Chapter 11: The Battle of Fuzhou
On May 6, Gongliang Youqin led 35,000 soldiers to abandon the village and go southeast.
Liang Bao led the Xuancheng infantry camp and Ming Xi led the Suwei camp to catch up with the Puji Kou soldiers in the wilderness of central Fuzhou, Zhang Zhongdao led the Yongyang reserve battalion, and Ziyang Yalan led 9,000 elite soldiers to arrive later.
The thin clouds are light, the stars and the moon are dim, and the shadows are dark near and far. Liang Bao, Ming Xi, Zhang Zhongdao, and Ziyang Yalan each led thousands of troops under the Puji Kou soldiers, only two or three miles away, and those with sharp eyes could see the faces of the people holding torches on the other side.
Gongliang Youqin knew that Xu Ruyu's surname was cautious, especially when the situation was good, and he would never rashly engage in a night battle with his side.
The night battle was the most dangerous, and he commanded the whole army with only the banner and drum trumpet, and with Xu Ruyu's ability, he could not grasp the uncertain surname of the night battle. On the pitch-black battlefield, it is difficult for soldiers to get accurate news, and it is easy to panic. A poorly trained army, even in the absence of night fighting, will break up, and there will be a "battalion howling". Only a well-trained army can gain the upper hand in night battles.
In order to prevent Gongliang Youqin from suddenly launching an offensive at night, Xu Ruyu's first batch of 28,000 soldiers who sent the most pursuing Xuancheng Infantry Battalion, Suwei Battalion, Yongyang Reserve Battalion, and Baiyi Elite Soldiers have experienced a hundred battles. Even if Gongliang Youqin suddenly launched a night battle, the first batch of pursuing soldiers could support it until dawn, waiting for the soldiers of Minzhai and the two battalions of sailors to join the battle.
Gongliangyouqin expected that Xu Ruyu would not take the risk of fighting at night, so he chose to break through to the southeast at night, but the Puji army had to retreat alternately under the threat of the Qingyan Army, and the march became extremely slow.
When we arrived at Qingpu, the sky was bright, and the four main forces of the Qingyan Army formed an attack formation at the end of the line.
The scout cavalry couldn't detour back to the back of the Qingyan Army, but Gongliang Youqin knew that Xu Ruyu was not far away from leading the backup army, otherwise Zhang Zhongdao and the others would not have any scruples about putting on a flawed arrow formation with a flawed tail wing, making the appearance of launching a strong attack at any time.
Gongliang Youqin sighed secretly, thinking: Is it really a duel here, and said to Zhao Weixu: "Form a square round fish scale array, waiting for Yueqing reinforcements." ”
The Fang Yuan Fish Scale Formation was a dense defensive formation, and Gongliang Youqin had to admit that the Blue Flame Army led by Xu Ruyu was at an advantage at this time.
The carriage and the side carriage are enclosed into a ring, the gap is filled with swords and shields, halberds, spears, spears, longbows, and crossbows are outside, and the layers are armed, and hundreds of elite horsemen and 5,000 heavy armored foot soldiers are in the center to protect Gongliang Youqin.
Since yesterday afternoon, Gongliang Youqin has continued to send rangers in the direction of Yueqing, and there has been no news of other armies coming so far. A hint of ominousness suddenly flashed in Gongliang Youqin's heart, but he didn't know where something went wrong.
As soon as the battle of Jizhai was over, the Qingjiang cavalry battalion was divided into dozens of groups, infiltrated the area between Yueqing and Fuzhou, robbed and killed the messengers and rangers between Gongliang Youqin and Yueqing and Wenling, and monitored the whereabouts of the elite soldiers of the Fan family. Wei Yan was recalled to Xu Ruyu's side, and there was not a single soldier in his hands.
At the moment when Chaoyang jumped out of the horizon, Xu Ruyu, Wei Yu, Shao Haitang, and Wei Yan led the second wave of pursuing troops to enter the Qingpu battlefield in the attack formation of the Glaive Formation.
The soldiers of the village and the two battalions of the navy army totaled 19,000 people, divided into a number of small phalanxes in the shape of fish scales, arranged in an arc according to the echelon, shaped like a crescent moon, the moon wheel was like a blade pointing directly at the square round fish scale array of the Puji bandits, Xu Ruyu and Wei Yan were located at the bottom of the crescent moon concave, and Wei Yu and Shao Haitang led the troops to protect the two wings of the Yanyue array.
The four huge sharp arrow formations formed by the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion, the Suwei Battalion, the Yongyang Reserve Battalion, and the Baiyi Elite have now become the four wing formations of the Glaive Formation. The main general is located in the middle of the formation, the main forces are gathered in the center, and the forward is open in the shape of an arrow, which can resist the pressure from the enemy's two wings, but the defense of the tail wing of the formation is weak. Gongliang Youqin saw that Xu Ruyu used the Sharp Arrow Formation as a wing formation, and used the main formation to protect the tail of the Wing Array to make up for the defects of the Sharp Arrow Formation, and he was shocked in his heart and sighed: Heaven is full of talent.
Xu Ruyu looked at Wei Yan with a bitter face and said: "The place we are in is the core of the Glaive Hanging Wing Array, and it is also the biggest flaw, and the twelve sects have transferred six people to me, why are you dissatisfied here?" ”
Wei Yan muttered to himself: "Will Gongliang Youqin attack this formation or not, how can he have the spare strength to attack the heart of the formation?" ”
Xu Ruyu turned around and looked away, thinking: Will the Fan family wade into this troubled water. Although the whereabouts of the elite soldiers of the Fan family have been closely monitored, once the war is launched, no one can stop it, and the more than 10,000 elite soldiers led by Fan Wenlong are only a hundred miles away, and it will not be too late to make the journey.
The long-brewing Battle of Fuzhou suddenly broke out in the wilderness of central Fuzhou, and the four wing formations, led by the Su Guard Camp led by Ming Xi, slowly moved left and attacked the right flank of the Puji Fangyuan Fish Scale Formation.
Until noon, the right side of Puji finally showed signs of loosening after a continuous attack by the four wings of the Blue Flame Army.
At this moment, Fan Wenlong and dozens of Jingwei were on the high ground not far from the potential to watch everything that was happening on the battlefield below.
The Blue Flame Army constantly put pressure on the right flank of the Puji Kou soldiers, forcing them to collapse from exhaustion, while their own side was replenished and recuperated by taking turns to attack.
Such a tactic is long-lasting but not conducive to quick decision, but it is the best tactic for this time. Fan Wenlong asked himself if he did not have such superb tactical command ability to find fighters and avoid omissions in the rotation of the wing array.
If Gongliang Yuqin does not want to be wiped out by the collapse of the right wing, the only way to change this situation can only be changed by facing the Blue Flame Army head-on. However, forty miles away, Ban Biao and Ban Zhaolin were leading the newly assembled 12,000 soldiers of the village to rush here.
In the southwest of Fuzhou, which could not be detected by the Fan family rangers, Minna led 3,000 elite soldiers from Baiyi to rush here, which was only a hundred miles away.
The family's 10,000 elite soldiers are a hundred miles away, and Fan Wenlong secretly chewed the four words written in the owner's letter: "Wait for the opportunity to move." ”
Xu Ruyu and Gongliang Youqin obviously didn't know what happened in Yueqing City last night, but the Fan family was the first to get the news. The 20,000 Puji soldiers of Jinhua City went to Yueqing and found that Yueqing City had been lost, and due to the lack of supplies, they did not risk entering the territory of Fuzhou, but turned back to Wenling. If the Fan family does not send troops to intervene, the end of Gongliang Youqin is doomed to be bleak.
Fan Wenlong's face was rarely grim, and his eyes were staring at the ever-changing battle situation, and he couldn't decide in the end.
If the elite soldiers of the Fan family appeared in the battle situation at this time, it would be very likely that neither the Qingyan Army nor the Puji Kou soldiers would dare to act rashly. If the Puji Kou soldiers withdraw from Fuzhou, it is difficult to ensure that the Qingyan Army will not spread their anger on the Fan family.
Although the abandonment of the people has not yet spread, Fan Wenlong knows that this matter will cause an uproar, but the bitterness cannot be reported to the world. If they send troops to help the Puji Kou soldiers again, the Fan family will lose the support of the people.
Seeing that the right flank of the Fangyuan Fish Scale Formation was about to collapse, Gongliang Youqin had no choice but to divide five columns of thousand-person prismatic formations from the left flank, peeped into the gap between the two wing formations, and rushed straight towards the main formation of the Blue Flame Army. The Xuancheng infantry battalion, which had turned to the left flank of the Glaive Formation, quickly changed its formation and rotated to the flank of the 5,000 Kou soldiers, and the Glaive Formation instantly pushed forward, and the thick moon wheel cut towards the 5,000 Kou soldiers.
Gongliang Youqin knew that the soldiers of Minzhai had not been trained for long, and the changes in Xu Ru's foolish array were on the four wing formations, and at this time, the largest number of Baiyi elite soldiers wing formation was rotating to the rear of the Yanyue main formation, and there was still a four-mile distance to turn to the front; The Yongyang reserve battalion, which has the strongest combat power, rotated to the right flank of the Glaive Formation, the Ming Dynasty's Suwei Battalion Wing Formation was attacking the right flank of the Puji Kou soldiers, and the Xuancheng Infantry Battalion Wing Formation and the Glaive Formation clamped the five columns of thousand-man prismatic formations that had just entered the Glaive Formation.
The formation of five columns of a prismatic array of 1,000 people seemed to open the Fangyuan Fish Scale Array, releasing hundreds of elite horsemen and 5,000 heavily armored foot soldiers from the left flank of the original center, and heading straight for the Blue Flame Army's Yanyue main formation. Because of Gongliang's timely arrangement, the right flank of the Puji army collapsed at this time, and it did not cause a major rout of the entire Puji army array; The Blue Flame Army divided Pujikou into four pieces.
On the vast plains, the flags are like the sea, and the layers of soldiers and horses are murderous.
Xu Ruyu saw that Gongliang Youqin personally led 6,000 soldiers straight to the Yanyue main formation, and knew that the time for the final battle had come. Gongliang Xiaotian's 8,000 soldiers were only forty miles away.
Although there are nearly 20,000 horses in the Yanyue main formation, it is composed of soldiers and sailors from the people's villages.
Xu Ruyu's eyes quickly swept over more than a dozen generals of the village on the left and right, his eyes flashed, and he shouted: "Pujikou, I have been Qingjiang for more than ten years, and now I will definitely seek this blood feud." ”
The generals responded with a bang, and nearly 20,000 soldiers in the Yanyue Formation cheered together, deafening, covering up the shouts and kills from far and near. In the limit of noisy, an inexplicable rhythmic abnormal sound was produced, one after another, and it went straight into Xu Ruyu's heart. Suddenly, Clear Knowledge automatically opened, and the details of the battle were more clearly presented in Knowledge.
Xu Ruyu stretched out his hand, and the banner on his side slowly moved forward, and the moment for the real decisive battle came.
After fighting for a long time, the Puji Army, which was divided into four pieces, was only two units led by Gongliang Youqin and Zhao Weixu who could still maintain a complete establishment.
The 8,000 Puji soldiers led by Gongliang Xiaotian and the 12,000 soldiers led by Ban Biao and Ban Zhaolin arrived almost at the same time. Without warning, the two armies fought together on the outer edge of the battlefield. Although the Puji Kou soldiers were strong, they marched more than 200 miles in a row in fifteen hours, and the soldiers of the Minzhai were on a par with this.
At the beginning of the night battle, countless piles of fires swept up the night on the vast battlefield within a radius of more than ten miles, the cyan pillar of smoke rose into the air, the crescent moon and the sparse stars were hazy and dim, and the near vision was unhindered, but the distance could not be seen, plus before nightfall, the two sides mobilized all their troops to meet each other, and the night battle began, Xu Ruyu was unable to restrain the formation, and the two sides fell into a melee; Only the 4,000 soldiers led by Shao Haitang left the battlefield before nightfall and vigilantly stood on the northern edge of the battlefield.
Xu Ruyu let the soldiers around him shout: "Gongliang Youqin is dead, Gongliang Youqin is dead." ”
Suddenly, a long howl like a dragon vibrated in front of him, and Gongliang Youqin made a sound to show that he was still there. The Blue Flame Army all went to that place.
A moment later, there was a sudden shout of "Xu Ruyu is dead, Xu Ruyu is dead", Xu Ruyu saw that his army in front of him was scratching, he smiled bitterly, and had to roar loudly, and the Puji army killed here one after another, and suddenly felt a sudden increase in pressure.
In the middle of the night, Minna led 3,000 elites to the decisive battle, but did not dare to join the melee, and stood on the southern edge of the battlefield.
In the early morning of May 8, the exhausted Gongliang Youqin looked at the 6,000 guards who were close to him, now less than 1,000, and the rest of the horses were divided into small pieces of hundreds, dozens, and several people for the final struggle. At this time, Minna and Shao Haitang led 8,000 men and horses who had been repaired all night into the battlefield and delivered the final blow.
When Zhang Xu arrived with 5,000 Fuzhou infantry battalions, the last resistance of the remaining Kou soldiers in their dying struggle instantly disintegrated.
Xu Ruyu slowly gathered the soldiers of his own formation, withdrew from the battlefield to the northeast, and handed over the burden of chasing the enemy to Shao Haitang and Minna, who had just joined the meeting.
Xu Ruyu knew at this time that Yueqing City had been taken into his pocket, smiled weakly, and said to Zhang Xu: "This battle is indispensable. Looking at the corpses all over the field, I thought: If I could have known the news of the capture of Yueqing earlier, there would be no need to fight in such a hurry.
In Xu Ruyu's original plan, the Fuzhou infantry battalion intercepted the Puji reinforcements for one or two days regardless of casualties to ensure a great victory in the battle of Fuzhou, and then retreated to the Minzhai to reorganize and then thwarted the Puji reinforcements. In the end, the Puji reinforcements only had 8,000 tired troops from Gongliang Xiaotian, although they joined the battle, it had nothing to do with the overall situation; The rest of the reinforcements all returned to Wenling because Yueqing City was occupied by the Qingyan Army.
Although in the Battle of Fuzhou, the casualties of the Qingyan Army increased due to the addition of Gongliang Xiaotian's 8,000 tired troops, but the Fuzhou infantry battalion suffered few casualties, and captured Yueqing City, so that the defeated and fleeing Puji Kou soldiers were all in the inner line of the Qingyan Army, and finally Xu Ruyu ordered to pursue the enemy Kou.
At noon on May 10, Xu Ruyu led 20,000 soldiers and horses to the foot of Yantan Mountain. A few miles away, Fan Wenlong was leading 10,000 elite soldiers to retreat slowly.
On the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth, Zhang Xu and Yang Shang each led a Qingyan army to occupy more than 20 dock forts that originally belonged to Yueqingyi to the east and south of Yantan Mountain, and brought Yueqingyi under their rule.
Of the 43,000 Puji bandits who participated in the Battle of Fuzhou, less than 3,000 eventually fled back to Wenling. The battle lasted from the early morning of the seventh day to the rout at noon on the eighth day, the Puji bandits left 9,000 corpses on the Qingpu battlefield, the casualties of the Qingyan Army were slightly lower, nearly 8,000, and the final death in this battle was as high as 6,000 people (including 800 people who died in the northern resistance battle of Yueqing City). In the pursuit, 8,000 corpses of Puji bandits were captured, more than 12,000 people were captured, and nearly 11,000 fleeing Puji bandits were stopped and killed by the elite soldiers of the Fan family when they passed through the boundary between Yantan Mountain and Yueqing City. Ten days ago, more than ten dock forts between Yantan Fort and Yueqing City all fell into the hands of the Fan family, and the defeated Puji bandits wanted to return to Wenling City, if they didn't want to fake Wuling Mountain, they had to pass through here.
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