In order to prevent the enemy from being trapped and fighting, the gap on the right flank of the terracotta gang was deliberately left by Lin Tie to break the fighting spirit of the enemy army and urge it to flee west.

Chen Zishou led the remnants of his troops to break through the gap in the right flank and fled westward, and the enemy at Chitugang collapsed.

However, the gap on the right flank is only forty or fifty zhang wide, and there are steep slopes on both sides, and the ramp is slippery after the rain.

Even though thousands of Yuanzhou soldiers escaped from the gap, they were followed by the Huaidong cavalry battalion, which had rested all night and was ready to go.

Lin Tie climbs the cliff on the left wing of the terracotta gang, overlooks the Yuan River in front of the mountain, the Yuan River is mighty, the Xinyu flow section, the width is more than 100 zhang, the waves are surging, the water potential is very turbulent, it is difficult to carry a piece of wood.

To the north of the Yuan River, the rout fled all over the mountains.

At this time, regardless of these routs, after completely defeating the enemy camp in the gorge, seeing that there was no organized resistance around the terracotta gang, Lin Jian immediately ordered Zhang Jiheng to gather his troops and horses, and in the fastest time, he would march west with the cavalry camp to defeat Yuan.

In Xinyu, Lin Lian ordered Feng Yan, Zhao Bao and other generals to lead only a brigade of foot soldiers and a battalion of elite cavalry to camp on the terracotta slope, in addition to monitoring the thousands of Yuan Zhou troops in Xinyu City, but also to ensure that the defeated soldiers could not be called to gather in Xinyu, and more than 2,000 wounded soldiers would be left behind and handed over to them to take care of.

War is a cruel machine, once it turns, it will not stop until the end, and it does not know how many people's flesh and blood will be filled in the middle to satisfy its belly - watching the shallow stream flowing out of the terracotta hill, the blood flowing into the red after the war, and the cold face of Lin Jian has become cold and merciless.

At this time, Zhao Bao led several horsemen to come, and an empty horse tied up an enemy general, but he was wearing the uniform of an ordinary general.

In the past few days, Zhao Bao has continued to fight, and he has been injured in many places, but he is not harmful, insists on leading the troops to fight, and does not go to the battlefield.

Seeing Zhao Baoxiong's entangled patting the horse, Lin Jian sat on the horse's back and asked with a smile: "Did you catch a big fish and come to invite merit?" ”

Zhao Bao smiled shyly, "I almost leaked his eyes to let him escape," dismounted and lifted up the enemy general who was bound, fell to Lin Tie, stepped on his back, and said, "He is the overseer of the soldiers and horses of Yuanzhou this time, Huang Dagongzi!" If it weren't for the people around him, we wouldn't have known that he escaped disguised as an ordinary soldier. It's a pity that he changed his military uniform, but he didn't bother to shave off his beard! Who doesn't know that Jiangzhou Huang Dagongzi has a beautiful beard? ”

"Oh," Lin Lian looked at Huang Lizhang who was stepping on the quagmire in the place, but Huang Lizhang was not in human shape at this time, and the beautiful hair on his chin didn't know if he would pull out most of it raw, and the flesh and blood were blurred, leaving only a handful of old views, although he asked someone to draw the portraits of Huang Binghao, Chen Zishou and others before the war, but Lin Lian couldn't recognize that the person in front of him was Huang Binghao's eldest son Huang Lizhang, and asked Zhao Bao, "Is there no mistake?" ”

"I've found several people to take a closer look, and it won't be wrong," Zhao Bao said, "Is it to send it to the leopard master immediately to urge Huang Binghao to surrender?" ”

"At the beginning, Huang Binghao's relatives coerced him to surrender in Jiangzhou," Lin Lian sighed, "We can't go to learn from Huang Binghao." dragged Huang Dagongzi to the front of the battle and cut it off, sent a fast horse to send the head to Zhou Pu, and told him to hang it with a high pole to go down to Yuan, Huang Binghao is stubborn or not, it doesn't matter anymore......"

"Great!" Without waiting for Zhao Bao to respond, the two colonels behind him excitedly stepped forward and escorted Huang Lizhang out.

Huang Binghao didn't know the times, and sent troops to Xinyu without authorization to start a war, and all the generals in the army were eager to punish this kind of greedy villain, who was willing to give the Huang family a chance to surrender?

A fishy smell came, and Huang Lizhang was so frightened that he was incontinent. Zhao Bao pinched his nose and scolded nonchalantly: "Huang Binghao is a little capable, but it's useless to give birth to a son......"

Zhao Bao and others escorted Huang Lizhang to the front of the battle to be executed, and Lin Jian asked Gao Zongting who was standing beside him with emotion: "If you can defeat Yuanzhou in one go, Tanzhou should also be restrained, right?" ”

Lin Jian ordered Huang Lizhang to be punished, and Gao Zongting stood on the side without saying a word, and said at this time: "There must always be some heads on the ground in order to deter Xiaoxiao." If it weren't for Huang Binghao's ignorance of current affairs and greed, this battle in front of him could have been completely avoided.

Killing Huang Lizhang naturally would not pardon Huang Binghao, nor did he expect Huang Binghao to surrender in Xia Yuan Xiancheng.

"Then kill a few more people," Lin Jian said, "You prepare a letter for me, speak tougher, and after Yuanzhou is over, send someone to Tanzhou to see what Zhang Han has to say!" ”

If it weren't for Zhang Han's deliberate connivance in Tanzhou, it would have been impossible for Huang Binghao to withdraw his troops from Luxi in the west - conniving at Huang Binghao's self-reliance in Yuanzhou and isolating Xiangtan from the area under Jiangning's direct control, Zhang Han would have been able to divide Xiangtan without any psychological burden.

Defeating Yuanzhou is enough to deter Tanzhou from daring to make any changes.

"Okay," Gao Zongting nodded in response, and asked again, "It has been four days since Chen Yan's troops set off from Ganzhou, and it is not far from Qingjiang County, did you let him come to Xinyu first?" ”

Lin Jian looked towards the remnants of Xinyu. Huang Binghao's general Zhang Xiongshan led more than 6,000 remnants of the army to retreat to Xinyu City, although it was too late to go out of the city to help respond to the terracotta gang, but he did not stop driving the people and soldiers in the city for a moment, and there was no intention of surrendering in the frame style, so that Chen Yan led his troops to Xinyu to go around it, and he could take down Xinyu City by the way.

"Okay," Lin Jian said, "then ask Chen Yan to lead his troops to Xinyu for a trip, ask Feng Yan to make more pre-war preparations, and ask someone to throw the text into the city, I only need Zhang Xiongshan's life, and the rest will be pardoned!" ”

At this time, Zhang Jiheng gathered more than 7,000 soldiers and horses, and the whole team was ready to go, and Lin Jian and Gao Zongting drove their horses over to rendezvous, and marched west to Yuanzhou with the army.

From Xinyu down the Yuan Road is narrow and dangerous, but Zhou Pu led the cavalry camp in front to chase the rout to open the way, and Lin Jian followed the main force of the foot soldiers to the west, except for the continuous sighting of the enemy corpses on the side of the lodging road and the mules and horses that were lost together, there were no other obstacles. It is that there are a large number of rout soldiers and escapees between Xia Yuan and Xinyu, and these rout soldiers are eager to flee to a foreign land at this time, how dare they move forward without knowing whether they are alive or dead.

Before dark, when the army was about to stop and camp at the southern foot of Qiyun Peak, Zhou Pu sent back good news in front.

Zhou Pu led the cavalry battalion to chase the enemy and rushed to the lower Yuan City, Wu Jingze, with the cooperation of Zhou Zhizheng, led the Zhou clan soldiers to cooperate with the tacit understanding to seize the east gate of the lower Yuan City, and welcomed Zhou Pu to lead the cavalry battalion directly into the lower Yuan City.

The rout of the terracotta gang spread to Xia Yuan City, and although Huang Binghao still had 5,000 soldiers and horses in Xia Yuan City, his morale had already collapsed. In addition to the more than 600 guards around Huang Binghao, the other soldiers and horses collapsed the moment the Huaidong cavalry battalion entered the city. The escape of the four or five thousand garrisons of Xia Yuan, and the surrender of surrender, asked Zhou Pu to occupy Xia Yuan City without much effort.

Because Wu Jingze and Zhou Zhizheng opened the east gate at a very good time, Huang Binghao did not have time to flee out of the city and west, after Zhou Pu led his troops into the city, Huang Binghao could only lead his guards to retreat to the Yuan City Ya, and the Huaidong generals besieged him inside.

Most of Huang Binghao's last remaining troops were also defeated, including Huang Binghao himself, who was besieged in the lower Yuan Cheng Yali, and in Yuanzhou and Luxi in the west, there were less than 4,000 defenders left, and the will to resist would not be particularly firm.

Lin Tie will not pardon Huang Binghao, but other Jiangzhou officials and generals who have been coerced and surrendered, Lin Tie will not kill them all, so he will naturally surrender and pardon them. The way of military and political affairs has always been to kill and appease, in addition to suppressing and deterring, but also to win the hearts of the people.

At that moment, Lin Jian asked Zhang Jiheng to lead his troops to stop at Qiyun Peak to rest, and he and Gao Zongting went to Xia Yuan and Zhou Pu first under the support of hundreds of horsemen.

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Lin Jian and Gao Zongting rushed to Xia Yuancheng at dawn, and at this time, the siege of Yuancheng was also to the end.

Huang Binghao's line in Xia Yuan, which was originally a county government, covers an area of only a dozen acres, the front and back houses plus the official houses where officials live daily, three groups of three courtyards, how big can they be? Huang Binghao led more than 600 personal guards to retreat, fought very tenaciously, and refused to surrender, Zhou Pu led his troops to surround the city and the government, and of course there would be casualties if he attacked rashly.

After Zhou Pu entered the night, he ordered his soldiers to collect firewood and grass from the city and load them on the wagon, and follow the direction of the wind, tear down the wall from the small garden north of the county government, and ignite the firewood and grass on the cart to attack inside.

Soon, the fire in the Yali of Xia Yuan City became a momentum, and the defenders inside could only escape from the south gate, calling the bow and crossbow array guarding outside the south gate to snipe, and the last bit of resistance of the Yuan Zhou army quickly disappeared.

When Lin Jian entered the city, the Huaidong army caught Huang Binghao, who was half-cooked and had a life left in the corner of the city office.

After Lin Lian and Gao Zongting dismounted, regardless of the fatigue of the overnight journey, he hurriedly washed his face, and asked Zhou Pu to escort Huang Binghao up, and sent people to invite Zhou Zhizheng, Wu Jingze and others.

Huang Binghao was embarrassed, half of his robe was burned, revealing a fluffy thigh, his beard and hair were also burned, and his face was charred and black, as if there was a smell of flesh, but he tried to stand up straight, wanting to maintain his last dignity.

Lin Jian walked into the hall, looked at Huang Binghao like this, and looked at Zhou Pu inquiringly, confirming that there was no mistake in person.

Zhou Pu spread his hands and said in an urn voice: "Then wait for Zhou Zhizheng to come over and confirm." ”

"If you want to kill or chop, listen to me, don't humiliate me again, if you want to treat the Northern Yan army, you will also die without a place to be buried!" Huang Binghao didn't want to lose his ambition before he died, so he still wanted to say a few hard words.

"......" Lin Lian smiled coldly and said, "I think you also have a chance to become a famous minister, I would have regretted that you made a wrong step, but you are really as stupid as a mouse and stupid as a pig, and you are to blame for today's fate." You are not as defeated as a dog at this time, you can't be conscious before you die, and you still think that Yan Yu can win? Do you say you were unjustly defeated? I'm afraid that you will be a wronged ghost, I will tell you now, don't be in a hurry to leave after you go down to the Yellow Spring, and wait to see how many captives will come down to accompany you! ”

At this time, Wu Jingze accompanied Zhou Zhizheng in, and Huang Binghao hated Zhou Zhi who betrayed him at the key head.

Zhou Zhizheng was somewhat weak-hearted, bypassed Huang Binghao, who was half-disabled, walked to Lin Lian, knelt down and kowtowed: "The criminal Zhou Zhizheng feels that he is guilty, and today he came to ask Chongguo to punish ......."

"Zhou Gong was coerced to follow Huang Binghao to reduce luxury, although there are flaws, but it is not a crime, and today he can redeem his merits, which shows that Zhou Gong's heart is clear and worthy of heaven and earth," Lin Jian helped Zhou Zhizheng up, comforted him and said, "There are due punishments, and meritorious deeds should be rewarded." punished and punished Zhou Gongquan to know the prefect of Yuanzhou to serve the people of Yuanzhou and make up for the pain caused by the war to Yuanzhou; Reward merit, reward you and go to the prison to behead Huang Binghao after dawn......"

Hearing Lin Jian tell Zhou Zhizheng to behead himself, Huang Binghao rose up with the last remaining strength to strangle Zhou Zhizheng's neck, but asked the guard next to him to take a scabbard and hit him on the knee and roll down in front of the hall.

Looking at Huang Binghao, who was not as good as a dog after the defeat, Zhou Zhizheng's heart hardened, he couldn't let Huang Binghao not die, and immediately responded: "Zhizheng obeys orders." ”