Chapter 277: Battle of the Nodes
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The cavalry was not good at street fighting, but was especially good at charging in the plains.
Since fighting inside the Blue Township is very disadvantageous to your own side, you have to find a way to attract the enemy army and annihilate it outside the Blue Township.
This is the tactic used by Liu Xiu to lure the snake out of the hole.
But they disguised themselves as homeless people and sneaked into the granary to steal rice, and Liu Xiu himself was not sure how many enemy troops they could attract to chase them out of Lanxiang.
But there is one thing Liu Xiu can be sure of, whoever chases it out must be the Lanxiang garrison, and it is impossible for the grain transportation team to help the Lanxiang garrison run out and catch the thief.
Among the 3,000 reckless troops in Lanxiang, the real combat effectiveness is the Lanxiang garrison, and the grain transportation team is engaged in logistics, most of them are old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are not combat troops at all.
This time, Zhu Ji was able to go out in person, and he also brought out seven or eight hundred people, which far exceeded Liu Xiu's estimate, which was definitely an unexpected surprise.
During the battle, Zhu Ji was slashed and killed by Ma Wu, and most of the seven or eight hundred Mang troops he led out were also killed and wounded under the iron cavalry of the Xiao cavalry.
The remnants of the reckless army had no intention of fighting, and fled in all directions, some of them panicked and did not know where they had gone, only dozens of reckless soldiers fled back to Lanxiang with rolling and crawling.
As soon as they returned to Lanxiang, the Xiao cavalry led by Liu Xiu attacked and killed, and the two sides started a fierce battle in Lanxiang Township.
Liu Xiu's calculation was right, don't look at the reckless army of 3,000 people in Lanxiang, but the one with combat effectiveness is the defenders of Lanxiang with more than 1,000 people.
As for the 17,800-strong grain transport team, they were either old, weak, sick and disabled, or soldiers and ruffians who were eating and waiting to die, and they had no combat effectiveness to speak of.
Now that Zhu Ji has been killed, the defenders of Lanxiang have lost most of them, and the remaining hundreds of people and the grain transportation team are not the opponents of the Xiao cavalry army at all.
Zhen Fu and Liang Qiuci's two grain officers also did their best to organize their troops, intending to resist.
As a result, he was defeated by a round of cavalry charges. The two grain officers both died in the chaos, and the soldiers of the grain transport team were crushed, and they retreated all the way from the town of Lanxiang to the outside of the town.
They ran all the way, died all the way, and on the half of the main street from the center of the town to the south gate of the town, there were all the corpses of the reckless soldiers, and a layer was spread on the ground.
Of the 3,000 reckless troops, there were not even 500 people who escaped from Lanxiang in the end.
Liu Xiu did not take anyone to chase him out of Lanxiang, and after the Mang army was defeated and fled, he immediately took people to check the two granaries set up by the Mang army in Lanxiang.
These two large granaries, the hoarded grain together, is estimated to be 70,000 or 80,000 stones, and if one stone is 100 catties, it is also 7 or 8 million catties, enough for 100,000 troops to eat for more than two months.
With so much grain, it was impossible for Liu Xiu and others to take it all, but fortunately, when the grain transport team fled, they left all the carriages used to transport grain in Lanxiang, which provided a lot of convenience for Liu Xiu and others.
Liu Xiu first found Cho Qi and asked him to rush back to Jianyang immediately and tell his eldest brother Liu Xuan of his victory in Lanxiang. Before Choshi left, Liu Xiu said meaningfully: "Second situation, next, it's up to you!" β
Choshi nodded heavily and said, "Don't worry, my subordinates will do their best not to disappoint my lord!" After speaking, he arched his hand to Liu Xiu on his horse, then turned the horse's head and galloped towards the thorny sun.
After the cho period was gone, Liu Xiuren burned the granary in the south of the town, and his soldiers loaded all the grain in the granary in the north of the town into the carriage, and burned it on the spot if they could take it away.
It didn't take long for the fire to come out of the Zhennan granary, the fire became bigger and bigger, and when Liu Xiu and the others drove the carriage full of grain and prepared to leave Lanxiang, the fire in the Zhennan granary had almost burned half the sky.
The news of the successful sneak attack on Lanxiang by the Zhutian Army soon spread to the camp of Jianyang and the Mang Army.
Zhen Fu never dreamed that Zhu Tianjun was so bold that he dared not stay in the city and ran out to take the initiative to attack Lanxiang.
Liang Qiuci thought of it, and he also reminded Zhen Fu that Lanxiang was his own grain land, and he had to send heavy troops to guard it.
At that time, Zhen Fu promised very well, but who knows, he didn't send more troops to Lanxiang at all.
On the first day of the first lunar month, as soon as the sky was bright, Liang Qiuci, who heard the news of the attack on Lanxiang, hurried to Zhenfu's military camp. At this time, Zhen Fu had already gotten up and was furious at his subordinates in the Chinese military tent.
Hearing that Liang Qiuci was coming, he asked people to invite Liang Qiuci in.
After Liang Qiuci entered the Chinese military tent, Zhen Fu waved his hand to the grizzled generals and motioned for them all to go out.
Then, he looked at Liang Qiuci expressionlessly and asked, "Lord Liang has also heard the news of the attack on Lanxiang?" β
Liang Qiuci frowned and said: "Lanxiang was attacked, and our army's grain was destroyed, and now the whole army already knows about it. β
Zhen Fu slammed his fist on the table in front of him, gritted his teeth and said: "Zhutian anti-thief, Green Forest anti-thief, bold and bold, dare to sneak attack Lanxiang, I and the anti-thief, incompatible!" β
Liang Qiuci sighed secretly, what's the use of talking about this now? He said: "Lord Zhen, the grain and grass have been destroyed, the morale of our soldiers has plummeted, and the morale of the army is turbulent, and the top priority is not to rush revenge, but to withdraw the troops as soon as possible!" β
"Withdrawing troops?" Hearing this, Zhen Fu's eyebrows stood up.
If your own 100,000 troops are deterred by the opposition of tens of thousands of people, not to mention that all your face will be lost, and you will not be able to explain to the court or your majesty afterwards.
He said word by word: "In this battle, I will definitely not withdraw my troops!" After the third day of the first lunar month, I will wave my division and go straight to the thorn sun! β
Liang Qiuci shook his head again and again, and said, "Isn't it true that Lord Zhen can't see the situation of our army clearly now?" The soldiers and horses did not move, the grain and grass went first, and now the grain and grass were destroyed, and the soldiers had no intention of fighting......"
Zhen Fu waved his hand impatiently and said, "Lord Liang, don't shake the army's heart again!" If Lord Liang is frightened by the rebels, you can lead the army to retreat to Wancheng, but if you want me to withdraw my troops, it will never be possible! β
It can be seen that Zhen Fu is the eighth king eats the scales, and he is determined to fight this battle, Liang Qiuci can't help but look up to the sky and sigh.
Zhen Fu said it nicely, let himself lead the army to retreat, and he stayed to continue fighting, but is this possible?
The commander of the whole army did not withdraw his troops, but his deputy commander withdrew his troops first, which was a move to escape from the battle, and then Zhen Fu handed over an impeachment, and his head was gone. He lowered his eyes, took two deep breaths, moved with emotion, and said reasonably: "Lord Zhen, now the morale of our army has plummeted, the morale of the army is turbulent, and the pillar sky and green forest must be a big increase in morale
There are not many troops in the sky and green forests, close to 50,000 people, and our army has no chance of winning this battle. β
If it drags on for a long time, not to mention that there is no chance of victory, there is a danger of annihilation! Liang Qiuci did not say the latter sentence. Zhen Fu sneered, sneered, and asked rhetorically, "Hasn't Lord Liang fought with Zhutian and Green Forest?" The only one who can fight with our army is the Zhutian anti-army, but the strength of the Zhutian anti-army is only 5,000, which is not to be afraid at all, as for the soldiers
The green forest anti-army with many generals, that is, a group of rabble, shrimp soldiers and crab generals, is not worth mentioning at all, Lord Liang has repeatedly raised the prestige of the anti-army, and destroyed the sharpness of our army's soldiers, what is the intention? β
In the end, Zhen Fu squinted at Liang Qiuci, and his tone became more and more yin and yang.
Liang Qiuci has been working with Zhen Fu for so long, how can he not understand him?
At this time, when I saw his expression and listened to his tone, I already knew in my heart that Zhen Fu was starting to pour dirty water on his head, waiting for himself to be impeached in the future.
He shook his head, said no more, and said to Zhen Fu: "Lord Zhen, retire next!" β
"Humph!" Zhen Fu snorted coldly and said, "To lead the army to fight, you must have the determination to win!" Greedy for life and afraid of death, afraid of hands and feet, what kind of soldiers do you lead, and what kind of battle do you fight? β
The attack on Lanxiang made Zhen Fu lose his anger in his belly, and he couldn't vent it, but it happened that Liang Qiuci came, and the anger he didn't finish venting fell on Liang Qiuci's head.
Liang Qiu didn't look back, and strode out of the Chinese military tent. Leave Zhen Fu's camp and return to his camp. The first thing he did when he came back was to get people to hurry up to Huang Chunshui to build a bridge.
Zhen Fu is naΓ―ve and naΓ―ve, and wants to emulate Xiang Yu and break the boat, so let him do it himself, his own 20,000 soldiers, there is no need to send him to death with him.
At this time, Liang Qiuci wanted to build a bridge and leave a way out for the 20,000 soldiers under his command, but unfortunately it was too late.
Hearing the news of Liu Xiu's successful sneak attack on Lanxiang, the Zhutian Army and the Green Forest Army set up a shrine in Jianyang City overnight.
When the sky was white, Liu Xuan, the commander of the Zhutian Army, Wang Kuang, the commander of the Xinshi Army, Chen Mu, the commander of the Pinglin Army, and Wang Chang, the commander of the Xiajiang Army, all ascended the altar and made an alliance on the altar in front of tens of thousands of soldiers on their side.
The banner of the Zhutian Army and the banner of the Green Forest Army were all invalidated, and the two sides were uniformly replaced with the Han flag, and the names of the Zhutian Army and the Green Forest Army were also abolished, and they were uniformly called the Han Army.
On the altar, Liu Xuan, Wang Kuang, Chen Mu, and Wang Chang cut their fingers and dripped blood into the four wine bowls, and then the four of them each picked up the wine bowl, first to the sky, then to the earth, and then to the ancestor Liu Bang, and then the four of them drank the blood wine in the bowl.
Liu Xuan raised the empty bowl in his hand high and shouted loudly: "Follow the great cause of the ancestors and save the people from fire and water!" Kill the reckless thief! Gong Kuang Han Room! β
After speaking, he slammed the wine bowl in his hand to the ground.
Wang Kuang, Chen Mu, and Wang Changyi smashed the wine bowl one after another, and said in unison: "Follow the great cause of Gaozu and save the people from fire and water!" Kill the reckless thief! Gong Kuang Han Room! β
Looking at the altar again, whether it is the Pillar Heavenly Army or the Green Forest Army, they are all excited and enthusiastic.
People knelt on their knees in an uproar and shouted in unison: "Inherit the great cause of the ancestors!" Save all the people from fire and water! Kill the reckless thief! Gong Kuang Han Room! β
"Gong Kuang Han Room!" "Gong Kuang Han Room-"
Liu Xuan drew his sword under his ribs, pointed his sword at the west, and said loudly: "Today's battle is a matter of life and death, my brothers in the Han army, either drink the enemy's blood, or see you in Jiuquan again!" β
"Kill! Kill! Killβ" Liu Xiu said that Lanxiang was the node of this battle, and he was not wrong at all. The success of the sneak attack on Lanxiang made the Mang army fall into a panic, on the other hand, on the Han army's side, the morale soared, and the momentum was like a rainbow, sweeping away the malaise of the past few days.