Chapter 953: Westward Advance to Chang'an (7)
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Bloody dusk, the fierce bloody battle under the Great Scattered Pass is in the midst of a tragic battle.!
Under the reflection of the bloody remnant sun, thousands of Pei Jun gathered like ants, surrounding Nanguan and making it impassable. One by one, the attacking arrays continued to press, launching an attack on the high fortress walls. The momentum of the attack was like the waves of the tsunami, wave after wave, mixed with dazzling soldiers and fluttering flags, and the stone barrier of the mountain hit the iron wall one after another.
The arrow wind whistled, and the dense feathered arrows covered the sky and the sun, completely obscuring the last bit of remnant sun on the battlefield.
The rain of arrows that fell like the sky was falling, and the narrow ground under the gate was covered with layers of thick arrows. The snow-white arrow feathers were densely packed, as if the sky had covered the earth with a thick layer of snowflakes.
Flying stones and clouds, iron crossbows piercing the air.
The boulder as big as a millstone and the iron crossbow with the thickness of an arm's arm made a terrifying arc and fell into the huge waves of the attacking Pei army, splashing bloody flowers one after another.
The sound of killing shook the sky, and hundreds of ladders leaned against the high city walls. Pei Jun was wearing light armor, holding a horizontal knife in his mouth, holding a leather shield in his hand, braving the harvest of hot oil, rolling wood, stones and other tools to defend the city, desperately climbing.
The war has entered the most tragic and violent side.
The red-eyed Pei Jun was not shocked by the tragic casualties, on the contrary, the stumps and broken arms all over the place, and the blood flowed like a river, which aroused the last rage in their hearts.
On the narrow battlefield, people fell to the ground with arrows all the time, were smashed into meat sauce by throwing stones, and fell off the ladder with their whole bodies burned black by hot oil
But at this point, no one is paying attention to this anymore. Both sides of the siege have entered a state of non-stop, Pei's army has attacked the city again and again, and has been killed and driven down again and again. Under the city, the corpses of the soldiers who died in the battle had already been built up to a depth of nearly a zhang, and even the tall city wall was much shorter by the mountain of corpses.
"Attack, attack. Attack to the death! On a slope just over a thousand steps below the city, Pei Renji roared angrily.
From morning to dusk, Pei's army did not stop attacking for six hours without stopping. But until now, even the outermost gate of Sanguan has not been taken.
I saw the black flying eagle flag of the Chen army on the outer gate of Sanguan crumbling again and again, but one of them was still holding up there.
A full day of onslaught. Bae In-gi has been in front of the command in person. The stalemate of the war made his patience pass little by little. The worry in his heart made him extremely irritable. Turning over and getting on the horse, Pei Renji pushed away a few guards in front of him and shouted: "Come with me, Guancheng will be taken." Brothers, work harder, together! ”
However, Guan Xia was already a sea of soldiers and horses, and Pei Renji couldn't rush through at all. Several generals rushed over to drag Pei Renji and persuaded bitterly: "Commander, don't do it." You are the commander of the whole army, and you must not take the danger lightly. Chen Jun is already dying, and if he can't hold out for long, the brothers will definitely be able to take Guancheng. ”
"Straight sissy thief!" Pei Renji was surrounded by a group of generals, and he couldn't move forward half a step, so he could only roar angrily. Of course, he also knew that according to the current situation on the surface, as long as the army worked harder, it would be able to take Sanguan.
But how many times has this happened? Which time the city didn't look like it was about to be breached, but which time it finally survived again.
So far, Pei Renji has faintly felt that Chen Jun on Guancheng is by no means a simple person, they seem to be fishing. seduced them again and again, and every time they thought they could win it with a little more force, but every time it was just a little bit worse. Just like fishing, the heat is very accurate.
It's grinding meat. Like a human flesh grinding village, batch after batch of people and horses have been filled into this bottomless pit.
But at this point. Even if he already vaguely understood in his heart, what could he do?
Can I get a refund?
Never!
The brethren have been storming until now, and it is all by breath. If you stop now, this breath will be released, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to gather the morale of the army.
What's more, the long row of wooden stakes on the castle were all his generals. In addition to dozens of generals under his subordinates, the first two are his two sons Pei Xingyan and Pei Xingjian.
The vanguard of the 100,000 army entered the customs, Pei Renji never thought that the result would be the tragic situation today.
The youngest son Pei Xingyan led 5,000 elites as the vanguard, but was deceived into the pass by Chen Jun, who quietly seized the pass, and was easily killed by Chen Jun.
Two days later, at the First Line of Heaven Canyon, Chen's army once again raided his army on the march.
Rolling stones, gunpowder, rain of arrows.
His army was cut off by Chen's army in one fell swoop, and one-third of the front army was surrounded by Chen's ambush.
30,000 horses, a bloody battle, when he led the rear army of the Chinese army to tear open the blocking circle of the Chen army, only corpses were left everywhere on the battlefield. More than 10,000 people were killed in the battle, and the rest were all captured, even his eldest son Pei Xingjian, who happened to be in the front army, was also captured.
Pei Renji led the army in pursuit, but the Chen army calmly retreated into the Sanguan, and their more than 60,000 men and horses could only be blocked under the pass.
What made him even more angry was that Chen Jun tied all the officers above the rank of captain to the city of Guancheng among the tens of thousands of soldiers he had captured, and used it as the first wall of flesh to resist their attack, and his two sons were tied to the front.
Pei Renji and the generals had estimated that the Chen army in the pass was at most 30,000 to 40,000 horses, but they saw that they had a numerical advantage, and when facing the wall of flesh on the pass, the soldiers were afraid of each other, restricted everywhere, and could not let go of their hands and feet, but were killed again and again under the city, and a mountain of corpses was paved.
When the eighteenth time was killed, Bae Renji had to give an order with blood to suspend the offensive of the whole army.
Night has fallen, and attacking the city under such a dangerous fortress is undoubtedly looking for death. Even if it is a pile of human lives, it is not such a pile. During the daytime onslaught, Pei's army suffered heavy losses, killing more than 8,000 and suffering more than 10,000 minor and serious injuries.
If he continues to fight like this, before he takes Sanguan, his subordinates will die.
In the wind of Wuthering Mountain, 50,000 remnants of the army slowly retreated and camped ten miles away.
In the camp of the Sui army, Pei Renji seemed to be ten years old, and the whole person sat in the tent indifferently.
Half a lifetime of war, a lifetime of fame, all ruined today!
In just a few days, half of his 100,000 men and horses were gone, and even his two sons were taken prisoner. Although half of these 100,000 people are Qingding who have just been recruited, no matter what, there are still 50,000 old brothers. If his estimate was right, Chen's army would only be twenty or thirty thousand horses, and would never exceed fifty thousand, otherwise, they would not have been able to quietly go all the way to Sanguan.
What's next? What are you going to fight?
At the time of today's troop withdrawal, pessimism has emerged in the whole army.
Pei Renji thought not only of these, but also of some farther places.
Yu Wenhua and sitting in the pass, can be so easily killed by a partial division of the Chen Dynasty to the rear of the Sanguan, what does this mean? It shows that Xu Guo is completely out of play, and if he does not die in Chen Shou, he will die in Sui Shou.
But can Da Sui still hold on?
Looking at the world, the only one who can still fight with Chen Kefu now is the Great Sui. However, many years of experience in the sea and the battlefield told him that the Later Sui was not stable, and Yang Hui was far worse than his son Yang Guang. When the opponents in front of Chen Kefu fell one by one, Yang Yong finally came to face Chen Kefu. Chen Kefu, who even Yang Guang can't control, how can Yang Yan do it?
"Hey!" Bae Renji let out a long sigh, and that sigh was full of complicated thoughts.
Now he has to think about not only the life and death of his two captured sons, but also the way out of his remnant army, and even more for the sake of his Pei family.
Several major families of the Pei family in Hedong, Pei Shiju was destroyed by Chen Kefu in Beijing a few years ago, and Pei Yun's family was also trapped in the Chen Dynasty, and he was alone in Shu. Pei Lin was originally just a petty official in Yang Guangshi, but later Zuo Li Yuan got into trouble, and after Li Yuan's death, it is said that he voted for Chen Pojun, but he was promoted to a knighthood, and even the entire family with him was promoted a lot. The rest of his Pei Renji family, in the early years, it was also a big family of the Sui Dynasty, but in the past few years, he has followed Yang Yin south, and the family is not as good as day by day.
The voice of the guard came from outside the tent: "Marshal, Your Majesty has sent an urgent express!" ”
"Send it in." Pei Renji said.
After receiving the emergency report to check that it was correct, Pei Renji hurriedly opened it, and after a quick glance, the whole person suddenly felt lightheaded, and almost fell.
"Dashuai!"
"It's okay, you can go out."
The guards withdrew from the tent, and Pei Renji felt that the last bit of his energy was also drained, and the whole person sat down on the ground in a daze.
Yang Jun's hair was very urgent, and the content was straightforward, but it was shocking. Yang Jinzhong asked him to speed up the entry of the pass, so that he must reach the pass in the fastest time, and then join forces with Yuwen Chengdu to defeat the Chen Chaoxi expeditionary army.
This decree was not the same as what he had been given before, and he had been given the order to observe the situation and not to rush into the march after he had entered the customs. Let him wait for Chen Chaoxi's expeditionary army and Yuwen Chengdu to start fighting, and immediately lead his troops into Chang'an first and control Chang'an. Then when the Chen and Xu families fought and lost both, they sent troops to a yellow finch behind and put the entire Guanlong into the naan.
But now, Yang Jian urgently ordered him not to take care of Chang'an for the time being, but to enter the customs at full speed, quickly join Yuwen Chengdu, and attack the Chen Dynasty to the west together.
There is only one reason for all this. That is, Yang Xuan got the latest news from the north, the Chen Dynasty united with the countries of the northeast, formed a nine-nation alliance army, gathered 300,000 troops on the grassland, and annihilated the 120,000 army of the Turks who went north to the grassland in one fell swoop!
This news was undoubtedly like a thunderbolt from the blue, which scared Yang Jin. Similarly, Bae In-ki, who had just received the news, was also scared!
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