Chapter 152: Don't chase after the poor

Muling Guannan Bai Zhishu, through the light ecliptic south to this point, as from the gourd mouth to the gourd belly, the terrain suddenly opens up, raise the eyes, in front of a wide mountain basin, everywhere are yellow and clear rice fields. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

It is said that a long time ago it was a pasture that was reclaimed as a rice paddy, and that grass or grass seedlings can be called 'swan', hence the name 'white skid'.

There is a Bai Ji Shu here, just to hold the pass of the light ecliptic, if the enemy army from the north breaks through the Muling Pass and wants to continue to go south, it is necessary to break through the Bai Ji Shu again, as long as you take here, you can directly attack the Nandingzhou city at the southern foot of Dabie Mountain.

The imperial army that went south to crusade against the traitor Yu Wenliang and his son had already conquered Muling Pass, and the defeated defenders of Muling Pass fled to Baijishu and merged with the garrison, trying to resist stubbornly and block the southward pace of the imperial soldiers.

However, the terrain of Baijishu is not as steep as Muling Pass, and since the Huangzhou army can't even hold Muling Pass, how can it hold Baijishu's camp?

Cao Yunli, the general of Shangkaifu, thought so, and his subordinates also thought so, before they attacked the Muling Pass held by the Huangzhou army, but now they are facing the white grass army that is not so dangerous, and no one thinks that there will be any problems.

The officers and troops attacked the five passes of Dabie Mountain at the same time in five ways, and the troops on each road exceeded several thousand, and the Huangzhou army, which was empty of troops, was unable to hold any pass at all.

As long as the territory of the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion is invaded, the rice that is just ripe will become the food of the official army, so that when the official army goes south, there is no need to mobilize too many manpower and material resources to transport grain and grass, and they can directly eat the enemy.

Such a comfortable battle, Cao Yunli has not fought for a long time, and now the war is going well, so he is also in a good mood, and today he set up a position to prepare to attack Bai Gao, and sent people to persuade the Bai Gao defenders to surrender.

Don't chase after the poor, the general trend of the Huangzhou army has gone, and he doesn't want to force people too much to reduce his unnecessary losses, so he doesn't let go of the opportunity to persuade him to surrender.

The conditions are still the same old, that is, surrender and not kill, the past is not to blame, the situation is already obvious, the Huangzhou army cannot hold the five passes, and the Huangzhou Governor's Mansion will be pacified by the imperial army sooner or later, so why do ordinary Huangzhou army soldiers work hard for the one-legged bronze man?

Xiyang Wang Yuwen Wen nicknamed the 'one-legged bronze man', and his reputation has spread to Yecheng, and his son has now succeeded to the throne as the new monarch.

And Emperor Daxing ordered Yu Wenwen to be the king of Di, it is said that this biological father, who is the son of today, is naturally extremely noble, but for those in the know, this is a disguise, and it cannot be taken seriously.

Prime Minister Wei Chi Dan will have to change the dynasty sooner or later, so the little emperor is just a transition, Qi Wang Yuwenliang and his son will be finished sooner or later, as for the new Wang Yuwenwen, he should still be far away in Lingbiao now, but he can escape the catastrophe.

However, his family members can't escape, when the official army breaks through Xiyang City, of course, the family of King Di will be escorted into Beijing, when today's younger brother may be able to survive, as for the others, the female punishment is confiscated as slaves, and a few little cubs don't have to live.

Becoming a king or defeating a king, there is no cruelty or cruelty, cutting grass must be eradicated, and the women on the losing side are all trophies to reward meritorious people, for hundreds of years, not to mention the change of dynasty, that is, the power in the court is tilted, and the fate of the loser is the same.

Cao Yunli doesn't want to be a loser, and he doesn't want to be a loser under the pouring of power, so he wants to make more military merits and have the qualifications to be valued by the superiors, and the white weed in front of him is just an insignificant stumbling block on the road to wealth.

After a while, the men who had gone to Bai Zhishu to persuade them to surrender came back to return to their lives, because the road between the two armies was very muddy, so it took them a little longer, and the bad news they brought back was naturally bad.

In the face of persuasion, the defenders simply refused, Cao Yunli sneered, and then ordered an attack.

The Bai Jishu defenders had destroyed the road north of the camp and dug up the ridges on both sides of the road to divert water to turn the road into a muddy swamp.

Running horses is naturally not good, people walking on it one foot deep and one foot shallow, there is a lot of inconvenience, but this kind of hastily destroyed ground is far from the real swamp, so for the ready officers and soldiers, it is just a boot scratching.

They were not even afraid of serious moats and trenches, and naturally they would not be blocked by the mud, and as the trumpets sounded, the soldiers pushed the trebuchets forward to reach the artillery positions, and more soldiers carried the prepared thatch, and advanced towards the white skulls while laying the ground.

Grass seedlings and thatch can be called "grass", since the opposite side is Bai Jishu, then with the grass paved into a straight road to Bai Jishu, but also very suitable for the situation, two or three hundred steps of distance, thousands of people with thatched paving, it will not take long to reach outside the wall.

Then let the pointed wooden donkey with the thunder in the sky come close to the wall, and there will be a "boom", and all the white and black will be finished.

The trebuchets of the attacking and defending sides continued to fire, and the attackers gradually approached Bai Zhishu, and when they were only fifty or sixty paces away, a large number of archers under the cover of large shields fired at the archers in the camp.

Many pointed wooden donkeys slowly approached the wall, pushed by the soldiers.

Somehow, the Huangzhou army in the camp did not use thunder to stop the pointed wooden donkeys from approaching, just when the pointed wooden donkeys passed through the line of their archers and continued to approach the wall, a piercing whistling sound suddenly sounded in the camp.

A moment later, the attacking soldiers who were distributed in the vast muddy area north of Baiji suddenly convulsed in unison, their arms fluttering, and their bodies twisting, as if they were dancing, and they had an inexplicable carnival.

The same is true in the front, and the same is true in the rear, and everyone who is in the muddy place is dancing, or rather, everyone is crazy.

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In the south of Baisha Guan, the imperial army broke through the Huangzhou military camp, pursued the rout, and after chasing for several miles, fell into an ambush circle.

Several serpentine barbed wire fences were like large snakes across the road, becoming an insurmountable obstacle for the pursuers, and the Huangzhou crossbowmen, who had long been ready, appeared in the mountains and forests on the left and right of the road, wantonly shooting the pursuers who were caught in ambush.

In front of the crossbowmen lying in ambush on the left and right, they also pulled the serpentine barbed wire, which could not be cut by their knives in a hurry, and the pursuers were blocked in front of the barbed wire and could not advance.

Some people were caught in barbed wire and could not move, watching the crossbowmen in front of them aim at them and then release their arrows; Some cavalrymen tried to ride their horses through this strange rope, but they couldn't do it at all.

The ambush soldiers on both sides also threw out thunderbolts, which were mixed with strange objects, which were like long strings of grapes, and after falling to the ground, the 'grapes' hanging on them kept exploding, and there were fires everywhere, and the smoke of gunpowder was so loud that the horses fled in all directions, and the pursuing team was in chaos.

In the narrow mountain road that stretched for several miles, there were explosions everywhere, the smoke of gunpowder covered the valley, and the pursuers turned over on their backs, and in the original Huangzhou military camp, the commander of the Kaifu General Xie Xu immediately deployed defenses.

Looking at the valley filled with gunpowder smoke in front of him, he was a little distressed, after the defeat of the Huangzhou army, he sent troops to pursue and wanted to beat the water dog, but he did not expect to be bitten by the water dog.

The art of war is cloudy: don't chase the poor, but this is still the scoring situation, the two armies are fighting, the casualties are not high when the two sides open up the army to fight, when one side is defeated and the other side is pursuing, it is the time when the casualties are the greatest.

Taking the infantry confrontation as an example, the infantry formed a formation and fought against the cavalry, and the number of casualties was not very large, only when the army collapsed and the infantry turned around and fled, the cavalry covered all the way and killed the head.

Xie Xu hoped to give the Huangzhou army as many casualties as possible, and also save him from having to be lucky and stubborn in the future, so he took the risk of sending troops to pursue him when he was worried that the other party would have ambushes.

When the pursuers attacked, he told them to be careful, but they were ambushed.

The pursuing soldiers and horses are afraid of heavy casualties, so for Xie Xu, the top priority is to quickly occupy the original camp of the Huangzhou army, so as not to be unable to stop the opponent's counterattack, and be repelled by the opponent when he broke through Baisha Pass for the first time before.

This time, the official army went south, if his performance was unsatisfactory, it was easy to appear incompetent against the backdrop of the other four-way soldiers and horses, Xie Xu didn't want good things to turn bad, so he could only use this camp as a new stronghold, step by step.

Anyway, he kept attacking south and defeated the enemy several times in a row, didn't he?

Although the camp of the Huangzhou Army was bombed by the thunder of the official army, the general outline is still there, the wall on the north side is broken, but the wall on the south side is generally intact, so as long as it is repaired, it can be used as a new garrison camp.

At this time, it was afternoon, and the main force of the official army had gathered here, and the young men of the army started to set up camp tents and repair the camp fence, and saw that the progress could be completed before sunset.

On the east side of the camp, more than ten soldiers were digging a pit in the ground with a tree fence, when the shovel suddenly touched something, and after pulling for a while, they found that there was a wooden plank buried in the ground, and they lifted the plank, but found that there was a very thick line inside, which seemed to extend from the camp to the east direction.

At first glance, it looks like a finger-thick hemp rope, but when you touch it with your hands, you can find that it is a lacquered rope, and before you can figure out what this thing is for, the ground trembles.

There was a loud bang in their ears, and then there was silence, and they only felt that something in the ground was rushing upward, and then in an instant it broke through the ground, and everyone was thrown into the sky, and they kept tumbling like fallen leaves in the wind.

In the midst of the loud noises, the camp disappeared into a thick mushroom-shaped black cloud, and countless stumps and severed arms were scattered in all directions, and when the smoke cleared, a shallow pit appeared in the camp, and there was a blur of flesh and blood everywhere.

The army that occupied the camp had disappeared into the shallow pit and the surrounding ruins, and the soldiers not far from the explosion site, many of whom were hit by the flying stones and fell to the ground, and some were shocked to the point of bleeding from the nose and mouth, and the survivors were shocked by the tragic scene before them, and they were all stunned.

On the hillside on the east side of the camp, several people looked at the mushroom cloud in front of them with trepidation, and in front of them was a special 'detonator', and there were several heavy wooden barrels next to them, which were 'galvanic batteries'.

The workshop of Xiyang Wangfu, in addition to making a man-eating monster - a hydroelectric generator, has also developed a magical electric detonator, through galvanic batteries and long wires, it can detonate a powder keg buried in the ground several miles away.

The detonation success rate is more than 90 percent, so many new tactics can be implemented based on it, the only problem is that the wires are expensive and must be buried in the ground so that no one can find out.

Through the clairvoyant mirror, the observer found that the enemy troops at the camp seemed to have discovered the wires buried in the ground, so they quickly detonated a large number of powder kegs buried under the camp through the 'detonator'.

Although the timing is still a little worse, most of the enemy's main force has already entered the camp, so this shot is really into the soul.

The smoke of gunpowder dissipated, and the sound of horns came from the south direction, which was the Huangzhou army that had defeated and lured the enemy and set up an ambush to kill in the direction of Baisha Pass.

The enemy army attacking Baisha Pass is menacing and is about to be wiped out at this moment, but for a few people in the Xiyang Palace, the most important thing is another matter.

"Be sure to recycle the wires, it's precious!"

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Loess Guannan Loess Mound, a dilapidated camp in the tide of joy, the south of the rebellious imperial army, has captured this camp, seeing the defenders fled to the south in embarrassment, but Shi Xun, the general of the Zhu State, did not order the pursuit.

Don't chase after the poor, what he said is not to chase the enemy who has no way out, so as not to make the opponent jump over the wall in a hurry and resist stubbornly, and increase his own losses in vain, Shi Xun knew this statement, but the reason why he did not order the pursuit was because he saw that the other party was acting.

The Huangzhou army couldn't hold the camp, so they simply deceived the defeat to lure the officers and troops to pursue, Shi Xun had been in battle for a long time, and just observed it and found that the escape of these routs was orderly and chaotic, and it didn't look like they were rushing to seize the road and flee at all.

Thinking that the other party has an ambush in front, just waiting for them to catch up and send him to death, Shi Xun is not so stupid, now that his side has the victory, there is no need to risk chasing in order to expand the results of the battle.

Before the loess pass guards abandoned the pass, fled to this loess mounds to set up a village in vain to defend it, the result is not untenable, can only continue to run south, the other party is not good to play yin, indicating that the strength is not good, there is no way to resist head-on.

So he only needs to take it step by step, the official army is advancing in five ways, and it is not something that the Huangzhou army, which is short of troops, can resist, Shi Xun feels that he does not need to be in a hurry, in case he is accidentally bitten by a mad dog, it will be a shame.

Today's battle is over, with the camp of the Huangzhou army as the advance camp, arrange soldiers to guard against night attacks, and then continue to march south, only thirty miles away from the Nandingzhou Prefecture Zhimeng cage, Shi Xun believes that the other party is no longer able to stop the army of the Fifth Route Imperial Court from moving south.

However, the more this time, the more you have to calm down, once the other party's dog jumps off the wall in a hurry, whoever is not careful will be bitten, so although Shi Xun wants to make the first contribution, he is extremely calm.

Walking down the wall, Shi Xun walked north, to go back to his original camp to rest, as the commander of the first army, he didn't need to arrange such trivial things as camping, and the camp here is now in chaos, there is no need to nest here.

At the north gate of the collapsed camp, Shi Xun looked at the soldiers who continued to arrive at the camp, explained a few words to the accompanying generals, and rode on his horse and was about to march north, when he suddenly felt that the mount trembled, and was about to pull the reins, but he heard a muffled sound in his ears.

The sound came from the ground, the sound was so loud that he instantly lost his deafness, and while there was silence all around, he only felt that he was knocked away by a huge force, and in a trance, he saw that the camp had been shrouded in a puff of black smoke.

Shi Xun, who fell to the ground and rolled a few more times, lost consciousness from the waist down, he lay on the ground weakly, looking at the mess everywhere, looking at a huge mushroom-shaped black cloud that appeared over the camp.

Stumps and broken arms, broken stones and wood chips were everywhere, and before Shi Xun lost consciousness, he only wanted to know one thing: how did you detonate the thunder buried under his camp?