Chapter 33: The Decisive Battle of Qinghe (4)
When Zhang Yan retreated, nearly 20,000 officers and troops and the Yellow Turban Army in the Ping'an Ridge Pass were also fighting bloodily, and Zhang Liang ordered his subordinates to be divided into two classes, one to resist the officers and soldiers, and the other to eat and rest.
Zhang Ning looked at the tragic battle situation in the mountain pass, his heart was infinitely desolate, Zhang Jiao just now, the Yellow Turban Army was like this, and there were only more than 1,000 people left in the pro-military camp, and they were still fighting with the officers and soldiers in front, and they didn't know how much they could survive.
One of Zhang Liang's personal soldiers brought corn porridge to Zhang Ning, and then retreated, Zhang Ning didn't even look at it, just continued to pay attention to the battle situation in the mountain pass, and occasionally missed the man, thinking, if that man was here, would everything be different?
Zhang Liang had dinner with his soldiers, and when he saw that the attack on the mountain pass was fierce, he immediately sent his men to support. Under the command of Liu and Zhao, the official army of Yamaguchi desperately attacked the position of the Yellow Turban Army at Yamaguchi, and the battle situation was extremely tragic, and when the defending Yellow Turban Army was about to be unable to withstand it, the reinforcements sent by Zhang Liang came up, and the morale of the Yellow Turban Army was greatly boosted for a while, and a part of the soldiers went down to eat and rest.
When the officers and soldiers saw that this wave of attacks was about to fail again, and were about to retreat, the Yellow Turban Army who had just taken the position fell to the ground and covered their stomachs and vomited, which was extremely painful, and the Yellow Turban Army on the position was in turmoil for a while. The Yellow Turban Army on the position collapsed in an instant.
On the hill not far away, Zhang Liang covered his stomach and kept vomiting and convulsions, Zhang Ning was stunned when he saw this scene not far away, and he was at a loss for a while, at this moment, another group of officers and troops on the distant mountain, the number of about four or five thousand people killed the generals, it was the remnants of Cui Xiu, the entire Ping'an Ridge Yellow Turban Army was suddenly in chaos, there was no command, it was attacked back and forth, and it collapsed instantly.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Ning quickly got up and ran towards the Zhang Jiao soldiers who had just withdrawn, there were less than a thousand Zhang Jiao's soldiers left, and when he saw Zhang Ning coming, his morale was suddenly boosted, no matter what, he had the backbone, and the courage to kill the enemy increased a lot. However, for the battlefield of Ping'an Ridge, it is really not enough to turn the tide, there are wolves in front and tigers in the back, and the Yellow Turban Army is in chaos.
Cui Xiu constantly cheered up his subordinates, and the wolf poison was very powerful, and the soldiers knew a little bit about it, and when they saw many Yellow Turban soldiers falling to the ground and convulsing in pain, their hearts were very happy, and they were not stunned when they saw blood like before.
Zhang Ning commanded his own soldiers to break through in the direction of Cui Xiu, but Cui Xiu's subordinates were extremely obscene, more than 4,000 people, wrapped into five large regiments and not separated, just blocking the way, and when the Yellow Turban Army approached, they immediately rotated and attacked in turn, and they were helpless for a while. Cui Xiuxin is very proud, he can be regarded as a wise general, he used poison to destroy more than 10,000 Yellow Turban Army, and now he has successfully blocked the retreat of the Yellow Turban Army with 4,000 miscellaneous soldiers.
When there was chaos in Ping'an Ridge, Huangfu Song broke through the Yellow Turban Army camp, leaving 20,000 soldiers to destroy the remnants of the enemy, and personally led 10,000 infantry to quickly pursue Zhang Yan, killing Zhang Yan all the way to retreat, losing troops and generals, when arriving at the Ping'an Ridge Pass, he found that the battle in the mountain pass was fierce, so he rushed to the mountain pass with men and horses, and Huangfu Song chased after him
The whole Ping'an Ridge was struck by the sound of killing, the official army and the Yellow Turban Army were mixed into a large area in the narrow space of the river valley, the south side of the valley was Huangfu Song's army blocking the mountain pass, and the north side of the river valley was Cui Xiu's 4,000 local army, and the two generals Zhang Yan, Zhang Liang, Zhang Ning and the official army Liu and Zhao were sandwiched in between.
Huangfu Song is ruthless today, no matter how much it costs, he must also annihilate this wave of Yellow Turban Army and kill Zhang Liang, otherwise not only Jizhou will have endless troubles, but he will also face the impeachment of his colleagues in the imperial court, and those idiots will not look at the process but only the result. Therefore, the officers and soldiers received the death order and frantically attacked the Yellow Turban Army, and the Yellow Turban Army also resisted desperately in order to escape for their lives.
However, the Yellow Turban Army was leaderless, Zhang Liang fell to the ground poisonously, life and death are unknown, and more than half of the Yellow Turban Army soldiers are also poisoned to the ground. The only thing that has some organizations is the nearly 1,000 personal soldiers led by Zhang Ning, who are struggling to break through, but unfortunately Cui Xiu arranged more than 4,000 officers and troops like a few big hedgehogs leaning together, sealing the already not spacious river valley.
Zhang Yanjun was defeated all the way, there were more than 10,000 officers and soldiers of Liu and Zhao in front of him, and Huangfu Song chased and killed behind, and the remnants of the soldiers in his hands were less than 8,000. After Zhang Yanjun lost the command of the main general, it completely collapsed in less than a quarter of an hour, and after the pressure of General Liu Zhao was greatly reduced, the whole army rushed towards the remnants of Zhang Liang's army, and the last resistance of the Yellow Turban Army was crushed and collapsed.
At this critical moment, Zhuang Shaoyou galloped from outside the river valley with more than 1,000 cavalry, saw Cui Xiu's officers and troops from a distance, immediately stopped and quickly took out a bow and arrow to shoot, Cui Xiu's formation was against the Yellow Turban Army in the valley, there was no defense behind it, it was impossible to know that there was a Yellow Turban Army behind, the quality of the soldiers was not high, and after being defeated in two circles, he finally couldn't resist it, let go of the valley road, and fled to both sides.
After Zhang Ning led thousands of soldiers to see Zhuang Shaoyou, he was ecstatic, and then fainted. Seeing this, Zhuang Shaoyou hurriedly patted his horse forward, picked up Zhang Ning, put him on the horse, and then asked the soldiers about the current battle situation, knowing that the time was pressing, he immediately took a cadre and others to leave quickly, and the soldiers accelerated on foot in front of the retreat, and the cavalry was suppressed with bows and arrows, and slowly withdrew from the Ping'anling River Valley.
Zhuang Shaoyou walked with the walking soldiers not fast, out of the Ping'an Ridge after only twenty miles of noon, the group found a place on the hill to bury the pot to make rice, boiled horse jerky, ate happily, quite a feeling of the rest of the life.
After a morning of fierce fighting in Ping'an Ridge, the official army finally cleared all the remnants of the recalcitrant Yellow Turban Army in the valley, captured thousands of people, Zhang Liang was captured in a coma, and was later identified, Huangfu Song was overjoyed to see that Zhang Liang was captured, but after hearing Cui Xiu's report, his color immediately became gloomy again.
It's that teenage demon again! Insert a horizontal bar, otherwise Zhang Jiao's daughter won't be able to run!
Huangfu Song pondered for a moment and praised Cui Xiu's merits, and then sent people to Hejian and Bohai County to contact reinforcements, wanting to capture Zhuang Shaoyou and Zhang Ning and others. Since then, no one dares to approach Ping'an Ridge, and the name of the nearby people is called: Demon Ridge, which is gloomy in broad daylight.
Soon after, Zhang Liang was half-dead and escorted to Luoyang, where he was executed by Ling Chi.
After a day and a half of fierce fighting, except for a small number of remnants of the Yellow Turban Army of Guangzong who escaped, 40,000 people from Zhang Jiao's division and 70,000 people from Zhang Liang's army were all annihilated. The leader of the Yellow Turban Army, Tiangong General Zhang Jiao, died of illness, and Rengong General Zhang Liang was captured in a coma. Zhuang Shaoyou and Zhang Ning escaped with 1,200 cavalry and 800 personal soldiers, and Zhang Yan escaped with more than 100 cronies and disappeared. The official army Huangfu Song lost nearly 30,000 people, and the Anping County Taishou Cui Xiu's department lost 8,000.
After lunch, Huangfu Song took Liu Zhao and more than 20,000 officers and soldiers to continue to pursue Zhuang Shaoyou, 20,000 officers and troops south of Ping'an Ridge blocked the banks of the Qing River, pursued the fleeing Yellow Turban Army and Zhang Yan, and Cui Xiu, the commander of Anping County, withdrew to Xindu to defend the county with more than 2,000 remnants.
After Zhuang Shaoyou, Zhang Ning and the others had eaten, they rested for a while, and Zhang Ning threw himself into Zhuang Shaoyou's arms and cried: "Brother Shaoyou, I'm sorry, if I had listened to you, I wouldn't have had so much trouble if I had escaped earlier, it's all my fault." ”
Zhuang Shaoyou shook his head and looked into the distance and said slowly: "The underworld has its own days, and I can't blame you entirely, if you and I leave first, we can naturally save ourselves, but your father's tens of thousands of subordinates are you just abandoned?" It is also a good thing that at least these more than 800 pro-soldiers can be rescued now, otherwise their fate will be the same as that of others in this Ping'an Ridge.
However, as a general, the most taboo is to be emotional, impulsively on the battlefield will harm others and yourself, as a general, when making a decision, you must calmly consider it all, and think carefully about what consequences your decision will bring to the soldiers who follow you? Is it because of your impulsiveness that many of them have lost their lives? As a general, you have to be responsible for your own soldiers, so that they will die for you and will not abandon you at a critical moment. ”
Zhang Ning listened silently, his heart was still sad.
At this moment, the subordinate in charge of the guard quickly came to report: "Report to the general, the officers and troops outside Ping'an Ridge are marching in the direction of our army, and they will arrive here in half an hour." ”
"Oh, got it. The whole army listened to the order and immediately set off in full gear and set off in the northeast direction! ”
Half an hour later, Zhuang Shaoyou took the men and horses to the stone bridge captured yesterday, at this time both sides of the stone bridge was still a mess, the corpses of many officers and soldiers were not collected, yesterday's rout fled back to nearby Zaoqiang County, but the county town had no troops to send, so it has been empty.
Zhuang Shaoyou's face was expressionless, and with an order, he led the team to quickly cross the stone bridge and arrive at the other side of the Qing River. But then I thought that if it was a wooden bridge, it was estimated that it would be burned by the official army yesterday, and I wouldn't be able to get over!
After crossing the bridge, Zhuang Shaoyou discussed the next step with Zhang Ning and Zhou Cang Luolin. The current location of the people is on the east bank of the Qinghe River, at the junction of Bohai County and Qinghe County, and Zaoqiang County is five miles on the west bank of the Qinghe River. One hundred and fifty miles south of here, crossing the Yellow River is Yanzhou, which needs to cross the southern part of Qinghe County and Pingyuan County;
One hundred and twenty miles to the southeast, cross the Yellow River to reach Qingzhou, and need to pass through the northeast of Pingyuanjun; To the northeast along the Qinghe River is Bohai County, leading to the sea; On the west bank of the Qinghe River is Anping County, and Huangfu Song's officers and troops are still chasing behind, so the west of the river is not considered. Due to the large number of people and the fact that there were sycophants, it was not easy to cross the Yellow River, so it was decided to go to Bohai County in the northeast.