Chapter 368: Emptying
This loud bang almost made Murong Xi's war horse jump up directly, and he was almost thrown off the horse directly while sitting on the horse. "What's going on? Where is the loud noise? Murong Xi, who had just stabilized, immediately asked loudly.
"General, general, no! At the mouth of the valley ahead, a lot of rocks suddenly rolled down from the top of the mountain on both sides, blocking our way! Soon, someone from the front came running up to him to report.
Hearing this news, Murong Xi couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, and a shadow immediately cast a shadow on his heart.
"Withdraw the troops, quickly withdraw to Yiguan!" Before he had time to think about it, he immediately gave this order.
But at this moment, from the top of the mountains on both sides of the valley, a sharp arrow suddenly flew down and fell straight into the valley. The next moment, more arrows rained down into the valley.
For a while, the screams of the Yan soldiers in the entire valley were continuous, and many people ran around, just to find a place to hide. At this time, Murong Xi was already a little panicked, and he finally understood that he had been ambushed.
At this time, he regretted that he didn't listen to people before, and he was too careless to underestimate the enemy. Otherwise, how would we end up where we are now?
Now, he can't take care of the other soldiers around him. After glancing around, he immediately turned his horse's head and rushed towards the other end of the valley, hoping to escape from there.
There were many people who thought the same way as him, especially those soldiers who were already at the end of the line, and when they saw that the timing was not right, they had already run in the direction they came.
However, when Murong Xi galloped across his horse to the location of Gukou, he only saw the corpses on one place, and many people who ran towards Gukou were falling one after another.
At the mouth of the valley when they came, I don't know when there were suddenly hundreds of Huashan troops, and they were arrayed outside the valley mouth! In front of the row of soldiers raised their shields, and behind the shields stood rows of crossbowmen. Those things that reaped the lives of the soldiers of the Yan Army were the sharp arrows that kept shooting ~ from this bow and crossbow.
"God will kill me!" Seeing this scene, Murong Xi couldn't help but feel a burst of despair in his heart. In front of the bow and crossbow, even if he has armor on his body and a war horse when he sits down, he can't rush out.
The Huashan army's attack was fierce, but in fact they had no contact with the Yan army at all. This ambush battle lasted less than half an hour from beginning to end, and finally ended with zero casualties of the Huashan army. Under the dense range of arrows, not a single Yan soldier escaped.
"Clean up the battlefield immediately and restore the guards to the pass! I'll rush back to report to the general! The general in charge of the command, after coming down from the mountain, gave the order.
The news was transmitted back to Yuan County in the evening of the same day as quickly as possible. Liu Xiaohai, who heard the news, immediately laughed happily three times.
And after being happy, he set off for Yiguan overnight, because he still had the next move to arrange!
Two days later, the situation on the side of Wanzi Chengguan was also delivered. As previously envisaged, the plan worked on that side. At this point, the two armies left by Murong Chui were all defeated in the hands of Liu Xiaohai, and it can be said that the entire army was annihilated.
"Okay, well, with this record, we can also give orders to the general! Let's get ready, let's act now! By the way, those brothers who pretended to be captured, reward them well, and ask for credit for them in the future! Under the wall, Liu Xiaohai held a brief meeting.
In this operation, the few soldiers who were left behind and deliberately let the Yan army catch ~ can be said to have made a great contribution. If it weren't for their performance, I'm afraid Murong Xi wouldn't have believed it so easily, let alone been fooled easily.
However, the reasons used by both sides are somewhat different. The Yiguan side used Murong Chui's attack on Nanling Pass as an excuse, while the Wanzi Chengguan side used the pretext of transferring troops to support Yanmen County. Fortunately, communication is difficult at this time, unlike in later generations, when a phone call passes, all lies are crossed!
It's okay on the side of Yiguan, Murong Xi was in a hurry to chase the so-called fleeing Huashan army, so he didn't do anything to them. But on the other side of Bowl City, it is not so lucky. In order to deter several other soldiers, the general of the Yan army killed a person without saying a word, and that soldier could be described as a heroic sacrifice.
"General rest assured, everything has already been arranged! Those brothers will return to Hedong later! The general next to him replied.
"Okay, let's go!" Liu Xiaohai nodded and said to everyone.
Soon, the group opened the gate of Yiguan and headed towards the east. Behind them, followed by 2,000 men and horses, slowly walked out of the Yiguan Pass and went straight to Yixian County in the east.
Although Hanoi County is under the control of the Yan Kingdom, there are some places that seem to be a country of its own. For example, Yewang County, which is close to Wanzi Chengguan, is Lu Hu's territory, although he descended to Yan Kingdom, but in the area of Yewang County, he is actually in charge of himself.
However, since he surrendered, there are some major matters that naturally have to be up to Yan Guo. For example, the army of Yan Guo was stationed on his territory and went to attack Wanzi Chengguan in the north, and he could not disagree with this kind of thing.
However, the three counties of Yixian, Qinshui and Heyang counties to the east of Yiguan are under the control of Yan State. Moreover, it has always been used as a front-line base for confrontation with the Huashan Army!
Whether it was the previous Muyu Changqing, Murong Qiang, or the recent Murong Chui, when attacking Yiguan or Wanzi City, they were basically based on Yixian County.
However, it is precisely because the army stays there that the county itself does not have many troops to garrison. In a sense, this is the bridgehead for the confrontation between the Yan army and the Huashan army.
Therefore, when Liu Xiaohai made the plan, he thought about it more. I thought that if the war went relatively well, I would simply take the opportunity to go east to fight a dozen Yixian and other places, in short, let the other side also feel the taste of being attacked.
In this way, when Yan Guo wants to fight the Huashan Army from this side in the future, he will have to think about the consequences. Moreover, in order to keep these county seats, they had to garrison a large number of troops in Yixian and other places. For Huashan Army, this also achieved the purpose of containing the other party.
Of course, there is also a great advantage, which is to say that because Yixian and other places have always been used as the rear of the army before. Therefore, there is still a lot of food and materials stored there, and if you get it back, then this time the war can be said to be a sure win.
At least, it's self-sufficient on the side of Yiguan and Bowl City.
As the saying goes, taking food from the enemy is the method that consumes the least and does not suffer the most. I eat yours and use yours, and I want to beat you, it's comfortable to think about! If you want to blame, you can only blame yourself for provoking me!
The actions of Yiguan and Bowl City were agreed upon, and they were both carried out at about the same time. In this way, they can avoid ventilating with each other. According to the previous arrangement, when the ambush is successful, 2,000 men and horses will be sent out on each side.
Liu Xiaohai led people out of Yiguan to attack Yixian and Qinshui County, while the other way went out of Wanzichengguan to attack Yewang County! This operation was only one day after the Yan army was ambushed.
When the Huashan army came out of the customs, in Yewang County at this time, Lu Hu had already received the news of the defeat of the Yan army. This side of Yiguan is relatively clean, and basically no one escaped. So, his source came from the City of Bowls.
The generals in charge of the Yan army along the way to Wanzi Chengguan were more cautious, and even if they led the army forward, they left more than 100 people to stay in the original camp. In this way, after the start of the war, these people will naturally find that something is wrong.
Although the Huashan army then went out of the customs to clean the Yan army camp, some people still escaped in the end. After these people arrived in Yewang County, they immediately told Lu Hu the news. And after Lu Hu knew about this matter, the first thing he did was to order the entire city of Yewang County to be on guard.
But this guy is a bit bad, because he didn't send someone to notify Yiguan and other counties in the west, and it was clear that he wanted the county controlled by Yan Guo to be attacked by the Huashan army. In this way, the final result was that when Liu Xiaohai led his people to kill outside Yixian County, there was no defense in the city.
With Murong Chui's army crossing the Yellow River to the south, Hanoi County was no longer the center of gravity of the battle, so the location of the support army was also moved to Heyang County. In this way, the defense of Yi County is not as good as that of Heyang County.
As the old saying goes, Heyang County and Heyin County are just opposite each other across the Yellow River, Heyang County is Heyang County in the north, and Heyin County is in the south.
It has been more than two years since the Huashan Army occupied Yiguan, and if you count it, it has not come out once, at least, it has not come to Hanoi County to fight the county seat. In this way, the people in the city naturally did not expect such a day.
After a few rounds of bows and arrows, Yixian was easily captured. Liu Xiaohai didn't want to occupy the whole city, after entering the city, he just gathered all the things in the city together, and then ordered the people in the city to help transport them to Yiguan.
There are a lot of things in Yi County, and the grain alone is enough for 2,000 people to eat for more than half a year. In fact, these were originally needed to supply Murong Chui's army, and since he crossed the river, he had already begun to slowly transport them to Heyang County.
Now the rest of the things haven't had time to be shipped away, but they just happened to be cheap Liu Xiaohai.
By the time these things were shipped, it had already taken a day. And during this period of time, there was not a single soldier or horse in the entire Hanoi County who came out to stop them, and I have to say that it was also beyond Liu Xiaohai's expectations.
And the situation in Qinshui County is not much worse, the soldiers and horses who came out of Wanzi City, after learning that Yewang County was heavily guarded, also made a direct detour to the west. Their harvest is much worse than Liu Xiaohai's, after all, Qinshui County is not as important as Yi County.