Soon, Li Xiang's camp heard the sound of fierce shouting and killing from Tucheng.

Li Xiang has been nervous, he has been waiting for this moment for a long time.

Ever since he beat his younger brother Li Li and went to Xiao Mengjin to attack Liu Jian's camp, he has been thinking about it for a long time.

Of course, Li Xiang was not a complete horseman, and the violent sound from the side of Tucheng was ignited at the same time...... He wasn't entirely sure if the current battle was going in the direction he wanted.

He hurriedly summoned the elite scout team that had been prepared a long time ago, and went in that direction to carefully probe the other party's information.

Soon, the scout brought back the previous news to Li Xiang.

The news that the scout reported to Li Xiang was that the enemy's earth city was indeed full of fire!

And faintly, you can also hear the sound of your own soldiers attacking,

The sound of this attack is generally impossible for the Hebei army to imitate, because the soldiers and horses sent by Li Xiang to Tucheng this time are all locals of Sizhou, with a strong regional accent.

If the Hebei army wants to imitate, it is urgent to find a person of three hundred or two hundred to pretend, but it is impossible for them to find thousands or even tens of thousands of people with the same accent as their own soldiers and horses at once to shout.

After Li Xiang got the news, he was even more sure in his heart!

He immediately organized soldiers and horses to go straight to the place where Liu Jian's Tucheng was located, and this time he himself also went out in person, which was intended to boost the morale of the three armies in the front and break the Tucheng as quickly as possible, so as to achieve full success.

This time, the rebels dispatched more people than the last time, and Li Xiang almost took out all his hundreds of thousands of family funds this time, and the mighty soldiers and horses rushed towards Tucheng like a swarm of ants.

In order to achieve the best results, Li Xiang can be said to be the first soldier this time, he himself is in the Chinese army, and he comes straight to Tucheng.

But what Li Xiang didn't know was that at this time, the periphery of the main city had already laid out a net!

Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Xu Rong, Xu Huang, Lu Yi, Gongsun Zhan!

A total of eight generals, each general led a most elite force, respectively 3,000 people, although the number is small, but the soldiers and horses of these eight troops can be said to be the most elite men and horses in the Hebei army.

As soon as they waited for the rebels to arrive, they immediately harassed and divided the rebels from different directions.

The main force of the Chinese army led by Liu Jian was in the Tucheng, holding strong crossbows, catapults and other weapons, waiting for the rebels to attack again.

Soon, Li Xiang's front vanguard army had already arrived under Tucheng, and the leader of this front vanguard army was Li Xiang himself.

Seeing that the fire in Tucheng was getting bigger and bigger, Li Xiang's heart couldn't help but be excited, he waved his hand and said to the soldiers: "Soldiers, I heard that Liu Jian brought a large amount of grain and grass this time, as well as a lot of gold and silver treasures, and valuables, plus it is worth hundreds of thousands of gold!" ”

"Now, these treasures are piled up in that earthen city, as long as we break through that earthen city, all these treasures will belong to you......"

Before Li Xiang could finish his demagogic words, he saw that in the middle of the earth city, he suddenly remembered the sound of a horn that shook the sky, mixed with the sound of rumbling drums.

And the faint shouts and attacks that Shicai was still in the city suddenly became smaller and smaller, and became smaller and smaller...... It came to an abrupt end.

It all happened so suddenly, and things turned a little too quickly, so quickly that even the rebels who had piled up under the earthen city could not react.

Followed by. Under the impetus of these drums and horns, a huge commotion suddenly broke out in the left, right, front and rear directions of the rebel army.

Yan Liang, Wen Chou, Zhang He, Gao Lan, Xu Rong, Xu Huang, Lu Yi, and Gongsun Zhan began to all go out under the urging of the sound of trumpets and drums.

Eight armies of soldiers and horses were like eight long dragons, interspersed with hundreds of thousands of rebel formations with lightning speed, cutting them into several sections, so that their heads and tails could not communicate with each other, and the formations could not communicate with each other, and the entire formation suddenly showed a chaos.

At such times, the greater the number of people, the more burdensome it becomes.

The main reason is that these soldiers and horses are not systematic, and although there are many people, they do not have the cooperation they should have in wartime.

Once there is a problem, it is you squeezing me, I squeeze yours, not to mention that each other can't form an effective formation to meet the enemy, just don't form obstacles for each other It's good.

And the most terrible thing is that once the situation becomes more and more chaotic and there are more and more people, the number of people on their own side will also be crowded, pushed, and trampled on each other.

At this time, the rebel army was like a swarm of ants, no matter how others stepped on it, they just swarmed or gathered, but there was no place to fight back.

The team led by the eight famous generals of Hebei was like eight whirling whirlwinds, they blew up wave after wave of rebel troops, and according to the established planned route, they vigorously shuttled back and forth in the opponent's formation.

Against this kind of army of hundreds of thousands, they don't need to kill too many people at all.

Such a large-scale rebel army cannot be killed, and to defeat them, all you need to do is disrupt their position.

As long as their formation is chaotic enough, unable to form a scale, and showing a situation where they cannot resist, it will be enough for the Hebei army.

The situation is indeed moving in this direction.

Soon, beads of sweat appeared on Li Xiang's forehead.

"Don't mess up, don't mess up!"

He shouted loudly at the rebel soldiers around him.

But apparently, his cries didn't do much.

On the contrary, those soldiers became more and more chaotic because of the impact and isolation of the eight strong armies!

They were so dazed that they couldn't find the way to escape, and they couldn't tell the difference between the east, the south, the west, and the north.

Liu Jianzhong's army in the city, after seeing the eight fierce generals disrupting the rebels' formation, finally began to act.

The army that had already been prepared rushed out of the Tucheng, led by an elite horse, which was the most proud Youzhou Raider in Hebei.

Liu Jian stood at the head of Tucheng and personally supervised the battle.

He watched left and right, constantly giving his orders to the heralds around him, allowing them to direct the marching routes and actions of the soldiers under the city through the rhythm of the sound of horns.

The Hebei army in Tucheng suddenly attacked, and Li Xiang was completely blinded.

At this time, he knew that he had fallen for Liu Jian's strategy.

Although he didn't understand how Liu Jian saw through his strategy of flanking back and forth, he could also set up a strategy to lure him forward.

But this matter is not important to Li Xiang now.

All he was thinking about now was how to get away quickly.

But at this time, an even worse news resounded in Li Xiang's mind.

"Qu Shuai, look, our camp is also on fire!"

When Li Xiang wanted to hear this, he couldn't help but feel dizzy.

He hurriedly turned his head to look.

Sure enough, the rebel camp is now also in flames, and it is obvious that someone set fire to the camp everywhere, but as for who burned it, it is unknown.

However, for the murderer, Li Xiang also has some choices in his heart.

If nothing else, it must be the work of those traitors who secretly want to surrender to Liu Jian, take the opportunity to show their merits, and want to get a certain position under Liu Jian.

These brutes deserve to be killed!

Although Li Xiang was extremely angry in his heart, he couldn't care about it at the moment!

At that moment, Li Xiang urged the war horse and beckoned the personal guards, and they rushed towards the seemingly weakest place in the southwest together.

But sometimes, what the eye sees doesn't necessarily mean what it actually is.

It is not that there is nothing to do in the southwest direction, but because there is a special passage set aside there, and Li Xiang is deliberately allowed to go to that area.

Soon! I saw Gongsun Chan rushing out from the oblique thorn and leading the white horse Yicong he had just formed.

This is an opportunity that Liu Jian specially gave to Gongsun Zhan.

His senior brother has always been thinking about building a great merit and making a name for himself.

As a fellow junior brother, Liu Jian felt that he should give his senior brother more opportunities.

Soon I saw Gongsun Zan leading Bai Ma Yi from the killing to the front of Li Xiangjun.

Gongsun Zhan held up the new weapon created by the Hebei Guanjia Weapon Workshop-the spear, and the white horse Yicong who followed him was also holding a similar weapon, and slammed towards the enemy like a meteor, and cut Li Xiang's personal guards in half in an instant.

Gongsun Chan himself brandished a spear and shouted loudly while riding his horse: "The soldiers of the three armies obey my command, divide into north and south, all the way to the east, all the way to the west, staggered, don't let the thief escape!" ”

Gongsun Zhan's military Jiaolong's staggered style of play confused Li Xiangjun, and there was no way to organize an effective counterattack.

Soon saw that Li Xiang's army was rushed to pieces, although they also caused some damage to Gongsun Zhan's army, but compared to the damage that Gongsun Zhan gave him, it was not worth mentioning at all.

Soon, he saw that Li Xiang's own team was divided, and there were fewer and fewer knights around him, and in the end, there were less than ten horsemen left, and the rest of the infantry were rushed and fled.

Li Xiang held the war knife in his hand and rushed left and right to kill, but it was useless.

At this moment, he was surrounded by Gongsun Chan and the others.

No matter how he walked, he couldn't find a personal knight who could pick him up, and no matter how he went, he met a white horse under Gongsun Zhan.

In the end, after cutting back and forth, Li Xiang's connection with the outside world became weaker and weaker.

Don't look at him, he has nearly a million soldiers, but these millions of people are only taking care of themselves at critical moments, and they can't form an effective battle mechanism externally.

Not to mention protecting Li Xiang, these millions of people can now do not mess with themselves, and they can burn high incense if they can take care of themselves.

It's a pity that so many soldiers and horses, in the absence of an effective mechanism, can only become a burden to each other.

In the end, Li Xiang was shot off the horse by Gongsun Zhan.

It was also Gongsun Chan who deliberately wanted to spare his life, so he didn't shoot him to death.

After Li Xiang was beaten under the horse, he was immediately captured alive by the sergeants of the White Horse Yicong, and as soon as Li Xiang fell, his already collapsed army of millions became even more scattered.

Then came a huge process of recovery, surrender and pacification.

Liu Jian couldn't eat all of these million rebels in one go.

And it is impossible for them all to defect to Liu Jian in one go.

A number of middle-level generals led their troops and horses to surrender to the Hebei Army in this battle, and many ordinary soldiers spontaneously surrendered to the Hebei Army.

Of course, there are many soldiers fleeing in all directions, swarming towards the mountains and forests and other places, but there is no doubt that the largest rebel army, whether it surrenders or flees, the million-strong rebel army has completely disappeared.

In the land of Sizhou, there will never be such a large-scale rebellion.

Among them, there are also many middle-level rebel leaders who took advantage of the chaos to lead their subordinates to leave here, and continue to go to other places to become thieves or rebels, and stand on their own, but the scale is far from enough compared to Li Xiang, and it cannot form a threat at all.

Just wait for Liu Jian to calm down the affairs of Sizhou, and then deal with these thieves slowly.

……

The Hebei army won a complete victory, and the next day, Liu Jian introduced Li Xiang to his camp in front of everyone.

Li Xiang is also a tough man, seeing that Liu Jian did not kneel down and give in, but just scolded him for being a lackey of the imperial court, aiding and abusing the people, persecuting the people, and making the people of Sizhou miserable.

He Li Xiang's uprising today is in response to the will of heaven and the hearts of the people, but it is a pity that he cannot restore the prosperity of the Yellow Sky and make the people live and work in peace and contentment, and he is just dying today.

Liu Jian quietly waited for Li Xiang to finish scolding, and then slowly spoke: "Are you done scolding?" ”

Li Xiang stared at a pair of bronze bell eyes and shouted: "It seems that you don't care about the people's livelihood like this." It's just that I'm bent on snatching and grabbing, and I can't stop scolding until I die. ”

Liu Jian said very blandly: "If you can't finish scolding, you can rest." “

Then, he quietly glared at Li Xiang and said:

"You say that I am aiding and abusing the people, but it is for my own selfish interests and disregarding the people's livelihood, hum, it's ridiculous."

"Since Liu arrived in Jizhou, all the territories that fall under Liu's jurisdiction are widely collected from the displaced people to resettle the fields, resettle the people, abolish the poll tax, measure the land, and include the taxes in the fields, open the imperial examination, and allow the fair official system."

"In everything, Liu has never been in the same league as the powerful and powerful of the wang family, but only pays attention to fairness, and creates more opportunities for the people to survive."

"After entering Sizhou, Liu used the power of Hebei to suppress the price of grain, and widely collected the wasteland, which was used for confiscation, as the use of tuntian, and the displaced people from all over the world came to defect, all were resettled, and there was food and food, so that they could live and work in peace and contentment."

"But on the contrary, you traitor, held down your soldiers and did not move, ignoring the thoughts of ordinary people, and ignoring the wishes of your soldiers and civilians, forcibly pulled them into the battlefield and fought with me."

"There is no need for war between the two of us, because I am more than capable of putting all the people under your command back to a stable life."

"But what about you? You want to dominate the industry, you want to become a hero, take the opportunity to start an incident, you are a despicable villain who is selfish, harms the people at the bottom, and uses their blood to stain your achievements. ”

When he said this, Liu Jian stood up abruptly and said, "Call those people in." ”

When he was young, he saw several middle-level generals of the former rebel army walking into the tent, and they were now under Liu Jian's command.

Liu Jian stretched out his finger and pointed at Li Xiang and said, "Tell him, you and the soldiers under your command have been treated since they surrendered to me?" Have you ever been harsh? Have you ever been hungry for a day and cold for a day? ”

The mid-ranking generals of the rebel army hurriedly said:

"After being placed under the general's account, those who are willing to join the army are given armor, food, clothing, and lodging, and are included in the army, and are treated in the same way as other military personnel."

"Those who don't want to join the army, the generals are all boarded and registered, classified as good citizens, given rice seeds, given fields, and given houses, so that they can return to ordinary life. No one has gone hungry. ”

"The general also lowered the price of grain in Sizhou, so that everything was on the right track, so that the people such as me could live and work in peace and contentment and live a stable life again."

Liu Jian said lightly: "Then what kind of life did you live in the rebels in the past?" ”

"I can't eat enough, I can't live steadily, the day is precarious, and people starve to death every day."

Liu Jian looked at Li Xiang with a sneer.

"Hear it, that's what people want. No matter how happy you scold, no matter how happy you scold, in the history books, you are also a loser, and you are also a despicable villain who completely plays with people's hearts and plays with the people at the bottom, and will always be scolded by thousands of people! ”

"It's your self-proclaimed master Zhang Jiao, you saw him after you got off Jiuquan, and you didn't have the shame to be his apprentice anymore."

Li Xiang's face was flushed by Liu Jian's words, he gritted his teeth, and he scolded: "Liu Thief is a despicable villain, buying people's hearts, you won't end well, you won't die well." ”

Liu Jian said very naturally: "I don't want me to get more people who die well, not you alone." ”

Afterwards, he instructed the scribe on the side: "Write the guilt of this fang in the history books, and publish it in the world by Ta Kung Pao, and don't let his reputation have the possibility of turning over again." ”

"In addition, escort this thief to the capital and hand it over to the Son of Heaven for disposal."

Gongsun Zhan, who was on the side, was very puzzled when he heard this: "Lord, at this time, why do you want to escort him to the capital, it is better to kill him on the spot, in order to shock the morale of the three armies, and at the same time to promote the merits of the lord." ”

Liu Jian laughed and said, "Do I still need his head to support my work?" Is he worthy of my deeds? ”

When these words came out, all the generals present laughed.

The million-strong army was defeated by the Hebei army, and the thief leader Li Xiang was escorted to Chang'an.

As soon as this incident came out, it was supposed to be a great thing that should make everyone happy, and it immediately shook the world.

And the first person to be shaken was undoubtedly Liu Wei, the emperor of Chang'an.

(End of chapter)