Seeing Liu Zeqing escape, the captain of the cavalry team, Zhou Ce, suddenly became anxious, he was originally a soldier from Liaodong, but Liu Fan did not give up, and was entrusted with an important task, not only became the chief of the cavalry section of the military academy, but also served as the captain of Liu Fan's only cavalry team. Furious, he said, "Kill it!" Re-queue! Follow me to capture Liu Zeqing alive! Don't let the adults down! Otherwise, our cavalry will never be able to raise their heads again! With that, he slashed at the enemy around him, and with a blow of rage, he immediately cut off the heads of the enemy soldiers in front of him!

Hearing the words of their own captain, the cavalry knights' eyes were red, thinking of the cynicism of their colleagues before, where could they still endure it, roared, and killed the surrounding enemy troops with force. The cavalry had an advantage over the infantry, but with the desperate fighting of the cavalry team, the remnants of Liu Zeqing, who was entangled beside him, could not resist it and were pierced by the cavalry!

After the cavalry team got rid of the entanglement of the enemy army, they relined on the north side, Zhou Ce raised his eyes and looked, Liu Zeqing and the others had already gone away, and it was almost too late to catch up! Anger swelled up in his heart, and he yelled, "Rush over to me!" Before the roar fell, the man had already slapped his horse out and killed the soldiers in front of him! Seeing that his boss was so brave, the cavalry under his command was not far behind, so he screamed and rushed behind Zhou Ce! Although the cavalry team fought hard, but their number was too small! In the face of thousands of foot soldiers blocking the front, coupled with the fact that Liu Zeqing's remnants were still loyal and brave, and under the desperate entanglement, by the time the cavalry team chiseled through the enemy formation again, Liu Zeqing had already gone away! Seeing that there was no hope of catching up with Liu Zeqing, Zhou Ce scolded a few times, and had no choice but to accept the reality.

With Liu Zeqing's escape, the morale of Liu Zeqing's soldiers dropped to freezing point, and the soldiers no longer had the will to continue fighting, and they were basically desperate.

Liu Fan didn't pay attention to this when he saw this, as usual, in this case, Liu Fan only needs to shout out a sentence "Don't kill if you fall!" "The enemy army that has collapsed will surrender without a fight! But Liu Fan didn't give an order, because most of these soldiers were the private soldiers and thugs of those landlords, and it was difficult for Liu Fan to let them go to ensure that they would not continue to fight for the tiger, so Liu Fan couldn't bear to feel sad in his heart, and still ordered the soldiers to kill them all!

The battle continued, accompanied by bursts of screams, the routs were cut down one after another, and some of the routs who were unwilling to wait for death were also fighting up, but these small amounts of resistance, how could they resist the powerful gun array of the Broken Army, and they were only extinguished in an instant. The battle lasted from morning to dusk, and the remaining 10,000 people, except for the nearly 3,000 people who fled Liu Zeqing's headquarters, basically died on the west bank of this nameless river valley.

At the end of the battle, looking at the battlefield full of corpses and devastation, Liu Fan sighed and asked Fan Liang beside him, "What about the casualties on both sides of the enemy?" Is the statistics out? ”

Fan Liang heard Liu Fan's inquiry and immediately replied, "My lord! Now the battlefield is basically cleaned! The number of casualties is being counted, and so far our army has suffered more than 1,000 casualties, of which 565 have died, more than 300 have been seriously wounded, and more than 400 have been lightly wounded! The enemy suffered about 10,000 casualties, most of them killed, and more than 1,000 prisoners! Our army has won a great victory! The only regret is that Liu Zeqing ran away! ”

Liu Fan felt a pain in his heart when he heard this, he didn't expect that in such an advantageous ambush battle, his casualties were so large, almost a quarter of his troops! More than 500 people died! How many military academy students are among them! Before they finished their studies, they were sent to the battlefield by Liu Fan! Liu Fan regretted a little, he should have let them surrender earlier! Then there would not have been such a big casualty! Entering the battlefield, Liu Fan saw very clearly that most of the casualties of the soldiers of the Broken Army were caused by these routs and counterattacks! It was because of his selfishness that he wanted to settle once and for all that these people gave up their lives in vain, and Liu Fan had mixed feelings for a while! I don't know if what I'm doing is right or wrong!

Seeing that Liu Fan's mood was not high and he looked worried, Fan Liang thought that Liu Fan was upset about the casualties of his own soldiers, and comforted him, "My lord! How can there be no immortal in war! We've won a big win this time! Don't you often tell us to fight bravely and not be afraid of sacrifice? Adults usually treat us so well, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, there has never been an adult who is so kind to us, the big soldiers and the poor people! Fight and die for you! We willingly! ”

Liu Fan smiled bitterly: "Okay! Don't talk about that! I know what you want! Hurry up and clean up the battlefield! We're going back to Lingshanwei before dark! It's not good to delay too much time! ”

"It's my lord!" Fan Liang replied respectfully, and was about to turn around, when he suddenly thought of something, and asked Liu Fan, "My lord!" So what about Liu Zeqing? He took quite a few people with him! Do you want to send someone to chase it? ”

Liu Fan waved his hand and said, "No need!" Actually, Liu Zeqing was intentionally let go! I have seen Liu Zeqing before, although his character is not very good, but he is still very good at leading soldiers! That's why I only sent cavalry over, so that they could panic and take care of themselves, and only care about fleeing for their lives! Otherwise, once he really fights the trapped beasts, our army's casualties will be even more! And at this time, Liu Zeqing may have fled to a nearby city! It's okay to fight in the field or defend the city! But attacking a city with officials for no reason is tantamount to rebellion! It's not worth it for one Liu Zeqing! ”

Fan Liang listened to Liu Fan's words and said indignantly: "Are they only allowed to beat us, and we are not allowed to fight back?" Then why can Liu Zeqing attack brazenly regardless of the order of the imperial court! Attack my Shihe? Isn't he afraid of being pursued by the imperial court? ”

Liu Fan thought for a moment and replied, "This is also where I am confused!" However, according to my guess, there may be court bigwigs behind the scenes who are secretly manipulating! We can't give it to anyone! What's more, Liu Zeqing's battle is no longer a climate! I'll report to the court when I'm done with the matter at hand!" Your Majesty will make the decision for us and clean up Liu Zeqing! ”

It was only after it was getting dark that the Breakers hurriedly cleaned up the battlefield and left the place. After a day of fighting, most of the soldiers were exhausted, and the time was not so rushed, and Liu Fan could not let the Broken Army continue to march at night. had to camp ten miles away from Lingshan Wei.

Early the next morning, the army did not enter the Lingshan Guard, but directly embarked on the road back to Shihe! In this battle in the valley, Liu Zeqing's coalition army was almost wiped out! Shandong was shocked, and the gentry who got the news of the defeat of the coalition army were panicked! Because they were afraid of Liu Fan's revenge, smart people absconded one after another! Only those stubborn and brainless local tyrants and inferior gentry are still lucky! Guarding the property and the land and refusing to leave!