At the critical moment, the main general suddenly fell to the ground and did not wake up, which is tantamount to a catastrophe, there is a slight difference between advance and retreat, the pool will not be able to eat and walk around in the future, and no one will be willing to take this responsibility, someone also said to Lou Chuan: "The general and General Hu are the same teachers and students, General Hu is unconscious, and the general should take over the principal." Lou Chuan also shirked and said: "The last general is only shallow in learning, and Wei can't convince the public, so General Huang is still in charge." When they heard this, they all echoed it,

Deputy General Huang Hua, nearly seventy years old, the oldest in the Shuofang Army, heard that Lou Chuan recommended him as the main general, he actually "oh" a throat, rolled his eyes, and suddenly fainted,

Everyone woke him up, Huang Hua trembled and pointed at everyone: "I have never had anything to do with the Lord in my life, I wanted to have a good time...... I'm useless, you all have to listen to General Lou. After Huang Hua said this, he stretched out his legs and rode the crane westward.

Lou Chuan also saw that he couldn't shirk it, so he had to grit his teeth and say: "The general trend has gone, and the armies can only keep a trace of blood for the Flying Fish Army by abandoning the city and leaving the south." ”

However, if the warring party wants to retreat, it is often more difficult than attacking, the main force of the Shuofang army is fighting with the tiger battalion, it is impossible to let them retreat, Min Lan can only lie on the stretcher at the moment, trembling when she hears the words, pointing to the soldiers who are fighting with the tiger battalion, and said sadly: "Do you want to leave them alone." ”

Lou Chuan also said with tears in his eyes: "The general trend has gone, and I can't take care of them." Everyone bowed their heads and burst into tears, but no one said a word, and Lou Chuan also took one last look at the soldiers who were fighting bloodily in front, and ruthlessly protected the unconscious Hu Shide to retreat to the southern city.

Zhao Ban killed the last enemy, his physical strength was exhausted, he lay in the pile of dead people and gasped, stood up, looked around blankly, there were few people alive in the death squad,

"We've won."

The low and long cry echoed in Wuhai West City for a long time, in a desperate killing field, the corpses were pillowing each other, the blood was drifting, and the thirty-man death squad at the time of the expedition was only eight people left at the moment, three of whom became disabled for life,

When the health team cleaned Zhao Ban's wounds, he saw Yu Chongchong walking over with Yang Hao and others from a distance, Zhao Ban turned his head over, he didn't want to talk to anyone now, the doctor who treated him was a ten-year-old girl, surnamed Zhang Siniang, a graduate of the medical department of the Wubei Academy, Zhang Siniang was born in a medical family, she was exposed to it since she was a child, and she also learned a skill, at the age of sixteen, she was plundered by the Khitan people as a slave, because of her good appearance and proficient in medical skills, she was accepted as the eighth wife by the Khitan thousand-year-old,

Her husband died in the battle of Datongchuan, and his eldest wife drove her out, so she followed other rescued border people to Fengzhou, and then was admitted to the military academy.

Zhang Siniang saw Zhao Ban bowing her head to tears, so she shouted: "Don't cry, be careful that your face is disfigured." When he said that, he felt a little heavy, so he smiled and said, "Manly man, why are you crying." I didn't want Zhao Ban to hear this, I covered my face and cried, crying even more fiercely, Zhang Siniang panicked all of a sudden, and I didn't know how to persuade her.

Yang Hao walked straight over, held Zhang Siniang's hand and said, "Don't stop him, let him cry." ”

The military doctors were all wearing white coats and white hats, Yang Hao didn't realize that Zhang Siniang was a woman at first, and when he shook her hand, he realized that something was wrong, Zhang Siniang hurriedly withdrew his hand, lowered his head to the side, and his face turned red.

Zhao Ban saw Yang Hao hurriedly stood up, once the wound on his leg was pulled, he grinned in pain, Yang Hao helped him lie down, held his hand and said: "You fought hard in this battle, but you also fought well, one punch open, avoid a hundred punches, Shuofang's soldiers will."

If you remember you, you will not forget it for ten or twenty years. ”

Yu Chongchong said: "Because of your bravery and good fighting, the general has approved the award of the first-class hero medal to the eight of you, which is the highest honor for my tens of thousands of soldiers." Zhao Ban said with tears in his eyes: "I am willing to melt this medal and dedicate it to the graves of the brothers who died in battle." Yang Hao praised: "Okay, this is enough to see the comradeship." He instructed the secretary of the army: "Just do what Commander Zhao wants." ”

By dawn on the second day, there was no living Shuo Fang soldier in Wuhai City, and the building boat finally only took away more than 700 people, originally scheduled to capture Wuhai City in three days, but it actually took only one day and one night, originally thought that the loss would not exceed 1,000, the actual battle dead reached 1,800 people, and the wounded reached 3,700 people, the main force of the tiger battalion was lost, and the banner battalion lost sixty percent of the soldiers.

Such a heavy loss made the situation after the city was broken out of control for a while, and the surviving soldiers began to retaliate frantically, not only cutting and killing prisoners in violation of the ban, but also carrying out barbaric looting of a few merchants and hundreds of families in the city, an iron military regulation of the Xining army is that the captured spoils of war must be handed over to the public, of course, in order to improve the enthusiasm of the soldiers, after the war will be given corresponding material rewards according to the quality and quantity of the trophies handed in,

At the same time, there is an unwritten military rule in the army: no property is not paid to the public, no matter how much property, as long as it can be hidden on the body from being discovered by outsiders, it can become their own personal belongings, the officers are blind to this, Yang Hao knows this, the reason why he acquiesces to its existence is to hope that after the city is broken, the soldiers can be busy searching for property and give up brutal killing,

But in Wuhai City, this military rule completely failed, the soldiers seemed to have forgotten what wealth was, they went door to door, searched for all the living people, and then openly slaughtered, for those low-hanging fruit, they burned it with a fire, Wuhai City fell into a terrifying madness,

Yang Hao still has the ability to control the situation, but he has no action, he knows the pain of the soldiers who have lost their partners, and he doesn't let them vent it well, the hatred accumulated in his heart will definitely be vented in a more tyrannical way in the future, he also acquiesced to set up cards in Simen, hunt down and kill all the fleeing military and civilian merchants, the news of the Wuhai Massacre is best hidden, if it can't be hidden, it must be delayed as much as possible, only time can grind away the truth, there is no truth and there is no pain, where is the hatred without pain,

On the occasion of the massacre of Wuhai City, the Weiyuan Battalion and the Agni Battalion went south in two ways, all the way to Huaiyuan County, all the way to Quiet County, the defenders of the two counties fled, and the two battalions occupied the north gate of Lingzhou without blood, leading to Lingzhou and Lingwu a pass, Lingwu City is high and deep, and is heavily defended by the Shuofang front army, but this is a city that cannot fight,

Although Shuofang's governance is in Lingzhou, Lingwu is his core, Lingzhou is the base camp of the Wang family, but here is the base camp of all the bureaucrats, tycoons, relatives, and nobles of Shuofang, and all kinds of interests are intertwined.

Gu Duoli and Yu Yanlu have asked for battle, threatening to take Lingwu within a day, Yang Hao thinks that Lingwu can be surrounded but not beaten, besieged the city, everyone is afraid, whatever conditions you offer, no matter whether he agrees to the Wang family or not, there will be people who will run for you to force the Wang family to give in, if the city is attacked, it is equivalent to tearing the face and starting a war with the entire Shuo Fang, with thousands of people in the Weiyuan camp and the fire camp, it is not a fool's dream to win,

Yang Hao chose to besiege but not attack, on the one hand, he stepped up the dispatch of the Flying Tiger Battalion, the Golden Wind Battalion, and the Iron Bell Battalion to the south to help the battle, and on the other hand, he threatened to transfer the Leopard Battalion and the Broken Battalion from Hedong to the west to attack Shuofang, and the Quze people in the west of Helan Mountain also began to take advantage of the fire to rob, and a forward even crossed Helan Mountain to break through the northwest fortress Chonggang Town, plundering nearly 1,000 people from Shuofang's army and civilians.

Lingzhou City because of the war plan quarrel to make a group, Wang Dongchuan, Lou Heyan, and Hu Shide, who returned from the defeated army, all advocated concentrating troops on Lingwu and fighting to the death with Yang Hao, their reason was that although the battle of Wuhai City failed, Yang Hao's main force had been lost, and the remaining Weiyuan Battalion and Agni Battalion, one was the Hu army with cavalry, and the other was the pro-guard army that had not been baptized by fire, and the siege ability was very weak.

As for the so-called reinforcements, they are just Yang Hao's tricks to fill their hunger, and they are used to boost the sluggish morale of the army.

There are two strong enemies in the north of Fengzhou, the Uighurs and the Khitan, and the strength of Fengzhou is already limited, and it is impossible to draw soldiers from outside, not to mention that Fengzhou's allies are the five black tribes, the vulture tribes, and the Zhenwu army, which were defeated by Yang Hao, and they had to return to obedience, and they were not convinced, when the Fengzhou army was strong, they were allies, and when the Fengzhou army was weak, they could not ensure that they did not create trouble in the rear, in order to break free from Yang Hao's control,

There is another example of the lack of troops in Fengzhou, before the war, Yang Hao urgently transferred the Fengya battalion from Hedong to the Tiande Army to defend the enemy in the northwest, and there were four battalions of the Xining Army Leopard Battalion, Poyu, Polang and Fengya in Hedong, which were stationed in Taiyuan and the surrounding Xinzhou, Fenzhou, Shizhou, Langu, Yangqu and other places, and the troops were originally overstretched.

What's more, Yang Hao is still a criminal personally identified by Princess Yichun at the moment, wearing this hat of sin, wouldn't it be difficult to make a difference?

Therefore, although there is Qu Zebu to help in the battle, Yang Hao, who is alone in the depths, is bound to not last, and the final victory still belongs to Shuo Fang.

The opposing side is headed by Anle Prefecture Thorn Shi Hu Bil, they are all hereditary nobles of Shuofang, all interests are in Lingwu, once the war starts, regardless of victory or defeat, they are all losers, they they are trying their best to run and shout, to put pressure on Wang Chong'an,

Xie Bozhi was originally on the side of the main and faction, but when he realized that the Tang clan intended to start a war with Yang Hao in Lingwu to weaken the opposition forces, he immediately changed his position and joined the side of the main battle faction, and Wang Chongan also hoped to fight in Lingwu.

The main battle faction suddenly gained the upper hand, the main force of the Shuofang front army gathered in Lingwu, Wang Chongan formed an alliance with Lian Yong at the same time, and contributed money and food to instigate Lian Yong to send troops to attack Xiaochang'an, restraining Yang Hao from transferring the Flying Tiger Battalion to help the battle, and at the same time blocking the possibility of the Hedong Leopard Battalion and the Po Prisoner Battalion advancing westward.

Just when the clouds of battle over Lingwu were in the air, rumors suddenly spread in Lingzhou City, some people accused the deputy general Wang Chongchun of escaping before the city was broken, Wang Chongchun did not dare to return to Lingzhou directly after escaping from Wuhai City, but hid in Lingwu's wife's house, until Wang Chongan promised not to pursue his crime of escaping, then returned to Lingwu,

Wang Chongchun lied in order to protect himself and said that he withdrew from Wuhai City after Lou Chuan also ordered to abandon the city, Wang Chong'an reconciled, and also won the love of the Tang family, in order to protect Wang Chongchun, Tang ordered Lou Chuan to be dismissed from his post, and wanted to put the responsibility for the defeat of Wuhai City on his head, Lou Chuan is also Lou Heyan's younger brother, and Hu Shide's cronies, Lou Heyan and Hu Shide were also implicated, and the two asked Wang Chongan to resign at the same time, Wang Chongan originally wanted to use the two to offset Wang Dongchuan's influence in the army, so he naturally did not allow it,

Tang scolded Wang Chongan for listening to and believing partially, and refused to protect Wang Chongchun, Wang Chongan knew that Tang could let himself sit in the seat of the retained back, and also let himself get down from the seat, so he had to agree to Lou Heyan and Hu Shide to resign from various positions in the army against their will, out of distrust of Wang Dongchuan, Tang and Wang Chongan had to dispel the idea of the War of Resistance and seek peace instead.

In fact, those rumors about Wang Chongchun and Lou Chuanye were all released by Yang Hao, and he used the suspicions between various factions within Shuofang to create contradictions, and finally let the situation change in his favor.

Shuo Fang Anle Prefecture Assassin Shi Hu Billet went to see Yang Hao quietly to ask for peace, Yang Hao asked Hu Bil: "Lou Heyan and Hu Shide have both gone to work, who else in Shuo Fang can stop me, Lingwu is at my fingertips, why do I want to negotiate peace with you." ”

Hu Bi said: "The battle of Wuhai City, although the Ya army was defeated by the general, but the main force of Shuofang is still alive, the prince Dongchuan General is a famous general in the world, presumably the general has also heard of his prestige, Shuofang's front army has 20,000 people, the soldiers are good and the food is sufficient, according to the danger and defend, the general also wants to break the city in one day and one night, not to mention anything else, the general came from afar, the grain and grass can still support a few days, the Uighurs, Khitan, and Murwei know that the general is not in Fengzhou, and the general's strength is greatly damaged, can they still keep themselves as before, the general is still guilty now, is not afraid of the coming of heaven, and the Divine Ce Forbidden Army will go north to crusade. ”

Yang Hao laughed and said: "I have heard for a long time that Hu Gong is a famous person of the Shuofang family, and today I am fortunate to be judged by the high people, I think that since I Yang Hao took charge of Fengzhou, I have protected the territory and the people, been loyal to the community, and the merits and hard work have not been less, but I have suffered this injustice, Hu Gong, you say, if I don't raise troops to seek justice, I will ask if there is still a place for me Yang Hao to stand in the world, my own family fights my own family, I don't feel good in my heart, I am not forced to do all this. ”

Hu Billet said: "It was Wang Chongwen who perversely harmed the general, he has now been convicted and entered Beijing, the general's reputation has been cleared, why hasn't the general withdrawn." ”

Guan Suo sneered: "My general has been wronged by this, and he has mobilized the army, and he has lost thousands of soldiers. ”

Hu Bi said: "What advice does General Guan have?" ”

Guan Suo and the generals got up together and handed Hu Biao an official document: "If you want to negotiate peace, you need to handle it one by one, otherwise our army will capture Lingwu within three days, and Lingzhou will be broken within ten days." Hu Bi looked at the official document, it was written ten articles of peace, the first is that Yang Hao, the assassin of Fengzhou and the defense envoy of Fengzhou, and the commander of the Xining Army, asked Her Royal Highness Princess Yichun of the Tang Dynasty to patrol Fengzhou and pacify the people, Hu Bi shook his head again and again: "The princess marries Lingzhou, how can she go to your Fengzhou, this is absolutely impossible." ”

Guan Suo sneered: "Fengzhou is the county under the rule of Shuofang, and the princess is the governor of the county with the dignity of a daughter, which is reasonable and reasonable, why not." ”

Hu Bi shook his head and continued to look down, the second is to expel Lou Heyan, Hu Shide, Lou Chuanye, Min Lan and other generals from Shuofang, and never reuse, Hu Bi sighed: "The general did this, but there was no measurement at all." ”

Yang Hao said: "Yang Mou has always had revenge, and if these four people are not removed, it will be difficult for you and me to make peace." ”

Hu Bi said: "What about the third article, you want Shuofang to compensate 1 million taels of silver, 500,000 stone grain, Shuofang is a poor place, many people still can't eat, where is the million silver and rice grain to supply your army, if it is so forced, Hu Bi is willing to sacrifice his family property to fill the army and fight with the general to the end." After a few words, Yang Hao changed his words: "If it's too much, let's halve everything." Hu Bi still disagreed, Yang Hao finally said: "Then give it to Qing in three years, no less, I have more than a thousand dead, I must give them an explanation." ”

Hu Bi took a breath and continued to look down, and when he saw the last one "hand over Wuhai City to the Fengzhou garrison", Hu Bi shouted angrily: "The door of the general's house is handed over to outsiders, can the general sleep peacefully, what he doesn't want, how to do to others." ”

Yang Hao said: "You owe me 500,000 taels of silver, 250,000 stone rice grain, if you don't pay it back, what should I do, I only occupy Wuhai City for three years, the day your rice and grain arrears are paid off, I will definitely return it to you, and then again, with me stationed at the north gate of Shuofang for you, wouldn't the people of Shuofang feel more at ease." ”

Hu Bi said angrily: "This matter must not be discussed. After a pause, he added, "Even if I promise you, the old lady and the young marshal will not agree." ”

Yang Hao said: "Then you will hand over Chonggang Town to my garrison, the Wang family is used to going back on their word, I can't trust them." ”

Hu Bi secretly thought that Chonggang Town was in the hands of Quze at the moment, so why not give him a favor directly, if he could provoke the two families to fight for this, it would be beneficial and harmless to Shuo Fang, so he nodded and promised, and added: "In order to avoid misunderstanding, we will withdraw our troops from Chonggang Town first, and then you will be stationed again, so that there will be a lot less right and wrong." ”

Yang Hao smiled secretly in his heart, it seemed that Hu Bi didn't know that Qu Zebu crossed Helan Mountain to capture Chonggang Town, but in fact, it was he who promoted it behind the scenes, Yang Hao pretended to know nothing, and excitedly agreed,

The day after the signing of the armistice secret treaty, Yang Hao withdrew his troops from Huaiyuan and Jingjing counties, and the public funds, grain and grass of the two counties before the trip were swept away, but this time the garrison did not harass the people, but when they left, thousands of people in the two cities went north with their families and mouths, most of these are poor people in the city, no land and no property, and Fengzhou is more reclaimed land that no one cultivates, which is the main reason for attracting them,

Five days later, after receiving the first 100,000 taels of silver and 100,000 stone grain delivered by Shuofang in Wuhai City, Yang Hao ordered the withdrawal of troops, the Fengya battalion occupied Chonggang Town, and the Weiyuan battalion was stationed at the mouth of the Jiahe River.

Yang Hao returned to Feng'an, ready to welcome Li Qing's arrival, all his misfortunes were given by this person, let her come to Feng'an, just live under her nose, see what tricks she can play,