Chapter 455: Li Bi's Death (Part II)
Liu Wenzhou commanded Ruoding in the front, and his sergeants ran back and forth and made noise, Chen Baxian looked at Cheng Tou carefully, these people did not seem to be joking, so he ordered all the defenders to be vigilant, and ordered his subordinates to send additional men at the four gates in the city to guard against the enemy's infiltration and attack. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After arranging all this, he felt that he could now watch the suicide show of the Western Wei army under the city from the city tower with peace of mind.
Liu Wenzhou agreed with Li Bi in advance, Li Yao was responsible for the attack at the north gate, and Wang Wende of Raohe was making noise outside the west gate. The purpose was to allow Li Bi's sneak attack in the east of the city to be carried out smoothly. Li Bi rode a horse and took more than a thousand of his subordinates out of breath to spare a big circle, and finally came to the east of Hanzhong City. He looked at the defenders on the city tower in the woods, or there were a lot of people walking back and forth on the city tower, it seemed that Chen Ba had sent people to strengthen the defense first? But now it's too late to say this, and the so-called arrow has to be fired.
Li Bi saw that there didn't seem to be too many defenders at the junction of the east and north of the city, and they were still leaning on the foothills of the mountain, and some of the ancient tree branches on the mountain stretched to the edge of the city wall. So Li Bi asked the sneak attack team of 200 people to climb the mountain and hide, while he took the remaining hundreds of people to deliberately make a movement at the junction of the south and east of the city. Sure enough, the garrison soldiers were attracted by them, thinking that the Western Wei army was going to attack the city from this side.
The two hundred people who finally climbed to the foot of the mountain suddenly found that it was almost impossible to climb from the ancient tree to the city, and it was better to climb directly from the city to save trouble, but now that they had arrived here, there was no room to return, so they had to start climbing to the ancient tree, and then threw a hanging rope into the city along the branches. It was not easy to climb in a few people, but they happened to be discovered by the patrolling defenders, and before they could do anything, they were chopped into pulp, and then the Western Wei army at the foot of the mountain was exposed, and the defenders shot wildly at the mountain.
Li Bi under the city was also choked enough, and when he looked up, he saw that the foothills were already on fire at the moment, and the troops of two hundred people were all killed. Liu Wenzhou, who was still attacking in front, waited for a long time and did not wait for the signal that Li Bi had successfully entered the city, and he couldn't help but feel a little anxious.
Li Yao's troops had already withdrawn from the battlefield, because they really couldn't fight, and before their people could reach the city, they were repelled by a rain of fire and arrows from the defenders of the city. The situation on Liu Wenzhou's side was even worse, and there was even a phenomenon of desertion, and then Li Bi finally appeared.
However, he did not fight from the city, but withdrew from the south of the city in an embarrassed way. Wang Wende also has several wounds on his body at the moment, and he is commanding the troops to keep fighting back, but the casualties are too heavy, and he is completely letting his subordinates launch a death charge. Li Bi said to Liu Wenzhou: "No, the east side of the city can't take it at all, Chen Baxian seems to have taken precautions, and he won't give a chance at all." ”
Liu Wenzhou then said uneasily: "Since this is the case, then let's withdraw, the siege here was originally a feint, but now General Wang seems to be enchanted and is desperately commanding the troops to attack, so our troops will be wiped out." Li Bi angrily jumped to his feet and scolded the street: "Is this Wang Wende a pig brain?" Can't tell the difference between a feint attack and a forcible attack, can't you still see the reality of the current situation? Let him withdraw his troops! ”
Liu Wenzhou hurriedly sent someone to rule Wang Wende's retreat, and immediately Mingjin withdrew his troops, Wang Wende also returned to the formation angrily and scolded, Li Bi stepped forward and scolded him, scolding him inexplicably. I don't know where I provoked him. Li Bi was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and asked the herald to send Li Yao an order to retreat and return to the camp. Just when everyone needed to retreat, Chen Baxian suddenly opened the city gate and led people out of it.
Seeing that Li Bi had no way to continue attacking the city and wanted to retreat, Chen Ba said in his heart how could the fat on his lips make you run away? So they led them out of the city and pursued him. Sure enough, the Western Wei army under Li Bi had no intention of fighting at the moment, and when they saw the defenders fighting out of the city, they threw away their armor and fled in embarrassment, and no one even cared about the siege equipment, Liu Wenzhou and Wang Wende couldn't stop drinking.
Li Bi saw that the general trend had gone, so he hurriedly got on his horse and left, and returned to the camp first, so he greeted Liu Wenzhou and Wang Wende, and turned around and ran. The soldiers under him saw that even the commander had run away, and who could take care of the others, ran away one after another. Back in the camp, Li Bi gathered the defeated troops and counted the number of people, and found that there were less than 10,000 left. There is no hope of attacking the city, but it is more than enough to defend the camp.
Liu Wenzhou then rushed to the barracks, and when he saw that he didn't see Wang Wende, he was very anxious, it turned out that when the two were retreating, Wang Wende told him that he was behind the palace and asked him to leave quickly. Liu Wenzhou was very grateful to his righteous Ling Ran for his friend, and the two made an appointment to meet in the barracks, when a group of remnants of Wang Wende's soldiers ran back, Liu Wenzhou stepped forward and asked, "What about your main general?" Why didn't you see him come back? ”
The defeated soldiers knelt on the ground one after another and cried: "General Wang is in danger with his life, but unfortunately he was outnumbered and captured by the men and horses of the Eastern Wei Dynasty. Liu Wenzhou was shocked, this is really over, even the only general in the self-army has been taken away, what should I do later? He immediately looked for Li Bi, and at this time Li Yao also returned to the camp in embarrassment, and there were more than 5,000 people left under him.
Li Bi heard Liu Wenzhou's reply, sighed deeply and said: "Now that the general trend has gone, let's withdraw to Chengdu to rest for a while and recuperate before trying to Hanzhong." Liu Wenzhou immediately said: "What the big marshal said is reasonable, as the saying goes, if you stay in the green mountains, you don't have to worry about no firewood, let's temporarily endure for a while, and after lying on the salary and tasting the gall, it will inevitably soar to the sky." Li Yao also nodded in agreement: "Dad, the military master is reasonable. ”
Wang Wende had to wait for them to return to Chengdu and take the money to negotiate with Chen Baxian to see if they could redeem it. Just as they were packing up and preparing to evacuate, people and horses suddenly neighed outside the camp gate, and it turned out that Chen Baxian's troops chased to the camp and called for battle. Li Bi's heart is like ashes, what should I do now? His son Li Yao stood up very heroically and said, "Dad, you take people away first, and I will stay here in the palace." ”
Li Bi nodded, and immediately ordered his subordinates to carry a large amount of gold and silver, and then loaded them into the cart and retreated in the direction of Eastern Jin Shou County. Liu Wenzhou saw that the opportunity was not good at this moment, and he planned to run away by himself, because the target with Li Bi was too big, so he had to escape alone, and it was faster to walk alone. It was he who didn't even take his luggage, secretly went to the storeroom and wrapped a large bag of gold, silver and jewelry, and then escaped through the back door of the camp.
Along the way, Li Bi stopped and ran not very fast, he himself was listless and weak at the moment, his soldiers fled a lot of people halfway, and walked to a place twenty miles away from Shoucheng in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, several of his generals suddenly gathered a crowd to mutiny, blocked Li Bi's carriage and horses in one place, and asked him to hand over the gold and silver treasures, these people are fierce and vicious like bandits, because Li Bi is usually too stingy, but at this moment he has no choice, the so-called money can be channeled, so he had to move all the gold, silver and jewelry out, He said loudly: "If any of you kills these partial generals, the money will be divided among you, and the leaders of you can replace the official positions of these partial generals." (To be continued.) )