Chapter 122: Nanchuan Victory
In the dark night, the rebels had just annihilated 3,000 officers and soldiers of Zhao Guangrong's department, and before they could form a team, they were attacked by an unknown number of officers and soldiers in a blink of an eye.
The artillery fire is soaring, the psychological deterrence of the rebels is huge, and no one will be indifferent when they hear the projectiles whistling overhead!
Zhu Youxiao led the cavalry of the imperial camp, condescendingly, rushing left and right, and the imperial sword slashed over, directly splitting the shield in front of him and a rebel in two.
Feeling the blood splashed on his face and armor, Zhu Youxiao was stunned at this time, and subconsciously felt flustered. I killed someone with my own hands just now...
Killing people with your own hands is completely different from killing people with orders, watching the enemy's head be chopped to pieces by himself like a watermelon, and the red and white splashes all over the ground.
After a short period of stunned, Zhu Youxiao actually felt a little happy.
In the dark night, no one noticed Zhu Youxiao's momentary hesitation, and everyone was excited by the emperor's example, and burst out with extremely strong combat effectiveness.
The army of extravagant Chongming's sneak attack was in chaos.
In the darkness, the fires and the sound of the hooves of the horses rushing back and forth all touched their nerves.
There is a local chief on the road in command, wanting to stop the chaos, and the whole team will fight the royal battalion again.
When Huang Degong saw this, he led the cavalry to rush over and slash the local chief with one sword, and then the counterattack hastily organized by the rebels collapsed again.
The remaining rebels were shocked, and instantly collapsed, and there was no longer fighting spirit.
They were in a mess and crowded backwards, but the rugged mountain road that had allowed them to march in stealth was now an obstacle to their lives.
Boulders and streams blocked the retreat of the rebels, and in a moment's effort, the officers and cavalry chased after them and killed them and cried loudly.
The rebels pushed each other, scrambling for each other, frantically squeezing into the narrow passages, and a considerable number of them were not killed by the officers and soldiers, but trampled to death by the endless rout.
The rebels who came by sneak attack, due to a coincidence, exposed their positions in advance, and had a vague face-to-face with Zhao Guangrong, and were defeated by Zhu Youxiao, who was personally laid off, and led the imperial battalion soldiers, and retreated one after another.
For a time, the rout was all over the mountains.
The cavalry pursued and charged through the mountain paths, cutting down one rebel after another from their horses, and blood was splashed everywhere.
The defeat was like a mountain, and only some of the men and horses could still be restrained by extravagant Chongming, and they fought and retreated.
With the sunshine of the rising sun, Zhu Youxiao rode a horse and walked on the mountain road where a big battle took place last night.
Indeed, this is an extremely hidden march path, if it were not for the men and horses of Tongzhou Sanwei to take Lengshui Pass and deploy troops to support Chen Ce, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Coming to a corpse, Zhu Youxiao picked up the goose wing knife on the ground, thoughtful, with deep admiration in his chest.
Zhao Guangrong's corpse in front of him was covered in blood, with a spear firmly inserted in his chest, but his face was full of satisfaction.
Zhu Youxiao's eyes moved slightly, and he gently spit out a few words.
"It was reported that Zhao Guangrong, the guerrilla general of Tongzhou Wei, was escorted to death, and the young master of the crown prince was given to him, and he planned to be 'loyal to Su'."
"Yin Feng's first son is a thousand households of Jinyi Wei, and when he becomes an adult, he will inherit the hereditary position, and he is still a guerrilla general of Tongzhou Wei."
Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao tightened the goose wing knife in his hand, there was still a lot of coagulated blood on it, and the smell of blood was still a little pungent.
Immediately, he turned his head and said: "Cremate his body and send it home, this war knife, just leave it here." ”
Hearing the emperor's gift to the military attache who died in battle, Huang Degong's heart was on fire, and when he saw him nodding heavily, he went down to make arrangements.
At this time, Zhu Youxiao suddenly thought that he didn't have the feeling of turning the river and the sea in his stomach when he heard it for the first time.
Xu is the reason why he personally went into battle, Zhu Youxiao no longer rejects this bloody and pungent taste.
In any case, the battle of Nanchuan was won by the hard work of many soldiers.
At this time, the battle of Chen Ce on the rocky beach had also ended, and it was the defeated soldiers who escaped overnight in the mountain road that finally decided the outcome of the battle.
They told the rebels on the rocky beach that they had been defeated and had fled to Banzhou, and many people were completely demoralized.
On the rocky beach, the trickle has been completely dyed dark purple, and the officers and soldiers are caring for the wounded, and there are also the wounded who have been thrown down by the rebels, lying on the rocky beach, groaning in pain.
No one cares about them, and in the eyes of many officers and soldiers, these people are dead, and they can still use their heads to do military exploits.
Not everyone can be righteous and awe-inspiring, to save the rebels who are still fighting with themselves, the generals are, and the same is true for the small soldiers.
"Why don't they kill themselves?"
An officer and soldier walked straight past a rebel wounded, as if he hadn't seen it, and sneered when he heard the words:
"You're still thinking about letting us save him!"
"Oh, that's stupid!"
"Who loves to go and who goes, these people are afraid that the world will not be chaotic, how many people have died in battle, save him? I can't just make up for it! ”
"Haha, let's dissipate the anger and watch him die of pain, isn't it a more enjoyable thing."
"That's right!"
Having just won the battle, all the officers and men laughed heartily while being sad and indignant, because it was indeed very comfortable to see those rebels who had been arrogant lying on the ground and wailing to death, begging for mercy to themselves.
The so-called army of more than 100,000 people in luxury Chongming was actually only 40,000 or 50,000 people, and after the first battle of Nanchuan, the birds and beasts dispersed.
Fan Long, the son-in-law of Hao Chongming, defeated the allied forces of An Bangyan and An Xiaoliang on the front line of the Dahongjiang River, but failed to penetrate directly into the rear of the official army as planned.
Afterwards, Zhu Youxiao got the news, but when this Fan Long was heading south, he was ambushed in the Wulong area.
Li Shiqi, a local staff general, expected that the rebels would pass through Wulong, and he also led his troops to attack many times when he was defending the city.
Fan Long passed by Wulong Mountain Road when he marched to support the Nanchuan battlefield, although Li Shiqi was not a local, but he had been stationed in Wulong for many years and was very familiar with the Wulong Valley.
Knowing that the rebels passed through Wulong in order to sneak attack the pro-conquest army, Li Shiqi led his troops out and besieged the rebel regiments in the valley.
Although Fan Long fought hard, the Ming army had sharp firearms and set up an ambush in advance, and finally died in the chaos by guns and artillery bombardment, and the rest of the army was scattered.
The rest of the men and horses on the battlefield of Nanchuan were lured into the valley by Qi Jin's anti-guest on the west flank all the way, and were completely annihilated.
In the game with Chen Ce, Shitan Road gradually fell into disadvantage, was divided and surrounded, and gradually eliminated.
As for the more than 10,000 elites led by Yu Chongming to sneak attack, they were defeated by Zhu Youxiao's imperial camp, and in a hurry, more than 2,000 people were gathered and retreated to the territory of Banzhou Xuanwei Division.
Most of the remaining scattered and defeated rebels were pursued and annihilated by the official cavalry on the way back.
Tong Zhonghua, Liu Yuanbin, Sun Hongji, Li Shiji and other generals led the cavalry, pursued and killed more than 20 miles in the starry night, and received Chen Ce's order before they stopped chasing and went to join the army.
After a day and a night of fighting, the pro-conquest army won the final victory, and then recovered the entire Nanchuan, laying the foundation for pacifying the situation in Sichuan.
After resting for a few days, Zhu Youxiao led the army to pull out the camp and wave his division to the north.
After a few days of marching, the pro-conquest army came to a place less than a day's journey from the city of Chongqing.
It was at this time that a large-scale mutiny against the governor Xu Keqiu broke out in the city, with the connivance and acquiescence of many generals.