[3rd Update]

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After discussing the specific details for a while, Zhang Rong and the three of them left, Li Yanqing kept sending them out of the barracks gate, Wang Gui looked at the backs of the three in the night and said, "Do you think they can become normal generals?" ”

Li Yanqing smiled faintly: "After the war, I will give them a choice, either they choose a fortune, or become a real Song general." ”

Wang Gui understood, it seems that Du Shuai is not too satisfied with the performance of the three of them today.

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After returning from the barracks, Zhang Rong and the three remained silent, and when they were on the boat, Zhang Rong suddenly asked, "Have you thought about it?" ”

The three of them have been talking about this question for a long time, so there is no need to say it too clearly, Shi Xiu and Liu Tang both know what Zhang Rong is asking?

Shi Xiu was silent for a moment and said, "I chose!" ”

Zhang Rong nodded, this answer was expected by him, Shi Xiu had already decided his own path from the first day.

"What about you?" Zhang Rong looked at Liu Tang again.

"I don't know!"

Liu Tang shook his head gently, he couldn't forget the trace of ruthlessness that flashed in Li Yanqing's eyes, but he admired this kind of heroic person, he didn't want to be an official, but at this moment, he suddenly felt that this might really be the last chance in his life, and he was a little confused.

"Where's the big brother?" Shi Xiu asked rhetorically.

Zhang Rong sighed, "I found that I am really not suitable to be an official today, I don't like others telling me what to do and what not to do on top of my head, even if it is the emperor, and after this battle is over, I still decided to be a big landlord and live the rest of my life happily." ”

Shi Xiu asked again, "What about the soldiers?" ”

"When the time comes, let's hand it over to Li Yanqing together! Trust him not to treat you badly. ”

Zhang Rong stopped talking, and he even hoped that the battle would end tonight.

Zhang Rong's distrust of Li Yanqing stemmed from Wang Gui, and he found that Li Yanqing reused his relatives and friends, Cao Meng, Cao Ye, Wang Gui, Tang Huai, Gao Chong, either his fellow villagers and friends, or his wife and relatives.

And a wild monk like himself, who is a halfway monk, will never be trusted and reused by him, rather than living carefully in suspicion, it is better to let go of the power of officialdom and pursue the life he likes.

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In the early morning of the third day, Wanyan Zonggan, where the garrison was in the west of Xucheng County, suddenly received news that a large number of bandit soldiers had landed in Zhangzhuang Town, a hundred miles away from Xucheng County, with a number of nearly 20,000.

Wanyan Zonggan has been waiting for this moment for ten days, and if the bandit army does not appear again, he himself will collapse.

After receiving this information, Wanyan Zonggan did not hesitate to order 30,000 troops to assemble and set off immediately, and 30,000 cavalry rushed out of the camp, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled, and the dust covered the sky, like a landslide and a crack, and they galloped towards Zhangzhuang Town, which was hundreds of miles away.

Wanyan Zonggan has caught dozens of bandit soldiers who escaped from Liangshanbo in the past few days, and learned that this 20,000-strong bandit army is already on the verge of military collapse, Wanyan Zonggan deduced that in two or three days at most, the bandits will have to go ashore, as expected.

Wanyan Zonggan kept ordering the army to speed up, and when he rushed to Zhangzhuang Town, he learned that the bandits had retreated in the direction of Jeju Rencheng three hours earlier.

Wanyan Zonggan immediately ordered the army to turn around and immediately pursue the bandits, he knew that this was the opportunity he had waited for ten days, if he lost this opportunity and let the bandits retreat south, he would regret it, and he would become a laughing stock when he returned to Jinguo, and he couldn't even eliminate a group of bandits.

"Pursuit! Speed me up! ”

The 30,000 Jin cavalry chased in the southeast direction like a lightning speed, they were not far apart, only two hours, at most fifty miles, Wanyan Zonggan believed that he would definitely catch up with them before the bandit army arrived at Rencheng.

The reason why Li Yanqing deployed the trap in Rencheng was because Rencheng was the flattest area in this area, and it was also a concentrated wheat producing area, and the entire county was almost surrounded by 10,000 endless wheat fields, and in order to annihilate 30,000 gold soldiers, Li Yanqing could only sacrifice the interests of the people of Rencheng County.

Li Yanqing ordered the army to spend a day and a night to evacuate tens of thousands of people in Rencheng County to the east, at this time Rencheng County is an empty city, which is covered with a large amount of fire oil, but Rencheng County is only one of the series of traps, if the Jin soldiers do not come, then there is another trap waiting for them.

Li Yanqing stood at the head of the county seat, looking at the northwest direction from a distance, at this time, a personal soldier stepped forward and said in a low voice: "Qiqi Dushuai, just now a spy came to report that 30,000 cavalry had been killed fifty miles away, and they were killing in the direction of Rencheng County."

"Zhang Rong, where is their army?"

"It's almost time to arrive in Rencheng County!"

Li Yanqing nodded, "Go and inform General Wang and act according to the original plan!" ”

"Obey!"

The soldiers turned around and rushed away, Li Yanqing stared for another moment, he also turned around and went down to the city, leaving Rencheng County.......

The 30,000 Jin soldiers chased for nearly two hours, less than fifteen miles away from Rencheng County, and there were endless wheat fields on both sides, the wheat was already ripe, and the yellow and clear wheat waves were like a golden ocean.

At this moment, suddenly a soldier shouted: "Look, enemy! ”

Wanyan Zonggan also saw it, only to see that thousands of enemy troops in front of them fled from the official road and ran towards the wheat field, they obviously knew that they could not escape the pursuit on the official road, so they escaped to the wheat field, in the far distance of the wheat field, there were more soldiers running, and they finally caught up.

Wanyan Zonggan did not hesitate to order, "Catch up and kill them all!" ”

Tens of thousands of cavalry rode towards the wheat field, Wanyan Zonggan was not worried that the enemy army would hide in the wheat field, it was still afternoon, and there was a dark shadow hidden in the yellow wheat field, which was easy to see.

30,000 cavalry shouted and galloped in the wheat field, and after running for seven or eight miles, Wanyan Zonggan found that those soldiers had disappeared, impossible! I should have caught up with them.

Wanyan Zonggan felt that something was wrong, he reined in his war horse and looked around, only to see smoke appear in three places, and soon, the fourth and fifth places also appeared, he immediately realized that something was wrong, and shouted: "Retreat!" Immediately retreat to the official road! ”

At the same time as he shouted this order, the fire points had increased from five to more than forty, and the war horse began to neigh uneasily.

At this time, not only Wanyan Zonggan realized that something was wrong, but almost all the Jin soldiers felt bad, and they turned their horses' heads and ran towards the official road, but a raging fire had already burned on the side of the official road, and the smoke covered the sky and the sun, and the fire was spreading rapidly, blocking their way.

In order to deploy this trap, Li Yanqing used nearly 5,000 barrels of fire oil, which caused the fire to burn extremely violently and rapidly.

In just a moment, thousands of cavalry in the northwest direction were already surrounded by fire, and the horses neighed and refused to take a step forward, and the cavalry shouted in shock.

30,000 cavalry in chaos, they began to flee in all directions without a goal, at this time, nearly 10,000 acres of wheat fields around were ignited, surrounded by 30,000 Jin soldiers, and the Song army was hunted outside, all the Jin cavalry who escaped from the fire would be ruthlessly killed by the Song army's hunting team.

Wanyan Zonggan was also flustered, but he knew that he could escape by running to the official road, he ran desperately to the official road, rushed through several walls of fire in a row, and finally rushed to the official road, at this time the sky was full of smoke, it was pitch black, and it was no longer clear to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest, the soldiers coughed violently, the air began to lack oxygen, and many war horses and soldiers fell to the ground.

Wanyan Zonggan galloped desperately, but within a few miles, the war horse suddenly neighed, its front hooves raised high, and refused to move forward.

"What's going on?" Wan Yan Zonggan covered his mouth and nose with his clothes and asked in a loud voice.

A soldier shouted on the ground: "There are thistle thorns on the ground!" ”

Wanyan Zonggan suddenly despaired, he turned his horse's head and ran to the other end, at this time, an earth-shattering explosion sounded on the official road in front, and the burning wheat straw ignited the fire oil on the official road, causing a earth-shattering thunder buried in the ground.

A series of nearly 200 earth-shattering thunderbolts continued to explode, and tens of thousands of Jin cavalry who were crowded on the official road were blown all over the ground with bones and flesh flying.

At this time, a heaven-shattering thunder under Wanyan Zonggan's feet also exploded, and Zongwang Zonggan only felt that part of his body was rising into the air, and his eyes were dark, and he didn't know anything.

The wheat field fire around Rencheng County has completely lost control, the burned area has exceeded 20,000 acres, and the fire is approaching Rencheng County, but the wheat fields around Rencheng County have been cut off, and a small river flows from the north, becoming the watershed of this fire.

This overwhelming fire did not gradually extinguish until the third watch at night, this is an event that can be recorded in history, in early June of the first year of Song Xing, Rencheng was burned, more than 40,000 acres of wheat fields were burned, and 30,000 Jurchen cavalry died in the fireworks and thunder.

More than 25,000 people were burned to death in the fire, or died in the explosion of earth-shattering thunder, and nearly 5,000 people escaped the fire, but they could not escape the round-up of the Song army's hunting team.

30,000 Jin soldiers were killed, which was also the most disparity between the casualties of the Song and Jin armies since the Jin soldiers invaded the south, and the Song army only lost more than 200 people and wounded less than 1,000 people, all of which were casualties that occurred during the round-up of the fleeing Jin soldiers.

At dawn, there was a light rain in the sky, and the 50,000 Song troops began to clean the battlefield in the rain, and the charred corpses were thrown onto the cart and dragged to the collective burial.