Chapter 364: The Battle of the Qingshui River (7)

Wang Houchun was condescending on the tower of Guazhou City, and naturally found at a glance that Zhang Sheng was attacking Cao Rengui's Chinese army with chaotic soldiers, and was actually driving the rhythm of victory, and immediately transmitted the sound of thunder directly to the battlefield to Usr to make it decisively change his tactics, and the cavalry brigade began to strongly impact Cao Rengui's Chinese army, and it was also the only assembly area outside Guazhou City that had not been disrupted by the Guiyi Army at this time.

Wang Houchun saw that Usr was attacking Cao Rengui's army according to his own words, and immediately stopped talking, this Usir's ability to grasp the battlefield has not improved much, it was like that back then, and it is still like that now, but it is not bad to take the lead in charging as a general, it should be said that this army that inherited the essence of the Shatuo cavalry of that year also has the unique ruthlessness of the grassland people when carrying out the charge mission, and Usr chiseled through Cao Rengui's last line of defense in just one tea hour. In the darkness, I saw a dragon-like cavalry break through the defensive circle of the Guiyi army, and light up the area where Cao Rengui had extinguished the torches because he wanted to avoid the impact.

"Looks like the infantry unit behind should have arrived." Wang Houchun stood on the city tower, and Sima Daoxin next to him also took a few generals of the Guiyi Army anyway to see Wang Houchun one by one, and then also stood on the city tower to watch the scene of the melee under the city.

"General, do you want me to organize the army in the city to go down to help General Zhang?" Sima Daoxin watched Usr's troops rush forward, and said a little eagerly.

Wang Houchun shook his head and said with a smile: "General Sima can maintain the situation in the city, the main force of the Tiance Army in the rear has already followed, don't you see that the rear army of the Guiyi Army is already in chaos?" After a pause, he continued: "I said two hours, then they will definitely arrive at the battlefield in two hours. In this battle, the Tiance army can win a big victory, and the generals can go to the battlefield anyway, and it is great to adapt to the situation, I think that the marshal will report your merits to the emperor and ask for credit for the generals. ”

Wang Houchun's words made Sima Daoxin and the others put their minds down, whether they wanted to come to this point or not, they could only follow the Tiance Army with one mind. It's just that both Sima Daoxin and a few people around him are very curious about the young man in front of him, the other party is young but seems to have a high status in the Tiance army, otherwise why would the two commanders under the city obey his words, and even be able to easily take over the command from Zhang Sheng's hands, at this moment, on behalf of the Tiance army marshal, they did not hesitate to promise them, and couldn't help but let them secretly guess the identity of the other party in their hearts.

They were talking on the city tower, and the Tiance army outside the city also reached a climax in the offensive of the Guiyi army, and Li Tianyi in the rear finally caught up at the last moment, and the battle situation finally fell to the side of the Tiance army after the 30,000 Tiance army infantry team pressed up, and the deafening gunfire began to take over the battlefield, and rows of bullets whistled in, knocking the Guiyi army that had not yet reacted to the ground. Compared to Usr who was just a general, Li Lisan's organization on Li Lisan's side could be said to be much tighter, in addition to the central corps, 30,000 people were surrounded by two wings, relying on the powerful rifle firepower, able to attack from a distance, and beat those Guiyi troops to the ground.

"It's a pity, Cao Rengui's life is hard to save in this battle, otherwise I would really like to meet this guy, and it is really quite capable of convincing the Uighurs to support the former strong enemy in such a short period of time." Wang Houchun saw that the Guiyi army in circles was constantly retreating, and was driven by Li Lisan to approach the city wall of Guazhou, and immediately nodded, compared to Liu Xuan, who is good at the overall situation, Li Lisan's ability to command the battlefield is a little stronger, and Wang Houchun is also very optimistic about him.

"General Sima, immediately organize archers to be on guard on the city tower, as long as the Guiyi army under the city retreats to the edge of the city, immediately shoot arrows to drive away, and then organize people to order the troops outside the city to disarm and surrender, and the few people you were outside the city before can prepare anyway." Wang Houchun saw through the development of the situation outside the city at a glance, and immediately asked Sima Daoxin to start preparations, only to see countless strong bows spread out in an instant on the city tower, and arrows poured out like raindrops, killing all the soldiers who had approached the city wall, and at the same time, those soldiers with loud voices began to surrender on the spot.

At this time, the Guiyi army outside the city had actually collapsed, Cao Rengui's orders could not get out of the Chinese army, and the tens of thousands of troops around them were completely caught in a situation of fighting on their own, and Zhang Sheng took advantage of the chaos to besiege the Chinese army with those chaotic soldiers and Usr also made him see that his general trend had gone, so he did not hesitate to issue an order to break through, and quietly withdrew from the side with his family's guards.

At the beginning, not only the Tiance Army, but even the Guiyi Army itself did not find that its commander had left the battlefield, and Cao Rengui's order could not be conveyed to other places, so everyone did not feel that this commander was not there, but as Usr rushed into the Chinese army, he found that the Chinese army's men and horses were less than half unconsciously, and only more than 10,000 people on the periphery were still resisting the impact of the Tiance Army.

However, at this time, Wang Houchun's method was soon realized by Li Lisan in the rear, so the Tiance army began to charge while entering the rhythm of capturing prisoners, and countless soldiers of the Guiyi Army who were beaten were chased by the vicious soldiers of the Tiance Army and ordered them to disarm and surrender. At first, this situation was only sporadical, but after Li Lisan's large army and User's cavalry converged, a large number of Guiyi soldiers began to surrender on the battlefield, and the entire Guazhou battlefield also reached the final moment.

"General Sima, order your troops to keep watch inside the city, and the others will follow me out of the city with their men and horses, and they should also be over. All these captives need to be captured by you. "Wang Houchun took part of the anyway troops out of the city and immediately joined Zhang Sheng's Anxi battalion, there was no way, there was only the least number of his men and horses on the whole battlefield, and he was still wrapped in the chaos of the Guiyi army, but what Wang Houchun didn't expect was that when Zhang Sheng and himself converged, not only did they have their own men and horses, but they were also sparsely followed by many soldiers of the Guiyi Army, and I don't know if these people were dizzy or felt that it was not bad to follow Zhang Sheng, Anyway, when he went out of the city, Zhang Sheng only had more than 1,000 people, and after this battle, the number of people was not less, and there were thousands more.

"You kid did a good job, go and organize the men to immediately escort the prisoners into the city, assist the other troops to clean up the battlefield, and end the battle as soon as possible." Wang Houchun didn't care about anything when he saw that Zhang Sheng actually started to reorganize on the battlefield, so he immediately assisted Li Lisan and Usr to start escorting the captives into the city to join Sima Daoxin, and then took the others to find Li Lisan, relatively speaking, that side was the main force of the army.

At this time, Li Lisan had already commanded the troops to surround all the Guiyi troops present, and the chaotic Guiyi army began to recover gradually under the pressure of strong bullets, and was guarded by a group of Tiance Army soldiers on the spot, and some of those who were closer to Guazhou City had already driven to the city according to the order. Li Lisan and Usr hurriedly came over to salute when they saw Wang Houchun coming.

"Okay, don't be polite on the battlefield, Lisan immediately sent someone to inform the marshal to let him move the main force to Guazhou City, and temporarily use Guazhou City as the garrison of the army." Wang Houchun looked at the sky while instructing Li Lisan to send someone to inform Wan Yi, this battle was about to enter the morning, Li Lisan and they fought for a day and a night, basically relying on the morale of Ruhong to support, so he ordered several generals behind him to assist them. These people's combat effectiveness may not be good, but under the momentum of the Tiance Army's great victory, they can't have any repetition.

"Second chief, that Cao Rengui is gone." After sending someone to search around, Usr reported a little helplessly: "It must be that the chaotic army took advantage of the chaos to escape." ”

"Forget it, just run away. It's not a bad thing that he ran away, at least it won't allow Zhang Chaofeng to spend this winter with peace of mind. Wang Houchun obviously knew Hu Xiaosi's plan on the other side of the sandbank, so he didn't care much about Cao Rengui's escape, at least Cao Rengui wouldn't panic when he was in Zhang Chaofeng. In fact, what he didn't guess was that Cao Rengui and Zhang Chaofeng did not meet halfway at this time, Cao Rengui escaped from Guazhou with his own headquarters and went directly to the sandbank, and Zhang Chaofeng waited until the next day, that is, the first day of the ninth month of the third year of the Apocalypse, to know the specific battle situation on the Guazhou side, but at this time it was too late, he had already led his troops from the fork in the road between Guazhou and the sandbank towards the source of the Qingshui River, according to his plan and assumption, it was impossible for the Uighurs to be defeated so quickly, At the very least, he would wait until he joined up with him before attacking. What he never expected was that Qibi Heli had already been defeated in front of the Battle of Guazhou, and he himself was captured by Gao Siji, and then escorted to Guazhou City with a large group of men.

Since he did not receive the news of the defeat of the Uighurs, after learning that Guazhou had been taken by the Tiance army, and after Cao Rengui's army was defeated, Zhang Chaofeng was even more radical towards the source of the Qingshui River wholeheartedly.

However, at this time, Wan Yi had already cleaned up the battlefield on the Heyuan side, and the large team escorted all the prisoners into Guazhou, and the whole operation around Guazhou as the center of the war came to an end, although Wan Yi regretted that Zhang Chaofeng's army did not arrive on time and did not finish the battle in the end, but he was still very excited to see Wang Houchun take Guazhou with less than a few thousand people, and set up a banquet to reward the soldiers of the whole army as soon as he entered the city, and asked Liu Xuan to immediately write a war report and send it to the Chang'an base camp. At this moment, Xuan Yingwei secretly sent the experience of this battle to Hu Xiaosi, who was still waiting on the sandbank.

However, Hu Xiaosi's side almost received the news of Cao Rengui's defeat back to Shazhou at the same time as receiving the news of Cao Rengui's defeat back to Shazhou, this news once made him terminate his plan, because he originally thought that after killing Li Yichang, the local sandbank would fall into a leaderless situation, but with the return of Cao Rengui, he decisively gave up this plan and began to plan another one, Li Yichang and Cao Rengui did not agree with each other, and Cao Rengui was ambitious, in Hu Xiaosi's opinion, he was by no means inferior, so he was empty at the moment in Shazhou, The more than 10,000 defeated soldiers brought back by Cao Rengui were enough to make a lot of articles, which also gave Hu Xiaosi an opportunity to take advantage of. However, if this plan is to be realized, it is necessary to find a way to kill Zhang Chaofeng. Therefore, after receiving this news, Hu Xiaosi immediately asked Zhao Si to sit on Shazhou to implement the plan, and he rushed to Guazhou to discuss with Wan Yi in the starry night.

"Little Four, where did you send Tiancheng and Xiaohu?" When Hu Xiaosi arrived in Guazhou, Wan Yi was assisting Tuoba Sijiao in dealing with the matter of prisoners, and the local soldiers of Guazhou in the Guiyi Army were singled out, and some of them were merged with Sima Daoxin's county soldiers to form the Northwest Military District Guard Division, and some were merged into Yang Yi's construction company construction brigade, and according to Wang Houchun's method, let them serve as basic officials such as captains, command other Guiyi prisoners and Uighur prisoners, and seize the time to repair the roads while it was still snowing in the northwest. Hu Xiaosi was arrested by Wang Houchun as soon as he arrived, he originally planned to return to Chang'an with Yang Tiancheng after fighting Guazhou, after all, there are still a lot of things to deal with on the side of the General Staff, and it is already okay to sneak out this time to have a good time, but what I didn't expect is that this guy directly threw Yang Tiancheng and the Flying Eagle Brigade to the east of Datun City, and the road will definitely be closed when it snows.

"What can I do, Tiancheng wants to catch Zhang Chaofeng and Cao Rengui." Hu Xiaosi smiled bitterly: "But don't worry, I already let people inform them when I came." But Tiancheng returned in vain this time, you are worried that he will be jealous of you. After saying that, he looked around and said, "Where did you lock up that Uighur prince?" Is this kid's brain in water? Can you still lead troops like this? I'm going to see him, to see if this guy's head is naturally different from everyone else's? As soon as Hu Xiaosi's words came out, Gao Siji and the others present were speechless, in the past two days, they had already known everything that Hu Xiaosi planned on the sandbar through Liu Xuan and Li Lisan, and now the entire sandbank plan would be redeployed, if it weren't for Wang Houchun decisively changing his mind halfway through, and letting the Guiyi Army prisoners ignore it, it would be impossible to get such a big result in the battle of gambling to win the overall situation. The reason for all this is on the prince in Hu Xiaosi's mouth.

"Ahem, cough, Xiaosi, I've been to see it, this guy probably didn't have water in his brain, but his brain was in water at that time." Wang Houchun glanced at Shi Jian behind him, who didn't understand what he meant, and hurriedly slipped out to increase the manpower of Qibi Heli's guards, joking that this guy who would repay him came to the door, and it was not good for him to accidentally abolish Qibi Heli. I haven't had time to deal with the Uighurs in the past two days, and this prince can't die.

However, Hu Xiaosi put this matter behind him, and began to discuss with Wang Houchun the plan he had conceived before he came, both of them are people with active minds and eclectic styles, and they are naturally able to talk about this kind of conspiracy, and after a while, the smiles on the faces of these two guys suddenly made several people around them tremble, and hurriedly gave way to them.

"Generals, the marshal and the deputy prime minister have arrived, and they have been brought by order from the emperor and the general staff." Just as a few people were chatting, Liu Xuan walked in and said with a smile.