Chapter 129, Guanzhong Crisis 9
Li Kang fought with Shi Kefa for a while, and Shi Kefa saw that Hong Chengchou and others had left the battlefield, and Zuo Liangyu had also passed, so he abandoned Li Kang and led the remaining more than 200 cavalry to chase after the team.
Li Dang still wanted to chase, but he heard Ziyi's order, so he led his men and horses to the city.
At this time, there was no Hong Chengchou in Xi'an City, and there were almost no officers and soldiers, the largest official in the army, just a hundred chiefs, this person saw Hong Chengchou fleeing, and thousands of anti-thieves came under the city, and he was already trembling and at a loss.
Ziyi sent people to shout to the city: "Hong Chengchou has fled, there are no defenders in the city, you hurry up and surrender, otherwise, our Qin army will kill into the city, and the chickens and dogs will not be left." ”
The Baichang still wanted to be a good man, leaned out of the battlement, and scolded the city: "Listen to the thief, there are still 10,000 horses in my city, you ......."
Before he had finished speaking, he heard a whooshing sound, and an arrow was shot from under the city, and it was driven through the hundred long throats, and he was nailed to the ground.
This arrow was exactly what Li dared to shoot.
The people at the head of the city were immediately in chaos, and as soon as the hundred chief died, there was no backbone left, only some strong men left, and they scattered in a hurry.
Once there is no army, no matter how many people there are in the city, it will be a mess. After these strong men fled out of the city, they returned to their homes and hurriedly packed up their soft belongings, trying to escape out of the city.
In this way, the whole city of Xi'an knows that Governor Hong has abandoned the city, and Xi'an City is already an empty city.
So the whole city of Xi'an was in chaos, and the rich families hurriedly packed up their jewelry, took as much as they could, opened the west gate and the south gate, and poured out.
Ziyi knew about it, and sent Li Kang to intercept it, Li Kang brought a thousand cavalry to the south gate, blocked some people, Li Kang sent someone to shout, saying that the Qin army is a teacher of benevolence and righteousness, and the fathers and elders of Shaanxi are all my people, and if they don't kill any of them, they will all return to the city.
As soon as these people saw that Qin Jun's arrows were wound and their knives were unsheathed, they knew that they would not be able to run away anymore, so they had to cry and return to the city obediently.
Li Dang sent someone to open the east gate and take Ziyi into the city, Ziyi ordered to post a notice to calm the people, so that everyone should not be afraid, the Qin army is all from Shaanxi, and will never kill the villagers.
On the one hand, he sent people to calm the people, and on the other hand, he ordered the four gates to be closed and strictly guarded, in case the officials and soldiers came back to attack.
The Qin army occupied the city of Xi'an, and the morale of the army was greatly boosted, and Xianyang at this time was far inferior to Xi'an in terms of strategic position and economic status, so occupying Xi'an was equivalent to the Qin army recapturing the national capital, and every Qin army was greatly encouraged.
Now I am waiting for the King of Qin to come to the world.
After Ziyi settled down, he immediately sent someone to Huayin City to report to Fan Ju. But how did he know that the current Huayin City was no longer what it was when he came.
Since Ziyi took the 4,000 Qin troops out of the city that night, Wu Guobao, a fierce general under Zuo Liangyu, got the news, he ordered the 2,000 cavalry under his command, and suffered in the middle of the night, feeling that the main force of the 4,000 Qin army had gone away, so he set off from Tongguan to attack Huayin.
He had a ladder to be brought up in case he wanted to climb the city, but he had already calculated that it would be best to take the city gate by surprise, and then the cavalry would rush into the city to settle the battle.
When approaching Huayin City, it was already dawn, Wu Guobao ordered his twenty or thirty officers and soldiers, dismounted, took off their official and military uniforms, changed into the clothes of the common people, hid sharp knives, and divided into several teams, separated by more than ten steps before and after, some carried burdens, and filled some clothes indiscriminately, pretending to be refugees, and went to steal the city.
At this time, Huayin City has opened the city gate, and there are people entering and leaving the city one after another, Wu Guobao They are close to the east city, these twenty or thirty officers and soldiers pretend to be ordinary people, come to the city gate, headed by a general flag, he observes while walking, people see seven or eight Qin soldiers standing on both sides of the city gate of the east city, because there is no war on the Huayin territory, no one knows about Zuo Liangyu's troops in Tongguan, and the Qin army does not know, so these soldiers are a little lazy and defenseless.
When the general flag was seen, his heart was secretly happy.
When they arrived at the city gate, one of the elders of the Qin army saw them and was slightly stunned, because he had never seen so many people, so he asked, "What are you doing?" ”
The general flag replied: "We are from Henan, our hometown was burned by thieves, and we came to Shaanxi to beg for food." ”
Nashi Chang frowned: "Come to Shaanxi to beg for food, don't you know, Shaanxi is also making thieves?" Zongqi nodded: "We heard about it, and we plan to stay and have a look, if it doesn't work, we will go back." Shi Chang looked behind him, all of them were sturdy men in their twenties, and he was a little suspicious: "Why are there only men, no women and children?" ”
Zongqi continued to move forward: "The women and children are staying in Tongguan, let's come first, give the adults a greeting gift, and then enter the city." He asked, "What greeting gift?" The general flag had already walked in front of him, and he pulled out a short knife from behind his back: "This is the ......"
As he spoke, he stabbed him from the bottom up, squeezed it on Shi Chang's stomach, and then picked it up.
The chief's stomach was picked open, and he screamed in pain and fell to the ground to his death. At this time, the officers and soldiers behind the general banner rushed up together, pulled out their hidden weapons, and began to besiege the city gate guards.
There was a great chaos inside and outside the city gate, the people threw their burdens and baskets, and ran in all directions, the seven or eight Qin troops guarding the gate did not react at first, and they had already cut down a few, and the rest of the people hurriedly picked up the guys and fought with the official army.
There was a mess here, Wu Guobao had already seen it, and he ordered his cavalry to charge with all their might, and they must rush into the city before the Qin army closed the city gate.
The Qin army on the city wall found that someone had seized the door, and at the same time saw that the official cavalry outside the city was charging into the city, and immediately became anxious, and hurriedly ran down the city wall, wanting to kill the officers and soldiers who retreated and seized the gate, and closed the city gate, but the city gate was too chaotic, and the people ran around, blocking the way, so that these reinforced Qin troops could not reach the city gate quickly.
The general banner had already taken control of the city gate with twenty or thirty of his men, and seven or eight Qin troops were killed under the city.
By the time the Qin army on the city wall finally lined up the crowd and rushed to the city gate, the cavalry led by Wu Guobao was about to rush over.
As soon as the general flag of seizing the gate saw that victory was in sight, he shouted, and led his men to guard the hole in the city gate, fighting with the Qin army, no matter how many people you come, you will not retreat.
There were many Qin soldiers, and they finally killed and injured most of these twenty or thirty people, but at this time, they had no time to close the city gate, because Wu Guobao had already rushed in.
Two thousand officers and soldiers rode horses and waved swords, slaughtered into the city, and immediately dispersed the Qin army at the city gate.
Wu Guobao ordered when he didn't enter the city, as soon as he entered Huayin, he immediately divided his troops into two routes, he took 500 people straight to the county government, and the other general took 1,500 people to the military camp to exterminate the remaining Qin troops in the city.
According to the spies, there were less than 1,000 Qin troops left in the city, and his 1,500 cavalry was enough to deal with it.
Wu Guobao with 500 cavalry, like a whirlwind blowing on the street, at this time the city of buying and selling shops are opening their doors to welcome business, no one could have imagined that the official army would come so quickly, frightened to close the stalls, hurriedly to hide at home, for a time the street chaos, countless hawkers' stalls were kicked and washed down.
At this time, Fan Ju had already received the report, he was taken aback, and immediately understood Hong Chengchou's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain, and he sent the main force to Xi'an to pick up the cheap, and the people also ambushed the men and horses to attack Huayin.
Ju hurriedly ordered a retreat, and one of his subordinates brought him horses, he jumped on horseback, and asked his subordinates, "How many officers and soldiers are coming?" Someone replied, "At least 2,000 men, all cavalry, have entered the city and are almost at the county office." ”
The last words were no longer needed, for the shouts of killing and the sound of horses' hooves had already been heard, just two blocks away.
Fan Ju hurriedly sent people to the city to gather men and horses, so that they abandoned Huayin and went to Xi'an to defect to Ziyi's brigade. He knew in his heart that Huayin City could not be saved, and no matter whether Xi'an City was captured or not, he had to go there to rendezvous.
The herald left, Fan Ju took dozens of Qin troops straight to Xicheng and fled, ran for a while, he suddenly remembered something, looked at the path, turned to the side, and turned into another alley.