Nearly 100,000 people were defeated by the raid. This was a very terrifying thing. The chaos of the scene was beyond the imagination of many people.
In particular, the Southern Tang Army was still camped by the river, which caused a large number of soldiers to subconsciously run into the river.
At this time, most of the soldiers of the Southern Tang Dynasty had no idea how many people were coming from the Zhou army. There was no time to think about whether Zhou Jun would capture prisoners or other things.
They would only continue to infect each other with fear amidst the cries of their horrified colleagues around them, and then let this fear quickly build to a peak.
The soldiers quickly lost their minds, and many people jumped directly into the river. Most of the boats parked on the riverside capsized because of the constant influx of people.
Some were running wildly along the bank of the Yangtze River. Even if there was no Zhou army chasing behind them, they were extremely frightened and ran away lifelessly.
Of course, there were also those who couldn't run. Many people quickly exhausted their physical strength due to extreme nervousness and fright, and collapsed on the muddy ground everywhere.
There are also those who kneel on the ground with their eyes closed and accept their fate, and there are also those who are so frightened that they vomit so much that they have convulsions and cannot walk.
Murong Nobunaga is still very experienced in this situation. In fact, the entire Zhou cavalry is very experienced, because they have fought such rout battles many times. If you add one to win with less, it will be more familiar.
So without waiting for Murong Nobunaga's orders, tens of thousands of cavalrymen dispersed according to the tasks assigned before the battle.
They kept crossing the battlefield, and when they encountered those who still had weapons in their hands or armor and stomachs on their bodies, they immediately besieged them.
He didn't care about those who were running around, but he still kept intimidating them in order to make these defeated soldiers even more frightened, and he would exhaust his own physical strength.
Of course, Li Jinquan and Bian Hao protected Li Jingda to Shanbao, which unsurprisingly aroused the interest of all the Zhou cavalry.
In addition to the Zhou cavalry, a large number of defeated soldiers from the Southern Tang Dynasty who hoped to survive or follow the crowd also began to gather in this mountainous area.
Gradually, the defeated troops of the Southern Tang Dynasty numbered at least five to six thousand people here.
Cavalry squads were constantly being attracted, and they launched attacks in waves, like peeling onions, killing fewer and fewer Southern Tang soldiers on the periphery.
When the number of Southern Tang soldiers gathered here was less than 2,000, an officer finally discovered the situation here. Gao Huaide received the report and hurried over with his fifty mounted guards.
Capturing the Puppet King of Yan of Southern Wu alive was the greatest achievement of this battle, and this hilltop was the most likely place to hide a big fish.
Li Jinquan's back was soaked with sweat and his whole body was sticky. He, who was almost fifty years old this year, squinted his eyes and looked hard at the hills.
Li Jieshuai looked eagerly, hoping to see a few familiar figures.
It is a pity that the cavalry dispatched by Zhang Zhao this time are mainly composed of the Six Guards of the Pro-Army and the Seven Towns of the Forbidden Army from Hexi.
Not many of Li Jinquan's acquaintances came from the Shenwu Army and the Ya soldiers from various towns in Hebei.
Fortunately, God blessed him. Li Dajieshuai's old eyes were almost blind, and he finally saw a familiar figure.
Gao Huaide's father, Gao Xingzhou, served Li Siyuan, Emperor Mingzong of the Later Tang Dynasty, and together with the late emperor Li Congke, he was in charge of Li Siyuan's tooth soldiers as his left and right tooth generals.
At that time, Li Jinquan was Li Siyuan's personal guard, so Li Jinquan and Gao Xingzhou were very familiar with each other.
In addition, Gao Xingzhou was from Guizhou, that is, Huailai, Hebei Province. Huailai belonged to Zhangjiakou in later generations and was located north of Yanshan. The relatives, friends, old friends and party members of the Gao family were also mainly heroes from the north of Yanshan.
Li Jinquan was a Tyuhun people, and most of the Tyuhun people in the Yinshan Dudu Mansion were nomadic or settled in Guizhou, so Li Jinquan and Gao Xingzhou were actually fellow villagers.
With this relationship, the two families were extremely close. After Li Jinquan fled to the Southern Tang Dynasty, his fourth son, brother and nephew were all protected by Gao Xingzhou.
So when Li Jinquan saw Gao Huaide, he immediately became excited. He turned back to look at the guards around him, Bian Hao and others leading the Southern Tang Imperial Army.
"Shout! Shout! Just call Gao Dalang, your uncle is here, come to the rescue quickly."
So, on the battlefield where the wind was blowing, shouts with Hedong accent mixed with Jianghuai accent rang out. Suddenly, Gao Dalang! Gao Dalang's screams were heard everywhere.
As soon as Gao Huaide heard the word "uncle", his balls immediately ached. He instantly knew who was being surrounded on the hill, and he couldn't ignore it.
Because this is the rule at this time, even if everyone is their own master, and someone shows up, you must save them.
If you don't save it, your reputation will be ruined immediately. No one will think you are still a hero, and no one will follow you.
Well, the warriors of the Five Dynasties actually had their own set of rules. Although they were shameless, cruel, and shameless, they were very loyal to outsiders, but they were very particular about loyalty and unity internally.
For example, in Silver Spear, they overthrew the commander and the emperor, but the soldiers at the bottom and the grassroots officers were extremely united. They were so united that the ruler chose to kill them all collectively to eliminate hidden dangers.
But Gao Xingzhou is also in a dilemma! This was no problem in the past, but who knows whether Emperor Shaoming, who was strict in managing the military, recognized this?
Moreover, the Gao family is not the Yuan Cong of Emperor Shaoming. They have only just established themselves. Although their sister E Niang is destined to be sent to the palace, and the saint seems to like her, it has not been implemented yet.
However, seeing the surrounding comrades and subordinates turning to look at him, Gao Huaide knew that he must not show any hesitation at this time.
Just as he was about to answer, Yao Yuanfu captured and killed the commander of the Jiankang Army of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He stabbed his head with a spear in a show of force and passed by the left side of the hill in front of Li Jinquan.
uh-huh!
This is literally delivered to your door.
Li Jinquan jumped three feet high and shouted to Yao Yuanfu on the hill, "Yaochuzi, Yaoyeye, save me, save me!"
Yao Yuanfu's face turned green. After all, the Gao family had a daughter (sister) as a gift, and she had never betrayed Zhang Zhao.
But his Yao Yuanfu, sister, and niece were all very strong, and they had a dark history of taking Zhang Shengren's money and not doing anything. When he heard Li Jinquan shouting, he immediately trembled.
Fortunately, he immediately saw Gao Huaide and said, "Gao Dalang, we still need to be saved, and Li Jinquan is the most cunning person. Maybe the puppet king of Southern Wu is with him."
All right! There was no way to hide from the left and right, so Gao Huaide had no choice but to step forward, sending people to look for Murong Nobunaga while arranging people to prepare for the attack.
However, it was an attack, but it separated the Zhou army's cavalry from the panic-stricken Southern Tang army.
When Li Jinquan saw that there was something going on, he ran down the hill with a puff of smoke. He raised his hands in the air, stripped himself down to his underwear, and said to Gao Huaide and Yao Yuanfu in front of the battle.
"The person you are looking for is on the mountain and has made great achievements. Don't forget a certain family."
Gao Huaide and Yao Yuanfu were refreshed. It seemed that Li Jingda was really here. That would be great!
Seeing the two of them looking happy, Li Jinquan asked in a trembling voice, "Is fourth brother okay?"
The fourth brother was Li Jinquan's fourth son who stayed in the Central Plains. Although he was the fourth son, he was actually his eldest son. He was an official in Tokyo at the time, so he stayed in the Central Plains.
Gao Huaide nodded, "Fortunately, I have been working as a personal guard beside a certain father."
Li Jinquan's eyes became wet now. He nodded slowly and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.
Murong Nobunaga happened to be nearby, so he rushed over immediately.
As soon as he arrived, Li Jinquan recognized him.
In this world, the only one who dares to wear white helmets and white armor on the battlefield is Murong Nobunaga.
This was intentional by Hao Daer. Zuo Yu Lin Wei basically wore red cloth-covered iron armor, but he deliberately wanted white helmets and white armor.
Before Murong Nobunaga could speak, Li Jinquan suddenly knelt down and was still shouting. Gao Xingzhou and Yao Yuanfu couldn't understand, but Murong Nobunaga did.
This Li Jinquan was reporting to him in Tuyuhun dialect, saying that Li Jingda, King of Yan of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Bian Hao, the envoy of Zuo Deployment, were both on Shanbao.
Moreover, Li Jinquan also called him Khan and paid homage to him using the etiquette of Tyuhun people meeting Khan.
Murong Nobunaga suddenly couldn't laugh or cry. People said that Li Jinquan was smart but stupid. It seemed to be true.
Although his Guazhou Murong family is indeed the descendant of Murong Fu, the last Yeba Qindou Khan of Tuyuhunwudi, the governor of Changle Prefecture, and the king of Qinghai County.
But when did he do this? He himself did not dare to mention this matter again, just because he was afraid that someone would say that he was Li Siyuan or Li Congke.
It was good for Li Jinquan. In front of so many people, he actually used Tuyuhun language and came to pay homage to him.
Murong Nobunaga had no choice but to look dark and ask Li Jinquan to order the remaining two thousand Southern Tang troops to put down their weapons, and then asked him to escort Li Jingda and Bian Hao down.
Not long after, the Southern Tang army, who had received Murong Nobunaga's promise not to kill, all knelt on the ground, Bian Hao held up the white flag, and Li Jingda took off his outer robe, exposing the left half of his body, and came down to surrender to Murong Nobunaga.
In this battle, Murong Nobunaga took advantage of the Jinyi Guards' opportunity to destroy the beacon fire enemy tower and led 7,000 cavalrymen, one man and two horses, to cover more than 100 miles in only four hours.
Of course, this speed is completely inadequate compared to the terror capability of the Long Live Military Footboard, which marches 72.5 kilometers in fourteen hours.
Even in the feudal army, it is not ranked in the top ten, and it is difficult to even be considered famous, but it is not bad.
You must know that these seven thousand cavalry are not traveling lightly, but they are carrying armor and stomach.
Moreover, there was no need to rest when they arrived at the place. They only ate a piece of cake each, the war horse added a handful of black beans boiled in salt water, and immediately went into battle.
In a very short period of time, they penetrated directly into the Central Army camp of the Southern Tang Dynasty and ended the war.
In this battle, Murong Nobunaga captured alive more than 20 military envoys, military commanders, and capital commanders below Li Jingda, King of Yan of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and hundreds of mid-level generals at the level of Du Yuhou.
Tens of thousands of soldiers of the Southern Tang Army were killed, countless people drowned in the river, and more than 30,000 people were captured.
The Southern Tang Dynasty claimed to have 150,000 people, but in fact, nearly 100,000 imperial troops, state and county soldiers, rural soldiers, and young men were all lost. They were no longer able to launch any war, not even to defend the river.
Just when Murong Nobunaga was sending the captured Li Jingda banners and Yamen flags of the Southern Tang Dynasty to Chuzhou, Bai Congxin, who was located in Tianchang, also led 5,000 rear troops to Yangzhou.
At this time, not only Yangzhou, the eastern capital that had just been recovered by the Southern Tang Dynasty, fell again, but also a large number of Southern Tang officials who followed Li Jingda back to Jiangbei.
After Bai Congxin arrived, Murong Nobunaga quickly handed over the command of the army.
The older man still knows the difference clearly. He will not show off in front of an old Yuancong sect like Bai Congxin.
He also knew that he was closer to the Yuancong sect than Li Cunhui and others. That was because although he was not a member of the Yuancong sect, his mother, Cao Sanniang Yannai, was a member of the Yuancong sect.
Not only that, Murong Nobunaga also personally wrote to Zhang Zhao, explaining that Li Jinquan had paid homage to him with the Khan ceremony of the Tuyuhun people.
After Bai Congxin took over the command, he immediately arranged for Li Cunhui to march eastward to conquer Taizhou and take all the Yang Wu clan into his hands.
Then Gao Huaide was sent to lead 3,000 cavalry to open up the communication line from Yangzhou to Chuzhou along Hangou.
Because Zhang Zhao had already sent a letter, he planned to go to Yangzhou in person.
After doing this, Bai Congxin immediately began to select naval troops from the prisoners of the Southern Tang Dynasty, repair the captured warships, and also selected elites from the fishermen of Han, Chen and other families who had surrendered to form his own naval army.
This is not to scare the Southern Tang court across the river. This is really preparing for the next move. If Li Jing is unable to deal with it, Bai Congxin doesn't mind fighting across the river now.
