Chapter 151: Another 200,000 defeated
Seeing that Han Sui was dead, Zhao Zheng put down the spear, drew his saber, cut off Han Sui's head, twisted his hair vigorously, and tied it bloodily behind his buttocks. He looked left and right, and saw that not far ahead, there was a Qiang soldier carrying the body of Beigong Boyu on his back, and under the escort of several Qiang soldiers, he was running to the flat ground outside the valley.
Withdrawing the saber and picking up the spear, Zhao Zheng caught up from behind, the spear stabbed continuously, put down the Qiang soldier who was guarding, and stabbed the Qiang soldier who was carrying Beigong Boyu in the thigh again, he shouted: "What are you doing running so fast, hurry to reincarnate!" A shot stabbed the Qiang soldier to death, and then drew a knife and cut off Beigong Boyu's head.
At this time, a large number of horn soldiers from behind came, and Dian Wei carried a one-legged bronze doll lance and shouted: "Brother Zhao, have you only slaughtered two Qiang soldiers for such a long time?" He shook the giant lance in his hand and said with a smile: "I have already slapped more than 20 times dead, more than ten times as much as you!" ”
Zhao Zheng said with a smile: "I didn't kill much less than you, I cut off these two heads, one is Han Sui's......" He patted the head behind his buttocks, patted the blood on his hand, and raised the head he had just cut off, and said, "This is Beigong Boyu's." How's that, your twenty heads, better than these two? ”
Dian Wei was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "No, these two people were killed by you?" You're in luck! ”
Zhao Zheng also tied Beigong Boyu's head to his belt, and said with a smile: "I'm a person, I've been like this since I was a child, nothing else is good, it's just luck, I sometimes wonder, why is my luck so good?" Brother Dian, do you know why not? ”
Dian Wei scolded with a smile: "You bastard boy, as soon as you said you were fat, you gasped!" Let's go and kill the enemy again, and we will kill more than anyone else! As he spoke, he ran to the Qiang soldiers first.
Zhao Zheng followed behind and shouted: "If you want to kill more than anyone, I'm afraid I can't compare to you, but if you want to kill more than anyone, then you can't do it, we have already made the first contribution, no matter how much you kill, you can be the second!" ”
As they spoke, the two rushed towards the Qiang soldiers together, and in front of them, hundreds of horn soldiers had already chased over, and everyone was rushing to make meritorious contributions, and no one was far behind.
Li Qin took Jia Xu and others to the mouth of the canyon, he waved his hand, and the horn soldiers stepped forward, wanting to move the giant trees away, so that they could ride horses to pass, but they found that the giant trees were all big trees, there were more than a dozen of them, and it was really difficult to move them, so they had to let the auxiliary soldiers come over, cut off the giant trees with axes, and move them away one by one, sweeping the valley pass, and letting the cavalry of the brigade pass.
As soon as he got out of the valley, Li Qin looked into the distance, and saw that the Qiang soldiers who escaped from the valley were chased by chickens and dogs, and those who grabbed the horses ran away with the brigade, but it was bad if they didn't grab it, either they surrendered on their knees, or resisted, but the Qiang soldiers who resisted were almost not spared, and they were all stabbed by the horn-raising soldiers who wanted to make meritorious contributions, and went to the underworld to see their king of the North Palace.
Li Qin waved his horsewhip and shouted: "Catch up, make a good feat, everyone go up together, you don't have to follow me!" ”
The horn-raising soldiers were overjoyed, and galloped wildly to chase the Qiang soldiers.
Jia Xu followed, and said with a smile next to Li Qin's horse: "Ah Qin, winning this battle can ensure the safety of my Liangzhou for five years, and within five years, the Qiang soldiers will not have the strength to toss like this anymore." ”
Li Qin said: "There are so many people, we can't kill them all, but where will these people flee to?" If it is scattered among the people, it will be bad. ”
Jia Xu hummed and said: "This is a problem, the Qiang soldiers have no leader, this statement is to promote them, if there is a leader, they can still get together, but if there is no leader, I am afraid that they have to disperse into the people, then they have to kill the common people!" ”
Li Qin thought for a while and said, "That Li Wenhou is dead or not, he should still be fighting with the Qiang soldiers in the future, right?" Judging from the current situation, he can't die immediately, he has to let him gather the Qiang soldiers, so many Qiang soldiers can never enter the people, then there are endless troubles! ”
He turned around, called a scout, and said, "You and a few people go to check if that Li Wenhou is dead, if not, don't touch him first, leave him time, let him gather the Qiang soldiers." ”
The scout agreed, called a few Fujiao cavalry, and went back to Yunwu County together to investigate Li Wenhou's affairs.
Jia Xu pointed to the front and said: "Ah Qin, let's catch up, kill as many as we can, be sure to kill the Qiang soldiers this time, so that they don't dare to stay in Liangzhou anymore, as long as they go out of the country, they like to toss and toss, it has nothing to do with us." ”
Li Qin nodded and said: "It is estimated that they will go to Sizhou, go to the vicinity of Chang'an to toss around, it is a rich land, and the Qiang soldiers can replenish grain and grass there, which is much stronger than going to other poor places." ”
Jia Xu shook his head and said: "Not necessarily, if it were me, then I would go to Bingzhou, which is not too poor, at least richer than Liangzhou, but the army is weak, and the assassin is even more confused, a little more confused than Wei Yuanpi." If I were Li Wenhou, I would go there with the army, and it would be so good to gain a foothold there! But it's different when you go to Sizhou, although Chang'an is rich, there are many soldiers and horses, and if you want to gain a firm foothold, it is even more difficult than in Liangzhou! ”
Li Qin said: "That's right, it's better for you to think about it thoroughly." ”
Jia Xu was afraid of hurting Li Qin's face, so he hurriedly smiled: "Of course, going to Bingzhou instead of Sizhou is because the Qiang soldiers are too wasteful, if Li Wenhou is with our Fujiao Army, then he can go wherever he wants, and no one can stop him." ”
Li Qin laughed and said, "You don't have to find me to go down the steps, I dare to jump down directly no matter how high the wall is, I don't need to take the steps." ”
The sound of the horn, the shouting of killing, sounded for a while, the horn soldiers chased and beat fiercely, until they killed thirty or forty miles, and then the troops were collected, along the way, they killed and injured seven or eight thousand Qiang soldiers, and beat this Qiang soldiers to the point of losing their hearts in one breath.
Li Qin collected his troops, found a leeward place, waited for the auxiliary troops to come up, set up camp, and celebrated well.
Jia Xu hurriedly wrote a letter to Zhang Qin, the supervisor of the army who was in the rear and "controlled the overall situation", telling him about the battle situation, and saying that he was killed in battle, and before he died, in front of the officers and soldiers of the two armies, he said that Li Qin should take his place, and asked what should be done about this matter, and how to report it to the imperial court?
Of course, there are inevitably many words of self-humility in the letter, saying that Li Qin is not qualified enough, he is only shallow in learning, he can only fight, he is a rough man, and he is afraid that it will be difficult to be the captain of the Qiang school, but now Liangzhou is in an eventful winter, isn't it winter now, the road is difficult to walk, so before the court sent a new captain to protect the Qiang, Li Qin was willing to temporarily act as an agent to ensure the safety of Liangzhou, serve the court, serve the emperor, and then secretly write a report to serve Zhang Rang. Of course, all the credit belongs to Zhang Qin, and the plan is also set by Zhang Qin, Li Qin is just executing, there is no credit, only a little hard work.
After delivering the letter, Li Qin scattered the Fujiao soldiers and went to the nearby villages to arrest the lone Qiang soldiers, and resolutely did not let the defeated soldiers harm the people.
After the Fujiao soldiers went down to the countryside, they caught a lot of Qiang soldiers, the people were worried, there was a big battle on the side of the Luoyu River, whether the officers and soldiers won, or the Qiang soldiers won, there will always be defeated soldiers, and the defeated soldiers have always been more powerful than locusts, they can rob the people with nothing, if they just rob it, and then kill people, then who can stand it!
But the soldiers who went to the countryside played a key role in protecting the people. The Qiang soldiers thought that the Fujiao Army could only chase the Qiang soldiers of the brigade, how could they care about these small fish and shrimp, but they were wrong, the Fujiao Army did not go to catch the big king, but they had to compete with them, these small fish and shrimp. After going to the countryside, with the help of the common people, there was no place to hide people in the nearby villages, and more than nine-tenths of the Qiangdi routs were caught, and only a very small number of routs fled into the primeval forest or remote mountainous areas, so they were not caught, but now they are dying in the cold weather, even if they can't hide for a few days, they either freeze to death, or they have to starve to death.
The Fujiao soldiers were caught in the nearby countryside for four or five days, and only then could they be regarded as sweeping away and eliminating the threat of rout. During this time, Li Qin was not idle, first waited for Chen Yi, who came to "support", and after the battle was over, the county guard was late, and he pretended to be working hard to rush here.
Li Qin told him about the battle situation, and the two put Leng Zheng's body into a freshly made coffin and sent someone to transport it back to Longxian. Li Qin asked Chen Yi about Li Wenhou again, and Chen Yi told him that Li Wenhou's men had started infighting, and their own people fought their own people, and after a big battle, nearly 2,000 people died, and then the two armies merged together and went to the Luoyu River.
Li Qin asked about the deserters again, but the deserters went to Yunwu County, but Chen Yi said that he didn't see the rout, and it was estimated that he turned halfway and went to another place, looking at the horseshoe prints in the snow, as if they were going northeast.
Li Qin was a little anxious, the Qiang soldiers went to the northeast, wouldn't they go to Longxian, the northeast can be regarded as a slightly rich place, that is, Longxian, and there is no place else that can provide tens of thousands of Qiang soldiers with food and grass.
The two discussed it for a while, and hurriedly ran to Longxian County to support Lord Thorn Shi. Chen Yi saw that the Fujiao Army was so powerful that he was not afraid, and he went to Longxian with Li Qin. On the way, they ran into another person who rushed to support in a hurry, of course, Zhang Qin.
As soon as Zhang Qin saw Li Qin, she didn't care about anything else, and immediately said: "Li Lang, you gave our family a battle report, and our family wrote two copies again, one was sent to Wei Tingshi, and the other was sent directly to Beijing and handed over to Lord Zhongchang. ”
Li Qin sighed and said: "I can't care about this now, it's important to go to support Wei Thorn History, the Qiang soldiers have been defeated in the direction of Longxian." ”
When Zhang Qin heard this, she didn't dare to slack off, and followed Li Qin with Chen Yi to Longxian.
But when they arrived in Longxian, there were still dozens of miles away from the county seat, but they found that it was still safe and sound, and the Qiang soldiers were coming in this direction, but they bypassed Longxian far away, and they looked at the direction of going to Bingzhou.
(To be continued)