Chapter 820: The End of the Jingsui Army

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September 19 night. Zhu Biao, the governor of the Han capital, led the cavalry 100,000 to break the 300,000 Zhao army and Linzhou Qingyang, and Zhao Sheng, the governor of Zhao Dadu, only led 30,000 cavalry to escape at night, and the remaining more than 200,000 Zhao troops were all annihilated.

In October, the Han army regained Linzhou and regained the lost territory in the east. Hedong generals Yang Yanzhang and Gao Xie rebelled against Guo Ming in Yanping County.

After two months of rebellion, the Jingsui army seemed to be coming to the end of the road, the main force of the Zhao army of 300,000 Qingyang was defeated, and ten were killed, and the Han army conquered Linzhou and Yandong lost land in ten days, and the morale of the Jingsui army was even lower.

Now the sailor battalion in Beiping has come west. There is a large area near the river in Yanping County, and the sailors often attack, and fires broke out everywhere, and a few days ago, a grain convoy was intercepted. Now this team is temporarily dispatched, in a hurry, collect grain and grass from various counties, and escort back to Yanping County as much as possible, not to mention the spirit, the body is also very tired.

However, at present, Guo Xiao's luck is not bad, all the way, he has never encountered Han soldiers to intercept him, he is only thirty or fifty miles away from the county seat, and he will rest after walking a little more, and he will be able to arrive at the county town tomorrow morning, which makes him and his soldiers slightly relieved.

Guo Xiao rode on the horse, his body swayed slightly as the horse moved, and his face looked tired.

Although the county seat will arrive tomorrow, Guo Xiao's mood is not the slightest light, and it is still heavy.

In the current situation, as a member of the Guo family, he is worried and can't sleep at night.

Guo Ming, as the governor of Yanzhou and the envoy of the Jingsui army, had as many as 70,000 Jingsui troops under his command, but they trembled under the more than 30,000 troops of the Hedong generals Yang Yanzhang and Gao Xie. As a veteran, Guo Xiaoshen knew how bad the battle of the Jingsui army was and how unstable the morale of the army was.

As soon as he thought of this, he could only sigh helplessly.

The defeat of the Zhao army was too fast and too unpopular. Not to mention that the Jingsui army and Yanzhou, which controls zhì, cannot be one at all, even those local wealthy and powerful families who choose to rely on Zhao and Jingsui in the midst of the war are just grass on the wall, and they bow down to Zhao and Guo Ming on weekdays, and when it comes to the critical moment, for the sake of the family's interests, they can abandon the old and welcome the new at any time, and even actively drive the chaos right.

Now only 30,000 soldiers and horses are coming, Guo Ming has the main force of 30,000 or 40,000 Jingsui troops in his hands, and there are nearly 10,000 Zhao soldiers in Yanping County, but they don't dare to start a field battle in the city at all.

Guo Xiao smiled with a wry smile at the moment, he prepared grain and grass this time, and he could be regarded as seeing the actions behind the powerful households, gentry and landlords, but what could he do?

Yanxi is facing the attack of the official army, and there are civil uprisings in many places, and if the Jingsui army tears the skin with the local family heroes, I am afraid that it will collapse immediately.

However, these are all big things, and I just hope that this escort of grain and grass can go back smoothly.

Guo Xiao rode on the horse, his eyes narrowed, looked ahead, and sent a horse to explore the way ahead.

Cautious as he is, he doesn't want anything to happen when he is approaching the county town.

"Lord Lieutenant is too cautious, this place is only thirty or fifty miles away from the county seat, and patrol posts are common, how can it be dangerous? Someone really intercepted the grain truck, he had already done it before, how could he wait until now? The scribe who accompanied the army said.

The collection of grain and grass must also be recorded, and the person who records it will naturally need a scribe.

Guo Xiao actually thinks the same way, but it is his nature to be cautious.

"This time, Zhu Shuai personally led a large army to Yanzhou, and the Zhao army was defeated and retreated, which is worrying. If there are a few more differences in Yanping, it will have a big impact on morale, so it is better to be cautious. Guo Xiao's eyes narrowed slightly, slowly shook his head, and said softly.

Everyone around them fell silent when they heard this, and no one spoke, but their hearts were a little heavy.

Just as Guo Xiao was secretly sighing, a horse galloped back in front of him, looking at his expression, he was a little frightened!

"Could it be that something happened?" This was the first thought that crossed his mind.

"Newspaperβ€”"

"Cavalry was found ahead, it's an officer!" As soon as Tanma finished saying this, a rumbling sound sounded in the direction of the road ahead!

Dusty horses' hooves rolled in like thunder!

A cavalry, a cavalry was rapidly approaching this direction, and in an instant, it was approaching.

"Not good, enemy attack! Enemy attack! Guo Xiao looked at it, the scale was not very large, three or five hundred people, and shouted at the moment: "Don't panic, everyone, the number of enemy troops is small, prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

By this time he had regained his composure, and drew his sword from its sheath, but the back of his grain corps began to commotion.

"My lord, there are also official cavalry behind us, and they are killing us!"

Is the belly and back hostile?

Cold sweat broke out on Guo Xiao's head, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "What are you doing in a daze?" The enemy's two teams together are only six or seven hundred people, and our army has 3,000 soldiers, how can we not compete with them? Let's all move! If you lose your food and grass, how will you lose your life when you go back? Don't you kill the retired officers and soldiers with me and keep the food and grass! ”

With a loud shout, his soldiers quickly gathered together. The grain teams also began to move to form a defensive line.

But only a moment before and after the cavalry had already rushed up, made three contacts, and immediately slashed at each other.

The surging tide, the same like tofu slag, hit each other, but as soon as the battle began, it was obvious that the strength and weakness were distinguished, the iron cavalry stepped out, the sword and gun were in the direction, and in the blink of an eye, a piece was broken, and there were constantly Jingsui soldiers falling, and people constantly filling in.

Although he had some premonitions about this situation, but seeing it with his own eyes, Guo Xiao was still shocked, Hedong Jingqi deserved to be the strongest soldier in the Han Dynasty, and his combat power was too strong. Not far away, the knight on horseback was slashing frantically, and the sound of the blade piercing through the musculoskeletal sound continued to reach his ears.

The two teams of cavalry in the front and rear did not take turns to attack, but just a simple flanking attack, and their 3,000 infantry armor could not resist it. And as the situation spreads more and more, the whole team has already shown signs of collapse.

Guo Xiao watched the Hedong cavalry pounce from the gap they had torn open, and in just a moment, the front and rear parts of the grain army had collapsed, but they only held on to the Chinese army tightly, unable to save it.

"Although my brother also chooses to train cavalry, the difference between heaven and earth cannot be compared at all!" Seeing this situation, Guo Xiao just smiled bitterly, turned around and was about to lead the team to escape, but at this moment, he only heard a pop, and suddenly the horse stumbled, neighed, and rolled off the horse's back and fell to the ground.

"A bunch of rubbish!" Sima of the Hedong Army's cavalry in the distance withdrew the crossbow in his hand and snorted coldly: "Pass on my military order, those who surrender will not be killed." ”

This order sounded on the battlefield, and except for the war dead, most of the Jingsui army fell to the ground and begged to surrender and became prisoners. Guo Xiao also chose not to resist when the two Hedong cavalrymen put their guns to their necks.

This Hedong army did not hesitate, took this batch of loot, cleaned up the battlefield, and quickly evacuated here.

In Yanping County, Guo Ming occupied the Thorn Mansion as a lair on the first day he entered.

But the indulgence and wanton indulgence of a month ago is gone forever, and the main force of the Zhao army was lost, completely losing its suppression and even threat to the Han army. Linzhou is lost, Yandong is lost, and Yanxi will not be able to save sooner or later.

The master is unable to protect himself, how can people like Guo Ming be happy?

Although he is still sitting at the top, the group of generals will enter together, bow and salute, and the style is still very full. But it's really a time and a moment......

For a moment, the lobby fell silent, and only the sound of armor colliding could be heard.

The entourage unfolded the map and silently withdrew.

Guo Ming looked at the generals with a solemn face, most of his relatives and cronies accounted for most of them, and the remaining three or two were Han generals who were traitors like him.

"Everyone, pass on all these military information!" Guo Ming said lightly, as if his face was not so heavy and solemn.

Several of the highest-ranking relatives and cronies have read it first, and the following is for the second-level generals to watch, although these people are also close and different, but on the whole, they can be regarded as close and trustworthy by Guo Ming.

Anyone who has read these military information has changed their faces slightly, and their expressions have become very solemn.

This military information was passed on among a group of generals, but after a while, it was passed back.

The content is basically the same, roughly telling that after Guo Ming gathered the army and retreated to Yanping County, the gentry in the local county were strong, high-minded, and small movements were frequent, and even many people had begun to translucent for the official army.

And there are still a few places where there are civil uprisings. These popular uprisings are certainly due to the fact that they have recently gathered grain and grass for the sake of war, but looking at their situation, they echo the actions of the officials and troops, and the internal situation is by no means simple.

Jing Suijun, at this time, it is internal and external troubles, and disasters are not a one-way street!

"You've seen all this information." Guo Ming glanced at everyone with a gloomy face and asked, "What do you have to say?" ”

"Governor, according to the last general, these county and township heroes are really hateful, and they actually took advantage of this time to make small moves in secret, completely forgetting the great kindness of our Jingsui army at the beginning, not giving severe punishment, and not knowing the majesty of our army!"

"Governor, you ask the last general to bring a battalion of soldiers and horses back, and immediately take a look at a few houses, and see if these short-sighted things dare to act like this!" The two kinship generals came out one after another to ask for their lives.

At this moment, the generals stood in two rows and were silent for a while.

Guo Ming's eyes swept over, and several of the people behind him couldn't help but change color slightly, these people were the former Han officers who were traitors like Guo Ming. It's just that their position is not as high as Guo Ming's, and their attitude is not as strong as Guo Ming's, not to mention that Guo Ming was the 'horse bone' that Zhao Jun's daughter bought horse bones. is because his status in front of Zhao Jun is far inferior to Guo Ming, and he has become a close figure under Guo Ming's team these days. But this can't change their backgrounds, they are all the sons of big families in Yanxi.

However, the families of these people have not done anything secretly, and they are still very teachers, and they have never been mentioned in the military intelligence of Zhao Jun's special delivery.

"No!" Another general came out of the ranks and said, "If we use troops to suppress it again at this time, it will be a great disaster at once, and we must not do it at this time." ”

This person looked at the two previous Guo Ming relatives with contempt, he was a close confidant who had been with Guo Ming for a long time, there was no need to hide it when he spoke, thinking about it. To put it bluntly, he is also a veteran of the army, and he looks down on the children of the Guo family who come in and rise by virtue of their clothes.

Guo Ming got up slowly, looking at the hazy twilight outside the hall, his face was cloudy. Several times I clenched my fist to make up my mind, but finally let go of my fist. Guo Ming does not yet have the killing decision that a person in a position of higher power must have.

Regardless of whether to 'kill' or 'not to kill', Guo Ming should make a quick decision. Because. Regardless of whether asked, that's the worst kind of severance. But fortunately, Guo Ming was not deaf to this point, he still knew that he had to make a decision quickly, his face became pale, and as soon as he sat down, he wanted to discuss with the generals under his tent again, and suddenly a pro-soldier shouted outside the hall: "Governor, there is an urgent report!" ”

Ordered the pro-soldiers to come in, and the pro-soldiers immediately pounced, turned over and bowed down: "Yu Dudu, I just got an urgent report, the detective cavalry found hundreds of dead bodies of our army and the corpses of dozens of mules and horses forty miles away, after checking, the dead are all the grain soldiers of General Guo Xiao's headquarters, and the grain and grass that should have been transported to the sentry camp thirty miles west of the city today have all disappeared!" ”

The soldier finally reported: "The battlefield has been carefully inspected, and no body of General Guo Xiao has been found. ”

"Report!" Guo Ming was not allowed to make a decision, and another person came in to report: "Governor, the official army has been found to be in the vanguard outside Bincheng County, playing the banner of 'Gao', there are tens of thousands of horses, Captain Liu asks the governor to make a decision quickly!" ”

The successive urgent reports made Guo Ming's face change greatly, but he still had some city government in the end, so he quickly reacted, snorted coldly, his tone became slow and heavy, and said to the generals on the left and right: "It seems that the Hedong Army is in no hurry, and it is going to kill my Jingsui Army." ”

At this time, Guo Ming's mastermind Han Wen came out, he was a very smart person, he didn't even think about it, so he replied loudly: "Governor, now there is no way back, if our army delays any longer, the situation in the counties will fall apart, at this time, only the governor personally supervises the army, personally resists and even defeats the Hedong army, can stabilize the situation!" ”

"Then Yanping can be saved? Can Yanxi be saved? ”

"A moment of protection is a moment. If the governor abandons the counties of Yanping without a fight, I am afraid that the Zhao army in the city will withdraw from the county before the arrival of the official army......"

"The Jingsui army can also withdrawβ€”"

"Zhao Jun can all return to Zhao Di. I don't know how many people in the governor's army can retreat to Zhao with the governor? ”

"Sir, isn't it in vain that I have been raising food these days? Is the army still going out of the city? Although our army is outnumbered, its combat strength is ...... It's really not comparable to the elite of the Hedong Army. ”

"The governor sees it. In today's form, if the official army is forced to resist under the city of Yanping County, then our army will only be trapped in the lonely city. ”

The main force of the Han army led by Zhu Biao will not stay in Yandong for a long time, as long as the Han army advances westward, it is difficult to say whether the Zhao army in Yanxi will resist. Besides, the Zhao army in Yanxi only has a few tens of thousands of people, how long can it resist? If the Zhao army of Yanping City also leaves, it means that the Jing Sui army is still firmly guarding the Yanping County City at that time, and everyone present will only die-

Because Zhao Jun would not have rescued Yanping County and rescued Guo Ming at all.

Guo Ming raised his eyebrows, gritted his teeth and pondered, the implication in the Korean words made sense, but the risk was too great, field battle, twice the military strength and Yang Gao's second general, Guo Ming could not see the dawn of victory.

"Governor, there is no need for a real Armageddon. As long as you tug at it a few times in Bincheng County, see the movement of the main force of the official army there in Zhu Biao......"

Guo Ming gritted his teeth at the moment, nodded and said, "Okay, I'll take the army to Bincheng." ”

On the tenth day of October, it was cloudy.

On this day, as soon as the sky was bright, a large dark cloud swept in from the north, almost obscuring the sky, covering the darkness of the newly white sky again.

There was a feeling of dampness and heaviness in the air, and gusts of cold wind blew through his cheeks and made his eyes hurt. Another year of early winter is coming.

Outside Anju County, a field has turned into a battlefield, and the two armies, small 100,000 people, are facing each other.

Yesterday afternoon, Yang Yanzhang suddenly abandoned Bincheng County, which had been in trouble for two days, and led his army to travel 50 miles all the way, and in the evening, outside Anju County, intercepted the main force of Guo Ming's army that was coming to Bincheng County for reinforcements.

So, today's battle is inevitable.

Crossing the river from Jiangjin to the north, and then marching all the way west, first to Yandong, and now the front of the army is pointing to Yanping County. Yang Yanzhang and Gao Xie's team of only 15,600 people at the beginning gradually expanded to about 30,000. A large number of Jingsui troops and villagers from all over the country merged into the army.

At this time, Guo Ming poured more than 60,000 troops, the main force of the Jingsui Army in his hands, and the Zhao army of tens of thousands of people in Yanping County.

An army of nearly 100,000 people fought against each other, stretching for more than ten miles.

As soon as the horn sounded, the small Hedong Army took the lead in attacking, and the whole army rolled in formation, only to see a large array arranged, and after a while, there was a huge roar in the army.

"The Han army is mighty!"

"The Han army is mighty!"

The wind blew the sound of the Han army's flag hunting, and the cries of the mountains and seas were higher and higher, and this kind of high military spirit made the Jing Sui army and the Zhao army on the opposite side tremble unconsciously.

After a little delay, the drums and trumpets in the Jingsui army were also sounding in unison, and Guo Ming, under the escort of his own soldiers, came to the front of the formation, but his whereabouts seemed to be so hasty.

Knife Mountain Gun Forest, arrows shoot like rain, and the sound of killing is shocking!

Looking down from the sky, the military formations of the two armies advancing in a staggered manner are connected by a strangulation field of flesh and blood. The sounds of killing, screaming, screaming, and the sound of swords piercing into the flesh of the human body were endless.

The smell of blood in the air, no matter how strong the wind is, cannot be dispelled.

The horn and flag danced, and the Chinese army issued one order after another at the flag.

"Forge ahead!" Suddenly, there was another department, more than 1,000 people were ordered to move forward, the marching drums were beaten, and with the beat of the drums, all the soldiers marched forward with neat steps.

One phalanx, another phalanx. Under the command of Yang Yanzhang, regardless of whether the Hedong Army is a small array of mandarin ducks one after another, it is definitely a neat and uniform phalanx from the outside. Pressing up neatly, fighting normally, it's like a piece of steel and a piece of steel being pieced together.

Restricted by the transmission and the battlefield, it is so unreliable to rely on the sound of horns, drums and battle flags in the fight and martyrdom. In particular, in addition to the 15,000 veterans in the Hedong Army, the other half are all surrendered soldiers and village warriors who have no tacit understanding or even training. When a team goes into battle, it's either a victory or it falls apart.

The rolling iron flow was approaching, like a surging tide, and it slammed into a Jingsui army, and suddenly, the sound of fighting became one, and people kept falling, and people kept filling in.

Once a scuffle is formed, the fight is whose blood will be shed first.

"There is no chaos in the long battle, one block ten, the damage is not broken, and there is a ...... in advance and retreat" At the handsome platform of the Jingsui army, Guo Ming was already bloodshot and muttered. (To be continued)