Chapter 412: The Great Scuffle
It's messy, it's completely messy, the battlefield of Chaisang is completely messed up to the end, the originally sacred and unbreakable Liu Yuan Alliance, suddenly the swords and soldiers meet each other, and the Chaisang defenders also ran out to join in the fun, staging a real three-family melee, the southwest of Chaisang is full of swords, and the situation has become a mess.
The melee of the three families may not be accurate enough, and if it is more subdivided, it should be five forces wrestling, the strength of the Jingzhou army is divided into two, after learning the news that Liu Qi fell into the encirclement of Liu Xun's army, Zhang Yun and Cai He's team, which is located directly north of Chaisang, not only did not send troops to rescue, but also immediately ordered not to allow a single soldier to leave the camp, and strictly guard the water village to prevent the Chaisang army from taking the opportunity to sneak attack - as for whether Zhang Yun and Cai He are really afraid of the Chaisang defenders taking the opportunity to sneak attack, this is known to everyone on the earth, so it is not verbose.
Yuan Yaojun, who was already seriously divided, was divided into two, seeing that Yuan Yin was captured alive by Liu Qi's guards, Liu Xun actually ordered an attack regardless of Yuan Yin's life and death and ordered to release arrows indiscriminately, and the guards brought by Yuan Yin also hurriedly sent the news to the ranks of the army, and Yuan Yin's son Yuan Neng, who led troops to reinforce Liu Xun, was suddenly furious, and decisively ordered an indiscriminate attack, Liu Xunjun and Liu Qi's guards fought together, saying that they would save their father Yuan Yin back.
Yuan Neng's dizzy order saved Liu Qi's great urgency, because although the guards around Liu Qi were elite and brave, and there were two fierce generals Huang Zhong and Han Xi around him to protect them, but the well-prepared Liu Xunjun was outnumbered after all, and more than ten times the number of troops surrounded Liu Qi's team and beat wildly, and at any cost threw arrows at the head of Liu Qi's team to attack indiscriminately. In a hurry, he couldn't break out of Liu Xunjun's front camp for a long time, and there were many casualties. And when Yuan Neng's team joined the melee, Liu Qi's team finally got a little respite, and began to struggle to get closer to Yuan Neng's team, although the speed of movement was slow, it was no longer hopeless to break through.
Liu Xunjun was also caught off guard by Yuan Neng's friendly army at the beginning, and he was at a loss for a while and didn't know how to respond, but when Liu Xun's orders to attack indiscriminately were successively conveyed to each tun and each song, a larger-scale melee began. The three teams of Liu Xun, Yuan Yin and Liu Qi fought in the relatively narrow front camp of Liu Xun's army. Knives and guns were fought with red eyes, spears and axes were turned upside down, and countless casualties were killed. At the same time, Liu Xun gritted his teeth and transferred the team from the rear camp to join the battle group. also detoured behind to impact Yuan Neng's team. Don't give Yuan Neng a chance to save Yuan Yin.
Of course, Liu Xun knew the consequences of doing so. But Liu Xun has no choice, if Yuan Neng saves Yuan Yin, it is equivalent to saving Liu Qi. And if Liu Xun doesn't seize this opportunity to kill Liu Qi, capture the thief and capture the king first, and make the Jingzhou army fall into a state of chaos without a leader, then once the Jingzhou army, which has an absolute advantage in strength, comes to its senses, it can slap Liu Xun to pieces. So Liu Xun had no choice, he yelled and just ordered the army to come forward and fight, and simply shouted something like this, "Soldiers! Kill! Kill! Just kill Liu Qi's husband! You don't want anything, I'll take you to Xuchang to find Taiwei Tao and ask for a reward! ”
At this time, Sun Gao's team of the Chaisang garrison had also been fighting with the Gan Ning team of the Jingzhou army in the middle of the road from Jingzhou camp to Liu Xun's camp, and they were also fighting fiercely and fiercely. Although Gan Ning himself is brave, but his more than 2,000 troops are hastily assembled emergency soldiers, the battalion is complex and does not belong to each other, can not do the collective combat like an arm, can only be a mess and Sun Gao's team to fight, knowing that Gan Ning is powerful Sun Gao is resolutely to meet the battle in a group, 3,000 troops are divided into six teams in the unit, according to Sun Gao's banner command in the chaotic Jingzhou team back and forth, line up and fight, straight to the rush to meet the Jingzhou team people on their backs, corpses all over the field.
In the fierce battle, Gan Ning also tried to show his proud skills of being good at assault, leading more than 100 soldiers to assault Sun Gao's handsome banner, but the Xuzhou army suffered a loss last time and didn't want to be fooled again, Sun Gao's Qu team was lined up early in a square circle array to protect the commander, and met Gan Ning's commando team head-on, and another Qu team killed from behind, and attacked Gan Ning's team before and after, Gan Ning was brave and invincible, and he couldn't withstand the front and rear attacks of thousands of troops, and the soldiers around him suffered heavy casualties, Gan Ning himself was gradually besieged, and had to fight out to reorganize the team, and also looked forward to the timely reinforcement of the battalion's team.
It is destined to make Gan Ning vomit blood, on the side of the Jingzhou camp, after the first assembled Jingzhou army Liu Hu team came out of the camp, as soon as they rushed towards Liu Xun's camp, a Jingzhou cavalry rushed over, and shouted from afar: "General Gan Ning sent me to report that Gongzi was chased and killed by the enemy, and he has fled to the direction of Poyang Lake, go to the southeast to rescue, General Gan Ning wants you to go to the southeast to rescue quickly!" ”
After rushing along the flank of Liu Hu's team for a distance, shouting Gan Ning's order and name as much as possible, the Jingzhou soldier quickly ran to other places to pass the order, and Liu Hu believed it, in order to rescue his godbrother Liu Qi in time, he quickly ordered the army to change direction, all the way to the southeast where Poyang Lake is located, in order to gain time, he simply rushed directly to the southeast from the southwest corner of the Chaisang city, Qiao Rui and Yang Zheng saw on the city wall, and did not order troops to intercept, just hid in the city tower and laughed wildly together, Schadenfreude to the extreme.
At the same time, Liu Qi's guards relied on the hard work of Huang Zhong and Han Xi to fight to the death, and finally killed the close side of Yuan Neng's team, but Yuan Neng's team continued to slash and kill Liu Qi's guards to the end, and repeatedly demanded that Liu Qi hand over Yuan Yin, Liu Qi had to quickly push Yuan Yin to the front of the formation, forcing Yuan Yin to order the army to stop attacking. But fortunately, Yuan Yin is a good general who cherishes his life very much, and immediately shouted and shouted, asking the self-army to stop attacking Liu Qi's guards, and also asked Yuan Neng to lead the army to protect Liu Qi's guards to break through to the self-army camp, first stabilize the situation and wait for the main reinforcements of Jingzhou.
In the melee, it took a lot of time for Yuan Yin's order to be conveyed to his son, and it took more time for Yuan Neng to convey the order to all armies and teams, so that Yuan Yin's army would stop attacking Liu Qi's team and protect Liu Qi's guards to break through to the west. However, for the sake of his own interests, Liu Xun couldn't take care of anything at this time. Roaring and just desperately investing more troops to block and chase back, fighting to the end with Yuan Yinjun and Liu Qi's guards, the two main forces of Yuan Yaojun, who were dressed in the same uniform on the battlefield, only distinguished the enemy from me by the flag, fought in the same room, fought separately, and fought in full swing but dizzy.
The two main forces of Yuan Yao's army were in chaos, and the Jingzhou army was also in chaos, in addition to Gan Ning's team, Kuai Yue successively sent three waves of reinforcements of more than 10,000 people, and rushed to the south to rescue Liu Qi's team. As a result, the three waves of reinforcements were all just out of the camp. They all received an urgent report from Gan Ning, saying that Liu Qi had fled to the direction of Poyang Lake, and the Jingzhou team with the first aid people gave priority to march to the southeast, but they did not go far and received a new scout report. Or that Gan Ning was stopped by the Chaisang army. Or that Liu Qi is still trapped in Liu Xun's camp. Or that Liu Qi's guards have been wiped out, and it is also said that Liu Qi's army is breaking through to Yuan Yin's camp in the southwest, which makes the generals of the Jingzhou reinforcements dizzy. Overwhelmed.
Of course, this will be after all still broad daylight, the rumors spread by the Xuzhou army are false, even if they can rely on the Jingzhou army's hasty rescue of the impatience for a while, it is impossible to hide it for a long time, after leading the army south for a distance, after hearing the sound of shouting and killing in the wrong direction, Jingzhou reinforcements also moved in the direction of the most violent shouting and killing. However, there are exceptions, after getting Kuai Yue's order and coercion, Zhang Yun had no choice but to send Cai He to lead an army south to rescue Liu Qi, and after getting the false report of the Xuzhou army, even if he heard the sound of shouting and killing in the wrong direction, Cai He still rushed to the southeast with the army without hesitation, and went to the shore of Poyang Lake to meet Liu Qi according to Gan Ning's request, determined to disgust Liu Qi and Gan Ning.
Through scout reconnaissance, it was discovered that the Jingzhou reinforcements were about to arrive at the southern battlefield, Qiao Rui and Yang Zheng and others urgently discussed countermeasures, during which Qiao Rui's nephew Qiao Wei proposed to lead an army to attack the Jingzhou army camp, besiege Wei to save Zhao to help Liu Xun, but this was resolutely opposed by Yang Zheng, pointing out that not all the Jingzhou troops were incompetent, even if they sent troops to rescue Liu Qi, they would inevitably make every effort to strengthen the defense of the camp, and the self-army sent troops to attack the Jingzhou camp not only had no hope of victory, It will only be a waste of valuable strength that is already at an absolute disadvantage.
"Then how about we help Liu Xun and Yuan Yin directly?" Qiao Wei also proposed: "Go to an army, even if you don't participate in the war, you can boost the morale of Liu Xun and Yuan Yin, and let them fight harder with Liu Qi'er." ”
Qiao Rui and Yang Zheng were both a little tempted by this proposal, but after careful consideration, Yang Zheng also rejected this tempting proposal, and said: "Uncle Qiao, Brother Wei, I think it is best to stay still, and also return Sun Gao, who has already left the city, to the city, because the situation on the battlefield in the south is too chaotic, and the enemy has too many soldiers and horses, and our small number of troops cannot distinguish between the enemy and the enemy at all, and it is very likely that the enemy will take the opportunity to sneak attack, and sacrifice the lives of the soldiers in vain, or find out what happened on the battlefield in the south, why Liu Xun and Yuan Yin's team suddenly fought again, and then we will find an opportunity to make a move, and it is not too late. ”
After listening to Yang Zheng's suggestion, although he felt that it was a pity to miss this precious fighter, but considering that the strength in his hands was insufficient, and there were no generals under his command who could be particularly strong enough to rush and cut, Qiao Rui hesitated again and again, but still accepted Yang Zheng's suggestion, and ordered Sun Gao to let the team out of the city go back to the city to rest, and also took back a few heralds disguised as Jingzhou soldiers, so as not to make too much trouble and expose the stuffing, and sent a large number of scouts to reconnoiter the situation on the battlefield in the south, ready to plan and then move, not to mix indiscriminately at this chaotic moment.
Yang Zheng put forward a clever suggestion, and Qiao Rui also made a wise decision, at this time, even if the Xuzhou army sent troops to the south to participate in the war, it had to be dizzy, and it was very likely to become the target of the public, and the dizzy Yuan Yin, Liu Xun and Jingzhou armies joined forces to beat them. Because at this moment, on the battlefield in the south, the situation has reached a heinous point, every team and everyone is confused, it is difficult to distinguish between friend and foe, and it is not clear who is the enemy and who is the friendly army, but only knows how to slash people with knives, kill people with guns, and kill people desperately in order not to be killed.
Liu Xun's team is cutting Yuan Yin's team and the Jingzhou army, because Liu Xun understands very well that if Liu Qi and Yuan Yin are killed at this time, then once Liu Qi and Yuan Yin are relieved, they will have to kill their whole family with a thousand knives, so in order to survive, Liu Xun can only rely on the local advantage of the most well-prepared team and the most combat troops to desperately attack the Jingzhou army and Yuan Yin's army. But even so, because Yuan Yin's team and Liu Xun's team wore the same military uniform. Liu Xun's team was still in chaos, and he couldn't distinguish a single enemy at all, he could only rely on the banner to identify the opponents of the team, and countless people accidentally killed each other.
The Jingzhou army is more chaotic than Liu Xun's team, Liu Qi's guards don't know whether the Yuan Yaojun soldiers on the opposite side are friends or foes, and they can only desperately slash and kill in order to survive, and the Jingzhou reinforcements who finally arrived at the scene are even more chaotic, and they don't know who Liu Xun and Yuan Yin are the enemies who want to kill Liu Qi, so they can only fight Liu Xun and Yuan Yin's team together.
Yuan Yinjun was also chaotic and even more tragic, and the coach was captured alive by Liu Qi's guards. was forced to fight in the same room with Liu Xun's team. In the melee, they were mistakenly chopped by Liu Qi's guards, and after the Jingzhou reinforcements arrived at the battlefield, they also cut them without saying a word, and they were dizzy. There are countless people who have been killed and hacked by mistake. If you want to save your life, you can only cut people when you see them. Kill people when you see them, fight with Liu Xun's team, and fight with Liu Qi's guards. also fought with the Jingzhou reinforcements' own soldiers, in short, with the sky, with the earth, and the fight was still fighting.
In this way, a unique spectacular and peculiar scene is also shown in front of the world, on the wilderness outside the camp of Liu Xun's team, Yuan Yaojun and Jingzhou Army are completely mixed together, the enemy is only me, I have the enemy, all kinds of military flags and uniforms are dazzling, the shouting and killing sound is shocking, the flesh and blood are flying so shockingly, everyone is like crazy and desperately killing, slashing, slashing, kicking, teeth, crumbling, rolling and hugging together, it is not uncommon for people to die together, the corpses on the ground are like mountains, and the blood is full of canals, The casualties were terrible, but among the corpses all over the ground were not a single Xuzhou soldier, the common enemy of the Jingyuan coalition army.
The chaos lasted for more than two hours, until Deng Long, the general of Jingzhou, led an army into the encirclement, caught Liu Qi's guards, who had been killed and wounded more than seventy percent, and escorted Liu Qi to retreat north, and the chaotic situation came to an end. But in this way, not only did Liu Xun's team fight against the Jingzhou army, but in order to save Yuan Yin, Yuan Neng also hurriedly led Yuan Yin's team to chase and kill the Jingzhou army, so the situation was just chaotic and the situation improved, but the battle was still extremely fierce.
At this time, Jingzhou general Wen Ping also led 10,000 soldiers and horses to the battlefield, and received the previous reinforcements and Liu Qi, which finally ensured Liu Qi's safety, and then Wen Ping waved his division to fight, and fought with the whole blow, and fought hard to defeat Liu Xun and Yuan Yin's team, forcing Liu Xun and Yuan Neng to lead the army to retreat, and the melee finally ended. Then Wen Ping did not dare to fight, and led the army to escort Liu Qi back to the camp first, Liu Xun also quickly led the remnants of the army to retreat to the Haiduan garrison immediately, only Yuan was able to collect the defeated troops and return to the camp, and sent people to negotiate with Liu Qi to release Yuan Yin, and the Xuzhou army probed the situation and knew that the Jingzhou army had stabilized the situation, so they did not send troops out of the city.
Yes, although the Jingzhou army lost not a lot of troops, the front and back together only lost more than 4,000 troops, but for the morale of the Jingzhou army, it was a decisive battle of destruction, defeated the ally Liu Xun, forced to capture Yuan Yin and Yuan Yin's team turned against each other, 30,000 allies disappeared without a trace, Liu Qi himself was injured in the right arm by a stray arrow in the melee - if it wasn't for secretly wearing a soft armor, another stray arrow would probably have killed Liu Qi, At the same time, Liu Qi's most trusted confidant, Han Xi, also died in the chaos. Therefore, after collecting troops and returning to the camp, in addition to being confused and inexplicable about Yuan Yaojun's sudden rebellion, the top and bottom of the team also fell into despair about this battle, "This battle is like this, how can we still hope to win?" ”
The morale is low, the soldiers are desperate, and the more terrible thing is that the military spirit is scattered, after this battle, even if there is no guidance from others, Liu Qi knows that he is about to end, if he does not quickly re-establish his prestige, not to mention that the civil and military ministers of Jingzhou no longer believe in themselves, and his father Liu Biao will be completely disappointed in himself. So after returning to the camp, Liu Qi didn't care about being injured by an arrow, and while bandaging the wound, he immediately brought Yuan Yin in front of him, and interrogated Yuan Yin in public why he and Liu Xun suddenly broke the alliance.
In the hands of others, Yuan Yin didn't dare to play tricks, and immediately confessed that he betrayed because Qiao Rui showed him Liu Qi's handwritten letter, and also explained the content of Liu Qi's handwritten letter, but Liu Qi was confused when he heard it, and immediately yelled: "When will I send a book to Qiao Rui, and when will I annex your team and Yuzhang County?!" ”
Coincidentally, Yang Zheng's imitation of the letter happened to be on Yuan Yin's body - Yuan Yin was going to use it as evidence when killing Liu Qi, so Yuan Yin quickly took out the letter and submitted it. And Liu Qi's eyes immediately widened when he saw the letter, and he exclaimed: "It's really my handwriting!" But when I wrote this epistle, how did I not know it myself? ”
"Childe, don't be surprised, it must be Qiao Rui who imitated your handwriting and forged it." Kuai Yue next to him smiled bitterly, and sighed again: "I didn't expect that because of this fake book, we lost 30,000 allied troops and 4,000 troops. That's really clever! ”
Liu Qi was so angry that he was speechless. The Jingzhou civil and military forces present shook their heads with sighs, Zhang Yun and Cai He also laughed so much that their eyes were about to narrow into a slit, and then Cai He immediately stepped out of the queue and said to Liu Qi: "Big prince." There is one more thing that will have to be reported at the end. At the end of the day, I will lead my army south to meet you. Who knew that when the army was halfway through, your confidant Gan Ning, who was personally hand-picked, suddenly sent someone to report that you had fled to the direction of Poyang Lake. When the last general rushed to the southwest corner with reinforcements, he never saw a single soldier of the son. This matter is too strange, please ask the eldest prince to investigate. ”
"There is such a thing?!"
Liu Qi raised his head suddenly, looked at Gan Ning angrily, and Gan Ning, who was blocked by the Xuzhou army with all his strength and failed to arrive at the camp in time to rescue, first slammed out, and then jumped out violently, yelling and shouting: "Nonsense! When did I send someone to tell me something like this?! ”
"I have witnesses, many witnesses." Cai He sneered and said, "At that time, there were many people in my team who heard your message!" ”
"The eldest prince, the last general also received such an order." Liu Hu hurriedly stood up and said: "The last general led the second batch of troops to help, and on the way, he also received a report from Gan Ning, saying that you had been defeated to Poyang Lake, so the last general rushed to Poyang Lake to rescue you, delaying the rescue time." ”
"I received it too." "I received it too." Deng Long and Li Shou also hurriedly stood up and took the initiative to report that they had delayed the rescue time because of Gan Ning's false alarm - they didn't want to trap Gan Ning, but if they didn't quickly get rid of this matter, once Liu Qi held them responsible for their poor rescue, the black pot would not be easy to bear.
"I didn't! No! Gan Ning was about to go crazy, beating his chest and yelling: "I didn't send someone to give an order, I didn't say such a thing!" ”
"So, all the generals have joined forces to slander you?" Liu Qi sneered, and suddenly yelled, "Take it!" ”
"No!" Many guards agreed neatly, strode forward to take Gan Ning, Gan Ning refused to be captured, simply drew his sword in his hand, frightened that the generals in Jingzhou in the tent drew their swords together, and surrounded Gan Ning with the guards, Kuai Yue and Deng Yi and other civil officials hurriedly protected Liu Qi behind him, and then shouted: "Gan Xingba, what do you want to do?" Put down the sword! Put down your sword now! ”
"Fuck you!" The innocent and wronged Gan Ning was angry, and scolded: "Lao Tzu said that he didn't send someone to report the news, that is, he didn't send someone to report the news, if you love it, you can believe it, and if you don't believe it, you can leave!" ”
"Where are you going?!" Liu Qi, who was angry, was also angry, and roared: "Gan Ning Pifu, I see that your objection is not a day or two, don't think that this son doesn't know, on the night of the tenth day of the first month, you deliberately refused to take the opportunity to enter the city, and then secretly contacted Qiao Rui Pifu, and asked him to cover up your crime with a deception!" Today, you want to deliberately harm me again, it's tolerable, it's unbearable! Take down Gan Ning immediately, dare to resist, and kill! ”
"Liu Qi Pifu! You are talking nonsense! Gan Ning couldn't bear it anymore, and roared and scolded: "It turns out that you, a horseman, have long suspected me, okay!" Good! Since you can't tell the difference between loyalty and treachery, don't blame me for being rude! ”
Roaring, Gan Ning swung his sword and went straight at Liu Qi - wanting to rob Liu Qi out of the camp, the guards of Jingzhou hurriedly stepped forward to fight with Gan Ning, and Liu Qi retreated sharply under the support of Kuai Yue and others, and kept shouting, "Kill him!" Kill this thief! Kill this ungrateful thief!
On the night of December 16 in the eighth year of Jian'an, the eldest son of Jingzhou Mu Liu Biao, Jiangxia Taishou Liu Qi found that his subordinate Gan Ning was anti-emotional, and ordered to capture Gan Ning for interrogation of crimes, who knew that Gan Ning's anti-thieves were rampant, and he dared to resist with weapons, and killed more than ten generals and guards in Liu Qi's military tent, and then tried to escape from the Jingzhou camp and rebelled to Chaisang, and was shot by Jingzhou General Huang Zhong with an arrow in front of the Chinese army, and was divided into corpses by Jingzhou soldiers, Liu Qi was furious, and immediately ordered Gan Ning's corpse to be broken and scattered, and Gan Ning's whole family was razed. (To be continued......)