Chapter Fifty-Seven: Taking Bozhou lightly

Li Jie's order was issued, a bed crossbow was pushed out, a sky-shaking cannon was lifted out, and with Cheng Moyu's order, countless explosive packs and crossbow shells were shot out, explosions continued to sound in the camp of the coalition army, countless black clouds rose, and countless stumps and broken arms flew around. The huge arrow stuck in the ground was shattered, and the coalition soldiers were inflicted great damage.

The coalition soldiers were blown up stupidly, and the coalition soldiers, who had never seen such a situation, blew up the battalion at once, and they trampled on each other and wanted to get out of this hell as soon as possible, but it was so easy. The range of the bed crossbow is thousands of meters, and the sky-shaking cannon is also nearly 700 meters.

Thousands of assault muskets were also taken out, and the sword and shield men began a new round of strikes with assault muskets in hand, cutting off the two sides, and the pikemen retreated, making way for the gap. Hundreds of elms spewed out tongues of fire, and countless stones spewed out like rain, sweeping down the soldiers in front of them in pieces.

Countless firearms roared, countless lives were lost, and almost the entire coalition camp was under artillery fire. The soldiers turned and fled, trying to escape from this hell, where fire was everywhere and there were stumps and broken arms.

Wang Jingchong and the others were completely stunned by the scene in front of them, and everyone turned around and fled, and there was no longer any intention to stay where they were. At the command of "one by one", the archers advanced, stopping every five steps to shoot an arrow, while the sword and shield soldiers followed closely with the arrows in hand. At this time on the battlefield, pikemen and sword and shield soldiers have become bystanders.

When the archers fired the last arrows, there were no more coalition soldiers standing on the battlefield, and wails and moans rang out incessantly. The soldiers began to clean up the battlefield, the wounded were sent to the wounded barracks for treatment, and the dead were buried in a centralized manner. Weapons and armor scattered all over the place were collected.

The statistics came out, and the Nationalist Army lost more than 4,000 dead and more than 2,900 wounded. The coalition forces killed more than 97,000 people and captured more than 7,300. Li Jie was a little distressed, the total loss of several battles on his side was nearly fifteen thousand, which was still too big. Li Jie decided that after the battle, it was necessary to increase the study of firearms.

Wang Jingchong led people back to the camp to count the number of people, and everyone was dumbfounded when they saw the numbers. The coalition army added up to only a little over 100,000 people, and the rest were all lost. The people in the big tent no longer had any plans to enter Xinxiang, and only wanted to leave quickly.

Several places bowed their hands and begged, "Marshal, our army has suffered heavy losses, let's withdraw quickly!" Wang Jingchong looked at the others, and the others also nodded again and again. Wang Jingchong opened his mouth and said, "Our army is newly defeated, morale is low, withdraw at this time, if the other party learns that the army is chasing and killing, we will die without a place to be buried!" The crowd was silent, yes! If the other party finds out, it will be another massacre!

After pondering for a long time, Wang Jingchong opened his mouth and said, "The whole army is ready, the third watch eats and the fourth watch goes out of the camp, and when it is dawn, our army can almost run ten miles, and when the other party finds out, and then send the army to chase, our army can almost run out of another ten miles, so that our army will have enough time to reach Bozhou!" "Everyone was overjoyed when they heard this" is handsome and wise, I admire it! Wang Jingchong waved his hand, "Everyone, hurry up and prepare!" "Everyone bowed their hands together"! ”

In the camp of the National Army, Li Jie was assigning tasks to Xiao Li Wanyong in the big tent, and the special brigade did not participate in the battle for a few days, and these guys were going crazy one by one. Li Jie said to the two, "The coalition army has been defeated, the morale of the army has been weakened, in order to avoid the attack of our army, they must withdraw tonight, you two bring people to carry explosives to mix in, and our army will do it outside the third watch, you must kill the commander of the coalition army as soon as possible, and at the same time create chaos in the camp, and then evacuate to avoid being injured by mistake!" The two took the order and left.

Li Jie once again ordered the whole army to eat on the first watch, set off on the second watch, and launch a night attack on the coalition forces on time on the third watch. The whole battalion was busy again, the soldiers sorted out their equipment, the leaders were busy sweating, poking small rice was carried out, pots of yam stewed rabbit meat were also placed on the long table, and the soldiers ate beautifully, not worried about the next battle at all.

On the second watch, the gate of the national army camp was opened, and the soldiers rushed out, and came to the outside of the coalition camp at the third watch. The night was dark, and the soldiers moved forward cautiously.

In the tent of the commander of the coalition army, Wang Jingchongzheng was eating with the generals, and suddenly the tent door was opened, and several sparkling explosive bags were thrown in, everyone was shocked, and the power of this thing on the battlefield during the day impressed them, and everyone hurriedly got up and fled, there was still time! There were several loud bangs, and the tent was torn to pieces, and everyone in the tent fell in a pool of blood.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! Xiao Liwanyong and others shouted while throwing the explosives bag in their hands, and the continuous explosions plunged the coalition soldiers who were eating into chaos, and Xiao Liwanyong and others immediately withdrew. As soon as the explosives from the firearms battalion flew into the battalion, at the same time, the huge arrows in the sky continued to fall into the battalion, there were fires everywhere, explosions everywhere, the soldiers were completely confused, in order to escape they desperately slashed and stabbed with knives and guns in their hands, just to give themselves a way to live.

Countless Nationalist soldiers outside the camp looked at the unilateral massacre in front of them, and they were stunned one by one, they never thought that the war could be fought like this. Tens of thousands of pikemen and sword and shield soldiers became complete spectators.

At dawn, Li Tang's remaining cavalry and scout battalions were all sent out to pursue the fleeing coalition soldiers, and the nationalist soldiers also entered the coalition camp, which was full of dead bodies and burned tents. The entire coalition camp was in ruins. The soldiers endured the stench and cleaned up the camp, the dead bodies of the days were buried, and the supplies were cleaned out and put together.

Looking at the corpses of Wang Jingchong and others, Li Jie sighed, "It's a pity, it's just for the impossible wealth!" ”

Near noon, Li Tang came back with the captives, and the 100,000 allied troops were completely wiped out. After lunch, Li Jie gave an order: "Soldiers enter Bozhou!" "The 100,000-strong army marched straight to Bozhou, and camped twenty miles from the city when it was dark, and the war was over, and the soldiers were elated, singing and laughing around the fire.

At dawn the next day, the army set off again, and in the afternoon, the soldiers came to the city of Bozhou, the gate of Bozhou City was opened, and Han Jian and his son led people to meet them under the city. Li Jie stepped forward, Han Jian and his son led everyone to kneel down and take over, "Weichen Han Jian led Wei Bo Wenwu to welcome His Royal Highness King Shou!" Li Jie put his hands on his hands and said, "Everyone, please get up!" After everyone got up, Han Jian asked Li Jie to lead the army into the city. Li Jie waved his hand, "No need, I can lead Wenchen into the city, the army is easy to cause inconvenience to the people!" ”

Han Jian and the others were stunned for a moment, and then knelt down again, "Your Highness Xie trusts!" Li Jie smiled, "Since this king uses you, he naturally has to believe you!" All right! Let's go into town! ”

Li Jie walked in front, followed by Han Jian and his son. After entering the city, Li Jie saw soldiers standing on both sides of the road, and all the shops on the street were closed. Li Jie turned to Han Jian and said, "The marshal doesn't have to be like this, withdraw the soldiers, and I'll wait for the store to open as usual." As soon as Han Jian arched his hand, "The minister will do it immediately!" ”

Entering the Shuai Mansion, Li Jie sat down, and Han Jian and the others sat on both sides. Han Wen stood up and introduced everyone to Li Jie, and when he said Zhao Debiao, Han Wen said, "Your Highness, this is what Weichen said!" Zhao Debiao hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed. Li Jie nodded and said, "Get up and speak!" Li Jie looked at Han Wen, and Han Wen spoke carefully.

Han Wen took Wang Yue to detour and went straight to Bozhou, until it was almost dark before he arrived at the city of Bozhou, Han Wen ordered someone to come forward to call the door, Zhao Yufei was on duty above the city gate, and saw that Han Wen hurriedly ordered someone to open the city gate. Han Wen led people into the city, and Zhao Yufei ran down to greet "I've seen the son!" ”

Hangul asked, "What about your head of the family?" Zhao Yufei hurriedly said, "Son, the head of the family took someone to inspect the city gate, just left!" Han Wen nodded and said, "Yes! I'm not mistaken, you're very attentive! Today, I will go to rest first, and I will order your master to bring you to my house, and I have something important to say. Zhao Yufei arched his hand and said, "Gongzi Xie, don't worry, tomorrow I will come with the head of the family to see Gongzi." Han Wen nodded, "Okay!" I'll go back first! After speaking, he waved the horse whip in his hand and left, and Zhao Yufei arched his hand, "Send the son." When Han Wen took people away, Zhao Yufei hurriedly ordered someone to find Zhao Debiao.

Early the next morning, Zhao Debiao led people to the Shuai Mansion, some people had been waiting for a long time, and brought a few people into the flower hall, Zhao Debiao and a few people sat and waited patiently, and after a while, Han Wen came in from behind. Zhao Debiao and the others hurriedly got up and saluted, "Son!" ”

Han Wen nodded and said, "General Zhao, how are you doing these days?" Zhao Debiao hurriedly arched his hand and said, "Don't dare to worry about Lao Gongzi, the little one has been guarding carefully in the past few days, and he doesn't dare to slack off!" Han Wen nodded, "Yes!" You're doing a great job! It's just that what General Zhao plans to do in the future! Zhao Debiao hesitated: "I don't know what Gongzi means by this?" ”

Han Wen smiled: "Is General Zhao ready to return to his hometown?" Zhao Debiao thought for a while and said, "During this time, I have thought a lot about it and want to find a position." But not for myself, but for my brothers and their families. I can only protect them to the best of my ability! ”

Han Wen smiled and smiled very happily, which made Zhao Debiao and the others inexplicable. After a while, Han Wen said, "Although you don't know how to protect those people, you still did it, very good, very good." Listen carefully to what I say below, and then I'll give you time to think about it! Zhao Debiao hurriedly arched his hand and said, "The young general listens!" ”

Han Wen said, "Actually, this time the 300,000 coalition troops attacked Wei City, which was planned by me and His Royal Highness King Shou today, in order to wipe out all the forces of Chengde and Wei Bo!" Actually, you were originally in the plan, but your words made me change my mind, so I kept you because some of your practices are somewhat similar to Your Highness. ”

Glancing at Zhao Debiao, whose face was pale, Han Wen said again, "Your Highness loves the people very much, and has corresponding arrangements for the people, farmers, and gentry, and I told Your Highness about you, Your Highness is very curious about you and asked me to submit to you, are you willing!" ”