Chapter 429: The End of the War
PS: There is one more chapter in the evening
"It's a failure."
The battlefield was in a mess, watching Qi Hou's chariot leave safely under the escort of dense Qi pawns, he couldn't help but regret slapping the ground with a horse whip, and he didn't even want to take a closer look at the Qi Hou "Dragon Nine" banner handed over by Tian Ben.
His spear only broke the flag, but it failed to hurt Qi Hou half a point, in Zhao Ying's plan, Qi Hou was going to be captured alive.
But...... There are always accidents on the battlefield.
"But no, if it weren't for the Qi reinforcements arriving at this moment, the Qi Hou would have been captured by Si Kou!" Mu Xia also sighed in the sky, at least two hundred soldiers in the battle of Fang Cai will never see the sun tomorrow, and the five hundred cavalry that accompanied Zhao Wuxian's attack also had hundreds of casualties, which can be said to be the biggest loss since the formation of the army, who knows that it will not be able to achieve full success.
"It's all Yu Xi's sin, and I ask Si Kou to kill me to be angry!" Yu Xi dismounted and knelt on the blood-soaked ground, her head buried deep in the pink snow.
Zhao Wuxian finished sighing before letting him get up: "You have the crime of not being able to report in time, but you also have the merit of obstruction, in the final analysis, it is still our lack of troops, and Chen Heng is too cunning......
Chen Heng, this name, Zhao Wuxian will always remember it in his heart this time.
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Just half an hour ago, under the attack of Zhao Bing, the Qi army was defeated.
Zhao Wuxian approached the car, and a spear cut off the Dragon Nine Banner representing Qi Hou, and it fell to the ground and was trampled by countless pairs of feet, making Qi Jun think that Qi Hou was in danger.
After the Dragon Nine Banners of the main backbone broke and fell, the Qi people on the entire battlefield collapsed or were on the verge of collapse, and the light heroes abandoned their weapons and fled. Duyi soldiers, village soldiers. The ragged people of Laidiyi all ran away. There are also people who pick the head of a Qi country doctor and wave it on a long pole. Gao Zhang's team also declared defeat, their will had long been exhausted by hunger and cold, and they could not last, and now they thought that the king had an accident, and it was as if they had been severely damaged.
However, just as Zhao Wuxian was getting closer and closer, and had the opportunity to reach over and pull Qi Hou off the chariot, a strange change occurred among the Qi people who fled in front of him.
The Qi people who fled towards the horizon stopped, screaming repeatedly. They were subjected to a rain of arrows, and anyone who tried to pass head-on was killed without mercy, and the attackers were not Zhao soldiers, but a group of strict troops under the banner of the Chen clan of the Qi State.
Some people can see clearly, isn't that Chen Heng, who led 3,000 people north to pursue Zhao Wuxian and look for the whereabouts of Gongzi Yangsheng, but there was no news? He is also the person who Qi Hou has been talking about the most, expecting the most, and scolding the most these days.
But now he has brought back more than 3,000 people. There were 5,000 of them!
Those Qi rout soldiers were sniped, and they began to subconsciously bypass both sides of the Chen army, and the attack they launched just now was precisely to prevent the rout from rushing their array. Under the shouts of the Chen military officials. There were even Qi people who were refreshed after seeing the reinforcements and turned back to deal with Zhao Bing.
And on Qi Hou's side, a new flag was also played, which was another Linggu flag with two dragons intertwined. This is a sign of the monarch's well-being, and it makes the entire battlefield cheer. The palace guards of the Marquis of Qi resisted to the death under the leadership of the warrior Limi. Zhao Wuxian's riders couldn't rush, and their losses continued to increase. Before Chen Heng led thousands of people to come to the rescue in three formations, they were already at the end of the crossbow, and they looked back at the banner waved by Zhao Ying, as well as the voice of Ming Jin, and could only choose to retreat.
When Wuxian retreated to the edge of the battlefield, it happened that Yu Xi also came to report with more than ten light horsemen in embarrassment, and Zhao Wuxian knew what happened.
It turned out that a few days ago, Chen Heng "pursued" Zhao Wuxian, but he went straight into the Qi realm. He rested in the country of Qi, and after learning the news that the Marquis of Qi had begun to go north from Pushui and summoned him to answer the news, he unhurriedly circled the border, and transferred 2,000 soldiers from all over the country, and only killed him when the Marquis of Qi could not hold on, and entered the Lu realm last night.
The reason why he has only arrived now is because he was harassed by Yu Xi, who was arranged by Zhao Wuxian to the north of Qinyi, but he only had two hundred horsemen, and it was just a drop in the bucket for the five thousand Qi troops, so he could only rush back in the starry night, and he had just met Zhao Ying and reported the news.
Then the bad news doesn't stop there, the Chen clan's 5,000 fresh troops are almost the same as the number of tired pawns left in the Zhao clan, if Chen Heng has the courage to attack and support Gao Zhang, who is already on the verge of collapse, nearly 10,000 people, and even have a chance to turn the Qi country into a victory!
However, Zhao's decision prevented this from happening, and the Jin Zhongjun personally led the reserves out of the nest and rushed towards the enemy along the hills. Zhao Wuxian, who had returned from riding to rest, watched his father gallop past in the car, the drums continued to beat, he was surrounded by hundreds of black-clothed guards and retainers, the sun was shining on the tip of the spear, and the Zhao family's scorching bird banner was flying overhead.
Zhao Ying's pro-attack on the arrow stone greatly boosted the morale of Zhao Bing, but on the way, his emperor was hit by an arrow and fell into the car, and for a while the chariot swayed and no one controlled it, which made Zhao Wuxian feel shocked. Fortunately, there was no danger, and a strong warrior went up to control the eight reins to avoid the interruption of the drums, and that person turned out to be Yang Hu!
So Chen Heng didn't take any risks, Chen's army continued to move south, let the Marquis of Qi and the defeated army behind him to see, and then slowly retreated......
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That's what just happened.
Wuxian sighed, and began to think about this opponent he had never met: "Although Chen Heng did not bite my rider, did not recapture the grain, and even Qi Gongzi Yangsheng was not saved, but with today's performance alone, a great rescue merit is inevitable, this time the office and the Gao family suffered a great loss, presumably in the future, Qi Hou will have to rely on the Chen family even more......"
He worked hard and bleed, but in turn achieved the credit of others, Zhao Wuxian was extremely unhappy in his heart.
But now, it is not wise for the tired Zhao soldiers to chase after it again, and the Qi people will completely enter the Qi realm after half a day. What he could do now was to command the cavalry to manipulate the tired horses in pursuit, and try to capture the soldiers who fled from all sides, so as to expand the results of this battle.
The battle had been transferred to another place, and apart from a large number of corpses, there were no living people left in Zhao Wuxian's location. The crows were hovering in the sky and pecking on the ground, and he saw that Zhao Ying was still sending soldiers to intercept the deserters. Zhao Guangde's troops, who had gone around in a big circle, forced some of the fleeing Qi people back here again, waiting for them to be captured. Or massacre.
The light is this battle, and the Qi people trample on each other because of the battle. At least 5,000 people died, and Zhao Bing attacked the crowd with a small number of people, although they fought the weak, but they still paid more than 1,000 dead and wounded. As for the number of people arrested, it is still too early to count, but according to unsympathic estimates, there are at least five or six thousand!
And the Qi people who managed to escape were only in their early 20,000s......
1 to 10 battle damage......
Did they win the battle, or the entire war?
The die is cast. Qi Ren had completely left, and at this time he finally began to look down to observe the Qi Hou "Dragon Nine" banner that was picked up by Tian Ben, don't look at the footprints covered with blood and mud. But it, like Yangsheng, the prince of Qi State, is the two most effective trophies in this alignment operation.
These two things alone are enough to embarrass the Marquis of Jin and the five secretaries of the country as to how to reward Zhao Wuxian.
"Hiss......" This hand moved slightly, and Zhao Wuxian felt a sharp pain from his elbow to his brain, he didn't even know when he was injured, but fortunately he untied his arm guard and armor to take a look. It's just a little swollen.
So he didn't participate in the last sporadic battle, and instead went to find his men with Tian Ben and others. Many of them were found in the pile of dead people, an old soldier who had followed Zhao Wuxian since he became a township, lying in a pool of blood that was gradually coagulating, his eyes wide. All of them were missing from the elbow of his right hand, and there were more than a dozen Qi people lying next to him who had died with him, and there was no one to separate them. The old pawn dressed up to be restrained, and the Qi people were left to the crows.
He saw the big sword and shield soldier Qi Wanran recruited from the Song Kingdom Paint City sitting under a tree. His body was covered with arrows, and the head of a spearman resembling his appearance rested on his lap.
Wuxian thought they were both dead. But when he dismounted with a sigh, Qi Wan opened his eyes: "Lord, Lvshuai Mu." His voice was choked and tearful: "The Qi people killed my cousin, and I also said that after this battle, I will marry a woman for him in Yuncheng." ”
Qi Bai didn't have any injuries on his body, only a red spot on his chest with a spear piercing, and he didn't know if the blood had been drained.
"I will bury him, and if you want, I can bring your family to Xilu."
Zhao Wuxian personally helped Qi Wan to stand up, and the big man seemed to notice the arrows stuck between the two layers of leather armor on his body, so he pulled them out one by one, but some of them were connected to flesh and blood...... As he plucked, he cried like a child and babbled about his cousin's deeds
In the end, it was Zhao Guangde who drove over and happily recounted the battle process, showing Wuxian the four left ears he had cut off, which he had personally shot today. Zhao Wuxian knew that although his cousin was tall and looked a little bit like him when he led the troops, he still didn't dare to cut off people's heads.
He also saw that the bandits who had arrived from the east were plundering the Qi people they had killed under the leadership of their leader, and that they had probably survived two-thirds of them under the leadership of the bandits.
"Fight for the wilderness, kill the wilderness!"
At this moment, the corpses of horses and men were covered all over the snowfield. During this time, Zhao Wuxian passed by the corpse of a Qi man, a doctor, whose head had been cut open with a sharp weapon, and a crow was pecking out his brain from the shattered skull. As they passed, the crows looked up at them, croaked, and flew away.
Wuxian was in a trance, exactly the same as the Yang Tiger predicted before the war. "When the battle is over, it will be stained crimson with blood, and in a few days it will be stinking black, and next year it will be green crops, and with thousands of corpses fertilizing the field, this field will definitely have a good harvest."
"Is there a good harvest tomorrow? I hope so. ”
Although he was becoming more and more like a Spring and Autumn man in the face of life and death, Zhao Wuxian still felt a little shocked, but then the pain in his elbow eased him, and people hurried to treat Zhao Bing. This time, thanks to Bian Que and his two disciples, they acted with the army, hoping to save more, and even Zhao Wuxian himself had to go to him for treatment.
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At the same time, in the safest military office of Zhao Yingzhong on the battlefield, Bian Que, who had a childish face, walked down from the car with the support of two disciples. He remained on it for the entire duration of the battle, listening to the screams of slaughter, unwilling to witness the slaughter on both sides.
There have been 5,000 Qi people and nearly 1,000 Zhao soldiers killed on the snowfield on the north bank of Pushui, and after this battle, it was a feast for crows.
Bian Que's clear eyes were full of compassion, and he held the car, but he let out a silent sigh.
He and Zhao Wuxian faced the same tragic scene, but they saw something different.
"Ominous, the army of defeat, the dead cover the wilderness, the corpses are tens of thousands, the warm air is plagued, and thousands of households are destroyed!" (To be continued......)
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