Chapter 191: If you drive the sheep
When Dou Ran was young, he went to the Huainan Beast Garden of the King of Chu, where there are not only precious flowers and trees, but also a variety of rare birds and beasts, rhinoceros and elk.
At that time, the king of Chu, who was still the son of the prince's younger brother, once took Dou Ran and them to watch a "game".
The tiger, which had been hungry for many days and looked weak, was put into a sheepfold, and after smelling the fresh flesh and blood for a moment, the two hanging eyes of the hungry tiger, which was originally lying on its stomach and dying, suddenly bloomed. It rose to its feet, rushed to the flock, pounced and frantically tore at its neck, drank its blood, and let out a long-suppressed roar......
On that day, the crazy hungry tiger killed more than 20 sheep in the sheepfold, and although the sheep were numerous, they could only bleat and run around, allowing the hungry tiger to slaughter.
At this moment, the situation of that day seems to be repeated.
The Qin army in front of the Qin army attacked the Chu people at a rapid speed with traps and spear-wielding soldiers, and the front row array was scattered. Even the Qin soldiers in the rear, who were captured by the Chu people and detained in the pit and demoralized, suddenly burst out with a roar like a hungry tiger.
Before the surrender, the Chu people thought that they were tigers and their enemies were sheep, but at this moment, they found that their identities were reversed.
Ji Ying and the others rebelled, cutting the shackles of Zhou Hua and others with hidden knives, and the Qin officials began to call on the captives to resist, and everyone pounced on the Chu soldiers who were guarding them with their bare hands, threw them to the ground, choked their throats, snatched their weapons, and stormed the rear of the Chu army, responding to friendly forces......
For a time, the Chu army was caught in the predicament of being flanked by the front and back, and in front of it was the Qin Jiashi who was getting closer and closer. The array of more than 1,000 people had collapsed in half, and only five or six hundred people were left to confront the Qin people with a comparable number. However, the 500 men in the rear were also in chaos because of the prisoner riot, and they could not be mobilized to support at all.
The archers and cavalry who were pinned on by Dou Ran were directly ignored by the opposing general, and the Qin people ignored the arrows on their sides and on the top of their heads, blindly charging forward with a pig rush, aiming directly at Dou Ran's chariot!
Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps! Dou Ran could even see the front row of the Qin army, the hideous faces of those Qin people covered in blood, and even a big man with a red birthmark on his face, jumped high, raised his hand and threw it violently, and a short halberd broke through the distance of more than ten steps and threw it in the direction of Dou Ran.
Dou Ran was caught off guard, he could only subconsciously squat, the halberd knocked his bronze armor away, the bronze armor rolled down under the chariot, Dou Ran was so frightened that he fell into the carriage, and was shocked into a cold sweat!
The drum he had been trying to beat suddenly stopped!
As a last resort, the Dou Ran Emperor began to move, and the chariot, under the protection of his personal guards, ran over a few routs blocking the way, and began to drive towards the south where the establishment was still intact.
Sun Feng's chariot and five hundred soldiers were over there, and since the beginning of the war, Sun Feng has been in a daze, and after Dou Ran sent people over several times to urge, he sent hundreds of people to advance and outflank the Qin people. Unexpectedly, the Qin people didn't care about it, and only barely blocked their attack with a hundred armor soldiers, and the rest were still attacking the middle lane......
Dou Ran planned to withdraw and use Sun Feng's manpower to reorganize the team to counterattack, however, this happened to be the way of the Qin army.
"The Chu army is defeated! General Chu has fled! ”
At the behest of Heifu, the Nanjun soldiers in the Qin army shouted violently, and the Chu army, which was still resisting in front, was shocked to hear it, and when they looked back, they saw that the banner of the Douran chariot, which was originally steadily supervising the battle behind them, had run more than ten steps to the south.
In a moment of distraction, they were pushed back a few steps, and their last will to resist collapsed.
The 2,000 people brought by Dou Ran and Sun Feng were not the elite of the Chu army, but their respective clan soldiers. Among these people, there are a large number of undisciplined rangers of the Chu Kingdom, as well as farmers armed with scythes and rusty swords left by their grandparents, and even Lu Zuo teenagers who have not completed their training in the alleys of Lilu.
Such an army is okay to fight a tailwind battle with the armies of Zhao, Jing, Qu and Xiang, but when it is suddenly attacked by such a fierce attack, it is a little confused. At this moment, I heard bursts of shouts from the rear, and my own main general also "fled", and I panicked even more, not only the five hundred soldiers who had been defeated by the Qin army, but the remaining five or six hundred people also began to retreat step by step.
"Stop, stop!"
Dou Ran was shocked when he saw this, and recovered from Fang Cai's horror, he hurriedly helped the emperor to hold the horse, and let the guards shout: "Hu Gong's banner is still here!" ”
But it was too late to make amends, and the defeated soldiers didn't seem to hear the shouts of Dou Ran's own soldiers, and they still ran around like headless flies. Beside Dou Ran's chariot, there were more than a dozen tall family guards, all wearing armor, and now they were all covered with blood, but this blood was not the enemy's, but their own.
In the past, whenever there was a decline in the battle, cutting off the heads of a few cowards could force the brigade to stand still. But this time it didn't work, more than a dozen heads were cut off and there was still no way to stop the rout, and for a while, more than 1,000 people in the center of the Chu army had been defeated!
Dou Ran stared at this scene blankly, and a sentence in the art of war flashed in his mind.
"If the boat is burned and the cauldron is broken, if the flock of sheep is driven, it is driven away, and it is driven to come, I don't know what to do!"
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"Is this herding sheep?"
Sun Feng, who was more than a hundred steps away to the south, looked at the scene in front of him and muttered to himself.
Judging from his position, the Qin people did not pay attention to the rules of war, and there was some order at the beginning. But now, he didn't care about the array at all, just a vigorous pig charge, rampage, and just arched a big hole in the Chu array, forcing Dou Ran to transfer.
As a result, it led to a larger-scale rout of the Chu pawns, who ran in all directions in a noisy. As battles broke out in the rear, the hundreds of Chu people in the rear were also caught in a bitter battle with the Qin captives, and it was difficult to support.
For a time, on the entire battlefield, the only well-formed troops were the 500 people under Sun Feng, and the Qin people never cared about them.
It stands to reason that Sun Feng's men were equal in number to the Qin army, and if they were killed from behind, or if they rescued Dou Ran, they might be able to save the defeat. But in the midst of this lightning, Sun Feng, who had to be careful with even a little food, made a choice.
"Lost."
Sun Feng said in frustration, "We lost. ”
He seemed to remember the day when Bedqiu was broken by Li Xin, and suddenly lost all fighting spirit, and before the Qin people turned around and attacked him, he ordered the emperor to turn the carriage, take more than 500 of his men, and more than 100 riders who were subordinate to him, leave Dou Ran behind, and flee to the east of Bedqiu......
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"County magistrate, Sun Feng's shaft has fled, and we will also withdraw!"
In the midst of the chaos, the emperor turned his head and persuaded Douran to leave with an anxious face, although the front formation had collapsed, and the rear formation was all in chaos, but they had a chariot anyway, as long as they drove away, they would definitely be able to run faster than the Qin people on two legs!
Dou Ran's face was gloomy, but he didn't have the idea of fleeing in a hurry after Sun Feng, but stroked his sword and sighed: "That's right, I am defeated, throughout the thirty generations since the establishment of the Ruoao clan, there is no defeated and still alive family master!" ”
Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Chu has had a tradition of overthrowing the army and killing generals, and the generals who defeated the battle did not need to be held accountable by the King of Chu and the law of the country, and most of them would commit suicide first!
During the reign of King Wu of Chu, Mo Ao Qu led an army to defeat the Luo Kingdom, but was defeated by the light enemy, and died by hanging himself afterwards.
When Chu became king, another branch of the Ruo Ao clan, the head of the Cheng clan, made Yin Ziyu and the Jin army fight Chengpu, and after the defeat of this battle, Ziyu was ashamed and killed himself in Liangu.
When the king of Chu Gong, Sima Zianti fought with the Jin people in Yanling, the Chu army was defeated again, and lost the hegemony of the Central Plains.
During the reign of King Chuping, Sima Xue Yue ignored the advice of his subordinates to raise his army to fight again, and committed suicide after the defeat of the Wu army.
During the reign of King Zhao of Chu, after Zuo Sima Shen Yin Rong was defeated, he also asked his subordinates to cut off their heads......
This is still relatively well-known, and if the Ao clan has all over the ages, a total of nine people died with such a tragic death!
"My grandfather and father once told me that the general of Jing Chu, the day he came out, had the glory of death and the humiliation of life!"
"It's not terrible to lose, it's terrible to lose 800 years of inheritance, and lose to forget the pride of the heroes!"
The real Jingchu nobles, the real Emperor Gaoyang Miao descendants, even if they are defeated, they must be defeated with dignity!
"I am arrogant and arrogant, unguarded, and now that the army is gone, dare I forget his death?"
After that, when the Qin people were getting closer and closer, Dou Ran pulled out his sword and said to the retainers and guards:
"Dou Ran is incompetent, and the second and third sons have suffered this great humiliation together, and Dou Ran is very ashamed, but I still hope that the second and third sons will be in the face of serving Ruo Ao for generations, and then defend the enemy for me for a while!"
"Congratulations to the Lord! May the soul of the lord return and travel to Jingchu for a long time! ”
More than ten guards did not persuade again, knelt down on one knee, with tears in their eyes, shouted loudly, and then pulled out their blades and rushed towards the Qin people who were already close at hand! Vowed to stop them for a moment, to let the lord go on his way with peace of mind.
The nobles of the Chu State committed suicide, and there was also a noble ceremony, Dou Ran, with the assistance of the emperor, gently wiped the long sword with white silk to make sure that it was spotless, and then he stood upright, raised his hands, and put the blade across his neck......
When cutting, you should also go from right to left, and you must not reverse it!
"I only hope that after I die, I can really come back with a soul! Anti-home! Dou Ran thought so in his heart at the last moment.
However, just as Dou Ran was about to kill himself, more than ten steps away, an arrow flew in and hit his wrist!
The sword was taken out of his hand, and he clutched his bleeding wrist in pain.
His clan soldiers have fled at this moment, dead to death, the guards were also killed by the Qin people's chaotic blades, and even the emperor who was holding a halberd trying to block the enemy was also killed by an arrow, a large number of Qin people rushed over, surrounded Dou Ran's lonely chariot, and another Qin official jumped on the car and kicked away the sword that Dou Ran tried to pick up again!
Dou Ran raised his head in despair, but saw that Xiao Tun Changxin, who came to "surrender" in the morning, was looking at him with a smile.
"Douxian Gong, you and I meet again."
"Heart, you really deceived ......"
Dou Ran laughed miserably: "Now that the victory and defeat have been divided, I have nothing to say, I just want to die!" I also hope that you will tell Lord Cheng 500 and ask him to fulfill me, the general of the defeated army! ”
As soon as these words came out, the Dongmen Leopard who had confronted Dou Ran with a halberd on the side, and Xiao Tao, who had an arrow to prevent him from committing suicide, couldn't help laughing, and for a while, dozens of Qin soldiers around the car couldn't stop laughing.
Dou Ran was ashamed and annoyed, feeling that he had been humiliated, but Heifu stopped everyone and said to him: "I deceived Dou Gong, and there are no five hundred masters in the city. ”
"And who commanded this battle?"
Dou Ran originally felt that he had lost unjustly, but at this moment he found that this was a confused battle, and he didn't even know who his opponent was.
"It's me."
"You?" Dou Ran's face was full of incredulity, this person was the main general, and he personally went to the enemy camp to surrender? This......
Heifu said: "I am not a tun chief, but a hundred generals, and I was appointed by Li Youdu as a fake five hundred lord to temporarily lead everyone. ”
"I don't complain either, my real name is Heifu! That's right, it's the Anlu Pavilion Chief that Douxian Gong is looking for. ”
Dou Ran's eyes widened, as if the person in front of him was a terrible monster.
"So, Duke Douxian, you can't just die."
Heifu also laughed: "You still owe me 700 acres of good land!" ”