Chapter 64: Embarrassment
"Damn, Ding Deyu, a rabbit cub, only brags on weekdays, and when he started a fight, he actually ran away first. Seeing that the left and right wings had completely collapsed, the commander of the Zhenguo Army made Wang Ge reach out and pull the reins of Qian Jiao's horse, and said loudly: "Protect Qian Wang and retreat first, everyone will form a formation to stop the Tang Army!" After speaking, regardless of whether Qian Jiao agreed or not, he slashed at Qian Jiao's horse buttocks with the back of the knife, and the horse neighed in pain, spread its four hooves and ran south with Qian Jiao, and more than a dozen guards and horsemen who followed Qian Jiao also followed. The guard in charge of the Wang Qi was hesitating to follow Qian Jiao to escape, but his face was so angry that Wang Ge snatched it and planted the flag on the ground. Wang Ge turned around and shouted loudly to the royal camp army: "Everyone is deeply favored by the Qian family, and today is the time to repay it. After speaking, he took out the wrong gold treasure knife at his waist and stood firmly under the Wang Qi, and the surrounding soldiers were inspired by him, and they also drew their knives and guns to surround the Wang Qi.
After the Tang army, who was watching from the hillside in the distance, reported the news that a group of Wu Yue people had fled from the Chinese army on horseback to Wu Yingying, Wu Yingying immediately ordered Xin Gu to lead the fifty cavalry army to chase King Qian, and ordered Chase to lead the Ya military camp and shouted in unison: "King Qian has left, Wu Yue's army is defeated, and those who surrender will not die!" The army responded loudly over and over again, although Wu Yuejun saw that the king flag in the rear battle had not fallen, he did not necessarily believe it in his heart, but began to become more and more panicked. Especially the soldiers close to the Chinese army, looking back and finding that the Chinese army was only surrounded by fierce and vicious royal soldiers, where is there still the graceful and luxurious figure of King Qian, I can't help but feel most of it, many people began to run away, and some soldiers shouted while running in order not to let the soldiers behind them block the way: "King Qian is gone, everyone run!" The news of King Qian's escape completely collapsed the heart of the already shaky Wu Yue army, and many Wu Yue soldiers directly discarded their weapons and fell to the ground, regardless of whether the Tang army would kill prisoners and eat people, and no longer resisted.
Xin Gu grew up outside the fortress and worked as a horse thief, and he led the cavalry all the way down the direction of King Qian's escape, because of his extremely high horsemanship, there were only a few cavalry in the Ya camp who could keep up with him. Fortunately, his riding and archery skills are also superb, along the way when he met the broken Wu Yue guards were far away from the arrows shot down, poor these Qian Wang's close guards, a skill has not been used before the death of Huangquan, and finally caught up in front of a small bridge because of the horse's hooves slipped and fell to the ground Wu Yue King Qian Jiao.
Qian Jiao, who wore a golden crown and a purple robe, sat back in the saddle in embarrassment, and when he saw that there were only three cavalrymen led by Xin Gu, he drew his sword and said to the guards beside him: "If we only care, we will be caught up by the enemy sooner or later, and we will need to defeat their vanguards, and then calmly retreat." The remaining seven guards all claimed yes, so they turned their horses, formed a sharp formation, and turned back to kill the chasing Xingu.
Who expected Xin Gu to look rough, but did not touch them, he whistled, and actually led three cavalry to turn the horse's head and go, King Qian saw that this person was menacing, but did not dare to take the battle, was secretly laughing when he was chased by such a timid person for a long time, Xin Gu suddenly turned around and shot three arrows in a row, and the two knights beside King Qian fell down. Everyone was frightened and did not hurry to chase, Xin Gu bent the bow again, the arrow was like a meteor catching the moon, and in a short time he had shot all the guards around King Qian, and only then did he bend his bow and arrows, and approached with only his feet.
Although Qian Jiao, the king of Wuyue, was terrified in his heart, he still held the sword in his hand, and threatened loudly: "I am Qian Jiao, the king of Wuyue, if you kill me, you will definitely teach you to die without a place to be buried!"
He didn't say this, but this remark aroused a fierce aura on Xin Gu's body, and he smiled: "It's the Great Khitan Emperor, I will kill it too, why don't you dare to kill you." With the strength of his legs, he urged the horse to rush towards Qian Jiao, and as soon as the thumb of his right hand was loosened, the wolf's tooth arrow shot out like a meteor. Qian Jiao, the king of Wuyue, couldn't dodge, and when he reacted, he could only cover his throat with his hands, and he couldn't make a sound anymore. Xin Gucci put away his bow and drew his knife at the close end, and without waiting for Qian Jiao's body to land, he used a scimitar to cut off Qian Jiao's head wearing a golden helmet at the moment when the two horses were staggered, and put it into the leather bag behind the saddle as if nothing had happened.
Later in the war, the Tang army had surrounded the Wu Yue army in an extremely narrow area, slashing and stabbing and shooting crossbows, killing the Wu Yue army that was still resisting in the middle to the ground piece by piece, and the war had evolved into a one-sided massacre at this point. There are still hundreds of Wu Yue troops who are fighting hard under the royal flag. Wu Yingying couldn't help but respect these Wu Yue elites who persevered until the last moment, and sighed: "The time is poor, Wu Yue has been raising soldiers for decades, and finally got a few heroes!" Ordered the army in front not to fight forward, only to trap them with spears, and then move the crossbowmen behind the pikemen.
Captain Chase of the Tooth Military Academy came out and shouted: "My general respects the heroes, today's victory and defeat have been divided, if all the Wu Yue heroes are willing to surrender, they can save their lives!"
At that time, Wang Ge had already died in battle, and hundreds of Wu Yue's royal camp troops surrounded by thousands of Tang regiments looked at each other, but no one was willing to surrender, and the last military academy responded loudly: "General Xie Wu is merciful, we are honored by King Qian, and today we should be repaid for our death!" The rest of the people were silent.
Wu Yingying was silent for a long time after hearing this, and sighed: "I don't want Tianheng's five hundred soldiers to reappear today!" turned to Chase and said, "After this battle, bury the bodies of these strong men well." He turned to Xin Gu and said: "These Wu Yue people want to die, but they don't have to lose the lives of our brothers, the spear battalion retreats, and the crossbowmen come forward to fulfill them!"
As the military order was delivered, round after round of crossbowmen fired alternately, until there was no longer a living Wu Yue soldier in the array.
Wu Yingying pulled out the long sword at his waist and raised his head to the sky and roared, and the tens of thousands of soldiers who were still on the battlefield all joined with a roar, and the whole army roared with joy, and the sound spread more than ten miles away.
The Wu Yue soldiers who were disarmed and surrendered were all guarded by the Tang army of Changzhou, who had been fully rested, and these people were besieged by the Wu Yue army and the Song army for several days, and then fled to hundreds of miles overnight, which was extremely relieved.
"Congratulations to General Wu, more than 30,000 enemy troops were killed and captured in this battle, and the king of money was beheaded, and the news spread, and the general will surely be famous all over the world. The Chizhou camp was deployed, and the black clouds were all commanded, and Yu Yan stepped forward with a smile and bowed his hand. During the whole battle, most of the Black Cloud Capital immediately watched the battle from the top of the hill, and it was not until the final enemy army broke and fled that a group of 100 cavalry was sent to pursue the enemy who fled into formation, so there was no damage. But Yu Yan had already agreed with Wu Yingying in advance, no matter what, as long as Heiyun came to participate in the battle, the final great achievement would be shared equally with the Divine Guard, and Yu Yan was busy bringing his own soldiers over to congratulate him after the war in order to confirm this matter.
Wu Yingying's letter had no doubt that if the war was unfavorable, Yu Yan would definitely run with the cavalry like Ding Deyu, leaving himself and tens of thousands of foot soldiers to feed the enemy. However, although almost all the black clouds were watching the battle in this battle, their appearance did put great pressure on the Wu Yue army and the Song army, at least Ding Deyu's 1,000 cavalry did not dare to harass the Southern Tang infantry army that attacked the opponent. So he smiled and said to Yu Yan: "Where did General Yu come from, you and I work together, tens of thousands of soldiers can fight to kill the enemy and win a big victory, how dare Wu take the merit of greed for heaven for himself." ”
Seeing that Wu Yingying did not go back on his word, and did not seem to care about his annexation of the old department of the Chizhou Jinfan Army, he couldn't help but laugh and said: "General Wu is a believer. He looked left and right, and said: "The brave man who killed the king of money just now is Captain Xin, Yu Mouyuan knew that Captain Xin was brave in battle, and he didn't want to be so powerful immediately." ”
Wu Yingying said in his heart, could it be that you want to dig the foot of my wall again? The two of them gave each other high hats here, causing Captain Chase and the others who were guarding next to them to vomit.
The overall situation of this battle was decided, and Wu Yingying immediately prepared to lead his troops back to Baojinling. He ordered Yu Wancheng to take more than 2,000 Changzhou Tang troops who had been fully rested to recover Changzhou together with Heiyundu, because Wu Yuejun had become a frightened bird at this time, and Xiao Jiuai burned down all the gates of Changzhou before retreating, so Wu Yingying was not worried that the Wu Yue army stationed in Changzhou would defend the city, and the generals who saw the opportunity were only afraid that they were already rectifying their subordinates and preparing to return to Hangzhou.
Seeing that Xiao Jiu's face was uncertain as the commander of the right army of Shenwei, Wu Yingying smiled slightly and said: "Although Xin Gu beheaded King Qian in this battle, the first merit should still be credited to the right army, Xiao Jiu, what else do you have to say?"
Xiao Jiu bowed and said: "My lord, because the wounded soldiers can't follow the action, there are still more than 1,000 subordinates of the right army who are defending Changzhou Yacheng, I hope that my lord will allow me to return to Changzhou City first and bring them back to Jinling." ”
Wu Yingying pondered for a moment, nodded and said, "It is the responsibility of the generals not to abandon their subordinates, and I have granted your request." He paused for a moment and said, "Tell the brothers who stayed in Changzhou Yacheng that I will personally reward them when I return to Jinling." Then he turned his horse's head and left. The soldiers of the Shenwei Army and the Tiande Army of the brigade have lined up and marched north, the prisoners of the Wu Yue Army are held in the middle of the army, and the defense of Jinling City still needs a lot of labor to reinforce, and this batch of strong men just came in handy.