Chapter 105: The Battle of Jiaxing (8)

Under the leadership of the two, the morale of the surrounding Huzhou troops was boosted, and the generals who followed them began to counterattack. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

However, manpower is sometimes poor, not to mention that now the Huzhou army has long been in chaos, even Gu Quanwu cannot turn the tide of the battle in this situation.

When Shen Xingsi rushed forward with the guard battalion, he was shot in the head by a stray arrow after only a dozen steps forward, and fell to the ground and died; And Xu Jun's death was even worse, he was condescendingly cut on the shoulder by a general of the Huainan cavalry, and then he was hit by a war horse and buried under the horse's hooves.

"I don't know if I'm alive or dead!"

After turning the horse's head, Hou Zhan, who was sitting on horseback, glanced at the enemy general who had just been cut down by him, and couldn't help but smile with satisfaction.

At this time, he was in the midst of excitement. It's been a long time since he's won such a hearty battle, and when was the last time he rode a horse like this to charge in an enemy brigade?

Probably still during the Battle of Qingkou!

In the past few years, after following Zhu Jin to Huainan, except for a big battle in Qingkou, Huainan has been fighting with Qian Biao in the south most of the time. And there are many rivers in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is mainly siege warfare, so his cavalry has rarely been on the battlefield.

Now this big win has finally given him the feeling of being on the field before.

"It's better to fight with the prince! Maybe you can go back to the north to fight Zhu Quanzhong in the future? ”

Inside the camp, Yang Wu, who was quietly watching the whole battle, finally showed a satisfied smile.

This time he sent troops to the south, and he confronted the other party outside Jiaxing for nearly 20 days, in order to find an opportunity to defeat the enemy army in one fell swoop.

Before, his plan was to wait until the other party withdrew to launch an attack, he knew that the other party would definitely retreat, as long as Wang Maozhang sent troops to Huzhou, Zhu Xingxian had to make a decision to abandon Jiaxing and surrender to Huzhou.

Since ancient times, the retreat of the army is the easiest time to expose the flaws, and when the time comes, the cavalry brigade charges, maybe you can defeat the opponent at a very small cost. So he chose to quietly wait for the moment.

But now that the other party has launched a strong attack and is sticking to the camp, this result is not bad. At least now he already knew that he had won a big victory, and this victory was very complete, relying on the cavalry to attack the rear, it was expected that the enemy army would definitely not be able to escape.

"Congratulations to the prince on today's victory!" On the side, Pi Guangye said with a smile.

"You can't be too happy too early, I don't know how the battle on Zhang Kezong's side is going on?"

The situation here has been completely settled, and Yang Wu also has the energy to pay attention to the battle on the side of Jiaxing City. However, after such a long time, there was no news from Zhang Kezong's side, which couldn't help but make Yang Wu worried.

"With Zhang Kezong's ability, he shouldn't be defeated by Master Sheng, right?" Pi Guangye replied with a frown.

"Fan Yu, you go to Zhang Kezong's side to see how the war is going, and come back quickly to report to me!"

"Subordinates obey!"

Either way, a big win today is a certainty. And with the fall of Zhu Xingxian's department, as long as Jiaxing City is captured, he can lead his troops westward to join Wang Maozhang. And Huzhou, which lost 10,000 troops of Zhu Xingxian's army and only had 3,000 defenders left, would definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Huainan army. When Huzhou is captured, the goal of sending troops south this time will be achieved.

On the battlefield at this time, with the suicide of Zhu Xingxian and the death of Xu Jun, in just a quarter of an hour, the entire battlefield of the Huzhou army has completely collapsed, and there are fleeing soldiers everywhere, and there are screams of crying fathers and mothers everywhere. There are even often scenes where a few Huainan soldiers capture dozens of Huzhou soldiers, and the ground is full of corpses at this time, basically all of them are Huzhou soldiers who died in battle.

"Order, let Hou Zan end the battle quickly, it's going to be dark soon! Ben didn't want to fight at night! ”

It's the middle of November, it's dark early, and it's a little dark shortly after the sun has set.

It didn't take long for Fan Yu to inquire about the news and come back, "Shizi, General Zhang sent someone to report that they are pursuing the Jiaxing defenders who broke through. ”

"Chase? Has the enemy army already been defeated by him? Yang Wu was shocked and hurriedly asked.

"The Jiaxing guard first sent hundreds of people to break through from the West Gate, and killed us with great momentum, General Zhang thought that the enemy army was going to converge with Zhu Xingxian, so he hurriedly transferred troops to the West Gate to besiege; Who knew that Master Sheng was just a false shot, and the real main force led by him went out of the city from the east gate and broke through in the direction of Haiyan! General Zhang was in pursuit. ”

Haiyan is a coastal county in the east of Jiaxing, and it is still in the hands of the two Zhejiang armies. The defenders of Jiaxing fled to Haiyan, and even if they could not hold Haiyan, they could go to sea by boat and flee to Hangzhou and other places.

"In that case, let Zhang Kezong take Haiyan by the way! But remember to remind him not to fall into an enemy ambush! Yang Wu shook his head, anyway, Jiaxing also needs to keep people here to defend, and let Zhang Kezong stay when the time comes.

After another while, the entire battlefield had quieted down, and except for a few of the Huzhou army who were still fleeing, the others were either taken prisoner or had become cold corpses.

"One will make ten thousand bones dry!"

Looking at the battlefield strewn with corpses, Yang Wu couldn't help but think of this sentence. I don't know when it started, those casualties of the soldiers have become cold numbers, and they can't cause the slightest fluctuation in Yang Wu's heart for a long time.

"Send someone to clean up the battlefield! The corpses must be buried in a hurry to avoid the plague. As for the wounded soldiers, treat them as much as you can, no matter which side you are! ”

"Shizi, after statistics, our people have lost more than 600 people and injured more than 1,000 people in this battle! The entire enemy army was scattered, and more than 6,000 people were captured by the prisoners alone! At present, General Hou is still leading the cavalry to pursue the small number of enemy troops who have fled! At this time, Qin Pei, who was full of smiles, hurriedly came in to report.

After receiving this battle report, Yang Wu finally felt relieved. This kind of battle of tens of thousands of people is the first time he commanded, and the scale of the previous battles to capture Changshu, Kunshan and other places was not large, and the battle of Suzhou only existed as Zhou Ben's deputy general. Only this time he personally commanded tens of thousands of troops in a field battle with an equal number of enemy troops.

More than 600 were killed and more than 1,000 were wounded, this casualty figure is not very large compared to the results of defeating tens of thousands of enemy troops in the first battle, at least Yang Wu can accept this result.

"Did Zhu Xingxian and the others catch it?"

Recalling Zhu Xingxian's previous routine of being cautious, but today he suddenly sent troops to attack, Yang Wu couldn't help but become interested in the reason. If Zhu Xingxian was still as cautious as before, leading the army to retreat slowly, or leaving a small number of elite troops to break off, then even if he took advantage of the opportunity of his withdrawal to launch an attack, it might be difficult to achieve such a big victory as now.

"Qi Yu Shizi, according to the captive's confession, after General Hou Zhan's cavalry broke their formation, Zhu Xingxian committed suicide knowing that it was difficult to resist."

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