Chapter 373, Fierce West Wind 4

Ji Mengdie was staring at King Qin, and suddenly heard the soldiers around her shouting: "Princess, look, wolf smoke." [No pop-ups. 】”

Ji Mengdie raised her eyes and saw two thick clouds of smoke rising in the distance, straight up to the sky. That's the code. Ji Mengdie waved his double knives: "Attack." ”

Seven thousand men and horses, leaving one thousand to protect the King of Qin, and the other six thousand cavalry, as Ji Mengdie poured out of the valley road, heading straight to the battlefield, countless iron hooves crushed the sunlight, and the murderous aura covered the ground.

Ten miles away, only half a cup of tea to arrive, Ji Mengdie saw the official army from a distance, roughly calculated, about thousands of men and horses, fighting to the death around Bai Qi's three thousand cavalry.

She looked at the distance, felt that it was almost there, and ordered, "Shoot the arrows!" ”

A rain of arrows shot out, and the officers and soldiers on the opposite side fell. At this time, the official army also discovered the Qin army that rushed up from behind, and hurriedly reported to Yang Qifeng.

Yang Qifeng had just wrapped the wound on his face, and was directing another attack, when he suddenly heard a faint thunder from behind, he knew that something was wrong, and when he looked back, countless Qin cavalry were killing from behind, as far as the eye could see, and there were only a lot more than his own men and horses.

There was no need to listen to other people's reports, Yang Qifeng knew that he had been ambushed, and the white men and horses on the high slope were just bait, attracting his 5,000 cavalry here, while the main force of the Qin army was attacking from behind, it seemed that he was going to come to a counter-encirclement and annihilate all the officers and troops here.

Yang Qifeng was a fierce general in the end, but he was not flustered, he ordered the men and horses to shake off Bai Qi, turn around, and meet Ji Mengdie's men and horses.

He also knew that he had been surrounded, and it was impossible to annihilate the Qin army, so he could only keep these thousands of men and horses from major losses and withdraw to the city safely. In order to withdraw to the city, he could not order a retreat, which would inevitably lead to a rout, and therefore an orderly retreat.

So Yang Qifeng shouted loudly and ordered the three deputy generals, each of whom led his own men and horses, divided into several roads, and attacked the Qin army.

On the boundless field, more than 10,000 cavalry were divided into several teams, like two angry waves, gradually approaching, and the sound of shouting and killing was like the wind and sea rain, shaking the ear drums. Finally, they finally came together.

Ji Mengdie's six thousand iron horsemen, like a huge iron tong, fan-shaped encircled from three directions, and the rest of the west was blocked by Bai Qi, so in fact the official army had been surrounded. The 9,000 Qin army surrounded the 5,000 official army, and the situation was immediately reversed.

Yang Qifeng watched his men and horses stir into the Qin army, and immediately formed a huge whirlpool, and the Qin army surrounded a group of officers and soldiers outside, killing them on all sides. And the officers and troops are desperately trying to break through.

Seeing it, he smiled secretly in his heart, he could see that this injured officer and army commander also had a bit of a ghost idea, under normal circumstances, if he wanted to break through, he would inevitably go in the direction of Lanzhou City, but Yang Qifeng was not, he was breaking through with his back to Lanzhou City.

In a flash, Bai Qi understood Yang Qifeng's careful thoughts. He sneered and instructed Wang Bao: "Come with me." He led 3,000 men and horses down the high slope and led the officers and soldiers from behind. Yang Qifeng saw that the Qin army seemed to have launched a general attack, and immediately ordered the men and horses to gather in one place and desperately break through to the south.

So the official army began to assemble men and horses, and Yang Qifeng took a thousand elite cavalry as the front, relying on iron-armored spears, killing the bloody road, wanting to break through.

Bai Qi also immediately ordered to dodge a way to let the official army escape, and then ordered Wang Bao to take 3,000 men and horses to follow Yang Qifeng to chase and kill, while he and Ji Mengdie led 6,000 Qin troops to return to Lanzhou City.

Wang Bao received the order and led his troops to chase down.

Ji Mengdie was a little puzzled and asked: "General, the enemy's main force is outside, we might as well defeat its main force first, and then Lanzhou City will not be attacked." ”

Bai shook his head: "The princess only knows one thing, but she doesn't know the other." The enemy army is all cavalry, although there is a melee, but the damage is not large, although the official army fled to the south, the real purpose is to go around to the south and withdraw to Lanzhou City. As soon as these thousands of men and horses entered the city, the defense force increased greatly, and it was difficult to attack the city again. At this time, our army attacked the city, blocked the four gates, and did not let the main force of the enemy enter the city, and there was Wang Leopard chasing and killing behind, the officers and troops could not enter the city in front, and there were heavy troops besieging them later, so they would inevitably scatter and flee. The main force is defeated, and Lanzhou City is at your fingertips. ”

Ji Mengdie admired Bai Qi so much that she threw herself to the ground. In fact, it is not too difficult to make a correct judgment, but in such a battlefield, when the two sides are fighting so fiercely, it is too difficult to make a timely and accurate judgment. And Bai Qi is such a genius.

Ji Mengdie finally understood how the 400,000 Zhao troops in the Battle of Changping were put into the stomach by Bai Qi, not to mention one Zhao Kuo, even if it was a hundred commanders who talked on paper, it was just food in Bai Qi's mouth.

So Ji Mengdie led the 6,000 Qin army, leaving Yang Qifeng's 5,000 people alone, and rushed all the way to Lanzhou City.

Since Ding Qirui, the pacification envoy of Lanzhou, sent Yang Qifeng to lead his troops out of the city, he was also a little worried, and he did not dare to sit in the mansion, and came to the city, although he could not see the battlefield thirty miles away, but he did not dare to be careless, and ordered all the soldiers to be ready for battle.

After a long time, he suddenly saw wolf smoke rising in the distance, he didn't know what it meant, so he became more cautious, but less than an hour later, he saw the Qin cavalry coming in the distance like a flood, rushing straight towards the city.

Ding Qirui shouted: "If there is an enemy attacking, the whole city is on alert." ”

With the shouting, the officers and soldiers at the head of the city all moved, some prepared bows and arrows, and some brandished swords and guns, ready to fight. There were no cannons at the head of the city of Lanzhou, and there were very few enemies such as ash bottles and rolling wood, because there had been no war here for many years and had not been attacked, so it was poorly prepared. These things are ready-made, and it's too late.

At this time, Ding Qirui's heart beat a drum, he didn't know if the five thousand cavalry led by Yang Qifeng had been completely annihilated, and then looked down at the city, the boundless Qin army, at least six or seven thousand people, he began to worry. For there were only about 3,000 men left in the city, and if the four gates were to be separated, there would be less than 1,000 men at each gate.

Bai Qi commanded the Qin army to rush to the city, and immediately ordered to divide into four teams and surround the four gates.

Since the men and horses who came were all cavalry, and the war horses could not run the city wall, Bai Qi ordered the troops to immediately cut down wood and build ladders to attack the city.

There are many wild forests outside the city of Lanzhou, so it is not difficult to build a cloud ladder. It was the middle of winter, and the moat was frozen harder than iron, so men and horses could approach the edge of the city without much effort.

Thousands of Qin troops built ladders very quickly, and in less than an hour, dozens of ladders were built at each gate and began to attack the city. There were cavalry in the back who did not shoot arrows at the head of the city, and the rest of the Qin army climbed the ladder and attacked to the death. There are also dozens of high-pitched Qin soldiers at each gate, running around the city wall, shouting as they run, saying that the 5,000 men and horses who left the city have been completely annihilated, and there is nothing to do with the remnants of you, and those who surrender will not die......

The officers and troops at the head of the city, under the command of Ding Qirui, tried their best to resist. However, Ding Qirui alone can't take care of the four gates, he supervises the battle at the east gate, and the other three doors can only send others, Wu Heng is responsible for the north gate, and the other two deputy generals are in charge of the southwest two gates.

I only heard the shouts in all directions, and the fireworks exploded. Many fiery arrows were fired into the city, and the houses were burned, and the city was in chaos.

The Qin army's attack was very fierce, the soldiers climbed the ladder, approached the city, and the official saber to knife, gun to gun, fighting in one place, from time to time someone jumped on the city, but was quickly surrounded by the official army, or killed at the head of the city, or was forced to fall off the city wall, broken to pieces, but the rest of the Qin army, still continued to climb up.

At this moment, only to hear the loud drum behind him, the Qin army looked back, and there were a thousand Qin cavalry in the distance, carrying the banner of the Qin character, led by a free umbrella, and a person sitting under the umbrella immediately, it was the king of Qin.

It turned out that the king of Qin learned that Bai Qi had killed the official army and went directly to attack the city, and he ordered the thousand cavalry to also go to the city of Lanzhou to assist in the attack.

The king of Qin understood that as long as he captured Lanzhou, the whole of Gansu would be at his fingertips, because this place was the city with the largest number of official garrisons.

So a thousand cavalry escorted the king of Qin until the city of Lanzhou. As soon as the King of Qin saw that the Qin army was in full swing in attack, he ordered the drums to be beaten, and at the same time ordered his free umbrella to be raised high and erected in the most conspicuous place so that everyone could see it.

In this way, the Qin army's morale was greatly boosted, and the King of Qin personally supervised the battle in the back, can he not work hard? So the army desperately attacked the head of the city, one by one on the ladder, and more and more Qin soldiers approached the head of the city.

Under the command of Ding Qirui, the officers and soldiers resisted desperately, but after all, there were few people and many casualties, so they gradually took care of one and the other, and there were only three or four people on the edge of some battlements. What is even more annoying is the bow and arrow of the Qin army, locusts generally shoot at the head of the city, and the officers and soldiers on the city wall will be shot if they are not careful, or killed or injured. These people dodged the feather arrows while fighting with the Qin army on the cloud ladder.

At this moment, Yang Qifeng led the 36,700 cavalry of Annihilation Yu in a big circle and ran towards the south gate. Dozens of steps behind him, Wang Bao led the Qin army in hot pursuit. Although the number of people on both sides was about the same at this time, the officers and soldiers had already lost their hearts, and they didn't know how many Qin troops were chasing behind, so they didn't dare to turn back to the battle, and they just wanted to return to Lanzhou City to hold on.

Yang Qifeng ran in the front, and before he approached Lanzhou City, he saw the fireworks, he was shocked, and secretly thought that after the Qin army lured him out of the city, he surrounded Lanzhou City.

After running a little longer, closer to the city wall, he really found that the Qin army was attacking the city, and there were more than 1,000 Qin soldiers and horses under the city, because the 6,000 men and horses of the Qin army were also divided into four gates, so there were more than 1,000 people outside each gate, although there were only more than 1,000 people, but the city gate was also sealed tightly.

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