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Cao Jun was defeated and fled. Cao Cunshi, the vanguard of the Tianping Army, ordered a pursuit. At this time, a general in the vanguard stepped out and said loudly: "General, do not pursue the enemy, be careful of fraud?"

Cao Cunshi looked immediately, but he saw that the young school under his command was Zhu Xuan. Zhu Xuan was originally from Songzhou, and the Zhu family was also a powerful force in Songzhou. His father was the leader of the Songzhou Salt Gang. Later, he was arrested and executed by the government. Zhu Xuan and his five brothers Zhu Jin, Zhu Qiong, Zhu Yu and Zhu Han joined Wang Jingwu in Qingzhou. Later, he was appointed as Cao Quanzhen's subordinates. A few years ago, when the Tianping Army was in a mutiny, Wang Jingwu was ordered by the court to send Cao Quanzhen to the Tianping Army, and Zhu Xuan brothers and others also went there. Later, Cao Quanzhen stayed in the Tianping Army, and Zhu Xuan brothers also stayed together. Because of his bravery and outstanding performance in combat, Zhu Xuan was promoted to the capital for his military achievements and is now a direct subordinate of Cao Cunshi.

Cao Cunshi was quite polite to Zhu Xuan. When he was in Xichuan, he almost died under the guns of Nanzhao. Zhu Xuan used his body to block the shot.

"What is the basis for Master Zhu's words?" Cao Cun asked patiently.

Zhu Xuan shouted: "I thought that this thief had obviously 20,000 people, but when I saw my army coming, I fought with thousands of people. This was obviously a problem. This is very likely to be a plan for the thief army to lure the enemy. There are mountains and forests ahead, so you must be careful of ambushing."

"Hahaha!" Cao Cunshi laughed, "Old Zhu, you are not wrong to be cautious, but you don't need to be too cautious. You have to see who our opponent is, just thieves, and I'm sorry they can't think of such a trick to lure the enemy. Besides, if it's tempting the enemy, then they won't fight to the death. At most, they will be defeated and flee. But now you see. In the battle just now, thieves have a look of defeat. There are at least six or seven hundred people falling down on the ground. Even if they surrender, they can't bear to leave this capital. You don't need to say anything, chase immediately, and don't let the thieves run away."

The three brothers Cao Cunshi led a thousand cavalry vanguards to pursue him. Seeing that Cao Cunshi was not following his advice, Zhu Xuan had to take Zhu Jin and others with him, and the five brothers led their troops to follow him and pursued him. Along the way, many backward Cao army defeated soldiers, and they chased and killed more than 100 people.

In the afternoon, the warm sun shines brightly.

Cao Cunshi had reached 20 miles east of Qianfeng County, and the scouts came to the horse and said, "Report to the general that the thieves in Qianfeng City were on the way to escape. They did not stick to the county, but were running eastward and crossing the Wen River."

When he heard that the thief actually abandoned the city and left, Cao Cunshi sneered, "Go and report to Shuai Xue to learn that the rest of the cavalry should follow me to chase after me."

In his opinion, the thief who had left before had lost his courage. After they brought back the news of the arrival of the Balance Army, the thief heads and others in the city definitely did not dare to fight, so they abandoned the city and left.

Immediately, the pioneer cavalry rode wildly and galloped towards me. When they arrived at the north bank of the Wenshui River, the north bank was full of thieves and hungry people. Cao Cunshi was not in the mood to care about the people who were attached to the thieves, and then he just rushed towards the thieves.

At this time, Wang Xianzhi had already led most of the troops across the river. The rest were some old and weak. Cao Cunshi arrived, and the thieves could not look after each other. Wang Xianzhi had no intention of going back to rescue him, and led the troops across the river to go south. Seeing that Cao Cunshi could not catch up, he had to turn around and strangle after he had not crossed the river.

By the time Xue Chong led most of his troops to arrive, the entire north bank of Wenshui had accumulated corpses and rivers, and the river water was dyed red. After Xue Chong arrived, he not only did not stop him, but instead ordered the army to kill all the people with the bandits on the north bank. Then the troops entered the empty Qianfeng County Town, and the statistics came from the following statistics. In this battle, seven hundred thieves were killed at Tingting Mountain. Then the vanguard army killed more than 100 people along the road, and finally rushed to the border of the Wenshui River and killed more than 3,700 "grass thieves". The Tianping Army who arrived later also killed more than 8,000 "grass thieves" and recovered Qianfeng County Town.

After killing tens of thousands of thieves in one battle, Xue Chong became even more excited. After using meals in the city, he left more than a hundred men to guard Qian and seal the city. He led more than 7,000 troops across the Wenshui River and pursued south.

Zhu Xuan once again advised Cao Cunshi, saying that south of the Wenshui River, the Lai Mountain and Liangfu Mountain are very dangerous, especially the Langhu Valley in northeastern Liangfu Mountain. The terrain is even more dangerous and you must be very careful. It is best to wait for Duya to lead his 8,000 troops to arrive and join forces to attack. However, Cao Cunshi, who had just won, could not hear it, and sent him a few words.

After the Tianping Army crossed the Wenshui River, they had already discovered Wang Xianzhi.

At this time, Wang Xianzhi laid the ten-wing soldiers and horses between Luolai Mountain and Liangfu Mountain. The ten-wing soldiers and horses were deployed one after another. He was in the middle of the three thousand elite troops with Shangrang, and nearly 13,000 soldiers and horses were fighting.

As dusk approached, the vanguard cavalry of Cao Cunshi, the army of Tianping Army, arrived first. Seeing the army of thieves lined up for several miles, he was not only not afraid, but was very excited. The previous battle had already made him full of contempt for thieves, and no matter how many thieves there were, they were not afraid at all.

However, he finally experienced a long battle formation and did not attack immediately. Instead, he stopped two miles away, and the cavalry dismounted and waited for Xue Chong's troops to arrive. Half an hour later, Xue Chong arrived and saw that the thief leaned against the mountain to fight, he couldn't help laughing.

The offensive order was immediately issued, and more than 7,000 Tianping Army formed an array to attack, and they were steadily attacking and advancing step by step. Relying on a large number of archers and crossbows, coupled with a strong shield formation, excellent armor, and excellent training, the Tianping Army advanced rapidly and was unstoppable.

The battle lasted less than two hours, and the 13,000 Cao Army was defeated, and the defeated army was defeated in the northeast direction.

At this time, the sky was completely dark, and the army was in the mountains, which was not conducive to the attack. However, Xue Chong did not want to miss the great achievement of completely annihilated the thieves. He ordered the entire army to light torches and pursued them for more than 30 miles. A team of defeated soldiers wearing the banner of the word "Wang" fled into a valley.

Xue Chong asked his side: "Where is this?"

"I reported to Da Zheng, the valley here is called Langhu Valley, which is very dangerous. It is just a Hulu Valley. The mouth of the outside is small and the place inside is large, but it is a dead valley. There is only one way out outside."

After hearing this report, Xue Chong was overjoyed. The team of cavalry just now was wearing the Wang flag, and it must be the thief leader Wang Xianzhi. There were few who could ride horses among the thieves, and so many cavalry guarded and still wore the Wang flag. Who else could not be Wang Xianzhi? At that moment, Xue Yuan loudly ordered to chase into the valley.

As soon as the army entered the valley, it was about to catch up, but the cavalry stopped and turned around and stood there waiting.

When Xue Chong was strange, he suddenly heard countless horns ringing, and countless yellow-clothed soldiers and horses suddenly surged out from both sides of the hillside, surrounding them. What made him scream even more was that the other party was obviously ready to ambush here, in addition to the soldiers, there were countless large grass balls on the mountain dripping with tinder oil, and there were also huge wooden rocks mixed in between.

The Tianping Army was caught off guard and many casualties were injured.

"The thief is ambushed, the general, the terrain in the valley is small, which is not conducive to our army's combat. So, let's withdraw from the outside of the valley before fighting." Cao Cunshi rode his horse to Xue Chong. At this time, he regretted not listening to Zhu Xuan's advice. However, although the mere thief ambush caused some losses to them, as long as he retreated outside the valley and surrounded the valley entrance, the thief army would still fall into their hands.

Xue Chong was panicked at this time and nodded quickly when he heard Cao Cunshi's words.

The Tianping Army fought and retreated, retreating into the valley. As soon as it retreated to the entrance of the valley, suddenly countless shouts of killing sounded, countless torches suddenly lit up, and an army rushed from outside the valley. Through the bright flames, a big flag embroidered with the word "King" sounded in the night wind, rolling endlessly.

Then there were countless dazzling swords and guns. Then there were Qizhou soldiers dressed in red. After Xue Chong finally discovered that the soldiers with the word "King" were not soldiers of Xianzhi, but soldiers of King Jingwu of Qizhou, he looked pale and was so scared that he could not speak. At this time, this magical weapon fell from the sky, and the sudden appearance of troops had already come in from outside the valley.

The two sides attacked and were besieged by the Tianping Army in the valley. They collapsed and were defeated without persisting for a moment. Cao Cunshi was under Wang Jingwu's command before, and the Qizhou soldiers were originally Qingzhou Yajun. It is impossible to say that their strength was. Otherwise, Song Wei would not have fought until now and could not wipe them out.

Cao Cunshi had no intention of fighting again, and led the cavalry to escort Xue Chong to fight to the death. They fought to the death and broke through. They fought to the death and rushed out of the valley, and fled along the same route. Along the way, the Tianping Army behind them had become headless flies. After losing command, they were surrounded and killed by the Cao Army and Qizhou soldiers, who were greatly motivated by reinforcements. In the end, most of them were killed and a small number were captured.

After the battle, the ground was filled with seized weapons, armor and flags.

Seeing all this, Wang Xianzhi couldn't believe it. They actually defeated the eight thousand elite soldiers of the Tianping Army. He stood on the bloody battlefield with his sword and was stunned.

Huang Chao, wearing golden armor, led the Qizhou reinforcements general, Wang Jingwu's nephew Wang Yanwen, to come closer. "General, we win!"

"We won." Wang Xianzhi murmured.

When Huang Chao proposed this bold and crazy plan, Wang Xianzhi couldn't accept it, but now it seems that they succeeded.

"It's a pity that I escaped from Xue Chong!"

At this time, Xue Chong was fleeing to Qianfeng City under the escort of more than a thousand cavalry led by Cao Cunshi and Zhu Xuanwu. He still couldn't figure it out, and Wang Jingwu actually sent troops to support the thieves.

Thinking about it, the soldiers had already arrived at the Wenshui River and waded across the river. After crossing the Wenshui River safely, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and felt like they had survived the disaster. They arrived at Qianfeng City immediately. As long as they retreated into the city and held on for a while, Cao Quanshi would be able to arrive at that time.

Qianfeng nodded several torches at the end of the city, which was extremely dark, and several soldiers were standing at the top of the city with guns in their arms.

"Open the city gate quickly, Xue Shuai is back!" Zhu Xuan rode his horse to the city gate and shouted loudly.

A panic response came from the top of the city, and then the city gate slowly opened, Xue Chong and others rode their horses into the city. As soon as they entered the city, Zhu Jin immediately felt a little unfavorable. Although the city had already become an empty city, only more than a hundred soldiers guarding the city, the city was now so quiet that it was a bit too much. So many soldiers entered the city, but they didn't hear the sound of cats and dogs barking. He approached Zhu Xuan and expressed his worries.

Zhu Xuan quickly turned around and looked up at the city, but was shocked to find that no defenders on the city were aware of them.

"There is an ambush!" Zhu Xuan shouted.

With this shout, the calm was broken, and countless archers suddenly surged out from the city and the gate, and arrows were like rain. Ge Congzhou jumped down from the city and shouted: "Dog thief, come on your own!"

Lin Yan and Meng Kai also appeared from the darkness of the city gate tower, each holding a long bow.

During the day, they followed Huang Chao's military orders and first used Ge Congzhou's rear wing troops to lure the enemy. After defeating, they fled into Tingting Mountain. There, Lin Yan's front wing was hidden in it. When it was dark and midnight, several teams of grass troops hidden in the underground secret room in the city came out and attacked more than a hundred Tianping troops left behind in the city. They opened the door to pick up Zi Ge Congzhou and others into the city. Then they disguised themselves as Tianping troops, and the rest of the troops were hiding at the city gate. Finally, they waited for the defeated Tianping troops to come out in one fell swoop and ambush the Tianping troops.

The Tianping Army was in a vain, and the two sides fought in a melee in the city. On the one hand, Ge Congzhou, Lin Yan and Meng Kai led more than a thousand troops. In order to achieve maximum lethality, when the troops were divided, Wang Xianzhi and Huang Chao transferred almost all the bows and arrows of the Cao Army to Lin Yan's front wing. At this time, the arrows were like rain, and they didn't care about the correct head, just nervously bowing and fast arrows.

On the narrow streets, the cavalry of the Tianping Army did not have much advantage. They were divided and fought to the death with the Cao Army.

The newly defeated army of the Tianping Army was unwilling to fight after the slums, and they were only worried that the bandits in the Langhu Valley would come to chase after him. After a fight, Cao Cunshi broke through the siege again and protected Xue Chong to escape from the city. He fled to Jeju. Ge Congzhou Linyan chased for a while, but he couldn't catch him, so he withdrew his troops back to the city.

Xue Chong and others ran for a day and night before fleeing back to Pingyin County, beside the Jishui River in Jeju. They counted the people, eight thousand elite soldiers, five thousand infantry and three thousand cavalry, and finally escaped to Pingyin City, only three hundred cavalry were left. After Pingyin was frightened for a day, the thieves did not come to Jeju. Instead, Cao Quanshi recruited various small bandits along the way and led his troops to Pingyin City.

As soon as he entered the city, Cao Quanru was stunned when he saw Xue Chong who had returned from defeat. These were eight thousand elite soldiers. If this team was lost, the Tianping Army would be slaughtered. Xue Chong was already scared by this battle and immediately asked Cao Quanru to lead his troops back to Yuncheng. At this time, he could not control the matter of the joint attack and advancement with the Li team of Taining Army.
Chapter completed!