Chapter 1327: Lu Bu kills Murong Chui
Chapter 1327: Lu Bu kills Murong Chui
As soon as Qin Hao left on the front foot, Wang Meng launched a decisive battle on the back foot, of course, this was not because Wang Meng was anxious, but because Murong Chui realized that he had been tricked again, so he decisively launched a breakthrough in advance.
Murong Chui didn't expect that after he left behind a 150,000-strong army, Bai Qi still dared to send all the cavalry to chase him, which seemed to him Bai Qi simply wanted to die with him.
Originally, Murong Chui was so beautiful that with the combat power that his 70,000 mourning army could burst out, the 100,000 tired army in Ningxia would definitely not be able to stop it, and he could at least take 60,000 iron horsemen and flee back to the grassland.
But under Bai Qi's commotion, he had 100,000 cavalry in front of him to block the enemy, and 40,000 cavalry to pursue him, which made Murong Chui muttered a little in his heart.
Murong Trai's decision was very correct, if he dragged on for a day or two, he really wouldn't even have a chance to break through.
Under the leadership of Murong Chui, the 70,000 mourning army launched a breakthrough towards the weak point of the Han army's blockade, and broke through the three blockade lines of the Han army in a row, but was finally blocked by Wang Meng in time.
The 100,000-foot cavalry of the Han army once again fought a decisive battle with the 70,000 iron cavalry of Yuan and Meng, eighty miles west of Pingluo County.
The combat strength of the Yuan army in the state of mourning army doubled, Wang Meng led 60,000 main infantry to block each other, and Xue Rengui led 40,000 elite cavalry to resist with all his strength, but he was still almost broken out by Murong Chui.
After the two armies fought fiercely for an hour, Li Jing led 40,000 elite cavalry to arrive in time, and ordered Gao Chong and Jiang Song to lead 20,000 cavalry each to raid Murong Trai's rear on the left and right.
As the saying goes: the mourning army will win.
But even the mourning army also has limits.
Murong Chui's 70,000 iron cavalry is indeed the mourning army, but Wang Meng's 100,000 cavalry stopped in front, and Li Jing's 40,000 elite cavalry raided later, under the attack of the 140,000 elite army on both sides, even if all the 70,000 yuan army is a mourning army, it is powerless to return to the sky.
After a fierce battle, the Han army killed more than 20,000 Yuan cavalry at the cost of sacrificing 10,000 foot cavalry troops.
After the Yuan army learned that there was no hope of breaking through, coupled with Wang Meng's timely shouting of the slogan of 'surrender without killing', nearly 40,000 yuan of Mengtieqi finally laid down their arms and surrendered, while Murong Chui and Wo Kotai escaped with only less than 10,000 people.
After the victory, Wang Meng sent people to quickly clean up the battlefield, and at the same time personally led 20,000 light cavalry to pursue.
As for the rest of the troops, except for the remaining part of the prisoners of war, all the others went north to obey Bai Qi's dispatch.
Wang Meng led the army to chase for a hundred miles, and captured another 3,000 Yuan troops on the way, and Murong Chui saw that he couldn't get rid of the pursuing soldiers of the Han army, so he immediately discussed with Wokotai: "The Han army is chasing very urgently, and it is absolutely impossible to escape like this, maybe you can save your life by running separately." β
"Hmm."
Wokotai nodded solemnly, and said in a deep voice: "You and I each lead half of the people, whether you can jump out or not depends on your fate." β
"Okay."
In this way, after escaping into Yinchuan County, the Yuan army that escaped from Ningxia County was divided into two, with Murong Chui and Wo Kotai each leading 3,000 iron cavalry, one to the northwest and the other to the southwest.
"Report ...... Qi Yu Governor, the remnants of the Yuan and Mongolian armies fled separately. β
Wang Meng couldn't help but take a deep breath when he heard this, and then said in a deep voice: "Since this is the case, let's also divide our troops to chase."
General Li Jing, you and Bendu each led 10,000 cavalry to chase after you. β
"No." Li Jing responded with a fist.
The Qin army also divided its troops to pursue, but the direction shifted, and they chased out of the Hetao for more than 100 miles, but they failed to catch up with Murong Trai.
"Not good, it's going in the wrong direction."
Wang Meng, who was looking at the map, suddenly exclaimed, and then hurriedly ordered: "Set off to the south immediately." β
"No."
A group of 30,000 horsemen turned around again, and after marching for less than an hour, they found the enemy in front, but the situation was somewhat unexpected by Wang Meng.
"Governor Qiyu, there are traces of Murong Chui's army ahead, but they are now fighting with the Liang army."
"Liang Jun?"
Wang Meng's brows furrowed slightly, and then he ordered: "Surround the past first, don't attack for the time being." β
"No."
The 30,000 elite cavalry formed a semicircle, quickly surrounding the thousands of people who were fighting, and a cavalry general also came out of the Liang army.
"Don't let go of the arrows, my general is Wen Hou, Lu Bulu Fengxian, who has now broken away from the Liang army and is preparing to go to Bingzhou to defect to the Duke of Jin."
Wang Meng also recognized the person who came, and couldn't help but be surprised: "General Cao Xing? It's you. β
"Mr. Jingluo?"
Although he has been away from Bingzhou for many years, Cao Xing still recognized Wang Meng at a glance, after all, he was still in Bingzhou, Wang Meng was the only strategist under Qin Hao, Cao Xing just wanted to forget it, and after many years, Wang Meng had become the governor of the First Army, and he and his lord Lu Bu were homeless.
It's really a thing.
Cao Xing sighed slightly in his heart, but he still stepped forward with a forced smile, and hugged his fists to the respectful Wang Meng and said, "Mr. Jingluo, don't let go of the arrow, Wen Hou will come back to join the Duke of Jin." β
Wang Meng nodded at Cao Xing, signaled the other party not to panic, and then quietly listened to Cao Xing's story.
It turned out that after Yang Guang returned to Liangzhou, although he did not prevent Lu Bu from breaking away from the Liang army, it was impossible to vigorously support it, so he cut off Lu Bu's logistics, forcing Lu Bu to have to kill Ma Teng's army, and after looting, he had enough grain and grass to go to Hetao, but he didn't expect to bump into the defeated Murong Trai on the way.
Lu Bu knew that Qin Hao, the great Han of Hetao, was at a disadvantage, and he wanted to go to Hetao to help Qin Hao, but he didn't want to be a step too late in the end, he hadn't even arrived, Yuan Mengdu had already lost, and even Temujin had died in battle.
When did Temujin fight so hard?
Lu Bu secretly complained in his heart, he originally wanted to send charcoal in the snow, but now that he was said to be carbon, he couldn't even touch the carbon ash, so he also planned to use Murong Chui's head and give it to Qin Wen as a vote.
Lu Bu thought that Yuanmeng had been defeated, and Murong Chui had also fled all the way, so these three thousand defeated soldiers should not have much combat effectiveness, so he directly led the three thousand soldiers and horses of the headquarters to stop him, but after the battle, he found that this army's fighting will was terrifying.
In the case that Lu Bu did not make a move, this fleeing force could be on a par with Lu Bu's army, and if it continued to fight, it would definitely be a lose-lose ending.
In order to prevent excessive casualties among the soldiers and horses of his headquarters, LΓΌ Bu rode into the Yuan and Mongolian armies alone, preparing to kill Murong Chui in person and end the battle directly.
Lu Bu, who was ranked eighth on the list of military generals, took action in person, how could ordinary Yuanmeng soldiers be able to stop it, and he was soon killed by Lu Bu alone in front of Murong Chui.
Seeing this, Murong Chui anxiously shouted: "That Liang general will take action for the time being, my Dayuan and Yang Jian have always been well water and do not interfere with river water, why do you kill me for no reason now?" β
"When you die, just ask Yang Jian in person."
Lu Bu sneered, and then instigated the Red Rabbit Horse to get close, and decisively cut off Murong Chui's head with a halberd.