Chapter 135: The Cliff of Regret
As Yan Kui continued to exert his power, the morale of the Jin army continued to rise, and the Zhou army was already in danger.
In desperation, the commander of the Zhou army could only command his subordinates to keep retreating, and the trapped beasts were still fighting.
The surrounded Zhou army couldn't take it for a long time, Qin Qi was a little impatient, but he also knew that the reason why this group of Zhou troops was still dying was because there was still the main force of the Zhou army in the valley camp.
The two camps were very close to each other, and the trapped Zhou army thought that there would be reinforcements to rescue them soon, so they naturally refused to be captured, so they let the Jin army attack fiercely, and the trapped Zhou army resisted stubbornly and waited for the Zhou army in the valley to come to help.
Faced with the idea of the trapped Zhou army, Qin Qi had no good solution for a while, so he could only continue to increase the offensive, hoping to take down these Zhou troops as soon as possible, and then concentrate on dealing with the valley camp.
But it backfired, no matter how the Jin army attacked, this group of Zhou troops simply held the formation with one breath, and Yan Kui personally charged many times, but he failed to cut a hole in the formation of this united Zhou army.
Seeing that the battle situation was becoming more and more stalemate, Qin Qi looked at the remaining more than 2,000 Zhou troops who were holding on to the formation, and thought for a moment in his heart, and asked people to call Yan Kui.
"Yuan Han, we can't go on like this, the Zhou army in the valley is probably gathering now, and it may come to the rescue at any time, in this way, let's divide the troops, and I will take four thousand people to continue to gnaw this bone."
Leave the rest to your command, first clean up all the remnants of the rout in the camp, and then prepare to meet the reinforcements of the Zhou army in the valley. ”
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Yan Kui nodded, arched his hand at Qin Qi, and turned to leave with blood on his face.
Before, the black-clothed guards found that there were about eight or nine thousand people in the outer camp of the Zhou army, but after all, they only roughly estimated the periphery, and the actual strength of the peripheral camp of the Zhou army was not so much, and it was only about six thousand when it was full.
Except for the more than 2,000 people who are still resisting now, Yan Kui and they have killed a lot of them many times before, and when Qin Qi brought a large army to come, he turned inside and out again.
Therefore, the Zhou army killed at this time is probably no less than 2,000 people, plus many who escaped, and now the Zhou army who is still hiding in the camp is estimated to be only a few hundred.
Yan Kui divided his subordinates into four teams, searched them twice, and successfully wiped out the remnants of the Zhou army in the camp.
At this time, Qin Qi was still besieging and resisting the Zhou army, and when Yan Kui was about to lead his troops to help, the black-clothed guards who had been scouting the direction of the valley camp came to report.
Reinforcements from the Zhou army came.
Yan Kui, who had assigned the task before, did not be verbose, sent someone to report to Qin Qi, and then asked Gong Fa and Jiao Hui to "assist" the deputy general Diao Qing, and led the foot soldiers to press the formation in the rear, and he himself led the cavalry of about 1,070 after the battle damage, and faced the Zhou army in the valley.
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The time turned to when Yan Kui had just led the cavalry to attack the outer camp of the Zhou army.
Valley Camp
Because of the terrain perspective, the valley camp found the Jin army a little late, until Yan Kui and they entered the camp, the killing sound shook the sky, and the fire was everywhere, the Zhou army in the valley realized that something was wrong, and then quickly reported to Suoya.
At this time, Suo Ya was still recuperating.
As I said before, because of the stronger physique than ordinary people, although Suo Ya was drenched in a lot of rain, the condition was not very serious at first, but the bad thing was that after Zhou Jun fell ill on a large scale, he was busy with affairs, and Suo Ya was busy working day and night, which led to the aggravation of his condition.
Now a few days have passed, although Suo Ya, who was born as a military general, has a strong and good body, but after all, the illness is like a thread, and this typhoid fever is one of the most exhausting diseases, so it is difficult to recover quickly.
Therefore, Suo Ya's current physical condition has just reached the point of moving freely.
Because of this, when Suoya heard the report from below that the Jin army had raided the barracks on the outskirts of the valley and was about to lead the troops to rescue in person, he was immediately stopped by the deputy general and Lang Zhong next to him.
Yu Wen, the general of the West Friday Miscellaneous Order, is one of Suoya's lieutenant generals, and at the same time, he is also Suoya's friend for many years.
Seeing that Suo Ya wanted to go out of the city to rescue in person, Yu Wen hurriedly stopped: "General, you are not well ill, how can you go into battle and take risks, and the rescue should be left to me." ”
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"Suspicious, how many people are there in the valley?"
Suo Ya is not a person who insists on going his own way, he was also in a hurry about the outer camp just now, and when Yu Wen and others stopped him, he slowly calmed down, no longer shouting to go into battle in person, but began to ask about the strength of the valley camp.
Yan Kui's previous guess was correct, the Zhou army was divided into two parts, and it was indeed divided according to the two situations of being sick and not being sick.
At the same time, it is also to facilitate the treatment of the army, and there is also the consideration of letting the outer camp guard the sick army in the valley.
As a result, the purpose of the guards was not achieved, and now the outer camp was attacked by the Jin army, and the Suo Ya in the valley had to find a way to rescue with a group of sick people, and the roles played by the two parties were reversed, which was quite ironic............
"Now there are still a lot of sick numbers in the valley, and there are only 3,000 outcrops that have recovered, plus some good ones, and 5,000 people can be gathered scattered around, which is enough to support."
In the face of Suo Ya's inquiry, Yu Wen answered without much thought, during this time, the main general was recuperating, and the affairs of the Zhou army were all handled by him, the deputy general, and he naturally knew the situation of the troops in the valley.
Suo Ya, who was dressed in white underwear and had a slightly sallow face, looked solemn, secretly thinking about it in his heart.
Previously, Suo Ya led 30,000 Zhou troops to raid the valley camp on a rainy day, during which because of the rain, thousands of soldiers were separated while hurrying, and after taking the valley camp, only more than 2,000 Zhou troops were left.
However, because many of the lost soldiers came to find them one after another, the strength of the Zhou army gradually recovered, and as of yesterday, there were almost 26,700 men in the valley and the outlying camps.
The strength is several percent more than the Yanlin Jin army that lost the five thousand defenders in the valley, which is also the reason why Suo Ya knew that there were tens of thousands of sick people in the valley but still did not transfer troops from Tu County.
He originally planned to wait for the strength of the valley to recover, so he immediately sent troops to attack the main camp of the Yanlin Jin army to contain this side, and then ordered the remaining 20,000 Zhou troops in Tu County to besiege Tushan, relying on the advantage of troops, to divide and suppress the Yanlin Jin army.
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To tell the truth, Suo Ya's strategy is very good, the only thing to worry about is that the Tushan Jin army and the main force of the Jin army are combined, but this is irrelevant, Suo Ya is confident that even if the two battalions of the Jin army are combined, the Zhou army can also take the other party under the absolute advantage.
But Suo Ya never expected that the Jin army, which was now fully disadvantaged, not only did not take a defensive position tightly, but boldly launched a surprise attack on the valley, which suddenly made Suo Ya a little passive.
"I knew that the Jin army commander was so bold, I shouldn't be so greedy, I transferred troops from Tuxian County to help early, the Jin army has few soldiers, how dare I commit it."
Suo Ya regretted a little in his heart, but it was too late to say anything at this time.
Fortunately, during this time in the valley camp, some healing soldiers can be squeezed out, if the Jin army raids the valley three or four days ago, Suo Ya can only lie on the sickbed with 20,000 soldiers of the Zhou army in a hurry.........
Suo Ya's face froze, and he looked at Yu and asked, "Bo Suo, if you bring all these five thousand people, you will definitely repel the Jin army." ”
Yu asked and hesitated: "What about this side of the valley?" ”
"There are still 15,000 people in the valley, even if it is a group of sick seedlings, the city can still be defended, not to mention that as long as you repel this Jin army, I will immediately transfer 10,000 troops from Tu County, and the Jin army will not dare to come again." Suo Ya said confidently.
Yu Wen nodded: "The valley is handed over to you, I will go to retreat the enemy." ”
After that, he arched his hand to Suo Ya, turned around and walked out of the room, and after a while, Yu Wen, who had changed into armor, put a green horse on his hip, holding a steel spear with two points, and slowly walked out of the valley camp with the Zhou army who had just recovered from a serious illness.
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Seeing that the sky was pitiful, Yu Wen was eager to take people to the outer camps at lightning speed to attack the Jin army, but helplessly, the Zhou soldiers had just recovered from their illness, and their physical condition could not support a rapid march.
Therefore, no matter how anxious Yu Wen was, he could only rush to the outer camp with 5,000 reinforcements at a "slow" speed.
Fortunately, the valley was very close to the outer camp, so even if Yu asked them if the marching speed was not fast, it was within a stick of incense, so they rushed to the vicinity of the outer camp and ran into more than 1,000 cavalry led by Yan Kui, who rushed to hear the news.
There are no superfluous actions and words, one side is in a hurry to support, the other side is ordered to block, coupled with the natural hostile relationship, the two groups of people face each other, there is only one word.
Kill!
Although the strength of the Zhou army was several times that of his own, Yan Kui did not have the slightest fear.
Under the flat terrain, the cavalry against the infantry, with a crowd of enemies, a small scene.
"Attack the left."
Yan Kui shouted, and rode towards the left flank of the Zhou army, all the cavalry behind him followed closely, and a group of people quickly approached the Zhou army.
Yan Kui led the cavalry to be menacing, but Yu Wen was not a little chick who had just come to the battlefield, frowned, and shouted to the side, and the herald who had been waiting for the order immediately waved the order flag, and shouted loudly in his mouth.
"Left flank guard, shield, archers ready, pikemen ready."
The well-trained Zhou army immediately changed its position when it heard the order, and the left flank, which was originally in a state of marching, immediately stopped, and the shield soldiers stepped forward to form a shield formation, and the pikemen were now behind them, holding spears, staring at the approaching Jin army with cold eyes.
The small number of archers followed the pikemen, with their bows and arrows, waiting for an order from above, and one after another deadly arrows were about to be fired.
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Yan Kui, who was riding on the horse, looked at Zhou Jun, who was in a well-guarded position, his eyes were slightly cold, but he did not flinch, but instead pulled off his horse's buttocks and accelerated his charge.
When the narrow road meets, the brave wins.
Although the Zhou army's position was tightly guarded, it may not be able to stop the cavalry charge.
Looking at Yan Kui and the others, who had already entered the range of the archers, Yu Wen, who had come to the back of the formation, smiled coldly and shouted, "Release the arrows." ”
There was no need for the herald to talk nonsense twice, Yu Wen shouted, and the archer with sharp ears had already let go of the hand that was full of bowstrings, and the archers next to him watched their companions release their arrows, and they also followed suit.
For a while, hundreds of arrows shot fast and quickly towards the Jin army, and Yan Kui, who was in the lead, naturally bore the brunt.
"It's good to come."
Yan Kui, who had experienced countless arrows and rain tests in the first line of heaven, did not take the small battle in front of him seriously, holding the reins of a horse in one hand and swinging the mace in his hand sharply, twice the reaction of ordinary people, allowing him to easily block the four threatening arrows.
And the remaining few fish that slipped through the net, because of the angle or strength, fell loosely on the armor that Yan Kui had purchased with a lot of money, and then were bounced away, except for the touch of a slight shock to Yan Kui, there was no effect at all.
However, Yan Kuiyi was tall and thick-armored, but the Jin cavalry behind him was not so lucky, and with a neighing scream, the cavalry visibly fell dozens of war horse cavalry.