Chapter 842: The Siege
The imperial army retreated in formation, and the Bajia rout, who had just surrendered, were tied up and tied up into a series of zongzi and walked behind.
Fan Bin rode his horse half a step behind the prince and said, "Your Highness, and Rong Mo will take the first step and settle the camp." ”
At this time, the situation has changed. Ba Kunlin became the defender of the city in the city, and the imperial army was outside the city, so he surrounded Jinyang City in a good time.
Just after a round of killing, the prince's hand holding the reins was trembling slightly. He struggled to control his demeanor, nodded, and Fan Bin took the order.
The royal family of the Wei family pays attention to martial arts, and he has a good mother who was born in the Dingguo Mansion, and there is no shortage of famous teachers since childhood. Since childhood, he has been practicing martial arts, and when he became an adult, he also asked himself to be skilled in arching and horses, and he could fight one against two.
However, this time on the battlefield, the prince realized that the war was too different from what he imagined.
The feeling of the saber slashing into the flesh and blood, the trembling wail, and the hideous countenance of desperate struggle were everywhere......
Later, his knife was dull, his hands were numb, and even the good horse under his crotch was panting.
Every movement seems to require all the strength of the whole body. Just when he thought he was exhausted, he saw that the enemy was able to swing his heavy saber again.
Individual bravery may be able to kill some more enemies, but it cannot influence the situation. Just like Ba Kunlin, he is an out-and-out fierce general, but after winning the trick, he can only flee for his life in a hurry.
At this time, he understood why he heard that he was going to go to the battlefield in person, and why the generals reacted so violently.
The ancients said that the son of a daughter could not sit down, this sentence does make sense.
In Luoyang City, Feng Mingxian has been abolished, and Emperor Qinglong is seriously ill. When the emperor dies, it will be the day he succeeds to the throne.
Today's Gaomang Dynasty, apart from him, can no longer find a second qualified prince. If something happens to him on the battlefield, only the King of Chu can barely do it.
But what the king of Chu practiced was not the way of the emperor. If he succeeds to the throne, Gao Mang's national fortunes are unpredictable.
He rode his horse slowly, and the general trend was passed in his heart.
But he did not regret this decision, and he had not personally been on the battlefield, so how could he understand the cruelty of war?
This may be his last chance to go to war, and he won't regret it.
Before the camp was set up, the crown prince led the generals to convene a military meeting on the slope of the hill where Ba Kun Lin had previously used as a command post.
The generals stepped forward one by one to report the gains and losses.
This battle, thanks to the brilliant plan set by the prince, with mental calculation or unintentional, the casualties of the whole army were very small. On the contrary, countless weapons, armor, and baggage were captured, and nearly 10,000 defeated soldiers were captured.
The arrangement is to join the army to register the spoils of war, count the casualties, and arrange the bereavement pension. And the most important thing is to count military merits.
As for the siege, the prince is not in a hurry.
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Ba Kunlin fled into Jinyang City in a hurry, and couldn't help but feel sad when he looked at the mess of soldiers in front of him.
Thinking that he started an incident in Yunzhou, he was full of vigor along the way, but today he suffered such a fiasco.
In this rout, the soldiers all looked panicked, and the establishment of various armies was chaotic. There will be no soldiers, no soldiers will be able to find generals, and orders will not be delivered.
There are countless people who have not escaped from the panic, and are scurrying like flies without heads.
He settled down, raised the sword in his hand high, and with enough strength, his tongue burst into a loud shout.
Ba Kunlin is worthy of being a fierce general, and this shout is like thunder, running over everyone's heads. In an instant, the scene fell silent.
The heralds beside him hurriedly seized the opportunity and passed on the general's order.
Half an hour later, the armies were finally purged. A rough calculation shows that in this battle, about fifty percent of the troops were lost, and there were countless heavy grain and grass left in the camp.
The 80,000 soldiers brought out by Ba Kunlin from Yunzhou were wiped out when they went to Jinyang, and the generals led 6,000 people all the way. At this time, after folding the logistical baggage and 50% of the troops, there were less than 40,000 people left.
His face sank like water, Rao was what he had predicted in his heart, but when the bloody facts were in front of him, he still felt like he had been slapped on the head, and he couldn't come back to his senses for a long time.
"General ......" The few remaining soldiers reminded him in a low voice.
Ba Kunlin smiled miserably, clenched the hilt of the sword in his hand, and ordered: "Pass the order, the head of the city will strengthen the defense, and search for food in the whole city." ”
Trapped in the city, if you don't have food, you won't be able to survive even a day.
"Look, General. One of the generals pointed to the heads hanging on the top of the tower and said, "I know how many of these people." It's all the eyeliner we sent to Jinyang City undercover. ”
Ba Kunlin nodded, and led the generals towards the Taishou Mansion. The eyeliner was pulled, no wonder Jinyang City was evacuated for such a big thing, and he didn't receive any news.
He forced himself to be calm, but he felt more and more in his heart that there was more and less luck after that.
The scene seen along the way shows that the imperial court has been prepared for a long time and the evacuation is orderly. Leaving Jinyang Empty City is just waiting for him to be fooled. In that case, how could there be grain and grass left in the city?
Maybe he'll die here.
Sure enough, before he could sit down, bad news came one after another.
"General, the granary in the city is empty. Only in the cellars of some large families, some stale grain was found. Joining the army is calculated, only enough for one day for the soldiers to chew. ”
"General, the soldiers on the city wall are puppets, and the trebuchets and crossbows have been unloaded. ”
"General, the well water in the city is poisonous. Some soldiers drank the water from the well, vomited and diarrhea, and went to half their lives. ”
With no food, no supplies, no ordnance, and no water, Bakunlin was already in a desperate situation at this time.
He took a deep breath and stood up, his bones crackling. In this case, we have no choice but to fight!
"Okay, pass the order, and the soldiers will fill their stomachs and rest in peace today. Tomorrow, we'll go out of the city for a decisive battle!"
Ba Kunlin sprouted the will to die in a decisive battle, and this determination also infected the generals.
"We will follow the general, and we will never die!"
When everyone retreated, and he was the only one left, Ba Kunlin was completely depressed.
The decisive battle? It's just a nice thing to say, but what kind of decisive battle is it about these frightened soldiers today?
These soldiers are good at looting, and what stimulates them to keep moving forward is the benefits that are at their fingertips.
But at this moment, I was forced into Jinyang, and found that not only did I not have a beautiful girl like a flower, but I was full of pearls and jade. Instead, he stepped into a trap. This taste of stepping into the void has long been drained of their spirits.
The army was uncertain, and Ba Kunlin didn't know how much else he could use.
If it weren't for that, just entering the city would be the best time for him to counterattack. can attack the imperial army by surprise, maybe he can take advantage of the chaos to kill out.
Unfortunately, he could only watch this great opportunity slip away.
If he could kill it this time, he would flee from Gaomang with his own soldiers, go to the Turks to occupy a territory, and set himself up as king. He had fought the Turks for many years and was well aware of their weaknesses.