With Liu Zongmin's miserable howl and serious injury and falling from his horse, life and death are unknown, and the final suspense of this battle is actually completely extinguished. However, half an hour later, the remaining remnants of the invading army were chaotic and disorganized, and the soldiers had no desire to fight, and they either fled or surrendered.

Liu Zongmin's body, which he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, was also tied up by Li Dingguo's own soldiers, whether he died or not, bandage the wound first, and try to bring it back as much as possible, after all, this is the murderer who killed the first emperor, and he deserves a very high reward. Then Li Dingguo ignored the fact that he was still a little injured, and asked his subordinates to continue to expand the results of the battle and capture more prisoners.

The moonlight at the end of September was only faint, making the battle, which lasted from late afternoon to late night, so solemn in the closing stage, and also made it more difficult to hunt down and hunt down the remnants of the enemy.

The rout fled everywhere, and most of those who ran to the Jianghan Plain in the east could still be caught, while those who ran to the Jingshan Mountains in the west might take several days or even ten and a half months to be captured.

The cold autumn wind blew a strong smell of blood, making people suspect that they were in a ghost.

Li Dingguo gasped for breath and spent a while chasing and expanding the results of the battle, until the next day, when the sky was slightly bright, he found a place to rest on the battlefield that had just quieted down, and briefly dealt with the small injuries on his body.

It was also at this time that the friendly general Cao Bianjiao and the deputy general Zhu Wenzhen found him and asked about the losses and the results of the battle.

When Cao Bianjiao saw him, his expression was very complicated. Cao Bianjiao is a famous general in the world, and he followed Sun Chuanting and his uncle Cao Wenzhao to hunt down and kill the old king Gao Yingxiang, and also participated in the killing of Gao Yingxiang (just participated, not the first merit).

Therefore, even if King Chuang is killed, although he can definitely at least be crowned a prince or even a marquis. But in Cao Bianjiao's eyes, this kind of merit is not an unattainable immortal skill, he has seen this kind of big scene.

What's more, now, according to the battlefield intelligence that Cao Bianjiao has mastered, Li Zicheng must have run away a long time ago, and it is a miracle that this battle can destroy almost all of Li Zicheng's troops except for the cavalry troops, run away, and capture them.

Cao Bianjiao originally felt that Li Dingguo and Sun Kewang were all thieves of thieves, and he had fought with the other party for so many years, and the accumulated grudges were also inexplicable.

Cao Bianjiao previously thought that the surname of the country was so preferential to recruit these capricious people, giving them the opportunity to make meritorious contributions, just letting them help Zhao'an some scattered thieves in the Luoxiao Mountains of southern Jiangnan, and giving them the position of general, it was really a bit extravagant.

On the way to reinforcements today, Cao Bianjiao may not have the idea of watching Li Dingguo's jokes in his heart, and he even subconsciously thought that it would be best for the stubborn old thieves of the descendants of the thieves and the western thieves to fire each other and die almost the same, so as to save the genuine Ming army to carry the casualties.

But in the end, seeing that Li Dingguo dared to fight so much, killed and wounded thousands of brothers, and still took the lead in standing there, and his momentum was much more tenacious than Li Zicheng, who had fallen into the twilight, Cao Bianjiao gradually changed his opinion, and he no longer put on the shelf of "the elite of the nine sides of the card for the rest of his life".

For martial artists, respect has always been earned from the battlefield with a knife and a gun, as long as you dare to fight, there will always be a robe in your eyes.

In front of the two, Cao Bianjiao rode proudly on horseback, looked down at Li Dingguo, who was dismounted and walking, and glanced up and down a few times before asking:

"What about the losses in this battle? Although Li Zicheng ran away, he had a pseudo-civil and military backbone, and how many were captured. Do you see the direction of Li Zicheng's escape? ”

Li Dingguo didn't feel that the other party was arrogant, he knew that General Cao had this capital,

When Cao Bianjiao followed Hong Chengchou to fight the Songjin War, he also rushed to kill Huang Taiji's imperial camp flag array, which was a national hero in the foreign war, not a good fight in the civil war.

He said respectfully: "The last general was lucky and captured Liu Zongmin, the general under the thief, who was a great evil in killing the first emperor. In addition, more than 10,000 thieves and soldiers were captured, and our army suffered casualties, accumulating thousands, if it weren't for the last general's repeated encouragement of them, the friendly army would arrive immediately, plus General Zhang and General Cao, your rescue was timely, and the last general was afraid that he would not be able to maintain the situation. ”

Li Dingguo had a total of 8,000 people, and if the casualties added up to "thousands", the normal situation would definitely collapse. But on the one hand, the soldiers he led were solidly trained, and they were also tempered and tested when he was under Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Dingguo was also good at taking the lead and sharing weal and woe with the soldiers.

On the other hand, it is relying on the troops to always know that "the advantage lies in me, and our army has a steady stream of reinforcements, but it just needs time to rush to the battlefield." This belief is supported, and it is not as easy to despair as those troops who have been pressed by the whole army and have no reinforcements.

Li Dingguo is also good at controlling the hearts and minds of the people on the battlefield, and he always seems to have a way to convince his subordinates that "if you carry it a little more, reinforcements will arrive soon."

After Cao Bianjiao listened to the detailed statement, he was also a little awe-inspired, this ability to lead troops is really extraordinary, no wonder it has been repeatedly reused under Zhang Xianzhong.

In today's battle, the number of prisoners captured by Li Dingguo is definitely not as good as the one he came to sweep the tail and pick up the cheap. Cao Bianjiao captured at least three times as many prisoners as Li Dingguo, who made him a 20,000 cavalry unit, and he had a natural advantage in chasing the north and staking the north.

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When the enemy army collapsed, the cavalry relied on the speed advantage to pull an encirclement in a roundabout way, and it was directly tens of thousands of kneeling and surrendering.

In terms of the captured captives, Cao Bianjiao's level is not low - the puppet prime minister Niu Jinxing is not good at running, and his riding skills are not good, and he was abandoned by Li Zicheng who took care of one thing and the other in the chaotic army, and was finally captured by Cao Bianjiao.

And Liu Fangliang surrendered directly to Cao Bianjiao, Li Zicheng was mainly civil and military, and after counting, it seemed that only one Song Xiance ran away with him.

The two of them combined the follow-up pursuit, allowing the long-fought troops to rest for a while, and pulled up an encirclement network.

Li Dingguo looked at Cao Bianjiao's deployment, and it seemed that he wanted to rely on the speed advantage of the cavalry to pull up half of the encirclement along the edge of Jingshan Mountain in this area.

He couldn't help but be a little worried: "General Cao, what if this thief flees to the depths of Jingshan and goes all the way to Yunyang, Wudang Mountain and other places?" In the reckless mountains, I am afraid that it is difficult to search and suppress, this thief has been used to this for more than ten years. ”

Cao Bianjiao: "Don't worry, if the governor dares to let him cross the river, he will naturally prepare a ten-sided net." In the west, there are also seconded soldiers and horses from Sichuan to plug the mouth.

As early as before today's battle, Zhang Daotai (Zhang Huangyan), who was preparing for the Sichuan Army, took a part of Fang Guoan's men and horses back to Yunyang to block the mouth. The troops of Kuidong under Fang Guoan's command are good at searching and suppressing in the mountains, so leave that side to them. ”

In the Sichuan army, Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin's mother and son have been stationed in Hanzhong, and it is not easy to transfer too far, so when Zhu Shuren thought of using Sichuan mountain soldiers before the war, he thought of reluctantly using Fang Guoan.

Fang Guoan is not a loyal person in history, but he can be regarded as persevering until the period of King Lu's power in Hangzhou in history, and most of his subsequent betrayal is due to the fact that the situation is really out of control. Now that there is a butterfly effect, for this kind of talent that can be strife, of course, we must try to give him the opportunity to strengthen the shaping in the direction of loyalty.

And the mountain soldiers he brought were also the foundation of the local anti-Qing rebels in Chongqing in the thirteen families of Kuidong in history, and many of them had participated in Zhu Shuren's battle to recover Chongqing before.

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The search continued, and after another day, Zhu Shuren himself arrived at the battlefield belatedly with another support army.

After all, it is impossible for him to react as quickly as a famous cavalry general like Cao Bianjiao, but of course he himself has to supervise the battle in person, and strive to take the last battle of capturing Li Zicheng in his own hands, so as to get the credit of overall command.

Cao Bianjiao actually knew this in his heart, and he could figure it out - the future Nanjing Imperial Court, the most decisive thing is actually Governor Zhu, how can he not participate in the credit of avenging the first emperor? If you don't participate, it will only lead to disorder, and the person who monopolizes the credit will feel uneasy in his own heart.

And take 10,000 steps back and say, even if Zhu Shuren can't go into battle to supervise the battle, just rely on the strategy he set to lure the enemy across the river, which is the most important reason for Li Zicheng's downfall. Others only actually participated in the fight, but without this strategy, even if Li Zicheng was defeated, he might not be able to ensure that he would be killed.

Zhu Shuren arranged in advance for his cousin Zhang Huangyan to also come to take credit, and he also had the idea of bringing his cronies. Zhang Huangyan was in Sichuan last year to chase and kill Zhang Xianzhong, the Sichuan soldiers were prepared, and later in the process of Zhang Xianzhong being destroyed, Zhang Huangyan's own merits were not obvious enough, and he could not reach another level.

On the other hand, Zhang Huangyan is also too young, he is only four or five years older than Zhu Shuren, Zhu Shuren is twenty-three or four years old to supervise, and Zhang Huangyan is only twenty-eight years old when he becomes a Taoist.

Now that Zhang Huangyan is twenty-nine, he can make a little more money in the siege of Li Zicheng, and Zhu Shuren can help him find the title of imperial history of the capital, even if he can't directly grant the governor, he can occupy the pit at the level first.

Zhu Shuren has always been inward-looking, as long as his relatives are really talented, of course they have to use it. Whether it is his father Shen Tingyang or his cousin Zhang Huangyan, they have left a name of loyalty and righteousness in history, so why not mention it.

As soon as he arrived at the battlefield, Zhu Shuren summoned the generals, and first verbally commended those who had made meritorious contributions in the previous war, and further assigned tasks.

"General Cao, Deputy General Zhu, General Li, this official will ask for the title for you, you must make persistent efforts and make a quick decision - this official was also temporarily delayed by other military affairs and delayed for half a day.

The battle situation waits for no one, the world is a game of chess, and you can't just stare at Huguang. Just last night, Liu Guoneng from Xinyang sent another 600 miles of urgent military information, saying that it was the puppet Fuwang regime of Fengyang Mansion, and he actually opened Fengyang City and surrendered directly to Duoduo!

I thought that Duoduo, a murderous demon king, would definitely be killed when he met a prince surnamed Zhu, but I didn't expect that there were still capable people around him, and he actually accepted King Fu's surrender, he should have wanted to make him a puppet to fight with us!

On the Nanjing side, it should be similar to the news that the defenders of Xinyang got the news that His Majesty urged us to speed up the settlement of Li Zicheng's edict, which is estimated to be on the way, and may be sent to Xiangyang in two or three days. We strive to be faster, and the Eastern Front waits for no one. ”