Chu Zheng rode his horse to Yuchi Jingde and looked at Changlin's army scattered and fled in the distance.

Behind him were nearly 4,000 armored cavalry soldiers and war horses gasping heavily. With their heavy armor, they were not enough to participate in the entire battle intact, which was also the biggest disadvantage of armored cavalry.

Therefore, after Yuchi Jingde led an armored cavalry to defeat the fighting spirit and morale of the Changlin Army, the cavalry coalition formed by Chu Zheng's command, the Chenxi Army and Feiyun Guard began to chase and kill the defeated soldiers and truly win the victory.

Yuchi Jingde glanced at Chu Zheng next to him with an expressionless face.

At this time, the armored cavalry he led was more than 3,800. There were only more than 100 casualties in this battle and they still maintained some combat effectiveness. Yuchi Jingde did not have much intention to deal with Chu Zheng.

The former ten thousand elites could not do anything to Chu Loujun, let alone the armored cavalry who was less than 4,000 cavalry now.

Chu Zheng smiled slightly at Yuchi Jingde and said, "General Yuchi, don't worry, what I said will be done. As long as the Emperor Tang can meet our conditions, the King of Qin will be released intact. Now Li Jiancheng has become a fish in the net, and it is only a matter of time before he is captured. I cannot let Li Jiancheng go easily. At that time, the King of Qin will be respected in Li Tang, and he has a great chance of becoming the new crown prince."

Yuchi Jingde nodded silently, wanting to say "thank you", but he said what kind of thanks to him? Thank him for releasing the King of Qin? But this was the transaction condition for both sides - he helped Chu Zheng defeat the Chief Lin Jun, and Chu Zheng safely released the King of Qin Li Shimin after negotiations with Li Tang.

Chu Zheng looked at Yuchi Jingde and wanted to speak but stopped, and couldn't help laughing again:

"Don't worry, in the eyes of outsiders, you have long 'betrayed' Li Shimin to join the Young Marshal's Army. What you do today has nothing to do with the King of Qin and will not involve him."

Yuchi Jingde's heart was bitter.

He was loyal to the King of Qin. If it weren't for the King of Qin to return to Li Tang and harm the vicious prince Li Jiancheng, how could he persuade his subordinates to defeat the Changlin Army for the Young Commander's Army?

However, seeing the scene of Changlin's defeat at this time, Yuchi Jingde couldn't hide his joy.

The hostility between the Tiance Army and the Changlin Army has not been done for a day or two. The two sides have long formed a mortal enemy in the open and secret struggles. They are just from the Li family camp and have never been killed by real swords and guns.

Today, in the name of joining the Young Commander's Army, he defeated the Changlin Army in one fell swoop, making it known that the Tiance Army is superior to the Changlin Army. How could Yuchi Jingde not feel angry and raised his eyebrows?

Just when he thought of the future, Yuchi Jingde couldn't help feeling sad.

Regardless of whether the King of Qin will become the crown prince after returning to Li Tang, and whether he was Yuchi Jingde, the ultimate goal of his actions today is, the blood debt of the defeat of Changlin Army will be counted on him. Even if the King of Qin is in power, he cannot forgive them.

It can be said that from the moment they decided to agree to Chu Loujun to fight, the more than 4,000 of them had no way out and no future.

Yuchi Jingde sighed, folded his fists and said, "Supervisor Chu, this battle is over. Finally, we will ask to get rid of the army and return to the field and live in Liangdu."

Chu Zheng reached out to support him and said sincerely: "General Yuchi has such great talent, isn't it a pity to retire? Besides, you and your subordinates have trained for many years to make achievements on the battlefield?"

Yuchi Jingde shook his head and said, "The King of Qin treats us as kind as a mountain. No matter what, the last general will never fight against Li Tang again..."

Chu Zheng smiled and said, "I know that the general is loyal and righteous, how can I make things difficult for the general? However, Liu Wuzhou is cruel and unkind and harming the people. I got up early to eliminate him. When the battle with Li Tang ends, my young general's army will recover and attack Liu Wuzhou to save the people. General Yuchi, dealing with such evil thieves, is it not considered betraying the King of Qin?"

Yuchi Jingde hesitated for a moment, but in the end he just stood silently, neither agreeing nor rejecting.

Chu Zheng patted his shoulder and knew that this was the best result.

It is impossible for these generals who want to surrender the Tiance Army to do it without spending more water grinding skills, but at least Yuchi Jingde did not refuse harshly, which means that there is still a certain opportunity.

At this time, the personal guard Wei Zhibai came to report to General Xuan Yongxuan, and asked for a meeting. Chu Zheng nodded in the court of Yuchi Jingde and went to see Xuan Yong.

When Chu Zheng's cavalry chased the remaining enemies of the Changlin Army, Xuan Yong also opened the city gates and brought all his troops to join the ranks of attacking and chasing the Changlin Army.

At this time, the war had basically come to an end, and Xuan Yong had time to come to pay homage to Chu Zheng.

"I am humble in the rank of Xuan Yong, I pay homage to Shuai Chu. Thank you for your help!" Xuan Yong paid a visit, and Chu Zheng hurriedly reached out to help him up.

Xuan Yong was exhausted, his face was full of fatigue, and his eyes were covered in blood. I thought that he was ordered to fight and retreat these days, which encouraged Li Jiancheng's arrogance and led Li Jiancheng to go deeper. Although he had already made a decision, he probably had a lot of pressure.

If you lose your land and lose your city, it will be unpleasant and unremarkable if you say it.

Chu Zheng apologized and held Xuan Yong's hand and said, "Gen. Xuan is wronged."

Xuan Yong hurriedly said, "Chu Shuai is polite. The Li family is powerful and Huyi is unable to resist. If it weren't for Chu Shuai's clever plan, Huyi will eventually be unable to escape the defeat."

Seeing that he did not take credit, Chu Zheng also admired him quite a bit. The two of them said a few words. Chu Zheng smiled and said, "General Xuan, the Changlin Army must be scared today, and the remaining soldiers are not worth worrying about. Tomorrow you will fight back and take Fan Cheng and Li Cheng back in one fell swoop."

Facing Chu Zheng's warm gaze, Xuan Yong suddenly felt grateful.

Now that Changlin's army is defeated, the lost Fan Cheng and Li Cheng can basically be easily regained. This is a merit that is completely within reach and has a great effect on reputation. Shuai Chu actually did not win two cities on his own, but gave him this great contribution. How could Xuan Yong not be grateful?

Xuan Yong felt comfortable doing things for Chu Shuai again, and couldn't help but say sincerely: "Thank you, Chu Shuai, I am willing to serve Chu Shuai!"

...

The pursuit of Junjiang City did not end until midnight. Li Jiancheng's Changlin army was defeated, with nearly 10,000 casualties, more than 22,000 captured people, and countless weapons, horses and food were seized.

As for the generals, Li Jiancheng escaped five miles, but was still captured alive by Dongfang Bai and Aqing who broke into the army. Erwenhuan and Qiu Tianjue died in battle, Qiao Gongshan surrendered, and most of the other middle and low-level generals were captured, and only one or two escaped.

After this battle, the young commander's army reversed its previous decline and defeated the Changlin army, and its reputation once again shocked the world.

The next day, Xuan Yong was ordered to lead his troops to fight back. Within one day, he took back the lost Licheng and Fancheng, inserted the flag of the Young Marshal's Army to the Lijia border, and the troops headed straight to the Lijia's big city Yanghe City, which shocked the Lijia's border guards three times a day.

When Li Shentong, a large army of Li family, heard the result of this battle, was so scared that he didn't dare to stay any longer. He pulled the camp overnight and led his troops back to the territory of Li family.

Because he retreated in a hurry, a large number of weapons and food were left behind, and all the food and grass were cheaper than the young commander's army.

Zuo Xiaoyou and Qin Chaowen had been wary of Li Shentong's retreat, and immediately led their troops to cover up and killed each other, ate nearly 3,000 Li Shentong's men and seized a large amount of food and grass.

Liu Wuzhou was also frightened and retreated in a hurry. He also sent envoys to negotiate, hoping to form an alliance with the young commander's army.

At this point, the four armies attacking Suizhou were either annihilated or retreated, and the young commander's army was immediately siege.

The Mongolian army that had originally besieged Xiangcheng saw that the battle was meaningless and the food and grass were not continued, so they retreated after robbing.

The battle between the Young Marshal's Army and the Li family, which attracted the attention of the world, ended with the Young Marshal's Army's victory.

The Li family, who was originally about to destroy the Young Marshal's Army in one fell swoop, was disgraced. Not only did they lose their troops, but the Tiance Army and the Changlin Army were destroyed one after another. More importantly, even the two bloodlines of the Prince Li Jiancheng and Qin King Li Shimin became prisoners of the Young Marshal's Army. They had to send people to whisper to cede land and seek peace, requesting the return of Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin.

After the news spread, Li's reputation and prestige plummeted. Many small forces that were originally respectful to Li's family began to get ready and their attitudes changed.

In contrast, the young general's reputation rose sharply, especially the Chu general's victory in two battles and defeated Li Jiancheng. The Li Shimin brothers' record was even more popular. In addition to the title of "the world's number one master", there was another reputation as "the world's number one commander".

People from all over Suizhou sang and danced to celebrate this great victory, and the people's hearts were rising.

Then Kou Zhong brought three thousand soldiers straight into Chuanzhou. Guo Jing's son-in-law Yelu Qi led thousands of soldiers to help him, and soon swept across Chuanzhou. Wherever the soldiers went, the city that originally belonged to the Li family was descending.

In just about two months, the capital Shu City changed its flag, which meant that Chuanzhou had been captured by the Young Marshal's Army and officially became the second complete county occupied by the Young Marshal's Army.

When the Li family completed negotiations with the Young Marshal's Army, they finally ceded Hezhou, which bordered Jingzhou, where Xiangcheng was located, in exchange for the Qin King Li Shimin.

Hezhou is only a small prefecture and county, with an area of ​​less than one-third of Chuanzhou, and less than one-tenth of Suizhou. It is not considered rich, but it is adjacent to Chuanzhou and Jingzhou and is only more than fifty miles away from Xiangcheng.

After obtaining Hezhou, Suizhou, Chuanzhou and Hezhou of the Young Commander's Army were connected into one. Xiangcheng immediately announced that he would fight against Mongolia with the Young Commander's Army, which was actually joining the Young Commander's Army.

The territory of the Young Marshal's Army expanded again, and occupied Suizhou, Chuanzhou, Hezhou and one-quarter of Jingzhou, it was in the limelight, and attracted countless people with lofty ideals and beautiful people to come and serve.

Of course, the negotiations about Prince Li Jiancheng lasted longer, and before King Qin Li Shimin was released to Li Tang, Chu Zheng also met with him, quietly hurting the brain nerves of His Highness the King of Qin with secret force, causing His Highness the King of Qin to slowly decline in intelligence after half a year, and eventually became a completely fool in two years...

Chu Zheng promised that Yuchi Jingde would return Li Shimin to Li Tang safely, but he did not break his promise. Well, at least in the first half of the year, His Highness Qin was doing well. As for the changes after returning to Li Tang... Well, it might be because His Highness Qin was depressed after the defeat?

Anyway, Chu Zheng would never admit that he was doing his own tricks.

Of course, these are all later stories.

Let's turn back the time to about a month before the war ended.

Chu Zheng has been busy with many miscellaneous things after the war, rewarding merits and doing things, rectifying troops, ensuring logistics, restoring people's lives, and relocating people who have been displaced due to the war... he was so busy.

He originally didn't want to get involved in these things, but Kou Zhong led his troops to attack Chuanzhou. Chu Zheng thought that he was really too careless and had to stay and deal with military and political affairs.

Fortunately, Xu Xingzhi, Ren Meimei, Chen Jiafeng and other civil officials were smart and capable, so that Chu Zheng would not be blind and overworked.

So when Liu Wenjing, the envoy sent by the Li family, arrived in Liangdu, a capital of the Shaoshen Army in a carriage, Chu Zheng threw the negotiations to Xu Xingzhi and ran to Xiangcheng to accompany Guo Xiang... Cough cough, to be precise, it was important to do important things, and it was definitely not to be lazy with the girl.

Well, it is indeed a serious matter. He wants to discuss with Guo Jing and Huang Rong about the incorporation of the Xiangcheng Army into the Young Commander's Army.

Because Xiangcheng is still a city of the Zhao Song Dynasty, although Guo Jing and Huang Rong are very popular in Xiangcheng, the Xiangcheng army is willing to join the Young Commander's Army, but the nominal highest official in Xiangcheng is still the prefect Lu Wende, and Guo Jing and Huang Rong have no official positions.

Lu Wende is incompetent, timid and cowardly, and is still loyal to the Zhao Song Dynasty. Chu Zheng and Guo Jing and his wife discussed how to deal with Lu Wende better.

If we can win over it, it is naturally the best. If we take the banner of "co-confronting Mongolia together", the Xiangcheng Army can secretly join the young marshal's army.

The advantage of this is that the Zhao Song Dynasty is now weak, and at most it is condemned and protested for a few times and then made accusations. Maybe it feels better if someone resists Mongolia for them and doesn't have to spend money or food. After all, Xiangcheng faces Mongolia directly, and the Zhao Song court has been having a headache for it for a long time.

But if Lv Wende refused to surrender to the Young Commander's Army, it would be much more troublesome. He could only openly change his banner in the direction of "civil rebellion". At that time, in order to maintain the majesty of the official face, the Zhao Song Dynasty might send troops to attack.

Now the main enemies of the Young Marshal's Army are Li Qi and Liu Wuzhou. The Li Qi can drag it out by peace talks, but the attack on Liu Wuzhou has been included in the Liangdu agenda.

Under such circumstances, how to make Lv Wende take the initiative to surrender to the Young Commander's Army, so that Xiangcheng is still the territory of the Zhao Song Dynasty in public, so as to minimize the stimulation to the Zhao Song Dynasty as much as possible has become an important issue.

Huang Rong and Lu Wende have known each other for a long time, and soon decided on the plan to force him to use his power and lure him for profit. The three of them discussed carefully and finally set a date.

Just when Chu Zheng was discussing this major event with Guo Jing and his wife in the Guo Mansion, he decided not to expect that an unexpected person would secretly come to Xiangcheng.

"So this is Xiangcheng..."

Ajiu stood on the crowded streets of Xiangcheng, looking around curiously.

She was dressed in a manly outfit, but her beautiful appearance was still very eye-catching. Her curved willow-leafed eyebrows made it easy to find that she was actually dressed as a man, which naturally attracted the attention of many people.

A Jiu also followed several masters from the Qingzhu Gang, including men and women, all sent by Cheng Qingzhu to protect her. At this time, the middle-aged woman saw everyone secretly looking at A Jiu, and immediately suggested: "Miss A Jiu, you are tired from running around all the way. Let's go and settle down first."

Watching Ajiu and his group leave, the two of them kept looking at Ajiu's man whispering to each other.

"Are you sure it's her, and you didn't recognize the wrong person?"

"You will never make a mistake. Last time this little princess left the palace without authorization, Zhu Ming's foolish monarch sent people to find someone with her portrait. I have seen the portrait with my own eyes. The girl dressed as a man must be Princess Changping of the Zhu Ming Dynasty!"

"Okay, follow me secretly and see where she stays. I will go back to find someone. As long as I catch this Princess Changping and send it to King Chuang, it will be a great achievement!"

The two of them discussed in a low voice and soon disappeared in the crowd.
Chapter completed!