Wanyan Loushi lost his head and died not far from the bank of the Fen River.
He has fought countless battles in his career, and he has slaughtered cities with millions of dead souls in his hands.
After he goes to the underworld, the dead souls will entertain him happily.
As soon as Wanyan Loushi died, his direct subordinate Hezha Meng'an rushed over like crazy and was immediately intercepted and surrounded by various Song troops.
It was at this time that Li Yunze turned back to look at Niu Gao and gave him a thumbs up.
The person who hit Wanyan Loushi's arm with an arrow before was Niu Gao.
The five-color sun-holding flag in the Lou room fell down, and Wanyan Posu in the distance immediately stopped entangled with Han Shizhong, fought to cut off his troops, and managed to break out of the blockade with his remaining troops to escape.
As for Wanyan Huonv in a more distant place, they had already begun to withdraw their troops.
At the foot of Taiyuan City, Wanyan Yinshuke was still fighting fiercely with Wang Zhen who had left the city to receive reinforcements.
Due to the gap in information dissemination, there seems to be no decisive change in the entire battlefield.
However, in fact, everyone around who saw Lou Shi being killed knew that the Song Army would definitely win this battle!
The more than 3,000 Jin troops who followed Lou Shi launched a fierce attack and were surrounded by tens of thousands of Song troops. Almost the entire army was wiped out.
The fish that slipped through the net elsewhere on the battlefield had no room to escape and were forced to the bank of the Fen River on one side.
Facing the powerful crossbows and stiff bows of the Song army, they either begged for mercy or simply jumped into the Fen River.
Fenhe River is not just a small ditch, it is truly the largest river in the world.
Not long after the armor-clad Jin army entered the river, both men and horses disappeared without a trace.
Even so, the angry Song army still stood on the shore and fired bows and arrows desperately.
Without him, the Song army would have suffered great losses in this battle.
"Pengju." Li Yunze summoned Yue Fei, "Take your troops and horses to Taiyuan City to meet him. Good minister, you go after Wanyan Huonu. He has a lot of infantry over there, and he will leave some more heads."
"Take orders!"
"Take orders!"
After the two of them led their teams away, Li Yunze called on the remaining people to clean up the battlefield, treat the wounded, and quickly eliminate the remaining defenders in the artillery city.
All that's left in this battle is the ending.
Li Yunze didn't think Wanyan Loushi was that good. He had beaten many famous generals, so that was it.
However, in fact, Wanyan Loushi was indeed the victorious God of War of the Jin Army. Historically, they conquered Bianliang City a few months later and then entered Guanzhong, winning consecutive battles.
The death of Wanyan Loushi in battle was a huge blow to the morale of the Jin army, because it broke the myth that the Jin soldiers were invincible since they started their army.
For Li Yunze, such a famous general was just part of a tower standing outside Taiyuan City.
In Li Yunze's understanding, Wanyan Loushi was a butcher who was willing to massacre the city at every turn and massacred most of the people in Guanzhong.
For this kind of person, the reason why he was not allowed to fly a kite and plant lotus flowers was simply because he was lucky and died happily.
"At the end of the day, the general Xuanfu Sidu is in charge of Wang Zhen and pays homage to the prince."
"I, Zhang Xiaochun, the magistrate of Taiyuan, pay my respects to the prince."
At the foot of Taiyuan City, Wang Zhen and Zhang Xiaochun, who were sticking to Taiyuan, saluted Li Yunze solemnly.
During the salute, the bodies of the two of them and the generals and officials of Taiyuan Prefecture behind them were trembling.
Two hundred days had passed since the siege of Taiyuan North, and the city had long been in despair. However, they never expected that the imperial court had not forgotten them and actually sent reinforcements to rescue them.
Li Yunze got off his horse and helped everyone up one by one.
"Everyone." He bowed his hands to everyone with a respectful expression, "I am late."
It's not pretentious, it's genuine respect.
The soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan City held on for nine months. Even after running out of ammunition and food, they still fought to the last man, fulfilling their promise and fighting the Jin army to the end.
How can such a hero not be admired?
As for the villain in Water Margin being written as a villain who framed others, it is pure slander.
Li Yunze turned around and called to Zhai Cong behind him, "Quickly allocate food, grass, and wine to the army, and have the Huotou Army bury stoves outside the city to cook, so that the soldiers and civilians defending the city can have a hearty meal."
The soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan City suddenly cheered.
They had already eaten up all the food in the city, even the bark and grass.
Now that I can finally have a full meal, I am naturally happy.
"We'll talk about other things later." Li Yunze greeted everyone, "Let's eat first."
The Huotou Army moved very quickly, and the many dead and wounded horses on the battlefield were turned into raw materials, sprinkled with salt, cooked and distributed directly.
Li Yunze held the wine pot and personally poured wine for Wang Zhen and others.
After they were full of wine and food, the generals gathered around Li Yunze and went all the way to the government office in the city.
Li Yunze sat down in the middle, and the generals and officials sat down on the left and right, and then they began to talk about business.
"The evil thief Tong Guan who escaped from battle has been brought to justice." Li Yunze's first sentence was to send good news to the soldiers and civilians of Taiyuan City.
The person who was stationed in Taiyuan City before was actually Tong Guan, who was the Xuanfu envoy to Hedong, Hebei Province and the real boss of the North.
It's a pity that this guy didn't even have the courage to talk to Xiao Jiji.
When the Jin people went south, he ran away first.
"Deserve it!"
"A good death!"
Hearing that Tong Guan was unlucky, everyone gnashed their teeth and applauded, which was a sigh of relief.
After everyone vented for a while, Li Yunze raised his hand to ask everyone to quiet down.
Then he asked Niu Gao to "tell me about the results of today's battle."
"yes."
Niu Gao, who was holding the book, took two steps forward and stood beside Li Yunze, "This battle formation killed 7,914 levels of gold thieves without taking any prisoners."
Of course there are no prisoners left, all prisoners have been disposed of and calculated according to the formation.
After all, a head can carry as much as a hundred heads. Who would capture a prisoner without a head?
"The gold thief Huanglong Mansion's Ten Thousand Households, Wanyan Orliyan (Lou's house), and eleven people were killed, and one hundred and fifteen people were killed."
"More than 4,000 horses were seized, as well as numerous flags, armor, weapons, arrows and military supplies."
Wang Zhen and others immediately stood up and saluted, "Congratulations, Your Majesty, for your unparalleled achievements!"
Han Shizhong and others here also hurriedly stood up and said, "Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince."
Facing the compliment, Li Yunze didn't smile, he just looked at him and said, "Tell us about our losses."
"yes."
Niu Gao picked up another booklet: "Jingyuan Army, Qin Feng Army, Huanqing Army, Yongxing Army, Shengjie Army killed 14,772 people and injured 5,183 people."
, 2,459 people are missing (deserters).”
When they arrived, they only had more than 70,000 people. After the first battle, one-third of the casualties were scattered. In the era of cold weapons, this casualty rate was enough to collapse the entire army.
The reason why we were able to persist to the end was that Li Yunze personally took charge and offered high rewards, as well as the morale boost from the previous victory over Xiong Ling.
Another reason is that these soldiers and horses are the elite of the Western Army after all, and they have been training field troops who have fought with the Xixia people all year round!
Historically, after the Western Army was almost completely wiped out, many of the troops retrained by Yue Fei, Han Shizhong and others actually had the remnants of the Western Army as the backbone.
Niu Gao continued to recite: "Qin Feng's military envoy Sun Wo, Weizhou's military envoy Xigong, Jingyuan's military envoy Zhang Kui. Zhao Dian and Li Fu all died for their country."
Hearing this, everyone fell silent.
The battle turned out to be so brutal that even several strategic envoys were killed.
In the silence, Li Yunze spoke, "Han Shizhong."
Han Shizhong, who was in a daze, was suddenly stunned, and then hurriedly came out of the procession to salute "Your Majesty."
"For your merits in this battle, I will promote you to the commander of the victorious army."
Li Yunze's words made Han Shizhong ecstatic and he immediately saluted.
Before, he was just the commander of the capital of Shengjie Army, that is to say, he was an agent.
Not to mention officially becoming a regular at this time, according to the tradition of the Song Dynasty, once one becomes the commander of an army, he can be called a Taiwei.
Taiwei was the highest rank among the warriors of the Song Dynasty.
Han Shizhong has been in the army for twenty years and has made countless achievements. Today he finally stands out.
After saluting, Han Shizhong stood up proudly, looking around with the air of being the best in the world.
He didn't care. Li Yunze was just a prince at this time and had no qualifications to be conferred the title of Commander-in-Chief of the Army.
Many Western Army generals around him had red eyes with envy.
"Where is Zhang Jun?" Li Yunze glanced at the generals.
Zhang Jun, who was hanging his arms, hurriedly went out to salute, "General Zhang Jun, pay your respects to the prince."
"You have meritorious service in this battle." Li Yunze nodded, "I order you to be the commander of Qin Feng's military and temporarily lead Qin Feng's army."
Zhang Jun was overjoyed and hurriedly saluted and thanked him.
Qin Feng's army suffered too many casualties, and most of the losses in this battle came from Qin Feng's army. Moreover, the senior generals were almost single-handedly defeated, so there was little resistance to his promotion.
"Wang Zhen." Li Yunze called again.
Wang Xun hurriedly came out of the queue, "The last general is here."
"You have meritorious service in holding on to Taiyuan City, and I order you to be the commander of the Jingyuan Army."
As soon as this statement came out, many people looked at a general.
The man lowered his head, but clenched his fists tightly.
This man's name is Zhang Zhongfu, the son of Zhang Kui, the commander of the Jingyuan army who died in the previous battle.
Theoretically speaking, Zhang Zhongfu should take over the Jingyuan Army, even if he is under power control.
But Li Yunze knew that this man was later offered a lower salary, so of course he would not give him military power.
As for the Huanqing Army and Yongxing Army, they are still directly controlled by Li Yunze.
"The rest of the generals are all rewarded for their merits in battle. All the rewards for winning heads that the king promised before will be distributed tonight. Those who are above the commander will be given silver ingots, each of the commanders will receive a thousand taels, and each of the commanders will receive five thousand taels."
"I, the King, serve as civil servants and the Privy Council. I have come to the court to ask for your merits. I don't think I will refute it even if I come to the court."
Everyone cheered and expressed their gratitude.
After arranging these things, Li Yunze turned to the main topic.
"My king has made up his mind. Tomorrow the entire army will be reorganized, packed up, and evacuated from Taiyuan Mansion to return to the Pingding Army."
As soon as these words came out, the joyful atmosphere suddenly evaporated.
Zhang Xiaochun, the prefect of Taiyuan, hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, we finally rescued the siege with great difficulty, how can we abandon Taiyuan Prefecture!"
He was the prefect of Taiyuan. If he abandoned the city, what would he be as a prefect?
"Today we just dealt with Wanyan Yinshuke and Wanyan Lou's two thousand households, and they were almost destroyed." Li Yunze said slowly, "Within five days, Nianhan will definitely arrive with the main force of the West Route Army.
How will we fight then? Continue to defend the isolated city and wait for reinforcements? There are no reinforcements!"
Counting this time, in order to rescue Taiyuan City, the Song Dynasty has sent four to five million troops one after another.
Where are the reinforcements coming to rescue?
"Taiyuan Prefecture is an important place in the east of the river. It must not be abandoned." Zhang Xiaochun still advised.
"There is no food in the army." Li Yunze shook his head. "If we are defending the city, we will have to run out of food for at least half a month. If we are fighting in the field, the entire West Route Army will come and they will not be able to defeat us."
"But there are still two lines of reinforcements."
"No more." Li Yunze shook his head again, "Yao Gu and Zhang Hao will definitely lose."
"Stop talking."
Li Yunze raised his hand to stop Zhang Xiaochun, "I am the pacifier of Hedong. If the court has any blame for this matter, I will take full responsibility for it."
After saying that, he stood up and brushed his sleeves, "Go to your own work. Be sure to bring all the soldiers and civilians in the city with you. Also, set up a stone monument next to the Beijing Tower outside the city."
"On it is engraved 'Wanyan Zonghan, I am missing you!'"