Section 11 Abandonment of the Army
In the face of such a frantic attack by the intruding army, the formation of the bandit army was inevitably shaken.
More soldiers crossed the front row of the bandit army and beat the officers and soldiers with sticks in their hands, and in the severity of the soldiers of the bandit army, these bloodied soldiers were like demons in hell, these people seemed to be unaware of the pain, and those companions who had been knocked to the ground still could not escape the clubs of the bandits. These ghost-like intruders still did not let go of the Qin soldiers who fell to the ground, and continued to smash them with wooden sticks one after another, until these people's brains were shattered, and blood and skull fragments were splashed everywhere.
The soldiers were frightened. They threw down their weapons and left their posts, and many of them threw away their armor and fled, crying and shouting, "Defeat!" Defeated! β
Sun Chuanting watched in disbelief as his well-equipped army was defeated by a group of intruders armed with wooden sticks. These intruders are still moving forward bravely, and they have rushed to less than 100 meters away from his general banner. Sun Chuanting only recovered from the shock at this time, and he muttered to himself: "These Henan Yankees are crazy, crazy!" While scolding these crazy people, Sun Chuanting quickly turned his horse's head and left the battlefield with his standard camp guards.
As Sun Chuanting's banner withdrew from the battlefield, the remaining soldiers of the Bandit Army fled or fought for their lives. The morale of the Ming army, which was already scarce, completely collapsed, and the Ming soldiers in the back row who were responsible for leading the artillery carriage threw down the artillery that should have been protected by them, untied the horses on the artillery carriage, and rode these horses away from the battlefield. And those officers and soldiers who were unfortunate enough not to catch their horses no longer obeyed the orders of their commanders, threw down their weapons and fled as fast as they could from the club-wielding thieves. And the officers of the Ming army did not think about how to win, but how to get themselves out of the battlefield.
At this time, Xu Ping was caught in the middle of the brigade, and could only watch Sun Chuanting's banner gradually fade away, the battlefield had become a killing field, and many wounded or surrounded bandit soldiers who could not escape knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, but their enemies did not show any mercy, and unceremoniously smashed their skulls with wooden sticks.
Xu Ping put the saber into the sheath, turned around and led the guards and the first cavalry team to move closer to the banner of Yu Shenhe, the bandit army near the battlefield had basically been killed by the intruding army, some of the invading soldiers chased after the fleeing bandit soldiers, and some people carefully looked at the corpses of the officers and soldiers on the ground to check if there were any fish that had slipped through the net.
"The adult has practiced swordsmanship for three years, and it is finally not in vain," Seeing that Xu Ping'an was unharmed, Yu Shenhe smiled and said: "The adult should not be addicted to killing, right?" This lead charge is no longer possible. β
Before Xu Ping could answer, a cheer suddenly erupted around him and Yu Shenhe.
"This grandson is playing dead!"
A soldier who looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old pulled a "corpse" from the ground, held the collar of the Ming soldier with one hand, and drew a sharp blade from his leg with the other.
When the boy pulled out the knife, Xu Ping noticed that the soldier of the Suppression Army who was found to be pretending to be dead was about the same age as his enemy, and the cry of the Suppression Soldier of the Suppression Army, who was also a teenager, still carried a childishness: "King, the villain is a man, a fireman who was captured by Ding......"
The crying abruptly stopped, and the first boy slowly plunged his blade into the throat of his enemy, watching with pleasure as the soldiers of the Bandit Army made a cooing and dying sound. More and more blood poured out of the wounds and the mouths of the bandit soldiers, and the soldiers let go of their hands and drew their daggers, and the dead fell like a broken bag.
After cleaning up the Ming soldier, the young man searched for the other survivors, and after several of them were proven dead, he angrily kicked the last corpse, and when he looked up, he saw several people looking at him.
The young man shouted to the leader who was looking at him, "General, the Bodhisattva bless you. β
The other soldiers who were inspecting the dead bodies on the surrounding battlefields, after hearing the young man's shout, stopped their work and cheered Xu Ping.
Yu Shenhe saw a trace of unbearability between Xu Ping's eyebrows, and whispered: "My lord, do you want to strictly prohibit them from killing prisoners?" β
"On what ground?" Xu Ping smiled bitterly and shook his head lightly at Yu Shenhe: "Let the guards battalion rest first, and I will also rest for a while." β
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Now that the bandit army has been defeated, the next task is to continue the pursuit, so that they will shed more blood before escaping back to Tongguan, Yu Shenhe suggested continuing to pursue Sun Chuanting: "If Sun Chuanting can be captured alive, it will definitely be able to show the prestige of our army." β
"Sun Chuanting has broken his guts, he will no longer pose a threat to us," Xu Ping did not agree to do this, there is still a Ming army that remains in Henan and has not escaped, as long as an army is not chaotic, then no matter how small its number is, it is also a threat: "The Guards Battalion immediately set off to pursue Chen Yongfu, and it is enough to send some civilian training to deal with Sun Chuanting." β
The troops that are more firmly in control will also set off with the guards battalion, and those militiamen who are eager for revenge and did not come to join Xu Ping and accept orders, Xu Ping does not care about them, since they are so reluctant to chase Sun Chuanting, let them go. Xu Ping sent Liu Junbao with a thousand people to chase after him, and Liu Junbao was responsible for everything in this direction.
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At this time, the frightened Sun Chuanting had just escaped from the pursuit range of the intrusive army with his standard battalion, and Yang Wenyue was also with him, and now there were only some guards left in less than two standard battalions around the two, adding up to only a few thousand.
Sun Chuanting ordered his subordinates to take a short rest, and immediately make a fire to make food, drink water and feed the horses, they still have a long way to go from here to Tongguan, not only long, but also destined not to walk comfortably.
"Isn't Chen Yongfu still in Jiaxian?" Sun Chuanting immediately remembered the Henan general soldier after his order was broken, and he ordered a henchman to immediately put on makeup and set off, and tried to meet Chen Yongfu through the position of the camp: "The thieves marched in a hurry, and it must be too late to deploy the sentry rangers, and you will give him my warrant after you see General Chen." β
Sun Chuanting ordered Chen Yongfu not to take care of Jiaxian anymore, but should immediately take the initiative to attack the back of the camp, in the letter Sun Chuanting assured that if Chen Yongfu attacked fiercely, no matter how big the loss was, he would help make up for it, and if he was passive and neglectful, then he would be severely punished.
While ordering Chen Yongfu to attack, Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue were urging their standard camp to hurry up and feed the horses and rest, ready to set off at any time to continue their escape. The soldiers who followed Sun Chuanting back from the battlefield were only a few thousand. As for the remaining 70,000 people of the 80,000 army, Sun Chuanting estimated that they were either broken up or killed by the intruding army, but Sun Chuanting did not plan to spend any more time waiting for them. Just as Sun Chuanting was in full swing preparing to retreat, there was a sudden commotion outside the camp, and an officer of the standard battalion rushed in and said angrily: "The intruding army has been killed in front of the battalion. β
Before the words fell, Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue heard the shouts of killing already sounding outside the tent, outside the tent inside the camp and not outside the camp......
After receiving Xu Ping's order, Liu Junbao immediately flew out of the camp to lead the headquarters in this direction, gathering those militiamen who spontaneously pursued and suppressed the bandit army along the way, and at the same time ordered to investigate Sun Chuanting's movements, and report to him immediately once there is news.
When he was on the battlefield just now, Yuan Feng belonged to the group of people who rushed to the front, and he himself did not know Sun Chuanting's general flag, but when this flag was withdrawn, although Yuan Feng did not know who the owner of this flag was, he believed that it must belong to a member of the Ming court. Reading the names of his relatives lost in the Kaifeng flood, Yuan Feng, who was bent on revenge, chased in this direction with dozens of his subordinates.
Yuan Feng also followed the wrong direction halfway and lost Sun Chuanting's trace, and when he met Liu Junbao's herald, Yuan Feng didn't know that he was chasing Sun Chuanting, but he just said that he was looking for a Ming general who looked like a big official. Liu Junbao's heralds didn't talk nonsense with these dozens of people, but just asked them to follow the main road to join Liu Junbao after sunset, and after finishing speaking, they hurriedly continued to search for the rest of the small army that broke into the army.
Yuan Feng didn't know anything about the roads around Jiaxian, and he walked and then took a fork in the road, and instead of finding Liu Junbao, he found Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue who were resting in this secluded place.
After seeing this flag, which he had been looking for for a long time, Yuan Feng shouted without thinking much and led his troops to rush forward. When the Ming army guarding the gate saw dozens of bloodied intruders waving sticks and rushing towards them, they didn't even say hello, and directly threw down the camp gate and fled by themselves.
In addition to today's defeat, the camp was already in chaos, so the shouting at the camp gate did not attract too much attention from the Ming troops who were in turmoil in the camp, they thought that maybe someone was grabbing horses or arguing over something else. Yuan Feng led dozens of people like this, and broke into Sun Chuanting's standard camp without any hindrance, if he hadn't led his men to beat people wearing Ming army uniforms with sticks, maybe he wouldn't have been discovered so quickly.
The soldiers of the standard camp were already frightened birds, and the urging sound above was also like a hurry, and the soldiers of the Ming army, who were busy preparing to escape, saw that another group of intruders rushed in and beat around, and they were stunned at first. After a while, the first Ming soldier to react shouted, grabbed the thing in his hand, jumped on a horse beside him who didn't know who the owner was, and rushed to the west without turning back.
The rest of the people were awakened by this shout, no one wanted to come forward to help those comrades who were attacked by the intruding army, they no longer waited for the order of the upper peak, no one knew how many intruding troops had been killed, and no one knew if they could escape if they didn't leave now. Regardless of whether they could ride or not, all the soldiers rushed to the nearest horse, and would not let go if they caught something.
When a frightened horse jumped and jumped and dragged three or four soldiers with horsehair and tail to rush past Sun Chuanting's tent, there were already soldiers who began to snatch the mounts of Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue's personal guards. The remaining loyal guards had to fight each with their swords drawn, fighting for themselves and their lords' mounts.
What Sun Chuanting and Yang Wenyue heard was the fierce fighting sound of these soldiers fighting for their lives.
After hearing the guard's report and the neighing of the people outside the tent, Sun Chuanting threw down the water bowl in his hand and ordered all the guards to go out of the camp to fight. After giving this order, Sun Chuanting turned around and disappeared from Yang Wenyue, and his personal guard pointed to the foot of a tent that was still shaking: "Lord Yang...... Lord Yang got out of here. β
Hearing this, several of Yang Wenyue's guards either turned around and rushed out of the door, or pounced on the position of Sun Chuanting's guard's finger, opened the tent and followed out.
"Let's go, too," Sun Chuanting didn't care about saying more, and hurried out with the guards.
The battle at the door was still raging, Sun Chuanting's guard captain was already covered in blood, he had just stabbed another Ming soldier who came to grab the horse to death, he drew a bloody saber, and protected Sun Chuanting's mount in front of the commander: "My lord, give." β
Sun Chuanting turned over and got on his horse, and the camp was full of people, and there were sounds of fighting in all directions.
With a shake of the horse's reins, Sun Chuanting went straight to the rear of the barracks, his guards surrounded him in the middle, everyone swords out of the sheath, slashing in the chaotic army, countless Ming soldiers were cut to the ground, stepping on this bloody road full of Ming soldiers' bones, Sun Chuanting and his party rushed to the official road to Tongguan.
Before dark, Sun Chuanting also caught up with Yang Wenyue, who was cloaked and running westward with his mount's neck.
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"My mother, there are so many officers and soldiers in this battalion, there are so many of them!!"
Yuan Feng and dozens of his subordinates gathered together and walked forward cautiously, each holding the stick in their hands tightly, so engrossed that they didn't even dare to blink their eyes. Rushing in through the front gate of this makeshift camp, after beating a few Ming troops, he continued to walk back, and saw dozens, then dozens, and hundreds more behind the woods, and even more so on, but fortunately they were all lying on the ground...... Only the few they encountered at the beginning were hit by Yuan Feng and their hands, and the rest were obediently lying on the ground with the strength to pant, even if the situation was good.
There are Ming soldiers who are killed or seriously injured everywhere, especially in the open space in front of this towering tent, Yuan Feng estimates that there are hundreds of Ming soldiers who fall on the ground on top of each other, if you count what you saw before, Yuan Feng suspects that they have encountered two or three hundred dead and wounded soldiers, not to mention that this is just a road, there are more places in this barracks that they have not been to.
The wounded on the ground groaned loudly, and they looked ten times the number of Yuan Feng's group, and he walked to the conspicuous tent. First, he shouted a few times hard, but Yuan Feng, who did not get any response, carefully opened a corner of the tent with a stick and bowed over to look inside.
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