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Chapter 702: The Harvest Season (2)

The smoke and dust rose in the distance, and in the smoke and dust, the military flag was faintly visible, and Ben Kuan was overjoyed, "Is General Song's troops here?" He asked repeatedly, and in the high battle behind him, the soldier in charge of the lookout tried his best to distinguish the flag in the smoke and dust. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"General Ben, the flag that the other party is flying is the Houzi flag." The lookout replied loudly.

Ben Kuan was overjoyed, "It's the waiting party, it must be the waiting party, General Song's vanguard has arrived, brother, resist me, our reinforcements have arrived." ”

"General Ben, there's still behind, there's ......" The watchman's voice stammered suddenly.

"I know that behind General Hou is, of course, General Song Kaige's brigade." Ben Kuan happily tunneled.

"It's not General Song Kaige, it's not our reinforcements, it's the Dingzhou Army, the Dingzhou Hailing Battalion, there are so many people, so many people!" The lookout was visibly frightened, and shouted hoarsely. "General Ben, the Dingzhou Army is pursuing General Hou's troops."

Ben Kuan was stunned for a moment.

The smoke and dust are getting closer and closer, and through the smoke and dust, both sides can see that on one side of the battlefield, a group of about 2,000 stragglers is desperately running away, saying that losing their armor and abandoning their armor can be regarded as lifting them, and in order to run faster, they have lost everything on their bodies that can become a burden, weapons, armor, and flags, and only hate that their father and mother have lost two legs.

Hou Fang was a little better, there were still dozens of cavalry around him, and his general flag was still there, but he was wrapped in the chaos and rushed forward involuntarily. Behind them, the earth-shattering shouts of killing were getting closer and closer.

Ben Kuan's eyes were dark, and he almost fell to the ground, and the reinforcements he was looking for had become like this, a hundred times more unbearable than himself. How could this be, Song Kaige's army came to help tens of thousands of people? Even if it is defeated, it should not be so miserable, this is almost the total annihilation.

"Send the cavalry on the left flank to meet General Houfang!" Ben Kuan said astringently.

On the main battlefield in front, the military formation is being thinned layer by layer by Li Feng, and the arrival of the defeated army of the waiting side has dealt a heavy blow to the Xingzhou army that is holding on, and the morale has fallen to the freezing point for a while.

"Return to the camp!" Ben Kuan reluctantly gave the order. But on the battlefield of the two sides, it is not so simple to retreat, the cavalry on both wings had to cut off the battlefield horizontally with a short blow and a long blow, from the two sides, so that the foot soldiers could get rid of the entanglement of the opponent's cavalry, and the foot soldiers were withdrawn, but the two wings of the Xingzhou cavalry who fell into the battle with the Yizhou battalion cavalry were unlucky, and after paying the price of about half of the people, they retreated back in a hurry.

"Twenty thousand troops wiped out?" Although he already had a premonition in his heart, this news came out of the mouth of the waiter who was scattered by the cloak, and it still dealt a great blow to Ben Kuan. "How is that possible? 20,000 people? ”

"I don't know what tricks the other party used, Xiao Aihe actually leaked the flood peak twice in one day!" Speaking of the surging flood of the Xiaoai River, Hou Fang still had palpitations at this time. "We originally used the strategy of luring the enemy to release water, so that the opponent could dig the aconitum dam and drown our suspicious soldiers, so that our brigade could rush to the Xiaoai River through the river valley avenue in time, but there was an idea that the Xiaoai River could actually discharge the flood peak twice in one day, Ben Kuan, you say, you say, Li Qing really has ghosts and gods to help?"

Ben Kuan was speechless, and stayed for a long time before he said: "You are defeated, I can't hold it here, we must evacuate quickly, otherwise we can't even leave the scum." ”

"Yes, let's go, retreat to the Yaqueling military village, and join General Ouyang and General Zhou, we can still gather tens of thousands of people, it's not that we don't have the strength to fight." Hou Fang nodded vigorously.

"There is no chance to evacuate during the day, you have to wait until the evening to talk about it, General Hou, you have worked hard, go and rest first, eat something, recuperate, and wait until the evening, I am afraid that there will be a fierce battle!" Ben Kuando.

"Thank you so much, General Ben!" Hou Fang thanked him.

After more than ten days of fierce fighting, both sides were basically on the verge of exhaustion, and at this time, they were just relying on a breath to support them. Looking at the military village that was close at hand, crumbling, but it seemed that it would never be able to be defeated, Ouyang Gangqiang and Zhou Zuhao felt a sense of powerlessness in their hearts.

In the past ten days, they took turns to go into battle, tried their best, and no longer had any idea of preserving their strength, more than 30,000 troops bombarded indiscriminately, and sometimes even attacked day and night, but the biggest result was only to take a few small forts on the left and right, and the main fort of the Yaqueling Military Village was still standing still.

These days, Li Qing is already undoubtedly here, not only the iron leopard on the battlefield, they also saw Li Wen, Li Wu, yesterday, they finally saw the Dingzhou marshal Li Qing stubborn, walked up to the main castle, beat the war drums with his own hands, the morale of the Dingzhou soldiers was greatly boosted, and the enemy who attacked the wall was driven off the city wall in one fell swoop.

Above and below the city, rivers of blood flowed, corpses were everywhere, and under the scorching heat, the entire battlefield was stinking and smelling terrible. Both sides are battle-hardened veterans, knowing that under this kind of weather, if the plague breaks out, it is not fun, so after each battle, they have to spend a lot of time to collect the remains of the war dead, and after they are concentrated, they are burned with fire, and there are still a lot of severed limbs and stumps, and the internal organs will be left outside, and it will not take a night to start emitting a foul smell.

"Guan Xinglong, how many people are there in the horizontal knife master?" Li Qing sat on top of the lobby and asked while wiping his sword. Since yesterday, he has also started to defend in the city.

"Back to the lord, in addition to the Yizhou cavalry battalion, there are two full battalions in the Hengdao Division, together with more than 15,000 people in the logistics baggage, half a month of fierce fighting, aside from the dead and seriously injured soldiers who can not go to the battlefield, we can still fight a total of more than 8,000 people, and there are only five of the more than ten defensive positions on the entire Yaqueling military village, and two of them are isolated. At stake! ”

Li Qing nodded, "It's really a cruel war, and the opponent is really desperate, what is the estimate of their casualties?" ”

Guan Xinglong said proudly: "Let us pay such a heavy price, how can they be better, we have the advantage of terrain and armament, and the other party's losses are much greater than ours, and now we can't hold on, we are just counting on the Tiger Pavilion defenders and Ben Kuan's troops to arrive in time." ”

Li Qing laughed, "I'm afraid they won't be able to come!" Stood up, returned the polished war knife to the sheath with a choked sound, and said: "This time it reminds me of the feeling when we held on to Fuyuan, more than 10,000 people coped with the attack of Yan Bulu's 60,000 army, but in the end it was us who won, at that time our conditions were far less than now, hehe, our Dingzhou army will never lose the battle!" ”

Guan Xinglong also smiled: "Yes, lord, this battle also reminds me of the time when I was in Dingyuan, that time really made me frightened, and I thought I was going to die on the battlefield several times, compared to that time, now it is really not enough!" ”

The two *** walked out with a smile and boarded the main fort. Not far below the military fortress, the Xingzhou army began to reorganize the army again, and it seemed that it was about to launch another attack.

"This week, Zu Hao and Ouyang Gangqiang have a ruthless spirit!" Guan Xinglong sighed, "The casualties of the troops are so large, they can't hold on, but they can be regarded as a man." ”

"Compared to the merits that I can make, even if I lose all the troops, they will not hesitate to do it." Li Qing said with a smile, "If you don't see the coffin, you won't cry, and if you don't see the Yellow River, you won't die!" ”

"Then let them touch their noses again!" Guan Xinglong took out a big knife with one arm and stuck it on the ground with a choked sound, "In the past few days, I really haven't had a good time, lord, I still miss the joy when I held a big knife in my hand, crisscrossed the battlefield, and cut off the enemy's head with my own hands, now, this kind of day is too rare!" ”

"It's not bad, if you want to have fun, then you have to hurry up, this time the opportunity is rare, in the future, a general of your level wants to play hand-to-hand combat, and the opportunity is getting less and less!" The two looked at each other and smiled.

"Lord, carrier pigeon!" The iron leopard suddenly pointed high in the sky, where there was a snow-white carrier pigeon circling, above the battlefield, thick smoke was filled, the carrier pigeon was obviously a little confused, circling there in a circle.

"There must be news from Xiao Aihe!" Li Qingdao.

The iron leopard pursed his lips and made a loud whistle, and the carrier pigeon in the air also rushed down like an arrow, and landed lightly on the wall in front of the iron leopard, the iron leopard reached out and grabbed the carrier pigeon, took a small tube from the pigeon's leg, and handed it to Li Qing with both hands.

"My lord, is this the pigeon that the Supervision House has bred to convey information, it's really amazing, this little thing can find exactly where we are, and can distinguish between friend and foe, how does this work?" Guan Xinglong's eyes widened, the carrier pigeon has not been popularized in the army in large quantities, and Guan Xinglong has seen it for the first time.

"To put it bluntly, it's not worth a penny!" Li Qing smiled, "Soon, you will also configure this thing!" As he spoke, he opened the small tube, took out your secret letter, unfolded it, glanced at it, and quietly handed it to Guan Xinglong beside him.

"Song Kaige's whole army was annihilated, Ben Kuan abandoned the camp and fled, the passage of the Xiaoai River was completely opened, and the Yizhou camp and the Hailing camp were coming!" Guan Xinglong looked at these few short sentences, couldn't help but be ecstatic, holding the secret letter high, loudly repeating the content of the secret letter, and the personal guards around him repeated the content of the letter loudly in unison. Although the two military villages that are still struggling to hold on to the main village far away from the main village do not know what happened, they naturally know that it is not a bad thing when they see the joy above the main village, so they also cheer loudly and wave flags.

Seeing that the other party was so ecstatic, Zhou Zuhao and Ouyang Gangqiang, who were about to attack again, were full of suspicion, "What's wrong?" ”

The two looked at each other, both of them were unclear.

"Maybe it's a suspicious ploy!" Ouyang Gang said strongly: "Yesterday, Li Qingdu personally went into battle, it seems that they have reached the point of exhaustion, today, we are going to launch a fatal blow, Lao Zhou, Lao Tzu will personally lead the team to attack the city today, you give me the formation!" Ouyang Gang said viciously.