Chapter Seventy-One: Killing
It stands to reason that even with the current situation, 7,000 against less than 3,000 men and horses has an absolute advantage, but when Zhao Wei and Ren Qi faced the army in front of them, there was a chill from the bottom of their hearts for no reason, and those cold eyes stared at them like wolves, which made people feel chills in their hearts.
"Retreat." Zhao Wei suddenly sighed in a low voice, firstly, he was at a loss in his heart, and secondly, even if he defeated Zhang Liao's troops, he would not be able to stop Ye Zhao's counterattack with this little strength at the moment, if Ruoxian County was really broken, then Ye Zhao's army would not be here for long, at least Zhao Yun did not have the confidence to fight Ye Zhao without having an advantage in troops.
"It's just how does this person deal with it?" Ren Qi also had the intention of retreating at this moment, but Zhang Liao had already chased here, and if they wanted to withdraw, Zhang Liao might not agree.
The city gate is so big, 7,000 people are going to pass, the formation will definitely be chaotic, and when Zhang Liao leads the army to pounce, I am afraid that it will be the result of collapse immediately.
Zhao Wei turned his head to look at Zhang Liao, a trace of cold sweat broke out on his forehead, he didn't expect that this young general, who was inconspicuous in his eyes before, would be so difficult.
"Defeat it first!" Zhao Wei gritted his teeth and said.
It sounds a little contradictory, in fact, what Zhao Wei is worried about is that they can't resist Ye Zhao's army after they are killed, and they don't want to compete with Ye Zhao anymore, but in the face of Zhang Liao, even if he is a little stunned in his heart, he doesn't think that his seven thousand soldiers will not be the opponent of the other party.
"Shoot the arrows!" The two main generals here were still discussing how to withdraw, but Zhang Liao over there didn't have so many concerns, and after the troops were assembled, he directly issued an order to attack.
Dense clusters of arrows were shot at Zhao Wei and Ren Qi without any preparation, and at the same time, Zhang Liao led eight hundred elite soldiers, pounced like hungry wolves, and the wolf nature honed on the battlefield outside the Saiwai completely broke out at this moment, and a never-ending posture rushed straight up.
The Qianwei soldiers who were crowded together could not give full play to the advantage of numbers in this small space, a rain of arrows fell, and a piece of soldiers fell to the ground, Zhang Liao followed the impact, but it completely destroyed the little morale, the soldiers in the front row began to rush back frantically, but the soldiers in the back row were unaware, and the soldiers in the front row were crowded together, and were shot by the arrows that followed.
The stalemate did not last even a quarter of an hour, and the Qianwei soldiers and horses were completely defeated, and there was no need for Zhao Wei and Ren Qi to order, and the remaining army rushed to the outside of the city, and it was useless for the two of them to beat and scold.
"Withdraw!" Seeing that Ren Qi wanted to fight hard, but was pulled by Zhao Wei, he said bitterly, at this time, the army's spirit has been dispersed, and it is useless to fight any longer.
"Chase!"
Zhang Liao was beaten out of the real fire this time, where was he willing to let the two of them leave, led the army to chase all the way out of the city, hung the Qianwei soldiers and horses and chased them out of the city for ten miles, and the corpses outside the east gate of Chengdu were all over the field, so he was unwilling to collect the troops, if he didn't care about the emptiness in the city, he was afraid that he would have been chasing and killing until the remaining Qianwei soldiers were wiped out.
Collecting troops and returning to the city, Zhang Liao ordered the people to close the four gates, and at the same time rearranged the four gates to defend, and then took the rest of the troops to begin to pacify the people in the city.
Three days later, Ji Ling led a large army to Chengdu, but was blocked out of the city.
Zhang Liao came to the city and said to Ji Ling: "The general forgives the sin, the lord has an order, and no one is allowed to enter the city before the lord arrives in Chengdu/Du." ”
"Where are the soldiers and horses?" Ji Ling didn't pay attention to it, Ye Zhao's army mainly focused on military orders and didn't talk about personal feelings.
"It has been repelled by the last general, and now it should have returned to Qianwei!" Zhang Liao arched his hand.
"Bother Wenyuan to clean up the grain channel for me!" Ji Ling nodded, and did not wait for Zhang Liao to answer, and led the army straight to Qianwei, since it was repelled by Zhang Liao, it means that Zhao Wei and Ren Qi had made a move on Zhang Liao, so that the reason to attack Qianwei was more sufficient.
On another three days, Ji Ling rushed to Qianwei non-stop, Zhao Wei and Ren Qi had already received the news, all the city gates of Qianwei nine counties were closed, Ji Ling did not say much, and directly pushed over one city after another, for three consecutive days, Han'an, Nanguang, Jiangyang three counties were broken, and the gentry in the city were slaughtered in the name of collaborating with the enemy.
Wuyang, Taishou Mansion.
"What does Ye Zhao want to do!?" Ren Qi rushed to Zhao Wei with a pale face, pulled Zhao Yun's eyes and said: "In just three days, more than a dozen families were uprooted by the Ji Ling dog thief, and I sent people to surrender, but they were all refused!" ”
Ji Ling did not have many soldiers and horses, Ye Zhao was like Hanzhong in the past, divided into five divisions, each with 10,000 soldiers and horses, Ji Ling was one of the five main generals, about 10,000 people, and the actual strength was now only more than 8,000 people.
If you don't attack Cheng/Du, Qianwei still has the strength to fight, but in the first battle of Chengdu/Du, the soldiers were lost, and they were chased and killed by Zhang Liao, and countless people were killed, and countless people escaped, and the ones that were really brought back were less than 3,000, 3,000 people, and it was naturally impossible to defend the nine cities, so most of the troops were concentrated in this Wuyang, and the rest of the counties, it was good to have more than 100 soldiers, even if you added those private soldiers of the family, they couldn't gather a thousand people, and the ordinary city was not as majestic as Cheng/Du, how could you stop Ji Ling's 8,000 army?
Zhao Wei sat weakly on the seat, looked at the front blankly, shook his head and sighed: "It seems that Ye Zhao, like that Liu Yan, has already had the heart to take advantage of this!" ”
"So what should I do now!?" Ren Qi is extremely anxious at the moment, if Ji Ling continues to kill like this, Qianwei may have no family in the future.
"I have sent someone to ask Mr. Qiande to intercede, but it is not known whether it will be useful or not, and even if it is useful, I am afraid it will be difficult to catch up! For today's plan, the only way to do this is to ask all families to gather Zhuang Yong to fight against Ji Ling, hoping to catch up. Zhao Wei closed his eyes a little painfully, he knew that this was the case, so he didn't play those scheming, he thought that Ye Zhao would make a move on the Shuzhong family after he delayed and refused to help him win over the family, but he didn't expect Ye Zhao to make a move so simply and ruthlessly.
In addition, Liu Yan had already cleaned the Shuzhong family once, after this battle, I am afraid that the entire Shuzhong family would not dare to be the enemy of Ye Zhao again, but such an atrocity, then Ye Zhao is not afraid that it will not last long!?
Zhao Wei has never understood Liu Yan and Ye Zhao's thoughts, offending the Shuzhong family so much, in addition to making them majestic, the hatred brought is also terrifying, Ye Zhao is now prosperous, naturally no one dares to provoke, but just like Liu Yan before, if there is a foreign enemy one day, colluding with the Shuzhong family like Ye Zhao, then Ye Zhao is probably the next Liu Yan, with Ye Zhao's intelligence, he should not fail to see this.