"What's going on? Where did this army come from? A general of the Yan army saw a cavalry army like a fiery dragon suddenly coming from behind, and his own men and horses were immediately rushed and fled, and he couldn't help but scream. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Another general of the Yan army panicked and shouted to Cui Qianyou: "General, the big thing is not good, I am afraid that our 20,000 cavalry has been annihilated by the Tang army, this cavalry should be the elite cavalry of the Tang army drawn from the right wing of the Tang army in the morning, they annihilated the 20,000 cavalry of our army, and then detoured to our rear to kill them, look at the soldiers, one by one panicked, everywhere is chaotic, general, we have no extra troops to resist this surprise Tang cavalry, even if there is, I am afraid that it will be too late to dispatch at this time!" ”。

Another general of the Yan Army said to Cui Qianyou: "General, we can't stop it, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" ”

Cui Qianyou was furious when he heard this: "Bastard, retreating at this time will defeat faster and die faster!" ”

"But the general, you can save more strength by withdrawing now, and when you are completely defeated, it will be too late to withdraw at that time, maybe even our generals will be captured by the Tang army, general, you can be recruited again when the soldiers and horses are gone, if you don't even have a life, there will be nothing!"

"You guys, what are you still doing in a daze, don't you quickly escort the general to withdraw, it's too late, do you, as a personal soldier, want to watch the general fall into the hands of the enemy?" A general of the Yan Army pointed at some of the soldiers behind Cui Qianyou and shouted.

The pro-soldiers did not hesitate at this time, and immediately rushed up to hold Cui Qianyou and went to the shuai platform, and the pro-soldiers had prepared the war horse, and the pro-soldiers threw Cui Qianyou on horseback, and fled to the northwest with the horse, and several generals couldn't manage so much at this time, so they directly ordered the soldiers under their command to retreat to the northwest, and then each quickly followed Cui Qianyou with cavalry.

There were a few generals who had long been resentful of Cui Qianyou and did not want to follow the rebels for a long time, although they wanted to surrender at this time, but they were worried that the sky was too dark and the Tang army would kill people indiscriminately, so they did not dare to surrender at this time, so they had to flee to the northwest with their soldiers and horses, wanting to wait until dawn before leaving Cui Qianyou and bringing troops and horses to surrender to Tang.

Zhao Ziliang took five thousand heavily armored iron horsemen out of the passage, killed and flew countless rebel soldiers, all the rebels encountered were crushed, many rebel soldiers didn't even know how they died, only knew that a flaming dragon rushed in front of them, like a steel giant beast rushing into their own army formation, like no one's land.

These five thousand iron cavalry is like an extremely sharp iron plough that divides the entire rebel army formation into two, and the surrounding rebel soldiers see this heavy armored iron cavalry, and no longer have the courage to continue to resist, they have turned around and turned around and ran away, but at this time, the battlefield is crowded, where is it so easy to escape, the rebels are crowded together, the speed of escape is slower, pushing and trampling each other and countless people died, plus Zhao Ziliang's iron cavalry pushed and ran over at a very fast speed along the way, leaving only corpses all over the ground.

At this time, the Tang army had launched a full-scale attack, the Yan army battle line began to rout in an all-round way, and it was difficult to distinguish between the enemy and me in the chaos of escape, the Yan army killed each other and trampled on each other, and the Yan soldiers who wanted to surrender were hacked to death and trampled to death by their companions after dropping their weapons and surrendering.

Zhao Ziliang rushed for twenty or thirty miles with five thousand heavily armored iron cavalry in one go, and rushed directly to the city of Huazhou from the battlefield, but at this time, Cui Qianyou had already taken his own soldiers and less than a thousand cavalry to bypass Huazhou City and drive in the direction of Liyang in the north, leaving 100,000 horses on the battlefield.

This night, the Tang army was busy chasing and killing the rebels everywhere, and it was not until early in the morning that the Tang army stopped chasing and killing after the sky turned white, but at this time there were still most of the rebels hiding within the scope of the Tang army's pursuit, and these rebels saw that the sky was bright, so they had the courage to come out and surrender to the Tang army.

The soldiers and horses pursued by the Tang army directly surrounded Huazhou, the rebel guards and defenders in the city of Huazhou learned that Cui Qianyou was defeated and fled, and nearly 100,000 troops were killed, they were all trembling with fear, and when they found that the Tang army had surrounded the city after dawn, the rebels and officials in the city immediately withdrew the Yan army banner at the head of the city, and then opened the city gate to surrender, and the soldiers of the Tang army rushed into the city under the command of generals and colonels at all levels to take over the city defense, collect prisoners, and take over the government and treasury.

In the morning, Zhao Ziliang led a group of personnel from the Marshal's Mansion to ride into the city of Huazhou under the welcome of the soldiers of the whole army and the people of Huazhou, and the people beat gongs and drums, hung banners to warmly welcome Wang Shi, and many people also carried eggs, grain and meat to the soldiers behind Zhao Ziliang.

"The Generalissimo is mighty!" There were people in the welcoming crowd shouting.

When the people heard this, they all raised their hands and shouted: "Generalissimo, mighty!" ”

"Invincible!"

Zhao Ziliang rode on horseback and waved to the people on both sides of the road and nodded in response, but found that the people in the city were yellow and thin, weak and weak, although it was almost March at this time, but the temperature was still not very high, the people were wearing thin tattered clothes, and many of them were barefoot, which made Zhao Ziliang understand to what extent the rebels had taken over the land of Hebei.

In the afternoon, the battlefield was cleaned, all the prisoners were guarded, the corpses of the fallen soldiers and the rebels were collected, and the results of the battle damage and capture were released.

Zhao Ziliang convened a meeting of generals and officials of various armies in the government office of Huazhou Prefecture to inquire about the results of battle damage and capture statistics.

The hall was full of people, Zhao Ziliang looked at everyone, found Huang Fuxian, and asked, "Huang Fuxian, have the battle damage results been counted?" ”

Huang Fuxian stood up and hugged his fists and said: "Dashuai, it has been counted, our army killed 8,823 people in this battle, and 3,456 people were injured, of which the Henan army is facing the main force of the rebels head-on, so the proportion of battle losses is large, the losses of the North Court are basically cavalry, and the frontal battlefield and the guerrilla army have lost more than 1,800 people, but the results are amazing, our army killed more than 44,800 people in this battle, captured more than 55,000 people, and some rebels fled into the nearby mountains and forests! ”

After Huang Fuxian's report was completed, Zheng San came out and was about to report the seizure, when Zhao Ziliang asked directly: "Zheng San, tell me directly, how much grain was seized this time?"

Zheng San said: "11,000 stones were seized from Cui Qianyou's military camp, and there are 5,000 stones in Huazhou City!" ”

Zhao Ziliang looked at the generals and officials and said: "When I entered the city in the morning, I saw that the vast majority of the people in the city were so hungry that they were yellow and thin, skinny and bone-lining, everyone was bare, they were all bare, they had no shoes to wear, their clothes were still single, and they were tattered, all of them were unkempt, worse than the refugees, and the children were starving to death and screaming, this is all our fault, if we had fought earlier and defeated the rebels earlier, the people would not have suffered so many crimes!" I want to return this grain to the people, so that they can eat a few bites of food, so that they can survive these green and yellow months, if the king and the rebels have come and beat the rebels away, the people still have not a good life, what is the difference between this and the rebel occupation? Since we have defeated the rebels, we have the responsibility and obligation to let the people live a good life, I don't know what you think? ”

The army is not short of grain and grass, although the more than 15,000 stone of grain is a lot, but for the Tang army is not indispensable, the generals and officials listened to Zhao Ziliang's words, and they all hugged their fists and said: "The marshal is benevolent and righteous, and the last general (lower official) is deeply admired, everything is handled according to the marshal's will, and we have no objections."

"Good!" Zhao Ziliang nodded, and instructed Wang Wei: "Lord Wang, this matter will be left to you to handle it with full authority, distribute food to the people according to the number of people, adults eat more, send more, the old and weak women and children eat less, give them less, try to distribute them to everyone, if you need the cooperation of the original local officials, send someone to find them."

Wang Wei stood up and arched his hand: "The subordinate takes the order!" ”

Later, Zheng San reported other seizure statistics to Zhao Ziliang one by one, and Zhao Ziliang asked Zheng San to do a good job of warehousing, and at the same time asked Wang Can to send detectives to investigate Cui Qianyou's movements and the advance of the Eastern Route Army.

After the recovery of Huazhou, Zhao Ziliang's affairs increased again, arranging officials, reporting successes to the imperial court, reporting merits to generals and school officials, and so on.

At this time, Chu Ge and Li Siye also made some progress here, Li Siye and Zhao Ting joined forces to attack Xinxiang, the defenders were invincible, and they couldn't resist opening the door for two days, and Chu Ge also led the army to storm Yinzhou, the defenders of Yinzhou were in danger of being cut off because Xinxiang was broken at this time, so the defenders were not firm, and the city of Yinzhou was broken by Chu Ge within a day.

After Chu Ge took Yinzhou, he ordered Li Sheng's right army and Henan's Sixth Army to march north, approaching Gongcheng, which led the front army, the left army, Henan's first, third, and fifth armies to Weizhou, and the rebels were completely defeated for a while.

There is no danger to defend south of Yecheng, An Qingxu, Yan Zhuang, Neng Yuanhao and others are very strong and clear, but they can't not defend, so they ordered Cui Qianyou to lead the army to resist, but An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang heard that Cui Qianyou was defeated by Zhao Ziliang, and almost the whole army was wiped out, so they knew that the city south of Yecheng could not stand it, so they ordered the rebels in each city to abandon the city and retreat to Yecheng, An Qingxu and Yan Zhuang have decided to concentrate all the soldiers and horses to fight to the death with Zhao Ziliang in Yecheng. (To be continued.) )