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Chapter 830: The whole army is defeated

Xiang Yong felt an arrow shot, and in desperation, he had to quickly dodge. The arrow hit his neck and shot it. Fifty steps away, Hua Rong shot three more arrows in a row, forcing Xiang Yong to retreat one after another.

Cao Meng seized the opportunity, pulled out from under the war horse, and ran wildly into the distance. Xiang Yong was very anxious. He knew very well that shooting people first and capturing the king first. This was the best opportunity to kill Cao Meng. If Cao Meng escaped this disaster, it would be difficult to kill him again.

Xiang Yong shouted, picked up a shield and chased Cao Meng. At this moment, a general came from the diagonal stabbing and stabbed Xiang Yong straight. The shot came too fast, and the tip of the gun was as fast as lightning. Xiang Yong was shocked, threw away the shield and swung his stick to the tip of the gun. Unexpectedly, the tip of the gun suddenly disappeared. He realized that something was wrong and his body was lying behind the saddle, but it was too late. He felt a pain in his lower abdomen, and the tip of the gun had stabbed into the lower abdomen from the side.

This general was the silver spear general Gao Chong. He saw Cao Meng in a distance and was in a critical situation. He urged his horse to come over quickly. Thanks to Hua Rong's continuous arrows to stop Xiang Yong, he won a little time, so Gao Chong finally arrived in time.

Gao Chong raised his silver spear and shouted, and was picked down by the horse. The big iron rod also rolled to the side. Gao Chong didn't wait for him to get up, and shot him into Xiang Yong's chest, resulting in his life.

At this time, several personal soldiers rushed over and gave Cao Meng a horse. Cao Meng turned over and ran forward to pick up the double hammers, and said a little embarrassedly to Gao Chong: "This time it doesn't count, it's just that I was plotting against."

Gao Chong smiled and urged his horse to kill the enemy.

Cao Meng was upset. No matter what, he was suppressed by Gao Chong this time.

Cao Meng stepped forward to thank Hua Rong for saving his life. He felt extremely hatred in his heart and shouted loudly: "Kill me all!"

As the main general was killed, the heavy armored cavalry began to lose their support and quickly showed signs of defeat.

At the same time, the central main gun formation of the Jiangnan Army also experienced a crisis. The crisis was caused by the three thousand greenheads responsible for guarding the left side of the central gun formation. In the face of huge casualties, the morale of the greenheads, which were already sluggish, collapsed completely. They were unwilling to work hard for Xiang Fa and began to flee the battlefield.

The escape of the greenheaded soldier revealed the left gap of the spearman formation. This is the weakness of the Tiger Ben Army's spearman formation, and the weakness without protection is undoubtedly a fatal danger.

Li Yanqing seized this opportunity. He personally led three thousand cavalry to the front and rushed to the front. Li Yanqing shouted loudly, "Go to the left side of the snatcher formation with all his strength!"

The three thousand Jingzhao cavalry rushed up, and the impact was like a storm, and instantly rushed out of the pirates. The large formation of pirates, which had been killed and injured and was attacked by Jingzhao, could not hold on anymore, and the formation was in chaos and began to collapse quickly.

At this time, the sound of trumpets sounded again in the distance, and the drums of Jingzhao Army were thunderous. Li Yanqing issued the final order to attack. He personally led 20,000 most elite Jingzhao Army, and shouted and killed the sky, like a strong wind blowing under dark clouds, sweeping towards the central army of the Jiangnan Army.

The six thousand cavalry led by Cao Meng also wiped out the 1,000 heavily armored cavalry of the Jiangnan Army. Six thousand cavalry came from behind. Cao Meng was even more brave in wielding a sledgehammer, killing the Jiangnan soldiers overturned their horses and their positions were in chaos.

The Jiangnan Army was attacked from both sides. Seeing that the situation was not good, Zheng Chen immediately rushed forward and shouted to the head: "Master General, you must retreat quickly now, otherwise we will be wiped out!"

Xiang Fa's face was pale, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Retreat immediately and retreat westward!"

He rode his horse and galloped, hundreds of personal guards surrounded him and ran towards the west. As the commander escaped, the Jiangnan army collapsed completely, and tens of thousands of troops fled west, and were defeated for a moment.

"Kill!"

The Jingzhao Army shouted and killed the sky, and its morale was greatly boosted. It chased the enemy and left. The black and defeated soldiers fled desperately. They trampled on each other, and the soldiers who were suffocating and trampling to death were everywhere in the fields.

A few miles to the west is a small river, with a river water about ten feet wide. There was originally a wooden bridge, but Yan Qing led the scout cavalry to demolish the bridge. The defeated soldiers of the Jiangnan army had nowhere to escape, and they all jumped into the river to swim.

Although the river water is not deep, at most it only exceeds the top of people's heads, and it does not threaten the soldiers living in Jiangnan, as the soldiers rush to scramble to each other, countless people drowned in the river, and the bodies quickly blocked the river.

The human body was filled with corpses, and the corpses were piled up like mountains, forming a bridge of corpses. The defeated soldiers behind them stepped on their companions' bodies and ran to the opposite shore. Only moans, screams, and cries were heard, and everything seemed crazy, terrifying and chaotic.

But three thousand cavalry rushed forward and cut off the escape route of Jiangnan soldiers. In the end, tens of thousands of desperate Jiangnan soldiers had to kneel down and kowtow to beg for mercy, and countless surrendered.

.........

The battle that lasted for nearly three hours was finally over. A drizzle fell from the sky, diluting the blood all over the ground. A group of soldiers walked by dejectedly. If they surrender too late, they would be labeled as rebellious. Unless they took their families away from their hometowns to make a living, their lives would be very bleak. The stains of rebellion would not be easily washed away, and they would even bear their lives for the rest of their lives.

The soldiers of the Jingzhao Army were busy cleaning the battlefield. It was already summer. After two days, the weather would become particularly stuffy. At that time, the corpses were prone to deterioration. If they were not dealt with in time, the consequences would be very serious. This is how the epidemic that ravaged the Central Plains came about.

The soldiers had already dug dozens of large pits in the wilderness, threw the corpses into the pit, poured them into the pit, and started to burn them. After the corpses were burned to ashes, they buried them deep, and they were basically dealt with.

Li Yanqing patrolled the battlefield everywhere under the escort of hundreds of personal guards. In front of him was a mountain of armor and weapons, with a total of five piles. In front of him was the largest pile, the armor of the Tiger Ben Army and the Feixiong Army. They were the best armor in the Song army, including the mountain pattern armor and the black hammer armor. One such armor is worth hundreds of cents.

"The chief of the Ministry of Education has 7,400 pairs of mountain pattern armor and about 6,500 pairs of black hammer armor. These are complete armor. If there are incomplete armor, there will be no counting of incomplete armor. In addition, iron armor."

The marching Sima reported a series of boring numbers, but Li Yanqing didn't take it too seriously. After the marching Sima finished speaking, he asked him: "I want to know the whereabouts of several major enemy generals, have I found out?"

"Reporting to the governor, Xiang Yong, Zhao Wenkai, Guo Huaisu and Red have all been killed, Li Mo and Zhu Hongying have been captured, and only Xiang Fa and Zheng Chen are missing at present."

The ones who were killed or captured were not the main characters. The key was Xiang Fa and Zheng Chen, one was the eldest grandson of the Xiang family, and the other was the legitimate nephew of the Empress Dowager Zheng. This person was the first two figures of the Jiangnan Army. It would be a pity if he escaped.

"Continue to investigate the whereabouts of these two people, and see people alive and corpses alive!"

Li Yanqing's order made many soldiers mutter in their hearts, you must know that thousands of people have been burned. If these two people are also mixed in the corpse, where can they find the corpse?

At this time, a team of prisoners of war walked past Li Yanqing. He glanced at these prisoners of war. They were currently on one of the prisoners of war. The prisoner was wearing shabby leather armor and seemed to have wounds on his head. He wrapped his clothes with his collar and limped around his walking. Li Yanqing looked at him for a moment, and suddenly pointed with a horse whip, "Precaution him alone!"

The prisoner of war who was accused changed his expression and turned around and ran away, but several soldiers fell to the ground and tied him up with hemp rope. The prisoner of war did not say a word or struggle, as if he had accepted his fate.

The soldiers took the prisoners of war to Li Yanqing. Li Yanqing pulled out his sword and picked up the cloth collar on his face, revealing an angry face, but there was no injury at all.

"If I read it correctly, you should have a good status!" Li Yanqing said with a faint smile.

The prisoner of war spat heavily at the side and said proudly: "Grandpa, I will not change my name, and I will not change my surname. Is Zheng Chen!"

"So you are Zheng Chen, I thought it was Xiang Fa."

"Hmph! That softie is dead."

"Dead!"

Li Yanqing asked, "Where is death?"

Zheng Chen looked at the river in the distance, and many soldiers were fishing for corpses in the river. "It should have died in the river. I saw him go down the river, but I didn't see him get up."

Li Yanqing winked, and Zhang Bao immediately took hundreds of soldiers to the river to catch corpses.

"How did Taiwei Li recognize me?" Zheng Chen asked a little unwillingly.

"You are different from these prisoners of war. I can see that Zheng Chen, you should also be a Jinshi!"

"I was named a Jinshi, which is different from you. Taiwei Li passed the imperial examination, and I just benefited from the royal relatives."

Zheng Chen sighed again and asked, "What will Taiwei Li plan to deal with me?"

Li Yanqing shook his head, "What you do has nothing to do with me, it is up to the official to decide!"

Of course, Li Yanqing also has the right to deal with it, otherwise Zhao Gou would not have given him the Emperor Shang Fang sword, but he did not want to be too troublesome. If he handled such a thing well, Zhao Gou might not be grateful to himself, but if he couldn't handle it well, there were endless hidden dangers, so he would let Zhao Gou handle it himself.

Just then, Zhang Bao's shout came from afar: "Master, you've taken it out!"
Chapter completed!
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