The battle in the south was over, and Han Won counted the battle damage, slightly surprised. Unexpectedly, there were less than 200 thieves left, and they brutally killed and injured more than 600 officers and soldiers.

"Leave a few people to take care of the wounded soldiers, and the rest immediately go to support the county guard. Erhu, what do you say? Han Won said.

Hu Erhu had no choice but to obey orders. Although he is also the commander of a battalion, compared to Han won, he feels that he is not even as good as a hundred households.

More than 1,400 officers and men who had just finished the battle rushed non-stop towards the valley in the westward direction of Wei County.

The officers and soldiers traveled for more than an hour, and successively encountered many routed soldiers who had lost their armor and abandoned their armor, not thieves from the west, but officers and soldiers who pursued with Wang Bingyun.

"What's going on? What about the county keeper? Han Won asked aloud to one of the routs.

"Defeated, defeated, the county keeper is dead!" The pawn stammered.

How so!

The news came so suddenly that Han Won couldn't believe it.

"Pass the order, everyone retreats to the county seat!"

In the case that it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake, the won did not dare to attack rashly, so they could only retreat first.

The crowd withdrew to the county seat, and that night they fled back one after another with more than 1,000 defeated soldiers. Han Won was afraid that there were thieves and spies among them, so he ordered the city gate to be locked and no one was allowed to enter. It wasn't until dawn the next day that people were sent out of the city to screen it.

After Wang Bingyun's death was confirmed, Han Won's heart twitched. So a character who can be called a hero, died like this?

He was desperate to know what was going on, and after questioning hundreds of defeated soldiers, he finally understood what had happened.

Maybe Wang Bingyun had an unfavorable year, but it was Sun Xun who ran into him.

At that time, the western thieves fled to the valley, found that there was no way out, and there were pursuers on their backs, and after being encouraged by Sun Xun, they had the determination to fight against the water.

There were more than 4,000 thieves, of whom more than 1,000 were women and children who had no combat power, and the rest were young and strong men who had experienced a hundred battles.

The valley was quite open, and there was a forest under the valley. Sun Xun ambushed 3,000 soldiers in the forest, and put more than 1,000 old, weak, sick and disabled people who had no combat strength outside the forest, and ordered them to lure the officers and soldiers into the forest.

After Wang Bingyun's soldiers approached the valley, because he didn't know how many soldiers and horses the thieves in the west were, he mistakenly thought that the more than 1,000 people outside the forest were thieves, and immediately ordered to chase and kill.

Huang Biao was afraid of fraud, so he specially reminded him to be careful. But Wang Bingyun was confident that there were many people and he was elite, so he didn't take it seriously.

It was cloudy and cold in the woods. The officers and men were in too much of a hurry, and did not prepare torches in advance, and after entering the forest, their field of vision suddenly darkened.

Speaking of which, this valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the days are short all year round, and I don't know how this forest grows.

The thieves hibernated, and the atmosphere did not come out until the officers and soldiers went deep into the forest before they suddenly released their arrows. Han Wei's method of dealing with Li Kui in Jingyang was repeated again. Although the preparations were rushed this time, the officers and soldiers were fooled.

Several large nets were thrown, and the officers and soldiers were tripped one after another. The thieves took the opportunity to light the torches and rushed to kill with loud shouts.

The scene was chaotic, no one could tell whom, Wang Bingyun was difficult to command, so he had to go first. It was also his bad luck that he was knocked to the ground by a soldier who did not have long eyes, and at this time a thief arrived and hacked him to death.

After understanding the ins and outs of the matter, Han won's mood was a little complicated. If you were to be yourself, wouldn't it be enough to set a fire outside the valley?

It's really hard to think, how could Wang Bingyun, who has led soldiers for half his life, make such a low-level mistake? Could it be that he has been in the position of county guard for a long time, and he can't even fight?

And yet that's how incredible it happened. Han Won didn't want to think about it anymore.

After the thieves killed Wang Bingyun, they had no intention of plotting Gaoyang City, and fled from the boundary of Gaoyang County after a little looting. They were afraid of the officers and soldiers who were chasing after Dongning Mansion.

Due to the death of Wang Bingyun in battle, the whereabouts of Wang Darong and his party are unknown, and the affairs of Gaoyang County temporarily fell to Han Yuan.

…

After more than ten days, various news came to the ears of Han Won from all over the place.

Wang Darong also died.

On that day, he was hit by an arrow in the cheek, and Ma Erhan desperately rescued him and fled with him all the way. Unexpectedly, the arrows of the western thief were poisonous, and Wang Darong, who could not be treated, survived for a few days and died of poison.

Of the officers and men of the five battalions who left the county with Wang Darong that day, less than 50 returned alive. Even Junko, who picked up a life from Rotten Peach Village, was killed in this battle. Gaoyang's five battalions are all unified, and only Ma Erhan and Dahu are alive.

On the whole, the battle was won by the imperial court. However, 150,000 officers and soldiers died in the battle, and 110,000 were killed, and the garrisons in all parts of Chuzhou were almost empty, so they could only be said to have won a miserable victory.

The general Feng Shi was defeated first and then won, and the imperial court did not hold him accountable, nor did he receive too many commendations.

The won's are different.

The head of the western thief was beheaded by Han won, and this credit is really not small. The secretary of Nanping Mansion immediately looked impressed by Han Yuan, a young man who was less than eighteen years old, and not only handed over all the affairs of Gaoyang County to him to coordinate, but also added some credit to the imperial court.

The world is really impermanent, but in just one month, the soil emperor of Gaoyang County changed from Wang Bingyun to Han won.

Even more unexpected things for the won are yet to come.

After the autumn, a few eunuchs came to the capital, and they asked to see Han Yuan by name, and the governor of Chuzhou and the secretary of Nanping did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly sent someone to take Han Yuan to the state capital.

It turned out that the matter of Han Yuan's beheading of the thief chieftain, I don't know how, actually reached the ears of today's son Zhou Kang.

The emperor was overjoyed, and specially gave Han Yuan the name Ziliang, promoted to general, and awarded the viscount. He also rewarded him with a hundred taels of gold and thousands of taels of silver, and gave him a sword that sharpened iron like clay.

The Xia Kingdom is a fifth-class title system, from high to low, they are duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male. Han Won was awarded the title of viscount, which meant that he had become a low-ranking nobleman in Great Xia.

Because the emperor gave the name, the world only knew Han Ziliang from now on, but did not know Han won. Even the later Sun Xun thought that Han Ziliang was his real name for a long time.

…

After Han Yuan was promoted to brigade general, he took the initiative to recommend Jiang Feng to the secretary of state to serve as the county guard. This is done because Jiang Feng has qualifications and is familiar with the affairs of the counties; Second, Han Yuan still remembered Jiang Luoyue in his heart, and wanted to make Jiang Feng repay him.

Han Yuan is now a man of the hour in Chuzhou, and even the Son of Heaven knows his name, so the secretary of the mansion naturally gives him face. In this way, Jiang Feng was pushed to the position of the county guard by Han won.

Han Won had also considered his old friend Zhang Hong, but unfortunately Zhang Hong's time as an official was too short, and Han Won finally gave up on him. Although Jiang Feng is not a good person, he can be regarded as a capable official.

Han won's abacus hit the mark, and after knowing that Han won recommended him to be the county guard, Jiang Feng, who was older than Han Tong, almost wanted to worship Han won as his own father.

After Han Yuan revealed a little bit of what he meant to Jiang Luoyue, Jiang Feng immediately understood and promised at the moment that he would marry his daughter to Han Yuan. Anyway, Wang Darong is gone, and the original marriage contract is invalid.

After the death of the Wang father and son, the Wang family left only some powerless relatives. The imperial court originally planned to give the Wang family and his son some posthumous honors, and even decided to give the Wang family a shadow official, but later found that Wang Bingyun actually hid from the above to raise a private army, and all the original considerations were nullified.

The poor father and son of the Wang family died in vain and got nothing.

For Wang Bingyun, Han Yuan has always regarded him as a benefactor. After all, without this person, he would not be able to have his current status. Therefore, he helped the Wang family as much as possible, not only taking special care of them, but also arranging positions for Wang Bingyun's other sons in the yamen. Of course, it is impossible for the army to get their hands on it.

After doing this, Han Won felt that he had done his duty.