The 30,000 troops of Baoyi Town were all wiped out, and this news swept through the entire Luoyang City like a hurricane. Emperor Li Conghou was extremely angry, and immediately issued an edict to kill Li Chongji and Li Huiming, and at the same time ordered Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun to send troops and horses to encircle and suppress Li Congke's department.

At this time, Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun were already ruthless, and seeing that Li Congke was breaking through all the way, they desperately gave orders to the envoys of the towns and began to raise troops to carry out encirclement and suppression.

A few days later, Li Congke heard that Li Chongji and Li Huiming had been given death, and his heart was so sad that the army of Fengxiang Town stayed in place for three days, and set up a tablet in the army to pay tribute to Li Chongji and Li Huiming.

Then Li Congke led the army to continue to kill Luoyang City, but successively encountered the soldiers and horses mobilized by Zhu Hongzhao and Feng Yun to intercept it, and the speed of the army in Fengxiang Town became slower and slower, which made Li Congke anxious.

Qingzhou City.

Shen Tan sat in the hall of the government with a haggard face, facing a group of subordinates, and said weakly: "The army of Dengzhou Town has surrounded Zizhou City, and several counties in Zizhou have all surrendered without a fight, tell me, what should we do?" ”

At this time, the main army of Pinglu Town had been destroyed, and the troops in Shen Tan's hands were only more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in Qingzhou City, and these more than 10,000 people were all temporary miscellaneous soldiers, and they couldn't get on the big stage.

The defenders in Zizhou City only had more than 3,000 people, and they couldn't hold out for a few days in the face of the wolf-like army of Dengzhou Town.

At this time, there was silence in the hall, and all the generals present bowed their heads and were silent, everyone understood that if the imperial court did not intervene, Pinglu Town would come to an end!

But now that the imperial court has been troubled by Li Congke, where can he still care about the affairs of Pinglu Town?

Shen Tan looked at the generals who were hesitant, and couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, how could he, the envoy of the town, be forced to this step by Li Congyan?

Suddenly, a lieutenant said: "Lord, should Qingzhou immediately close the city gate and check the population in the city, so as to prevent Dengzhou's fine work from entering the city?" ”

Finally someone spoke, Shen Tan nodded, and said: "Let's do it, let the soldiers of all departments cheer up, I will play a concert for the saint to impeach Li Congyan, I hope the saint can administer justice for our Pinglu Town!" ”

On the same day, the city gates in Qingzhou were closed one after another, and in the east of Qingzhou City, more than a dozen capable men gathered together, sitting on the side of the street near the city gate, and staring at the soldiers who were closing the gates.

"Did the brothers all come in?"

"The brothers of our brigade have all come in, and they are hiding near the east gate."

"Good! Wait, when the signal sounds, let's take the East Gate! ”

The eyes of more than a dozen men were full of excitement, and one of them whispered: "Brigade Marshal, this time we will take the East City Gate, but it is a great achievement, what reward do you say Li Shuai will give us?" ”

"Why do you want to do so much? Li Shuai has always had clear rewards and punishments, let's just make meritorious contributions, and Li Shuai will naturally not treat us badly. This time Pinglu Town was destroyed, and our brothers will wait to get rich and receive honors when we go back! ”

More than a dozen men looked at the defenders at the city gate with hot eyes, as if they were looking at the trophies, which made people shudder.

It didn't take long for more than a dozen Mingdi in the city to rush into the sky, and the piercing sound resounded in the air, and the brigade commander suddenly came to his senses and shouted loudly: "Signal! Brothers, follow me! ”

More than a dozen men drew horizontal knives from the bamboo baskets, carts, etc. beside them, and rushed towards the east city gate with a roar.

Almost at the same time, several teams of men and horses were killed around the east city gate, all of them with horizontal knives in their hands, and the number of people was as high as hundreds, directly beating the defenders guarding the east city gate to the back.

At this time, the entire Qingzhou City was full of murderous sounds, and the brigade commander shouted excitedly: "Make a noise, open the city gate for me!" ”

Then several soldiers escorted the brigade commander and rushed to the city gate, and several defenders still wanted to step forward to stop them, but they were killed by the red-eyed Dengzhou soldiers in a blink of an eye. The horizontal knife in the brigade commander's hand slashed fiercely, again and again, and when the fourth knife was cut down, the deadbolt was broken!

"Open! Open the gates! ”

The brigade commander and several subordinates shouted to open the east city gate, only to see that an army of iron cavalry outside had been waiting for a long time, the brigade commander rushed out of the city gate, waved at the iron cavalry army in the distance and cheered.

Zhang Tianzuo, the commander of the cavalry battalion, saw the gate of Qingzhou City wide open, grinned and said, "Brothers, rush in with me and take Qingzhou City!" ”

This was the first battle of the cavalry battalion of the military headquarters of the First Field Army, and the 6,000 soldiers under Zhang Tianzuo, the commander of the capital, were all excited, and they were all holding back the strength to make a good start.

"Wan Sheng!"

The roar of the six thousand soldiers shook the sky, and the iron cavalry army slowly started, sweeping towards the east gate of Qingzhou like a hurricane. The defenders at the head of the city were dumbfounded at this time, there were countless enemy troops in the city, and everything was already in chaos. And outside the city, an elite army of iron cavalry suddenly appeared, and the vanguard iron cavalry had rushed into the city gate hole, such a situation completely crushed the defenders' fighting spirit, more and more defenders began to flee, and the defense line on the head of the city collapsed without a fight!

Seeing that the army entered the city without being hindered at all, and the city was full of deserters from Pinglu Town, Zhang Tianzuo immediately smiled, and the first battle of the cavalry battalion encountered such a surprise, it was like pie in the sky.

"Scatter kills! Take the brigade as a unit, assault all over the city, and kill! ”

"The Chinese army will take the Jiedu envoy yamen with me!"

Zhang Tianzuo led hundreds of elite iron horsemen to run wildly all the way, and the soldiers of Pinglu Town along the way couldn't resist it at all, and these hundreds of iron horsemen were like no one on the street.

When Zhang Tianzuo led his troops to rush to the gate of the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, the entire Qingzhou City had become a battlefield, not only all the 6,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion entered the city, but the right battalion of the First Field Army also led the troops to kill the troops into the city.

"Knock the door open for me!"

More than a dozen iron cavalry soldiers turned over and dismounted, cut down a big tree on the side of the road, and directly carried the trunk of the tree and began to hit the door.

"Rush in, find Shen Tan for me, live or die!"

"Kill!"

At this time, there were only a few dozen defenders in the yamen, plus there were only more than 200 servants and servants, and there was no chance of winning in the face of hundreds of Dengzhou iron cavalry soldiers, and they became lambs to be slaughtered as soon as they met, and they were killed not long after.

In the end, Zhang Tianzuo found Shen Tan in a firewood room in the yamen, at this time Shen Tan was wearing the official uniform of the Jiedu envoy, but his face was like a withered tree, his hair was scattered, like a madman, holding a horizontal knife in both hands to block his chest, glaring angrily at Zhang Tianzuo and the soldiers, and his mouth couldn't help but let out a beast-like roar.

Zhang Tianzuo sneered and said: "In Xia Dengzhou Town, Zhang Tianzuo, the commander of the capital, Shen Shuai is not harmed!" ”

"The court will not let you go, you bastards will accompany Li Congyan, and there will be no place to bury you!"

"Humph!"

Zhang Tianzuo snorted coldly and said, "Shen Shuai can be hard-mouthed now, and there is a time for you to cry." There is another thing, my family master asked where Shang Zili was, can Shen Shuai tell me one or two! ”

"Haha!"

Shen Tan laughed and said, "That traitor has been killed by me, if you want to find it, you can go to the mass grave in the north of the city to have a look!" ”

Zhang Tianzuo frowned slightly, and said coldly: "Tie me up!" ”

Several iron cavalry soldiers rushed into the firewood room, directly knocked out the horizontal knife in Shen Tan's hand, tied Shen Tan with five by two, and then escorted Shen Tan out despite Shen Tan's pig-like howl.

Zhang Tianzuo immediately sent someone to the north of the city to find the remains of Shang Zili, and then said: "Immediately send someone to contact Li Zhichong and tell him that our department has captured the Yamen of the Jiedu envoy and captured Shen Tan alive." ”

"Whoa!"

More than an hour later, Qingzhou was completely captured.

Li Ren, the commander of Zhichong, and Zhang Tianzuo, the commander of Zhichong, sat in the Yamen of Jiedu, and began to put up a list to calm the people, contain prisoners, and clean up the battlefield, and at the same time the two sent fast horses to report to Li Congyan.

The words are divided into two ends, one for each table.

Li Congyan led the left battalion of the First Field Army to besiege the city of Zizhou for several days, and the defenders in the city sent people to contact several times to prepare to surrender, but Li Congyan never allowed it.

On this day, Li Congyan finally received good news from Qingzhou, and a stone in his heart finally landed, and immediately sent someone to issue an ultimatum to the defenders of Zizhou City, asking the defenders to surrender before dusk.

The defenders in the city are very strange, you didn't agree to surrender before, and now you order me to surrender, what's the trouble?

It didn't take long for the more than 3,000 defenders in the city to remove the flag of Pinglu Town, and then laid down their weapons and marched out of Zizhou City.

Li Congyan led his troops into the city to take over the city, and ordered Wang Zuhe, the commander of the capital, to lead a group of soldiers to guard the prisoners, and temporarily placed more than 3,000 prisoners outside the city.

In the Yamen of the Assassin Shi in the city, Li Congyan called Bai Jixun, who was with the army, and said to him: "Qingzhou City has been taken, and Shen Tan was captured by the cavalry battalion in Pinglu Town, now you go to Qingzhou City, and this person will be handed over to you to deal with!" ”

Bai Jixun was excited when he heard this, but he still couldn't help but ask: "Dare to ask the Lord, how to deal with this person?" ”

"Pinglu Town has been destroyed by me, and this person is useless."

Bai Jixun's heart was settled, and he took the order away.

The next day, Li Congyan settled the affairs of Zizhou City, and then led a large army to Qingzhou City.

At this time, Bai Jixun had already killed Shen Tan with his own hands, and sent Shen Tan's head back to the Yamen of the Zhenfu Division in a wooden box to appease the hearts of the old subordinates of Hetudu.

And Li Congyan went straight to the Yamen of the Jiedu envoy, saw Li Ren, Zhang Tianzuo and other generals, and asked: "Is there a whereabouts of Shang Zili?" ”

Zhang Tianzuo crossed his hands and said: "Lord Qiqi, Shang Zili has been killed by Shen Tan, and the body has been found, but Shang Zili's head is missing!" ”

Li Congyan was immediately stunned when she heard this, then her eyes turned red, and she choked up and said, "I hurt Shang Zili!" I can't stop him! ”

The generals were all moved when they saw this.

On the same day, Li Congyan led the people to set up a mourning hall in the Yamen of the Jiedu Envoy, put the body of Shang Zili into the coffin, and led the generals and the captured generals of Pinglu Town to pay a big salute to pay respects, and worshiped the soldiers who died in Dengzhou Town and Pinglu Town in this battle.

When the news reached the prisoner camps outside Qingzhou City and Zizhou City, thousands of prisoners in Pinglu Town were all moved when they heard it, and the hostility towards Li Congyan in their hearts also disappeared.

In this battle, Li Congyan successfully took Qingzhou and Zizhou, and Pinglu Town was completely wiped out. The defenders of the two states were killed more than 4,000 people and more than 7,000 captured. Dengzhou Town seized soldiers' armor, money, food, and baggage.

Subsequently, Li Congyan was temporarily stationed in Qingzhou City, and Wu Conghan and Li Wei were also summoned to hold a meeting with Bai Jixun, Li Ren, Wang Zuhe and other generals to discuss and digest the specific matters of Qingzhou and Zizhou.