Chapter 116: Burning the Reckless Army

The generals of the three rebel armies agreed that the Xinshi soldiers and the Pinglin soldiers dispelled the idea of fleeing south at night and returned to their camps to prepare for battle.

On the second day, Wang Chang and Ma Wu, the leaders of the Xiajiang army, broke through the blockade of the Mang army and came to the meeting. Wang Chang originally admired the Liu Xuan brothers, and wanted to rebel against the reckless Han Dynasty, which was more determined than Wang Kuang and Chen Mu. The leaders of several rebel armies gathered again, and when they talked about the plan to burn the Mang's army, Wang Chang immediately applauded, and wanted to lead 5,000 Xiajiang soldiers to join forces with the Green Forest Army to defeat the Xinmang 100,000 army in one fell swoop.

The arrival of Wang Chang further strengthened the confidence of Chen Mu, the leader of the Pinglin soldiers, and Wang Kuang and Wang Feng, the leaders of the Xinshi soldiers. So everyone pushed Liu Xuan as the commander and led the four rebel armies.

Liu Zhuo did not give in, agreed on the battle plan with several generals one by one, and set a plan to launch an attack on the first and fifth days of the first month. Liu Xiu led several large armies to attack together, and Liu Xiu led two thousand elite raids on the food and grass of the Mang army, as long as he succeeds all the way, the current crisis can be solved.

On the night of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the rebel army distributed cattle, mutton, wine and meat, and the soldiers of all walks of life had a full meal, and waited for the day to prepare for a surprise attack on the new Mang army on the second day.

That night, the Liu Xuan brothers stayed awake all night, standing outside the tent to observe the celestial phenomena. But seeing the starry sky and the stars halo like water, but I didn't see the frost and mist falling, I was secretly anxious in my heart.

Fu Qingyun also accompanied Brother Liu Xuan all night, and his expression was also very anxious.

Just after the fourth watch, the northwest wind began to blow in the sky, and it blew bigger and bigger, and the wind chimes on the camp tinkled non-stop. The starry sky, which was still bright and dotted just now, was covered with a thick layer of frost and fog in a blink of an eye, and not a single star could be seen in the sky.

The Liu Xuan brothers were overjoyed, each wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, and competing to put on a silver helmet and silver armor for Fu Qingyun, and the three of them looked at each other and laughed.

On the fifth watch, the frost and fog are thicker, and you can't see your fingers. The five watch drums on the tower sounded on time, the three gates of the north, south and west of Jianyang were opened at the same time, and the Han army, Xinshi soldiers, and Pinglin soldiers swarmed out from Jianyang City in accordance with the battle plan drawn up earlier, and killed the enemy camps in the southeast and northwest of the city separately.

The first to rush out under the north gate was Liu Xiu's 2,000 elites, and after leaving the city, they went straight to Lanxiang to burn the enemy's grain and grass.

Fu Qingyun followed Liu Jiu out of the city and went straight to the north of Zhen Fu's camp to set fire to his camp. On the first day of the first month of the fourth year of the emperor, a life-and-death war will begin.

Nanyang belongs to the Zhengliang Qiu Ci camp is only three or four miles away from Jianyang City, Liu Xuan led a team of 1,000 people to arrive in the blink of an eye, and quietly touched the camp of the Mang army.

Between the yellow water and the water, the water vapor is steaming, and the fog is even thicker. No one in the Mang army expected that the rebel army would launch an attack on the first day of the Lunar New Year, and at this time they were sleeping soundly with their heads covered, so they didn't know that they had already taken the lead.

In the whistling northwest wind, hundreds of soldiers of the righteous army dispersed more than 100 steps away from the village according to the instructions in advance, and then lit the straw, or burned the wall, or ignited the weeds, so the fire borrowed the wind, the wind helped the fire, and the fire instantly spread to the Mangjun camp.

When the sentinels in the fog saw the flames flying, they came back to their senses and hurriedly beat the gong and shouted gold, but it was too late, and the camp tents of the Mang army had already ignited a raging fire.

In the sound of the flames and wind, the reckless army camp suddenly cried loudly, many reckless soldiers had not yet come out of the bed, the camp tent was already whirring and burning, and the clothes and bedding were also raging. Countless reckless soldiers wailed and jumped out of the tent, threw themselves on the ground and rolled and cried, and the cry shook the sky for a while.

Liu Xuan led this forward to set fire successfully, the fire burst out, and the following armies followed, shouting and rolling over.

Liu Xuan and Fu Qingyun shot their guns and horses to kill the enemy camp, and the rebels behind them had already held back their strength, raising their swords and guns one by one, shouting like wolves and tigers and rushing towards the Mang army.

The north wind blew strongly, and under the surging flames, the steel swords of the rebels flew up, the silver spears danced wildly, blood gushed everywhere, ghosts cried wolves, and the enemy camp became more and more crying and chaotic.

Liang Qiuci was already frightened out of his soul, and when he heard the cry, Fang was so shocked that he got up. The soldiers hurriedly helped him put on his battle robe and put on his armor, and when he came out of the camp tent, he saw that the fire was shining everywhere, and the soldiers of the battalion were running around, and the flames several feet high were blowing and burning in this direction by the wind.

Liang Qiuci wailed: "It's over!"

After all, Liang Qiuci was a member of the party, and quickly calmed down the panic, and shouted to his own soldiers: "Go and shout, all go to the open ground to assemble, avoid this fire, and then fight a decisive battle with the thief army!"

The soldiers had to run quickly, but as soon as they ran a few steps, they saw countless rebels wielding swords and guns under the light of the sky. The soldiers went north again, but they saw the wind swept over with tongues of fire, and countless reckless soldiers and ghosts rushed out of the fire crying wolves.

Liang Qiuci saw that the general trend had gone, raised his head to the sky and made a trombone, picked up his gun and turned over his horse and rushed towards the south of the village.

Liang Qiuci lifted his gun and swept left and right, fled in embarrassment, and was about to beat his horse to rush out of the chaotic army, when he suddenly saw that under the firelight, a man with a golden helmet and golden armor, thick eyebrows and big eyes was wielding a silver spear, like chopping cabbage and watermelons, and beheading the reckless soldiers who fled for their lives under the horse, it was Liu Xuan, the commander of the Han army.

Liang Qiuci was shocked, and hurriedly turned the horse's head and fled. Liu Xuan also happened to see him, and when he saw that he was about to escape, he shouted: "Liang Qiuci, where to escape!"

When Liang Qiuci heard the loud noise, he became more and more frightened, and he galloped his horse, but the horse turned too quickly and threw him off the saddle.

Liang Qiuci was thrown to the ground, and no one in the reckless army fleeing around him could take care of him, and countless people and horses trampled on him "poof, puff, puff". Poor Liang Qiuci was trampled to pieces by the horses.

Liu Xuan took advantage of the situation and led the rebels to kill the Chinese army with a shout. Zhen Fu, who was sleeping in the big tent of the Chinese army, was awakened early, and when he hurriedly put on a purple brocade robe and came out to look, he saw that the southeast sky was full of fire, and the sky was full of red.

Zhen Fu hurriedly instructed his soldiers to order all units of the Chinese army to reorganize their military horses and stabilize their positions.

The Chinese army is the elite of the Mang army, with 40,000 people. Zhen Fu wielded his long sword and led the Chinese army to fight back violently against the rebels, and immediately suppressed the fierce momentum of the rebels.

Liu Xuan took the lead, and Liu Ji, Chen Mu, Wang Kuang, Wang Feng and others around him wielded swords, guns and iron maces and struggled to rush forward, but Zhen Fu's Chinese army was too strong, and it stood still in the face of the onslaught of the righteous army, like an iron mountain, but gradually surrounded and intercepted the righteous army, and wanted to slash Liu Xuan and others here.

At the critical moment, the rear of the Mang army was suddenly in chaos, and a young general in white helmet and white armor rushed out of the flames with an iron rod, followed by Jia Fu, Zhou Ren and other hundreds of Qinglong Gang.

The young general in white armor and white armor is Fu Qingyun. He saw that the Zhen Fu Chinese army was fierce, and the frontal confrontation could not shake it at all, and the battle was fierce at this time, he didn't care about discussing with Liu Xuan, and beckoned Jia Fu to take more than 100 people from the original Qinglong Gang to go around behind the Zhen Fu Chinese army and suddenly kill.

Fu Qingyun's iron rod opened the way, the Qinglong Gang followed the crowd and the gang rushed forward, and the back of the Mang army bloomed.

At this time, the back of the army was rushed by Fu Qingyun and others, and the back of the Mang army was suddenly in chaos, crying and fleeing with his head, but the front of the Mang army was chaotic.

Liu Xuan was overjoyed, taking advantage of the chaos of the reckless army, and led the righteous army to rush up and kill, the original formation of iron fell apart in an instant, but was beaten by the righteous army that did not have an advantage in numbers, and fled in embarrassment and was shattered.

Zhen Fu shouted loudly, eager to reorganize the formation, just gathered the soldiers around him, and Hulala in the north killed a group of people and horses, it was Wang Chang and Ma Wu who brought 5,000 soldiers to the river, and the killing shouts shook the sky.

The eastern sky has been brightened, Zhen Fu looked around, and there were rebels all around, and his tens of thousands of Chinese troops either fled with their heads in their hands, or surrendered on their knees, and they could no longer stop the rebels from attacking from several sides.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Zhen Fu let out a cry of sorrow and fled with several personal soldiers around him.

The Mang army that escaped from the camp went all the way to the north, fleeing in the direction of Nanyang and Wancheng. Liu Xuan, Ma Chang, Wang Kuang, and Chen Mu held on to the ranks of the four righteous soldiers and chased after them closely. The Mang army fled less than ten miles north, and a large river lay ahead. Although the river is frozen, it is too thin to carry people at all, but in order to escape, the reckless army is still pushing me, taking off the helmet and armor and running to the river, but the ice on the river is too thin, the water is deep, and the reckless army who escaped to the river only swooped a few times before all sank to the bottom. Seeing that there was no way to escape, the remaining reckless army had to hug their heads and beg for mercy, and Zhenfu's army completely collapsed.

Liu Xuan counted the surrendered Mang army, but did not see Zhen Fu's shadow, he was looking around, and suddenly saw Fu Qingyun riding a tall horse, and immediately escorted a thin old man who had lost his armor back, it was Zhen Fu.

It turned out that Zhen Fu slipped away and was targeted by Fu Qingyun. He knew from Guanxuan's mouth that the death of Guanxuan's father and the source of the emperor, Zhen Fu, the former doctor of Nanyang, was one of the first evils, and Miaolingmen, one of the nine demon gates, was also leveled by the Jinwu Sect Cui Fa and Zhen Fu with a large army. Therefore, of course, Fu Qingyun could not let Zhen Fu escape.

Liu Xuan was overjoyed, this battle not only disintegrated the 100,000 troops of the Mang army, but also captured Zhen Fu, the doctor of the former team of Nanyang, and Nanyang belonged to Zhengliang Qiuci who had been trampled to death in the chaotic army.

"Big brother!" Just as he was happy, Liu Xiu rode his horse and galloped over, carrying a carriage full of grain and grass behind him, stretching for a mile.

"Fifth brother!" Liu Xuan was overjoyed, greeted Liu Xiu and the others, and cheered in unison.

Liu Xiu was going to burn Zhenfu's grain and grass, but the reckless army guarding the grain had no fighting spirit in the panic and surrendered one after another, so Liu Xiu got all his baggage. The rebels were originally short of food and grass, but this time, there was no need to worry about food and grass.

The battle was a complete victory, and the soldiers were overjoyed, and they danced a majestic military dance in the same place against the rising sun.

The drums sounded, and Fu Qingyun followed all the soldiers and soldiers, stepping on the drums and cheering, shouting "Mighty!"