Pei Xin was responsible for attacking the east, he fully implemented the commander's order, divided the 15,000 Hexi cavalry into fifteen teams, and shot a gap with powerful archery and arrows, and the Hexi cavalry rushed into the enemy's phalanx, divided the opponent several times, and continued to subdivide into 150 hundred-man cavalry teams, interspersed and divided, and broke up the spear array in the east into pieces.

At this time, the two Chinese armies in front also collided, 5,000 Jin army elites against 10,000 Hexi army elites, 5,000 Jin army elite soldiers could have been one against three, but unfortunately they encountered the most powerful heavy infantry in the Hexi army.

Their spears couldn't stop the slashing of the Mo knife in the other party's hand, and they were cut off one after another, even the iron scale armor on their bodies couldn't stop the sharpness of the Mo knife, and the Mo knife passed, the iron armor broke, and the corpses separated.

The battlefield was transformed into a one-sided slaughterhouse, with bodies cut off, heads chopped off, flesh tumbling, corpses piled up, and an extremely disgusting smell in the air.

Rao is Li Huaiguang's heroic and good fighting, but he can't stop the Modao infantry from killing like devils, killing them one after another, and the casualties are extremely heavy.

This battle has just started half an hour, Li Huaiguang's army can not hold on, as Guo Song expected, the first to rout is the new army of the militia in the east, they were farmers in the fields not long ago, ignorant to go to the battlefield, at first a little excited, but they saw the cruel and merciless killing, heard the screams before death, and saw their familiar friends pierced through the chest with spears in front of their eyes, and died in front of their eyes.

More and more militia soldiers collapsed, first in the southernmost hundreds, and soon in total collapse, as soldiers threw away their spears, stripped off their leather armor, and fled screaming for their lives.

Guo Song immediately ordered: "Ignore the rout and escape of the enemy army in the east, concentrate your forces to destroy the enemy's Chinese army!" ”

Most of the soldiers who fled on the east wing were militia groups, as long as they took off their armor, there was basically no threat, and in the end they would only flee back to their homes, and they could indeed ignore it, but the Chinese army, they were Li Huaiguang's hardcore henchmen, and the key to Li Huaiguang's revival after fleeing south, only by killing them all could Li Huaiguang's forces be completely destroyed.

The 15,000 cavalry of the Hexi Army surrounded the Chinese army from the south and east, while Modao slaughtered mercilessly from the north.

At this time, there was a great chaos on the battlefield, and the Jin army on the eastern flank completely broke and fled, which also triggered the shaking and rout of the army on the western flank, only the Chinese army was supported by death under the command of Li Huaiguang, but the more the war became fewer, and the casualties were more than half.

At this time, the deputy general Wang Wu shouted: "Lord Wang, if you continue to fight, the whole army will be annihilated, retreat!" ”

Li Huaiguang saw that the two wings had collapsed, and the Chinese army was only a little more than 2,000 people left, but the other party was becoming more and more courageous, and the defeat was already a game, he was so painful in his heart that he had to shout: "Pass my order, the whole army retreats to Zezhou!" ”

It is no longer possible to retreat to Shangdang County, the other party is cavalry, I am afraid that it is still more advanced than them, and they can only retreat to Zezhou.

Li Huaiguang took the lead with 2,000 Chinese troops to break away from the battlefield, rushed through a bloody road, and was defeated to the south, and his subordinates to the east were also completely defeated.

For a while, the army was defeated, and Guo Song ordered to blow the horn of pursuit.

'Woo-woo-'

The horn of the pursuit sounded, the morale of the Hexi army exploded, the whole line pursued and killed the enemy, where could the fleeing soldiers outrun the war horses, they were cornered, they knelt down and surrendered, no matter how strong the soldiers were at this moment, they also collapsed, just hoping to save their lives.

In this battle, the Hexi Army killed more than 4,000 enemies, captured more than 15,000 people, and escaped less than 3,000 people, of which less than 300 soldiers fled to Zezhou with Li Huaiguang, and most of the soldiers who escaped went home directly.

A group of prisoners of war were escorted in frustration, Guo Song stood on a high place and watched these prisoners of war, Yao Jin asked in a low voice, "The envoy intends to deal with them like this?" ”

Guo Song groaned and said: "All the militia soldiers can be released, each of them will be given a bucket of food, and I plan to order the other soldiers to open mines to atone for their crimes, and release them back to their hometowns after three years." ”

"These soldiers have good combat effectiveness, so you don't plan to use them?"

Guo Song shook his head, "Most of them have followed Li Huaiguang for many years, and they are more loyal to Li Huaiguang, and they are not easy to control, so let them mine iron ore." ”

"That's right, mining is a good way, is there an iron mine in Hedong?"

"Of course, there are a lot of iron mines in Hedong, and there are several in the north of Taiyuan Mansion, all of which are former official mines, and we have iron and fire mines, so it should be easier to mine."

Guo Song ordered the prisoners of war to be strictly guarded, and he led thousands of cavalry into Shangdang County, and the officials in Luzhou were almost gone, only Xue Shaoliang, the county leader of Shangdang County, led a few officials who stayed behind to meet Guo Song at the city gate.

Guo Song heard Xue Fan say that Shangdang County is a son of the Xue family, born in Jinshi, Xue Fan hopes to let Xue Shaoliang resign and return to Taiyuan, but Guo Song let him continue to stay in Shangdang County.

"Xue Shaoliang, the lowly Shangdang County and County Cheng, see Guo Yuanjun!"

Guo Song smiled and nodded, "I heard the head of the Xue family talk about you, and Xue Xiancheng didn't disappoint me, and he really stuck to the end." ”

"It is an honor to be able to serve Guo Zhijun."

Xue Shaoliang saluted again and introduced several other officials to Guo Song, "This is Han Bannong, the county chief, this is Zhou Hu Cao joining the army to engage in Zhang Yan, Cangcao joining the army to engage in Hao Xiaode, and there are only four of us left in the officials of Luzhou and Shangdang County." ”

"Why are there only four left?" Guo Song was a little puzzled.

Xue Shaoliang smiled bitterly and said: "They are all loyal to Li Huaiguang, and they are afraid of liquidating the king, so they ran away two days ago. ”

Guo Song nodded, "From now on, Xue Shaoliang will serve as the commander of Shangdang County and the governor of Luzhou, Han Bannong will serve as the governor of Shangdang County, and Zhang Yan and Hao Xiaode will serve as the captain and chief secretary of Shangdang County." ”

The four of them were overjoyed and bowed down together, "Thank you for your reuse!"

Zhang Yan and Hao Xiaode were so happy that they couldn't close their mouths, they just joined the army, they were just small officials, the two of them mustered up the courage to meet Guo Song, but they didn't expect to be promoted to officials all of a sudden.

Guo Song urged the horse to walk towards the city, and asked, "How many people are there in the county?" ”

Xue Shaoliang hurriedly said: "Envoy Qi, Shangdang County has a total population of 170,000, of which about 100,000 live in the county seat, and the others live outside the county seat. ”

"How much grain is left in the warehouse now?"

"The official warehouse of the prefecture and county only has 30,000 stone of grain, but the military warehouse has 300,000 stone of grain, 100,000 loads of forage, hundreds of thousands of taels of silver and a large amount of copper coins, and many other materials."

"Where is the military warehouse? You take me to see it. ”

As they walked, they said and quickly walked towards the county seat.

.........

Li Huaiguang was panicked like a lost dog, and led three hundred soldiers to flee to Gaoping County, Zezhou in one go, and had just sat down to rest in the county office, when one of his subordinates rushed to report, "Lord Wang, there is a Hexi cavalry chasing in the distance, and there are thousands of people. ”

Li Huaiguang stood up in shock, and chased after him, he said repeatedly: "Hurry up and go out from the south gate!" ”

At this time, a personal soldier offered a plan: "Just disguise yourself as a common man and hide in Gaoping County, let's go and the enemy will lead away." ”

This method was not bad, Li Huaiguang immediately adopted it, he changed into the clothes of a wealthy businessman, and hid in a house with two personal soldiers.

The 300 pro-soldiers continued to flee south on horseback, while Pei Xin led 5,000 cavalry and pursued closely behind.

The county magistrate of Gaoping County was called Zhan Chaogui, and he hurriedly hid Li Huaiguang in a big merchant's mansion, and sent away thousands of Hexi cavalry before returning to the mansion.

His staff, Wang En, whispered to him: "County Monarch, I heard that the Assassin Shi and Changshi of Zezhou have fled. ”

"They were all pulled by Li Huaiguang, and it's normal to escape."

"But the vacancy is there, isn't the county gentleman tempted?"

"What do you mean?" Zhan Chaogui glanced at him.

"Now the golden opportunity is in front of the county monarch, it depends on whether the county monarch can seize it."

Zhan Chaogui's heart moved, "You mean Li Huaiguang." ”

Wang En nodded, "There are only two people around him now!" If the county monarch can dedicate him to Guo Song, the position of the long history of Zezhou must be the county monarch. ”

Zhan Chaogui's heart was pounding, and the idea of making meritorious contributions and seeking rewards came to his heart irrepressibly.