Chapter 41: Breaking the Enemy
The rebels approached the city, and Xi Zhicai made a desperate attempt to open the city gate and let the trapped camp go out of the city to fight Xu He.
6,000 soldiers faced more than 50,000 rebels, and the difference in strength was nearly ten times.
When the trapped camp slowly left the city, Guo Ping, who was in the city, walked to the city tower, walked to Xi Zhicai's side and whispered: "The wealthy families in the city are ready to move. ”
Unexpectedly, Xi Zhicai sneered: "Let them make trouble, as long as General Gao defeats the rebels outside the city in one fell swoop, what they do in the city is to dig their own graves." ”
has long sent people to secretly target the wealthy families in the city, and Xi Zhicai is not surprised at this moment that there will be people in the city who will cooperate with Xu He, which is also the reason why the trapped camp must go out of the city to fight Xu He.
If you can't hold out, the wealthy clans in the city will attack the city gates on all sides, I'm afraid Chengdu will fall in an instant, but Gao Shun led the camp out of the city to fight a decisive battle with Xu He, even if the wealthy clans in the city open the other three gates at this moment? Could it be that Xu He would turn around and enter the city through other gates despite being in the camp in front of him?
There are Xiao Ren and Xiao Yi's personal guards at the east gate, although there are less than 1,000 people, but they are all young men with extraordinary martial arts, and in the face of ordinary soldiers on the battlefield, at least one enemy is three.
Out of the east gate of Chengdu and Xu He's army across the moat confronted each other, lined up in formation, the trap camp level is orderly, not only the armor is strong, the fighting equipment is excellent, and the combination of troops is also perfect.
The cavalry was on the left and right flanks, with 1,000 strong crossbowmen in front of the middle formation, and 2,000 sword and shield soldiers and pikemen behind them.
The suspension bridge was slowly lowered, and the road to Chengdu was already presented in front of him, but Xu He did not dare to rashly order the march, but instead ordered the army to retreat a mile.
Because on the road through the drawbridge, Xu He has seen the strong crossbowmen who are waiting for the battle, all of his troops are foot soldiers, all of them are melee fighting soldiers, there is neither cavalry, nor crossbowmen, if you rush across the drawbridge, it is equivalent to sending you to death, retreat one mile, let the trapped camp pass through the drawbridge, the battlefield will suddenly open up, and the 50,000 army can calmly form an encirclement of the trapped camp.
The people of the Qin family don't know the art of war, and even Xu He's shallow knowledge of military strategy is not as good, and when they saw Xu He letting the army retreat, they held back the fire, so they could only shout that the militia would also retreat.
Gao Shun commanded the soldiers to pass the drawbridge vigilantly, and at the same time observed Xu He's army, who was not smiling, he already had a very objective understanding of Xu He's army.
It seems that more than 50,000 people do have obvious advantages, but only Xu He's 10,000 army is really powerful, and this 10,000 army is in the middle, surrounded by the militia of the rabble, and there is no way to retreat, so they can only advance, and the more than 40,000 militiamen can't even stand in a military formation.
At the beginning of Gao Shun's military training, Guo Jia had high hopes, except for the rest of the yellow scarf, he only gave Gao Shun soldiers and horses equipment, and later captured Hanzhong, took Chengdu, armor and weapons, food treatment, and trapped camp are the best, Guo Jia said to Gao Shun: But if you need it, just open your mouth.
High treatment inevitably requires high pay, and the camp trains hard, never slackens, and the soldiers are fierce, like wolves and tigers, and they are the most powerful elite division under Guo Jia.
When the trapped camp passed through the drawbridge and formed a formation outside the moat, the drawbridge slowly rose again, and at this moment, it was quite a situation of fighting against the water.
"Qin Ye, you lead an army of 10,000 on the left flank, Qin Wu, you lead an army of 10,000 on the right flank, and encircle the enemy army on three sides with me."
Xu He calmly gave the military order, but when he turned his head, he found that Qin Ye and Qin Wu had not moved, and frowned.
"What are you two hesitating about?"
Qin Ye and Qin Wu, father and son, did hesitate, this charge, they were trying to let Xu He take the lead, and now Xu He put on a shelf to command them, losing face is secondary, the key is that they are also afraid of death, in fact, they plan to go up and go through the motions when the overall situation has been decided, they really want to go into battle and kill, but they are instantly timid.
The camp was full of murderous atmosphere, full of fighting spirit, Gao Shun didn't care whether you Xu He issued a military order, when the drawbridge was raised, Gao Shun, who straddled the horse in the middle of the military formation, made a gesture, and the cavalry on both wings immediately rushed away in an orderly manner.
Three thousand cavalry three routes, intending to rush in from the left and right sides of Xu He's army and the rear.
The trapped-men marched steadily, and when the rebels came into range, the crossbowmen unleashed their arrows in a neat manner.
With the sound of horses' hooves in his ears, three teams of thousand-man cavalry pressed towards the two wings of the army and the rear, and there were dense arrows in front of him, and after Xu He fell hundreds of steps in front of him, he roared angrily: "The whole army charges!" ”
The army behind him rushed forward like a wave, approaching step by step between the crossbowmen and their arrows.
The scene became a little chaotic, but it was all the rebels in chaos, Xu and the 10,000 army did charge, even his son rushed up with an indomitable momentum, but the 40,000 militiamen only rushed up less than 10,000, and the rest stood in place.
None of them obeyed Xu He's orders, and the power of the trapped camp made them frightened and cowardly before they fought.
The shouting of killing resounded through the world, and Xu He found that at least 30,000 militiamen around him did not rush forward, and immediately yelled at Qin Ye beside him: "Let them rush!" Is it stupid to stand still and wait to die? ”
When was he scolded like this five times three times? Qin Ye secretly hated: Even when Guo Jia came to Guanghan County, he had to bow to our Qin family in a low voice, what kind of thing are you?
Without looking back, the two generations of Qin family, Qin Ye, Qin Cheng, Qin and Wu, did not want to stay by Xu He's side, the war had begun, sit and watch the success or failure, and when both were defeated, they would lead their troops to capture Chengdu.
But Xu He didn't agree, and when he saw that the Qin family didn't listen to the order at this time, he was furious, took out his machete and slapped the horse to catch up, and unexpectedly cut off Qin Wu's head from behind.
Qin Ye and Qin Cheng were shocked, Qin Ye looked at his son's headless corpse under the horse in disbelief, staggered off the horse, his legs were weak, knelt in front of his son's corpse, and cried loudly.
The knife was across Qin Cheng's neck, and Xu He shouted with hideous eyes: "Dare to run? I'll kill you! Quickly order them to rush up and fight for me! ”
Qin Cheng was so frightened that his face was bloodless, and he said in a trembling voice to the militiamen behind him who were also dumbfounded by this change: "Don't rush yet!" ”
The militiamen were dumbfounded, but their brains were not stupid enough to send them to death.
The three thousand cavalry of the trapped camp are fully armed, not only wearing strong armor, but even the war horses are also wearing light armor to protect the vital parts.
Three teams of cavalry from the left and right sides of the three sides into the rebel formation, the cavalry brandished spears in their hands as if into no man's land, ruthlessly and decisively stabbed to death one after another, if the spear accidentally took off, then pulled out the sword, continued to lean down and slash, the three teams of cavalry instantly turned the enemy army upside down, chaotic.
The head-to-head confrontation of the camp foot soldiers is not afraid of the 20,000 rebels who surged up, Gao Shun commanded calmly, on the way to the rebels, the strong crossbowmen shot several times, and already let more than 2,000 rebels fall on the battlefield, when the rebels approached less than 20 steps, Gao Shun waved his big hand, the strong crossbowmen moved back in unison, the sword and shield soldiers stepped forward and set up a strong shield, the pikemen generally stood in the gap between the sword and shield soldiers, and after the rebels killed them, the spears frequently pierced out of the gaps in the shield, blood splashed, and the rebels fell one after another.
The rebels who went forward and followed insisted on breaking through the defense line of the trapped camp, but the shield suddenly tilted back, and the rebels looked up, a few steps ahead, the stern-faced strong crossbowmen once again loaded their arrows, pulled the crossbow strings, and the bows and crossbows were facing the rebels.
Bang bang bang......
Another round of fire, countless fallen rebels, after the arrows were fired, the shield was erected again, and the pikemen once again stood up and clenched the spears in their hands to reap the rebels' lives!
The sound of the horse's hooves of the cavalry in the trapped camp was like a horn of death, setting off a bloody storm everywhere it went, how could the militiamen with agricultural iron tools resist it? Soon some people threw away their iron weapons and began to flee for their lives, some people hit the head, others followed suit, and the militiamen, who had no military discipline to speak of, turned into birds and fled backwards.
"Who would dare to be a deserter? Lao Tzu slaughtered him! ”
Xu He found that the army in front of him that was fighting with Gao Shun's infantry was frustrated, and there were people in the rear who kept fleeing for their lives.
But as soon as his threatening words came out, there were more deserters, as if they had betrayed their relatives.
Qin Ye and Qin Cheng's faces were pale, and the scene in front of them was something they hadn't expected anyway.
They didn't expect that more than 50,000 people would come to attack Chengdu, which had less than 10,000 defenders, how could they end up like this?
Xu He, who was full of anger and hatred, cut his teeth and glared at Qin Ye and Qin Cheng, and he didn't stop doing anything, went down with two knives to kill the two of them, and then pulled the reins, rushed forward, and rushed to the battlefield ahead.
Dead, wounded, or fleeing or surrendering, Xu He, who was full of spirits and staring at everyone, was left with only thousands of his own army left, and more than 40,000 militiamen either dropped their weapons and fled for their lives, or were injured and had no time to flee and crawled on the ground shouting words for mercy.
"Xu He! Are you still obsessed? ”
Gao Shun straddled the horse with a stern face, and although the three thousand foot soldiers in front of him were killed or wounded about a thousand, they never panicked, calmly and orderly, matched their troops, and jointly annihilated the enemy.
Not far in front of him, Xu He took the lead but it was difficult to shake the firm and unbreakable formation of the trapped camp, and there were less than 3,000 soldiers left around him, and as soon as Xu He turned around, his bronze bell-like eyes appeared dim, and the ashes were fully revealed.
The 3,000 cavalry only lost less than 500, and the more than 2,500 cavalry, with spears in their hands, lined up behind Xu He with murderous aura.
In the audience again, the stumps and arms were broken, the blood flowed like rivers, the dead bodies were everywhere, and there were people who fell on the ground and trembled and begged for mercy.
The infantry and cavalry trapped in the camp have formed a situation of encirclement against Xu and the remnants of the army.
When Chang, Xu He's machete fell to the ground, turned over and dismounted, knelt on his knees, lowered his head and closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, and said, "Xu He, it's down." General Gao, let my soldiers live. ”
Xu He's son knelt down with his father, and the other soldiers also dropped their weapons and surrendered on their knees.
Gao Shun slowly rode his horse and ordered someone to tie up Xu He and the low-level generals in the rebel army, Gao Shun said expressionlessly: "How to deal with them, I have no right to be the master, everything is decided by the lord." ”