Chapter 51: Changchuan after the war

In the distance, the Qin army's military flag was unfurled, the horn was loud, the smoke and dust were flying, and there was a faint momentum of thousands of troops and horses, and the power of thunder.

The bloodied cavalry of the Qin army interspersed back and forth in the plain, attacking, and dispersing the panicked enemy troops, so the screams and begs for mercy resounded throughout the battlefield.

But in the sound of the war drums of the Qin army, everything seemed so pale. The Qin army, who was riding a war horse, just kept waving the saber in his hand, bringing out a blood flower, and then galloped away.

On the periphery of the battlefield, the bronze Qin army chariots, after the enemy camp was scattered, began to charge back and forth in all directions, and in the sound of thunderous drums, harvesting slave soldiers who tried to escape.

As a result, the army of slaves who were still scattered all over the wilderness just now were slowly shrunk into a small area under the siege and pull of the Qin army on all sides, and then the main force of the Qin army's infantry troops who went down the river completely surrounded the attacking enemy under the county seat of Changchuan.

So far, Wei Kai's plan to hide from the sky and the sea and take advantage of the fire to rob has all succeeded.

It turned out that when Wei Kai led his army to Changchuan, he deliberately sent a part of the sergeants to take advantage of the night to go down the Chushui River, so as to attack behind the enemy's camp, creating a big momentum, so that the enemy troops who came to attack Changchuan thought that Chen Cang's army was flanking them in front and rear.

In fact, there were only more than 1,000 soldiers on the raft down the river, far less than the more than 8,000 in the enemy village at that time, armed with weapons and backed by the enemy army in the fortified camp.

You must know that although Wei Kai has more than 14,000 people, there are only more than 8,000 soldiers among them, and the rest are ordinary people who defected halfway. Faced with a lonely slave who was motivated by money, Wei Kai did not want to see the people under his command killed in vain.

Therefore, he ordered the people to use all kinds of agricultural tools to raise wind and sand around the battlefield, beat war drums, and shake the flag of the Qin army back and forth, making the appearance of thousands of troops and horses coming to attack, and intimidating the enemy troops in Changchuan who came to attack.

Then let the cavalry and charioteers of the Qin army rush out of the wind and sand and start attacking to expand the army. Using their high-speed mobility ability, they constantly attacked the already scattered slave army, causing the incoming enemy to suddenly be in chaos, and the Qin army attacked again.

So, believing that they had been attacked, the attacking army of slaves scrambled to retreat; The enemies who stayed behind in the enemy village thought that the Qin army was attacking the camp in a big way, so they abandoned the camp and fled, crushing each other.

When the two sides met each other, they both thought that the other had been defeated, and the fear that permeated the air suddenly multiplied, and everyone rushed to escape.

In particular, the raft deliberately left by Wei Kai made those who panicked and fell into a desperate situation suddenly find life and immediately cross the water and escape.

After all, after falling into a predicament, he suddenly found a way out, no one wants to continue to stay where he is, continue to think about breaking the enemy, but constantly comfort himself that the green mountains he left behind are here, and he is not afraid of no firewood.

The already scattered army of slaves no longer resisted, but fought each other for the rafts.

The army of slaves who were intercepted on the bank of the river was driven away by the mobile troops of the Qin army, with the help of horsepower, to flee in all directions, consuming their physical strength. The surrounding Qin soldiers simply killed a small number of slave soldiers and then dispersed them, creating panic.

As a result, the fact that there were Qin troops in all directions, and the fact that the Qin army had tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress them, gradually became their consensus under the continuous drive of the Qin army, the constant attacks of the Qin army, and the effect of fear and fear.

Finally, when they were exhausted, the Qin army easily encircled them, using more than 5,000 men to surround the enemy army of nearly 18,000 people.

If the enemy army outside the city is like the Qin army in Changchuan County, it has a resolute character and strong resilience. You will find that although the war drums are noisy and the flags are covering the sun, there are very few Qin infantry fighting on the battlefield except for the high-speed galloping Qin cavalry.

If the morale of the army is stabilized, it is difficult to predict the final winner of this sneak attack. It's a pity that the army of slaves who fight only for money is not strong-willed? will only be fooled by Wei Kai in vain, and then killed in vain.

The sun gradually rose in the distance, and the city of Changchuan County, which was still dark just now, slowly revealed its traces.

I saw that the outside of Changchuan City were full of corpses and severed limbs, and the blades were discarded at will, and the sorrowful cry that resounded in the field just now instantly turned into scarlet blood on the field, and the flowing blood merged into a stream, flowing into the Chu Water next to it, and the heavy breath around made people feel suffocated.

Looking at the Qin soldiers who were hiding under the shields around them, and the slave soldiers who were surrounded in the middle, they just instinctively picked up their weapons and looked at the shrinking shield array around them in despair.

"Help, I don't want to die", the constant cry for mercy came from the crowd of terrified slaves.

Perhaps frightened to the extreme, several slave soldiers took the initiative to run in front of the shrinking Qin army formation, dropped their blades, knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, constantly saying that they had never killed the Qin people, begging for mercy from the Qin army engraved with the tiger and wolf pattern shield.

Without the slightest hesitation, before they could continue to shout, the halberd that poked out from behind the shield nailed them to the ground, leaving a pool of blood, and the Qin army continued to shrink the iron bucket-like formation.

Suddenly, the army of slaves who had a trace of luck just now was in chaos in an instant. The slaves scattered around the periphery desperately pulled out their comrades behind them and crowded into the formation with all their might, and the scene was out of control.

With a bang, the Qin army, which was still advancing just now, stopped advancing in an instant. The army of slaves who were besieged in the formation looked at the Qin army around them with a panicked expression.

I only heard the sound of dense footsteps behind the shield, and it seemed to be the sound of swishing weapons, and the slave army that was stunned in place did not continue to shout, and heard the sound of "wind and wind" from the Qin army around them.

Suddenly, a premonition of fear of death sprung up in the hearts of the crowded slaves.

Bang bang bang, the rain of arrows of the Qin army falling from the sky came with the sound, and the enemy army who was still confused instantly fell to the ground like wheat straw, before they had time to shout.

The slaves, who had not yet been hit by the rain of arrows, ran desperately towards the Qin army around them, and slapped the Qin army's shield erected in front of them with their hands, trying to escape.

There was a constant howl of death, blood splattered everywhere, and the corpses covered with arrows fell to the ground, piled up like mountains, and the slaves who had not yet died desperately hid under the corpses of the dead, screaming in despair.

Wei Kai, who entered the county seat of Changchuan, was also very desperate at this time.

The corpses of the Qin people scattered around, there are gray-haired old men, there are childish children, and there seems to be no living creature in Changchuan County, Wei Kai is even more resentful of the culprit of this war.

"General Qiyu, our army has cleared the incoming enemy in the city."

Wei Kai listened to Youda's proclamation, and asked in a deep voice, "Are there still surviving people found in the city?" General Zhang raided? ”。

No matter how much you punish the attacking enemy, it is not as important as relieving the people of Changchuan County. After all, they held out here for five days, prevented tens of thousands of troops from entering other counties from Changchuan, and defended the rest of Chencang, and they were the heroes of Chencang.

"I didn't find it, but I tried my best...".

"And what are you doing here? Why don't you go soon? Wei Kai looked at the reason for the accusation again and again, and scolded sharply.

Before he could leave for a while, Wei Kai received the news that his bodyguard, Chang Huaju, had sent someone to deliver it, saying that he found the dying Chen Cang guard Zhang Xi on the city wall, so he immediately went there.

Ascending the city wall, Wei Kai had a deeper understanding of the fierceness of the Battle of Changchuan.

Although some sergeants have begun to collect the corpses of the dead robes, every time they take a step forward, the corpses of several or even dozens of thieves fall on the wall, scattered stumps, and the blood flowing everywhere has already congealed, and the heroism of the Changchuan defenders can be imagined.

"Boy, wake up, boy...".

I saw Zhang Xian, who was half-sitting on the ground, leaning against the wall, shaking the Qin army sergeant next to him vigorously, and kept shouting in his mouth.

And the sergeant was holding a small broken shield, blood was flowing from his neck, and he was lying on the ground convulsing constantly. There were also several sergeants next to him who pressed a thief with a fierce face and kept trying to break free.

"Zhang Xian, you're still alive, it's great", seeing that Zhang Xian was still shouting, Wei Kai hurriedly greeted him and said happily. After seeing Wei Kai, Zhang Xian was excited, and pulled Wei Kai to cry: "General, please save him, he is only thirteen years old."

Only then did Wei Kai carefully see that it was a young boy wearing a Qin army uniform lying on the ground, so he hurriedly covered his hand with his hand to the blood that was constantly spurting out from his neck, and shouted loudly for the medical officer to come and heal.

It's a pity that most of the young boy's neck has been brutally cut off, and only a little skin and flesh are left, Wei Kai looked back at Zhang Xian, who was still shouting, with a solemn face, and did not speak.

"Boy, isn't your mother still waiting for you to earn meritorious deeds? You have protected the chief general of Changchuan and are my benefactor of Zhang Xi. I haven't given you a reward yet, you don't want to die...", Zhang Xi, who was in tears, dragged his legs and hugged the boy and cried.

Maybe it was the rejuvenation of the sun, the young man opened his eyes slightly, looked at Zhang Xian and smiled, and plunged down.

Seeing this, Zhang Xian immediately howled and shouted: "It's me who died, I'm the one who deserves to die", and then desperately crawled towards the evil man next to him, the meridians on his arms swelled, as if he was going to tear the person in front of him to pieces.

Looking at Zhang Xian, who was held down by the sergeant and was still shouting, Wei Kai glanced at the Huaju next to him. learned what happened from Huaju, who had rescued Zhang Xian just now.

It turned out to be the villain who was now being suppressed to the death, pretending to be captured by the Qin army who came to support him just now, and when he passed by Zhang Xi, he suddenly snatched the weapon in the hands of the arresting sergeant and came to sneak attack the defenseless Zhang Zheng.

Unexpectedly, the dead sergeant just now used the shield in his hand to help Zhang Raid resist the hard blow that fell from the sky, so that he could escape. However, this man's strength was too great, so he forcibly cut the shields of those who came to stop him, seriously injuring the soldiers who came to the rescue.

"Hahaha, Dog Officer", when Hua Ju was reporting to Wei Kai what happened just now, the big man who was pressed to the ground looked at Zhang Xian with a sad face, and laughed with a smile on his face.

was pressed to the ground, still shouting insults, and it was Qing, one of the four brothers, who was laughing.

It turned out that when Wei Fa launched an attack on the slave soldiers outside the city, he climbed the city wall and began to run away desperately like other panicked slaves.

Instead, he took the initiative to pretend to be captured by the Qin army, wanting to pass the test as a prisoner, instead of being recklessly attacked and killed by the cavalry of the Qin army in the wilderness, and died on the way to escape for no apparent reason.

When he passed by Zhang Xian, he recognized Zhang Xian in general armor, and the scene just now happened. Fortunately, Huaju arrived in time, otherwise Zhang Xi, who was already seriously injured, would have suffered a tragic accident.

"Dog officer, hahaha....".

"Let go of him", Wei Kai said with an unchanged face when he saw that the evil man was still scolding angrily.

"General, he...".

Before the surrounding sergeants could continue, Wei Kai waved his hand to interrupt, signaling to stand up again, and Qingfang, who was moving his muscles, came over. Suddenly, the soldiers around him drew their long swords, faintly intimidating Qing, and once he moved, they stepped forward to kill him.

Looking at Wei Kai, who was about to do it himself, and the chief of the guard on the side, he suddenly felt silent in his heart for the big man in front of him.

Although Wei Kai never does it easily, Huaju, as the person next to Wei Kai, understands how ruthless Wei Kai's action is. As for whether Wei Kai will lose, Huaju has never had such an idea, and one force to ten will be vividly exerted on Wei Kai.

There were no other moves, and Qing, who attacked with all his strength, was instantly locked by Wei Kai, whose face remained unchanged.

Suddenly, the contempt in Qing's eyes gradually turned into shock. With a heart-rending howl, I saw Qing's thick hands being twisted by Wei Kaisheng, and then broken outward from the joints.

Looking at Qing, who was hunched over and trembling on the ground, Wei Kai said coldly: "Drag him down to the city." Ignoring the look of shock in the eyes of the nearby soldiers, Wei Kai asked the medical officer who arrived to treat Zhang Xian, who had already fainted.

Standing on the city wall, Wei Kai looked at the city in the distance, the Qin army had stopped the slaughter, and said to Huaju who was guarding on the side: "Order to build another military fortress after entering the city to house the wounded."

In addition, send out rangers to search for remnants of enemies in the vicinity."

Looking at the departing Huaju, Wei Kai looked around at the soldiers who were still gathering the corpses of the Qin people, and his calm face suddenly became hideous.

Kill me, I will pay it back a hundredfold, Wei Kai has never been more eager to kill than now.