Chapter 299: Yuan Chang retreats to Kuocang Mountain, and Wang Shuo gallops to the aid of Wuwei Pass (II)
The world knows that the Dali Empire is "surrounded" by the Kucang Mountains and the Jiuling Mountains, and there are two ways to get out of the pass (leaving the Dali Empire), one is to go out of Wuwei Pass in the north, and the other is to go out of Zhangde Pass in the east, and now there are more than 200,000 troops of the Dayue Empire outside Wuwei Pass, this road has been blocked, and Zhangde Pass is too far away from Xinzhou, and Yuan Chang cannot lead the Guangming Army out of the pass from here.
Wuwei Pass and Zhangde Pass are not working, it does not mean that Yuan Chang has no way to go, once Yuan Chang's father Yuan Hao alone or led his subordinates into the Kuocang Mountains and Jiuling Mountains many times, looking for rare high-vintage medicinal materials, the internal situation of the two mountain ranges is very clear, and even walked through these two mountain ranges, opening up a relatively safe route.
Although Yuan Chang himself did not walk this route, but he had a map with the route in his hand, and there were various markers on the way, even if this route was relatively narrow and could not pass through the large group of people, it was enough for Yuan Chang, Yuan Chang knew that most of the people in the Guangming Army, especially the soldiers, would not follow Yuan Chang to leave their hometown, because there was their home here.
Yuan Chang led the Guangming Army out of the city and left from the vacated side of the Yuan Zhou Army, and then the Guangming Army went all the way north, and the 10,000 Guangming Army in the western part of Xinzhou also rushed to the north of Xinzhou to gather after receiving the news.
When Yuan Chang led the Guangming Army to the north, Wang Shuo also led the Yuan Zhou Army to follow the Guangming Army and advance to the north, on the one hand, to aid Wuwei Pass, and on the other hand, to prevent accidents from the Guangming Army.
With a man's intuition, Wang Shuo believes that Yuan Chang will do what he says, but there may also be accidents, and Wang Shuo has to guard against it.
Ten years later, the Shinshu Guangming Army converged in the northern part of Shinshu, and Wang Shuo also led the Yuan Zhou Army and the Xinzhou Family Alliance Army, which had been fighting against the Guangming Army in the northern part of Shinshu, and a part of the Duan Family Army.
After the Guangming Army was all assembled, Yuan Chang asked the generals of the Guangming Army to convey to the following that Yuan Chang was going to leave Xinzhou and leave the Dali Empire, not to force it, it was okay to be willing to go with Yuan Chang, and it was okay if they were not willing to go with Yuan Chang, as long as they no longer resisted the Yuan Zhou Army, they could return to their hometown and live peacefully.
After the ordinary soldiers were notified, there was an uproar, and after the excitement, the soldiers began to make their own choices, as Yuan Chang thought, there were very few people who were willing to leave the Dali Empire with Yuan Chang, less than one-tenth.
For ordinary soldiers, if they die in battle, they will die in battle, but now that they are not dead and they still have a home, they are unwilling to leave their homeland and leave the Dali Empire.
And more than half of the people who are willing to leave with Yuan Chang are people who have no home, among them, the remaining seven congenital grandmasters in the Bright Army, that is, the seven high-level leaders of the Bright Army, are all willing to leave with Yuan Chang, and more than half of the middle and lower-level officers in the Bright Army are also willing to leave with Yuan Chang, and finally Yuan Chang roughly counted more than 2,300 people who were willing to leave with him, and one-third of them were martial artists, including seven congenital grandmasters, sixty-five high-level martial artists, one hundred and seventy-three middle-level martial artists, and five hundred and twelve low-level martial artists.
Yuan Chang left with more than 2,300 people, and they wanted to go outside the Dali Empire to continue chasing their dreams, and the remaining 30,000 or so Bright Army disbanded in place and walked in the direction of their homes.
Wang Shuo witnessed the dissipation of the last Guangming Army of the Dali Empire, and after determining that the Guangming Army was really disbanded and would not resurrect again, Wang Shuo led the Yuanzhou Army, the Xinzhou Family Alliance, and the Duan Family Army with a total of 70,000 troops, and rushed towards the northernmost Wuwei Pass.
On July 14, the Yuan Zhou Army and the Guangming Army fought at Shinshu Chichi.
At the end of July, the disadvantaged Guangming Army retreated to a county town, which was later surrounded by the Yuanzhou legions
On August 11, more than 200,000 troops of the Dayue Empire approached Wuwei Pass, and immediately launched a fierce attack on Wuwei Pass, and the 40,000 defenders of Wuwei Pass desperately resisted the attack of the Dayue Empire army under the command of Duan Gang.
On August 17, Wang Shuo received news from Wuwei Pass, Wang Shuo ordered the Yuanzhou army to storm the city garrisoned by the Guangming Army, hoping to quickly destroy the Guangming Army and rush north to aid Wuwei Pass.
On August 19, Yuan Chang met with Wang Shuo on the battlefield, Yuan Chang proposed to lead the Guangming Army out of the Dali Empire, Wang Shuo agreed, and then Yuan Chang led the Guangming Army to the north, and Wang Shuo also led Yuan Zhou's army to follow behind the Guangming Army.
On the second day of the ninth month, the last Guangming Sect in the Dali Empire was disbanded, and Yuan Chang led more than 2,200 people to march to a certain place in the Kucang Mountains, wanting to leave the Dali Empire through the Kucang Mountains, and on the same day, Yuan Chang led an army of 70,000 to continue to gallop north to aid Wuwei Pass.
The offensive and defensive battle of Wuwei Pass continued, and finally waited for such an opportunity, the army of the Dayue Empire launched an offensive again and again to Wuwei Pass, there were more than 200,000 troops gathered in front of Wuwei Pass, and the number of casualties of the Dayue Empire exceeded 30,000 for nearly a month, but the army gathered outside Wuwei Pass still exceeded 200,000, and it was still increasing.
The number of dead and wounded in the Dayue Empire is more than 30,000, and the number of dead and wounded in the defenders of Wuwei Pass is also more than 10,000, and in the long battle, even if the defenders of Wuwei Pass can be rotated in three shifts, the soldiers have become a little tired, and the damage of the defenders is slowly increasing.
"Brothers, as long as you win Wuwei Pass, you can take the money as you like, and the beauties are at your disposal."
"Kill! Kill! Kill! ”
Under the temptation of money and beauty, the soldiers of the Dayue Empire frantically launched attacks on Wuwei Pass again and again, and when their comrades died, they stepped on the corpses of their comrades and continued to rush forward.
The defenders of Wuwei Pass are also fighting desperately, and even some wounded soldiers jump off the city wall directly with the enemy, even if they die, they must pull the enemy to die together, and they must not let Wuwei Pass fall into the hands of the enemy.
"Soldiers, hold on for two more days, and our reinforcements will arrive in two days." After Duan Gang received the news of Wang Shuo's reinforcements, he quickly told the news, and the defenders of Wuwei Pass were greatly boosted in morale after learning that the reinforcements were coming, and for a while they drove back the enemy who rushed to the city wall.
Perhaps the Dayue Empire also received the news that there were reinforcements at Wuwei Pass, and the Dayue Empire's attack on Wuwei Pass became more and more ferocious, and even launched an attack on Wuwei Pass day and night.
That night, the Dayue Empire was about to occupy the front wall of Wuwei Pass, and in the end, Duan Gang personally took the lead in killing the enemy off the city wall, and the defenders of Wuwei Pass suffered heavy losses.
On the fourth day of the ninth month, Wang Shuo led 6,000 tiger cavalry to arrive at Wuwei Pass first, 6,000 people were not many, or cavalry, but because of the arrival of a wave of reinforcements, the morale of the defenders of Wuwei Pass increased again, and the Dayue Empire resisted several attacks after that.
Two days later, a large group of reinforcements entered Wuwei Pass, and the Dayue Empire saw that it was impossible to capture Wuwei Pass, so it withdrew.