Chapter 148: Soldiers are on the verge of longevity
"Wrong! Don't shoot arrows! Friendly! We are allies! We're allies! ”
No matter how desperate the poor Liu Beijun soldiers are, it is useless to shout and show their identities, not to mention that Deputy Director Tao, who has a heart like a snake and a scorpion and a surname like a jackal, has issued a death order to the Xuzhou army to resolutely annihilate it, that is, Tao Ying did not give this order, and the Xuzhou soldiers under the command of Zang Ba and Tao Ji will not have the slightest mercy - Langya soldiers and gentlemen's army, but there is not one of the teams in the Xuzhou army that has the deepest blood feud with Liu Beijun! The Battle of Liuxian that year, the death of Sun Kang and the later Battle of Quyang, as well as the small actions made by Uncle Liu Huang when the Junzi Army was just formed as a toddler, all made the Langya soldiers and the Junzi Army full of hatred and anger towards Liu Beijun, so Liu Beijun's team wanted to count on the mercy of the Langya soldiers and the Junzi Army, which was basically not much different from Bai Yue's dream.
In this way, the poor nature is the innocent soldiers under the command of Uncle Liu Huang, in the continuous whistling of arrows, the feather arrows of the Xuzhou army flew to the three pontoon bridges one after another, and the soldiers of Liu Beijun who were crowded on the narrow pontoon bridge could not avoid, and there was no way to hide, one after another the arrows fell, one after another the arrows fell into the water, screaming and falling into the river, desperately struggling to disappear into the depths of the waves, one after another blood splashed, the bridge deck was full of corpses and wounded soldiers, and the old height was paved layer by layer, But the soldiers of Liu Beijun behind could not see the situation clearly in the dark night, and they were still desperately crowding forward, and they were still pushing their companions in front of them onto the pontoon bridge to act as a live target for the Xuzhou army.
"What's going on?" Hearing these voices, Uncle Liu Huang, who was directing the team to cross the river in an orderly manner, was of course taken aback, and hurriedly led the army to the ferry to the high ground to check the situation, Uncle Liu Huang was stunned for a moment, on the other side of the fertile water, the crossbowmen of the Xuzhou army were in groups, lined up to guard the bridge, and took turns to draw the bow and release arrows in an orderly manner, desperately shooting their own soldiers on the pontoon bridge, and their own soldiers were congested on the narrow pontoon bridge, as if they were lambs to be slaughtered by the Xuzhou crossbowmen, in a short moment, The Feishui River was already full of the corpses and wounded soldiers of its own soldiers.
"Tao Ying! Thief! Thief! Seeing this situation, Uncle Liu Huang, who was very deep in the city, was hysterical in front of the public for the first time, stomping his feet, red eyes, hoarse voice, and roaring wildly, "Thief! Thief! You are the world's number one shameless thief! The world's number one shameless thief!! ”
"How is that possible? How can it be? The most depressed was Uncle Liu's imperial diplomatic envoy Sun Qian, who muttered in disbelief: "How is it possible? Tao envoy Jun, but he agreed to send troops to rescue our army, why did the team he sent instead shoot at us? ”
"How is that possible?!" Also surprised was Xiao Yuan Sangong, when Yuan Shujun was on the river scout for the clipper to deliver the news to Xiao Yuan Sangong, Xiao Yuan Sangong was also stunned for a moment, and only after a while did he exclaim in disbelief: "How is it possible? Tao Ying's team of thieves not only did not take advantage of the fire to rob, but also helped our army deal with the big-eared thieves? Lone can't be dreaming, right?! ”
"My lord, this is not surprising." Lord Bo Yanxiang spoke, and said in a deep voice: "Tao Ying's thief hates Liu Bei's thief the most, and it is not surprising that Liu Bei's thief fell into the well!" This is a God-given opportunity to completely eradicate Liu Bei's thieves, please don't miss it! ”
"Yes, yes." Xiao Yuan Sangong may actually hate Uncle Liu Huang more than Tao Ying, and after listening to Yan Xiang's words, he immediately nodded, and hurriedly ordered: "Beat the drums, go all out to attack, and you must destroy the big-eared thief in Feishui!" ”
"My lord, you should withdraw the fireboat." Yan Xiang smiled and suggested: "Since Tao Ying's thieves refuse to take advantage of the fire to rob our army, and only fall into the well for the big-eared thieves, then our army can completely ignore the big-eared thieves' river-crossing pontoon bridge, leaving a way for the big-eared thieves to escape across the river, which can not only reduce the positive pressure on our army, but also borrow the hands of Tao Ying's thieves to clean up some big-eared thieves' teams for us." Xiao Yuan Sangong laughed when he heard this, and immediately acted according to the plan.
The next battle for poor Uncle Liu Huang, it was simply a nightmare that had never been seen in his life, on the land battlefield, the Huainan army of Xiao Yuan Sangong rushed and beat violently, the ants bit the elephant and desperately used their troops to fight against Liu Beijun, on the river battlefield, the gentleman's army and the Langya soldiers who relied on bows and arrows to eat joined forces, and blocked the pontoon bridge with a strong bow and crossbow, and any Liu Beijun soldier who dared to step on the pontoon bridge had only one end, that is, he was shot into hedgehog honeycomb coal by random arrows! Poor Liu Beijun soldiers could not advance or retreat, defending is death, fleeing is also death, and was beaten wildly by Yuan Shujun and Xuzhou Army in the middle of the fist and foot intersection, the dead and wounded were countless people, crying and screaming.
In the melee, countless Liu Beijun soldiers either just got rid of Yuan Shujun's slashing and retreated to the river, and were immediately killed by the Xuzhou army's random arrows, or just dodged the Xuzhou army's overwhelming feather arrows and fled to the west to avoid the arrows, but they were immediately overwhelmed by countless Yuan Shujun soldiers, and the knives were cut into meat sauce. Liu Beijun's sturdy Chinese army camp was broken through by Yuan Shujun almost instantly, a large number of Yuan Shujun troops broke into Liu Beijun's camp to kill people and set fire, the pontoon bridge was full of Liu Beijun's wounded soldiers and corpses, the heavy almost crushed the pontoon, and countless Liu Beijun soldiers bombarded only more than 30 small boats and fishing boats, you fight and draw swords against each other, trample on each other countless dead, and the small boats that can't carry a few people are also sunk innumerable.
Soon, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, who led the army to resist in the front, could not stop the continuous surging Yuan Shujun team, so they could only lead the remnants of the defeated army to flee back to the ferry to meet Liu Huangshu, Yuan Shujun took the opportunity to fully cover up, and instantly completely bulldozed Liu Beijun's fence defense line, cheering and pouring into Liu Beijun's Chinese army camp like a tide, flooding countless burning Liu Beijun camp tents, and also submerging countless Liu Beijun troops and lone soldiers who had no time to withdraw, and the earth-shattering slogan also echoed in Liu Beijun's camp, "Capture the big-eared thief alive!" Capture the big-eared thief alive! ”
In order to survive, Uncle Liu once organized the army to retreat to Feishui, and let the death squad open the way with a long shield while cleaning up the corpses and wounded soldiers on the bridge, while holding a long shield to advance to the east bank, in a vain attempt to seize a beachhead to cover the main force to cross the river, so countless Liu Beijun soldiers who were not killed by arrows were pushed down the cold river by their own companions, screaming and drowning alive. But these death squads were also destined to fail to complete the task, and when they were about to rush to the bridgehead in the face of the rain of arrows, the Xuzhou soldiers who had been waiting here for a long time immediately slashed and axed at the rope pillars of the pontoon bridge - the Xuzhou army, which had few troops, was not interested in fighting head-on with Liu Beijun, who jumped over the wall in a hurry. Three times and two times to cut the rope, the pillar was smashed and the pontoon bridge that lost its support sank, and the soldiers of Liu Beijun's death squad who sacrificed their lives to assault also screamed and fell into the water without exception, either drowned or stabbed to death by the Xuzhou soldiers on the shore, no one could land on the east bank alive, and the Xuzhou archers quickly advanced to the bank of the river, and continued to shoot Liu Beijun's soldiers on the opposite bank with long-range bows and arrows, venting the anger in his chest that had been accumulated for a long time.
When the sky was bright, Liu Beijun's three temporary pontoon bridges built in a hurry were all destroyed, and Uncle Liu Huang, who had lost the road to cross the river, wanted to cry without tears, so he could only follow Guan Yu's suggestion to lead the army to the south to break through, after a hard fight at any cost, relying on Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, the two peerless fierce men, Liu Bei's army was lucky to kill a way out, and escaped from his own camp that was already a sea of blood and fire and fled to the south, but the 13,000 army had only one thought left, At the same time, Liu Bi, a good friend of Uncle Liu Huang, also died tragically in the chaos of the army, and was trampled to meat sauce by his own defeated soldiers - poor General Liu Pi's experience in escaping for his life was indeed much worse than that of the three Taozi brothers.
Escaping from the camp battlefield of the corpse mountain and sea of blood by luck does not mean that the three brothers of Uncle Liu can be safe, they can let the birds fly in the sky, the sea is wide and the fish can leap or run safely to harm the next prince, and the little Yuan Sangong, who hates Uncle Liu so much, almost didn't even blink his eyelids, and immediately sent Liang Gang, Liu Wei and Yuan Si and other generals to lead the army to chase and kill; The Xuzhou army also divided the Junzi Army to pursue across the bank, and followed Liu Huangshu's defeated army all the way south, ready to block Liu Huangshu's escape road across the river at any time - if it wasn't for Zang Ba to stop it, the stunned Qing Taoji originally planned to lead the Junzi Army to cross the river and pursue.
Uncle Liu Huang's nightmare continued, fled south for more than ten miles, Yuan Shujun, who was ten times larger than Liu Beijun, was chasing after him, and several times he planned to snatch the fertilizer water from the water slowdown, but he was also shot back by the arrows of the Junzi Army, there was no way to go to the sky, there was no way to go down, he could only scold Tao Ying and Yuan Shu's viciousness while helplessly continuing to flee south, and finally was blocked by Yuan Shujun's pursuers on the shore of Shaobi Lake, slashing and killing a fierce fight, poor Uncle Liu Huang once again broke through successfully, and the soldiers around him were less than a thousand.
The matter is still not over, in order to survive, Uncle Liu Huang fled west with the last hope, planning to forcibly cross the water and flee to Anfeng or Yangquan, but when Uncle Liu spent countless efforts and countless costs, he finally barely got rid of the pursuit of the Huainan army, and fled to the bank of the river before dark, but the Xuzhou sailors who had sneaked to Shaobi Lake in batches suddenly came out, and gave up the raid on Yuan Shujun's army on Tao Ying's order, and made every effort to block Uncle Liu's escape path. After another big battle, the exhausted Liu Huangshu's team really couldn't break through the new force of the Xuzhou Navy Division, so they could only give up the plan to rush to the hinterland of Huainan and lead the last more than 100 remnants of the defeated army to flee to the direction of Runan in the north under the cover of night.
"Tao Ying exterminates the thief! I'm fucking your mother's eighteenth generation ancestor! Of course, this is the last sentence left by Uncle Liu Huang before he got rid of the pursuit of the Xuzhou sailors....................................
In the battle of Feishui, although Xiao Yuan Sangong got his wish to eradicate the huge hidden danger of Uncle Liu Huang, whether it was Xiao Yuan Sangong himself or Yan Xiang, the think tank of the Huainan army, they all knew very well that the real winner of the Feishui War was actually the Xuzhou army, because after a big battle, Yuan Shujun not only removed the biggest thorn in the eye of Tao Ying, Uncle Liu, but also paid a very heavy price, with more than 8,000 casualties among the soldiers, and a large number of valuable materials to defend the city were exhausted, but Xiao Yuan Sangong and Yan Xiang had no choice- Uncle Liu's hidden danger is too dangerous.
So there is no way, even if they know that Uncle Liu Huang will only be cheap, Xiao Yuan Sangong and Yan Xiang can only bite the bullet and let the Huainan army fight, but fortunately, Xiao Yuan Sangong is not nothing in the struggle of the Xuzhou army, at least the Xuzhou army in order to stop Uncle Liu Huang with all its might, took the initiative to expose the ambush in Shaobi Lake, Xiao Yuan Sangong was shocked into a cold sweat, and naturally strengthened the protection of the back road of the water discharge, and the rookie sailors in Xuzhou wanted to raid the water to cut off the back road of Xiao Yuan Sangong, and the difficulty naturally increased a lot.
Now let's take a look at the situation in Yinling City, in fact, Zang Ba and Tao Ji didn't completely lie to Sun Qian, Xiao Yuan Sangong did attack Uncle Liu Huang on the night of the third watch, Qiao Rui did send troops to attack the camp of the main army in Xuzhou - although this is a typical egg to hit the stone, but there is no way, Xiao Yuan Sangong did not know Tao's attitude towards Uncle Liu Huang at that time, in order to contain the main force of Xuzhou and win the precious time to clean up Uncle Liu Huang alone, Xiao Yuan Sangong had to bite the bullet and let Qiao Rui hit the stone with an egg once.
The result of the robbery camp of Qiaorui is a matter of course, the team out of the city soon after being found by the Xuzhou army that bombarded Yinling City with Xiangyang artillery at night, after flying to Tao Ying, Tao Ying immediately sent troops to meet the battle, after a night battle, Qiaorui sent three thousand troops with less than 500 people to flee back to Yinling City, and the rest were either annihilated by the Xuzhou army, or forced to give up their weapons and surrender to the Xuzhou army, and the latest situation in Yinling City was also explained to Tao Ying through the mouth of the captive.
Judging from the confession of the prisoners, the grain and grass in Yinling City and the strength of the defenders are not a big problem, the grain and grass can last for at least half a year, and the defenders still have more than 6,000 troops, which is enough to compete with the Xuzhou army. But the weakness is also obvious, that is, the morale of the defenders is very low, and the confidence of the top and bottom to hold Yinling City for a long time is seriously insufficient, and many defender generals are thinking of breaking through to the south; At the same time, the Xiangyang artillery of the Xuzhou army has greatly damaged the city wall of Yinling, and there have been many cracks in the city wall of the west gate of the main battlefield.
After finding out these situations and confirming that there was no Uncle Liu Huang, the biggest threat, Tao Ying was no longer polite, and ordered the Xiangyang artillery to continue to bombard the city wall of Yinling, and also began to devote all his energy to attack Yinling City, and transferred the new troops of Song Xiansheng and the cannon fodder under Song Xian, concentrated all the attacking forces, and attacked Yinling City with all his strength night and night. And after more than a day of hard fighting, with a loud bang, a section of the Yinling city wall finally collapsed completely in the face of the continuous bombardment of Xiangyang artillery, Xuzhou soldiers stepped on the ruins of the city wall into the Yinling City, Qiao Rui was forced to helpless, had to lead the army to break through to the south gate without the Xuzhou army, Tao Ying sent Gao Shun to lead the army to chase and block, Qiao Rui tried to escape back to Shouchun several times was killed by Gao Shun, desperate and could only flee south to Hefei, Gao Shun led the army in hot pursuit, almost killed the defeated soldiers of Qiao Rui, and finally Qiao Rui fled back to Feicheng, There were less than twenty soldiers around him.
At this point, in addition to Shouchun, the important towns in the north of Huainan have all fallen into the hands of the Xuzhou army, and at the same time, the two waves of reinforcements of the Huainan army were also defeated by the Xuzhou army, plus Liu Miao also began to make wind and rain in the Liyang area, firmly restrained the main force of the Huainan army in Liyang, and other reinforcements of the Huainan army could not be counted on, so Shouchun had actually become a lonely city, and Tao Ying was not satisfied with the existing victory, so the main team immediately waved westward after a short rest, Gather 45,000 troops, including newly surrendered troops, to the banks of the Feishui River, and point directly at the base camp of the Huainan army - Shouchun!
This is the first time Tao Ying has come to the Feishui battlefield in person, and the same as the scout's report, the average width of the Feishui River is about eighty steps, it belongs to a river that is not big or small, it is not easy to break through, but it is not difficult to suffer casualties. And the only thing that makes Tao Ying frown is the moat of Shouchun, Shouchun City is close to Feishui, and the moat naturally also introduces fertile water and living water, which is deep and wide and extremely difficult to fill, and at the same time, the city wall of Shouchun is also more than half a zhang higher than the city wall of Yinling, and it is not easy to attack head-on, and the Xuzhou army wants to succeed in the attack, and the casualties paid are probably not small.
After observing the defense of Shouchun City with a primitive telescope for a long time, after putting down the telescope, Tao Ying asked Lu Su and Gao Shun and others next to him: "Zijing, generals, how is it?" How do you think this Shouchun City should be fought? ”
"I'm afraid it's not easy to fight." Gao Shun, who was experienced in the battlefield, was the first to shake his head and said in a deep voice: "Shouchun City is too strong, it is not easy for our army to capture, and the lord is afraid that he will have to prepare for a long-term hard battle." ”
"Su thinks so, too." Lu Su echoed: "Let's not say that Shouchun still has the natural danger of fat water to defend, our army must pay a certain price for breaking through, even if Shouchun City is a flat river, it is not easy for our army to take Shouchun." After all, Shouchun is the capital of Yuan Shupifu, and the garrison is perfect, far above the Huainan cities, and it is very difficult for our army to fight down. ”
"We still have some time." Tao Ying muttered: "But even if we can hold it for a long time, I'm afraid we can't consume Yuan Shu's puppetry, Yuan Shu's old puppet is poor and strong, and he must have hoarded a lot of grain and grass in Shouchun City, and my army is afraid that it will be consumed until next year, and it will not be able to consume all the grain and grass in his city." If you attack and force the crossing, the casualties will be too great, and there will be no way to fight ............ future battles. ”
After thinking for a moment, Tao Ying shook his head and said with a smile: "It's okay, anyway, we still have some time, don't rush to rush to cross Feishui, first set up a big camp on the west bank of Feishui, send sergeants to go around to harvest common timber, and build more thunderbolts." Again, push the thunderbolt cart to the river, and destroy all the enemy fortifications on the other side that should be destroyed. As for how to attack the city and break through it, let me think about it carefully. ”
All the civil and military forces in Xuzhou bowed down and sang the promise together, Tao Ying nodded casually, but his head was full of bad water, but he was constantly thinking hard, "How to take Shouchun Jiancheng?" Boss Cao in history, how did he win Shouchun City, why don't I have any impression at all? What flaws exist in Shou Chuncheng and Yuan Shu's team? ”
(To be continued)