Chapter 987: Cornered
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The grass was green in the field, except for a few miles long and wide, which was ravaged to the ground, flowers bloomed among the corpses and mutilated weapons, blades of grass and blood, trampled into mud by people and horses, and the ground was all red, and you can imagine the fierceness of the battle.
Then they saw something like this:
Tian Ben's foot soldiers seemed to be crazy, yelling and chasing the Qin warriors on those chariots, although the manpower could not catch up with the wheels after all, but in order to prevent Zhao from crossing the station to continue to slaughter those Qin and Wei routs, sometimes the chariots could only block for a while, so they gave the foot soldiers a chance, their tactics were very simple, several people approached twenty or thirty steps, and threw the iron spear in their hands together, and the unlucky warriors were directly stabbed off the car, if they couldn't aim at the people, then shoot the horses, as long as the horses were injured or frightened, It's easy for the car to roll over to the ground.
Even so, after all, the chariot had the advantage of height and speed, and for every Qin Guorong chariot that was knocked down, two or three Zhao pawns were killed or seriously injured in battle.
It wasn't until Mucha's army outflanked them that the warriors sped away, leaving only the scarred Tian Benbu to stay where they were.
Nearly 1,000 enemies were killed, four or five thousand people were crushed, and dozens of cars were destroyed, and the results were brilliant, but they also paid seven or eight hundred casualties.
Mu Xia asked the Lingque healer who accompanied the army to treat the wounded, and at the same time looked for Tian Ben, and when he finally found him, he saw that he was sitting on a big stone resting, with arrow wounds on his legs and back, but it seemed that the shot was not deep, and the sergeant who had learned to deal with the wounds was helping him pull out the arrow to stop the bleeding, although Tian Ben was bold, but he couldn't stand the pain, and every time he pulled out an arrow, he cried out in pain like a baby, and hurriedly poured the liquor in the wine bag into his throat to relieve the pain.
When Mucha passed, he heard Tian Ben scolding the person who bandaged him: "Why did you shed so much? Although my blood is not valuable, the blood given to me by Shangqing is valuable! "It looks distressed.
Seeing Mucha coming, Tian Ben struggled to stand up - his feet were cramping so badly that he could barely stand, and he opened his mouth and smiled: "This battle is enjoyable, but I have to find a woman now." β
After bleeding, it is the most difficult to find a woman, this is Tian Ben's bold words, for which he does not know how many illegitimate children he has created in Jin and Lu.
"There are women in Xinjiang City." Mucha smiled and patted him: "This time you have made a great contribution, you will definitely be able to ascend, and Hugh will make the lord angry for some unnecessary things." β
Being lightly patted by Mu Xia, Tian Ben almost fell to the ground, and hurriedly supported him left and right, and after a pause, he asked: "But the Qin people and the Wei clan still ran away, and you can catch up with them now, at most you can catch some routs, but I'm afraid you won't be able to do your best." β
"They can't run away." Mu Xia looked to the west, the Qin people's front army should have arrived at the bank of the great river at this time.
"There are cavalry at Longmen on the other side of the river." Mu Xia said to Tian Ben: "I heard that the second army of Qin and Wei wants to return to Hexi, Yu Xi has returned to reoccupy Longmen, and in front of the second army of Qin and Wei, it is a dead end......
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The river is surging, and the Liangshan is majestic.
There is no way to go to the sky, there is no door to enter the ground, this is the mood of the Qin and Wei coalition forces after running to the river.
After letting the chariots turn back to prevent the enemy's pursuers from approaching, the Qin people's front army quickened their pace and ran to the river, but they did not see the pontoon bridge as promised.
There was only one cavalry patrolling the river on the opposite bank, and when he saw that the Qin army had arrived, he roared and immediately sent a boat over.
On the boat is a small official of the Qin State with a blue nose and swollen face, according to him, the Qin army of Shaoliang has recaptured Longmen, and the small branch of Zhao cavalry has also returned to Liangshan, who expected that when the pontoon bridge was set up yesterday, the cavalry that had already gone south suddenly killed back, even though there were many guards in Longmen, but the outer wall of Longmen had been destroyed, there was no way to defend at all, and Longmen was occupied twice, so the pontoon bridge was not built out.
At this moment, those Zhao cavalry were showing off their might on the other side, and General Qin Guoyu knew that the Zhao army just wanted them to despair, and if they used the remaining boats on the east side of the river to force them over, they would definitely be rushed by Zhao cavalry on the shore, and there was no possibility of landing on the shore at all.
"All the army to the south!"
In a desperate gamble, he gave an order, the Puban ferry, where the hydrological conditions were better than Longmen, and the ships of the Qin State were concentrated, and if they could go to Puban before the Zhao army arrived, they would have the possibility of escaping.
But all the Qin people knew that this hope was slim, because Pusaka was still two hundred miles to the south, and the Zhao army had already outflanked them only ten miles away......
It is better to have hope than to give up, and the Qin soldiers, who had been on the road for two days, turned around again and dragged their tired bodies to the south, they had no idea how far they could go, whether they could not walk and fell, or they were caught up and captured by the Zhao army behind.
But not everyone wants to try their luck in the South.
"General! Wei Jun didn't follow! β
"What?" Qin Guoyu turned around, just in time to see that the remnants of the Wei clan who had just gathered were all sitting on the ground, looking at the smoke and dust in the east motionless.
"Is he going to stop Zhao Jun for us?" General Qin Guoyu denied this possibility, and because of Qin's chariot soldiers who did not distinguish between friend and foe, they rushed into a mess, so Lu Xingcai came over to quarrel with him.
So he's going to surrender? General Qin Guoyu showed a trace of ruthlessness in his eyes, but he was helpless, now they could not protect themselves, and they could only go by the Wei army.
He spat on the ground and said, "I can't control them, let's go!" β
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Watching the Qin army go south, Lu Xing showed a sneer.
"What's the use of running away? If you don't walk more than twenty miles, you will be surrounded by the Zhao army. β
Lu Xing had long been chilled by the behavior of the Qin chariot soldiers attacking his own rout, he saw that the front could not cross the river, and the chasing troops were coming, coupled with the resentment in his heart, in a fit of anger, he issued an order to everyone to break away from the Qin army.
His injuries were very serious, his left eye was covered with bloody gauze, and he looked extremely miserable, but even so, he still endured the pain, boarded the chariot, and said to the Wei soldiers who were on standby: "The first general is incompetent, the three armies are affected, and Lu Xing has made the second and third sons suffer." β
The morale of the Wei soldiers has been shattered under the impact of Tian Ben, and now only the desire to survive in a group prompts them to regroup together, the previous four or five thousand, now only half is left, and the rest are either dead or scattered, and they are missing.
But I heard Lu Xing say again: "How many relatives of the second and third sons are still in Hedong?" β
The Wei pawns looked at each other, one hand was raised timidly, it was a teenage child soldier, his face was dirty, he cried and said: "My father and my mother are in the ...... of Xinjiang" Next, one hand after another was raised, and at the same time there was a sobbing sound, before the full-scale war, the Zhao clan had already occupied a lot of Wei cities, plus Qin Wei's organizational ability was limited, so he could only take care of Wei Wushu first, and most of the rest of the soldiers' families did not have time to move to Hexi.
After a cursory glance, Lu Xing found that such soldiers accounted for eight or nine out of ten.
He sighed and said: "Now there is no way out, the Zhao army in the rear is approaching, we have no way out, you might as well surrender the Zhao army here, at least you don't have to stay away from your relatives, save yourself from being lonely and burying your bones in a foreign land." β
"General, is this true?" These family members are still in the Jin land, and the Wei pawns who were unwilling to stay away from Hedong burst into tears for a while, staying in the Jin State, they may be punished, and they will be punished as gangsters and Yu Mu, but it is also better than going to the Qin State to find an unknown future. And they are in the Jin Kingdom, so they naturally know that the days in the Zhao Clan's territory are not so bad.
However, there are also people who are suspicious, after all, some time ago, Zhao Jun slaughtered 5,000 Zheng Guo's soldiers, which is already known to the world.
"This time the boss is Musha and not a thief, although this person is from a humble background, he is kind-hearted, and he should not kill prisoners."
These words made everyone feel relieved, they were restrained by the military officials before, and they didn't dare to run away, but now that Lu Xing had relented, the soldiers were suddenly moved.
"Gentleman, this ......" The Wei disciple next to him was anxious and wanted to persuade Lu Xing, but saw that Lu Xing stopped him from speaking first.
It wasn't until a few brigade commanders waited in place with the Wei soldiers and surrendered to the Zhao clan that Lu Xing pulled a few people and said in a low voice:
"Ordinary soldiers can surrender to the Zhao clan, we are the children of the Wei clan, entrusted by our cousin, although the army is defeated and the division is lost, but we vow not to surrender. We took the unwilling Wei Wushu to the southeast, and hid in the woods ten miles away for a while, and waited for the Zhao clan to fight with the Qin soldiers, and then we waited for the opportunity to escape by night, and went to Linghuyi to defect to the Linghu clan, but then returned to Anyi to find my cousin's army, and asked him for guilt. β
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Five days later, in Anyi City, Hedong, the angry eldest son of the Zuoshu of the Qin State Hu stared at Lu Xing, who was bare-armed and pleaded guilty, and scolded: "You are abandoning the army and fleeing!" The Qin people fought to the death, but the Wei clan surrendered, what is this! β
The retreat of the left flank of the Qin-Wei coalition ended in a rout, as they were first overtaken by the Zhao vanguard, and the broken Wei soldiers were routed by Tian Ben's Banzai charge. At the same time, the Zhao cavalry in Hexi killed the horse pistol again, and attacked Longmen again, cutting off the way of the Qin army.
In desperation, the Qin general led his army south along the river, but was caught up by the main force of the outflanked Zhao army soon after, and the two sides fought again. The Qin army actually imitated the backwater battle of the thief, but unfortunately the difference in strength was too large, under the attack of 20,000 Zhao troops, they were defeated without suspense, the Qin people died in the battle and threw themselves into the river, and the rest chose to surrender.
As for the Wei army that traveled west with them, after being defeated and losing their spirits, the commander LΓΌ Xing even issued an order not to resist and surrender on the spot, causing the Zhao army to capture them without blood.
At this point, the army of 15,000 people on the left flank was completely wiped out, and now the 20,000 people on the right flank of the Zhao army are pressing south according to Zhao Wuxian's plan, constantly compressing the flank of the main force of the Qin and Wei coalition forces.
As for LΓΌ Xing himself, he skillfully passed between the two armies of Qin and Zhao with a small number of people, and after hiding in the woods, he ran to Linghuyi by night, and returned to Anyi under the escort of the Linghu clan, the new base camp after the main force of Qin and Wei retreated south.
He didn't even have time to take a sip of water, so he immediately entered the city to inform Wei Ju of the matter, but before Wei Ju could speak, he first provoked the eldest son of the Qin State Grand Concubine.
Under Zihu's scolding, Lu Xing endured it for a long time, and finally couldn't bear it anymore. He was blind in one eye due to wound infection, and his entire left side of his face was swollen, so he could only stare at Zihu with the remaining blood-red eyes and said: "Zuo Shu Chang also had a time when Shaoliang Chengpo surrendered, since you can surrender to Zhao and are cornered, why can't the ordinary soldiers of the Wei clan surrender!?" β
(To be continued.) )