Chapter Twenty-Eight: Liaonan County
It was September and the golden wind was blowing. Zhang Fei's army was stationed on a high ground more than 20 miles north of the city of Weili.
Le Jin heard that there were more than 100,000 troops stationed outside the city, and he was worried that Zhang Fei would suffer a loss, Xu Shu smiled and said: "Ma Han Wang is a strong conscription of soldiers and horses, untrained, and 100,000 people are not enough. Le Jin said: "Yuan Zhi, after all, Yide only has 10,000 horses, and I intend to lead the troops first." Xu Shu said with a smile: "General Wen Qian, how can you leave the Chinese army lightly, let me take 10,000 cavalry to rush there." Lejin agreed.
In the evening, Xu Shu led 10,000 cavalry and rushed to Zhang Fei's camp. Five thousand infantry, who had already built a camp for the army behind. When Zhang Fei heard that Xu Shu was coming, he hurriedly greeted him and came to the big tent, Zhang Fei smiled and said today's results, Xu Shu said with a smile: "Yide is brave and brave, which frustrates Ma Hanrui's spirit." This is a report from the soldiers outside the tent: "General, the banner outside the tent is blown by the wind." Zhang Fei said: "His grandmother is dripping bad luck, hurry up and set up a new flag." Xu Shu said: "The banner of the military camp is broken, and the main enemy army steals the camp, so you should prepare as soon as possible." "Strategist, you speak, I'll listen to you." Xu Shu smiled: "So so." ”
In the middle of the night, Youtu led an army of 60,000 to approach the Han army. Since Youtu was praised by Su Maji as Zhang Zifang, he drank a bowl of iced sour plum soup in a dog day, looked at the army behind him, and instructed the generals who led the team: "I lead 10,000 troops to attack the front gate, you lead 10,000 troops to attack the east gate, you attack the west gate, and the remaining 30,000 troops rush to the rear of the camp to intercept the fleeing Han army." Remember to act quietly and raise the fire. "Sure enough, he is quite a Confucian general.
The 60,000-strong army was in position, shouted loudly, and rushed into the village. Zhang Fei set up a very large camp, because it was necessary to garrison 40,000 troops, covering an area of about four or five hundred acres. Youtu rushed into the camp, played an exemplary and leading role, and moved forward bravely, and even went straight to the big tent of the Chinese army. The soldiers around him shouted: "General, there is no one in the tent. "Youtu was stunned, Shenma? Could it be that the Han army did not know the prophet, and suddenly lost the demeanor of a Confucian general, and waved his sword and shouted: "Hurry up, hurry up, quit!" "The rear army became the front army, and it was a mess. Suddenly, there was a whooshing sound, and a rain of arrows flew over, and the 10,000 troops led by Youtu were Mahan's regular army, so the arrows were endless. The sound of crying, scolding, and reprimanding was incessant. Youtu rode a horse, and his own soldiers drove away the crowded crowd to the front army, only to see a prancing horse with a spear to kill him, who is it not Zhang Fei?
Zhang Fei had 3,000 foot soldiers behind him, holding a knife in one hand and a shield in the other, and fought bravely. Youtu was about to show the style of a Confucian general, when he was stabbed by Zhang Fei, picked off his horse, and then killed into a chaotic crowd, and everyone of the three thousand foot soldiers fought bravely, each of them competed for the first, and killed from the gate of the camp. The shields were lined up in a wall, the Mahan soldiers could not help the Han army, the Han army split or stabbed from the gap in the shield, the Mahan army saw that they could not protrude from the camp gate, and the blood of the former army was killed.
Zhang Fei led the army and then caught up, and Zhang Fei ordered a thousand foot soldiers to pull out their longbows from their waists, ignite the rockets, and shoot them towards the center.
The Mahan soldiers who broke into the east and west gates, seeing that it was an empty camp, hurriedly withdrew, and suddenly there was a trumpet cannon, and the two adjutant generals each led 3,000 cavalry to kill them. 10,000 foot soldiers, unprepared, how to resist the impact of the cavalry, in a panic, he turned around and ran towards Dazhai. After all, the Dazhai is not conducive to cavalry charges.
The 30,000 Ma Han army hid in the north of the camp, ready to pick up the cheap and clean up the escaped Han army, so they stared at the gate of the village with big eyes, for fear of missing the opportunity to establish a miracle. With a sound of cannons, 9,000 cavalry killed, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the ground slightly. The 30,000 Mahan soldiers had not been trained in battle formations, and when they saw the momentum of the cavalry charge, their legs were already weak in fright, and even worse, their crotches were already wet. The commander of the army urged the enemy to meet the enemy, 30,000 people rushed out in a swarm, 9,000 cavalry, holding a bright saber, rushed into the enemy formation, infantry against cavalry, this gap is not ordinarily large, the Mahan soldiers who rushed in front, suddenly killed and wounded five or six thousand people, heads, severed limbs flew around. The commander of the army shrank behind, and when he saw such a bloody scene, he took his own soldiers and fled on horseback. When the soldiers in the back saw that all the officers had run away, let's run too, and run to the back to be the first. Behind is the wall, how wide is the gate, how can so many people pass through, so he shouted, exerting the power of milk. Zhang Fei was strict with his soldiers, so the camp was quite strong. How can there be many people and great strength, more than 20,000 Mahan soldiers pushed the wall, boom, the wall fell to the ground, Mahan soldiers, really defeated like a mountain, and ran forward with all their strength.
Xu Shu smiled coldly, and ordered the arrows to be shot, and the nine thousand cavalry and the two thousand foot soldiers who came later were not fatal. Countless people were shot dead and wounded. Xu Shu felt that he had almost driven people to the center of Dazhai, and with an order, the rocket was like a red cloud, shooting towards the center of Dazhai. The north wind was tight, and the fire in the center of the camp was well prepared, and immediately, the fire spread, and the whole camp burned with flames.
Forty or fifty thousand Ma Han soldiers gathered in the center, watching the people around them being engulfed by the fire, their frightened upper teeth and their teeth, and their ears were full of creaking sounds.
I don't know who shouted, "Let's surrender." Immediately there was a response from the crowd, and tens of thousands of people shouted together, "We surrender." "Sure enough, the sound shook the world, and it is estimated that Su Maji can also hear it in the Comfort City.
Xu Shu ordered someone to extinguish the fire and made a safe passage, so the remaining tens of thousands of soldiers ran out along the passage, all with gray heads and black faces, as if they had come out of the bottom of a pot, and there were few intact clothes on their bodies. When they came to a safe place, they squatted on the ground obediently with their heads in their hands one by one without orders.
(To be continued)