Chapter 118: Breakout
In an abandoned small village five miles south of Zhuoluo City, Xu Ping turned over and dismounted and entered the handsome tent that had been set up long ago.
Wang Kaizheng led his subordinates to nervously sort out various military situations, and when he saw Xu Ping coming in, he sang a promise together.
Sitting down in the handsome seat, Xu Ping asked Wang Kai: "How is Zhuoluo City now?" It's nearly noon, and it's time for a result. ”
"After a while, the Hao thief has taken his troops out of the city and gathered in the east of the city, and it seems that he will cross the Kaluo River in the afternoon and flee in the direction of Lingzhou. The city of Zhuoluo was closed, and there were still many soldiers and horses stationed there. According to our estimates, the thieves should have left some of the soldiers and horses behind to cover the thieves. Gao Du assigned someone to ask if he was attacking the city in advance, so as not to have worries about the pursuit of the city. ”
Xu Ping thought for a while and said: "Tell them that they don't have to, the hills on the east bank of the Kaluo River are low, and there are no thorns and plants to block it in this season, so it is difficult to stop the Hao thieves from breaking through." If we are greedy and chew more, we can achieve our goal, and if we forcibly leave the thief, it is easy to have accidents. Tell Sang Yi and Gao Daquan to only intercept the thieves in the mountains, and they will escape from the mountain, so let them leave. ”
Wang Kai promised, turned around and ordered his subordinates to inform Sang Yi and Gao Daquan.
Xu Ping leaned over the table and looked at the sketched map of the surrounding area.
Shi Quanbin drank tea and came over to watch it next to Xu Ping. He couldn't understand what the circles on the map meant, and he couldn't ask, so he just stood there and pretended.
In the north of Zhuoluo City, Yuan Hao rode on a horse, raised his eyes and looked around, shouting and killing endlessly, and he didn't know how many Song troops there were around. sighed, and said to Ye Liyu: "Uncle tired, don't go back to the city, just stay here." When I lead people to the east to fight a bloody road, you will follow closely, and we will go to Lingzhou together. There are many people in Baoqing is a local clan, and they will not give up Zhuoluo City easily, so let him help us resist for a while. Wait until you return to Lingzhou to gather soldiers and horses, and then come to fight for here! ”
Ye Li Yu begged to give his hand: "Your Majesty, although you can rest assured, I will block the Song army chasing soldiers in the north of the city and prevent them from harassing your back road." On the way to Lingzhou in the east of the city, the Song army arranged a lot of people and horses, and a bloody battle was indispensable. ”
When wading through the Kaluo River, the cavalry of the Song army continued to rush and kill, seriously slowing down the speed of Yuan Hao's troops crossing the river. By the time everything was ready to forcibly break through to the east, it was already afternoon, and Yuan Hao was really panicked.
At night, it is difficult for the Song army to be well garrisoned, which is good for Yuan Hao to lead people to break through, but it is also difficult to maintain the army formation at night, break out, and I don't know how many people can be left around me. The elite soldiers around Yuan Hao are not ordinary people, and the soldiers are carefully selected from the party and the whole country, needless to say, among them, five thousand of the most personal guards, imitating the Song Dynasty system called "six classes straight", selected are the children of the Hao family. The "six classes straight" took turns on duty, and this time he brought more than 1,000 people with him, and one less of these people meant that a big family in the country shed blood for him, and he could not be appeased without giving huge benefits.
Looking at the sky, Yuan Hao gritted his teeth and begged Ye Liyu: "Uncle take care, I'll go first!" ”
Yeli Yuqi watched Yuan Hao slowly walk east with the brigade, his face gloomy. He is old in the army, so he naturally knows that Yuan Hao has to use a broken tail to survive when he breaks through the siege, and he is the first to cut off his tail. What kind of tailgating breakthrough, don't even think about it, it's just what Yuan Hao used to appease people's hearts, and both sides know it. The Yeli family is the second largest family in the party at this time after the Yuan Hao family, and the two brothers are in charge of the local military and political power, for the sake of the family, knowing that Yuan Hao put himself to death, Yeli can only grit his teeth and persevere.
With a sigh of relief, Ye Li Yuqi said to the generals beside him: "You take three thousand lives to just catch them, cruising everywhere, if there is a Song army rushing back and forth, meet the enemy, don't let them run wild!" Even if you fold more manpower, you have to block it! ”
The general promised to go and gather all the manpower and take it with him.
Jia Kui was holding a long axe, biting a withered grass in his mouth, looking at the Yuan Hao brigade that was slowly moving here, his eyes widened.
It is a gentle slope that rises from the valley of the Karagawa River, and when you reach the mountain, there is a relatively gentle ridge that leads to the mountains. With the pass in the valley and the ridge as the pass, it was necessary to build the city of Zhuoluo into a real military fortress, which should have been set up to defend the city as the periphery of the defensive system of the city. The party didn't care about running Zhuoluo City, it just built a small city, and the supporting defense system was blank. It was precisely because of this that he was caught off guard by the Qinzhou army. However, at this time, the bad thing turned into a good thing, there was no city here, and the Song army that intercepted it also lost its support.
The Dangxiang army learned the previous lesson, and when they arrived at the slope, Tie dismounted, changed their spears, and fought with the Song army on foot.
Jia Kui spit out the withered grass in his mouth, spat it and said: "Straight mother thief, these thieves have also learned well, and they know that it is not easy to go up the mountain, so they no longer ride horses." Sons, go to the long axe, change the spear and stab them to death! ”
asked his subordinates to change their spears, and Jia Kui relied on his bravery, still holding a long axe, standing in front of the team.
The counter-charge should be at the end of the opponent's crossbow, and when going up the mountain, the Song army will naturally not rush down to fight them. Yang Wenguang saw that the enemy was approaching at the bottom of the mountain, and with an order, the bow and crossbow were like flying locusts, and they were sprinkled on the head of the party army, and the swordsmen picked up the stones on the mountain and threw them down the mountain. The road came in a hurry, and there were not many ordnance with him, otherwise the javelins thrown at this time would be more powerful.
When the Dangxiang army reached the top of the mountain dozens of paces away, Jia Kui shouted loudly, jumped out with a long axe in his hand, and counterattacked the Dangxiang army rushing forward with the swords and gunmen of his headquarters.
Yuan Hao saw in the distance that the first attack was quickly beaten back, his face was gloomy, and he said to the Wulinu beside him: "You lead the soldiers and horses to bypass from the side, force the Song army out of the right way, and let the army pass!" The brigade is far away, you can keep up again! ”
Wulinu promised to select the soldiers and horses of the headquarters, climbed up from the hill next to him, and attacked the flank of the Song army.
Yang Wenguang saw it with a telescope in his hand, and asked people to call Jia Kui to his side, and said: "We are limited by people and horses, and we can't seal the entire mountain beam." The thieves have already gone up the hill and will soon be on our flank. Rather than wait for him to attack, let's move first. You lead people to get out of the way, let the thief brigade pass, and we just leave his last tail. ”
Jia Kui said: "If the thieves want to break through our place, they can't do it for a while!" Why don't we keep it for a while and let the thieves die a little more, so that we can make way of the way? ”
"No need, there are still twenty or thirty miles to go out of the mountain, after we are here, there are soldiers and horses of this dynasty behind us. We intercepted the thief's tail, cooked early, and then went around to the front and fought again. ”
Sang Yi and Gao Daquan arranged the men and horses along this mountain avenue, but there were more than 10,000 people, dozens of miles of road, divided into several groups and guarded along the road. If you don't block the avenue, you won't let the party and the army scatter and run into the mountains in a hurry, and it will be even more difficult to chase and block at that time. 10,000 *** streams intercept the tail of the party's army, how much can be left. Yuan Hao led the elite of the party to break through with 20,000 people, and if it was tightly blocked, it would be fully dispersed in an hour. If the two armies are really engaged in a full-scale battle, it will be difficult for the Song army to block this road again.
The terrain around this, unless there is a miracle, Xu Ping will not be able to use 50,000 people to surround Yuan Hao and kill 30,000 Yuan Hao no matter what.
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