Chapter 260: Dawn
Later generations recorded this battle in the history books, using a very rough term, whether it was from Southern Wu or Northern Tang.
There is no special reason written, and there is no description of the fierce battle scene, in short, it is that Lin'an Gong won and General Weiyuan lost.
If you run, I will run, and the defeat will be like a mountain.
That is the true portrayal of General Weiyuan's later life.
No matter how calm he was personally, it was to no avail, and under the repeated blows, his army collapsed, just like the army of General Changwu.
Being besieged by Jin An and Jiang Tunshui, and after being shot indiscriminately by the Thousand Crow's Crossbow, this is really not a good thing.
Regarding why General Changwu's elite army was defeated, Jin An did not ask in depth, and the others were the same, and Jiang Tunshui, Zhu Weijiang, and Zhao Yanshuang did not have any language organization skills because of their relatively honest reasons, of course, when it came to fighting, they were definitely not honest, otherwise it would be impossible to win like this.
The results of this battle will spread all over the world in the near future, and will become the talk of countless people after dinner.
And General Weiyuan, who retreated south with the rout, couldn't raise any mood at this moment to consider what people thought of him after this battle.
His troops were scattered, and though he didn't want to admit it, he had to admit that he had escaped, just as the defeated army below him was as anxious as a lost dog.
Before the outbreak of this battle, he had an army of 20,000, and General Changwu, who accompanied him, had an army of 50,000 men, totaling more than 70,000 horses.
But now, although he contained the defeated army along the way, there were less than 10,000 men.
The ambition before the war has long been turned into a thing of the past, and now he is a defeated general who has just escaped the pursuit of Jin An.
As a famous general of the Northern Tang Dynasty, he went to the battlefield at the age of seventeen, fought bloody all the way, and became a general of Weiyuan.
Although he is not as famous and peerless as Li Xianyue, Wang Du, and Bai Congyun, he has fought steadily and steadily, and finally has his own world.
Therefore, he became the best choice for Li Zenan to attack Southern Wu, and reached the peak of his life in the first year of Yuan.
The Iron Horse Ice River for many years is like a dream, and it will be shattered under the indiscriminate bombardment of Jin'an.
In the same Kaiyuan first year, he fell to a low point in his life.
His most powerful military force in the south was defeated in the decisive battle of Jinling, so he was chased away like a dog.
General Changwu was very slippery, and at the moment of defeat, he straightened his outfits...... Ran.
He is not an idiot, and he doesn't know the situation on General Weiyuan's side, if General Weiyuan can still stabilize the situation, he will be killed and martyred like that, and he is very stupid and loyal, so he chose to run away with the defeated army.
At the time, he didn't expect General Wei Yuan to make the same decision as him in the near future, but it was clear that they had made this decision for a reason-
Unwilling.
They are unwilling to fail, because before this their situation was very good, even if Jin An has made some progress, in their eyes they are just clowns, so the advantage psychology in their bones makes them choose to stay in the green mountains, because they think that they will eventually get the final victory.
However, it turns out that sometimes, some things are lost and lost, and it is difficult to find them back, and those losses will make them irreversible.
The rebel armies in various parts of Southern Wu, under the influence of the Southern Wu Secret Palace, pursued the defeated army in all directions, and very few of them were killed or chose a short battle, and most of them collapsed and surrendered and became prisoners.
The more than 70,000 soldiers and horses of General Weiyuan and General Changwu fell apart like this, and there was no possibility of recovery, the Southern Wu people would not join them, the Northern Tang people were out of reach, and the reinforcements were still far away.
And until that seemingly terrifying batch of reinforcements arrives, everything will be a certainty.
Those scattered rebel armies obeyed the same command and pursued the Northern Tang rout in all directions, but Jin An did not give up his vigilance against General Weiyuan at all, and sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to Tie Shanwu to pursue him.
On the seventh day of July in the first year of Kaiyuan in the Northern Tang Dynasty, on the Qixi Festival, the remnants of Tieshan Wu and General Weiyuan fought at the Gusu border, and a diametrically opposite scene was staged in this place where Miss Zhang was defeated and killed.
On July 15, General Weiyuan, who had retreated to Songjiang, fought again and was defeated again.
Facts have proved that both Jin An and Tie Shanwu have excellent and keen combat instincts, and they know that a person like General Weiyuan will definitely not be able to let him breathe and straighten out his troops.
It is still advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord.
You have to chase and fight, and you will be rectified to death.
The situation is completely reversed, and Jin An has found the key point to destroy the army of Zheng Wu - kill General Weiyuan, and they will be scattered.
The turnaround began, before the Northern Tang Forbidden Army arrived.
Before and after Iron Mountain did not pursue General Weiyuan, a series of military operations were launched.
Jiang Tunshui, Zhu Weijiang, Zhao Yanshuang, and Guan Liandian, including Jin An himself, marched to various places to recover the lost territory.
The city of Huzhou was broken, and the defenders were killed, and they were only attacked for five days.
Talent combined with real experience makes such a group of young generals grow up, and they will become the next generation of famous generals.
In just half a month, four fifths of the old land of Nanwu has been recovered in various parts of the south of the Yangtze River, and other areas are also picking up things.
The remaining Northern Tang guards did not dare to fight, so they could only wait for the day when the soldiers came to the city and broke the city.
On the third day of the eighth month, General Weiyuan and General Changwu finally joined forces and gathered 6,000 soldiers and horses, including 1,000 iron cavalry and 300 Northern Tang crossbows.
After 70,000 soldiers and horses, they could not be effectively replenished, and now they are the only soldiers and horses they have.
And Tie Shan did not get what Jin An gave him, as well as the troops who defected along the way, and the number of troops reached 10,000 at this moment.
This has been the case since ancient times.
Tingzhou, the two armies faced each other.
Treated like a duck all the way, General Weiyuan didn't want to continue.
Tetsuyama also realized that this would be the time to solve the problem completely.
Although this battle does not look conspicuous on the surface of the land of Nanwu, which is now full of war, most of the eyes of countless people are still cast here.
It can be seen that almost everyone can realize that the ending of General Weiyuan will guide the rise and fall of Southern Wu and Northern Tang.
The current situation did not give Tie Shan no chance to ambush or feint, and he played a decent matchup.
Iron Yama did not adopt the strategy of attacking the center directly and outflanking the two wings.
The process of that battle has not been reported, and the people of Southern Wu probably also felt that this was not a commendable battle.