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Two hours later, the sun had set, and the flames on the battlefield had gradually been extinguished, but the smoke was still rising from the original fire, and the dejected captives had been stripped of their armor and weapons, and they were only dressed in single clothes, and hundreds of people sat together in a group, their eyes full of numbness and emptiness.

The Shuozhou troops, on the other hand, were in a team and hundreds of people gathered together, drinking wine and eating dried meat, boasting to each other about their bravery in battle.

Thousands of prisoners were digging several large pits under the supervision of hundreds of Shuozhou cavalry, throwing the bodies of the fallen soldiers of the rebel side into the pits for burial, while the bodies of the Shuozhou army themselves were wrapped in white cloth and loaded onto carts captured from the rebel camp to be transported back to Shuozhou for burial.

A post-war evaluation meeting was held in the rebels' camp of the Chinese army, and twenty or thirty officers of the Shuozhou army above the governor level were crowded into this spacious military tent, although everyone's faces were tired, and more than ten people were covered in wounds, took off their armor and wore bandages, but they could not hide the excitement in their hearts.

Yang Xuangan entered this handsome tent alone, he wanted to go back with Xiong Kuohai, but the herald sent by Yang Yichen said that today Yang Xuangan will be in front of the battle and can be called the first hero, if he does not participate in this celebration banquet, it is really unreasonable, and in desperation, Yang Xuangan had to let Xiong Kuohai lead the troops back first, and he rode here alone.

The white-faced and long-bearded marching Sima Li Tong was standing in front of the handsome case, reading aloud the battle report that had just been counted, and after a nervous count. The rebels are from the puppet pillar general Pei Wen'an. More than 35,000 soldiers were beheaded and burned. More than 22,000 people were captured, and less than 3,000 escaped with Qiao Zhongkui.

Most of these prisoners and captures were recorded in the cavalry's accounts, and the results of the pursuit were always greater than the desperate battles faced face-to-face.

Yang Liang's most elite and fierce 30,000 dragoon escort troops were basically wiped out in this battle, and it was no longer possible to form combat effectiveness.

The rebel generals of the same rank and above also beheaded more than 300 prisoners, all of whom were the backbone of Yang Lang's promotion after fighting against the Turks and Goguryeo for many years, and they were also reimbursed in World War I. Jinyang area. Although he still has more than 200,000 newly recruited troops, his combat effectiveness is no longer comparable to that of these 60,000 strong soldiers.

As for the Shuozhou army, more than 5,000 people were killed in the battle, and more than 7,000 were wounded, and many of these casualties were caused by Pei Wen'an's indiscriminate fire from the enemy, and almost everyone in the infantry army was wounded, while the cavalry basically had no losses or casualties.

Yang Yichen laughed at first. Waving his hand to signal everyone to calm down, his expression became stern. He glanced around the generals majestically, and said: "In today's battle, each army has its own merits and gains, and the cavalry has captured a lot of prisoners, so it stands to reason that it should be credited. ”

"But everyone must remember that today it was the five thousand spearmen at the front who suffered the most ferocious attack of the enemy and suffered the heaviest casualties.

With Yang Yichen's words, there was a silence in the tent all of a sudden, and several lieutenant generals and brigade commanders of the cavalry lowered their heads and stopped arguing.

Yang Yichen continued: "Among the more than 5,000 fallen soldiers of our army today, about 3,000 are spearmen of the infantry army. ”

When he said this, everyone in the tent was red-faced, and even the brigade commanders who led the sword-axe men and archers lowered their heads, looked at their noses and noses, and stared at their toes without speaking.

Yang Yichen's majestic and deep voice continued to echo in the tent: "Ben Shuai has always had clear rewards and punishments, you have all followed me for many years, you should know this, I will take the first credit on the spear team of the Central Infantry Army today, do you disagree?" ”

Everyone raised their heads and said in unison: "Obey the commander's orders!" ”

Yang Yichen nodded with satisfaction: "The second merit, the sword and axe team of the infantry army at the most critical moment of the central front, went up and repelled the enemy's attack, and in the fighting and melee for about an hour, they were also on the first line, holding the front, remembering today's second merit, do you have any objections?" ”

Several brigade commanders of the archers and cavalry teams looked at each other and said convincingly: "No, the marshal is very right!" And Wang Rengong, who led the sword and axe team, and the other two brigade commanders were all happy, and thanked Yang Yichen repeatedly.

Yang Yichen smiled slightly, and continued: "Today's third merit is recorded on the body of the archers, the archers' arrow rain attack today is accurate and ruthless, whether it is the rocket at the beginning, or the ten rounds of arrow rain attack in the middle, or the final mixed attack of arrows and rockets, it is very good and in place, the power is here, do you have any opinions?" ”

The generals said in unison: "The marshal is wise, in today's battle, the brothers of the archers have really worked hard." ”

Yang Yichen's eyes glanced around everyone, and the generals of the cavalry were already full of impatience, thinking that this time it would be our turn, but Yang Yichen's mouth said clearly: "The fourth merit should be pushed to the five hundred heavy soldiers who are ambushed in the valley." ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the tent was in an uproar, and even the commander of the baggage team, Zhang Lushuai, who was standing at the end, was full of consternation, and the cavalry generals were even more resentful.

There was even a deputy general Wu with a beard on his face who stood up and asked directly: "Marshal, no matter how much we wait for the cavalry to fight bloody battles today, and the victory is the highest in the whole army. ”

"But to say that even these heavy soldiers who drive cattle and sheep in the valley and beat gongs and drums to deceive people are not as good, I am really not convinced!"

As soon as the words fell, the cavalry generals also shouted, and even the generals of the infantry army also came out to make suggestions, hoping that Yang Yichen would reconsider.

Wang Shichong looked at this qiē coldly. But in my heart, I was thinking: In terms of merit, there is no problem in lining these baggage soldiers here. If it weren't for the fact that they set up doubts at critical moments. It is also impossible for the enemy forces to collapse on all fronts.

But it is difficult for anyone to understand this truth, and they think that the enemy army was beaten away by themselves, how to make these rough Qiu Ba (together a soldier) understand this truth and obey this order, you can indeed see Yang Yichen's ability and level of thinking.

Yang Yichen didn't speak at first, waiting for these generals to gradually calm down, staring at him one by one, before smiling slightly. "Have you ever wondered why the enemy army collapsed all of a sudden when everyone was fighting to the most critical point? ”

At that time, all the troops were only concerned about fighting with the enemy in front of them, and suddenly they only heard a deafening sound of war drums, and then they began to shout everywhere that the Turkic reinforcements were coming, but in the end, they didn't see where these Turkic reinforcements were.

That Vice Admiral Wu stepped forward. He arched his hand and said: "That is obviously thanks to the help of the Turkic reinforcements, and they only appeared when the killing was at the most critical time." This led to the collapse of the entire enemy army. ”

Yang Yichen laughed: "The Turkic reinforcements are the brothers of the baggage team, Lvshuai Zhang, you come to tell the big guy what's going on." ”

That brigade commander is a middle-aged uncle in his forties, his face is full of the vicissitudes of time, and he looks kind, unlike those brigade commanders of the Ma Bu Army, who are all scars on their faces and fierce battlefield generals.

He stood up and snorted, and said in a Shanxi dialect: "Before the war, the marshal said to Hungry, let Hungry drive the cattle and sheep into the ravine, and when he saw the black flag waving three times, he let all the soldiers beat the drum and drive the cattle and sheep in, and the back of the cattle and sheep was tied with branches, and when they moved, the sky was full of dust, and then more than 100 people were dressed in Turkic clothes and rode horses to run around in front. ”

When the generals heard this, they suddenly realized, and Vice General Wu muttered: "It turns out that those Turks are all pretended by you." ”

Yang Yichen smiled and nodded: "Not only that, but the baggage team also has two merits, after the first battle yesterday, Lvmarshal Zhang was ordered by me to prepare sulfur and wolf dung overnight and send it to the archers, so that there is a steady stream of rocket materials for the archers today, and there is another one, that is, the thousands of cattle and sheep, all of which were slaughtered today and used to reward the three armies!" ”

As soon as everyone heard this, they immediately jumped up happily, and several infantry brigade commanders laughed and said: "I see, then give the brothers of the baggage team a head credit, and we have no opinion!" The deputy general Wu retreated abruptly, and did not speak, and it could be seen that he was still a little unhappy in his heart.

And those cavalry generals originally came with hope, thinking that today's assessment could be second if not the first, but they didn't expect that the credit was not even as good as the heavy soldiers, and they were all like frosted eggplants, which seemed incompatible with the cheers of others.

Yang Yichen saw the unhappiness of the cavalry generals, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he said to Deputy General Wu: "The cavalry's merits today are also in the eyes, don't be rewarded, don't have this expression." ”

The deputy general Wu arched his hand lukewarmly: "The army has military regulations, and the rewards are arranged in the order of merit, and we have not made great efforts in this battle, and even the merits of the baggage team are before my cavalry, how can I have the face to ask for any reward, and the marshal doesn't have to be happy with me." ”

Yang Yichen laughed: "That reward is for the imperial court, but today's undeniable fact is that the cavalry captured and captured the most in the pursuit battle, and the armor and weapons captured the most, I, Yang Yichen, can't do anything else, this authority is still there, Li Sima, how many war horses and armor were captured today?" ”

Li Tong hurriedly unfolded the statistical silk book, quickly glanced at the back few lines, and looked up and said: "Twenty-one thousand four hundred and thirty-seven war horses, twenty-three thousand five hundred and forty-six sets of horse armor, more than 17,600 sets of chain mail, and more than 6,300 sets of fine Mingguang armor have also been captured. There are more than 20,000 sets of leather armor worn by the infantry, and as for the weapons and crossbows, the number has not yet been counted, and the number is about 40,000. ”

Yang Yichen nodded, and said to Vice General Wu, who was happy: "Old Wu, you always complain to me that your cavalry lacks horse armor, and the riders also lack heavy armor, isn't there this time?" These vests and the bright light armor and chain mail worn by the knights can only be used by your cavalry, and I am the master, and it is all yours. After this account. Don't say that I'm Yang Yichen eccentric. I don't give you any benefit to the cavalry. ”

Vice General Wu was overjoyed. Hurriedly knelt down on one knee and bowed to Yang Yichen again and again to thank him: "Marshal Yang, Lao Wu will follow you in this life, hahahaha." And several other cavalry brigade commanders also had smiles on their faces, and bowed their heads with Lao Wu.

Yang Yichen waved his hand and said: "I, Yang Yichen, am the fairest in handling things, in fact, it should be Yang Xuangan Yang Zhuguo who should be credited today, but unfortunately he is not from our Shuozhou Army." I don't want to give him any reward, Yang Zhuguo, today I Yang Yichen owe you a great favor, if there is anything in the future, as long as you say something, my surname Yang will definitely repay you. ”

Yang Xuan felt that this Yang Yichen was able to arrange this post-war assessment so appropriately, so that a group of military men were convinced, and he was already in admiration, thinking that it would be difficult for him to make such an appropriate arrangement if he had changed himself, and when he heard Yang Yichen's words, he laughed. He arched his hand and said, "Marshal Yang is polite!" The two men met their eyes. A qiē is all in the words.

The assessment has been decided, Yang Yichen stood up and said loudly: "Pass my general order, kill cattle and sheep, reward the whole army, early tomorrow morning, the whole army will pull out the camp and go south to Jinyang!" ”

Huozhou, more than 300 miles southwest of Jinyang City, is located in the middle of the southwest of the entire Bingzhou (Shanxi), on the border with Linfen County and Jinzhong County, guarding the traffic from Puzhou to Jinyang. Huozhou is surrounded by mountains, and the Fen River flows through the Hanxin Mountains in the northwest into the state and flows through the western part of the state. Huozhou is surrounded by mountains to the east and Mount Taiyue to the west, and this Huozhou city guards the only access to the mountain.

Yang Su's army is facing the main force of more than 100,000 troops recruited by Yang Liang at the end of the river, at this time Yang Liang sent to fight in various places almost all the troops have been wiped out, Yu Gongxi, who went out to the east, and the two troops of Su Liang were successively broken by the troops in the area of Luoyang, the eastern capital of the right guard general Shi Xiang, Yu Gong was killed, and Su Liang threw down his troops and fled to the former criminal department Shangshu who had correspondence during the war, and now Xiangzhou assassinated Shi Xue Xuan.

The 60,000 most elite dragoon guards who tried to capture Daizhou to the north and opened up contact with the Turks were almost wiped out, and the defeated Qiao Zhongkui fled back and was ordered to be beheaded on the spot by Yang Liang, who was furious.

Liu Jian, who stormed Jingcheng in the northeast direction and attempted to attack Youzhou, was also defeated by the 30,000 cavalry led by Li Zixiong, who controlled Youzhou, and less than 10,000 of the 50,000 troops fled back to Jinyang.

At this point, Yang Liang, who was trapped in a Jinyang City, had almost become a turtle in an urn, and anyone with a discerning eye knew that his defeat was decided. But Xiao Maha and Wang Cheng were not willing to fail, and in the past month, Yang Liang had recruited 60,000 or 70,000 recruits in Bingzhou, plus the defeated soldiers who fled back and the troops originally assembled in Jinyang, there were still more than 200,000 warriors.

Under the strong construction of Wang Cheng, Yang Liang sent the general Zhao Zikai to lead 140,000 elites to the southwest to the Huozhou area, set up a formation on the north bank of the Fen River, blocked the mountain path with a fence, and sent troops to defend on the high mountains and mountains on both sides, with a battalion of more than 50 li, in an attempt to block the main force of the crusading army led by Yang Su himself in this way.

Yang Liang himself led an army of 100,000 led by Wang Cheng and Xiao Maha to trap Jinyang, preparing to meet Yang Yichen and Wang Shichong, who were outflanked from the northwest, Yang Xuangan's Shuozhou troops and Xiaoguo's combined forces, and Youzhou's Li Zixiong's army from the northeast.

Wang Fei and Yang Liang still have a glimmer of hope, counting on a few beautiful defensive counterattacks, so that the unstable elements with great ambitions all over the world can take the opportunity to make trouble, so as to give Yang Liang a chance to turn over, Wang Fei is missing Pei Wen'an, a sworn enemy, this time, he can finally let go of the play, and suddenly feel that the air has become fresher, his slogan is: "Resolutely hold on, there is a way!" ”

At this moment, the main force of the crusading army led by Yang Suqin had also reached the south bank of the Fen River, opposite Zhao Zikai's 140,000 army across the river.

This time Yang Su brought out an army of 80,000 from Guanzhong, and after leaving the pass, he joined the soldiers of the prefectures and counties along the way, plus the reinforcements sent by Shi Xiang from Henan, Yang Su, who marched to the south bank of the Fen River, already had an army of 120,000, and his subordinates had a number of fierce generals such as Mai Tiecane, Zhang Xutuo, Zhou Luohu, and Yujuluo, which could be described as strong soldiers and strong horses, and high morale.

And the rebels across the river also know that this is the last battle of life and death, because many of these people are old subordinates who have followed Yang Liang for many years, and they also know that their fate is related to Yang Liang's retirement, if they are defeated and captured, it will definitely be the fate of killing the head and exterminating the clan, so they also gave up the last illusion and defended it with all their might.

The two armies fought dozens of battles on a small scale along the river in more than ten days, and there were victories and defeats against each other, but on the whole they formed a stalemate.

Wang Shichong and Yang Yichen defeated the rebels that day, then with Yang Yichen, Yang Xuangan returned to the city to discuss with Li Jing, and finally decided to leave the infantry and wounded soldiers to defend the city, and placed 30,000 prisoners outside the city to be strictly guarded.

Li Jing saw that his eyes were red, and he sent Feng Xiaoci to lead two thousand cavalry, and cheekily asked Yang Yichen for equipment, disguised as a dragon cavalry escort with one person and two horses, and gathered 10,000 coalition troops, plus Yang Xuangan's 5,000 Xiaoguo, 15,000 iron cavalry, fine armor, drums and trumpets shook the sky, and went south to Jinyang. (To be continued......)