Chapter 764: Besiege Wuguan and Fight Fiercely at Pujindu
Li Siye was indifferent to Sun Xiaozhe's kneeling and licking, and asked with a proud smile: "Do you only kiss boots, then what use do I want you?"
Sun Xiaozhe shrank his head and said, "The child doesn't understand what the father-in-law means."
The other party was not interested in answering his words, so he only ordered indifferently: "Come on, pull him down for me......"
"Don't, don't! Father-in-law. Sun Xiaozhe hurriedly touched the ground with his head and knocked more than a dozen times. I can show you the way, and I can kill for you...... Kill people you don't want to kill, rob treasures, collect the world's property, and the world's beauties!"
The generals under Li Siye all bowed their heads and despised this kind of flattering villain to the extreme.
Zhang Tongru, who was bound to the side and stood proudly, was also furious, and scolded Sun Xiaozhe: "You Khitan dog slave! As a man, you should stand tall in heaven and earth without regrets, and if you die, you will die, how can you grovel like you!"
Sun Xiaozhe turned his head and fought back: "What are you pretending to be high!" If you are really a virtuous scholar, you should not turn your back on the court and take refuge in the anti-thief An Lushan!"
"The Imperial Court?" Who knew that this Zhang Liushou sneered: "I think that when I was in the first year of Tianbao, I had already been admitted to the Jinshi, just because my family was poor and had no way, but the ministers and nobles in the court were in charge, and they all attached to Li Linfu's party, if they were not allowed to enter, they would never come out." I have read poetry and books but have been a small official for ten years, if it weren't for the wisdom of Emperor Shengwu to promote him, I would be able to have today? In my opinion, Li Tang's qi is exhausted, the destiny of heaven is in my Dayan, even if you have many soldiers and generals, you can't go against the sky. I think it's better to abandon the darkness and turn to the light, descend to my Dayan as soon as possible, and seal you a king of the opposite sex who divides the territory?"
"What a good tongue," Li Siye laughed: "He really deserves to be a scholar, An Lushan slaughtered the city and robbed, killing the people indiscriminately, like a bandit." But you praised him like a flower, if this kind of thief really sits in the world, it is the regression of civilization and the catastrophe of Kyushu. Thinking that you still have the backbone in your body, I will not humiliate you, and leave you a whole corpse. ”
"Come on, hang Zhang Tongru and find a place to bury him in this White Deer Plain."
At this time, two executioners had already stepped forward and escorted Zhang Tongru to the place where there were trees. The scholar turned sideways, bowed to Li Siye and said, "Thank you King Xiliang."
Sun Xiaozhe was still waiting with his head up, and smiled at Li Siye: "Father-in-law, this person is pedantic and ridiculous, and it is not a pity to die!" The child also asked the righteous father to spare the child's life. ”
Dai Wang, the chief secretary of the march, whispered beside Li Siye: "My lord, this person betrays the lord to seek glory, and what he tends to attach is power, not you, the lord, I hope that the lord will get rid of this person as soon as possible to prevent future troubles."
Li Siye nodded slightly in agreement, and said loudly to everyone: "Now the traitor Zhang Tongru has resisted stubbornly, has been killed and in the battle, captured the traitor Sun Xiaozhe alive, and sent back to Chang'an to the imperial court."
"Father-in-law!" Sun Xiaozhe was about to cry urgently: "Father-in-law, I have no grievances with you, you can't send me like this!" I'm useful to you, I'm useful to you! Please also ask my father-in-law to open up the net!"
Li Siye turned a deaf ear, didn't even look at him, and only said lightly: "Take Sun Xiaozhe's hands and tendons and send him back to Chang'an in the prison car, don't let him run away."
Sun Xiaozhe's face was suddenly full of horror, and he shouted in fear: "You can't kill me!" You can't kill me! Spare me my life!"
The four executioners had already stepped forward, grabbed Sun Xiaozhe's arms and dragged him away, and the convulsive screams gradually faded away.
Duan Xiushi crossed his hands and asked, "Doctor, what should we do with these rebels who surrendered?"
"Temporarily remove the armor and blades, distribute winter clothes and rice rations, and hand them over to Yan Xiaosi to lead the artillery battalion and the Ning Kou army to garrison Ba, and wait for us to solve Li Guiren together, and then integrate them into the various armies in Hexi."
The 15,000 rebels who surrendered were the elite soldiers of Fanyang Town, and they were able to survive the battle, and they had passed through the sieve like a big wave of sand. Although there are some problems with their loyalty, as long as the formation is disrupted into a small unit, and the basic officers are trained more in the future, it will naturally not hinder.
Li Siye turned his horse and ordered to the generals: "The rest of the armies, follow me to pursue the rebel Li Guiren's department."
"Whoa!" The shouts of the generals were like thunder.
The three armies under the command of Siye raised the battle flag and went straight down to Bailuyuan, and went straight to Luo County from Lantian County. Heading south from Sangna-gun, it is the only place to go to Nanyang, Wuguan, and this road is also called Wuguan Road.
As the southern gate of Guanzhong, Wuguan was once the main battlefield of the confrontation between Qin and Chu, and now it is the main channel to communicate with Nanyang, Xiangyang, Jianghuai and other places, and the Danshui flows down the river and flows into the Han River, a tributary of the Yangtze River. There are six post stations in the middle from the county town to Shangluo and then to Wuguan, of which the four Hao posts are derived from the four Hao of Shangshan in the early Han Dynasty.
After learning that Chang'an had been lost, the rebels of Shangluo County had already abandoned the city and fled to Wuguan, and the army led by Wang Sili occupied Shangluo first, and quickly moved south to recapture Wuguan.
The cavalry led by Li Guiren was still a step late after all, if he had known that Tongguan had been broken and fled to Wuguan in advance, he would definitely not have been trapped under Wuguan now.
He organized several knocks with the Luo cavalry and Lu Longjun, and fought fiercely from the morning to the afternoon, leaving thousands of corpses at the base of the city wall, but he was never able to move forward.
The next day, Li Siye led the three armies to Shangluo County, blocking the road in and out of Wuguan, and Li Guiren finally became a turtle in an urn, with nowhere to escape.
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When An Shouzhong led 3,000 Luohe to the Pujin ferry of the Yellow River, Guo Ziyi led 20,000 Shuofang troops to occupy the ferry and strengthen the defensive earthen fort, and the wooden boats on the shore were still tied at the ferry.
Guo Ziyi did not choose to burn them, the purpose was to give An Shouzhong hope, so that he thought that he could break through the earth fortress and seize the ship.
An Shouzhong and the cavalry of the Dragged River saw dozens of boats on the riverside, and they were simply eager to see through it. But the Shuofang army in front of them was an insurmountable obstacle. His eyes were red and he tugged at the reins of his horse, and a group of righteous brothers and righteous sons gathered around him, waiting for the main heart to make a decision.
"Brother Yi, what should I do? If we go further south, not to mention the lack of people and horses, the Tang army has already occupied all the states and counties, and the only place that can escape is here. ”
An Shouzhong gritted his teeth and said: "Who said that only Pujindu can be crossed, we can go further north along the Yellow River to Longmendu upstream."
"Withdraw!" An Shouzhong planted a flag behind his back and waved his knife to the upper reaches of the Yellow River. Thousands of horses followed his blade, rushing in the dust.
Seeing that the enemy was about to flee, Guo Ziyi hurriedly lined up to attack, following An Shouzhong in an attempt to wipe him out on the beach of the Yellow River.
"Brother Yi, Shuo Fangjun is catching up!"
An Shouzhong quickly turned the horse's head and laughed: "Guo Ziyi is also fooled!" The upstream Longmendu is more than 400 miles away from here, and we are sleepy and lacking horses, if we insist on going north, we will inevitably be caught up by it. It's better to turn around and defeat it in one fell swoop and break through the Pujindu!"
"Kill! Rush into the Shuofang Chinese army and kill Guo Ziyi!"
The Luohe galloped his war horse and made a half-circle around the Yellow River, and quickly killed the Shuofang cavalry who were following the pursuit.
Guo Ziyi was taken aback and shouted loudly: "Cavalry block the enemy!" Infantry formation!"
He personally held the horn bow in his hand, led the crowd to attack the enemy, and shot with a bowstring from more than 60 paces, and the arrows were like locusts pulling out a black trajectory in the air. The army of the Dragdown River first leaned over the horseback to avoid the arrows, and after this wave of arrows fell to the ground, everyone got up at the same time, raised their hands to find the target and shoot directly, the speed was as fast as a rabbit and an eagle, and there were hundreds of arrows in the Shuofang cavalry, and most of them fell under the horse with their faces covered.
"Kill!" An Shouzhong put away his horn bow and rushed forward with a horse lance under his armpit, and the horse lance team of hundreds of people in the Luoluo River formed a sharp arrow formation during the run, and penetrated through the scattered cavalry formation of the enemy.
The front arrow formation resembles an isosceles triangle, flanked by armour-piercing lances on two sides, while the cavalry in the center continues to accumulate arrows from the gaps in the ranks, shooting at nearby targets one after another. The cooperation of these fathers and sons was as tight and tacit as that of an infantry formation on flat ground.
Shuofang's cavalry formation was crushed in one fell swoop, followed by the infantry formation behind, and they did not get enough distance from the enemy to cause the horse lance to rush to the front in a short moment.
"Slow down!"
An Shouzhong was at the forefront of the arrow, and he carried his horse lance to pick and kill two enemy pikemen in succession, picking a hole in the infantry formation. The Shuofang Army's infantry formation was broken through by the center and directly cut into two sections. Taking advantage of the situation to expand the results of the battle, the river rushed into the enemy formation and slashed left and right with horizontal swords, stirring up a huge whirlpool in the enemy formation, and the enemy troops were routed and fled.
Seeing this, the general Gu Huaien was in a hurry, and immediately organized the few Modao teams in the army to kill the enemy's flank, and killed more than a dozen horse lance cavalry soldiers one after another. The Luoluo River cavalry quickly broke away from the Shuofang army, and took advantage of the speed of the horses to gather arrows around the Shuofang army.
For a time, the formation of Shuofang's army was broken, and it was almost about to fall into a rout.