Zhou Hui was slapped on the snow by Li Gan's slash. Before he could get up, several slashing sabers pointed at him. The decisive battle of the cavalry was always so fast and cruel. However, in just a cup of tea, Pinglu's five thousand cavalry were dispersed and had already been defeated. Except for those who died on the spot, injured, and fell off horses, who could still ride on horses, they basically ran back and run.

Zhou Hui closed his eyes.

When he saw Li Ze's personal Wei Yi appear in front of him, he already knew that failure was inevitable.

Although everyone is a cavalry, there is still a big difference between cavalry and cavalry.

The Pinglu Cavalry and Li Ze's personal guards are not only different in equipment, but also in the difference in combat power and combat will. When these are all combined, the Pinglu Cavalry is suppressed in all aspects.

When the battle between the two armies reached a certain scale, the difference in numbers would not have had much impact on the outcome of the war. Otherwise, there would not have been so many typical battles in history where fewer than one thousand cavalry defeated the other side with nearly one hundred thousand people.

Because the contact with combat is always only a small part.

Just like the war between Li Ze and Lu Long and Zhang Zhongwu, both sides knew that this was a life-and-death battle, but the soldiers and horses mobilized by both sides on each battlefield did not exceed 50,000. Because this number is the limit that their logistics can support now, and the combat period must not exceed three months. Otherwise, if you don’t have to fight again, you will collapse.

In combat, it is never just the soldiers facing each other. Sometimes, the soldiers who determine the direction of the war are even the auxiliary soldiers and civilians in the rear who seem unimportant.

Zhou Hui was taken to Li Ze.

Seeing the Pinglu General with a pale face and a trembling body, Li Ze felt a sense of contempt in his heart.

"May I have your name?"

"Zhou Hui!"

"Oh, it's you, the commander of the military horse in front of the palace, a fourth-rank high-ranking official!" Li Ze looked at the other party jokingly: "Are you afraid of death?"

"I'm afraid of death!" Zhou Hui's answer was very calm, which made Li Mi, Li Gan and other personal guards laugh happily.

"Since I'm afraid of death, I'm now captured alive, I think I'm willing to surrender to me?" Li Ze quipped: "But when you come to my side, you're afraid you won't be the commander of the army in front of the palace."

"Don't surrender!" Zhou Hui's answer made the laughter around him stop. Everyone was a little surprised at the answer of the enemy general.

"Since you are afraid of death, why are you unwilling to surrender?" Li Ze also asked curiously.

Zhou Hui lowered his head and could see that he was indeed afraid in his heart, "I can't surrender, because I got very little of surrender, but I paid a lot of it, so it's better to die."

Hearing Zhou Hui's answer, Li Ze suddenly became silent. Seeing that the other party's eyes were a little complicated, Li Mi was also thinking, tilting his head to think about something, but Li Gan looked at the other party with disdain.

After a while, Li Ze nodded, and said nothing more, just said, "The fleeing soldiers don't need to chase them. Clean the battlefield and take General Zhou to Shanghe."

In Shanghe County, the battle situation has reached its most intense stage. Li Hao never thought about any wall-climbing ants fighting from the beginning. At this time, water turned into ice. Tian Chong and others poured water on the city wall. The shiny ice pieces were all covered with ice. The ladder-climbing ants were only useless to waste people's lives. Anyway, he was not worried about time, so he just let the five giant catapults keep rushing a point. After half a day of lightening, even though the earth-rammed city wall was covered with blue bricks, he finally couldn't stand it. With the loud noise, most of them fell down.

The city wall, which was originally more than three feet high, fell halfway, revealing a large gap of more than a hundred steps. At this time, Li Hao was no longer polite. The soldiers rushed up and began to attack along the gap.

With city walls to rely on, the village warriors can achieve a good replacement ratio with the soldiers, but if they fight each other in the opposite direction, they will not be on the same level.

The only people who can wear armor are the trusted and direct troops of these powerful men. The number of people is not just a small handful. The other ones are good, but more are just a big cotton jacket on their bodies. When you look at them with one knife and stir up a series of sparks on others' armor, but when someone cuts them down with one knife, it will make a burst of blood. No matter who is interested in such a battle, no matter who is interested in this kind of battle.

Fighting requires courage, but you cannot die in vain.

So when Li Ze arrived in Shanghe County, the battle had changed from siege to street fighting. It has to be said that Tian Chong and others had an extremely strong will to resist. Until this time, they were still looking forward to the cavalry from Pinglu to give Li Hao a fatal blow.

When Li Ze ordered Zhou Hui's flag to be hung on the top of the city, the already meaningless battle was immediately declared to come to an end.

A large number of rural brave men surrendered.

Tian Chong and others who could not surrender were eventually captured by Li Hao and others one by one.

After Li Zeduan sat in the big case, Zhou Hui was placed on a stool and sat next to him. He looked pale as Tian Chong and other rebel leaders were escorted over and pressed on the snow, and he was mortified on the spot. His bloody heads were put into wooden boxes and placed in front of Zhou Hui.

"All prisoners were sent to Dezhou to be coolies. Whether they can be pardoned depends on their performance." Li Ze waved his hand. "These rebel leaders have been sentenced to death. Their families were sent to Zhuo County and served in front of the Mozhou army. All their property was confiscated."

Listening to Li Ze's cold and emotional words, Zhou Hui felt cold. The so-called dispatch to the army was basically equivalent to proclaiming the death penalty for these people.

Li Ze set the tone for the judgment of these people in Shanghe County, and the consequences of those who participated in this rebellion in Dizhou were basically based on this standard.

After understatement of dealing with these rebels, Li Ze turned around and smiled on his face: "General Zhou, I really admire you."

"A general who defeated the army, please don't joke." Zhou Hui said dejectedly. "If you want to kill me, kill me quickly. There is no need to kill the chicken and scare the monkey."

Li Ze laughed: "General Zhou is really unpretentious and I don't want to kill you, but you should take these heads back to Marshal Hou for me and tell him that it's okay, and he will make a decision for me next time, so don't blame me for bringing the army and talking to him."

"Let me go back" Zhou Hui was stunned and looked up at Li Ze.

"Well, let you go back!" Li Ze said with a smile: "I said before, I admire you who are truly kind. Maybe we will have the opportunity to cooperate in the future, right?"

Zhou Hui was stunned for a moment, stood up, bowed and said, "Then Zhou Hui would like to thank Ji Shuai for not killing him. However, if he meets him on the battlefield again in the future, Zhou will still meet Ji Shuai with Ji Shuai."

"That's natural." Li Ze said disrespectfully: "To say that General Zhou is not strange, I still like to meet you very much."

Zhou Hui suddenly blushed and seemed to want to have an attack, but he couldn't. He was really hard to hold it in.

"There is one thing that I want to ask General Zhou, General Hou, what kind of ambition and courage did he dare to provoke me?" Li Ze asked, "General Zhou is his confidant general. I think he must know something, right?"

Zhou Hui hesitated for a moment and said, "Our Jieshou has formed an alliance with Xuanwu and Zhu Wen."

Li Ze nodded: "So that's it." Xuanwu and Pinglu are not bordered by Pinglu, but Zhu Wen can get along with Hou Xiyi, because Zhu Wen has solved the problem. Compared to Zhang Zhongwu, this guy who has quietly developed a huge force is his real enemy.

Unfortunately, now I am really unable to do anything, so I can only sit back and watch its power grow step by step.

"Didn't Zhu Wen and Tian Chengsi connect with each other?" Li Ze suddenly asked.

Zhou Hui shook his head: "No, the conflict between the two sides is very deep, and there are many controversies on the sphere of influence of both sides."

"That's it." Li Ze breathed a sigh of relief. If Zhu Wen and Tian Chengsi got together, it would be a big trouble. However, with the temperament of these two people, I think they can't get together. No one is willing to be the deputy senator.

"You go!" Li Ze waved his hand, "I have also released fifty people from your captured subordinates. The commander in front of the hall is unreasonable to go back. If you run fast, you might be able to pick up some people halfway."

Zhou Hui did not dare to say much and left in a hurry.

"You can just kill such a guy with one knife. Young master, why do you want to save his life?" Li Gan said unhappily.

"I said, this person is true. He is very scared, but he insists on not surrendering. What does it mean? He is not really loyal to Hou Xiyi, but this person has a strong sense of responsibility to his family and family. If he surrenders to me, he is afraid that Hou Xiyi will deal with his tribe." Li Ze said with a smile: "This person has a lot of weaknesses, and his ability is pretty good. After returning, Hou Xiyi probably can't bear to use him, so, this person doesn't need it now, and he may be able to use it in the future. It would be a pity to kill him with one knife."

This time, the rebellion of Dizhou was declared completely suppressed in just three days. After this, it turned out that the surviving landlords and clan forces in Dizhou were wiped out by Wuwei. After this incident, Yang Wei was completely separated from the old forces in Dizhou. In this battle, he made great efforts.

Dizhou was thus completely controlled by Wuwei.
Chapter completed!