Wang Duan wanted to fight the Zhou army to the death, and also delusionally imagined that he could use the credit of driving the Zhou army out of Xianghu to gain enough prestige for himself to use as capital to control Xianghu in the future. But after waiting for a day, Wang Kunjun, who didn't wait for Zhou Baoquan and his generals to reply, ran out of patience. After all, the thousand-mile expedition meant a huge consumption of money and grain, and this was a great pressure on the Later Zhou court, which had not yet had enough time to recuperate and recuperate in the Central Plains -- although the grain output of the Beiping Army increased year by year thanks to corn and the potato cultivation that slowly expanded later, the cost and consumption of thousands of miles or even thousands of miles of transportation made it difficult to dispatch and transport grain, and it was really difficult to rely on the grain of the Beiping Army to support the combat operations in Huguang.

On the tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar of the tenth year of Xiande, the main force of the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" went south and met with the Wuping (Hunan) Army in the north of Langzhou City for 30 miles.

Wang Kunjun was very unhappy that his kindness did not get a response from the other party, so after the two armies faced each other, he no longer gave the other party any chance to show submission, and as soon as the artillery position was established, he immediately ordered the attack to begin.

There was no persuasion to surrender in front of the battle, no cavalry impact, no bow and arrow shooting, and some were just bursts of "heavenly thunder" that fell from the sky and did not know where it came from. The combat methods of the Zhou army, or more precisely the Beiping army, were completely unexpected by Wang Duan, and the general, who claimed to be familiar with military books and proficient in war strategies, was at a loss.

However, if you don't adapt, you can't adapt to it, but Wang Duan knows very well that you must not sit and wait for death. Since long-range firearms are the strength of the other party, as long as you are close enough to the other party, those soul-chasing "heavenly thunders" must not be able to play a role - although the "heavenly thunder" is powerful, it does not seem to have long eyes, otherwise it would not fall into the open space where no one is around. As a result, Wang Duan, who thought that he had found the shortcomings of the Zhou army's firearms, immediately reorganized his troops and horses, and while the soldiers under his command had not been defeated by the opponent's firearms, he launched a charge towards the wide and thin infantry array at the front of the Zhou army.

If you can't know yourself and your opponent in battle, it is inevitable that you will be bled in front of a tough opponent. Just when the number of "thunderstorms" falling was getting less and less, and Wang Duan couldn't help but be complacent about his judgment and decisiveness, with Wang Kunjun's order, more than 6,000 infantrymen of the Fourth Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army," which had been deployed at the forefront of the whole army, opened fire one after another, pouring a dense rain of bullets on the soldiers of the Wuping (Hunan) Army who seemed to them to be no different from live targets, and swept the opponent down in pieces like cutting wheat.

It was only at this time that Wang Duan could truly see the powerful and perverted combat strength of the Beiping Army, and in his heart he "greeted" Zhang Congfu's ancestors for 18 generations, and when he told everyone about the battle in Lizhou, he only talked about how powerful the invincible "heavenly thunder" -- long-range firearms -- the invincible Zhou army was, but he hated the "evil deeds" that he was now facing with such invisible firearms that could kill people two or three hundred steps away.

Speaking of which, Wang Duan is really the wronged Zhang Congfu. As the besieging party, the Beiping army naturally had to give full play to the power of artillery, destroy the city wall on which the opponent relied on, and pave a road for their own soldiers and horses to attack the city. When the city wall of Lizhou City was collapsed and the infantry of the Beiping Army rushed into the city to engage in a brief street battle with the defenders, Zhang Congfu had already changed into the clothes of ordinary people and hid, and did not see the process of the "Flying Dragon Army" using rifles, machine guns and other light weapons at all. Therefore, at the military conference in Langzhou, Zhang Congfu naturally only talked about the "heavenly thunder" of the Zhou army that could completely destroy the city overnight, and it was impossible to mention the firearms that he had never seen.

Seeing his soldiers fall one by one, Wang Duan was annoyed by his previous efforts to send troops to confront the Zhou army. It's just that there is no "regret medicine" to take in this world, and if you make a wrong decision, you have to bear the consequences of that decision - whether it is good or bad. Therefore, the feelings of frustration only existed in Wang Duan's mind for a short time, and then they were thrown aside and replaced by how to clean up the current situation. In fact, the current battlefield situation does not need Wang Duan to think hard and meditate, and the only way to remedy his mistake now is to immediately order a retreat, lead the remaining Wuping army to disengage from the Zhou army, and withdraw to Langzhou City as quickly as possible, and then everyone will discuss what to do next.

It's just that although Wang Duan's wishes are very "plump", the reality of the battlefield is very "skinny". With the order to withdraw to the city, the Wuping army, which was already on the verge of collapse, immediately collapsed and fled in all directions, only hating the two retreats given to him by his father and mother, which instantly turned the retreat into a big rout. In the face of such a situation, Wang Duan knew that he had no way to return to heaven, so he had to put everything aside, and found Zhou Baoquan, who had already been frightened and at a loss for what to do, in the chaotic army, and fled all the way back to Langzhou City under the escort of his own soldiers.

At the same time, Wang Kunjun also ordered the two cavalry regiments on standby on both sides of his army formation to immediately attack and pursue and annihilate the Wuping army.

It was a completely one-sided pursuit, with the cavalry chasing and leaving their backs to their infantry, which was no longer a battle, but a complete slaughter. From the battlefield of the confrontation between the two armies to Langzhou City, the thirty-mile road was full of corpses of soldiers of the Wuping Army. Only more than 20,000 of the 50,000 soldiers and horses were able to escape to the city of Langzhou, less than half of what they set out. Moreover, because the two cavalry regiments of the Beiping Army have been chasing after each other, Wang Duan, who had a war horse to travel on his feet, and other Wuping (Hunan) officials, generals and a small number of cavalry, took the lead in escaping back to the city, regardless of the fact that their own brigade was still desperately rushing back, and immediately ordered the city gate to be closed, and ordered the soldiers left behind in the city to strictly guard and not allow anyone to enter the city, even their own robes, in case the cavalry of the Zhou army took advantage of the situation to rush into the city. As a result, the soldiers of the Wuping army, who then fled to the city of Langzhou, not only could not enter the city to avoid the pursuit of the Zhou army, but were shot by their own people's bows and arrows.

Seeing that there was a strong city in front of each other and a chasing army pressing behind, the soldiers of the Wuping army under the city all scolded the civil generals in the city who ordered the closure of the gates, as well as Zhou Baoquan, who was the lord of these civil and military generals. After scolding, these desperate soldiers who had completely lost confidence in the Wuping (Hunan) regime finally chose to give up resistance, threw away their swords, guns, bows and crossbows, and surrendered to the two cavalry regiments of the Beiping Army that followed closely behind.

When the two cavalry regiments in pursuit gathered the soldiers of the Wuping Army who surrendered, Wang Kunjun, Qian Yuanshan and others also led the main force of the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" to the city of Langzhou. Immediately, after ordering the surrendered soldiers of the Wuping Army to be escorted to the camp of the conquest army for temporary care, Wang Kunjun issued an order to prepare for the siege of the city.

Just when the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" outside the city was deploying its position and preparing for the siege, the Wuping (Hunan) regime in the city was already in chaos. A group of civil ministers and military generals first blamed each other and passed the buck to each other for the previous defeat, and then they held their own opinions on whether to fight or surrender, and could not form a unified opinion. And Zhou Baoquan, the titular lord of Wuping (Hunan), was still in a state of panic after seeing the strong strength of the Zhou army, and he couldn't even say a word except for sitting on his throne and trembling, let alone making up his mind.

Just as everyone was arguing, Wang Duan, who volunteered to lead the army to defend the city after entering the city, suddenly broke into the hall with hundreds of soldiers. Without waiting for Zhou Baoquan and other ministers of civil and military affairs who didn't know why to make an inquiry, this guy waved his hand in the direction where Zhou Baoquan was sitting, and the two thugs came out of the crowd, rushed forward, picked up Zhou Baoquan and walked out of the lobby. During this period, two generals wanted to step forward to stop them, but they were both hacked to death by Wang Duan's soldiers, and blood was splashed. Although he knew that it was not a good thing for Wang Duan to take Zhou Baoquan away, but in the face of the cold and shining steel knife, looking at the corpse on the ground that had not become cold, none of the other Wenchen generals in Wuping (Hunan) dared to step forward to stop or reprimand, and watched Zhou Baoquan, the lord who was already stunned by everything in front of him, be taken out of the lobby, and Zhou Baoquan's family members who were also controlled by Wang Duan's soldiers were taken out of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

At first, Zhou Baoquan thought that Wang Duan wanted to sacrifice himself to Zhou Jun to save his life. But he soon discovers that things are not what he imagined. After taking himself and his family out of the Dadu Governor's Mansion, Wang Duan and his men did not go to the north gate where the Zhou army was, but went the opposite way, went straight to the south gate of Langzhou, and took advantage of the fact that the Zhou army had not yet completed the siege of the city, rushed out of Langzhou City, escaped the Yuan River, and hid in a monastery. At the same time, the defenders of Wuping in the city abandoned the city defense in accordance with Wang Duan's orders, on the one hand, they plundered the city and drove the people outside the city, and on the other hand, they set fire everywhere in an attempt to destroy the prosperous city of Wuping (Hunan).

Seeing that the soldiers of Wuping defending the city fled from the city one after another, and then the fire and smoke in the city were rising, and the generals of the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" outside the city were preparing to start shelling Langzhou, they knew that the situation had changed. Wang Kunjun immediately made a decision, ordered to abandon artillery preparations, and only bombarded the north gate of Kailangzhou with 130mm siege artillery, and then the infantry quickly entered the city, on the one hand, to clear the remnants of the enemy, on the other hand, to extinguish the fire and save people, and to pacify the people.

Fortunately, the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" moved quickly after rushing into Langzhou City, and the large number of troops was large, so although the Langzhou defenders had set fire everywhere before, the fire in the city was finally brought under control and did not cause particularly heavy losses under the full efforts of the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" and some local people who had not yet been driven out of the city. On the evening of the tenth day of the first lunar month of the tenth lunar calendar of Xiande, the fire in the city was completely extinguished, and all the defenders who participated in the looting and arson without leaving the city were also killed, and the "Jinghu Expeditionary Army" completed the full control of the entire Langzhou City.

The task of taking Langzhou City and conquering Jinghu was not over. On the one hand, Changsha City, an important town under the jurisdiction of Wuping (Hunan), was still under the control of the Wuping army, and it was necessary to send men and horses to bring it under its control. On the other hand, Zhou Baoquan, who was the head of the Wuping (Hunan) secession regime, Wang Duan, who hijacked him out of Langzhou City, and more than 1,000 of his dead associates, have not yet been found. Before Zhou Baoquan was taken into his own hands, there were factors of instability in the Later Zhou court's rule and jurisdiction over Wuping (Hunan). In addition, after entering the city, he knew the real reason for the fire in the city, and found that the Wuping soldiers guarding the city not only looted in the city, but also drove nearly half of the people outside the city, which made Wang Kunjun and others extremely annoyed. Therefore, while sending Zeng Zhilin, who later arrived with his headquarters, to lead the first regiment of the "Flying Dragon Army" Marine Corps, the main force of the First Independent Cavalry Regiment, the first independent artillery regiment and the two regiments of the "Security Army" to enter Changsha City eastward, Wang Kunjun also sent Qian Yuanshan to lead the main force of the "Flying Dragon Army" and "Langya Battalion", the second infantry regiment of the Third Composite Infantry Division, the first independent cavalry regiment, and the four regiments of the "Security Army" out of Langzhou City and across the Yuan River, and made every effort to search for the whereabouts of Zhou Baoquan and Wang Duan. In particular, Wang Duan, who ordered the people to burn the city, was arrested and brought to justice.

On the eighteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar of the tenth year of Xiande, Zeng Zhilin's troops came to the city, and the Changsha defenders surrendered the city.

On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month of the tenth lunar calendar of Xiande, Qian Yuanshan's department searched for Zhang Congfu, the former Wuping (Hunan) Lizhou guard, in the mountains and forests west of Langzhou City, and displayed his head in Langzhou City on the twenty-first day of the first lunar month.

On the 20th day of the second lunar calendar of the tenth year of Xiande, Qian Yuanshan's department rescued Zhou Baoquan and his family in a monastery on the south bank of the Yuan River, and captured Wang Duan.

On the 23rd day of the second lunar calendar of the tenth year of Xiande, Wang Duan was beheaded in the city of Langzhou, and his body was eaten by the people who suffered from looting and arson in the city.

On the fifteenth day of March of the tenth lunar calendar of Xiande, Zhou Baoquan and his family were sent to Kaifeng. In accordance with the meaning of the crossing team, the Later Zhou court did not embarrass this eleven-year-old child, and after receiving his petition seal, he was released. And rewarded the clothes, gold belts, saddle horses, mattresses, silver 1,000 taels, silk 2,000 horses, money 1,000 guan, awarded the right thousand Niu Wei generals, and repaired the old mansion of the capital for him as an official house, so that he had a fixed residence.

On the 16th day of the third lunar month of the 10th year of Xiande, according to the resolution of the enlarged meeting of the crossing team committee, the court of the Later Zhou Dynasty issued a decree to remove Qian Yuanshan as the pacification envoy of Quanhu South Province, and to lead the military and civil affairs of Jinghu Land; In addition to Zeng Zhilin, he was the deputy envoy of the pacification system of Quanhu South Province and the history of Changsha Thorn, presided over the military and civil affairs of Changsha Prefecture, and assisted Qian Yuanshan. In addition, according to the resolution of the enlarged meeting of the committee, the Second Infantry Regiment of the Third Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army," the First Regiment of the Marine Corps, and the eight regiments of the "Security Army" will be stationed in Hunan -- the First Regiment of the "Flying Dragon Army" and the four regiments of the "Security Army" will be stationed in Langzhou under the command of Qian Yuanshan, and the Second Infantry Regiment of the Third Composite Infantry Division of the "Flying Dragon Army" and the four regiments of the "Security Army" will be stationed in Changsha under the command of Zeng Zhilin.