Chapter 148: Decisive Victory
Snowing?
Not long after the wolf smoke rose, the goose feather snow that suddenly floated in the sky made Ma Teng and Han Sui a little surprised, this is too coincidental, so what kind of demon magic will Chen Momo make? Can you call the wind and rain?
"Brother Shoucheng, it is snowing heavily this day, and the grain road will inevitably be unsustainable, we ......" Han Sui found Ma Teng, sighed and said: "Withdraw the army." ”
Looking at the scale of the snow, it will be more difficult to transport grain and grass, plus if it is frozen today, it is not suitable for war, and now it is snowing, it is even more difficult to do anything, and the cold can freeze people to death, and there are still many soldiers in the army who are infected with wind and cold.
Ma Teng looked at Han Sui with complicated eyes, nodded silently and said, "According to the words of the Wenyue, withdraw the army immediately." ”
Can't wait any longer, you must leave before the road has not been completely blocked by the heavy snow, retreat to Longxi, wait for the snow to stop and then return to Zuwei, this battle has been fought until now, the momentum is coming, but except for a camp that was burned down by the people themselves, they have almost no gains, but the Qiang warriors have died a lot, and Ma Chao's prestige has also lost a lot.
And if he retreats this time, at least the land of Longxi will be owned by Chen Mo, and there will be a stable area, I'm afraid the candidate won't be able to hold it.
After the two of them simply decided on the strategy of retreating, they took advantage of the heavy snow, and quickly ordered the troops to pack up and start withdrawing, this battle of Xiliang, on the surface, it should be provoked by Ma Teng and Han Sui, but if you ask the two, in fact, the two do not want to fight this battle, but the Qiang people were forced by Zang Hong's policy to come to ask for help and complain, basically this time the two were forced out by the Qiang people or Zang Hong to fight this battle.
The loss of the two troops itself is not much, but the loss of the Qiang people is definitely a lot, the Qiang led by Ma Chao lost 7,000, not to mention the consumption of the siege of the city these days, 50,000 Qiang troops, aside from the battle dead, there are many who are infected with the wind and cold and wait for death, when Ma Teng and Han Sui pulled out the camp and returned, the 50,000 troops who came, followed them back, but there were less than 30,000 left, and a large number of Qiang people who were infected with the wind and cold were left in the camp and groaned in pain.
When the snow stopped a little and Chen Mo's soldiers and horses arrived, all they saw was a battalion full of wounded soldiers.
"Lord, these soldiers are infected with wind and cold, how to deal with them?" After Bao Geng took the pioneer battalion to join Chen Mo, he told the situation in the camp again, in this weather, Ma Teng and Han Sui wanted to withdraw their troops, and these wounded soldiers would only slow down the march, so they were obviously abandoned.
"Give them a good time and bury them on the spot." Chen Mo's expression was a little indifferent.
"Whoa!" Bao Geng nodded, this kind of thing is very common in these years, it is an enemy, and it is also a Qiang person, there will not be too much guilt, not to mention that even Ma Teng and Han Sui have left these people alone, do you want to count on Chen Mo, the enemy, to save them? Chen Mo obviously didn't have this idea, and buried it on the spot for fear of breeding the plague, otherwise, Chen Mo wouldn't care.
The screams in the camp continued to sound, Chen Mo did not enter the camp, and walked around the barracks with men and horses, and the traces of the enemy's departure had been covered by wind and snow, but at this time, the route they were going to take was not difficult to guess, Chen Mo looked at the sky, and said to Yang Ding and Liang Xing beside him: "The two of you each lead the soldiers and horses of the headquarters along the main road to pursue in the west of Longxi, remember, send more scouts, and after finding the main force of the enemy, you don't have to fight immediately, just follow from a distance, so that they can't rest well, if those Qiang soldiers fight reflexively, don't touch them." ”
The current Qiang soldiers want to go back, the so-called return to the division is not hidden, and if they are forced too hard, they will make these people desperately resist, hanging them a little bit to exhaust their morale and fighting spirit, and when they arrive in Longxi, it will be the day of the destruction of the Ma-Han coalition army!
"Whoa!" General Yang Ding and Liang Xing agreed, and each led his troops away.
"Gao Shun!" Chen Mo looked at Gao Shun, who had been useless, and said with a smile: "This last battle is the time to trap the camp and make meritorious contributions, so that the soldiers can recuperate. ”
"Whoa!" Gao Shun bowed when he heard this, this last battle naturally can't only be trapped in the camp, after all, there are only a thousand people in the trapped camp, Chen Mo's other departments will cooperate, but the role of the trapped camp is to say that the last bit of the enemy's morale is completely dispersed, in this battle, Chen Mo not only defeated Ma Teng and Han Sui, but also hit the Xiliang Qiang clan hard, hit them until they are afraid, and then appease!
Yang Ding and Liang Xing's pursuers soon found the traces of the Ma-Han coalition army, with Zhao Cen's lesson, Liang Xing and Yang Ding did not dare to force each other too much, but followed from a distance, from time to time to send a small group of men and horses to kill some people who fell behind, but never approached the opponent's large army.
Although there is no intention of attacking here, but the pressure on Ma Teng and Han Sui has increased a lot, Ma Chao and Yan Xing both led their troops to fight, at the beginning Yang Ding also had a battle with Ma Chao, and was almost defeated, since then, when he saw the other party's soldiers and horses coming, he quickly fled away and did not collide with the Qiang army.
Although a small victory, but did not bring any substantial changes to the coalition army, after the heavy snow, the weather became colder and colder, every day there were Qiang troops fell behind or fell directly to the ground and never got up, 30,000 troops, but were chased by 3,000 people, the atmosphere in the army is becoming more and more depressed day by day, there are many deserters every day, at first, Ma Teng and Han Sui will take care of it, but later, they can't manage it at all, seeing that Longxi is approaching, Ma Teng and Han Sui are not happy at all, Liang Xing and Yang Ding have been cruising on the side, But Chen Mo's main force never appeared, so Chen Mo shouldn't let them go so easily, right?
The uneasiness in my heart reached the fixed point when I arrived in Longxi, and I saw that Xiangwu City was in front of me, but the flag that originally represented Ma Teng at the head of the city did not appear, and there were only a few soldiers patrolling the empty city.
There is a desire to bypass Xiangwu and continue to go west, but the generals in the army seem to have reached the limit, many people without getting the order, they rushed directly to Xiangwu, all the way, there are pursuers in the rear, constantly suppressing their nerves, both physically and mentally, these soldiers have reached the limit, when they see Xiangwu City, many people frantically rush over, now they are not like anything else, they just want to sleep well in the city, eat a full meal.
"Quick, stop them!" Ma Teng frowned and looked at the Qiang troops who were desperately flocking to the city, and shouted angrily.
It's a pity that it's too late, just when a large number of Qiang troops are about to arrive in Xiangwu, the closed city gate has no intention of opening at all, but at the head of the city, a large number of soldiers poured out, followed by arrows falling from the city, like a basin of ice water in winter, completely extinguishing the little enthusiasm and hope that the soldiers had just risen.
At the head of the city, Xun You commanded the soldiers to keep firing arrows, and at the same time watched the enemy formation, and ordered someone to raise wolf smoke at the head of the city.
Some of the Qiang soldiers under the city simply sat on the ground, letting the arrows come and shoot without moving, the feeling of exhaustion was greater than the fear of death, but more soldiers still ran back with rolling and crawling.
At this moment, the war drums at the head of the city were beaten, and the originally closed city gate suddenly opened.
Tai Shi Ci took the lead, the long halberd in his hand brought up the cold light, swept away the lives of the Qiang soldiers along the way, and led the men and horses directly to the enemy formation, the army formation of more than 20,000 people, but the fragile even Tai Shi Ci was a little surprised, just a hard rush, and the enemy army was split.
I didn't think about it so much, Tai Shi Ci killed a Qiang general with a halberd, and shouted loudly: "Donglai Tai Shi Ci is here, the traitor will not descend at this time, and when will he stay!?" ”
"Tai Shi Ci, don't be arrogant! I'm here to tease you! When Ma Chao saw Tai Shici again, his eyes were a little red, he snorted angrily, and led a team of Qiang soldiers to meet Tai Shici.
"Meng Qi, don't be reckless!" Ma Teng was shocked when he saw this, this was not the time to fight, but unfortunately, the scene was a little chaotic, and the two were a little far away, but Ma Chao didn't hear it.
On the other side, Tai Shici saw Ma Chao coming, and laughed: "His subordinates are defeated, An dares to speak bravely!?" ”
As he spoke, he had already led men and horses to kill.
On the one hand, it is to recuperate, on the other hand, it is running around for days, people are sleepy and lacking, just a charge, Ma Chao was originally quite an elite soldier behind him, but he was easily defeated by Tai Shi Ci, and Ma Chao was even opened a gap in his back by Tai Shi Ci's halberd, and the blood flowed for a long time.
defeated Ma Chao's soldiers and horses, but Tai Shici did not fight with Ma Chao, but rushed straight to the Chinese army with his men and horses.
"Withdraw!" Han Sui saw that Ma Teng's side was disturbed, and he didn't help, but directly took the people and turned around and left.
"Where did the thieves escape!?" Before he went too far, he suddenly killed a group of men and horses in the oblique stab, there were not many people, about a thousand people, but one by one they were extremely brave, and directly cut off Han Sui's soldiers.
This group of men and horses is Gao Shun, under Chen Mo's arrangement, they made a detour in advance and rushed to Longxi to rest, and when Tai Shici released a signal, he immediately attacked and directly defeated the enemy.
"Let's go!" Han Sui didn't hesitate for a moment, he actually left the troops, only took Yan Xing, Li Kan and other generals and personal guards, turned around and fled.
On the other side, after Liang Xing and Yang Ding saw the wolf smoke rising here, they changed their previous timidity, and quickly came with their respective soldiers and horses.
The Qiang army, which was already chaotic, became even more chaotic with the slaughter of this force.
Ma Chao killed several Guanzhong troops in the chaotic army, but there were more and more Guanzhong troops around, seeing that the rout of the Qiang army was a foregone conclusion, Ma Chao took the remaining guards to Ma Teng's side, and escorted Ma Teng out of the army with Ma Dai, just like Han Sui, directly left these Qiang troops and left.
The battle became more and more intense, but the rout of the Qiang army was faster, but in an hour's time, the Qiang army was completely defeated, and began to flee in embarrassment, Tai Shici and Gao Shun converged Liang Xing and Yang Ding, and attacked from all sides, chasing and killing for nearly an hour, killing the corpses of the Qiang army all over the field, and the sound of crying resounded through the fields, until the sky was about to darken, before they began to collect troops and return to the city......