Chapter 272
Li Rui's originally happy mood suddenly became depressed: "There is no food... what should I do? There is also one or two hundred miles of Liang County here. Without food, how many people will starve to death on the road?"
He didn't have much experience in leading troops, but he also knew that once an army was out of food, it would soon collapse. If the army was mixed with a large number of civilians who had not received strict military training, the collapse rate would only be
Faster. After all, the army is organized and disciplined. Even if the food is out of stock, they will still instinctively obey the general's orders and grit their teeth until they can no longer hold on. And the civilians... they can be surprised and startled.
What's more, the food is really cut off? As long as the news of the food is cut off, they will immediately scatter birds and beasts, and Jesus can't stop it!
The shortage of food forces them to break through as soon as possible, and the journey from Xincheng to Nanyang is quite far away, and tens of thousands of people walk over hungry. God knows that many people will be starved to death or die of illness. They are destined to step on countless people.
The corpse walked back to Nanyang!
Beigong Chun knew that he was feeling unpleasant, so he sighed and said, "There is no way, everyone can survive by relying on their abilities. Whether they can reach Nanyang alive depends on whether everyone's life is strong enough."
Li Rui asked: "Is there really no other way?"
Beigong Chun shook his head: "I have tried any solution I can think of, there is really no other way." Speaking of this, a hint of powerlessness flashed through the heart of the invincible general. When it comes to charging and lying on the battlefield, he is not afraid.
No matter how powerful an enemy is, he can find ways to find the opponent's flaws, and use them to defeat him in one fell swoop. But no matter how powerful he is, he cannot create enough food for tens of thousands of people to eat and drink out of thin air.
The word "cut off food" really hit his vitals.
No wonder the military books say that "there is no more poison than to cut off food." No matter how heroic you are, as long as you cut off your food and grass, you can't hold on.
Li Rui sighed deeply and said, "I hope that the prince will be more capable and bring more food and grass to Liang County to pick us up, otherwise..." He shook his head and dared not continue.
If Sima Fan can raise enough food and grass and pick them up in Liang County in time, at least 70% or 80% of the people will arrive in Nanyang alive; if Sima Fan cannot raise enough food and grass, it will be done. Don't
It is thankful that they would bring these tens of thousands of civilians to Nanyang and that their thousands of troops could return to Nanyang alive.
Both of them were worried and didn't speak anymore.
The heavy rain outside the window became more and more violent, and lightning flashed past one after another, as if torn the dark sky to pieces.
At the same time, Xuchang Front.
Some time ago, Sima Fan commanded the army to win consecutive battles, conquered Linying, Changge, Yanling, and defeated Wang Yang and Guo Ao, with great momentum. The heroes of Yingchuan were greatly encouraged and raised troops one after another, launching fierce attacks on the Hu people.
For a time, good news spread frequently, and Jiaxian, Liangxian, Ruyang, and Yangdi successively captured Xiangcheng and surrounded it.
Of course, Xuchang was surrounded by iron buckets.
Shi Le fought hard for a winter and almost lost all the results.
Sima Fan did not attack Xuchang, but sent craftsmen to Xiangcheng with wood, worked hard, and built three giant counterweight catapults, loading them with three hundred kilograms of stone bullets.
The city wall of Xiangcheng was bombarded. The city wall of Xiangcheng was severely damaged when Shile attacked the city. It has not been repaired until now. Now it has hit a counterweight catapult and riding a face output of 100 steps.
The stone bullet weighing 100 pounds hard, how can I hold on?
?In less than two days, several large holes ranging from feet to dozens of feet wide were smashed. The rebels roared and rushed into the city through these holes, and launched street battles with the Hu army in the city. The Hu people broke through several times, but they always
Unable to rush out, and there was no way to do anything, the Xiangcheng tyrant who defected to them once again played the role of a rebellious boy, stabbed them hard in the back, killed more than 80 Hu generals and officers, and then carried the leaderless ones.
The Hu people surrendered to the rebel army.
In this battle, the rebel army beheaded more than 1,580 levels and captured more than 4,000 people, of which three thousand were Xianbei people.
More than three thousand brave and warlike Xianbei warriors actually stabbed the powerful Han soldiers in the back and ended up losing. This result is really a bit sad.
After Sima Fan learned that he had taken Xiangcheng, he was overjoyed and gave every rebel general a big and small official position. Anyway, the rule of the Central Plains by the Jin Dynasty has been in name only, so he doesn't need to worry about that. As long as you have the ability and are willing to serve him, you will be awarded the title of official position!
As for whether you can wear this black hat, it depends on the ability of the rebel leaders.
After taking down Xiangcheng, Sima Fan began to attack Xuchang. Several huge counterweight catapults slammed on Xuchang's city walls. Amid the thunderous roar, the two or three hundred kilograms of stone bullets were horrifying. The whistling and even long flames hit the Xuchang city wall in the posture of a comet attacking the moon. It shot over and the earth shook the mountain, and the defenders were frightened. Wang Yang and Guo Ao were so scared that they were about to wet their pants and tried their best to send people to Crawling out of the city to ask Shi Le for help: The Jin army is really fierce. Boss, come here quickly. We really can't beat Sima Fan, the madman!
Shi Le's army had arrived near Changge, but did not launch an attack immediately, but stopped there. Shi Le fought hard under the Xuchang city wall for more than two months before taking the city. He knew how difficult this hard bone was to be chewed. He planned to let Sima Fan attack the city first, and waited for the Jin army to break out of blood under the Xuchang city wall, exhausted and then attacked the Jin army in one fell swoop. But he never dreamed that the Jin army would explode. With epic equipment such as counterweight stone catapults, this thing poses a great threat to the rammed earth city wall. Xiangcheng is also a strong city, but under the bombardment of the stone it launched, it was broken in just two days. The level of the ruins of Xuchang's city walls is even worse than Xiangcheng. So many counterweight catapults smashed against the city walls. How long can the defenders in the city last? There was no way, so he had to launch an attack on Changge in advance.
The Changge defender was prepared and relied on the city wall to use sufficient reserves of defensive equipment to defend stubbornly. The Jiehu army launched attacks again and again and again, and was beaten back again and again, and got nothing but the corpse. After Sima Fan learned about it, he immediately ordered the Jin army in Yangdi. Departure, launched a raid on the left wing of Jiehu army, caught Jiehu army off guard, and forced them tore open their encirclement of Changge, and took out a thousand Jin troops guarding Changge, retreated to Yang with reinforcements. Zhai.
Shi Le didn't care much about this. Anyway, the Jin army withdrew from Changge, and the passage he went south was opened. Without any hesitation, he sent Taobao to lead two thousand cavalry first, and he led 30,000 troops to follow up. Hao Hugely, heading straight for Xuchang.
As a result, Taobao was beaten as soon as he went out.
It was Sima Fan who brought someone over to beat him up in person.
Changge is less than twenty miles away from Xuchang, so it is not an exaggeration to say that these two cities are close together. Changge has been taken down, and there are probably no more obstacles along the way, so Taobao left You have to be quite at ease. However, when his army waded across a small river, the Jin army scouts came out of nowhere and lit the reeds by the river. The Jin army drenched the salt water in the reeds in advance , so much so that a layer of white salt condensed on the leaves of many reeds. When the fire arose, it immediately burned. The flames soared into the sky, and swept towards the Jiehu cavalry who were crossing the river with the wind blowing from the river. Hu cavalry caught off guard and was in chaos, especially the war horses. When they saw thick smoke swept over with fire, they were frightened and ran around. The army was in chaos. Just when they were in chaos, Sima Fan led the four hundred Wus. Huan Tuqi rushed out like a ghost in a horror movie and launched a fierce charge at a chaotic group of Hu cavalrymen...
The cut off head and limbs scattered all over the ground, and the splattered blood stained the river red. This was the most depressing battle Taobao had ever fought in his life. The bravery of the Jin army was the only one he saw in his life, and he and his troops
Qu was attacked so fiercely in extreme chaos, but he could even think of it with his toenails. At most, his troops had completely collapsed under the attack of the Jin army. Taobao tried his best to fight back
But it did not have any effect, but instead attracted the attention of the Jin cavalry
I mean, everyone realized that this might be a big fish, surrounded by all sides, and the encirclement became tighter and tighter. The surviving Jiehu cavalry crowded into a group, just like sheep blocked by wolves in the sheep pen, trembling one by one, in Jin.
The army fell down in pieces under the attack of powerful bows, spears, single-edged swords and other weapons. When Kong Chang personally led the three thousand cavalry to reinforce, the cavalry team, which had two thousand people half an hour ago, had already been
He was completely disabled, and there were more than a thousand people lying on the ground alone.
Seeing so many Jiehu cavalry arrived, Sima Fan knew that it was impossible to wipe out the enemy. He personally led dozens of Wuhuan cavalry to charge, and with one charge, he destroyed Kong Chang's vanguard and killed him.
Kill a member of the side general, and more than a hundred Jiehu cavalrymen. The main force of the Jin army's cavalry took the opportunity to escape with the horses. After the main force evacuated from the battlefield, Sima Fan saw that the main force had escaped, and he immediately ran away and waited for Kong Chang to organize it.
When the troops were about to fight back, he had run away with only a cigarette left.
Seeing Kong Feng, Taobao cried out with a cry. This short and bloody battle in Jin caused great damage to his soul. Not only did his two thousand cavalry lose more than half, but even his personal soldiers were almost dead.
, How could he not be sad and angry?
In response to this, Kong Chang could only grit his teeth and comfort him: "Stop crying, with the general here, are you still afraid of losing troops?"
Taobao grinned and said, "This is not a matter of whether there are soldiers or not. My new recruits are all dead! How can I lead the soldiers in the future?"
Kong Chang said: "It's okay if all the personal soldiers die. Look at him..."
When Kui An, who was rushing over with a team of men and horses, his face suddenly became darker than the bottom of the pot when he heard this.
Chapter completed!