Chapter 337: The Death of the Jingshi
"It's over, it's all over."
On the wall of Jun County, looking at the Wu army array hunting with military flags on the other side of the Wei River, and slowly looking at the remnants of the defeated soldiers who fled back from the city, Xu Tianzhong, the commander of Henan, was full of bitterness in his heart, and slowly sat on the ground with his back against the cold wall battlements.
Just a few hours ago, Guan Ning Tieqi easily defeated his army and killed Xu Tianzhong's Shuai Qi, he was afraid in his heart, for fear that he would die here, so he directly took Shuai Qi and retreated.
As soon as the handsome flag moved, the army's heart was shaken, under the onslaught of the Wu army, the 30,000 army collapsed in an instant, Xu Tianpet fled in embarrassment, and less than 5,000 people followed him to escape across the Wei River and return to Jun County.
Of the entire 30,000 army, only a few people were really killed, and more of them joined the wave of rout with the crowd, which is very in line with the green battalion soldiers of this era.
Xu Tianzhong's heart was full of remorse, he knew that he shouldn't have taken the initiative to go out of the city to fight, if he didn't go out of the city to fight, he wouldn't have lost more than 20,000 people, if he didn't lose more than 20,000 people, maybe he would be able to rely on the merits of this successive city to be promoted a few levels, if he was promoted a few levels......
Anyway, it's too late, Xu Tianzhong knows that he is pinning his hopes on Wang Yi, who is currently in Qi County, hoping that he can come over to relieve the siege of Jun County.
Outside the city, Wang Ping and his generals were laughing.
In this battle, they only paid a small price to defeat the Xia army, won the first good start, and resurrected tens of thousands of enemy troops, and absorbed them into the army, increasing the strength of their own army.
Although he knew that the combat effectiveness of these routs was very unreliable, they were still capable of letting them help with miscellaneous tasks and assisting in the siege of the city.
Originally, Wang Pingfan also wanted to directly capture Jun County and take the head of Xu Tianpet to sacrifice the flag, but who knew that after Xu Tianzhong escaped from the Wei River in a hurry, he actually directly burned the bridge on the Wei River, and the Wu army could only raise materials on the spot and build a new bridge on the Wei River to cross the river.
This made him very dissatisfied, then Beixi Hou Wang Yi may be killed at any time, if it is because this small Weihe is outflanked by the Xia army, wouldn't it be over?
No matter how dissatisfied he was, Wang Pingfan could only build a bridge to cross the river as soon as possible, in order to speed up, he directly sent his soldiers and horses out to find boats along the Wei River, and used the boats as the foundation of the bridge piers to build a simple bridge.
At the same time, some of the defeated troops defeated by the Wu army fled to Qi County, where Wang Yi was stationed, and the Marquis of Beixi of the Xia Dynasty was planning to attack Zhangde Mansion at this time.
Although he knew that Xu Tianzhong's green battalion soldiers were overwhelmed, who would have thought that they would be defeated so quickly, in his opinion, even if there were 30,000 pigs, it would be impossible for the Wu army to kill them so quickly.
In any case, Wang Yi could only count the soldiers and horses, go out of the city and rush to Jun County, and rescue Xu Tianchong, who was surrounded in Jun County.
It was a day and a half from Qi County to Jun County, and the Xia army hurried in the starry night, but appeared on the west side of the Wu army before the bridge of the Wu army was built.
Wang Pingfan has been paying attention to the dynamics of the Xia army's reinforcements, so he knew about Wang Yi's arrival as soon as possible, he didn't care about Xu Tianzhuo, who was shivering in Jun County, and directly lined up with his back to Weihe, preparing to meet the Xia army.
After Wang Yi led the army to arrive, he was not in a hurry to attack, he had already known about the existence of the Wu army's Guanning Iron Cavalry from the mouth of the rout, so he was extremely cautious.
The soldiers and horses under his command did not have a systematic army, and some were only thousands of veterans of the war who had received systematic training, because they were from the south of the Yangtze River all the way to the north, and there was a lack of cavalry in his army, so they could only use the infantry army to shake the Guanning iron cavalry.
Standing in front of the army, Wang Yi looked at the Wu army formation opposite, after absorbing tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, the size of the Wu army formation doubled, and the Guanning iron cavalry that he cared about the most was deployed on the left flank, even if it was so far away, Wang Yi could still feel the strong murderous aura emanating from the Guanning iron cavalry.
His face couldn't help but become much more gloomy.
After thinking about it repeatedly, Wang Yi still decided not to fight with the Wu army for the time being, and he ordered the whole army to retreat several miles back and set up camp to temporarily avoid the edge, and also restrained the attention of the Wu army, so that it could not attack Jun County with all its strength.
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At the same time as Wang Yi confronted Wang Pingfan, in the north, the army led by Zhang Huangyan was also advancing towards the Beijing Division, and his soldiers and horses absorbed the defeated Qing army brought by Hong Chengchou, and Su Yan's newly recruited systematic army in Shandong, so the strength was close to 60,000 people.
In contrast, Wu Sangui, who had just taken the Beijing Division, only had more than 40,000 troops on hand, and he saw that the Xia army was constantly advancing, and originally wanted to rely on the tall and strong city walls of the Beijing Division to defend a wave, but after the Xia army conquered Rongcheng, this idea was shaken.
There is no need.
In other words, although the Jingshi was able to repel the attack of the Xia army, it also cut off its retreat.
The current internal situation in Beijing is not very good, there is a shortage of food, the people in the city are unstable, and the remnants of the Qing court are still lurking in the city and have not come up.
The city was empty of political symbols, and the warehouses were empty, and there was no need to defend it at all, so it is no wonder that the Qing court directly abandoned it and chose to escape from the Guanwai.
However, Wu Sangui wanted to run, but his subordinates were unwilling to leave the Beijing division like this, and the eldest son-in-law Hu Guozhu and the third son-in-law Guo Shitu of the army were a little anxious when they learned that Wu Sangui was going to run away.
They have long coveted the wealth of the people in the city, don't look at the barns of the government, you can run mice, but in fact, the wealth is gathered in the hands of the nobles and big families in the capital, and even the lowest-level ordinary people have accumulated some belongings.
If they could all loot and collect it, they would be able to make a fortune out of it.
Therefore, they hurriedly found Wu Sangui to explain the importance of the Beijing Division, and Guo Shitu even said: "Most of the nobles in the Beijing Division are the Ming and Qing dynasties, and their wealth has accumulated for several generations, and they are rich enough to rival the country.
When Wu Sangui entered the Beijing Division, he demanded that the army be safe and innocent, so the nobles and large families left in the capital were not plundered.
Hearing his words, Wu Sangui was also a little moved, since he was going to abandon the Jingshi, most of the time he would never come back in the future, it was not impossible to plunder the city before leaving.
Thinking of this, Wu Sangui agreed with the opinions of the two sons-in-law, and ordered all the departments in Beijing to allow them to plunder in the Beijing Division, and the deadline was seven days, and no matter how much they robbed after seven days, they must evacuate the Beijing Division.
As soon as Wu Sangui's order was issued, the cheers of the Wu soldiers echoed throughout the Beijing Division, and they immediately rushed out of their respective barracks and stations, rushed to the nearest houses and shops, and launched the most brutal plundering of the unarmed people of the Beijing Division.