Chapter XXXVII

"The enemy's reinforcements are right in front of you, how to deal with it, what good strategies do you have, say it. "Shangguan Qingyun, as the commander-in-chief of the group army, is also at a loss.

"We have no place to withdraw if we want to withdraw now, so we can only stick to this place and try to buy the city lord a little longer to eliminate the rebels in Fengyun City and Lijiazhuang. ** and Shangguan Haoyun and a group of division commanders said.

"As long as there is a breath, we will never let the enemy easily break through the Sun Moon Gorge to support the rebels in Fengyun City and Lijiazhuang. Shangguan Qinghe was also ruthless.

"Mu Tianxiang, what do you think," Seeing Mu Tianxiang who was contemplative, Shangguan Qingyun asked, and everyone also looked at Mu Tianxiang.

"The victory or defeat of the Sun Moon Gorge is actually not important, for both the enemy and us, the key is time, as long as we can hold out until the city lord can destroy the rebels of Fengyun City and Lijiazhuang, the bloodthirsty gate will lose the meaning of rescue. On the contrary, the army of the Bloodthirsty Gate must break through our defense line in the short term, give strong support to the rebels, and prevent the destruction of the rebels, so that the Bloodthirsty Gate can achieve its strategic significance. Mu Tianxiang said.

"Chen Mu is not a simple person, in just a few days, he can see through all this, and fight a war of attrition with us at any cost, we don't have any support, this is our lifeline, the consumption of personnel, the loss of materials, we can't be replenished, and the enemy army can be replenished continuously. We can't afford a war of attrition. ”

"So, I think, if we want to fight for the conditions, we have to make some changes. Mu Tianxiang said.

"Do you have a good idea," Shangguan Qingyun asked.

"The Song army has lost about 20,000 people in the past two days, and the morale of the remaining personnel is also very low, and the reinforcements are reported to the Tang State of 100,000 troops, and they did not quickly converge with the Song army, and the distance between the two sides is more than ten miles, which is an opportunity for us. ”

"Since it is not the army of one country, although the two sides are under the pressure of the bloodthirsty gate, they will support, but from the current situation, there must be a gap between the two armies. And when the Song army knew that reinforcements were coming, the defense must have been relaxed. ”

"I suggest that we seize this fleeting advantageous opportunity and do our best tonight to defeat and destroy the current Song army, so as to give the Tang army a deterrent, so that the Tang army will hesitate and buy time for our defense. ”

"It's best for Shangguan Gongzi and other level-level masters to fight to kill or capture Chen Mu even if they pay a little price. This person is not simple, and he has a good grasp of the battle situation," looking at the blank eyes around him, Mu Tianxiang said his thoughts in one breath.

"It's long time gone before, if you can always defend like a turtle in a war, you should crush the enemy head-on. Shangguan Jin has been holding back uncomfortably for the past few days, and without waiting for Mu Tianxiang to finish speaking, he said excitedly.

"Little sister, Hugh wants to talk nonsense, whether it is defense or attack, our purpose is to hold on for as long as possible and create favorable conditions for the city lord's counterinsurgency. The sober Shangguan Qingyun said: "There is no planned attack, we are 60,000 people, how many times can we fight?"

Under the planning of Mu Tianxiang, Shangguan Qingyun and others, tonight's attack tactics were set.

Overhead, the night sky is vast. A full moon hung high in the air, and the white moonlight shone on the earth, dangerous peaks, and canyons, and the night was very quiet.

After days of fighting and huge casualties, the soldiers of the Song army were very tired, and after learning that the 100,000 troops of the Tang army were behind them, the heart that had been hanging for many days was finally relaxed, the dense tent was very quiet, and the soldiers on patrol were also listless, and some even hid in the dark to take a nap.

The soldiers of Shangguan City had already lurked less than a hundred feet away from the main camp and had not yet been discovered.

Shangguan Qingyun turned over and mounted his horse, holding the long tassel in his hand, his momentum changed, and he waved the spear in his hand and shouted: "Attack in formation." ”

The cavalry quickly mounted the cavalry, the infantry also put up a battle formation, the shields were erected, and the archers drew their arrows, put them on the bowstring, and pulled a full moon.

"Kill!" Shangguan Qinghe waved the halberd in his hand and shouted, and in an instant, tens of thousands of war horses galloped out, shouting and charging all the way in a cone formation, and the earth rumbled and trembled, forcing people's hearts.

At the moment when the cavalry attacked, the archers who had already prepared shot the first wave of arrows, and the whistling rockets quickly ignited the big tent, and the flames soared into the sky.

Geng Biao tightly guarded Shangguan Qinghe's side, like an arrow from the string, taking the lead, waving *** and rushing to the front. The aura of slaughter spread quickly.

The unprepared Song army immediately fell into a panic.

"Boom" Geng Biao slashed his knife with both hands, split the enemy's spear, rushed into the enemy formation without hesitation, raised the knife in his hand, and cut the enemy under the horse, killing cleanly.

Shangguan Qinghe brandished his spear, stabbing left and right, blood splattered all over his body, and the guards around him followed closely, keeping the impact formation unchaotic.

The resistance of the Song army was defeated at the first time, seeing the severed limbs and severed arms flying in the air, terrible screams, dancing knives and guns, and splashing blood rushing into the sky. In the face of the killing, the Song army rolled upside down, and the soldiers fled along the valley, and the overall situation was decided.

Mu Tianxiang followed Shangguan Qingyun and Shangguan Jin, and led the infantry to rush into the enemy camp, looking at the attacked Song army could no longer maintain a complete formation, and was killed so that people turned on their backs, on the other hand, the soldiers of Shangguan City still maintained a tight impact formation, rushing back and forth in the barracks.

Mu Tianxiang looked at the big tent of the Chinese army in the distance, a white-haired old man was still commanding the army to assemble in vain, trying to counterattack in vain, "Chen Mu, that's Chen Mu, take him down!" Mu Tianxiang shouted loudly. As long as Chen Mu is killed or captured, everything is over.

"Let's go," Shangguan Qingyun shouted, and hundreds of monks flew away.

As soon as the movement came out here, the guards around Chen Mu immediately discovered Shangguan Cheng's intentions, and immediately organized the guards to pounce on him.

"Put the crossbow," this sortie, the infantry also carried a small number of bed crossbows, with Mu Tianxiang shouted, "bang bang bang ......" huge arrows rushed into the sky, swept over the heads of Shangguan Qingyun and others, and rushed towards the monks of the Song army, in the face of the arrows, the monks of the Song army could not dodge, and the strict formation was ploughed out of the bloody alleys, and the formation was chaotic.

Shangguan Qingyun, who rushed first, had already fought with the monks of the Song army, and with a flash of cold light, he flew away from the monks on the opposite side, and the monks of Shangguan City were in groups of three, quickly killing the enemy in front of them. In the face of Shangguan Qingyun's seductive momentum, the monks of the Song army had no intention of resisting and were quickly dispersed.

The imposing Shangguan Qingyun didn't pay attention to the other monks, and the first army's division commander Zhao and Han division commander besieged Chen Mu, in the face of the siege of three prefecture-level monks, Chen Mu blocked left and right, very embarrassed, and soon, Shangguan Qingyun seized the opportunity, stabbed straight with his spear, broke through Chen Mu's defense, lined Chen Mu on the ground, and "tied" Shangguan Qingyun shouted.

The commander was captured, and the Song army, which was already in turmoil, dispersed in a hurry.

"Quick, tell Shangguan Qinghe to gather the soldiers and organize the formation," Mu Tianxiang shouted at Shangguan Jin, Shangguan Jin was killing happily, and turned around and shouted: "What kind of formation is sorted out? It's a good time to beat the water dogs, what if the Song army runs away." ”

"Quick, there are still unexpected gains if you can't say anything today," Mu Tianxiang said anxiously.

"What chance?" Shangguan Qingyun, who had captured Chen Mu, returned to his own formation, and asked strangely while ordering someone to order Shangguan Qinghe to sort out the formation.

"Today's attack of our army is very smooth, the loss is not large, now the army's spirit is greatly boosted, the momentum is like a rainbow, on the other hand, although the Song army was killed and retreated, but there are not many dead, but the army's heart is sluggish, has become a plate of scattered sand. Mu Tianxiang said.

"That's not right, take the opportunity to kill more Song Jun," Shangguan Jin asked.

"** is not to support coming, we are driving the Song army behind the Song army, so that it can not gather resistance, let the retreating Song army impact the ** camp, if ** kill the Song army, we will watch from behind, the gap between the two countries will be greater in the future, if we don't kill, we will rush into the ** camp with the rout, and we can not defeat the ** who just arrived in one fell swoop, and buy us five to ten days. Mu Tianxiang hurriedly said his thoughts.

"Okay," Shangguan Qingyun shouted happily. Immediately order someone to execute.

"You're so insidious," Shangguan Jin said.

"The battlefield is life and death, there is nothing insidious or insidious. Mu Tianxiang said.

After receiving the order, Shangguan Qinghe and Geng Biao gathered their formations while driving away the retreating Song army.

The distance of ten miles is coming in an instant, and the Song army, which has nearly 20,000 left, is relieved when they see the camp of **, and they desperately run towards the camp of **.

Ten miles away in the battle, ** already knew, and was about to send troops to support, when he saw the retreating Song army rushing like a tide. In the face of the retreating Song army, the generals of ** did not know whether to attack or not, and between hesitations, the panicked Song army shouted and rushed into the formation of **.

"Attack with all your might," Faced with such a situation, Shangguan Qingyun shouted, and led the army to enter the ** camp with the retreating Song army.

The Song army was wrapped in ** and impacted the ** formation, the Tang and Song armies were in chaos, and the army of Shangguancheng played an inverted bead curtain and entered the enemy camp.

At this time, the number of people is meaningless, in the face of the momentum of the Shangguancheng army, ** was quickly disrupted by the formation, Shangguancheng's army continued to bite the enemy, aggravating the atmosphere of fear.

Although some of the ** under the leadership of the generals and monks, they resisted to the death, but it had nothing to do with the overall situation, after Shangguan Qingyun, Shangguan Qinghe, Geng Biao and other generals killed several generals who resisted, the monks who spared their lives left their soldiers and fled quickly.

The cavalry repeatedly rushed and killed, and the infantry quickly divided the enemy army, and the Tang and Song coalition forces were quickly defeated, and more than 100,000 people were driven and killed like sheep.

Shangguancheng's army has been chasing out of the canyon, lacking the maintenance of the monks, and the floating corpses killed by the Tang and Song Dynasty coalition troops are bleeding like a river.