The military camp outside the city collapsed at the touch of a touch under the impact of the cavalry of the Southern Tang Army. Ding Deyu could see clearly from the city gate, and he was so angry that he vomited blood, and smashed all the tea sets and teapots brought by Qian Weizhi to the ground. At this time, Ding Deyu also regretted that he should have gone to the military camp outside the east gate instead of guarding this useless city tower. It's just that Ding Deyu was also hoping that Du Pu could create a miracle at that time, and in retrospect, he also knew that he had also taken inappropriate measures after the defeat.

Liang Zhengrui didn't know the situation in the city, and he was lucky; I know the situation in the city, but I still want to be lucky. Ding Deyu couldn't say anything if he wanted to curse.

However, the collapse of the military camp outside the city also gave Ding Deyu a chance to escape.

Watching the battle from the city tower, Ding Deyu knew the power of the spear array, and saw that one battalion of the Southern Tang Army had gone out of the city tower, and the other battalion had not yet been in place. The Southern Tang army took the city walls on both sides as the main direction of attack, and was engaged in a battle with the Song soldiers guarding the east gate tower at the head of the city. Under the city tower, a sword and shield soldiers and crossbowmen are the main ones to block the city gate and corridor.

Ding Deyu is also a fierce general. With a big shield against the crossbow arrows, holding a spear, exhaling and making a sound, he actually overturned a wheelbarrow weighing a thousand catties into the air, There are two Tang army soldiers to plug the gap, Ding Deyu grabbed himself with a shield, a shield slapped on a soldier, the mouth spurted blood and fell to the ground, the other person was shocked, the steel knife was sluggish for a moment, and then Ding Deyu was slashed on the waist with a backhand, and the steel knife in his hand fell on Ding Deyu's helmet and had no strength. Ding Deyu opened the gap, and the Song soldiers followed closely behind, ignoring the crossbow arrows of the Tang soldiers, but just took the road and fled. Out of the city from the East Gate Building, and met the sword and shield soldiers behind the first battalion of the Tang Army who went out of the city, Ding Deyu killed three or four people such as the platoon commander and the deputy platoon commander, and the rest of the people couldn't stop it, so Ding Deyu escaped from the gap in the army and went straight to the west Xiong Yuanjiabu. However, of the more than 1,000 Song soldiers, only forty or fifty people were able to escape at this time.

And Du Pu, who Ding Deyu had high hopes for, after deciding to break through to the north, the whole team only walked a short distance, and just after passing the east-west main street of Changzhou, the team began to be unrestrained. The commander of the right wing made Liu Xingsheng lead the troops to go first, and lost contact after a short time. When the Tang army came to kill him, Wu Yuejun scattered away. The guard battalion took Du Pu to the side alley, then to another street, continued to the north, walked a little way and ran into a Tang army. After catching a few cats and mice, only a few guards were left to accompany Du Pu. Du Pu didn't want to die, so he sighed and said, "Don't go, everyone, find a place to rest, and surrender when Tang Bing comes." ”

At this time, Liang Zhengrui and Qian Weizhi were desperately fleeing.

Dozens of horses escaped from the barracks, which was simply a clear telling to Gu Dazhuang: There are big fish here.

Gu Dazhuang ordered Guo Jian, who had been promoted to cavalry battalion commander, to lead the team, continue to trample the barracks, cooperate with the infantry to capture prisoners, and at the same time guard the remaining Wu Yue troops in the west. He took two platoons of about sixty horsemen and chased after them.

Qian Weizhi had suffered this crime, and almost fell off his horse several times, but fortunately Liang Zhengrui took care of him, but the chasing soldiers behind him were getting closer and closer. Seeing that Qian Weizhi was in a hurry, Liang Zhengrui said, "My lord, we don't need to go to Wuxi, there is a military station more than 20 miles ahead, and a battalion of soldiers is stationed to block the pursuers." ”

Qian Weizhi gritted his teeth again, endured the discomfort on both sides of his legs, and just tried his best to hit the horse.

"You guys, fight back!" Liang Zhengrui saw that someone on the other side took out a bow and arrow from the horse, so he had to abandon the pawn to protect the car.

Ten people turned their horses and rushed towards the Tang cavalry.

Gu Dazhuang became excited and shouted: "Two rows of horizontal formations!" ”

At the next two rows, one after the other, two rows of thirty people in each row were formed, and there was almost no gap between the horses, just like a wall pressed straight over.

Where have the cavalry of the Wu Yue Army seen this tactic? A few people were frightened, and when they got to the end, they walked to both sides, only a few people gritted their teeth and bumped into them, but the opposite side was densely crowded, and at the same time, several sabers were chopped, which could stop them, and they fell off the horses one after another, and it was not the turn of the people in the back row to shoot. Only two people in the Tang army fell to the ground due to a collision with Wu Yuejun's war horse. Gu Dazhuang just glanced at it, and knew that the person was definitely not dead, so he didn't stop, just continued to move forward.

The intercepted cavalry did not give Qian Weizhi much time. Seeing that the Tang army was catching up again, Liang Zhengrui sent people to counterattack again, and then still didn't make any waves. Liang Zhengrui gritted his teeth, and said to Qian Weizhi: "Don't look back, just go forward, I'll block it." With that, he turned his horse's head around, took the remaining ten horsemen, and charged back.

Qian Weizhi was also moved in his heart, and he didn't dare to turn back at this time, but just ran forward desperately. After running for a while, I only heard a whoosh, and the war horse screamed, and then stumbled, and threw Qian Weizhi out hard. When Qian Weizhi got up from the ground dizzy, a war horse ran closer.

"I am the prince of Wu Yueguo! Don't kill me! Qian Weizhi knew that he would hesitate, and immediately shouted! Although Qian Weizhi is not the son of the world, but when he actually has a son, he said this at this time, it is much better than saying that he is deployed by Wu Yuejun, at least he has a greater chance of survival. He was already unlucky to be on the straight Liang Zhengrui, but he didn't realize that Liang Zhengrui was on the impact road, but he suddenly turned to the side and fled alone. Gu Dazhuang also suspected that it was a big fish, but the war horse was also weak, so he had to catch this bigger fish and finish the job. Unexpectedly, such a big fish was caught. Gu Dazhuang wanted to laugh! With this kind of merit, Lord Guogong still has to hurry up and find a way to make up my cavalry battalion?

And outside the East Gate, Ding Deyu failed to escape after all.

Ding Deyu came out of the city gate cave and wanted to find Xiong Yuanjiabu. But Xiong Yuanjia saw that even the military camp outside the east gate of Changzhou was taken down, how many dares did he have to come to the east gate again at this time? Fortunately, Changzhou is not far from Wuxi, so Xiong Yuanjia ordered to abandon the baggage, and when the Changzhou army could not spare his hand, his troops rushed eastward.

Ding Deyu saw that Xiong Yuanjia was going east, so he could only go northeast again to chase Xiong Yuanjia's department. Such a group of people wandered around outside the battlefield and were discovered by Guo Jian.

Guo Jian sent a platoon of cavalry to catch up and take a look, this is not a reward of dozens of taels. Changzhou is rich, and there is silver in the treasury, so Yu Wancheng set a reward for killing a Song soldier and rewarding a silver dollar, regardless of which army. At that moment, the cavalry platoon charged towards Ding Deyu.

Riding on foot requires strength. Ding Deyu only relied on his personal bravery, and obviously did not have the strength to ride on foot. A few charges were killed cleanly, and a few Song soldiers wanted to surrender, but they were also killed by the cavalry who rose up and couldn't hold their hands and were cut down together.

The cavalry platoon didn't expect that the brave Song general Ding Deyu would die so aggrievedly on the fields north of Changzhou City.

At this point in the battle in Changzhou, it is already garbage time. Liang Zhengrui fled to Wuxi on horseback, and when he waited for the remnants of the Right Direct Army who fled east along the south bank of the canal, he did not dare to defend Wuxi, and fled back to Suzhou that night. The rest of Xiong Yuanjia, who retreated from the north bank of the canal, was delayed until the next day to escape to Wuxi because he had to make a detour from Furong Lake and cross the big river such as Wushui.

At this point, the two-month Changzhou War can be regarded as coming to an end.

Li Congyi and Yu Wancheng inspected the southern city wall, which was the last desperate assault place of Du Pu's department. The corpse had been cleaned up, but there was blood all over the place, and some of the broken limbs and flesh were left in the corner, which made people look at it horrively. Unexpectedly, the fiercest battle took place in the last hour of the war. Wu Yue's army was still fighting in the direct army, and it also broke out with strong combat effectiveness. The prestige of the Badu soldiers is not in vain.

At this time, inside and outside the city of Changzhou, prisoners were still being captured everywhere. Some of the generals of the Wu and Yue armies occupied the courtyard and resisted stubbornly and did not surrender for a while, and some Wu and Yue soldiers robbed and set fires, and there were fires rising from time to time in the eastern city, and from the city, they were full of devastation. Later, the reconstruction of the eastern city of Changzhou and the area east of Changzhou was also a troublesome matter. But at this time, for Li Congyi, there are more urgent things.

"There is a repeated tug-of-war here, and there is the soul of the Changzhou army." Li Congyi said, "I intend to make the casualties of the Changzhou Army and the casualties of the Ningguo Army also act in accordance with the Ningguo Army casualty pension regulations, why does Lord Yu think so?" ”

On the surface, Li Congyi was asking about the standard of compensation for casualties and the Ningguo Army, but in fact, he was asking about the independence of the Changzhou Army. After staying with Ning Guojun for nearly two months, and looking at Ning Guojun's combat effectiveness today, how could Jiang Xiangming have no ideas in his heart. Besides, Li Congyi just stopped Jiang Xiangming's idea of immediately reporting to Jinling, Li Congyi explained that if he could hide it from Runzhou for one more day, he would hide it for one more day, but Li Congyi's behavior of not taking Jinling in his eyes at all is almost no different from those of those who divide one side. Hearing Li Congyi's suggestion, Jiang Xiangming immediately straightened his ears and listened to Yu Wancheng's answer.

Li Congyi worked so hard to help Changzhou defend the city, where did the so-called come from, Yu Wancheng still had doubts at the beginning, and he didn't know what Li Congyi thought later. However, this Jiang Guogong is more ruthless than the prince of Hongji back then, and he wants to firmly grasp the military power and political power in his own hands. If it was before, Yu Wancheng would have been difficult to obey, but after this battle, should he choose Jiangguo Gong to try whether he can turn the tables against the wind like the battle of Changzhou, or wait for death with Emperor Li Yu of Jiangling, do you still have to choose?

Yu Wancheng didn't answer directly, but turned around and asked Jiang Xiangming: "Xiang Ming, after today's battle, do you think my Tang Dynasty can defeat the Song Kingdom?" ”

Jiang Xiangming said: "If there is such a mighty army as the first division of the Ning National Army, if there are 50,000 to reject the Song army on the north bank, 100,000 can compete with the Song army in Jianghuai, and if there are 200,000, it is enough to settle the Central Plains." ”

Yu Wancheng knelt down to Jiang Guogong on this city wall, and said: "My subordinates will hand over Changzhou and Changzhou troops to Lord Guogong, and I hope that Lord Guogong will lead the army across the Yangtze River as soon as possible!" ”

With the cooperation of Yu Wancheng, the reorganization of the Changzhou Army was rapidly carried out. After Li Congyi supplemented the Changzhou Army with some people, he was appointed as the second division of the army, with Jiang Xiangming as the division commander. At the same time, the Changzhou garrison division was established, and Yu Wancheng was still the division commander.

However, the second division was erected, and even the soldiers were relatively neat, but it lacked a lot of training and weapons. Li Congyi ordered Yu Wancheng to take the second division and a large number of Wu Yue army prisoners, and go to Xuanzhou with great fanfare.