Chapter 14 The Capture of the First Prince
With such a big movement in the camp, the guards who were arranged by Li Hao to wait in the back naturally didn't notice it, and immediately rushed inside.
It's just that there was too much chaos in the camp, which seriously slowed down the speed at which they came in, making Li Hao wait for a while.
After meeting everyone, Li Hao immediately took them to the big tent of the Chinese army, firstly, he wanted to meet Chen Xiren, and secondly, he also wanted to see if there was a cheap pickup, in case there were one or two brave people who wanted to stabilize the situation.
At this time, the Chinese army camp was in disarray, and the firelight, human figures, and the sound of horses' hooves were intertwined, forming a thrilling picture.
Everywhere you look, the horses neighed and jumped wildly, people pushed and trampled each other, many people were knocked to the ground, or trampled by the chaotic crowd, and even worse, the soldiers who already had grievances directly fought against each other further aggravated the chaos.
Of course, although the majority of those who fled blindly, there were also many people who were brave and courageous in the An'an army.
They tried to shout loudly to keep the soldiers calm and organize their ranks to regroup in an attempt to control the situation and calm the people.
However, by this time, their organization had been completely disorganized, the generals could not find their soldiers, the soldiers could not find trusted colleagues, and even if someone was organizing the manpower, there were not many people.
In the face of such a person, Li Hao naturally decisively led people to attack, strangling and breaking up those teams who intended to assemble all the way.
From time to time, the remaining Molotov cocktails and explosives packets are used to further aggravate the chaos, and the life-and-death battlefield between the two countries must be the highest requirement to achieve the goal.
In this way, when Li Hao arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, the chaos in the rear camp was no longer easy to describe in words.
However, the big tent of the Chinese army is relatively quiet, after all, it is located in the most center, and everyone has already finished running in all directions.
Originally, Li Hao thought that he would only return empty-handed this time, but suddenly a surprise came, allowing Li Hao to meet a well-equipped team of nearly 200 people from the opposite side face-to-face.
It's just that there is no flag on the other side, and Li Hao doesn't know who it is, but he knows that it's a fat sheep anyway.
The team on the opposite side naturally also found Li Hao, but Li Hao and his party were wearing the standard armor of the An Army, and their first reaction was only to think that it was their own people, and they came to protect King Qin like them.
As a result, just when he was about to say hello, Li Hao casually beckoned someone to smash the Molotov cocktail, and took the lead in killing them while they were panicking.
It turned out that this group of people was indeed elite, and even if they responded in a hurry, they relied on their numerical advantage to barely stabilize the situation in the state of losing nearly half of them at the beginning.
But they also knew that if they continued to fight, their side would definitely not be able to bear it, and they would be ready to cover the leader's departure.
It was at this time that Li Hao recognized that the leader on the opposite side was a familiar face, it was Chu Yue's father, An Guo Chu Guo Gong Chu Yuan.
Then how did Li Hao let him run away, he immediately found a gap and killed it with light skills, and killed the two guards who were guarding Chu Yuan's side with a few swords.
Chu Yuan still wanted to raise a knife to resist, but where was Li Hao's opponent, he was directly disarmed by Li Hao's empty-handed white blade, and put it on his neck, and put his hand against his throat, making him speechless.
All this happened so fast that the others didn't react at first, until Li Hao said, "Put down the knife, or I'll kill him."
The people who came with Chu Yuan were all clansmen from Shaxi, who had always respected this patriarch, and they didn't dare to move when they saw this scene, but they didn't really put down the knife.
The guards of the East Palace were also clever, and when they saw this, they hurriedly surrounded them and blocked Li Hao behind them.
This time, it was changed to a confrontation between the two sides, but Li Hao had hostages in his hands, and he had obvious advantages.
Seeing that they hadn't moved yet, Li Hao continued to press it in with a knife, marking a bloody mark on Chu Yuan's neck.
Again, he emphasized, "He is the patriarch of your Shaxi region, and if you die here because of you, even if you return to Anguo alive, what will your family and people think of you.
I counted three times, and if I didn't put the knife down, I would let his head fall to the ground, a... Two..."
Before Li Hao could count to three, these people had already put down their weapons.
Immediately, Li Hao asked the guards to find a rope and tied them all, and then Li Hao let go of Chu Yuan's neck.
Then the first thing he could say was to lament his misfortune: "How can you believe the words of the people of Suguo, I will only die faster without weapons."
When Li Hao heard this, he immediately retorted: "I'm a man of my word, if I don't kill, I won't kill, and you shouldn't think too much.
It's not convenient to talk here, let's go into the big tent and sit down, and let me see your Chinese army tent in Anguo."
Saying that, Li Hao asked the guards to escort these captives into the big tent together, not to mention that this big tent is really luxurious, among which the tables and chairs made of small leaf red sandalwood used by the main seat have white tiger skin cushions on them.
But what attracted Li Hao the most was a weapon rack behind the main seat, on which there was a sword with a scabbard inlaid with precious gems, and he looked like an upstart.
Although it seems a little vulgar, I have to say that it is indeed more eye-catching.
So Li Hao stepped forward to take down the sword as soon as possible, wanting to see what kind of sword could be decorated so fancy.
I saw that as Li Hao used his strength to unsheath the sword, a crisp and high-pitched sword roar suddenly sounded, and through the light in the tent, the sword body was as smooth as a mirror, reflecting a sharp light, making people dare not look directly.
Li Hao then sighed, "This is really a good sword."
Saying that, Li Hao looked carefully, and saw the word Long Yuan engraved on the sword from the reverse side, and couldn't help but read it softly.
After hearing this, the chief guard replied, "Isn't the Longyuan Sword a sword that Emperor An obtained a piece of extraterrestrial meteorite iron and ordered people to spend several years to forge it? I didn't expect it to fall into the hands of His Highness today."
Hearing him call His Royal Highness Li Hao, Chu Yuan was shocked, looked up at Li Hao, and said, "You are Cui Hao, the prince of Suguo."
Li Hao withdrew the sword from the scabbard and said with a smile, "What, doesn't it look like Lonely?"
Chu Yuan shook his head in a warm voice: "When I first heard your voice before, I felt a little familiar, but I didn't expect you to dare to personally lead a night attack, and we lost this battle unjustly.
Say, what are you going to do with me, if you want to kill me, you will listen to me."
"Chu Guogong is loyal, knowing that there are many dangers here, he still brought people to find him, and he still admires this, so naturally he won't want your life.
Lone will release you at the right time, but it must be conditional, as for the specifics, wait until it stops and then discuss.
Now there is no hurry, we will wait and see if there are any other loyal people who will come to escort us."
After speaking, Li Hao also asked people to find tea, and untied Chu Yuan, and sat in the big tent together.
But until Chen Xi and Wang Kun arrived one after another, there were no Anjun people here.
"Uncle, how is the situation now, did you encounter any obstacles when you rushed over?"
Wang Kun immediately began to introduce the situation, and after receiving the signal from Li Hao, he immediately rushed out with the soldiers and horses that had been prepared outside the East City Gate.
The Anjun patrol men and horses guarding outside the city had already rushed back to support when the camp was in turmoil, so they were not hindered when they first came out.
It was only in the front camp of the Anjun army that there was some resistance, but it was not strong.
Although the men and horses of the former camp were ordered by the previous Emperor Li Falcon to hold on and could not be kept out, they were protected to a certain extent.
But in the face of the backlash of the scattered and fleeing men and horses in the Chinese army, they did not have the decisiveness of Emperor Li Falcon, and dared to directly use iron and blood to deter.
They could only mobilize their men and horses to coordinate as best they coordinated, and were forced to disband the formation, leaving a gap for them to escape.
As a result, before this man could finish running, Wang Kun arrived with his soldiers and horses again, causing the front camp to suffer a front and rear attack.
As a result, the morale of the army, which had been gradually lost due to the chaos, collapsed all of a sudden, and then the front camp also collapsed.
After breaking the front army, Wang Kun immediately divided a group of people and began to capture prisoners, and he hurriedly brought people in to find Li Hao.
Listened to all the words
, Li Hao said with a smile: "Okay, after this battle, the main force of the Anjun army collapsed, and the initiative of the war returned to us.
Uncle, you quickly send a letter to your father, explain the situation, and ask General Wuwei to bring people over immediately to block the way for the Anguo army to flee south, and not let them harm the people.
Early tomorrow morning, I will lead a team of men and horses to chase north, to avoid another large-scale build-up of the An army, and by the way, I will see if I can find traces of Emperor Li Falcon.
He ran too fast, but he should have run north, either to Qizhou to find Cui Guogong, or to Lianyang Mountain to join the soldiers and horses, I went to try my luck.
As for you, continue to sit in Hezhou, control the captured captives, and mobilize the people.
This time, there were a lot of military horses that I ran away with a fire, so let them all scatter to help find them, and give a certain reward according to the number of them found, two cents per horse.
But I want to emphasize that anyone who hides it and does not report it will be killed, after all, this is our trophy, and we must say everything in advance."
Li Hao had already done such a dangerous thing as attacking the enemy camp at night, and Wang Kun was used to Li Hao's decision to pursue and kill the enemy army.
It's just that he has some questions about who Li Hao wants to take, but it's not good to say it in front of everyone.
He first pointed to Chu Yuan and asked, "By the way, what is he going to do?"
Li Hao said, "I promised not to kill him, you send him back to the city and imprison him first, and then talk about it when I come back."
With Li Hao's words, Wang Kun asked people to come forward, took Chu Yuan's people, and escorted them down.
Then he motioned to Li Hao to let the others out, and he had something to say.
After everyone left, Wang Kun said, "If you want to chase people, I don't object to it, but now our soldiers are okay to fight a good battle, if you want to take them to a long-distance attack, I'm afraid it won't work."
Seeing that he was going to say this, Li Hao smiled and said, "I naturally understand this, anyway, now that the siege of Hezhou has been resolved, the people I brought will be taken away first.
Besides, we have already gathered the village warriors before, and the legs and feet of the Orion are no worse than the regular army."
Hearing this, Wang Kun understood Li Hao's thoughts and said, "Okay, since that's the case, then you can arrange everything yourself."
After a busy night, Li Hao and Wang Kun took care of the affairs here, and this time the Anjun army killed and wounded countless people, and captured 2,000 prisoners alone.
escorted these people back to Hezhou, and the township Yong that Li Hao was waiting for also arrived.
In addition to the righteous people who Li Hao wanted, some of these villagers were real locals.
In order to avoid trouble, Li Hao left these people behind and gave them to Wang Kun as guards.
He took with him more than 500 people who had been left to march after several bloody battles, plus 1,100 people who were righteous and brave, and went out of the city with rations and baggage to the north.
At first, everyone thought that Li Hao just wanted to sweep away the remnants of the surrounding army, but when they saw Li Hao's posture of marching all the way, they understood that this matter might not be so pure.
However, this time Li Hao himself did not ride a horse, but followed the ordinary soldiers, walking and marching.
Therefore, even if they were very tired, everyone's spirit was still excited, after all, the low-level soldiers didn't want much, and even the prince was treated with them, what else could they say.
However, when Chen Xi was resting, he was encouraged by the guards of the East Palace and had no choice but to come to Li Hao to ask, "Your Highness, where are we going?"
Li Hao said with a smile: "Let's go to Qizhou, last night I already sent someone to send a message to Andinghou with flying pigeons, asking him to find a way to drag down the 20,000 army of Anguo Cui Guogong.
This time, Emperor An's defeat was too sudden, and it was not easy for him to get the news, so let's rush over as soon as possible to see if there is a chance to do something to keep them.
If it can succeed, then Anguo will only be left with more than 10,000 people outside Lianyang Mountain outside Ziyang Pass.
Moreover, the security army suffered heavy losses in this battle, and if the rear wants reinforcements, it will inevitably take a long time.
At that time, we will have the opportunity to recover Ji and Bizhou, and even capture Lingzhou and Xuzhou, push the battle line back to Ziyang Pass, restore the old land of our country, and by the way, we can also reduce the day
The pressure of the rear defense."
Chen Xi naturally supported Li Hao's plan, and then went back to help explain.
After the rest was completed, the group continued the rapid march.
There are a total of 200 miles from Hezhou to Qizhou, and under the leadership of Li Hao, it took only two days for everyone to arrive.
In the middle, Yixue, the nominal townspeople, also used their own feet to win the respect of the guards of the East Palace.
When he arrived at the place, Li Hao did not rashly take his head, but first arranged a rest, and asked Chen Xi to take a few people up to touch the situation, and by the way, see if he could contact Chu Fan.
After half an hour, Chen Xi rushed back and introduced the situation to Li Hao.
The news of the defeat of the An army in Hezhou was still a step faster than Li Hao's after all.
Cui Guogong immediately realized that it was not good, and knew that this was no longer a long-term place, so he immediately began to prepare to retreat.
Of course, in order to confuse Chu Fan in the city, he also made some arrangements.
It's just that Chu Fan had already been reminded, and he had been staring at An Jun's reaction, and when he saw that they had changed slightly, he immediately launched a feint to test it.
After some entanglement, although the An army finally withdrew, the speed of action was extremely slow, and it was firmly restrained by Chu Fan.