Chapter 18 The Danger Is at Stake
The fighting at Binh Duong Pass continued, and the intensity of the battle was increasing, so that the number of casualties was increasing day by day. After Fu Zeming took away the 20,000 most elite troops under his command, the guarding of Pingyang Pass became even more stretched. In just three days, there were only 150,000 people left. Now at the cost of nearly 10,000 dead every day, the barbarians are being beaten down the walls. On several occasions, the barbarians almost breached the gates.
On the fourth day, the barbarian army suddenly fell silent, and there was no movement for a very strange day. A day later, a small group of soldiers suddenly appeared in the army of the barbarian army, holding a human head, and shouted at Pingyang Pass, "Listen to the people in the pass, your general Fu Zeming has been killed by our commander, and you will not surrender, let alone when." After speaking, he left Fu Zeming's head, left a sentence of "give you an hour to think about it" and quickly left.
Soon, Fu Zeming's head was taken to the city gate. Fu Zeming's generals were all very sad and wanted to go out of the city to fight the enemy to the death. But one of the white-faced generals stopped everyone.
& Wen, what do you mean, did the general die in vain!"
& Calm down. The general's wish before his death was to hold the Binh Duong Pass. Now we are not enough to guard the pass, and after we go out, we will definitely not be the opponent of the barbarian army, and when the time comes, we will suffer heavy casualties, and Pingyang Pass will still be able to hold it?" Zhang Wen said quietly.
& Zhengpingyang Pass will be unable to hold on sooner or later, and the imperial court will not have reinforcements until now, so it is better to go out and kill happily to avenge the general. Another big man under the general said. "Zhang Wen, if you don't go, everyone won't blame you, you just stay and defend the city!" After speaking, he led his generals to open the city gate and rushed directly towards the barbarian army. None of the people present noticed that after seeing Fu Zeming's head, there was a general's face that was very wrong, as if he had decided something.
Zhang Wen looked at the robe that went down, his face darkened, the general took me like a mountain, and this time I must avenge the general. "Li Qing. I, Zhang Wen, am not a coward!" After speaking, he led the rest of the people down to prepare. Li Qing led all the horses under his command, about 40,000 people, and rushed directly towards the barbarian army. The barbarian army didn't expect the Pingyang army to have the courage to rush and kill, but they were in a hurry for a while. But. After all, the barbarian army is a battle-hardened army. And Colch is no slouch. However, after the initial turmoil, it immediately adjusted. After paying the price of a thousand people, Li Qing's troops were surrounded.
After that, there was a one-sided slaughter. 40,000 people fought head-on with the barbarian army, and the barbarian army only spent one-tenth of the price, that is, the price of 4,000 people, and wiped out Li Qing's troops. In addition to the art of command, the personal strength of the barbarian army occupies a large part of the factor. Now there are only 110,000 people in Binh Duong Pass. However, there are still about 140,000 barbarian troops outside the pass. This was the first time that the barbarian army surpassed the Binh Duong army in numbers. When the number of Pingyang troops was superior, the Pingyang army had no choice, and now the number of Pingyang troops was not as good as the barbarian army, at this time the strength comparison was clear at a glance, and the morale of the current Pingyang army could be imagined. The generals also had their own thoughts in order to protect themselves.
Time did not stop, and the battle at Binh Duong Pass continued. In the evening, the north gate of Pingyang Pass suddenly opened, and a force left quietly, heading towards the barbarian army. This is Zhang Wen's troops, about 50,000 people. As can be seen from the movements of the march, this is a well-trained unit. Zhang Wen looked at the barbarian mansion and sneered, "Colch, you probably didn't expect that after Li Qing's rush, I would carry out a surprise attack at night! This time, you are dead!"
The dark night did not organize Zhang Wen's footsteps. As Zhang Wen got closer and closer to the barbarian army, Zhang Wen became more and more nervous. Under Zhang Wen's order, 50,000 people began to attack the barbarian army. Dazhai's defense was really lax, and it broke through at almost no cost. After entering Dazhai, Zhang Wen felt that something was wrong. Because the number of people in Dazhai is too small, it seems that there are more than 5,000 people. Zhang Wen's face turned pale, and he said secretly, "Colch, you are so ruthless, you even spent five thousand people to set up such a bait, and you are not afraid of being swallowed." After Zhang Wenming fell into an ambush, he immediately ordered a massacre before the barbarian army arrived. 50,000 against 5,000 unprepared, what a feast. Most of the barbarians were killed before they could react, Rao was so, Zhang Wen still paid the price of 5,000 people, and the casualty ratio was one to one, the barbarian army was really powerful. Although he was an enemy, Zhang Wen still admired the soldiers of the barbarian army. But fortunately, the number of the entire tribe of the barbarian army is only more than one million, and the number of the Han is at least more than one billion, even one hundred to one, and it can also destroy the barbarian army.
As expected, at the end of the battle, the ambush of the barbarian army arrived and surrounded Zhang Wen in all directions. "Brothers, we have already killed five thousand barbarians, now it is enough to kill one, everyone kills!" After speaking, he took the lead, relying on the barbarian army Dazhai, and began to deal with the barbarian army. Zhang Wen is worthy of being a general under Fu Zeming, knowing that he is not the opponent of the barbarian army in the flat land, so he simply uses the barbarian army Dazhai to fight to the death with the barbarian army. None of the 45,000 Han troops were afraid of death, and when they were dying, they often resorted to the means of dying with the enemy. As a result, the battle was fierce. However, it is a pity that the gap in strength is not something that can be made up by courage, and the 45,000 people under Zhang Wen gradually lost all their casualties, but the barbarian army did not get any benefits, and the number of dead was about 15,000, plus the 5,000 as bait, the barbarian army lost 20,000. During the day, Li Qing's 40,000 people only killed 4,000 barbarian troops, which made the barbarian army full of contempt for the Pingyang army. This time, Zhang Wen's army killed 20,000 barbarians at the cost of 50,000, which made the barbarians begin to pay attention to the Pingyang army, after all, such a casualty ratio was unbearable for the barbarian army. Now there are about 120,000 barbarian troops left, and there are 60,000 Pingyang troops in the city. At this time, the barbarian army changed its tactics, no longer brutally attacking the city, but began to lobby the generals in the city to induce them to surrender, after all, it is now a comparison of strength between 120,000 and 60,000, and it is not up to the generals in the city to consider. The barbarian army didn't want unnecessary losses, after all, if 60,000 people were as desperate as Zhang Wen. Relying on the city, it is not a problem to kill the barbarian army of 20,000 or 30,000. The barbarian army of 200,000 troops has now lost about 80,000, and does not want to continue to lose.
The people of the city were terrified. Due to the death of Fu Zeming and the death of Li Qing and Zhang Wen of the descendants, the number of the remaining generals was only four or five thousand or ten thousand, and everyone did not want to die in vain. At this time, there was an argument in the General's Palace. Some mentioned surrender, some abandoned the pass, and some were silent. More than a dozen people are arguing. At this time, a young man came out and said. "To a general. General Fu has been killed, and we deplore it very much. There are also two generals, Li Qing and Zhang Wen, who generously went to righteousness, and we also admire them very much. But now you see, our army is only 60,000 at full strength. And there are at least more than 100,000 troops outside the gates. What are we fighting with others?"
> Yi. What do you say!" As Zhang Yi's words fell. A big man immediately shouted, "Do you want to surrender?"
>> The general's words are serious!" Zhang Yi continued unhurriedly. "Zhang is just talking about things, one soldier of the barbarian army can easily kill two of our soldiers, this is an indisputable fact, now our strength is inferior to the other party, we have no chance of winning. Besides, Marshal Colch is an old fox, and even General Fu is not his opponent, what can we do!"
>> Even so, you can't surrender!" General Wang was not good at words, but only made an arrogant accusation.
&What's even more unbearable is that so far, the imperial court has not had a single soldier of reinforcements, and the grain and grass in the pass can only support our 60,000 troops for three months, that is, at most three months, we will fight on an empty stomach, but in Zhang's humble opinion, we can't support it for three months, and Pingyang Pass will be breached!"
General Wang also knew that this was the case at this time, and did not refute it, looked at the faces of all the comrades around him, everyone was heavy, and then sighed and said, "Okay, I don't agree to surrender, if you surrender, Wang will not stop you, but after today, we will not tolerate the battlefield meeting." Wang led his subordinates to leave tonight, hoping to cut it for the sake of his comrades, and not to stop him!" After speaking, he left, preparing to abandon the pass. About the average person left, taking with them forty thousand people. The remaining generals were extremely disappointed with the court and had no family burden, so they prepared to lead their men to surrender the next day, so they sent someone to contact Korch that night, and Korch did not embarrass them and agreed to their request for surrender.
Of course, none of this qiē has anything to do with Chu Shan. Chu Shan is no longer a squad leader, Chu Shan Tong Guò has been promoted to the rank of captain in the past few months, and his title is Captain Yingyang. There are a thousand men under his command. This thousand people happened to be among the remaining 20,000 people, and Chu Shan's boss was an official of the surrender faction, and Chu Shan unfortunately stayed. But Chu Shan is obviously not ready to surrender, Chu Shan and his own men and horses have killed at least more than 10,000 barbarian troops, and the barbarian army will not let go of himself and these men. Besides, Chu Shan didn't want to surrender at all in his heart, and his strength was enough to defend Pingyang Pass.
Therefore, in the middle of the night, Chu Shan summoned two of his military marquis and a Sima, and the four of them discussed tomorrow's affairs.
"Da Niu, you say it first, what do you think of this matter?" After Chu Shan explained the matter, he began to ask for the opinions of his subordinates.
& Jun, I Li Daniu listen to you, you can do whatever you say!" Li Daniu had no opinion, saying that he would completely obey Chu Shan's arrangement. After Li Daniu finished speaking, Chu Shan looked at the other military marquis, Zhang Li.
"Jun, even if we have different opinions, is there any other way?" Zhang Zhang looked at Chu Shan and expressed the question in his heart.
>> Don't worry, I'm measured, and I won't joke with my brothers' lives!" Chu Shan said in a deep voice.
& There is no opinion, I believe that the general has his own measure. "Zhang Li has a lot of trust in Chu Shan.
"Bo, what is your opinion?" asked Chu Shan.
& Army, if you want to guard Yangping Pass, you must check the grain and grass!" Du Haibo reminded.
& Chu Shan immediately decided, "Let Zhang Li join you and lead his brothers to the gate to control the grain and grass, there must be no mistake!" After speaking, he looked at Li Da Niu and said, "Da Niu and the rest of the brothers and I will guard the north gate tomorrow, and after those generals leave the city, close the city gate immediately."
After arranging, they went down to prepare.
Nothing was said all night. (To be continued......)