This team, which suddenly attacked the retreating army of Ghost Rong and cut off its back road, was naturally led by Sun Ning.

Capturing Zizhou has never been the final goal, but only a key step for him to recapture Ludi from the hands of the Guirong people, and the various changes in the process of capturing the city have made it easy for him to achieve his wish, that is, to control the soldiers and horses of Zizhou for his own use.

The death of Qin Weiyuan, a garrison general, made the defenders of Zizhou lose their backbone soon after the war, and other lower-level generals were far from being able to make tens of thousands of soldiers and horses sincerely support and obey orders, both in terms of status and prestige.

On the contrary, Sun Ning, with his strong combat power and merits that night, won the respect of many soldiers at that time, and what he did next was to quickly reap the vast majority of the army's hearts - dividends.

The Guirong people were killed and fled from Zizhou, so naturally it was impossible to bring with them a large amount of property that had been looted some time ago. Sun Ning directly ordered these things to be collected, and then he didn't take a penny, and all of them were rewarded to the soldiers below according to their merits.

That's not all, he also struck while the iron was hot, and sent troops to take down all the officials such as Zheng Wende, the Taishou of Zizhou. Naturally, there is nothing to say about these traitors, just kill them in public, and even the process of trial does not have to be wasted.

And from the homes of these officials, a large amount of goods, gold and silver were naturally searched.

Among these belongings, there are not only the officials who have taken the profits, but also the ones that have been accumulated by the officials for many years, but now they have all become the bargaining chips that Sun Ning used to buy people's hearts, so that he did not make any nostalgia, and all of them were divided.

In this way, even those who still had some doubts about Sun Ning's identity were convinced of him after receiving a very generous reward.

In the past, those bosses and generals, not to mention distributing all the large sums of money and property in their hands, even the pitiful salaries of ordinary soldiers, they would pluck their feathers and take away some of them.

Compared with Sun Ning, Qin Weiyuan and other generals are too far behind. And he naturally won the respect of the whole army immediately, although there is no clear statement, but he is already the new master of the 20,000 soldiers in Zizhou City. 33

After spending two or three days gathering the military heart on himself, Sun Ning summoned the middle and low-level officers and told him his next plan.

"Ladies and gentlemen, don't think that we can rest easy now that we can retake Zizhou. Now Ludi is suffering a catastrophe, and all the state capitals are occupied by the Guirong people, if we don't deal with it, then after they completely take other cities, my Zizhou will still be broken by them, and then you and I will be worried. ”

There is nothing to pretend about, Sun Ning got straight to the point as soon as he came up, pointed out the problem, and also made the expressions of all the generals become uneasy, and the previous smug mood was completely gone.

"Master Li, what do you say we should do?" Han Xiao asked very cooperatively.

Sun Ning swept towards everyone and said in a solemn tone: "Instead of being beaten passively, it is better to take the initiative to attack." Ladies and gentlemen, in my opinion, only if we cooperate with the rest of the horses to go out to fight the Ghost Rong people and drive them out of Ludi in one fell swoop, can we ensure our own safety.

"And right now, the opportunity is right now! Under Jeju City, the Onijung people are fighting a decisive battle with the Liangju army and the Jeju defenders, if we can attack with them, or even suddenly appear on that battlefield in the form of surprise soldiers, one of the main forces of the Onijung will inevitably be defeated, and I will be saved! ”

Speaking of this, he slapped the table: "Everyone, honor and disgrace are in this battle, are you willing to gamble with me?" ”

Sun Ning did not try to persuade the soldiers in front of him from the righteousness of his family and country, because he knew very well that these reasons would also deceive the ignorant young man, or coax the soldiers below who had little knowledge. These people in front of them obviously value their own interests more, otherwise they would not have been able to occupy the huge Zizhou and tens of thousands of defenders by the Ghost Rong people, and there has never been an accident.

Only when their vital interests are harmed, and only when they know that there is no better alternative to this path, will they follow themselves and take a gamble.

And this time, Sun Ning obviously made the right bet.

After a period of ear-to-ear discussion, these generals showed their attitudes: "We are willing to follow Master Li, fight for the peace of Ludi, and for our own survival!" ”

"We are willing to send troops to cooperate with the soldiers and horses in Jeju to defeat the Ghost Rong people, Lord Li, you give the order directly!"

Facing their high-spirited appearance, Sun Ning smiled with satisfaction: "Good! Then let's agree on the arrangement of soldiers and horses, we have to defend Zizhou, and we must defeat the enemy! ”

After some careful discussion, the strategy was quickly decided.

Sun Ning picked out 10,000 elites from the Zizhou army, and on the night of the fifth day of the capture of Zizhou, he took advantage of the darkness to leave the city and go straight to Jeju.

At the same time, he also sent an early order to the grain raiders who had been hiding before, so that they could also rush to Jeju to join his family.

Therefore, when Sun Ningzhen appeared near Jeju with his troops, his troops had reached more than 20,000 people.

It was only because the Ghost Rong people had always been on guard, and there were scouts patrolling the rear from time to time, that they did not dare to get too close, but hid in a small town twenty miles away, waiting for the time to come.

Yelu Changlong, who was completely attracted by the Liangzhou army, did not expect that there was already an ambush behind him, so he withdrew immediately after reaching an agreement with the Liangzhou army without preparation.

Maybe when he retired from the army, he was still thinking about taking Zizhou City directly this time.

But as a result, his team had just moved, and Sun Ning, who had noticed something wrong two days earlier, did not hesitate to lead his troops to kill, and even gave the enemy a hard blow directly from the side.

When this sudden attack appeared, not to mention the Ghost Rong people, even the Liangju army under the city, and the Jeju defenders on the city were all taken aback.

Where did this soldier and horse come from, don't be a trap deliberately dug by the ghost Rong people, just to deceive yourself and wait for the initiative to attack, right?

But as the front team played the flag, and the "Lu" character and the "Zizhou" flag fluttered high, everyone finally reacted, this is the soldiers and horses of Zizhou City who are taking the risk to kill.

And the retreating army of Ghost Rong was in chaos due to the sudden attack, and was killed so that people turned on their backs......

Seeing this scene, the soldiers of the Jizhou garrison couldn't help it first, and asked the adults to fight: "Ladies and gentlemen, breaking the enemy is at this time, please quickly order the city to attack!" ”

"This ......" King Lu, Zhao Qianzhe and Song Qiyun are also a little hesitant at this time.

Because this change was out of their plan, should they take the risk, and after the risk, can they get the corresponding benefits?

Some people died, but not completely......