"Kill—" A large number of shouts of killing spread from the south gate to all parts of Dunqiu City, and the cavalry of the Tang Army poured into the city like a tide in the dark night. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

The rebel soldiers in the city did not expect that the Tang army would suddenly enter the city in such a rainy and cold season, and they were panicked one by one by being blocked in the barracks, and began to surrender one after another when they had no hope of escaping and saw a large number of their comrades being killed on the spot.

The cavalry of the Tang army moved very quickly, and soon seized the four city gates, and the rebel soldiers who escaped fled to the various city gates, but bumped into the Tang army guarding the gate, some of the soldiers saw that there was no hope of escape, so they simply surrendered, and the other part did not want to be captured, and had to retreat to run around in the city and hide in the people's homes, but in the end they were quickly searched out by the Tang army and beaten, and they were directly killed.

In less than two hours, the city of Dunqiu was completely quiet again, and all the remaining 5,000 rebels in the city were captured, except for a few who were killed.

Zhao Ziliang was already in the Dunqiu County Ya at this time, taking off his coat, cloak and helmet, and was wiping his armor with a towel, several rebel generals in the county Ya had been killed by him in one face, and the corpses had been dragged down by the soldiers to deal with them, and the blood stains on the ground were also being cleaned up.

Xuan Ba, the envoy of the Youyi army, strode in and reported to Zhao Ziliang: "Marshal, except for a small number of rebels in the city who were killed by our army when the city was broken, more than 5,000 other people have all been captured and are currently being detained, but there are so many rebels, and it is raining heavily outside, it is not easy to find enough places to be held!" ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "In the past few years, the population of Hebei and Henan has been greatly reduced, there must be many houses in the city that have lost their owners, use those idle houses to temporarily detain prisoners, pay attention to good hygiene, although the weather is cold, but if you don't pay attention, it will be easy to get sick, if the prisoners are honest, let the soldiers not treat them too harshly, rebellion is not the fault of ordinary soldiers, but if someone is not honest, so that the soldiers do not have to be merciful, the one who should be killed still has to be killed, otherwise it is not enough to deter!" ”

Xuanba hugged his fists and said: "The last general understands!" ”

At this time, a pro-soldier came over with a big bowl of steaming ginger soup and said, "Dashuai, we boiled ginger soup and brought a bowl to drive away the cold for Dashuai!" ”

When Zhao Ziliang heard this, he immediately said: "The ginger soup is good!" Give Xuanba a big bowl! ”

The pro-soldier promised: "No! ”

Xuanba hurriedly hugged his fists at Zhao Ziliang and said, "Thank you, Dashuai!" ”

Zhao Ziliang waved his hand and said, "By the way, after you finish drinking, quickly send someone to find it, see where you can get ginger in the city, and also boil some ginger soup for the soldiers to drink to get cold!" If this kind of weather is infected with wind chill, it is already late at night, and most of the people have fallen asleep, so let the soldiers pay attention to their attitude when they come to the door, and do not disturb the people! ”

"Understood, don't worry!"

Although the city was pacified, Zhao Ziliang did not have time to rest for the time being, and one after another orders were sent to the Youyi army, the escort army, and the Tang army camp still on the south bank of the Yellow River.

When he finished dealing with things, it was already ugly in the early hours of the morning, Zhao Ziliang yawned, a wave of drowsiness came to him, and he was about to let the pro-soldier find a room to rest, when a pro-soldier walked over quickly and hugged his fist to report: "Dashuai, the fourth lady is not worried about Dashuai, and she came from Chenliu overnight!" ”

"Fourth lady? What the? What is she doing here, what nonsense!" Only then did Zhao Ziliang react, the fourth lady that the soldiers said was Princess Xinping, how could he not be surprised? "Where is she?"

The soldier said: "I have entered the city and are rushing to the county government, just now at the city gate, our army guarded the city captain sent someone to report!" ”

"Quick, take me!" Zhao Ziliang was completely sleepy at this time, and immediately walked out after speaking.

As soon as I walked to the gate of the county government, I saw Princess Xinping wearing the armor of an ordinary soldier jumping off the horse under the protection of several palace guards, a small face that was originally pink and tender was a little blue from the cold at this time, and her lips were also a little white.

Zhao Ziliang immediately walked over and shouted, "Oh, my aunt, what are you making trouble at this time?" You don't look at what time it is, it's still raining heavily, and there is chaos outside, if something happens to you, what will I do? ”

Princess Xinping saw that although Zhao Ziliang's mouth was full of reproach, it was a strong worry, and her heart was suddenly smeared with honey, sweet, and a feeling of happiness came to her heart.

Seeing Zhao Ziliang reprimanding a few guards from the palace who protected her coming, Princess Xinping hurriedly said: "I forced them to protect me and come out to find you, it's none of their business, if you want to punish me, punish me!" ”

"Hmph, I was about to settle accounts with you, you come in with me! Everyone else went for a bowl of ginger soup and brought a bowl for the fourth lady too! Zhao Ziliang said as he grabbed Princess Xinping's wrist and walked towards the inner courtyard of the county government.

Encountering a personal soldier, Zhao Ziliang instructed: "Go find a few maids, let them find a set of warm and clean clothes for their wives to come and change, and the resting room should be prepared immediately, and the house should live!" ”

Half an hour later, Zhao Ziliang and Princess Xinping lay comfortably on the bed in the backyard room of the county government, Princess Xinping put her face on Zhao Ziliang's chest with a happy face and said: "The husband is so good to the slave family, and it is not in vain that the slave family came so far in the middle of the night to find a husband!" Let the slave family serve the husband well! ”

Although Zhao Ziliang was sleepy, he still cheered up and smiled: "Okay! ”

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Kuang Cheng.

Li Huaixian was very angry when he was woken up by his own soldiers in the middle of the night, and reluctantly got up from the newly married concubine, got dressed, walked outside the room, and scolded: "What is the name of this midnight?" What's the matter? Could it be that the sky is falling when it rains? ”

The soldiers smiled bitterly: "General, this matter is almost like the sky has fallen!" Zhu Xicai ran back from the south, and she fled back in embarrassment! ”

"What?" Li Huaixian was shocked when he heard this, his sleepiness and anger disappeared in a blink of an eye, and he immediately asked, "What's going on?" ”

"The Tang army braved the heavy rain to cross the river overnight, Zhu Xicai and others didn't expect that the Tang army would cross the river at this time in this weather, they were completely defenseless, the 20,000 horses and horses in his camp under the embankment were all wiped out, and only a dozen personal soldiers fled back!"

"Where is he?"

"Just sit in the antechamber!"

"This bastard, defeated Lao Tzu's 20,000 army cleanly, and he still has the face to come back!" Li Huaixian said and immediately strode towards the front hall.

Soon came to the front hall, Zhu Xicai was walking around the front hall with a cup of hot tea, soaked by the heavy rain, shivering constantly, and shaking non-stop.

Li Huaixian walked into the front hall with a sword and reprimanded angrily: "Zhu Xicai, you have completely defeated the general's 20,000 army, and you still have the face to come back?" ”

"Smack!" The tea cup fell to the ground and shattered, Zhu Xicai was so frightened that he knelt on the ground, kowtowed again and again: "General, spare your life, it was the incompetence of the last general that led to the annihilation of the 20,000 army, the last general should die, the last general should die!" It is not a pity that the last general would have died, but the last general thought that if he did not report the news to the general in time, the Tang army would suddenly kill him, and the general would be defenseless and unaware, wouldn't it be very dangerous? So the last general desperately fought out of the encirclement, there were thousands of men and horses when he broke through, and when he broke out, there were only a dozen pro-soldiers left, the last general did this for the general, the last general knew that he deserved to die, and asked the general to see the loyalty of the last general, and bypassed the last general's dog's life, although the last general could not fight, but the last general was loyal to the general, if the last general was not loyal, why risk death to break through, wouldn't it be better to lead his troops to Li Tang? ”

When Li Huaixian heard this, he also felt quite reasonable, and he also appreciated Zhu Xicai's loyalty, and after thinking about it, he stretched out his hand to help Zhu Xicai up, and then instructed his subordinates: "Go and send two more teas!" After speaking, he beckoned Zhu Xicai to sit down, and carefully asked about the Tang Army's sudden attack, and Zhu Xicai answered them one by one.

According to Zhu Xicai's description, the Tang Army team chased Zhu Xicai to Dunqiu City, all of them were cavalry, and the number of troops was not less than 15,000 people, such a large-scale number of cavalry was really terrifying, no wonder under the surprise attack, Zhu Xicai was rushed to the camp without even having time to react.

Zhu Xicai saw that Li Huaixian's face was uncertain, and said: "General, this Kuangcheng is no longer safe, there were at least 15,000 cavalry when the Tang army attacked the camp, and there were no more than 10,000 cavalry chasing the last general to Dunqiu, and the general also knew that Zhao Ziliang had always used soldiers like a god, who could guarantee that he would not leave only a small number of soldiers and horses to stare at Dunqiu, and rush towards Kuangcheng overnight with a large group of men and horses?" There are only fifty miles between the two cities, and it is almost impossible for the infantry to march overnight on this rainy day, and the muddy roads will make it difficult for them to move an inch, but this is not a problem for the cavalry at all, if Zhao Ziliang's cavalry really pounces overnight, once Kuangcheng is surrounded, the general, we will die and have no place to be buried! Even if you are lucky enough to break through, I am afraid that there are not many people left, and there are no soldiers and horses in hand in this troubled world, who will pay attention to the general? Who would still look at the general as a person? ”

Li Huaixian shivered all over his body at this time, and said with a slightly pale face: "It seems that this Kuangcheng can't stay, come here, come here, quickly notify the generals of each battalion, let them come to see me quickly!" ”

Soon, Li Huaixian took tens of thousands of horses and horses to leave Kuangcheng in the rain overnight and withdrew in the direction of Puyang in the north, not only discarded a large amount of grain and grass gathered in the area of Kuangcheng, but even the armaments built here were discarded and not taken away, and the rebel soldiers complained one by one, many rebel soldiers had long wanted to flee as deserters, but there was no chance, now this situation, a large number of deserters have occurred, although Li Huaixian was extremely angry and angry after getting the report, but now he is unable to send people to hunt down these deserters, When he retreated to Puyang, there were less than 20,000 horses and horses, and half of them fled on the way, leaving only 20,000 belonging to his original old base. (To be continued.) )