At this time, the sound of fighting could be faintly heard from the south, which was the sound of the main force of the Huainan Army fighting with Han Qing's army. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Judging from the fact that the sound of the battle kept moving to this side, Han Qing was obviously in a rout.

However, at this time, Zhu Quanzhong couldn't take care of Han Qing anymore, he couldn't even take care of his own side, as for how many of Han Qing's 20,000 people could escape in the end, it could only be left to fate.

Zhu Quanzhong barely waited until the troops received the order to evacuate before he began to retreat under the escort of the cavalry.

At this time, the 10,000 Liang troops that were left by Zhu Quanzhong's side had collapsed under Zhang Xun's fierce attack, and the Huainan army was unforgiving, ignoring the scattered Liang soldiers, and directly pursued the Liang army that was evacuating from the battlefield, trying to prevent them from escaping.

Zhu Quanzhong gritted his teeth and left the last 5,000 people behind, and the rest of the departments were able to escape.

On the battlefield, the remnants of the Wei Bo army, who originally thought that the general trend was gone, couldn't help but be stunned to see that the tide of the battle had completely reversed in such a short period of time.

It's a pity that the soldiers of the Wei Bojun who were reborn after the catastrophe had already been killed, and they couldn't stop the escape of the Liang army at all, and Zhang Xun's strength was limited after all, and the rest of the Huainan army was still some distance away from the battlefield here, so under Zhu Quanzhong's strong man's broken wrist, the main force of the Liang army finally escaped.

By the time the main force under the command of Yang Wu converged with Zhang Xun, it was already completely dark, and the soldiers were searching everywhere to capture the fleeing Liang soldiers, and the sound of battle came from time to time.

Because of the small number of cavalry, although the 1,000 cavalry led by Hou Zan was dispatched, the pursuit of the main force of the Liang army did not achieve much effect.

Time passed slowly, and the battlefield gradually became silent.

"Your Highness, our army won a complete victory in this battle, and it is roughly estimated that there are at least more than 10,000 Liang troops killed, and more than 23,000 Liang troops have been captured, and it is estimated that the total loss of the Liang army this time is about 40,000! After this battle, the Liang army near Songzhou is no longer the opponent of our army at all! Zhang Xun reported the results of this battle with a happy face.

On the side, Wang Maozhang was very red when he heard this, but it was a pity that he didn't get it when he drew lots before, and now he can only envy Zhang Xun's credit.

Yang Wu was also full of joy, the victory of this battle will not only push his personal prestige to the extreme, but more importantly, after this battle, the Huainan army will completely establish a psychological advantage over the Liang army.

From now on, the Liang army will no longer dare to go south at will as before when facing the Huainan army, and Huainan will really win the opportunity to unify the south first.

In addition, also because of the victory in this battle, it will definitely break the myth that the Liang army is difficult to defeat.

In the previous two big defeats in the south of the Huai River, Zhu Quanzhong could still excuse the failure of the Liang army because he was not good at fighting in the south, but this time he could not continue to defend himself.

And the other feudal towns will also really see the weakness of the Liang army, and the various feudal towns that were temporarily intimidated by Liu Zhijun's complete victory before will definitely not sit idly by this time.

"What about Shi Renyu? Where is he now? Bring him to Lone! After sitting down again, Yang Wu asked in a deep voice.

Although they didn't care much about Wei Bojun, this time they also made a contribution, and Yang Wu naturally didn't care about it.

"Your Highness, after Shi Renyu was breached in the camp, he took some guards to disguise himself as ordinary soldiers and wanted to escape, but he was killed by Liang Jun in the chaos!" Zhang Xun said.

"Shi Renyu has been killed by Liang Jun?" The joy on Yang Wu's face flashed.

A general with the ability of Shi Renyu and a completely loyal, Yang Wu is not very welcome.

Previously, he asked Shi Renyu to stay behind to resist the Liang army, in addition to allowing them to attract the attention of the Liang army and create an opportunity for Zhang Xun's surprise attack, it was also to use the Liang army to weaken the power of Wei Bojun.

I didn't want Zhang Xun to just sit back and wait for the Liang army to break through Wei Bojun's camp before launching a surprise attack, so that Wei Bojun suffered heavy losses under the slaughter of the Liang army, and in the end there were less than 3,000 people who survived. Troublesome.

As for Shi Renyu's death, this made Yang Wu save a lot of heart, so he didn't have to bother arranging any position for him, and he didn't have to worry about him making trouble in the future.

Therefore, after confirming that Shi Renyu was dead and most of the other Wei Bo army generals had been killed, Yang Wu personally entered the camp of the Wei Bo army, comforted the surviving Wei Bo soldiers, and appointed the largest commander of the surviving Wei Bo army to be responsible for leading this army and garrisoning them in Suzhou.

Today's Wei Bojun has less than 3,000 people, and even if there is a rebellion on this scale, it will not be too harmful, so Yang Wu did not further dismember them for the time being.

What's more, no matter what, the Huainan army used this Wei Bo army before, causing them to lose most of them, and even several major generals were killed and wounded.

Therefore, after Yang Wu comforted the 3,000 Wei Bo troops who remained, he announced that he would compensate them for the soldiers who died in the battle.

Of course, because the families of this army were not in Huainan, this pension naturally could not be distributed to their families, so in the end, it was cheaper than the three thousand people who survived.

In any case, after Yang Wu's pacification, the new Wei Bo army had forgotten about the Huainan army's previous use of them, and turned to submit to Yang Wu's orders.

Of course, Yang Wu also knew that the essence of this army had not changed, as long as they were unsatisfactory, they were likely to have turmoil again, but that would be for later.

Whether it is to wait until these people make mistakes themselves in the future and take the opportunity to dispose of them, or take the initiative to create excuses to dispose of them in the future, the initiative is in the hands of Yang Wu, and there is no need to worry about it at all.

After a day's rest, Yang Wu led the army to divide the army into three ways and continued to go north, all the way to attack Bozhou with Wang Maozhang's right Wu Xiang army, all the way to Zhang Xun's right Teng Xiang army to attack Xuzhou, and he himself led the rest of the army to Songzhou.

This time, Yang Wu did not plan to continue to attack the city, don't look at the defeat of the Liang army this time, but it is not so easy to attack deep into the hinterland of the Central Plains.

First of all, in terms of logistics, with the Huainan Army going north, the logistics supply route is much longer than before, and the water level of the water is not deep at this time, so it is difficult for the ships of the Huainan Army to ensure that all the logistics baggage can be transported in time, and must rely on a part of the land transportation.

Under such circumstances, the Huainan Army naturally did not dare to unscrupulously concentrate its forces to attack Songzhou, and must divide its troops to capture Bozhou, Xuzhou and other surrounding cities to ensure the safety of the Huainan Army's flanks.

And if the troops are divided, it will be difficult for the remaining troops to break through Songzhou.

In addition, Zhu Quanzhong is known as the first feudal town in the world, so it is naturally impossible to run out of troops so soon. In order to ensure that the defensive forces in various places were sufficient, Zhu Quanzhong only used his mobile forces, but now his mobile forces have almost been lost, and even Songzhou has been invaded by the Huainan army, so naturally he will no longer take into account the garrison forces in those more remote areas.

So next, Zhu Quanzhong will definitely mobilize troops to come to the rescue, and under the interference of these reinforcements, the Huainan army will not be able to attack the city with peace of mind.

Another is the problem of the Huainan Army itself.

The Huainan Army has been fighting for more than four months since it was dispatched in October last year, and the soldiers are a little tired; Moreover, the Huainan Army's reserves of flowering shells were almost exhausted, and the manufacturing technology of Suzhou artillery was also mastered by the Liang Army, and the Huainan Army did not have many advantages in comparison.

Therefore, in this case, Yang Wu did not intend to continue to conquer the city, he just wanted to show off the strength of Huainan to the various feudal towns, tell them about Zhu Quanzhong's weakness, and at the same time further plunder the population and wealth.

In mid-February, the 50,000 army led by Yang Wu went straight to the city of Songzhou, and the Liang army in the city closed the city gate and did not dare to fight.

This was the first time since Zhu Quanzhong defeated Qin Zongquan in the Battle of Bianzhou that a foreign enemy attacked so close to Bianzhou.

Fortunately, the Huainan army's advance was only to frighten and frighten the Liang army, and not long after entering the territory of Bianzhou, this army of less than 3,000 people under the command of Li Chengding withdrew after grabbing a small town, so that the Liang army's brigade that had been chasing after hearing the news returned in vain.

In the face of the Huainan army's large-scale northward advance, Zhu Quanzhong quickly transferred troops from other regions on the one hand, and on the other hand, he closed the city gates in various places to prevent fighting with the Huainan army, and at the same time ordered the cavalry of the Longxiang army to march east from Yingzhou to try to attack the logistics and supplies of the Huainan army.

A few days later, new news arrived. The two forces that divided their troops to attack Bozhou and Xuzhou eventually encountered great resistance and were unable to break through the city.

The reinforcements mobilized by the Liang army from all over the country have gradually arrived, and Yang Wu decided to accept it when he saw it, and after looting it on a large scale, he calmly withdrew his troops back to Suzhou, and the gathered Liang army did not dare to go out of the city to pursue.