Chapter Fifty-Eight: The Whole Army Is Annihilated

As mentioned last time, Liu Hou led people to escape back out of the woods. Out of this wood, the road ahead is a field. The area is covered with a dense water network, fertile land, and densely populated. Although it has also experienced the baptism of war, after all, it is the land of fish and rice, and it has a profound heritage, so the countryside here is only slightly dilapidated, and it has not yet reached the tragic level of no rooster crow for thousands of miles and white bones exposed in the wild.

After leaving the woods, the first thing was to solve the food problem, and Liu Hou sent a team of soldiers and horses to the countryside to buy food. These musketeers have been strictly trained, and there is nothing to say about military discipline, but there is no need to worry about them oppressing the people, Liu Hou also summoned them before they left, and specially emphasized discipline, not to rob the people's property, not to buy and sell by force, and not to commit adultery

Looting, murder, arson, and so on.

At the same time, a team of people was sent to hunt and catch fish in the rivers, and a team of people collected wild vegetables. In this way, it was still not enough for the army to eat, but fortunately, at this time, the cavalry came back one after another to join the large army. The news they brought was that the Wei army was still far away.

Now you don't have to worry about the fire being discovered. Liu Hou ordered three old, weak, sick and disabled horses to be slaughtered and used as military rations, which was barely enough for everyone to have a full meal. The army fled for a day and a night, spent a day and a night in half-starvation, and now at last there was a full meal to eat, as well as meat, and everyone was in high spirits, and everyone finished the meal with talk and laughter, and the morale that had fallen to the bottom was restored a lot.

After eating, everyone continued to march at high speed until sunset. There was no word for the night, but early the next morning, the remnants of the 1,000 people of the tiger and leopard cavalry finally caught up. Without ammunition, his troops are toothless tigers, and Liu Hou is also weak in his heart. He had no choice but to order the cavalry to go forward to stand on guard and confront the tiger and leopard cavalry from a distance, but he did not take the initiative to provoke trouble.

The tiger and leopard riders were frightened before, and they didn't dare to take the initiative to attack, they didn't know that the Shu army had run out of ammunition, and now it was just a paper tiger, they hung the tail of the Shu army from afar, and watched the Shu army retreat all the way, but they never attacked. Obviously, they have taken the initiative to downgrade their status from invincible cavalry and ace troops to a level of scouts.

Wang Qiu's wishful thinking was very loud, and his remnants of the defeated army had been following the Shu army, figuring out their destination, and when the army of the Metropolitan Governor arrived, no matter where these hateful rats hid, they would be crushed into powder by the army of the Metropolitan Governor. He had already reported to Sima Yi quickly, and they still had a day to catch up, and by then he had completed his task, and he no longer had to face these demons who killed people faster than flipping their palms.

There were tigers and leopards hanging behind him, and Liu Hou didn't dare to slack off, so he could only urge the troops to keep moving forward. Fortunately, the distance was not far away, and in the evening, they ran to the city of Jingzhou.

Just when Wang Qiu thought that this Shu army was going to enter Jingzhou City, he found that only half of this Jingzhou army had entered the city, and the other half had taken some dry food sent from the city and passed around the city. Wang Qiu was very curious, and continued to follow this terrifying army that had wiped out two-thirds of his comrades from a distance, he wanted to know, where was their destination if it was not Jingzhou City?

Liu Hou considered that Zhao Yun's manpower was too small, and there were very few firearms troops, so it was very difficult to rely on them to hold the city besieged by tens of thousands of troops. Therefore, the troops at hand were divided into 2 regiments, and Zhang Bao led them into the city to assist in defending the city. With these musketeers, he believed that the Wei army had come more or less just to give them live targets to practice marksmanship.

Liu Hou rushed to the river with a regiment and a cavalry battalion, where there was a Jingzhou waiting for him. The Jingzhou could not accommodate too many people, so Liu Hou took two battalions up, and the other battalion and cavalry battalion waited to enter the other transport ship. The tonnage of such a transport ship is large enough that even horses can accommodate it, which is remarkable. However, this kind of transport ship has no artillery, so it has no armed forces, so they can only wait for them to sail to the shore as soon as they get on the ship to avoid the attack of the Wei army.

Wang Qiu chased the Shu army to the shore, and when he saw the Shu army on the boat, he gritted his teeth and was so angry that he couldn't do it. It turned out that the Shu army had warships, and as soon as they got on the ship like this, they could not avenge the two thousand robes they had died. Even if the army of the Metropolitan Governor is killed, it will not be able to help the warships drifting on the river.

Just as Wang Qiu was beating his feet on the shore and scolding the Shu army, he found that the ship was turning sideways. He thought the ship was very strange, the side of the ship was densely packed with many small windows, and what was even more strange was that a large iron cylinder stretched out from each small window, and the swarthy and round iron cylinder mouth was like a black eye. From a distance, the whole ship looked like a monster with hundreds of eyes.

"Eyed monsters?" Just as this thought flashed through Wang Qiu's mind, he heard an earth-shattering rumbling sound, and the "multi-eyed monster" emitted a cloud of black smoke from each eye and spewed fire. Then he felt the ground shake. He looked around and was horrified to find fireworks rising from his ranks, and large swaths of robes and horses being blown up or knocked down by shrapnel flying in all directions.

The landing point of each ** is the stamen of a huge flower, and the centaurs within a range of 10 to 20 meters around this explosion point form a piece of petals, and these petals fall backwards together, just like those documentaries in later generations, using slow speed to shoot the process of blooming flowers, and then use fast playback to play out. With the severed limbs flying sideways and blood splashing, the fireworks set off are particularly gorgeous in the opening process.

Wang Qiu was also swept away by a ** explosion gas wave, fortunately, his injuries were not too serious, after he got up, he felt his ears buzzing, he couldn't hear the sound of the surrounding environment, and his eyes were also a little blurred.

Finally, when he sobered up a little, he saw that each eye of the "multi-eyed monster" in the river was burning again, and they were horrified, and immediately ran away, and sure enough, there was a rumbling sound and the feeling of the earth trembling around him. Fireworks burst into the ranks again.

At this time, Wang Qiu still cared about sorting out the team, issuing any orders, and ran to the far shore by himself. He managed to escape the smoky Shura Hell, only to find himself in despair when he found a cavalry in his way.

This cavalry was waiting for the Shu scout battalion to board the transport ship, and now they received Liu Hou's order to go around to the rear of the tiger and leopard cavalry to cut off their retreat. Jingzhou's artillery stopped after firing two rounds, there was no need to fight more, two rounds of shelling, almost hundreds of *** disabled the entire tiger and leopard cavalry, and it would be a waste of shells to fight again.

In the smoke-filled scene, the corpses of the corpses were thrown everywhere, and the blood had stained the mud beneath their feet red. The wounded horse neighed and spun in place like a headless fly. The few people who were lucky enough to escape from this smoke hell stared at the Shu cavalry in front of them, and dared not move, they were afraid that a slight movement of their own would cause misunderstanding of the Shu army, break this rare balance, and make the Shu army rush up to kill themselves.

The commander of the cavalry of the Shu army was Guan Xing, but he did not look at the remnants of the Wei army in front of him now, but stared at the flag hand on the battleship Jingzhou. Guan Xing watched the flag hand waving two flags, one red and one green, muttering to himself, obviously deciphering the meaning of the flag.

After a while, the flag was finished, and a flag speaker next to him reported the order issued by the Jingzhou to Guan Xing. In fact, you don't need to report it, Guan Xing's military education since he was a child included a course in interpreting the flag language, but according to the rules, the flag language hand is to report the flag information received.

After Guan Xing listened, he said to Qiyu, you replied to the prince, saying that we received it and would do what he wanted. Then, he ignored the flag speaker, rode his horse to the remnants of the Wei army, and said with all his strength:

"The prince of Hanzhong has an order, those who surrender will not be killed, and those who dare to resist will not be killed."

Liu Hou, who recruited these remnants of the tiger and leopard cavalry, was a temporary idea, and he had coveted this cavalry, which was known as the strongest cavalry in the cold weapon army of this era, for a long time, but he also knew that it was unlikely that he would make them surrender.

Not to mention that their wives and children are all in the Wei State, let's just say that the elite of their kind must have undergone long-term and strict training, and this training must include brainwashing training in loyalty. There must be no lack of thoughts in the minds of such people who swear allegiance to Cao Wei, and it is difficult to eliminate this kind of thinking in the short term.

However, now is an opportunity, the tiger and leopard cavalry suffered continuous blows and heavy losses, and the Shu army showed some unheard of and unbelievable methods. This has taken a heavy toll on their spirits, and now is the time when their wills are at their most vulnerable. It can be said that now is the best time to subdue them.

Sure enough, I only heard the sound of "ping-pong, ping-pong, plop-pong" sounded one after another, and one after another people threw down the weapons in their hands and knelt down. There are those who surrender and those who die without repentance. Some people, including the interim commander Wang Qiu, had lost their minds, shouting slogans of "loyalty to the country" and "fighting to the death", and rushed up with swords to cut Guan Xing.

Guan Xing waved his hand, and a group of cavalry rushed up behind him, and they rushed into these Wei troops like crazy tigers, on the one hand, the cavalry with high morale and waiting for work, and on the other hand, the infantry, who were exhausted and dizzy by the **, the results of the battle were self-evident, and soon these remnants of the Wei army were solved by the cavalry of the Shu army.

After counting the results of the battle, more than 200 tiger and leopard cavalry surrendered, Liu Hou was overjoyed, let them get on the transport ship with his cavalry, and asked Guan Xing to find a way to reorganize them.

At this point, the 3,000 men and horses of the tiger and leopard cavalry who went out with the army this time were all wiped out, which was a quarter of the strength of all the tiger and leopard cavalry of Cao Wei, and the loss was not heavy.

The whole army, including Liu Hou, was hungry and tired for a long time, and as soon as they got on the ship, they all fell on the deck, unwilling to get up again. Fortunately, the ship's various supplies were sufficient, and the crew hurriedly cooked hot food and hot water for these heroes who had returned from the war.

After eating and drinking, everyone consciously went back to the cabin to find a place to sleep. No one wants to celebrate, party, and vent for the rest of their lives. Because they all know that this sortie is just the beginning, and there is a big war waiting for them later. At this time, it is necessary to seize the time to rest, and only by recovering physical strength as soon as possible can we cope with the greater war in the future.