Chapter 170: Ambush
Xiahou was happy with a pair of children here, and Wager over there had a gloomy face, and he had suffered defeats in a row, and Wager was thinking of countermeasures in his heart.
After waiting for the people to arrive, Wager asked: "The destruction of the water source has no control over these Central Plains people, and it has made us suffer a lot of hidden losses, what should you do next?"
Some of the people said that they would directly attack the military rations, some said that they would attack by force, and some advocated luring the enemy, and the group of people was noisy and disorderly.
Wager was annoyed when he heard this, and slapped his palm directly on the table, shouting: "Shut up for me!"
Instantly the tent fell silent, and Wager said coldly: "There is Xiahou Zhong in the handle here, we can't help him, but there is no Xiahou Zhong in other cities!"
Speaking of this, a subordinate got up and asked, "Does the second prince want to attack other cities?"
"Hmm. Wager nodded: "As far as I know, the nearby Qingyang City, the city lord is timid and afraid, if we capture this city, the army into the Central Plains is just around the corner." With that, there was a greedy look in his eyes, and all his subordinates applauded.
After Wager made proper arrangements, he took advantage of the night to personally lead 100,000 elite soldiers to Qingyang City, and set up an ambush along the way to delay the rescue team in Xiahou.
The next day, Wagger's men came to the city gate to shout and curse, pretending that Wager was still in the camp, but this time Xiahou did not respond to the battle, and no one went out with them outside the city.
The battle has been disturbing the anxiety in the center of Xiahou, and the summoned generals are discussing the next attack plan in the tent at the moment, and there is no foolproof plan until the afternoon, so they have to disperse.
When he came to Xiahou Shuang's residence in the evening, he received an emergency rescue secret letter from the city gate guards, and Xiahou Zhong saw the content of the secret letter, and went directly back to the barracks to order the troops, and urgently ordered the three armies to prepare to go to Qingyang City to rescue.
Qingyang City is not far from here, the tutorial can be reached in half a day, Wagger's people arrived at the city before dawn the day before, and attacked the city early in the morning, the city lord of Qingyang hurriedly sent someone to ask for help, this time it has been a day.
Without further ado, Xiahou ordered 50,000 elite soldiers, and Xiahou Xuan and Tang Juntong each led a team to support, and the two soldiers acted separately in two ways, one in front of the other, and then marched towards Qingyang City.
Halfway into a narrow valley, the valley is dark and quiet, the mountains on both sides are towering and can't look up at the sun, and when he walks to the mouth of the valley, Xiahou Xuan secretly pays attention to the surroundings in his heart.
The scouts sent came back to report after probing, but there was no ambush on both sides, Xiahou Xuan informed him to continue to advance, who knew that halfway through, stones and wood rolled down the mountain, and smashed directly on the soldiers' bodies, and in an instant the ground was full of corpses.
The mount under Xiahou Xuan was also frightened and neighed, Xiahou Xuan grabbed the reins to prevent the horse from losing control, raised the spear in his hand and shouted: "Don't panic, follow me." ”
After finishing speaking, he led the horse and ran forward directly, the soldiers behind him slowly gathered over, and a group of people ran in the direction of the valley mouth, when they were about to leave the valley, suddenly there was a shout all over the mountain, and the shadows on the mountain were full of figures, and from time to time someone rushed to Xiahou Xuan's team to fight.
The team that was about to leave the valley was instantly scattered, Xiahou Xuan had to turn his horse's head to meet him, and more and more people on the mountain came down directly, and the two teams of men and horses were mixed together.
Tang Juntong here was not hindered and went all the way to Qingyang City, which was a pity that he was a step late, Wager had already entered the city with his soldiers, and Tang Juntong led the horse directly into the city to join the melee.
The city lord of Qingyang City was greedy for life and afraid of death, and was as timid as a mouse, and thought that the city wall was built very firmly, and it would definitely not be easy to attack it, but it was a pity that the craftsmen cut corners when building the city gate, and the construction has been for a certain number of years, and now the city wall has begun to fall off in some places, and it has not been repaired, and the Tatar iron cavalry has been killed in front of the city.
As soon as he saw the Tatar iron riding under his own door, and heard that the Tatars were extremely cruel, if they were caught, they might be eaten alive.
The city lord could not resist, and the soldiers under the menacing Tatars were cowardly, and the soldiers were powerless to resist under a series of attacks.
By the time Tang Juntong arrived in the city, the city had become a Shura field, and wherever the Tatar iron riders had walked, blood flowed like rivers and stumps and broken arms, and no one of them was left alive.
Such a scene also stimulated Tang Juntong and a group of soldiers, who raised their spears and broadswords in their hands and shouted slogans to rush towards the city, and soon fought with the Tatar army.
After all, the Tatar soldiers had been fighting all night, and their physical strength was a little exhausted, and soon there were many more Tatar soldiers' corpses on the ground in addition to the corpses of civilians.
Seeing this, Wager Mingjin withdrew his troops, and the Tatar soldiers fought and retreated, leaving the Qingyang City Gate, Tang Juntong ordered not to pursue, closed the city gate, and began to do the defense of the city.
Qingyang City suffered heavy losses after being cleaned up, all the food and all kinds of materials were robbed, and the city guards lost nearly half of the people, and the rest were mostly injured and unable to fight.
The people were even more affected, after the Tatars entered the city, they cut down when they saw people, the streets of the city were full of wounded and dead civilians, the streets were filled with a strong smell of blood, the air was filled with the smell of death, and there were ** grieving people everywhere, Tang Juntong was angry when he saw this scene, and only resented that he had come too late.
After a hard battle with the Tatar soldiers, Xiahou Xuan finally got rid of the Tatar pursuit, and when he arrived at the city gate, the war was over, Tang Juntong asked people to open the city gate and let Xiahou Xuan in.
I saw that Xiahou Xuan looked tired, covered with blood, and the 20,000 horses he led behind him have now been lost in half, leaving less than 10,000 people, and many wounded.
When he entered the city, he saw the miserable situation in the city, and Xiahou Xuan couldn't wait to go out of the city again to catch up.
Gritted his teeth and scolded: "Wagger, don't let grandpa catch you, if he catches you, he will definitely break you into pieces!"
The city's defenses were rearranged to heal the wounded, and it was almost dusk when they were busy.
The two of them were tired and fell directly to the ground, and they didn't want to move their fingers, but they didn't expect Wagle to come to call for battle again in the middle of the night.
After Wagle fled, he sent people to investigate, and today he came to the rescue was only a member of Xiahouzhong's generals, not Xiahou himself, and when he heard this, he became bold again, and after reorganizing his men and horses, he was preparing to carry out a counterattack, and sent people to call for battle under the city wall in turn.