Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Pursuit
"Report! …… The front army was defeated, and General Shen Kang was ambushed by the Wei army and died in battle! ”
"What?"
When Chu Jiang Ugan heard the news, he couldn't believe it.
He had just led his army to the vicinity of Yanling City, and he had planned to divide a part of his army to save the fire in Yanling City, but he didn't expect that the front army was ambushed.
Chu General Wu Gan looked carefully in the direction of the Yanling Hill, and sure enough, he saw that the front army was defeated and fled, and behind them, the general of the Junshui Battalion, Bailiba, led 25,000 Wei soldiers and chased after them in a tight and orderly manner.
"Knot...... Formation! ”
The Chu general Ugan hurriedly commanded the nearby Chu soldiers to line up to meet the enemy.
But he didn't expect that the first big enemy that the Chu soldiers under his command ushered in after they formed a formation were not the Wei army in the Junshui camp, but the Chu soldiers who fled back from the front line.
"These idiots...... Attacking your own defenses!'
The Chu general Wu Gan was so hated that he almost stared out his eyes, staring at the routed troops on the front line in a daze, and tried to escape into the neatly lined Chu army's defense line with a panicked face.
To make matters worse, in the face of the routed friendly forces, the Chu soldiers who formed the defensive line were obviously at a loss as to what to do, and did not know whether to block or let the opposing friendly forces pass through the defensive line.
Seeing this, Chu Jiang Wu Gan immediately made a decision, and gave a cruel order with hatred.
"Kill! …… Anyone who storms our defense line will be killed! ”
They thought that as long as they fled to the defense line of friendly troops, they would be able to escape from the killing of the Wei soldiers in the Junshui camp in the rear, but they did not expect that the army under the command of the Chu general Wu Gan actually issued a killing order to them.
No, the defeated Chu troops closest to the defense line of Chu General Ugan were baptized by friendly bows and crossbows, and suffered heavy casualties.
"Wow, what a ruthless general!"
Seeing this scene from afar, Baili Ba, the general of the Junshui Battalion, couldn't help but ridicule, but in his heart, he had a high opinion of the Chu general who commanded the defense line.
After all, at this time, the most taboo is to be soft-hearted and let the defeated front army hide in the defense line, after all, once the defense line is chaotic, then not only the front army will be defeated, but the Chu army and the middle army that form the defense line here will also be fragmented, resulting in the collapse of the whole army.
"It's a pity, the number of your defeated Chu State front army is no less than your Chinese army...... Can you stop it?'
Bailiba waved his hand and ordered his Junshui battalion to slow down the momentum of the attack, allowing the Chu army in front of him to rout and attack their own defensive line.
Nearly 20,000 Chu troops were routed, and in the angry reprimand and scolding of the Chu general Wugan, they crashed headlong into the latter's defense line.
"No...... Don't come over ......."
A Chu army in the defense line used his shield to stand up to the rout soldiers who rushed over, and the soldiers who were originally his Chu compatriots.
And behind the shield soldiers in the first row, those Chu soldiers who were holding spears in the defense line, after gritting their teeth, finally stabbed out the spears in their hands towards the compatriots who rushed towards them.
"Puff puff—"
Hundreds of sharp spears pierced through hundreds of oncoming front-line routs, and these survivors who had managed to escape from the sharp blades of the Wei soldiers in the Junshui Camp looked at the compatriots who raised their butcher knives in front of them with dull eyes, and their confused eyes seemed to ask: Why?
However, the brutal order did not stop the routs from storming the defenses of their own troops, who had been destroyed by the terrifying chariots of the Wei soldiers of the Junshui Battalion.
After the slaughter of the Wei soldiers of the Junshui Battalion, and the butcher's knives sacrificed by the compatriots in front of them, those defeated soldiers who were sandwiched between the two armies, their fragile psychology had already collapsed, where would they still think about the victory or defeat, and their minds were full of thoughts about wanting to survive and leaving this terrifying battlefield as soon as possible.
"No...... Don't stop me! ”
Finally, a Chu soldier who was lucky not to be killed by his compatriots finally couldn't help but raise his blade towards the former Tongze, and they almost frantically used the knife in their hands to indiscriminately chop the shield-wielding infantry blocking their advance, stepping on the shield in the opponent's hand, and even stepping on the opponent's body, and squeezed into the originally neat and orderly Chu army defense line.
The defense line convened and arranged by the Chu general Ugan was unexpectedly torn open by the rout of these Chu frontline troops with a strong desire to survive.
At first, it was just one or two people, but as the shield soldiers on the line were forcibly pushed to both sides, more and more routed soldiers and chrysalis squeezed into the line, and in order to survive, they frantically attacked their own defenses.
"These brutes! …… Kill everyone here!'
General Chu's eyes widened angrily, and he angrily drew his sword and squeezed through the crowd to slash those damned routs.
Unfortunately, it was too late, and the defensive line he had built had been dispersed by this group of front-line troops who were carried away for their lives. Seeing this, the general of the fifth battalion of the Junshui Battalion waved his hand and shouted in a deep voice: "Homeopathy...... Kill it! ”
"Oh oh oh!!"
More than 20,000 Wei soldiers of the Junshui battalion, whose morale was like a rainbow, followed closely behind the rout of the Chu army, and with them as a shield, they rushed to the defense line formed by the Chu general Wugan.
During this period, the cavalry team of the Junshui battalion was responsible for disrupting the already chaotic Chu army's defense line, and the chauffeur that arrived later directly served as the backbone to attack the most solid position in the Chu army's defense line.
Originally, the defense line formed by the Chu general Ugan could still block the offensive of the dripping water battalion, but his defense line was rushed by the rout of the Chu army on the front line, and the defense line was suddenly in chaos, where could he still stop the Wei soldiers.
Not to mention killing the enemy effectively, some Chu soldiers even fought on their own: the Chu soldiers in the defense line tried to kill the friendly troops who attacked their defense line according to the order, while the defeated troops who were routed from the front line and tried to escape to the friendly defense line raised their butcher knives against the friendly troops because the friendly troops did not give them a way to live, they were shocked and anxious, and they could not care much.
"Unexpectedly...... ......
Holding the sword that couldn't stop dripping blood, Chu Jiang Wugan couldn't help but laugh miserably.
He never imagined that he would draw his sword and kill for the first time on this round of battlefield, and it would be his own soldiers who would be killed.
"It's ...... now"
Glancing at the rout of his own army, General Wu Gan gritted his teeth, and his sharp eyes scanned the surroundings, as if he was looking for something.
And at that moment, a chuckle suddenly sounded beside him.
"Are you looking for me? …… What a coincidence! ”
Ugan subconsciously raised his head, and was shocked to see that the target he was looking for, the general of the Junshui Battalion, Bailiba, had jumped in front of him at some point, and raised the long-handled saber in his hand towards him.
"Oh no......
An ominous premonition flashed in his heart, and Ugan only felt the flash of the knife in front of him, and he instantly lost consciousness.
"Poof."
The headless corpse slowly fell to its knees and fell weakly to the ground.
Not far away, a human head rolled twice on the ground, and you could still see Chu Jiang Wugan's shocked and frightened expression.
At the same time, the general of the fifth battalion of the Junshui Battalion sat on a war horse, held the knife in one hand, shook the blood on the blade expressionlessly, and immediately raised his left hand and waved it forward.
With this gesture of his, the cavalry of the Junshui battalion quickly rushed into the battlefield from both flanks, trying to harvest the Chu army here from both flanks.
And in the center, the chariot that harvested the lives of the enemy soldiers like wheat rumbled in front of all the Chu troops here.
"That'...... What the hell is that?! ”
The one who subconsciously said this question was obviously a sergeant in the Chu army who had not yet seen the power of this chariot.
And those Chu soldiers who looked back at those chariots and looked terrified as if they had seen a ghost in the day, did not even dare to stop for a moment, desperately picked up the crowd, and fled desperately in the direction of Yanshui.
"Tuk Tuk—"
"Tuk Tuk—"
The sound of nails hitting a wooden plank actually represented the loss of a Chu infantry under the crossbows of those Wei crossbowmen in the carriage above the chariot.
I saw that where the chariot was advancing, one after another Chu soldiers fell to the ground with arrows.
Some were lucky and were killed by an arrow.
And some of them still breathe because they didn't hit the vital point.
However, the Wei crossbowmen on the chariot didn't even look at the Chu soldiers who were wailing on the ground, and they only looked at the Chu soldiers who were still fleeing.
That's their prey!
As for those Chu soldiers who were hit by arrows but had not yet breathed, some were killed by the infantry of the Junshui battalion on both sides of the chariot, and some were even more miserable, directly crushed to death by the huge wheels of the chariot, which was unbearable.
Finally, more and more Chu soldiers joined the fleeing team, although there were still high-ranking generals of the Chu army in the ranks, but in this case, even those generals of the Chu army could not save the situation of the rout of the Chu army.
"Defeat is like a mountain ......"
This is the second time that the general of the Junshui Battalion, Bailiba, muttered this sentence to himself.
Although a flash of pity flashed in his eyes, he would never really sympathize with these Chu soldiers.
At the moment, it is their Wei army that wins, if the people who win are these Chu army, their soldiers of Great Wei will not end much better.
Because, this is war!
Either you die, or I die!
"General, Yan Shui is ahead." A battalion general galloped to Bailiba's side and reminded in a low voice.
I saw Baili Ba take a deep breath, and the pity in his eyes was suddenly replaced by cruel determination.
"The cavalry go around! Seize the pontoon! The rest of the men and horses, in cooperation with the chariote, will ...... these Chu soldiers Rush into Yanshui! ”
"Understood!"
The battalion general clenched his fists and took the order, slapped his horse and left.
It is true that the water potential in Yanshui is not turbulent due to the winter, but don't forget, it is already early winter, if those Chu soldiers jump into Yanshui in order to escape for their lives, trying to swim from the river to the opposite bank.
Then, the cold wind at night in this season was enough to freeze these soaked Chu soldiers to death.
No doubt!
But even so, Baili Bao still had some regrets, after all, he kept saying that he must not make a Chu soldier successfully cross Yanshui, but if you think about it carefully, this is really unrealistic.
"Unless...... There is also an army of our Great Wei near Yanshui, which seized the pontoon bridge in advance and cut off the back road of the Chu army."
Thinking of this, Bailiba shook his head, a little amused at his "insatiable greed".
But what he never expected was that several cavalrymen actually sent back a piece of news that made him unbelievable.
"Report! Chen Shi, the military captain of Yanling, has led 5,000 Yanling soldiers to take the pontoon bridge, and is waiting for our army to ask for help! ”
"No...... Right?'
Bailiba's eyes widened in astonishment.