Chapter 421: Induction
The smoke caused by the firearms gradually dissipated, Cao Han carefully observed the situation in front of him, the corpses of the forbidden army that fell fifty to two hundred steps away in front of the Xia army's formation were much less than before, and the Song army rushed to the Xia army's camp without even filling the trench, the loss of hand-to-hand combat should not be much different, judging from the previous mastery and the situation of the past few days, the Xia army on the opposite side had fewer people than his own side, and the geographical advantage was weakened, and if it was consumed, victory was inevitable.
"That's right," Cao Han's face showed a rare smile of relief, and he turned back to his subordinates and said, "How many firearms are still in the Luoyang arsenal, all of them will be transported to the front for use, and in addition, urge Luoyang craftsmen to make more fireworks." ”
On the position of the Xia army, the sergeants were seizing the time to rest, and Wu Yingying inspected the front line with a smile on his face, but his mood was a little heavy. The sudden attack of the Song army just now caused the crossbowmen who were caught off guard in front of them to almost lose eighty percent, and after that, although the sword and shield hands and the Mo knife hand counterattacked the Song army, it was no longer the situation at the beginning when only a small number of casualties could make the Song people bleed a lot.
"The Song army on the other side is several times more than us," Zhang Zhongyao said with a stern face, "There are still some Xiang troops and the Toucheng Forbidden Army in Guanzhong, do you want to train them and send them to fight." ”
"The newly attached pawn has not yet returned to me, and it is easy to cause chaos, so it is still necessary to be cautious," Wu Yingying said, "The Shu army has captured the Sword Gate, and some troops can be dispatched over the Dasan Pass." As a last resort, the strong men requisitioned from Guanzhong would rather fight with the Song army. ”
Under the city of Chengdu in Shuzhong, the banners of "Reviving Great Shu", "Waiting for the Noble and Cheap", and "Rich and Poor" were fluttering everywhere, Wang An frowned, watching the righteous army rush up in waves, and was killed back by the imperial forbidden army in waves.
The rebel army almost swept through the whole of Shu, opened a lot of state and county arsenals, and now most of the soldiers besieging the city are also equipped with weapons such as knives, guns, bows and arrows, and a few elites still have armor to protect themselves, but the combat power is still much inferior to the imperial forbidden army. Wang Xiaobo personally led 200,000 righteous troops to besiege the prefectures and counties near Chengdu, and captured Shuzhou, Meizhou, Hanzhou, and Zizhou, but this Chengdu Mansion fought for a long time and failed to conquer it.
And Cai Shun led the Jinfan Battalion as the backbone of the other team has been in Jianzhou, Mianzhou, Langzhou, and many heroes who have heard the wind have gathered around Cai Shun. After Xiao Jiu led the Lian Rui army to seize the Dasan Pass, the more than 10,000 forbidden troops stationed in northern Sichuan Prefecture were defeated by Cai Shun because the back road and grain road were cut off, and the army was finally defeated by Cai Shun.
On the upper floor of Chengdu Fucheng, Xichuan Zhao'an made Yin Yuan look at the Shuzhong Righteous Army below who were tirelessly attacking the city like ants.
Pei Zhuang, who knew the soldiers and horses, had a complicated look in his eyes, since the news of Zhao Dezhao's seizure of the throne came to Shu, Wang Jien, the eunuch of the array, had been put under house arrest by these two, and according to Yin Yuan's intentions, he would first defeat the rebellious people in Shu. Pei Zhuang is a native of Shu, and this time he entered Shu to quell the turmoil, but the court changed officials again.
"Although the number of chaotic people is large, there is nothing to fear, not only the formation is scattered, but also the Chinese army is not densely covered, and nothing has been gained from the attack for more than ten days, and the blood and qi at the beginning are almost consumed," Yin Yuan's tone was cold, "The thief soldiers can be broken, please Lord Pei lead the army to battle and take the head of the thief chieftain." He looked at Pei Zhuang rather playfully, and pointed to a group of brightly armored groups not far from the city wall, which was obviously the place where the leaders of the rebel generals gathered.
"Obey!" Pei Zhuang said in a deep voice.
Chengdu Mansion suddenly opened the city gate, and Wang An, who was watching the battle not far away, had no time to call the leader to lead the army to grab the door, only to see more than 2,000 ironclad cavalry, thundering out of the city.
The rebels who had just been shot back by the crossbow arrows at the head of the city were all ordinary people who were still farming in the countryside a few months ago, and it was very rare to see the cavalry group charging in the battle in Shuzhong, how to eat so frightened, and they all cried and shouted for their mothers to run away.
Yin Yuan watched from the city tower, only to see that the rebellious people were rushed by the cavalry, and most of them fled immediately. Only tens of thousands of people actually surrounded the Chinese army, withstanding the impact of the iron cavalry, these rebels did not know how to deal with the cavalry, and what they relied on was nothing more than desperate fighting.
"Don't retreat, don't retreat!" Wang An shouted loudly, seeing that the enemy cavalry was coming straight towards his handsome banner, not only did not retreat, but drew out the horizontal knife at his waist, urging the left and right generals to intercept the rout army that was scattered and fleeing, and the leaders rushed towards the enemy cavalry in the lead, and from time to time there were hundreds of people in a group of routs who were inspired by these backbone leaders, turned over and rushed towards the Song people's iron cavalry. They were hit by the iron horsemen, the heavy hooves of the horses trampled the wounded and fallen to the ground into flesh, they were raised high by the big guns, the heads were cut off by the horizontal knives that probed down, blood was splashed everywhere, and there were stumps and broken arms and moaning and aching remnants everywhere, but the ones behind kept moving forward, "Rejuvenate Dashu!" and "Expelle outsiders!" In the ragged Shu army, some of them almost did not know how to use blades, and only used their flesh and blood to block in front of the war horses, and more completely abandoned their own protection, and poured into the Song cavalry in front like a tide, even if they gave up their lives, as long as they cut a knife on the enemy and stabbed a shot.
"Mantis arm blocking the car!" Yin Yuan's face was cold, more than 30,000 main forces of the forbidden army, holding shields and iron swords, heavy infantry with armor all over the body in front, archers with strong crossbows in the back, and more than 3,000 iron cavalry guards on the side, lined up out of the city gate, and came to the main force of the Shu army that was fighting with the cavalry, the crossbowmen began to take turns to release arrows, only to see that under the fire of ten thousand crossbows, the Shu army gathered into a group fell and died one by one, and finally, finally collapsed under this one-sided slaughter-like battle.
"Run. "I can't beat it. "Stay in the green mountains, don't worry about running out of firewood!" "The leader who retreated at the beginning still found some reasons for himself, but later it was like a landslide and a dam collapsed, and the battlefield was full of fleeing Shu troops, and the only way to insist on resistance was hundreds of personal soldiers who gathered around Wang An.
"Don't retreat!" Wang An waved his horizontal knife, "The Song people have few soldiers!" But soon only the Song army was left in front of him, surging murderously towards his side, "Revive Dashu!" "Rich and poor!" Countless arrows rained down towards the battlefield and the last resistance of the Shu army overwhelmingly, Wang An was full of arrows, the body was still holding the banner, hundreds of guards around him, including more than 100 Jincheng battalion soldiers who came back from the river, resisted until the last moment, all killed.
The battle of Chengdu entered Shu to quell the chaos of the Song army killed the leader of the people's mutiny, Wang Qibo, shook the whole Sichuan, Qibo Wang An was killed, the main force of the Shu army was scattered, although Cai Shun had more than 100,000 volunteers in Shuzhong, except for the backbone of a few Jincheng, they were not familiar with the battle formation, and it was difficult to be tens of thousands of elites of the Song army, so they retreated to Langzhong. Xichuan pacified Yin Yuan and wanted to recapture Dasanguan, so he had to clear the threat from the flank and rear first, so he led his troops to the north and confronted the Shu army led by Cai Shun in Langzhou. Langzhong is named after the surrounding mountains resemble a high gate, the city is in it, the Langshui is meandering, and the city is surrounded by three sides. During the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Fei stationed troops here, and broke Zhang He in Wakou, and later generations of Wu Jue and Wu Ling brothers took this as a base and resisted the Jin soldiers alone for decades, all by virtue of the natural danger in Langzhong.
The news of the victory of the Song army in Shuzhong could not reach Bianliang because of the cut off of transportation.
In the Chongzheng Palace, Wang Yu, the governor of the political affairs, was fighting with the officials for the matter of adding troops to seize Shaanxi.