Chapter 254
didn't want the reinforcements of the Ming army to arrive in time, and the feeling of escaping death made Xiang Xun feel grateful to the Ming army.
The passage that was rushed by the cavalry, without waiting for the Liao army to converge, Yunyang's infantry quickly filled it, which ensured that the people inside could retreat smoothly.
Zhao Kuangyin in Weizhou City had just learned that reinforcements from the Ming Army had arrived at the south gate.
This kind of chance is a once-in-a-kind opportunity, how could Zhao Kuangyin, who has experienced a hundred battles, not know.
Zhao Kuangyin did not notify any of his soldiers, but only beckoned the guards and generals around him to quickly leave the command office and escape towards the south gate.
More than 10,000 Zhou troops in Weizhou City were abandoned by their main general.
It's cruel, but it's right.
Zhao Kuangyin left, but there was just one more grievance, if he informed the defenders to leave together, the Liao army and the obstruction army besieging the city would break through the city in an instant, and none of them would be able to run away at that time.
Because of this, Zhao Kuangyin only led more than 100 people to flee to the south gate.
When the cavalry of the special warfare army ploughed through the formation of the Liao army at the south gate from south to north and arrived at the south gate, Zhao Kuangyin led more than 100 personal guards and generals to rush out of Weizhou City and join the Ming army.
Behind the hall of the training department, the cavalry took the lead in the retreat, and then the infantry.
When the brigade withdrew from the defensive line, the musketeers and crossbow soldiers that had already been arranged began to concentrate on firing at the pursuing Liao army.
At this time, when the main force of the Liao army in the north heard the explosion, it had already sensed that something was wrong, and divided 30,000 troops to the south for reinforcements.
Yun Yang and the others saw that the situation was not right, and if they waited for the 30,000 cavalry to arrive here, they would not be able to withdraw.
As a result, the Ming and Zhou armies began to retreat in the direction of Ningzhou.
The Liao army, which caught up, was heavily killed and wounded by the mines and other objects planted. He could only stop the pursuit in front of the fortifications and watched the Ming and Zhou armies leave.
The Liao army turned to vent its anger on the city of Weizhou.
Pity the more than 10,000 defenders of the Zhou Kingdom, seeing two waves of reinforcements coming. was in high spirits, morale was high, and the enemy was in full swing, but the main general Zhao Kuangyin abandoned them and Weizhou City and fled for his life alone.
When they found out that the Lord General was no longer there, the bitter coldness of the heart was like a basin of cold water pouring all over the body from top to bottom.
The remaining nearly 10,000 Zhou troops were numbly slaughtered by the Liao army and the Bu army.
The Liao army attacked the city for several days, suffering more than 35,000 casualties. There was nowhere to vent this anger, and it was all called on this group of Zhou army prisoners, and the day went down. There are only more than 3,000 people who can survive, and this is still left by the Liao army in order to let them clean up the battlefield and work as coolies.
Since then, Weizhou has fallen. Thirty-five thousand defenders. Except for more than 100 people who escaped with Zhao Kuangyin, the whole army was wiped out in Weizhou City.
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Baili Wuji led more than 6,500 people to the north, and after several days of trekking, crossed the Yellow River and entered the city of Shanzhou.
As the seat of the Jiaoguo Luo Department, Shanzhou City was built quite "strong", but this solidity is relative to Misang or Luqu, and it is still not the same as the city in the Central Plains.
The nomadic people's city-building technology was far less developed than that of the Central Plains. Indeed, if the nomads also mastered the various technologies of the Central Plains. Then there will be nothing to do with the Han people in this world.
The city of Shanzhou is three feet high and seven feet thick, and it can be regarded as an important town in the Western Regions.
By the time the new army crossed the Yellow River, the Jiaoluo of Shanzhou City had already been repaid by scouts.
However, the main force of the Jiaoluo army was gone, and there were only 3,000 defenders in Shanzhou City, and the confrontation with the new army was undoubtedly an egg.
Even if the people are forcibly conscripted to resist, it is just a drop in the bucket, because the population of Shanzhou and Huangshu Prefecture under the rule of Jiaoguo Luo is less than 100,000, and it is already overstretched to run an army of more than 30,000, and now it is to forcibly recruit all adult men, and there are only more than 10,000 of them, and how can these newly recruited men be the opponents of the Ming army, and they can't even resist the 30,000 army, not to mention the 10,000 untrained Ding Zhuang.
However, the main reason why the Jiaogara did not carry out forced conquest in the end was that most of these people were Han Chinese or descendants of Han Chinese marriages with the Tibetans and Uighurs.
These people had been waiting for the Han army to move north and save them from the harsh rule of the alien race.
The mountains and rivers were exhausted, and apart from sending messengers to the east for help, asking for help from the Liao army and the Obstruction Army, Jiao Guluo could no longer think of any other way to deal with it.
He now regrets going to provoke the Central Plains, if the 30,000 main force is still there, why should he ask for help from the Liao army and the obstruction army.
As a descendant of the Tibetan Zampu, Jiao Guluo fought with the Uighurs and the Dangxiang tribe in the land of Hehuang no less than 100 times for decades, and he could not make up his mind and was not willing to surrender.
He decided to fight to the death.
A day later, Baili Wuji led his army to Suoge City.
Suo Ge is only two days away from Shanzhou, and he is also under the rule of Jiaoguoluo.
Baili Wuji captured this undefended place, and planned to rest here for a day, "fighting the grass valley", of course, although Baili Wuji's temperament has changed somewhat, but it is not enough to disturb the people.
Baili Wuji ordered to loot the official warehouse in Suoge City and take his food and money.
Then use the money to buy the supplies needed by the soldiers from the people.
The people of Dassault were mixed with Uighurs, Tibetans, and Han Chinese.
Seeing the arrival of the Han army, there are those who like to celebrate, those who hate, and those who are insensitive.
That night, the new army did not find out, and several Tubo people secretly climbed over the city wall and headed north.
The next day, the new army set out again and headed north to Shanzhou.
An hour later, the army walked dozens of miles into a valley.
This is a one-way slope valley, the right side is a downward slope, the slope is gentle, and the depth is less than a zhang, even if people roll down, the most they want to come is a bruise, at a glance, the scenery is in full view; On the left is an upward slope, no more than five feet high, with a gentle slope; The passage in the middle is also a few feet wide.
It's not a dangerous place.
But Baili Wuji has always been careful, he ordered the march to be suspended, and sent scouts to the left to search a five-mile radius.
Soon after, the scouts came to report that there was no trace of the enemy within five miles.
Baili Wuji was a little uneasy in his heart, and when he was not at ease, he went uphill to check it out in person.
Looking to the left on the slope, the continuous slope, the terrain is like waves on the water, up and down, at a glance, there is no trace of people.
Baili Wuji was a little funny in his heart, he was indeed a little suspicious, the main force of the Jiaoluo Department had been exhausted, and in broad daylight, there were a small number of enemy ambushes, and the new army was enough to deal with it.
Immediately, Baili Wuji ordered the new army to cross the slope valley, but Baili Wuji still kept an eye on it, and let Zheng Yanhua's new army escorting horses and Zheng En's troops go last, and wait for the left and right new armies to pass through the slope valley.
Here, the new army began to enter, and five miles to the left, Jiao Guluo led 3,000 cavalry to wrap their horses and hooves, and quietly approached.
Jiao Guluo made a desperate bet, hoping to ambush and sneak attack more than 6,000 new troops with 3,000 cavalry in order to succeed in the first battle. (To be continued......)