Pan Yanfei saw that the new Liao army suddenly began to retreat one after another, retreating westward, although he didn't understand what the situation of the official army was for a while, but seeing the defeat and retreat of the official army, Pan Yanfei was still in a good mood, thinking that there was a cheap price to pick up, and immediately commanded his subordinates to pursue the official army. 81 ]? ］．) ８〉１}Ｚ］)．〉Ｃ}Ｏ〉Ｍ

The gate of Laixi City finally opened slowly, and under the leadership of Luo Dashan, a group of cavalry took the lead in rushing out of the city gate. Behind him were more than 3,000 infantry led by Yang Shouli himself.

Seeing Yang Shouli's defenders rushing out of the city gate from a distance, Pan Yanfei instantly understood why the official army retreated, it seems that the official army was afraid that he and the defenders in the city would attack them together! At that moment, Pan Yanfei was even more arrogant, and said loudly: "Brothers, rush! The officers and troops were defeated! Kill! Kill! ”

There were not many cavalry under Yang Shouli in Laixi City, the original Dongjiang cavalry was less than 200 people, and later Yang Shouli selected more than 100 horseback riders from the newly attached young men to join the cavalry.

When Luo Dashan led the cavalry out of the city gate to kill the position of the official army, the official army was still hurriedly packing up supplies and preparing to evacuate, and when he saw the rebels open the city gate and go out of the city, Mo Li suddenly shouted: "Brothers! The rebels have opened the gates! Everyone, let's get inside! Our reinforcements are coming soon! ”

When the new Liao army heard this, they immediately turned around one after another, and under the command of officers at all levels, they desperately attacked the gate of Laixi.

The hundreds of people led by Li Guo also happened to retreat near the city gate at this time, and after listening to Mo Li's order, they immediately turned around and killed Pan Yanfei's rebels, all of them were unstoppable, where was there a little defeat and invincibility?

Pan Yanfei immediately understood that he had been fooled, but just now because he was too excited and chased too fast, it was impossible to turn around and run away at this time, and the soldiers on both sides were already fighting together.

Yang Shouli, Luo Dashan and other rebel generals also suddenly realized at this time, and understood that they had fallen for the plan of the official army, and immediately regretted it. Unfortunately, it was already late.

Mo Li personally led his subordinate cavalry to quickly intersperse under Laixi City, and entangled Yang Shouli, Luo Dashan and other rebel generals who rushed out of the city gate to fight, not giving them the slightest chance to return to the city.

Ma Jinzhong, Tong Dazhui, Su Hansheng, Hu Yiniu and others led foot soldiers who were not good at riding also quickly outflanked them, cutting off the way back to the city for Yang Shouli and others from the side.

In addition, Zhou Yuji led a cavalry of 300 people, stabbing all the way and killing the city.

I saw Zhou Yuji wielding the Blazing Sun Wind Knife, slashing left and right, the big knife danced like a wheel flying, and he was brave and incoherent, and after a while, he killed more than ten rebels, and killed the rebels one after another, and no one dared to get close.

Although the number of rebels was large, no one dared to stop Zhou Yuji, who quickly rushed into the city gate with three hundred cavalry and fought with the rebels who rushed out.

The rebels were intimidated by Zhou Yuji's terrifying performance outside the city, and they retreated one after another, turning back to the city, trying to close the city gate and keep Zhou Yuji out.

But the cavalry led by Zhou Yuji was extremely fast, and before the rebels had time to close the gate, Zhou Yuji had already led his subordinates to rush into the city and rush inside.

Zhou Yuji and his subordinates shouted: "Put down your weapons!" Officers and soldiers are entering the city! Officers and soldiers are entering the city! If you want to live, put down your knives and guns for Lao Tzu! ”

When the Laixi Minzhuang who had just been organized by Yang Shouli heard this, they were so frightened that they hurriedly threw down their knives, guns and weapons, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "The official spares his life!" The official spares his life! ”

There were many people in the rebels who were coerced, and many of them were unwilling to be thieves, but now they saw the official army attacking the city, and the people knelt on the ground again, that Zhou Yuji was like a great killing god, no one was his opponent at all, and he couldn't help but panic in his heart, you look at me, I look at you, suddenly the rebels in front of them knelt down, threw away their weapons, hugged their heads and begged for mercy: "Don't kill us, official!" We surrender! We surrendered! ”

Zhou Yuji didn't care about them, and led his troops to kill the city, controlled the only seven or eight artillery pieces on the city, and fought fiercely with the rebels on the city.

People have a herd mentality, and the surrender of the rebels and the newly joined Minzhuang just now had a chain reaction, and many rebels had no intention of resisting and began to surrender on their knees.

Outside the city gate, Ma Jinzhong, Tong Dazhui and others led their foot soldiers to also start to fight into Laixi City and control various key points. As a result, more and more rebels are choosing to surrender.

Mo Li led his subordinates to fight fiercely with Yang Shouli, Luo Dashan and others, although Yang Shouli's rebels were nearly 3,000, and Mo Li only led more than 1,000 people to break through head-on, but under the influence of the surrender of the rebels in the city, the rebels around Yang Shouli also had no fighting spirit and no intention of fighting.

He Zhenbei and Luo Dashan fought together, and the two fought equally, but the morale of the rebels around them was not high, and Luo Dashan had no intention of fighting, and he lost the lead everywhere.

And Mo Li and Liang Peijun fought against Yang Shouli and gained the upper hand.

Mo Li took the time to say to Yang Shouli: "General Yang, surrender quickly!" Your brothers in the city have already surrendered, so what is the use of holding on? ”

Yang Shouli didn't answer, and peeked at the city gate in the middle of the fight, and now it was really controlled by the officials and soldiers, and he couldn't help but feel a sinking in his heart. The retreat is cut off, the nest is occupied, and if it is not done well, it will become meat in people's mouths.

Mo Li said again: "General Yang, with the powerful firearms of our New Liao Army, it is not difficult to destroy you, but most of you are from poor people, and they are not extremely evil in themselves, and God has the virtue of a good life, so we did not use that kind of firearms that are too cruel, we just hope that you can get lost and turn back, put down your weapons and surrender!" ”

In fact, the new Liao army did not use the fire dragon gun, a firearm that is very destructive, but the real reason is not because the fire dragon gun is too ferocious to use, on the battlefield, Mo Li will never be soft, let alone a woman's kindness. The reason why it is not used is because there is not much fuel.

Isn't a destructive thing like a grenade easy to use? Otherwise, the new Liao army may not be able to control the rebels twice as many as itself so quickly and grasp the initiative on the battlefield.

Although Yang Shouli didn't know what the murderous firearm Mo Li was talking about, the current situation really made him feel uneasy. As far as the eye can see, most of the soldiers under his subordinates are at a disadvantage, and they are gradually unable to support, and they can't help but feel secretly anxious in their hearts.

Xiao Yang led 400 men to outflank him from the left side, cut off the retreat of Pan Yanfei's rebels, and fought Pan Yanfei with Li Guo and the others.

As Zhou Yuji invaded the city, all the rebels and Minzhuang in the city surrendered, which also greatly affected the fighting spirit of Yang Shouli and other rebels, and lost the foundation of Laixi City, Yang Shouli and others would become rootless wanderers. And the powerful firearms of the new Liao army also made the rebels tremble.

Finally, Yang Shouli couldn't hold it anymore, and after paying more than 1,000 casualties, he realized that what Mo Li had just said was true, so he decided to surrender to the New Liao Army.

As soon as Yang Shouli and Luo Dashan surrendered, Pan Yanfei's subordinates couldn't hold on and wanted to escape, but they were bitten by Li Guo and Xiao Yang, and they couldn't get out, so they had no choice but to surrender to the New Liao Army.

It was not until late afternoon that the soldiers of the New Liao Army escorted the rebel prisoners into Laixi City, concentrated on them, and began to clean up the battlefield.

In this battle, the new Liao army killed more than 300 people, while the rebels killed more than 1,100 people, the rest surrendered, and only a few dozen escaped.

After controlling Laixi City, Mo Li immediately ordered all the food in Laixi City to be collected and strictly guarded. Just kidding, isn't it just for the future rations of the brothers that they have spent so much effort to defeat Laixi City, and naturally there is no room for loss.

After all this, Xiao Yang came over to report: "General, the prisoners are all gathered, what do you think of it, General?" Or is it like last time? ”

Mo Li was noncommittal and asked, "How many people are there?" ”

"Including the people of Lacey City, there are seven thousand three hundred and fifty people." Xiao Yang said.

"Husband......" Liang Peijun couldn't help but whisper: "Won't this kill too much......

Mo Li smiled: "Lady, do you sympathize with them?" ”

Liang Peijun's face was a little stunned, but he still said after all: "Husband, the general promised Yang Shouli just now!" Besides, this is not killing the enemy on the battlefield after all, killing the sin is too heavy, and the slave family is afraid that a husband will violate the way of heaven......"

Mo Li raised his eyebrows and smiled: "The lady is too worried, and she has her own sense of proportion for her husband." ”

When Liang Peijun heard this, he couldn't help but feel relieved. She knew that her husband was not a murderer.

Afterwards, Moli led the generals to the open space in the city where the rebel captives were concentrated. Looking at the more than 7,000 dejected rebel soldiers in front of him, Mo Li's face was as usual, he couldn't see any joy or anger, but he was anxiously thinking about how to deal with these rebels in his heart.

After the First Battle of Putai, out of consideration for the current situation, Mo Li had no choice but to implement the law of eleven killings for rebel prisoners who surrendered to him, and this cruel punishment mechanism proved to have a good effect on quickly improving the strength of the army and the military discipline of soldiers in a specific time and under certain circumstances.

But everything has its two sides, although the eleventh law of killing has created an increase in the strength of the new Liao army, so that in the battle of Laizhou the day before yesterday to be hard and bloody and almost no one escaped, it can be said that it is fortunate that there are nearly 4,000 troops to fight to the death, so that the new Liao army will not be wiped out.

But the side effect of this eleven law is also reflected, that is, in the future counterinsurgency operations, the rebels choose to resist desperately and refuse to surrender because they are afraid of being killed after surrendering, which will greatly consume the strength and sharpness of the new Liao army.

For example, in the siege of Laixi in the morning, if it were not for the fact that Pan Yanfei led reinforcements to arrive and made the rebels in Laixi City feel that there was an opportunity, and they were confused by the new Liao army and opened the city gate to kill, it would have been almost impossible for the new Liao army to capture Laixi City and force the rebels to surrender.

Therefore, these rebel prisoners in front of them are obviously no longer suitable for the implementation of the law of eleven killing, and such cruel punishments will only backfire if they are used too much.

But if they are released, if the imperial court and government do not have any follow-up arrangements, after these people follow Kong Youde and others to rebel, most of them have no room and no home, and they have no way to live, I am afraid that it is easy to be bewitched by the rebels again, and repeatedly follow the thieves, which is not a way.

Mo Li was thinking about whether to mobilize these people to go to Lingchuan, after all, all kinds of construction was going on there, and it was easier to arrange for some refugees to survive.

At this time, He Zhenbei suddenly hurriedly walked to Mo Li's side and said in a low voice: "General, Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng's troops are heading towards Laixi, and they are currently thirty miles away!" ”