Chapter Forty-Four: Exterminating the Northern Invaders
"Naturally!"
"Okay, let's go!" Then Sun Qing led the remnants of the army and began to retreat, among which he led the 150 cavalry to break the rear. made Liu Zhong show a rather appreciative gaze. Not only did Liu Zhong think of the reinforcements, but Sun Qing was also worried that if Gaoyi County had another reinforcement like this, how could they have room to escape?! It was Sun Qing who also wanted to leave as soon as possible.
After Sun Qing's cautious retreat, Liu Zhong did not immediately pursue him, but first rested and cleaned up the battlefield. Let the medical craftsmen who accompany the army deal with all the wounded. It's not that Liu Zhong keeps any promises, but the current army doesn't have the ability to cause significant damage to the elite of the thieves. Only wait for the message of reinforcements. However, the whereabouts of the thieves must still be tracked, and at the moment when Sun Qing left, scouts and scouts followed him and hung behind the thieves' army.
Soon after Liu Zhong chose to rest, news came that Wen Ba had made a detour to the rear of the thieves and wanted to fight the thieves with him. When Liu Zhong heard the news, his spirit was suddenly shocked, and he immediately ordered all the troops to march towards the thieves again! Help Wenba to eliminate all the thieves!
Then he left behind a hundred people, either the wounded or those who cared for the wounded, and led more than 650 people, following the marks left by the Tanma all the way, towards the thieves.
After Sun Qing safely evacuated from the battle circle with Liu Zhong, he was careful for several miles, but when he didn't see Liu Zhong chasing after him, he relieved his heart and ran towards the outside of Gaoyi County with all his might. As a rule, as long as they fled outside the jurisdiction of a certain place, the soldiers there would generally not pursue them across the border. Of course, there are exceptions, such as Sun Jian's crossing the border to attack thieves.
Sun Qing was thinking about escaping from Gaoyi County as soon as possible, but Wen Ba was thinking about meeting the thief as soon as possible. He'd been around the back of the thief for a while. However, the route of the thieves' previous march was too complicated, and it was from east to west, which made Wenba take a lot of unjust roads. But fortunately, I just received a report from Tanma that the thieves had met at Liu Zhong's military headquarters and were engaged in a big battle. The location of the thief has finally been determined!
Now that the location has been determined. Then just march with all your might, in case all the thieves and robbers are killed by Liu Zhong's military department in the end, and you can't get any opportunity to train your troops, which is not good. Although Tanma has repeatedly said that the thieves are elite, Wenba still does not take them to heart. In his understanding, the army led by Liu Zhong was the elite of the elite! How can a mere thief stop it?
It wasn't until Tanma reported again that Liu Zhongjun fought with the thieves that Wen Bafang corrected his attitude. Face up to the combat power of this thief. At the same time, he ordered all the horsemen to advance at full speed to annihilate this great enemy.
Sun's reckless remnants were hurrying to the outside of Gaoyi County, and suddenly heard a roaring sound, he who has been a thief for many years, and has led a thief to ride for many years, can not be familiar with this kind of sound. It was a mighty cavalry, a cavalry of no less than five hundred.
In this case. There are five hundred cavalry attacking from that side, then there are only two possibilities: one is. After careful consideration, Zhang Shuai thought that the elite he led was not enough to complete the task, so he sent a team of elite horsemen to help; The second is that the reinforcements of Gaoyi County are a highly mobile cavalry, they go around behind them, and hope that Liu Zhong, who is also talented in the same way, will attack them.
The first is unlikely. When he came, Zhang Shuai made it clear that he couldn't draw a large number of troops to help him, and besides, there were not so many elite cavalry in the front army! However, if an agreement can be reached with another Qu Shuai Luo City, there is a slight possibility. Besides. That's the second possibility!
Sun analyzed it slightly, and was surprised at the moment, and hurriedly sent a scout horse to investigate it before and after. It seems that there is only the second possibility, for none of the few scouts it had sent have returned. Sun Qing decided that it was time to change direction and go west.
However, although his analysis and decision are fast, but Wenba's horses are faster, since he can already hear the sound of the horse's hooves hitting the earth, will it be far from the horses appearing?! In less than half an hour after Sun Qing changed direction, Wenba's cavalry had already arrived, oh, where Sun Qing was originally standing! As soon as he explored the direction, he immediately pursued it.
At this time, Liu Zhong had also led the elite soldiers to catch up. Following Wenba, he hurried towards Sun Qing.
With the speed of Wenba's cavalry, it is not difficult to catch up with Sun Qingzhi's troops, and the sound of the roaring horse's hooves hitting the earth is like the sound of the incomparable war drums, which directly leads to the blood of all the iron-blooded soldiers! Five hundred cavalry soldiers took Wenba as the front, formed a sharp array, and rushed towards the formation placed by Sun Qing's remnants in a hurry.
Sun Qing's army, the advantage is that the troops are complete, although it is a hastily arranged formation, but it is the most effective formation to deal with cavalry. On the periphery is a shield and spear formation of swords, shields and pikemen, spears and horses, shields and cavalry. Inside, the archers were protected and wounded the cavalry with arrows. And then there are two teams of cavalry cruising outside, as a way to deter and vigilance!
Even so, Sun Qing's formation was formed in a hurry after all, and there were many omissions, plus when they fought before, their troops had already suffered serious blows, and the sword and shield soldiers suffered too many casualties, which was not enough to protect the entire army! There are a lot of archers, but there are a few arrows that can be sent, and when the Wenba army attacked, they had to abandon the bow and arrows and put on the first sword, otherwise they were just lambs that were slaughtered arbitrarily.
Moreover, the hundred and ten remnants of the thief Kou were not taken seriously by Wen Ba at all, and there was no deterrent. In this way, Sun Qing's strategy is no longer useful, and he can only resist desperately, in his eyes, they are not without the possibility of victory, because their own troops are more than the enemy, isn't it!
But this time, his calculation was wrong, because the soldiers led by Liu Zhong had already come to a short distance from him! As long as Wenba can entangle Sun Qingjun for a while, then they will be able to arrive in time and annihilate these thieves smoothly.
Wenba's cavalry slammed into Sun Qing's incompletely defended shield and spear array! Only in the second team has already tore a big gap in it. Wen Ba wielded a mixed iron heavy spear and smashed it fiercely at any thief in front of him, often killing him with one blow. As a result, the gap is constantly being torn apart!
Seeing this, Sun Qing hurriedly led the remnants of the cavalry to attack Wenba's cavalry from the side. However, the cavalry of Wenba seemed to have been guarding against him for a long time, and soon separated a cavalry of 100 people to catch them! Wenba continues his great cause of abusing vegetables! Soon, Wenba's cavalry completed a chiseling move, and at the same time took the lives of one or two hundred people!
Seeing this, Sun Qing was horrified, he didn't want his elite troops to be so vulnerable under the attack of Wenba's cavalry! Seeing that Wen Ba was chiseling through, he quickly turned the horse's head and formed a sharp array again! But it's going to be chiseled again! I couldn't help but panic a little.
At this moment, not far away, there was another shouting and killing, and it was Liu Zhong who led the people to arrive. This time, Sun couldn't help but retreat, and the infantry seemed to have no chance of being spared, so they could only hope that the cavalry would be able to get rid of the pursuit of the enemy cavalry. At that moment, he led the less than 100 horsemen and went away to the west.
At this time, Wenba had already begun to chisel through for the second time. At the moment when Sun Qing fled, he slammed into the thief infantry again! Soon another hundred and ten lives will be lost! Sun Qing's escape was not unexpected, and he soon separated one hundred and ten horsemen and merged with the original hundred horsemen and pursued him.
As for the remaining elite thieves, many of them had already begun to flee in all directions after discovering that their leaders had abandoned them! Only a few bloody people still fought against it. At this time, Liu Zhong's army had arrived and began to encircle and suppress!
Not long after, after Liu Zhong killed another desperate man, he raised the Hundred Refining Ring Head Knife with blood in his hand and shouted: "Surrender and don't kill!" ”
"Surrender or kill!"
"Surrender or kill!"
Soon the sound spread throughout the battlefield! And high-pitched and powerful, powerful!
The remnants of the thieves on the field, seeing this, you look at me, I see your hesitation. "Dang!" I don't know who took the lead in putting down the soldiers in his hands, and suddenly "dang, dang, dang!" The voices are continuous, and most of the thieves have a very wise choice! But there are still a handful of die-hard elements, still holding the soldiers in their hands and refusing to let go! Maybe for them, only with the sword in hand, can they feel safe!
"Since you have come to my county to act, you must have heard about the affairs of the county magistrate of my county! For the people who fall into the grass, the poor family is not the same as ordinary officials! To be precise, he is a good official who can do things for the people, and is praised by the heads of Qian, far and near! The front and back here are ordinary people! Liu Zhong then emphasized.
Which of these elite soldiers is not a hero, if they can't be brought down, then they have only one way to go, and that is death. This is a pity for Liu Zhong.
Moreover, the army of Wen Chou also needs to be replenished! You can't recruit from ordinary people anymore! There are not many ordinary people with high military quality in Gaoyi County! Therefore, Wen Chou, Liu Zhong and others need to find soldiers from other aspects, so prisoners are a good choice. Especially this kind of captive who does not have any sense of hometown or region.
After Liu Zhong's words, some thieves soon chose to put down their swords! And those die-hard elements are still shouting something there, "The handsome man treats you well", "General Tiangong is watching you!" "Aren't we going to overthrow this rotten court!" You are apostasy! "Do you believe the words of this dog officer?! ”
Seeing that they were so stubborn, Liu Zhong couldn't help but sigh, closed his eyes, waved his hand, and turned to leave. (To be continued......)