Chapter 382: Bazhou Spring Rain
In the spring of Huainan, the rain is abundant, the cold is soaked into the bone marrow, and after the misty green mountains, a long queue looms in the mountains...... Judging from the flag, this is the department of He Ruobi who abandoned the Lujiang River and moved eastward four days ago.
The continuous light rain not only poured cold the boiling blood, but also broke the indomitable momentum, if it wasn't still wearing armor, I must have thought that this was a group of homeless people who robbed their homes.
He Ruobi knew that the successive defeats and the embarrassing transfer of battles had made the morale of the sergeants fall to the brink of collapse. He was also secretly blaming himself, because the defeat of the army was ultimately due to his unfavorable command, which gave Huang Fayan the opportunity to crush him like a lost dog, and he also reflected a lot along the way, but as far as the current situation is concerned, he really can't come up with any good way to save morale.
The only thing he could do was to dismount and walk in the rain like a soldier, hoping that the generals would be concentric, and he would just turn a blind eye to someone sneaking away along the way...... Those who will stay will naturally stay, and those who are unwilling to stay will not sell their lives, but fortunately, the majority of those who stayed, more than 6,000 people in the whole army, and only 64 people escaped.
Finally arrived at a village, He Ruobi only let the weak soldiers settle in, and he took the young man to settle at the entrance of the village, the army set up tents, laid bricks and stoves, and everyone's faces were a little lively.
In the evening, the scouts who had been sent out to observe the terrain returned to the camp to report: "General, we have left Yingshan, and there is Ba Shui in front!" ”
"Hmm." At this time, He Ruobi was sitting with a group of soldiers, and did not deliberately avoid it, so the military situation also made everyone understand, everyone's faces were filled with joy, He Ruobi immediately smiled: "After Ba Shui and a few more ridges, it will be Qi'an, then let the army have a good rest, everyone will be relaxed, if you want to drink and eat meat, you can take care of it, I will pay for it!" ”
“…… The general is righteous! The crowd burst into laughter, and it took a few days of rapid marching through the reckless mountains, and everyone was exhausted, and some people fell along the way, and this sense of mental and physical torture was not something ordinary people could imagine, and at this time only wine and meat could sweep away their full of depression and indignation, and when they heard that the wine and meat were enough, everyone's eyes were refracted like a wolf.
"Is there really enough wine and meat?" In the crowd, half of the eldest son salivated and asked, and was elbowed by the veteran at that time, and scolded: "What you are asking, our general is a person who has eaten the imperial banquet, and the voice is heard by the heavens, and the characters who are loud in front of the Son of Heaven will be crowned kings and princes in the future, such a good man and a great husband, can still lie to you?" Does our general lack your hundreds of jars of wine? ”
He Ruobi made a gesture to give him a violent shudder, "Hey, what the hell are you, hundreds of jars of wine?" You regard my home as a palace?! If you want to drink and go to the king of Liyang, the surname is Gao, Gao Qi is high, but he is the king of the eight classics. So the ** immediately transferred the firepower to Gao Jing'an's body, and made a noise about wine and meat, Gao Jing'an escaped from death, he was in a good mood, and he promised casually.
The cheers grew louder and louder.
He Ruobi bit the dry food on the one hand, and cast a grateful look at the King of Liyang on the other, Gao Jingan sighed and smiled silently, and sat in place...... He Ruobi needs to motivate the fighting spirit of the soldiers, and he can help if he can, but it's just some wine and meat.
After marching in the rain day and night for a few days, he, the king of the sect, was already full of despair, how could the king of Liyang, who had been clothed and fed since childhood, suffer like this? I don't want to have a second encounter like this.
To help others is to help yourself!
The army rested for a day, ate and drank enough, until noon the next day, although Qi'an County still has a long way to go, but after a day's rest, the morale of the army is still full, and no one complains, according to the calculation of the road, as long as the river is crossed, the rapid march will arrive at Qi'an in less than two days, here is next to the Dabie Mountains in the southeast, there are few people, it stands to reason that the road should be smooth, but just after crossing Ba Shui, the scout in front came to report urgently:
"General, there is a group of cavalry in front of you, chasing our defeated army!"
"—so fast?" He Ruobi was shocked, you must know that this is already the boundary of Hengzhou, and a few days ago, Chen Jun was only wandering in Bazhou and Luozhou, could it be that Hengzhou has already been lost?
He Ruobi's face was disgraced, if the Jiangbei Prefectures were declared lost so quickly, then even if he came all the way to come, he would be completely helpless, how could Chen Jun be so fast? He Ruobi looked around, and found that all the generals had panicked in their eyes, and pulling the mountain to fight would inevitably collapse at one touch, so he could only grit his teeth and say stubbornly: "The king will bring the soldiers for me first, and I will go back to see it!" ”
After that, he picked up more than 100 horsemen and went straight to the direction of the witness. As soon as He Ruobi arrived, he knew that it was just a team of southern soldiers chasing and killing a Qi general, and there was no large-scale troops and horses around, He Ruobi pressed the long lance forward, and ordered loudly, "Forward, attack!" ”。
A shout was drowned out by the fierce sound of horses' hooves. More than 100 remaining elite cavalry soldiers all crossed their swords, bowed their bodies, and probed the blades into a death wing on their sides and rushed up the hill to intercept and kill the enemy.
The screams were endless, and the southern soldiers were just about to turn around and fight, He Ruobi ordered the crossbowmen to line up and shoot, shooting off the horses one by one...... The ground was full of dead bodies, the ground was also red, and in the distance, a veteran covered in blood stood in place surrounded by his own soldiers, with a look of joy on his face for the rest of his life.
"Who are you?!" He Ruobi asked first, the cavalry slowly pressed forward, and the crossbowmen did not dare to relax, and pointed all the arrows at these people who appeared inexplicably and were inexplicably pursued and killed by Chen Jun.
The veteran had already realized that the situation was not right by hearing, so he stopped fleeing in time, stood motionless, and waited for Chen Bing to be intercepted and killed, then raised his head, looked through the dust, and was stunned for a while. Then he pushed away his own soldiers and staggered forward:
"General He Ruo, I'm Lu Qian, the assassin of Bazhou!"
"Lu Tingshi, how did you get here? Could it be that the state of Murphy has been lost? ”
He Ruobi hurriedly dismounted, secretly saying bad luck in his heart, first Gao Jingan, Zhang Yuanfan, and then Lu Qian, how did he encounter these decrepit boys who were not successful enough?
It's good that he didn't mention it, as soon as he mentioned it, Lu Qian immediately choked up like crying, beat his chest and howled:
"I fought a big battle with Zhou Jiong on the bank of Ba Shui, thousands of soldiers were beheaded, the city of Bazhou was broken, and the soldiers and civilians were killed and injured countless times...... The soldiers and horses of the Western Front of the Southern Dynasty have crossed Jiangxia and Wuchang, and Lu only hates now, why didn't he die on the bank of the Bashui River the day before yesterday! Lu is ashamed of the court and His Majesty! ”