Chapter Fifty-Seven: If you cuddle the grass, you will hit the rabbit
As we said, Wang Lao Wu smelled the smell of danger hidden in the dusty air. As a soldier, he shouldn't worry about this, he just needs to walk forward in a muffled voice. But people who smell danger will always be more vigilant, so when a huge explosion sounded in front, Wang Lao Wu was the first in his row to react. Fortunately, Wang Lao Wu was on the side, so no one blocked his way, Wang Lao Wu jumped into the ditch on the side of the road, in fact, he rolled in, or his legs were limp and paralyzed. No matter what, Wang Lao Wu made the right choice at the right time. After he entered, let's let's say enter, after entering the ditch, for a while, Wang Lao Wu felt that there was no sound around him, it was called a dead silence, he even doubted how old he was, and then, he heard a subtle sound almost like a mosquito ant in his ears, he just raised his head slightly, and wanted to turn over, when he saw a huge black shadow passing over his head.
It was a horse.
Then more horses swept over him, and threw the horsemen on horseback into the ditch, the edge of the ditch. Wang Lao Wu saw that there was a guy who was usually the most swaggering and mighty was thrown in the air by a horse and turned over, and then impartially hit the branch of a dead tree on the edge of the ditch, and was picked there, his mouth opened wide, and he swayed leisurely. This is not the worst, the worst thing is that there is another cavalry, which impartially pressed on him.
When Wang Lao Wu gradually heard the sound in his ears, he didn't plan to get up, Wang Lao Wu was honest, it didn't mean that Wang Lao Wu didn't have the cunning of self-protection, all that came from his ears was a continuous scream, Wang Lao Wu's heart was full of fear, and this fear was expanding more and more, gradually controlling his limbs, one after another black shadows fell into the ditch, Wang Lao Wu squinted his eyes, and could see that these were his accomplices. Wang Lao Wu was even very happy to see the captain who threatened himself and his brothers not to run away, and was picked up by a general who was dressed in a different color than his own clothes and cut off his head, and then kicked into the ditch by the general, lying down on his side, Wang Lao Wu squinted his eyes and saw that blood was bubbling out of his neck, and he could even feel the hot air and small blood beads coming to his face, Wang Lao Wu's abdomen suddenly churned, and he felt a fermenting smell pressing his throat. Wang Lao Wuqiang endured and turned his head away, and spit out the half-digested filth on the face of the accomplice who had just fallen on the other side.
The Ziqing Army, which followed closely behind the cavalry on the official road, had lost its combat effectiveness at all, and the men and horses in the rear team were better, and the impact of the explosion was relatively small, and they could organize limited resistance, while most of the soldiers in the front team were weak in their legs and confused, and as soon as they came back to their senses, the irascible horses of the front army turned around and rushed over, and when they couldn't dodge, they saw the hooves of the bowl-sized horses, and those who were far away threw away their weapons and rolled on both sides of the road, but they didn't expect that the horses would also follow the people, and they cried bitterly one by one, crying for their fathers and mothers.
The cavalry on the horse couldn't control the horse at all, and the fast reaction hugged the horse's neck and didn't let go, and the slower one had been thrown to the ground by the horse. Thousands of horses were startled by the sound of explosions, which was a terrible thing, and the frightened and agitated herds first crowded in place, jumping up and down, and then followed by a few horses that had escaped from the reins, spreading their hooves and running like crazy, backwards, left and right. When Li Zhongyi, who jumped up from two miles away, saw more than 100 horses rushing towards him, he was stunned, but fortunately, the soldiers of the Guards were very familiar with it, and took out their bows and crossbows to shoot over the leaders of the horses, so that the hearts of the officers and soldiers were calm. Then, a small colonel of the Guards took out a horse that had been prepared with blocked ears, and stabbed the horse in the buttocks with a spur, and the painful horse swooped away, and ran north with the herd of horses that had lost the ability to discern.
Li Zhongyi, who had a false alarm, felt that he had lost face, and the Huaixi Army, who was holding back his breath, also felt that he had lost face in front of the Guards, so Li Zhongyi shouted loudly, and he covered his troops and rushed towards the Ziqing Army, which was scattered and scattered. He only had 2,000 men, but he regarded the Ziqing army in front of him as nothing. By the time Dou Yi and the others arrived, the battlefield had been pressed back to Nanpi, where Hou Weiqing was waiting for the defeated army of Ziqing. There were still hundreds of cavalry in the rear of the Ziqing army, and the crazy horses rushed out of a gap before Hou Weiqing's 5,000 infantry army surrounded them, and ran out with a sparse lala of one or two thousand defeated soldiers.
The battle was soon over, thanks to the merits of Ding Shiliang and his scout battalion, and the battlefield was set up with a large river in front and a large pond in the back, so skillfully that all the frightened horses did not run away, or fell into the river, or were captured by the waiting officers and soldiers. Most of the captured horses, like the captives, were terrified, neighing at the slightest disturbance, stumbling and plowing, ignoring the slag of ice, and some ran again until they were exhausted, foaming at the mouth, and slumping to the ground. Many soldiers who were cavalry not so long ago sighed:
"These horses are finished."
Ignoring the captives of the sermons.
Most of the 12,000 rebels were easily wiped out, more than 3,000 were beheaded, most of them were trampled to death by horses, and more than 6,000 were taken prisoner alive. This battle, in addition to being inferior to Wang Zhixing's first victory, the results are far exceeded.
After the identification of the captives, Wang Xing's body was finally found on a road where the corpses of men and horses were mottled with flesh and blood, with one hand open in front of him, and there was no good skin on his body, mixed with the soil, and the generals of the 52nd Army, who were full of evil and had excellent psychological qualities, all shuddered. Li Zhongyi muttered:
"Fortunately, the imperial court didn't have this thing last year, otherwise we wouldn't all ??????"
The rest of the words were not spoken, and everyone knew it. But the lieutenant of the baggage battalion said:
"This thing was used on the border to Tibet a few years ago. Last year, it was just that the emperor didn't want to use it for Huaixi. ”
When these words came into their ears, the generals were mixed. After the soldiers and horses of Fengxian County, who came after staying, mobilized the people to clean up the battlefield, the armies marched to Yutai in turn to support Li You.
When I arrived at Deyutai, I saw that the wilderness was full of the corpses of the Ziqing Army, and the military flag of the 52nd Army on the head of the city had been erected. Li You rode out of the open city gate with a smile on his face and said:
"The little brother is not talented, and he has already succeeded."
When the brigade of soldiers and horses drove out of Yutai, Yutai became a suspected empty city, the defenders at the head of the city were shouting in panic, Li You's men and horses killed in front of the door, after crashing open the city gate, Li You took his own elite of a hundred battles, and did not even encounter decent resistance, so he easily opened Yutai City. Li You, who was a little unpleasant in victory, sent two more partial generals, each with 500 people to ambush in the south of the city, and the Ziqing flag was still planted in the city, and sure enough, the defeated soldiers who fled back from the south went straight to the city gate, and the shouting of the door full of terror and affection was not over, and the officers and soldiers in ambush had already been killed, leaving hundreds of corpses.
Picking grass and not hitting rabbits is really not the style of the 52nd Army from Huaixi. Therefore, Hou Weiqing, Li You, the 52nd Army and the subordinate generals made a decision after a short discussion.
Hou Weiqing said:
"Let's pull out the boundary fence!"
Originally, the boundary fence was kept to leave a thought for Jinxiang Wang Ji, but now that the fish platform has been knocked down, there is really no need for the boundary fence to exist. Besides, although he earned countless grains and grasses in Yutai, the four or five thousand soldiers and horses and grain and grass in the boundary gate still made the former Huaixi generals who were afraid of poverty greedy. This time, the 52nd Army decided not to let other armies, especially the baggage battalions, help, and the brethren played on their own.
Early the next morning, smoke was still rising from the boundary fence, and those who were just sitting around for breakfast turned into chatting and laughing officers and soldiers. The 52nd Army played a favorite night attack in the Huaixi era, which gave more than 4,000 people of the Jiezha defenders a midnight terror. Many of the soldiers of the Jiezha garrison only wore thin clothes and pants and got out of the bed in a panic, there were torches on all sides, and there were shouts of killing from far and near, but the poor soldiers could not find the officers, and the officers could not find the main general, and the officers who were easy to gather were scattered by the officers and soldiers, so they had to follow the movement of a large group of people like flies, and when it was dawn, the Ziqing soldiers who were covered with ice slag stopped to take a breath, went to the people's homes to have a meal, borrowed some clothes, they actually didn't want to pay for it, It's just that I was in a hurry last night and forgot to bring money, so I had to borrow it. The funny thing is that at night, I can't tell the direction, many of the boundary gate soldiers have run to the bottom of Yutai City, the funniest team of buddies, I don't know how to run so well, only to find out at dawn that they have arrived in Feng County. As in the case of Huaixi, in order to prevent the robbery of Ziqing, the villages near Yutai are very fierce and good at fighting, and the business comes to the door, where is there a reason not to answer, the villagers immediately caught these Ziqing soldiers who were frozen like radishes and went to the county seat to receive rewards.
After a day and a night, the 52nd Army successively won Yutai and Jiezha, and then the 52nd Army felt that it had achieved some achievements and sent people to find Li Yu to report his merits. Li Yu was actually not idle, and pulled out the few remaining barriers in Jinxiang along the way, knowing that Yutai would not rest for the time being. This boundary fence Li Yu was originally reserved for himself, but he was beaten by the 52nd Army. Li Yu, who got the battle report, was not angry, but just smiled:
"Don't he, Hou Weiqing and Li You, like to cuddle the grass and beat rabbits?"
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