In order to prevent the enemy from being trapped and still fighting, Lin Fu deliberately left the gap on the right side of Chitu Hill to undermine the enemy's fighting spirit and encourage them to flee westward.
Chen Zishou led the remaining troops to break through the gap on the right wing and escape to the west, and the enemy at Chitugang collapsed.
However, the gap on the right wing is only 40 to 50 feet wide, and there are steep slopes on both sides. The slope is slippery after the rain, and every step becomes slippery. How many enemy soldiers can be escaped before haste?
Even though thousands of Yuanzhou soldiers escaped from the gap, they were followed by the Huaidong Cavalry Camp, which had rested all night and was ready to go.
Lin Fu climbed up the cliff on the left side of Chitu Gang and looked at the Yuan River in front of the mountain. The Yuan River is mighty and the Xinyu River section is more than a hundred feet wide. The waves are flying and the water is so turbulent that it is difficult for a piece of wood to carry it.
To the north of the Yuan River, the defeated troops and deserters filled the mountains and plains.
At this time, he could not care about these defeats. After completely defeating the enemy camp in the gorge mouth, and seeing that there was no organized resistance around Chitugang, Lin Fu ordered Zhang Jiheng to gather his troops and mount them as soon as possible.
The cavalry marched westward and captured Yuan.
In Xinyu, Lin Fu ordered Feng Yan, Zhao Bao and other generals to lead only one brigade of infantry and one battalion of elite cavalry to camp on Chitupo. In addition to monitoring the thousands of Yuanzhou troops in Xinyu City, they also ensured that they could not be defeated and sent to Xinyu.
When Chongqing gathered together, they would leave more than 2,000 wounded soldiers for their care.
War is a cruel machine. Once it rotates, it will not stop until the end. There is no telling how many people's flesh and blood will be filled in the middle to satisfy its belly - looking at the shallow stream flowing out of the red soil hillock, and the blood flowing into it after the war.
Dyeing bright red, Lin Fu's stern face became cold and ruthless.
At this time, Zhao Bao came with several cavalry. An empty horse tied up an enemy general, but he was wearing the uniform of an ordinary general.
Zhao Bao has been fighting continuously in the past few days and has been injured in many places, but he does not want to be harmed and insists on leading the troops in the battle without leaving the battlefield.
Seeing Zhao Baoxiong patting his horse over, Lin Fu sat on the horse and asked with a smile: "Did you catch a big fish and come here to take credit?"
Zhao Bao smiled shyly, "I almost missed him and asked him to escape." He got off his horse and picked up the bound enemy general, threw him in front of Lin Fu, stepped on his back, and said, "He is like this
The second time he marched eastward to Yuanzhou, he was the supervisor of the army. If the people around him hadn't reported it, 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 couldn't bear to put his
Shave off your beard! Who doesn’t know that Mr. Huang of Jiangzhou has a beautiful beard?”
"Oh," Lin Fu looked at Huang Lizhang, who was trampled in the quagmire of the place. It was just that Huang Lizhang was not human at this time. He didn't know if most of the beautiful beard under his chin would be pulled out. It was bloody and bloody, leaving only a small handful still intact.
Being able to see the old view, even though he asked people to draw portraits of Huang Binghao, Chen Zishou and others before the war, Lin Fu couldn't recognize that the man in front of him was Huang Binghao's eldest son Huang Lizhang, and asked Zhao Bao, "Is this right?"
"I've checked it with several people and it's not wrong," Zhao Bao said. "Should I send it to Master Baozi immediately to encourage Huang Binghao to surrender?"
"When She Fei Xiong bound Huang Binghao and his relatives, they forced him to surrender to Jiangzhou," Lin Fu sighed. "We can't be so useless as to imitate She Fei Xiong. He dragged the eldest son Huang to the front of the formation and beheaded him, and sent a fast horse to kill his head.
Zhou Pu sent him there and asked him to hang him up on a high pole and go to Yuan Dynasty. It doesn't matter whether Huang Binghao resists or not..."
"Okay!" Before Zhao Bao could respond, the two junior high school students behind him excitedly stepped forward and escorted Huang Lizhang out.
Huang Binghao didn't know the time and sent troops to Xinyu without permission to start a war. All the generals in the army were eager to kill such a greedy villain quickly. Who was willing to give the Huang family a chance to surrender?
A fishy smell came, and Huang Lizhang was so frightened that he became incontinent. Zhao Bao pinched his nose and cursed overnight: "Huang Binghao is somewhat capable, but it's useless to have a son..."
Zhao Bao and others escorted Huang Lizhang to the front of the formation for execution. Lin Fu asked Gao Zongting who was standing beside him with emotion: "If we can defeat Yuanzhou in one go this time, Tanzhou should also restrain itself, right?"
Lin Fu ordered Huang Lizhang to be executed. Gao Zongting stood aside without saying a word. At this time, he said: "Some heads must fall to the ground to shock Xiao Xiao." If Huang Binghao was not ignorant of current affairs and greedy, this battle could have been avoided.
To kill Huang Lizhang, Huang Binghao would not be pardoned, and there was no hope that Huang Binghao would surrender to Yuan Xiancheng.
"Then kill a few more people," Lin Fu said, "Draft a letter for me with tougher words. After we get to Yuanzhou, send someone to Tanzhou to see what Zhang Han has to say!
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If Zhang Han hadn't deliberately connived in Tanzhou, Huang Binghao would never have been able to withdraw his troops from Luxi in the west. By allowing Huang Binghao to stand on his own in Yuanzhou and isolating Xiangtan from Jiangning's direct control area, Zhang Han would have had no problem.
The burden of separatist rule in Xiangtan.
The capture of Yuanzhou was enough to deter Tanzhou from making any changes.
"Okay," Gao Zongting nodded and asked, "It has been four days since Chen Zhi led his troops from Ganzhou and they are not far from Qingjiang County. Should we order him to come to Xinyu first?"
Lin Fu looked towards the remaining city of Xinyu. Huang Binghao's general Zhang Xiongshan led more than 6,000 remnant troops to retreat to Xinyu City. Although he had no time to leave the city to assist Chitugang, he kept driving the civilians, soldiers, and watchers in the city for a moment.
Shi actually had no intention of surrender and asked Chen Zhi to lead his troops to go around Xinyu, so that he could capture the city of Xinyu.
"Okay," Lin Fu said, "then ask Chen Zhi to lead his troops to Xinyu, ask Feng Yan to make more preparations before the war, and ask someone to throw a message into the city. I only want Zhang Xiongshan's life.
The rest will be pardoned!"
At this time, Zhang Jiheng gathered more than 7,000 soldiers and horses and prepared them for departure. Lin Fu and Gao Zongting drove their horses to join them and march westward to Yuanzhou with the army.
The road from Xinyu to Yuan was narrow and dangerous, but with Zhou Pu leading the cavalry battalion in pursuit and clearing the way, Lin Fu followed the main force of infantry to the west. Along the way, he kept seeing enemy corpses lying on the side of the road and mules and horses that had strayed together.
Apart from that, there are no other obstacles. It is that there are a large number of deserters between Xia Yuan and Xin Yu. These deserters are eager to flee far away from home at this time, so how can they dare to move forward regardless of life and death.
Before dark, just when the army was about to stop at the southern foot of Qiyun Peak, Zhou Pu sent back the good news from the front.
Zhou Pu led his cavalry battalion to chase down the enemy and rushed to the foot of Xia Yuan City. Wu Jingze, with the cooperation of Zhou Zhizheng, led the Zhou clan soldiers to seize the east gate of Xia Yuan City in a tacit and timely manner, and welcomed Zhou Pu's cavalry battalion to directly enter Xia Yuan City.
The rout of Chitugang spread to Xiayuan City. Although Huang Binghao still had 5,000 soldiers and horses in Xiayuan City, his morale had already collapsed. In addition to the more than 600 guards around Huang Binghao, other soldiers and horses entered the city from the Huaidong Cavalry Camp.
It collapsed in an instant. Some of Yuan's four to five thousand garrison soldiers fled and others surrendered, allowing Zhou Pu to capture Yuan City without any effort.
Because of Wu Jingze, Zhou Zhizheng had a very good time to open the east city gate, and Huang Binghao had no time to leave the city and flee to the west. After Zhou Pu led his troops into the city, Huang Binghao could only lead his guards to retreat to Yuancheng Yamen, and Huaidong generals surrounded him inside
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Most of Huang Binghao's last remaining troops were defeated, including Huang Binghao himself, who was besieged in Xia Yuancheng Yamen. In Yuanzhou and Luxi to the west, there were less than 4,000 defenders left in total, and their will to resist was not particularly strong.
of firmness.
Lin Fu will not pardon Huang Binghao, but Lin Fu will not kill all the other Jiangzhou officials and generals who were threatened and rebelled. Naturally, he will mainly recruit and surrender, pardon and appease. The way of military and political affairs has always been to combine killing and appeasement, except for
In addition to intimidation, we must also win over people's hearts and minds.
At that moment, Lin Fu asked Zhang Jiheng to lead his troops to rest at Qiyun Peak. He and Gao Zongting, surrounded by hundreds of horsemen, went to Xia Yuan to join Zhou Pu first.
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Lin Fu and Gao Zongting rushed to Xia Yuan City at dawn, and the siege of Yuan City Yamen was now coming to an end.
Huang Binghao's residence in Xia Yuan was originally a county government office, covering an area of only ten acres. With the front office and the back house plus the official residence where officials lived daily, how big could it be if there were three groups of three entering the courtyard? Huang Binghao led more than 600 personal guards to retreat.
, fought tenaciously and refused to surrender. Zhou Pu led his troops to surround the city government. A rash attack would of course result in casualties.
After nightfall, Zhou Pu ordered his soldiers to collect firewood from the city and put it on the cart. Following the wind, they pushed down the wall from the small garden north of the county government office, lit the firewood on the cart and attacked inward.
Soon, a fire broke out in the Lower Yuan City Yamen, and the guards inside could only flee from the south gate, calling for the bow and crossbow array guarding outside the south gate to kill them. The last bit of resistance from the Yuanzhou Army quickly disappeared.
When Lin Fu entered the city, the Huaidong Army captured Huang Binghao, who was half-cooked but still alive in the corner of the city government office.
Zhou Pu temporarily requisitioned a courtyard in the east city of Xiacheng to serve as a camp for Lin Fu. After Lin Fu and Gao Zongting dismounted, they hurriedly washed their faces regardless of the exhaustion of traveling all night. The master asked Zhou Pu to bring Huang Binghao up, and sent people to arrest Zhou Zhizheng.
Wu Jingze and others were invited.
Huang Binghao was in a miserable state. Half of his shirt was burned off, revealing a hairy thigh. His beard and hair were all burnt off. His face was charred and black, smelling like meat. But he tried to stand up straight and wanted to maintain his final dignity.
Lin Fu walked into the hall, looked at Huang Binghao's appearance, and looked at Zhou Pu inquiringly to make sure he was not mistaken.
Zhou Pu spread his hands and said in a loud voice: "Then we will wait until Zhou Zhizheng comes over to confirm."
"Kill or behead, please do as you please. Don't humiliate me again. If you wait for the Northern Yan army, you will die without a burial place!" Huang Binghao didn't want to lose his ambition before he died, so he wanted to say a few harsh words.
talk.
"..." Lin Fu smiled coldly and said, "I thought you had a chance to become a famous minister. I was sorry that you made a wrong move, but you really have the eyes of a rat and the stupidity of a pig. What happened today is nothing like this.
It is your own fault. You are defeated like a dog at this time. You can't realize it before you die, and you still think that Yanlu can win? Do you think you were defeated unjustly? I am afraid that you will be an unjust ghost. I will tell you now, you
Don't leave in a hurry after you get off the underworld, wait and see how many soldiers will come down to accompany you!"
At this time, Wu Jingze accompanied Zhou Zhizheng in. Huang Binghao hated Zhou Zhizheng deeply for betraying him at the critical moment.
Zhou Zhizheng felt somewhat guilty and walked around the half-disabled Huang Binghao, walked to Lin Fu, knelt down and kowtowed: "The guilty minister Zhou Zhizheng feels that his sins are serious, and I have come today to ask Duke Chong to punish him..."
"The Duke of Zhou was coerced into paying extravagance to Huang Binghao. Although he had flaws, he was not guilty of any crime. Today he can atone for his fault, which shows that Duke Zhou has a clear conscience and is worthy of heaven and earth." Lin Fu helped Zhou Zhizheng up and comforted him, saying, "I have made mistakes."
If you have merit, you should be rewarded. If you have merit, you should be punished. If you are punished, you will be punished by the Duke of Zhou to inform the prefect of Yuanzhou to serve the people of Yuanzhou and make up for the pain caused by the war in Yuanzhou; if you are rewarded, you will be rewarded with going to prison and beheading Huang Binghao after dawn..."
Hearing Lin Fu asking Zhou Zhizheng to kill him, Huang Binghao used up his last remaining strength to strangle Zhou Zhizheng's neck, but asked the guard next to him to hit him hard on the knee with a scabbard, causing him to roll down in front of the hall.
Seeing Huang Binghao, who was worse than a dog after his defeat, Zhou Zhizheng also hardened his heart. He could not allow Huang Binghao to survive, and immediately responded: "Zhizheng obeys the order."