296. Victory and defeat
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Feng Ji set a fire, and the entire Jinyang City was completely turned into a burning furnace, and the flames and black smoke went straight into the sky.
The rest of the city was silent, and the scattered small Yuan army should have climbed the city wall and left.
Only the sound of siege shouts and killing from outside the city gate behind him made the faces of Gao Gan Yuan Shang and others turn pale, and the strategist Feng Ji was full of bitterness.
Feng Ji can be called knowledgeable and strategic, but as far as he knows about the war, as long as it can make the opponent's army feel disturbed, it can be regarded as a locked victory, and the other side is left to do nothing more than chase and kill the rout, without any pressure.
But these damn Sizhou soldiers actually collided head-on regardless of life or death!
You know, although the east, west and south gates are blocked, but when the fire first broke out, it was not completely without hope of escaping, and they could climb the city wall to find a place to hide, but they just didn't mess up, and instead of looking for an easy way to live, they came to the most dangerous north gate.
In today's situation, Feng Ji thinks that he has done a very perfect job, in his calculations, as long as the fire of Jinyang City is burned, the enemy troops entering the city will be in chaos immediately, and the sergeants will scatter and flee by themselves, and when they escape from the city, they can lead the enemy army to collapse, and when their own army pursues and kills them, they will easily pick the fruits of victory.
Feng Ji didn't know, Dangkou and Huya are both Henan veterans, since the original defeat in Koyi, the surviving more than 2,000 remnants of the army dare to go to the hinterland of the Huns to stir up a earth-shaking situation, these years of fighting one after another, early 100 refining into steel, has its own unforgiving momentum, and then Xu Huang and a number of other famous generals to lead, so that he for the mountain nine to fall short is really common.
If the people who entered Jinyang City today were replaced by the new cavalry army that had not been long ago, I am afraid that the result would be different.
The calmness and strength of the Lion of a Hundred Battles are not something that others can predict.
Although the plan was good, there were accidents. Feng Ji only guessed the beginning, and did not expect this ending.
It's really too unexpected for the Sizhou soldiers!
A group of sergeants who suddenly fell into a desperate situation should have escaped in all directions under fear! However, the Sizhou army did not completely collapse, not to mention, it was still able to obey the command of the generals. Gather together to clash with the north gate heavily guarded by the Yuan army!
What was originally thought to be a rout turned into a bitter battle!
The Sizhou army was not defeated, but chose to fight to the death with the Yuan army in the burning city, not to mention that it could come to fight, and it could hold out for so long, blocking the two armies at the north gate, until the army outside the city attacked again, and the situation was immediately reversed.
Yuan Jun is currently in the open space. It is not roasted by smoky fire. But at this time, the situation was even more dangerous than the Sizhou army in the narrow street opposite, which was about to be completely engulfed by the fire.
Even if the Sizhou army in the city is completely annihilated, when the north gate is breached, where will you go?
I'm afraid it won't be long. He will be driven into the flames by the Black Mountain thieves who entered the city and another Sizhou army, and experience the pain that the other party is suffering now.
Except for the North City Gate, Feng Ji, who thought that he was in control, did not leave any other way back for Yuan Jun.
The fire in the city is getting bigger and bigger, and the last street opposite is about to burn to the ground, burning all the tens of thousands of soldiers who are still in the narrow street, but their own family has also fallen into death!
Even in this open space that should have been dominant, the Yuan army has begun to be difficult to support, and under the leadership of the two generals Xu Huang and Xu Sheng, more and more Sizhou soldiers have poured into the open space. All in all directions, slashing and killing like crazy.
This is the momentum that destroys everything. It's the madness that has nothing else in the eyes.
The enemy who should be desperate has made his own family desperate first!
Such an inexplicable madman is enough to make anyone who fights against him shudder!
"Please surrender!"
Although there were companions on his side, it was really difficult to get along with the blood on the opposite side and the seemingly tireless killing god, and the sound of heavy blows from the city gate behind finally became the last straw. Countless Yuan soldiers collapsed, and the first sergeant with a pale face threw away his equipment and knelt on the ground to surrender.
With the beginning, the pessimistic and desperate decline can no longer be contained, the Yuan army who knelt on the ground to surrender from one by one to a piece, and soon, this deliberately flattened open space was full of Yuan soldiers who knelt down and asked to surrender, and a few who did not surrender were as conspicuous as standing out from the crowd, and they were divided into corpses by the swarming soldiers after a while.
It was so fast that many soldiers couldn't react, and suddenly there was no opponent after killing, and many people were holding their weapons.
Yuan Jun's attention was always on the inside and not outside, there were not many defenders on the city wall, at this time there were hundreds of cavalry troops outside the city had already attacked the city, and the north gate was also knocked open a crack, and it could be broken in two or three strokes.
Looking around, except for the remaining two hundred halberd warriors and elite cavalry who are still fighting to the death, the rest have all surrendered, the general trend has gone, and the defeat is irreversible, seeing that their small group of people have different identities, many Sizhou soldiers are rushing over, Feng Ji suddenly smiled miserably, and shouted angrily: "This is not a certain fault!" ”
After speaking, he drew his sword and wiped it on his neck, and blood spurted straight out.
Seeing Feng Ji's corpse lying limply on his side, Yuan Shang's whole body was cold, and he was completely at a loss, but fortunately, his cousin Gao Gan could still make up his mind: "Uncle likes to show his life the most on weekdays, and he can't ignore it, if he wants to get his life, he will descend first!" ”
Yuan Shanggao was captured, and among the rest of the generals, Guo Yuan and others were also in the battle array with the sergeants to the ground, but Cheng Yin knew that he had started in Hedong, and it was rare for Deng Jirong to live, and he drew his sword and killed himself in the footsteps of Ji Houji.
The victory came so suddenly, one moment he was in a desperate situation in the sea of fire, but the next moment he was already able to enjoy the taste of victory, including Xu Huang, many of them were still unbelievable.
Just a moment later, looking at the north gate wide open and rushing into the city to rescue the cavalry troops, Xu Huang's face changed again, panting and ordering the guards: "Bullhorn!" Horn! Order the cavalry to retreat and stop blocking the passage! ”
The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and you can feel the compelling heat wave in this huge open space that Yuan Jun deliberately demolished, it is the most critical time, Deng Xian, Gong and Cao Xing's troops have already killed in the open space, but there are still nearly 10,000 people moaning under the fire on the narrow street, including the entire Guoyi School of Che Huang, every time it is delayed, I don't know how many people will be smoked to death and roasted.
Yuan Shanggao's Yuan army under the command of Yuan Shang was all surrendered, and the future was unhindered, and the team still on the street escaped from the sea of fire and poured into this open space quickly, but if the cavalry and black mountain thieves outside the city rushed in again, it would inevitably cause new congestion.
Fortunately, the city gate had just been broken, and the anxious Zhao Yun had already entered the city with the front team of the Xiao cavalry army, and it was necessary for a good fight to rescue the Dangkou army, but after looking at the situation in front of him, he suddenly relaxed, and shouted at Xu Huang, who was dozens of steps away: "The power of the two tigers in Henan, the cloud knows it today!" ”
"Blow the trumpet and retreat! Get out of the way! ”
Before Xu Huang arrived, Zhao Yun had already led the army to withdraw.
"This is one of the two tigers in Henan?" Yuan Jun, who knelt on the ground and begged for surrender, many secretly raised their heads to look at this bloody, legendary figure.
Defeated in the hands of such people, it is not wronged!
If you can follow such people in front of the horse, you will not walk in vain in the world!
Xu Huang didn't care about the surrendering army, and only anxiously looked at the large group of people who fled for their lives on the street.
Although busy, everything became orderly again, Deng Xian, Gong Du, Cao Xing, and the three schools escorted the captives of the Yuan army who asked to surrender out of the city first, giving up more open space, and the cars and schools finally poured out of the streets, although they were all embarrassed by the smoke and fire, the attrition was not very much.
The Montenegrin thieves did not have such good luck, and of the 30,000 thieves who entered the city, only more than 10,000 had to escape from Jinyang.
Xu Huang could take a breath and agreed to the medical craftsman coming to bandage him.
The previous battle was fierce, Xu Huang, the coach, had to take the lead, and did not hesitate to rush to the front, the fish scale armor had already been scattered, and he was injured in more than ten places, and there were broken arrows stuck in his armpits. General Xu Sheng, who also insisted on rushing into battle, was even more seriously injured, and as soon as the battle was over, he fell into a coma due to excessive blood loss, and it is estimated that he will have to recuperate for at least two or three months to recover.
In a corner of the open space, Ma He, the young man who was saved by Xu Huang before, lay there quietly, he followed Xu Huang in the battle, and finally died in battle. There were two corpses of Yuan Jun pressed under Ma He's body, and the blood of the young soldier was mixed with the blood of Yuan Jun, and it was black after solidification.
Today, the entire open space under the north gate of Jinyang City is full of this pitch-black color.
Although they won the final victory, Xu Huang and Zhao Yun would not have half a bit of joy on their faces.
The strategy of the Sizhou army can be said to have been thwarted by a fire in Fengji.
Originally, according to the calculations of Deng Ji and the two military advisors Xu Beijia, the two strong armies and the Montenegrin bandit soldiers should be able to pacify the two counties of Taiyuan in Shangdang with a small loss in a short time, and then leave Zhang Yan to go to the state to fight against Yuan Shao, and the two armies of their own horses rushed to Chang'an to participate in the Battle of Xiliang.
However, after the first battle of Jinyang, the Xiao cavalry Guoyi School was directly disabled, and more than 3,000 people were killed in the battle, and the remaining soldiers were also wounded - those who were blocked on the long street and failed to participate in the battle were also mostly blistered by the fire.
The Dangkou army needs to cultivate for at least a month before it has the strength to fight again, and the Xiao cavalry army lacks the most fierce and brave Guoyi School.
According to the agreement between Tian Chou and Zhang Yan before, the two families obtained after the war were divided, and more than 20,000 Yuan troops were captured in this battle, and half of the prisoners were captured by the Sizhou army, but even if they could pick some elite supplements, they were far less than their own losses.
The west is the time to employ people, but this result is really unfavorable, detrimental to the overall situation of the lord Xiliang's plot, for Xu Huang and Zhao Yun, the two generals, although the victory is especially defeated.
Xu Huang was seriously injured, and when the army came out of the city, Zhao Yun went to discuss with Zhang Yan urgently, and the Sizhou army was in front of the battle, only to be able to select all the prisoners of the Yuan army who could be added to the soldiers, and the rest of the people could be returned to Montenegro. It's a pity that if he picks up all the elites of the 20,000 Yuan army captives, the rest can only be called a rabble, and it is useless to send them, and Montenegro has no shortage of population, so Zhang Yan, who is deeply envious of the strong army in Sizhou, naturally refuses.
Zhao Yun was helpless, and when he returned, he summoned the generals above the captain of the two armies, and agreed beside Xu Huang's wounded couch that 2,000 people who were still capable of fighting would be selected from the Dangkou army, so that Che Huang would lead the cavalry to Chang'an first, and the seriously injured Erxu would leave behind the wounded soldiers and prisoners of the two armies and return to Sizhou to rest first.