In the evening, the army led by Guo Mian and Guo Kun arrived outside the west gate of Changheng County. Lin Jue had already sent someone to inform Guo Kun of the news of the recovery of Changheng County, so the army did not have any delay, and under the greeting of Lin Jue and He Anmin, they drove into the city.

When the soldiers were busy settling down and camping, Lin Jue and He Anmin led Guo Mian, Guo Kun and others to a house that was temporarily cleaned up in the afternoon. This house is one of the few intact houses in Changheng County at present, so it was cleaned up to settle Guo Mian and used as a place for the meeting of soldiers and horses.

Guo Mian was tired enough, shouting that he was tired and sleepy, and when he entered the house, he didn't have time to ask about the situation in Changheng County, so he was anxious to ask someone to boil water to bathe him, saying that his bones were sore all over his body, and he urgently needed to soak in it to relax. He Anmin stared at him speechlessly for a long time, and his enthusiasm suddenly disappeared. Lin Jue and Guo Kun are commonplace, and it is not surprising that Guo Mian is this virtue. So he comforted He Anmin a few words and asked him to go back to rest first, and then come back to see him.

Guo Kun has been looking solemn since he entered the city, and after Guo Mian bathed and He Anmin said goodbye and left, he took a look out of the house and came to the porch outside. Lin Jue didn't know why, so he hurriedly followed.

"Brother, you've been tired all the way, and it's better for you to rest early. There is still a house from here, which is still intact. Tonight you will stay there for the night. Lin Jue said with a smile.

Guo Kun stood under the porch with his hands in his hands, his eyes looked at the birds returning to their nests in the sky at sunset, and said in a deep voice: "That's not busy, I have to tell you something." ”

Lin Jue saw that his expression was different, and hurriedly asked, "What's the matter?" Brother Dan said. ”

"On the way before coming, the guards I sent to inquire about the results of the battle in Ying Tianfu came back and brought back the latest news of Guo Xu's attack on Ying Tianfu. Do you want to know? Guo Kun said in a deep voice.

Lin Jue was pleasantly surprised: "Of course I want to know." The result? Did you take it? ”

Guo Kun said quietly: "In the early morning of the day before yesterday, Guo Xu broke through Ying Tianfu and took the city. It took four days and four nights. ”

Lin Jue sighed and smiled: "It took a little longer than I thought, but I still won it after all." That's good news. As soon as Tianfu is broken, the general trend of Qingjiao has gone, and it has become a failure. Whether it is for the court or the people, this Qingjiao rebellion has been quelled. ”

Guo Kun frowned and said, "It looks like you're very happy." ”

Lin Jue said with a smile: "It's a happy event, is it good that the world is in chaos?" The Qingjiao disaster to the country and the people is a cancer in the world, and it will be eradicated as soon as possible and peaceful as soon as possible. ”

Guo Kun snorted and said, "I hope it can be peaceful." It's a pity that there is hardly a time of peace in this world. ”

Lin Jue didn't want to discuss too many such topics with Guo Kun, Guo Kun had no courage, he wanted to make a big mess in the world but didn't dare to do anything, it was actually pointless to talk to him about some sensitive topics, and at the moment Lin Jue was most concerned about another thing.

"Ying Tiancheng has been conquered, but I don't know how many bandits have been annihilated, Hai Dongqing should have been caught. Whether he lives or dies, this man is caught, and he goes to a great scourge. He let him escape on the island, and a few years later he made such a big deal again, this man is ......"

"Hai Dongqing ran away." Guo Kun ruthlessly interrupted Lin Jue's chatter, and said in a deep voice: "Before the city was broken, Hai Dongqing fled from the north gate of Yingtian with the main force of eight thousand bandits. It is not yet known where it has landed. ”

"What? Ran away? Can this run too? Lin Jue asked in astonishment.

"You ask me, who do I ask? My people only know the results, but the specific things are difficult to understand. I only know that this time Guo Xu suffered a big loss in Yingtianfu. More than half of the 50,000 soldiers and horses were killed and wounded, and more than 7,000 soldiers and horses were killed and more than 10,000 wounded. Although more than 30,000 people were killed or wounded by the bandits who defended the city and the people who assisted the bandits in defending the city, as the elite forbidden army of the imperial court, the 50,000-strong army attacked a group of rabble and ended up with such a result, I am afraid that even he himself could not say it. Compared to us, they are far behind. Guo Kun sneered.

Lin Jue didn't listen carefully to what Guo Kun said about the battle loss ratio between the two sides, these are actually meaningless. For Guo Xu, capturing Ying Tianfu is a victory. The significance of capturing Yingtian is much more important than simply calculating the number of dead and wounded and battle losses, because after Yingtianfu is captured, it will be a turning point in the entire counterinsurgency war. It's just that Guo Xu actually let Hai Dongqing run away in this situation, which is really incredible.

"Didn't Guo Xu send troops to chase him? The leader of the bandits fled, and the aftermath was endless. It is impossible for Guo Xu not to know this. Lin Jue frowned and groaned.

"Chasing, it's ridiculous, he may have been scared, sent cavalry to chase for more than ten miles, and didn't dare to chase anymore before he reached Xiaoyang Mountain. He feared an ambush. This is really a snake bite, ten years afraid of the well rope. Guo Xu is weak in attacking the city, and he has let go of this opportunity to pursue, which is really ridiculous. Guo Kun sneered.

Lin Jue frowned and fell into deep contemplation. Hai Dongqing's escape was definitely a failure, Guo Xu actually let Hai Dongqing run away with 8,000 people in this situation, which is incredible. Hai Dongqing's escape, the significance of Ying Tianfu's capture was greatly reduced, and this was also what Lin Jue was most worried about.

Hai Dongqing is the leader of the Qing Sect and the spiritual leader of the ignorant and demagogic people, and in order to quell this turmoil, Hai Dongqing must be captured. To live is to see people, and to die is to see corpses. As long as he lives, the Qingjiao members will continue to be used by him, and the war will not be quelled. He fled, and he also took 8,000 sect members with him, and he was in the area controlled by the Qing Sect, so he didn't know how to pull up a large team of sect bandits soon. The counterinsurgency will be in a stalemate again. If Guo Xu understood this, he should take action immediately, immediately lead the army to attack, and not give Hai Dongqing a chance to breathe. But I don't know if Guo Xu realized this.

In fact, Lin Jue was most worried about another outcome. This was the main reason why he decided to stay in the army. If Guo Xu can't chase after him in time and force the remnants of the bandits, then the situation will become very complicated.

A simple deduction can be known that Hai Dongqing is impossible to sit still, if he has a chance to breathe, he will definitely choose to break through, because of the current situation, although most of the territory of Jingdong West Road is still in his hands, but the Qingjiao is not able to hold it at all. The only Yingtian that can be defended has been broken, let alone other cities.

In this case, Haidong Youth Club chose to break through. It is impossible to go north, and hundreds of thousands of troops are sitting in the northern border towns, and he will not send them to death. It is also impossible to go south. Ying Tianfu has been recovered by the forbidden army, and there are still a large number of Guo Xu's forbidden army, and it is impossible for Hai Dongqing to turn back and die. To the east was the sea, and he didn't want to be forced to die. Then he can only have one way to go, and that is to break through to the west. Just like the purpose of his previous order to Meng Xiang to attack Yangwu, it was to break through the encirclement to the vast land in the northwest, so that the sea and the sky could be widened.

At present, there is only one soldier and horse of more than 9,000 people in the west, and judging from the strength and situation of the imperial court in the southeast, northwest and northwest, the west is the weakest breakthrough and the passage to escape, so it is not difficult to imagine that if Hai Dongqing has a little brain, he will choose to attack west. At that time, the trouble that should have been solved by Guo Xu was instead dealt with by the soldiers and horses led by Guo Mian and Guo Kun.

Hai Dongqing showed the strength of the bandits in the battle of Yingtianfu, and the bandits around him must be incomparable to the rabble led by Meng Xiang before. If he also came with tens of thousands of bandits, his eight or nine thousand soldiers and horses might not be able to withstand it. As long as Guo Xu sends troops to come, the two armies will attack from east to west, which is also an opportunity to completely exterminate the Qingjiao bandits. I'm afraid that if Guo Xu has other scheming, then things will become worrying.

Lin Jue is no longer a simple person, he thinks that the problem has long been difficult and complicated, and he no longer treats people with kindness. Especially after experiencing many things in this life, Lin Jue is even more easily unwilling to consider problems from a good perspective. And the current situation is precisely the one that requires the most caution.

If Guo Xu and Guo Mian had no conflict of interests, and no coveting and competition for the supreme position in the future, Lin Jue might not think much about it. But now, Lin Jue couldn't afford to think about it one more step. Since Guo Xu has fallen behind in the matter of counterinsurgency, will he make some unusual moves? Lin Jue didn't dare to think too much, but he couldn't help it. The evil of human nature will never have a bottom line, let alone in the struggle for the highest interests, there will be many dark things that you don't expect at all. If you don't anticipate this, you don't know how you'll die in the future.

Seeing Lin Jue frowning and silent, his expression was very serious, Guo Kun faintly sensed a trace of uneasiness in his heart. The current Guo Kun's perception of Lin Jue is already very different from before, he has completely understood the gap between himself and Lin Jue, and he will no longer despise and ignore every opinion of Lin Jue. Nominally, Lin Jue hugged his thigh, but in fact, he had to hug his brother-in-law's thigh tightly.

"Lin Jue, what are you thinking? Don't you think there's something wrong? Let's take the lead in countering the rebels on the North Road, even if Guo Xu breaks Ying Tianfu, it will be after us, we are still the first to take the lead, don't worry. Guo Kun said in a low voice.

Lin Jue looked at Guo Kun with a wry smile, and he suddenly understood why the Great Zhou Dynasty had come to this point. The descendants of the Guo family did not put the interests of the country first, but put their own selfish interests first. did not rejoice in the recovery of Tianfu, but weighed the pros and cons. It's ridiculous to think that you think the same way you think about others. If the descendants of the Guo family have this kind of idea in their hearts that they only disregard the overall situation for their own selfishness, then their worries are not superfluous, and Guo Xu did not pursue Hai Dongqing, I am afraid that there is another purpose.

"Uncle, the premise of fighting for merit is that the counterinsurgency is successful, otherwise where can the credit be contested? King Huai's capture of Yingtianfu is a major event, and the success of this battle has been decided. We should all be happy. This means that the overall situation of counterinsurgency has been decided, and the end of the bandits is coming. Uncle, acting depends on the overall situation. Lin Jue said lightly.