Chapter 486
"General Zhao, do you feel that something is wrong in the past two days?" Zhang Yuanjing frowned slightly and said in a deep voice.
"Something is wrong? Please let Mr. Zhang make it clear! Zhao Mang was slightly stunned and said. Since Zhang Yuanjing said something wrong, there must be some problems, and Zhao Mang didn't dare to be careless, Qianniuwei was roasted on the fire recently. If you are not careful, it will be broken. Thousands of Niu Wei can cross Luoyang, although it is Zhao Xun's arrogance in Youzhou, but more importantly, Luoyang does not want to really oppose Zhao Xun. But now......
Zhang Yuanjing said in a deep voice: "The secret agents of the big camp have reported, in recent days, the secret agents around the big camp have increased a lot. ”
Zhao Mang said coldly: "Are they going to do something to us?" ”
Zhang Yuanjing nodded slightly: "It is very likely, of course, it is not ruled out that it is just for surveillance." But we can't afford not to guard against it, and if there is a slight difference, Qianniuwei's army of 50,000 will be over. ”
Zhao Mang frowned and said: "It's okay to say that the big camp is okay, after all, we have left the back hand, there is no problem to leave, and we can still make the other party fall hard." But the 10,000 soldiers guarding the eastern city and the eastern camp of the city are a trouble. ”
After pondering for a moment, Zhang Yuanjing said: "In this way, replace those unstable and loyal soldiers with the eastern camp and the eastern gate of Daocheng, even if there is an accident, we will have nothing to lose." In addition, it also allows the brothers in Taihang Mountain to be prepared and adapt at any time. Let the people of the Shadow Division and the Eagle Eye Division pay more attention to the movements of Luoyang City and the surrounding state capitals, and report it in time! ”
Zhao Mang nodded and said, "Okay, I'll arrange it!" ”
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"What's going on with you guys?" Seeing the forward officer and his subordinates with crooked armor and oblique helmets appear in front of him, Zhao Xun frowned and asked. It seems that they have suffered defeat. But since the southern expedition, it has been more than half a month, and there has been no direct defeat. His Eastern Route Army is all cavalry, and the forward is also cavalry, and if the enemy can get by, he will fight, and if he can't resist, he will withdraw. With 5,000 forwards, how could they lose so badly?
"If you will be the lord, we will be ambushed!" The forward officer, who is also the captain of the guard battalion, said ashamedly.
"Nakabush? Victory or defeat is a common thing in soldiers, so there is no need to be too low! Let's talk about the situation! "The loss can be thousands, Zhao Xun will not care, because this is the cavalry of the Su Mo Yan and Liaodong Kingdom. It's just Zhongfu, and this Zhao will have to understand when he arrives. With the cavalry's detective ability, it can still be ambushed, but there is a problem.
Now it has invaded Qingyang Mansion, the seven counties of Qingyang Mansion, and three counties have been taken, but they have not resisted, and they have taken advantage of the situation, and the government troops inside have already withdrawn. Zhao Xun had already expected that there would be government troops to block him, but he didn't expect that he would directly ambush himself.
It turned out that the vanguard of Xu Le's vanguard army smashed eighty miles in front of him and marched to the outside of the city, where there were 5,000 government troops and thousands of young guards in the city, and he was not attacked by the Qingyang government army along the way. However, because the city was already on guard, the gates were closed, and the soldiers on the city were heavily guarded, only Xu Le, who had 5,000 men, had to stay and wait for the arrival of the army.
Let at this time, there is a return of exploration horses, and there are government troops in the east, and there are quite a few of them. Xu Le saw that the city of Yimu had been prepared, and it was difficult to pull it out in a hurry, since there were government troops in the eastern towns and villages, it was better to kill them here, and it could be regarded as an achievement.
Thinking of this, Xu Le recruited the forward lieutenant general and instructed him to lead more than 3,000 cavalry to stay outside the city to monitor the movements of the government army in the city. And Xu Le rushed to the eastern towns with the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry.
After marching more than 20 miles to this township, the government army had already withdrawn. Seeing that the government army was afraid of the Xiaoguo army and left, Xu Le had no choice, because the government army had entered the mountain. If his cavalry enters the mountains, it will definitely be the meat of the opponent's mouth. So, I had to go home. As long as they take the Interpretation Curtain City, these government troops will be rootless, and they don't care about it now.
"You've been ambushed on your way back!" Hearing this, Zhao Xun said lightly.
Xu Le smiled bitterly: "The lord is wise! It's an ambush on the way back! ”
On the way back, there is a river. It's not that the Xiaoguo army has to march over the river, but along the river. On the banks of the creek, overgrown with reeds and weeds. I have to say that in this era, there are still a lot of reeds.
There were reeds on the river, and mountains on the other side, and Xu Le naturally talked about the march. But the problem is that he probed when he went, but he didn't probe when he returned. In the eyes of this Tatanic cavalryman, there was no need to investigate it carefully for half an hour.
Xu Le was in charge of the pro-guard battalion before, and he naturally did it without saying much about the investigation of the surrounding situation. But he ignored that these people were not his old subordinates, and the discussion was ignored, and the matter appeared.
When the army turned back, the cavalry in front suddenly turned on their backs, and it turned out that there was a trap for horses. But when I came, it wasn't idle here, but now it is. Xu Le's head suddenly became hot, and he knew that he had been ambushed. Immediately let the soldiers in front dismount and investigate, continue to explore the road, and check the situation of the horse pit. At the same time, all soldiers are prepared for battle in case of enemy attacks.
As Xu Le expected, Fukabe appeared, emerging from among the reeds and weeds. They are covered in weeds, covering themselves in the grass, and they cannot be seen unless the other party makes a big move or goes out of their way to check it. Xu Le saw thousands of infantry troops emerging from the reeds on the south side, and immediately secretly hated, if there were rockets at this time, he would definitely be able to solve the other party at once.
The shouts of killing burst out from the reeds, and thousands of spears stretched out from the reeds, killing the Xiaoguo army that stopped close to the river, and what was even more serious was that the other party also had bows and crossbows. Within the range of hundreds of paces of the river, on the road hundreds of meters long, under the fierce stabbing of the spears, the crossbowmen of the Reed Zhongfu Army also began to release their killing intent, and the rain of arrows flew towards the cavalry of the Tatar people who stopped.
In an instant, the originally calm path was broken by brutal killing, and the cavalry of the Warriors were caught off guard, and the formation was in chaos, perhaps there was no formation at all, and stopping in place was completely a target, either stabbed to death by a spear or shot by an arrow, and there was no way to dodge.
It wasn't until Xu Le shouted to fight back that these cavalry soldiers reacted, picked up the bows and arrows beside them, and counterattacked the enemy. If it is said that this Devil is weaker than the Xiaoguo Army in other aspects, archery is definitely a strong point. As soon as the cavalry counterattacked, they immediately let the government army attack. Large swaths of the government army were shot dead in the reeds, and the cleansed river became like a river of blood, and the red and bright water of the river was so shocking.
Xu Le immediately made a decision and ordered the cavalry to charge, he expected that there would not be many horse traps on the ground, after all, this could also be laid in a short time, and besides, their main purpose was to reduce their speed, so as to ambush themselves in this reeds and grass.
Sure enough, the horse galloped wildly, and after being broken by more than 30 war horses in the horse pit, it was finally unhindered. After accelerating, the cavalry immediately exerted great power, galloped wildly, traveled thousands of kilometers, crossed a large circle, and turned back to ride and shoot. Suddenly, the army in the grass and reeds suffered. Most of the government troops were infantry troops, and they could not catch up with the cavalry, but the cavalry could circle back and forth on their sides and kill them.
However, at this moment, countless young and strong people intercepted from the front and pounced on Xu Le's department. There are more than four or five thousand of these people, half of whom are young and strong, but they also need ordinary people. Shouting the slogan of killing the Tatar people, he desperately killed him. The weapons in his hands are miscellaneous, and even farm tools are available. Xu Le knew that these people must have been instigated by the government army, thinking that the Xiaoguo army who came was a Yan people. The people invaded Youzhou, what they did, it was hard to write, and these people were also very panicked when the people came here. Under the encouragement of people with hearts, the people of the surrounding towns and villages gathered to appear in front of them.
Because Zhao Xun had an order not to kill the people indiscriminately, his only remaining more than 1,000 people were gradually surrounded by the people and the government army, and they could not be killed.
The government army that encountered the cavalry attack of the Turquoise cavalry was immediately killed and fought with the Turquoise cavalry. The common people and the government army fought together, several people besieged a cavalry, and several sides were killed, usually a soldier could barely block the attack of one soldier, and soon encountered the siege of others.
Just when Xu Le was struggling with whether to let go of the people and kill them, the three thousand cavalry who stayed under the city rushed over. They didn't care if it was a common man, in short, in their words, the Governor said that the people should not be killed in vain, but all the enemy troops here, and none of them were innocent people.
The effect of the charge of 3,000 cavalry can be imagined, not to mention thousands of people, even thousands of government troops can't resist. The heads rolled down, the blood mist splashed, and in an instant, Xu Le who was besieged in the center was rescued, but at this moment, Xu Le did not have more than 500 people left. The surrounding people also dispersed, seeing this scene, Xu Le stopped the request of his subordinates to continue the pursuit, and the army withdrew.
Hearing what Xu Le said, Zhao Xun also knew that Xu Le was concerned about the ruining of the reputation of the Xiaoguo Army. Because most of his Eastern Route Army is a cavalry, once abandoned by the people, it will affect his rule over the attack here.
"Xu Le, your idea is right, but it is precisely because most of our army is a cavalry, so we can't let them think that we are deliberately letting them lose here. I am not allowed to kill the people, but the people who attack us are not among them. Since you don't know what to do, it's useless to keep it! Zhao Xun said lightly.
Xu Le was stunned, and then he thought that he had taken into account the rule after the attack, but he did not take into account the attacking army. Relatively speaking, it is more important to be in the army first with the people here.
"Okay, you go and appease the Warrior army of this forward battalion, anyway, they are also fighting with us. Remember, keep a record of all the fallen soldiers, and we'll give them a compensation. What I want is not to use them, but to subdue and annex them. Zhao Xun said slowly.
"Subordinates understood!" Xu Le said respectfully.
"Zhang Qinyue, the military commander of Qingyang Mansion! Sure enough, there were two hits, and when I went, I didn't set up an ambush, and I turned back to set up an ambush, which was unexpected! It will also use the offensive of public opinion to coerce the people to attack. It's a pity, just with your three counties and the army of less than 10,000 people in one prefecture, if you want to stop me, it will be very difficult at that time! Zhao Xun muttered.