Chapter 312: (Chu State Expedition V)

"General, a large number of Cheng Dynasty cavalry appeared on the left side of our army, and the left flank defense line was broken through..."

Xiao An, who was commanding the cavalry to attack in the Chinese army, was shocked when he heard this, and the Cheng Dynasty cavalry suddenly appeared on his left flank, which means that his night attack tonight failed: "Let Liu Gao lead the army of the headquarters to block the Cheng Dynasty army on the left, and tell Cheng Hui that the front army charges, and then turn around, let's retreat..."

"General, the right side of our army was blocked by the infantry of the Cheng Dynasty army, the army suffered heavy casualties, and the rain of arrows was coming..."

"General..."

Before his subordinates could finish speaking, a rumbling thunderous explosion reached Xiao An's ears, and while he was wondering, black balls flew towards Xiao An's cavalry formation.

As an explosion sounded, the surrounding cavalry that was affected was shattered one after another, and the flesh and blood were blurred.

Xiao An opened his eyes and looked at the scene in the distance and was surprised and motionless, a piece of flesh flew towards him, and an inattentive hit him directly in the face, Xiao An stretched out his hand to pull the flesh down, and saw that the flesh and blood in his hand was half a human face, and suddenly frightened Xiao An and fell off the horse.

"Hurry up and save the general..."The guards saw Xiao An fall from his horse, and were so frightened that they hurriedly called someone to rescue Xiao An, and saw that Xiao An had passed out with fright, and immediately shouted to retreat.

The defeat was like a mountain, and the 20,000 cavalry of the Chu army retreated towards the way they came, but now Cao Zhen was not happy, and led the iron cavalry of the vanguard battalion to chase after him, and the cavalry of Song Shixiu on the left also followed, chasing and killing the Chu cavalry that had fallen behind along the way.

Xiao An never dreamed that Shangguan Yin Feng would order the Shenwu cannon to fire, and neither he nor the Chu army had seen the power of the Shenwu cannon, this time the Shenji battalion came with only the artillery team, and the musket team had to give up all the ammunition in the battle of Shahua Village, so that Shangguan Yin Feng had to give up the musket team and only order the artillery team to accompany him, but even if it was the artillery team, the number of shells now was only a hundred, and now because it was the Xiao'an attack on the camp, he had to shoot more than a dozen rounds first, so he had to deter the Chu cavalry of Xiao'an.

Of course, the actual situation is much more powerful than Shangguan Yin Feng expected, where has Xiao An seen this battle, and when he finally woke up, he was already seventy or eighty miles away from Shangguan Yin Feng's camp, and the 20,000 cavalry under his command are now less than 5,000 people left, and the rest are dead, fleeing, and surrendering, which can be said to be a loss of face.

Fifty or sixty thousand Chu troops condescendingly attacked the Cheng Dynasty army array south of Dangshan, but none of the 20,000 Chu troops who broke into the big array went out alive, until the beginning of the hour, the battle ended, and only a few hundred people were left of the 20,000 people who knelt down to surrender because of the last fear, and the corpses everywhere made the remaining Chu army already timid, who was the opponent.

Fan Chong was furious on Dangshan, and now he is trapped on Dangshan, tens of thousands of people were forced to retreat alive when they hit the bottom of the mountain, and lost nearly 30,000 troops, and the opponent seemed to be at ease, of course, the casualties of the Xiaowu battalion were also about 5,000 people, but compared with the Chu army, it was a big profit.

"The order goes down, after three o'clock in the afternoon, the whole army will attack, the direction is still Shannan, our army still has more than 100,000 people, the governor does not believe it, and he can't break through the opponent." Fan Chong shouted angrily at Wu Kui.

Wu Kui is aggrieved, the 20,000 people under his command rushed in and never came out, and now Fan Chong ordered the attack to continue, and it was him who took the lead.

September 24, 2nd year of Fengtian, Dangshan

Because of the heavy rain last night, Fan Chong ordered Wu Kui to lead the army to attack from the afternoon until the rain began to fall in the evening, and the casualties of the Chu army attacking in the rain increased sharply, because the heavy rain mountain road was too slippery, Fan Chong had to order to abandon the attack, and instead began to send troops to carry out sporadic tentative attacks, and then sent people with nimble hands and feet to Yang Yin's camp to ask for help, of course, these people were all captured by Li Yanqing's scout sentries scattered around the perimeter.

On the 27th, the eighth day of the Chu army's hold on to Dangshan, except for a heavy rain on the 24th, there was no rain for three consecutive days, the water in the mountains and the water source carried by the soldiers had been exhausted, Fan Chong's lips were even chapped, and he still did not get news of Yang Yin's reinforcements.

"Governor, hundreds of scouts have gone, but there is still no news from General Yang's side, I'm afraid he won't come." Wu Kui handed the last remaining pot of water to Fan Chongdao: "If there are no reinforcements after today, we must sit on the final attack, and now we still have nearly 100,000 people, let's disperse and break through." ”

After Fan Chong drank the water, he first cursed Yang Yin, and then carefully arranged: "Pass the order, after the time, the army retreats in two ways, and sends 10,000 people to attack the north of the mountain, creating a false impression for the Jiangdong soldiers, misleading the judgment of Shangguan Yin Feng, and then leading the army of 30,000 to raid the east of Dangshan, and the governor personally leads the remaining 60,000 people to attack the enemy camp in the south, and tonight must break through the encirclement, the army converges in Dangxi, and then retreats to Shouchun." ”

"No..."

Shangguan Yin Feng Zhongjun camp

At this moment, Shangguan Yin Feng listened attentively to Jinyiwei's report, and the current situation is very clear, although Yang Yin's army is not far from Dangshan, it has no intention of attacking Li Yanqing at all, from the news from Shouchun and the judgment of Yang Yin, Shangguan Yin Feng said with great certainty: "This king thinks that two things must happen today, first, Yang Yin will definitely lead the army to escape today." Retreat to Shouchun, second, Fan Chong will definitely break through today, and the focus is estimated to be on Li Yanqing's southern position. ”

Fan Wenhui pointed to the map and said: "Lord Wang, there are still nearly 40,000 people in the army under the command of the Marquis of Pingxiang, and the Yangzhou soldiers in the north of Dangshan have not encountered a major impact except for sporadic harassment. ”

"North?" Liang Xi looked puzzled: "General Fan, if I were Fan Chong, I really wouldn't choose the north, after the north broke through." It is basically impossible to return to Shouchun, he can only make a detour from the west side of Dangshan Mountain, this time, if he wants to go back to Shouchun, it will take nearly a month, will you choose to attack from the north? ”

"According to the scout's report, it has been five days since Gaiyan's army went south, and if the Han cavalry just arrived in a hurry, maybe Fan Chong did receive the news, but the Yangzhou soldiers were still in the dark, so I thought Fan Chong had a better chance of coming towards our camp from the east." Zang Wan is a newly joined general, working under Shangguan Yin Feng, because he was instructed by Shangguan Yin Feng before, so he also knows what to say at this kind of meeting.

Shangguan Yin Feng listened to their words, the corners of his mouth rose, and he smiled: "If this king is trapped, if you want to break through, you will definitely make two plans." ”

"Two plans?" All the generals asked in unison.