Chapter Seventy-Eight: Destroying the Withering and Decaying (5)
In the mighty city, the rebels fled, lost their armor, and the scene was a mess.
The lord will be beheaded, the reinforcements will be broken, the enemy army will capture the city, and the defenders of the mighty city, which is in internal and external difficulties and the army's morale is in chaos, have collapsed, lost their will to fight, and surrendered in despair.
After a day of fierce fighting, the Wei army was victorious.
The mountains are like the sea, and the remnant sun is like blood.
The crumbling sunset is like red blood, rendering half of the sky red, orange and yellow, and the shadows of the mountains are heavy, like an ancient giant beast devouring heaven and earth.
Just after the battle, the city was in chaos, the sergeants were running back and forth, the generals were drinking orders to restrain the soldiers, and everyone was working on the aftermath.
The cacophony gradually subsided.
The surrounding generals had already discovered Chen Xu and gathered over to pay respects.
A resolute-looking commander made his face full of irrepressible excitement: "Chen Du is really a god and a man!" First, he sent General He and General Suo to attack the enemy's gap and attack his right flank, and really broke the Shu army. Then one person climbs the city tower, defeats his army, opens the city gate, so that our army can attack the city without much effort, and the mighty city will be destroyed in one day! ”
"One day down the city!" Another general said this sentence in a strong emotional tone, feeling the same as the previous general.
"Haha. These Shu troops must have gotten the news! ”
"Who's to say it isn't!"
"How did Chen Duenvoy enter the city?" However, there are also doubts.
"The last general has never fought such a smooth battle!" Cheng Peng, the first commander of the First Army of the Left Wing of the Hujie Army, shouted, "We have no ink in our stomachs, we can't speak, and I will fight wherever Chen Du's envoy points in the future, and there is no ambiguity!" Ha ha! ”
When the generals heard this, they all nodded yes, everyone is an understanding person, and naturally knows the important role played by Chen Xu in this battle, fortunately, such a fierce man is from his own army, fortunately, everyone has a look of honor.
"As soon as the mighty city is over, our army will no longer be able to go south to Fengzhou." One of the generals spoke.
Everyone knew about this and was very excited.
As soon as the city became mighty, the chess game of the Western Expedition was fully activated, and the advantage of the battle gradually tilted towards the Wei army.
At this time, a sergeant came to report that he found the grain of the Shu army garrison in the west of the city.
There was a camp in the west of the city, surrounded by a wall outside, with many houses inside, and the remaining officials and soldiers had surrendered and were now under the control of the Wei army.
Chen Xu rode his horse straight into the wall.
"The people take food as the sky", "the soldiers and horses have not moved, the grain and grass go first", all of which show the importance of food, he was so eager to capture the mighty city before, not just for food, but now it is finally a painstaking person who finally lives up to it and gets what he wants.
He couldn't wait to walk into a room, where there were five or six bamboo hoards, surrounded by bamboo strips, and the contents should be food.
Thinking of this, he pulled out the saber at his waist, stabbed the middle part with a knife, and then pulled it horizontally, tearing the bamboo strip in an instant, revealing the sack inside and the wheat that was pouring down.
When he first came in, Chen Xu saw that there were a lot of houses, probably also houses where grain was placed, so he turned around and asked, "How much grain is stored here?"
As soon as the words fell, an official of Shu State on the side hurriedly stepped forward and bent down and said: "Tell your lordship, there are a total of 30,000 grains in Weiwu City, which were originally supplied to Weiwu City and the neighboring military villages."
He didn't miscalculate, looking at the warehouse full of grain, Chen Xu was overjoyed.
Chen Xu nodded and said, "Oh." It's really lucky, fortunately no one lit a fire to burn the grain, otherwise it would be nerve-wracking. Seeing the intact grain, Chen Xu couldn't help but feel happy.
The official hurriedly said: "Back to the general's words, when Wang Feng, the guard of the granary, saw the Wei army coming, he ordered the subordinate to burn the grain. However, he was trapped by the subordinate officials, so he kept the granary. ”
Chen Xu couldn't help but glance at him, and heard that there was inevitably an invitation to merit in the official's words, but he didn't break it, but praised it: "It's a good job, otherwise it's a pity to have so much food."
When the officials heard this, they were overjoyed.
A soldier consumes about two or three liters of food a day, Chen Xu has a total of 6,000 sergeants, in order to ensure sufficient physical strength during the war, food consumption is more than usual, according to three liters a day, Hujie army consumes 18,000 liters a day, that is, 180 Hu, Chen Xu calculated in his heart, 30,000 Hu can make the army have no food worries in nearly half a year.
Thinking of this, Chen Xu couldn't help but be so excited that his face turned red, his eyes flashed, Chen Xu only brought thirteen days of food before leaving the army, seeing that the time was approaching, just when there was a shortage of food, this batch of food can be described as a charcoal in the snow, haha.
In this way, the time for the Wei army to operate was greatly increased, and the situation was greatly favorable to the Wei army.
"Haha." Chen Xu couldn't help but laugh out loud.
He Meng Suohu and others are happy, although the battle has been very smooth these days, but everyone has a pimple in their hearts, as the so-called food is not panicked, no food is not smelled, the soldiers are all tied to their heads and belts to fight with their lives, if they can't even eat, what morale to win the battle.
Now, it can be regarded as steady.
Chen Xu looked at the other grain houses one after another.
Next, Chen Xu said loudly in front of the officials and soldiers of the Shu State: "Be kind to all the Shu people who surrender, and the captives will be escorted to Fengxiang, and the meritorious people will be registered, and please reward them in the future." He is now the chief general, just give orders, and he has special people under him to handle it properly.
This move is also to appease the hearts of the captives.
Chen Xu was ready to send the captive's pawns to Fengxiang, although he had harvested so much food, but it only solved the urgent need, and the food was not so surplus that he could consider supplying the prisoner's rations, and sent it directly out of Qinling, so that Wang Jing could worry about it.
"We, we people, I'm really happy today...... Chen Xu snorted softly. Walking swaggeringly, relaxed, indescribably happy.
In the final analysis, he is still an ordinary person, he also has joys, sorrows, and sorrows, won battles, and is in a good mood, and human nature.
By evening, the city had been simply cleaned up, and the bodies of the soldiers killed in the battle of the two armies had been buried on the spot outside the city, and some of the mottled blood stains that had not yet been washed away seemed to indicate the bloody battle that had just taken place.
The soldiers of the Wei State have just experienced a battle, their faces are a little tired, but they can't cover their high morale, the real strong army is crawled out of the sea of corpses and blood, and they have been trained by winning battles one by one!
Chen Xu thought for a while, and said, "Send someone to Fengxiang to report the victory to Wang Jieshuai, and ask him to send troops to follow up and cooperate with our department."
Chen Xu has already opened up the situation, and now is the time to expand the results of the battle, relying on his thousands of men and horses alone is a little weak, and he needs the cooperation of friendly forces.