Chapter 137: Progress
While Han Ming was attacking the city, Liu Zhixian's side did not stop.
Compared with Han Ming's failure in the siege, Liu Zhixian was completely different, he fought a beautiful ambush battle and successfully blocked the reinforcements of Chen's army.
Liu Zhixian led 30,000 former troops to the ancient road to intercept the reinforcements of the ancient road.
However, according to Han Ming's scout department, there were at least 60,000 Chen troops on the ancient road, and with only 30,000 soldiers, it was still a bit troublesome for him to stop Chen Jun.
So, he decided to change his strategy, not to be tough from the front, but to ambush.
Speaking of ambushes, Liu Zhixian had to admire the scout department trained by Han Ming, it was simply amazing.
As soon as he arrived in Gudao County, the scout department presented a map of the entire ancient road, which was dangerous, where it was suitable for ambush, and where there were enemy outposts.
From the moment he saw the map, the excitement in his heart never subsided. He only now knew how high Han Ming's means were.
With precise and detailed information, the rest of the matter is much simpler, all he needs to do is find the enemy's necessary path, then lay in ambush, wait for the enemy to arrive, and then beat him hard.
Liu Zhixian had never thought that the war could be fought so easily, and now he understood why Han Ming was able to hold a high position at such a young age, and with the ability of this scout department, he put away his contempt.
He asked himself if he had the ability to do this, and the person who could train such a unit was a legend in itself, and every time he thought of this, he admired this young man from the bottom of his heart.
If Chen Jun wanted to rush to the aid of Qiongcheng from the ancient road, he would definitely have to take the fastest and closest route, but Liu Zhixian did not ambush in the canyon or basin.
He guessed that Chen Jun must have explored the area around the ancient road a little and knew which places were easy to ambush, so he might not necessarily march from these places.
In order to prevent the air, Liu Zhixian changed the ambush location to an avenue next to the Gudao River, the right side of this avenue is the Gudao River, and there is a low mountain col on the left, plus it is the only way for the Chen army to reach Qiongcheng, which can be taken by surprise, but because the terrain is flat, if the raid is launched, the Chen army can retreat, and it will not cause large casualties to the Chen army.
"General, a large enemy force has been spotted ten miles away. "Someone from the Scout Department came to report.
Liu Zhixian stationed his troops in the mountain pass, waiting for the arrival of Chen's army, and when he heard the enemy's movement at this moment, he immediately became excited.
"Pass the order, prepare for an ambush, and don't act rashly without my order. ”
After giving the order to the deputy general, Liu Zhixian also took action, he had to be fully prepared, if there was a slight mistake, Han Ming's side would be in danger.
About half an hour later, a large number of Chen troops began to appear on the avenue, Liu Zhixian waved his hand to signal everyone, all the soldiers held their breath, looking at the enemy army approaching them step by step, the atmosphere was very quiet, so quiet that they could hear their own breathing, the soldiers clenched the weapons in their hands, and waited for an order to kill the general.
Liu Zhixian looked at the Chen army one after another, and roughly looked at it, there were at least 10,000 people, and he had ambushed more than 20,000 soldiers on the col of the ancient road, if he wanted to deal with the Chen army in front of him, it was not a big problem.
Seeing that all the Chen troops had entered the encirclement, Liu Zhixian knew that the time had come.
"Put. ”
At the sound of the order, the tight bowstring echoed, and a rain of arrows shot from the col made Chen Jun under the mountain panic instantly.
"Put. ”
With the second sound of landing, dense arrows covered the sky. The dead and wounded Chen Jun under the rain of arrows were innumerable, but it also made Chen Jun react.
In a panic, Chen Jun finally came to his senses, immediately set up his shield, looked for cover, and began to organize a resistance.
Liu Zhixian saw that Chen Jun had already recovered the array, and knew that the effect of the bow and arrow was minimal.
He stood up, drew his sword, and roared.
"Kill. ”
In an instant, the Chu army on the mountain began to show its figure, roaring and rushing towards the avenue.
When Chen Jun saw that the mountains were full of Chu troops, they were very frightened and lost their fighting spirit. In addition, the terrain on both sides is wide and unobstructed, and the Chen army at both ends of the military formation has already begun to lose their armor and run away.
The generals of the Chen army commanded with great effort, and in order to prevent the soldiers from escaping, they also turned the personal guards into a supervision team, and whoever escaped killed whom.
But there were not many pro-guards, and in the face of the fleeing Chen army, they couldn't cut it down at all, and some people were even crushed to death by the fleeing Chen army.
The defeat of the Chen army has been achieved, and the general of the Chen army saw that the general trend had gone, cursed, and turned back the same way.
The commanders have all been defeated and fled, and the rest naturally have no reason to resist, some surrender, some flee, and no one is willing to resist stubbornly against the attack of the Chu army.
The matter has come to this point, and Liu Zhixian did not chase after it. It's only two hours away from the ancient road, and if you chase it closely, as soon as the enemy reinforcements arrive, you will be in trouble.
After letting the soldiers clean up the battlefield, Liu Zhixian made a bold decision, he made a checkpoint directly in front of this mountain pass, facing the river and leaning against the mountain on the other side, sealing the entire avenue.
He made this decision because he had just won a battle, the morale of the soldiers was high, although the enemy's losses were not large, but the morale was damaged, and the natural terrain here, as long as this checkpoint was held, the Chen army would not be able to support Qiongcheng. And Liu Zhixian was fully confident that he could rely on this temporarily built checkpoint to resist the enemy's reinforcements.
With Liu Zhixian's help, Han Ming was able to attack Qiongcheng without any worries.
Although Han Ming was stuck under Qiongcheng for a while, fortunately, he was captured in the end.
Since the first siege of the city, in order to repair the city wall as quickly as possible, Chen Jun actually filled the corpses in the cracks of the wall, forming a human wall. This move directly angered the Chu army. Han Ming didn't say a word, and continued to attack, but he didn't attack the city wall for the first time.
However, the second time, the city gate was smashed by a city van.
Then, Han Ming picked up his Xuanye halberd and walked onto the battlefield in person. The commander personally went into battle, the soldiers were all excited, and all of them were extremely brave, and it only took an hour for Qiongcheng to take it all.
The reason why he took it so easily was mainly due to Han Ming's own negligence, and when he attacked Qiongcheng, he only surrounded the north gate and the east gate. Before the city gate was breached, Gu Liang Yangbo led the remaining 40,000 soldiers to withdraw from Qiongcheng from the south gate.
Counting up, Han Ming is actually equivalent to taking an empty city.
When he learned that Gu Liang Yangbo's main forces had safely exited Qiongcheng, Han Ming smashed the desk in front of him with one palm.
Others thought that this battle was won by the Chu army, but Han Ming knew in his heart that he had not earned anything at all in this battle, and at the cost of losing nearly 20,000 people, what he got back was just a useless empty city, and when he thought of this, the anger in his heart could not be calmed for a long time.
"Xu slippery. Han Ming shouted.
"In. ”
Han Ming held back his anger and said in a low voice, "You take the troops and bite the enemy for me." ”
"Xu Hua took the order. ”
Han Ming didn't lose his mind because of anger, he didn't let Zhang Dabiao follow because he was afraid that Zhang Dabiao would have a bad temper and be easy to be tricked.
Xu Slip is cautious, and it is best to pursue this kind of enemy. At this time, the most important thing he should do is to adjust well, and after he has enough energy, he will clean up the tired enemy.