Chapter 609: The Wei Army is Defeated
Ran Min personally led an army of 10,000 to kill the main force under Shi Kun's command, and the generals of the begging army also launched attacks on Yao Xiang, Wang Lang, Murong Ba and other troops respectively.
Shi Kun's troops and horses were naturally not Ran Min's opponents, and under Ran Min's strong attack, they retreated one after another, while the rest of the beggar army did not have such a strong combat power, and when fighting with the Yan and Zhao coalition forces, they could not take much advantage, and they were even at a disadvantage.
Although the soldiers of the begging army are elite, they are subject to the shortage of food and grass, and the soldiers can only eat seventy percent full at each meal, and this will naturally affect the body of the soldiers, so that the combat power of the begging army will decline slightly, besides, the Yanzhao coalition army has suddenly launched an attack after several days of careful preparation, which can be regarded as prepared, while the begging army is preparing to withdraw back to Yecheng, and it will inevitably be at a disadvantage if it rushes to fight after discovering the enemy.
Ran Min wielded a double-edged spear and led 10,000 beggars to launch an extremely fierce attack on the main force under Shi Kun's command, and quickly defeated Shi Kun's army and launched a pursuit.
"Soldiers, chase and kill the enemy, kill ......" Ran Min was killing on Xing's head, shouting and ordering his subordinates to chase and kill the fleeing Shi Kun's army.
"Kill ......" the beggar army roared forward to attack, while the Shi Kun army retreated one after another.
"Knock knock knock......" At this moment, behind the army of Murong Ba, a huge war drum sounded, followed by a large amount of smoke and dust.
The 10,000 men and horses of the beggar army who were fighting with Murong Ba's troops were suddenly shocked, and when they saw this situation, they thought that the main army of the Yan State was coming, judging from the scale of the war drums and smoke. The Yan army's reinforcements are at least hundreds of thousands, how can they resist such a large-scale Yan reinforcements, for this reason, the morale of the beggar army has declined, and it is in an even more disadvantageous situation.
Ran Min, who was chasing and killing Shi Kun's army, naturally heard the huge war drums behind the Yan army, and also saw the huge smoke and dust raised from the horizon, and he had already known the news that the 200,000 elites of the Yan army had left Dragon City and headed south. At this time. The first impression in his mind was that all the main forces of the Yan army had been killed.
"Your Majesty, there are war drums on the left flank, it must be reinforcements from the Yan Kingdom. It looks like there are at least a hundred thousand horses. I'm afraid our army won't be able to resist it! A general said anxiously.
"Your Majesty. Reinforcements from the Yan army suddenly appeared from the left flank, this is to cut off the retreat of our army! It's better to return to Yecheng as soon as possible. "Another subordinate will build yƬ road.
At this time, Ran Min seemed to understand something. The Yan-Zhao coalition army confronted him for several days, but now, he suddenly attacked, and it turned out that the main reinforcements of the Yan army had arrived.
Li Nong of Yecheng let Ran Min stab in the back, and the more than 100,000 reinforcements of the Yan army made Ran Min deeply afraid, although, attacking from the front, he was not afraid of any enemy, but at this moment, the Yan and Zhao coalition forces were killing from all directions, Ran Min had no distraction, except for retreating, there seemed to be no better way.
However, once the army retreated, the consequence was that it was pursued and killed by the Yan and Zhao coalition forces, resulting in heavy losses, and whether to retreat or not, Ran Min was in a dilemma.
At this moment, the nearly 30,000 elites led by Murong Ba heard the sound of offensive war drums behind them, and their morale was immediately boosted, as if there were really more than 100,000 reinforcements behind them.
In fact, behind the Yan army, there were no reinforcements, only hundreds of war drums and hundreds of cavalry who made smoke and dust, and these cavalry tied branches behind the horse's tail in order to create the momentum of more than 100,000 troops, so that the galloping war horses dragged the branches, thus raising huge smoke and dust.
The encouraged Yan army's combat strength increased greatly, and its main general, Murong Ba, was extremely brave, so the beggar army fighting against it soon became somewhat unable to support it and began to lose.
"Your Majesty, the left flank of our army has been loosened, and our main force may be surrounded and annihilated, so we must withdraw immediately." The general looked at Ran Min and said hurriedly.
Sure enough, it didn't take long for the beggar army on the left flank to begin to disperse, and led the entire army to follow suit.
Seeing that the left flank could no longer support it, Ran Min sighed, raised the double-edged spear in his hand, and shouted: "The soldiers retreat and retreat to Yecheng." After speaking, he rode his horse and retreated in the direction of Yecheng.
At this moment, he could have led the army to personally kill in the direction of the left flank, but he was more worried about the situation in the direction of Yecheng, Li Nong's rebellion was very suspicious, and he had to keep Yecheng, so he had to retreat in the direction of Yecheng regardless of the losses.
As soon as Ran Min led the beggar army to retreat, the Yan and Zhao coalition forces were immediately demoralized, and began to hunt down the beggar army in an all-round way.
There were not many cavalry in the beggar army, most of them were mainly infantry, and under the pursuit of the Yan-Zhao coalition army, they suffered heavy losses, and after breaking out of the encirclement, they scattered and ran to the surrounding bushes to take refuge.
The cavalry was the least adept at fighting in the jungle, so when they pursued to the woods, the cavalry of the Yan-Zhao coalition stopped the pursuit.
Although it failed to completely annihilate the beggar army, this battle was already a huge victory for the Yanzhao coalition army, and the result of this battle was extremely brilliant compared to the previous situation of losing every battle.
After breaking out of the encirclement, Ran Min gathered the most elite beggar guards under his command, and found that there were only 8,000 men and horses left, and the losses were still quite a lot, as for the rest of the troops, the losses were naturally greater, and some legions even killed more than half.
In Li Nong's mansion in Yecheng, Li Nong was reading a book in the study, when suddenly a personal soldier walked in.
"What's the matter?" Li Nong asked softly.
"General, now, on the streets of Yecheng, there is a rumor about the general." The pro-soldier said truthfully.
"Rumors, or about Benjiang, what kind of rumors, let's talk about it." Li Nong hurriedly asked.
The pro-soldier replied truthfully: "General, the people on the street are talking in private, saying that the general wants to rebel and take refuge in Zhao in order to have a future. ā
"Hmph, it's just nonsense, it's all rumors about who is making up the general." Li Nong said angrily.
"The villain doesn't know, anyway, the whole street has spread." The pro-soldier said.
When Li Nong heard this, he fell into deep thought, and rumors against him appeared for no reason, this matter is definitely not simple, there must be someone behind the scenes.
"General, rebellion is not a trivial matter, what can I do about this?" The soldier said anxiously.
Li Nong sighed, looked at the table in front of him, and suddenly exclaimed, "What about the letter? What about the letters that would have been on the table? Why is it gone? After speaking, a cold sweat broke out on his cheeks.
"General, what letter? Is it important? The soldier asked in surprise.
"It's the handwritten letter written by Zhang Ju, the general of Zhao Guoda, to the general, the general is on the table, but now, it's gone, has anyone been in the study?" Li Nong said.
The soldier immediately replied: "There are people in the study day and night, and no one comes in at all, how can there be a small number of letters out of thin air?" ā
Li Nong looked back at the window at the back of his study, and suddenly understood something, he was almost certain that someone had infiltrated his study through the window and taken the letter from the table.
And to be able to sneak into the study and take the letter calmly without alarming the guards in the mansion, this thief must not be an ordinary person, he should be a well-trained person, what Li Nong is most worried about is the person who stole the letter, he is a warrior under Ran Min's command, in case, let Ran Min know that Zhang Ju's letter is in his room, and no one will believe it if he wants to explain.
"General, General Su and General Dong led 5,000 soldiers and horses to replace all the guards in the city and the palace, I don't know what it means." At this moment, another pro-soldier walked into the study and reported.
Li Nong was shocked when he heard this, the two generals of Su Dong were both henchmen and generals under Ran Min, and there must be a reason why these two replaced their subordinates for no reason, at least, they should have heard the rumors on the street.
"General, what can I do about this?" The pro-soldiers were a little anxious.
Li Nong suddenly fell into contemplation, judging from the behavior of the two generals Su Dong, they were obviously authorized by Ran Min, and their study was patronized by masters for no reason, and most of them were Ran Min's subordinates, which means that Ran Min has never trusted himself, and this time, his subordinates have searched Zhang Ju's letter again, and their suspicion of themselves is even greater.
In this way, staying in the mansion and waiting for death is not a way, you must find a way to save your life, Li Nong knows that if he doesn't do anything, he will definitely die with Ran Min's means.
"You two, immediately go and contact Shang Shu Ling Wang Mo, the servant Wang Yan, and the middle servant Yan Zhen, and I will discuss with them again." Li Nong gave the order to the two pro-soldiers.
"Yes, General." Hearing the order, the two pro-soldiers hurriedly turned around and left.
The reason why Li Nong wanted to contact several ministers of the DPRK and China was to discuss with them how to overcome the current predicament, and these ministers had a very good relationship with Li Nong, and for this reason, Li Nong was willing to seek their advice when he encountered difficulties.
It didn't take long for Wang Mo and the others to enter Li Nong's mansion, and they didn't know that at this time, on the periphery of Li Nong's mansion, there were already many surveillance eyes, and their behavior of entering Li Nong's mansion was naturally monitored.
In Li Nong's study, Wang Mo and the others had a brief greeting with Li Nong, and then, Wang Mo saw Li Nong's worried face and hurriedly asked what was the matter.
Li Nong then wrote a letter to Zhang Ju to persuade him to surrender, put it in his study, and was stolen by someone, so that the streets of Yecheng were full of rumors that he was going to rebel, and he carefully recounted it.
Wang Mo and the others naturally heard the rumors on the streets, and learned that the two generals Su Dong led the army to control the city gate and the palace.
Seeing that Li Nong had no intention of rebelling, Wang Mo and the others persuaded Li Nong to explain to Ran Min after Ran Min returned to the city, and the three of them were willing to come forward to help Li Nong explain.
With three important ministers of the court helping him to exonerate, Li Nong calmed down a lot and decided to stay in the mansion and wait to explain to Ran Min.
"General, my lords, what's wrong?" At this moment, a junior colonel hurriedly ran in and said in a panic.
When Ran Min and his subordinates were resting in the woods, the news of the defeat of the Wei army reached Yecheng, and even, there were rumors that Ran Min had died in battle, which really caused (to be continued......