Chapter 691: A complete victory

Seeing that the opponent's defense line had been broken, Yang Wu did not hesitate for a moment and ordered the whole army to attack.

All but those who left the necessary reserves were thrown into battle.

You must know that at this time, the Wu army has gathered nearly 50,000 troops on the battlefield, and under the all-out attack at this time, there are Wu soldiers everywhere shouting and charging, rushing to the bank of the river like a tide.

The Jin army, which was already unable to parry, completely collapsed now.

One by one, the soldiers were broken, and the wolves rushed and fled in all directions.

However, at this time, there was a big river in front to block it, and there was a large suppression of the Wu army in the rear, and there was nowhere to escape even if he ran for his life.

The soldiers who were originally on the shore were even more scrambling to get onto the boat, but the people behind were squeezing towards the riverbank, and the people in the front were pushed into the river and drowned.

But even so, they were still frantically rushing towards the riverbank, so that many people were directly crushed by their own people and trampled to death.

Li Cunmiao, the king of Jin, also understood at this time that the army had completely collapsed, and if he didn't run for his life, he really couldn't escape.

However, the oath he had made before was still there, and everyone around him was staring at him with burning eyes, waiting for him to make up his mind.

But his face was pale, and his heart was as dead as ashes, but he could not say the words to flee for his life immediately.

At this time, Shi Jingjiao counterattacked with the cavalry, and after being quickly defeated, he hurried over under the protection of dozens of guards around him and said: "The army is completely finished, the king will not withdraw at this time, and when?" ”

Li Cunmiao glanced at him and said, "The army is over, and I want to stay here and live and die with everyone!" ”

This is obviously not true, Li Cunqiao is not a person who can live and die with the soldiers under his command in his bones.

The reason why he often goes into battle to kill the enemy himself is not because the war situation requires him to do so, but because his character is inherently adventurous.

But now that the situation is irreparable, he will continue to stay unless he is stupid, and the reason why he says this is just to save face.

Shi Jingjiao and Zhao Zaili immediately understood as soon as they heard his words, the two glanced at each other, and said together: "The king once vowed to stay until the end, so naturally he can't break his oath. But the last general and the others could not sit idly by and watch the king fall into danger. Please forgive the Admiral and others for being rude! ”

After speaking, as soon as the two waved their hands, they ordered their guards to step forward, and ran to the bank of the river with Li Cunmiao.

"Let go of Lone, Lone will stay and fight to the death with the enemy!"

Li Cunqiao said loudly, but Shi Jingjiao and the others didn't pay attention to it at all, although his guards were shocked by Shi Jingjiao and the others' actions, they also knew that they were for the good of King Jin, so they didn't stop it.

At this time, the road was full of routs fleeing for their lives, and they couldn't move at all.

Shi Jingjiao and Liu Zhiyuan drew their swords in their hands, and opened the way first, and anyone who encountered anyone who stood in the way, no matter who it was, would directly kill him.

Those ordinary soldiers also discovered Li Cunmiao's location at this time, and shouted loudly one by one: "King, do you want to leave me and wait?" ”

Li Cunmiao said that at this time, the army collapsed, and even if he stayed, it was just a death.

So in the face of the soldiers' words, he could only pretend not to hear.

In the end, under the desperate protection of the guards, Li Cunmiao and his party fled to the river in embarrassment and successfully grabbed a small boat.

However, the ship was too small, barely able to fit a few close generals such as Li Cunqiao and Shi Jingjiao, but most of their guards failed to board the ship.

When it was time to set sail, they encountered a new problem, and a large number of soldiers clinged to the side of the ship to try to board the ship, but the ship was wobbled and nearly capsized.

At the critical moment, Shi Jingjiao and others slashed indiscriminately with the long swords in their hands, and a large number of soldiers clinging to the side of the boat were cut off their wrists, and they immediately fell to the bank of the river and screamed.

However, it didn't take long for them to lose their breath completely, for they had been trampled to death by the crowd from behind.

Finally, under the desperate gaze of the surrounding soldiers, the boat left the river bank and slowly rowed towards the opposite side.

……

In front of the Wu army, looking at the chaotic enemy camp, Yang Wu and the others were silent for a long time.

The final victory of this battle not only meant that the Jin army's southward movement to relieve Yang Liu and Yunzhou was a complete failure, but also meant that this decisive battle finally ended in the complete victory of Wu.

In the Battle of Baixiang that year, tens of thousands of elites of the Liang army were lost, and since then they have been in a slump, and the strategic situation of Jin and Liang fighting for hegemony has also shifted to the side of the Jin State.

In the following years, the Jin army fought in the east and west, won successive battles, and finally unified Hebei and became one of the two strongest forces in the world.

And this decisive battle, although it is not yet known how much the Jin army's losses are, but judging from the current situation, there must not be many elites of the Jin army who can escape back to Hebei alive in the end.

In addition, the tens of thousands of Jin troops in Yang, Liu, Nancheng and Yunzhou who were surrounded by the Wu army, after losing reinforcements, their fate would also be decided, and it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed.

After losing so many elites, the Jin army was destined to suffer a great loss of vitality, and would have to take a defensive position in the future in the battle with Wu.

Of course, the most important point is that this battle will have an incalculable impact on the mentality of the soldiers on both sides.

After the Battle of Baixiang, the Jin army, by virtue of the great victory, completely established a psychological advantage over the Liang army, so after that, no matter where the battlefield was, the Jin army could easily strike at the Liang army.

On the Liang side, the Liang army was tied, and there was even a case where Zhu Wen, who commanded more than 100,000 troops, was frightened by Li Cunxun with a fake news and fled overnight, which shows how frightened the Liang army was for the Jin army.

Now after this war, the Wu army will definitely be able to establish a psychological advantage over the Jin army, and they will have higher morale and burst out stronger strength against the enemy in the future, while the Jin army is just the opposite.

Wu originally had a slight advantage over Jin in terms of population, economy, resources and other aspects, but now it has achieved a great military victory, and Wu is far superior to Jin in terms of internal politics, so the strength of both sides will inevitably increase.

It can be said that as long as Yang Wu does not make too many mistakes in the future, it will be a matter of time before Wu defeats or even destroys Jin.

Of course, Yang Wu also knew that it was too early to say that it was too early to eliminate the Jin Kingdom, after all, the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and the Jin Kingdom still had considerable strength.

You must know that after the battle of Guandu that year, Yuan Shao died of illness not long after, and several of his sons had internal strife because of the struggle for power with each other, but even in this case, with Cao Cao's eloquence, it still took seven years to completely eliminate the remnants of Yuan Shao.

Now that the strength of the Jin State is not under Yuan Shao in the past, and Li Cunqiao is still there, it is impossible for the Jin State to split, and Li Cunqiao's ability is far stronger than Yuan Shao's unsuccessful sons, so if Wu Guo wants to eliminate the Jin State, even if it has been smooth and smooth, I am afraid that it will take a long time to do it.

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After watching quietly for a long time, the battlefield has come to an end.

The boats on the river are still desperately ferrying, but at this time, the blockade of the Wu State Navy is becoming more and more strict, especially after the Jin King Li Cunmiao has crossed the Yellow River safely, the resistance of the Jin Army is no longer so strong.

In the end, the river was completely blocked by the Wu army, and the last way to Hebei was cut off.

When those Jin soldiers found that there was no way to escape, some of the bloody brave soldiers chose to resist stubbornly, but in the absence of the unified command of senior generals, these people were quickly eliminated by the Wu army.

In addition to returning to fight the Wu army to the end, more Jin troops chose to surrender to the Wu army.

After all, the reputation of the Wu army is not bad, and it is said that the captives captured by the Wu army will not be executed, at most they will be thrown to the south to build roads, or simply exiled overseas, which is much better than death.

By the time the entire battlefield had completely calmed down, it was almost dark, and the battle, which had lasted only three days, had finally come to an end.

"Congratulations to the king, today's victory over the Jin army by our army, the prestige of the king will surely shake the world!" Li Decheng and other generals came over with a happy face at this time to say goodbye.

Zhou Ye said with a smile: "General Li's words are wrong, the prestige of the king has already shaken the world, why wait until after today?" In my opinion, the king will be famous in history if he has achieved all the success in today's battle! ”

"Not bad, not bad." The generals all smiled and said excitedly.

Yang Wu also made a rare joke at this time: "Of course, Lone will go down in history, but if you continue to tout like this, Lone is worried that you will be regarded as a minister who only knows how to flatter in the future!" ”

The generals laughed and said, "The last general is not waiting to welcome the king, but this is the case." ”

After chatting with the generals for a few words, Yang Wu suddenly restrained his smile, solemnly saluted the generals, and said: "The reason why our army can achieve such a great victory today is not the work of one person, this is the common credit of the generals and the soldiers of the three armies, thank you here!" ”

The generals hurriedly returned the salute, saying "don't dare".

At this time, Li Jian, who was in charge of counting the results of the battle, returned, and said to Yang Wu and the others with excitement on his face: "King, today's battle can be called a complete victory, our army has captured more than 16,000 people, and killed more than 6,000 enemy soldiers on the battlefield, while our army's own casualties are less than 1,000 people, this is a rare victory!" ”

Yang Wu's eyes lit up, he calculated a little in his mind, and said: "In the fierce battle the night before yesterday, the Jin army lost a total of nearly 10,000 people, plus the number of people who were captured and killed in today's battle, isn't there only six or seven thousand people who the enemy army finally fled back?" ”

"Exactly."

"Well, it's a rare victory! Order, immediately send someone to send the good news back to Luoyang, so that the government and the opposition will share the joy of victory! Yang Wu said happily.

At this time, the capital of Wu has basically moved to Luoyang, and hundreds of officials in the court and central government are now also handling official affairs in Luoyang, but Yang Wu, as a monarch, has not returned to Luoyang once for most of the year.

"Yes, the last general will send someone." Li Jian hurriedly responded.

At this time, Yang Yan on the side sighed with emotion: "It's a pity that I couldn't catch King Jin, otherwise I would have really done my best today, not only in Henan, but even in Hebei can be quickly pacified." ”

Yang Wu smiled: "Don't be too greedy, it's rare to be able to achieve such a big victory at a very small price." If you are greedy, you will be damned. ”

Yang Yan was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "The child is just talking nonsense, it can't be true, it can't be true." ”

The crowd was amused by his words, and the atmosphere in the room seemed extremely relaxed.

After that, the army resettled and buried the pot to cook.

By night, a more specific battle report had been counted, and compared to the number of enemy soldiers captured and killed, Yang Wu was even more excited about the capture of the battlefield this time.

In order to cross the river as quickly as possible, the Jin army almost discarded all the grain, grass, baggage and ordnance materials, and the armor taken off by the Jin army on the bank of the river alone to facilitate boarding was piled up, and now it has basically been captured by the Wu army; In addition, countless grains, grasses, weapons, arrows and other materials were seized.

Such a large seizure is a great wealth even for the state of Wu, which can save a large amount of money and grain for the imperial court.

Of course, these seizures are gratifying, but for a large country like Wu, they don't mean much; What really made Yang Wu and the others ecstatic was that in this battle, the Wu army finally captured more than 9,000 military horses, and they were also the best war horses!

A small number of the horses may have been injured and could not continue the battle, but even so, there would be more than 8,000 horses that could be used to charge!

Needless to say, the power of the cavalry is needless to say, and the reason why the Jin State dares to take the initiative to attack when it is inferior to the Wu State in all aspects is nothing more than relying on the large number of cavalry.

For Yang Wu, the rise of the southern state of Wu has always been short of horses, this situation has not been fundamentally solved even after the establishment of the horse farm on Tamna Island, so far the Wu army has been unable to establish a large-scale cavalry due to the lack of war horses, and can only barely maintain the number of cavalry about 10,000.

Now that so many war horses have been captured at one time, this means that the cavalry of Wu can almost be doubled, which can be said to be of decisive significance for future wars.

This time, Li Cunmiao went south to adventure, not only lost a large number of elite soldiers, but also acted as a "transport captain", bringing a large number of high-quality war horses to Wu State, if he learned the news, I don't know how much remorse he would have.

In fact, when the Jin army was about to be defeated before, Li Cunqiao had already realized this problem.

When he was protected by Shi Jingjiao and others and fled to the bank of the river, he gave an order, asking the cavalry soldiers to immediately kill the horses under the seat to avoid falling into the hands of the Wu army.

It's a pity that the army was in chaos at that time, and Li Cunqiao's orders could not be passed on at all; is to pass on the success, and those soldiers are worried about running for their lives, but I am afraid that there will not be much time to carry it out.

In the end, these war horses were all cheaper than Wu Guo.

Yang Wu immediately ordered that Chai Kehong must protect these war horses as much as possible, especially those injured war horses, they must be taken care of, and they cannot be easily given up.