cross the river.

Wang Yuankui's ultimate goal is to take his descendants and flee to Qingyuan and other places deep in the Weibei Plateau.

This determined that it was impossible for him to deploy the slow retreat foot soldiers on the north bank of Weishui to delay the speed of the main force of the Liang army on the southern front to cross the river, but he used half of the cavalry as the rear soldiers and horses of the palace and deployed them on the north bank of Weishui.

When the infantry and cavalry west of the Moyu River entered the east bank, Feng Xuan did not risk directly attacking the more than 10,000 enemy cavalry on the other side of Xianyang City.

At this time, there was no even need to open the passage of the north crossing Weishui for the main force of the southern line, Feng Xuan directly led the soldiers and horses to the north, and assembled in Chiyang County at the southern entrance of the Jingshui River Valley, forming a north-south attack with the main force of the southern line, completely calling the German army to escape from the land and the sky.

More than 2,000 defenders of Chiyang abandoned the city and fled to Liquan City as soon as possible, and then more Chengde soldiers and horses flocked to Liquan City.

Feng Xuan was also indifferent to this, he was waiting for the main force of the southern front to cross the Weishui step by step, and then marched to Liquan City together.

Liquan City is extremely strong, but Liquan is on the west bank of Jingshui, surrounded by a flat river.

Wang Yuankui scuttled a large number of boats and boats in the Weishui River, but without the interference of the enemy army, Feng Xuan believed that the naval warships sailed over and dragged the sunken ships away from the main channel with the auxiliary soldiers of the baggage battalions on both sides of the river, and restored the navigation of the main rivers such as Weishui and Jingshui, and it did not take much time.

When the time comes, he will meet with Jing Zhen, Kong Xirong, Li Zhihe and other soldiers and horses outside Liquan City, and wait for Luoyang's newly made heavy weapons to be transported through Weishui and Jinghe in a steady stream, and he will definitely be able to knock on the gate of Liquan City at a much lower price.

Han Bao led his troops to run three hundred miles into the Heifeng Gully in the southeast of Yongshou County, and his feet were bloodied by the combat boots, and then he led the forward soldiers to lead the Pingxia cavalry into the Heifeng Gully to entangle, and when he was carried into Chiyang City for treatment, his feet were already a blur of flesh and blood.

In the follow-up soldiers and horses rushed to the Black Wind Gully for reinforcements, the first batch of more than 300 forwards who entered the Black Wind Valley, 200 were killed, and the rest, including Han Leopard, were all scarred; When Lu Ze led his troops into the Jingshui River Valley, Li Siqi led the Pingxia troops to flee in shock, and more than 500 soldiers and horses of the 2,000 soldiers and horses who raided from Tongguancheng to the west were killed in the Black Wind Valley.

The assault soldiers and horses did not have heavy armor to protect themselves, and they were extremely tired, killing more than 500 people in battle, and leaving more than 200 enemy corpses in the Heifenggou battlefield alone, which was far higher than the enemy army in terms of the proportion of battle losses, but in terms of the entire interception operation, it was the first achievement.

In late April, 80,000 Liang infantry cavalry and the elite of the navy army besieged more than 50,000 Wude soldiers and generals in Liquan City.

Liquan City is solid, but as the county seat under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou, it is only 500 steps deep, and the city wall is only more than 2,000 steps around; It is far from being comparable to Yongzhou City, which is more than 20 miles long.

In such a large city, there are only six or seven hundred households living in the city in normal times.

At this time, Wang Yuankui and Wang Mao packed the soldiers and relatives of the Wang family, nearly 60,000 people from the generals' family, and 30,000 or 40,000 large animals, and the degree of crowding can be imagined.

Liquan City is too small, and even if it can slaughter war horses and other large animals to satisfy hunger, there are no defensive weapons in the city.

After blocking the four city gates, the soldiers and horses besieging the city directly pushed the whirlwind cannon and other heavy weapons to 200 steps in front of the city, and could even bombard any corner of the city without dead ends.

At this time, it is impossible to give Wang Yuankui, Wang Mao and his son any favors.

In addition to the middle and low-level military attaches and ordinary generals below the battalion command level who can be exempted from surrendering, Jing Zhen's personally written surrender letter included Cheng as a senior general of the German army, his ministers, Wang Yuankui, Wang Mao, and his son on the list of war criminals who must be captured or killed.

Jing Zhen even gave a thousand gold rewards to the heads of Wang Yuankui and Wang Mao's father and son.

Under the continuous attack of hundreds of whirlwind cannons and siege crossbows, the defenders suffered casualties every moment, and their morale soon collapsed completely.

On the fourth day, the deputy general of the defenders of the west gate of Liquan, the general of the army, captured the main general Wang Lie, opened the west gate to welcome the besieging soldiers and horses into the city, and the defenders along the road all looked at the wind and surrendered.

Even the generals who were included as war criminals gave up their resistance.

However, Wang Yuankui and Wang Mao, father and son, did not cheapen their heads to others in the end.

They drove dozens of women in the palace to the backyard of the county government and shot them with arrows, then piled up firewood, poured fire oil on it and lit it, and finally threw themselves into the fire and killed themselves.

After Jing Zhen, Kong Xirong, Li Zhihe, Feng Xuan, and Zhu Zhen entered the city, they rushed to the extinguished fire, and the auxiliary soldiers of the Baggage Battalion only cleared out a pile of burnt corpses from the wreckage.

"Separate the generals and guards around Wang Yuankui for interrogation, and confirm that Wang Yuankui, Wang Mao, father and son went into the sea of fire and killed themselves after killing their wives and concubines...... "The generals who were responsible for the post-war rectification of the wolf family came over to report to everyone.

Jing Zhen and Zhu Zhen have a great enmity against Wang Yuankui and Wang Mao's father and son, and they have no regret for the death of Wang Yuankui and Wang Mao's father and son.

Li Zhihe, Kong Xirong, and Feng Xuan just rubbed their hands and sighed.

If Wang Yuankui and Wang Mao's father and son surrender and be captured in the end, at least they don't have to die, but for them, being imprisoned is not much better than dying.

And they once had a choice, it was their greed and unwillingness, burying the last choice, they probably didn't want to survive to be ridiculed for the rest of their lives, right?

Of course, Wang Yuankui, Wang Mao's father and son shot and killed the female relatives in the house before they died, which was also brutal and hateful.

"Such a cruel man, when the corpses of his father and son are pulled to the city, exposed for three days, and then abandoned in the wilderness, the city of Liquan shall also find a stonemason to engrave the inscription of his cruelty, so as to warn future generations; The other bodies were dug up and buried. Jing Zhen and Li Zhihe were inconvenient to say anything directly about the disposal of the corpses of Wang Yuankui and Wang Mao's father and son, Kong Xirong said directly.

Jing Zhen waved his hand and signaled the generals in charge here to follow Kong Xirong's words.

In addition to sending people to Luoyang immediately to report the victory, Jing Zhen discussed with Li Zhihe and Kong Xirong, and then escorted 216 middle and senior prisoners of the Chengde army and 156 relatives of the Wang family to Luoyang to sacrifice prisoners.

As for how to deal with the other prisoners, as well as the follow-up war arrangements, the defense of the Guanzhong prefectures, the appointment of government and county officials, etc., it is necessary to wait for Han Qian to pass the edict from Luoyang.

Of course, Luoyang has long predicted the recovery of Guanzhong before the middle of the year, and Han Qian has long sent an edict to solicit the opinions of Jing Zhen, Kong Xirong, Li Zhihe, Feng Xuan, Chai Jian, Zhu Zhen and others on the follow-up governance and defense arrangements in Guanzhong.

Even if it was not publicly announced, at this time, the generals of the Great Liang were already very clear in their hearts that Han Qian had already regarded the reunification of the world as his own responsibility.

With the continuous expansion of the territory of Daliang, how to govern the local area in the future has also become the focus of discussion and attention of the generals and ministers of the government and the opposition.

In the early days of the previous dynasty, the Western Han Dynasty imitated the system of assassination history, and divided the world into 15 provinces according to the situation of mountains and rivers and convenient transportation, and set up officials of a supervisory nature to assist the central supervision of prefectures and counties as needed, but only played a supervisory role, and did not form a real sense of administrative division above the prefectures and counties.

From the early period to the middle and later periods, the system of jiedu envoys originally used in the border areas was widely used throughout the country, and the political regions of the world were basically divided by the jiedu envoys, so that at most there were more than 40 feudal towns in the world, forming a situation of local feudal towns, which eventually led to the collapse of the previous dynasty and the fragmentation of the world.

After the establishment of the state of Liang, Jin, Shu and Chu, on the basis of continuing the old system, they also spent a lot of effort to implement a new system that was not only convenient for governing the localities, but also limited the local power from sitting on the large and separating the power and ministers, but the time was too hasty, and it was not very successful.

It must be said that there are examples that can be used for reference, that is, after the war of cutting the feudal domain, in order to facilitate Yang Yuanpu to grasp the recovered Hunan prefectures and expand his power, Emperor Tianyou set up Shangshu Province in Tanzhou to govern Tanlangyue, Ezhao, Heng, and Xuchen Prefectures, which can be said to be a relatively successful example.

Yang Yuanpu ascended the throne and succeeded to the throne, and Hunan Xingshangshu Province continued to be retained, but there was no longer a Xingshangshu order to control the military and political affairs, but the military administration, financial endowment, and criminal prison supervision of Hunan Prefectures were divided into propaganda envoys, transfer envoys, and inspection envoys.

This will not only facilitate the management of the localities, but also successfully suppress the rise of local forces, and avoid the excessive concentration of military and political power in the hands of one person.

Han Qian now has the intention to directly establish the first Yongzhou Province of Daliang after recovering Guanzhong, and the Zuo Nei Shi Mansion and the Council have repeatedly discussed related issues for several days.

Four days later, Gao Shao, Xi Xunqiao, Han Chengmeng and other officials rushed to Liquan with Han Qian's edict, and met with Jing Zhen, Li Zhihe, Kong Xirong and others, and officially announced the establishment of Yongzhou Province, with Yongzhou as the provincial capital.

In addition to the Feng, Qi, Yong, and Tongzhou counties that were recovered before May this year, which will be changed to the county system and the Weibei Prefectures that are about to be recovered, Hanzhong Prefecture, Jinzhou Prefecture, Shangluo Prefecture, and Huatong Prefecture are all placed under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou Province.

Compared with Hunan Xingshangshu Province, Yongzhou Province will be in charge of military and civil affairs and supervision of criminal prisons and other matters according to the envoy and the envoy, and the first envoy and envoy will be appointed by Jing Zhen and Xi Xunqiao, and the term of office of five years will also be clarified.

Han Chengmeng served as the first governor of the capital Yongzhou Prefecture.

Although there is a military garrison department under the strategic command to take charge of the local military administration and reserve forces, the main combat forces on active duty are still under the direct jurisdiction of the various marching battalions.

According to the needs of the war, the Longyou system will be set up in the west of Longshan, with jurisdiction over Qinzhou, Chengzhou, and Wuzhou, and Tianshui will be governed, with Chai Jian as the Longyou system envoy and the commander of the Longyou battalion and army, and Zhao Ci, Hou Mo, Zhou Tong, and other three brigades of infantry and cavalry will be responsible for the defense from the west of Longshan and the Pingxia Qiang cavalry forces occupying Yinxia and other places from the south to the north.

With the Shangluo Xingying Army and the Liangzhou Army Deng Tai, Zhang Song, Chai Xun and other departments, the Yongzhou Xingying Army was organized, and the 6th Brigade was composed of 30,000 active infantry soldiers.

Feng Xuan was the deputy envoy of Yongzhou Province and the military governor of Qingyuan and Yanlin Prefectures, and the commander of the Yongbei camp army; In addition to recovering the four Weibei prefectures such as Qingyuan Yanlin - in fact, in mid-to-late May, the defenders of Qingyuan Yanlin and other Weibei prefectures fled without a fight, and Feng Xuanbing captured these four states without blood and incorporated them into Yongzhou Province - the Yongbei marching army would also be responsible for attacking the territory controlled by the Mengwu Beiyuan from the western flank and striking them militarily.

At present, the relationship between Liang and Shu has not broken down, and it will not directly set up a marching army, but it is inevitable that the elite main force will be stationed to keep an eye on the border defense of Liang and Shu.

Han Qian made Zhu Zhen serve as the envoy of Liangzhou Mansion (Hanzhong) and led two brigades of infantry to sit in Liangzhou.