Besides, Wei Baichuan chased north for a while, but found no signs of the Qin army, so he couldn't help but be suspicious, and hurriedly sent spies to investigate, but he chased until dawn, and he didn't see a shadow of the Qin army. [Full text reading. 】”

Wei Baichuan frowned, and said to the lieutenants around him, "Are we fooled?" The Qin army didn't want to attack Jingbian at all, but dragged our army back and forth, exhausting our army? ”

Vice General Li said: "Dashuai, do you want to go back and explore?" Wei Baichuan nodded, and immediately sent multiple scouts to investigate separately, and the officers and soldiers of the brigade did not move forward, so they set up a large camp in the local area to rest.

After two hours, the Tanma returned one after another, and it turned out that the Qin army had returned to Baishui City, and the banner of the Qin army was re-erected at the head of the city.

Wei Baichuan stomped his feet in the stirrups: "Sure enough, Wang Jian is very treacherous, he doesn't have many men and horses at all, and he uses this trick to induce our army to withdraw from the siege." No, I can't run in vain, and I have lost 2,000 men and horses, so kill me and reoccupy Whitewater City. ”

With an order, Wei Baichuan came back with men and horses. These people under him didn't catch anything in one night, and they were very angry, and when they heard that they were killed, they immediately came to their senses, and they worked hard one by one to settle accounts with Qin Jun. So ten thousand horses were killed.

When he was not far from the city, Wei Baichuan looked from a distance, and sure enough, the banner of the Qin army was fluttering at the head of the city, and he immediately ordered a fierce attack. This time he brought the infantry with him, and when the infantry received the order, they shouted in unison, carried the ladder, and rushed over with the cart.

The walls of Baishui City are not high, and the city gate is not thick, Wei Baichuan knows that under such a fierce attack, this city will be broken.

When the official army rushed to the city, the city had already prepared, after a gong sounded, the Qin army was all over the city, and the arrows were fired in unison, and at the same time, the ashes, bottles, stones and other objects were smashed down on the head and face. The officers and soldiers were in chaos for a while, the rushing car was smashed, the ladder was also pushed down, and the officers and soldiers on it were killed and wounded.

The first attack was repulsed.

Wei Baichuan waved his hand, and a thousand archers stood under the city and began to fire arrows at the city, while the second team of officers and soldiers pounced on them.

This time it went well, the Qin army may have run out of defensive equipment, and as soon as the official army began to release arrows, they retreated from the city in an organized manner.

After the officers and soldiers rushed to the top of the city, they immediately went down to the city and opened the gates. Six thousand horsemen outside the city urged their horses forward and rushed into the city.

The Qin army did not resist, and fled one by one, passing through the city. The official army pursued and killed for a while, and the Qin army fled far away, Wei Baichuan ordered, first occupy the city.

After the official army entered and occupied Baishui City, they looked around and found that none of the people in the city were gone, and Wei Baichuan was angry and had nowhere to vent.

At this time, it was already dusk, and the official army began to find private houses in the city to make food, Wei Baichuan made up his mind this time to occupy Baishui City, so he only left 2,000 people to camp outside the northern city, and he brought nearly 8,000 men and horses into the city.

After dark, the officers and soldiers fought and ran for a day, and they were very tired, so they had to rest.

At this moment, Wang Jian led four thousand Qin troops and quietly appeared around Baishui City.

The rout during the day was just a ploy of his own, and he had to lure the enemy deep into order to defeat the officers and troops.

Wang Jian listened to it, there was no movement in the city, and there was not much firelight, it seemed that the officials and soldiers were starting to sleep, and he nodded to Zhang Gong: "Do it." ”

At the sound of an order, the four thousand Qin troops held bows in their hands one by one, mounted arrows, lit them on torches, and then aimed them at the city and shot into them.

Thousands of rockets flew like countless fire crows into the city. The whole sky is full of light and is very beautiful.

But when these fiery arrows entered the city, most of them landed on the houses. Although there is no firewood and grass on the roofs of those houses, most of the roofs are sprinkled with fish oil, and the oil is not visible when it dries, but it catches fire when it is fired.

Most of the houses in Whitewater City are made of wood, and the roofs are made of broken hay and mud, plus fish oil, which are extremely flammable.

Countless rockets were fired into the roofs of the houses, and the houses immediately burst into flames, forming a sea of fire.

Because of the cold weather, no one wanted to sleep on the streets, and most of the officers and soldiers rested in their rooms. The roof of the house caught fire, and immediately the whole house was burned, and the officers and soldiers were burned inside to the point of crying wolves, and one by one they rushed out of the door, and those who did not run out were burned alive in the house, and more people rushed to the street with fire on their bodies, rolling on the spot, trying to extinguish the fire on their bodies.

However, the arrows of the Qin army were still overwhelming, and many people were killed by the arrows.

The whole city was in chaos when it was neutral.

Wei Baichuan was resting in the yazhong, when he heard the shouts outside, he thought that the Qin army was coming to sneak attack, so he immediately put on his clothes and got up.

Vice General Li stumbled in, with fire on his body and smoke on his head, and ran to the bottom of the stairs and shouted: "The big man is not good, the fire is on fire in the city, and the four gates are full of fire." ”

Wei Baichuan was shocked: "Is it a sneak attack by the Qin army?" ”

Vice General Li said: "No, the Qin army did not enter the city, but just released arrows outside the city, and it is strange to come, those arrows fell on the houses, and those houses immediately burst into flames, which could not be extinguished." Many of us were burned to death. ”

Wei Baichuan immediately ordered: "Straighten out the people and horses, and immediately rush out of the north gate with me." ”

He knew that he had been fooled again, the Qin army deliberately let him occupy Baishui City, in order to make him convinced, he deliberately resisted at first, and the real purpose was to come and set fire to it in the middle of the night.

The city of Baishui is not large, 8,000 men and horses are crowded in the city, and any random arrow can shoot down many people, so it is necessary to kill out of the city as soon as possible and get out of danger.

Wei Baichuan took more than a dozen deputy generals and hundreds of personal soldiers, smoked and burst into flames, and went straight to the north gate, while running, Wei Baichuan ordered his subordinates to shout loudly, beckoning all the troops to rush to the north gate together.

In the midst of the fireworks, Wei Baichuan finally gathered 5,000 men and horses, until the north gate of the city, ordered the city gate to be opened, and rushed out like a swarm.

There are also his 2,000 men and horses outside the north gate, these people saw the fire in the city, they were at a loss, and wanted to enter the city to rescue, but there was no Wei Baichuan's general order, not rescue, and they were afraid that Wei Baichuan would blame, and when they were in a hurry, Wei Baichuan rushed out with the men and horses, met the two thousand people, and entered the camp, wanting to take a breath and calm down.

But it is no longer possible, because the fire is not far from the south of the city, and I don't know how many people and horses are killed, only to hear the sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing, shaking the heavens and the earth.

At this time, if you change to a man with strong fighting spirit and good discipline, you can also take the camp step by step, defend steadily, hold the camp first, and then try to plan for others. But after the fire in the middle of the night, the officers and soldiers were already exhausted, their morale was greatly lost, not to mention the camp fighting, and even the heart to defend was gone.

Wei Baichuan was also shocked, because he didn't know how many men and horses the Qin army had come, what if this was a plan set by Bai Qi and sent reinforcements from Xi'an?

He thought about it, thirty-six strategies, taking the best policy, taking advantage of the fact that the Qin army has not yet reached the front, retreat first, and save some men and horses.

So Wei Baichuan immediately ordered the withdrawal of the army, and when he left, he thought that the big camp outside the city could not be left to the Qin army, so I simply burned it. So he ordered dozens of fires to be lit in the camp and hundreds of tents were burned.

At this time, the officers and soldiers had completely lost their formation, and those who rode horses fought desperately, and those who did not have horses desperately opened their legs. Many officers and infantry were trampled down by their own cavalry, their heads were broken and their limbs were broken, and they were miserable.

Fortunately, Wei Baichuan used this fire attack strategy, and the burning battalion slowed down the advance of the Qin army, and the official army took this opportunity to run out for a few miles.

Wang Jian led 4,000 Qin troops in fierce pursuit behind, and they bypassed the burning camp and continued to pursue.

Zhang Gong said: "General, what about Baishui City?" Do you want to send someone back to put out the fire? ”

What he meant was that if a fire burned Baishui City to the ground, the Qin army would not be able to garrison it in the future. But Wang Jian said in a deep voice: "Don't care about those things, just chase me hard." I want to kill the surnamed Wei back to Jingbian in one battle, and I don't dare to face me in Guanzhong again. ”

So the Qin army kept going and chased closely. This is a bitter pain for the infantry of the official army, they can't keep up with the speed of the cavalry, and the cavalry of those officers and soldiers have already left them behind and fled by themselves, so these infantry are scattered on the road in a gang of five, a gang of ten, scattered on the road, becoming the meat of the army, being chased by the Qin army, or trampled down, or slashed with knives and spears, and killed on the spot. More officers and infantry saw that they could not escape, so they simply did not run away, threw away their swords and guns, sat on the side of the road with their heads in their hands, and became prisoners.

Wang Jian instructed to leave these people alone and chase them forward in one go.

This was a good killing, and Wei Baichuan was driven out for more than 100 miles, and the Qin army's horses really couldn't run, so they stopped.

On the official road for more than 100 miles, dead horses broke flags, broken spears and broken spears, and corpses and wounded soldiers.

Only then did Wang Jian order the troops to be withdrawn. Along the way, he walked back and began to clean up the battlefield. Those officers and soldiers who surrendered did not have the Qin army to guard them, so many people also fled back to Jingbian by detour, and only three or four hundred people were captured.

When I returned to Whitewater City, the fire in the city had been naturally extinguished, and all the temporary houses were burned down, even the government was no exception, and there was not a single neat house in the entire Whitewater City.

Wang Jian looked at the city in front of him that was burned to the ground, smiled self-deprecatingly, and ordered: "Forget it, this place of Baishui is wasted, let's go to Huangling." ”

Huangling is also a county seat, north of Baishui, not far from Baishui, which was originally the territory of the official army, but the official army did not have a garrison here, and the situation was similar to Baishui, only a few people.

Wang Jian had already moved the people of Baishui City out of the city and hid them in several abandoned villages in advance, and sent people to pick them up at this time and went to Huangling City with the Qin army.

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