The rumbling of thunder approached, not hurried, but heavy.

It's getting closer!

Wang Xianzhi shouted in a lost voice, "The cavalry of the Zhenguo Army, how could they appear behind us. ”

"Big brother, we were fooled, and the Zhenguo army outflanked us in a roundabout way. Quickly give the order to retreat, it will be too late! Shang Junchang's face was also pale, and he suddenly understood many things that he couldn't understand. The Zhenguo army is so famous that they are not afraid of them at all. They only sent such a small number of troops to fight them, just not wanting to scare them away. Li Jing is one of the most cunning hunters, or rather, they are actually the stupidest prey, so easily lured by Li Jing step by step, and finally fell into this huge trap. The cavalry of the Zhenguo Army appeared from behind, so he could already be sure that more soldiers and horses of the Zhenguo Army had circled behind them.

Li Jing is not afraid of them, this damn guy is ready to wipe them out!

"Retreat, retreat!" Wang Xianzhi felt dizzy, his eyes were dark, and he almost fell off his horse. Underestimate the enemy, careless. should have known the Tao a long time ago, since Li Jing could defeat Wang Jingwu and then defeat the Shatuo army, how could he confront it head-on. It's ridiculous that he thought Li Jing was afraid of him, it turned out that everything was just a trap.

As soon as the horn of the charge blew, the grass army immediately sounded the horn of retreat again, but the horn of retreat did not sound for a few times before it was silent, and he was drowned in a rain of arrows.

The cavalry units of the two armies, the Crane Control Army led by Li Juyi and the Silver Spear Xiaojie Army led by Lin Wu, have been killed, with a total of 5,000 cavalry and ten battalions of elite cavalry holding horse bows and crossbow bows. Gallop in. Rush forward. Overwhelming.

The trumpeter, like his warhorse, is almost completely encased in sharp arrows, and becomes a hedgehog.

Thunderous iron hooves struck the plains, splashing countless dust and mud debris.

On the south gate of Yucheng, Zhou Dewei saw the arrival of reinforcements and went straight into the grass army, and couldn't help but be excited and clenched his fists into the air.

"Marshal, reinforcements have arrived."

Li Jing smiled slightly: "The reinforcements have arrived, and the time to close the net has also arrived." Yang Five. Open the door and kill the out! ”

"Yes!" After getting the order to go out of the city to pursue, Zhou Dewei hurriedly retreated excitedly and rushed to the city gate. The soldiers and horses under the city had already known the news of the arrival of reinforcements, and when they heard the order to attack, they all shouted excitedly, and the city gate slowly opened, and the three thousand elite soldiers were divided into two ways to kill directly.

At this time, Liu Xun also immediately transferred 1,000 men and horses from the Xuanfeng army and followed him out of the east gate.

Li Jing stood on the tower of the city gate, knowing that Wang Xianzhi had been defeated, although there were many thieves. But it is supplemented by momentum. In the face of the pursuit of the elite cavalry of the Zhenguo army, they did not dare to turn back to fight at all. Wang Xianzhi fled directly. The morale of the grass thieves is gone. At this time, no matter how many people there are, they are just a group of rabble. Once the team disperses, it is more difficult to get together than to climb to the sky.

At the moment, I couldn't help laughing loudly, "It is advisable to chase the poor with the remaining bravery, and not to sell the name of the overlord!" ”

"Zhao Jiang, let's go back to Songzhou!" Li Jing, who was in a good mood, shouted directly at Zhao Jiang, this victory has been reached, Li Jing is ready to go back to Songzhou directly, and after a few soldiers and horses close the net, he will return to Dengzhou immediately.

As soon as Li Jing returned to Songzhou, he began to immediately make preparations to return to Dengzhou. Li Zhen, Guo Chengan and others, who stayed in Songzhou, were very excited when they heard the good news that they had successfully surrounded the grass thieves and were pulling the net.

When Zhang Rui, the assassin of Songzhou, heard the movement of the camp of the Zhenguo army, he thought that Li Jing was defeated in Yucheng and wanted to escape, so he was frightened and hurriedly ran to the barracks. When I heard Li Jing say that the Zhenguo Army had successfully surrounded the grass thieves and was encircling and destroying the grass thieves, I couldn't believe it at first. After he worked in the camp for a long time, in the afternoon, Lin Wu sent people back to report that the grass thieves had been completely defeated and were fleeing in all directions, and now the four soldiers and horses of the Zhenguo Army were gathering to annihilate the grass army.

"Tell the generals that they will resolutely eliminate the recalcitrant grass thieves, and that they will not kill innocents indiscriminately if they abandon their weapons and surrender. For those who are thieves, take them captive. As for the thieves, don't hurt them, and bring them back to Songzhou first. In addition, if the thieves escape the water, they are not to be pursued. After thinking about it, Li Jing gave a few military orders and asked the heralds to return to the battlefield.

In the afternoon, the good news came back one after another, and each one was more exciting than the other.

"Liu Hanhong, one of the ten commanders of the grass thieves, was surrounded by our army and has abandoned his weapons and led his troops to surrender!"

"The master of the Lin army led the cavalry of the Silver Spear Service Army to defeat the thief army in Meng Zhuze, beheading 3,000 and capturing more than 7,000!"

"Master Li led the crane cavalry to defeat the thief army on the west bank of Bianshui, beheaded 3,000 and captured more than 5,000!"

"Lord Wang led the Tielin Army to pursue the thief army all the way to Dangshan County, beheaded 3,000, captured 6,000, and recovered Dangshan County!"

"Wang Junzhu led the Japanese army to defeat the thief army on the bank of the Bianshui River, beheaded 3,000 and captured more than 10,000 prisoners!"

"Master Liu led the vanguard army to pursue the grass thieves along the way, killing more than 1,000 and capturing tens of thousands!"

One news after another came back, and all the soldiers and horses made great gains. More than 13,000 beheadings were reported, plus nearly 40,000 prisoners. In front of this bluffing good news, Zhang Rui's face turned red in shock, and he couldn't believe it.

However, Li Jing understands that these numbers actually have a lot of water. After all, the total number of thieves is only twenty or thirty thousand people, and tens of thousands have been annihilated these days, where are so many people now. These numbers of beheadings and captives are actually counted together with the grass thieves and auxiliary servants, and may even include the common people who are attached to the thieves. However, Li Jing didn't say anything, in fact, it was not a false report, after all, those who were thieves with weapons, whether they were thieves or auxiliary soldiers, were all grass thieves.

Because Li Jing ordered that he should not pursue Bianshui, after dark, the war was basically over, and all that remained was to clean up the battlefield, search for the thieves and rout, and gather the displaced people who were attached to the thieves and bring them back to Songzhou.

Such a great victory in the First World War, and the recovery of the two counties of Yucheng and Dangshan that had fallen in Songzhou, this result quickly spread in Songcheng. Hearing that the Zhenguo army defeated the thief army, beheaded more than 13,000 people and captured 40,000 prisoners, the people in Song City put up lanterns and burned firecrackers. The officials and wealthy merchants in the city, as well as all walks of life in the market, all drove sheep and pigs to deliver wine, and came to the camp of the town and the national army to reward and condole. During this time, the thief army came, and everyone was worried, but now that the thief army has been defeated, they have finally let go of their worries. Previously, the assassin asked everyone to donate money to the Zhenguo Army, and some people felt that they had spent a sum of money in vain. But now, everyone has taken their own initiatives, donated money one after another, and soon has scraped together a million yuan and sent it to the Zhenguo military camp to work for the army.

From the afternoon until dusk and sunset, the entire Zhenguo military camp did not stop making noise. Countless people came, not only those eunuchs and wealthy businessmen came to condole, but also ordinary people, some just sent a few eggs, some sent two pairs of cloth shoes, a ruler, dozens of dollars, a piece of bacon, and two fish. Although things are not valuable, this gratitude is very deep.

Being able to get such love from the people, in addition to this great victory relieving the worry of the grass thieves coming, it also has a lot to do with the fact that the Zhenguo Army has not committed any crimes with Minqiu since they arrived in Songzhou. I usually saw a lot of soldiers like wolves and tigers, but now I suddenly encountered such a benevolent and righteous army, and the people all praised it. Especially this army was originally a soldier from another town, but after they recruited 5,000 Songzhou children in Songzhou, everyone's relationship with the Zhenguo army couldn't help but be a little deeper.

On the morning of the next day, Xuanfeng was the first to return to Songzhou, with 5,000 Songzhou disciples when they set out, and when they returned, only 2,000 people remained. Countless people of Songzhou welcomed this group of soldiers back to the city outside the city, and Li Jing also personally brought the generals and Songzhou officials to greet them.

Some people are happy and some are worried, one casualty is sixty percent, this army is almost disabled, many relatives and parents of the children of the army came to greet them, but they found that their son had died in battle, and they could only get some relics and ashes of their son. But those families who saw their surviving sons also wept with joy. And the other people of Songzhou also greeted them in the middle of the road, and kept stuffing eggs, cloth shoes, sachets and other things into the hands of these triumphant soldiers.

This kind of scene made Zhang Rui and other Songzhou officials extremely moved, and even the Huzhen National Army was worthy of the word Zhenguo, and it was really the king's teacher.

After the selection of the vanguard army returned to the camp, Li Jing immediately gave them a three-day long vacation, before the holiday, each soldier was rewarded with 20 yuan, in addition to their military merits and first-class merits were also cashed out, and the other casualties were also heavily compensated. Regardless of whether they were killed or wounded in battle, or triumphant, each of them received an additional reward of twenty guan, which was sponsored by the big merchants of Song Prefecture, and Li Jing was not allowed to pay. However, the rewards and pensions issued by Li Jing are also quite generous.

At the same time as giving the Xuanfeng army a holiday, Li Jing also raised the banner of recruiting troops in front of the four city gates of Songzhou at the same time. Xuan Fengjun's good performance this time made Li Jing's idea of finally recruiting a group of Songzhou people as cannon fodder have already changed. Now this group of auxiliaries has become a separate army, and now Li Jing plans to recruit the 3,000 people who are short in Songzhou. As soon as the recruiting family was established, there was an endless stream of recruits, and there were long queues at various recruitment points. Although Li Jing had already said that after the Fengjun returned to Dengzhou, they would be stationed in Liaodong, but they could not stop their enthusiasm. The Zhenguo army has high salaries, good treatment, generous pensions, and abundant rewards, and it is even more rare that this is a king of excellent beer. This army is different from many other armies that the people of Songzhou have seen, especially the soldiers who survived this selection not only received rich rewards and pensions, but everyone was also promoted to at least one or two military ranks, and some people were even envious after being directly promoted from a soldier to an officer.

"Songzhou really deserves to be called the most loyal and brave place, and I believe that this army will soon become strong when it comes to Songzhou soldiers." Seeing the young men who signed up for the army enthusiastically in front of the recruitment point, Li Jing was full of smiles. (To be continued......)