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Chapter 357

Following Liu Zongmin's howl, he fell off his horse with serious injuries, and his life and death were unknown. The last suspense of this battle was actually completely extinguished.But half a quarter of an hour later, the remaining remnants of the Chuang army were in a mess, and the soldiers had no fighting spirit. They either fled or surrendered.

Liu Zongmin's lifeless body was also tied up by Li Dingguo's soldiers. Regardless of whether he was dead or not, he bandaged the wound and tried to bring it back as much as possible. After all, he was the murderer of the late emperor and deserved a very high reward.Then Li Dingguo asked his subordinates to continue to expand the results of the battle and capture more prisoners regardless of his own injuries.

The waning moon at the end of September was only twilight, which made the battle, which lasted from noon to late night, so terrific in the final stage, and also made it more difficult to hunt down and hunt down the remnants of the enemy.

The rout soldiers fled everywhere, and most of those who ran to the Jianghan Plain in the east could still be caught, while those who ran to the Jingshan Mountains in the west might take several days or even ten and a half months to be caught.

The cold autumn wind blew bursts of strong bloody smell, which made people suspect that they were in a ghost.

Li Dingguo gasped, and spent a long time chasing and expanding the results of the battle. It was not until the dawn of the next day, when the sky was slightly bright, that he found a place to rest on the battlefield that had just calmed down, and simply treated his minor injuries.

General Cao Bianjiao and his deputy Zhu Wenzhen of the friendly army also found him at this time, asking about the losses and the results of the battle.

When Cao Bianjiao saw him, his expression was very complicated.Cao Bianjiao is a famous general in the world. Back then, he followed Sun Chuanting and his uncle Cao Wenzhao to hunt down and kill Gao Yingxiang, the old king of Chuang, and participated in killing Gao Yingxiang (just participating, not the first achievement).

Therefore, even if King Chuang is killed, at least he can be granted the title of Bo or even Marquis.But in the eyes of Cao Bianjiao, this kind of achievement is not unattainable and unattainable. He has seen such a big scene before.

What's more, now, according to the information on the battlefield that Cao Bianjiao has, Li Zicheng must have run away long ago. In this battle, almost all of Li Zicheng's troops except the cavalry were defeated, beaten away, and captured.

Cao Bianjiao originally thought that Li Dingguo's grandson Kewang was the thief of the thieves. He had fought with the other party for so many years, and the accumulated hatred was unclear.

Cao Bianjiao previously thought that it was a bit extravagant for Guo Xingye to treat these capricious people so favorably and give them the opportunity to perform crimes and meritorious deeds, just to let them help Zhaoan some scattered bandits in the Luoxiao mountainous area in southern Jiangxi. up.

On the way to reinforce today, Cao Bianjiao may not have thought of watching Li Dingguo's jokes in his heart. He even subconsciously thought that it would be better if the intruder and the naughty old thief, the direct descendant of the West Thief, were to fight each other and die almost, so that the real card would be saved. The Ming army went to carry the casualties.

But in the end, seeing that Li Dingguo was so daring to fight, that thousands of brothers were killed and wounded, and he still took the lead in standing there. The genuine "Nine Edges Elite" is on the shelf.

For warriors, respect has always been earned from the battlefield with one sword and one gun. As long as they dare to fight, there will always be someone who will see it.

When the two were face to face, Cao Bianjiao rode proudly on the horseback, looked down at Li Dingguo who dismounted and walked, glanced up and down several times, and finally asked:

"How about the losses in this battle? Although Li Zicheng escaped, how many of his pseudo-civilian and military backbones have been captured. Did you see the direction of Li Zicheng's escape?"

Li Dingguo didn't feel that the other party was arrogant, he knew that General Cao had this capital,
When Cao Bianjiao followed Hong Chengchou in the battle of Songjin, he also rushed to kill Huang Taiji's imperial flag formation. He was a national hero in the foreign war, and he was not comparable to the civil war.

He said respectfully: "It was a fluke for the last general to capture Liu Zongmin, the general of the intruder. This thief was a great villain who killed the late emperor. In addition, more than ten thousand soldiers were captured by the intruder, and our army suffered thousands of casualties. If the general hadn't repeatedly encouraged them, the friendly troops would have arrived immediately, and with the timely rescue of Generals Zhang and Cao, the general might not be able to maintain the situation."

Li Dingguo has a total of 8000 people. If the casualties add up to "thousands", the normal situation will definitely collapse.But on the one hand, the soldiers he led were solidly trained, and they had also been tempered and tested under Zhang Xianzhong's command. Li Dingguo was also good at taking the lead and sharing weal and woe with the soldiers.

On the other hand, it is relying on the troops to always know that "the advantage is with us, and our army has a steady stream of reinforcements, but it only takes time to rush to the battlefield."Supported by this kind of belief, it is not as easy to despair as those troops who have already pressed the whole army and have no reinforcements.

Li Dingguo is also good at controlling people's hearts on the battlefield. He always seems to have a way to convince his subordinates that "if you carry it a little longer, reinforcements will arrive soon."

After Cao Bianjiao listened to the detailed statement, he was also a little awed. This ability to lead troops is really extraordinary. No wonder it was reused by Zhang Xianzhong many times.

In today's battle, the number of prisoners captured by Li Dingguo is definitely not as much as that of him who came here to pick up the cheap.Cao Bianjiao captured at least three times as many prisoners as Li Dingguo. Who made him a [-] cavalry unit?

When the enemy army collapsed, the cavalry took advantage of their speed to detour and pull an encirclement circle, and it was directly tens of thousands of kneeling and surrendering.

In terms of the captives captured, Cao Bianjiao's rank is not low-the pseudo-prime minister Niu Jinxing is not good at running, and he is not good at riding. He was abandoned by Li Zicheng in the chaotic army, and was finally captured by Cao Bianjiao.

And Liu Fangliang even surrendered directly to Cao Bianjiao. Li Zicheng was mainly civil and military. After some counting, it seemed that only one Song Xiance ran away with him.

The two combined their follow-up pursuit, let the long-fighting troops rest for a while, and pulled up a siege net.

Looking at Cao Bianjiao's deployment, Li Dingguo seemed to be taking advantage of the speed of the cavalry to set up a half encirclement along the edge of Jingshan Mountain in this area.

He couldn't help but feel a little worried: "General Cao, what if the intruder flees to the depths of Jingshan Mountain, all the way to Yunyang, Wudang Mountain and other places? I'm afraid it will be difficult to search and suppress in the wild mountains. It’s been like this for more than ten years.”

Cao Bianjiao: "Don't worry, if the governor dares to let him cross the river, he has prepared a net on all sides. There are also troops from Central Sichuan to block the entrance from the west.

Long before today's battle, Zhang Daotai (Zhang Huangyan) of Sichuan's military preparations led Fang Guoan's troops back to Yunyang to block the road.The Kuidong troops under Fang Guoan's command are good at searching and suppressing mountains, so leave that side to them. "

Among the Sichuan army, Qin Liangyu and Ma Xianglin's mother and son had been stationed in Hanzhong, and it was not easy to move too far. Therefore, when Zhu Shuren thought of using Sichuan mountain soldiers before the war, he thought of using Fang Guoan reluctantly.

Fang Guoan was not a very loyal person in history, but at least he persisted until the time when King Lu was in Hangzhou in history. His subsequent betrayals were mostly due to the fact that the situation was out of control.Now that there is a butterfly effect, for this kind of talent that can be won, of course, we should try our best to give him the opportunity to strengthen and shape him in the direction of loyalty.

And the mountain soldiers he brought were also the foundation of the local anti-Qing rebels in Kui Dong Shisan's family in history. Many of them had participated in Zhu Shuren's battle to recover Chongqing before.

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The search and suppression continued, and another day later, Zhu Shuren himself rushed to the battlefield with another support army.

After all, it is impossible for him to react as quickly as a famous cavalry general like Cao Bianjiao, but of course he himself has to supervise the battle in person for such a feat, trying to hold the final battle to capture Li Zicheng in his own hands, so as to get a coordinator credit.

This point, Cao Bianjiao is actually clear in his heart, and he can figure it out - the future Nanjing court will have the final say, in fact, Governor Zhu, how can he not participate in the credit for avenging the late emperor?If you don't participate, it will only lead to disorder, and those who take credit for themselves will feel uneasy.

And take a ten thousand step back, even if Zhu Shuren can't go to the battle to supervise the battle, just relying on his strategy of luring the enemy to cross the river, that is the most important reason for Li Zicheng's downfall.Others just participated in the actual operation to participate in the fight, but without this strategy, even if Li Zicheng was defeated, he might not be able to guarantee that he would be killed.

Zhu Shuren arranged for his cousin Zhang Huangyan to come to take credit in advance, and he also had the idea of ​​supporting his cronies.When Zhang Huangyan went to Sichuan to hunt down Zhang Xianzhong last year, he was granted the title of Sichuan Bingbei Dao. Later, when Zhang Xianzhong was destroyed, Zhang Huangyan's own contribution was not obvious enough, and he could not be promoted to another level.

On the other hand, Zhang Huangyan is also too young, he is only four or five years older than Zhu Shuren, Zhu Shuren became a governor at 23, and Zhang Huangyan was only 28 when he became a Daoist.

Now that Zhang Huangyan is 29, if he can make some more money in besieging Li Zicheng, Zhu Shuren can help him get the title of Yushi of the capital.

Zhu Shuren never shunned his relatives, as long as his relatives were really capable, of course he would use them.Whether it is his father Shen Tingyang or his cousin Zhang Huangyan, the name of loyalty has been left in history, why not support them.

As soon as he arrived at the battlefield, Zhu Shuren summoned the generals, and first verbally commended those who had made great contributions to the previous battles, and further assigned tasks.

"General Cao, Vice-General Zhu, and General Li Shen, I will invite you to be named, so you must make persistent efforts to resolve the battle quickly--I was also temporarily delayed by other military affairs, and was delayed for half a day.

The battle situation waits for no one. The world is a game of chess, so we can't just stare at Huguang.Just last night, Liu Guoneng from Xinyang sent another six hundred miles of urgent military information, saying that it was the Pseudo King Fu regime in Fengyang Mansion, who actually opened Fengyang City and directly surrendered to Duoduo!

I thought that a murderous demon king like Duoduo would definitely kill a prince and false emperor surnamed Zhu. I didn't expect that there were probably capable people around him, and he accepted King Fu's surrender. It must be because he wanted to make him a puppet follower. Let's fight!

On the Nanjing side, we should have gotten the same news as the Xinyang garrison. Your Majesty urged us to speed up the resolution of Li Zicheng's edict. It is estimated that it is already on the way, and it may be sent to Xiangyang in two or three days.We strive to be faster, the Eastern Front is not waiting for anyone. "

(End of this chapter)