Cao Shili, with the momentum of his horse's sprint, held a long spear under his arm and struck a large shield from the side, thrusting it towards him.
There were no extra manpower around him to prepare weapons for him at any time, so Cao Shili had to prevent the Shuo Blade from getting stuck in the big shield. When he was about to hit it, the Shuo Blade turned its drill force into a swing force, directly cracking the big shield, and let
The ferocious-looking soldier behind the shield was exposed.
Seeing that the man didn't panic after the big shield in his hand was broken, and even raised his single sword to slash at the spear pole, Cao Shili smiled ferociously, ignored the big shields coming from the left and right, and raised the spear to stab the soldier in the chest.
Suddenly, he heard a piercing whistle in the air. Cao Shili was like a cat with fried fur, sitting on a soft saddle. His tailbone also straightened at that moment, and his waist twisted to the left.
He opened the door and looked down at the flash of fire under his armpit, but a short spear grazed the iron armor under his armpit.
A chill ran down Cao Shili's spine. He didn't expect that life and death were so close. If he couldn't avoid it, he would definitely be stabbed to the core by this short spear.
He tilted his head and saw from the corner of his eye that Wang Ju was taking a short spear in his hand. The elite guards around him were too few to form an airtight shield around him. He did not dare to enlarge it any more.
He took off the shield next to the saddle and held it in his hand.
At the same time, Cao Shili abandoned the long sword that was somewhat difficult to hold with one hand, replaced it with a long sword and rushed forward, knocking away several strong shields, and then asked Cao Fang to escort Cao Chengxian to the direction of Beizhaimen to escape.
Dozens of cavalrymen turned around and charged forward.
The leading generals of each unit of the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers were very accurate in capturing the fighter opportunities. After Cao Shili saw him riding in the north column, the leading general of the south side of the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers launched a fierce attack almost at the same time.
The soldiers and horses of the Han army in Lanzhou on the south side were already devastated by the killing, and there were no new reinforcements of soldiers, horses and war weapons to fill them in. In addition, the fire in the southwest corner had already spread, and people were even more panicked. How could it be possible?
Can you withstand the wolf-like tiger soldiers of Tongbai Mountain?
Even though the troops on the south side were not completely defeated at this time, Cao Shili knew that they would not be able to withstand such a fierce offensive from the soldiers of Tongbai Mountain.
What he has to do now is to delay the attack of the fierce soldiers on the north side of Tongbai Mountain as much as possible, and before Tongbai Mountain soldiers form a clamp from the north and south sides, help as many soldiers as possible escape towards the Beizhai Gate -
—At the same time, it would take time to open the Beizhai Gate and disperse the interception of more than a hundred soldiers from Tongbai Mountain outside the Beizhai Gate.
Now that the situation was over, Cao Shili knew that he could no longer organize a defense capable of withstanding Xu Huai's and Wang Ju's elite attacks in Qingquan Gou Village.
At this time, they still wanted to forcibly organize a defense in the stronghold. Apart from wiping out all the elite guards who had followed the Cao family for many years, it would not have any greater effect.
And now he wants to give more elite guards a chance to escape from the encirclement of Tongbai Mountain Soldiers. On the one hand, he must open the escape channel to the North Village Gate as much as possible, and on the other hand, he must delay the Tongbai Mountain Soldiers from going north as much as possible.
The speed of pursuit.
As for the other soldiers in the camp, Cao Shili could no longer take care of them.
What he really values is the elite bodyguards who have followed him for many years. At this time, he just regrets that he should not use the elite bodyguards to block Xu Huai's killer.
It would have been better if he had led his elite troops to guard the Beizhai Gate immediately. Even if Xu Huai was allowed to kill randomly in the camp, how many soldiers could he have killed?
There is no regret medicine to take now. Who could have predicted in advance that the Tongbai soldiers led by Xu Huai would be so ferocious. After all, he had never faced Xu Huai to death.
"This bitch actually wants to escape?" Niu Er's reaction was a few steps slower than others. Only then did he come back to his senses and stood beside Xu Huai and asked in surprise.
"You can react a little later!" Xu Huai said with a smile.
"How to fight next?" Fan Zongqi, along with his father Fan Yong, father-in-law Wang Ju and others, were deployed as low-level military officials in Hedong. He had heard of Cao Shili's reputation for a long time, and he did not expect that a figure like Cao Shili would be defeated so easily.
He wanted to escape, but he was a little confused for a moment, so he asked Xu Huai with his sword and shield.
Xu Huai calmed down, looked at the situation between the enemy and ourselves, and said:
"After the order is passed, Wu Chihai and Yuan Lei's troops should stabilize their position and maintain the force of the pinch from the flanks. Don't be greedy for success. Let Wei Daya and Xu Sihu suppress the retreating enemy soldiers and pursue them. They must not advance rashly.
The horses are not allowed to disperse to the two wings! The other men and horses from the Chushan camp should join me first!"
The soldiers of Tongbai Mountain attacked and entered the camp on two legs. Even if they chased with all legs, their speed would not be very fast.
At this time, Xu Huai could see that Cao Shili wanted the elite guards to escape from the camp, and if they wanted to round up all the enemy soldiers, they would need Wuchihai and Yuan Lei to drill through the north as quickly as possible to intercept them.
But in that case, there is a heavy price to pay.
It's still far from the time to turn the bad situation around. He only has a few elites at his disposal, so he must use them sparingly.
Now, in addition to the so-called victory, it is also necessary to reduce casualties as much as possible.
At this juncture, the right choice is to pursue the enemy soldiers who have no intention of escaping and chase them north, and then seize the Beizhai Gate first.
In this case, on the one hand, they can organize some defenses at Beizhaimen before enemy reinforcements arrive. On the other hand, Cao Shili and his son have escaped from Qingquangou Village, and those enemy soldiers who failed to escape in time will be more
Without fighting spirit, it can also quickly expand the results and create a more relaxed environment for the soldiers and horses who enter the stronghold to fight.
Military orders came out one after another, and Xu Huailin continued to order:
"Give the order, don't kill if you can, and promise the enemy soldiers to surrender. The generals and soldiers lined up and shouted: 'The people of Dayue will not cheat...', oh, 'The people of Dayue will not kill the people of Dayue', and urged the enemy soldiers to put down their weapons.
surrender!"
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Deng Gui was responsible for leading his troops to launch a feint attack from Beizhai Gate. The main purpose was to attract the enemy's attention outside Beizhai Gate. At the same time, he also had to evacuate before enemy reinforcements arrived. It was impossible to really use more than a hundred men to attack with bare hands.
Demolish Beizhai Gate.
In addition to the fact that the situation in Qingquan Village developed too rapidly, beyond Deng Gui's imagination, Deng Gui and his group's view was blocked by the village wall, and they could only understand the battle situation in the village through the changes in the command flags on the earth wall of the west wall.
However, the information that the five-color flag can convey is very limited.
Deng Gui realized that the enemy troops in the village had been killed and defeated, and it was impossible to organize an effective attack again. However, before he decided to lead his troops to directly advance to the north gate of the village and form a formation to block the gate, the north gate of Qingquan Gou Village suddenly burst into flames.
After opening it, hundreds of enemy soldiers fled from it, including many armored cavalry.
"The enemy soldiers are in a huge rout. Come on, all the officers and men, I can hope for great success!" Deng Gui shouted, brandishing his sword, and was about to lead his troops forward to try his best to minimize the space for the enemy soldiers to flee from Beizhaimen, but he was surrounded by
Both will be stopped.
"The enemy's situation is unknown. How can we fill the tiger's mouth with our few manpower? The military envoy must be careful!"
"When we meet on a narrow road, a brave soldier will win. Why should we fear the tiger's mouth? You two cowards, don't hinder me." Deng Gui was so angry that he cursed and urged the generals on the left and right to line up to attack and kill.
They are now two arrows away from the Beizhai Gate. The opening is too big. Deng Gui does not expect to stop all the defeated soldiers. As long as the opening is narrowed, the enemy soldiers will become more and more confused if they want to escape.
You can kill the defeated soldiers from the front, and you can also divide your troops to chase the defeated soldiers on the two wings and reap the victory.
However, no matter how much Deng Gui urged, the two generals and several military officials just advised him: "The military envoys should be cautious, the military envoys should be cautious!"
Although the Western Army implemented the art of generals decades ago in order to adapt to the long-term battle against the party members, that is, the imperial army was stationed in Junzhou and border towns for a long time, and at the same time, it also used the capital commanders as much as possible.
The following military commanders are relatively stable, and their promotions and promotions are basically controlled within the scope of a military town.
This can ensure that the commander of the army can command the soldiers more effectively, and avoid the shortcomings of "the general does not know the soldiers", "the soldiers do not know the generals", and the inability to command.
The implementation of the art of war by the Imperial Guards in the Mainland was not so thorough, and even the battalion commanders could not maintain stability at the level of commander-in-chief.
In addition to being rotated every two to three years, more military officials are temporarily granted the power to command troops until needed.
Deng Gui had previously been transferred from the Huaiyuan Inspection Department and returned to the Capital Deployment Department as Director. This time he also followed Cao Yi north to the King of Qin, and was temporarily granted the command of a battalion of troops.
The generals and military officials all advised him to be cautious and not to lead the troops to attack. Deng Gui was so angry that he screamed, but no one obeyed his order to form a formation and fight before him - the opportunity to fight was fleeting, and the enemy troops were quickly lost in the chaos.
He quickly organized a cavalry of more than 20 people to press towards them. Deng Gui could only suppress the evil fire and murderous intention in his heart and huddled in place with his men and horses to avoid being killed by the enemy soldiers in turn.
The terrain in front of the North Village gate of Qingquangou is relatively open. Deng Gui and the others are only two arrows away, with gentle slopes to the left and right. The Han army in Lanzhou has no extravagant hope of being able to overrun Deng Gui's troops in a very short period of time.
After being defeated, they just fled to the slopes on both sides, widening the distance from Qingquan Gouzhai, and waited for reinforcements to arrive.
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The wall of the North Village is also an earthen wall, only more than one foot high, but the gate of the village is a stone archway.
Although the archway is majestic, a ridge on the top of the mountain is so high that soldiers cannot stand on it to defend. The condescending defense of the Beizhai Gate mainly relies on two temporary watchtowers on both sides of the gate.
Soldiers can also stand on the earth walls that are more than six or seven feet thick on both sides.
At the end of the fighting, Cao Shili fled north on horseback. The enemy soldiers north of the ancestral hall completely lost their will to resist and just ran away - it only took a stick of incense to kill them from the ancestral hall to the Beizhai Gate.
At this time, the enemy cavalry on the east and west wings had just assembled and dispatched.
Yu Gong, Zhou Shu, Han Wende, Chen Jin, Yang Qiye and other generals who were originally responsible for the response, were behind the scenes, or were suspected soldiers. At this time, they also led their troops into the village to encircle and kill the enemy soldiers. Xu Huai then gathered the soldiers from Tongbai Mountain to the north village gate.
Rest beforehand.
Xu Huai stood on the ridge of the stone archway that was more than ten feet high. When he saw that Deng Gui and his troops were still two arrows away, they were as stable as a mountain. They did not take the initiative to chase the defeated soldiers on both wings. He frowned and asked: "Deng
Military envoy, the enemy soldiers came out of the stronghold and were defeated, why didn't you lead your troops to attack the stronghold gate to intercept the defeated enemy, and just stay where you are and enjoy the victory?"
Deng Gui was ashamed and had no shame to say that he could not command his soldiers. However, all the generals still came forward very kindly and explained to Deng Gui: "Our view is blocked by the wall, so we don't know.
What is the fighting situation in the stronghold? When we see the enemy soldiers opening the door and fleeing, Deng Jun is going to lead his troops to kill. We advise the troops to act with caution..."
"So, it was you who persuaded Deng Jun to not act rashly?" Xu Huai asked sadly, "Besides you, who else persuaded Deng Jun to do so?"
"..." Seeing Xu Huai's unkind look, the generals were frightened and said, "We have persuaded all the generals, but we didn't just sit back and enjoy the success. We even killed dozens of defeated soldiers, and their heads are all here!"
"Disobeying orders is one of the crimes, delaying the opportunity to fight, and the other crime is, how do you think I will tolerate you?" Xu Huai took the Zhemu walking bow and three sharp clusters from the guard beside him, and said with murderous intent
Staring at the general, he asked.
"I, I, I am a general under the command of the Military Deployment Department of the South Beijing Road. That is to say, even if I am guilty, I should be judged by the Dudu Sima Bu Military Academy. You have no right to punish me." The general shouted in panic.
"Penalize you? You have a bad idea! This is war time, and I am the general of the main army. If you dare to disobey me, life or death is in my hands. What kind of bullshit is it for the Horse and Infantry Academy to jump out and point fingers?"
Xu Huai shot three arrows in a row, hitting the general's face, and shot him dead at the Beizhai Gate on the spot. He then looked at the generals and military officials behind Deng Gui and said,
"Not one person disobeyed Deng's army and disobeyed the military orders. All the generals, at the festival level, immediately led their teams to hunt ten prisoner heads back to atone for their crime, otherwise they would be executed without mercy!"
