Linzhou City is not so easy to take over. As the rear of Zong Chuke, a large amount of supplies were hoarded in the city, so Zong Chuke still sent many soldiers to defend it.

However, this time the main attacker was Zhang Xiaosong.

The appointment of generals of the Third Division of the Fourth Brigade of the Seventh Army was a little controversial. The biggest controversy was Geshuhan, followed by Zhang Xiaosong and Xiao Song. They used to serve as important generals in the Blood Camp, and were transferred from the Blood Camp by Lao Wu to be even more important officials on the border. Later, because of Wang Hua, he was slightly demoted, but he followed Zhang Renyuan to make great contributions and proved himself to the world. Even if he was transferred, he was also the prefect of the side.

But after entering the Eight Prefectures, he only served as the leader of two militia divisions, and the same was true for another important general, Guo Zhiyun.

However, the three of them knew that Wang Hua had talked to them before this appointment. What Wang Hua valued was not only their martial arts, but their civilian abilities, which means that they would be the real senior member of the Eighth State in the future.

Especially Xiao Song, that is the prime minister. If Wang Hua really let them be the commander of a militia division, wouldn’t it be a waste of talent? But in the future, more soldiers must participate in the war. How to cultivate the militia division to achieve combat effectiveness requires the ability of the commander. Therefore, the three militia divisions became the leader of three big bosses.

Although there were many soldiers stationed in Linzhou City, Zhang Xiaosong did not stump.

The governor of Linzhou was a little careless. Although Zong Chuke was in a tight position in front of him, he had the same thoughts as Zong Chuke. The actual military strength of the Blood Camp was still seriously insufficient. Besides, except for Guzhou, Wang Hua was never interested in other states for the sake of justice.

There are also affairs in the city. Due to wars, more and more Hu merchants have been hoarded. These Hu merchants are not kind-hearted. They traveled thousands of miles westward and passed countless separatist forces. At the same time, some bad nomadic tribes and robbers often appear. Who will protect them? Only by protecting themselves. One is better than the other. The result can be imagined. There are also the allocation of various materials. I didn’t expect that, nor did I have the energy to think that the Blood Camp would attack Linzhou.

One is intentional, the other is unintentional. Moreover, it was Zhang Xiaosong himself who dispatched it. He did not try to take down the whole city, but just concentrated all his strength into one point and attacked Ximen.

Hundreds of soldiers of the Dizi Division were not strong in combat, and more than a thousand religious people were even weaker in combat, but in the dark, I don’t know how many enemies came. In addition to the fear of the Blood Camp, the Ximen was opened in a while. As thousands of soldiers of the Dizi Division entered Linzhou City, they saw more soldiers from the Blood Camp entering the city, and finally all the officers and soldiers in the city stopped to resist.

Afterwards, with the help of the church members, Linzhou City quickly restored order. But Zhang Xiaosong did not end there. There were still a thousand people outside the city who searched for soldiers and people who escaped from the city. The news cannot be leaked for the time being.

Zong Chuke also started camping in the west.

After retreating for a day, his pain was increasing invisibly.

If you don’t retreat, you can’t feel it. Once you retreat, the harassment of the Blood Camp becomes even worse.

Because he was afraid that Wang Hua's division of troops would be elusive and despair, Zong Chuke not only gathered the army, but also gathered the food and supplies together. Of course, he had to take them away as soon as he retreated. Although there were so many soldiers, carrying these food and supplies was not a big deal, and it was only two days to get to Linzhou. If it were cavalry, it might be possible to arrive in half a day.

But in this way, the team became bloated invisibly.

The team was huge and nearly ten miles long. If the Silk Road was not wide, it might have been longer. Although Zong Chuke sent many cavalry to swim on both sides, more gaps appeared due to the movement of the team.

The soldiers sent by the Blood Camp to harass him were like hungry wolves who smelled the blood. When they saw the gap, they rushed over fiercely. Sometimes even the soldiers of Youyi Guard dared to quickly pounce over and attack.

Especially that Ge Shuhan, who shot more than a dozen soldiers alone.

After a day, more than a thousand soldiers were sacrificed, and the number was not very large, but the impact on the soldiers' morale can be imagined.

When they arrived at Pegasus River, Zong Chuke saw the soldiers listless and had to camp.

But that night, the harassment of the soldiers in the Blood Camp became even more intense, and some of the Blood Camp soldiers even used powerful crossbows. This was another kind of crossbow that Zong Chuke had never seen before. It was like a big bed, shining with a cold luster under the moonlight.

Not only did this crossbow look strange, but it also used three burly men to step on it with their feet to pull it.

Then I saw these ten bows and crossbows slowly spread out, and more than a dozen fires lit up in the night sky. This time it was not a bow and arrow. The fires kept flying in the air like meteors, and flew into the middle of the camp at once. The distance was almost more than three hundred steps!

Then more than a dozen sparks rose into the air from the middle of the camp.

In this way, Zong Chuke's strategy of intentionally extending the outer periphery of the fence was useless, so he had to send cavalry out to chase him.

It is no joke to send out to chase him at night. With the cover of the night, the Blood Camp's tactics were exerted to the extreme. Five thousand cavalrymen went out, but only three thousand cavalrymen were killed and returned from the place where they were thrown out. And the place where they fought was not far from the camp.

This time, Wang Hua came in person, and he deliberately made some support, talking about the shamelessness of the court and the innocent murder of Kangdabu.

After saying that, he asked loudly: "Brothers, we fought bloody battles with the Tubo people for the dignity of the Tang Dynasty. Why did the court collude with the Tubo people and attack us from inside and outside? Kill our brothers and persecuted our people? The two countries fought with wars, but they did not kill the envoys. Why did I write a letter in kindness, but asked Zong Chuke to kill our envoys? Could it be that the people of our eight states are really inferior? We are now spring farming, and we have a good day soon. Why should we send troops at this time? Why don't our parents and our relatives live a happy life? Let me tell me who has blocked the strong enemies for the court over the years? Who is the bravest on the battlefield? Brothers, for yourself, for your relatives, and for the hatred and shame brought to us by the court, use the weapons in your hands to prove it!"

The words made the soldiers excited.

While fighting, they roared in their mouths, like wild beasts.

Through the fence, more than 100,000 soldiers were frightened. Zong Chuke saw more blood camp soldiers running away in the distance in the night, and even did not dare to send troops out to rescue them.

In the end, Nangong Zheng was exhausted and fled back to the camp. Zong Chuke had no choice but to give an order to prepare more tools to put out the fire.

Zong Chuke did not send troops, so he brought more than 30 bed crossbows again. This was also the one I had just sent to Bazhou. Wang Hua was not very fond of the crossbow. The crossbow was farther than the bow and had a greater shooting force, but one was bulky. The bed crossbow was known as a heavy artillery when cold weapons were used, but it was even more bulky. Therefore, when the firearms prospered in the Ming Dynasty, the crossbow gradually disappeared. On the contrary, the bow was not eliminated. This was the most convenient, simple and practical, just like the cavalry troops.

However, this siege also reminded Wang Hua that attack and defense are interchangeable. At the same time, you must pay attention to your own defense. So you can create a batch of powerful crossbows, including such bed crossbows. This night, there were no soldiers in the Zong Chuke camp who could sleep for an hour or two, and they were busy putting out the fire.

It wasn't because of the many subordinates that made Zong Chuke feel safe. He wanted to break through overnight and escape to Linzhou.

The next day, Zong Chuke continued to flee eastward with a group of low-spirited soldiers. If Linzhou had not arrived soon, it might have been that the soldiers themselves would have collapsed without fighting.

Wang Hua followed behind with his army.

This time he brought the Tianquan Army, Tianji Army, Tianshu Army and all the soldiers of the Fourth Brigade. However, after so many days of hard fighting, more than 47,000 soldiers were reduced to 40,000. But these 40,000 soldiers were all elite soldiers who had been caught after several bloody battles, and the waves were washed away by the sand, and the morale of great victory was also brought.

Even if the attack is at this time, it is enough to defeat Zong Chuke's soldiers.

But Wang Hua did not, and continued to harass him, which made Zong Chuke's army extremely exhausted. Then he arrived in Linzhou and saw that Linzhou had lost all its retreat and they attacked decisively.

In addition to these 40,000 regular troops, there are 15,000 militias, who will be divided into several small teams to snipe the escaped enemies.

But the battle did not end here. Wang Hua wanted to meet this old friend in person because of the dangers of Mo Chuan in the north.

Fighting with the Tang Dynasty was because of his own home and family affairs, but when he opened the door, he was still a family. Wang Hua could not sit still and see that Feng You and other people were plundered by Mo Chuo. And Mo Chuo came this time, he had no clue about the Blood Camp, so why did he station troops in Yinzhou? He didn't mean to show the Tang Dynasty, and then took advantage of the Blood Camp to fight with the Tang Dynasty and plunder the rear of the Tang Dynasty.

His original intention was to hoard the army here. If the Blood Camp was defeated or at a disadvantage, he would immediately send troops to push down the two states of Yinling. I believe that he would also get the greatest benefits at that time. After all, Lingzhou is the center of the eight states.

Although he did not make any ruthless moves, because he stationed his troops outside Yinzhou City, Wang Hua had to divide the defense of 15,000 regular soldiers. This put a lot of pressure on the Blood Camp, which was originally very constrained. In other words, if he did not send troops, he would reduce 15,000 regular blood camp soldiers in disguise for Zong Chuke and others.

Moreover, he was very cunning. Seeing that the situation was not good, he immediately sent troops to Fengzhou. Without any loss of any troops, he still gained a lot of benefits.

The little abacus is very good.

With this old fox on the side, it may pose a serious danger when Wang Hua sent troops to Tubo in the future.

Therefore, from a broad sense, we must send troops. From the future of the Eight Prefectures, we must also send troops to give this old fox a painful lesson so that he can think about it when making plans in the future.

There is also the trouble of Sinuoluo, and Wang Hua also needs to solve it. With a single point in the army in his hand, there is a shortage of troops again. Then the defense of the Eight Prefectures has to be left to the defense of these tens of thousands of militias. This requires tens of thousands of militias to grow up quickly. Even if they stand aside and watch, they will be mentally prepared when it is their turn to fight themselves in the future.

Moving towards the southeast, Zong Chuke's losses continued to increase.

Even during lunch, Zong Chuke did not ask the soldiers to cook, but asked them to chew dry food and continue moving forward.

But at this time, the soldiers accelerated their pace. Finally, before dusk, the army arrived at the foot of Linzhou.

However, when he saw the city gate closed, Zong Chuke did not remember it. He thought it was the Blood Camp that followed. The officers and soldiers of Linzhou were afraid and closed the city gate. He sent Zhang Gongxing to call the city with dozens of men.

But before Zhang Gongxing could speak, a large number of bows and arrows suddenly shot from the top of the city. Before Zhang Gongxing could say a word, his men were shot to death under the city gate.

Just as Zong Chuke was about to jump, two large flags were hung on the top of the city, with bright red colors, which were the blood flags of the Blood Camp.

Zong Chuke was stunned. When Linzhou City was lost, there was no way out for his tens of thousands of people.

He was foolish, and Liu Jingren also disagreed with him. He directly gave orders instead of Zong Chuke, shouting: "Let's array immediately."

But at this time, all the soldiers were stunned, just like Zong Chuke, and only a few were starting to prepare.

At this moment, a big flag was raised behind him, and the sound of horse hooves rolled in like thunder, and then a stream of dust was raised.

Geshu Han's Tianshu Army was the first to break in. Seven thousand and hundreds of Tianshu Army soldiers were divided into three pointed cones. The largest pointed cone in the middle was led by Geshu Han, and he was also at the front of the awl. There were two small pointed cones next to it, led by Tuoba Tao and Tang Kequn. In the battle of Kuizi Mountain, Tuoba Tao finally got everyone's recognition and entered the ranks of important soldiers in the Blood Camp.

The three conical heads spread rapidly like three blood waves.

Some soldiers also resisted and picked up the bows and arrows in their hands to shoot. This wave of resistance also killed nearly a hundred soldiers of Tianshu Army. However, the speed of the blood wave increased instead of decreasing. Three arrows immediately rushed into the middle of the army, causing bloody storms.

Zong Chuke's subordinates immediately became panicked.

However, this was just the beginning. With a loud shout, Li Kailuo and Liu Tong's Suzaku Brigade and the White Tiger Brigade formed two pointed cones from their wings and chiseled over.

Their responsibility is not to defeat, but to penetrate and penetrate the defense line of Zong Chuke's army, causing the array of more than 100,000 troops to scatter. Therefore, these three teams marched very fast.

Just as there were still soldiers resisting, two rectangular arrays appeared again outside.

Xiao Song and Guo Qianguan led the Tianquan Army and the Tianji Army to rush into the middle of Zong Chuke's army with a steady pace. Ge Shuhan and the others had already made a fierce attack, and the formation was chaotic. The soldiers could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers. They almost had no effort to do anything bad, and the two armies rushed in.

But at this time the formation changed again and turned into two balls. These two huge balls kept flowing. The soldiers outside gradually got involved as the flowed, and the soldiers inside gradually got involved outside. However, they continued, which effectively ensured that the soldiers fighting had time to recover their physical strength and breathed for a while, which was equivalent to the soldiers fighting outside always being the new force.

The two sphere arrays are like a pulp machine. As it rotates, large patches of blood and flesh splash. The heads and limbs keep rolling in the air and falling to the ground, and the blood flowers are blooming one by one.

At this time, Ge Shuhan and the others also broke out the army, turned around again, and turned their heads in turn and chiseled them down hard.

More than 100,000 Tang soldiers finally collapsed.

Even Liu Jingren began to collapse.

He has led the army and fought, but he has never seen such a fierce opponent. He used to think that Wang Hua defeated the Tubo people twice through conspiracy and tricks. Only now do he know that if there was no strong army, no one would implement them no matter how many conspiracies and tricks were!

At this time, two armies came again from the periphery, Gongsun Yun's Qinglong Traveler and Wang Shi's Xuanwu Traveler.

Seeing two more troops appearing, all the soldiers' mental breakdown. Even Liu Jingren was wondering how many troops Wang Hua had dispatched.

There are still troops who can surround them and prepare to set up a net to capture deserters. Although after some training, Wang Hua did not want the militia to join in this battlefield without seeing the sun and the moon, which may cause unnecessary sacrifice.

At this time, Wang Hua was late. He brought hundreds of personal guards, held a banner, and "drawing" on it.

Seeing this big banner, more than 100,000 troops began to escape like a prehistoric monster.

At this time, Wang Hua began to shout, "The escapee will kill, and the rebel will kill. If you surrender, you will not die, hold your head on the spot, put down your weapons, and wait for treatment.

After Wang Hua shouted, tens of thousands of soldiers from the Blood Camp shouted together.

With a sound, countless soldiers knelt on the ground, held their heads in their hands, and began to surrender.

Wang Hua shouted again: "Please give Zong Chuke's head and reward half a penny. If Zong Chuke is captured alive, reward one penny."

This price made all the soldiers fighting in the Blood Camp burst into laughter.

However, everyone knew that Wang Hua deliberately insulted Zong Chuke insulting him for nothing. If he really wanted to kill him or capture him alive, there would definitely be no reward of half a penny or a penny.

After laughing, all the soldiers in the Blood Camp shouted again.

In fact, the battle has entered the final stage, and it is just to capture and kill deserters.

However, Zong Chuke was very cunning. When he saw the two rectangular arrays turning into two ball arrays and strangled, he immediately took off his official uniform and replaced them with the armor of a general soldier. He led his guards to escape to the Tao River south.

However, after not far away, a large group of soldiers appeared in front of him. These were the militias of the Second Division that were encircled and suppressed, but now the deserters can tell whether they are militias or regular troops. Some fled in other directions, while others simply knelt down and surrendered with their heads in their arms.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Zong Chuke led his people to continue running in other directions. But when he turned his head, he saw more than a dozen personal guards around him looking at him with a strange look.

"What are you going to do?" Zong Chuke's face was sweating.

More than a dozen guards didn't say anything, rushed over and raised Zong Chuke. Didn't Wang Hua shout? Catching a penny alive proves that the reward of captured alive will be more generous than the reward of shot dead. Taking a penny alive, Zong Chuke himself wouldn't believe it.

Not only Zong Chuke, but also at the same time, Liu Jingren and Xue Sijian both set their subordinates on the spot. Then, at the same time, these most caring personal guards rushed over like wolves and tigers.

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