The heavily armored cavalry rushed out of Tongtai Pass, took a look at the general flag of Yongtai Army, and ran over it crazily.
The defeated army posed no threat to the heavy armored cavalry at all.
The heavily armored cavalry rushed into the defeated army, causing a one-sided massacre.
After only two rounds of charges, some people in Yongtai's army were afraid of being killed, and they knelt down to ask for surrender.
If it weren't for the fact that there were so many of them and it would be difficult to chase them after they ran away, the heavy armored cavalry would have a tendency to massacre them.
If not for anything else, just for the people who fell in front of Tongtai Pass.
Seeing that the situation was over, Chengyi hurriedly took some people to escape.
After escaping for less than a few hundred feet, the Forbidden Army soldiers carried their muskets back to the foot of Tongtai Pass.
When Chengyi fled, he resisted too fiercely, and the Forbidden Army soldiers shot him in all four limbs, beating him into a cripple.
The Yongtai army, which was stubbornly resisting, saw Chengyi being captured, and instantly lost the courage to continue fighting, and one by one they knelt down and asked to surrender.
The battle south of Tongtaiguan ended here.
Di Qing ordered people to collect the weapons of the prisoners and press the prisoners into the city.
After the prisoners were forced into the city.
Only then did all the Forbidden Army soldiers who came to the rescue come out of the darkness.
In order to maintain a sense of mystery, to create pressure and panic on the Yongtai Army, the reinforcement generals did not let all the soldiers of the Forbidden Army show themselves after arriving at Tongtai Pass, in order to create a feeling for the Yongtai Army that Cao Wei was leading the army.
The illusion comes.
When the prisoners saw the figures of the Forbidden Army soldiers, their faces were astonished.
There are only 10,000 soldiers of the Forbidden Army. If they run away, the soldiers of the Forbidden Army cannot stop them at all.
However.
It was too late to regret now, their weapons had been confiscated. The heavily armored cavalry stood beside them with eager eyes, and the Forbidden Army soldiers pointed their muskets at them one by one. As long as they dared to resist, they would all be killed.
Di Qing went down to the top of the city and personally watched the Tiger Character Army soldiers reseal the gate. He picked up Chengyi, whose limbs were crippled, and led those of the Forbidden Army soldiers who did not hold muskets to the top of the city in the north.
city wall.
The fighting on the northern city wall was also fierce, but it was far less tragic than the southern city wall.
Although Mi Liji also had heavy weapons in his hands, he was far from as skillful as Cheng Yi used them.
Mizuji prefers to fight in the wild rather than fighting tough battles.
Di Qing led people to the top of the city, and thousands of Forbidden Army soldiers joined them. The soldiers of the Tiger-Character Army on top of the city also breathed a sigh of relief.
Di Qing picked up Chengyi and threw it in front of Peng Yue.
Peng Yue's eyes turned red when he saw Chengyi.
"Who is it?"
Peng Yue gritted his teeth and asked.
Di Qing said coldly: "Yongtai Army Jiedushi Chengyi!"
Peng Yue's eyes widened for a moment, staring at Chengyi and shouting angrily: "It's you!"
Chengyi seemed to feel the killing intent. He endured the pain in his limbs and exclaimed: "I am in command of the Liao Kingdom. I know many secrets of the Liao Kingdom. I can help you. Let me live."
Peng Yue roared angrily: "Let you live? Who will let those people live? They are living Han family men, bleeding the same as us."
Cheng Yi saw Peng Yuesha Yi's awe-inspiring expression and said incoherently: "I am also a son of the Han family, so am I. I was forced to do so."
"Pooh!"
Peng Yue spat a thick mouthful of phlegm on Cheng Yi's face and cursed loudly: "Are you worthy of being called the son of the Han family?! You are a thief! You are a thief!"
As Peng Yue spoke, he raised the knife in his hand and said with a look of hatred: "I said I would chop you alive, so I will chop you alive. I never fail to keep my word!"
"No……"
Cheng Yi's eyes widened in horror. As soon as he said a word, Peng Yue's knife fell on him.
"Poof!"
Peng Yue's strength is not light. He used to be a member of the Jingsai Army, and later joined the Tiger Army. He has always been a heavy armored cavalryman.
All heavy armored cavalry are stronger than ordinary people.
Peng Yue was even better.
Peng Yue slashed with the knife, splitting the bones and flesh.
Although it was not cut in half, it was split in the middle, leaving only some flesh and bones connected.
Blood splashed on Peng Yue's face, and his intestines flowed all over the floor.
Peng Yue licked the blood on the corner of his mouth, and cursed without a trace of regret: "You are a thief, I'm taking advantage of you! If I hadn't hated you so much, I would have found someone skilled in the craftsmanship, and I would have cut you into pieces for a month."
After Peng Yue finished scolding Cheng Yi, he raised his sword and saluted Di Qing, "Thank you, general, for fulfilling your humble duty."
Di Qing also wanted to kill Chengyi alive, but he considered that Peng Yue also hated Chengyi, so he gave the opportunity to Peng Yue.
After Di Qing waited for Peng Yue to salute, he said to Peng Yue: "Cut off the head of the dog thief and throw it out. Let the Liao people see that their leader of the reinforcements is dead."
Peng Yue agreed, chopped off Chengyi's head with a knife, and threw it out of the city wall with all his strength.
Chengyi's head flew out of the city wall and fell into the arms of a Liao soldier, knocking him down.
The Liao soldier quickly got up and held his head in his hands to identify it for a long time before he recognized it as Cheng Yi.
Immediately, he quickly held Chengyi's head, broke away from the siege team, and found Mizuji.
Mi Liji saw Cheng Yi's head and cursed, "The Han people are just unreliable, so I'll withdraw my troops."
Chengyi is dead, and his hope of attacking from both sides has come to nothing.
The resistance of the Song army at the top of the city was gone, and he had lost the perfect opportunity to capture Tongtai Pass.
It would be futile to continue fighting.
Mi Liji's order was quickly conveyed, and the Liao soldiers who were attacking the city slowly retreated.
Seeing this, Di Qing, Peng Yue and others let out a sigh of relief.
The most critical period of Tongtai Pass has been passed.
After getting through the hard times.
The first thing Di Qing ordered was not to clean the battlefield, but to order Peng Yue to kill people.
"In the Yongtai army, all generals and commanders above five will be killed!"
Peng Yue and others did not refuse the order issued by Di Qing.
The common people were forced to die tragically, and Cheng Yi was the chief culprit, and the generals could not escape the blame.
If it weren't for the fact that all the soldiers in Yongtai's army were of Han'er origin, even if Di Qing ordered them to be killed, no one would care.
The generals of the Yongtai Army were dragged out of the prison camp one by one, dragged to the open space inside the pass, and killed one by one.
Blood flowed all over the ground, and no one showed mercy.
The Yongtai soldiers in the prisoner camp made some strange movements, but they were quickly suppressed.
After killing all the generals in Yongtai Army.
Di Qingcai ordered people to clean the battlefield, count casualties, and tally the results of the battle.
After the casualties were tallied, Di Qing saw that his scalp was numb.
A full three thousand soldiers of the Tiger Army were killed, and almost all of the rest were injured.
This was the first time since the formation of the Tiger Army that the Tiger Army suffered such heavy casualties.
The casualties were huge and the results were huge.
Nearly five thousand Liao soldiers were killed.
The Yongtai army killed nearly 10,000 people and captured more than 20,000 people. Some people took advantage of the chaos and fled after the Forbidden Army soldiers arrived at Tongtai Pass.
They were the first group of people to escape. Di Qing had no way to send people to chase them, and the Forbidden Army soldiers had limited strength, so it was difficult to chase them.
The war at Tongtai Pass has come to an end.
Di Qing took the tiger-character army to rest.
A night of silence.
The next day.
early morning.
After Di Qing got up, he began to inspect the wounded soldiers' camp, driving the prisoners to reinforce the city walls and burying the dead bodies.
I was busy until evening.
Cao Wei led an army of 200,000, but arrived late.
Cao Wei led 200,000 troops when he left Baozhou, and when he arrived at Tongtai Pass, he still had 200,000 troops.
During this period, the battle damage in Zhuozhou was recovered, and the 10,000 Forbidden Army soldiers sent out seemed to have not left.
The reason for this is that when Cao Wei was recovering Zhuozhou, some people with lofty ideals prepared their own soldiers and took the initiative to join the army.
There are green forests and grass among them, as well as ordinary farmers.
But without exception, they are all people who cherish the Han Dynasty.
Cao Wei didn't want to take them in, but he couldn't stand it and they begged, and some even threatened death.
In the end, they could only be accepted and organized into partial divisions to follow the army.
Cao Wei rushed to Tongtai Pass and saw the battle scars inside and outside the city, as well as the greatly reduced Tiger Character Army. He patted Di Qing who came to greet him, sighed and said: "Thank you for your hard work!"
Di Qing said solemnly: "It's not hard!"
After Cao Wei finished speaking, Lu Yijian said to Di Qing with a straight face: "Hand over your credit book, I want to verify it."
Di Qing decisively sent someone to hand over his credit book.
After Lu Yijian looked through it carefully for a while, his expression softened a lot, and he said to Di Qing: "You didn't take the credit of the soldiers, and you even gave a lot of credit to the soldiers, which is very good.
Although the imperial court was unable to benefit the soldiers as much as Kou Ji did, the general pensions and rewards for the soldiers would not be less.
I have people watching from top to bottom.
Whoever dares to touch the money that the soldiers exchanged with their lives, I dare to fight him to the death.
So you can let the soldiers relax."
Di Qing handed over the merit book, but there was no record of the number of enemies he killed.
Some soldiers who died in battle had many more enemy kills on their heads.
The most exaggerated one killed twenty-five people.
Lu Yijian naturally didn't believe it.
After a big battle, those who can get five heads are the first-class warriors on the battlefield.
Those who have killed more than ten enemies are basically the vanguard generals in the army.
They are highly skilled in martial arts, have better armor than others, and better horses than others. It is normal for them to kill more common enemies.
Lu Yijian had not seen many soldiers who had killed more than ten enemies, and Lu Yijian had never seen anyone who had killed more than fifteen soldiers.
Therefore, Lu Yijian saw through the fishy things in the credit book that Di Qing handed over at a glance.
But he didn't blame Di Qing, and even had some appreciation for Di Qing.
Playing tricks on military achievements was a common thing in the Song Dynasty.
The most exaggerated thing Lu Yijian had ever seen was that a general led an army on an expedition and killed three thousand enemies. Among them, the general had more than two hundred heads in his name.
If you are born with supernatural power, or if you are an overlord in this world, and you achieve such a feat, Lu Yijian will have nothing to say.
But you are just an ordinary general who reached 50 years old and relied on nepotism to climb to the position of general and kill more than 200 people?
Did you drink five stones and break up?
Lu Yijian had seen a lot of generals trying to kill people in his own name.
Generals killed their subordinates, but Lu Yijian didn't see many of them.
Although head count cannot determine whether a general can be promoted.
But if you have exaggerated achievements, it will be easy to be remembered. Once the court wants to hire people, it will be easy to think of you.
Moreover, the generals also want to save face, so they brag a little louder and speak louder when they go out to talk to others.
Although the military supervision system of the Song Dynasty was very strict, it always turned a blind eye when it came to military achievements.
Therefore, it is not uncommon for generals to take advantage of their subordinates.
Of course, what is more important is profit.
Even if a small soldier kills many people, he will not attract the attention of the court and will not receive much reward.
But if a general kills many people, he can attract the attention of the court.
Even if the court knew there was something fishy, they would still reward him with a large sum of money.
Having seen many liars, Lu Yijian naturally admired him when he suddenly met someone who was honest and considerate of his subordinates.
When Di Qing heard Lu Yijian's words, his heart skipped a beat and he said bravely: "The general did not do this intentionally. Some of the soldiers were only sons in the family. After they left, the whole family will live in the future..."
Lu Yijian interrupted Di Qing before he could finish his words, "You don't need to explain to me, I don't mean to blame you. As long as the combat merits you report are consistent with your actual combat capabilities, I don't care about the rest.
"
Di Qing saluted Lu Yijian solemnly, "Thank you, Mr. Lu, for your consideration."
Cao Wei smiled at the side and said: "You, Lu Yijian, sometimes show favoritism?"
When Lu Yijian was touring the country, he killed many people and left a selfless image. After arriving in Baozhou with Cao Wei, he was also meticulous in doing things.
Cao Wei thought that Lu Yijian had become an upright person.
You know, Lu Yijian was attached to Liu E before.
If he was really an upright person, he would not be attached to Liu E.
Lu Yijian heard Cao Wei's words and said calmly: "I, Lu Yijian, will naturally protect those who sacrificed their lives and blood for our Song Dynasty. If anyone is dissatisfied, just impeach me. I don't care."
When Cao Wei heard this, he couldn't laugh or cry.
Who would impeach the current prime minister over such a trivial matter?
If someone really did this, they would be extremely stupid.
When the memorial was handed over, before Lu Yijian's disciples Gujiu could fight back, their superiors would first scold them bloody.
"Enter the customs!"
Cao Wei gave the order and the army entered Guancheng.
Tongtai Pass is not large, so it cannot accommodate 200,000 soldiers and horses.
Therefore, Cao Wei only led some people into Guancheng, and the other part was stationed outside Guancheng.
After entering Guancheng and resting.
Cao Wei, Lu Yijian, Di Qing and others gathered together.
After Lu Yijian took care of the trivial matters, he asked Cao Wei: "What will Commander Cao do next?"
"beat?!"
Cao Wei smiled and said: "No fight! Wait!"
Lu Yijian was stunned for a moment and asked, "Wait? Wait for what? Wait until when?"
Cao Wei smiled and said: "We have already taken the lead and won a state. The Liao people lost a state, so they are naturally more anxious than us. According to the nature of Emperor Yelu Longxu of Liao, he will definitely not be able to sit still.
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So when we leave the customs now, we are very likely to run into the army of Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu in the wild.
Fighting in the wild with the army of Liao Emperor Yelu Longxu will not do us much good.
So we have to wait."
Lu Yijian said in a deep voice: "What if Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty can keep his temper?"
Cao Wei smiled and said: "When Yang Wenguang and Li Zhaoliang capture Shuo and Huan 2 Prefectures, Emperor Yelu Longxu of the Liao Dynasty will have to make a move no matter how calm he is."
Lu Yijian was stunned and said in astonishment: "How could you predict that Yang Wenguang and Li Zhaoliang could defeat the Liao soldiers and capture Shuo and Huan two states?"