Chapter 186: Less Wins More
Xu Huang is a fierce general, how great his strength is, and he has the strength of a thousand catties to chop down with an axe. Ba Xiangsi is equivalent to bearing the power of this thousand catties with his whole body, and his black face is flushed, and with a "wow" sound, a blood arrow is spewed, and the upper body is soft and folds forward. Fan Yong couldn't help but be surprised, when he looked forward at the horse, it turned out that Ba Xiangsi was from the knee down, and all of them were submerged in the soil.
Xu Huang slashed out an axe, and no longer paid attention to Ba Xiangsi's life or death, the big axe was raised, and he killed the enemy formation, and the five thousand soldiers behind him followed. Although Fan Yong was surprised by Xu Huang's martial arts in his heart, he saw that the number of the other party was far less than his own, and he was sure of winning this battle, and commanded his men and horses to kill Xu Huang. Fan Yong shrank in the Chinese army, shouting loudly, showing off his skills, but unexpectedly, a trumpet sounded on both sides, and 10,000 Han troops on the left and right killed him.
Only then did Fan Yong understand the other party's plan to lure the enemy, and hurriedly ordered the left and right soldiers to resist. The Han army had already raised the crossbow in the run, saw the range, 20,000 sharp arrows beckoned first, the shield soldiers of the Funan army protected the front, the arrow rain was thrown, and the soldiers in the middle fell into bad luck, and they cried for a while. The Han army put away its foot crossbow, brandished its broadsword and rushed over. The archers of Funan had already been disrupted by the rain of arrows, and after sporadic arrows, the two armies had already collided together.
20,000 Han troops came prepared, Gan Ning, Xu Huang, Chen Wu, Ding Feng are all famous brave generals, as soon as the confrontation, Funan will lose more than 1,000 troops, plus the shooting of arrow rain, Funan people have been killed and wounded nearly 10,000.
The Han army's broadsword was too sharp, and if the Funan soldiers touched it hard, their own knives and guns would be directly broken, and then the opponent's steel knife would be mercilessly slashed. Fan Yong was a little dumbfounded, if he continued to fight like this, how many of his 30,000 horses would be left? If you can't beat it, run, there are 50,000 people behind you anyway. Fan Yong hurriedly ordered the pro-soldiers around him to blow the horn of retreat, and then ran towards the rear in an uproar under the escort of the pro-soldiers.
The 25,000 Han army pursued and slashed at the same time, and the defeated army was like a tide, and the Funan soldiers only hated their parents for missing two legs, losing their armor, and they didn't want anything, so they ran backwards lightly.
Fan Yong saw the urgency of the Han army chasing behind, and shouted loudly: "Come in quickly, you have to go to the city to hide!" ”
The defenders of the city had already seen their own army and hurriedly opened the city gate, and Fan Yong took the lead and galloped into the city. When I came to the city to look, I saw the corpses of Funan soldiers who had fallen to the ground all over the field, and I estimated that the soldiers who ran to the vicinity of the city gate were only seven or eight thousand, and their eyes were green, and they were about to fall.
Seven or eight thousand people crowded near the city gate, the cavalry of the Han army killed them, and the Funan soldiers were even more panicked, huddled in the city gate hole, and stuck there. Fan Yong stomped his feet angrily and shouted, "Line up to enter the city." He turned his head to look at the guards at the head of the city and shouted, "What are you doing in a daze?" Quickly release the arrows and shoot the Han army. ”
The cavalry of the Han army only slashed and killed outside the range of bows and arrows at the head of the city, and when they saw the arrows flying from the city, they did not dare to approach too closely. Look at all the Funan people entering the city, a little stupidly blocked at the city gate. Then a large army of the Han army arrived, blocking the retreat to the west of Funan.
Fan Yong was terrified, and invited the city guards who could not come and go, and asked loudly: "How many people are there in the city?" ”
The guard general recognized that he was the brother of the lord of the country, and did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "Two thousand soldiers." ”
Fan Yong weighed it, his 30,000 people were less than 7,000 people, plus the soldiers in the city, it was only 10,000, and the Han army was more than 20,000. ”
The guard said: "In the mountains and forests north of the city, there is a trail to bypass, but it just takes some time. ”
"Go, go. I ordered the army to hold the city, wait for the arrival of the ancient army, and attack from both sides, and kill the Guanghan army. ”
The Han army in the west of the city, set up a large camp, at night, a group of Han troops left the camp, galloped to the west, and soon came to a big mountain, Zhou Yu looked at it, and said in a low voice: "Chen Wu, Ding Feng went to the right hillside to ambush, prepare more wood rolling stones, collect dry firewood, the weather here is changeable, after the dry firewood is collected, it is necessary to prevent rain." Komei, follow me to the hillside on the left. ”
20,000 horses divided into two roads up the mountain, birds and beasts in the mountains and forests scurryed, Zhou Yu said in a low voice: "Pay attention to the poison, just drive it away." ”
The mountains on both sides of the road are not high, but they are very dangerous, and the woods are wet, and a thin mist is entwined and drifting in the mountains. In order not to alarm the other party's scouts, everyone went up the mountain in the dark, and the journey was very difficult.
At dawn, when they arrived at the predetermined position, the Han army did not care about fatigue and immediately launched an operation.
There are a large number of people who conquer the ancients, and the march is naturally not fast, and this day will see that it will come and go to the city, and the sky is dark, so I have to set up camp. At this time, the personal soldiers came to report: "General Fan Yong sent a messenger to come, saying that there is an urgent military situation." ”
Zhenggu and Fan Shiman are old brothers, and they have a lot of slander against Fan Zhan for killing his cousin and usurping the throne, but that is a family affair, so it's not good to say anything, and after Fan Zhan ascended the throne, he was not bad to himself, and the rewards came one after another, and he slowly accepted this new master. Hearing that there was an urgent military situation, he hurriedly said, "Spread quickly." ”
The messenger came, took out Fan Yong's letter and presented it, Zhenggu read it, his brows furrowed, this loser, there are only 30,000 people left, and he is still blocked in the city. Zhenggu said to the messenger: "If it is too late today for the army to move, I will march early tomorrow morning. The tired messenger made another hard trip, turned back tonight, and informed General Fan Yong that at noon tomorrow, our army would arrive, and then the time should be combined to defeat the Han army. ”
The messenger was full of tears, and his bowels were green with regret, Lao Tzu had worked hard for a day and a night, and he hadn't even drunk his saliva, so you were going to drive me away again, who made himself a pawn, or let it drop obediently.
The messenger found the camp of the leader, ate something indiscriminately, filled the water bag made of buffalo skin with water, and began to trek again.
The Han army had prepared enough things, and they were already exhausted, Zhou Yu and other generals sent a few sentinels, and everyone fell asleep. This sleep was really good, until the third pole of the sun, Zhou Yu was awakened by a sound of footsteps, turned around and saw the sentry coming with an excited face, Zhou Yu smiled: "The enemy army is coming?" ”
The sentinel said, "Dudu, exactly." The enemy, numbering about 50,000 troops, was approaching this side in a long line. ”
Zhou Yu said: "Order the whole army to fight." ”
Zhenggu looked at the mountain peak in front of him, hesitant in his heart, and the adjutant general asked, "General, do you suspect that the Han army is in ambush?" ”
Zhenggu said: "The Han people are extremely cunning, such a good terrain will not be unused, come on, search for me." ”
The adjutant general said: "The Han army has only more than 20,000 people, and it is difficult to besiege the city and set up an ambush. ”
Zheng Gu Cheng was serious, and said: "If you are not afraid of 10,000, you are afraid of what happens, so let's send soldiers to search while making a team of men and horses tempted." ”
The adjutant general said: "The last general is willing to be the vanguard. ”
Zhenggu said, "Be careful. ”
The lieutenant general led a team of about 5,000 people, carefully crossed the mountain road, walked all the way, and was safe, so he hurriedly sent people back to inform Zhenggu.
Zhou Yu frowned and said to Xu Huang: "The enemy generals are not simple, they are so cautious in the use of soldiers. ”
Xu Huang said: "Governor, look, the enemy army has sent troops up the mountain to search. ”
Zhou Yu said: "It's okay, the ambush of the army is full of cliffs, and they can't climb up." If the enemy vanguard passes smoothly, the enemy commander will no longer hesitate. ”
Xu Huang said with a smile: "The enemy vanguard has already sent someone over. ”
When Zhou Yu stared at it, he saw several fast horses, came to the front of the enemy army, and said to the main general for a while, only to see the main general waving his hand, and the army moved slowly. Zhou Yu breathed a long sigh of relief and said in a low voice, "Prepare to attack." ”
Zhenggu scanned the peaks on both sides back and forth with his eyes from time to time, his heart was uneasy, and he was about to walk out of the mountains, when suddenly a drum sounded, Zhenggu's heart was broken, and he shouted: "Rush over!" ”
Before the front army began to run, on the mountains on both sides, boulders and sassal logs rolled down one after another, blocking the exit tightly in an instant. Zhenggu shouted: "Don't panic, be careful on the mountain, and pay attention to dodge." ”
Since the attack has begun, how can it stop? 20,000 people pushed all the things that had been collected for a day down the mountain, and 40,000 or 50,000 people were crammed into the narrow mountain pass, and there were heavy casualties when they climbed. The lucky lieutenant general led the people to move the rocks blocking the road, and a rain of arrows scattered the 5,000 people led by the lieutenant general.
Zhenggu knew that it would be difficult to survive today, and he hid under the protection of his own soldiers, and was still shouting loudly for command, hoping that the back road was not blocked, and one person could run out.
Zhou Yu saw that the situation was almost the same, and said: "Throw dry firewood and light the rocket." ”
The dry firewood had already been bundled into a ball, and it was pushed down by the soldiers, and when it fell down the mountain, it was scattered, and the rockets rained down like raindrops, igniting the dry firewood. Zhenggu saw that he was sitting on the ground with his eyes closed, and tears of sadness flowed out.
The mountain avenue was soon covered by thick smoke, and Zhou Yu said: "Mingjin collects the troops." ”
The adjutant general, pulled by a group of soldiers, watched the fireworks fill the mountains in despair, and the wails of his own soldiers before they died could not be stopped, and a burst of grief commanded the men and horses to attack the mountain. As soon as he reached the halfway point of the mountain, there was a rain of arrows, and then a general flashed out of the smoke, picked up the board axe, and slashed the lieutenant general. The deputy general was furious at this time, his mind was in a daze, he didn't know how to dodge, he lifted the big gun to resist Xu Huang's thunderous blow, but the poor deputy general and Ba Xiangsi ended in the same way, and was cut off by Xu Huang's big axe, and it was directly split on the head, and the big head was divided into two halves, and he fell to the ground.
The Han army far outnumbered the remaining Funans, and under the attack from both sides, they quickly routed the 5,000 men.
After the Han army assembled, it quickly returned to the army and came to the city again. Gan Ning came out of the village to greet him, and Zhou Yu said, "Is there any movement of the enemy army in the city?" ”
Gan Ning said with a smile: "I lined up the straw men densely on the wall, and the defenders at the head of the city were so scared that they urinated, which one dared to go out of the city to watch?" ”
Zhou Yu said with a smile: "The plan of the suspicious soldiers worked, let the soldiers rest for one night, and break the city tomorrow." ”