202 Rare Breathing Opportunity
The war horse ridden by Hong Dingtian was killed by Mu Rong's arrow, Hong Dingtian fell to the ground with the war horse, and those Liao soldiers took the opportunity to shout the false news that Hong Dingtian had been shot dead. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info the Chu army on the battlefield only saw their commander suddenly fall to the ground, and they didn't know if it was true or not? So the military spirit of the Chu army began to waver.
After Hong Dingtian fell to the ground, although he was helped up by the soldiers of the Chu army next to him, but in order to capture Meishuang alive just now, he personally did not have many soldiers and horses to kill, and under the same force, the combat effectiveness of the Chu army was far inferior to Mu Rong's arrow leading the Flying Eagle Army, so Mu Rong led the five thousand Flying Eagle Army with an arrow to kill and rush to Meishuang and next to Xiangshuifeng. Those Flying Eagle soldiers immediately protected Meishuang.
Although Hong Dingtian led 50,000 Chu troops to surround Meishuang Xiang Shuifeng led 20,000 Liao troops, it was not easy to completely eliminate these Liao troops, after all, these Liao troops belonged to a backwater battle, and there was no way out.
Now Mu Rong led the Flying Eagle Army to rush over with an arrow, and actually rushed out of a few gaps in the encirclement of the Chu army. Because Mu Rong led the Flying Eagle Army to reinforce with an arrow, these surrounded Liao troops were also greatly boosted, and they also fought desperately.
Mu Rong saw Mei Shuang and Xiang Shuifeng with an arrow, and the two sides did not have time to be polite, Mu Rong let Xiang Shuifeng with an arrow, Mei Shuang led the Liao army to retreat first, and she herself took the Flying Eagle Army to fight to the death of the queen of the palace.
Hong Dingtian led the Chu army and originally wanted to eliminate the 20,000 Liao army led by Mei Shuang in one go, but because Mu Rong led the Flying Eagle Army with an arrow, it had disrupted Hong Dingtian's original plan, and now he saw that the Liao army retreated under the cover of the Flying Eagle Army led by Mu Rong with an arrow, and several generals under Hong Dingtian ventured to pursue, but they were killed by Mu Rong with an arrow and fell off their horses.
Hong Dingtian was afraid of the ambush of the Zhongliao army, and also temporarily stopped the pursuit. After all, he didn't know how many reinforcements the Liao army had, and the reinforcement army led by Emperor Chu Xian had not yet arrived, and Hong Dingtian did not dare to lead the lone army to pursue deeply, not to mention that he had fought with the Liao army just now, he led the Chu army to also suffer heavy casualties, and now the soldiers were also exhausted, so Hong Dingtian decided to temporarily stop the pursuit, rest in place and wait for the arrival of the backup army led by Emperor Chu Xian.
Mei Shuang led the 20,000 Liao army to almost be wiped out, but fortunately, with the rescue of the Flying Eagle Army led by Mu Rong with one arrow, half of the remaining remnants of the 20,000 Liao army were defeated and fled to Fengting City in the north.
Han Jiangxue originally sent Mu Rong and Du Muyi to lead 10,000 Flying Eagle Army to meet the Little Emperor and Meishuang's troops, but now Mu Rong led 5,000 Flying Eagle Army with one arrow to rescue the defeated remnants of Meishuang led by the surrounded army, but Du Muyi led another 5,000 Flying Eagle Army to quietly attack the logistics of the Chu army.
Why didn't Han Jiangxue send more soldiers and horses south to meet the Liao army led by the little emperor and Mei Shuang? It was because Han Jiangxue needed troops to deal with the Xiliang Army in Yanzhou, and the rebels of Liang Wangye, who had defected to the Xiliang Army.
If a large number of soldiers and horses are sent south to meet them, such a coming-and-going will cause the soldiers to be exhausted. Moreover, many of the recruits recruited by Han Jiangxue in Fengting City needed training, so she only sent the Flying Eagle Army, which had very strong mobile combat ability, out to respond, and the other Liao troops were resting in Fengting City.
Mei Shuang led the remnants of the defeated army to join the Liao army led by the little emperor and Princess Xianglian, and retreated to Fengting City together.
Hong Dingtian led 50,000 Chu troops to pursue, besieging Meishuang's Liao army, although a certain victory, but he led the Chu army also suffered heavy losses, and there were only less than 40,000 soldiers and horses left of 50,000 soldiers and horses, after all, 1,000 enemies were wounded and 800 were injured.
Hong Dingtian led the army to rest for a few days, and finally waited for Emperor Chu Xian to personally lead the army to arrive. So Emperor Chu Xian sent Hong Dingtian as the vanguard, gave him enough soldiers, horses, food and grass, and let him lead the head to Fengting City, and Emperor Chu Xian himself led the army to follow.
Emperor Chu Xian was ambitious and ready to take Fengting City in one fell swoop, but when he personally led the army to just halfway, there was a bad news, that is, part of the grain and grass in the logistics of the Chu army was burned by the Liao army.
Because the Chu army was also difficult to mobilize the grain and grass of the army, and now the grain and grass were suddenly burned, Emperor Chu Xian also felt that it was not easy to recover Fengting City, if he led the army to attack Fengting City, he accidentally fell into the ambush of the Liao army, not only did he lose his previous efforts, maybe he led the last bit of the army of Chu to be difficult to protect, so Emperor Chu Xian also decided to temporarily stop the pursuit after thinking about it.
Now Emperor Chu Xian also knew that Yanzhou had fallen into the hands of the Xiliang army, and there had been civil strife in the Liao State, so Emperor Chu Xian discussed with Hong Dingtian and Xianwuchen of Tianxian Palace, and decided to temporarily stop attacking Fengting City, and waited until the Liao army and the Xiliang army were both defeated, especially after the main force of the Liao army in Fengting City went to attack Yanzhou, he took the opportunity to sneak attack Fengting City.
Xian Wuchen and Xian Wuchou sneak attacked the Empress Dowager Xiao and came back, at this time her original second sister Xian Wuxian, the third sister Xian Wusi, the fourth sister Xian Wunian and the sixth sister Xian Wuwu, they also got sick after they came back from assassinating the little emperor of Liao. The reason is that the four of them were poisoned by Lei Jiuchun's men, but the four of them have deeper internal strength than the generals of the Liao army, so the onset time is relatively slow.
Xian Wuchen saw that his four sisters suddenly got sick, and he was also anxious, but at this time, Lei Jiuchun appeared, Lei Jiuchun used the banner of Rejuvenation Hall to treat Immortal Ruthless, Immortal Thoughtless, Immortal Thoughtless, and Immortal Worry-free.
As for Lei Jiuchun, after she relieved some of the Liao army generals, Han Jiangxue kept her promise and let her go, because now Lei Jiuchun's Rejuvenation Hall has completely offended the Liao State, so Lei Jiuchun can only take refuge in the Chu State, the enemy of the Liao State.
Because after this war, the loss of Chu was extremely heavy, the capital was occupied by the Liao army, when the Liao army fled from the Chu capital, the capital of Chu was looted, and the capital of Chu was also broken by the Liao army, and many of the weapons workshops of the Chu army were destroyed by the Liao army, and it was mainly because of this war that the Chu army suffered heavy losses. Therefore, Emperor Chu Xian was also anxious to rest the Chu army.
As for when to attack Fengting City, it depends on how the Liao army and the Xiliang army are fighting for Yanzhou. Therefore, Emperor Xian of Chu ordered Hong Dingtian to lead 100,000 Chu troops to wait for an opportunity in the south of Fengting City.
And he himself personally led other armies to return to the Chu capital, and now Emperor Chu Xian wants to quickly appease various problems and contradictions in Chu, after all, he has transferred these local armies, resulting in the emptiness of troops in many places, and in some places, cities have begun wars to seize territory with each other.
After Du Muyi led the Five Flying Eagle Army to attack and burn part of the Chu army's grain and grass, he retreated back to Fengting City. The little emperor, Princess Xiao Lin, Mei Shuang, Xiang Shuifeng and others led the remnants of the Liao army who fled from the Chu capital to the defeated generals and arrived at Fengting City, and Hanjiang Xue sent the Nighthawk to greet him on his behalf.
The little emperor, Princess Xiao Lin, Mei Shuang and the others felt safe when they entered Fengting City, and at this time, the little emperor, Princess Xiao Lin also really admired Han Jiangxue's command and combat ability.
Because they also knew that the Liao army led and commanded by Han Jiangxue not only recovered Fengting City, but also eliminated the reinforcements led by Tuan Heng, the prince of Xiliang, and forced Marshal Xiliang Tupapu to withdraw his army and return to China. If Marshal Xiliang Tupapu does not withdraw his troops and return to China, the Chu army will definitely unite with the Xiliang Army to attack Fengting City, and now Marshal Xiliang Tupapu led the Xiliang Army to retreat, and the Chu army did not dare to attack Fengting City alone, which gave the Liao army a chance to breathe in Fengting City. (To be continued.) )