Chapter 13: Defeat

The southern army sent by the Great Zhou court was defeated by the opponent's 'killer weapon' in the decisive battle with the Anzhou rebels, and the army was defeated.

The infantry of the central army formation of the southern army were frightened and threw off their armor and fled north, behind them was the tide of the Anzhou army in pursuit, the commander of the Anzhou army, the general manager of Anzhou, Yu Wenliang, looked at the situation at the Chinese army and was very satisfied, and the generals around him were also happy.

What kind of thunder is this, it's really powerful!

Three days ago, the Anzhou army came to Fan City to enclose the water of the city, and on the morning of the second day, they directly broke through the two city walls with thunder, and many people still remember the movement of that day.

After the loud noise, the bricks and tiles flew sideways, the original intact section of the city wall instantly became a ruined wall, and the defenders on the city wall did not know where to go, the Anzhou army swarmed in from the gap, and was attacked by the arrow tower behind the city wall, and was in a dilemma for a while, or relied on the thunder to pull out several arrow towers that were guarding the main road.

When the first few small fortresses were clear, most of the defenders surrendered, and the Anzhou army took Fancheng in only one day.

After taking the city, the generals patrolled around the city, and couldn't help but admire the preparations for the battle, the other party changed the city into a small fortress, if there was no thunder to help, then not only the casualties increased greatly, but even the fastest to take Fancheng would take more than a month.

The Fancheng Navy didn't expect the war to change so quickly, and before they had time to fight against the Xiangyang Navy Army, Lao Nest was ended, and now the entire Han River has no way to go, so I have no patience but to surrender together.

The Xiangzhou army on the south bank of the river got the signal and immediately crossed the river to the north to join the main force, and after the prisoners were taken into custody yesterday, the main force of the Anzhou army immediately pulled out the camp and returned to the north.

If the army besieges Fancheng for a long time, and the pontoon bridge at the mouth of the two rivers is cut off by the main force of the Zhengnan Army, the land grain route is cut off, and the waterway is unable to connect Jiangbei because of the existence of the Fancheng Naval Army, and then it will really collapse without a fight.

Although they can strive to build a pontoon bridge at the mouth of the two rivers, the upstream Zhengnan army will not sit idly by, and if the tug-of-war on the west bank of the river is fought for several days without progress, the army's morale will also be greatly disturbed.

The generals of the Anzhou Army felt that this thunder was really a good thing, not only the siege was powerful, but also the field battle was extremely sharp, and the central army formation of the Southern Army collapsed after being bombed three rounds, and their own side could win a big victory as long as they chased and killed all the way.

After the main army of the southern army was annihilated in one fell swoop, where would the states of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion still have the ability to resist, and at that time, the Anzhou army would be under the city, and I was afraid that the other party would surrender without a fight.

Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, was also quite satisfied with the performance of the thunderbolt, so he was not so uneasy about the business between his second son and Chen Guo.

In mid-January this year, the second son Yu Wenwen found him and said that he wanted to do business with Chen Guo's businessmen, hoping that the governor's mansion could be accommodating, at first Yu Wenliang was very repulsive, and the generals were not clean and had dealings with Jiangnan Chen Guo to make some small money, he knew that as long as he didn't go too far, he would turn a blind eye.

But the second child in the family doesn't know which tendon is wrong, and he has to do business with Chen Guoshang, Yu Wenliang, as the actual controller of the Xiang, An, and Huang Sanzhou Governor's Mansion, wants to set an example for the border ban, but his family members have violated the ban, and it is always bad to hear about it.

Yuwen Wen swore that there would be a surprise Yu Wenliang wanted to see what the surprise was, so one day he was really 'surprised' in the suburbs, that is, thunder.

After seeing a tiled house blown into ruins by the wooden barrel lit in it, Yu Wenliang's first thought was to use it to attack the city, with this thing, the city walls of those ordinary states and counties must be vulnerable.

Because of the fire in this barrel, a certain medicine ingredient requires a lot of sulfur and saltpeter, and Yu Wenwen has always emphasized that he can find Chen Guo merchants to buy goods, so Yu Wenliang turned a blind eye to this 'thunder'.

Because the sulfur and saltpeter produced very little on the boundaries of the governor's palace under his control, and he had to buy them from other places.

As long as they can continue to conquer the city and achieve military success, it is insignificant what their subordinates think, the generals need a commander who can bring victory, and the assassins need a general manager who can keep their territory, so it is insignificant to be slandered by others for 'knowing the law and breaking the law'.

'What the hell does that kid have in his head?' Yu Wenliang often muttered in his heart.

"Chief, the overall situation is not as good as the whole army pressing, it is better to capture more prisoners than to let them escape back to the state and county to resist stubbornly." The generals actively asked for battle, hoping to wipe out the southern army in one go, the other side was numerous, I am afraid that most of the troops of the Jingzhou Governor's Mansion were in it, as long as it was solved here in one go, the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled who were defending the city would not be afraid.

Yu Wenliang was a little moved when he heard the suggestions of his generals, but he always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with the performance of the enemy army, their performance was too weak, although his own earth-shaking thunder was indeed powerful enough, but it would not even be the slightest organizational resistance and the whole army would be defeated.

Marching Marshal Liang Shiyan is Yu Wenliang's old acquaintance, so he doesn't think this marshal is a good thing, just now he used a clairvoyant mirror to take a cursory look at the southern army array, and found that the other party was bombarded by thunder three rounds after saying that it collapsed, and the generals of the various departments did not seem to stop the counterattack, allowing the soldiers to flee backwards.

'Defeat' This was a thought that flashed through Yu Wenliang's mind at that time, but he then denied it, thinking that the other party might have been really frightened by the thunder, and now under the eager eyes of the generals around him, Yu Wenliang finally made a decision: "The whole army will attack." ”

However, he was a little more cautious, telling the generals not to patronize the pursuit, and to prevent the other side from setting up an ambush, and at the same time leaving a cavalry as a reserve in case of accidents.

The trumpet of the Chinese army sounded, and the Anzhou army all pressed on the pursuing and defeated Zhengnan army, chasing and fighting each other between victory and defeat.

The vanguard of the pursuit had already passed through the camp of the southern army, which was full of money, food, and cloth, but the pursuers did not care about it, because before the war, the generals repeatedly ordered that they should not be greedy for money and delay the military aircraft.

After about one-third of the Anzhou army passed through the camp, suddenly rockets flew on both sides and fell into the camp of the Zhengnan army, and then a skyrocketing fire broke off the Anzhou army one after the other, and a large number of ambushes suddenly appeared behind the hills on the left and right in front to kill the Anzhou army at the front.

Many soldiers of the Anzhou Army in the camp died in the flames, and the follow-up Anzhou soldiers were blocked by the sea of fire, unable to save their comrades north of the sea of fire, and many soldiers ran back from the burning camp, and some of them even swung knives and slashed at their comrades around.

"There are spies, they are spies of the Southern Army!" This gang of counterfeits and shoddy people shouted loudly while slashing people, and the flames sparked in the sky, and many people's eyes were mixed in the crowd, and the thieves shouted to catch the thieves, resulting in the follow-up Anzhou Army soldiers were also misled.

The two sides were originally the officials and soldiers of the Great Zhou Dynasty, wearing black military robes, so there was no difference in the first day of the first year, but they were suddenly stirred up by these people, and the sky-high fire in front of them caused the Anzhou army to begin to be chaotic.

There were a lot of counterfeits and shoddy soldiers who were hacked to death, but there were more Anzhou soldiers who were accidentally injured by their comrades, and the soldiers were originally very familiar with their brothers, but it was inevitable that the various teams were mixed together during the pursuit, and there were many more fresh faces, plus there were people with bad intentions mixed in the crowd, pointing people everywhere and saying that the other party was a spy, so a big melee broke out.

The soldiers of the Southern Army, who were the first to provoke the dispute, had already suffered all the casualties, but the chaos they caused spread, and many Anzhou soldiers saw their comrades being hacked to death, and their eyes were red, and they took it for granted that the other party was an enemy army rushing from the sea of fire, so they waved their swords at each other.

Before the sea of fire, the soldiers of the Anzhou army began to kill each other, and Yu Wenliang, the governor of Anzhou, who was supervising the formation in the rear, saw this and ordered the generals of all departments to hurry forward to suppress it, believing that this was just an accident caused by chaos, as long as they were dealt with effectively, they could be quelled.

But when a general rushed to report something, Yu Wenliang realized that something was wrong: most of the horses newly captured on the battlefield were inferior horses pulling carts, and even many of the enemy cavalry killed were old, weak, sick and disabled.

"There are traps!" Yu Wenliang came back to his senses, he thought of the sudden fire that cut his army into two parts, and the army that did not organize a counterattack when it was said to be broken, the other party seemed to be cheating!

The hilly area on the left flank of the Anzhou army suddenly sounded again and again, and the cavalry of the Zhengnan Army, which had already been defeated, rushed towards the left flank of the Anzhou army like a tide. ”

A large number of cavalry poured out from the left flank of the Anzhou army and rushed towards the attacking enemy, the two sides first rode and shot, and finally the two torrents collided violently together, stirring up countless dust, and there were more enemy cavalry rushing out of the dust and fog and running straight towards the Anzhou army's foot soldiers.

Because the whole army attacked and chased and killed the defeated soldiers, the Anzhou army was like a big snake biting its prey, and its whole body was straightened, and now the head biting the prey was cut off by the fire, and the rest of the first half of the body was chaotic and was attacked by the enemy cavalry.

Caught off guard, the soldiers of the Anzhou army failed to organize an effective defense, and were knocked to the ground, and the flesh and blood flew under the slashing horses, and this group of cavalry stabbed the vital point of the Anzhou army like a sharp blade and cut it off.

The cavalry on the left flank of the Anzhou army could not stop more and more enemy cavalry in a hurry, and they could only watch as several more cavalry rushed into their flank, and the cavalry of the southern army rushed into a no-man's land in the formation scattered because of the pursuit.

Just as they were about to run out of a distance and then turn around and continue to charge, they collided head-on with a wave of arrows and were shot on their backs, and the survivors fixed their eyes and saw that it was the defenders of the Anzhou Hexi camp on the east flank of the battlefield attacking in formation.

"Big news!" Yu Wenwen stood on the chariot of the Chinese army in the spear phalanx, and saw it clearly, and kept sneering, just when everyone thought that the overall situation had been decided, they didn't expect such a reversal to happen.

After the defeat of the southern army and the pursuit of the Anzhou army, it suddenly became difficult to burn the camp and cut the pursuing soldiers in two, and then counterattacked.

The defenders of the Anzhou Hexi camp, which had been on the eastern flank of the battlefield, immediately attacked to support their own army formation under the command of the main general Zheng Wanqing, and the spear phalanx commanded by Yu Wenwen on its right flank was able to act alone.

Four phalanx of hollow spears were arranged in a convex shape, with many four-wheeled carriages running side by side, and the archers standing on them used to release arrows in all directions without having to go out of battle.

"All the way west, push through!!" Yu Wenwen looked at the oncoming enemy cavalry and gave a loud order, and the horn sounded like arrows raining down.