Chapter 684: Defeated
Zhu Qianyou fell completely, and after being hit by six arrows in his body, he couldn't get up again.
This loyal and brave man, not only has an extremely ordinary appearance, but also has a very low-key personality, usually taciturn, and has always been inconspicuous in the army, and many people will subconsciously ignore his existence as the governor.
However, only a few people remember that Zhu Qianyou and Zhang Chong were once the right-hand men of the fierce general Wang Maozhang.
Later, Zhang Chong was publicly questioned by Yang Wu because of his corruption in office, and although he was finally pardoned, he never entered the official career again.
Without Zhang Chonghou, Wang Maozhang is equivalent to being cut off an arm, leaving only the low-key Zhu Qianyou.
In the war against Gao Jichang a few years ago, Wang Maozhang was seriously injured and died of illness not long after returning to Jinling, so Zhu Qianyou took over Wang Maozhang's position as governor.
But at that time, people felt that Zhu Qianyou was just lucky, relying on his qualifications and Wang Maozhang's Yu Ze to be promoted, and he was not outstanding.
In the war in the next few years, Zhu Qianyou did not have any outstanding performance, and he could only be regarded as qualified.
But everyone didn't expect that at such a critical moment, he would behave so loyally, he was shot down again and again, and stood up again and again to continue to charge, but finally fell, and his mouth was still shouting to kill the enemy.
Seeing this scene, Yang Wu couldn't help but be deeply moved, and only felt his blood boiling; And Yang Yan's eyes were even more red, and he was so excited that he couldn't speak.
At this time, Meng Kang, who had just been promoted to commander by Yang Wu not long ago, also shouted: "Meng Kang died here today!" With that, he rushed down the mountain.
Suddenly, all the soldiers seemed to have just woken up from a dream, and they all followed behind and charged.
"Wu Bo died here today!"
"Sun Hongyu died here today!"
"Wang Fei died here today!"
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For a time, the battlefield was full of shouts of "die here".
At this moment, the morale of the Wu army was greatly boosted, and they burst out with amazing courage, they swept away the previous decadence and slump, like a tiger descending from the mountain, and rushed towards the Jin army's defense line.
Looking at such loyal and brave soldiers, Yang Wu, who had never charged in person, also shouted loudly at this time: "Yang Wu died here today!" ”
With that, he took his sword and rushed down behind the soldiers.
Yang Yan also pulled out a short sword when he saw it, shouted loudly, and was about to charge, but at this moment, a guard beside him hugged him and said, "Second prince, no!" The king asked the second prince to stay here. ”
Yang Wu did give such an order, he could kill the enemy himself, but he would never let his young son die like this, that would be too cruel.
So before charging, he ordered a guard to stay behind to watch Yang Yan, save his life, and even if the army was still defeated in the end, he could take Yang Yan to surrender to the enemy.
However, where was Yang Yan willing to stay alone, he twisted his body, waved the long sword in his hand, and scolded loudly: "I am the second son of King Wu, and now that even my father has gone to kill the enemy, how can I live alone?" ”
Although Yang Yan was young at this time, he was still very imposing when he put on his face, and when he scolded him like this, the guard was stunned for a moment.
Yang Yan seized the opportunity and shouted without saying a word: "Kill!" So he rushed down the hill and smote him.
The guard couldn't help but stomp his feet when he saw it, so he had to follow Yang Yan and charge.
For a time, all the soldiers of the Wu army on the hillside, except for those who were beating the war drums, everyone else was charging, and none of them remained on the mountain.
Determined to die, they rushed down the hillside like tigers descending from the mountain.
This fierce charge not only caught the Jin army off guard, but also surprised Li Cunqiao and others.
As Yang Wu said before, after a whole night of fierce fighting, the morale of the Jin army was certainly like a rainbow, but they had also reached the end of their crossbows.
Starting from the mouth of the river early yesterday morning, followed by a continuous rapid march, which marched more than 50 miles in a few hours, and then immediately launched a surprise attack on the Wu army, and launched a desperate struggle.
After that, it gradually got dark, and although the Jin army seized the time to rest for two or three hours, this rest time alone was far from enough for the soldiers to recover.
What's more, what followed was a battle that lasted all night, and it was more fierce and cruel than before, and it can be said that the soldiers of the Jin army had long been exhausted to the extreme.
What can sustain them to continue fighting is nothing more than the desire for victory.
When they successively broke through the Wu army's defense line and forced the Wu army to retreat to the top of the mountain, victory seemed to be within reach, and every soldier felt so excited in their hearts that they completely forgot about their exhaustion and their own tragic casualties.
More importantly, the soldiers of the Jin army did not even do the necessary defensive measures at this time, and only thought about resting for a while, so they continued to attack, breaking the last defense line of the Wu army in one fell swoop and achieving the final victory.
However, what they didn't expect was that at this time, the Wu army, which had been on the defensive since the start of the battle yesterday and had never taken the initiative to attack, suddenly launched a counter-charge!
All the soldiers of the Wu army, as if they had gone crazy, rushed down the hillside with a loud shout with an unstoppable momentum.
At this moment, the momentum of the Wu army completely overwhelmed the Jin army.
At this moment, all the soldiers of the Jin army were stunned, as if they had encountered something unbelievable, and they even forgot how to deal with it.
The soldiers of the Jin army standing at the forefront, when facing the Wu army that rushed in front of them, subconsciously raised the bow and crossbow in their hands and prepared to shoot, but before they could launch, they were already cut down by the Wu army to the ground.
And after the soldiers of the Jin army behind them saw it, they subconsciously turned around and fled, as if it was not the Wu army rushing behind them, but the beasts of the flood.
In just a moment, the Jin army, which was still invincible just now, was like the Jin army that was in the hands of victory, but when facing the counterattack of the Wu army at this time, it was fleeing from the wind!
Even, even Li Shaorong, the general of the Jin army, who has always been famous for his bravery, actually subconsciously turned his horse's head and galloped down the mountain when facing the Wu army soldiers who rushed to his front at this time.
Even Li Shaorong was running away, and the other Jin army soldiers didn't dare to resist, they were all scrambling to escape, and complained in their hearts why they didn't give birth to four legs.
With a high view, the momentum is like a bamboo!
The Jin army, which had suppressed the Wu army for a whole night, was about to achieve the final victory, when they were at their most magnificent, but at this time they were crushed by the sudden counter-charge of the Wu army.
This kind of situation, not to mention those ordinary soldiers, did not expect it, even Yang Wu, who was determined to launch this counter-charge, never thought of it.
According to Yang Wu's original purpose, he just felt that he couldn't hold it at this time anyway, so it was better to boost the morale of the army, and then fight back with the last blood and bravery, maybe he could repel the enemy army and buy more time for the army.
After all, it was already dark at this time, and reinforcements could arrive at any time, even if it was a little delay, they had a chance to turn the tide of the battle.
But the reality was far beyond his imagination, and he not only repelled the enemy army, but also defeated the enemy army!
Before reinforcements arrived, he relied on the little force in his hand to turn the tide of the battle in one fell swoop.
Perhaps in the absence of reinforcements, he would not be able to defeat the enemy army in front of him in one fell swoop just by relying on the army in his hands at this time, but Yang Wu believed that after this great collapse, the morale and momentum of the Jin army had been completely defeated, while the morale of the Wu army was regained to the extreme.
In this case, even if Li Cunmiao could still gather the scattered forces and launch a new attack on the Wu army, he would never want to break through the defense line of the Wu army again.
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In the distance, after a night of fierce fighting, Li Cunmiao just retreated to the rear to rest for a while, not wanting to witness a big reversal that made him feel like he was in a dream.
The whole battle situation seemed to collapse in an instant, which he definitely did not expect.
His lips trembled, and he couldn't speak for a long time, but he was crying out in his heart: "Impossible! It's impossible! I must have read it wrong. Yes, it must be. ”
He grabbed one of the guards beside him and asked sharply, "Say, what do you see?" ”
The guard turned pale with fright, and stammered, "Great, great, our army seems to be here, in a rout!" ”
"Nonsense!" Li Cunmiao was furious, waved the sword in his hand and beheaded the guard.
Then he pointed to the other guard and said, "You, you say, what do you see?" ”
The guard suddenly weakened, and was so frightened that he knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, shouting: "Spare your life, your king!" ”
A trace of impatience flashed on Li Cunmiao's face, and the long sword in his hand was raised, ready to look at it again.
At this time, Zhao Zaili, who had retired with him to recuperate, hurriedly rushed over, hugged Li Cunqing, and said loudly: "King, don't!" ”
What Zhao Zaili didn't know was that Li Cunqiao was already going crazy at this time.
His father and son have been operating in Jinyang for nearly 40 years, weathering the wind and rain, and conquering the world.
However, in the very beginning, Li Keyong met Zhu Wen, who was invincible at that time, although the Jin army fought bravely, but was repeatedly defeated, and even Jinyang City was besieged by the Liang army twice, and even Li Keyong was almost ready to give up the foundation of the Central Plains and fled back to the grassland to continue to be his tribal chieftain.
Later, Li Cunmiao took over the throne, and after a hard battle, he finally defeated the Liang army one after another and controlled the entire Hebei, and the Jin State gradually became a hegemonic force qualified to dominate the world.
However, at his most glorious time, the state of Wu in the south rose, and took advantage of the great opportunity of the Jin and Liang hegemony to gradually eliminate the major forces in the south and unify the entire south.
Last year, Wu eliminated Liang in one fell swoop and seized the entire territory south of the Yellow River.
At this time, it can be said that the general trend of the world is already very clear, only the Jin State and the Wu State are the most qualified forces to compete for the world, and whoever can defeat the other side will be able to unify the world and create a new dynasty.
Li Cunxuan, who was unwilling to just be the lord of Hebei, ventured across the river to occupy Yunzhou under this circumstance, and then the Jin and Wu sides fought fiercely around the Yangliu ferry.
In order to keep the ferry, Li Cunmiao once again took the risk of leading his army to raid, and successfully surrounded the army led by Yang Wu, the king of Wu, on this nameless hillside.
After a night of fierce fighting, he had already seen the dawn of victory, and it seemed that the opportunity to unify the world was not far away.
However, at this time, everything was like a dream, and the invincible Jin army was actually defeated by the sudden counterattack of the Wu army at the last moment.
All the efforts, all the dreams, are scattered with the wind at this moment.
In the face of such a result, it is strange that Li Cunmiao is not crazy.
He frantically brandished his sword and slashed everywhere, frightening Zhao Zaili and the other guards to scatter and flee far away.
"King, we have been defeated, let's withdraw first."
"King, accept the facts!"
All the soldiers persuaded hard, hoping that Li Cunmiao could calm down.
After a long time, he threw down the sword in his hand, let out a long sigh in his mouth, and said: "After all, King Yang Wu is King Yang Wu of Wu, and it is really not a fluke to be able to go south together!" ”
In that situation just now, even Li Cunqiao thought that he was sure to win.
In his opinion, if he was Yang Wu, the best choice in the face of that situation was to immediately lead his troops to break through before the Jin army was encircled.
As long as it can successfully join the main army of Pingyin, then the Wu army still has the strength to fight, and the outcome is still unknown.
However, he didn't expect Yang Wu to come to a counter-charge, which was something that everyone didn't expect.
Of course, in addition to Yang Wu's unexpected counter-charge at the last moment, Wu's high fighting spirit and firm will also greatly exceeded his expectations.
When he had just surrounded the Wu army yesterday, he thought that he would be able to defeat the enemy army in one night at most, but he did not expect that in the end, the battle would be so hard, and the Wu army would have the courage to launch a counter-charge in the end.
He muttered a low sigh to himself: "If you knew that Wu Jun was so tenacious before crossing the river, even if you were arrogant, you wouldn't have crossed the river easily!" ”
Of course, that's what he said, even if history comes again, he will definitely choose to lead the army to cross the river, after all, if he doesn't cross the river, it means giving up Yunzhou, giving up Yangliu Ferry, and it also means giving up his father and son's ambition to compete for the world for 40 years.
After a few sighs, there was no Jin army on the hillside at this time, all of them fled, and the positions captured by the night's battle fell into the hands of the enemy.
Fortunately, the Wu army was also very tired at this time, and its own casualties were too great, so after driving the Jin army down the mountain, they stopped the pursuit and stopped to rest.
The soldiers on the Jin army's side gradually woke up from the rout, recalling that they had fled for their lives in a hurry just now, and everyone's faces showed shame.
Especially Li Shaorong, as a strong general of the Jin army, has always been known for his bravery and good fighting, and every time he fights, he is either as a pioneer or as Li Cunqing's personal guard, fighting bravely.
However, in the battle just now, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to resist, so he ran away.
Now that he came back to his senses, Li Shaorong's face was full of shame and anger, and he almost didn't get angry.
He walked in the camp in a daze, and after finally finding Li Cunqing, he barely recovered some of his senses.
"The king, the last general deserves death, and please ask the king to surrender!"