Chapter 71: Yiyang (2)

In the sixth year of Yonghe, autumn and August. Jiahai, Tang Yuqiang rebelled in Yuewang County, Rendezvous Deng, Beishui Hao forcibly fell into the county governance, the north committed Jianwei, Yizhou Assassin Shi Zhang Shouhui Ningyuan General Lin Cangpingzhi, beheaded 3,000. Qinzhou Jincheng County Haoqiang Su Qian rebelled, even thousands of Kou, soldiers committed Yuzhong, the left guard general Xu Dangpingzhi, beheaded 5,000. Gan Rui, the former general of the Liangzhou Assassin Army, defeated Yiyang, retreated to Huangchi, and lost more than half of his army.

------- excerpt from the introduction

After Yu Zun knew that Gan Rui's true purpose was to retreat to Huangchi City, his original idea was to occupy Huangchi City with Gan Rui one step first, hang more than 10,000 Gan Rui's army in the wild, and then gather Fu Xiong's army to surround and annihilate them, and then whether it was steamed or red, they would follow them. But the spies' return tells Yu Zun that the opponent opposite him is not so easy to deal with. Gan Rui has already sent all the front troops lightly armed, and brought the expertise of Zeng's army's rapid march to the limit, and has already occupied Huangchi City first, and began to repair the city, collect grain and grass, and wait for Gan Rui's Chinese army to enter the city.

After hearing the spies' return, Yu Zun understood in his heart that the big fat fish in front of him was not so delicious, and he was afraid that he might let the fish bones be pierced if he was not careful, but Yu Zun would not give up easily. Yu Zun ordered the 5,000 cavalry to be divided into five divisions and take turns to attack the marching Ganrui army, making sure to slow them down.

The Gan Rui army is a well-trained army, and when the Yuzun cavalry flies over like flies, the Gan Rui army will divide the longbowmen and shoot straight at the small number of Yuzun cavalry, and then take turns to advance. In this case, both the Ganrui army and the Yuzun cavalry occasionally had soldiers fall to the ground with arrows, but the Ganrui army continued to march at a faster pace and continued to run towards the pond.

Yu Zun knew that he had to make a ruthless move, so he ordered all the 5,000 troops to attack, divided into three parts, and two parts to attack the left and right flanks of the Gan Rui army. The front team was even desperately dangling back and forth in front of the Ganrui army, trying to block the advance of the Ganrui army. Under Yu Zun's strict orders, the Fu cavalry launched fierce attacks on Gan Rui again and again, regardless of losses, and finally made Gan Rui's army stop.

The high chariots of the Ganrui army were lost at Yiquanwu, so they had to form a formation, and the shieldmen, crossbowmen, and longbowmen had to line up one by one in order to stop the stormy attack of the Fu cavalry. After the Gan Rui army spread out the formation, the losses quickly decreased, and thousands of divine crossbows and longbows were closely "shot". It is impossible for the 5,000 cavalry of the Fu family to inflict fatal damage on the Gan Rui army, but the Gan Rui army is unable to move at all.

Looking at the waves of Fu family cavalry outside the formation, Gan Rui's heart was full of remorse and hatred. He regretted that he was so reckless and underestimated the enemy, and he rashly sent troops to Henan without even knowing that Fu Hong's soldiers and horses had crossed the river, but he was caught off guard. If the cavalry generals of the Fu family on the opposite side had no rear hand, how could they attack themselves like this? It seems that he is waiting for the Fu family's brigade. From Luoyang, the infantry army marched south to rescue Yiyang.

The men and horses in his hands now are removed from the one that occupies the Huangchi land, and only three compartments are left. In addition, he lost nearly 1,000 people in the cavalry attack of the Fu family just now, if he waited until the Fu family's army arrived, his more than 7,000 people would be in danger. Only by retreating to Huangchi City, relying on the city can resist for a few days. Waiting for Zhao Zhao, who received his urgent report, to return to the reinforcements to answer him.

But how to withdraw now? Gan Rui's brows became more and more wrinkled, it is useless to regret it now, only to try to keep these more than 10,000 Liangzhou soldiers, if he didn't die here, he would go directly to Chang'an to ask the military master for his guilt. Watching the sky get darker and darker. Gan Rui knew that the opportunity had come.

Looking at the increasingly thick night, Yuzun became more and more anxious. It was dark, and his cavalry troops had no way to rush through the Jin army's arrow rain array, and after a day's road and an afternoon, the troops were exhausted from both men and horses. The sergeant couldn't pull the bow, and the mount ran slower and slower, and finally became the target of the Jin army.

Why hasn't the army of the auxiliary generals arrived yet? Yu Zun had no choice but to order his subordinates to stop attacking. Only a few cavalry were sent to monitor, and the rest of the brigade left the Jin army Sanli garrison. Yu Zun hopes that Gan Rui on the other side will stop and rest when he sees that he has stopped, so that the initiative is still on his side.

Gan Rui ordered again and again in the dark night, first ordering the soldiers and horses in the front two compartments to march immediately and rush towards Huangchi City, and the men and horses led by Li Tianzheng, the deputy general who volunteered, and Hou Ming, the commander of the front compartment, were behind. Holding the hands of Li Tianzheng and Hou Ming tightly, Gan Rui couldn't say a word, and finally could only squeeze two words: "Take care!" ”。 Then, surrounded by the guards, he rode his horse closely behind, and the two horses rushed towards Huangchi City.

After the break, Li Tianzheng and Hou Ming ordered their subordinates to scatter the tens of thousands of thistles carried by the army on the avenue and the wilderness at night. Then they formed a large square formation and slowly walked towards the Pond City.

Yu Zun heard the urgent report and hurriedly ordered the whole army to pursue immediately. The tired and hungry cavalry of the Fu family had already been disarmoured and unsaddled. I was about to have dinner when a military order came. The cavalry of the Fu family was busy for a while, and it took half an hour to finally get it straightened out, and then hungry and then chased the same thunderous mount to the west.

As soon as they had reached less than five miles, they heard the neighing of horses from time to time in the dark night, followed by the sound of crashing to the ground, and then the screams of cavalry. "Not good! Not good! There's thistle terrestris on the ground! Finally a striking cavalry shouted.

Hearing this, the cavalry of the Fu family couldn't help but slow down, in this black-lit environment, if you dare to ride a horse and gallop wildly, once you are very lucky, step on an iron thistle, then you and your mount fall lightly, gnaw a mouthful of mud, heavy or fall, but the horse breaks the leg and you break the neck, the end is very bleak.

Although Yu Zun hated it so much, he was helpless. Just as Yu Zun and his subordinates were cautiously walking through the "mine array", an earth-shattering shouting and killing sound suddenly sounded in the distance ahead, mixed with the screams of crying and shouting. Yu Zun listened to it and immediately knew that it was not good, I was afraid that his vanguard had been ambushed.

It turned out that there were about 500 people in the vanguard of the Fu family cavalry, and when they saw that the Jin army in front of them seemed to have fled, they were greedy for merit for a while, and they chased after them, preparing to catch up and capture hundreds of prisoners alive. But how far can Hou Ming's two legs run after the break? Moreover, the leaders Li Tianzheng and Hou Ming are both bold and emboldened. simply didn't do anything, ambushed on both sides of the avenue in front, and waited for the five hundred Fu family cavalry to rush over, and there was a rush of "shooting" on the left and right, and the "shooting" made the five hundred horsemen turn over on their backs, and the fart was rolling "urine". Then, when the five hundred cavalry were in a panic, nearly a thousand pu swords and sword players rushed up from behind, roared into the cavalry ranks, and then rushed left and right like a gust of wind. Immediately, the cavalry of the Fu family who were rushing in all directions were killed and lost their armor, and in the end, only dozens of horses ran back in despair.

Yuzun led the group of men and horses to easily pass the danger zone, but saw that these dozens of horses were like a pack of wild dogs that had been kicked out of the nest, standing in front with their heads down. Yu Zun took a look and didn't see the general who led the army, and it was estimated that he was already lying in the darkness in the distance. He couldn't even find the object of scolding, so Yu Zun had to sigh and wave his hand to let the dozens of horsemen return to the team. Then the brigade was ordered to remain vigilant and move on.

More than 3,000 cavalrymen raised their hearts to their throats, stared wide in the darkness, and slowly advanced, while carefully observing every move in front of them and around them, even if a mosquito flew in front of them, they had to take a few more glances. Let's see if it's a spy from the Jin army.

After tossing in the middle of the night, it seemed that he could faintly hear the rooster crow in the distance, but there was still nothing in front of him, and the Fu family cavalry, who had been nervous all night, was tired and hungry. Many of them were lying on their horses' necks to save some strength, but the horses under their seats were also very tired, and they were all snorting.

At this time, only a buzzing sound was heard suddenly breaking through the wind, and many cavalrymen struggled to straighten up, looking around with their "confused" eyes to find the source of the sound. The terrible screams finally woke up the half-asleep Fu cavalry, and they found that their colleagues in front of them had been hit by arrows. He was clutching his wound in pain and fell to the ground.

"There's an enemy attack!" The cavalry of the Fu family shouted one after another, and their voices seemed chaotic and noisy in the dark night. Yuzun yelled: "Don't be 'messy'! Don't mess around! Then the generals and leading officers at all levels hurriedly beckoned their subordinates and gathered their ranks. Panic in the dark is the worst enemy.

By the time the cavalry calmed down, the buzzing of arrows had disappeared into the air, and the whole night suddenly became silent, with only a few bugs screaming desperately. The Fu cavalry looked around more vigilantly, and the quieter it meant the more dangerous. But when the Fu family cavalry waited for a long time. But no arrow flew out. There are also no imaginary enemies.

It was finally dawn, and Yu Zun was depressed to find out. It is less than thirty miles away from Huangchi City, and it seems that Gan Rui's army has withdrawn to the city, and his plan is completely finished.

At this time, Fu Xiong led the 20,000 infantry troops who were late in the middle of the night due to the guide's mistake, and after listening to Yu Zundi's introduction, he immediately ordered the whole army to advance, preparing to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Ganrui army to attack the small Huangchi City in one fell swoop.

When the Fu family army rushed to the east of Huangchi City, Li Tianzheng and Hou Ming led the broken Xiang army just to the bottom of Huangchi City, and they didn't have time to enter the city. Blocking the Yuzun cavalry last night also made them tired, and they stopped fighting, so the march was not fast, and it was easy to hurry to the foot of Huangchi City, and the enemy army caught up again.

Li Tianzheng turned his head to Hou Ming and said, "Old Hou, it seems that we still have to stay behind the queen, so that the brothers can retreat to the city." ”

Hou Ming licked his lips that looked dry after not drinking water all night, and said hatefully: "These bastards of the Fu family, the old sons have dumped them all night. It seems that they are still going to come up and beg Lao Tzu for a knife, damn it, they won't let Lao Tzu go back to the city if they don't let Lao Tzu's knife open the meat! ”

Speaking of this, Hou Ming turned his head and shouted at the herald: "Line up according to the battalion, the rear battalion will enter the city first, the middle battalion will prepare to enter the city, and the front battalion will line up for Lao Tzu!" ”

Li Tianzheng then added: "Lao Hou, bring out all your Mo Dao team for me, and I will guard the last level with Mo Dao hands!" “

Hou Ming was stunned for a moment, and immediately shouted: "You want to rob me of a sale!" ”

Li Tianzheng still said calmly: "Lao Hou, who called Lao Tzu's official position higher than you!" Speaking of this, Li Tianzheng's tone became cold: "Commander Houdu, do you want to disobey the military order?" ”

Hou Ming's eyes turned red all of a sudden, and his voice was a little choked, but he still cheered up and said, "Count you ruthless!" You fucking rob Lao Tzu of the credit like this, you always want to press Lao Tzu! ”

Li Tianzheng smiled: "No way, who told you to kid and I will lag behind Lao Tzu after graduating from the first phase of Nanzheng Wubei Academy." Unless Lao Tzu is dead, you won't be able to catch up! ”

Hou Ming no longer paid attention to Li Tianzheng, turned his head and shouted at the front and middle camps behind him: "**** hand preparation, knife player preparation!" ”

At this time, seeing the situation clearly, Fu Xiong waved his hand, and five thousand Fu family archers stepped forward in line, facing Huangchi City is a rain of arrows, suppressing the Jin army on the city tower. And the five thousand Fu family infantry shouted. Rushed towards Hou Ming.

Hou Ming continued to roar: "Don't panic, calm down for Lao Tzu!" Listen to the command to release the arrows! With that, one of the longbowmen's hands went limp, and the string of the arrow was released with a thud, and the arrow flew out into the air.

Hou Ming jumped up all of a sudden: ", who?" Before I finished speaking, you let me go! ”

"Old Hou, forget it! The brothers were tired all night. I don't have much strength anymore. Li Tianzheng persuaded beside him.

Hou Ming nodded and continued to roar: "Tell you! No matter how much strength you have, you have to cheer up Lao Tzuqiang, and you can kill you as soon as you relax! Spirit points! ”

Speaking of this, Hou Ming took the lead in roaring, and the two thousand sergeants also roared,

"The Three Kingdoms will be brave. The first to recommend Zhao Zilong, the hero of Changsaka Slope,

Thousands of generals were retreated, and millions of soldiers were killed. Embrace Adou is peaceful.

There is also Zhang Yide, in front of Dangyang Bridge, etc., seven chirps clicked and clicked,

The bridge collapsed two or three holes, and the river was flattened, scaring away Cao Ying's millions of soldiers.

Yun Chang is fine in martial arts, warm wine and Huaxiong, and Meng De shows his majesty.

Five levels and six generals. The sister-in-law looked for the emperor's brother, and traveled thousands of miles with a single sword. ”

As soon as the words fell, Hou Ming then shouted: "'Shoot'!" Immediately, more than a thousand arrows flew forward with a buzz.

Soon, the 5,000 Fu family army and the 1,000 Jin army fought fiercely together, only to see knives and spears, and flesh and blood flying. The Jin army threw away the ****, holding a waist knife and strangled with the Fu family army. They roared loudly. Carry all your strength to the knife with that roar, and then slash viciously at the enemy on the opposite side. There is no future. There was no way back, only the enemy on the opposite side and the sword and spear in his hand; There was no rejoicing, no hesitation, the only thought was to cut the opponent to the ground, and then make up for it and hack him to death.

Both sides are elite warriors, and both sides are determined to win, except that one side must strive to break through the enemy's defenses in order to completely annihilate this enemy; The other side swore to hold every inch of its position, so that the comrades behind them could retreat safely into the city. Whether it is the Fuxiong Chinese army in the distance or the Ganrui army on the city tower, they can only use a rain of arrows when the two armies have not yet engaged in the battle to weakly help their comrades, and now there is no way to help their colleagues who are close at hand, and they can only use drums, trumpets and shouts to cheer up their colleagues who are fighting together!

After a fierce battle, the middle battalion had already retreated to the city one after another, and only one-third of the front battalion was left under the command of Hou Mingdi, and slowly retreated towards the city gate. Seeing this scene, Fu Xiong couldn't help but get anxious, his 5,000 men and horses lost more than 1,000 "life" lives but still couldn't break through the defense line of more than 1,000 Jin troops, and watched the more than 2,000 Jin troops behind him retreat safely to Huangchi City.

Yu Zun stepped forward and said, "General, let me lead the cavalry to make meritorious atonements." ”

Fu Xiong nodded in agreement.

When Yu Zun rushed forward with more than 3,000 cavalry who had rested for more than an hour, more than 3,000 Fu family infantry troops in front of him gave way one after another, so as not to accidentally injure innocents.

Li Tianzheng took advantage of this opportunity to stand forward with a Mo knife, and there were more than 300 men who were also holding Mo knives behind him.

While commanding the crowd to pick up the injured comrades-in-arms, pack up the weapons and arrows that were thrown on the ground and retreat to the city, Hou Ming shouted: "Li Tianzheng, remember to bring back Lao Tzu's Mo Dao Hand." ”

Li Tianzheng, who was standing at the front, did not answer, but raised the snowy Mo knife high with his right hand, and the sharp Mo knife went straight to the sky in the sun, as if it was about to pierce the sky.

In the blink of an eye, the faster and faster the Fu family cavalry got closer and closer to Li Tianzheng and the other three hundred Jin troops, seeing the Jin army standing there with a long knife and not moving, as if they were not rushing over on a horse, but riding a pig, the Fu family cavalry couldn't help muttering in their hearts, but their hands and feet did not stop. Since there were still their own friendly troops in front of them who were giving way, the Fu family cavalry did not open their bows and arrows, but just drew their long knives and prepared to split those frightened Jin troops into two pieces with one knife in the not very dense arrows flying down from the city tower.

At this time, Li Tianzheng roared, and at the same time took a step forward, the Mo knife in his hand swept forward, only to see a red "colored" silk cloth suddenly flying in the air, a hot smell quickly drifted away, and the sharp-eyed people would see a horse's head and half of the body flying backwards in the air, and a headless war horse carrying a cavalry with only the lower half of the body rushed forward a few steps, and then rushed forward, like two piles of mud stacked together.

At this time, more than 300 Mo swordsmen shot one after another, like huge waves rolling up on the coast, smashing the oncoming Fu family cavalry to pieces. The others only heard a strong wind swinging forward with the roar, and suddenly there was a neighing sound of horses, and hundreds of cavalrymen of the Fu family either had their heads cut off, or their heads flew sideways, or their bodies were cut in two, and when everyone came back to their senses, there were two or three hundred incomplete corpses in front of them.

At that moment, not only the later cavalry of the Fu family, but also those war horses felt a burst of fear, and they couldn't help but stop and neigh, as if their companions were broken in front of the neighing.

Li Tianzheng roared, walked forward a few steps, and then made another knife, and immediately split a Fu family cavalry company with horses that was pacing there into two, and the Mo knife hand behind him also stepped forward, waving his hand is a knife, and there were more than 100 corpses in the knife.

The stunned Fu family infantry next to him was suddenly awakened by the splashed blood, and ran away without saying a word, and immediately scattered the Fu family cavalry who were still rushing forward, and suddenly panicked.

Taking advantage of this time, Li Tianzheng took three hundred Mo swordsmen to retreat safely to Huangchi City under the cover of arrows on the city tower.

Seeing this, Fu Xiong couldn't help but grit his steel teeth, and ordered 20,000 soldiers to cut down trees and build siege equipment, and then began to divide 20,000 horses into three shifts in the afternoon to attack the rudimentary Huangchi City day and night.

Gan Rui led only more than 8,000 Liangzhou troops who were not fully prepared at all, relying on Huangchi City, which was only more than one zhang high, desperately resisting, and "shooting" with arrows without beating stones, and fighting with knives and guns after the arrows were finished, and pinching and kicking with hands and feet when the knives and guns were discounted, and biting with teeth when the hands and feet were inconvenient, so they fought for two days and two nights, until Yao Jin rushed to Huangchi City with 15,000 Qiang riders in a large circle.

Fu Xiong saw that he had lost 8,000 people inside and outside the army, although the attack on Huangchi City was precarious, and the Gan Rui army was also exhausted by himself, and he was not far from the rout, but when he heard that the Jin army had reinforcements coming, he knew that his subordinates were also Fu Xiong, who was at the end of the strong crossbow, and immediately led the army to retreat to Yiyang.

Yao Jin only led the army to aid the Gan Rui army, and saw that his army was fighting extremely miserably, so he didn't dare to stay away from the pursuing Fu Xiong army, so he stopped in Huangchi City.

Yes, the four-compartment infantry army brought out by Gan Rui rushed from Yiyang to Huangchi, and then defended in Huangchi City for two days, leaving less than two men and horses, with a loss of more than 7,000 people.

Looking at the corpses of his comrades-in-arms that had been packed all over the ground, he remembered the faces that were still dangling in front of him two days ago, but now he was lying there quietly, and he couldn't open his young eyes anymore even if the autumn wind was blowing and the sun was shining. Gan Rui, whose face was covered with blood, couldn't hold back any longer, and with the bloodstained and hole-riddled Red Star Army Flag, he fell to his knees with a puff and cried at the corpses of his comrades.