Chapter 462: The Dead Army
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The Northern Song Dynasty court, big businessmen, and big landlords were very wealthy, but the general life of ordinary people was still very poor, three hundred catties of grain was a large amount, when a strong man had sixty catties of grain a day, this treatment was very high, not to mention that the people couldn't understand what the situation of the Jeju army was, the Xuzhou army was a soldier of the imperial court, and the Jeju army was also a soldier of the imperial court, but the place to which it belonged was different.
Therefore, there were many strong men who signed up, and more than 10,000 strong men put on military uniforms and picked up spears to climb the city wall. In order to avoid the chaos of the strong men, the practice of two veterans with ten strong men was adopted, and the entire city wall of Xuzhou City looked like a sea of soldiers, but in fact there were only more than 200 veterans. In the key places of the four gates, each city gate sent a hundred veterans to guard it.
As for the other 2,500 soldiers, they all gathered together and waited for the order to attack.
Let's say that Qiu Yueshuai's army attacked Mangdang Mountain, although the first pass was broken, but it was difficult to go up the mountain, dozens of meters high and hundreds of steps were a dead hole, and it was not so easy to besiege it, there was plenty of grain and grass on the mountain, and there was a water source.
Xiang Chong also said that the main force of Mangdang Mountain went to attack Xuzhou City, Qiu Yue didn't believe it at first, but he still carefully sent people to Xuzhou to investigate. Tanma went out for a day and came back, saying that everything was normal in Xuzhou City, but the soldiers guarding the city gate and the flags on the city wall were all replaced by the Jeju army.
Qiu Yue listened, ahhh
The adjutant general slapped Qiu Yue on the back before Qiu Yue woke up, and the adjutant general said, "General and angry? , our soldiers are strong and strong, and the Jeju army has robbed Xuzhou, so we can snatch it back.
Qiu Yue sighed and said: "This is the only way to do it, return to Xuzhou and prepare to seize the city." ”
Xuzhou City was occupied by the Jeju army, the problem is very serious, Xuzhou Mansion has a lot of grain and grass reserves, these are for the South Road Army, now occupied by the Jeju army, Qiu Yue's army grain and grass will become a problem, after ten days and eight days of grain and grass is gone, the army will collapse, not to mention the defeat of the battle for several days, morale has fallen to the extreme.
On this morning, Qiu Yue's army had breakfast early, the horn whistled, the infantry and cavalry lined up neatly, the generals wore neatly and rode war horses, and the handsome army came to attack Xuzhou City.
Qiu Yue was on board the emperor's imperial armor, riding a horse that could board and wade through the water, with a sword hanging from his waist and a spear in his hand.
Outside the north gate of Xuzhou City, a chess and card officer was ordered to call the formation.
The chess and card officer had a loud voice, and came to the city gate and shouted: "The thieves in Mangdang Mountain are stopped, come out quickly and die, otherwise the army will attack the city and burn the jade." ”
Fan Rui was angry when he heard it in the city, and said: "We are the Jeju army, not the grass cowards, but although you are nominally the imperial army, they are actually used by the traitor Gao Yu, and it is even more despised to frame Zhongliang." Even the pigs and sheep that you usually treat the three armies are probably robbed of the people. ”
The chess and card officer was speechless with anger, how did this guy know that the pigs and sheep that were rewarded to the three armies were all robbed. Of course, this kind of thing can't be admitted, and he immediately said: "How can we be the army of the imperial court to rob the people." ”
Fan Rui stopped talking, and took a tin tube and gave it to a middle-aged man next to him, this middle-aged man's long face looked very haggard, he took the tin horn, and scolded: "Phew, shameless." I am Zhu Laosan of Pei County, who lives by raising pigs all the year round, and the day before yesterday I was herding pigs by the river just to catch up with your army, and drove all my pigs away, saying that I am a bandit, I am a perennial pig, and I am a bandit. ”
The war of words was boring, and the two sides scolded each other, and immediately proposed to let the army go out of the city for a decisive battle.
Li Kui said: "Grandma, I'm thinking about going out of the city." ”
Immediately, the war drums beat dong, Li Kui, Fan Rui, led 500 cavalry, 1,000 infantry out of the city, and set up a formation.
Fifty tiger squatting cannons were put on the ground, and everyone on Qiu Yue's side was mentally gordoned, this guy Jeju army eats raw rice and is unruly, if he gives a few cannons when he fights, even the people and horses will be broken.
Fan Rui shook the sword in his hand, urged the horse to fight, came to the formation, and shouted: "Which one is coming to fight me." ”
Those officers of the Xuzhou Army didn't dare to come out, don't look at Fan Rui as an old man, but his martial arts are very good, and he is still chattering, who knows what demon magic is. But where did Qiu Yue know these things about the generals brought by Qiu Yue from Tokyo, and immediately Pegasus came out with a big sword, and he did it on the spot without speculation. Although the big knife is heavy, it is far less light than Fan Rui's sword, but in three or five rounds, Fan Rui cut off his wrist with a sword, which made him flee in the wilderness, Fan Rui laughed: "Which one dares to come up." ”
Another general with a spear came up, fought for more than ten rounds, and asked Fan Rui to cut off his ponytail, followed by a general with a jujube Yangshuo came up, Fan Rui said: "I don't rarely beat you, let the big black man in the back come to meet you." ”
After saying that, Fan Rui went back, and Fan Rui was a little tired after playing twice in a row, so he asked Li Kui to come up.
Li Kui's horse battle axe was very huge, and the weight of more than thirty catties was beaten with Zaoyangshuo, but he couldn't beat Li Kui in seven or eight rounds, so he fled.
Qiu Yue saw that he had lost face, and he was afraid that it would affect his morale, so he immediately went out on his own.
Li Kui said, "General Qiu, come up again." ”
Qiu Yue said with a dark face: "Today I will definitely cut off your black head. ”
Li Kui touched his nose and said, "There are so many blackheads on my nose, you can help me get them." ”
"Ben was going to cut off your head." Qiu Yue said.
Li Kui touched his head and said, "It scared me into a cold sweat, and it was cool to untie my clothes." As he spoke, Li Kui unbuttoned his shirt, and there were five or six fire and thunder bombs hanging on one side.
Qiu Yue regretted it, and explained in his heart that he knew that this guy was a scoundrel, so why did he still fight, and immediately said: "You black guy is a splash, I won't beat you, just wait for the siege." ”
Immediately, Qiu Yue went back and ordered the whole army to charge.
"The artillery starts fighting, beating hard." Li Kui gave an order, and fifty artillery pieces were directly scattered and shot at it, this time the distance was close, the power was terrifying, almost thousands of people were injured, and even a few deputy generals' war horses who took the lead in the charge were also hit with countless iron sand, and the explosion was like thunder and lost control, running and jumping around.
"The archers stepped forward." Fan Rui waved the flag, and five hundred archers rained arrows, poof, hundreds of soldiers were hit by arrows, and the power was much weaker.
Li Kui smiled: "If we lose this battle, we all have to fight to the death, only when we win can we have hope of life, and those who have eggs will rush with Lao Tzu." ”
Immediately Li Kui arranged for Fan Rui to lead the artillery and archers, Li Kui only led 500 plate axe soldiers to rush up, these 500 plate axe soldiers can be more peculiar today, each person hangs a bamboo basket on his chest with a fire rope in his left hand, a fire and thunder bullet in his right hand, and he throws it into the enemy group when he ignites it, just now a round of artillery fire Qiu Yue's soldiers are unstable, this turn and see Li Kui and other 500 soldiers dare to rush the 20,000 army, immediately a little stupid, Li Kui who counterattacked up led 500 bombardiers to fight too fiercely, Xuzhou Army, Huaiyang Army can not support, Unexpectedly retreated faintly, Qiu Yue shouted in the army: "Don't retreat, they have few soldiers, kill." ”
Li Kui had already noticed Qiu Yue, his arm strength was large, and more than a pound of fire and thunder bombs were thrown hundreds of meters, and they exploded directly over Qiu Yue, and Li Kui should also be considered to have made meritorious contributions, Qiu Yue's standard-bearer was injured by iron sand and injured his arm, and immediately lost the big flag. As soon as the banner in the army fell, it was troublesome, and the soldiers lost their pillars and began to retreat.
Seeing that the time was ripe, Fan Rui yelled: "Rush." ”
Immediately came up with the rest of the soldiers, and the momentum was shocked, and they pounced and struck. The strongmen on the city wall can be regarded as knowledgeable, less than 2,000 elite people chasing the 20,000 army. Bao Xu and Li Gon also have itchy hands, but they have to defend the city and can't fight.
Qiu Yue ordered his own troops to cut down more than a dozen defeated soldiers to no avail, and had to retreat with the army, and the defeated soldiers instinctively fled to the barracks, but before they arrived at the barracks, they saw fires and smoke billowing in the barracks, and they didn't know who shouted, "The barracks are burned, don't run to the barracks." ”
Now the soldiers ran around, in every direction.
It turned out that this fire was set by Xiang Chong, Xiang Chong determined that Qiu Yue led the troops to go in Mangdang Mountain, and followed him, and when Qiu Yue's army went to attack Xuzhou City, Xiang Chong led the troops to burn the tents of the barracks with rockets, in fact, there were more than 2,000 soldiers in the barracks, and Xiang Chong had few soldiers, and he did not dare to attack, but just set fire to some tents. But the rebels didn't know the real situation, thinking that the barracks were gone, and there were people running around.
This battle lasted until after noon, when Li Kui and others ran out of fire and thunder bullets, and then led the troops back. Qiu Yue gathered the remnants of the army and found that there were still more than 2,000 Xiang troops and more than 1,000 forbidden troops left.
The battle of the great situation turned out to be like this, Qiu Yue couldn't think about it for a while, pulled out the sword, put it on his neck, and wanted to break himself. But the adjutant general was quick and blocked Qiu Yue's sword, and said: "As the saying goes, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, although the soldiers are defeated today, the soldiers have not lost much, the rebels will definitely return to Huaiyang, let's go back to Huaiyang to recuperate, and wait for Captain Gao's order." ”
Qiu Yue thought about it, and immediately said, "Okay, open Huaiyang City." ”
The defeated army set off overnight and rushed to Huaiyang. Originally, I thought that Li Kui would fall and follow the army, but I found that they didn't come at all.
It turned out that Li Kui and the others were not having a good time, and today's battle was fought with 2,000 against 20,000, although there were such advanced weapons as artillery and fire and thunder shells, but the number of people must be too small, and the fighting was very hard, killing more than 400 and wounding 600, and more than half of them were killed or wounded. Especially Li Kui's plate axe soldiers, more than 200 died, Li Kui was sad to die, crying to death. It was Bao Xu who persuaded him.
There are no immortals in the war, and this is a great victory.
Fan Rui said: "The fire and thunder shells are gone, the ammunition for the artillery is not much, and the ammunition supply for logistics does not know when it will come up." ”
The ammunition supply soon came, and the transport team escorted by the navy brought an abundance of ammunition and a commendation order from the military department, bringing a large flag.