Half an hour later, the battalions of the new army and the garrison were all put in order, and all the fallen soldiers were buried on the spot.

The wounded soldiers were all settled on the large number of captured carriages, and as for the large amount of property that was originally on the carriages, they had been unloaded by the soldiers of each battalion at this time, and Liu Yan had already ordered them all to be abandoned.

As for the more than 42,000 captives, they were all tied up at this time and returned to Xinle County with the army.

Before the army left, Liu Yan suddenly had a plan in his heart, so he called Miao Shao and said: "Immediately select some officers such as captains, brigade commanders, department commanders, sentinel commanders, and banners from among the captives, and then pretend to surrender and let them search for those routs." ”

Miao Shao was stunned for a moment, and then said with a wicked smile: "Pavilion always wants those captured rogue officers to spread the news? ”

Liu Yan said in surprise: "It seems that you guessed that Ben Cheng thought so." I hope that Li Zicheng's troops will know about this victory as soon as possible, and that the bandit battalions will be mobilized to march from the north to the south, and we will also look for fighters. ”

Miao Shao said: "I'm afraid that those thieves and officers may not be able to find the main force of the thieves, and they may run away directly." ”

Liu Yan said with a smile: "Then you can't control a lot, it's up to people to make things happen." ”

"Yes."

After Miao Shao saluted, he went to start arranging, and then the new army, the garrison battalions began to march north, the army entered Xinle County in the afternoon of the same day, more than 40,000 prisoners were all placed in the city in the school field, at this time the thieves in Xinle County have reached 115,000 people, Miao Shao

, Xu Ming, Chen Xun, Wang Yue and other battalion commanders were nervous, so many prisoners gathered in the city, not only there were huge hidden dangers, but also the consumption of grain and grass for the army was also very huge.

So after settling the soldiers of the battalions and sending almost all of them to cover up the traces of the army, they rushed to the county office one after another and expressed their worries.

Liu Yan looked at everyone, and then said with a sneer: "My father also thought of this. Most of these captives are old bandits, they are used to a life of looting and killing, and it is difficult for them to go to honest farming. ”

"In addition, our army is now mobilizing all parts of the thief army with movement warfare, and it is impossible to march with a large number of prisoners, so we can only use this bloody means to dispose of the prisoners!"

Everyone's hearts trembled when they heard this, obviously everyone didn't have such a resolute mind as Liu Yan.

Shen Tuo asked: "Elder Ge, in this case, will there be people who resentful and kill?" ”

Everyone was silent, no need to ask, there must be something, because many of the captives were dead soldiers, and even some of the captives were strong women, but could they not be killed?

The answer is no!

Liu Yan was also under a lot of pressure in his heart at this time, and after thinking about it for a while, he said to Wang Yue: "You immediately take someone to the school where the prisoners are held, and then try to select strong women from among them, and use the excuse of lewd pleasure." As for the men among the captives, now we don't have the time or the conditions to screen them, so that's the only way! ”

Everyone sighed, and their faces were very unsightly.

After Wang Yue received the order, he asked, "Elder Ge, why did you let your subordinates go down on this errand?" ”

Liu Yan is serious

said: "It is most appropriate for you to go to such a thing as looking for a female captive to have sexual pleasure." ”

An hour later, Wang Yue brought out more than 2,000 strong women from the school yard in the city, and these strong women thought that they were about to be humiliated, and they all cried and cried, but then Wang Yue led his troops to a deserted house in the city to settle down.

Wang Yue left hundreds of soldiers in the rear battalion to guard it, and then returned to the county government to resume his life.

Liu Yan immediately ordered Miao Shao to lead his troops to the school yard in the city, and take every 5,000 prisoners in the school yard to the urn city at the north gate of Xinle County for disposal.

Miao Shao led thousands of soldiers from the guard battalion to go, and it didn't take long for the north gate urn city to sound with the sound of birds, and the five thousand captives were quickly slaughtered.

Then came the second, third, and fourth batches, and a large number of corpses were transported directly from the urn city to the outside of the city for burial, and the captives in the school yard finally sensed that something was wrong and began to agitate, and then began to attack the guards of the new army.

Miao Shao, who led his troops to escort the fifth batch, heard the news, and immediately ordered the main force of the pro-guard battalion to rush over, and directly surrounded the school field, and the remaining tens of thousands of prisoners began to storm the defense line of the pro-guard battalion of the new army, but they were soon beaten back by the bird gun and the earth-shaking thunder.

Miao Shao said coldly at this time: "Since this is the case, it will also save our effort, and order the whole battalion to deal with it on the spot!" ”

Rumble!

Later, Miao Shao even contacted the artillery battalion of the new army, mobilized dozens of Huzun cannons, and bombarded the school field, and in just one hour, tens of thousands of prisoners were slaughtered in the school field.

At this time, Liu Yan also received a report, and when he arrived at the school field, the battle had ended, and he walked on foot

Among the mountains of corpses, Liu Yan felt very painful in his heart, and his eyes were involuntarily red.

"I hope to end this troubled world as soon as possible!"

The blood under his feet has already flooded the surface of his feet, Liu Yan can be regarded as realizing at this moment that when Zhuge Liang burned the rattan armor soldiers, he sighed that he had lost ten years of life, although such a killing was a last resort, but the depression and burden in his heart were really heavy!

"Li Zicheng!"

Liu Yan gritted his teeth and said, "Lao Tzu will kill you sooner or later!" ”

The next day, the corpses of the prisoners in Xinle County had not yet been transported, and the blood in the school yard in the city had not yet completely congealed.

In particular, a few days ago, he was sent to Xingtang County, Quyang County, Lingshou County and other places to investigate the news, but he also rushed back at this time, and brought back important information to Liu Yan, Liu Yan immediately ordered to convene the battalion leaders to discuss the affairs in the county government.

"The news that the battalions did not receive and sent back at night, and everyone saw it."

Liu Yan said with a little excitement: "Now the thieves' battalions are converging towards Xingtang County, and the soldiers and horses of the thieves' front battalion have appeared in Xingtang County, it is estimated that they have arrived in Xingtang County now, and the thieves must have known about Li Guo's total annihilation." ”

"In addition, a large number of thieves' scouts have begun to be dispatched, and it seems that they are looking for traces of our army, so let's talk about the next step."

Miao Shao, Xu Ming, and Shen Tuo all thought that they should move eastward to Dingzhou and jump to the periphery, so that the army would have more choices.

Wang Bo and Zhang Yi believed that they should continue to stay in the area of Xinle County, and that the army should not act too much before determining the next target

, so as not to reveal their whereabouts.

Wang Yue, Qian Qiao, and Tian Zhenbei had no opinions, and Liu Yan obeyed his orders.

At this moment, Liu Yan suddenly saw that among the many pieces of information, there was a record of the movements of the thief firearms battalion.

"Oh?"

Liu Yan immediately said to everyone: "Li Dingguo's firearms battalion is still in Quyang County? ”

Miao Shao suddenly said: "What about the soldiers and horses in the front camp of the thieves? Have you already returned to Xintang County? ”

Xu Ming on the side said: "According to the news that the night is not collected, the soldiers and horses of the former battalion of the thieves should have gone to Xintang County!" ”

Everyone's eyes lit up, and Liu Yan said with a smile: "Since this is the case, then let's go north, raid Quyang County, and eat the firearms battalion of Li Dingguo's department!" ”

It's just that Chen Xun looked at the map and said: "Ge Lao, Xinle County, where we are located, Quyang County, where the thief firearms battalion is located, and Xingtang County, are basically on the three vertices of a triangle, and the distance from Xingtang County to Quyang County is basically the same as the distance from us to Quyang County, which is difficult!" ”

Miao Shao also frowned and said: "Yes, if there is a connection between the former camp of the thieves and the firearms battalion, then the time for us to eat the thieves firearms battalion is very limited, and if we don't get it, we will be attacked inside and outside the thieves firearms battalion and the front camp!" ”

Liu Yan also stared at the map and thought for a moment, then pointed to the sand river in the map, and said to everyone: "That's not right! Between Xingtang County and Quyang County, there is also a sand river. In this battle, the 6th Battalion of the Garrison Army was mobile to defend north of the Shahe River, and the rest of the battalions of the New Army raided Quyang County. ”

The strength of the thief firearms battalion is not as large as that of the rear battalion and the right battalion, according to the information provided by the military intelligence department and the battalions at night

The Dingguo Firearms Battalion had only a few tens of thousands of troops, but it was equipped with hundreds of artillery pieces.

Therefore, Liu Yan led the battalions of the New Army to raid nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses, which was almost a sure victory.

In the afternoon, Liu Yan led the soldiers of each battalion from the north gate of Xinle County and marched rapidly in the direction of Quyang County.

When the army arrived in Quyang County, Tian Zhenbei, the deputy commander-in-chief, led the sixth battalion of the garrison to break away from the main army and rush towards the north bank of the Shahe River, responsible for blocking the soldiers and horses of the former battalion of thieves who might appear.

Liu Yance looked at the battalions of the New Army marching rapidly and said loudly: "The officers and men of each battalion should speed up, before nightfall today, they must get close to Quyang County!" ”

At this time, Miao Shao rode his horse and said loudly to Liu Yan: "Ge Lao, Ye Bu Hui has returned from the front, and a small group of thieves and scouts have been found in Quyang County, and now they have all been killed by Ye Bu Hui, and they have not escaped alive!" ”

"Good!"

Liu Yan said: "We will definitely be able to rush to Quyang County tonight, and after the new army battalions arrive, they will immediately launch an attack, without giving Li Dingguo any time to react, and directly eat his troops with superior forces!" ”

"Yes!"

At the same time, Liu Yan also secretly said in his heart: "I hope that this battle can leave Li Dingguo's life, after all, this person can also afford the four words of national hero in history, if he dies in my hands, I am afraid the burden in my heart will be much heavier!" ”

In the blink of an eye, it was dusk, and Quyang County was down.

Li Dingguo stood in front of the military formation in armor, and Ai Nengqi stood beside him and said, "General, the city will be broken before nightfall today."

”

"Hmm!"

"General, is there something wrong with Xingtang County, Li Guo has more than 200,000 elites in his hands, what can happen?"

Li Dingguo sighed and said: "In my opinion, most of them were bitten by Liu Yan's army, and most of the rear battalion suffered heavy losses, otherwise Li Laiheng would not have led all the troops of the front battalion to rush over." ”

Ai Nengqi was shocked when he heard this, shook his head and sighed: "This Liu Yan is really ghostly!" ”

Li Dingguo exclaimed: "I think Liu Yan is a first-class talent today, if it weren't for the different positions of each other, I really want to make friends with him." If the father-in-law or King Chuang could have such a talent as Liu Yan, how good it would be! ”