Although Zhao Junsheng asked Li Bao to stop the pursuit, he did not let him return with his troops, and Li Bao ordered to camp on the spot.

Early the next morning, Li Bao left 100 people to clean up the battlefield, and took the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry to continue to chase and kill Gao Jin's troops.

Gao Jinzhi's men were all infantry, and he couldn't go fast at all, and Gao Jinzhi broke through with dozens of soldiers and caught up with the team at dawn.

In the afternoon of the same day, after a night and a morning of marching, Gao Jinzhi's troops were caught up by Li Bao and his troops when they were resting in a village.

After Gao Jinzhi got the news, he and his 4,000 people could not go, and could only meet the enemy in front of the village, Li Bao used cavalry to outflank him, and kept attacking back and forth with cavalry shooting, Liu Songjun was attacked and disturbed several times after the army's heart collapsed, the team was chaotic, Li Bao led a team of cavalry to directly rush to kill, and Liu Song's army was defeated and fled into the village.

Li Bao wanted to lead the cavalry directly into the village to annihilate the remnants of Liu Song's army, but Gao Jinzhi led people to block the entrance of the village, and he was beaten back after rushing twice in a row, so Li Bao had to find another way to think about it in the long run.

Gao Jinzhi used the farmland, ditches, ponds, and house walls around the village to deploy defenses to prevent Li Bao from leading troops into the village from other positions.

Gao Jinzhi knew very well in his heart that staying in this village was just a cheap measure, even if the main army of the cadre army did not come, more than 2,000 cavalry under Li Bao could trap them here, so if they wanted to survive, the only way could only be to disperse and break through.

That night, Gao Jinzhi summoned the deputy general and more than a dozen generals to discuss in the largest house in the village, and decided to disperse and break through, if you don't break through, you can only wait for death, and you may die if you break through, but you may also live.

In order to ensure the success rate of escaping, Gao Jinzhi divided everyone into four teams, each team of 700 people, he and the deputy general each led a team, and the other two teams were led by two generals.

At the time, the four teams broke through from the village in four directions, but Li Bao seemed to have expected it, and sent people to block them, and they rushed to kill, so that the four teams had to retreat into the village, just for this breakthrough, Gao Jinzhi paid the price of 800 people, and the original 5,000 people when they were evacuated are now only 2,000 people.

Li Bao called the adjutant general and said: "These Liu Song troops are hiding in the village, guarding several entrances and exits, using houses, fish ponds, ditches and fences to set up defenses, our army is all cavalry, if you want to rush in and defeat them, there are some difficulties in a short period of time, this matter is quite tricky, I don't know if you have any good way?" ”

The adjutant general thought for a while and said: "General, the last general thinks that he can be persuaded to surrender, these people are all infantry, they can't run away at all, if they don't want to die, surrender is the only option!" Even if Gao Jinzhi doesn't surrender, don't his subordinates want to live? We can provoke their infighting, and then their defenses will be self-defeating! ”

Li Bao said: "What you said seems to have some truth, so let's try it first, if it really doesn't work, let's think of other ways!" ”

"Yes, the last will arrange it!"

The deputy general rode to the entrance of the village, in order not to be shot by the archers arranged by Gao Jinzhi at the entrance of the village, he stopped his horse from a distance, put his hands in the shape of trumpets and shouted to the village: "Listen to Liu Songjun in the village, you have been besieged, and it is difficult to escape from the sky, even if you escape, it is difficult to escape from the pursuit of our cavalry!" After all, it is not a long-term solution for you to stay in the village and resist stubbornly, but it will also affect the villagers in the village. ”

"Liu Songjun brothers, everyone has parents, wives and children, we don't want to kill them all, as long as you are willing to put down your weapons and surrender, my general can guarantee the safety of all of you, there are many generals and soldiers of the Southern Dynasty who have surrendered to the Northern Dynasty over the years, they are also alive well in the Northern Dynasty, many people have married wives and children in the Northern Dynasty, and have placed their family business, and many people have become officials, and there are also those who serve in the army as before!"

"In the past, many captured generals and soldiers of the Southern Dynasty refused to surrender to the Northern Dynasty because they thought that they could not serve the barbarians, which is understandable, but now my king is a decent Han Chinese, why can't you serve my king?"

"Brother Liu Songjun, if you refuse to surrender, there will be no other result than to be buried here, so that your parents, wives and children will never see you again; If you are willing to surrender and serve the king of my family, you will still have the opportunity to meet your parents, wives and children in the future at home, this is hope, as long as there is hope, anything can happen, and I hope you think clearly, don't do things that you will hate for life! ”

The Liu Song soldiers and generals in the village heard it clearly, and everyone had an idea in their hearts, if they could live, who would want to die?

After all, there are only a few loyal ministers and righteous men who have the courage to sacrifice their lives for righteousness, and the vast majority of soldiers and generals are just mortals, they are either captured in the army, or for a bite to eat, or for a little settlement fee to hand over their lives, but they are all afraid of death, they also want to live and live better.

The adjutant general walked into the hall where the torches were lit and reported to Gao Jinzhi: "General, the last general just counted and lost another 800 people, and now we only have 2,000 people left, and the soldiers didn't bring much rations, and many people lost their food bags in a panic when they fled for their lives, and we can only eat the rest of the food for two days!" ”

Gao Jinzhi was very silent and calm, and he asked, "Just now, the cadres and soldiers shouted outside, how did the soldiers react?" ”

"Morale is somewhat low!" The lieutenant replied.

Gao Jinzhi nodded and ordered: "You pay more attention, once someone has a move to surrender to the enemy, immediately kill!" ”

“······ Yes, the general rests, the last general is out on patrol! The lieutenant clenched his fists in agreement, turned and walked outside.

Gao Jinzhi raised his head and shouted, "Wait, is there any wine?" ”

The adjutant general hesitated, clenched his fists and said, "The last general will ask someone to look for it!" ”

Not long after, the deputy general ordered someone to bring a jar of wine, and I don't know which villager's house this jar of wine was dug up, and it looks like it has been some years.

"General, this was dug up from a villager's house in the village, and it is said that it was buried when the daughter of the family was born, and it should be more than ten years now!"

"Is this my daughter red?" Gao Jinzhi took the wine jar and opened the mud seal and poured it into his mouth, "Ah, good wine!" ”

Gao Jinzhi was too tired, drank a jar of wine, and soon lay on the table.

The adjutant general walked in with a few soldiers, and he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers behind him: "Go and tie up General Gao!" ”

One of the soldiers was a little scared, "General, what are you really doing?" If General Gao wakes up in the process of tying up people, how can I wait for my life? ”

The adjutant general scolded: "He is drunk, how can he wake up?" Ben will ask you, if I don't tie him up, will he surrender? If he doesn't surrender, we'll all die!" ”

The soldier said, "But, but we can leave him alone and just go out of the village and surrender to the cadres!" ”

"Bastard, even if we don't care about him, do you think he can escape? Haven't you become a prisoner of the cadre army? It is better to be tied up by us and dedicated to the cadres than to be captured by the cadres, so that we will still have a merit, and maybe the cadres and generals will reward and promote us when they are happy, understand? Don't go yet! ”

"Yes, yes, brothers, follow me!"

The next morning.

The adjutant general surrendered to Li Bao with 2,000 Liu Song troops and offered Gao Jinzhi, who was tied up.

Li Bao had great respect for Gao Jinzhi's martial arts and personality, he looked at Gao Jinzhi who was tied up and gagged, and asked the deputy general who surrendered: "General Gao's martial arts are strong, how did you tie him up?" ”

Gao Jinzhi's lieutenant looked embarrassed, hesitated for a moment, hugged his fists and said: "Gao Jinzhi wants to eat wine, and the last general ordered someone to send him a jar of wine, who knew that he drank all the jars, so he was drunk, and the last general led someone to tie him up!" ”

Li Bao was very disgusted with this person's personality and asked, "Don't you feel guilty about treating the generals who promoted and trusted you like this?" ”

Gao Jinzhi's adjutant general's face was even more ugly, and he forced a smile and said: "General, the war has come to this point, we have done our best, and now we just want to live, I heard that King Qianwang is also a Han Chinese, and we are just changing the object of allegiance to King Qian, the ancients all said that 'those who know the times are Junjie', and 'virtuous ministers choose the lord and do things', does the general think that the last general has done wrong?" ”

"Besides, the last general did this not only for the sake of these two thousand brothers, but also for the sake of General Gao, with his temperament, it is impossible to surrender, and the final result can only be to fight and die, and the last general did this to save his life!"

Li Bao was furious, and he was about to pull out a knife to cut people in a fit of anger, his lieutenant held him down and persuaded him: "The general is angry, these people are persuaded by us to surrender, they also took the initiative to tie up Gao Jinzhi to surrender, and he should be rewarded, if the general beheads him because of a momentary mood, not only will the king not be able to explain it, but I am afraid that there will never be Liu Songjun surrendering in the future, so that when our army fights with Liu Songjun in the future, they will definitely fight to the death, and the casualties of our army will increase a lot, please think twice!" ”

Li Bao let go of the hand holding the knife, pointed at Gao Jinzhi's adjutant general, and said: "You have done a good job, this general will report your merits and performance to the king, in my cadre army, as long as you obey the military order, as long as you have merit, there will definitely be rewards and promotions, do a good job!" Come on, take him down and settle down! ”

"Thank you, General!"

After sending away Gao Jinzhi's lieutenant general, Li Bao looked at Gao Jinzhi, who was tied hand and foot and gagged by the rag group, and waved to the soldiers next to him: "Come on, take off the things in General Gao's mouth!" ”

A personal soldier stepped forward to take down the rag in Gao Jinzhi's mouth, Gao Jinzhi took a few deep breaths, and said: "I didn't expect to fall into the hands of the villain around me, speaking of which, I was quite a failure, and even the people around me betrayed me." General Li, you and I don't know each other anymore, I don't know what you plan to do with me? ”