Chapter 888: The End of the Road After All
The 5,000 cavalry composed of Wang Rensong's troops and the official army of Bianliang took the Henan army by surprise. The commander of the Henan Army was afraid of the advance of the combined forces of the three armies, so he abandoned all the 14,000 troops under his command, and only took a dozen senior generals of the Henan Army to escape in chaos, intending to flee all the way back to Luozhou City with light equipment.
The commander of the Henan army is greedy for life and afraid of death, and would rather give up the 14,000 army to protect himself, such a person can be reused by the king of Henan as the commander, in fact, it is precisely because this commander is the younger brother of the capricious king of Henan.
Although the king of Henan has many generals under his command, he is quite suspicious, and he has always been not used for those non-pro-civilian military generals. Most of the high-ranking positions in the power of the King of Henan were occupied by the relatives of the King of Henan.
Nepotism, as long as those relatives are talented, is actually not a bad thing. But the bad thing is that at the same time as cronyism, those relatives are all straw bales, which is the greatest sorrow.
There is a reason why the king of Henan has the most powerful army among all the rebel kings, but he has repeatedly failed to bring the rebel kings under his command, unanimously confront the official army, or expand his own territory.
The 14,000 lower-level officers and soldiers of the Henan Army, who were regarded as outcasts by their commander, were unable to resist the attack of the three-army coalition at all, but only a short two or three incense sticks, that is, the death surrendered and the fleeing, completely gave up resistance, and allowed the three-army alliance to take them prisoner if they still survived.
Wang Rensong threw all these things of collecting prisoners and counting battle losses to the commanders of the official army and the commanders of the Bianliang army, and he led his own 80 elite cavalry, and asked the commanders of the two armies for 500 people each to form a thousand cavalry troops, and then set off again, pursuing all the way in the direction of the rout of the remnants of the Henan army.
By this time, the morning fog had completely dissipated, and the sun was shining on the battlefield, and there were corpses that could no longer be killed, as well as wounded soldiers who were wailing all over the ground.
The soldiers of the official army and the Bianliang army are cleaning up the battlefield at the moment, cleaning up the corpses of the enemy and us, treating the wounded on both sides, and by the way, collecting the damaged weapons and protective equipment, which can be recast in the future.
The 11,000 officers and infantry who had been left behind by the 5,000 light cavalry of the combined forces of the three armies finally arrived at the scene in a hurry after the battle was over. Unable to participate in the battle, they had to enter the battlefield under the command of their respective generals to clean up after the battle, so as to replace the cavalry of the Bianliang Army who had been rushing all night and had a surprise battle.
The commander of the official army and the commander of the Bianliang army stood on a high ground not far from the battlefield, quietly watching the busy soldiers. After a while, the commander of the official army sighed and said slowly to the commander of the Bianliang army: "Yu Shuai, you say, that Wang Shuai, can you catch the commander of this Henan army?"
The commander of the Bianliang army surnamed Yu did not speak immediately when he heard this, but raised his eyes to look at the southwest direction that was covered by Qiu Ling's vision, and then said slowly: "According to that Wang Shuai's military methods, it is impossible for him not to make arrangements in front. In fact, Yu thought that Yuan Shuai, you were thinking a little too much. Not to mention the tactics of that Wang Shuai, just talking about the masters of the Five Merchants Alliance under him, it is more than enough to beat dozens or even hundreds of our soldiers. Moreover, their means of contact can be received in near real time from dozens of miles away. As long as Wang Shuai divides his subordinates into groups of three or five, and takes care of each other, even if he encounters those wine bags and rice bags of the Henan Army, isn't it a matter of being captured. ”
"That's right, it's Yuan who thinks too much. The commander of the official army surnamed Yuan frowned, but agreed with the words of the commander of the Bianliang army surnamed Yu.
After chatting for a while, Yu Shuai and Yuan Shuai watched their men gradually clean up the battlefield, and then divided a part of the infantry to escort the prisoners with the booty, and returned to Yanshi County with the wounded and sick. As for the rest, under the leadership of the two commanders, they continued to go west, on the one hand to support Wang Rensong's troops, and on the other hand, they were also the fleeing routs who were pursuing the Henan army.
Not to mention the commander of the official army surnamed Yuan and the commander of the Bianliang army surnamed Yu with the actions of their respective troops, just talk about Wang Rensong's department. He took the eighty elite cavalry under his command and the 1,000 cavalry from the official army Bianliang Army, and pursued all the way along the trail of the Henan army's rout.
Although the area between Yanshi County and Luozhou City is mainly plain terrain and sometimes gentle hills, there are not many passages between the two counties, and there are only three in total.
The route of the Henan army to flee back to Luozhou City in rout is actually such three roads. In the vicinity of these three roads to Luozhou City, the two hundred and twenty people sent by Wang Rensong's department earlier arranged the blocking line early, and used mountains and rocks and trees to block the roads. Unless the defeated troops of the Henan Army can organize to clear those obstacles, they will only have the fate of being blocked on the road.
When the commander of the Henan Army led the dozen or so senior generals of the Henan Army all the way to the west, which was the most hidden and treacherous of the three roads, until he was about twenty miles away from the city of Luozhou, he stopped all of a sudden.
In front of them were a large pile of half-man-high rocks, and countless large trees that were hugging together. These things, which were supposed to be on the cliffs on both sides, were now quietly piled up on the three-zhang wide road, blocking the road behind them.
Although the cliffs on both sides of this road are not steep, and a normal person can easily climb them, these senior generals of the Henan Army did not do this, but looked at the silver-armored soldiers who suddenly appeared on the cliffs on both sides in horror.
The silver armor, the silver cloak, and even the bows and arrows they held in their hands could be clearly seen to be silver from a distance of about ten feet.
It seems that these people are not silver except for their flesh and skin, but everything else is silvery.
On the cliffs on both sides, the number of silver-armored troops facing the generals of the Henan Army with bows and arrows is not much, but there are more than seventy people, but compared with the total number of less than twenty in the Henan Army, it is too much. Moreover, those silver-armored troops occupy a geographical advantage, and those who look at them with strong bows and sharp arrows at a glance make the hearts of these dozen or so senior generals of the Henan Army half cold.
To be continued...
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