Chapter 493: It's saving people
At this point in the battle, Wang Rong finally dared to put on a pretending to be 13 with everything under control, and said in a very 13 style: "At this time, the commander of the Yu army should have come up with a reserve team to save people, but unfortunately it was expected by this commander.
Although Ben Shuai couldn't see it, at this time, Uluo's army had already moved towards the right flank of their central army from the eastern avenue, and the Yu thieves had no chance."
The soldiers said excitedly, "The Holy God is clever! Win all battles!"
"How can the dog thief of Yu Kingdom be the opponent of the saint......
Those who are literate said directly: "The Holy One is simply in the world for nothing, and Han Xin is reincarnated."
"What is the white Han Xin, where is the opponent of the saint!"
Wang Rong was a little fluttering when everyone patted the horses, and felt that this force had to be pretended to the end, so he immediately waved his hand and ordered: "Beat the drums and march forward!" I'm in charge myself."
The soldiers on the high platform in the rear received the order, excitedly played the order flag, the drummers of this formation began to beat the drum and trumpet order, and then the commander of the Chinese army began to move slowly forward with Wang Rong.
The drums were beating and cheering, and the handsome flag was marching westward, and everyone saw it, and the morale of the whole army rose to a higher level for a while.
Originally, after the first four formations of the Tang army were replaced by the last four formations, the Tang troops in the first four formations suffered heavy casualties and were exhausted, and Wang Rong ordered them to rest in place first as a backup.
As a result, after seeing Wang Rong's Daxu Banner advancing westward, and the saint personally went to the front line of the position, the morale was greatly shaken, and the soldiers asked for battle, and after asking for instructions, the whole army continued to follow up and pursued and oppressed the Henan army to the east.
Wang Rong rode on a war horse, wearing two layers of armor, under the escort of many personal soldiers, and then the army marched forward, with great momentum, the huge banner moved forward with him under the arch of many banners, and for a time the Tang army was like a rainbow, and rushed forward with a roar.
Seeing the movement of the Chinese army, Wuluo and Li Sujie, who had already made a detour back to the north, also marched south and began to compress the surrounded Yu army.
A large number of Yu soldiers were constantly compressed into space, and they were constantly shot along the way.
Subsequently, Wang Rong issued two more orders, one of which was to order all units of the Tang Army to flank the Yu army from all directions.
However, before he gave the order, before the herald was sent out, someone came from the east to report to him, and Wuluo found that the Chinese army of the Yu army was in chaos, and had led the army to take the opportunity to attack, repelled the Yu army that was still defending, and was attacking to the west, attacking the Yu army from the east, and sent someone to report to him.
Because Wang Rong's previous order to the generals of the Tang Army was to let them wait for the opportunity to act according to the situation, he did not expect that his subjective initiative was so strong, and his judgment of the situation was very accurate.
Wang Rong was very happy, and it was easy to bring the generals who could fight to fight, and he asked the herald to go over and tell the generals of the Tang army that after breaking the broken troops of the Yu army, they would encircle them from the west to prevent the Yu army from escaping to the west, and the enemy who fled north did not care, and they wanted to encircle and annihilate the trapped Yu army with the main force.
Immediately issued a second order, exterminate all the soldiers of the Yu Kingdom! Those who want to surrender can be asked to surrender first to reduce the pressure of the encirclement, but kill as many as possible if they can, and leave no one behind.
At this time, the Yu army in the north was being pursued by Wuluo, and the exhausted main force of the Yu army was surrounded by them, and the defeat of the Yu State was decided.
Wang Rong looked at the fields in the distance, there were dense Tang army infantry horses everywhere, some cavalry of the Xiao cavalry had occupied the Yu army camp in the west, and the west was full of sparse remnants of the Yu army, they were considered to have successfully escaped, Wang Rong ignored their work.
The main cavalry of Wuluo had already pursued further north, and a large number of cavalry guards were following a large number of banners from the field avenues on both sides to cross the Yu army camp to the north.
Wang Rong was not afraid of going deep alone, because there were still ambushes of the Tang army in the direction of Lu Hun, and the main force of Yu State had been besieged by them. But there were only some of the servants and ministers and generals of the Marquis of Suiyang of Yu.
But Wang Rong doesn't care, if he can catch up, he will catch up, and catching up with Wei Hua, the Marquis of Suiyang, Yuguo, is Wuluo's great achievement, and it doesn't matter if he can't catch up, his focus is different from everyone else, and he cares more about destroying the other party's living force.
If you save people and lose land, people and land will survive, and if you save land and lose people, people and land will be lost. He never believed in the heroic view of history, and Yu was a country with weak comprehensive national strength at this time, and it was still declining
In the period of decline, he has not reached the point of death and the destruction of the country, even if he kills his emperor, can he change anything?
Wang Rong felt that he couldn't, the national strength of Yuzhou was there, the hearts of the people of Yuzhou were still cohesive, and the strength of the emperor was still there, maybe a new emperor would be better than the current one. On the contrary, the people who eliminate them are the fundamental blow to the national strength of the Yu State.
As the main battlefield, the large fields and woods have been filled with mountains of corpses at this time, rivers of blood, and everywhere are gunsmoke and stumps and broken arms, armor and broken flags.
The sun had begun to set in the west, and the smell of blood in the wind could not be suppressed, but after a day's baptism, Wang Rong's nose had already become accustomed to it.
I don't know how many corpses will lie here today, he didn't count, but there must be a lot, the soldiers are chasing and advancing on the pile of corpses, and the Yu army, which has lost its organization, is constantly compressed and shot.
As the encirclement gradually narrowed, the soldiers on all sides could already see each other's flags, knew that friendly troops were fighting side by side, and their morale was higher, so they shouted to kill and moved forward.
The huge encirclement is also gradually clear with the shrinking space, the southeast is Wang Rong's Chinese army, he personally sits in the town, Zhang Yunshu headed the staff department for the general dispatch of the generals, Wang Mao, Wuluo, Meng Sheng, Yuan Tiangang, Wang Tan, Meng Qiong and other generals personally led the troops, and the Tang army infantry elite composition.
To the east is the eastern army from Yique Pass, and the Tang army around it forced the remnants of the Yu army to the city of Yique Pass, while to the south is the strong city wall of Yique Pass that is several miles long and several zhang high, and there are highly organized defenders at the head of the city.
The reason why I say the remnants of the army is because at this time the Yu army has been separated from their headquarters, completely routed, and no one is organized, but the number of these remnants is not small, and the dense Yu army is close to 10,000 people.
Along the way, they were constantly shot by the surrounding Tang army with bows and crossbows, and soon the dense crowd of people was trapped under the walls of Yique Pass, and the defenders at the head of the city began to kill the dense Yu army with bows and crossbows, and the crossbowmen pushed the crossbow carts up and fired rockets and crossbow arrows into the pile, and the tragic slaughter began.
The Yu army also tried to counterattack, but the unorganized and undisciplined counterattack was completely ineffective and was quickly extinguished.
There were also Yu troops who tried to surrender and sent soldiers to shout, but Wang Rong's order had already been given, and no one showed mercy.
A large number of arrows and rolling wood and stones at the head of the city were shot at the city, and the Yu army quickly lost its strength in the screams and wails.
For the first time, Wang Rong felt that he might be the biggest butcher of this era, but he didn't care, he still wanted to kill.
Yu was different from the local regimes after the division of Bashu.
The first is that it is strong, and against a strong enemy, only a war of annihilation is an effective blow.
He was able to put Bashu back, because Wang Rong knew that if he let them go back, they would not be enough to threaten the Tang Dynasty, but would be able to promote his benevolence and prestige.
But Yu is different, Yu will not dare to go west into Guanzhong because of such a defeat, an emperor of Yu once had 100,000 troops almost defeated, he still dared to continue to lead the army to the west one after another, and finally hit near Chang'an, plundering hundreds of people in Guanzhong.
Moreover, after such a big defeat, a local regime like Bashu can almost lose the country, but Yu will not, at most, it will not dare to send troops at will within ten years.
Wang Rong is actually a utilitarian, not a moralist, his morality is in the service of utilitarianism, and if there is no threat and he can still promote his reputation and show his benevolence, he is willing to let people live.
But if benevolence, righteousness and morality cannot show the people and make the people come to the same place, and the other party is a great threat, he is more willing to destroy the living force and reduce the enemy's strength, then kill them all!
It is impossible for such a big country as Yu to make them grateful for their disintegration by releasing prisoners of war, so Wang Rong thought about it from the beginning, killing as many as he could, hitting their strength, reducing their national strength, and making them afraid and afraid.
The siege lasted for several hours, until the sky gradually darkened, and the city of Yique Pass was already full of blood, and the corpses were piled up like a mountain, and the mountain of corpses was several meters high
Shout and ask for help.
He comforted himself in his heart, today the main force of Yu must be destroyed here, in the future, he will have time to clean up Yu country, unify the Central Plains, and fight against the four countries of Jing, Yi, Xu, and Yue......
In this way, the guilt in his heart will be much less.
At night, the Tang troops lit torches on all sides, and the smell of blood and the tragic scene made many recruits vomit on the spot, and at this time only a few hundred people in the city were still on the pile of corpses, and they completely gave up the struggle, and sat numb and paralyzed waiting for death.
Wang Rong ordered the men to come forward, pick out the youngest twenty men, give them food, water and horses, let them go back, and ordered all the remaining Yu troops to be executed.
When they were brought to face Wang Rong, the twenty men trembled with fright, prostrate themselves on the ground, and some of them shouted words like begging for his life.
Wang Rong ignored it, but slowed down his speech so that they could understand his words, and said loudly, "Don't worry, I won't kill you. Go back and tell your people what happened here, your officials, your emperors; Tell them what I said, if they dare to go west in the future, it will be like today."
After speaking, Wang Rong said to the soldiers around him: "Send people, send a lot of people, and protect them back to Bianliang, the soldiers are in chaos, don't let them die."