Chapter Seventy-Two: Breaking the Enemy
Han Chang was defeated under the city of Chang'an, and then frustrated in Pingyang, by Yao Duan and Zhang Xian together, the defeat of the armor and the collapse of the army, Chang'an City can also explain that it is unprepared, to the bloody battle of Pingyang, the number of the Song army is equivalent to the Jin soldiers, but the two sides fight you come and go with each other, Han Chang's subordinates are almost damaged after the bloody battle, after this battle, the original arrogance has long been lost without a trace, seeing the opposite Song cavalry control freely, the armor is bright, Han Chang has long been desperate in his heart, the Song army in front of him is obviously the elite of the town guarding Tongguan, The small number of cavalry in Yao Duan and Pingyang was not of the same grade at all, the first few waves of cavalry rushed over, and the thousands of foot soldiers under his command could not resist for a long time, and the elite cavalry around him could not reverse the defeat, but they just desperately protected Han Chang and did not let the Song cavalry get close.
Seeing that the situation was becoming more and more urgent, Han Chang's Chinese army was covered with blood, leaned over to Han Chang's side, and persuaded him: "Marshal, go into the city quickly and discuss with Marshal Wang, this city will definitely not be able to be defended." ”
Han Chang was exhausted at this time, the city was lost and fled in embarrassment, whether he could successfully escape was one thing, and it was also difficult to explain to Zong Bi if he escaped.
If the other party takes advantage of his own several defeats, he just takes his approach and gives Wan Yan Salibu and others a disgusting mouthful, and he has no soldiers in his hands, but he is afraid that it will really be fish on the knife board.
Han Chang was ignorant, his subordinate lieutenants had been with him for a long time, and when they saw that Han Chang was silent, he knew that the commander was in a mess, so he took the lead at the moment, and fled to the city gate with Han Chang.
When I got to the bottom of the city, I saw that the head of the city was tightly closed, and then I looked up at the head of the city, and the archers at the head of the city had already fled without a trace, and there were a few awake people who looked at it clearly, and shouted to Han Chang and the others:
Wang Bolong saw that the situation was not right, as soon as the marshal left the city, he closed the south gate and sneaked away from the east gate.
Han Chang's personal soldiers were furious when they heard this, and immediately pulled out their knives and slashed at the iron-clad city gate. The sparks were flying everywhere, but there was no way.
"Don't cut it." Han Chang looked sluggish, stretched out his hand to stop the angry personal guards, shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Forget it, don't worry about him." It is also human nature to survive in times of danger. ”
His military face was crooked, and while looking at the commander's expression, all he could hear was the sound of the Song army's slashing approaching. Although he was not afraid, he only felt a burst of nervousness, seeing Han Chang's expression, and even confused enough to relieve Wang Bolong, he said angrily: "Dashuai, that Wang Bolong is obviously pointing at us to drag the Song people, and he escaped in chaos, such a turtle grandson bastard, you still help him talk and do something." ”
This is very rude, but it is only in times of war. I can't take care of a lot.
Han Chang didn't care either. After being drunk by the lieutenant officer, his sluggish expression was much better, but his face was still gloomy. sneered: "If he wants to escape, he will run away?" Fool, everyone is full of cavalry, twice as many as us, can you defend it, just go? As soon as he left the city, there must be cavalry chasing and killing, how many people could he take in a hurry, the enemy cavalry was very elite, and he ran away? Look, it won't be long. Wang Bolong was either captured or brought back with his head. ”
Several of his cronies and generals and Chinese officers smiled bitterly together: "I don't know if he dies or not, if we don't think of a way, we will definitely die in front of Wang Bolong." ”
"What can you do?" Han Chang said solemnly: "You didn't hear what I said? You can't escape, you want to surrender? ”
His tone was gloomy, he pressed the knife in his left hand, and he was only about to wait for someone to say the word "down", and then he would slash it with a knife.
Fortunately, everyone knows that he is a person, but they really have no intention of descending. All said calmly: "What is the plan of the handsome, we will naturally follow to the end." Youyan is a good man, and he will not run away from the master. ”
"Good!"
Han Chang praised it, and finally showed a smile on his face, seeing that the Song army was getting closer and closer, he reached out and carried his usual iron spear, and ordered to the last cronies and cavalrymen around him: "Follow me, a good man will never bend his knees to survive!" ”
The generals and guards around him are all slaves of the Han family or rangers recruited on the rivers and lakes, not only do they serve under the Han family's marshal, but most of their family members rely on the blessing of the Han family.
More than 200 cavalry bypassed the panicked fleeing foot soldiers, like a sharp arrow, light and elegant, straight into the thick and heavy Song army array, and began to disrupt the front row of Song cavalry formation, Han Chang used an iron spear like the wind, left and right stabs, killed a lot of Song cavalry, but the enemy of the good man is not many people, at this time it has long been not popular for generals to fight alone, dozens of Song cavalry surrounded into an oval formation, Han Chang and a few personal soldiers surrounded in it, dozens of iron spears and spears kept stabbing, although Han Chang's martial arts are outstanding, However, the guards around him were constantly stabbed and thrown off the horse, and he himself gradually suffered a gunshot wound, and his reaction became slower and slower.
"Medium!"
Niu Gao, whose face was covered with blood, saw Han Chang's negligence, and suddenly took out his spear and stabbed Han Chang in the ribs.
With his position, he shouldn't have been here, but he saw that Han Chang's courage was not like ordinary people, he had always boasted of his bravery with force, and when he saw that the old earth was not convinced, he immediately brought only dozens of personal soldiers to the front of the battle, surrounded Han Chang and killed, and after losing a lot of personal guards, he finally saw this vacancy, how could he let it go lightly.
As he shouted loudly, the spear was like a swimming dragon, and it pierced Han Chang's ribs, half of the spear body went straight into Han Chang's body, blood splashed wildly, Han Chang only glanced at Niu Gao, and then he fell to the ground.
With his death in battle, the remnants of the thousands of gold soldiers have surrendered, and the soldiers of the Han family have also died in battle with the main general, and no one has surrendered.
"Your Majesty, a great victory!"
After strictly guarding the enemy and sending cavalry into the city to clear the remnants of the enemy, Wu Luan was full of joy and arrived in front of Zhao Huan.
Yu Yunwen and a small number of Wenchen who followed Zhao Huan also rushed over, standing behind Zhao Huan, dozens of military generals with slightly lower ranks, because it was rare enough to talk to the emperor, at this time seeing Zhao Huan with a smile on his face, he desperately praised the emperor's heroic martial arts, and defeated the enemy in a battle and beheaded countless people.
Zhao Huan listened for a while, then waved his hand again and again: "That's it, the more you talk, the more you can't speak."
More than 20,000 cavalry fought 10,000 remnants of the enemy, and the enemy could not resist the fortified city and defended it. Although it was a sycophant to reject the generals, Zhao Huan was still smiling. This battle was indeed unexpected, and it was fought neatly, and the enemy had already been annihilated without any means.
In the midst of the chaos, I saw a red-faced man with a bloody face rushing straight over, everyone was strange, but they heard the man shouting: "Your Majesty, the minister Niu Gao beheaded the enemy and Han Chang in front of the battle!" ”
"Okay, come here!"
Zhao Huan was overjoyed, it was not surprising to defeat this enemy army, that Han Chang was arrogant and brave, much more brave and ruthless than ordinary Jin generals, and beheaded his people in front of the battle, whether it was a blow to the strength of the Jin army, or to improve the morale of his own side, it had a role that was incomparable with ordinary people.
"Yes!" Niu Gao agreed, jumped off the horse when he got close, knelt on one knee, raised Han Changren's head with both hands, and said to Zhao Huan: "Please Your Majesty has inspected the head." ”
Han Chang's head was already blurred with flesh and blood, and he was already dead when he was beheaded, and the whole person was lying on the ground, with a lot of grass clippings and dirt on his face, but one eye was not closed, as if he was still alive, and looked at Zhao Huan coldly.
"That's it, take it down, and bury it together, although this person serves the barbarians, he is also loyal and brave, so there is no need to embarrass him."
Looking at the flesh and blood of the head, although Zhao Huan couldn't say that he couldn't bear it, he upheld the modern habit of respecting the war dead, and didn't plan to do anything to hang his head in public, so he ordered a burial.
Watching Niu Gao hand over the head to others for placement, Zhao Huan suddenly asked, "Han Chang is here, what about that Wang Bolong?" ”
Wu Lan stepped forward and replied: "Wang Bolong is very cunning, Han Chang came out to fight, he escaped through the side door, there are few of us over there, and he was caught off guard and let him slip away." ”
Seeing Zhao Huan's expression of regret, Wu Lan smiled and said: "Your Majesty don't worry, when the minister saw that this person escaped with his troops, he had already ordered Liu Weifu to chase after him, the number of them who fled in a hurry was too small, Liu Weifu brought more than 2,000 people, Wang Bolong will definitely not be able to escape." ”
"That's it." Zhao Huan had gradually calmed down from the joy, a faint uneasiness shrouded in his heart, he shook his head, only felt that he was a little suspicious for the first time to go out to fight like this.
Seeing that the emperor's face calmed down, Wu Lan and the others naturally didn't dare to talk more, just waiting for the city to be cleaned up, seeing that it was noon, everyone just ate some dry food when they rested last night, and they ran around for a day and fought a bloody battle, they were already hungry and ruthless, and when the soldiers were tied up and detained, there was no movement in the city, Zhao Huan smiled and said: "Hard generals, let's go into the city to rest." ”
Everyone agreed violently, and Zhao Huan said to Guan Shigu again: "General Guan, your subordinates didn't fight directly this morning, find an old general, take some cavalry to the sentry, and also answer General Liu." ”
"Yes, the minister obeys."
Guan Shi Gu awe-inspiring obeyed the order, did not enter the city first, but found his deputy governor Guo Hao, and ordered him to personally lead the troops and go to the outpost to investigate the enemy's situation.
This person's ability is ordinary, and his character and virtue are also ordinary, but he is older in the Western Army, so he still becomes the commander of the First Army. He also knew that the emperor didn't value him very much, so he was able to follow him this time, and he was even more careful to wait, and he didn't dare to slack off a little when he obeyed orders, so Zhao Huan had a great change in his opinion of him.
A group of people walked in a hurry, entered the city, because the war did not burn into the city, Yuzhou is from Luoyang to Tongguan in the middle of the pass, the city has a large population, the streets are very lively, the people in the city already knew that the Song army was attacking the city, first hid at home and did not dare to move, and at this time the Song army was victorious, and some people knew that it was the emperor himself, so he helped the old and the young to come to the side of the road, just want to see the emperor's demeanor.
The streets were crowded, and the guards around Zhao Huan, who was in a hurry, were sweating profusely, and hurriedly transferred Niu Gao's headquarters to desperately drive the people aside, and then squeezed out of the crowd and went to the yamen of the prefect in the city.
Zhao Huan just sat down on his front feet, and without waiting for others, he ordered the guards beside him: "Call Yu Yunwen over." ”