At noon, the civil war in Taiyuan City was over, except for the fierce resistance encountered in the attack on Jinyang Palace, the rest of the place was basically no resistance, and the Hexi Army spent most of its time searching for fleeing enemy soldiers.

Of the nearly 30,000 soldiers defending the city, only more than 6,000 were captured, and the rest lost their armor and weapons, and hid in the people, making it difficult to distinguish them.

However, Guo Song's handling of the situation surprised the surrendered troops, and then cheered, Guo Song reorganized all of them into the third-class Hexi Army, recruited 4,000 soldiers in the city, formed a new army of 10,000, and began to train.

There was still a curfew in Taiyuan City, prohibiting going out after dark, although the time was short, but the Hexi Army dealt with it decisively and responded effectively, and in just one day, the situation in the city had completely calmed down.

Another important reason for Guo Song to seize Taiyuan is that Taiyuan has always been an important material storage place in the Tang Dynasty, mainly involving trade with the Hui Dynasty, there are tens of millions of cloth and silk stored in the Jinyang warehouse, followed by copper ingots and silver, here is the largest copper ingot storage in the Tang Dynasty, storing five million catties of blister copper, in addition to two million taels of silver, and 100,000 taels of gold.

In addition, there are 500,000 stones of grain, 200,000 quintals of forage, and a large number of other materials, but Guo Song hopes to find the armor but no, Taiyuan originally hoarded more than 200,000 sets of armor, because the rebellion of the feudal town has been transported back to Chang'an by Li Shi to equip the army, and there is no copper money, which is exhausted by the army recruited by the Yuan family.

However, there are countless gold and silver jewelry in the Yuan warehouse of Jinyang Palace, which is the savings of the Yuan family for hundreds of years, when the Northern Wei Dynasty accumulated immeasurable wealth, although only a small part was left to the descendants, but after more than 100 years of accumulation in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the wealth of the Yuan family has reached a point where the emperor is jaw-dropping, even if the Dugu family, which boasts that its wealth is the first in the world, can not be compared.

But now with the fall of the Yuan family, all this wealth belongs to Guo Song.

In Guo Song's hands, there is also a wealth inventory seized from Yuan Chu, which is the wealth stored by the Yuan family in various parts of the world, and it is too late to transport it back to Taiyuan, but most of it is manor land, as well as various shops and businesses.

Guo Song was checking the situation in the warehouse, when a personal soldier stepped forward to report: "Envoy Qi, Commander Zhang has an urgent military situation to report." ”

Guo Song immediately realized that there must be news from the Yuanlu army, he didn't bother to check the warehouse, and immediately returned to the barracks, just walked to the front of the handsome hall, Zhang Yun knelt down on one knee and saluted: "See the envoy!" ”

"General Zhang, please, what's going on?"

"Envoy Qi, the scout sent back the news that the Yuanlu army had defeated the Youzhou army, and Zhu Tao fled into the Flying Fox in panic."

Guo Song nodded and said, "Let's go to the lobby to talk in detail!" ”

Guo Song walked into the Shuai Hall and sat down, Zhang Yun continued: "The scout is a verbal report, and the humble position can only be dictated, the 30,000 troops of Yuanlu caught up with the Youzhou army south of Loufu Pass, the two sides fought in the wilderness, the Youzhou army was defeated by each other, and was defeated, Zhu Tao led thousands of defeated troops to flee to Feihucheng, but was killed by Yuan Lingxiang led the army from Yanmen Pass, cutting off the retreat, Zhu Tao was defeated again, and only led more than 1,000 people to escape. ”

Guo Song took a few steps and asked, "You know the Yuanlu army better, what do you think is the reason for their victory?" ”

Zhang Yun pondered and said: "There are two points in the humble position, one is that the Youzhou army cannot capture Taiyuan City, and the morale has been seriously hit, and there are only 17,000 people left in the 30,000 Youzhou army, of course, it is also a bit outnumbered, but the most important thing is the second reason, that is, there are 20,000 elite troops in the Yuanlu army, all of which are led by the children of the Yuan family, who have been trained for many years and have strong combat effectiveness. ”

"How does it compare to the three thousand defenders of Jinyang Palace?" Guo Song asked again.

"Of course, it can't be compared with the defenders of Jinyang Palace, the defenders of Jinyang Palace are family soldiers, who have served the Yuan family for generations, and have been trained to be loyal to the Yuan family since they were young, they are willing to work hard for the Yuan family, and the 20,000 elite soldiers are at most well-trained, but they themselves are still ordinary people, and they have parents, wives and children at home, so it is impossible to serve the Yuan family to the death."

"And what about 10,000 troops?" Guo Song pondered for a moment and then asked.

Zhang Yun laughed, "They can only share wealth with the Yuan family, and they will never share hardships with the Yuan family. ”

Guo Song smiled, "I really have to wait and see." ”

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The Yuanlu army learned the news of the fall of Taiyuan on the way back in triumph, and it was actually captured by the Hexi army, this news was like a thunderbolt to them, and the joy of victory was swept away, and the army was suddenly in turmoil.

In a hurry, Yuan Lu ordered a large amount of captured baggage materials to be discarded at Loufu Pass, and ordered the whole army to go south lightly and rush to Taiyuan.

Just as the Yuanlu army left, the 3,000 Hexi Army, which had been tracking the enemy in the distance, immediately occupied Lou Fan Pass, and these 3,000 troops were the Hexi Army that completely annihilated the Hui cavalry in the Lahe Valley north of Mayi County, led by Zhonglang General Li Tie.

He immediately divided his troops into 1,000 men and went to occupy Yanmen Pass, occupying these two passes, which also cut off the road for the Yuanlu army to retreat north.

At night, in a marching tent, Yuan Lu was discussing the next action with thirteen Yuan children, everyone was panicked, their parents, wives and children were in Taiyuan, the Hexi army occupied Taiyuan, would Guo Song let the Yuan family go?

Even the main general Yuan Lu was in turmoil, and he lost his ground, Taiyuan was occupied by Guo Song, and the Yuan family was completely finished, and all ambitions and hopes were shattered.

Longwu General Yuan Lingxiang is the only calmer person among all the children of the Yuan family, he saw that everyone was at a loss, so he stood up and said: "The matter has come to this, it is useless to panic, since Taiyuan has fallen, then it is not called rescue, I think we should think about the retreat first, we can't be swayed by emotions, just thinking about running to Taiyuan, what can we do if we run to the city?" ”

"A way out?"

Yuan Ren glared at Yuan Lingxiang viciously, and said extremely dissatisfied: "The head of the family was humiliated, his wife was humiliated, and his son was slaughtered, why don't we rush to fight hard?" I actually want a fucking retreat! ”

Yuan Lingxiang glared at him without showing weakness and said, "You simple-minded fool, you let the Youzhou army enter the customs, and you still have the face to make noise here?" ”

"Dog mongrel, I'll kill you!"

Yuan Ren's face was humiliated like a pig's liver, he pulled out his sword and stabbed Yuan Lingxiang fiercely, Yuan Lingxiang had already taken precautions, drew his sword to block his sword, and the two swords intersected, 'Dang! There was a screeching sound.

"Enough!"

Yuan Lu said angrily: "Now that your eyebrows are burning, you are still fighting among yourself!" ”

Yuan Ren pointed at Yuan Lingxiang and said, "He insulted me first!" ”

"Shut up and go outside and cool down for a while."

Yuan Ren glared at Yuan Lingxiang hatefully, turned around and left the big tent angrily.

Only then did Yuan Lu endure the dissatisfaction in his heart, and asked Yuan Lingxiang again, "What do you mean by leaving a way to retreat?" ”

"There are two ways to retreat, one is to appease the morale of the army and prevent the morale of the army from changing, and the second is to control Lou Fuguan, if Taiyuan can't be taken back, we can also retreat to Shuozhou and other places, which can completely retain part of the strength, and then ask for help from Hui and recapture Taiyuan City."

Yuan Lu was a little moved, and at this moment, Yuan Ren rushed in again and said loudly: "Second uncle, the military heart has mutinied!" ”

Yuan Lu was taken aback, he didn't care about continuing to discuss for the time being, turned around and ran outside the marching tent, the generals of the Yuan family also followed out, Yuan Lingxiang sighed secretly, at this time, he should send an army back to Lou Fu Pass first, the second uncle is still a little unclear, and he doesn't distinguish between the priorities and the severity, but he has no choice, he just hopes to calm down the riot as soon as possible.

The riots occurred in the Third Army, that is, 10,000 soldiers with a slightly poorer level of training, these soldiers only have a monthly salary of 500 Wen, the salary is also poor, the equipment is not good, they have always only wanted to live in the army, it is impossible to let them sell their lives, and defeating the Youzhou Army is also a great achievement made by the other 20,000 people, which basically has nothing to do with them.

As Zhang Yun said, it is okay to share blessings, but there are difficulties to share but do not think, when the news of the fall of Taiyuan came, the hearts of these 10,000 soldiers began to float, and as soon as it was dark, a large number of escapes appeared.

When the patrol soldiers heard the news, they rushed to meet a large number of soldiers fleeing, and a clash broke out between the two sides, which also led to the complete flight of 10,000 troops.

When Yuan Lu arrived, he saw that there were discarded armor and long weapons along the way, but the knife he carried with him was taken away.

The clashes had stopped, hundreds of soldiers were crouching on the ground with their heads down, but the Third Army had become sparse, with only one or two thousand men left at most, and the remaining nearly eight thousand were gone, needless to say, all of them must have fled.

Yuan Lu was dumbfounded, and at this time, Yuan Lingxiang stepped forward and said, "Second uncle, it's better to withdraw to Lou Fu Pass first, and send someone to Taiyuan to inquire about the situation." ”

Yuan Lu sighed and said, "You lead three thousand people to evacuate Lou Fu Pass!" I'll lead the army to Taiyuan to have a look first. ”