Chapter 858: Sunrise in the East (83)

It's good at home, but it's hard to go out. Wei He now finally realized the deep meaning of this proverb, thinking that when he was in the Qi Kingdom, no matter where he went, the majestic cavalry team was the object of envy of others, and he had always eaten and drunk spicy food, but now when he arrived in Liaoxi, he was like a water dog, a rat crossing the street, and fell into the end of everyone shouting and beating.

After two battles with the cavalry of the Eastern Army, the 20,000 cavalry under his command ended up with only a few hundred cavalry now, the problem is that now his hundreds of cavalry, low morale, no provisions, only five days have passed since the battle, and the horses have fallen one after another, and the cavalry has become foot soldiers, so they can only be helplessly abandoned, leaving them to fend for themselves.

When he came, there were still some leftover crops for his army to survive, but this time he turned back, there were no grains, and he thought about it, what was left after tens of thousands of troops passed by?

People can still struggle to support without food, horses without food, they can fall off the horse, a few days of hard work, the crotch of the war horse has lost a circle of weight, running up without the previous strength, there is no strength.

If these are the difficulties that can be overcome just by thinking about them, the enemy sentry cavalry that wanders from time to time is a deadly soul messenger, and once they are discovered, they will immediately summon a large number of enemy horsemen to besiege them in a very short time. After five days, with the hundreds of cavalry that escaped by themselves, only the last dozen horsemen remained, and one by one the wolves were unbearable. The rest were either chased and killed by the cavalry of the Eastern Army, or they fell behind, or those who fell behind were deliberate, and they might have fled for their lives, but at this point today, Wei He couldn't get angry at all, I hope they can escape.

"General, drink some water! A guard scooped water with a helmet and handed it to Wei He. I took a few sips of water in a daze. ⊥, looking at the unfamiliar scenery around him, Wei He couldn't help asking, "What kind of place is this?" "

The guards shook their heads, for a few days, they were driven by the cavalry of the Eastern Army, and they only knew that the wolf bèi fled for his life, and where there were few enemies, he would drill wherever he went, and he had already lost his way.

"If you can't go this way, we have to find a place where there is a house and ask. You can't spin around like a headless fly like you do now.," Wei He said.

"General Wei, where do we dare to show our heads now, we only dare to find a place where no one is stolen. Where there are people, there are eyeliners and sentry horses of the Eastern Army." replied the guard with a bitter face.

Wei He looked at the group of people and waited: "There is always a way, let a few out, find a remote village, ask, you have to figure out where you are now."

In the middle of the night, the Qi cavalry, who were panicked like lost dogs, finally found a remote village, and a group of people rushed into this small village like wolves.

When they reappear. This small village seemed extraordinarily quiet, and their horses were gone, led by Wei He, dozens of people divided into several groups. Changed into the clothes of ordinary people, left the village one after the other, and in the dark night, walked in the direction of Qingtian.

When the sky is bright. Several scouts of the Eastern Army followed the footprints of war horses to find this village, and dozens of war horses were scattered in the small village. Except for the occasional neighing of the horses, there were barely human voices, and a moment later, the angry roars of the scouts rang out in all corners of the village.

There were about twenty or so families in the village, but now, not a single family was still alive, from the old man in his seventies and eighties to the infant baby, without exception, all of them were killed with a knife, and the scouts looked angrily at the bloody scene, and gritted their teeth one by one.

"They have no horses, they can't escape far, they are separated, one of them goes back to the army to report, and the other immediately informs the local government, the fleeing enemy attacked the village, slaughtered the villagers, changed into villager clothes, discarded their horses, and absconded in disguise." The scout captain roared angrily, "The rest of the people will follow me, and it will be difficult to vent the hatred in my heart if I don't dismantle them."

"Yes! The scouts shouted in unison, divided into two horses, and the rest of the people followed the scout captain, and chased in the direction of Qingtian, no matter where the enemy fled, in the end they must have wanted to reach Kunshan Pass, from where they absconded back to Langya.

In Kunshan Pass, Zhang Hongyu has already felt the heavy pressure, the defensive position has been thinned several layers, and the two battalions of Cui Chengxiu and Gao Chengdong, who are at the forefront, have lost more than half of them, and have been withdrawn to rest, and the attack on the opposite side of Tiandan is still continuing, and it is constantly strengthening, in Kunshan Pass, he has been holding up for six days. Nearly 100,000 Qi troops were blocked in front of the Kunshan Pass. If it weren't for Zheng Xiaoyang's original demolition of Kuoshan Pass into a blank field, with the strong city of Kuoshan Pass, I am afraid that Tian Dan will lose all his offensive confidence and go home.

The entire defensive position was already in jeopardy, and there was a danger of being pierced by the enemy at any moment.

Zhang Hongyu stood on top of the highest fortress, where the entire battlefield can be seen at a glance, watching the Qi army rush towards the defensive position wave after wave, from time to time there will be a place to be broken through, and then in the place where it is broken through, the Eastern Army launched a counterattack, and the enemy who came in a group, some places were successfully recovered, and some places were occupied by the enemy, and now in the entire defensive position, the enemy and us are intertwined, like sawtooth entangled with each other.

"Commander, let's get on! Cui Chengxiu shouted for his life, "My department has been resting for two days, and we can go into battle again."

"Commander, let's get on! Gao Chengdong also shouted: "If it goes on like this, it's very dangerous."

Zhang Hongyu let out a long breath, "You two battalion leaders still have more than 500 people left, merge together, under the temporary command of Cui Chengxiu, and Gao Chengdong is deputy, ready to attack again at any time."

"Yes! The two said loudly.

"Commander, a messenger has arrived, and orders have been ordered." An officer shouted from the fortress.

"Let's go, go down and see if there are any new orders." Zhang Hongyu turned around and went down to the fort.

This fortress is several times larger than other fortresses on the defense line, and there can be about 100 soldiers stationed inside, when Zhang Hongyu went down from the top of the fort to the inside, the dusty messenger Huo Di stood up, saluted Zhang Hongyu, and said loudly: "Commander Zhang, on the order of the governor, convey the latest military orders to Commander Zhang."

Zhang Hongyu returned the salute, listened to the messenger's words, and asked in surprise: "Is the governor back?" "

The messenger smiled and said: "The governor has led his troops out of Panshan, and now the army has arrived at the camp of Niulanshan, and the cavalry led by the vanguard infantry general of the army, General Gongsun Yi, has already defeated the 20,000 cavalry led by Wei He in Fufeng a few days ago, and the 20,000 cavalry of the Qi State are no longer there, and now the two generals are coming in the direction of Qingtian County, and the army of the governor will follow up immediately."

"Great! Zhang Hongyu laughed, and a tiger fled up and gave the messenger a bear hug.

The messenger broke free of Zhang Hongyu with a smile, and took out the order that was still carrying the body temperature from his arms, "This is an order signed by the Governor himself, please sign for it."

Zhang Hongyu nodded, took the envelope, carefully checked the fire paint seal on it, and then tore it open, looked at the first few lines, and couldn't help but raise his head in surprise, "Give up Kunshan Pass?" "

The messenger shook his head, indicating that he did not know the contents of the letter.

An hour later, all the generals of the new First Army were gathered in front of Zhang Hongyu, hearing the news of the great victory of Fufeng, the cheers that shook the sky, almost overturned the roof of the fortress, the new First Army was guarding hard at Kunshan Pass, isn't it just to create an opportunity to annihilate this Qi cavalry? Now the 20,000 enemy horsemen have been crowned with the head, and they have finally lived up to their sacrifice here.

Zhang Hongyu pressed down with both hands, stopped the cheers of the generals, and said loudly: "Everyone, I have received the latest order from the governor, and we will abandon the Kunshan Pass."

"What? The general below exclaimed, "The battle has already been won, and reinforcements will arrive soon, why abandon it?" "

"That's right, my department has already lost hundreds of lives here, just give up? "

"We can still hold on, why give up? "

"Shut up! Zhang Hongyu slapped the table and said sharply: "This is the governor's own order, are you questioning the governor?" "

Immediately there was no sound at the bottom.

"Why give up? You can't figure out such a simple truth? Our newly formed First Army sacrificed more than 4,000 soldiers at Kunshan Pass, how can this revenge not be avenged? But if we stay here and the reinforcements arrive, we will scare Tiandan away, so how can we fight? How do you want to attract them a little deeper, and then close the door and beat the dog. Got it? Zhang Hongyu roared.

The generals were stunned at first, but they immediately reacted, this is to lure the enemy deeper, it seems that the top is determined to clean up the hundreds of thousands of troops of the Qi State in one go.

"The divisions heard clearly, and tonight, launch a counteroffensive on all fronts, and after repulsing the enemy troops, then retreat. The whole army was divided into two parts, one led by me and withdrew to Qingtian County, and the other, commanded by Chen Haoran, scattered to the deep mountains on both sides of Kunshan Pass, and then waited for an opportunity to sneak into Langya, looking for an opportunity to join Zheng Xiaoyang and Ding Wei in Langya County, or Huang Zhan in Qinglong Mountain. The specific tasks of the ministries are now announced."

Late at night, at the same time, the Eastern Army that has been hard to defend suddenly launched a counterattack on the whole line, and was accustomed to attacking by itself, the Qi army defending by the other side was caught off guard, and was repelled by the Eastern Army in one fell swoop.

When the Qi army was cheering for finally opening the defense of Kunshan Pass, Gao Yuanren had already arrived at Fufeng City, and was staring at Wei He, the general of the Qi army, who was escorted in front of him. (To be continued......)