Chapter 270: Pressing Forward
In this short period of time, the Chu army suffered a lot of casualties. Seeing this, the general of the Chu army immediately organized his soldiers to dodge the arrows, boulders and logs flying overhead, and at the same time moved the boulders blocking the exit of the valley to both sides as quickly as possible.
However, how could the Dafu soldiers, who had been prepared for a long time, let these Chu soldiers who had already been in a mess leave calmly, and the boulders, rolling logs and arrows on the top of the mountain came more and more violently.
At this time, those Dafu soldiers who were originally hiding at the other end of the valley, as well as some Dafu soldiers on the hillside, rushed towards the Chu soldiers in the valley at the fastest speed.
At this time, although the Chu soldiers had the advantage in numbers, they were already in a mess. Some of the brave ones raised their weapons and fought with the Dafu soldiers, but many more were desperately trying to find a way out, some wanted to find a place to hide in the valley, and some wanted to climb the boulders and climb over the boulders.
The general of the Chu army was also embarrassed at this time, his helmet was smashed off at some point, and there was a long arrow stuck in his arm.
At this time, he was working with several generals under his command to open the road desperately, and after killing several Chu soldiers who did not obey the command, the chaotic situation on the field finally improved a lot.
After some hard work, the Chu soldiers finally moved the stone aside, revealing a way to rush out, but they were blocked by a group of Dafu soldiers.
There was no way, the leading general of the Chu soldiers had to personally take the surviving soldiers under his command and rush to kill these Dafu soldiers who were waiting for work.
The Dafu soldiers in the rear, of course, were not willing to let go of this opportunity to destroy the enemy, and they followed closely behind the Chu soldiers, flanking the enemy with their companions in front.
This battle almost became a one-sided massacre, countless Chu soldiers were killed on the spot, and some Dafu soldiers even cut their knives.
These Chu soldiers also knew that only by rushing out of this valley could they have a chance to live. So at this time, without the command of their commander, they still rushed to kill outside the valley.
It took more than an hour for these Chu soldiers to finally break out of a heavy encirclement and rush out in embarrassment.
But the price they paid was also very serious, less than 10% of the nearly 50,000 soldiers who came out this time managed to escape, and even their leading generals were killed in the siege of the generals of Dafu.
After seeing the Chu soldiers flee, the Dafu soldiers didn't even bother to clean up the battlefield, and chased closely behind the fleeing Chu soldiers.
These Chu soldiers, seeing that the Dafu army was still chasing after them, and their main general was also killed, how could they still have the courage to fight against the Dafu people, some of them hurriedly knelt down and surrendered, and some people fled in a panic.
Seeing that the Dafu soldiers were chasing in the direction of the Chu army's camp tent, how could the Chu soldiers who fled in front dare to return to the camp, so the small number of Chu soldiers who were still in the camp did not know what was happening in front of them.
When the Dafu soldiers rushed to the front of the camp, the Chu soldiers in the camp were killed before they could react, so frightened that they hurriedly abandoned the camp and fled desperately in the direction of Chu.
After occupying the opponent's camp account, Yang Yan immediately ordered his subordinates to count the number of people, and in this battle, the 20,000 fiefdom soldiers led by Yang Yan were lost by nearly half.
However, the results achieved were also very obvious, they eliminated a total of more than 40,000 Chu soldiers, killed the opponent's main general, and occupied the opponent's camp.
The most important thing is that Yu Xian's carefully constructed defense line has been opened from here, and the Dafu people can penetrate deep into the rear of the Chu army from here and attack them back and forth.
Yang Yan actually hit by mistake, and a gap opened in the defense line carefully constructed by Yu Xian, Yang Ming was happy but also a little jealous, when he knew that Yang Yan had also lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in this battle, his mood suddenly improved a lot.
Of course, Yang Ming would not let go of such a fighter, he immediately let his soldiers rush in through this gap, and made Yu Xian miserable behind the Chu army's defense line.
Yun'an, originally a small city in Dafu, after Yu Xian led troops to invade Dafu, he sent 30,000 soldiers to defend this city. This city is located at the junction of the two countries, the walls are relatively tall, and the defense facilities are relatively complete, so it is a very strong link in the defense line of Yuxian.
Who knows, Yang Ming, who broke through the defense line of the Chu army, first set his sights here. He sent 50,000 soldiers to surround the place, but did not attack.
The defenders here were ready to defend, but the enemy did not attack, which made him very puzzled. But after two or three days, he immediately understood the intentions of the enemy army.
Due to Yang Yun's attack in the rear of the Chu army, the grain escort in the rear of the Chu army was much slower than before, resulting in each part of the team only having a few days of surplus food. If the Dafu army continues to besiege it like this, it won't be long before they starve to death due to lack of food.
After understanding the other party's intentions, the defenders of Yun'an City sent dead soldiers to desperately break out of the siege and told the Chu soldiers stationed nearby the news that they were besieged.
This Yun'an City is an important part of Yu Xian's defense line, of course, there is no room for mistakes, so the defenders of a nearby city immediately sent reinforcements, ready to assist Yun'an City, and defeat the Dafu soldiers who surrounded them.
Unexpectedly, these Chu soldiers fell for Yang Ming's plan of "encircling the point and sending reinforcements".
It turned out that Yang Ming knew that Yun'an City was very well defended, and it was very difficult to capture this city. The purpose of letting people surround Yun Ancheng is to attack the reinforcements who came to reinforce them.
The 20,000 Chu soldiers sent by the nearby city were surrounded by the prepared Dafu army in a place more than ten miles away from Yun'an City. After a great battle, less than half of the 20,000 Chu soldiers stood out from the cong encirclement.
After that, Yu Xian, who was unwilling to be broken by the defense line, organized his Chu soldiers to take the initiative to attack, wanting to eliminate the living forces of Dafu and recapture the lost city.
After a series of battles, both sides lost a lot of manpower, but on the whole, the Dafu soldiers, who had the advantage in numbers and momentum, suffered far fewer injuries than the Chu soldiers.
In desperation, Yu Xian had to give up occupying the land of Dafu, lead his soldiers to retreat to Chu, and use several cities on the border between the two countries to stop the menacing Dafu army.
What made Yu Xian feel helpless was that he had retreated to his own territory, but the Dafu soldiers did not give up and followed him closely.
Fufeng City, which stands on the east bank of the Chu River, has been much taller and thicker since the last war between Fu and Chu, and several giant trebuchets have been placed on the city wall, as well as some extremely powerful city walls, and the defensive level has increased a lot.
Now Yu Xian only has more than 200,000 soldiers left, so he simply stationed these more than 200,000 people in Fufeng City and the four small cities near it.
The last time he was guarding Fufeng City, Yang Ming took advantage of the time difference to raid the four surrounding small cities and sneak attack Yu Xian's reinforcements when the news of breaking through Xunyang Pass did not come out.
In the end, he occupied four small cities and cut off the grain route of the Chu army, so that Yu Xian had to abandon Fufeng City and retreat to the west bank of the Chu River.
But this time it was different, Yu Xian had already prepared, he ordered the guards of the four cities to defend the city, and not to send reinforcements between the cities at will, and piled firewood on the high places of each city, if the city was in danger, light a cigarette as a signal.
After Yang Ming led people to the vicinity of Fufeng City, he immediately launched an offensive, initially attacking the four small cities, but was strictly defended by several small cities, and did not take any advantage.
The Chu soldiers had already prepared, and there were fewer people attacking Dafu, so the Chu soldiers would defend the city to the death, once there were more soldiers sent, if the city was struggling, the defenders in the city would light a fire, and the other cities would send reinforcements to harass the Dafu army from the rear.
In this case, the siege was very difficult. Although Dafu has more troops than the people of Chu, there is no way to take these Chu soldiers who are determined to defend to the death.
Attacking the small city would be interfered with by Yu Xian's Chu soldiers, so Yang Yun simply concentrated all his forces and desperately attacked Fufeng City, where Yu Xian was stationed.
Yu Xian stationed 100,000 troops in Fufeng City, and in the face of the attack of hundreds of thousands of troops in Dafu, he was able to rely on the strong, and the tall city wall stopped the Dafu army under the city.
Yang Ming launched many attacks on Fufeng City, not only did he fail to capture this kind of city, but also lost a lot of soldiers. Yang Ming had no choice but to let the soldiers surround Fufeng City, trying to exhaust the fresh grain and grass before attacking the city.
In this way, the war between the two countries entered a stalemate, and seeing that the battlefield fell into a short period of calm, the soldiers on both sides could breathe a sigh of relief for the time being, but Yang Ming and Yu Xian, who were in charge of leading the troops, were not calm at all.
Although the grain and grass in Fufeng City are very sufficient, they can be eaten for a month or two. But Yu Xian's heart was not calm at all, before the grain and grass were exhausted, could Zhao Yue's troops wipe out all the enemies who entered the Chu State and bring troops to reinforce Fufeng City in time.
Now the situation is extremely unfavorable to him, but he can't think of a way to repel the Dafu army for a while. Looking at the dense Dafu soldiers outside the city all day long, Yu Xian felt a lot of headaches, but he couldn't find a solution to the problem.
Just when Yu Xian was at a loss, a letter gave him a turnaround. This letter was actually written by his opponent, Yang Ming, the victor of Dafu.
Yu Xian took this letter, and the Dafu soldiers shot the letter on the wall, opened the letter paper and opened the letter inside, and he was suddenly interested.
Yang Ming's letter actually expressed the intention of a truce.
Yu Xian took this letter and thought hard for a long time, at present, the Dafu army surrounded itself, and it was the time to take the advantage, how could Yang Ming think about retreating at this time?
Yu Xian, who was full of doubts in his heart, immediately asked some wise people under him to discuss, and wanted to analyze Yang Ming's reasons for doing this. Let's see if Yang Ming's move is fraudulent?
Yu Xian's thinkers read the letter several times, but they didn't see why. Everyone can't figure out what kind of medicine Da Fu, the prince with the title of "God of War", is selling in the gourd?
"Marshal, the villain thinks that since we can't think clearly of the reason why Yang Ming did this, then let's just ask Yang Ming personally, if we are sure that this matter is not deceitful, it is of course a good thing to be able to temporarily stop the war, after all, the current situation is not very favorable to us." At this time, one of his generals said to Yu Xian.
Yu Xian couldn't think of any other way at this time, and he also felt that taking one step at a time was a way, so he also wrote a letter with his own hands and asked people to shoot in the direction of the Dafu barracks under the city.
In fact, Yang Ming at this time was also anxious, Emperor Fu was now seriously ill, and he was consumed on the front line. I heard that my second brother Yang Xian has returned to Beijing, if there is any change in Xijing City, he must be out of reach of himself who is far away at the border.
After thinking of this, Yang Ming's mind was no longer on the battlefield, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally wrote this letter to Yu Xian.