Chapter 195: Desperate Battle
Xu Wanghua, Zheng Jinhong, Yang He and others, looking at Zheng Xunrui with a completely different vision, half a month ago, Zheng Xunrui completely accurately predicted the battle situation of the imperial army to exterminate the Liukou, and the prediction was not bad, as if the imperial army and the Liukou were fighting according to Zheng Xunrui's requirements, especially Xu Wanghua, shocked Zheng Xunrui's military talent, you must know that Zheng Xunrui is only twenty years old, he can expect such an important battle, such a talent, it can be said that it shocks the world.
Zheng Xunrui's own expression, so that everyone admired it even more, he did not have the slightest joy of expression, but more strict, as if making such an accurate judgment is not a great thing, in fact, it is impossible for everyone to know Zheng Xunrui's inner thoughts, he has long thought of the final outcome of the battle of Chezhou Gorge, and it is precisely because of the accuracy of the prediction that he believes that the next thing will definitely appear, but at this time, he is powerless to reverse a qiē, unless Zheng Jiajun participates in the battle, Then he has the ability to change the course of history, which is absolutely impossible at the moment.
The battle of Chezhou Gorge has finally begun.
Finding that they were surrounded by officials and soldiers in the Carriage Gorge, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others knew that something was wrong, and they had no other way out, the only way was to kill them, otherwise everyone would be buried in the Carriage Gorge.
A fierce battle began, and despite the danger of the terrain, the rogues attacked from the direction of the exit of the Chezhou Gorge.
Chen Qiyu, who had already prepared, calmly coped with this qiē.
The artillery began to roar, and the artillery, mainly the Furlong machine, opened fire on the charging rogues, and every time the shells hit the ground and exploded, a large number of rogues fell, and the blood penetrated into the rushing Huangyang River, staining the river red.
The crossbow also began to fire, whistling towards the rogue's crossbow, piercing through the rogue's chest, and the rogue who didn't have time to let out a scream fell straight to the ground.
The army of the imperial court did not suffer any losses, and the attacking rogues were already suffering heavy losses.
The attack in the direction of the import also began, Luo Rucai and the others knew that thinking about the plan of retreating from the direction of Zhenping, I am afraid it would be difficult to realize, at this time, tear a hole from the direction of the import, retreat in the direction of Jinzhou, or choose to retreat from the direction of Ziyang, or retreat from the direction of Hanyin, or retreat from the direction of Xunyang, maybe the loss will be very heavy, but it is a hundred times stronger than being trapped in the Carriage Gorge.
The attack in the direction of the import is even greater, you must know that the main force waiting in the direction of the import is the Tianxiong army under the command of Lu Xiangsheng, they use skillful control of the strong crossbow as the main combat method, from the import direction to attack the rogue, in the face of the roaring crossbow, there is no place to dodge, can only fall under the attack of the strong crossbow.
Such a charge was carried out for three days in a row, day and night, with almost no interruption.
The exit and entrance of the Chezhou Gorge were very narrow, and it was impossible to make a large-scale charge, because there would be no need for an attack by the officers and soldiers, and the team itself would be crowded and chaotic.
Three days later, in the direction of the entrance and exit, there were countless corpses of rogues, and the Huangyang River in the canyon had long been dyed pale red, which was the blood of the fallen rogues in the direction of the inlet, flowing into the Huangyang River.
The offensive finally stopped.
Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others fell into a daze, and some of the small leaders in the team had already begun to complain, and they also knew that they were in a predicament, but there were still many people, and they had not yet fallen into despair.
Deliberations soon began in the canyon, whether to continue the attack or find another way out.
The men who had been dispatched to both sides of the Carriage Gap to find a way out had already returned.
The strange peaks on both sides of the Chezhou Gorge are abrupt, the strange rocks are craggy, and there is no way out at all, which makes Luo Rucai and the others not expect that the distance of forty miles of the road will not be able to find a way out on both sides.
The only way is to attack from the direction of import and exit, if you can't kill a bloody road, the army will have no chance.
Chen Qiyu was not in a hurry at all, and successively sent documents to Yunyang and Hanzhong, asking them to provide sufficient food and grass, and the rogue beasts were still fighting, this battle could not end in a short time, but it would definitely last for a while, and the army besieging outside, as long as the food and grass were sufficient, even if they didn't have to fight, they could trap the rogues in the Chebox Gorge.
Chen Qiyu's decision is correct, and he has already agreed with Lu Xiangsheng.
The three consecutive days of Liukou's charge did not cause any casualties to the Fourth Route Army, on the contrary, the corpses of Liukou were all over the exit and import of the canyon, such a battle was very pleasant, it was nothing more than the consumption of some grain and grass, Chen Qiyu even thought of the situation of reporting to the imperial court and receiving rewards after completely exterminating Liukou.
In order to prevent the epidemic of the plague, the corpses in the direction of the entrance and exit of the Chezhou Gorge were still disposed of, after all, it was already June, and the climate became hot, if these corpses were rotten, the army outside would also be affected, and the matter of burial was not complicated, dig some big pits and throw all the corpses into it.
When dealing with the corpse, it was very quiet in the Carriage Gorge, this is the tacit understanding of the two armies fighting, if the Liukou takes advantage of this time to launch an attack, not to mention whether he can rush out, this kind of disrespectful behavior for his brother's corpse, so that the army will collapse in the shortest possible time, then don't think about doing anything.
After two days of silence, another round of the offensive began.
This time, the Liukou took the form of an intensive charge, that is, a team charge, each team was not far apart, and while the sergeant of the first team was still charging, the sergeant of the second team had already reached the mouth of the valley and was also charging outside.
Luo Rucai and the others have a good idea, the team in front will definitely not be able to break through the attack of the official army, but the team behind can take advantage of this opportunity to attack and find a breakthrough.
Luo Rucai and the others' ideas were too simple, they could think of such an offensive method, how could Chen Qiyu and the others not think that they had already had a strategy to deal with it.
Chen Qiyu took the way of five rounds of attack, the first round of attack is artillery, dense artillery can destroy the morale of the rogue in the shortest possible time, and at the same time give the team a huge lethality, the second round of attack is a strong crossbow, the penetration of the strong crossbow, even more terrifying than artillery, the lethality is undoubted, the third round of attack is the bird gun, once there are rogue guns in the artillery and strong crossbow attack rushed out, they are greeted by bird guns, bird guns fired one after another, Let the rogue have no place to dodge, the fourth round of attack is a bow and arrow, a large-scale rain of arrows, can basically kill all the rogue who are still charging, the fifth round of attack is a face-to-face fight between the sergeants, of course, this round of attack, basically not used.
Because it was raining all the time, in fact, it was difficult for the bird's attack to play a role, so the attack was mainly artillery, crossbows, and bows and arrows, and the soldiers fought face-to-face, which was basically not used.
Such an offensive lasted three days.
Luo Rucai and the others finally understood that the officers and soldiers they were facing were ready for a while, and the possibility of rushing out of the Carriage Gorge was almost gone.
The two attacks, which lasted six days, were attacked in both the import and exit directions, and the loss of more than 60,000 sergeants and the army was less than 90,000.
Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others have fallen into despair, and their mentality has begun to change.
Not to mention the sergeants under his command, they were trapped in the Carriage Gorge, it had reached eleven days, the food had been almost consumed, and there were still a few days at most, because of the continuous rain, many sergeants fell before they could participate in the battle, especially those who joined the rogue team as homeless people, their bodies were already weak, and they could not support the long march, which led to a large number of non-combat attrition.
After a day of silence, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and others, after a fierce controversy, decided to launch a final attack, if this breakthrough still could not succeed, they needed to sit down and discuss the final solution.
When the fight began, the corpses at the entrance and exit of the canyon did not have time to be disposed of.
An even more tragic attack began, this could not be regarded as a battle, it could only be regarded as a one-sided massacre, even Chen Qiyu and Lu Xiangsheng couldn't bear it, a massacre of this scale was a battle mode they had never experienced.
Sympathy is sympathy, and there will be no softness in the fight.
After two days and two nights of fighting, the rogues left the corpses of more than 40,000 people in the direction of the exit and entrance.
The mountains of corpses are already starting to make people feel sick.
The desperate battle can last three times, for eight days in a row, which is already a miracle, and if it were for other armies, it would have collapsed long ago at this time.
When the ranks were cleared again, there were less than 40,000 people left.
When entering the canyon, the army knew 150,000, but now it is less than 40,000, does this indicate that the Liukou has reached a dead end and it is impossible to break out of the Chezhou Gorge.
The final deliberations have finally arrived.
Chen Qiyu and the others would not have thought that although the rogues suffered heavy losses, most of the rogues who died in battle were homeless people who temporarily joined the team, and the truly elite sergeants did not participate in such suicidal attacks, and the leaders of the rogues, large and small, would not let the elite sergeants participate in the attack.
It was in this most important discussion that Gu Junen, under Li Zicheng, proposed to build a deception, adapt to the situation, and leave the Carriage Gorge.
This Gu Junen is a strategist under Li Zicheng, and he has given Li Zicheng advice many times, and almost every time he has achieved success, winning Li Zicheng's trust.
Although there was some controversy, Luo Rucai and others, who were in a desperate situation, finally had to adopt Gu Junen's proposal