Chapter 42 Killing the Retreating Reinforcements

As mentioned last time, Liu Houbing occupied the three passes in the Nanling Mountains, including Hengpu Pass, Yangshan Pass, and Huangji Valley Pass, and so far the Lingnan gateway was controlled by the Shu army, and the passage into Lingnan from the Central Plains was blocked. Lingnan is already a fat pork at Liu Hou's fingertips.

Liu Hou did not immediately withdraw his troops from the three passes, but stayed behind to rest the army, repair the damaged passes, and rectify military discipline. And the biggest purpose is to wait for reinforcements from Soochow.

Bu Qi sent a request for help to Sun Quan early in the morning, it stands to reason that the reinforcements from Eastern Wu to rescue Lingnan should have arrived a long time ago, and I don't know why there is no shadow yet.

It wasn't until ten days after the Shu army occupied Hengpu Pass that the scouts came to report that the reinforcements of the Eastern Wu people had finally arrived. For the belated reinforcements of the Eastern Wu army, Liu Hou of course would not be polite to them, and he immediately ordered Zhang Bao and Guan Xing to take 5,000 men and horses each to ambush on the mountain walls on both sides of the mountain road, preparing to attack the Eastern Wu army.

The people of Eastern Wu obviously did not know that the pass had changed hands, and marched all the way without the slightest defense. When the front men and horses arrived at the gate of the mountain top pass, there were already more than 20,000 Dongwu soldiers entering the mountain road. There are about 30,000 people who have not yet entered the mountain road, and it is clear that the total number of this force is about 50,000.

Liu Hou regretted that this mountain road couldn't be wider, so that all the Eastern Wu troops could be accommodated, and they could be wiped out. Alas, everything can't be perfect, and it's not bad to be able to kill 20,000 people in Soochow.

With Liu Hou's order, the mountain walls on both sides of the entrance of the mountain road at the foot of the mountain were blown down, and a full 20,000 Eastern Wu troops were blocked in the mountain road. Then, raindrops of stones and wood were thrown down from the mountain walls on both sides.

The 20,000 Eastern Wu soldiers finally realized what a meteor shower was like. In the mountain road that is more than ten miles long, it suddenly became the hell of Shura. A stone the size of a fist, under the action of gravitational acceleration, instantly turned into a murderous weapon.

The battle of the Shu army is extremely easy, there is no need to aim, no need to throw hard, as long as the stone is gently thrown off the cliff, it will hit one of the dense Eastern Wu people below.

The Eastern Wu soldiers who were hit were either bleeding from their heads at the least, or they were killed at worst. Even generals wearing iron or bronze helmets were not spared, and helmets of this era did not have shock absorbers, and if they were hit by a high-altitude projectile, they would also have a concussion.

However, the shield soldiers are in a slightly better situation, and when they encounter slightly smaller stones, they can resist a little, but after being smashed with a few more stones, no matter how solid the shield is, they will be smashed to pieces, and then they will have to face the overwhelming rain of stones with their flesh and blood.

There are not many stones transported to the top of the mountain wall, after all, the mountain road is steep, it is inconvenient to climb, and the 10,000 soldiers who participated in the sneak attack are all Southern Barbarians, and they are specially selected by Liu Hou to be good at climbing.

Their mountain combat skills are top-notch, in such a steep mountain, everyone can carry a basket of mountains to climb the mountain wall, of course, at this time, the rattan armor is a burden, they don't need the protection of the rattan armor when they throw stones on the mountain, so they don't have armor.

Soon, the stones were almost thrown away, and the Eastern Wu army also suffered heavy casualties, and Liu Hou ordered to stop the attack and instead shouted to persuade him to surrender.

The Eastern Wu soldiers, who had no choice, could only lay down their weapons and, under the arrangement of the Shu army, walked into the city gate and accepted the surrender of the Shu army.

At the entrance of the mountain road at the foot of the mountain, the Dongwu soldiers who did not enter the mountain road desperately excavated the soil and rocks blocking the mountain pass, but the mountain walls on both sides collapsed so much earthwork, where can be dug in a short time.

When they finally cleared the dirt and rocks, opened the entrance to the mountain road, and wanted to rescue their comrades who were blocked inside, they found that the mountain road was already bleeding, and there was still a person who could stand.

Those who could stand had already surrendered and were retracted by the Shu army back to the pass on the top of the mountain. The rest are either dead or seriously injured and unable to stand up.

Looking at this hellish scene, as well as the blood stream flowing down the mountain road, the Eastern Wu soldiers were stunned.

The scene was quiet for a while, and suddenly broke out again, and the Dongwu soldiers who saw the scene of the mountain road turned their heads and rushed back, and the people behind who didn't know what the situation saw that the people in front of them ran and thought that they had lost the battle, and they also ran, and the Dongwu army broke and fled in an instant.

The main general with the troops has long been sacrificed in the mountain road, and the deputy general who is left behind, this deputy general can't control the scene at all, besides, when encountering this kind of terrain, even if he can gather the troops, he is helpless, not to mention that there are only 30,000 people left, even if he has 300,000 horses, he does not dare to guarantee that he can capture this pass.

As a result, the adjutant general no longer made useless efforts and retreated with the rout. Liu Hou was very strange about how the reinforcements of Eastern Wu were so few and came so late, but he also knew that he could not spend so long here.

In this battle, the Shu army did not lose a single soldier, only a few people broke their feet or were cut by weeds, not even minor injuries. More than 7,000 Soochow people surrendered, and more than 3,000 were wounded who were later rescued from pools of blood. The remainder was about 9,000 killed. After healing these wounded, the Shu army received a little more than 10,000 prisoners.

After repelling this group of Eastern Wu troops, Liu Hou left 5,000 people, led by Guan Suo to guard Hengpu Pass, in addition, Guo Youzhi personally led 5,000 people to guard Yangshan Pass, Zhao Yun personally led 5,000 people to guard Huangji Valley Pass, and the rest of the people all went down the mountain and converged together to prepare to attack Panyu City.

Three passes, Liu Hou left a total of 15,000 people to guard, I believe that there are so many people, relying on the terrain, no matter how many people come to Dongwu, they will not be able to attack Lingnan in a short period of time. Although Liu Hou left people, he took all the rattan armor away.

The defenders of the three passes relied on the mountain to defend condescendingly, and there were few opportunities for hand-to-hand combat, and it was a waste to leave the rattan armor to them, and after Liu Hou took the rattan armor, he only needed to transfer troops to supplement the vine armor army, and after a little training, he would soon be able to restore the size of the 30,000 vine armor army.

There were 15,000 fewer horses, and Liu Hou didn't care much, and what made him most unhappy was that there were three generals missing. Liu Hou had to leave Zhao Yun, Guo Youzhi, and Guan Suo, the three powerful generals, to guard the three passes, after all, these three passes are important and cannot be lost.

When they arrived in Lingnan, the cities they captured along the way were discarded when they said they were discarded, and many of the cities were just managed by some small scribes temporarily, waiting for the imperial court to send someone to take over, because even if these cities were lost, they didn't matter.

However, these three passes are different, and they are related to the safety of the entire Lingnan and the success of Liu Hou's entire Lingnan strategy, and Liu Hou has to pay attention to it.

Liu Hou has too few people in his hands, so he can only leave these three generals, if he keeps Vulture and E Huan, the two of them are too unreliable, and Guan Xing and Zhang Bao are too young to have much experience and cannot be on their own.

Although Guan Suo is not very old, he has been wandering in the rivers and lakes since he was a child, and his experience and life experience are relatively rich, and he is more suitable to be the chief general of Hengpu Pass than Guan Xing and Zhang Baolai. As for Zhao Yun and Guo Youzhi, not to mention, these two were originally talented generals, not to mention guarding a pass, even if they guarded a big city, they would be talented.

Liu Hou had to reluctantly cut his love, and let these three people temporarily guard these three important passes, and he could only wait for himself to calm down the entire Lingnan, or wait for Liu Bei to send suitable people to take over, and then transfer them back to his side.

Liu Hou led 10,000 musketeers, 10,000 figurine armor troops, and about 10,000 captives to Panyu day and night.

At this time, Panyu City was very lively, after all, Zhu Bao was also the lord of a city, and he also had many years of experience in leading troops, he knew that the siege of the city was the most taboo, and he must make a little thing out from time to time to make the defenders look frightened, so that the people defending the city will not have extra energy to move their minds. Therefore, he frequently made moves to harass Panyu City.

Of course, before he set off, Liu Hou and Guo Youzhi also taught him face-to-face and taught him some tricks, and now, he is making a huge momentum here, and the siege of the city is impressive.

Zhu Bao's first move was to dispatch a hot air balloon to conduct aerial reconnaissance of the entire Panyu City, and drew a detailed urban defense map of Panyu City. However, this simple move alone has scared the soldiers and civilians of the entire Panyu City half to death.

Who has ever seen anything in the sky except a bird in this era? Now not only do I see flying things in the sky, but also such huge behemoths, as well as the big Han dragon flag, and the big "Han" character, everyone knows that this kind of flying god is the stuff of the Shu Han Army.

Zhu's second trick was to distribute leaflets, and it is clear that this postmodernist method was taught by Liu Hou. The institute had long since developed letterpress printing, and it was easy for them to print a large number of leaflets.

Therefore, after reconnoitering the terrain and drawing a map, Zhu Bao ordered the hot air balloon troops to carry a large number of leaflets and drop them in all corners of the city.

The content of the leaflet is also very simple and old-fashioned, but it is to promote the orthodox status of the Han Dynasty, to promote the benevolence of Liu Bei, the current emperor of the Han Dynasty, to claim that under Liu Bei's rule, everyone must have a good life, and then criticize Sun Quan and Cao Pi's chaotic ministers and thieves, and finally call on the people of the city and the troops of Eastern Wu to revolt, respond to the Shu army outside the city, and jointly contribute to the re-prosperity of the Han Dynasty.

Bu Qi looked at the contents of this leaflet, and his hands trembled with anger, if this extremely encouraging thing was spread, then he would be in big trouble. He immediately ordered the whole city to confiscate the leaflet, but anyone who dared to hide, see, pass on, or talk about it would be immediately killed.

However, by the time the leaflet was delivered to the Buqi case, almost everyone in the city had already had a copy. Even those who don't know how to read are curious about what is falling from the sky, and when they see that it is paper, they are happy to pick up a few and take it home, even if they can't understand the contents, it is good to use it to bag things or even wipe their buttocks.

In the face of the leaflets that were still flying like snowflakes from the air, the Eastern Wu soldiers also had a hard time collecting them, because these leaflets floated everywhere, some on the roofs, some on the top of the trees, these were difficult to collect, and the number was very large, and in the end, the people below had to do perfunctory work.

Fortunately, there were very few people who knew how to read in this era, and ordinary people could not understand the contents of these pieces of paper, and no one dared to talk about the contents of these leaflets after Buqi issued the order, so the content of these leaflets was only known to a small number of intellectuals, and most of these people were wealthy families.

Originally, some wealthy families were also ready to move, but Bu Qi had already had experience in dealing with these people, so he first sent people to warn these people and let them settle down a little, and at the same time sent people to monitor these wealthy families openly and secretly.

The frightened wealthy family suddenly died down, and did not dare to make any more unnecessary moves. Although this propaganda war planted a seed in the hearts of many people, Buqi's timely action can be regarded as temporarily suppressing the germination of these seeds and controlling the development of the situation.

In order to deal with this matter, the managers of Buqi and Panyu City worked hard and were exhausted one by one. Zhu Bao didn't wait for them to have time to rest, and his third move came out immediately.

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