Chapter 265: Redemption

No matter how hard and difficult the battle is, no matter how hard and dangerous the battle is, at least he can fight with the enemy, and in the end, he either gritted his teeth and held on until the enemy retreated, or took the initiative to retreat and flee after repelling the enemy's pursuit, and never tasted complete defeat.

Even when the young marshal's army was relatively weak, he encountered the Qin Army's Zhanghan Corps, which was at its peak, Zhong Liwu did not fight a real defeat, even if he once followed Xiang Kang to hug his head and run away, he was forced to throw away all the military baggage, and fled hungry only to hate his father and mother for giving birth to two legs for himself, Zhong Liwu also withdrew from the battlefield with the formation of his army, defeated but not humiliated, although he retreated, he was still honored.

The Battle of Wancheng, all this became history.

Zhong Liwu was extremely reluctant to recall the situation afterwards, and saw Liu Laosan's camp on fire in the dark night, Chai Wu's army suddenly turned against Liu Jun's camp, Liu Laosan's army was in chaos, Zhong Liwu also thought that he and the Han soldiers could create another miracle of defeating the strong with the weak, and did not hesitate to take the Han soldiers to kill Liu Jun's camp. Who would have thought that the drums of war suddenly sounded in unison, the Liu army ambushed the soldiers head-on, and the Yingbu army killed from the flank, and said that they would help the Han army clean up Liu Laosan's Chai Wu army also tore through the camouflage, and suddenly killed the other flank of the Han army, and the Han army, which was attacked on three sides, was suddenly in chaos, and was quickly defeated by the Three Kings coalition army.

After discovering the plan, Yingbu once tried to retreat to Wancheng City for temporary refuge, and Qi Gill, who commanded the rear team of the Han army, also hurried over to respond, but the overall strength of the Three Kings Coalition Army was too strong, not to mention that the strength was in absolute upper hand, and the combat effectiveness of individual soldiers was no less than that of the elite veterans of the Han army, the rear team of the Han army led by Qi Gill was almost killed in the blink of an eye, and the defeated soldiers of the Han army fled everywhere, with countless dead, and the Three Kings Coalition Army in pursuit was so frightened that Lu Qi did not dare to open the city gate to let the defeated soldiers of the Han army enter the city, Zhong Liwu and Qi Gill were helpless, He could only hurriedly lead the defeated army to flee west, and was forced to abandon the camp located outside the city and the important town of Wancheng, which had a weak army, so that the Han army suffered a heavy defeat for the second time after the defeat of Yexian.

The Three Kings Coalition Army did not let go of the defeated soldiers of the Han army, the capricious Chai Wu personally led the main force of the department to launch a pursuit, chased out hundreds of miles and still refused to give up, the defeated soldiers of the Han army who lost all the grain and grass and military supplies fell behind, Zhong Liwu and Qi Gill soon left less than 3,000 remnants of the defeated generals, and they were forced to rob the people of the villages along the way to wrap their stomachs, and it took a lot of effort to flee west with less than 2,000 defeated soldiers to the vicinity of Xixian County. But just when the defeated soldiers of the Han army were gasping for breath and resting, Chai Wujun chased after him again.

Forced to helplessly, Zhong Liwu and Qi Gill could only continue to flee west with the defeated soldiers, while hurriedly sending people to Xixian County for help, asking the Han army's Xixian defenders to send troops to respond, but before the rescuers arrived, the Chai Wu army had already killed to the front, the Han army was sleepy and lacking no resistance, and was defeated by the Chai Wu army.

At this time, the defenders of Xixian County had already hurried out of the city to form a formation, covering the defeat of the Han army and withdrawing into the city, but what made Zhong Liwu and Qi Gill unbelievable was that the Chai Wu army, which had been attacking for a long time, actually defeated the defenders of Xixian County who were waiting for work on the battlefield, and took advantage of the opportunity of the defenders to flee into the city, mixed with the defeat of the Han army, and entered the city of Xixian County, seized control of the east gate of Xixian County, and completely shattered Zhong Liwu and others' dream of closing the city and protecting themselves.

Later, Zhong Liwu knew that the long-distance attack was Chai Wujun's forte, and at the beginning of the Central Plains battlefield, Chai Wu and Yingbu teamed up more than once to act as a pioneer for the princes' coalition army, and the long-distance attack broke through the Qin army's defense line, and repeatedly succeeded, even the regular army of the Qin army was not his opponent, not to mention the county defenders who only belonged to the county soldiers?

Later, the Han army at that time was how embarrassed and embarrassed it was, the city gate position had been lost, Zhong Liwu and Qi Gill's defeated soldiers couldn't even breathe, and they were completely unable to fight again, and the strength of the defenders of Xixian County was too weak, and they were not the elite opponents of the Chai Wu Army at all, even if they gritted their teeth to start a street battle, they could not save the defeat, and then with the endless killing of the Chai Wu Army into the city, Zhong Liwu and Qi Gill could only hurriedly give up the city of Xixian and flee to Wuguan in embarrassment.

Chai Wu also paid attention to collecting military information, and before the war in the county town was over, Chai Wu couldn't wait to send people to interrogate the Han prisoners and inquire about the situation of the Han army in Wuguan, and the result made Chai Wu overjoyed, as he expected, because the main force of the Han army in Nanyang was defeated too suddenly, Xiang Kang had no time to send reinforcements to Wuguan, and at present, Wuguan was only guarded by more than 2,000 troops, and it was impossible to be the opponent of Chai Wujun.

Because of this, just after Shen Shi in the afternoon, the battle in the city had just basically ended, Chai Wu immediately ordered to gather the army, ready to rest only one night outside the city of Xixian County, and continued to enter the military pass in the early morning of the next day. ”

"Fighters are rare, and time can't be wasted!" Chai Wu shook his head decisively and said: "We must take advantage of Xiang Kang'er's lack of time to give Wuguan the opportunity to send reinforcements, and hurry up to take Wuguan, otherwise, as soon as Xiang Kang'er's rescue arrives, if we want to take Wuguan again, it will only be more difficult than ascending to the sky." ”

"But our soldiers are too tired to fight anymore." He said helplessly.

"No matter how tired you are, you have to persevere to the end!" Chai Wu shouted: "Don't forget, our fiefdoms are in Hanzhong and Bashu, only by taking Wuguan, can we attack the Xunguan in the west and open the Hanzhong portal to enter Hanzhong!" Tell our soldiers that they have won Wuguan, and all the money and silk of the women in the city will be rewarded to them! The first person to enter Wuguan can get a hundred percent of the money and grain of Xixian County alone! ”

Seeing that Chai Wu had made up his mind, and knew that Wuguan was indeed extremely important to the army, once it was successfully taken, the Han army could only be forced to retreat to the pass, so that the army could calmly enter the Xunguan, and he no longer objected, so he could only hurry up and other generals to make Chai Wu's order public, and use the money and grain women who should have belonged to Liu Laosan to stimulate the morale and fighting spirit of the soldiers of the army.

The good luck of the Chai Wu army is not only that, at night, the Han army Zhuyang County ordered according to Xiang Kang's order, with the county defenders and the people of Nanyang who voluntarily returned to Guanzhong north, just retreated north to the vicinity of Xixian County, ready to retreat north to Guanzhong, Chai Wu who received the news only dispatched two thousand troops, and easily killed the Zhuyang army, captured a large amount of military money and food, and also captured many young men and women, the harvest was quite large, and the morale of the Chai Wu army was also more invigorated.

Early the next morning, only 2,000 troops were left to guard the retreat of Xixian County, Chai Wu set off with more than 10,000 main forces of the headquarters, and killed Wuguan with great momentum, but what made Chai Wu almost smile crookedly was that it was just noon, and his front team caught up with the defeated Han army led by Zhong Liwu and others, and won the victory again, killing the defeated soldiers of the Han army all over the ditch, leaving only more than 1,000 people to flee to Wuguan in embarrassment.

Seeing the appearance of the defeated soldiers of the Han army fleeing in embarrassment, Chai Wu in addition to laughing, and urged the main force of his army to speed up the advance, requiring his army to rush to the Suspension Bridge Ridge before sunset, seize the outer barrier of Wuguan, and the soldiers of the Chai Wu Army who fought even more vigorously agreed, and the pursuit was more brisk, and Shen Shi rushed to the position less than 20 miles away from the Suspension Bridge Ridge, during which he also captured many Han soldiers who fell behind because of physical exhaustion.

At this time, of course, Chai Wujun had gone deep into the depths of the Qinling Mountains, the road was lined with high mountains and dense forests, and the Chi road that the people of Daqin had worked hard to build was less than ten meters wide, and Chai Wujun's team was forced to stretch and lengthen, and the distance between the front and back was several miles. He was very worried about this, so he persuaded Chai Wu again: "King, the road is narrow and the mountains are high, should you be cautious about marching into the army?" Our army is already very tired, if Xiang Kang's thief army hides an ambush and suddenly kills and cuts off our army, we are afraid that we will be in great trouble. ”

Looking at the mountains and dense forests on both sides, Chai Wu snorted with disdain and said, "The Wuguan thief army is only more than 2,000 people in total, even if there are ambush soldiers, what can they do to us?" Don't worry, don't worry, go to Drawbridge Ridge first. ”

After that, Chai Wu also ordered to urge the army to speed up the advance, and then rest at the foot of the Suspension Bridge Ridge Mountain, and he had no choice but to send his soldiers into the mountain to investigate in private, and be careful to beware of the Han army hiding ambushes.

On the contrary, when you can see the Suspension Bridge Ridge from a distance, Chai Wujun can clearly see that there are few Han army flags on the Suspension Bridge Ridge, and there are obviously not many defenders. Chai Wu was also even more overjoyed, and asked directly to the generals under his command on the road: "Who dares to work hard and immediately lead the army to attack Suspension Bridge Ridge?" ”

Chai Wu's command is indeed a fierce general, although the soldiers are already very tired, the combat effectiveness has dropped significantly, several generals still did not hesitate to stand up and hold their fists to ask for orders, volunteered to fight the suspension bridge ridge, Chai Wu was not very happy, and immediately ordered the first general to ask for orders to command 3,000 soldiers as the vanguard, taking advantage of the sunset to go up the mountain to attack the Han army camp.

At the same time, the main force of the Chai Wu army was not far from the open space under the Suspension Bridge Ridge Mountain, and it was clear that the defeated soldiers of the Han army were stumbling up the mountain to flee for their lives, and they did not dare to have a single soldier stay at the bottom of the mountain to stop them.

At this time, the mutation was sudden, and the Han army guards on the Suspension Bridge Ridge didn't know what medicine they had taken wrong, so they beat the war drums wildly, and then before the Chai Wu soldiers could figure out what was going on, in the north of the open space under the Suspension Bridge Ridge Mountain, they had already shouted and rushed out of countless Han soldiers with the red Han Army banner, and quickly seized the open space under the mountain to form a formation, blocking the Chai Wu Army on the narrow mountain road.

"Ambush? How can it be?! ”

Chai Wu and Zhong Liwu, the general of the Han army who was going up the mountain, let out an exclamation together, and then shouted in disbelief: "The army from there? It is impossible for King Han (Xiang Kang Xiaoer) to send reinforcements to Wuguan so quickly?! ”

Zheng Bu's banner appeared in the ranks of the Han army, looking at the Chai Wu army team crowded in the mountain road, Zheng Bu, the general of the Han army, gritted his teeth and clicked, and shouted with an extremely hideous expression: "Chai Wu Piff!" Enough of the defeated soldiers chasing and killing us? If it's not enough, just let the horse come over and see how Lao Tzu avenges our Han soldiers! ”

Physical strength has dropped to a critical point, and is blocked in the narrow mountain road, Chai Wu up and down of course unless they are crazy will rush up to die, after a few quick glances at the battlefield situation, Chai Wu, who is experienced in the battlefield, also shouted: "Line up on the spot, shoot Xiang Kang's thief army with a bow and crossbow, and retreat slowly!" ”

The soldiers of Chai Wu's army who had survived a hundred battles were also experienced, and before Chai Wu's order was in place, they had already lined up countless horizontal formations on the narrow road by themselves, and pointed at the Han soldiers under the Drawbridge Ridge Mountain with bows and crossbows, in a vain attempt to use the narrow terrain to block the Han army with dense bows and arrows, and create an opportunity for the self-army to retreat calmly.

On the other side, Zheng Bu, the general of the Han army, who also crawled out of the pile of dead people countless times, suddenly became as if he couldn't fight, and he didn't take advantage of the psychological advantage of his own army's sudden killing, and decisively urged the Han army soldiers to launch a surprise attack, just ordered the soldiers to step forward and use the best strong crossbow left by Qin Shihuang and Hu Hai to shoot at the Chai Wu army, and then after the Han army ambush was all lined up, Zheng Bu waved his hand and shouted: "Drum!" ”

The war drums of the Han army sounded together again, and when they heard the second round of drums, the sound of killing suddenly broke out in the dense forests on both sides of the road, and countless Han soldiers rushed out, and also condescendingly threw out some strange objects from a distance, many Chai Wu soldiers had sharp eyes, and clearly saw that those strange objects were black coarse porcelain pottery bottles, and there was a strange curling white smoke, and they were all very strange in their hearts, "What is that?" ”

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Gunpowder weapons appeared on the battlefield of the two armies hundreds of years in advance, the fire burst out, the loud noise was repeated, and the Chai Wu army was suddenly in chaos, countless generals and soldiers screamed together, Chai Wu was even more surprised to stand up from the carriage and yelled: "What is that?" ”

"Kill!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Chai Wu army being blown up by the primitive grenade, Zheng Bu finally gave the order to attack, and the Han soldiers who had been sharp for a long time shouted up, roaring and killing into the narrow mountain road, and the Qin army front team that was attacked by the primitive grenade was already extremely chaotic, and there was no ** exile arrow to stop the Han army's charge, and the Han army soldiers took the opportunity to quickly rush to the front, picked up their weapons and stabbed indiscriminately, and the front team of the Chai Wu army was quickly defeated and forced to retreat.

At the same time, the soldiers of the Han army on both sides of the road have also thrown down countless bundles of firewood and torches, and threw grenades to help burn, the smoke of the fire rose quickly, the whistling mountain wind came to cheer again, and quickly ignited the trees and grass on both sides of the road, the Chai Wu army, which could barely maintain a neat queue, was completely chaotic, countless soldiers screamed and smoked and walked away, trampled on each other on the narrow road, countless dead, the Han soldiers took the opportunity to rush and kill, and the Chai Wu army was killed more and more collapsed, and the soldiers of the front team rushed back and fled, and the screams were endless.

The battle has reached this point, even if Han Xin puts on his wings and flies to help Chai Wu, he will definitely not be able to turn things around. Seeing that the situation was not good, Chai Wu had already issued an order to retreat, turned the carriage and took the lead in escaping, Sergeant Chai ran and fled, crying and shouting to escape even more embarrassed, looking far more miserable than the defeated Han army who was chased and killed by them before, Zheng Bu personally led the army into the mountain road, and yelled with red eyes, "Kill!" Kill me desperately! Avenge our Wancheng! Avenge our great soldiers! Don't let any of them go! ”

The anger of the Han soldiers completely turned into raging fire, burning every Chai army soldier who could catch up with him into ashes and wreckage, and there was no fear of a Han army soldier willing to show mercy between the pursuit, all of them were killed when they saw the enemy, and they were cut when they saw the enemy, and the Han soldiers who were still struggling to chase and kill with several heads hanging on their waists could be seen everywhere, even the Chai soldiers who had already knelt down and surrendered were cut down by the Han soldiers without hesitation, and the Chai Wu army finally paid a heavy price for their rush and pursuit.

The revenge of the Han soldiers was only the beginning, as the sky became dark, the vision was blocked, and the deaths and injuries caused by the Chai Wu soldiers trampling on each other quickly rose in a straight line, and countless soldiers just fell or were pushed down, and were immediately trampled into meat by the straw sandals of their companions, and the number of deaths far exceeded the number of people killed by the Han soldiers.

In order to facilitate the escape, Chai Wujun did not hesitate to abandon all the baggage grain trucks, and stumbled east in the dark night, but he still couldn't get rid of the pursuit of the Han soldiers. And what made Chai Wujun's soul fly up and down was that after escaping twenty-five or six miles east, a huge Chai Mountain suddenly appeared on the narrow road, and seeing them fleeing closer, Chai Mountain quickly ignited a sky-high fire, directly burning their escape path.

Countless feather arrows shot from behind the sea of fire, trying to extinguish the fire of the Chai soldiers shot to the ground one after another, on the cliffs on both sides of the road, but also continued to fall rolling stones and huge trees, Chai soldiers had no way to advance and retreat, crying and shaking the sky, there were countless soldiers who ventured to flee into the mountains and forests in the dark night, Chai Wu yelled in the car, roared wildly, forced his corporal to step forward to extinguish the fire and open the way, there were few people who had no choice but to respond, and the Chai army all just wanted to flee to both sides, and there was no fear that a formed army would obey his orders.

When Zheng Bu personally led the Han army to chase and kill the front, the Chai Wu army was doomed to the doom of the whole army, and was killed by the vengeful Han soldiers like a mountain, and the blood flowed like a river. The general of the Chai army, Zhanhe, was also hacked to death by the soldiers of the Han army in the chaos.

Almost with the corpses of the defeated soldiers of the self-army forcibly rushed out of a road in the sea of fire, Chai Wu, who had long been replaced by ordinary soldiers, was lucky enough to rush through the fire array arranged by the Han army surrounded by his own soldiers, but before Chai Wu and his soldiers rejoiced, the Han army ambush soldiers lined up behind the fire array had already killed head-on, Chai Wu's defeated soldiers were tired and hungry, and their morale fell to the extreme, how could they resist the rush of the Han army soldiers? The soldiers of the Han army only charged once, and they scattered the defeated crowd of the Chai army, and continued to divide and surround them, stabbing and killing them mercilessly!

Chai Wu's luck is still good, in the chaos, he and two pro-soldiers escaped the Han army soldiers and fled to the woods on the side of the road, but unfortunately his good luck quickly came to an end, a Han army team suddenly killed, and without saying a word, he stabbed the spear indiscriminately, Chai Wu had no choice but to quickly throw down his weapon and kneel on the ground and shout, "I am Chai Wu, the king of Hanzhong!" I give up! I can make you rich, don't kill ......, me. ”

What interrupted Chai Wu's shouting was a spear that stabbed directly into his chest, and it was only after he stabbed the spear into Chai Wu's heart without armor that the commander of the Han army who led the team heard his shout clearly, and asked in surprise: "You are Chai Wu?!" ”

Chai Wu had no way to answer the question of the Han army, and when the blood gushed out of his mouth, Chai Wu nodded reluctantly, and wanted to continue to beg for mercy, but the damned Han army commander put away the spear again, Chai Wu's body was crooked, and before he could step on the fief that Xiang Yu gave him, he was extremely unlucky to become the first prince to die in the hands of the Han army.

Of course, Chai Wu died unjustly at all, because of his betrayal and defection, the main force of the Han army in Nanyang, with a total strength of more than 10,000 people, only more than 1,000 people finally escaped back to Wuguan, and there was originally hope to hold the Han army Wancheng for a long time, but it was also easily taken by Liu Laosan and Yingbu's coalition army, and the Han army Nanyang County Shou Lu Qi, who was unwilling to bear the infamy of surrender, was killed by Liu Jun when he broke through. So even if Chai Wu was killed and the main force of Chai Wu was successfully annihilated, the Han army only fought a draw on the southern front, and strictly speaking, it suffered a lot of losses.