Chapter 393: Turning Point (7)
Thinking of this, Geng Peng hurriedly asked again:
"How many miles away are the rebels?"
"It's less than fifteen miles, and the Xian army still has five or six miles to go."
"Shhh...... So fast! Come. ”
"The subordinates are here." Left and right guard road.
"Order the whole army to immediately leave the camp and set off."
"No!"
Geng Peng didn't plan to pay attention to the fleeing Guangxin army, but wanted to take the opportunity of the Guangxin army to escape into Lincheng and take advantage of the chaos to enter the city and occupy Lincheng.
But Luo Songting obviously wouldn't give him this opportunity, just as the Jin army was about to leave, a cavalry of more than 3,000 people suddenly appeared in the direction of Lincheng.
Geng Peng just turned over the war horse, faintly found that the smoke and dust in front of him were billowing in front of him, which made people go to inquire, the leader turned out to be the Shanling Forbidden Army, the leader of the general is a burly, bearded Xianwang Forbidden Army Right Governor, the right governor of the forbidden army is basically the same as the Metropolitan Governor of the garrison, and the local city government Sima is equivalent, even Geng Peng has to give three points of face.
Geng Peng urged forward at this time, and asked with a slight salute:
"Dare to ask the general's name!"
"Lu Gao, the right governor of the Forbidden Army of Chenling, was ordered by Zhao Shuai to rush to the aid of the Guangxin Army."
Hearing Zhao Xun's order, Geng Peng was taken aback and hurriedly asked:
"What's the matter, Zhao Shuai is in Lincheng?"
"Can it be fake?" Lu Gao asked rhetorically, glanced Geng Peng up and down, and then asked, "Who is Your Excellency, and why did you lead the army here?" ”
"This ......" Geng Peng was speechless for a while, at this time it was obvious that he was going to Zhanlin City, but there seemed to be no other more suitable excuse.
Of course, Lu Gao knew it, so he took out the steps that had been prepared for a long time:
"There are so many soldiers and horses in your army, they must have come to the aid of our army."
Geng Peng is really waxing at this time, saying yes and no, saying no and no, if not, it is obviously unreasonable to appear here at this moment. If you want to say yes, you have to go shopping, and if you turn around and leave, you can't say it.
"General Lu, why did General Zhao Xun only send 3,000 cavalry to respond, maybe it's too little."
"It's a lot, don't you still have these horses in your army, and the Guangxin army is also 100,000 horses, can't even 60,000 or 70,000 rebels stop it."
"This ......"
Seeing Geng Peng's spitting, Lu Gao's face immediately sank, and he said unhappily:
"Your army will not forget, it is still eating the grain and grass of our army, and it is impossible to say that it will return to Guangxin like this."
"Yes, yes......"
Geng Peng's face was green, so he could only promise Lu Gao to turn around and go south to meet the Guangxin army. Obviously, if he turned around and ran away like this in front of Zhao Xun's eyes, the Xianjun army would be able to run out of food immediately.
In fact, Zhao Xun was not in Lincheng at all, Geng Peng should know as long as he used his brain a little, how could Zhao Xun leave Yongxing City.
Lu Gao was ordered to escort the foreign envoy Xun Mu to envoy Zhiguo, accompanied by the escort materials at the end of last month back to Chenling, four days ago to Maoqiu, through Lincheng, arrived in Guangxin to send a letter, Luo Songting designed to let him go to Lincheng to sit in the town, once found that the Jin army appeared, immediately out of the city in the name of Zhao Xun to intercept the Jin army, with grain and grass to press the Jin army to fight the rebels.
Sure enough, Geng Peng couldn't withstand Lu Gao's soft and hard treatment, and finally under Lu Gao's urging, he quickly went south to respond, and about two or three out of the ground, and encountered more than 20,000 people led by Jiang Gan, Luo Songting, and Hu Mo.
"Major General, why are you so embarrassed!"
Lu Gao asked knowingly, Jiang Qian pretended to be embarrassed and said:
"Alas, don't mention it, stealing chickens doesn't make a handful of rice, and we were ambushed by black turban thieves on the way, and our army suffered heavy losses......"
"How many people are there in the enemy, and whether General Zhao can still fight."
At this time, Luo Songting urged forward:
"The enemy army is 60,000 or 70,000, and he is fighting with our army of 20,000 men and horses, and I am afraid that there are still 50,000 or 60,000 people at this time."
"That's right, the Jin army Geng Dadu took action, you and I joined forces together, and went back to rescue the people and horses of Guangxin. Governor Geng, what do you think! ”
Lu Gao kicked the ball to Geng Peng, Geng Peng twitched his cheeks and felt depressed, where would he be willing to stand up for the Xianjun, so he was unwilling to say:
"It's come to this, let's join forces."
Without waiting for Geng Peng's voice to fall, Luo Songting said emotionally:
"Governor Geng understands the righteousness, and I, Luo Songting, thank Governor Geng for helping Gong Jiang and the young master." The words of gratitude did not fade, and Luo Songting immediately changed his words and said: "However, our army and the rebels have been fighting fiercely for a day, and the soldiers are exhausted, and I am afraid that this battle will depend on your army a lot." ”
Hearing this, Geng Pengqing's tendons jumped out of his face and twitched the old tendons, and then he suddenly felt that it seemed that from the beginning, this was a trap. It is said that it is a day of fierce fighting, and these horses behind Luo Songting are like fighting for a day, but it is better to say that they have been herding sheep for a day.
Even if he is extremely unhappy at this moment, Geng Peng is already difficult to ride a tiger, and at this time, he will retreat and see death without help, and spread it in the future, even if he does not lose a single soldier, he will have to be blamed after the prince ascends the throne.
At this time, Thunder led the army all the way to kill Ben Lincheng, defeated the Guangxin army after two waves of broken men and horses, and once again encountered the Guangxin army after the broken soldiers and horses, this time it was not like the first two battles just after the rout, the Guangxin army did not retreat, but the more the battle became braver.
"It's strange, why is the Guangxin Army so fierce all of a sudden."
Just as the thunder was puzzled, a fast horse galloped in:
"Report, report to the king of heaven, the main force of the Guangxin army encountered the Jin army after fleeing, and after the combined army, it was rushing towards our army."
"What!" Thunder was taken aback: "How could the Jin army appear here!" ”
"My subordinates don't know."
Guangxin West Gate is only one hundred and ten miles away from the territory of Lincheng, and the Jin army ran fifty or sixty miles to appear here, there is only one explanation, the Jin army is running towards Lincheng.
"Damn, I fell for Luo Songting's trick." Thunder gritted his teeth and said, hurriedly asking the scout: "How many men and horses are there in the Jin army." ”
"Forty or fifty thousand people, according to which it is less than seven miles."
"Order, after the front army is broken, the rear army will change to the front army, and retreat quickly!"
"No!"
Lei Ting had already thought at this time that the Guangxin army was not attacking him from behind, nor was it to relieve the siege of Dingyang, but to take advantage of the Jin army's greed to capture Lincheng and lure him here, so that the Jin army could fight with him, consume the strength of both sides, and create a respite for the Xian army that had just captured the Hecheng camp, and then defeat it in one fell swoop.
The rebels fled south like wild horses on the loose, faster than ever before. At this time, Lu Gao had already led the cavalry to make a clockwise detour from east to south, avoiding the eyes and ears of the rebels, and first inserted behind the rebels.
"General Lu, the rebels have withdrawn!" A guard of the Forbidden Army pointed a gun at the rebels and said.
Lu Gao touched his beard, erected a steel gun and gave an order:
"Give Ben the general to pounce, entangle the rebels, and kill me!"
The three thousand cavalry lined up in a fan-shaped line, like huge jaws, opened their bloody mouths with a devastating momentum, and rushed straight to the rear army of the black scarf.
Thunder was leading the escort to flee at the front, and suddenly found a crowd of men and horses coming two miles away, and Thunder was surprised when he fixed his eyes on the distance:
"Not good, Xianjun!"
Lei Ting only thought that the Xian army expected him to come to rob and kill the Guangxin army, and he came from the synthetic horse to kill, and when he saw it clearly, there were only three or two thousand people, and his heart was suddenly relieved:
"Yu Ben Heavenly King rushed over!"
Thunder drew his sword and galloped away, much faster than his accompanying rider.
This military horse under the crotch of Thunder is also a first-class and excellent war horse, which is a quality higher than that of a high-class military horse, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is half a thousand-mile horse, with good endurance and fast speed, it is also rare in the Central Plains.
Lu Gao did not expect that this time it would be the Heavenly King Thunder himself leading the army, so he did not plan to capture Thunder himself alive, and when the two armies clashed, he saw a rebel general in strange costume, riding a fast horse with a mask, and did not entangle, and fled very quickly. Lu Gao was also taken aback when he saw this, thinking that this should be a king-level figure of the thief army, and immediately felt a burst of blood in his heart:
"Damn, don't let him run away, chase after Ben!"
As soon as the steel gun was horizontal, Lu Gao took two hundred dragon martial arts camp horsemen to make an emergency U-turn and catch up.
The thunder crotch of the god horse ran at a speed, and Lu Gao's mount also spent "public money" this time, and the superb horse obtained from Zhi Guotao was chased for a quarter of an hour and was thrown off by the thunder horse.
"Damn, you can run away so fast, why don't you call it a thunderbolt!"
Scolding, Lu Gao turned around and continued to fight into the formation, at this time the Jin army was coming from the north, the troops were divided into two wings, and the Guangxin army was in the center, encircling the rebels in the north and south. At the beginning of the fierce battle, the Guangxin army was still extremely fierce, and when the Jin army engaged, Geng Peng found himself filled into the battle, and it was inseparable from the rebels.
Fierce fighting until dark, the rebels dispersed, less than 20,000 people took advantage of the night to break through, and more than 50,000 Black Turban rebels were annihilated, captured, scattered, killed and wounded. The Guangxin army suffered more than 7,000 casualties, while the Jin army suffered a large number of casualties, with 10,000 casualties.
It was the middle of the night when Thunder fled back to the rebel camp, and he almost fell off his horse and broke his neck in front of the gate. This scene happened to be seen by Qin Han, and when he saw that Lei Ting was alone with a few escorts, and he was extremely embarrassed, he had already expected that most of them would return defeated.
"Heavenly King, this is ......"
"Luo Song Pavilion, Luo Song Pavilion......"
Lei Ting sat weakly in front of the gate, hysterically shouting the words "Luo Songting". Qin Han knew that he must have fallen for Luo Songting's trick, but he couldn't figure it out, how could 70,000 people be defeated so miserably, and at the same time worried that Thunder would be angry with him again, Qin Han didn't dare to ask more, and cautiously comforted:
"Heavenly King, the impermanence of soldiers and the impermanence of water, victory and defeat since ancient times are a common thing in soldiers, and we must not be discouraged by a temporary defeat and miss the overall situation."
"Hehaha...... Thunder laughed loudly, and suddenly burst into tears again: "Defeated...... It's good to lose......"
“……”
Qin Han didn't make a sound, and was stunned for a moment before he went to help Lei Ting return to the camp, but he was pushed away by his hand:
"Do you really think that this Heavenly King is defeated, no, never. Order all battalions, gather the remnants, and withdraw to Pucheng! ”
Hearing the news of the withdrawal of troops, Qin Han's heart was relieved, and he couldn't help but think: This is not called defeat?
Before dawn, Lei Ting led the rest of the troops to abandon the camp and retreat north in the starry night, the reason why it was to retreat north, it was expected that Luo Songting would be on guard against the Jin army forcibly occupying Lincheng, so it would not chase overnight, the Jin army had some losses in a battle, and they did not dare to take risks alone, and they must have retreated to Guangxin.
Leading the army to retreat to the north was not only to avoid the direction of Hecheng, but also to pursue the Xian army to the northwest, and at the same time to collect the remnants, and then divert to the west to retreat to Pucheng.