712, Battle of Chang'an (4)
In fact, in the head-to-head confrontation between Han Suijun and Zhu Weijun in the past few days, Han Suijun's battle losses were often several times that of Zhu Weijun.
Therefore, many times Han Sui's army would not be able to resist the charge of Zhu Wei's army on the frontal battlefield, so that Zhu Wei's army was forced back step by step, if it were not for the rear of Han Sui's army with palace captains, Changxin Palace and archers located on the city wall to help, and on the field battlefield, Han Sui's army would have been defeated many times.
In fact, Zhu Weijun was not only fighting in front of the sword and shield men on the battlefield, but also arranged a crossbow and arrow array and a bow and arrow array dozens of steps away from the frontal battlefield, which could help his own soldiers on the battlefield in front of him to shoot the soldiers in the rear of Han Sui's army.
This also made Zhu Weijun have a greater advantage on the frontal battlefield, and it was easier for Han Sui's army, which came out to meet him head-on, to be defeated on the battlefield.
However, Han Suijun was also smart now, since they had a geographical advantage, they often put the battlefield within the range of the archers on the palace captain, Changxin Palace, and the rear city wall, or just spread forward slightly, but once they could not resist it, they would retreat a little.
In this way, when Zhu Wei's soldiers chased into the range of Han Sui's archers, they had to face the feather arrows shot overhead, and they had to face the Han Sui's soldiers who fought back head-on, no matter how well-trained they were, they would become disorganized, unable to maintain a stable offensive advantage, and often had to retreat.
As a result, Han Suijun could also take the opportunity to launch a wave of counterattacks and start a brutal flesh-and-blood battle with Zhu Weijun again.
Therefore, the battlefield of Zhu Weijun and Han Sui's army is basically within such a range now, but Han Sui did not dare to completely withdraw his troops, so that when Zhu Weijun's various siege equipment was sent, it also gave Zhu Weijun the possibility of forcibly entering Changxin Palace.
Of course, when the soldiers in front were fighting each other, the commanders of the two sides were looking for high places to direct the battle ahead.
On Han Sui's side, Han Sui, Yan Xing and other generals under his command basically stood on top of an arrow tower built in Changxin Palace, watching the progress of the war outside from afar, and issuing various military orders at any time to deal with the changes that occurred on the battlefield in front.
But looking at the situation on the frontal battlefield, Han Sui, Yan Xing and other generals under Han Sui's account who were watching the battle couldn't help frowning.
Although every time the two sides rush back and forth, in fact, the number of soldiers killed in the battle is only two or three hundred, many people still follow the tide and retreat.
However, under the attack of Zhu Wei's army in the past two days, Han Sui's army has lost no less than 6 or 7,000 troops, which still does not include the troops lost by Cheng Yi and Ma Yu Sho outside Chang'an City, as well as Li Kan and Cheng Yin.
The most important thing is that these six or seven thousand troops are Han Sui's own old roots, and for Han Sui, who relies on his head to divide in the northwest, this makes him a little unbearable.
To tell the truth, Han Sui had already moved his mind to evacuate Chang'an before, he originally belonged to the type of cavalry rogues, and now occupying Chang'an and fighting hard with Zhu Weijun like this is not the way he is good at fighting.
Although it seems that Zhu Weijun's cavalry is also very powerful from now on, maybe when fighting in the field outside the city, Han Sui's cavalry may not be the opponent of Zhu Wei's cavalry, but if he can't fight, he can escape, in such a big place in the northwest, if Han Sui really escapes, he is not afraid of Zhu Weijun's pursuit.
It is impossible for Zhu Wei's army to chase him forever, as long as Zhu Wei's army retreats, Han Sui can naturally make a comeback.
Han Sui can be regarded as having seen the combat effectiveness of Zhu Weijun, but what about this, Han Sui has been able to make chaos in the northwest for more than ten years, and it is not in vain that he really can't find the Qianghu tribe again, encourage the Qiang people to fight together, get hundreds of thousands of troops and come back to find a field, maybe he can also make Zhu Wei recognize his status in the northwest.
It's just that Ma Teng took the initiative to show favor before, saying that he was willing to join Han Sui to fight back against Zhu Weijun, which made Han Sui have a little more expectation, anyway, if he can repel Zhu Weijun, then he can still keep the land of Feng Yi that he occupies now, and maybe he can capture a lot of Zhu Weijun's war funds.
Although Han Sui and Ma Teng are now mortal enemies, after all, both of them are local snakes in the Northwest Land, and Zhu Wei is a foreign dragon crossing the river, Han Sui feels that if he is defeated, then Ma Teng will definitely not be pleased.
Since Ma Teng was willing to let go of his past grudges and was willing to join forces with himself to attack Zhu Weijun, then Han Sui was still willing to give it a try.
Han Sui and Ma Teng agreed to launch a big counterattack on Zhu Weijun today, so now seeing Wei Yan attacking him like this, Han Sui still has an expectation in his heart, as long as he can contain Zhu Weijun, then when Ma Teng's soldiers suddenly attack the right rear of Zhu Weijun, it will naturally make Zhu Weijun chaotic.
Han Sui recalled Yan Xing from the palace lieutenant to the Changxin Palace, and also prepared a cavalry counterattack force that could be raided in the Changxin Palace, which was prepared to cooperate with the Ma Teng army to raid the Zhu Wei army.
In this way, although Han Sui looked at the frontal battlefield, Han Sui's army was still defeated by Zhu Weijun from time to time, but his heart relaxed a little.
"Father, will Ma Teng really help our army attack Zhu Weijun?"
Although Yan Xing also knew the agreement between Han Sui and Ma Teng, he still had some doubts about Ma Teng's integrity at this moment, after all, Han Sui had killed Ma Teng's wife and children before, and this kind of grudge was impossible to resolve.
"Hmph, no matter how the horse horseman thinks about it, now our big enemy is Zhu Wei after all, if Zhu Wei occupies Chang'an, then the horse horseman's Fufeng is naturally impossible to keep, our army's foundation is in Liangzhou, and the horseman's foundation is in Fufeng, now if he doesn't join forces with his father to repel Zhu Wei's army, how can he hold Fufeng in the future! Yan Ming doesn't need to think about it, besides, even if the horse man changes his mind, what can he do, it's just one more reason to scold him in the future! ”
Han Sui obviously looked more open, he looked more at the current changes in interests, in his opinion, Ma Teng should not lose his trust in order to help the wind this old nest, otherwise he could withdraw to Wuwei County, Liangzhou, where could Ma Teng flee.
When Han Sui's soldiers and horses withdrew, would Ma Teng face Zhu Wei's army alone?
"But ......, father, what if that Ma Teng threw himself at Zhu Wei!"
Yan Xing felt that Han Sui was still too relieved, so he couldn't help but try to persuade him again.
"If this horse horseman really has the heart to throw himself into Zhu Wei, but I don't know if Zhu Wei will agree! Besides, now that Zhu Wei himself is in Luoyang, he may not be stable, wasn't it rumored earlier, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao sent troops together, and the horse horseman was not a reckless man, how could he take refuge in Zhu Wei at this time! Once Zhu Wei is defeated in Luoyang, how can this horse and horseman end up! ”
Hearing this, Han Sui turned his head and looked at Yan Xing, but smiled again, obviously Han Sui also knew about the attack on Luoyang by the combined forces of Cao Cao and Yuan Shao, and it was precisely because of this that he felt that Ma Teng would not throw himself on Zhu Wei's side at this time......