Chapter 368 Wu Anguo defends Guangmu
No one could resist the dense explosion of the latest hand-throwing thunder from the hands of Ma Jun, the master craftsman of the Crouching Tiger Weapons Research Institute, including the Black Mountain Army Marshal Bai Bo and Sun Qing.
Although Bai Bo and Sun Qing, who rushed ahead, dodged the arrows, they did not escape the indiscriminate explosion of thunder, and in the swaying firelight, their bodies were torn to pieces, and their souls were sent back to Black Mountain. If there is a soul in this world......
When the truly ignorant and terrifying things appeared in front of people, except for the well-trained dragoons, all other creatures on the battlefield were overly frightened, and the Montenegrin army was completely in a state of fear and despair. No one listened to their leader anymore, because the loud explosion made people's ears deaf for a moment. No one looked to see where Zhang Yan was, because when the explosion sounded, the entire Montenegrin army had already disorganized its formation.
When he saw Bai Bo and Sun Qing being blown up into the sky, Zhang Yan already knew the result of this battle, so he did not hesitate to give the order for all to retreat. Since the dragoons can't be defeated head-on, then take advantage of the fact that the other party has not blocked the Montenegrin army under the city wall, and seize the time to flee to Montenegro from both sides of the city wall. Contrary to this kind of big killing weapon that the gods and ghosts are afraid of when they see it, Zhang Yan paid 50,000 people by himself, which was not enough for the dragoon army to bomb in turn.
Xian Yufu, who was hiding under the battlements at the head of the city, witnessed a scene that shocked him for life, he watched the waves of black mountain thieves who rushed to the dragoons like a tide, and finally turned into corpses and fell on the way to charge, and at the last moment, they were blown up so that they didn't even know where the corpses flew to. That kind of black, round guy, it's terrible!
Seeing that the Montenegrin army was no longer playing tricks, but fled around the city lifelessly, Zhang Liao did not give the order to pursue. It's not that Zhang Liao doesn't want to chase, it's just that he can't chase because the time is not right. Even if the Montenegrin army escapes twenty miles away, don't forget that the dragoons are four-legged mounted infantry, and they can still let Zhang Yan run back to Montenegro unharmed?
In fact, everyone saw that the Dragoons drove away Zhang Yan of Montenegro with almost zero casualties, and they only thought that the Dragoons were invincible in the world. But Zhang Liao's own family knows their own affairs best. After receiving Xian Yufu's letter for help, the dragoons rushed north non-stop, hardly resting, and when they arrived at the foot of Juyang City, both men and horses were at the end of their crossbows. If it weren't for the fact that the Dragoons usually trained hard and could support themselves with a lot of blood, I am afraid that it is him Zhang Liao who is fleeing for his life now.
And what everyone didn't know was that the round of throwing thunder just now had already consumed half of the inventory in Zhang Liao's hand. This thing is easy to use, but the cost is too high, even if the state is rich, it is impossible to make a lot for a while. The key is that the steel requirements for making hand-thrown thunder are too high, and the built-in self-explosive device is very dangerous, and the production staff may be killed on the spot if they are not careful.
Under the condition of preserving strength, he was able to teach the Montenegrin army a hard lesson and force Zhang Yan back, and this battle was a good deal! Zhang Liao, who had never suffered losses, still did a very satisfactory job this time, and except for a few soldiers who were injured by the arrows of the Montenegrin army, he basically did not engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Montenegrin army, and not only maintained his strength, but also took this opportunity to recover some physical strength.
Seeing that the Montenegrin army had fled around the city, Zhang Liao ordered the third division of the dragoon army, which had not moved just now, to start a tail-end pursuit of the Montenegrin army. Zhang Liao's order is very clear, just force Zhang Yan to flee into Taihang Mountain, and kill as many thieves as he can, no fighting, let alone risk rushing.
Zhang Liao believes that the lesson given to Zhang Yan this time is profound enough. If the lives of the two little marshals and the eight thousand Black Mountain sergeants could not make the hot-headed Zhang Yan more sober, Zhang Liao would not mind playing some other tricks for Zhang Yan next time. Anyway, when he was with Guo Jia recently, he was inspired a lot, and he was looking for an opponent to verify it!
In fact, Zhang Liao is not the only one who wants to find an opponent to confirm, such as Wu Anguo, who is defending in Guangmu City, he can't wait to fight the Xianbei people. After receiving the warning from Li Jinwu, the westernmost part of Shuofang, Wu Anguo and his more than 10,000 Qingxu volunteer soldiers were still a little nervous at first. After all, there are not a few Xianbei people who came, it was a full 80,000 people.
However, after experiencing the initial nervousness and uneasiness, Wu Anguo began to stabilize the morale of the army with the help of the strategist Chen Deng, and gradually regained his feeling and self-confidence as the main general.
The equipment of the Qingxu Volunteer Army was distributed collectively after arriving in Guangmu, and in order to ensure the speed of the march, this unit was completely lightly armed when it went north, carrying only the clothes and rations it carried with it. To the delight of the Qingxu Volunteers, the Zhenbei General's Mansion really did what it said, not only distributing the same weapons and equipment to everyone as the Zhenbei Army, but also paying three months' salary in advance for each person.
Even if you don't look at Zhao Xing's face, for the sake of brand-new weapons and armor, and for the sake of the heavy property in your pocket, the soldiers of the Qingxu Volunteer Army can't pretend to be afraid of death. After all, the general's palace made it clear that if the volunteer soldier unfortunately died, he would be regarded as a martyr and could enter the Taihang Martyrs' Garden, and his family could be cared for by the state. On the other hand, if anyone is in battle for fright, or even defects to the rebels, they will have all their rewards forfeited, and will be regarded as the number one enemy by the merged state, and will be hunted down to the ends of the earth in the future.
The Xianbei people, who came with great momentum, found that there were no nomadic tribes in the vast wilderness, and they wondered in their hearts. In fact, since Zhao Xing of the Huang Xuan clan was settled in the Heshuo area, he began a new life of semi-settlement. The so-called semi-settlement, that is, in the season when the water and grass are vigorous, the Huangxuan people start from the city where they live, graze around, and wait for the autumn season when the grass withers, and they drive the cattle and sheep back to the city along the same road.
The fat and strong horses, cattle and sheep are locked in the pen of the heating fireplace, so they don't have to worry about being attacked by wolves in the wild, and they don't have to worry about being frozen to death by a sudden blizzard. The people of the government would go door-to-door to buy adult horses, cattle and sheep, and then send food, cloth, daily necessities, and so on that the people needed. The people of the Huang Xuan tribe, who have gradually become accustomed to this kind of life, feel that this way of life is very convenient and affordable, and if they are allowed to resume their perennial grazing life in the future, they will probably be the first to do it.
There was no prey in the bare wilderness, so the leader had to attack the guarded city. At first, the head of the head wanted to attack the city of Woye, but as soon as he arrived at the city of Woye, he found that the soldiers guarding the head of the city turned out to be his original clansmen. As a result, the Xianbei old clan at the head of the city scolded one by one, as if they had a common enmity with the leader, and the arrows aimed at him shot down like rain.
The startled leader hurriedly left, he didn't want the Xianbei people in the city to disturb the minds of his people and ruin his "tall and mighty" image.
Turning around and heading eastward, he soon came to the city of Guangmu on the south bank of the Yellow River, and this time he was pleased to find that all the defenders of the city were Han Chinese, and they were also white-skinned southern Han Chinese. As if he saw a washed and skinned lamb in front of him, he drooled and launched an attack on Guangmu City.