Chapter 847: It's done
On June 21, 192 AD, the siege of the bird clan entered the eleventh day.
In the evening, the Liangzhou army still resisted as usual, but the troops and horses led by Gao Shun had already approached quickly from behind them.
Before capturing Lingjing last night, Gao Shun completely blocked the city, so no one could escape, and when Lingjing City just fell into a fierce battle, he saw that the enemy army had no power to reverse, so he led some soldiers and horses to set off first, so it is impossible for anyone to be faster than him.
Because of his special costumes, the Liangzhou generals who fought fiercely on the front line of the Bird Clan were rewarded by the sentry cavalry, and they all thought that they were reinforcements from the rear, after all, the fierce battles during this period of time were dizzy, and the reinforcements coming from the rear were wave after wave, and it was difficult to distinguish which one was the man. Despite the fact that the support force had a red strap-on on his head and arms, such details were not easy to notice.
Gao Shun was the first to pounce on Hu'erpo on the South Road, and the lord of Liangzhou guarding this place was Wei Ping, and Zhang Ren was plotted by him here, and he was seriously injured with seven arrows in his body.
This Wei Ping is one of the best generals in Liangzhou, and in history he was Cao Wei's Jincheng Taishou, who had fought with Sima Yi in Qishan Shu, and had some strategies and calculations.
"Reinforcements have arrived! Reinforcements have arrived! ”
The Liangzhou army screamed excitedly, and whenever reinforcements came up, they were always very excited.
Wei Ping also furrowed his brows, although he had already learned from the sentry that reinforcements had arrived, but when he really saw it, he still breathed a sigh of relief, after all, the pressure on the front line was too great, and this offensive and defensive battle, which lasted for eleven days, made everyone exhausted, and every time they were in danger of surviving it. Every time he had an impact on the state of Chu. There is no certainty of victory. Of course, it would be good to have more reinforcements.
After the defenses are deployed. Out of courtesy, Wei Ping personally rushed to the rear to greet him, which can be regarded as a respect for the reinforcement generals.
But as the reinforcements approached quickly, the smile on Wei Ping's face gradually receded, and he was slightly puzzled, until the distance in front of him was less than a hundred paces, and his expression suddenly changed, and he shouted hoarsely: "Meet the enemy!" Meet the enemy! ”
The surrounding Liangzhou sergeants were still in the excitement of the arrival of reinforcements. He didn't come at all, and looked at him stunned.
"Huh! The big thing is over! ”
In remorse, Wei Ping hurriedly turned around and ran back, shouting anxiously: "This is the army of the Chu State, the cavalry of Liangzhou does not have such a standard marching pace, this is the army of the Chu State, facing the enemy!" Meet the enemy! ”
The soldiers of Liangzhou finally came to their senses, and quickly organized the deployment in a panic, and the curses of the generals of various departments resounded in every corner.
Unfortunately, it was too late!
The main forces of the Liangzhou Army were concentrated in the frontal defense line. There is no preparation for this side at all, how can you organize a defense in an instant?
Gao Shun personally took his trap camp as the front. Rushing forward!
Half an hour, only half an hour!!
The Liangzhou army that was attacked from the front and back was defeated in an instant, the main general Wei Ping was killed for Gao Shun, and the deputy general Ju Guang was cut into meat by the soldiers of the Chu State who came up from the frontal impact, and the soldiers of the Chu State who had already killed the soldiers of the Chu State after the fierce battle for the eleven days were all red-eyed, with hatred in their hearts, how could they not be crazy!
In the irritable roar of the soldiers of the Chu State, the Liangzhou troops of the Bird Clan's defense line ushered in a nightmare!
With the help of this passage, the Chu army launched an attack from behind several other soldiers and horses in Liangzhou, and the defenders of Liangzhou were all facing several enemies, which was like a balance that had been stable for a long time suddenly tilted, how could it last for a long time? What's more, the heartstrings of the Liangzhou soldiers who had been tense for many days were broken because of this, and their hearts were exhausted!
A day after Hu Erpo changed hands, the generals of the Liangzhou departments were forced to retreat in panic and completely abandon the Bird defense line!
The army of Chu followed and pursued and launched a massacre.
There were no prisoners in this pursuit battle, even if it was victorious now, there was no need to continue to kill, but Wang Xu did not dare to order surrender and not kill, because the bloody battle of the eleventh day had brought hatred and spiritual impact to the soldiers, and they were now out of control of their emotions to a certain extent, and they needed to vent and vent their hatred before they could calm down.
If he now forcibly ordered the acceptance of prisoners, not to mention how many of the soldiers would carry it out, it might even cause an uproar and riot. In this pursuit and slaughter, the only thing he could do was to restrain the generals and prevent them from leading their troops to chase them to areas with dense populations.
Otherwise, the sergeants, who are already out of control, are likely to cause an unprecedented massacre, and the consequences will be unimaginable.
Fortunately, the soldiers of the Chu State were already exhausted from many days of fierce fighting, and after the frenzied slaughter, they were quickly exhausted. Wang Xu took advantage of this opportunity and then ordered the soldiers to camp and rest, only to let Gao Shun still lead his troops to follow up, prevent the Liangzhou army from reorganizing in a short time, and immediately let Zong Pre return to the county seat of the Bird Clan, requisition wine and meat to the front line to reward the three armies, and at the same time announced that he would reward the soldiers who fought bravely in the offensive and defensive battles of the Bird Clan.
In this way, the soldiers were temporarily quieted from their out-of-control emotions and transformed from killing machines to rational people.
At noon the next day, the officers and men of the Chu army who had had a good rest were much calmer, but many people's eyes were still bloodshot, and their emotions were still irritable and irritable, and many people even cried and laughed from time to time, holding their blades and refusing to let go. This is the sequelae of that bloody battle in purgatory, and Wang Xu can't change everyone's mental state for a while.
It's just that at this time, the soldiers will at least habitually obey orders, so he also ordered the whole army to set off and rush to Lingjing.
In the evening of the next day, the various departments arrived at the Anding County Government one after another.
Because of the unstable mood of the soldiers, Wang Xu was worried that if he entered the city and stationed, it would cause a large number of out-of-control incidents, and if the people of Liangzhou provoked them again, the consequences would be even more terrible. Therefore, he strictly ordered all the troops to camp outside the city, prohibiting soldiers from entering the city, and at the same time asked Lei Tong, who was stationed in Lingjing, to lead the headquarters to block this area, and did not allow the people of Liangzhou to enter and exit at will.
After two days of such suffering, after an adequate supply of meat and rest, from the third night onwards, suppressed cries finally began to be heard in the barracks.
At this time, Wang Xu really put his mind at ease!
Crying means that the emotions of the soldiers have returned to normal and returned to their true nature!
In the early morning, Wang Xu ordered Yan Liang and Chen Zhi to be the vanguard, and the troops went straight to Qi County in the southeast in two ways, and he personally led his troops to follow.
At the same time, Lei Tong led 10,000 people to clean up the small Liangzhou army in the surrounding counties and control the county seats.
Guo Jia and others sat in Lingjing, the capital of Anding County, and with the assistance of the spy shadow department, they were strictly armed, and Yan Yan and Zongpre of the Diannong General Department also stayed here temporarily.
On the first day of the seventh month, Wang Xu led his troops into Qi County without blood, watching Ma Teng's last troops and horses evacuate from afar, and sighed helplessly.
He had the opportunity to break the main force of Ma Teng in one fell swoop, but in the end he could only watch it withdraw, the main force led by Ma Teng, although the number of people is not very large, but it is really elite, the six strongest teams in Liangzhou, there are three here! If you can take advantage of this great opportunity to annihilate, it will be an absolutely heavy blow to Liangzhou, you must know that so far, Liangzhou has suffered such heavy losses, but only two core troops have been scattered.
One is Ma Chao's lancers, when Ma Chao withdrew from Longguan, that army was besieged and killed by the main force of Chu State, so most of them were destroyed, and Ma Chao was also seriously injured and has not recovered so far. But at that time, even if the army was completely at a disadvantage, it also made the Chu State pay a lot of price.
The second is the crossbow cavalry led by Pang De, whose combat power is also amazing, and it played an extremely important role in the confrontation with Zhang Liao earlier. But then due to the successive schemes, there was no more chance to gallop, and when Yang Fuce opposed Kong Xin, Jiang Yin and other generals, and cooperated with Zhang Liao to achieve a great victory in Longxi, this crossbow cavalry was finally killed in Di Dao.
Now the other four remaining core elites in Liangzhou, except for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry, which is still in the hands of Ma Yi, has not yet been used, and the remaining three are all on Ma Teng's side.
Ma Teng took these three troops and horses on an expedition to Chang'an, of course, he made up his mind, once he captured Chang'an, he would immediately cut off the back of the Chu army, and use these strongest soldiers and horses to give a fatal blow when the Chu State retreated, which was his killer weapon.
Now, Ma Teng's plan has come to naught, and these armies are all in danger, and Wang Xu certainly hopes to take advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to catch them all.
It's just that he still missed this opportunity after all.
As early as the day after the defeat of the bird clan, Ma Teng, who was far away in Chang'an, received a report from Kuaima.
At that time, the Liangzhou army had captured the suburbs of Chang'an and the outer city, and Deng Zhi, Deng Ai, Fa Zheng and others led the remnants to defend the palace city, exhausted all means, and the situation was already precarious.
Ma Teng saw that it wouldn't take long to take it, and he was in high spirits, but he suddenly received the bad news that stability was completely lost, and he instantly attacked his heart in anger, spurted blood from his mouth, and fainted on the spot!
He has been crisscrossing Liangzhou for half his life, how can he not know what a critical situation this is, stability has been lost, then it is meaningless to take Chang'an, when Wang Xu calmly led the army to kill, he was trapped in the territory of Chu State There is no way to go to the sky, no way to go to the ground, only a dead end.
After waking up from the coma, Ma Teng knew that the general trend had gone, and without any hesitation, he immediately ordered the army to retreat in three parts, and at the same time urgently ordered Ma Tie and Ma Xiu to lead the elite troops to Qi County, and strictly ordered them to block the Chu army north of Qi County and keep the passage for the army to retreat to the north.
Ma Tie and Ma Xiu led the troops, which were the famous heavy cavalry and sword cavalry.
Because the offensive and defensive battles of the Bird Clan were too tragic, the soldiers of the Chu State were mentally stimulated and physically exhausted after their victory, so they were forced to delay for three or four days in Stability, and it was during this period of time that they failed to cut off Ma Teng's back road in time and occupy a zone conducive to interception.
When Yan Liang and Chen Zhi led two lines of soldiers and horses to the north of Qi County, Ma Tie and Ma Xiu were already there to set up defenses, and even Ma Teng had successfully withdrawn the two troops and horses. In desperation, Yan Liang led 3,000 men to carry out a tentative attack, but was defeated and returned.
After Chen Zhi returned to the camp in response to Yan Liang's defeated army, he realized from the extraordinary combat strength of the Liangzhou army that the Chu army had failed to contain the danger first, had no absolute superiority in troops, and had no strategic planning, so it was impossible to match these two cavalry in the field, so he had to postpone the attack and report to Wang Xu in the rear.
But in the face of such a situation, what can Wang Xu do, if he can't beat it, he can't beat it, and it will take time to outwit it, and now there is no time, and Ma Teng will not delay for too long.
Two days later, on the first day of the seventh month, the Chu army still could not find a way to defeat the two cavalry, and could only watch them slowly retreat to the north...... (To be continued......)