Chapter 543: Divide the troops and flee
The news of the emperor's death and the death of the ministers of the army had long been brought over by the soldiers who had fled from behind and spread among the Genga army, even if Genga and other generals could not control it, the army's morale was inevitably weakened, and the soldiers had no heart to fight.
When the Yan army was about to catch up, Yuan He had to organize troops to block, otherwise he would be defeated, and he forcibly improved the soldiers' will to fight with his personal bravery, but when he and Liu Xuan's Yan army were inseparable, Guo Sheng took the main force of the Yan army to kill.
Yuanhe's army was scattered on the spot, and countless Wei soldiers scattered and fled, Yuanhe couldn't control the situation, and was escorted by his own soldiers in grief and anger.
"Don't care about these baggage discarded by the Wei army, they will be ours sooner or later, your task is to hunt down the Wei army, keep chasing and killing until you defeat them all!" Guo Sheng gave an order to Liu Xuan.
"Yes, General!" Liu Xuan agreed, and quickly chased forward with his forward generals.
Guo Sheng sent a small part of his forces to pursue the fleeing Wei army, and he continued to follow behind Liu Xuan's vanguard with most of the main force, providing reinforcements at any time.
On the way to White Wolf City, the corpses of the killed Wei army and the ownerless war horses can be seen everywhere on the road and the roadside, as well as a large number of baggage and property discarded by the Wei army, and there are also many injured Wei soldiers lying on the side of the road looking at the approaching Yan army with frightened eyes.
Before arriving in White Wolf City, the Wei army led by Tuoba Qiu was also caught up by the Yan army, Tuoba Qiu did not have many soldiers and horses, only less than 3,000 people, but they carried a large amount of property, and they were reluctant to abandon it until they were caught up by the Yan army.
The Wei generals had property in hand, so they naturally didn't have the courage to fight with the murderous Yan cavalry, and all of them were lucky, thinking that as long as they ran fast, they would definitely be able to escape.
Therefore, Tuoba Qiu did not even engage with Liu Xuan's pursuers before turning around and fled, and the Wei generals who had lost their courage did not dare to turn around and engage the pursuing Yan cavalry again, and were killed by arrows shot from behind one by one, hacked to death, and even pieces of Wei troops were surrounded and killed by the Yan army.
Even Tuoba Qiu was chased and surrounded by dozens of Yan cavalry before fleeing to White Wolf City, and all the soldiers around him were killed, leaving him alone with a cape like a trapped beast, but in the end he could not escape the fate of being killed.
After passing through White Wolf City, the captain's army accelerated its march, because there was news that the Yan army was chasing after it, and in order to confirm the news, the lieutenant sent several groups of scouts back to investigate.
"Report—" A probe horse galloped towards the captain's side.
The lieutenant turned his head to see it, and immediately rode his horse to the side of the road and waited.
The sentinel stopped and hugged his fist to report: "General, the Yan army has caught up, it has arrived outside the White Wolf City, the White Wolf City surrendered without a fight, the pursuing Yan army has nearly 3,000 cavalry, and the main force in the rear has more than 12,000 people, at this time the Yan army forward is only more than ten miles away from the rear team of our army, according to this speed, at most an hour, our army will definitely be caught up!" ”
The lieutenant was shocked when he heard this, you must know that when he led the army to set off, Yuan He, Tuoba Qi and Tuoba Qiu and others had not yet set off, and now the Yan army was only more than ten miles away from his men and horses, wouldn't that mean that these three soldiers and horses had already ······
The lieutenant immediately asked, "What about the three armies of Yuanhe, Tuoba Qi and Tuoba Qiu?" ”
The sentry replied: "Tuoba Qi's soldiers and horses were defeated, and he himself was surrounded by the Yan army and shot like a hedgehog; When Yuanhe was caught up, he took the generals and fought with Liu Xuan, the striker of the Yan army, and when the battle was intractable, the commander of the Yan army, Guo Sheng, arrived with the main force, and the Yuanhe army was scattered, and he himself disappeared, I don't know whether he is dead or alive; As for Tuoba Qiu's men and horses, they didn't even flee with the Yan army, and they were being chased and killed by the Yan army, and he himself was besieged by the Yan army and died! ”
The lieutenant couldn't help but gasp when he heard the report, and just as he was thinking about how to deal with it, a chaotic sound came from the rear, and his heart jumped, "What's the matter?" ”
The sentry said, "General, it should be the rout of Tuoba Hill who fled with us!" ”
The lieutenant immediately ordered: "Throw away all the baggage that can be discarded, and each person only carries fifteen days' worth of food on the road!" ”
After the order was given, the soldiers were reluctant, and even though Genga personally killed several generals who did not obey the order, there were still many people who secretly hid the gold.
After walking for half an hour, the army of Wei and his family came to the three-way intersection, and the north was in the direction of Yangwu, and the people and horses who came to Daqian, Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan were all on this road.
Walking south is to Yilian City, which is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Jiyang County, and Wei Wei did not walk this road, and was a little hesitant.
Should they follow Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan to Yangwu, or should they go to Yilian City instead? Wei Wei hesitated for a while, and finally decided to turn around and go to Yilian City, he believed that Yilian City had a road to Baitan, or even to Lulongsai.
Although it is very risky to go to Yilian City, Wei also knows that it is also risky to follow Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, and when the Wei army catches up, he and his soldiers and horses will become Zhao Junsheng and Mulan's shields, while Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan can escape.
The lieutenant didn't want to die, he didn't want to be chased and defeated by the Yan army, and he didn't want to be a shield for Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan, he was not so noble, but the transfer of troops into two ways could greatly reduce the danger, which also left Liu Xuan, the general of the pursuing Yan army, a difficult choice.
Liu Xuan stopped at the three-way intersection with the forward soldiers and horses, looking at the baggage and this thing discarded everywhere on the ground, he waved his hand: "Go to a few to investigate, which way did the Wei army run away!" ”
A group of cavalry galloped away, and when they reached the junction they split in two, one to the south and one to the north.
After a cup of tea, people from both sides were sent back to report it.
"General, the Wei army is going in the direction of Yangwu, and the strength cannot be calculated!"
"General, the Wei army has fled in the direction of Yilian City, about 3,000 people!"
"Oh? Divided the troops and fled? Liu Xuan frowned after listening to the report.
After thinking for a long time, Liu Xuan decided to pursue to the north, and he instructed a personal soldier: "You go back and tell the marshal, just say that the main force of the Wei army fled to the direction of Yangwu, and the general will lead the forward soldiers and horses to chase in the direction of Yangwu, but there is another division that fled in the direction of Yiliancheng!" ”
"Yes, General!" The soldiers agreed and ran back.
Liu Xuan waved to the army behind him: "Soldiers, follow me to the north and continue to pursue and kill the Wei army, go!" ”
The Yan generals let out a burst of strange screams, and followed Liu Xuan to the north.
Tumen Ridge.
This place is not a place of no name. Twenty years ago, Tuoba Tao and Tuoba Jian's father, Tuoba Si, led an army to attack Yan State, and it was here that they used it as their headquarters to attack Yilian City and White Wolf City.
Zhao Junsheng rode a horse and stood on the hill looking at the north, Hua Mulan was beside him, and asked, "Brother Junsheng, does the Wei army have the courage to chase here?" ”
Zhao Junsheng shook his head and said: "You underestimate the revenge psychology of some people, before the Yan army was pressed and beaten by us, there was no chance and ability to fight back, now they have the opportunity to fight back, the time, place and people are all on their side, it is strange if they don't fight back crazy, if it were me, I would definitely do more than them!" ”
The two were talking, and they saw a fast horse galloping in the distance under the mountain, this was Zhao Junsheng's arrangement to scout spies in White Wolf City.
The scout rode his horse all the way to Tumen Ridge, and after Le Ma stopped, he hugged his fists to Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan: "Qiyu two generals, nearly 3,000 people from the Yan army have caught up, less than twenty miles away from here, the forward general is called Liu Xuan, who is the close general of the Yan army commander Guo Sheng, who is good at riding and shooting, and is quite good at riding and archery!" ”
Zhao Junsheng and Hua Mulan glanced at each other at the same time, and their faces showed shock, Yan Jun came so fast? Are Genga, Wei, Tuoba Qi and Tuoba Hill all rice buckets?
Mulan immediately asked, "What about the friendly forces behind us?" ”
"General Hui, Tuoba Qi and Tuoba Qiu were killed in battle, and the soldiers under their command were also scattered, with countless casualties; General Yuanhe's soldiers and horses were chased and scattered by Guo Sheng's main force during the battle of Liu Xuan's troops, and he himself disappeared; As for General Wei's family, he took his men and horses to Yilian City! In addition······ The news of the death of the Emperor and the death of his ministers in rebellion spread among their troops, and all of them lost the courage to fight."
Zhao Junsheng waved his hand to let the scout go down and rest.
The two of them didn't accept this reality for a long time, and the three routes of Yuanhe, Tuoba Qiu, and Tuoba Qi combined had nearly 20,000 soldiers, and they were all finished in the retreat of these two or three days?
Zhao Junsheng said to Mulan: "See, this is the potential, now the momentum is not on our side, tens of thousands of elite people have all been buried in just a few days!" ”
Hua Mulan said: "What is the potential?" ”
"Momentum is people's hearts!"
Zhao Junsheng said: "Our hearts are not aligned, the generals have no fighting spirit, and they have lost the courage to continue fighting, even if they have strong combat effectiveness, they can't play it, but the Yan army is united, they can play more than their own combat effectiveness!" ”
"However, the rout that happened to Tuoba Qi, Tuoba Hill, and Genga will not happen to us!"
Mulan turned her head to look: "Why?" ”
Zhao Junsheng said: "Because the generals in our army did not know the news of the emperor's death, we kept the news tightly sealed. I suspect that the reason why Tuoba Qi, Tuoba Qiu, and Genga were defeated so quickly and so badly must have been because the Yan army sent a fine work to spread news and rumors among their army, causing great chaos in their military morale."
"It's very likely to hear you say this, that's nearly 20,000 horses, if even one of these three horses can exert normal combat effectiveness, it is not something that a Yan army forward can resist!"
Zhao Junsheng nodded and asked, "Are the soldiers ready?" ”
Mulan said: "It's all ready, we can only go over and hide, and someone will come over to clean up the relevant traces immediately!" ”
"Then let's go, we will have a decisive battle with the Yan Army here, I hope the Yan Army Coach Guo Sheng will not disappoint me too much!"