Chapter 864: Reversal
Shan Xiongxin didn't want to retreat, but he was powerless.
The brothers Li Chengyi and Li Chengli led three thousand light cavalry to fight from both wings, and the Wu army, which was barely supporting, finally collapsed. Even if there is another battle, for the Zhennan army, which is not a division of a hundred battles, it is exhausted after attacking the quarrying for a day. In addition, the troops had been defeated for a while by the Chen army's reinforcements, and the morale was already greatly weakened. At this time, there was already no way to retreat, so he barely raised his heart to die and fought against the water.
However, after all, the Zhennan Army is a new army without much heritage and heritage, when three thousand light horsemen came out from both wings, and the galloping horses' hooves shook the battlefield, the string in Wu Jun's heart finally broke.
Defeat is like a mountain!
Tens of thousands of Wu troops scrambled to flee south, without formation and order. Some are just flustered, just collapsed.
Wu Jun desperately fled, and Chen Jun certainly would not let go of this opportunity.
Li Chengyi immediately ordered the whole army to pursue, and made sure to annihilate the remaining 30,000 Wu troops in one fell swoop, completely relieving the siege of quarrying.
However, although Chen's army had cavalry, it was only a few 3,000.
Although Wu Jun seemed to be extremely tired and embarrassed, he escaped faster than anyone else. In the blink of an eye, the Wu army had fled in all directions, except for the three thousand light cavalry in hot pursuit, the other Chen army infantry was already powerless, unable to capture the wolf and rabbit Wu army.
looked at the Wu army that was scattered and fled, and then watched the cavalry gradually distance themselves from the infantry, chasing farther and farther. The young general Chen Kedi stepped forward and said: "Commander Chen, don't chase after the poor, be careful of deception." The soldiers rushed back from Jiankang overnight, and after two battles in a row, they were all tired. Moreover, His Majesty's will is for us to stick to quarrying. Be careful about what happens again. ”
Li Chengyi also understood Chen Kedi's meaning. After looking at the situation on the battlefield immediately, the defeat of the Wu army also led the more than 20,000 soldiers and horses of the Chen army to disperse. He nodded and said, "What Commander Chen said is true. Defending quarrying must be strong, and after this defeat, it is impossible for Shan Xiong to besiege quarrying again. Summons the order to collect troops and return to the city! ”
There was a lieutenant on the side who said: "As the saying goes, it is good to go all out, and then it will decline, and then it will be exhausted." Although Commander Chen is true, this opportunity is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, so don't miss it. Otherwise, when Shan Xiongxin comes back, he is afraid that he will come to attack the city. ”
Li Chengyi shook his head, not swayed by the low-hanging fruit. He saw the Emperor's will with his own eyes. Knowing that Shen Luoyan has already set up a big game of chess at the moment, if he is greedy for merit at this time, he is likely to fall into the trap of the enemy.
Draw the sword in hand. Li Chengyi shouted solemnly: "Retreat!" There are pursuers without permission. Military disposition! ”
With a finger of the long sword, the herald behind him immediately ordered the herald to withdraw his troops. The sound of gold resounded across the battlefield. Chen Jun, who had dispersed to the battlefield, immediately began to turn around and gather towards Quarry City when he heard the sound.
Just when Chen Jun Mingjin withdrew his troops, the direction of the Chushan camp in the southeast where the Wu army was dispersed, suddenly sounded the sound of continuous war drums.
Countless war drums rang out at the same time, shaking the heavens and the earth.
In the midst of a huge drum beat, suddenly a red line emerged from the southeast horizon. Like a rising wave, in a short time, you can clearly see that it is an army.
Flags like a sea, swords and guns like a forest, red robes and armor banners formed a rushing and roaring wave.
This sudden appearance of this army startled everyone on the battlefield, and the first to encounter this army was naturally Shan Xiongxin's collapsed Zhennan army. At first, the fleeing Wu Jun thought it was Chen Jun's ambush, and they were frightened one by one, and they fell to the ground in despair.
But the next moment, they saw the flags on the countless banners.
"Wu!"
That's Wu Jun, it's a friendly army. Many of the closer generals had even recognized the generals of this army. …,
Chen Zi Jiang Qi, Sun Zi Jiang Qi, and the number of the troops. "This is the soldiers and horses of General Chen Guoren and General Sun Shihan, our reinforcements have arrived, reinforcements have arrived!" The excited soldiers of the Wu Army only felt that they had escaped death, and they were indescribably happy.
The army that arrived was indeed the Wu army, and it was indeed the Wu army led by Chen Guoren and Sun Shihan. The two originally commanded 50,000 soldiers and horses to garrison the area of Xuancheng and were responsible for blocking the southwest direction of quarrying.
However, a day earlier, they received an order from Shen Luoyan, asking them to leave 10,000 soldiers and horses to continue to blockade the southwest direction, and immediately led the remaining 40,000 soldiers and horses to advance in the direction of quarrying, responsible for reinforcing Shan Xiongxin's Zhennan army. And after capturing the quarry, it continued to advance in the direction of Jiankang, and finally the various units of the Wu army converged in Jiankang.
Chen Guoren and Sun Shihan are both Shen Faxing's old subordinates, and they are both officials and generals. They commanded the most elite soldiers and horses of the Wu army in the past, but as soon as Shen Faxing died, the brothers of the Shen family were in civil strife, and both of them were on the wrong side, they never thought that it would be Shen Luoyan who would control the power in the end.
After many turmoils, the army in the hands of the two of them, which was originally the most elite army in the entire Wu State, has fallen into a second-rate army. But even so, the army in their hands still numbered as many as 50,000 horses, and the soldiers were all long-fought soldiers, and the equipment was basically the best. The only weakness is that most of the backbone middle-level officers in the army have been transferred, and now the middle-level officers in the army are either transferred from other armies or newly promoted, and this undoubtedly has a great impact on combat effectiveness.
But no matter what, Chen Guoren and Sun Shihan are actually quite good in addition to standing on the wrong team. The 40,000 troops led by the two had already arrived at the Chushan camp an hour earlier. And before that knew about the battle under the quarry.
However, the two did not immediately appear on the battlefield with their troops, but were very cunning and lurked, and finally secretly marched to a place not far from the quarry, where they set up an ambush.
Chen Guoren's judgment was right, although Shan Xiongxin's Zhennan army was twice as large as Chen's army, but it was the Zhennan army that was defeated in the end. And everything was as they expected, the Wu army fled directly in the direction of Chushan, while the Chen army also lost its formation because of the pursuit and completely dispersed.
The timing of the two of them was also very good, not when the Chen army was still pursuing, but launched an attack at the moment when the Chen army collected his troops and returned to the city.
Chen's army collected his troops and returned to the city, and the soldiers all turned around, and they were most unprepared.
Attack what you don't expect!
Two veterans of Dongwu who have been in battle for a long time, shoot steadily and accurately!
In a burst of war drums, Chen Guoren personally led all the 5,000 light cavalry of his subordinates to kill from the southwest, and the cavalry was like a whirlwind, unstoppable!
Immediately afterwards, Sun Shihan personally led 35,000 infantry and suddenly killed in the four fields. Suddenly, I saw the mountains all over the field, and Wu troops were everywhere. At this time, the defeated soldiers of the Zhennan Army, who were originally scattered and fleeing, also turned around excitedly, gathered towards the reinforcements of the Wu army, and finally formed a huge wave and rushed towards the Chen army.
Seeing this, Shan Xiongxin and other generals immediately stopped running for their lives, and took advantage of the situation to cover up and come back.
The cavalry of the 3,000 Chen army was rushed by nearly 80,000 cavalry of the Wu army, and they were suddenly overwhelmed, scattered, and not in formation. Shan Xiongxin, Chen Guoren, and Sun Shihan went down the mountain like tigers, commanding the cavalry and infantry to fight back and forth, but in just a few rounds, Chen's soldiers were in chaos.
Xu Shiji and Chen Kedi, who were behind, saw that the situation was not good, and they didn't have time to gather soldiers and horses, so they immediately stepped forward to meet the two Li Chengyi brothers.
Over there, Shan Xiongxin and the others saw the main general of the Chen army stepping forward, and they all shouted loudly at the moment, and slapped their horses and waved their guns to fight. …,
For a time, Wu Jun was like a tide, but Chen Jun was like duckweed and was shocked and floated around.
The commanders of the two armies did not stay in the command of the Chinese army at this time, but looked for each other in the chaos of the army, and killed each other with a wield. Li Chengyi's brothers faced Chen Guoren and Sun Shihan, and Xu Shiji also fell in love with his old brother Shan Xiongxin.
The generals of the Chen army stepped forward to turn over the battle, but they barely stopped the fierce offensive of the Wu army for a moment, giving the Chen army a moment.
"Withdraw! Evacuate to the city now! ”
Chen Kedi stepped forward immediately, blocked Shan Xiongxin's golden-topped jujube yang lance with a lance, and turned his head to Xu Shiji and shouted. At present, the situation is already very critical, Chen's army is only 20,000 horses, while Wu's army has nearly 80,000 horses at once.
Previously, Chen's army retreated with one enemy and two enemies. But at the moment, it is difficult to have to fight with one against four, or to be caught off guard by the enemy. Seeing that the emperor was about to lead reinforcements to land from quarrying, quarrying at this time could not be lost in any way.
Xu Shiji is in contact with Shan Xiongxin, fighting desperately. At this time, I couldn't help but feel unconscious in my head, this was not the time to hesitate, when I forced Shan Xiongxin to retreat, he patted the horse and left, and said loudly: "I will learn from the second brother in the future!" Mao Gong went first. ”
Chen Kedi took over Xu Shiji's vacancy, waved his lance to entangle Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji shouted the order, waved the order flag to collect the soldiers and horses, and fought and retreated, and slowly retreated to the quarry city.
The three generals of Li Chengyi's brothers and Chen Kedi's three generals led 3,000 light cavalry to block the advance of the Wu army, and struggled to support it, buying a line of time for the Chen army to withdraw to the city.
At this time, on the Yangtze River in the north of the quarry city, white sails are dotted, thousands of sails are flying, and Chen Shanzheng, the governor of Anhui Province, is leading five thousand defenders of Liyang to cross the river on the warships of the fourth detachment of the Anlan fleet of the Yangtze River Naval Division.
To the south of the quarrying city, the Wu army pressed towards the quarry city like a frenzied wave, and although the Chen army finally withdrew into the quarry city, the 3,000 light cavalry responsible for the rear of the palace retreated to the city with less than 1,000 men and horses. And in the face of nearly 80,000 Wu troops, the quarrying outer city that has already been broken through once is obviously very thin.
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Chen Guoren, Sun Shihan, and Shan Xiongxin stood solemnly under the quarrying city, and behind them, 80,000 Dongwu troops were all over the wilderness, hunting with banners, and the countless red robes formed a sea of blood! Sixty Novel has changed the domain name to