Chapter 371: Heavy losses
When the captain heard this, he looked at it carefully for a while, and his face couldn't help but change, and said: "It seems to be our own brother, see if there are any other people around, send someone out to bring him in!" After making sure that there was no sign of any other enemy behind him, the lieutenant opened the door and brought in the man outside.
"Lord Captain, it's the personal soldier of the General! That man is a personal soldier with the general! Soon, someone recognized the origin of the person and immediately reported it to the lieutenant.
Hearing this, the captain hurriedly ran down. When he saw the soldier, he couldn't help but be startled, because the soldier had several arrows stuck in his back. The blood flowing from the wound has already stained the entire back~, and this pro-soldier is already a little semi-unconscious at this time.
"Didn't you go north with the Admiral to pursue the enemy? How did it become like this? Still so badly injured? Seeing this, a shadow suddenly flashed in the captain's heart, and he didn't care about the other party's injury, and asked repeatedly.
"We ..... Hit..... Ambush! ... There will be an order for the staff..... I ordered you to send someone.... Support! Send some men on horseback.... Just pretend to be a cavalryman! The soldier held on to his breath until he finished Chen Kang's explanation, and finally couldn't hold on anymore and swallowed his breath directly.
When everyone present saw this scene, they were silent, but everyone seemed to have a flame burning in their eyes.
"Come, carry this brother down at once, settle it well, and wait until the general comes back to make arrangements. In addition, gather all the horses in the pass, and mobilize a hundred people to go with me to rescue the generals! Also, immediately send someone to inform the defenders of Nanling Pass and Shaanxi County, so that they can get ready! At the same time, send some men and horses to support Kip Shi Pass in case of accidents! After thinking for a moment, the lieutenant immediately ordered.
There are not many soldiers and horses in Kip Shi Pass, and if they are transferred at this time, the garrison force will be much thinner. The lieutenant's method is relatively thorough, and it can be regarded as a routine operation.
The only troublesome one is the problem of horses, after all, the previous war horses have been taken away by Chen Kang. At this time, there were only some people left in the city who used them to plough the land, the horses in the post station and some of the war horses left in the army.
If these horses really want to fight, it will naturally not work, but if they are used as a tactic to scare Murong Trai and them back, then there should be no problem. The most important thing is that with these horses, the speed is much faster.
Chen Kang took this into account, so he made a special explanation. Otherwise, when the infantry arrives, I'm afraid that my side will be almost finished! As for whether it will work or not, it really depends on luck.
After barely scraping together more than a hundred horses, the lieutenant immediately rushed over with his men. Before leaving, each of them dragged a large branch, so that as they passed by the road, they would kick up a cloud of dust.
Then, when the horses run, there will be a lot of noise. Although there are not many horses, they are not small when they run together. Especially when he was closer to the place of battle, he divided everyone into three groups and ran back and forth outside, so that the sound of the horse's hooves never stopped.
On the other side of the woods, on both sides of the original road, there were already corpses lying at this time. Among them, there are Yan soldiers, and many of them are soldiers of the Huashan Army. The two sides fought a big battle in the woods, but the battle ended as soon as Murong Trai and the others expected.
"General, general, big things are not good! The spies found that the south was full of smoke and dust, and the sound of hooves shook the ground, and it seemed that a large group of cavalry was rushing towards here! After nearly two hours of fighting, the spies sent by Murong Chui to monitor the road from the south came back to report.
"Dang!" With a bang, Murong Chuige opened the spear of a Huashan Army soldier in front of him and temporarily retreated from the battlefield.
"Are you mistaken? Really a brigade of cavalry? Murong Chui's face was a little unsightly, after all, this news might cause his plan here to end in failure.
"The little one will definitely not be mistaken, we are not far from Kip Shi Pass here, and the other party is afraid that he will arrive soon. We are mainly foot soldiers, and as long as the opponent has a few hundred cavalry, it is enough to completely defeat us! The spy affirmed.
"Damn! I didn't expect it to fall short in the end! Under such a plan, it was impossible to solve this Huashan army. The Huashan Army has this combat power, and it will become a big trouble in the future! The order went down, the whole army retreated, and quickly rushed to Luoyang City! After thinking for a while, Murong said hatefully.
When he tackled key problems before, he had a good understanding of the strength of the Huashan Army, but it was not a frontal hard battle after all, so this experience was not particularly profound. It wasn't until after the head-to-head battle at this time that he really realized the power of the Huashan Army.
One is the strength of the combat power, and every soldier is definitely much stronger than the soldiers under him. Obviously, these Huashan soldiers have undergone strict training, and they are very disciplined, tenacious, and have a very high will to fight.
The other one is the gap in equipment. Every soldier in the Huashan Army had armor on his body, but only a small number of people on his side wore armor. And the gap between the weapons in the hands is not small, the weapons of the Huashan Army seem to be a little special, more sharp and durable.
Of course, the most important one is the will of the Huashan army, they don't seem to be afraid, even if they are encircled.
This was very different from the enemies that Murong Chui had seen in the past, and with his keen eye, he immediately felt that the Huashan Army might be the great enemy of the Yan Army in the future.
At this time, after fighting for so long, he couldn't completely wipe out Chen Kang and his thousand soldiers and horses under the superior forces, but he suffered a lot of casualties. If there is another team of cavalry, even if there are only two or three hundred people, I am afraid that I will not be able to run if I want to!
Murong Chui is also afraid of death! Therefore, at the critical moment, he very decisively ordered a retreat. However, their retreat was also very orderly, and after Murong Chui personally led the army to break off, he quickly broke away from the battle with Chen Kang and them and retreated to Luoyang.
Seeing the other party retreating, Chen Kang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, of course he understood that reinforcements must have come from the south. However, in order not to show his stuffing, or to put more pressure on Murong Chui so that he could speed up the withdrawal of his troops, Chen Kang had to order the troops to fight back and chase them down.
And the more he did this, the more Murong Chui wanted to run, because he was afraid that he would be entangled by Chen Kang and the others, and then he would be caught up by the cavalry who rushed over. One wants to run, the other wants to chase, but both sides have their own ideas.
So, after Chen Kang chased for less than a mile, he stopped and led the army back into the woods. It just so happened that the captain led his troops to rush there, and after seeing that he was fine, he was finally relieved.
The corpses lay in the middle of the entire woods, looking at the mess on the ground, the remaining soldiers of the Huashan Army couldn't help but be silent, and an unspeakable aura of grief permeated the woods.
Because by this time, the 1,000 people brought by Chen Kang were only more than 400 people left, and the remaining nearly 600 people were already lying down.
"General, are you alright?" The captain rode over and asked with concern.
"I'm fine! This time, I was careless and impulsive, so that I fell into Murong Chui's ambush and let so many brothers die here! After this incident, I will personally ask the general for guilt! Chen Kang looked at the remaining soldiers beside him, and only felt guilty.
"Why should the Admiral blame himself? Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers! In the opinion of the general, let's hurry up and clean up here! Hearing his words, the lieutenant had no choice but to persuade.
With so many brothers killed, it is impossible not to be saddened. It's just that from the day the soldier eats, everyone has been psychologically prepared, and dying on the battlefield should be the fate of the soldier!
"That's it, you immediately send spies to the north to closely monitor the movements of Murong Chui and his party. In addition, bring back all the wounded here, and if the deceased is concerned, they will write down their names and places of origin, and then burn them on the spot! Hearing the captain's words, Chen Kang also understood that this was not the time to regret, thought for a while, and said.
Everyone quickly took action, and after about half an hour, the situation on the battlefield was already clear. In the first battle here, the Huashan army suffered nearly 600 casualties, of which more than 400 were killed on the spot.
The Yan army suffered even more casualties, more than 600 people died, not counting the more than 400 people who were seriously injured. From this point of view, the Huashan army was ambushed, and although it suffered heavy losses, it also caused serious losses to the enemy in the end.
Fortunately, the captain brought people in time, and Murong Chui was cautious. Otherwise, if it is a little later, I am afraid that Chen Kang's team will be wiped out here. In that case, I am afraid that it will become the first battle in which the Huashan Army has been completely annihilated since its establishment.
Because he was afraid that Murong would kill him after he became suspicious, Chen Kang immediately led everyone back to Kip Shi Pass after cleaning up. On the one hand, the troops were rearranged to guard Kip Shi Pass and Nanling Pass, and on the other hand, they immediately wrote an official document to report to Li Xin and waited for his disposal.
And in the afternoon of the next day, the spies sent out came back to report that Murong Chui's side was in the midst of a great battle with the Jin army in Luoyang City.
The battle between the two sides was fierce, but the number of Murong Chui's army far exceeded that of the Jin army in the city, and after a day and a night, the losses of the defenders of Luoyang were not small, and I am afraid that they would not be able to support it for long.
Chen Kang didn't care about this news, but just sent another message to inform Guan Zhong and Li Xin. After all, because Jiang Zuo was involved in Luoyang City, he couldn't be the master himself. Take a hundred plating to read the latest chapter of "Eastern Jin Dynasty Tang Wang's Claw Book House" for free for the first time.