Chapter 549: Counterattack
Qi Yingchang's street fighting blocking plan was excellent, and if it was successfully implemented, he would not be able to protect Heyang County in the end, and it would also delay the pace of the Qin army, so that the Qin army would be greatly reduced. With {dream} small ◢ say шщЩ.
Unfortunately, it backfired.
The iron horsemen who entered the city were like hungry beasts in the wasteland, and when they encountered the Jiangnan army, their eyes exuded the greed of desire.
Ride your horse and swing your sword to kill.
Blood-splattered heads rolled off, and corpses with severed limbs and severed arms slanted horizontally.
Everywhere they passed, the sound of horses' hooves rumbled and their wails rose and fell.
The smell of blood, like a silent drizzle of moisturizing things, fell to the ground, washing the entire street.
The Jiangnan army retreated, and the iron cavalry pursued, often Qi Yingchang led the troops too late to defend, and more than 100 iron cavalry had caught up.
Hold on for a long time, often heavy casualties, Qi Yingchang led the troops to retreat, gradually, the central main street fell into the hands of the iron horsemen, the momentum of the iron horses, while the iron was hot, quickly occupied the alleys on both sides, compressing the foothold of the Jiangnan army.
When he retreated to a hundred steps away from the north gate, Qi Yingchang was covered in blood, and his eyes with hatred and anger stared at the advancing Qin army with even more anger.
Intentionally gathering troops to fight again, the Jiangnan army retreated again and again, some people were pale, some people looked pale, looking at the Qin army that was getting closer and closer, the fear in their eyes became more and more intense.
Even, when some soldiers heard the neighing of their horses, they threw away their armor and fled in a hurry.
The defeat was like a mountain.
Looking at the performance of the Jiangnan Army, Qi Yingchang felt a deep sense of frustration.
In a few moments, the number of Qin army's iron cavalry surged, and many people rushed out of the nearby alleys, forming a situation of encirclement of the Jiangnan army.
Seeing that there was no hope of victory, Qi Yingchang's eyes were full of tears, and he waved his sword and looked up to the sky and sighed: "Defeated, still defeated!" ”
He lived up to Yang Chengbi's trust, and within one day, Heyang County changed hands.
Seeing that the Qin army was rapidly occupying Heyang County, if he continued to lead the army to hold on, he would inevitably die in the city. If the city is abandoned, Heyang County will fall, and Xianghe County will be in danger.
What's more, the two-legged infantry, how to run past the four-hoofed war horse, when they fled, they were still punished by the Qin army.
As a last resort, Qi Yingchang informed the remnants of the soldiers beside him that those who were willing to stay would fight to the death with him and live and die with Heyang County. Those who do not want to fight to the end can leave quickly, and he will never be held accountable.
Between life and death, some people in the Jiangnan Army chose to stay, preferring to die in Heyang County and defend the glory of the Jiangnan Army. Some people depart in a panic, and abandon the Lord and the city.
The brutal killing was still going on, and the Jiangnan army left behind was deeply infected by Qi Yingchang's spirit of fighting to the death, although he still had a deep fear when facing the Qin army, he held a long sword, grabbed a sharp blade, and rushed towards the Qin army one after another.
In the end, more than 2,000 Jiangnan troops who remained in the city insisted on dying to the last man.
Qi Yingchang was forced into a corner by the Qin army holding Changge and the iron sword, and when Lin Jianlu stepped forward to persuade him to surrender, he waved his sword and killed himself, so as to die Mingzhi.
"Alas!"
"This stubborn donkey!"
Heroes cherish heroes, before breaking the city, Lin Jianlu didn't take Qi Yingchang in his eyes at all.
When the Qin army basically occupied Heyang County, and when Qi Yingchang had the opportunity to escape, he felt that when he had won a complete victory, Qi Yingchang still gathered more than 2,000 Jiangnan troops and fought to the death, even though the Qin army added hundreds of casualties.
This move, Lin Jianlu still sincerely admires Qi Yingchang.
"Don't insult his body, buy a good coffin, and bury him!" Lin Jianlu looked at Qi Yingchang's corpse and said regretfully.
"Whoa!"
After a bitter battle in the middle of the night, Heyang County changed hands.
Lin Jianlu set up a banquet in the county seat to reward the Qin army, and the army rested for a while, and at noon the next day, the army set off to the north.
Having captured Heyang County, opened the southern gateway to Xianghe County, and broke a gap in the Wuzhou defense line, Lin Jianlu tried to fight slowly with speed, and when Sun Ming's Jiangnan army had not yet responded, he quickly spread the Qin army's front to all parts of Xianghe County.
If he had the opportunity, he would lose Xianghe County to Shen Tuxiu, and he waved his army to march south to open up a new battlefield in Xiangyang County.
On the way north, Lin Jianlu sent scouts to the east to present the news of Heyang's victory to Ji Xuanling.
With this, he sent a fast horse to the north, passed the news to Shen Tuxiu, and attacked the defenders of Xianghe County with him in the north and south, and swept Xianghe County as soon as possible.
Wuzhou.
It is divided into three counties according to different geographical areas.
Xianghe County in the vast plains in the north, Xiangyang County with rolling hills in the middle, and Linyou County surrounded by lakes and rivers in the south.
Ji Xuanling led the army to the south in a roundabout way, and the target was Xiangyang County.
He tried to go deep and force out Sun Ming's main force.
On that day, dusk.
The scout shuttled through the blood-red remnant sun, found the location of Ji Xuanling's department, and presented the good news.
Knowing that Lin Jianlu led the army to a great victory in Heyang County, Ji Xuanling's melancholy mood was slightly alleviated.
He led his army to wander in Xianghe County and Xiangyang County for two days, and the scouts successively discovered Sun Ming's deployment in Wuzhou, but they never found Sun Ming's main force.
At this time, the Qin army penetrated deep into Xiangyang County, Lin Jianlu broke through the defense line of Xianghe County, joined up with Shen Tuxiu, and severely damaged the Jiangnan Army led by Yang Chengbi to capture Xianghe County, which was already an ironclad matter.
No matter how patient Sun Ming is, when he learns about the battle situation in Xianghe County and Xiangyang County, I don't know if he can continue to endure and lead the army to retreat.
Ji Xuanling summoned his staff and generals, intending to speed up the march, waiting for an opportunity to annihilate the defenders of Xiangyang County and force Sun Ming to fight.
It's a pity that the bad news from Gao Tang Prefecture almost broke his plan.
When the generals gathered, the messenger of Gaotang Prefecture came in the starry night and sent a letter from Gongsun Ang asking for help.
Gongsun Ang reported in the letter that when he, Yu Changxiong, and Ruan Xinghe arrived in Gaotang Prefecture with the army, in view of the fact that there were no elite soldiers under Zhao Xing's command, he ordered the troops to divide into three routes and go straight to Gaotang Prefecture and Jiangzhou, wanting to seize the two states quickly and enter Dakang as planned.
However, they got the wrong message.
Zhao Rui, the Yongwang who was originally stationed in the east of Dakang, the veteran Huang Fuxiong, and Gao Changxun, who was rumored to be stationed in the northern Xinjiang with the Ram Yue to resist the elite of the six eastern countries, were quietly transferred to Gaotang Prefecture in advance and secretly hid in several valleys.
When Gongsun Ang, Yu Changxiong, and Ruan Xinghe led their troops south, they successively encountered the ambush attacks of Zhao Xing and Yongwang Zhao Rui at the border of Gaotang Prefecture, and the Qin army lost more than 30,000 yuan.
Besieged in three different places, the Qin army could not take care of each other and was in a precarious situation.
Gongsun Ang's troops were surrounded by Zhao Xing's troops, leading 20,000 remnants of the army to try to break through several times to no avail, when Yu Changxiong and Ruan Xinghe were in a confusing situation, Gongsun Ang had to send a letter to report the battle situation, and asked for reinforcements by the way.
Knowing that the Western Route Army commanded by Gongsun Ang had suffered a calculation and was severely damaged, the joy brought by the great victory in Heyang County dissipated in an instant on Ji Xuanling's face.
Before the expedition, he and his staff and generals made a lot of calculations, but they did not expect that when Zhao Chen faced the expedition of the Six-Nation Alliance, he still dared to set up suspicious formations, took risks, and sent King Yong and others to lead the army to Gaotang Prefecture secretly, and deliberately ambushed the Qin army here.