Chapter 118: The Fall of Gaoyi
After Zhao Yun's inspection, he was quite satisfied with the results. After tossing and turning among the thieves for nearly an hour, and meeting his cavalry, in such a situation, only forty-four people were lost, which is indeed a good record, a record to be proud of.
Then he went to find Wen Chou and rendezvous with him, and he was no problem.
The cavalry led by Zhao Yun here suffered few casualties, but the infantry led by Wen Chou did not have such a good record. Of the three or four thousand people who originally survived, more than 1,000 were caught in the encirclement and interception of the thieves. In this way, his rate was only 273 Taolin soldiers, more than 900 county soldiers, and more than 500 strong, and the total number was only 178,000 people. Even the 17,800 people who survived were all wounded, and many of them had more than one place. It can be described as a heavy loss.
And after the battle of Zhao Yun and Wen Chou to break through, the casualties of the thieves also increased a lot. It has reached more than 8,000 people, and now the remaining thieves should be in their early 20,000s, and there are not a few injured people, but they are only minor injuries, because the seriously injured people have been relieved of their pain. This is what thieves have always done.
After a short time, Zhao Yun led the cavalry and found a temporary resting place for Wen Chou.
"Fortunately, the mission is not dishonored, and there are 556 cavalry left!" Zhao Yun said when he saw Wen Chou.
"Zilong is really talented! In this siege of thieves, with such small casualties, we can help our army break through! If you are really a great benevolent person of our army, please accept my worship! "Wen Chou saw Zhao Yun coming, and really only achieved the task of assisting the army to break through with a small number of casualties, how could he not be excited! Bow down now.
"Wen Jun must not, Er is the master of an army, how can a person with a white body be worshipped!" Seeing this, Zhao Yun hurriedly stretched out his hand to hold Wen Chou firmly.
Wen Chou failed to bow down several times, so he no longer insisted on bowing, but held Zhao Yun's hand with both hands, and his excitement was indescribable. The more than 500 cavalry preserved by Zhao Yun is the foundation of Wen Chou, as long as these people are still there, he Wen Chou will quickly make a comeback!
Seeing this, Zhao Yun was also full of emotion, and he knew Wen Chou's sincere heart.
Or, Wen Chou calmed down and said: "The merit of this battle, Zilong is the greatest, if it weren't for your proper command, the people who can survive now will probably be halved!" ”
"The difference between Wen Jun's words, the merits of this battle, should belong to all the bloody people, and the others will be even greater! It's just a part of the next and just doing what should be done! Zhao Yun said modestly.
Every sergeant who survives now, that one didn't crawl out of the pile of dead! That's not a soldier of a hundred battles! Even those current township warriors and county soldiers will inevitably be able to reach the elite level of the Taolin Army as long as they go through one or two months of regular training! Because they are all truly cherry-picked by the war.
They didn't rest for long, because now the thunder in the sky was getting louder and louder! This was followed by lightning bolts that stretched from the sky. It looks like a rainstorm that is very rare in February and March is coming!
They also had to find shelter from the rain first. Otherwise, it would not be worth it for these people who survived with great difficulty to die of illness due to the rain! However, it is not difficult to find a place to shelter from the rain, because there are many abandoned township pavilions near Gaoyi County.
Here, the Wen Chou army was in a panic looking for Liluo to shelter from the rain, and over there, Guo Daxian's army was busy cleaning up the battlefield and repairing the camp that had just been breached by it.
In this big battle, he Guo Daxian certainly won, but it was also a tragic victory. Counting the 5,000 people sent by Gaoyi County, they defeated a total of 12,000 "official troops", of which 8,000 were killed by the "official army" and more than 8,000 were lost by themselves.
It's just that they won, after all, they won. It has its own trophies supplemented, not only tens of thousands of sabers, swords, spears and other weapons, but also made up for the lack of weapons in its army; In addition, there are hundreds of grain and grass materials, etc., which makes it a little relieved of the worries brought by the loss of too many people.
With the harvest of this battle, and the fact that more than 8,000 people were killed, it was able to stay here for more than a month, and there was no danger of running out of food prematurely. And now, his army needs to be reorganized, and he can't join the next battle immediately, and the next attack will be at least a few days away.
Before that, he can fully prepare a thing or two. After all, after the Great War, Wen Chou will not be able to organize too many people for a while; And Gaoyi County is not to worry, its 5,000 soldiers were defeated by him with one blow, and there are probably not many soldiers in the county who can handle it at present; Even the more than 2,000 soldiers who fled in all directions did not dare to appear in front of them.
That night, a once-in-50-year heavy rain fell from the sky, washing away everything on the earth in the Changshan area, as if to wash away all the sins in this world. And once it starts, there is no sense of stopping. This may be the anger of God, a strong rebuke to the earthly human life as cheap as dogs.
Prior to this, Wen Choujun successfully found a deserted village, where everyone took refuge from the rain and recuperated from their injuries. It was Guo Daxian's department that suffered a dark loss, and the camp was simply repaired, but I didn't expect that this rain would be so heavy! How can such a simple and repaired camp resist?
It is indispensable to be drenched in a soup chicken. Even though they quickly found the inner fall and were able to take shelter from the rain, after all, they had been drenched in a lot of rain before, and the cold weather in February and March, their clothes were soaked, and they had to march for a long time, so that many thieves fell ill because of this. Although it may not be serious, it should not be underestimated, in this era of extremely backward medical conditions and scarcity, a cold and fever can take a person's life!
With so many people sick, Guo Daxian's plan naturally had to be changed and stopped. In any case, there will be no more attacks in four or five days, and you can only recuperate and prepare with peace of mind. Although large-scale attacks are not permitted, small-scale harassment is necessary. And Guo Daxian also adopted this strategy in the following four or five days.
There are hundreds to thousands of squads that feint to attack the county seat of Gaoyi, which makes everyone in the county town annoyed. If you actively respond to the battle, you will see that there are not many thieves, but the drums will shake the sky! If you don't care about him, you're afraid that it's really a big army of thieves! In this way, there were as many as seven or eight times in a day and night, which made the defense personnel in the county town exhausted and lacked energy.
The people of Gaoyi County suffer from gains and losses, and the grass and trees are all soldiers, and the meaning of cowardice before the battle is fully revealed. If most of the thieves really came to attack that day, the protective power of Gaoyi County would be weakened by three or four percent. I'm afraid I won't be able to resist the thieves who are now very high morale for a few days!
This speculation was quickly confirmed.
After the heavy rain, the weather clears and the sky is blue and pleasant. However, as soon as a few days passed, Wen Chou led the remnants of 1,78 defeated soldiers back to Taolinsai. And the villagers and Jingzhuang in the township have long heard the news of the defeat. Even so, when I saw Wen Chou and the others returning, I couldn't help but be disappointed. This is the first big defeat since Wen Chou became an army, and it was not a triumph before!
But no one blames Wen Chou and the others, because they know the strength of the opponent they are facing! It's no longer something that thousands of people like Wen Chou can deal with, after all, Wen Chou is not a god, and in the face of absolute strength, there is no way. Just when Wen Chou returned to Taolinsai, rested, and recruited people, another big thing happened.
On the morning of the first day of the third lunar month, Guo Daxian's more than 20,000 thieves, after four or five days of rest, finally showed their evil swords again and slashed towards Gaoyi County, which had been tortured and half dead.
The army of 20,000 thieves with full morale, after many feints to confuse the defenders of Gaoyi County, finally really dispatched the whole army and gave a thunderous blow to Gaoyi County, which was already exhausted. It's not a feint, it's not hundreds, thousands, it's no longer a tiring tactic for petty fights.
When Gaoyi County reacted, it was too late.
There are not many people in Gaoyi County who can fight, and besides, there are still many people who choose to flee from the city in the past few days. Hundreds of people always fled every night, which made Gaoyi County's defenses even more empty. In addition, the county magistrate and the county lieutenant of Gaoyi were not properly commanded when Guo Daxian was attacking, and seeing that they couldn't defend it, they decided to roll up the treasury and led more than one or two thousand people to open the city and escape!
This time, Gaoyi County was handed over to Guo Daxian! Without the command of the county magistrate and county lieutenant, the Gaoyi County guard, which was already in danger, was finally defeated after a quarter of an hour. Since then, another county seat of Changshan Kingdom has fallen and is occupied by the Montenegrin army.
When Guo Daxian's army defeated the guards of Gaoyi County without much effort and invaded Gaoyi County, the 20,000 thieves were boiling. And Guo Daxian himself even ordered any soldiers to loot for three days, and all the proceeds went to his own people, so as to release the oppressive spirit they had endured these days.
After more than a month of dispatching troops, it is finally possible to have the initial results, so it is natural to enjoy the carnival.
Gaoyi County is like a weak and powerless woman, who has been stripped of her clothes, and can only abuse and knead this group of wolf-like thieves at will, without the power to backhand.
The more than 25,000 villagers in Gaoyi County are living in dire straits, and I am afraid that in the near future, they will be assimilated by the thieves and become a part of these thieves.
The news of the fall of Gaoyi County came three days after Wen Chou returned to Taolin. At this time, it was the second day of the first month of March.