When Li Nong found out that the situation was not right, it was already two or three hours later, and only half of the 80,000 cavalry of Dazhao fled back, and when Li Nong knew the battle situation just now through the generals who fled back, he couldn't help but secretly admire the commander of Daming, after all, no one could do it by relying on infantry to fight cavalry and achieve such great results. And he was also taken aback by the ruthlessness of the commander of the Ming Dynasty, he was really unscrupulous for the sake of victory, but no matter what, the Ming Dynasty was lost. He also knew that his command had made a mistake, but it did not panic, and he still had 20,000 of the most elite Yu Su troops and 40,000 other cavalry, and these cavalry were alive and well after a while. 40,000 dead and wounded, annihilating the 100,000 army of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how you think about it, you will make money.

Although the Ming side won, but the casualties are more heavy than the Great Zhao, the 100,000 troops on the Ming side, the remnants are not even half of the people, that is, less than 50,000 people are left, and the cavalry has also lost more than half, don't think that the cavalry of the Great Zhao State are lambs to be slaughtered, and the combat power they exerted in a desperate situation has also hit the Ming army hard. Moreover, the remaining forty or fifty thousand people in the Ming Dynasty were all injured, so it can be said that their combat effectiveness has basically disappeared, and as long as Da Zhao attacks again, the Ming army will completely collapse. Being able to exchange 40,000 people for 100,000 casualties in the Ming Dynasty, he Li Nong will be able to become famous in the Great Zhao Kingdom, and he is still very excited to think about it.

The Ming side also gathered together under the command of Cui Cheng, more than 10,000 of the 30,000 cavalry died, and less than 17,000 people remained, and they were all tired and tired. And the infantry was even more miserable, with only more than 30,000 of the 70,000 infantry dead, more than half of which were reduced.

Cui Cheng also saw that as long as Da Zhao attacked again, then the remaining soldiers of Da Ming would really be finished, and Cui Cheng would have nothing to do. Zhang Yun, who was slashed, silently walked to Cui Cheng's side, "General Cui, you withdraw, my old Zhang stays here." While the Great Zhao Army has not launched the final attack, our cavalry can still escape back, you go to meet with Wang Dashuai, and stay in the green mountains without worrying about no firewood, you are the general of the new generation of the Ming Dynasty, and you have become the commander of the rear camp at a young age, and you can see that Your Majesty values you very much. And your command this time, I was convinced, and if it was me who commanded, it would have failed a long time ago. My Lao Zhang is deeply favored by His Majesty, but my Lao Zhang doesn't have much ability, and now he can wrap His Majesty's horse leather body, which is also the glory of my Lao Zhang. Let's go. ”

Looking at Zhang Yun's sincere gaze, Cui Cheng was very moved, his father had such a personality charm, and he was proud to make a general proud of his death in battle. He opened his mouth and wanted Zhang Yun to leave and stay by himself, but in the end, he remembered his mother, and Cui Cheng didn't say a word.

"General Zhang, take care. Tears turned in Cui Cheng's eyes and Cui Cheng endured it, the soldiers shed blood without tears, which is also the slogan of the Ming soldiers. Zhang Yun patted Cui Cheng on the shoulder, and immediately mobilized to arrange the last defense, Cui Cheng jumped on the war horse and left in the opposite direction.

Cui Cheng retreated with the cavalry, and the Zhao people obviously also discovered this, they rushed towards the Ming army, but they obviously found it too late, and also underestimated the willpower of the Ming infantry, most of them were stopped by the infantry who sacrificed their lives and forgot to die, Cui Cheng and others were able to escape with injuries. Otherwise, once they are entangled by the Zhao people, even their cavalry will not be able to run far.

"Why didn't General Wang come to save us?" After galloping for more than ten miles, everyone stopped to rest, the horse is not a car, it cannot run forever.

"That's right, for such a long time, General Wang's subordinates are all cavalry, and as long as 30,000 people can force back the Zhao people, what is General Wang doing?"

"General Zhang, it is estimated that it has been... Whining. ”

Cui Cheng listened to the complaints of his subordinates and didn't speak, he actually complained in his heart that Wang Jie didn't come to save them, but it was a distance of more than thirty miles, and the cavalry would have come a long time ago, as long as tens of thousands of people were sent to meet them, the Great Zhao State would never dare to fight with the Ming Dynasty easily. Most of his 100,000 people were able to withdraw to the Tiger Prison Pass, why did he only give an order to retreat, but he didn't send someone to answer it? However, Cui Cheng didn't dare to speak rashly, after all, Wang Jie was the commander of this time, and the Ming military regulations could not casually question the orders of his superiors in a big war. Before the war, you can give any opinion, but in wartime you only need one voice.

"General Wang has more things to consider, let's take a break and keep walking. Cui Cheng persuaded him, and although everyone stopped talking, the atmosphere was dull.

"Report, report, the cavalry of Zhao State has caught up. The scout rushed over from afar, and Cui Cheng and the others became solemn.

"How is it possible, we have run so far. A lieutenant general beside Cui Cheng said.

"Anyway, we can't beat it now, let's withdraw. Cui Cheng immediately gave an order for the whole army to mount. After running for a few miles, the cavalry of Zhao finally caught up, they had about four or five thousand people, constantly shooting arrows at the Ming cavalry, their arrows were very accurate, basically every three arrows could shoot a Ming army, the Ming cavalry kept falling off their horses, and thousands of people had died in a short time.

Although there are also Ming cavalry counterattack, but it is far less accurate than the cavalry of Dazhao, Dazhao only has 100 casualties, and now there are more than ten miles away from the Tiger Prison Pass, it is estimated that the Tiger Prison Pass, the 17,000 cavalry can be killed and wounded half.

"Turn around and kill me. Cui Cheng shouted, and the Daming cavalry, who had already been provoked, turned around, but he didn't expect Da Zhao's cavalry to turn around when they saw this scene, but they continued to shoot arrows while fleeing. The Ming cavalry couldn't catch up with them at all, but were shot dead by them again.

"What kind of troops is this? Can you only shoot on horseback?" Cui Cheng scolded, he didn't know that the thousands of cavalry chasing them were the trump card of the Great Zhao Army, and they used cavalry and archery as their main means of attack, which was very difficult. They are like wolves on the prairie hanging behind their prey, taking a bite when the prey is not paying attention, and once the prey counterattacks, they turn around and retreat. This constant harassment can cause all enemies to collapse. This is likely to be *** "The enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase." "One of the sources of this strategy, isn't guerrilla warfare invented by the steppe people?

Cui Cheng was annoyed, watching the Ming cavalry around him being killed as prey, but he didn't have any choice, Cui Cheng's eyes were red. Desperately flee and don't fight you. If you don't work hard, people will always follow you and slowly consume you.

"General, give me 3,000 men, I'll drag them, you go quickly, otherwise none of us will be able to run back. One of Cui Cheng's lieutenants came to Cui Cheng and said, Cui Cheng also knew that there was no way, he nodded uncomfortably, and the deputy general arched his hand and rode his horse backwards.

"The brothers from the 1st and 3rd Battalions of the Forbidden Army rushed with me. After the adjutant general shouted, three or four thousand of the remaining less than fifteen thousand cavalry ran out, all of them with determination on their faces, and followed the adjutant general and rushed towards the Zhao army.

Cui Cheng glanced at Zhao Jun fiercely, and then with a wave of his hand, he continued to evacuate with the remaining more than 10,000 people, his heart was dripping blood, first Zhang Yun, and then his deputy general, they stayed one after another, just to let more people escape, and he couldn't let them down. But Cui Cheng had already made a decision in his heart that he would destroy the Zhao State and avenge them in his lifetime. I also have to ask, what is Wang Jie doing, why didn't he send someone to answer? Why didn't he answer?

When Cui Cheng ran back to the Tiger Prison with 10,000 remnants of the defeated generals, they were immediately welcomed in, Cui Cheng settled his subordinates, and then went directly to look for Wang Jie angrily, and came to Wang Jie's command post, Cui Cheng was stopped.

"General Cui, the commander he led the army out of the customs. Yang Sheng, the former commander of the Fifth Battalion Forbidden Army, opened his mouth and said that Yang Sheng and his brother Yang Ye were old men who had defected to Chu Yun with Zhang Yun, and Cui Cheng was still very respectful.

Cui Chengqiang suppressed his anger and gave a Ming military salute to Yang Sheng, there is no need to kneel in the Ming army, you only need to stretch your right hand forward, press your chest with your left hand, and shout long live the Holy Emperor, of course, this is also invented by Chu Yun, which is somewhat like the German military salute in World War II.

"General Yang, where has the boss gone? Cui Cheng's face was still very bad.

"General Cui, I only know that the commander led tens of thousands of troops out of the pass, and I don't know exactly what he was going to do? Yang Sheng asked suspiciously.

"General Yang, how long has the boss been out of the city?" Cui Cheng couldn't help but think of something in his mind, and his face was even more ugly.

"You left the city four days ago, General Cui, didn't you really see the boss? Then how did you come back? By the way, General Zhang Yun and Zhang?" Yang Sheng also saw something and hurriedly asked, he and Zhang Yun are good brothers, after all, Chu Yun, who surrendered together, has been more than ten years.

"General Yang, two days ago, General Zhang broke through in order to cover me, and now it is estimated that he has died in battle. Cui Cheng said with a gloomy face.

"What, it's impossible, Commander Wang has already left the city four days ago, isn't he going to save you? How could General Zhang have an accident, unless..." Yang Sheng was speechless, his face was gloomy and uncertain, and he obviously came up with something.

"General Yang, I'm a little tired, so I'll leave first. Cui Cheng's whole person seemed to be drained of his spirit, and he left step by step with heavy steps.

A few days later, Wang Jie led the army to return victoriously, only 30,000 or 40,000 people fled back to Yizhou of the 150,000 army of Dazhao, and half of Sili Prefecture occupied by Dazhao was captured by the Ming Dynasty, and Wang Jie's name shook the whole world. The battle of Luoyang, which Zhao had prepared for more than half a year, came to an end before it happened, and nearly 200,000 Zhao troops were wiped out by the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty only lost 100,000 people, which was a proper victory.

And with the Ming Dynasty's strong occupation of the Tiger Pass and all of Sili Prefecture, the world caused a series of chain reactions, and the Youzhou Battle that Da Zhao was preparing to launch ended in nothing, and several forces on the grassland also hurriedly withdrew their troops, not daring to continue to act against Daming and his allies. Da Liang Guo also quickly got the news, and the battlefield on the Western Front of the Ming Dynasty returned to calm. And Cui Cheng and his dead army of 100,000 seemed to have been deliberately ignored.

The Ming Dynasty turned the crisis into peace all of a sudden, Wang Jie was the greatest hero, and was rewarded by Chu Yun, Wang Jie was directly named the county candidate (county candidate, township candidate, pavilion candidate) in the third-level marquis, Chu Yun appointed Wang Jie to replace Lu Zhong as the commander of the Eastern Front, with full authority to manage all the military power in Si Lizhou, and his subordinates had an army of 150,000 troops in the front camp of the Eastern Army, the Zhendong Army and the Five Battalion Forbidden Army. became the same general as Xie Ai in Bingzhou, and shook the Central Plains.

Moreover, Da Ming also sent people to contact the Great Yan Kingdom, so that they could continue to deal with the Great Zhao Xu, and prepare to completely defeat the Great Zhao Kingdom next time. Da Yanguo obviously also knew that Da Zhao would not continue to do it for a short time, so he was happy to hide it. They became the hidden poisonous snakes around Da Zhao, and once they were activated, they would give Da Zhao a fatal blow. This also gave Daming plenty of confidence. Because of Wang Jie's victory in Sili Prefecture, the entire Ming Dynasty completely overwhelmed the Great Zhao State for the first time and became the first power in the world.

Cui Cheng, Zhang Yun and others also had rewards, but Zhang Yun was already dead, Zhang Yun was officially named a marquis because of his merit in containing the main force of Da Zhao, but unfortunately the person is already dead, what is the meaning of being a marquis? And Cui Cheng was also named a villager, which can be regarded as a senior general who officially entered the Ming Dynasty in terms of status. He killed 40,000 cavalry of Dazhao after a desperate situation, and won Wang Jie a chance to win, which was the main reason for his marquis.

Wang Jie watched Cui Cheng's 100,000 army basically annihilated, and waited until both sides were defeated before attacking the big move army, and the timing was really good. But it was too cruel for Cui Cheng and the abandoned army of 100,000. Cui Cheng returned to Chang'an with the order to recuperate from his injuries and chose not to stay out, he really had no face to accept the high position of marquis obtained by the death of nearly 100,000 of his brothers.

In the twelfth year of Shengwu, the month of La. After resting for half a year, Cui Cheng had to participate in the imperial court's court meeting, after all, he was the marquis of the Ming Empire. Cui Cheng lowered his head and didn't pay attention to what the courtiers were talking about, he was really a little disheartened, even if his mother had been persuading him during this time, he couldn't accept the facts of half a year ago.

Mo Han returned to the power center of Daming from the new, he did a very good job in Dacheng, after the death of Li Du, the lord of Dacheng, he provoked several sons of Li Du to fight, and in the end they unexpectedly died together, of course, people with a discerning eye can see that this must be Mo Han's means. As the suzerain, Daming can only "reluctantly" send troops to completely occupy Dacheng, and include Dacheng as the territory of Daming, after all, the heirs of Dacheng are all gone, and Daming will not watch Dacheng fend for itself.

Got the country of abundance of the Ming Dynasty, the strength to a higher level, now to have people, to have grain and grain strength has increased greatly, the Ming now has Sili Prefecture, Qinzhou, Yongzhou, Liangzhou (Hanzhong), Yizhou (Sichuan), and half of Liangzhou, the world's richest six and a half states in the hand, the entire world of nineteen states, the Ming has occupied one-third.

Because of Mo Han's credit this time, Chu Yun accepted Mo Han again, which made Ma Liang very happy, after all, he thought that Chu Yun and Mo Han, a pair of monarchs and ministers, had regained their closeness again, but he didn't know that Chu Yun was wary of a person, and he wouldn't eliminate it so easily.

The various important ministers of the Ming Dynasty kept speaking and summarizing the gains and losses of the Ming Dynasty in the past year, as well as the work of the new year, but Cui Cheng's mind did not know where to go.

"Cui regrets. It wasn't until Yang Sheng beside him touched himself that Cui Cheng came back to his senses.

"Your Majesty called you. Yang Sheng whispered, and Cui Cheng found that everyone's eyes in the Holy Martial Hall were fixed on him, and Cui Cheng immediately knelt on the main hall.

"Cui regret what are you doing? The Great Dynasty will be related to the development focus of the Ming Dynasty in the new year, as the Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, you are guilty of it?" Chu Yun, who was sitting on the throne, said sharply, and everyone had different thoughts when they heard Chu Yun's questioning.

Some people gloat, after all, Cui Cheng was made a marquis at a young age, which made them greedy. However, some people were worried, after all, Cui Cheng's military ability was obvious to all, especially Lu Zhong and other people who promoted Cui Cheng, they were worried that he would receive a heavy punishment from Chu Yun. And some have nothing to do with themselves, after all, Cui regrets what, regardless of their affairs.

Lu Zhong, Yang Sheng, Ran Min and others immediately stood up to intercede for Cui Cheng, but Chu Yun's anger did not diminish in the slightest.

"Cui regrets that you disappointed me too much, I have been waiting for you to come to me for half a year to give me an explanation, but you didn't come. Do you think I don't know what you're thinking? Do you think I'm willing to watch my people die and be wounded? Do you think General Wang is willing to see his soldiers die? We don't want to let the war end earlier, so that the Ming people will suffer fewer casualties? If the war really starts, not only 100,000 people will die, but probably hundreds of thousands, millions, you know? This will be a big war that will sweep the world. What is General Wang's infamy? Can't you figure it out yourself? Are we really ready? You won't use your brain to think about it? I am very disappointed in you, you don't have to enter the army in the future, your rear camp has suffered heavy casualties, and in the past six months, when they need you the most, you feel sorry for yourself at home, are you worthy of them? From today on, General Bo Bing will be the commander of your rear camp. And you, you go to Ba County to serve as the county guard. After Chu Yun finished speaking, everyone's faces changed, they didn't expect Chu Yun's disposition to be so serious, a promising general, became a county guard?

Don't look at the commander of the Houying Forbidden Army and the same level as the county guard, but his status is not the same. There were 50,000 forbidden troops in the rear camp, and there were only a dozen generals in the Ming Dynasty who could lead 50,000 people. And now is the beginning of the founding of the country, and the status of military generals is much higher than that of civil ministers. Moreover, how many county guards are there in the entire Daming Dynasty? There are dozens of county guards in the six and a half states of Daming.

Even Wang Jie couldn't help but jump out, "Your Majesty, General Cui has extraordinary potential and is the best rising star in the Ming military world, and the minister begs Your Majesty to give General Cui another chance." After Wang Jie finished speaking, the rest of the generals also pleaded one after another. But Chu Yun was resolute, and then Cui regretted that he was transferred to a civil official.

Cui Cheng lowered his head and his eyes darkened, he knew what his father meant, he had almost reached the peak of his development in the military generals, it was time to become a civil servant and be familiar with government affairs, this was his father's agreement with him. Thinking that his favorite military career was coming to an end, Cui Cheng almost burst into tears, knowing that his generation might not have the opportunity to command the army again. And You Ziyuan and Wen Qiao, who had been Cui Cheng's teacher, glanced at each other, they seemed to remember something, but they were not sure, and finally did not speak.

Cui Cheng became a small county guard from a promising general and was quickly forgotten, because in the first month of the thirteenth year of Shengwu, the Ming Dynasty announced the world and was ready to make a move against the Great Liang State, and the betrayal of the Great Liang State and the Great Zhao State was shaken out, which once again attracted the attention of the whole world.