Chapter 68: Ambush

It is said that after Liu Jian, the king of Han, rescued Cui Ju of Jinyang, he left 3,000 cavalry for Cui Ju and sent the general Shen De to assist Cui Ju in guarding Jinyang. Since Liu Jian led the army to the east and Chen Hongyi converged, the Great Khan of the Green Banner Khanate Tubili was also ready to move, Cui Ju had also asked Tubili for help, but Tubili wanted to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, but the Liang army was like a bamboo, even under Luoyang Chang'an, flooded Yecheng, and then captured Xiangguo Fuyang, seeing that there was nothing to catch if he didn't send troops, so he sent the general Tushi Huli with 20,000 cavalry to Jinyang.

Tu Shi Huli killed the generals all the way, even in Yunzhong, Shuozhou and other cities, Cui Ju anxiously asked Shen De, Shen De looked at Cui Ju's men and horses, and couldn't cry or laugh. It turned out that the soldiers recruited by Cui Ju were all slaves provided by various families, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. Shen De said with a smile: "The King of Jin is fighting the enemy with such soldiers and horses, which is tantamount to driving pikas and fighting tigers and wolves, and he can't even delay the enemy's army, so how can he talk about fighting?" Isn't there still a trilogy and many strong men in the palace of the King of Jin? Why not be integrated into the army? “

Cui Ju shook his head: "That's all our Cui family's property, how can we take it out and destroy it at will?" This Yang family and the Li family are the same, who is willing to send this strong slave to the army? “

Shen De almost fainted: "It is said that King Jin is smart, and it is true when I see it today." You are reluctant to let go of these strong men, but this enemy is going to come to the city, and when the city is broken, your property will not be able to be saved. I heard that the people of this Green Flag Khanate worship the red-headed eagle, and they will eat raw meat and worship the eagle god every day. “

Cui Ju frowned: "Cut some land and send some gold and silver, pretend to believe in their bird god, and change it back in the future, the big husband can bend and stretch, and the one who knows the times is Junjie"

Shen De applauded: "Wonderful, wonderful, then since this is the case, I will lead the army back to Chang'an."

Shen De walked out as he spoke, and Cui Ju hurriedly stopped: "General Shen, General Shen, I finally became the king, and you have not been able to recover Hebei with great difficulty, we still have to sincerely unite to resist foreign enemies, just now I was just joking with the general." I'm going to let everyone pay for it, but the general has to cherish these people, it's hard to find strong men these days."

Shen De smiled: "Okay, well, since the King of Jin is willing to pay for it, I, Shen, will naturally not take my life to fill it, as long as the King of Jin prepares five thousand strong men for me, Shen has his own arrangements." By the way, send me all these old and weak soldiers to the city wall, and give each of them a shield, and then the enemy will hide when the arrows are released. “

Cui Ju held Shen De's hand: "Then it's a word, and I will entrust the safety of Jinyang City to the general."

Shen De suddenly remembered something: "King Jin, if this Jinyang is kept, you will have to treat my three thousand men and horses."

Cui Ju hurriedly agreed: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, the wine, meat, gold and silver are enough."

Cui Ju summoned the Yang family, the Li family and other families to gather five thousand strong men and handed them to Shen De in one day, Shen De looked at the five thousand people allocated this time and nodded: "Yes, they are all strong men, I will divide five hundred people to lead you, these five hundred people are your chiefs, you follow the chief to guard the north gate, and the sword cart to be prepared will resist the horse bow and crossbow, and the chief will teach you."

Cui Ju was puzzled: "Then why aren't the remaining 2,500 people of General Shen in the city?" “

Shen De pointed to the outside of the city: "I led my troops to ambush outside the city, and it is not enough to break the enemy army by defending the city, but also to break them with a cavalry assault."

Cui Ju frowned again: "General Shen is not preparing to abandon the city and flee, right?" ”

Shen De couldn't cry or laugh: "I still have five hundred brothers in the city, how can I run away?" What's more, my name of Shen Yidao should be insulted under this Jinyang City? Ask my brother, when did I run away? ”

Liang Jun shouted together: "General Shen is mighty, General Shen is invincible!" ”

This formation really shocked Cui Ju and the others, it was the first time they had seen the army have such momentum, and then they saw that Liang Jun's armor was old but clean, especially when Shen De put up a long knife of dozens of catties, it was very scary to look at. Cui Ju also had confidence: "I love to talk and laugh, the general and the warriors are so brave, our Jinyang City will definitely be able to defend it." I've got to give everyone meat and wine first."

Shen Deyi waved his hand: "The King of Jin is kind enough to entertain us during the celebration, the cavalry of the Green Flag Khanate is said to have hunting dogs, the taste of this wine and meat is too big, it is easy to expose the whereabouts of our army, we can nibble on bran cakes these days."

When Cui Ju saw Shen De say this, he was no longer reluctant, and led everyone to send Shen De out of the north gate.

Tushi Huli even went down to several cities, and the Jin army he encountered was all crushed at the touch of a button, and he almost did not encounter decent resistance, but there was not much looted property, so he went to Jinyang to kill in the starry night. Tushi Huli said to the adjutant general: "The Great Khan is too smart, he knew that the people of the Central Plains were so weak, we should have gone south as soon as possible to get a piece of the pie, although there are many cities now, but they are all poor places."

The deputy general looked forward: "I heard that Jinyang is a big city, and there are many rich people in the city, so we have to speed up the march, otherwise they will run away, and we will be empty again."

The military advisor reminded on the side: "I also heard that the Liang State in the south sent reinforcements to Jinyang, we can't be too reckless, in case we fall into an ambush, it will not be good."

Tu Shihuli said with a smile: "Liang Guo is also from the Central Plains, and it will not be much stronger than what we encountered, even if there is an ambush, our tens of thousands of cavalry can crush them!" ”

As soon as the words fell, there were shouts of killing from both sides, and everyone looked at it, and there were thousands of cavalry of the Liang Army from both sides and went straight to Tushi Huli. Fortunately, the Tushi Huli people were outnumbered, and the cavalry of the Green Banner Khanate came to the rescue, and in less than a moment, the cavalry of the Liang army dropped their banners, swords and guns and fled.

Tushi Huli laughed: "Central Plains cavalry, but so, I will wait to take Jinyang, and then cross the river to fight all the way to the south, we can also go to get it in this world."

The military advisor persuaded: General, there are not many casualties in the Liang army, and besides, they ran away after only a short time of fighting, there must be fraud in it! “

The adjutant general pointed to the banner on the ground: "If the enemy army is defeated, it must be withdrawn in an orderly manner, and now their escape routes are different, and it must be because many of our generals have lost their fighting spirit."

Tu Shihuli nodded: "It makes sense, even if you are defeated, it is difficult to fight with me with this kind of combat power." In order not to be attacked by them, I retreated to the Chinese army."

After walking dozens of miles, thousands of cavalry of the Liang army came out, fighting to the death and not retreating, fighting for half an hour before retreating, the Green Flag Khanate was killed and wounded nearly 1,000 people, and the Liang army also left more than 100 corpses.

Tu Shi Huli looked at the defeated Liang army: "Sure enough, the previous time was a fraudulent defeat, inducing our army to go deeper, if I am in the front army, there will be danger, the combat power of the Liang army is still on par with our army, but they have few people, there are more than 2,000 cavalry, this cavalry is defeated, Jinyang City is just something in our pocket, now we can attack the city with peace of mind"

More than 10,000 cavalry of the Green Banner Khanate rushed straight to the north gate of Jinyang, and saw countless banners at the head of the city. “

More than 10,000 arrows flew towards the city, and the banners on the city fell to the ground, and the soldiers defending the city also raised their shields to block their heads. After ten rounds of arrow rain, there was no movement in the city, and Tu Shihuli pointed his spear: "Go to the city, don't let go of the people in the city!" “

The soldiers of the Green Banner Khanate scrambled one by one, threw out the rope hook and set up the ladder to climb the city wall, and the first to get to the city meant that they could start looting first. In a short time several thousand people had climbed the walls, and those who had gone up the walls first found that there were very few corpses on the walls, but countless arrows were fired at them from the rooftops, and most of the first soldiers of the Green Banner Khanate to ascend the walls were killed. However, the Green Banner Khanate had many soldiers, and soon went down to the city gate and opened the city gate, and the cavalry outside the city saw that the city gate was opened, and they rode forward.

Cui Ju hid on his high platform under the protection of his cronies to watch the battle, and when he saw that the cavalry of the Green Banner Khanate had entered the city, his face was sweating, but fortunately, there were still thousands of people in the city who pushed knife carts to resist the horses and meet them, blocking the cavalry of the Green Flag Khanate on the street. From time to time, the cavalry of the Liang army rushed in from the alley and slashed for a while, and the siege battle turned into a street battle for a while. Cui Ju only hoped that Shen De would be able to break through the enemy army outside the city as soon as possible, but after waiting for an hour, most of the enemy army had entered the city, but Shen De still did not move.

Seeing that his army could not take the city after entering the city, Tushi Huli thought that it was caused by the crowd's only looting, so he urged the remaining thousands of men and horses to enter the city. As soon as the men and horses arrived at the city gate, the sound of shouting and killing came from behind, Shen De came over with a long knife first, Tu Shi Huli and the deputy general division were blocked by their own family at the city gate, and they couldn't advance or retreat, and the cavalry behind saw Shen De killing, and ran to both sides.

Poor Tu Shi Huli couldn't enter the city, there were only more than ten guards left, and the arrow was blocked by Shen De with a knife, and when he raised his spear to resist, he was also slashed by Shen De with a volley, and Tu Shi Huli's head fell to the ground with his left shoulder. Shen De quickly slashed the enemy troops at the city gate, cut off the figure and poked the head of the stone Huli on the tip of the knife and entered the city.

The soldiers of the Green Banner Khanate saw that the lord was about to be killed, and they all took the road out of the city, but they were all blocked in the city, and the Liang army was slashed along the streets, and the soldiers and horses under Tushi Huli were cut down by 6,000, and 8,000 were dropped, and less than 1,000 people escaped from the city.

Cui Ju kept his promise, celebrated Liang Jun's achievements that night, rewarded some silk cloth gold and silver, and held a banquet of wine and meat. Cui Ju asked Shen De: "General Shen will help me train soldiers and horses for several months and help me recover Shuozhou Yunzhong?" “

Shen De laughed: "It's easy to train soldiers and horses, but only recover the city, if you don't send people to guard the city walls and fortresses close to Mobei, the khanate of Mobei will come again when you want to." It's only a few days before the city changes hands."

Cui Ju took a sip of wine: "Alas, this north is already dilapidated, if you can be a rich man in Jiangnan, I don't bother to do this King of Jin."

Shen De was already a little drunk: "King Jin, there are still thousands of miles in the southwest wilderness of Jiangnan, if the King of Jin really intends to go to Jiangnan, with the strength of the King of Jin's family background, it is only a few years of hard work for the good land, and the King of Jin sits in Jinling, but the industry is safe and sound in the southwest, wouldn't it be better than fighting all day long."

Cui raised his glass to Shen De and signaled: "What General Shen said is very true, in the next place, I thought that the decisive victory for a thousand miles and strategizing to attack the city was as simple as in the book, and I only realized that I was not this piece of material in today's battle, in terms of power and intelligence, I do not lose to Chen Hongyi, but in terms of courage and mentality, I am not suitable at all, especially watching the heads of the people you kill with knives in front of me, I am also a person who has seen a big scene, but in the battlefield, I am still timid."

Shen De smiled: "King Jin can still drink wine and eat meat, which shows that he has won a lot over ordinary people, after experiencing this Shura field, everyone is afraid of nightmares for the first time, but if he fights more on the battlefield, he is not afraid."

Cui Ju drank another glass: "It's better to find a chance to go to Jiangnan, today we kill people, tomorrow if we don't get it right, we will be killed, drink, General Shen, there is wine today and drunk today, if you drink well, you will not be afraid of anything"