The thieves, who were tens of thousands, all turned around and ran towards the rear camp Dazhai.

Among these thieves were several thousand cavalry, and the rest were infantry.

Fang Qifo's soldiers and horses totaled more than 200,000, there were not so many when he went south that day, they were all converged all the way, although he did not coerce the displaced people, but with the growing power of Mingjiao, more and more people joined the religion, and the army became more and more majestic.

However, even as the number of people continued to increase, the rate of growth of cavalry was very slow, and most of the infantry entered the army.

Because of the lack of horses, there is even more shortage of war horses.

The war horses of the Great Song Dynasty were mostly concentrated in Gyeonggi and along the border, and there were few in the south of the Yangtze River.

The cavalry mounts in Fang Qifo's army are not all war horses, at least half of them are horses, among which the war horses are paid from the officials of various prefectures and prefectures, only the officials have war horses to ride on weekdays, and some are collected from the families of the scholars, but most of the scholars have long run away, and there are not too many families who have not left.

These horses are not too many together, Fang Qifo asked people to pick a strong and tall horse to fill in, and put together a few thousand horses, no matter how many are useless, there are fewer soldiers who can ride horses, and those who can ride horses to fight are even more rare.

Zhao Ta was overjoyed when he saw tens of thousands of thieves withdrawing at this moment, he knew that this was definitely a rare opportunity, even if he killed a lot of thieves in the city, the number of thieves outside the city was at least three times that of his side.

With so many people, if Fang Qifo hadn't died and regrouped, then the siege of Jiangning would still be difficult to solve.

However, at the moment, Fang Qifo did not go back, he may have been seriously injured and swept away by the river, or he may have shot the last bow and arrow to the vital point, but whether he is dead or alive, he will never let go of this opportunity.

He immediately ordered the Chinese army, and 15,000 cavalry pressed up, not fast or slow, all shouting words such as "Fang Qi Buddha is dead, Shibao Bao Dao B's head is here".

Zhao Ta didn't let the cavalry chase and kill quickly, because he wanted the other party to pass the news back, and the thief camp over there would inevitably be chaos after learning the news, and the protection of the entire camp would definitely be slack.

Otherwise, all kinds of traps in front of the opponent's camp, such as military, and then the two combined forces, that is more than 100,000 people, and they only brought out 15,000 horsemen, and they want to defeat the thief army that is ten times their own, and win, not to mention that the Great Song Dynasty has never had it, even if it is rare in history!

Under normal circumstances, it is extremely difficult, if not possible.

Even if he brought cavalry, it would be difficult to achieve, after all, this was the cavalry of the forbidden army, not the Liao cavalry, let alone the Jurchen iron cavalry.

So he needs to make the other party chaotic, only if the opponent's army is in chaos and the team has no will to fight, then the cavalry with his own family can take advantage of the situation to crush the other party and disperse the hundreds of thousands of thieves.

Fang Qi Buddha subdued the Dharma, Shi Bao Bao Dao Yi died in battle, this kind of news can naturally make the opponent's camp chaotic.

Zhao Ta just wants to spread the news, once the thief army knows from top to bottom, don't believe that the other party is not chaotic, not to mention these thief troops in front of him, even if it is a real army, after learning that the commander was killed in battle, the general and the vanguard were killed, there are few who are not chaotic, in this case, it is not enough to have strict military discipline, but also to have someone who stands up to carry out the marshal's order, this person not only has prestige, but also needs to know how to soldier.

There are very few people in the Ming Sect who know how to soldier, as far as Zhao Ta knows, it is not even more than a palm, as for the army of this South Road, there is probably only one Fang Qi Buddha.

Therefore, although he did not dare to say that this matter was 100% successful, he was always seventy or eighty sure, so he took the initiative to go out of the city with the cavalry.

Du Bao Zhang Xian in front opened the way, unhurriedly chasing the thief army, and some of the thieves had already returned quickly to report the news, saying that Fang Qifo was dead, Shi Bao Bao Dao B and others were all killed, and the fifty or sixty thousand people who rushed into Jiangning City were also wiped out.

This news immediately exploded in the camp, and the remaining Qiu Dao and some sect leaders immediately panicked, and carefully inquired about the corpse of the Seven Buddhas of Lian Fang being picked up by the Song army, and they couldn't help but turn pale and look at each other.

At this moment, the people of the Ming Sect were slightly better, and those who came to the green forest all ran out like crazy, and then quickly called the soldiers and horses brought by their own families, and left the camp directly without even saying hello.

The leaders of the Ming Sect saw these people leaving, and asked the messenger soldiers, and after learning that Jiang Ning came out of all the cavalry, and they didn't know how many there were, they couldn't help but sigh and began to order a retreat.

But it was obviously a little late at this moment, and just a stone's throw away from the camp, Zhao Ta ordered to speed up and rush directly to the camp.

The thief army that had been being chased in front of him did not expect this to happen, originally the rear was not chasing fast, and it was not difficult to run, but suddenly those Great Song cavalry rushed up, which immediately made them even more panicked, and they ran desperately into the camp.

But these tens of thousands of people rushed to the camp, how could they take care of each other, some soldiers were squeezed back and forth so that they couldn't even distinguish the direction, so they began to trample on each other, and some of them held blades in their hands, bumping around in the crowd, not hurting their own family, but being injured by their own family.

There were many archers in ambush in the barracks of the thief camp, but looking at the appearance outside, they didn't dare to release their arrows, for fear of shooting ten arrows, nine of which would hurt their own families.

In just a dozen breaths, the trenches and traps in front of the camp were all filled by the retreating thief army.

Even though they suffered countless casualties and filled the trenches they had dug to prevent a sneak attack, countless people still broke down the wooden fences of the camp and rushed in.

But at this time, the sect leader had already given the order, and the people in the camp were also retreating, which was originally quite orderly, but after these routs converged in, they immediately became chaotic, that is, the defeat was like a mountain, and there were constant shouts and shouts everywhere, and the chaos was unbearable.

These thieves are not all greedy for life and afraid of death, especially some people who joined the Ming Sect very early, in fact, they are not afraid of death, but after learning that Fang Qifo was killed, they are all in a trance, after all, Fang Qifo is the left envoy of light, all the way to the south, seize the city and pull out the state, invincible, in the eyes of these people is a god-like figure, suddenly killed at this moment, the blow to them is not small.

And at this moment, there is a general trend, it is no longer a matter of being afraid of death, even if you want to turn back and fight with Song Jun, you can't turn around at all, as long as your feet are a little slower, you will be washed down from behind, and before you can turn around, you have already been trampled under the feet of the robes, and you have not waited to fight with Song Jun, and it has become a meatloaf.

At this time, the forbidden army was almost a one-sided slaughter of the thief army, their own combat power was loose, and they couldn't fight a tough battle, even if the cavalry was the same, but they were familiar with this kind of tail chase and escape, after all, when they were in Tokyo, not only did they often gang up in the barracks to fight in groups, but they also always had conflicts with the Tangkou gangs in the inner and outer cities, and they often called for people to fight.

It is to lose the head of the mouse to compete with the foot strength, and to win the chase to the ends of the earth and never let you go.

Now it is easy to kill all the way, the forbidden soldiers are so numb that their hands are numb, their knives are curled, the heads of their guns are dull, and the barrels of their guns are broken.

The advantage of cavalry over infantry is even more obvious at this moment, it is simply the same as cutting melons and vegetables, the collision of war horses, the inertial blow of big guns and heavy knives, and the inertia of people do not need to use too much force at all, and they can kill the thief infantry in front.

At this time, the thief army did not say that all the tents, baggage and other items were left behind, even if it was grain, grass and ordnance, they were all abandoned, but they just ran lifelessly, at the beginning they all went due south, running in the direction of Xuanzhou, but then the whole collapsed, that is, there were people who ran everywhere, and the forbidden army pursued all the way, and the corpses were constantly in the field for dozens of miles, and the blood almost flowed out of a small river.

This chase began early in the morning and did not gradually end until the sun turned west after noon.

Then they sent soldiers to clean up the battlefield, check the number of enemy casualties and their own casualties, burn the corpses of the thieves, and bring all the captured booty into the city......

In the evening, Zhao Ta thundered in the Xuanfu Division, and dozens of people below were silent.

Even Wang Hanzhi, the pacification envoy of Jiangnan East Road, who was originally sick, was called to discuss the matter, but at this moment he was sweating like rain and trembling.

"If they're all dead, how can they all be dead?" Zhao Ta's face turned pale and roared: "That's most of the gentry in Jiangnan, and they were all killed by the Ming Sect thief army like this?" How do you let this king explain to the officials, and how to tell the court! ”

The hall was silent, Zhao Ta's eyes looked around, no one dared to raise his head to speak, he stretched out his hand, "boom", and flipped the handsome case in front of him, the huge wooden case rolled and fell to the front, and the pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and military intelligence report on it were sprinkled all over the ground.

The military generals in the hall were okay, but some timid civil officials were so frightened that they sat on the ground with a "poof".

Zhao Ta's eyes fell on Jiang Ningtong's judgment Sun Changjie, and said coldly: "Sun Tong's judgment, who do you think this matter is dereliction of duty, and how to write the recital for the official family?" ”

Sun Changjie almost cried when he heard this, and asked who was wrong, why did he ask him? Although he has the right to investigate, how can he say such a major event that pierces the sky?

If you really want to say dereliction of duty, then one of the people present is counted as one, and no one can escape!

King Qin can't run, Wang Hanzhi can't run, and he can't run! What a big deal is this? Most of the Jiangnan Shi clan have been wiped out! Which of these scholars who are officials in the court and those who serve in the local government will give up?

He thought of this, his knees weakened, and he knelt directly on the ground, his head on the ground, and he didn't know how to say it.

"Rubbish stuff!" Zhao Ta looked at him like this, scolded and turned his gaze to Wang Hanzhi.

Although Wang Hanzhi was also flustered, he had been thinking about it for a long time just now, and he had been looking for a way to excuse himself, and he hurriedly said at this moment: "The prince is angry, this matter, this matter ......"

Zhao Ta's expression was cold: "How is this matter?" If you ask for the guilt from above, I am afraid that the first person to be beheaded is you, Wang Hanzhi! ”

Wang Hanzhi's beard trembled, and he said: "Lord Wang, this is a military disaster, all because of the war, and the crime is ...... The sin is all in Fang La! ”

Zhao Ta looked at him and said word by word: "It's all because of the war, and the blame lies in Fang La?" ”

Wang Hanzhi hurriedly nodded and said: "Lord Wang, that's exactly the case, right now, there is chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, there are wars everywhere, and there are countless casualties, who can guarantee that there will be no accidents?" To say something disrespectful, don't talk about these scholars, even if they are princes......"

"What is this king?" Zhao Ta sank his face.

Wang Hanzhi said cautiously: "Even the prince will inevitably be injured on the battlefield, who dares to guarantee that they will not have an accident?" ”

"Wang Hanzhi, you are such a big dog!" Zhao Ta was so angry that he pointed at his nose and scolded: "You dare to curse this king!" ”

Wang Hanzhi was so frightened that he fell to his knees: "Lord Wang, his subordinates are on the matter, now in wartime, this is a military disaster, no one can expect it, if he is guilty, it must be the thief leader Fang La, isn't it the demon cultists who mixed into the army tonight and led the thieves into the city, which caused this catastrophe......

Zhao Ta snorted coldly: "It's mixed into your Jiangnan East Road army!" ”

Wang Hanzhi's head was dizzy when he heard this: "Yes, it is the subordinates who do not check, and the subordinates ...... His subordinates deserve death. ”

Zhao Ta said coldly: "This king's soldiers are all brought from Gyeonggi, and the people of the Demon Sect can't get mixed up if they want to......"

Wang Hanzhi wanted to cry without tears when he heard this: "What the prince said is very true, very true. ”

Zhao Ta continued: "But since you said that there was a great rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, this was a wartime, and such things happened more or less in all states and counties, so it would be considered ...... Pardonable? ”

When Wang Hanzhi heard this, he hurriedly kowtowed: "Wang Ye Mingjian, Wang Ye Mingjian, his subordinates are sick, and they have been on Zhishi's excerpts several times, even if they want to go down to the barracks to check in person, they ...... I also have more than enough heart but not enough strength. ”

Zhao Ta sneered: "It's nothing for you to shirk here from this king, you can shirk the past from the official court!" ”

Wang Hanzhi's beads of sweat on his forehead "crackled" and fell to the ground, and said: "My subordinates don't dare to shirk, my subordinates ......."

Zhao Ta interrupted him and said: "It's useless to say that these are all useless now, hurry back and draw up an excerpt, and Sun Changjie will also go back to prepare an excerpt, and tomorrow morning we will go to Tokyo with the king's recital, and everything will be handled by the officials!" ”

Wang Hanzhi and Sun Changjie got up from the ground, staggered and walked out of the door, and as soon as they arrived at the door, Zhao Ta coughed behind them, and the two of them were so frightened that they immediately stopped.

Zhao Tan said coldly: "How to write a fold, you two had better discuss, the heads of the officials of Jiangning City, as well as your own lives, are all written on this paper!" ”

The two didn't know the importance of this setback, so they turned around and saluted again, and then helped each other out of the door.

After the two left, Zhao Ta looked at the other officials below and said lightly: "You all go back to discuss, it's best to ...... I also discussed with Wang Xuanfu and Sun Tongju, this king can't keep you, this king himself is difficult to get rid of, only you can keep your own family! ”

Hearing this, these people hurriedly saluted, and then couldn't wait to go out to chase Wang Hanzhi and Sun Changjie.

When there were no outsiders in the hall, Zhao Ta's eyes swept over Wang Yu, Zhe Kecun, Yao Pingzhong and others, and said with a gloomy face: "Although the battle is a big victory today, but the Demon Sect is bold enough to do such an angry thing, you also have the responsibility of inspecting and disadvantaged, go back and ponder it, once the official asks how to answer!" ”

Everyone hurriedly bowed down to confess, and Zhao Ta said again: "Yao Pingzhong, Zhang Xian stays, and everyone else leaves." ”

After a while, there were only two people left in the hall, and Zhao Ta ordered Zhang Xian to close the door of the hall, and then said in a low voice......

(End of chapter)