Chapter Thirty-Seven: Father and Son in a Desperate Situation
After a short period of consideration, Tong Yuan decided to rely on the strength advantage of his side and take advantage of the chaos of the other party to disarm them all, as for the arrangement, we will talk about it later.
However, there is no corresponding flag for this unexpected emergency. He feared that the left and right armies would act on their own, so he continued to maintain the pressure and the signal of negotiation, but sent heralds to both flanks to arrange the order to march and disarm.
"The enemy is inseparable from us, and our army immediately approached the enemy camp and ordered everyone to disarm and surrender. Those who do not disarm are all enemies, and the whole army besieges them according to the order. ”
After Tong Yuan's order was delivered, Zhang Xiu and Zhang Lu ordered their men to synchronize with Tong Yuan, neither rushing forward nor lagging behind.
As everyone knows, his arrangement just changed the fate of some people on the other side, and looking back decades later, I have to say that things gather like and people are grouped.
Before arriving at one of the other party's camps, they saw a large number of guerrillas scattered and at a loss, and the military officials who commanded them were either ordering them to kill other people, or telling them to hurry out of the camp and surrender, in short, no one dared to fight against the Dong family's army.
Dong Jiajun immediately sent someone to shout: "The people inside listen! You have been surrounded by tens of thousands of troops of my Dong family, so immediately abandon your weapons and surrender, otherwise you will be killed!" ”
Half of the soldiers in the battalion immediately laid down their weapons and hid aside, and a few troops and horses either tried to resist in vain, or relied on their own surrender without throwing away their weapons.
Tong Yuan's side was unceremoniously, waving the flag, and those who did not lay down their weapons were all enemies. A dense rain of arrows covered these people, whether he resisted stubbornly, or turned around and fled, or left no one alive,
After all, the chance to survive has been given, and if they don't want it, then fulfill them.
The Xinxi Liang army did not enter the camp first, but sent people to collect all the weapons, let all the thousands of prisoners come out, and handed them over to Zhang Lubu to take care of the statistics. Tong Yuan then led the army into each camp in turn, killing or capturing the soldiers hiding in it, while Zhang Xiu led the cavalry to roam outside the camp to cooperate, not letting go of anyone who escaped.
His arrangement of division of labor and cooperation in this way was extremely efficient, and the depths of the camp were focused on fighting and were unprepared for this.
The two regiments of soldiers and horses behind the camp were facing each other, and Hu Zhen and others led more than 1,000 people to besiege the three or four hundred people in the center, and the besieged were the elite soldiers led by Xu Rong and his son Xu Jian. However, due to the sudden attack, they did not have a chance to get close to the war horse, so they were surrounded by Hu Zhen's sudden attack.
Hu Zhen considered taking refuge with Li Dao or Dong Bai two days ago, but Xu Rong did not give up on the Han court and refused to let go.
Hu Zhen and others spread rumors in the camp for their own lives and futures, and connived at the spread of the Xiliang Army's counterattack on Chang'an. didn't want today's matter to be exposed, and was discovered by Xu Rong, Hu Zhen directly started a rebellion.
When Tong Yuan and the others had just arrived at the camp, it was the time when Hu Zhen was dispatching troops and preparing to start. Not long after he sent his clan brother Hu Jar to set off, Xu Rong led his guards and elite soldiers to question the development situation, and the result was that the two sides directly fought.
Hu Zhen thought to himself at this time that I had already sent someone to contact Tou Cheng, and the reinforcements must be coming soon, although Xu Rong had few soldiers and horses around him, but killing all of them would also damage a lot of his subordinates, so it was better to cooperate with the reinforcements to eliminate Xu Rong.
It's a pity that his wishful thinking didn't work, and what he did in Haoyang two days ago doomed Dong Jiajun to have no good impression of him. Tong Yuan also took a fancy to his soldiers and horses and wanted to collect them for his own use, rather than keep this tyrannical army to continue to run rampant independently, after all, the strength of the Xinxi Liang army is not as strong as Hu Zhen's soldiers and horses, and it cannot play a deterrent role.
"Report, General. The eastern, western, and southern battalions have been taken by Dong's army, and all of their men have surrendered, and they are coming towards this side, led by Tong and Zhang. ”
Hu Zhen listened to the scout's report and did not increase his vigilance, thinking that reinforcements were coming, so he casually ordered a soldier to communicate with the soldiers and horses who came over to encircle and suppress Xu Rong.
After the army set off, Hu Zhen was still secretly proud, "Xu Rong, you also have today, my Xiliang army is mainly based on Xiliang people, what if you, a Liaodong person, have the ability?" It's not a stepping stone for me yet. ”
"Oh no! Oh no, General. ”
Hu Zhen's face changed drastically, and when he was besieging the enemy, wouldn't it disturb morale, if there was no important situation, he must behead this scout to show the public.
"The soldiers and horses who came were unreasonable, and the soldiers told them about surrendering to Cheng and besieging Xu Rong, and they asked us to lay down our arms after hearing it. Of course, the soldiers did not agree, and they were all shot. I was the only one who came back alive. ”
"What!"
Hu Zhen was furious, killed the scout with a knife, and kept scolding, so loud that even the besieged Xu Rong could hear it.
"How is it possible for me to disarm! I'm a dignified Zhonglang general canonized by the imperial court, what are they, dare me to disarm and surrender! ”
When the soldiers heard this, they were all frightened and panicked. At this time, there was the sound of earth-shattering horses' hooves outside the camp, and after a while, dozens of people shouted together: "Listen, whoever inside immediately lays down their arms and comes out to surrender, otherwise my tens of thousands of troops will surely trample on them."
Hu Zhen's subordinates immediately threw away their weapons and hurriedly left the camp to surrender. These soldiers thought to themselves, everyone was originally going to surrender, surrender or surrender is not the same for these soldiers, anyway, just leave the land of right and wrong quickly.
A lieutenant couldn't stop it, and shouted to Hu Zhen in a panic: "What about the general?" Do you want me to bring my guards to fight with them? ”
Hu Zhen was furious, kicked the captain away, and shouted: "Stupid! Don't hurry up and throw your weapons and surrender! After saying that, he threw away his armor and went out of the camp to surrender.
Xu Rong and more than 300 others couldn't help but sigh when they saw the more than 1,000 soldiers and horses besieging him scatter in a blink of an eye. Although this soldier and horse were suddenly besieged and almost all of them were wounded, Xu Rong was well commanded, and even if he was surrounded, he was not in danger.
At this time, the situation eased, and a young and vigorous, tall and strong soldier with a beard said happily: "Father, the Hu Zhen thieves have been dispersed, why don't we take advantage of the other party's chaos to quickly find the horses and break through immediately?"
This person is Xu Rong's son Xu Jian, who was twenty-four years old at this time because of his courage in battle, especially good at heavy cavalry assault tactics, so he specially led Xu Rong's account to build a heavy amount of money, experienced in a hundred battles and the quota was overnumbered.
But it's a pity that this time they didn't even have a chance to get on the horse and lost nearly half.
Xu Rong pondered on the side like an old monk in a steady, and after a while, his eyes flashed, and he said loudly: "Don't break through, listen to the sound that the enemy has a large group of cavalry, and the commander is orderly." They did not pour into the camp but let Hu Zhen and them go out and surrender, so that the arrangement can maintain the formation and respond to all kinds of emergencies at any time. ”
Xu Jian's pupils shrank in his eyes, and he panicked: "That's it, then do we have anything to do?"