Chapter 487: Countering the Green Calf
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Unfortunately, it was really a prophecy by Liu Xiu.
The more than 3,000 Qingcalf troops who appeared near the Liang period were indeed just bait, and Qinshan was indeed ambushed by the Qingcalf army.
Liu Qing led 10,000 soldiers and horses to pursue the Qingcalf army who fled in the wilderness, and saw the Qingcalf army fleeing in front of him running into Qinshan, Liu Qing also hesitated, but after thinking about it, there were more than 100,000 troops behind him.
What's more, this time to send troops to Wei County, not only did the adults come in person, but even King Xiao came, at this time, he had to give the adults a long face, and he must not let King Xiao see the joke.
Out of such a mentality, Liu Qing did not think much about it, and led the 10,000 soldiers and horses under his command to chase into Qinshan.
As a result, after entering, he didn't run far when he found that there were ambushes around him, arrows like locusts, and his soldiers were shot to the ground in groups.
Liu Qing is also a veteran of the battlefield, realizing that he was ambushed by the enemy, although he was afraid, he behaved quite calmly.
He immediately commanded his subordinates, shrunk into a ball, and lined up a shield array to resist the enemy's arrows, while the whole camp moved outside the Qin Mountain.
The Qingcalf army that set up an ambush, no less than 50,000 people, saw that Liu Qingjun was planning to break out, where were they willing to give him this opportunity?
Under the command of the chief general of the Qingli Army, they launched a fierce attack on Liu Qingjun's phalanx, and then the two sides launched a more bloody hand-to-hand combat.
When Liu Xiu and Xie Gong led their subordinates to Qinshan, the ambushed Qingcalf army began to retreat.
With the withdrawal of all the besieging Qingli troops, and then looking at the battlefield, there were corpses and wounded everywhere, Liu Qingjun, who was originally 10,000 people, could still stand with weapons at this time, and there were less than 3,000 people.
In just such a short period of time, Liu Qingjun defeated more than 7,000 people. Liu Qing, who was covered in blood and stained with blood and wounded in many places on his body, and was almost out of strength, walked to Xie Bow with the support of his soldiers.
Before he could speak, he knelt on the ground with a puff and said in a trembling voice: "My lord, it is the last general who is incompetent and has been ambushed by the enemy......
Xie bowed forward, stretched out his hand to help Liu Qing up, and asked with concern, "How is General Liu's injury?" ”
"It's going to be fine, just some skin wounds." Liu Qing's eyes were red, and water beads swirled in his eyes.
Xie nodded and said, "It's okay if the injury is fine!" ”
As he spoke, he looked sideways, looking at the corpses all over the ground, and his heart was scratching and rubbing his intestines. Xie Gong really didn't expect that he had just entered Wei County and suffered such a big defeat.
He looked at Liu Xiu and said with a gloomy face: "King Xiao, the thief army shouldn't have run far yet, should we continue to pursue?" ”
Liu Xiu could predict that the three thousand young calves were just bait, and now, Xie Gong had to sincerely admire Liu Xiu's ability to use troops.
How to fight the next battle, whether to continue to pursue the enemy, he also began to take the initiative to ask Liu Xiu's opinion. After thinking about it for a while, Liu Xiu slowly shook his head and said, "Poor Kou Mo chase." As he spoke, he raised his eyes and looked at the surrounding mountains and forests, and continued: "Such a large Qin Mountain, not to mention that our army only has more than 100,000 people, even if there are tens of millions, enter it,
It's just a drop in the ocean. ”
Xie Gong followed Liu Xiu's line of sight and looked around, nodded, thinking that Liu Xiu's words were reasonable. He frowned and said, "King Xiao, what should we do?" "You can temporarily stationed outside the Qinshan Mountain and wait and see what happens." Liu Xiu said: "Not long after the beginning of spring, there are not many wild things in the mountains, and there are tens of thousands of young calves in this group of young calves, so many people, so many mouths, they can't hide in the mountains for a long time."
Come out, we can be outside the mountain, install eyeliner, and wait for the rabbit! ”
Liu Qing's eyes lit up, and he said fiercely: "As long as the thief army comes out of the mountain, we can surround and annihilate it!" ”
Liu Xiu nodded.
Xie bowed and frowned and said: "However, Qinshan is so big, if our army is stationed in the eastern part of Qinshan, if the thief army flees from the west of Qinshan, we can't catch up if we want to!" Liu Xiu had already thought of this, and said with a smile: "Our army can be divided into four routes, stationed in the southeast, northwest, and northwest of Qinshan, no matter where the thief army escapes, our army can detect it at the first time and block it, no need to win, just need."
Just hold off the enemy army, so that the other three can rush to support and annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop! ”
Xie bowed and slapped his face, and said with a smile: "King Xiao's idea is good!" ”
Liu Xiu said: "Xie Shangshu's department can be stationed on one side, and my department can be stationed on the other three sides!" ”
Xie bowed and nodded again and again, Liu Xiu let himself only be stationed on one side, and he was already taking extra care of himself. He said in a condensed voice: "These tens of thousands of thieves are bold and must not be kept!" ”
In terms of their attitude towards dealing with the rebel army, Liu Xiu and Xie Gong are highly consistent, that is, in Hebei, they will completely wipe out the rebel armies from all walks of life and never suffer in the future. Under Liu Xiu's arrangement, Xie Gong's army was stationed in the eastern part of Qinshan; Liu Xiujun sent Deng Yu to lead an army of 40,000 and stationed in the north of Qinshan; sent Wu Han to lead an army of 40,000 and stationed in the southern part of the Qin Mountains; He himself led the rest of the army of 20,000
, stationed in the western part of the Chin Mountains.
The Qingcalf Army threw out the bait to lure Liu Qingjun into the encirclement they had set up in Qinshan.
In the eyes of the Qingcalf Army, after this battle, they can hide in Qinshan.
Qinshan is so big, even if the officers and soldiers go into the mountains to pursue them, it is impossible to find them. But the Qingcalf Army obviously didn't expect that Liu Xiu didn't lead the army into the mountain at all, but divided the troops into four routes and stationed them outside the mountain, giving them a place to guard the rabbit. As Liu Xiu said, not long after the beginning of spring, the wild things in the mountains are extremely limited, whether it is wild vegetables, wild fruits, mushrooms, fungus, or wild beasts in the mountains and forests, the number is very small
Hide for a while. But there are tens of thousands of them, tens of thousands of mouths waiting to eat!
It's okay to say in a short time, but after a long time, the Qingcalf Army can't stand it in the mountains.
Three days later, the Qingcalf Army took the lead in breaking through to the southern part of Qinshan. It was Wu Han who was stationed in the south of Qinshan, and when he saw that the Qingcalf Army chose to break through from the side where he was stationed, Wu Han was happy and immediately organized troops to block it.
Although Liu Xiu had already given an order, when he saw the thief army breaking through, he only needed to defend himself and block the enemy's way.
But Wu Han is a person who can only be beaten passively, he commanded the soldiers under his command, and fought against the Qingcalf army that broke through.
The Qingcalf Army was able to set up an ambush to make Liu Qing suffer a big loss, but when they met Wu Han on the frontal battlefield, even if the forces of the two sides were equal, they really couldn't defeat it. After a confrontation, the Qingcal army threw more than 3,000 casualties and retreated back to Qinshan.
After the Qingcal army fled, Wu Han immediately ordered that all the captured and wounded thieves be beheaded, even the thieves who died in battle, all their heads were cut off and hung on the trunks of trees in the forest.
After the battle, the woods in the south of Qinshan were hung with bloody severed heads, and this large forest was like hell on earth.
This is not the end, Wu Han asked the archers and soldiers under his command to practice the accuracy of bows and crossbows with the heads of the thief army.
He did this not entirely out of the brutality of his temperament, but deliberately humiliated the young calf army and deliberately provoked the young calf army, hoping to attract the revenge of the green calf army. Just killed more than 3,000 people on the other side, how could Wu Han be satisfied?
Wu Han's approach did anger the Qingcalf army in Qinshan, and many generals suggested to the chief general that they should break through to the south again and fight Wu Han to the death. The brothers who died in battle must not be humiliated like this by Wu Han.
The commander of the Qingcalf Army is quite calm. Is Wu Han so easy to deal with? That's a master who doesn't want to die on the battlefield.
There will be a heart of death, and there will be no greed for life. Even the main general dares to charge forward with his life, and the soldiers below can all be open-minded. Tens of thousands of people are desperately fighting you, who can resist it? According to their reports, the officers and soldiers stationed on the four sides of Qinshan, and the camp of the officers and soldiers on the west side should be smaller and the least number of troops. He decided, changing the direction of the breakout,
Break through to the west.
The person stationed in the west of Qinshan was none other than Liu Xiu.
Don't look at Liu Xiu's side, there are only 20,000 people, but among these 20,000 people, including the 2,000 rushing army led by Jia Fu. With these two thousand soldiers alone, their lethality on the battlefield is no less than that of an army of one or two thousand. The breakthrough of the Qingcalf Army this time was much more resolute than the first breakthrough, mainly because their rations had been eaten, even the wild vegetables in the mountains were also harvested by them, and even the wild vegetable roots were dug out of the land by them and gnawed away
Clean.
If they continue to be trapped like this, their tens of thousands of people are in danger of being wiped out. When the Qingcalf Army broke through, they directly attacked Liu Xiujun's camp.
Liu Xiujun did not go out of the camp to fight at all, and the whole army retreated in the camp to defend it. Several offensives launched by the Qingcalf Army were all repulsed by Liu Xiujun.
Seeing that Liu Xiu's military camp was difficult to break, the commander of the Qingli army immediately ordered the whole army to march north, bypass the camp, and then break through to the west.
When the Qingli Army moved north, Liu Xiujun finally came out of the camp, and the first to kill it was the Ben Ming Army led by Jia Fu.
The two sides met Mai Mang, and immediately fought in one place.
Previously, the Qingli Army had launched several attacks on Liu Xiujun's camp, but they all returned in vain, exhausted and demoralized. On the other hand, the Ben Ming Army has been suppressed by Liu Xiu and did not participate in the war.
Physically, they remain in their heyday, and mentally, they are all holding their breath. Now on the battlefield, people can finally vent this sullen breath, one by one, they are all slashing and killing the enemy army.
Liu Xiu didn't have time to bring the main army to fight a decisive battle with the enemy, and the 2,000-strong army alone defeated the tens of thousands of young calves. Even the chief general of the Qingcalf Army almost died under Jia Fu's halberd.
The breakthrough of the Qingcalf Army this time was really a feather return, and its casualties were so large that they exceeded 10,000 people.
It can be said that the morale of the Qingcalf Army was not high before, and after the second breakthrough failed, the morale of the whole army completely fell to the bottom.
In the next few days, the Qingli army broke through to the north and east of Qinshan respectively, but the strength of the breakthrough was far less than the previous two breakthroughs, and they were finally repulsed.
After several days of attrition, the Qingcalf army suffered heavy casualties, but the most fatal problem was the lack of food for the whole army.
Blinded by hunger, people began to eat leaves, dig grass, and even pull roots and bark.
However, the nutrients that these things can provide for the human body are too limited, and they do not starve at all, and a large number of soldiers are starved and lie on the ground, dying. Many people fall asleep and never wake up. At this point in the battle, the Qingcalf Army was already desperate from top to bottom. Many people began to advise the commander-in-chief to surrender to the officers and soldiers.