After five days of forced march, 30,000 cavalry arrived in Liyang County, Hezhou, on the opposite bank is Jiangning Mansion, Cao Sheng has already ordered Jiangning Mansion to sentence Jiang Zi to arrange 100 ferries, specifically on the opposite bank to meet this cavalry south, only half a day, 30,000 cavalry all crossed the Yangtze River, they went south from the west of Taihu Lake, around Taihu Lake to Huzhou direction to kill.

Just after the news of 30,000 cavalry crossing the Yangtze River reached Pingjiang Prefecture, Li Yanqing personally led 10,000 troops to Huzhou.

At present, Zhao Ji has deployed 10,000 troops in Huzhou, and these 10,000 troops are the two support armies that rushed to support Yang Chu before, respectively from Ningguo Mansion and Jiaxing Mansion, these two support armies are a little late, Li Yanqing's fleet has entered Taihu Lake, and Yang Chu's remnants of the army have also been defeated back to Lin'an Mansion.

Zhao Ji simply ordered this army to be stationed in Wucheng County, Huzhou, and directly threatened Pingjiang Mansion.

This 10,000-strong army is also a new forbidden army just recruited the year before last, led by the commander Wang Dian, and the deputy general is also the commander Ma Wenchun, but Wang Dian's official position is the general of the fourth grade, and Ma Wenchun is the general of the fifth grade, so it is naturally Wang Dian as the main general.

Both of their bosses ruled Wang Yuan in front of the palace, but under the temptation of Zhao Ji's heavy gold and Gao Jue, both of them betrayed Zhao Gou, the son of heaven, and became Zhao Ji's accomplice lackeys.

Wang Dian also knew that if Li Yanqing sent troops, Huzhou would inevitably bear the brunt, he sent people to keep an eye on Pingjiang Mansion's every move, when Li Yanqing's army just left the barracks, the sentry he sent immediately reported the news to Wang Dian with a flying pigeon, and Wang Dian almost did not hesitate to ask Lin'an Mansion for help.

After receiving Wang Dian's letter asking for help, Zhao Ji discussed with the Zhizheng Tang and finally decided to send Wu Zhan, the commander of Yuhang's soldiers and horses, to lead 30,000 troops to support Huzhou.

The distance between Pingjiang and Lin'an is not far, and the two are separated by Huzhou in the west and Jiaxing in the east, and once war breaks out, all the marching time is within a day or two.

But Li Yanqing's march speed was very slow, obviously it was only a hundred miles away from Wucheng County, a rapid march, half a day can be killed, but Li Yanqing's army's march slowly swayed, walked more than ten miles to rest for a while, walked a whole day to march fifty miles, just entered the territory of Huzhou, 10,000 troops were stationed overnight.

On the contrary, the new forbidden army in the north was urged by Zhao Ji's order, if the rescue was not timely, it would be beheaded, and Wu Zhan had no choice but to keep ordering to speed up the march.

They had originally set off more than half a day later than Li Yanqing's troops, and the distance was a little farther, but they were the first to arrive, and when Li Yanqing's army was stationed for the night fifty miles to the east, they had already arrived thirty miles south of Wucheng County.

At this time, the night fell quietly, a bright moon has hung on the treetops, sprinkling the earth with a layer of silver, it is September at this time, the night is a little cool, the commander Wu Zhan ordered the soldiers to rest a little, he is a little embarrassed, now only thirty miles away from Wucheng County, whether to spend the night, or rush to the city in one go.

Seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, several generals persuaded one after another: "Li Yanqing's army is also stationed in the camp for the night, it is far away from us, and it is impossible to catch up at night, so it is better to rest for the night, let the soldiers recover their strength, and go north to enter the city tomorrow on the fifth watch." ”

Wu Zhan saw that the soldiers were indeed exhausted, and after walking thirty miles, I was afraid that most of the night would have passed, so he nodded and agreed, "Rest on the spot for three hours, and set off into the city on the fourth watch!" ”

Hearing that there were only three hours to rest, the soldiers fell asleep one after another, but some of the generals could not sleep and gathered together to chat.

"I heard that there was a palace coup d'état when Emperor Taishang ascended the throne, is it true?" One of the generals asked cautiously.

The other general pursed his lips disdainfully, "You still have to ask about this kind of thing, three-year-old children know what is going on, what is not a palace coup?" ”

An older general sighed and said, "Now everyone is concerned, is the official family dead?" Whether he was imprisoned, or has he been poisoned, there are rumors that the official family has been poisoned, and if so, it would be a pity. ”

"There is no way, there will be no favor in the battle for the throne, the strange thing is Li Yanqing, he actually did not flee back to the northwest, but pulled up the banner on the side of the Qing monarch, he really thought that his tens of thousands of people could fight more than 100,000 troops?"

While several generals were discussing, there was a faint sound of muffled thunder in the distance.

"It looks like it's going to rain!" A general looked up at the sky.

"You're! With such a good moonlight, how could it rain. ”

"Then how can it thunder?"

At this time, the ground suddenly trembled slightly, and the muffled thunder was getting closer and closer, and the older general came out of the Western Army, and his face changed, "Not good!" ”

He stood up and shouted, "It's the cavalry, the cavalry is coming!" ”

"Impossible! Lao Yang, are you mistaken. ”

The generals were not convinced, and they all stood up and looked to the west, and the sound of muffled thunder came from the west, and to the west was an endless rice field, and two miles away there was a narrow forest.

At this moment, countless cavalry suddenly struck out of the woods, swords and spears glittered in the moonlight, and then large black cavalry also poured out on both sides of the woods, with great momentum, like the tide of the sea that broke the embankment, rushing towards this side.

"The enemy is coming! The enemy is coming! ”

The forbidden soldiers were terrified and shouted, and the soldiers also woke up from their sleep, so frightened that they didn't even care about the weapons next to them, and got up and fled south.

This cavalry was the 30,000 cavalry who had traveled thousands of miles from Guanzhong, and they arrived an hour ago, lurking like wolves for miles away, waiting for the enemy to appear, but the enemy army rested on the spot, Cao Meng immediately made a decision and ordered the whole army to attack.

This is Li Yanqing's siege tactics, feint to attack Wucheng County, attract reinforcements from Lin'an Mansion to the north, and let the 30,000 cavalry take the enemy by surprise and annihilate this support army.

Li Yanqing has experienced a hundred battles, and his combat experience is so rich that he is far from being comparable to Zhao Ji and the civilian officials of the Zhizheng Hall.

20,000 cavalry galloped in the moonlight and shouted: "Surrender or kill!" "The fleeing soldiers could not outrun the gallop of their horses, they had only two ways, either they knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, or they could only die.

At this time, Gao Zhong also led 10,000 cavalry to kill from the south, cutting off the retreat of the soldiers, and in despair, the soldiers knelt down and surrendered, begging for mercy.

At dawn, Li Yanqing led 10,000 enemy troops to the battlefield, the war had long ended, except for thousands of people killed, the remaining 25,000 people all surrendered, and all the surrendered soldiers were gathered together and waited for disposal.

Cao Meng and Gao Chong stepped forward to greet Li Yanqing, and when they met in Jiangnan, they felt very cordial, Li Yanqing patted the shoulders of the two and said with a smile: "This long journey, you have worked hard." ”

Cao Meng scratched his head and smiled: "Everyone heard that Dutong was in distress in Lin'an Mansion, and they all rushed to come. ”

Li Yanqing laughed and punched him hard, "Next time I have such a chance, I will let General Hu Feishi serve to see if you can still fight." ”

Cao Meng's face immediately became bitter, what he was most afraid of was Hu Sanniang's flying stone, which was elusive and unguardable, including Gao Chong, who also suffered a big loss on the flying stone.

At this time, Li Yanqing put away his joke and asked again: "How is the battle?" ”

Cao Meng hurriedly bowed down and replied, "Qi Yu is the capital, a total of more than 25,400 people were captured, more than 3,200 people were killed and wounded, and the rest of the more than 1,000 people escaped. ”

"What about the enemy general?"

"The enemy's commander, Wu Zhan, disguised himself as a small soldier and surrendered, and was reported by other surrendered generals and has been arrested."

Li Yanqing nodded, "Escort him up!" ”

Cao Meng waved his hand, and several soldiers escorted Wu Zhan, the main general with his hands tied behind his back, and Wu Zhan knelt down and begged when he saw Li Yanqing, "Humble duty knows mistakes, please spare your life, humble duty must serve Dutong!" ”

Li Yanqing shook his head, "Since you have led the court, but betrayed the Son of Heaven, since you have signed the letter of allegiance, but now you want to serve me, it can be described as disloyal, unkind and unjust, take your head to ring the alarm bell for those who betray the Son of Heaven!" Push down, slash! ”

The soldier pushed Wu Zhan down, and Wu Zhan shouted: "All spare your life, spare your life!" ”

In just a moment, the soldier brought up a bloody human head, and Li Yanqing ordered it to be packed into a box and sent back to Lin'an, believing that the news would spread soon.

At this time, more than a dozen generals were also escorted up, and when they saw Li Yanqing, they bowed their heads and said nothing, with a look of shame in their eyes, and several generals here had followed Li Yanqing to defend Bianliang, but now they have become prisoners of war.

Li Yanqing looked at them, "Wang Yong, Zhang Xiaoliang, Zhang Liang, Yang Daozhi, I didn't say your name wrong!" Who should be ashamed of the fact that we fought side by side, but now that we are enemies? ”

Several generals knelt down and cried: "All the generals, our officials are lowly and lowly, there is no choice at all, I don't want to be the enemy of the capital from the bottom of my heart!" ”

"That's right, Wu Zhan signed the letter of allegiance, it was he who took the initiative to betray the Son of Heaven, so I killed him, you are indeed different, so be it! I'm giving you a chance to choose now, if you want to return to Lin'an, I will not be embarrassed, release it immediately, but next time I am arrested, don't blame me Li Yanqing for being ruthless, want to follow me Li Yanqing, then your official will be reinstated, continue to lead troops for me, follow me to help the Great Song Dynasty, and seek justice for the official family, neither of them is willing, if you want to go home and farm, then you can do it, I will also release it immediately, you choose! ”

More than a dozen generals knelt down on one knee without hesitation, "We are willing to follow Dutong Kuang to support the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

These generals are like mirrors, they have no position themselves, but they have interests, Wu Zhan is dead, they will not end well when they go back, it is better to follow Li Yanqing, maybe there will be merit in the future.

Li Yanqing immediately said to Gao Chong: "The cavalry will be handed over to Cao Meng, from now on you will be in charge of the infantry, and you will be responsible for the command of these surrendered troops!" ”

Gao Pet knelt down on one knee and hugged his fists and said: "Obey the order!" ”

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