Chapter 319: Killing Along the Way
The screams inside the city made the enemy soldiers outside the city panic.
There is no doubt that Liangshan City is a trap!
It is estimated that none of the more than 1,000 people who went in will not be able to get out, and the situation in the city is unknown, as the commander-in-chief, the enemy general who is still outside the city immediately makes a decision, and the whole army retreats three miles.
The killing in the city continued, sharp arrows flew on both sides of the street, and at the intersection of the city center, Su Zhong led three hundred Xuanwei troops to block the street entrance, and the enemy army who was fortunate enough to rush out of the range of sharp arrows was stopped by a round of arrow rain before they could rejoice, and then they were cut to the ground by random knives.
More than 1,000 enemy troops, in a quarter of an hour, almost all fell to the ground, and only a few took advantage of the night to burrow into the alleys that were difficult for the Xuanwei army to defend, and temporarily escaped with their lives.
The north gate was soon returned to the hands of the Xuanwei army, the drawbridge was pulled up, and the city gate was closed.
The lights in the city were turned on, the battlefield was quickly cleaned, and those who were still struggling on the ground were put to an end to their pain one by one, and then searched all over the city for the fleeing enemy soldiers, in the dark night, they trembled like rats crossing the street, but no matter how they escaped, in the end they could not escape their lives, and in less than half an hour, the enemy troops who slipped through the net were captured and killed.
The Xuanwei Army returned to its place, and Liangshan City was again under the control of the Xuanwei Army.
After the enemy troops outside the city retreated for several miles, spies came to report that the gates of Liangshan City were closed again.
Upon hearing this, the general immediately ordered the army to stop retreating, turn westward, cross the river to the south, and temporarily withdraw to the hinterland of Li Yue.
If you don't seize the opportunity that the enemy army does not dare to go out of the city to pursue and retreat south, these two thousand have been exposed between Liangshan and Da Nanguan for a long time, and it is difficult to escape the annihilation of the whole army.
The whole army urgently marched west for several miles, and then southward, and after determining that there were no troops out of Liangshan City to pursue him, the general immediately ordered to cross the river and return to the south while the sky was still dark.
The enemy crossed the river smoothly, but they fled all the way from Yulin to Da Nan Pass, and then fled from Da Nan Pass to Liangshan, only then did they lose their troops in Liangshan, this time they crossed the river, almost all the grain and grass were lost, and everyone in the whole army knew that their defeat had been revealed, and it was fortunate to be able to escape back to Li Yue. Therefore, after the enemy crossed the river, he immediately rushed southward, where could he still take care of the formation, and whoever ran fast would be able to escape the pursuit of Hades.
The first to cross the river ran first, and those who stayed on the north bank could only pray that Liangshan City would not come out to pursue the soldiers, when the enemy's vanguard ran out of five miles away, there were nearly a thousand enemy troops on the north bank, and in the dawn and darkness, the whole army fled, and the general could no longer reorganize the team, so he could only let them return south freely.
In Liangshan City, Su Zhong led a battalion of Xuanwei Army out of the city quietly from the West Gate, and touched the place where the enemy crossed the river, although it could not eliminate the enemy army on the riverbank, but it was still okay to make some trouble for them to cross the river.
When they touched the vicinity of the riverbank, they found that there were not many enemies who had not yet crossed the river, so Su Zhong took the lead, rushed within a hundred steps, and shot with his bow.
The enemy army holding torches on the riverbank waiting to cross the river instantly became the target of sharp arrows, the sharp arrows whistled, and the screams rose in an instant, the riverbank was in chaos, and the narrow bridge that was hastily erected suddenly scrambled continuously, only to hear the sound of "poof, poof, poof" falling into the water endlessly, and in the darkness, I don't know how many people were not shot, but were pushed into the river by the people around them.
After a few rounds of arrow rain, the people who were still far from the narrow bridge and still could not cross the river turned and fled to the west, throwing torches in the process, and the Xuanwei army immediately lost its target.
But there were still many who remained on the riverbank and scrambled to cross the river, and they looked at the narrow bridge that was about to reach in front of them, but they missed the opportunity to escape, and fell before they stepped on the narrow bridge.
Su Zhong quickly led people close to the narrow bridge and quickly killed the enemy troops who were still struggling and had not yet lost their breath. The other side of the river was hazy, and the enemy army could no longer be seen, and it was not wise to blindly pursue, so the rest was left to Yao Chang, Yuan Hua and Liu Shi.
The Xuanwei army stayed on the bank of the river for a moment, neither crossing the river nor pursuing the small group of fleeing enemy troops to the west, and after making sure that there were no fish around them, they immediately turned around and returned to Liangshan City.
Yao Chang took two thousand lightly trained young men, armed with bows and arrows, and ambushed on both sides of the road to the west pass of the south to the city, gathering more than 150 steps on the left and right.
The bows and arrows used by Qingzhuang are all one load and two buckets, and the shooting distance is about a hundred paces, which does not require much strength, and it is not accurate in the dark night.
Seeing the dotted torches appear in the field of vision, and quickly approaching, Yao Chang was a little apprehensive in his heart, if Liangshan's empty city plan did not succeed, they would have to face three thousand well-trained Li Yue elites, these young men who were temporarily pulled up were not opponents at all, two thousand people were scattered, Yuan Hua and Liu Shi only had 1,500 people, they could not resist three thousand enemy troops.
Before he could think about it, the enemy with torches had already rushed to his eyes, judging from their speed, Yao Chang knew that the enemy was fleeing, and in the dim light, he saw the shape of the enemy's entire army, which confirmed his judgment even more, they must have been to Liangshan, otherwise it would be impossible to retreat like this.
After Yao Chang let the enemy flee from front of him for a quarter of an hour, he immediately ordered: "Attack!" ”
At the same time, the grass resounded with the chirping of birds.
With the sound of chirping, the young man with a bow and arrow, under the command of the officers of each team, stretched out his bow and arrows, and shot sharp arrows at the fleeing figures in the road.
The sharp arrows flew over a distance of 100 paces, and very few of them were hit, and the vast majority of them did not know where they were flying, either too far or too close. But a handful of sharp arrows shot into the enemy's body, and the screams broke the silence of the night.
In the screams, the fleeing enemy soldiers panicked even more, unleashed all the potential of their bodies, and once again increased their escape speed, rushing forward along the road like a gust of wind.
In the dark night, the young men who had no combat experience at all could not judge whether they had shot far, or close, or had already shot, but the bows and arrows in their hands did not stop, and they could not organize unified shooting without special training, so all the young men shot at will under the leadership of the Xuanwei military escort officer, shooting fast, shooting slow, shooting far, shooting close, everything was not required, and they could follow their fate.
Even so, the arrows shot by the two thousand Qingzhuang are not a small number, no matter how low the hit rate is, there are always people who fall to the ground with arrows, and after half an hour, there are hundreds of enemy soldiers in the hands of the Qingzhuang arrows who died in Liangshan.
Until there was no more fire on the main road to the north, Yao Chang knew that the battle that belonged to them was over, but they couldn't leave at this time, and they had to wait until dawn to help Yuan Hua and Liu Shi clean up the battlefield before they could return to Liangshan.
The enemy troops who escaped all the way to the robbery and killing, fortunately rushed to the pass, and their lungs were about to burst when they were tired, and they just wanted to go south through the pass, but they were greeted by a more fierce rain of arrows.
The sharp arrows fired from the south, east, and west completely covered the enemy's position, and only one round of arrow rain, the hundreds of enemy troops who approached the pass first did not have time to catch their breath, and they were killed in an instant.
The following groups of enemy troops rushed here, but before they knew what was happening in front of them, they followed in the footsteps of the former, and before they could scream, they lost their lives.
Less than a mile below the city, it became a hunting ground, exhausted enemies, without the slightest ability to resist, they were out of breath, life was worse than death I don't know how many times, and meeting the arrows with the top of their heads and chests was perhaps their best destination.
The Xuanwei army stretched its bow no less than twenty times, and gradually became a little tired and weak, but fortunately, before the day was completely bright, there was no enemy army under the pass.
The tired Xuanwei army was no longer able to clean up the battlefield, and they still had to defend 5,000 enemy troops outside the pass.
When Yuan Hua and Liu Shi were having a headache, Yao Chang came with two thousand Liangshan youths, and the errand of cleaning the battlefield naturally fell on their heads.
Retrieving arrows and digging pits to lift corpses, it was the first time for the young people to see so many dead bodies, and many people couldn't bear to look at them and retched. After a long time, I gradually got used to the bloody breath in it.
Yao Chang gave them an order to bury the body before they could return to Liangshan, when to bury it, and when to go back.
No one wanted to stay in this place for long, and in order to escape, the speed of burying the corpses increased step by step, and it was almost noon, and they finally finished clearing the battlefield.
Yulin and Da Nanguan are already in the hands of the You Yi army, there is no pressure in Liangshan for the time being, and the pressure of guarding the pass in the west of the city is increasing day by day, there are now 5,000 people outside the pass, I don't know how many enemy troops will come to force the pass in the future, the Xuanwei army does not dare to relax a little regardless of day and night, and the soldiers are also exhausted.
Yao Chang chatted with Yuan Hua and Liu Shi in detail, knowing that it was difficult for them to defend the pass, so he left them with 500 Qingzhuang to assist in guarding the pass, and then returned to Liangshan with 1,500 Qingzhuang to the north, and buried the enemy troops shot along the way.
When they returned to Liangshan City, the city was cleaned up, as if nothing had happened.
In the palace, the atmosphere was much more relaxed, and Yang Congyi discussed the next battle situation with Yao Chang and Su Zhong.
"The 3,000 enemy troops in Yulin south were basically wiped out, and Liangshan was temporarily safe, but the Fusui enemy army had cut off the supply of grain and grass for nearly half a month, and they were bound to retreat soon after, and the 50,000 army had no grain and grass, in order to withdraw to Li Yue as soon as possible, they must take the avenue, pass through Yulin and pass through the Great South Pass, and go straight down to Liangshan. Liangshan is an important town on the border of Li and Yue, and there is a large amount of grain hoarded, they will not know, not to mention anything else, even if it is for food, they will capture Liangshan. Judging from the previous behavior of the Youyi army, when Li Yue's army retreated to Yulin, they either closed the city and let the enemy army go south, or withdrew from Yulin and retreated south to the Tongmian area. According to my estimates, it is very likely that the Youyi army will not be able to close the city and not invade the retreating Li Yue army. Then what we have to face is a complete 50,000 Li Yue elite, and it will be very difficult to hold on to Liangshan. Do you think we should withdraw, or should we defend? Yang Congyi's expression was serious, this is a matter of life and death.
"Guard!" Su Zhong and Yao Chang spoke almost in unison. If you retreat, isn't the battle fought in vain these days?
Yang Congyi nodded, the three of them agreed on the same thing, and then began to discuss the deployment of defending the city.
After a day's rest, the government issued an announcement again: the enemy army will besiege Liangshan City in the near future, and now recruit 2,500 people with lofty ideals to defend the city and retreat from the enemy army, with a monthly salary of 15 catties, and sign up as soon as possible.