In Xin'an County, Dongyang County, shrouded in night, the starlight was dim, and there was a touch of coolness between heaven and earth. Because the people nearby knew that this was a combat area and were trying their best to avoid walking, the official road at night was particularly quiet, and occasionally only a few badgers came out of the roadside and ran wantonly on the official road.

At this time, there was a rumbling sound of wheels in the south of the official road, and the earth began to shake slightly, and several badgers on the road 'swooped' into the bushes, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

In a short time, 1,000 wooden carts loaded with catapults and dry rations, dragged by 4,000 ploughing oxen, marched in the direction of the Sui army's camp. Each cart was equipped with two oxen and a coachman, but next to the wheel, a war horse was tethered.

A convoy of 1,000 men rode horses, each with torches, lighting the convoy. Behind him was a thousand cavalrymen to escort him.

The officer of this team was a general named Shang Hong, a general under the command of Meng Haigong. It's just that Shang Hong's war horse reins were controlled in the hands of another person, and a war knife was against his waist.

"General Shang, if you want to live, cooperate obediently, otherwise my war knife will pierce your heart at the first time." A young soldier next to him said coldly.

"You take the knife away, and I'll cooperate with you." Shang Hong said bitterly. When they were eating urgently five miles ago, they were surrounded by 3,000 elite cavalry of the Sui army, and none of them escaped, they were either shot to death or tied up and thrown into the mountains.

Except for him, all the people here were Sui soldiers, and the thousands of carts and the oxen pulling the carts were doused with fire oil, as were the hundred catapults, and the nine hundred carts covered by oilcloth were not grain, but bundles of dry firewood that had been poured with oil. The oxen pulling the cart were also firmly held together by them with wood, and as for the horse, it was the mount of the Sui army.

Although Shang Hong is not a famous general, he also knows what the other party wants to do, which is nothing more than a fire ox rushing to the camp and a train rushing to the camp.

"Don't worry, as long as you cooperate obediently, not only will I not embarrass you, but I will also reward you with 100 gold." The young soldier next to him comforted that he was Xu Shiji, the commander of this Sui army.

Originally, he wanted to attack the enemy camp and use each soldier to carry five catties of fire oil to burn the enemy's food, but he found that there were still 30,000 soldiers stationed in the barracks. So this baggage army became his new target, as long as he could ignite the oil on the ox as he wished, it would become a surprise soldier enough to kill the enemy.

"There is no need for a reward, as long as the general spares my life, I will be grateful." After Shang Hong finished speaking, he looked ahead again, only to see the flames and figures two miles away, and finally it was the time when he didn't want to face it the most.

Xu Shiji didn't pay attention to Shang Hong, but ordered: "The brother in charge of the grain cart, after arriving at the ground, line up the grain cart and ignite the oil on the body of the cow and the body; The brother in charge of the catapult cut the ropes of the ox and set fire only to the ox. ”

The allied soldiers were resting and eating, and in addition to the troops on guard before the big battalion, there were only a few roaming scouts patrolling back and forth.

At this time, they heard the sound of rumbling wheels, and saw that it was a burst of baggage from the south, only a thousand, each with two oxen in tow, and the hundred flatbed carts in front of them were the catapults they urgently needed.

Sun Shihan was the official of Meng Haigong, leading 30,000 forcibly conscripted miscellaneous soldiers as the rear army, and all the troops were divided into three, and the town was guarded in the rear to prevent the Sui army from attacking. Sun Shihan was called up during the meal, and immediately rushed to watch when he heard the news, and in the firelight, he saw Shang Hong, who was in the lead, and said loudly: "Shang Hong, why are you only here now?" The saint has been waiting for a long time, you kid is waiting to confess. ”

The sharp knife hit Shang Hong's waist again, and a sharp pain came, Shang Hong bit his lip and said, "Yu Sikong, the catapult is too heavy, and it has fallen into muddy water several times and can't get out, so it has been delayed for a while." ”

Sun Shihan knew that the road was soft and raining for days, so he didn't have any suspicions, grinned, and waved his hand: "Let them pass!" ”

After saying that, he turned his horse's head and went back to eat.

This is especially true of the main general, these miscellaneous soldiers naturally did not take it to heart, and scattered all at once, causing the three thousand Sui troops to swagger deep into the army. It's just that they didn't notice that the car in front of them slowed down, and the car behind them sped up. On the way ahead, the convoy slowly changed from an 'L' shape to a 'one' shape.

Looking ahead, Xu Shiji's eyes flashed with an awe-inspiring color, only to see that the endless land was shaped like day, and the dense soldiers formed more than 30 huge military formations, but in the past, Meng Haigong's soldiers were not like this, last year's Meng Haigong soldiers were like the original Wagang soldiers were disorganized, they were a beast that only knew how to go on a rampage, and with a little lure, they could scatter themselves and trample them to death, and now, Xu Shiji saw in these boy scouts that there was no military discipline in the past.

In the past, Meng Haigong's army was okay to fight a good battle, but once the soldiers were frustrated, they would collapse, but now this army has a bit of a prohibition, and the barbarism of the external strong and the middle cadres is also much more restrained and more dangerous.

Since ancient times, the battle of 'winning more with less' has always been judged by the number of people, and the morale and military spirit that really determine the key to victory or defeat are often deliberately ignored by the historians, who not only exaggerate the combat effectiveness of their own army, but also excessively deify their own commanders, and some even magnify the enemy army countless times. But Xu Shiji knew that winning more with less was actually a battle that was forced to be made, and he was eaten clean by the other party if he was a little careless.

If the coalition forces are not chaotic, the fire bull will also break the enemy's army formation at most, so that the own army will not achieve much effect, but will fall into it and cannot extricate itself. But fortunately, what the Sui army is best at is to hit the opponent's morale and frustrate the enemy's morale, and then wait silently like a cunning and murderous wolf, as long as the enemy shows flaws, he will pounce and bite the opponent to death.

"Are you ready?" Seeing that he was only a few hundred steps away from the enemy army, and some people were already running towards this side, Xu Shiji put away the distracting thoughts in his heart.

"It's ready." An eagle beside him said indifferently.

"Let's get started." Xu Shiji smiled bitterly in his heart, he could feel that the people in this place, the most nervous was Shang Hong, followed by himself, as for the three thousand Great Sui Iron Cavalry, it seemed that no one took the hundreds of thousands of coalition troops to heart, and one or two were so calm that they were to death.

In fact, these three thousand iron horsemen really didn't have anything to worry about, because they were the Xiaoguo army known as the Son of Heaven's pro-army, and they had been personally trained by Yang Dong, if they couldn't even do something as easy as winning more with less, wouldn't it be a shame for the emperor?

Soon, 4,000 cattle were lined up, facing the direction of the coalition army, and the soldiers on the cart also untied their horses, tore off their disguises, revealing the armor inside, and the thousands of soldiers pretending to be guards also ran away.

Their actions finally caught the attention of the Coalition soldiers, "What are you doing?" ”

However, it was already too late.

Thousands of soldiers quickly raised torches and lit the oxtail and the 'grain cart', and the ox body and the 'grain army' were coated with fire oil, which ignited immediately when it caught fire, and in an instant the ox's butt and the 'grain cart' were shrouded in flames.

"Moo."

The ploughing oxen were scorched by the fire, howling and frantically slashing their hooves, and swept away towards the coalition army like a stormy wave.

The vigilant coalition soldiers were running towards this direction, but when they saw a burning train rampage, their faces changed drastically, and some of them tried to shoot the crazy fire bulls with their bows and arrows, but these fire bulls were already crazy, and the pain caused by the arrows made them even more crazy, and they trampled everything in front of them with the momentum of their eyes.

"Attack!" Xu Shiji waved his arm, and more than 300 Sui army iron cavalry, who had already been ready, sounded the horn of attack.

"Woo woo woo ......" The desolate sound of the horn resounded through the heavens and the earth, and the soldiers of the Sui army followed the fire ox and began to assault.

When they got up and watched, watching the flaming oxen rushing towards them, everything understood, and they dropped their weapons one by one and ran desperately for their lives.

The panicked fire bull didn't care so much, and directly crashed into the crowd in front of him, knocking people to the ground, and then trampling over them, trampling on them, and trampling into flesh.

Everyone is afraid of death, and when there is no room to fight back, one by one the coalition soldiers will turn around and flee like crazy and obsessed, trampling on each other and crowding each other, and there are countless people.

Behind the Fire Bull Array, the three thousand iron horsemen killed in the desperate eyes of the coalition soldiers, and they rushed in like a tide along the gap torn by the Fire Bull, like a monstrous wave, completely crushing the coalition army formation that had been defeated.

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Sui army camp.

Zhang Zhenzhou, Fang Xuanling, and Qin Qiong, who had already heard their horns, climbed high and looked into the distance, and saw that under the fire ox, the coalition army was like a pot of porridge boiled, in a mess. I don't know what's going on?

"Good boy, good strategy, good courage." Zhang Zhenzhou clapped his hands and praised it, and said, "Fang Shangshu, General Qin, I want to send an army to attack, how about it?" ”

"If you don't come out now, when will you stay?" Fang Xuanling said with a smile. "The generals just kill the enemy, and I'll defend the camp."

"Okay."

At that moment, Zhang Zhenzhou and Qin Qiong rushed down to look out and gave the order for the whole army to attack.

'Woo-woo-'

The desolate trumpet echoed through the camp, an order to assemble.

Several gates opened at the same time, 30,000 iron spirits were launched at the same time, fierce horses' hooves knocked on the earth, and murderous aura burst out from them, like a long dust and sand rolled up by the wind, overwhelmingly swept towards the coalition army, and like a stormy wave that broke the embankment, it pounced on the coalition soldiers with the momentum of destroying everything and rushing everything. They held their hands in their hands, shouting to kill the heavens, and the sharp blades in their hands flashed red in the firelight. Rampage through the coalition group, constantly tearing apart the coalition formation, killing the corpses of the coalition troops all over the field, wailing all over the ground.

The Sui infantry followed closely behind, hurrying forward, chasing down the coalition soldiers who were lucky enough to survive under the iron cavalry.

Brutal killings are staged under this night, and human life becomes the cheapest thing at this time.

Most of the soldiers of the coalition were forcibly conscripted recruits, most of whom had never experienced the brutal battlefield, when they saw corpses all over the ground, heads rolling around, and minced flesh flying, when they saw the murderous Sui soldiers swept in with a suffocating force. Finally, I couldn't bear the fear in my heart, and my morale collapsed.

The soldiers turned around and fled, and the wise soldiers fled for their lives to the south, east and west; The stupid people knelt down and surrendered directly, but at this time, how could the Sui army iron cavalry take care of the people who knelt? As soon as they stopped, they were rammed by their comrades in the rear, so they just rushed forward with their heads down, trampling the kneeling fools into a pulp.

Feng Ang and Meng Haigong saw the soldiers scattering and fleeing, and they had no intention of fighting, so they retreated to the south while the Sui soldiers had not yet formed a siege.

The Sui soldiers pursued from behind to cover the killing, the battle lasted until dawn, the Sui soldiers killed the enemy camp before, Feng Ang and Meng Haigong regrouped the rout, relying on the arrow tower and the camp wall in the camp to defend, the Sui army did not have siege equipment, rushed several times were repelled by the opponent's arrows, which barely stabilized the situation and kept the military camp from losing.

After the battle, as soon as they counted, they lost more than half of their troops in just one day, and Feng Ang and Meng Haigong's hearts were cold. What is even worse is that the unfavorable war situation has shaken the morale of the army, and the whole army is full of pessimism.

"If you don't take revenge, I, Meng Hai, swear not to be a person!" Meng Haigong kicked over the table and roared angrily.

"Boom."

Just as Feng An, whose face was sinking like water, was about to speak, a muffled sound of a landslide suddenly broke out, shaking so much that even the earth was trembling, and the two of them only felt that the ground under their feet was shaking, and they almost fell to the ground.

"What happened?"

The two were shocked and went out to watch together. I saw a yellow torrent appear above the flat ground, rushing towards the barracks, and a mountain in the distance was collapsing down one by one with crazy speed.

Meng Haigong stood there in a daze, motionless, as if he hadn't heard or seen anything. The whole person was like an out-of-body soul, and he never dreamed that the mountain would collapse at this time, was it providence?

"Landslides, manpower can't be violated, run away." Feng An's face has changed, he lives in the mountainous and rainy south, often sees landslides, and naturally knows the power of nature, which cannot be resisted by manpower.

Without saying a word at the moment, he pulled Meng Haigong away, Meng Haigong stumbled, and then he came to his senses, got on the horse with Feng An, and the guards of his own soldiers ran straight to the south camp. Shouting while fleeing: "Landslide, evacuate south"

"Landslide, evacuate south."

"Landslide, evacuate south."

Although the coalition soldiers were a little dazed and at a loss, hearing everyone shouting, the desire to survive completely overshadowed their personal will, and a large number of soldiers rushed towards the south like a flood that burst the embankment.

However, the camp gate is so big, you push me down, and there are very few people who escape at the first time. Just when the cry shook the sky, the yellow torrent had already swept in, and the entire camp was like a house in the torrent, which was soon overwhelmed by the yellow torrent.

However, the mountain excavated by the Sui army before collapsed, this mountain was originally composed of loess and gravel, and the soak of many days of heavy rain made the stagnant water seep under the surface, and the mountain was extremely soft.

After the drainage of the Sui army, the mountain was soaked for several days. After several days of deliberation, Zhang Zhenzhou's plan, which he thought had failed, finally broke out at this moment, and the torrent of mud and rocks roared down, burying all the soldiers of the coalition battalion and a large amount of heavy grain and straw to the ground at once.

More than 100,000 soldiers after a day and a night of fighting, finally repelled it, one or two tired to fall asleep, when the mud and rock torrent swept in, many people were still asleep, some people who escaped in time, because the camp gate was too small, too crowded, could only watch the torrent into the soles of their feet to the chest, although some people did not die, but fell into the mud and rocks, could not get out of life at all, rushed to the south with the current, either hit the stone in front of them and died, or were drowned by the torrent and died.

300,000 stone of military rations and a large amount of baggage were all destroyed.

The ancients believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, and the coalition soldiers had just returned from a crushing defeat, and natural disasters suddenly struck, causing rumors to spread in the army and the morale of the army to fluctuate.

When Zhang Zhenzhou, Qin Qiong, Fang Xuanling, Zuo Tiancheng, Feng Li, Li Zhengbao, Xu Shiji and others heard the news, they only felt cold hands and feet, and cold sweat slipped down their heads one by one.

After some shock and rejoicing, these geniuses all felt that this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and immediately bypassed the mud and rock torrent area, drove troops to cover up, and the few remaining coalition soldiers were already disheartened and had no intention of fighting at all. Qin Qiong led the cavalry to chase all the way, and finally caught up with Meng Haigong and Feng Ang in Songyang County, Yongjia.

In this battle, the Sui army broke the coalition army, and when the 250,000 coalition troops fled to Yongjia Kucang County, the number was less than 20,000, and the rest either died in front of the Sui army camp, or died in the torrent, or died on the way to escape, and many became deserters.

Qin Qiong made a quick decision, led the cavalry of his headquarters, and continued to pursue, Feng Ang was forced to retreat to Yongjia County, join forces with Meng Yi, and fled all the way south.

Qin Qiong followed closely, entered Jian'an, and went straight to Nghe An County. At the same time, after Pei Renji, who was in Linchuan, got the battle report, he rode as well as his headquarters, passed through Nankang County along the official road, and after three days and three nights of rapid marching, he entered Longchuan County, and finally cut off Feng An's return in Heyuan County. And Meng Yi and his civil and military forces were also killed by Qin Qiong, who was chasing and killed.

The two armies converged and rested in Qingyuan County, Nanhai County, as soon as Zhang Zhenzhou and Fang Xuanling's foot soldiers and baggage arrived, they would go south and attack Nanhai County (Guangzhou), the base camp of the Feng family.

Feng An, who fled to the South China Sea, did not have time to taste the pain of losing his son, and while strengthening the city defenses, he spread the word to the counties under his rule, so that the soldiers and horses of more than ten counties such as Shi'an, Xiping, Yulin, Ningyue, Hepu, Gaoliang, and Yongxi were quickly assembled, and they supported the southern part of Nanhai County, the southern part of Cangwu, and the northern part of Xin'an County, and prepared to fight to the death with the Sui army in these three executions.

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