After the urn city was broken, the momentum of the official army was like a rainbow, the momentum was like a broken bamboo, and in the afternoon, the official army had broken through the outer city of Caozhou and besieged the inner city. Wang Pei also led a large army into the city of Caozhou. On the one hand, troops were sent everywhere to encircle and suppress the Ziqing rebels, and on the other hand, they were sent to educate and join the army to reassure the people.

"I know that my lord is the bastard who scalded my soldiers with fire oil! Please be handsome! ”

Commander Qin Yubin escorted the tightly bound urn city guards in front of Wang Pei. The guard stood proudly. was kicked into the crook of his leg by Zhang Xing, knelt down, and just wanted to struggle to stand up, but was tightly pressed by the soldiers behind him. The body was suppressed, but the mouth was not suppressed, and he still shouted:

"It's Lao Tzu's bad luck for a few days, if you do it with a real knife and a real gun, I don't know who loses and who wins!······ You must kill Lao Tzu, otherwise if Lao Tzu survives, Lao Tzu will be ten times more powerful against you one day in the future! ”

was knocked down by Zhang Xing with a punch and scolded angrily:

"Straight sissy thief! If it's a real knife and a real gun, I'll you eight by one! Also turn to get you here hubris! ”

Wang Pei's eyes flashed with appreciation. Ask Qin Yubin:

"Qin Duwei, who is this person?"

Qin Yubin said:

"Lord Huidu Zhi's soldiers and horses, this person's name is Zhang Xing, and he is the commander of the battalion under the command of the last general. Today is the first time he ascended to the urn city. The last general has already made him temporarily substitute for the team. ”

Wang Pei nodded and said:

"Excellent! Zhang Xing, if you make meritorious service in Yunzhou, this general will promote you to be a captain. ”

Zhang Xingdao:

"Xie Duzhi Soldier and Horse Envoy! My lord, this thief ······"

Wang Pei waved his hand and said:

"Didn't General Ben say that? Break Caozhou, no one is left, and you still come to ask me what to do? Dispose of yourselves! ”

Qin Yubin:

"Xie Duzhi Soldier and Horse Envoy! The last general went to light him with a sky lantern to pay tribute to the soldiers! ”

As soon as they opened their mouths, the soldiers picked up the thief and walked towards the entrance of the urn.

The general was astonished and cried out:

"Wang Pei, you are so bold! There is a decree in the imperial court that it is not allowed to indiscriminately kill captured soldiers who surrendered! Wang Pei, you dare to kill me! Wang Pei~~~~"

The voice was very poignant, Wang Pei just didn't hear it, and said to the left and right:

"In order for the court to treat the surrendered troops and generals, and not to kill the captured officers and soldiers indiscriminately, do these guys despise the court and resist the officers and soldiers? These bastards, I'm afraid that they have the idea that our army will not kill him, and if they can fight, they will harm more of our soldiers, and if they can't fight, they will surrender or even be captured and leave a life. General Ben wants to let such a bastard know that killing the officers and soldiers will pay for his life! Let these bastards have to have such thoughts again and surrender early! ”

There is a way that the soft is afraid of the hard, the hard is afraid of the horizontal, and the constant is afraid of death. The Ziqing army has always been arrogant, but when the guard was lit into a sky lantern on the city tower, and hundreds of captured Ziqing soldiers knelt down in front of the inner city and were beheaded by the officers and soldiers, the psychology of the Ziqing defenders collapsed. Before the official army attacked, the defenders of Caozhou set fire to the city, abandoned the city and fled. As soon as Caozhou was broken, the several barriers standing near Caozhou lost their meaning. The Ziqing army abandoned the barrier one after another and fled in the direction of Yunzhou, and the officers and troops led by Li Dingjin, Li Yuanyi, and Hou Weiqing, who had seen there early in the morning, immediately galloped on horseback and chased the fleeing enemy.

After more than three months of siege, Caozhou was finally breached. During the campaign, the officers and soldiers beheaded more than 8,000 soldiers and horses of the Ziqing Army, and captured more than 13,000 people. There were also three or four thousand people who broke up and fled into the countryside, and only more than 5,000 troops who were far away from Caozhou withdrew to Yunzhou.

Standing at the head of the city, Wang Pei couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. The soldiers of the Xuanwu Army, who came in and out of the city, all looked at their commander with awe.

Wang Pei fulfilled his oath, and there was not a single Ziqing army left in Caozhou City. The soldiers of the Xuanwu Army felt that Wang Duzhi's soldiers and horses were a group of people with us.

Two days later, Luoyang received commendations for Wang Pei and the officers and soldiers of Xuanwu. Wang Peijin is a doctor of Yinqing Guanglu and a history of Caozhou assassination. The Xuanwu soldiers were rewarded from Qin Yubin and below, and the Xuanwu soldiers were allowed to rest in Caozhou for ten days before sending troops to Yunzhou. However, the report issued at the same time as the commendation made Wang Pei and several soldiers and horses of the Xuanwu Army feel that they could not rest well no matter what.

It was written in the newspaper that Cui Chengdu, the soldier and horse envoy of the Ziqing Army, dedicated Puyang City a few days ago, and those who surrendered to the court with Cui Chengdu included 87 officers above the rank of captain and 20,000 soldiers. Li Guangyan's soldiers entered Puyang without bloodshed, and had already joined the whole army of 50,000 people to attack the front of the platform. Of course, on the public cloth, it was Chen Guogong Li Guangyan who led the army to conquer Puyang through a bloody battle, and the enemy's soldiers and horses made Cui Chengdu seriously wounded and captured, and captured more than 12,000 people of the Ziqing army. However, Puyang has been taken down and has become a well-known fact in the whole army. The whole army was jubilant. Although it is said that they are now fighting side by side with Li Yu's southern armies, after all, the Xuanwu army was assigned to the western armies at the beginning, and in his heart he still regarded himself as the western armies. Now the armies in the west have taken back the limelight that had been overshadowed by the armies in the south, so it is no wonder that they are not happy.

What's more, taking Puzhou and Caozhou means that the army is about to encircle Yunzhou, and the Ziqing counterinsurgency has entered the final stage. Maybe the generals are not willing to take credit for not fighting so soon, but the soldiers are willing to end the war early.

When the soldiers were happy, the generals were worried, there was only one Yunzhou, and together with Wang Pei's way, there were three ways for the army pointing to Yunzhou. In the first battle of pacifying Caizhou, three national princes and dozens of Hou Bozi men were killed. In recent years, the titles of the imperial court have not been as worthless as in previous years, and they have often been wholesaled. Now I haven't been so happy these years, and everyone wants to earn as much title as possible for themselves.

"I know that the soldiers and horses are the envoys, why don't you go and talk to Pei Xianggong? After all, Pei Xianggong is the festival envoy of our Xuanwu Army, isn't he? Can he see that our whole army has fought for so long without any merit? ”

After overcoming Caozhou Wengcheng, Commander Qin Yubin felt that his future was bright. This newly promoted lieutenant, who had not spoken much, said tentatively to Wang Pei. Although several veteran generals were dissatisfied with Qin Yubin's words, their eyes were full of expectation when they looked at Wang Pei.

"What's the matter? Do they all want to take credit? ”

Li Yu, who was far away in Luoyang, said to Pei Tuzi with a smile.