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Qin Wenyuan signaled Kili Sugu to be safe and not to be impatient, and called the soldiers who accompanied the army to take out the map and spread it on the ground, pointing to several terrains near the "Songmo" city and said to the generals.

"After the rest of the army is finished, Kilisu Gu led his troops and Wu Ping to speed up to Kuancheng to meet the Turkic cavalry and Xu's army there, and then divided the troops to form two wings on the east and north of Songmo City. Cheng Chumo, Fang Yiai and Qin Huaiyu led the two troops. The thousand cavalry moved to the west to occupy favorable terrain to monitor the movement of the Khitan cavalry. Yuchi Baolin and Luo Shixin led [-] cavalry to set up an ambush to the southeast. Advance forward, if Wang Zitao knows the current affairs, the governor can spare him from death, if he dares to collude with the Khitans to resist, after we solve Wang Zitao, we can send troops to occupy the Khitan tribes colluding with him and expand the results of the war."

The strategy is established, and the generals are ordered to prepare for departure.

It was night, Qin Wenyuan led two thousand cavalry and hundreds of personal guards to "Kuancheng"!
After the "Kuancheng" infantry commander and Yamen officials met with Xu Tian, ​​the infantry commander Xu Yan reported that Wu Ping and Kilisugu had divided their troops to the designated area, and Shi Fan Ruxuan, the sixth-rank governor, reported the situation of "Kuancheng" people's livelihood and construction At the same time, the general situation of the new Turkic tribes and grazing lands was also explained one by one.

Qin Wenyuan was very satisfied with the development of "Kuancheng", and encouraged Shi Fan Ruxuan, the governor of the yamen.

While talking about the upcoming affairs of "Kuancheng" in the yamen, the scouts successively reported the current situation of Cheng Chumo, Luo Shiyi and other two armies, and there was no abnormality for a while.

At this time, Ma San's eyeliner who stayed in the "Songmo" city came to ask for an audience with his token, and Qin Wenyuan came into the lobby for questioning.

A thin man dressed in the clothes of ordinary people in "Songmo" city entered the room and knelt down and said.

"Report to General! Three thousand Khitan cavalry entered Songmo City quietly at night. Wang Zitao sent troops to strengthen the city's defenses, which may be detrimental to the General. Matouer is still monitoring the military situation in the city, so the villain told the news. Report it to the general."

Hearing the latest situation reported by the eyeliner, Qin Wenyuan ordered the scouts in the army to send orders to various armies overnight, and to launch an attack on Songmo City at the same time tomorrow morning with red signal flares.

After the scouts obeyed the order, Qin Wenyuan didn't feel sleepy, so he simply adjusted his breath in the yamen and waited for dawn.

After dawn, Qin Wenyuan ordered Qin Wenyuan to do a good job of defending "Kuancheng" and then led [-] cavalry and hundreds of personal guards to advance to "Songmo" city.

When the city of "Songmo" came into view, Qin Wenyuan ordered the messengers in the army to carry his token to the city to pass the order, ordering Wang Zitao and other officials in the yamen to come and meet him. He wanted to see that Wang Zitao received the order. How to act after the card.

After the messenger rode his horse to the city gate, Qin Wenyuan ordered the snipers in the guards around him to be ready to kill the enemy generals, and to use the halberd as a sign to kill Wang Zitao and all the defenders of the "Songmo" city who dared to rebel general.

The two thousand iron cavalry came to a place less than 500 meters away from the city gate and stopped in a battle formation. Qin Wenyuan still led his guards and went forward for a few hundred meters. When he was still a hundred meters away from the city gate, Qin Wenyuan stayed in the formation. In front of him, Zhou Cang was beside him closely, both of them stared at the gate of the city without saying a word, waiting whether Wang Zitao in the city would come out of the city to meet him.

At this time, the gates of the city of "Songmo" were closed tightly, and the soldiers on the towers stood as if facing an enemy. The heavy weapons such as bed crossbows on the archery towers on the city walls were already bowed, and the arrows glowing with cold light were aimed at the city. Bending bow and nocking arrows.

After about one stick of incense, a group of generals on the tower appeared and immediately threw out a human head, but it was the beheaded head of the envoy sent by Qin Wenyuan to the city.

A burly general in armor who looked no more than 40 years old shouted to Qin Wenyuan from the tower.

"Qin Wenyuan! You are the governor of Pingzhou and we don't violate the river, why do you want to covet Songmo City? It's still too late to bring your troops back to Pingzhou, otherwise Wang will let you come and go!"

Qin Wenyuan was already furious when he saw the envoy was killed, and then heard the arrogant words of the general who called himself Wang on the tower. Qin Wenyuan knew that this person must be the mighty Prince Tao, so he raised his horse and said loudly to the tower.

"Wang Zitao! You dare to disobey the order and kill the governor's messenger. You are really daring and reckless. You are limited to a few breaths to open the city gate and plead guilty. Qin will spare you."

"But your mother! Even if I dare to kill you, what can you do with me?"

After finishing speaking, the fellow held a bow and crossbow and shot an arrow at Qin Wenyuan...

Qin Wenyuan swung his halberd away from the arrows that were aimed at him, and rode his horse back to the front of the army.

At this time, the battle drums sounded on the tower, and dozens of arrows piercing the air shot at the Qin army again.

The guards of the Qin army had erected their shields to resist, only to hear the sound of "Dang, Dang, Dang" long arrows hitting the shield. Countless people were thrown off their horses by force, and all of them were injured.

Qin Wenyuan was furious. This was the third time he was provoked by Wang Zitao. There is a saying: "There are only three things, this guy really deserves to die!"

Originally, he wanted to try not to use weapons beyond this era on the battlefield, but now it seems that it is reasonable to kill Wang Zitao and his generals as soon as possible to frighten the defenders and reduce the casualties of soldiers on both sides of the Tang Dynasty.

In desperation, Qin Wenyuan swung the halberd with his right hand and gave the order to kill.

I only heard several crisp "bang!" sounds in the air, and Wang Zitao and several generals on the tower were killed instantly, and the bloody atmosphere filled the air, frightening the defenders on the tower to be stunned for a moment, not knowing what happened , Several fallen generals had blood holes in their brains, and their appearance was terrifying.

After being dazed for a while, all the soldiers seemed to wake up, shouted loudly and ran down the tower.

How are you going to fight this battle? I haven't figured out what weapons other people are using. Isn't staying here waiting to die?

Qin Wenyuan saw that the enemy troops on the city tower were also in disorder, so he ordered the messengers to fire red signal flares to order the whole army to attack the "Songmo" city.

The Khitan cavalry in the city saw that Wang Zitao's army was in a mess and fled to the east and north gates. After learning the news of Wang Zitao's death, they began to loot supplies in the city. Ma San's eyeliner opened the south gate in the chaos , Xu Tian sent his army into the city.

After the Khitan cavalry snatched a lot of supplies, they abandoned the city and fled towards the north gate. Not long after leaving the city gate, they encountered the army led by Kilisu Gu and Wu Ping. The army circled around, relying on the speed of their horses, they wanted to leave the battlefield westward.

As soon as the Khitan cavalry reached the hilly area not far to the west, they heard the sound of a cannon. Suddenly, thousands of cavalry rushed out, but it turned out that the two thousand cavalry led by Cheng Chumo, Qin Huaiyu, and Fang Yiai and Xu Tianbu who came out of the city from the west gate killed them. arrive.

Xiao Zhan, the leading Khitan general, was shocked when he saw the ambush and the pursuers. He thought that the purpose of cooperating with Wang Zitao this time was just to reap some benefits and lead the army back to the tribe. Unexpectedly, the Tang army attacking "Songmo" city was so powerful. I have already trapped my subordinates, and seeing that the Tang army is only a little more than my own, this fellow suddenly waved his army to attack, and wanted to protrude from the Tang army's encirclement.

Qin Wenyuan saw that the Khitan soldiers attacked without saying a word, and ordered the soldiers to issue an order for the whole army to attack.

Zhou Cang took the lead, the iron rod in his hand was rustling, ghosts were crying and gods were howling, Cheng Chumo swung the ax wide open and closed, laughing all the way into the battle group, Fang Yiai even regarded Ma Qian as an iron rod Bang, the horse yelled and smashed randomly, and the people and horses it touched were instantly torn apart.

Goodbye to Qin Huaiyu's long spear that makes people appear like ghosts. You can see him picking, stabbing, sweeping, shaking and other moves on his horse's back.

Qin Wenyuan scanned the battlefield with his halberd on a slightly higher ground, perhaps having seen many battles, he couldn't feel the slightest disturbance in his heart.

At this time, the army led by Kili Sugu and Wu Ping arrived again, and nearly [-] Turkic and Qin cavalry mixed together launched a charge against the Khitan cavalry again.

Kili Sugu and the Turkic soldiers under his command hated the Khitans for teaming up with Wang Zitao to attack the tribesmen.

Dust and smoke billowed on the battlefield, filled with blood...

The sound of horseshoes, hissing, screams, and weapons clashing are mixed, soldiers fight each other, generals fight each other, the sound of thunderous shouts resounds in the sky, bloody corpses of horses and horses pile up, and the frightened people without owners The horses galloped around wildly, and the horses mourning for their masters stood guard beside the corpse.

With an absolute advantage, the Qin family's army directly killed the Khitan army, throwing away their helmets and armor. The ground was full of looted supplies, drums, flags and other symbols of the Khitan tribe.

At this moment, Xiao Zhan finally knew how big a mistake he had made. He thought that the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty were too weak to fight. It should not be a problem for him to break through the encirclement of the slightly larger cavalry of the Tang army with his [-] troops. How did he know that the Tang army was so powerful? The martial arts of the several young generals are all outstanding, and although the leading young general has not moved while watching the battle, it can be imagined that his combat power is not weak just because of the weapons in his hand.

Seeing the loss of most of the Khitan soldiers, Xiao Zhan judged the situation and threw down his weapons and shouted to surrender. Seeing that the general surrendered, the Khitan soldiers dropped their weapons and jumped off their horses. Only the Khitan soldiers who formed a regiment with the Turkic soldiers continued to fight.

Qin Wenyuan surveyed the situation on the battlefield and ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops. He rushed into the place where he was fighting with the Turkic and Khitan generals, and set his halberd apart from the Khitan general who was fighting Kilisu bone. There was no hair on the neck, and the fierce general said loudly as he threw the weapon in his hand to the dust with a pale face.

"The general will kill if he wants to, why humiliate me?"

Seeing that the general seemed to have some backbone, Qin Wenyuan withdrew the weapon in his hand and said the same thing.

"Since your patriarch has surrendered, the Qin family's army will not kill the enemy who surrendered!"

After finishing speaking, he talked to Kili Sugu again.

"General Kili has to fight again, go back to the camp and count the injured soldiers!"

Kilisu Gu bowed his hands to accept the order, looked at the fierce Khitan general again bitterly, and then galloped back to the army.

In this battle, Qin's army severely damaged the Khitan cavalry at a small price, casualty nearly half of the Khitan cavalry and captured a large number of horses.

Surrounding the surrendered Khitan Corps, Qin Wenyuan said to Xiao Zhan on horseback.

"Since you have surrendered, the governor will let you go free after you have served one year of hard labor in Pingzhou."

Xiao Zhan didn't expect the ending of the surrender to be like this, he saved his life but lost a year of freedom, he couldn't help shouting loudly.

"General! Xiao's tribe is willing to compensate the Tang army for the loss, and just ask the general to let me return to the tribe!"

"Alright! The governor will send someone to notify you and other tribes to redeem the captives at the rate of ten sheep per person."

After saying this, Qin Wenyuan ordered the army to enter the city of "Songmo" and escort all the Khitan cavalry captives to the city.

The city of "Songmo" has been taken over by two thousand cavalry led by Luo Shiyi and Yuchi Baolin who had withdrawn from the east. All those who stayed as officials counted and reported the affairs they had previously managed. At the same time, they kept records of the gold and silver and other materials looted by the Khitan cavalry and recovered.

Thousands of soldiers under Wang Zitao's command were defeated and captured. Except for some low-level leading generals who were willing to swear allegiance to the Qin family and were sent to the Qizhou teaching camp to reshape their ideological understanding, the rest were all sent to Pingzhou as hard labor. Settlement expenses are recorded for the people.

After several days of busy work, the situation in "Songmo" city was finally stabilized. In view of the mixed ethnicity here, Qin Wenyuan decided to reappoint the governor of "Songmo" city to take charge of the military administration here.

After much deliberation, he decided to transfer Shi Zhonghanting, the mayor of "Shangyin" in Pingzhou, to "Songmo" city to be promoted to the governor, but the defense of the city was handed over to Wu Ping's 1 cavalry and Kilisu bone's general Ah. The [-] Turkic cavalry led by Shi Susi brought the cavalry and infantry troops from the "Songmo" city to the "Kuancheng" line of Pingzhou to [-] horses, all of which were controlled by Wu Ping.

After everything was properly arranged, Qin Wenyuan wrote the memorial and sent an army messenger to Chang'an City to report to the emperor...

In the seventh month of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty, Qin Wenyuan left Chang'an City to work in Pingzhou. In just three months, he straightened out the chaos in Pingzhou, Yingzhou and "Songmo" cities in Liaoxi, forming the "Lulong City" Since then, the Liaoxi regime at the center has launched large-scale people's livelihood construction.

At that time, the number of troops in western Liaoning reached 2, and the main force was composed of more than [-] cavalry and [-] infantry from the Xu family army.

Shang Fei, a general under Xiao Yi of the former Xiongwu Army, has been under house arrest in the Lulongcheng barracks these days. After hearing about Xu Tian's various deeds and the achievements he has achieved in Liaoxi in a short period of time, his heart has changed a lot. From a disdainful attitude, he began to admire , After meeting with Sima Yuntian who left Lu Longcheng to manage Pingzhou affairs, he volunteered to join the Qin Army.

Knowing this situation, Sima Yuntian wrote a letter and sent an army messenger to pass it on to Qin Wenyuan.

In the city of "Songmo", Qin Wenyuan was busy receiving the messenger sent by Mohui, the leader of Xue Yantuo's alliance with the Khitan Dahe clan, and the special envoy who negotiated the Khitan captives.

The envoy of Xue Yantuo's department presented a letter written by Princess Minmin, in which she asked Xu Tian to show mercy to the Khitan captives, saying that most of the Khitan people under the jurisdiction of Xue Yantuo's department were inextricably linked to these captives. Let Xue Yantuo's tribe establish prestige in the hearts of the tribes under its jurisdiction and ensure that the tribes under its jurisdiction will no longer harass Liaoxi, and also hope that Qin Wenyuan will show mercy on her face. Speechless.