Li Mingxin looked at the scene in the valley from afar outside the valley. Before the Song army could counterattack, the Jiaozhi army had been damaged and was defeated. He was already scared to death. ≧

After calling the commander of the army, Li Mingxin said: "General Chen did not listen to the advice and entered the valley without authorization. As a result, he was ambushed by the Song army and ruined the life of my Jiaozhi soldier. You immediately arrange for the troops to retreat. I want to return to Shenglong Mansion and report to the saint, and set off quickly!"

However, this officer was Chen Changji's confidant. He stayed outside to watch and prevent Li Mingxin from making trouble. He said in a deep voice: "The general has a military order. We will stick to the valley entrance and guard the retreat. How can we be distracted?"

Li Mingxin pointed to the valley mouth and said, "Master, your commander has already lost his life in the valley. Now I will take charge of this place! I say you can withdraw your troops, so you can withdraw your troops honestly!"

"Without military orders, how can the soldiers retreat whenever they say they want?"

It's okay for Li Mingxin to scare Chen Changji with his identity as a military supervisor. The level of this officer is too far different, and everything can be pushed to the commander, but he doesn't listen to Li Mingxin's words.

Looking at the entrance of the valley, the Song army's stone cannons were still covered with rocks. The entrance of the valley was filled with rocks, and the army inside could not escape. Li Mingxin was anxious. If the Song army cleaned up the Jiaozhi army in the valley and chased it out of the valley, he would not be able to escape. I heard that the Song army had thousands of cavalry, and the three thousand Jiaozhi soldiers left outside the valley were not opponents, and they could not escape even if they wanted to run away.

Looking at the commander with a wooden head in front of him, Li Mingxin said angrily: "Since you insist on staying here, it's up to you. But if such a big thing happened here, I must return to Shenglong Mansion as soon as possible to report to the emperor. Send a commander to me and follow me back!"

Seeing that Li Mingxin insisted on leaving, the commander of the army knew that he could not stop him, he had to agree. He immediately ordered the command of the army and became Li Mingxin's escort and followed him to escape first.

Seeing Li Mingxin taking people away, the commander cursed in his heart. These eunuchs could only flatter and domineer at the moment of gaining power. When they were in danger, they ran faster than anyone else. They were really an insidious villain.

Li Mingxin was also scolding in his heart, calling the commander the elm-head. At this time, the general situation of the Jiaozhi army was over. What's the use of you still guarding the valley? Wait for the Song army to free up their hands to kill the valley and swallow it in one bite?

On the top of the mountain, Shi Quanbin saw the escaped Jiaozhi team and said to Xu Ping: "Look, someone has escaped there! Look at the flag, he is still an important person!"

Xu Ping smiled: "Just a while ago, news came. In the past two days, an eunuch came from Shenglong Mansion to serve as a military supervisor. The Jiaozhi army outside was so abnormal. It was him who escaped."

When Shi Quanbin heard that he was an eunuch and was walking with him, he felt a little embarrassed and cursed: "This Jiaozhi man is very brave. Since he is here to be a military supervisor, he ran away after a moment of inconvenience. How can he go back and explain it?"

Xu Ping smiled and said nothing. The eunuch had a clever mouth. He followed the emperor every day. No matter what, they had something to say. There are too many such things in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad. Is there such a thing? Is it difficult for the Song Dynasty to miss such examples? However, in front of Shi Quanbin, I couldn't say it out.

Seeing Li Mingxin escape with his troops, Shi Quanbin said, "This is also an important person. Why didn't Yun Xing mobilize his army? He first destroyed the Jiaozhi people in the valley. Then capture him back! I see that the man he brought is mainly infantry, and I think it can't escape our cavalry!"

"Don't fight the trapped beasts. The remaining thousands of Jiaozhi people in the valley are in a mad time. It is not worth the effort to send troops to fight against them. After another one or two hours, the crazy energy of Jiaozhi people will pass. It will be easy to capture. As for Jiaozhi people outside the valley, how much can they leave, you can't force it."

Seeing that Shi Quanbin was still angry, Xu Ping said again: "Jiangzhi has come to a 20,000 army. It will not affect the overall situation when fleeing back a thousand people. It is difficult to keep them all. Besides, let these people go back and talk about the war with the real power figures in Shenglong Mansion, and promote the majesty of our Song Dynasty. Don't gently stroke the tiger's beard!"

Seeing that Xu Ping insisted on refusing to send troops, Shi Quanbin had to give up his mind and see the scene in the valley.

He is different from Li Mingxin, but he does not have a military supervisor. Besides, he has a different relationship with Xu Ping. He is about to support each other in the future, so how could he be angry for an irrelevant Jiaozhi person?

At this time, there is no longer a need for intensive shooting. The Jiaozhi people are like headless flies, and they are already in chaos. The head coach Chen Changji was shot by Song soldiers with a flexible mind, and his life was killed. The soldiers who won the prize shot Chen Changji and reported to Xu Ping layer by layer. Now they are wearing red color and are back to the city early to wait to receive the reward.

Although the power of the artillery is great, it cannot be fired continuously due to its limited technology, otherwise it is very likely to have an explosion accident. Now it is just scattered, and occasionally shot one shot to break up the Jiaozhi soldiers rushing to the city.

Behind the city of Zhou, the six thousand brigades formed a formation and had been waiting for several hours and had already become anxious. If it weren't for the constant good news coming from the front, their morale would have been wiped out.

On the top of the city, Sang Yi and Gao Daquan looked up at the valley from the tower, sighing.

As a general who charges, victory and defeat are common among military strategists, but as bad as Jiaozhi's defeat, 10,000 or 20,000 people are almost killed. If you haven't fought with your opponent, you will die with your eyes open. This kind of thing is absolutely impossible to happen above the battle formation. No matter how many crossbowmen are in the face of the enemy, the Song army cannot let all the Jiaozhi soldiers fall on the way to charge. However, relying on fortifications, each of the Song army can fire dozens of rounds, and thousands of crossbowmen can shoot with all their energy. Less than 20,000 Jiaozhi soldiers are not enough for crossbowmen to clean up.

The sun has set westward, and the last madness of the Jiaozhi soldiers has finally passed. Many people are exhausted and sit in the open space stupidly, without the strength to resist, waiting for the verdict of fate.

Sang Yi said to Gao Daquan: "It's time. There will be a military order there soon, and we will go out and clean up the mess. After a while, the remaining soldiers in the valley will be cleaned up by me and the wing army. Just take the cavalry out of the valley and break up the Jiaozhi soldiers left behind outside the valley and chase them. Don't let them escape back."

On the top of the mountain, Xu Ping saw that the Jiaozhi soldiers in the valley had no ability to resist, so he issued a military order for the final attack, preparing to clean up the mess and go back to celebrate the merits in the evening.

As the military orders quickly spread to the city of Zhou, Sang Yi went down to rectify the wing army, took the lead in attacking, and cleared the last remaining Jiaozhi soldiers in the valley. At this time, there was no battle, but the Song army came out to contain the prisoners. The Song army was relaxed, and the captured Jiaozhi people also breathed a sigh of relief, and the nightmare of the day finally ended.

After clearing the battlefield, Sang Yi led his men to quickly open a way out. Gao Daquan and his subordinates rushed to the entrance of the valley along the cleared passage.

Hearing the movements in the valley gradually subsided, the commanders outside the valley were completely disappointed, and knew that the overall situation was settled, and the Jiaozhi soldiers and horses had no power to turn the world back.

Fight or flee? The commander army was hesitant for a while. There was still hope in his heart. Chen Changji's personal soldiers have followed him for many years, with great combat power and firm will. What if they can escape? At this time, it is possible to save the commander's life but fight for a lifetime. How can they give up easily?

In the end, the Jiaozhi soldiers escaped, but instead welcomed the Song army who had left the valley.

First, Sang Yi's infantry rushed out of the valley entrance and quickly cleared the stone bullets not far from the valley entrance. Fortunately, the stone bullets were round and it was not too difficult to push them to the roadside. Without much effort, a passage was cleared.

Before the Jiaozhi commander made up his final decision, he heard a rumbling sound, and the sound became louder and louder, as if the whole earth was trembling. With this sound, Gao Daquan's cavalry troops appeared at the entrance of the valley, endlessly, like a steel knife stabbing straight at the last horse in Jiaozhi.

The Jiaozhi commander only felt that the eyes were dark. If you were to break the ground, you would suffer the chaos. Well, now you don’t have to consider whether to escape or not. The infantry can’t run past the cavalry.

With six thousand cavalry against less than three thousand infantry, Gao Daquan rushed up with the force of a fierce tiger pounced on the sheep, attacked slowly on the front, spread his wings and quickly surrounded him.

There was no suspense about such a war. Xu Ping and Shi Quanbin lost interest in watching it. They came down from the top of the mountain and rode their horses back to Zhoucheng.

Behind the earth wall, as Sang Yi's wing army controlled the situation in the valley, the village soldiers who had previously arranged here collected their bows and crossbows and stood there listening to the commanders and reporting each person's achievements. The main principle is to determine the order according to the bows and arrows shot by the village soldiers. If the person who shot had a senior officer, it would be considered another achievement.

Compared with the Xiang army, the rural soldiers gave relatively few rewards. Speaking of which, they defended their own homes, and had income in sugar responsibilities, and did not rely on military pay to support their families. But no matter how small it was, everyone could receive a reward of half a year of wages in the battle today, which was also a large amount of savings.

When they saw Xu Ping and Shi Quanbin, the soldiers saluted loudly, and they were all full of energy.

While saying hello, Shi Quanbin asked Xu Ping in a low voice: "The rewards I have to pay today are quite a lot. Is there so much money in the sugar commerce business? If it is insufficient, just ask the court for it!"

"It's enough. The chief of the cabinet doesn't know that the sugar sugar business has expanded rapidly in recent years, and a large amount of money has been left for capital every year. Now it's just that the capital is being moved next year, and the expansion has been slower in the past two years."

Speaking of this, Xu Ping sighed: "What I am worried about now is not that the reward is not enough, but that such a large amount of reward is given out. Almost everyone, including civil servants, has dozens of extra taxes in their hands. They suddenly have such a large amount of money in their hands and must be spent. The prices in Yongzhou are probably going to rise."

Shi Quanbin said: "Yunxing is too worried, these people are not fools, so they will not buy things when the price increases. They will save copper coins and will not be less. The same is true when the price drops."
Chapter completed!