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42, Chen Cang War (End)

Yan Xing hid in the river reeds with his surviving troops. The infantry were cutting the way forward, and the successors struggled to wade through the water. It was extremely difficult to identify the direction in the vast reeds. It was too difficult for everyone who escaped to think about it carefully. They could only make judgments based on the sounds coming from the battlefield behind them and stay as far away as possible from the location of the front battlefield.

At this time, on the battlefield gradually moving away from behind, the situation of the two sides of the war was already very clear. The Han army advanced rapidly and attacked in groups. The Liangzhou coalition was defeated and out of control.

The left-wing soldiers and horses were sneaking into the river reed marsh not long after Yan Xing led their men to break through from behind by the iron cavalry of the Han army. Wang Fan, who was resisting stubbornly, was directly knocked out by the unstoppable armored cavalry and chopped his head.

The left-wing soldiers and horses who were wrapped in dumplings had no heads. The army, whose morale was shaky, collapsed directly. They ignored the oncoming Han army holding swords and spears, and threw their armor and ran around the battlefield. The Han army followed closely behind and chased after him, easily killing one rebel soldier after another from behind.

The banner of the Central Army Kingdom had also been pushed down, and the enemy was everywhere. The central army, which had the deepest attack on the Han army's front, was isolated and helpless. The people and horses who were trapped in the siege were killed or injured. Only Ma Teng, who was also scheming before the war, saw the opportunity in advance and rushed out of the rear gap before the Han army surrounded the Han army, leaving the bloody front battlefield. The other people and horses died or surrendered as they disappeared from the kingdom of General Hezhong, were all destroyed in this place.

Only the right-wing troops of the coalition forces first left the battlefield. Although they were pursued by the Han cavalry, Han Sui was well-organized. Relying on the number of his cavalry than the Han army, he quickly repelled and got rid of the entanglement of the Han cavalry. Then the entire army abandoned a large number of flags, supplies, wealth, etc., and moved quickly.

Taking advantage of the time when the central army and the left wing resisted, under the command of Han Sui, the right wing personnel turned around and retreated to Yumi at full speed. Fengxian and other cities were still controlled by the Liangzhou coalition forces. In addition to the Han army divided a group of cavalry to pursue the slow retreating coalition right wing personnel, other soldiers and horses were involved in encirclement, suppression and killing the coalition central army, which was already at the end of the road, and the left wing personnel came from the left.

The dispatch of the Han generals was intended to concentrate their forces to wipe out the main force of the rebels, but it also gave Han Sui a chance to escape. The soldiers at the bottom of the Han army fought bloody battles with the fierce Liangzhou rebels in order to achieve military merit at the first level. Now the rebels' central army and left-wing troops have collapsed. It is a great opportunity to beat the dogs and chase the north. No one wants to give up the military merits he has obtained, but instead he will chew the hard bones that will break their teeth.

The rebels who continued to pursue and retained their strength and retreated at any time, who could turn around and fight back, seemed to be a deal that was not worth the effort. So under the symbolic pursuit of the Han cavalry, Han Sui led his right-wing troops to get rid of the Han army's entanglement without any danger.

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After noon, the one-sided killing on the battlefield had stopped, and the captured rebel soldiers were taken into custody in batches. In addition to sending out to hunt down deserters and the troops stationed on the battlefield to guard the battlefield, the other Han troops were divided into teams to harvest the heads and clear the battlefield on the field. The rebels had been plundered for more than half a year and threw away the wealth and goods obtained by the rebels for more than half a year. This made the victorious Han soldiers make a fortune. From time to time, they heard the satisfaction cheers of the Han soldiers when they collected the goods.

In addition to chasing the enemy who had not returned, the generals of the Han army proudly presented the heads of the rebels and the captured treasures to ask for merit for me and their troops. Huangfu Song, who was in the central army, had already dismounted at this time. He sat in the temporary awning built by his subordinates and listened carefully to the reports of his generals. The staff and civil servants of the followers quickly opened their pens, ink, paper and inkstone, and began to record the heads reported by the generals, the temporary military service site, and classified them into their respective books, so as to prepare the commander's personal inspection and report the merits.

Huangfu Song had already set up more than a dozen bloody and blurred heads in front of him. These were the heads of the rebel leaders brought to him after the generals killed him. Although several of them were said to be the heads of the thief-headed kingdom, after several surrendered rebel prisoners identified it, they all confirmed that this was not the kingdom himself. Huangfu Song was not angry when he learned about it. After all, it was not easy to kill the generals and snatch the flag and take off the heads of the rebel leaders in a mess. Now he has wiped out most of the main forces of the rebels, and he no longer demanded in some matters, so as not to chill the hearts of the soldiers who fought bloodyly.

As his subordinates reported the battle reports one by one, Huangfu Song also had a general understanding of the battle. He used nearly 30,000 disadvantaged soldiers to chase and kill the retreating 60,000 to 70,000 rebels, and planned to defeat the more, beheaded more than 15,000, and captured more than 20,000 people. Their own Han soldiers were only injured in four thousand casualties, which can be said to be a complete victory. After this battle, the rebels in Liangzhou were greatly injured. Except for a small number of people escaping, all the other elite soldiers were left here and no longer able to threaten Sanfu again. Even if Han Sui's retreating troops returned to Liangzhou, it would be difficult to support them alone, and it would be difficult to cause trouble in a short period of time.

Huangfu Song, who worked hard for days and was worried about military affairs, finally stroked his long beard with a smile. After the victory, he was like the soldiers at the bottom. The haze accumulated before the war was swept away in his heart, and replaced by the confidence after the war.

He walked out of the awning light quickly, raised his left hand to block the dazzling light, and looked around. After the victory, the Han soldiers were in a rainbow of momentum. Although the killing on the battlefield had stopped, they could feel the blood and murderous aura of the soldiers on the field after a long battle. The rebel soldiers who were taken into custody in batches had no previous fierceness and bloodshed at this time. They were now all unkempt and listless, just like the tenants who farmed in the fields and the herdsmen who were pursuing herds in the north. However, Huangfu Song would not be easily deceived by their dejected appearance. Since ancient times, he was surrendered as if they were enemies. He knew that if these defeated generals were not properly handled, sooner or later, there would be another Qiang rebellion that affected the Sanfu.

"Where the army is located, thorns will be born. After the army, there will be a bad year!"

Faced with the battlefield where corpses were everywhere after the war, Huangfu Song, who was the winner, couldn't help but feel moved by the scene. He sighed a few times, and when he turned around, he had already resumed his decisive decision during the war.

The book said, "Eliminate evil and cultivate virtue." He walked back to the awning and looked at the many generals and officials under his command and said in a deep voice:

"Although the main force of the rebels has been killed, there are still some people who are still scattered in the chaos and scattered everywhere. In order to prevent these people from poisoning the three servants again, the troops in the army immediately sent troops to clear away the remaining thieves. If there are any stubborn resistance and no surrender, they will be killed!"
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