Chapter 129: Mutiny before the battle

Han Sui was like this, which was tantamount to forcing his sergeants to fight a war that they didn't want to fight in their hearts.

Can an army that drives its own soldiers to battle with weapons in the rear? Or, can those soldiers burst out with the combat effectiveness they deserve?

To be honest, if Han Sui was wise, when he led the army to Longxi City and was about to attack the city, he saw that something like that happened, and saw that his military horses had the intention of avoiding the war, and he didn't want to attack the old and weak women and children in Longxi City, and even some of the villagers and fathers and elders of his sergeants. Han Sui should have made a decision immediately, immediately led the army to leave, and stopped camping in front of Longxi City to confront Longxi City. Even if he directly led the army to attack the Northern Plains or the upper valley, it was better to attack Ma Teng in Jicheng than to stay here.

You must know that once he loses his military heart and loses the support of his sergeant, why should he gain a foothold in Xiliang?

It's a pity that Han Sui is too stupid.

Well, maybe Han Sui wasn't stupid, he just forced it a little.

In fact, Han Sui has his own ideas and the pursuit in his heart. He was originally an official of the imperial court, but he was kidnapped by anti-thieves and became the leader of thieves. Such a dramatic change made Han Sui's ambition skyrocket, especially when the Han was so chaotic at the moment. This is the time when the prince will have a kind of Xiangning.

The reason why he promised Zhong Xuan to take refuge in Cao Cao and turned against Ma Teng, a righteous brother, was that he saw that if he took refuge with Ma Teng to Liu Yi, then. At most, he was a subordinate under Liu Yi, and he no longer had the possibility of standing on his own. Especially, under those policies of the New Han Dynasty. Under the military system of the New Han Army, he is afraid that he may not even be able to mobilize his own army horses in the end. Therefore, he was really unwilling to submit to the New Han Dynasty and was restrained by the New Han Dynasty.

However, it is different to return to Cao Cao, after all, Cao Cao is in the Central Plains. Separated by a new Han dynasty, the great power of the dynasty. As long as he doesn't come to Cao Cao's side for a day, he is equivalent to a prince, what to do. He is completely self-reliant. And in his favor, that is, he can regain the legal status of an official of the imperial court. Using this legal status, he will make a big difference in Xiliang. Most importantly, he was nominally a vassal of Cao Cao. You can ask Cao Cao for many benefits. At least. The military horses he developed in Xiliang were nominally fighting for Cao Cao, so you Cao Cao had to show that at least, you had to be responsible for the supply of grain and grass for your own military horses, right?

In this way, he can provide Cao Cao's strength to develop and grow in Xiliang. As long as you grow and grow. So what is he going to do, it's not him Han Sui himself who has the final say? When the time comes, when you are strong. If you break away from the relationship with Cao Cao, who can help him?

Unfortunately, how could things have turned out as he had hoped? The New Han Army is going to enter Xiliang, and if he Han Sui still wants to stand on his own and own the entire Xiliang, then he must send troops to prevent the New Han Army from entering Xiliang as Zhong Xuan said. Otherwise, when the Xinhan army really enters Xiliang, I am afraid that there will be nothing to do with him Han Sui. What's more, he didn't think that Ma Teng would let him go like this, and he would let him betray. Once Ma Teng gets the support of the New Han Army, I am afraid that he will be attacked at the first time.

Based on these reasons, Han Sui really has no choice now, he wants to take Longxi City by unscrupulous means.

Moreover, Zhong Xuan's letter has already mentioned that the New Han Army has opened the passage from Tianshui to Chencang Pass, and the army of the New Han Army has already reached Tianshui City.

Therefore, Han Sui is in a hurry now.

He rode his horse to supervise behind the army, but he saw the weak soldiers, which made him angry.

Among his own soldiers, there were also many hesitants and hesitants.

"Prepare for the camp!" Han Sui directly drew his sword, glared angrily behind the military formation, and shouted: "This battle is related to the fate of all our soldiers, don't be unbearable because the enemy defending the city is only some women, children, old and weak." If we don't take Longxi City as soon as possible, the new Han army will be killed in front of our eyes, and when the time comes, it will be us who will die! Also, no matter what, you are my Han Sui's soldiers, and all the food and clothing you have now are my Han Sui's. The so-called food of the king, the matter of loyalty. Who dares to hesitate and fight ineffectively, don't blame me Han Sui for not talking about brotherhood. No mercy! ”

"Also, don't look at the women and children guarding the city in front of you, but if you dare to take it lightly, you will die at their hands at that time, don't blame Han for not reminding you. Fight up! Give me a little spirit, siege! Kill! ”

Han Sui viciously ordered.

"Kill ......"

Finally, the sergeants under him echoed and shouted to advance towards Longxi City.

The sword and shield men were in front, and the archers followed, interspersed with the besiegers, who carried ladders and carried a circle of ropes to climb the city.

At the head of the city, men, women and children also knew from the sound of Han Sui's army that Han Sui's army was about to attack the city again, so for a while, there was a bustling crowd on the city, and those people acted as defenders without hesitation.

"Come on! Keiko Rabbit, grandpa has been waiting for you here for a long time. Just when grandpa was blind, he was waiting for the white-eyed wolf back then, and grandpa BMW was not old, waiting for you here. ”

"Gege...... That's right, old man, don't say that your sword is not old, our old lady is still young, back then, if there was no old lady's milk to feed those little babies, how could they attack us today? Well, anyway, our baby is no longer there, and my mother doesn't want to live anymore, come on. Whoever doesn't want us to live, we won't let him live, my mother will fight with you! ”

At the head of the city, without waiting for Han Suijun to get close, he shouted and scolded at the head of the city. Listening to the tone of these old and weak women and children, they are quite optimistic, and there is a great taste of smiling faces facing life and death, and righteousness and awe-inspiring.

It seems that the battle clouds are thick, but whether it is the attacking side or the defender, it seems that people can't feel the slightest sense of war.

Han Suijun, although he has advanced forward. However, it was only a mile or two away, his military horse. But he didn't attack and kill for a long time, and the soldiers phalanx, shouting and killing, stepped forward, but they were like snails, and they were slow.

Of course, if you look closely, you can also see Han Sui's military horse. Basically, even if it is shouting and killing, but listening to its shouting, there is a lack of a smell of slaughter. There was an extra sense of powerlessness.

Later, the Overseer was already urging.

In the middle, a soldier of the Overseer Brigade was holding a large knife. Rushing forward and shouting to kill. But the soldier who seemed to be standing still, said in a low voice with a sad look on his face: "Brother, brother beg, you just take a step forward, brother is also forced to be helpless, if you don't move forward, brother is really going to swing a knife and cut down......"

"Brother, you are my brother. Look at the military formation of tens of thousands of people, how can Lao Tzu go if the people in front don't go? To urge. You go to the front and urge it, or ...... Why don't you rush up directly, Lao Tzu will cheer you on in the back, if you kill the head of the city, Lao Tzu will kneel down for you, okay? ”

"Uh, what do you say? How could my brother attack and kill the villagers in the city? Now, look, one of the children is still the younger brother of the elder brother, you are stupid. Brother told you, if you really dare to attack and kill the head of the city, brother will cut you down now. ”

"Forehead ......"

……

Of course, there are also many Han Suijun who have nothing to do with the soldiers of Longxi, and those are all Han Sui's headquarters when he was in Jincheng.

These sergeants really wanted to attack Longxi City.

However, with many Longxi soldiers in the passive response, they are helpless, siege warfare, not to say that whoever can rush fast can be the first to kill the city, this requires all arms, a group of soldiers to cooperate with each other.

For example, those sword and shield soldiers, they have to beware of cold arrows on the city, and if there are trebuchets or something on the city, they also have to warn the soldiers behind them, so that everyone can scatter to dodge the falling boulders. Anyway, the role of the sword and shield soldiers is to directly avoid the senseless sacrifice of many soldiers. Without the cover of the sword and shield soldiers, most of the men and horses would have been shot by the bows and arrows of the city to kill a large number of charging soldiers when they rushed to a distance of two or three hundred paces from the city wall.

And cover is a matter of time, if there are no archers to shoot at the archers on the head of the city to suppress the archers on the head of the city, their siege dead are afraid that before they can rush under the city walls, they will be shot in large numbers.

Therefore, those Han Sui's headquarters troops and horses who wanted to capture Longxi City, under the passivity of the soldiers of Longxi City, they were not good at rushing forward.

This is a terrible thing, who wants to die?

When there were still three or four hundred paces away from the city wall, another situation occurred in Han Sui's army.

It turned out that it was those sergeants of Han Sui's headquarters who lost patience with those soldiers who were passive in response to the battle, and yelled at the passive soldiers around them.

"Damn! General Han Sui has an order, and those who dare to slack off will be killed immediately! You all give it to Lao Tzu, rush into the city, those girls on the head of the city are everyone's, hurry up! ”

"! What are you doing! Don't forget, you are now following our General Han Sui, and you are taking the salary of our General Han Sui, so you have to fight for General Han Sui, and you will give it to Lao Tzu! ”

"Come on, bastard!"

……

"Fuck you, you have the ability to do it yourself! That's how Lao Tzu is, can you manage it? ”

"General Han Sui has already given a death order, do you dare to disobey the order? Don't you dare to kill you? ”

"Oh? Want to kill me? Then come and kill! Will Lao Tzu be afraid of you? ”

"Kill it!"

Bite!

"Okay, do you really dare to kill Lao Tzu? Brothers, if we don't do it, we won't believe it, if we don't eat his Han Sui's military salary, we can still starve to death, brothers, if you do it with them, whoever wants to kill us, we will kill him, kill him! ”

Originally, it was the impatient scolding of some Han Sui's sergeants, but it aroused the disgust of some soldiers who were unwilling to attack.

Among Han Sui's siege horses, the shouts of killing actually slowly stopped, but instead the shouts of scolding each other came and went.

And when the two factions were divided into two groups of people shouted and scolded, they really couldn't help but move.

That's the trigger.

At first, the two of them made a move, but it quickly spread to the entire battlefield.

Mutiny!

This is undoubtedly tantamount to a catastrophic pre-battle mutiny.

It's chaotic, and the entire Han Sui army that is besieging the city is all in chaos.

After the bloodshed, the situation became even more out of control.

"Kill, fuck you. They all killed these rabbits with Lao Tzu! ”

"Ah......h

Han Sui's siege army, which was originally advancing in unison, fought with each other like this. Once this fights, it's really a knife to the flesh. Immediately a large number of casualties were immediate.

Han Sui was behind the military formation, dumbfounded, he really didn't expect that things would develop like this. He hadn't been able to issue an order to stop the fight between his sergeants for a while, but it had already involved tens of thousands of people on the entire battlefield at once.

Well, this is also a failure of Han Sui.

Originally. He took with him many men and horses from Longxi who had defected to him from Ma Tengjun, and when he arrived in Jincheng, he was worried that these men and horses would not be controlled by him in the future. Therefore, he especially scattered his own army and horses and mixed them with the soldiers of Longxi.

Because of this, now after the mutiny of his own military horses. The whole battlefield was entangled in the warhorses.

Faced with such a situation. Han Sui was also helpless, not knowing how to end such a fight.

"General...... Quick, hurry up and collect the troops......"

There are also strategists around Han Sui, but most of them are unknown people. Those strategists, seeing that Han Sui had nothing to do in the face of his military horse mutiny, hurriedly gave a mention.

Han Sui was at a loss for a while. had no choice but to do so, and reluctantly ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops.

But. Where can people who are already entangled in each other be separated? Mingjin's withdrawal had little effect.

In the end, Han Sui had to send his own army to separate the people who were entangled.

At noon there was a mutiny, and when it finally subsided, it was already late in the evening.

After counting, Han Sui almost wanted to vomit blood.

Because of the mutiny, most of the tens of thousands of men and horses besieging the city were lost, and most of the rest were wounded.

What made Han Sui helpless was that this mutiny made him unable to find out who was responsible.

After such an accident, Han Sui knew that it was impossible for him to say anything about the capture of Longxi.

After consulting with a group of strategists, they all believed that it was no longer meaningful to capture Longxi. Because, he, Han Sui, also has the same concerns as Li Wei. So far, they have only seen their army attack Longxi City, and what Zhong Miao said to them, the reinforcements of Guo Yan, Niu Fu and others, have finally disappeared.

Without the support of the princes of Xiliang, even if Han Sui took Longxi City, would he dare to send troops to attack the dangerous pass Beiyuan or the upper valley? Do you dare to lead the army to Jicheng to fight Ma Teng alone?

Seriously, he Han Sui is a civil official, although he also practices martial arts, but compared to Ma Tenglai, he is really not enough. Back then, he chose to form an alliance with Ma Teng and became a brother, why didn't he take a fancy to Ma Teng's martial arts, with such a righteous brother, his backbone can also be a little tougher. In Han Sui's heart, Ma Teng was still a little afraid after all. How could he really dare to meet Ma Teng on the battlefield? At this moment, he dared to attack Longxi, and he dared to come while Ma Teng was not there.

Han Sui's strategist Jian yì, they still have tens of thousands of military horses that can be fought now, and it is not appropriate to use them to fight to the death with Ma Teng. What's more, the New Han Army has arrived in Tianshui, and with Ma Teng with the help of the New Han Army, it is already good that people don't come to him Han Sui's bad luck, and he still dares to kidnap the tiger's whiskers at this moment? Suspicious of life?

Returning to Cao Cao, although he did get a little benefit from Zhong Xuan, but so what? I can't get a little benefit from Zhong Xuan, so I don't care about my own net worth and life to work for Zhong Xuan, right?

Save the current strength and withdraw to Jincheng, according to the development of Jincheng, there is still a little chance, if there are not even tens of thousands of military horses now, then what will he Han Sui take to gain a foothold in Xiliang? Even Cao Cao would not value him, a subordinate who had no soldiers and horses in his hands.

Han Sui thought that what these strategists said made sense. At that moment, he immediately set up camp and returned to Jincheng with a large army.

As soon as Han Sui's army withdrew, the people of Longxi City all had a feeling of the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, and they all cheered and celebrated together.

The day after Han Sui saw the opportunity, the day after his army and horses withdrew, under the leadership of Ma Chao, Hua Xiong and Xu Rong had already led 50,000 Xinhan troops to Longxi City.

The soldiers and civilians of Longxi City, who were frightened and asked themselves to die, saw Ma Chao leading the army back to help, even though Han Sui had led the army to withdraw, but he was still warmly welcomed by the soldiers and civilians of the city.

Because, this time, it is the regular military horses of the New Han Army, and as soon as the regular military horses of the New Han Army arrive, it means that their Longxi City has officially been under the rule of the New Han Dynasty. This makes the people of Longxi City, in addition to feeling safe in their hearts, but also looking forward to the possibility of a better life in the future, and they are happy about it.

Ma Chao took Hua Xiong and Xu Rong, two generals, into Longxi City and arrived at the official office.

Ma Chao was a little worried about Han Sui's escape back to Jincheng, and he asked Hua Xiong and Xu Rong: "General Hua, General Xu, Han Sui was originally Ma Chao's father's righteous brother, but he didn't miss the old love, and it was okay if he betrayed my father, but he turned around and took advantage of the danger of people to take away my father and son's inheritance. ”

Hua Xiong and Xu Rong looked at Ma Chao, whose eyes were already bloodshot, and glanced at each other, and the two generals shook their heads in unison.

Xu Rong said: "Brother Meng Qi, Han Sui doesn't need to be in a hurry to kill. It's not that we don't want to lend you troops, but our military horses, all the way from Chencang to this Longxi, marching for hundreds of miles in a row, it is not easy to force the battle again. Also, Meng Qi, you have been fighting for many days in a row, and you also need to rest. For the sake of you, little brother, so, forget about this matter. Now, it is better to report the situation in Longxi to the lord first, so that the lord can plan to seize the entire Xiliang in the future. ”

Ma Chao was persuaded by the two generals, but he also calmed down, was silent for a while, and dispelled his plan to attack Han Sui immediately. (To be continued......)