Chapter 176: The Fierce Battle in the Southwest (II)

When the sky was about to darken, the battle of Maoling in the west of the mountain city had also begun.

After holding on for two days with the 10,000 soldiers and horses led by Liu Di, Tang Sheng, the governor of Ya'an, and Ye Qianshi, the leader of Zhenzuo, suddenly launched a full-scale charge while Liu Di's troops were cooking at night.

Compared with the small tentative offensive between the two armies over the past two days, this charge can be described as a long time in the making. The first thunderbolt was used, and after the two hundred bombardiers threw a wave of thunderbolts, they quickly retreated, and Ye Jun, who was armed with a shield and a long knife, rushed up after him.

After a brief panic, Cao Di's troops, who were making food, retreated to the hill behind them. Judging from the terrain of the two armies, Liu Di had a slight advantage, and he held tightly on the choke point from the west into the mountain city, occupying the low hills on both sides of this choke road.

These two hills, although not very high, are steep and easy to defend and difficult to attack. Liu Di had already placed a mile-long stone and rolling wood on the road under the hill, and every time Ye Jun came to clear the road, there were arrows and thunderbolts with strong penetrating power, and Ye Jun had to drop a corpse and retreat in a hurry.

In the past two days, Liu Di's troops have relied on such sticky tactics to firmly drag the Ye army on this road belt, making it difficult for their nearly 20,000 troops to advance here.

And tonight, Ye Jun braved the situation of the other party's random arrows flying to attack Liu Jun on the hills on both sides. Attacking upwards, the natural losses were huge, stones, arrows, and rolling logs were pouring in like a tide, and Ye Jun had to pay the price of countless soldiers' lives every time he took a step forward.

It was already completely dark. Suddenly, a string of colorful fireworks flashed from the high mountains behind the two hills, and in an instant, countless torches were lit, and the bright light lit up the nearby night sky.

When the Ye soldiers who were attacking upwards saw this signal, their confidence naturally increased. It was Tang Sheng who led 6,000 of the soldiers and horses, climbed the cliff behind the hill from the far end, condescendingly, and attacked Liu Di's troops.

For a while, Liu Junren was panicked, and he had to face both the Ye army that was attacking like a tide under the mountain, and the Tang army that fell from the sky on the mountain.

In order to stabilize the morale of the army, Liu Di supervised the team to convey confidence to the soldiers, "Our reinforcements are about to arrive, and if we persist and persist, we will usher in the hope of victory." This Liu Di only visited the Malay newspaper, saying that there were reinforcements to help, but Liu Di did not know where the specific reinforcements were.

It was relatively easy to meet the Ye army attacking from the bottom of the mountain, and it was condescending, so it naturally had the advantage. And to meet the attack on the cliff of the Tang army, it is much more difficult, this part of the Tang army is carefully selected, strong combat effectiveness, so condescending, like a bamboo, and most of the Liu army has not been tempered by actual combat, so a touch of retreat, fortunately, Liu Di improvised, on the two mountain beams, with stones to build two stone walls more than half a person high, sluggish swooping down the Tang army.

Liu Jun hid behind the stone wall, with arrows, thunderbolts to impact the Tang army, because there was no heavy weapons, so the Tang army in the two stone walls of the barrier, the attack was once blocked, but the Tang army with shields, spears repeatedly impacted, after the loss of more than 2,000 troops, finally broke through the first blockade wall.

After that, the two armies fought fiercely in front of the second blockade wall. If the second blockade wall is lost, Liu Jun will be caught in the middle of a two-sided attack. So Liu Di gave a death order, and he must stick to the second blockade wall. Liu Di's army was caught in a difficult two-sided situation.

When the time was approaching, in the middle of the main road in the rear of the Ye army, suddenly sounded a deafening sound of rushing and killing, Nian Zhuangfei led 8000 troops, suddenly appeared in the rear of Ye Qianshi's army, and the battlefield situation changed.

More than 10,000 Ye army originally took the back attack, it lost more men and horses, and the long-term upward attack, the body and mind were in a state of exhaustion, and suddenly the enemy army came to the rear, and it was too late to deal with it for a while, and it was soon broken through by the troops of Nian Zhuangfei, and in an instant, Ye Qianshi's troops on the road and at the foot of the mountain fell apart, and in the chaos, Ye Qianshi was also hit by the rolling stones on the mountain, and he was killed.

The sudden failure of the command system accelerated the pace of the fall of the Ye army. Soon after the start of the time, more than 2,000 Ye troops surrendered.

After cleaning up Ye Qianshi's army under the mountain, the Tang army on the mountain suddenly lost its target. On the mountain on the left side is the commander of an adjutant named Tang Wei of Tang Sheng's troops, he is Tang Sheng's nephew, and when he saw that the situation on the battlefield had changed, he led the remaining 1,000 or so people, quickly retreated, climbed down the cliff, and fled.

On the right side of the mountain beam is Tang Sheng, because he is confident that he can defeat Liu Jun, he lost all the ropes that climbed the cliff, lost the opportunity to escape from the cliff, and fell into a bitter battle.

Liu Lai, the commander of one of Tang Sheng's battalions, secretly hid a rope, and seeing that the battle situation was unfavorable, he quietly informed Tang Sheng and escaped from behind the mountain with more than fifty guards.

In this way, after about six hours of fierce fighting, the troops of Tang Sheng and Ye Qianshi, the governor of Ya'an, were completely wiped out except for more than 1,000 people who escaped.

The battle on the Western Front ended with the victory of the side of the Longxi Dynasty, represented by Yinzhen. On the Eastern Front, Mu Jishi fell into a bitter battle with three times his own Luzhou soldiers.

Mu Jishi led his 9,000-strong troops, as well as nearly 5,000 prisoners, hurriedly rushed directly from Pingdu Ferry to the eastern front, and encountered 30,000 elite soldiers led by Zheng Tianli, the governor of Luzhou, and Hu Huaxiong, the town guard, who had just escaped.

This Wu Yinglin hugged his beloved concubine Wu Cainiang, sat in the command car, and saw the troops of Mu Jishi swarming in, with an angry look in his eyes, the red and yellow flags were flicked and closed, and the 30,000 troops outflanked him on the frontal battlefield that was more than three miles wide.

Seeing that the situation was unfavorable to him, Master Liu Chuan hurriedly suggested to Mu Jishi to change the formation. Retreating can easily affect the morale of the army, and only by turning one's own troops into a sharp knife and penetrating directly behind enemy lines can one gain a glimmer of life.

Therefore, as soon as this sharp knife array was opened, the shield was in front, the archers were behind, and the spears followed closely, and they came directly into the command vehicle of the Chinese army of Wu.

As soon as Wu Yinglin saw the troops in formation, he hurriedly waved his flag and moved the troops that had withdrawn to the two flanks back to the middle, forming a flat push posture.

The rear army of Wu flashed out two teams, moving from the sides and rear of the troops sitting and right respectively, and still outflanking tactics.

On the left, a banner of "Zheng", with about 4,000 cavalry, and on the right was a banner with the character "Hu", with about 5,000 chariots, moving quickly to the sides and rear of Mujishi.

At this time, Mu Jishi's front army had been tightly bitten by the Wu army and was in a state of stalemate, and the Wu army had a slight advantage, and now the cavalry and chariot soldiers were outflanked again, and Mu Jishi's troops were facing a state of collapse.

On the periphery, groups of captives suddenly raised their weapons and fled towards the enemy camp, and although they were killed by the Warlords, they still couldn't stop them from escaping.

"These captives should be cut down at the Pingdu Ferry, and it will not disturb the morale of the army here," Mu Ji beat his chest hatefully when commanding the car.

The mutiny on the battlefield suddenly exposed the chests of their troops, especially some shield soldiers, after defecting, exposing the archers to the enemy's arrow targets, and many archers shot their bows and arrows were blocked by the enemy's shields, and they were killed by the opponent's bows and arrows.

More than 10,000 soldiers at Muzi's time, countless defected and were shot, and half of them were lost in two hours of fighting, and about 7,000 soldiers were firmly surrounded by the other side in the core.

No matter how much Liu Inheritance repeatedly changes his tactics, he can't stop the rout.

"My life is at rest," Mu Zishi lamented as he looked at the one-sided battlefield situation.