Chapter 892: Overstretched and Difficult to Defend
As soon as Yuan Tinglie was captured, the other senior generals of the Henan Army were also honest. Except for the only guy who wanted to fight to the death and survive, he was killed by an arrow from Wang Rensong's subordinates, and everyone else followed Wang Rensong's subordinates very consciously and returned to Wang Rensong's military formation.
Yuan Tinglie and they fled all the way west, originally riding horses, and now their war horses are still intact, and after the death of two senior generals of the Henan Army, the war horses are even more surplus, and Wang Rensong's subordinates in the province have to divide the war horses to ride for this group of defeated fleeing generals.
With such a group of less than 20 senior generals of the Henan Army, Wang Rensong and his subordinate soldiers rode eastward without hurry. In order to pursue the rout of the Henan Army before, Wang Rensong's department and the 1,000 combined cavalry of the official army Bianliang Army can be said to have been in a hurry for a long time, and only then was about 30 miles away from the battlefield and about 20 miles away from Luozhou City.
The previous 14,000 Henan Army, in the surprise attack of the combined cavalry of the three armies, was killed on the spot by the combined cavalry of the three armies, in fact, only about 2,000, and about 300 or so were trampled to death by their own people when the Henan Army itself collapsed and chaos and everyone rushed to flee for their lives. And because the official army and the Bianliang army cooperated with Wang Rensong's surprise attack, the roundabout encirclement was quite timely, and the officers and men of the Henan Army who escaped from the west of the encirclement, in addition to the less than 20 senior generals led by Yuan Tinglie, there were about 2,000 generals and ordinary soldiers of the Henan Army at all levels who escaped.
The remaining 10,000 or so officers and soldiers of the Henan Army were all taken prisoner on the spot and became trophies of the official army and the Bianliang army. As for the deserters of the Henan Army except for Yuan Tinglie, it was because Wang Rensong's troops had arranged interceptions in advance, but in fact, they did not escape successfully, and were chased by 500 cavalry each of the official army Bianliang Army who were chasing behind, and all of them were captured.
As for earlier, the 4,000 Henan Army, which had to return west to Luozhou City due to injuries due to injuries under the attack of 120 people from Wang Rensong's department around sunset the day before, was deliberately intercepted by 100 people from Wang Rensong's department and released them back.
That is to say, the 20,000 reinforcements led by Yuan Tinglie this time from the defenders of Luozhou City, in addition to the thousands of people deliberately let go by Wang Rensong, as well as nearly 3,000 soldiers of the Henan Army who were killed, the remaining 12,000 intact or lightly wounded Henan Army officers and soldiers were all taken prisoner. The casualties exceeded one-tenth, sixty percent of the soldiers were taken prisoner, and ninety percent of the three adults who fled back were seriously injured and unable to fight.
The city of Nakju was only guarded by more than 20,000 soldiers. Such a number of defenders, if they were used in the ancient city of Luoyang in the Han and Wei dynasties or even in the Luoyang city of the Sui and Tang dynasties, it would definitely be a drop in the bucket, and it would be completely insufficient.
However, today's Luozhou City, is based on the Song Jin Luoyang City to renovate, is located in the northeast corner of Luoyang City in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the scale is only one of the twenty of the Luoyang City of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the perimeter is square, the circumference is only nine miles, and there is a gate on each side. Although it is the same as Yanshi County, there are only four city gates with four walls, but it is still much larger than Yanshi County.
Of course, the former imperial capital Luozhou City, like the former imperial capital Chang'an Mansion, has lost its status as the imperial capital, coupled with repeated wars, repeated constructions and destruction, but now it has no former style.
And the defenders of Luozhou City, which have more than 20,000 yuan, are still quite enough to guard Luozhou City with a circumference of no more than nine miles.
However, the king of Henan insisted on going his own way, and took away 20,000 defenders of Luozhou City in one go, and only with the remaining 1,000 people, even if he added the thousands of wounded and sick people who fled back from the 20,000 army, guarding the current Luozhou City seemed to be a little stretched.
After comprehensively understanding these circumstances, when Wang Rensong joined up with the commanders of the official army and the Bianliang army, he immediately pulled Yuan Shuai of the official army and Yu Shuai of the Bianliang army, and the three commanders immediately discussed the attack plan of Luozhou City.
To be continued...
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