When he realized that Li Chao's army was ready to fight a defensive counterattack. Zhao Xiaoxi knew that if the Li Dynasty army wanted to fight back, it must fight back with all its might. This also meant that their large battalion would be extremely empty, which would also leave his cavalry with an opportunity to take advantage of.

This is also the reason why, during lunch, he would let Zhao Da lead a cavalry out of the camp. In the rear of the Li Dynasty's army, Zhao Xiaoxi had already dispatched three cavalry guards of 500 men to attack the Li Dynasty's supply lines.

What Zhao Da needed to do was to gather them together and launch a counterattack against the Li Dynasty's army. From the rear of the Li Dynasty's army, the camp of the Li Dynasty's army was directly copied. At this time, presumably the army of the Li Dynasty would not have thought that Zhao Xiaoxi would dare to play this trick.

The strength of the army itself is not as good as that of the Li Dynasty, and it dares to play the division of troops, which is undoubtedly a taboo for soldiers. It's just that for Zhao Xiaoxi, he believes in the troops he has trained, and he believes that the weapons that this army has can withstand the counterattack of the Li Dynasty's army.

The reality was as he expected, in the face of the artillery born in advance, and the unstoppable rapid fire of the musketeers at close range. The army of the Li Dynasty, almost as if it were sweeping, continued to advance and fell one after another outside the iron barrel formation of the Song army.

Although each musketeer fought to the end, he felt that he could not see everything in front of him. But he still followed the habitual shooting action and shot the bullet in his hand. This kind of platoon of guns, unless the enemy is crawling over, will definitely not be able to rush.

Even if there are a few fish that slip through the net, those sword and shield soldiers and pikemen are not dry food. They will crucify all these fish that have slipped through the net, and they will all be out of the shield. This kind of tactic is mostly fought by the mutual cooperation between the arms.

As the cavalry began to divide and encircle, the collapse of the Li Dynasty's army was inevitable. With the flag commanders, he decisively gave the order to divide and attack. The iron bucket array quickly dispersed into several small iron bucket arrays. Take down Li Chaobing, who has no fighting spirit.

Until there were soldiers of the Li Dynasty, who couldn't run and didn't want to run, they began to throw away their weapons and beg to surrender. Seeing that surrender could save their lives, groups of Li Dynasty's troops, which were surrounded and intercepted, began to surrender in pieces.

As for the stubborn Li Dynasty troops, such as the cronies around the three commanders. They had three cavalry teams to focus on. It wasn't until the last person died in the battle that the battle, which lasted until dark, officially ended.

Looking at the torches that began to be lit on the plain, Zhao Xiaoxi, who was covered in blood. But he said very calmly: "Notify the rear captive team and come over to receive the captives as soon as possible." The army rested for the night and continued its march to Thang Long City tomorrow. ”

A great victory, which seemed to the officers and men to be hearty, ended quickly. Looking at the army of the Li Dynasty, the number of dead and wounded exceeded 10,000. Zhao Xiaoxi knows that the weeds in this plain will grow more lush next year.

As for the dead and wounded soldiers of the Song army, there are special personnel responsible for counting and collecting them at this moment. Although they died in battle, they could also enjoy everything that Cho Hyo-seok promised. After all, Cho Hyo-seok will do what he says.

And he believed. With these more than 20,000 captives, the rent that the merchants alone gave him. It was enough for him to build a monument. There are also pensions for the war dead, as well as awards for meritorious service.

It was clear that as it got dark, it would be impossible for all the routs who had fled in all directions to be caught for a while. But Zhao Xiaoxi believes that as the army continues to advance, these routs are finally not soldiers. Otherwise, you will not escape the fate of being a prisoner.

For these prisoners of war, Zhao Xiaoxi's way of dealing with them was to use them as coolies and sell them to the merchants under his rule as laborers. Even some people who have money in hand can be hired as laborers.

If during hard labor. Prisoners of war who dare to do anything to harm their employers will be killed. During the period of employment, the employer must also ensure the safety of the prisoners' lives, and must not arbitrarily beat, scold or insult them.

If the prisoners of war can reach a good employment relationship with their employers within three years. Then after three years, they will be released and have the opportunity to be new people. No, I was hired like a slave all the time.

And Zhao Xiaoxi also believes that three years is enough to wipe out the hatred of a prisoner of war. With hatred, they can't get the forgiveness of their employers, so they naturally can't get Zhao Xiaoxi's forgiveness.

As long as they work honestly for three years of hard labor, maybe the employment period will end, and they will manage the Qiongzhou royal palace of these hard laborers. will give them a salary, and even give them a few acres of land, so that they can live a good life.

In a word, if you want to live a good life, you must be obedient. As for who to listen to, it goes without saying. Three years later, Zhao Xiaoxi also believed that the Li Dynasty should change greatly, and this place may become the Annan Road of the Great Song Dynasty.

When Zhao Xiaoxi was rewarding the army with a meal, the rout of the Li Dynasty, who had fortunately escaped, did spread the news of the defeat of the army to all the prefectures leading to Thang Long City. Knowing that the three Heavenly Son armies were defeated, these prefectures were naturally panicked.

Compared with Zhao Xiaoxi's side, there were less than 1,000 soldiers killed in battle. Zhao Wu and Wuding's army, which also ended a tragic battle, also ended the battle with the other two Li Chaotianzi army.

Although the victory ultimately belonged to them, the cost was much greater than that of Cho Hyo-seok's side. Nearly half of the soldiers died in battle, and Wuding was also rushed to the hospital with three knives. As the commander, Zhao Wu also felt that this was a disastrous victory.

The reason is that they also thought that with the artillery team they had everything. As a result, Li Chao relied on the numerical advantage and fought hard with them. At the end of the battle, those artillerymen actually held cannonballs and exploded at the dense place where Li Chao's soldiers were concentrated.

It was with this ruthlessness that Zhao Wu came from the armies of Yongzhou and Qiongzhou, and finally won the final victory. But seeing that there were only less than 5,000 prisoners left in the Li Dynasty, and there were also only 6,000 or 7,000 soldiers left on his side, Zhao Wuzhen wanted to cry without tears.

He knew very well that even the ratio of battle losses between him and the Li Dynasty's army had reached a terrifying one to four or even more. But in Cho Hyo-seok's view, it was also a fiasco. And the reason for the fiasco was that he was too careless in commanding.

Zhao Wu, who sent a letter of pleading to Zhao Hyo-seok overnight, had to stop moving forward. Order the rear, speed up the replenishment of their source of recruits. Otherwise, the loss of the second artillery team made him lose the confidence to attack the city.

As a result, the next day, when he received a letter of guilt from Zhao Wu, Zhao Xiaoxi's good mood was naturally swept away. Facing the frightened expressions of Zhao Da and others, Zhao Xiaoxi also knew that they were worried about Zhao Wu.

Although Cho Hyo-seok knows that anything can happen on the battlefield. But at this time, it is not the time to hold Zhao Wu responsible. After all, in the eyes of many soldiers, Zhao Wu finally led them to victory.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xiaoxi quickly said: "Order, from this army, send an artillery team to join Zhao's five major armies." In addition, it was ordered that the provinces of Guangnan should give priority to the troops that had completed the training of recruits to be replenished to the five armies of Zhao.

In addition, a musket team of 1,000 men was drawn from this army and accompanied by artillery. Tell Zhao Wu that if there is another problem, he doesn't have to come back to ask for the guilt, let him just watch it himself. There were five or six thousand casualties, how could he be a commander! ”

Facing Zhao Xiaoxi, who was a little angry, Zhao Da and others also knew. This time, Zhao Wu was able to become the commander of the army, which was more due to his good training and his initiative to ask for battle.

Although they will become famous and have dry bones, they all know that Zhao Xiaoxi is extremely concerned about the battle damage in every battle. He is different from ordinary generals, and he will consider his own battle damage more often.

Zhao Da, who didn't dare to say anything, was about to go out to give an order. But I heard Zhao Xiaoxi say again: "By the way, another order was sent to Su Ziyuan, the governor of Yongzhou, to send a man to collect the remains of the soldiers, and inform the treasurer of the palace that the pension must be issued as soon as possible."

In addition, let the Ministry of Industry of Qiongzhou Prefecture give priority to the soldiers there to build a martyr's monument. At the same time, the people of Yongzhou were informed that the glorious achievements of their military command had always retained the establishment of the Yongzhou army. ”

When Zhao Da heard this series of arrangements, he also knew that this was Zhao Xiaoxi's compensation to those dead soldiers. In any case, their expedition to the Li Dynasty this time was also a sacrifice made for the long-term peace and stability of the Great Song Dynasty in the future.

When Cho Hyo-seok's army continued to embark on the road to Thang Long City. The news of the disastrous defeat of the two armies soon spread to Thang Long City. The news of the defeat of the Five Heavenly Sons Army was undoubtedly a harbinger of the death of the country for the Li Dynasty.

Even the ambitious Li Qiande sat on the dragon chair without making a sound for a long time when he heard these two urgent battle reports. As for the civil and military ministers in the court, they are also aware of the danger of the country's demise.

The news of the defeat of the Li Dynasty army in these two battles was also quickly spread by Zhao Xiaoxi's arrangement in the Li Dynasty. To the south of Thanh Hoa City, those coastal cities of the Li Dynasty quickly gave up resistance after learning of the news.

Landing forces sent by navy began to take over their capitals, seal their treasury, and count all the booty. At present, the territory owned by the Li Dynasty is really decreasing day by day.

The only optimistic point is the area where the Li Dynasty and Dali are at war. Duan Yu, who also cherishes the soldiers, wants the land of Pingbian City. So, his attack is more of a containment.

But even so, the pace of the Dali army is also constantly approaching Shenglong City. Especially when he learned that Zhao Xiaoxi, the two armies led by him, had achieved great victories, and Duan Yu also knew that Li Chao, a neighbor, was afraid that it was really over.

Faced with this situation of losing one after another, Li Gande said very eagerly: "Hasn't the Ministry of Rites received the news yet?" ”

As for Li Qiande's expectation that Zhancheng and Zhenla would send troops to help, how could the two countries touch this kind of mold when the Great Song Dynasty army was carrying the power of a great victory? All the envoys of the Li Dynasty were escorted and sent to the palace of Qiongzhou across the sea.

As for the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, who has not heard from him so far, he was robbed by an unknown armed force before he left the territory of the Li Dynasty at all. At this moment, the body has been buried in the soil for a while! The history of the Li Dynasty has also begun to enter the countdown! (To be continued......)