Chapter Seventy-Eight: Obstruction
After receiving a letter of help from Changxi County, the main forces of the Sui army in Minzhou and Jianzhou each sent more than 1,000 Sui troops to reinforcements.
The 1,000 Sui army reinforcements sent by Minzhou were led by Commander Yu Wenxiang, and they rushed to Changxi County day and night. Minzhou is closer to Changxi County than Jianzhou, so after a day and a night of rapid marching, Bijianzhou reinforcements rushed to Changxi County first.
Yu Wenxiang, the captain who led the team, was slender and sturdy, in his thirties, with a mustache and a shrewd and capable appearance.
After a day and a night of rapid marching, the troops were very tired, and it was already evening, which was not conducive to the siege. Yu Wenxiang decided to camp and rest more than five miles away from the county seat of Changxi first, and then attack the city tomorrow morning. In his heart, he really didn't take this rabble of Diao people in his eyes. Because according to his past experience, a thousand well-trained Sui troops were enough to crush 10,000 rabble of rebellious people.
The sleepy and tired Sui soldiers only got into the tents that they could barely cope with. Before their numb bodies could be warmed up by the night wind, a trumpet suddenly sounded in the distance, and a long fiery dragon swooped down on the tent.
The soldiers of the Sui army were shocked and hurriedly raised their weapons to meet the battle. The enemy troops, armed with torches, rushed to a position more than 200 paces away from the camp, and suddenly stopped again. Screaming and firing the arrow for a while, he turned and retreated. Yu Wenxiang was angry and laughed, so angry that the escort team was so combative, and he actually wanted to copy his own camp. The smile is that since the other party's combat effectiveness is low, tomorrow's battle will definitely be easy to win.
Thinking about it made him happy. Ordered his officers and men to seize the time to rest, and when the sun rises tomorrow, they will immediately level the convoy. The soldiers cheered and entered their tents, the leather cushions under their bodies not waiting to be warmed. Outside, the sound of horses' hooves was loud, and in the night, I don't know how many cavalry came to rob the camp.
The Sui soldiers climbed out of their tents and bowed their bows to each other. The attacking cavalry circled half a circle from afar, shot cold arrows for a while, and fled again. Yu Wenxiang was furious and ordered his soldiers not to sleep, prepare war horses, bows and arrows, and take them by surprise when the enemy army came to harass them again. The soldiers struggled in the cold wind for half an hour, but the convoy refused to come.
After tossing for most of the night, it was not until the east was white and the wisps of morning light penetrated the clouds that the soldiers of the Sui army fell asleep. While he was dreaming, there was a muffled sound of horses' hooves outside the tent.
"Damn, that's too bad! Harassment again, endlessly! Yu Wenxiang scolded in a daze.
He rolled over and didn't want to get up, now that his muscles were weak, it was really hard to get up. Besides, the convoy is only harassing, and will not seriously engage themselves at all. Thinking about it, thinking about it, Yu Wenxiang's mind was a little confused, and suddenly, a cold wind blew into his neck.
"Who!" Yu Wenxiang shouted angrily.
"Report to Lord Lieutenant, the rebels have invaded the camp!" A fire-faced man with a bloody face cried out with a saber. The body is swaying, and it may fall down at any time.
"Nonsense!" Yu Wenxiang retorted loudly, and his mind instantly cleared. The sound of horses' hooves in my ears was low and gentle, even if the enemy was attacking, the distance should be five hundred paces away, and it was impossible for the horse's hooves to land within a hundred steps.
"Whoosh!" A feather arrow replaced the fire chief's distinction, and the cold cold front penetrated through the cowhide tent and slanted in front of Yu Wenxiang.
"Enemy attack!" Yu Wenxiang was a spirit, completely awakened, turned over and jumped up, and rushed out of the tent with a saber.
The camp that had been set up improvised last night was filled with shouts of killing, and a group of black-clothed warriors looked heroic in the morning light. They carried steel knives, instigated war horses, and drove the Sui soldiers who were several times their number in number like sheep.
"Steady, steady! Reflexively face the battle! Yu Wenxiang successively cut down several Sui soldiers who were running around, trying to stabilize the situation. But this idea was obviously too wishful thinking, and the soldiers who had just been awakened from their slumber were so weak that they could not even lift their swords and guns, and barely met the opponent's horses, but only went up to send them to death, and did not play any role in delaying the other party.
Yu Wenxiang saw a beautiful girl dressed in blue, riding a black horse, wearing a blue helmet, and holding a long knife not far ahead. The girl was also accompanied by a strong young man who was wielding an iron rod, and he was desperate for his moves, although the two of them were young, their attack power was amazing, and the horse's head pointed out, and the Sui soldiers immediately collapsed like snow sculptures splashed by boiling water.
The black-clad warriors guarding the girl continue to add to the chaos caused by the beautiful girl. Some archers of the Sui army wanted to sneak attack the girl from the flank, but the feather arrows released were blocked by the black-clothed guards with leather shields in the middle of the way. Those black-clothed warriors were extremely brave, and they would rather fight to get injured than let the beautiful girl be wiped off half of her cold hair by feather arrows.
The escort team that came to charge the camp was only more than 300 people, but the damage caused was terrible. Many Sui soldiers were still asleep, and they were hacked to death in tents. More Sui soldiers were slashed by steel knives as they ran, blood spurting like a fountain from the cut wounds, splashing hot air on the frosty ground.
After a day and a night of rapid marching, he was teased by the enemy for most of the night, and the people were sleepy and tired. In the early morning, when the human body was at its most fatigued, the Sui soldiers were like lambs waiting to be slaughtered.
Li Jing held a halberd in his hand, rushing back and forth, as if entering a no-man's land. The Sui generals in front of him couldn't support it at all, and as soon as the two sides looked at each other, the saber was picked open by Li Jing with the tip of the halberd, and then the halberd in Li Jing's hand was like a poisonous snake, stabbing into their throats.
Several Sui generals attempted to lay siege to Li Jing. Most of the people didn't wait for Li Jing to get close, and they were put down halfway by Xia Xue with feather arrows.
"Don't fall in love with war, find the middle army!" Li Jing rushed and commanded everyone.
The best outcome of the raid is to kill or wound the enemy's commander. As long as the opponent's command center is smashed, no matter how strong the army is, it will lose its combat effectiveness. Moreover, the Sui army from Minzhou had nothing to do with being strong.
"There's a big banner of the Chinese army there!" The red-whisked woman, who was in charge of scheduling the whole situation in the middle of the team, shouted loudly.
According to Li Jing's strategy, the elite of the 300 escort team was allowed to rest early, and the work of harassing the enemy army was handed over to the 300-odd backup guards who were slightly weaker.
The efforts of all were in vain, and at dawn the convoy saw the hope of victory.
The banner of the Chinese army of the Sui army commander was not far ahead, and the one wearing silver gorgeous armor who roared under the big bow was definitely their captain. The shouts of the red-haired girl were relayed to the head of the team by the black-clothed guards, and Xia Xue immediately rode her horse and held a knife, and the wind swept towards the banner of the Chinese army.
"Hold on!" Yu Wenxiang shouted, hearing that his voice had changed tone. At this moment, he no longer had the luxury of turning defeat into victory, he only hoped that the soldiers could block the beautiful girl with a long knife so that he could adjust his tactics.
Countless Sui soldiers poured towards the Chinese army, one after another, carrying Xia Xue's Tang knife with their flesh and blood. Their loyal and courageous actions had some results, and about fifty paces away from the banner of the Chinese army, Xia Xue's war horse was blocked by the corpse mountain.
Captain Yuwenxiang, who got the opportunity, immediately adjusted his tactics, and took advantage of the chaos ahead, he jumped on his BMW, lifted his saber, turned around and fled.
Countless soldiers of the Sui army gave up their opponents and fled in embarrassment behind Yu Wenxiang's war horse.
The human wall made of flesh and blood collapsed, and Xia Xue rushed forward and slashed the banner of the Chinese army of the Sui army with one sword.
"Victory!" The cheers were like thunder.
As soon as the banner of the Chinese army fell, the last remaining bit of morale of the Sui army disappeared without a trace. All the soldiers turned around and fled, not even caring about crying and groaning under the enemy's horses. Moan's companions. Li Jing ordered the cavalry to remove the coarse linen cloth tied to the hooves of the war horses for the sneak attack, and led the army to chase and kill for more than 30 miles before collecting the troops. The escort team sacrificed 5 people, wounded 45 people, killed more than 400 Sui troops, captured more than 500 people, captured more than 100 war horses, and captured more than 900 weapons and armor. Achieving such a great victory with so few casualties greatly boosted the morale of the convoy.
Jianzhou is far away from Changxi County, more than 1,000 Jianzhou Sui army reinforcements on the road by Xia Xue in advance arranged by a small group of ambush soldiers using guerrilla warfare, sparrow warfare, harassment warfare, sneak attack warfare and so on to fight embarrassed, "the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed in me to disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, the enemy retreats and I chase" The sixteen-character guerrilla warfare secret is indeed powerful, the reinforcement Sui army is unbearable, exhausted, and the casualties are also increasing, and finally I heard that Changxi County has been conquered by Xia Xue, and the rescue is hopeless, so I went halfway and withdrew to Jianzhou.
Xia Xue finally took root in Changxi County, Funing, and had the first relatively stable base in Fujian.
At dawn, Xia Xue stood on the upper floor of Changxi County, looking at the eastern sky. I saw a ray of dawn, which gradually became a splendid ribbon dancing gently, flowing freely in the eastern sky. There seems to be a force tearing at the darkness, to wake up the world in the dark. Tearing may be a kind of labor pain, and this labor pain will be followed by the bright and brilliant ten thousand rays of light, and the singing and laughter of the sunrise in the east. The bloody horizon is gradually brightening up in the dark clouds, cutting through the thick obstacles, and nirvana is the hope of new life.
"A spark can start a prairie fire", Xia Xue, a small spark from the future, will ignite a prairie fire in Fujian.