A battle does not last long, on the contrary, it takes several times more time to clean up the battlefield than to fight.

This surprise attack, which detoured behind enemy lines and intercepted his rear route, was even more gratifying than Li Tai had envisioned, and the main force of the enemy did not even organize any effective resistance and counterattack, and was crushed on both sides of the river.

As for the other enemy divisions, except for some of them who were attacked and scattered and fled, there were not many recalcitrant people left, and there were even entire troops who surrendered.

The enemy's rout and battle stretched for more than ten miles, not that there were really so many men and horses, but that the armies were too far apart, and there was an obvious gap in each other's equipment and mobility.

The troops that fell behind did not even have much cattle and horses, and the baggage carts were all dragged forward and backward by manpower, so they should be auxiliary divisions with relatively low status and combat effectiveness. But what is surprising is that more baggage was captured from these troops than from the front.

The two pontoon bridges on the river had broken under the fierce trampling of men and horses, and Li Tai, who had remained on the left bank, had to cross the river by boat, and when he reached the other bank, good news followed.

First of all, the main commander of this group of men and horses, Bu Da Khansa, was not able to leave the battlefield, when he was on the way to the north along the river from the lower part of the tribe to the north by a number of phoenixes who led the troops to swim across the river, chased all the way to the tail, and finally caught up in the dense forest a few miles away, and successfully killed him after a hand-to-hand fight.

When he saw a number of phoenixes covered in blood but smiling all over his face, holding the head of the enemy general in both hands in front of him, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh that the naughty boy of the year has grown up now, and his martial arts are not inferior to his father, although this uniform is still red, it is the enemy's blood stained red!

"Good boy, your father has knowledge under the spring, and he should be glad that there is a successor!"

Li Tai motioned for his soldiers to take over the enemy's head to clean it, and he patted the shoulder of several phoenixes and said with a smile.

After hearing this, several Feng were also proud, and also said loudly: "The last general's courage is more than this, I just hope that it can be reused by the general, and it is unknown whether the young man will be blue in the future!" ”

In addition to a few phoenixes, the rest of the soldiers also had their own gains. Although the number of enemy troops was large, the elite was mainly concentrated in the front, and after the front was attacked head-on by the Jingzhou army, which had already ambushed the troops here, the combat effectiveness had basically collapsed.

After the preliminary arrangement of the battlefield, many of the defeated army surrendered prisoners were driven to a river bay, and there were tens of thousands of people at a rough point. As for the chariots, horses, rods, and so on, they are also in considerable quantities, and they are piled up like several hills.

It is worth mentioning that if you rely on the thousands of elite horsemen under Li Tai's department alone, even if it gets dark, you can't finish cleaning the battlefield, especially the routs and artifacts scattered all over the ground, which make people's scalps tingle when they look at it.

But there are some of them who are obedient and cooperative, not only helping to intercept the rout, but also taking the initiative to collect and gather those scattered canes and baggage, looking at the hard work is simply touching.

After Li Tai interrogated the leaders of these teams, he learned that they were originally all Huainan locals, who were forcibly conscripted into the army by the Qi army, and they were also conservatively discriminated against and suppressed in the army, and they had no sense of belonging to the Northern Qi in their hearts, and they felt even more sincerely gloating when they saw the Qi army unlucky.

With the help of these Huainan scholars, the control of these villager captives has also become smoother. Because of the rapid march all the way, they only slept overnight after going around to the rear of the enemy army yesterday, and after a short rest, Li Tai and his party were also very tired, so they simply camped on the left side to rest.

When they saw the Jingzhou army cooking, they couldn't help but look at the past with wide eyes, and when they saw the soldiers taking off a round shield on horseback and slashing with a knife, they couldn't help but let out a sound of surprise in their mouths.

"This is the bread of grain, that is...... Do you see it? Did you see that? ”

At this time, shouts suddenly sounded in the prisoner camp, and some Henan soldiers who had failed to convince their comrades in the debate last night pointed to the real objects in the hands of the Jingzhou soldiers, and raised their eyebrows with exhalation, but no one responded to them.

After dinner, Li Tai discussed the next action with the soldiers. Through the interrogation of the captives, he learned that in addition to this army, the Northern Qi no longer had another considerable mobile force in Huainan, but there was an army led by Duan Shao, the assassin of Jizhou, in Huaibei.

After hearing this, all the generals showed eager expressions, especially a few phoenixes who had just killed the enemy generals and said excitedly: "Our army is new and victorious, and after receiving supplies from this side, we can continue to fight, it is better to advance to Huaishui and break Duan Shao's army, and then the huge Huainan will be let me pick it up!" ”

When everyone heard this, they all nodded their heads in approval.

Compared with the founding kings of the Northern Qi Dynasty, Duan Shao's reputation is really not loud enough, and the east and west have been facing each other for many years. There are even people who don't know that there is such a general in the Northern Qi Kingdom, and after a little inquiry with the people next to them, they know that this person is a relative of the Northern Qi Dynasty, and they naturally have no fear of such an opponent.

But Li Tai knew when to wave and when to go, and he was not afraid of fighting with Duan Shao at another time and place, but it was obviously not cost-effective to fight with Duan Shao now.

With the crippled force of the Northern Qi in front of him, Duan Shao alone was no longer enough to reverse the bad situation of the Northern Qi in Huainan. And even if he crosses the Huaishui to defeat Duan Shao, it will be difficult to fully embrace Huainan, rather than Kang Long has regrets, it is better to accept it when he sees it.

Don't look at his current wandering and happy, in fact, except for Yiyang, which is in the northwest corner, there is not even a stable foothold in Huainan at the moment, or it is the right plan to continue to attack Fei with this victory.

When the generals heard Li Tai's decision to withdraw the troops, although the generals felt sorry in their hearts, they did not continue to insist.

Li Ya, who was not qualified to participate in the meeting, but was qualified to stand guard, glanced at several Feng and sighed after hearing the resolution in the tent: "That Duan Shao's luck has not declined, but unfortunately the general does not allow me to become famous in this battle." ”

When Li Tai heard this kid's words, he thought in his heart that when he fought against Northern Qi in the future, he would have to avoid arranging this kid to fight Duan Shao, otherwise he would probably have to cut the mutton by himself in the future.

After resting here for a day, the group set off and could not return, because the enemy army was defeated in a hurry, and most of the grain and grass were taken. The grain and grass that was originally supplied to tens of thousands of people is now only more than 10,000 people, which is naturally more than enough, and even those captives have to enjoy a full meal. Coupled with the enthusiastic control of the powerful subordinates in Huainan, more than 3,000 people under Li Tai's department escorted several times the number of prisoners and many baggage, and they did not violate the peace.

Because he was worried about being attacked by Duan Shao's back road, Li Tai personally led a thousand elite soldiers to Xu Xingzhen, after all, the Northern Qi also had a considerable number of elite cavalry, and if he really wanted to launch a ruthless attack, the mobility was not as bad as the Jingzhou army. Even if it weren't for Li Tai's direct control of the high-quality horse source in the west of the Longyou River, it is estimated that he would be far behind the Northern Qi in terms of cavalry formation.

On the way back from their group, the relevant news also spread quickly in Huainan.

The first thing to learn of this situation was naturally the Jingzhou side closest to the battlefield, where Yan Chaoda, the assassin of Qinzhou in the Southern Liang Dynasty, led the army to attack Jingzhou City, and at the same time, there were Hou Yao and Zhang Biao, two men who had been playing soy sauce.

"That's not true, is it? It's not that Li Boshan is still besieging Hefei City, why did he suddenly go north to break through tens of thousands of Qi troops? ”

When they first learned the news, these Southern Liang generals all couldn't believe it, but soon more conclusive news came, and they couldn't help but sigh: "Is this Li Boshan a god?" Why is it difficult for Qi people to win with all their strength? ”

After putting aside these feelings, they began to think about the impact of this variable on them based on their own positions, and Yan Chaoda naturally attacked Jingzhou City even harder. Because the army of Bu Da Khan Sana was originally coming to Jingzhou, but it was defeated by Li Boshan on the road, which undoubtedly helped him a lot.

As for Hou Yao and Zhang Biao, after seeing that the power of the Northern Qi Dynasty in Huainan was seriously weakened, their minds suddenly became lively, and their psychology of playing soy sauce changed, and they soon locked on to a target and jointly sent troops to attack Xuyi further north.

Outside the Huaibei Su Pre-city, when the generals of the Northern Qi were all shocked when they learned the news, it was not that they were shocked that Bu Da Khansa was defeated by Li Boshan, after all, no matter how exaggerated the record Li Boshan had also brushed on their Northern Qi. They are worried that Li Boshan will suddenly and so deeply intervene in the situation in Huainan, what is the big plan?

Different from the suspicion of the generals, Duan Shao was furious after learning of this, and ordered the people to continue to besiege Suzhen City, and he led his elite cavalry to go south to Zhongli to meet Li Boshan.

Just when everyone thought that there would be a dragon and tiger fight in Huainan, Duan Shao, who was supposed to go to Zhongli, suddenly appeared outside Xuyi City, and killed the Liang army who was besieging the city with lightning speed.

Then Duan Shao took advantage of this victory to continue to fight in Jingzhou, and on the way to the battle, Li Tai had already led his men and horses and the tens of thousands of Qi army captives to return to Hefei again.

When the defenders in Hefei City saw many men and horses wearing Qi army robes and banners appear outside the city, they were full of joy and thought that the reinforcements had finally arrived, but when they found that the so-called reinforcements were all prisoners, the huge gap directly made people break down.

After returning to Hefei, Wang Jie, Lu Sidda and other followers had also arrived in the city, so Li Tai began to officially arrange to attack the city of Hefei. Two days later, in the night, the sergeants of the city rioted, killed and assassinated Shi Husizhao and surrendered to the city.