Miao Bo rushed out with 4,000 men.

After all, it is an army of economic control, and of course it is fought in a neat queue.

The strength of the enemy army has already been glimpsed in yesterday's offensive and defensive battles, in fact, it is just a peasant soldier pulled from the field, which has killed the desperate strength of the rogues.

In fact, he wanted to take the initiative yesterday.

Since ancient times, if there is no outlying stronghold, echoing the main city, and the defenders do not dare to go out of the city to meet the attack, it will generally be very difficult to defend.

The enemy's siege engines could not be burned.

Arrows cannot be recovered.

They cannot take advantage of the failure of the siege to effectively kill and injure their personnel.

Not to mention the night raids that prevented him from sleeping.

Sticking to it is definitely a big taboo!

Miao Bo is familiar with military books and has led soldiers, although he has never fought, he still knows this.

So, after seeing the enemy retreating in a chaotic manner, he overrode public opinion and led the army to attack, striving to break the enemy in a battle, capturing and beheading 10,000 or even tens of thousands of people.

At that time, when the news reaches the palace, how happy he should be!

After the army left the city, they chased hundreds of paces, and when the broken thieves saw it, they only resisted for a moment, and then scattered in a hurry, fleeing for their lives.

Miao Bo laughed and said, "A casual thief will collapse at the first touch, and it will be easy to break." ”

And at this time, the originally tight pursuit formation slowly scattered in the process of advancing.

There is no other reason, there is a lot of money on the ground.

When the first person couldn't help but bend down to pick it up, soon there was a second person who did the same.

The thieves also abandoned a lot of livestock.

Several Praetorian soldiers rushed to the horses, scrambling for them.

Others jumped on the cart and rummaged through the carriage in search of belongings.

It doesn't matter if you don't have time to rummage through the carriage, just untie the car cover and lead the cow pulling the cart away.

The whole scene was chaotic, for example, the enemy retreated even more chaotically.

Miao Bo subconsciously felt that something was wrong, his face turned pale, and he reprimanded: "Order, those who pick up property without authorization will be killed." ”

The soldiers turned their horses and were about to give orders, but they saw the smoke and dust in front of them, and a large group of thieves rushed along the post road to kill them.

At this time, in the mountains and forests on the left and right, there were also thieves shouting and rushing down.

Liu Ling used all the old foundations, and thousands of people besieged them from three sides, killing the forbidden army by surprise.

"Miao!" Liu Ling held a heavy halberd in his hand, jumped out of the mountainside, and went straight down the mountain along the path.

"Bang!" The halberd seemed to be a light toy in his hand, and when he waved it casually, it sank with great force, and everyone who was swept to the ground screamed and fell to the ground.

Miao Bo was already stunned, and the only thought in his mind was: It's over, it's over!

Liu Ling was wearing heavy armor, and his halberd opened and closed widely, and he instantly knocked down more than ten soldiers of the forbidden army, and went straight in the direction of Miao Bo.

The people on the battlefield looked a little stupid, they had never seen such a powerful person.

The hundreds of soldiers behind him, chanting the slogan of the Heavenly Master's Dao, fought bravely and were invincible.

The outer front soon collapsed, and Liu Ling was only a few dozen steps away from Miao Bo.

"Whoosh!" A stray arrow flew in, and the horse's front hooves went limp, and he fell to his knees.

Miao Bo came back to his senses with a startled cry and immediately turned to run.

As soon as he fled, the non-commissioned officers of the Forbidden Army, who had planned to resist twice, suddenly collapsed and fled in all directions.

Liu Ling chased after him, with hundreds of personal soldiers, biting Miao Bo's subordinates to the death.

Miao passed through the city gate and rushed into the Yuyuan Pass.

Liu Ling chased him out of the door.

Miao Bo did not stop, and rushed directly to the rear of Guancheng.

Liu Ling rushed into the city with his own soldiers.

Miu Bo took a horse and galloped away with a whip.

Liu Ling was so angry that he asked the cavalry to hurry up and chase and kill, not to stop.

Behind Liu Ling, more and more thieves came back and poured into Yuyuan Pass like a tide, and no one could stop them.

Guancheng, fallen.

******

"On April 20, Yu Xiangcheng broke the thief army Wang Leprosy's department, beheaded more than 3,000 of his soldiers, captured 4,000 people, and the leper was only spared."

"On the 21st, there were 8,000 people in the Zhang brothers' department."

"On the 22nd, he was re-broken and beheaded more than ten people below his generals. More than 3,000 enemies were captured in two battles, and 2,800 were beheaded. ”

Within three days, the Southern Route Army, with the Silver Spear Army as the main force, fought four consecutive battles in the Rushui area, beheaded more than 6,000 people in total, captured more than 7,000 people, and the rest fled.

After this time, the thieves who were dazed and doing "Brownian motion" finally calmed down, and they stayed away from this place one after another, either returning to Yingchuan or going south to Runan, but most of them still followed Wang Mi to the north.

Wang Mi can't control everyone, the "joining" bandit leaders have their own ideas, and he doesn't bother to care, just hold on to the tens of thousands of people who can be controlled. Unexpectedly, under Shao Xun's series of blows, the thieves went north one after another and took the initiative to follow the "General Zhengdong", which has to be said to be very ironic.

"Give Huang Biao an order and lead the reserve team to sweep along Rushui. There are many remnants of the enemy scattered outside, so don't let them get close to Luyang, Guangchengze, and Liangxian. If the enemy can be retracted, it will be retracted, and if it cannot be retracted, there is no doubt about attacking it. On the way to Yushanwu, Shao Xun gave the messenger an order.

The messenger repeated the story and then took the command.

Shao Xun shook the horse's belly and rushed forward.

On the drizzle-soaked country roads, high-spirited armies marched.

The captives and captured belongings had been handed over to the reserves, and now they were again lightly armed.

In addition to the auxiliary soldiers of the Silver Spear Army, the government soldiers, and the Hebei Army, there were more than 2,000 "righteous servant" warriors with various equipment in the ranks, most of whom were Xiangcheng brave young men and rangers who voluntarily followed, and the rest were mostly powerful servants and released prison prisoners who were levied in Xiangcheng and Jiacheng.

A force cannot only have elite soldiers, but also a large number of miscellaneous soldiers.

In a battle, even if the enemy only fights you a few times, you can't hold on and retreat. But in the process, you can't shoot from a distance with a strong bow and a hard crossbow, and you can't fight in close combat.

Even if you're wearing iron armor, you won't be able to resist the hard slashing of a blunt weapon in close combat.

No matter how well you cover it, a powerful crossbow can fire a few arrows at a time, and it will be easy to pierce multiple iron-armored samurai to the ground.

The strong bow shoots at close range, and the iron armor can't stop the bow and arrow, let alone others can shoot at the door.

In the dense formation, the lethality is particularly terrifying.

Even if you hit a mythical casualty ratio of 1 to 10 or even 100, and kill and capture 10,000 enemy soldiers, the number of your casualties will not be less than one or two hundred.

The blade will be dull when it hits.

Elite soldiers, killing and killing, will be consumed, if there is no time to replenish.

At this time, miscellaneous troops or second-line troops are crucial.

If it weren't for the distrust of the newly captured Wang Mi thieves, Shao Xun would have already selected some of the strong to add in.

It's nice to have righteousness join in from the samurai.

With these two thousand people as the vanguard, everywhere they went, there were all brave thieves, and at this time, there was no need to consume the precious silver spear soldiers, after all, even if they pursued and defeated the enemy, there would be casualties.

On the afternoon of the 24th, the army approached Yushanwu, and Wang Sangbu, after hearing of their arrival, fled north in a hurry. After some pursuit, the fort retreated.

"Junhou, Yushanwu is fortunate to have nothing to lose." Li Zhong came down from the mountain and reported respectfully.

"You're playing well." Shao Xun patted him on the shoulder and said, "With more than 5,000 soldiers, tens of thousands of thieves have been killed, and many people have been killed, which is good." Do you have any insights? ”

Li Zhong groaned and said, "Against these thieves who don't care about human life, it's best to fight with them. Attacking and defending the city allowed it to give full play to its advantages, and this time Yushanwu was trapped by them. If the prince does not come, they will have to hold on for many days until they can no longer bear the casualties. ”

"Not bad." Shao Xun nodded and said, "Write down all your feelings." In every battle we have fought, many of the gains and losses have been compiled, and now we can add this part of yours. ”

A field battle with a small number of elites and a large number of cannon fodder like Wang Mi can easily cause the cannon fodder to collapse, affect the morale of its elite main force, and then fight a rout.

But it is not necessary to attack and defend the city.

If the thieves build walls on all sides and dig trenches to besiege them, it will become you attacking the city, and the casualties will increase dramatically.

Of course, with the 2,000 Yamen Army and 600 Silver Lance Army recruits in Li Chong's hands, the field battle may not be won, after all, the Yamen Army is light infantry, the equipment is too poor, and the training is not as good as the Silver Spear Army.

Shao Xun didn't mean to criticize him, in fact, he played very well.

Yushanwu was nailed here, containing a large number of enemy troops, including Wang Mi's cousin Wang Sang, who said that he was worthy of the imperial court, and no one could accuse him of avoiding war.

"Is the prince going north?" Li Zhong asked.

"If you're tired from a long battle, let's rest for a day or two." Shao Xun rubbed his chin and said, "Besides, let Yu Yuanguan sharpen the enemy's sharpness." If Wang Mi is not fully consumed, his morale will still exist, and it will be a trouble to turn around and attack me. ”

"The prince is old, this is right." Lee replied.

In this war, Lu Yanghou fought the thief army from beginning to end, won four victories in three days, and shook Xiangcheng, and there was indeed no passive avoidance of war.

Even if Li Chong was worried about Luoyang, he had to admit that Lu Yanghou did his best.

Shao Xun then looked at the farmland at the foot of the mountain.

The thieves did not deliberately destroy, but the army came and went, and trampling was inevitable. The millet sown this spring will not be harvested in autumn. It seems that this year's Wubao, manors, and even Guangchengze under his rule had better sow winter wheat and harvest as much grain as possible.

As for the maintenance of the soil......

The Huns have all hit Pingyang, and most of them will go south next year, and they will also maintain the strength of an egg!

After the outbreak of war, the farmland will be in a state of de facto fallow, and there will be time to restore the soil.

On the 25th, the army rested for a day at Yushanwu.

Shao Xun transferred some officers and soldiers from the seventh building of the Silver Lance Army to supplement the first to fifth buildings to improve its establishment.

The vacancy caused by the seventh building, I will find a way to recruit new people to fill it.

On the afternoon of the 26th, Shao Xun transferred 1,000 Baoding and 500 Yamen troops from Yushanwu, with Zhanggu, the main building, as the vanguard, and assigned 2,000 Yi subordinates to them, and marched north in advance.

Early in the morning of the 27th, the two armies of silver spears and long swords and auxiliary troops marched north to chase the enemy.

On the 28th, Mi Huang, the captain of Si Li, sent an envoy from Dagu Pass, detoured to Liangxian and Yushanwu, and caught up with Shao Xun from the rear.

"The Yuyuan Pass was lost, most of the 5,000 forbidden troops were scattered, and the general in the palace, Miao Bo, rode away alone." When the news was heard from the breathless messenger, everyone was stunned.

If nothing else happens – and sure enough, the unexpected happens quickly!

What a death sentence!

Shao Xun, who heard the process of losing it, didn't know whether to be happy or sad, and in the end, he could only cry and laugh.

"Give orders to the front army, day and night, and chase after them." Shao Xun instructed: "Then give Wang Yan and Hao Chang an order, put the ox cart behind, select a batch of carriages and mule carts first, and set off with the army." ”

After the order was given, the speed of the army's movement increased sharply.