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A loud bang sounded from the city gate, and the rebels who wanted to enter Jinling City didn't know what was going on, so they were horrified to find a huge stone lion taller than a person flying diagonally towards them.

Even a war horse stopped in front of it, and it was knocked out in an instant.

The stone lion flew a dozen feet away before it came to a stop, and then ran out of strength and fell into the moat outside the city.

At the same time, more than a dozen thieves were knocked out of the way.

But under the city gate, there was a wailing and screaming, the ground was blurred with flesh and blood, and I don't know how many thieves were killed by this boulder.

"What's going on, what's going on?"

"Quick, rush into the city and take the walls. ”

"What are you doing there, and you don't continue to attack. ”

Seeing this, the leader of the thief army behind him was shocked, but he still desperately urged the battle, not wanting his men to stop attacking.

At the moment, it is still on the battlefield, and the cavalry of the imperial court behind him has been killed, and if Jinling City is not captured, the situation will become quite dangerous.

The big and small leaders supervised the battle one after another, which also had some effect, and the thieves behind didn't know what was happening in front of them, and still shouted and rushed over with weapons.

"Whew~!"

The sound of a howling wind sounded again.

Before these rebels could rush into the city gate, they saw a stone lion fly out of it again, and once again smashed the thieves who had just gathered together and rushed across the drawbridge, and one of them turned on his back, and his flesh and blood were blurred.

"With me Wu Xiang here, who dares to take the city?"

Wu Xiang roared angrily, he took off a fine iron rod from his back, strode over, and knocked it down at the surviving thieves nearby.

The iron rod with the mouth of the bowl as thick and all made of stainless steel weighs at least a few hundred catties, and even a martial arts master like Li Xiuyuan would not dare to take a stick, let alone this ordinary thief.

When a stick was struck, the thief either had a blossoming head or a shriveled body, and died without even shouting a scream.

And the thieves who were smashed on the opposite side and turned over on their backs were stunned for a moment when they saw Wu Xiang walking out with an iron rod.

Not to mention the level of martial arts, just that iron rod can make people feel frightened.

The iron rod, which ordinary people couldn't hold, waved like a straw in his hand.

"Wu Xiang, leave those thieves alone, close the city gate, smash the drawbridge, and prevent the thieves from taking the city. Li Xiuyuan saw that Wu Xiang had stopped these rebels with his own strength, and he hurriedly shouted in surprise.

"Is it Eungong?"

Wu Xiangleng paused, patrolled and looked, but saw that Li Xiuyuan was attacking with cavalry not far away, and was rushing in the direction of the rebels.

"Don't worry, I'll close the city gates. Wu Xiang replied loudly.

After saying that, he stood on the iron rod on the ground, stretched out his hand and grabbed it, and with two loud bangs, the heavy city gate was closed in an instant, and then he strode over, repelling hundreds of thieves, and then easily destroyed the drawbridge and sank into the moat.

Without the drawbridge, the rebels' ambition to take the city was completely destroyed.

"Good. ”

Seeing this scene, Li Xiuyuan couldn't help but shout, and then he led the cavalry to break the rebel army's formation in an instant, and at the same time blocked the rebel's retreat.

"Boom~!"

Thousands of cavalry were still wreaking havoc on the battlefield, and the thieves besieging the city on all sides were now gone, just rushing to escape.

But Li Xiuyuan did not stop there, but ordered several commanders to lead cavalry to capture the rebels on the battlefield, force them to surrender, and reduce the power of the rebels.

Now.

Far away from the battlefield in the rebel barracks.

The banner of the King of the Nine Mountains is hoisted here.

Under the banner of Shuai, Li Liangjin panicked for a while when he saw the countless deserters in front of him rushing to leave Jinling City and run here.

"What's the matter, how can you be defeated in a good way, aren't you going to capture Jinling City?" Li Liangjin looked up and muttered to himself.

Although the four leaders did not listen to his orders to attack the city without permission when they were in the tent, they were angry, but he still hoped to be able to take Jinling City, after all, his Hou Mansion was in Jinling City, if he could take it, it could be regarded as being able to wash away the previous shame, and his name as the King of Nine Mountains would be well deserved.

I never thought that the situation was so good that the war situation would suddenly take a sharp turn for the worse.

"Lord, it's the cavalry of the imperial court who came, you see, there are nearly 10,000 gold armor iron cavalry, well-equipped, extraordinary combat power, and the right people did not guard against reinforcements when attacking the city, so that the cavalry was killed from the flanks, and the horses were destroyed along the way, and the men and horses of the leader of Shihu were defeated and retreated at the first time, and the cavalry killed among the members of the White Lotus Sect, and those disciples also fled in despair, although they could not see the situation of Chen Gongzi and Wang Ze's leader, but the cavalry turned around from south to north, but I am afraid that it is also more auspicious. ”

Nanshan Weng next to him spoke, but his eyes were not panicked, but with a little smile.

The rebels are marching all the way, which is not what he wants to see, what he wants to see most is that the rebels are about to collapse suddenly.

In this way, Li Liangjin is not far from death.

Li Liangjin saw that there were more and more defeated people, and he asked in a panic: "What should the military advisor do now?"

Nanshan Weng said: "Jinling City can no longer be taken, the lord should have made a plan to retreat first with his men and horses for the time being, there are not many cavalry in the imperial court, and it should be unable to continue to pursue." ”

"Yes, what the military advisor said is, quickly, get out of here, leave quickly. ”

Li Liangjin said in a panic that he didn't care about any preparations, so he rode a horse and gathered his cronies to flee and leave here.

Because they fled in a hurry, they lost all their military supplies, money and food, and many rebels who stayed in the camp were even abandoned, and they didn't even know that their commander had slipped away.

Since then, the rebel soldiers and horses of more than 100,000 people were defeated in this battle in an instant, and there are many reasons for this defeat, there are major leaders who are unwilling to contribute, and there are also rebels who lack weapons and ordnance, and most of them are rogues who are coerced in, and their combat effectiveness is not strong, and Li Xiuyuan's cavalry killed too fiercely, and no one resisted for a while, so it led to such a result.

No matter what, the rout of more than 100,000 rebels outside Jinling City is an ironclad fact.

"The general ordered that those who surrendered on their knees would not be killed, and those who dared to flee would be killed. On the battlefield, the cavalry rushed and attacked, and a new military order echoed outside Jinling City.

Li Xiuyuan felt that there were too many rebels, even the 8,000 cavalry brought by 100,000 pigs himself had to kill more than a dozen of them alone, let alone these hundreds of thousands.

Now that the outcome is clear, the rebels have fled, scattered, and now the cavalry can surrender.

It wasn't until dusk that all the fighting subsided.

Li Xiuyuan rode a dragon horse, wearing bloody armor, holding a gun without a spear head, and slowly paced on the battlefield with dozens of cavalry.

Corpses were strewn all over the field, rivers of blood flowed, and a pungent smell of blood filled the air.

The seated dragon foal seemed to be adapting to the situation, constantly snorting and expressing his dissatisfaction.

"Report, General, all the rebels who have surrendered have been escorted to the rebel barracks to guard them. A cavalryman galloped forward and gave his hand to report.

Li Xiuyuan replied: "Leave a thousand people watching, be careful, beware of chaos,"

"Report, General, all the four walls have been taken over, and the defenders have not stopped them. Then another horseman came to give a message.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Very good, control the yamen, as well as the civil and military officials in the city, starting today, Jinling City will be taken over by me, and if you continue to hand it over to these corrupt officials, no matter how good the city is, you can't keep it." ”

"Report, general, one of the four leaders of the rebels, the Maitreya Sect King, died on the battlefield, and it was not our people who killed the king, I heard Han Meng say that he was a friend of the general. ”

Li Xiuyuan continued: "Oh, the king of the Maitreya Sect is dead? It seems that my previous plan to divide the army had some effect, at least one rebel leader was intercepted and killed, but it doesn't matter who killed him, now is not the time to reward meritorious deeds." Go and explore again to see if that Chen Gongzi is dead, Hua Gu and Shi Hu of the White Lotus Sect must have escaped, so you don't have to waste time to track it down. ”

"Yes, General. ”

One order after another came out of his mouth, and at this moment, any word of Li Xiuyuan could affect the life and death of countless people inside and outside Jinling City.

Who would have thought that Li Xiuyuan before was just an unpopular talent.

"Go back to the city and rest before dark, and we'll talk about cleaning up the battlefield tomorrow. Li Xiuyuan said again.

He looked at the sunset in the distance.

Although the mountain has not yet set, there is a slight chill coming.

With so many people dying at night, I was afraid that something evil would happen again, so I had to quickly let the Yin soldiers and ghosts send out to take away the souls of the dead, so as not to affect the nearby people.

"Enter the city to repair~!"

When the battle was over, he gave one last order.

The cavalry scattered on the battlefield began to gather together and walked into Jinling City one after another.

However, when Li Xiuyuan rode the dragon horse all the way, he found that in addition to the corpses of the rebels, he also saw the corpses of some ordinary people.

He saw a young man holding a young girl lying in the muddy water, his body trampled by the army, and his body was full of arrows.

I also saw a rather young-looking lady just holding her own child, the flesh and blood were blurred, and the baby in the swaddling clothes had also been dead for a long time, and it was dark blue.

I also saw the corpses of hundreds of people piled up under the city gate, and above the city gate, there were many bloody wounds that had been scratched out by blood.

It seems that before dying, they want to open the city gates.

"The rebels are not attacking the city for a while, they have already attacked Jinling City three times, why are there still corpses of civilians outside the city?" Li Xiuyuan was silent for a long time and asked in a cold voice.

"My subordinates are going to ask about it. One of the horsemen answered the call and immediately rushed into the city.

After a while, the cavalry came back, and he said: "General Hui, these people went out of the city to pick up weapons and military supplies before, and they were refugees in the city. ”

"Lord Yang, which Lord Yang?" Li Xiu said from afar.

"It's that Yang envoy from the capital. ”

Li Xiuyuan nodded and said: "I know him, he was the one who went out of the city and surrendered before, very good, is this person still in the city?"

"He has been imprisoned as a rebel in a rebel camp outside the city. "Cavalry Road.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Take this Yang envoy into the city, and by the way, all the civil and military officials who went out of the city and surrendered before will be brought...... I'm going to kill them myself. ”

The cavalry paused for a moment, and immediately clenched his fists and said, "Yes, general." ”

Immediately, a group of men and horses left the main force and ran in the direction of the rebel barracks.

"Dismount when you enter the city. Li Xiuyuan said again: "Everyone first go to the Hou Mansion in the city to rest, Li Liangjin rebelled, and his mansion General Ben took over, let you rest for the time being, go back to celebrate your achievements, and then raise your spirits first." ”

There are many big houses in the Hou Mansion, don't say that these thousands of people and horses are enough to fit another 10,000 or 20,000 horses.

Moreover, the Hou Mansion was only sealed, and the house was not raided, so it was much more comfortable to live in than a military tent.

After a day's battle, these people under his hands also worked hard, and he would not be stingy.

"Thank you, General. The people behind him were in high spirits and shouted in unison.

"Are the refugees under the walls? Li Xiuyuan suddenly pointed to the refugee road under the city wall.

These refugees were in rags, shivering and huddled under the city walls, blue and purple from the cold, and there were some unattended children, where the children were crying and calling for their parents and grandfathers.

"General, general, these are the refugees who poured into Jinling City nearby, and the small ones are the scribes in the city, who are responsible for managing these refugees. ”

When a small official saw the army coming in, he hurriedly greeted him, knelt down in front of Li Xiuyuan, his head stuck to the ground, and his whole body trembled.

"Stand up, if I kill you, it is useless for you to kneel, and if I don't kill you, you don't need to kneel. Li Xiuyuan shouted.

"Yes, General. The little official's face was pale, and he stood up tremblingly, not daring to look at Li Xiuyuan.

Li Xiuyuan said: "Since you are a refugee, why don't you take care of one or two, but let the refugees fend for themselves here?"

"This, this matter is in charge of the adults, and the small and small ones are not very clear. The little official replied cautiously.

"Give you an errand, do a good job, there is no reward, but you can live, if you don't do it well, I will send someone to take off your head. Li Xiu said from afar.

"Command, General. The little official was frightened and knelt down again.

Li Xiuyuan said: "There is an official residence in Jinling City, and all the mansions of those civil and military officials who went out of the city before were taken out to settle refugees, who dares to stop it, will be killed." With that, he looked at the group of defenders on the side of the road.

"You defenders come over, follow this little official to resettle the refugees, food and clothing must also be prepared, and the money will be taken from the houses of their respective civil and military officials. ”

"Yes, General. ”

The dozen or so defenders were overjoyed when they heard this, and hurriedly responded with their fists clenched.

It's so easy, how can it not be done.

Many of the refugees nearby heard Li Xiuyuan's arrangement, and they all raised their heads to look at Li Xiuyuan, with a look of hope in their eyes.

This is the hope of survival.

He didn't look the refugees in their eyes because he was ashamed.

I just poured a spoonful of water on a pile of weeds when they were about to die.

It's nothing at all.