At dawn, the battle was largely over; A war involving tens of thousands of people ended in a hurry, and the officers and soldiers did not even exert much force, and the thieves disappeared without a trace, because the number of defectors increased, and the rest were scattered, and there was no one to fight.

Ironically, Yang Hu himself ordered the city gate to be sealed, originally to prevent officers and soldiers from breaking through the city gate, but now he lifted a stone to hit himself in the foot, and although the guide zhì escaped from the battle and went down to the city, he could not get out of the city, and could only hide in the city.

Song Nan didn't need to worry about them escaping, so he only ordered to immediately remove the dirt and sandbags in the hole in the north city gate, so that the army outside the city could enter the city smoothly, and at the same time tightly seal the city gate and city wall, so that Yang Hu, Qi Yanming and other remnants of the army would not have the opportunity to escape from the city if they were defeated.

The army spent two hours cleaning up the battlefield, and more than 2,000 officers and soldiers were killed and wounded, more than 5,000 thieves were killed and wounded, and more than 2,000 defectors were registered after being disarmed, and they were sent to return to their hometowns.

There are thousands of escaped thieves in the city, they did not surrender in time, and now they are prisoners, but in fact, they are still ordinary people, but what Song Nan said cannot be changed, since they are obsessed, they have to pay the price.

Some of them will be beheaded, some will be sent to the border towns to be used as soldiers, and some will become lifelong slaves, which is the price paid for rebellion.

Qi Yanming's body was also found at the head of Xicheng City, he was one of the important leaders of the thieves, Liu Liu Liu Qi was the second marshal of heaven and earth, Yang Hu, Zhao Qi, Liu Hui, Qi Yanming, and Xing Lao were the five tigers of Liu Liu's seal. will, Qi Yanming ambushed him, and his head will also be sent to the capital to ask for merit.

However, Yang Hu seemed to have disappeared, and the houses in the city were searched everywhere but there was no trace; Li Daniu, who was in charge of the search, scolded his mother, and sent more than 2,000 people into dozens of teams to go through the grate-like grate in the city, and found something strange in a small forest in the southeast corner of Gunzhou.

Thousands of people secretly surrounded a small piece of forest in the southwest corner, Song Nan rushed to hear the news, Li Daniu pulled Song Nan and pointed to a ridge on the edge of the woods and said, "Brother, look at it." ”

Song Nan stared at the ridge with wide eyes, there was no movement for a long time, and he was just about to ask, when he suddenly saw a head on the ridge, a black face looked around vigilantly, and then dumped a basket of soil into the depression under the ridge.

Song Nan was stunned and said in a low voice: "What is this guy doing?" ”

Li Daniu was overjoyed, and said in a low voice: "We've been watching it for a long time when we waited for you to come, and I feel that these guys are burrowing in the local rats." ”

Song Nan almost burst out laughing: "Hit ...... Punching holes? Could it be that they plan to get out of the city by drilling holes? That's a lot of ambition. ”

Li Daniu squeezed his eyes and said, "Do you want to catch them after they are busy for a few days or do you catch them now?" ”

Song Nan rolled his eyes and said: "If you have time to wait, the army will be pulled out on the same day, go and get the goods out, this time I will give you a beautiful errand, take Qi Yanming's head, escort the prisoners and Yang Hu into the city to ask for merit, this time you can show your face." ”

Li Daniu was overjoyed, got up and led the soldiers to surround him, only to see that the barren grass under the ridge had been dug a big hole in it, and a lot of loess had been piled up in the depression on the side.

"Hey, come out, don't dig." Li Da Niu stomped a few feet above the entrance of the cave, and there was a sound of ropes in the cave, which obviously alarmed the people in the cave.

"Come out, don't hide, I really plan to hide inside for the rest of my life." Seeing that there was no movement inside, Li Daniu was anxious.

After a long silence, Li Daniu became angry, beckoned the soldier and said: "Ignition fire, the way to deal with ground rats is very simple, and the smoke will come out." ”

After the dry grass was lit, several soldiers pouted and blew smoke into it, and after a while there was a dull coughing sound in the cave, and soon someone shouted, "Stop blowing, cough cough...... We came out. ”

The soldiers moved away from the fire, and in a moment people slowly came out of the hole, one by two, three...... It's like a trick, and after a while, seven or eight people actually drilled out, no wonder this hole was dug so quickly, it turned out that there were a lot of people.

These guys are all gray-headed, their faces are full of loess, and they can't see who is who, and they don't look like each other.

Li Daniu said anxiously: "What about Yang Hu? Mix it up yourself. ”

A few guys were silent, Li Daniu asked a few times, but no one recognized himself, Song Nan smiled: "This great hero who walks for the sky is willing to be a gopher, how can you expect him to confess himself; After cutting off all the heads, there is always one of Yang Hu's heads, we don't recognize him, and those captives always know him. ”

Li Daniu smiled: "That's what I said, come here, hold them, I'll cut off my head." ”

Seven or eight thieves were shocked, and almost at the same time, they pointed to an unrecognizable thief and said in unison: "He is Yang Hu." ”

Song Nan laughed, Yang Hu cursed repeatedly, stepped forward and said proudly: "I am, if I fall into your hands, I will be killed." ”

Song Nan smiled and said, "Yang Hu, what's wrong with you?" You had a beard a few hours ago, how did you become a eunuch in the blink of an eye, and you didn't know the other side. ”

Yang Hu's face was flushed with shame, and in order to escape for his life, he shaved off his beard with a knife, changing from a powerful beard to a small white face. With a few cronies, he fled to the fields in the southeast of the uninhabited city, preparing to dig a hole and hide for a few days.

He didn't plan to dig out of the city, he also knew that it was impossible, he knew that the army in the city would be drawn in a few days, as long as he survived the search for a few days, and as soon as the army left, he could come out and get out quietly, but he was still discovered.

Song Nan's face was solemn, and he said coldly: "Tie up, take it away." ”

Yang Hu shouted: "Please give me a good time, give a whole corpse." ”

Song Nan sneered: "I'm afraid I can't get my wish, after entering Beijing for interrogation, I estimate that you will either have a split car or Ling Chi, or you may be beheaded in half, in short, you will definitely die not so smoothly." ”

Yang Hu scolded: "Dog thief, I won't spare you if I die." ”

Song Nan slapped his hand and scolded: "I keep this to the tens of millions of people who were killed by your scourge under the spring, and to tell the women who were killed by you anti-thieves and rapes, you can get out of the evil ghosts under the spring and come to me for revenge; If there is such a day, I will sit and wait for you to come. ”

Song Nan left hundreds of brocade-clothed guards to maintain law and order in the city, waiting for the imperial court to send officials to take over the city of Gunzhou, and at the same time, immediately ordered Li Daniu to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses to escort the captives and bandit leader Yang Hu to Beijing to ask for merit.

The army was repaired for one day, and in the afternoon of the next day, it was set out to the south, and the battle in the south was in full swing, and Liu Liu's army was launching a ferocious attack in the area of Feiyundu, which was in danger and had to be quickly relieved of the siege of Feiyundu.

A few days later, the capital received the good news of the victory in Gunzhou, Zhengde was overjoyed, praised Song Nan at the court, and the hundred officials were also relieved, sure enough, Song Nan made an extraordinary move, and annihilated 20,000 thieves in a battle, and the casualties were very small, and there was no bragging.

Liu Jin forced a smile on his face, and was extremely depressed in his heart, although the victory of the imperial army was also what they expected, but this credit was built by Song Nan, which was very different, he and Song Nan had become mortal enemies, and Song Nan's victory was his own defeat; Before Song Nan went on the expedition, he forcibly forced the imperial court to abolish several of his reform policies, which was to slap himself in the face in public, if he didn't quickly find a way to get back face, and when Song Nan returned to Beijing, it would be too late.

While Liu Jin was racking his brains to prepare for countermeasures, Song Nan's 37,000-strong army had already swept all the way to recover Jining, approaching Pei County on the north bank of the Yellow River, where the thieves were entrenched.

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At the Feiyun Ferry of the Yellow River sixty miles south of Pei County, Liu Liumu stood on the bank of the river, looking at the surging Yellow River without saying a word; On the opposite side was the officers and soldiers gathered in Xuzhou, although they had hundreds of ships on hand, but after several attempts, they could not break through the ferry guarded by the officers and soldiers, if there was enough time, Liu Liu was completely sure that he could take Feiyundu and lead the army into the south of the Yellow River.

However, the news of the fall of Gunzhou disrupted his plan, and he originally wanted to make ten days of preparation, build more ships, and invest tens of thousands of troops to cross the river at one time, and cross the river at seven or eight places upstream and downstream at the same time, so as to break the blockade of officers and soldiers on the opposite bank; However, after the fall of Gunzhou, this will become impossible, because the officers and men of the brigade are trying their best to copy their own back road, and once they are entangled by a large number of officers and soldiers, the officers and soldiers south of the Yellow River will cross the river to reinforce them, and their lives will be lost on the north bank of the Yellow River.

"Tianshuai, Yang Hu, this idiot, lost Gunzhou in two days, we can't stay here for a long time, Peixian is not enough to defend at all, Tianshuai has to make a decision early." Liu Hui, one of the five tiger generals beside him, said with an anxious face.

Liu Liu's mouth grinned, the scars on his face looked even more terrifying, and he said slowly: "Brother Liu, don't talk about Yang Hu like that, he also did his best." ”

Liu Hui hurriedly said: "Tianshuai has taught me that the main general of the officers and soldiers this time is not the rice bucket of the previous leader, our combat strength is much worse than them, and the weapons and armor are a lot worse, which is indeed difficult to resist." ”

Liu Liu shook his head and said: "This is not the main reason, the reason is on us, to put it mildly, we are too rampant, we have done a lot of things that have harmed the people along the way, I am afraid that we have lost the hearts of the people." ”

Liu Hui was stunned and said: "Tianshuai, even so, from today on, let's be kind to the people, and appease the people, after all, the people are still towards us from the bottom of their hearts, aren't our rebellions also under the banner of robbing the rich and helping the poor for the way of heaven?" ”

Liu Liu's body suddenly trembled, and he laughed, squinted at Liu Hui and said, "Robbing the rich and helping the poor is the way to do it for heaven?" Do you believe it? Are we rebelling for the sake of others? Hmph, it's enough for Lao Tzu to dominate the storm for a while, no matter what the people want him to do or not, our brothers just want to sleep all over the world, eat and drink and divide the money, if anyone is not convinced, they will cut off their heads, why do you want to do the right thing for heaven? Why do you want to force yourself to rob the rich and help the poor? These people are a group of grass chickens, all of whom have been skinned and cramped! Look at them, the government oppresses them, and we oppress them, they are simply a bunch of soft bones, and their people's hearts have a fart! ”

Liu Liu's voice was excited, and the spit splashed on Liu Hui's face, Liu Hui didn't dare to reach out to wipe it, and when Liu Liu took a breath, he quickly interjected: "Tianshuai Mingjian, please Tianshuai make it clear, what should we do now?" ”

Liu Liu's face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Naturally, there is a way, pass the order, give up Feiyundu, and withdraw the troops to the north." ”

"To the north?" Liu Hui said: "Didn't you collide with the officers and soldiers?" ”

Liu Liu said: "There are millions of male soldiers hidden in Weishan Lake, can't we hide tens of thousands of people?" ”

Liu Hui's eyes lit up, and he suddenly realized.