Li Yiyin was on the run, Zhang Zhao had a loyal minister like Qiongre Duojin who took his own life, and so did Li Yiyin.
The third brother Li Yimin put on Li Yiyin's Mingguang Armor and led five hundred Hengshan Buzi to hold on, while Li Yiyin turned around and ran away under the protection of more than a hundred light cavalry.
Of course, the biggest reason why Li Yiyin was able to escape was that the duel between the light cavalry of the Dingnan Army and the Guiyi Army had already decided the winner.
Zhang Zhao's two Uighur Yicon battalions were both defeated, and a Dangxiang light cavalry battalion in Yingyang Town also lost nearly half.
If Zhang Zhao's own Basimi light cavalry had not been very effective, the Guiyi army would have suffered a big loss in this light cavalry showdown.
The time that I, King Zhang, guarded Longyou in Hexi Province was still too short. It only lasted two years.
He can arm the most important heavy infantry, light armored cavalry and armored cavalry with his great righteousness and golden fingers.
But against the larger number of unarmored, lightly armored archers and rangers, they are still somewhat powerless.
In the first year of Zhonghe, that is, when Huang Chao broke into Chang'an in 881 AD, the leader of the Li family of Dingnan Army, Tuoba Sigong, led his army south to King Qin and was named General Zuowuwei. Quanzhi Yinxia was entrenched in the northwest since the Jiedu incident.
great warlord.
For more than sixty years, the Pingxia Division has been running the four prefectures of Yinxia, Yousui, and Yinxia. Although they do not have many armors due to economic conditions, the Dangxiang light cavalry under them is not comparable to that of a "nouveau riche" like Zhang Zhao.
Of course, this does not mean that Li Yiyin got any advantage. In fact, the commander-in-chief of the Difficult Army wished he could wipe his neck right now.
The entire 40,000-strong army was wiped out in three and a half hours.
What can be basically confirmed now is that General Tuoba Chongde died in the battle, his son Li Guangrui, his brothers Li Yicheng and Li Yijie died in the battle, and Li Yimin in the rear was probably also finished.
The two thousand light armored cavalry controlled by the Dingnan Army Yamen were almost completely wiped out. The most precious six hundred chain horses also basically disappeared, and the Hengshan Buzi were also gone.
Except for the light cavalry from all over the mountains and plains who were protecting him and running away in panic, the Dingnan army was completely defeated.
Sixty years, no! In the two hundred years since the Pingxia tribe moved eastward, all their family assets have been basically gone.
With flying rocks flying all over the sky and falling like meteors, Hengshan Bubazi's fighting power is really strong.
Of course, Zhang Zhao didn't want them to harm Erlang's life because they were still fighting against the trapped beasts, so he took action with the Shenji Battalion Cyclone Cannon that he had been reluctant to use.
After five rounds of continuous fire, the headquarters of the Dingnan Army, which contained hundreds of Hengshan infantrymen and thousands of Dangxiang infantrymen, was captured.
Amid the cheers, a medium-sized fat man wearing Mingguang armor was dragged over like a dead dog.
Zhang Zhao came over with Guduo in hand. Zhao Jinfang came to see Zhang Zhao just now. Qiongre Duojin suffered severe head injuries and excessive blood loss. He could only try his best to treat her. Whether he could survive or not depended on his fate.
"Is this thief Li Yiyin?" Zhang Zhao pointed at the medium-sized fat man who was dragged over and asked a general of the Dengdu Army who was kneeling on the ground beside him.
"Tibetan thief! You attacked and killed the imperial commander without authorization, and the emperor will not spare you!" This general was quite tough.
"Fuck you!" Zhang Zhao blurted out a curse in Mandarin, then raised his bones with both hands, aimed at the general's head, and hammered him hard.
Red, white, and pink colors burst out all over the ground. The general twitched violently, and then lost his voice.
"Is this thief Li Yiyin?" Zhang Zhao pulled over another young general from the Danger Army.
The young general looked young, only twenty-two or three. His lips trembled twice, as if he wanted to speak, but he felt a little unable to speak.
Zhang Zhao didn't give him this chance! He raised the bone above his head with both hands again, and then smashed it down.
"I said! I said, I am not Li Yiyin, I am Li Yimin!"
Zhang Zhao brutally hammered the two of them to death one after another, but the medium-sized fat man wearing Mingguang armor couldn't bear it anymore, and he cried loudly.
"Are you Li Yimin?" Zhang Zhao was a little stunned while holding the bone.
Because if he remembered correctly, Li Yimin was Li Yichao's younger brother. Historically, during the period when Emperor Shi was in power in the Later Jin Dynasty, he and his other brother Li Yijun tried to seize Li Yiyin's position as Jiedushi.
After the failure, he ran to Yanzhou to hide, and was sent back to Xiazhou by Shi Chonggui, and then executed by Li Yiyin.
Are these rebels five or six years later still brothers and sisters?
"Yes! That's Li Yimin!" The medium-sized fat man nodded like a chicken pecking at rice.
Zhang Zhao was even more puzzled. This behavior didn't look like a loyal minister of the queen! No matter what, I'll just be beaten to death!
When he saw Zhang Zhao raising the hammer again, Li Yimin collapsed instantly.
"Your Majesty, please spare my life! I have surrendered my wish! I have surrendered my wish!"
Zhang Zhao laughed angrily, "What's the point of surrendering? What can I do with you?"
"Your Majesty, I am the governor of Youzhou. The city of Youzhou is currently in the hands of a certain brother, Li Yijun. As long as the king is willing to spare my life, I am willing to offer Youzhou and surrender the tribes north of Dijinze for your Majesty."
Hey! It’s interesting. Now Youzhou is near the Otok Banner of Inner Mongolia in later generations. If you go from Yanzhou or Xiazhou to Youzhou, you have to pass through the Mu Us Desert, which will be called the disappearing desert in later generations.
The name Dijinze also reminded Zhang Zhao of Li Yuanhao's grandfather, Dijinze War God Li Jiqian.
This piece of shit relied on Dijinze to lay the foundation of the Xixia Kingdom. Zhang Zhao's current strength is far inferior to that of the Northern Song Dynasty in history. If he can use this Li Yimin to control the Dijinze area, it will still be possible.
By the way! Zhang Zhao also remembered the Mu Us Desert. This was the formation period of the Mu Us Desert. It can be seen from the name Dijinze that Mu Us had not completely become a desert at this time.
As long as the over-nomadic Dangxiang, Sogdian and other tribes here are relocated, the trend of desertification should be reversed.
Mu Us desertification is not just an ecological problem in this area.
Without it, it can not only solve the problem of northwest border defense, but also strengthen the connection between Yuzhou, Fengzhou and the mainland.
It can also reduce hundreds of millions of tons of sediment input into the Yellow River every year, which has a good effect on controlling the above-ground river of the Yellow River in Kaifeng.
Thinking of this, Zhang Zhao asked Li Yimin, who was kneeling on the ground shivering: "Do you know Li Yijing, the defense envoy of Yinzhou?"
"I know! I know! Li Yijing is a disciple of a certain person, and he is currently guarding Yinzhou. I can also recruit Li Yijing for the king and ask him to donate Yinzhou." Li Yimin replied repeatedly, trying his best to show that he was still useful.
"Haha!" Zhang Zhao smiled coldly and put Guduo on Li Yimin's shoulder, scaring the guy even more out of his mind.
"After you surrendered Li Yijing on behalf of a certain person, you lured his entire family, male, female, old and young, servants and maids, out of the city, and then..."
Zhang Zhao waved his hand as he spoke, "Kill them all, leaving no chickens or dogs behind! If so, I will spare your life."
Li Yimin glanced at Zhang Zhao confused, and then hurriedly agreed.
Although he didn't know why Zhang Zhao wanted to kill Li Yijing's family, he didn't want to kill his family, just a younger brother.
Of course Li Yimin would not know that his younger brother Li Yijing had a grandson, Li Jiqian, the god of war in Dijinze.
Li Jiqian had a grandson, the Qingtianzi of Dabai Gao Kingdom, a pervert, a man who coveted wives, and the founding emperor of Xixia, Xia Jingzong Li Yuanhao.
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Two days later, Zhang Zhao led an army of 10,000 to arrive at Tiemenguan, twenty miles southeast of Baiyanchi.
The general guarding Tiemen Gate had long been killed by the cavalry chasing the rebels, and more than a hundred party soldiers were also thrown into the pit and buried.
When Zhang Zhao arrived, he did not continue the pursuit, but began to gather the light cavalry of the Guiyi Army from all directions to pursue the enemy.
Especially those thousands of Yi Cong Xiaoqi and some Uighur Yi Cong, with average military discipline, who knows where they were chased?
Now we must gather them up and reorganize the army before continuing the pursuit.
Otherwise, it would be ridiculous if these tens of thousands of people plunge headlong into the hinterland of the Nanjing Army and capsize in the gutter.
Therefore, Zhang Zhao sent people to order Yin Yaozi who was guarding Yanzhou to recruit five thousand residents of Yanzhou and asked them to help clean up the battlefield around Baiyanchi, mainly collecting supplies, burning corpses, etc.
Then he sent people on flying horses to rush back to Liangzhou, and ordered the right commander Cao Yuanzhong to recruit 15,000 civilians and transport 30,000 shi of grain and grass out of Taicang to Yanzhou.
Song Shantong, the chief historian of Zuo, conquered the six prefectures of Fasha, Su, Liang, Lan, Shan, and He, and Yi sent 10,000 Xiaoqi to Yanzhou.
This is for the purpose of occupying, splitting, and moving the party items within the Dingnan Army in the next period of time, and will be used by the Qiang tribes.
Moreover, Xiazhou is the famous Tongwan City, which is said to be invulnerable to arrows, and it is also the home base of the Xia Division of the Difficult Army. Don't expect to be able to defeat it in just a few months. This requires sufficient auxiliary troops.
While the order was being issued, Guo Tiance walked in, holding statistical data in his hand.
"Your Majesty, in the battle of Baiyanchi, the 40,000-strong army that was in trouble were killed, and more than 2,000 were killed. We captured more than 5,000 prisoners and wounded, and the rest are at large, but most of those who escaped were unarmored cavalry from various units."
"Did the chain horses of the Dingnan Army, the light armored cavalry of the Pingxia Division, and the Hengshan Buzi escape?" Zhang Zhao dared to open the statistics table and asked while looking at it.
"In addition to hundreds of light armored cavalry, the Lianlian Ma and Hengshan Buzi are all here. Although we have also killed hundreds of warriors, the main force of the Dingnan Army has been almost destroyed, and the Pingxia Division is finished!" Guo Tiance nodded.
The head replied.
"Good fight!" Zhang Zhao clenched his fist excitedly.
"No matter what you do, Tiance, remember, you must treat Yinxia Yousui's party items and Zhu Qiang separately.
We are not strong enough now, so don’t expand our goals, just focus on the Li family of Pingxia Department.”
After finishing speaking, Zhang Zhao hesitated for a moment and then said to Guo Tiance: "You can leave the matters here to the secretaries of the Volunteer Army first. You can go to Lingzhou to meet with Zhang Taiwei and Pei
Far.
Let them organize 3,000 people from the Lingwu Army and give them to me, 2,000 people be brought to Yanzhou, and 1,000 people are going to Youzhou, but don't force it, it mainly depends on Pei Yuan's wishes."
As soon as the Dingnan Army was defeated, Zhang Zhao was ready to annex Lingzhou.
Although this will attract the attention of all parties, firstly, the matter can be hidden for a period of time, and secondly, as long as the Khitan and Dingnan troops do not come together, Zhang Zhao is really not too afraid.
Because of the greedy character of the Khitan people, their own Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun have not been completely digested, and Lingzhou is far away from the Khitan headquarters, which is of no benefit. They cannot even defend Fengzhou, let alone Lingzhou.
They are just a partial army. If they really come, Zhang Zhao can use them to gain reputation.
Moreover, now that Liu Zhiyuan has returned to Taiyuan, this guy will soon have a fight with the Khitans over the competition for the more than 100,000 people in the Tuyuhun Baichengfu tribe. The two sides are constantly at odds with each other.
Shi Jingtang was caught between Liu Zhiyuan and the Khitans, and was forced by both parties. No one could do anything about it, and he finally died in frustration.
For the Khitan people, Bai Chengfu's more than 100,000 fighting Tuyuhun tribe is more important than Lingzhou. They probably don't have time to care about Lingzhou.
As for reminding Guo Tiance to seek Pei Yuan's opinion, the reason is that Zhang Zhao is still not sure whether Zhang Liecheng rescued Pei Yuan's family members from Tokyo.
