Chapter 302: Countermeasures
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Liu Xiu's arrangement of this cavalry in the city gate had been planned a long time ago.
The purpose is to wait for the defense of the own side to be difficult to support, and suddenly release this cavalry, which can take the Mang army by surprise, temporarily disrupt the attack of the Mang army, and win a respite for its own side.
However, at present, the effect caused by his own cavalry has far exceeded Liu Xiu's expectations.
Seeing the reckless army receding like a tide, Liu Xiu immediately realized that his fighter plane was coming. He shouted to one of the cavalrymen not far from him: "Go back at once, inform General Wang, and lead the whole army to pursue the victory!" ”
The horseman hurriedly agreed, turned his horse's head, and ran back. Liu Xiu and Ma Wu led the cavalry and continued to pursue the defeated Mang army.
On the side of the Mang army, due to too many troops, there were only about 10,000 people who really attacked the city in front, and the army of 50,000 or 60,000 was blocked behind and could not rush up at all.
At this time, the soldiers in front of them retreated in defeat, and the soldiers blocking the back just collided together, and for a while, people crowded and pushed each other, shouting and shouting, and people turned over on their backs, and became a mess.
When Yan You and Chen Mao saw this scene, their noses were almost crooked, and they shouted repeatedly: "Don't mess up!" Don't mess around! ”
But on such a big battlefield, no matter how loud their shouts were, few people could hear them, and even if they did, people only cared about running for their lives, so how could they listen to them?
This army is not a descendant of Yan You and Chen Mao. The troops of the two of them had already been transferred by Wang Mang to the Jingshi Army and used to fight the Red Mei Army.
The current army, exactly the same as Liu Xiu's speculation, is composed of summoning county troops from all over the country and temporarily conscripted recruits.
It's okay when it's not fighting, this army looks like it's large-scale, the armor is bright, and the military discipline is strict, but when it's really desperate, it immediately leaks the bottom.
Between the various departments, there was no cooperation, as soon as the soldiers in front were defeated, the soldiers in the back did not dare to go forward, and they were all racing for their lives, following the defeated front army and running backwards together.
Not to mention how many people were killed by Liu Xiu and Ma Wu's cavalry, just the self-trampling within the Mang army caused countless casualties.
At this time, there was a strange scene on the battlefield, tens of thousands of troops, people panicked like lost dogs, lost their armor, and ran forward desperately.
And behind them, only a little more than a thousand cavalry were in pursuit.
Such a result made Wang Chang and Cheng Dan dumbfounded. They gathered here at sunset for five full days and nights, and the soldiers worked hard to finally build a three-meter-high city wall, thinking that they were going to fight a protracted battle with the Mang army here, but they never expected that the battle between the two sides was not yet
In an hour, the reckless army was defeated. If the reckless army is a deceitful defeat, the purpose is to seduce its own side, but the deceit must also have the appearance of deceit, even if it is defeated, the overall formation is not scattered, it is orderly in chaos, and the current reckless army has become a mess and has the same shape
If you want to re-array, it is no longer possible, where is this still a fraud, but a real defeat!
At this moment, the cavalry sent by Liu Xiu ran to the earthen wall and shouted at Wang Chang above: "General Wang, General Liu has an order, the whole army will attack, and take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill the enemy!" ”
When Wang Chang heard this, his eyes lit up, and he was just about to give an order, but Cheng Dan hurriedly stopped him, and said with a solemn face: "Yan Qing, be careful of deception!" ”
Looking at the serious Cheng Dan, Wang Chang raised his eyebrows and looked at Cheng Dan with a bright eye.
They are all battle-hardened people, whether the enemy is defeated or really defeated, he doesn't believe that Cheng Dan will not be able to see it, even if it is a fraud, now that Liu Xiu, who is the main general, has been chased out, there is no reason for his side to sit idly by. Wang Chang forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a deep voice word by word: "General Cheng, we are now at war, we are fighting with the enemy, what are you thinking?" After speaking, ignoring Cheng Dan's reaction, he waved his arm fiercely and shook Cheng Dan's away
hand, shouted at the left and right: "Pass the order, the whole army will attack, and chase and kill the enemy!" As he spoke, he himself took his sword and ran down the earthen wall.
Looking at Wang Chang, who was walking like flying down the earthen wall, Cheng Dan's face was red and white, and finally he stomped his feet hard and ran down.
The 30,000 Han troops led by Wang Chang gathered and rushed out from the sunset, carrying the buttocks of the reckless army and launching a pursuit.
Seeing that so many Han troops were chasing and killing, the soldiers of the Mang Army, who had no intention of fighting, ran faster, and at this time, even Yan You and Chen Mao could not turn the tide. They are human beings, not gods, and they have no way to return to heaven.
The two had no choice but to follow their own army and run all the way back.
The battle of Sunset Gathering, the Han army thought that it would be a difficult bloody battle, and no one expected that it would end with such a result. Known as 100,000 people, the famous generals Yan You and Chen Mao personally commanded the Mang army, but on the first day of the battle with the Han army, they were completely defeated, losing more than 20,000 people, and the remaining more than 40,000 people, under the leadership of Yan You and Chen Mao, withdrew all the way
Nanyang County and retreated to Yingchuan County.
Of the more than 20,000 people lost by the Mang army, more than half of them were prisoners of the Han army, and even the thousands of people who died in battle, not many of them really died in the hands of the Han army, most of them were killed and injured because of their own chaos and trampling on each other.
In one day's work, to be exact, in less than an hour, the mighty 100,000 reckless army was defeated by the 30,000 Han army, and this battle can be regarded as shocking the whole country.
When the news reached Chang'an, Wang Mang was furious, and in front of many ministers, he scolded Yan You and Chen Mao.
Of course, at this time, Yan You and Chen Mao had already been defeated and retreated to Yingchuan County, and they couldn't hear Wang Mang's angry scolding.
Wang Mang couldn't understand how Yan You and Chen Mao fought in this battle. In his opinion, these two people deliberately lost because they had ill intentions and hatred for themselves.
On the other side, Yan You and Chen Mao were even more resentful and angry, and they had nowhere to vent. Wang Mang didn't trust them at all, and he wanted to use them to fight. They finally cultivated an army into a well-trained and powerful usable army, and just defeated the Xiajiang army of the Green Forest Department in Nanjun, but the battle was over, and the army under their command was also transferred by Wang Mang, and they became without a soldier
Commander of the light pole of the pawn.
The Han army was in Nanyang, killing Zhen Fu and Liang Qiuci, shocking the government and the opposition, Wang Mang remembered them again at this time, and asked them to temporarily form an army of 100,000 and go to Nanyang to fight the Han army.
But where are they going to get 100,000 people?
They could only draw troops from various counties and counties, plus temporary conscription, and finally put together an army of about 70,000 people, without training or drills, and as soon as they were formed, they were ordered to lead the army into Nanyang.
Such an army, if it encounters only a group of rabble bandits, may be able to win, but after encountering the elite of the Han army, it is completely vulnerable.
Yan You and Chen Mao have fought a battle all their lives, and they have never lost so much.
On the way to Yingchuan after defeat, Yan You had the intention of looking for a short-sightedness, and wanted to wipe his neck and kill himself. Once his reputation was ruined, what face did he have to live in the world again? Chen Mao stopped him in time and said with relief: "Boshi, the gentleman takes revenge, it's not too late for ten years, stay in the green mountains, don't be afraid of no firewood!" We lost this time, but we still have a chance to get it back, after all, we still have more than 40,000 soldiers under our command.
As long as you practice well, in the future, you will become a division of 40,000 tigers and wolves, and then you will face the Han army, but you will be humiliated today! ”
Hearing Chen Mao's words, Yan You's mood finally calmed down a little, he nodded with a wry smile, and said, "That's the only way!" The two of them withdrew to Yingchuan, and they still wanted to work hard to train the more than 40,000 soldiers under their command into a tiger and wolf army, and then go to the Han army to take revenge, but at this time, they never dreamed that these more than 40,000 soldiers would soon be
It's not theirs.
Soon after Yan You and Chen Mao retreated to Yingchuan County, Wang Mang's order came, allowing the two of them to lead the army into Luoyang, and all the soldiers under his command were merged into the Beijing division army, and in the future, they were all under the unified command of Wang Kuang.
Liu Xiu and Wang Chang gathered at sunset to win a big victory, but the Xinmang court did not expect it, and the Han army did not expect it either. Defeating Yan You and Chen Mao, further consolidating the foundation of the Han army in Nanyang, and making Wancheng, where Cen Peng was stationed, completely become an isolated city, this was originally a great joy for the Han army, but after many generals of the Green Forest Department heard the news,
But it's like a mourning.
Who would have thought that the famous Yan You and Chen Mao would be so vulnerable that Liu Xiu would pick up such a big bargain.
After this battle, Liu Xiu's prestige in the army has also been greatly improved, and there is a faint tendency to become the second person in the army.
If Wancheng is defeated by Liu Xuan again, then the prestige of the Liu brothers in the army will become even higher, and what is even more terrifying is that now his two brothers control an army of 40,000 in their hands.
It can be said that the elite of the Han army is under the control of the two of them.
According to this momentum, it may be difficult for the green forest system to come out again. Wang Kuang summoned all the generals under his command to discuss how to deal with this matter.
Chen Mu frowned and said: "I really didn't expect that Yan You and Chen Mao, who are known as a generation of famous generals, would be so straw bales, I knew that this was the case, I should have asked Ying to fight!" ”
It's hard to buy. When I heard the news that Yan You and Chen Mao led an army of 100,000 into Nanyang, none of the generals of the Green Forest Department, except for Wang Chang, dared to stand up and go to meet the battle.
Now that Liu Xiu won the battle and won so easily, they all regretted it, and felt that they should not miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to become famous.
Wang Kuang glanced at Chen Mu, what's the use of you talking about these things now? He said faintly: "Now the most warlike elites of our army are in the hands of Liu Xuan and Liu Xiu brothers, how to deal with it?" ”
Liao Zan said: "How about letting Wang Chang lead the army to retreat to Jianyang? ”
Wang Kuang thought for a while, shook his head, and said: "Now the commander of the whole army is Liu Xiu, if Liu Xiu doesn't speak, Yan Qing can't withdraw even if he wants to!" What's more, Yan Qing himself doesn't want to withdraw his troops back to Jianyang! ”
Wang Chang has always been inclined to the Liu brothers, and now that he has fought such a big victory with the Liu brothers, he is afraid that he is more loyal to the Liu brothers. Now, he can no longer treat Wang Chang as his own brother.
Zhu Kun's eyes rolled, and he suddenly said: "I have a plan, but I can break the current crisis!" ”
Wang Kuang's eyes lit up and asked, "Changshu, what is your good plan?" "Elect Liu Xuan as the emperor!" Now is the time! Zhu Kun said with bright eyes.