Chapter 1015: East Becomes West 8
Shang Kexi walked in front of the wounded soldiers, his heart was full of torment, retreating, compared to defending the city, it was actually not easy, especially since he still had thousands of wounded soldiers.
When I went to the deepest part, I saw Qian Kezhuang, who was so injured that he couldn't climb anymore, was lying where he was panting for breath, and in the only one eye, he couldn't see the former glow, and it looked a little bleak.
"Old money, you can stand it, right?" He sat cross-legged beside Qian Kezhuang.
"Hehe, I can't die for the time being, but I'm afraid it won't last long!" Qian Kezhuang smiled with difficulty, "I killed more than a dozen Qin soldiers, and gave my unborn doll a little more family business."
Shang Kexi was a little sad and didn't look away.
"What's the matter, Commander Shang, is there anything wrong with you?" Qian Kezhuang asked.
"Commander Helan has given the order to retreat, ordering us to abandon Shannan County and retreat to Jishi City." Shang Kexi lowered his voice.
"What?" Qian Kezhuang shouted suddenly, "Shannan County is our home, there are countless fertile fields and our villages here, how can we give up?"
"The Qin people coerced Zhao to open Shanggu County, Li Xin's 100,000 army came out of Shanggu and suddenly attacked Daijun, Daijun is now gone, and Commander Helan's tens of thousands of troops in Dongye can't advance or retreat, if they don't retreat, they may be surrounded by the Qin army." Shang Kexi explained: "The only way to do this now is to give up Shannan County and Dai 8 ← County first, in order to fight back in the future."
"How could Zhao Ren do this?" Qian Kezhuang asked in shock: "They have just been killed by the Qin people in one go, and before the blood is dry, have they bowed their knees to the Qin people?"
"Zhao Qi himself is not a guy with backbone." Shang Kexi spat out, "The Great Plain of Guanzhong was defeated, and his soul was destroyed, and the group of generals from Zhao State died to death and depreciated, and now the people who are gaining power are those of Zhao Qi, 100,000 elites have died, Zhao Guo has lost his spirit, and the Qin people are probably using Daijun as bait!"
"The Zhao people don't want to think about it, if we are defeated by the Qin people, can we have their good? I'm afraid that the Qin people will have to clean them up when they turn back!" Qian Ke Zhuang said.
"The so-called rat eyes are nothing more than that, or they are still counting on us to fight with the Qin people, so they can come and pick up the bargain!" Shang Ke smiled happily.
"It's not their turn to pick up cheap bones! Phew!" Qian Kezhuang took a sip, but it touched the wound and throbbed in pain. Commander Shang, the army is going to retreat, and the seriously wounded soldiers here are afraid that they will not be able to take them away."
He looked at Shang Kexi and said straightforwardly.
Shang Kexi lowered his head, the lightly wounded soldiers could still be tied to their horses and retreat with the army, but the seriously wounded soldiers could not be taken away anyway, even if they were tied to the horses, how could they withstand the bumps of the war horses, and they still gave their lives.
Qian Kezhuang also fell silent. After a while, he raised his head and smiled, "Commander Shang, what's the matter, when I was in Liaoning Wei, I didn't think that I could come back alive, these years, I married a wife, and I have an unborn son, it's enough, you go, the last defense of this Shannan county town will be handed over to us."
Shang Kexi turned his head to the side, trying to hold back his tears and not let him flow out.
"Okay, Commander Shang, don't be this little child, you said that in this battle, how many people we died, and I don't care how many of us are, if you really pity me, go back and find my wife and dolls, and take care of them more."
"After we leave, you will surrender to the Qin army, or you may survive." Shang Kexi whispered.
"How is it possible, Commander Shang, you are too underestimating us." Qian Kezhuang laughed and said: "We don't want to be slaughtered like those Zhao Jun, they slaughter chickens, even if they die, I still have to bite them out of meat." Commander Shang, this Shannan county town can't be left to the Qin army, over the years, we have managed him too firmly, if this stays, when we fight back in the future, wouldn't it be more effortless and dead, even if we leave, we have to burn him to the ground with a fire, please do one thing, when you leave, you will gather all the flammable things I can pile up, and when the time comes, a big fire will not only burn the Shannan county town to white ground, but also block the enemy and help you withdraw further."
Shang Kexi nodded silently.
The north gate of Shannan County slid open silently in the night, and the bloodstained soldiers were tired, but they were still lined up in a neat line, silently bowing to the city they had been guarding for nearly half a month, and then turned around and disappeared into the darkness.
Qian Kezhuang half-supported his body, through the half-broken windows above the city tower, looking at the team that was gradually moving away from the city, he waved his hands vigorously, but the tears in his eyes fell without struggling to breathe, around him, piled with firewood and grass, and a torch was burning above his head.
At this time, in different parts of Shannan County, hundreds of seriously wounded soldiers were almost doing the same thing, and they watched with affection as their robes faded away.
"Farewell, brethren!" Qian Kezhuang pulled out the torch on the wall above his head, and glanced nostalgically at the quiet town of Shannan in the dark night.
"My ** Qin people!" He scolded, stretched out his hand, and set fire to the firewood beside him.
With a bang, in the city tower, suddenly there was a raging fire, the tongue of fire came out of the city tower's penetration, in an instant, the entire city tower was ignited, with the city tower fire, in Shannan County, hundreds of fires were ignited at the same time, the fire spread in the city in a very short time.
"General, there is a fire in Shannan County!" A Qin general rushed into Wang Xiao's tent, and Wang Xiao had obviously just gotten the news, and was walking out while putting armor on his body, and when he walked out of the tent, he saw that the county town of Shannan had turned into a sea of fire.
"Shang Kexi is running away!" Wang Xiao's face was extremely ugly, in Shannan County, he had been fighting for more than half a month, losing more than 10,000 soldiers, but he had not yet done his best, blocking He Lanxiong's soldiers and horses, it was obviously delusional, in the past two days, he was thinking about how to face the questioning of King Qin Wulie, but he didn't expect that Shang Kexi, who had been resisting desperately, actually said to run away.
"Immediately attack the city, occupy the county town, send soldiers and horses to catch up with them, and not a single one of them can get away!" Wang Xiao said fiercely.
It is true that there is no soldier in Shannan County to defend it, but the fire that permeates the entire county town is more solid than any defense, and the Qin army can't get close at all.
The helpless Qin people waited until the sky was bright and the heat subsided, and then Wang Xiao sent Wang Jian to take 5,000 cavalry through Shannan County, and chased all the way along the direction of Shang Kexi's retreat.
Five thousand Shannan county soldiers staggered on the vast field, Shang Kexi did not have the slightest sense of relaxation, although they walked first night, but for the full foot soldiers, a night of rapid march, but only walked fifty miles, this is still the speed after they abandoned all the baggage, on the green grassland, the traces of their march are so eye-catching, with a large number of cavalry as an army, it will not take long to catch up with them.
The scouts behind him kept catching up with him, reporting to him how far the pursuing army was from them, and the 5,000 cavalry of the Qin army, led by Wang Jian, was getting closer and closer to them.
"Ten miles to go!" Shang Kexi listened to the last of the withdrawn scouts, and looked up at the exhausted team, he knew that it would not be long before the enemy would catch up. And in the wilderness, the foot soldiers and cavalry field battles, the end is not asked, rather than being chased by people like sheep in the escape, it is better to fight a favorable terrain and fight to the death with the enemy.
"Go to that beam, line up, and prepare to kill the enemy!" Shang Kexi looked at the beam overgrown with poplar trees in front of him and ordered loudly.
Climbing the beam, the poplar trees were instantly lowered to the ground, and in a very short time, they were built into a simple fence and countless horses to be discarded on the ramp. As soon as he finished this qiē, the banner of the Qin army had already appeared in his field of vision.
"Come on, come on, if you want to eat me, I want to bite you out of your flesh!" Shang Kexi snorted, raised his eyes and looked around, but there was another expectation in his heart, since Commander Helanxiong had ordered him to retreat, didn't he arrange for the people to receive him? Or here, it won't be long before it will become the dream of the Qin people, thinking of the powerful Hun cavalry under Helan Xiong, Shang Kexi is full of expectations.
"Rush up and kill them all!" Wang Jian raised the iron spear in his hand and shouted, what Shannan County left their father and son with was a strong sense of frustration, and if they didn't wipe out this army, they were afraid that they would leave a shadow in their hearts in the future.
More than ten miles away from the battlefield, He Lanxiong sat silently on the ground, and scouts kept coming from afar, running in front of him, reporting to him the location of the Qin cavalry, the infantry brigade led by Yan Haibo had withdrawn, and he took more than 10,000 cavalry to stay, first, to receive the evacuation of Shang Kexi's troops, and second, he wanted to leave an eternal mark on the Qin people on this prairie.
Whether it is Li Xin or Wang Xiao, when you get to the grassland, you will find that the war on the grassland is by no means what they imagined. And he, the Huns who grew up on the grassland and fought on the grassland for many years, know best how to defeat the opponent, and when they arrive in the grassland, they still have many support areas such as Jishi City, Dayan City and Hetao, while the Qin people need to transport grain and grass over long distances, and the advantages and disadvantages of the war will be quickly reversed.
"Commander, Wang Jian has launched an attack on Commander Shang's troops, and Commander Shang is fighting in formation, and there is no danger for the time being."
"Command the whole army, attack!" Helan Xionghuo stood up. (To be continued......)