Yang Qiye (the name of the person in the first two chapters is wrong, the person next to Xu Huai is Yang Qiye, not his father Yang Lin), Zheng Jinqing and several generals under the jurisdiction of the Xuanwu Army and Qin Feng Road Soldiers and Horses Deployment Department. Xu Huai has no intention of asking them to participate in the war.
, there was no shortage of them, but they were ordered to climb the steep slope on the south side of the official road to watch the battle.
At this time, the wind and snow stopped, the wind calmed down, and the snow particles became much sparse. The battlefield of the Serpentine Gorge on the northeast side of Zhufeng Villa was completely laid out in front of their eyes.
Even though it was a one-sided massacre, the scene was still so thrilling.
The first general Cao Shili met was deceived by Xu Huai's envoy and killed in front of the formation. This was something Yang Qiye, Zheng Jinqing and others could not have expected in advance.
As generals in the army, of course they knew that Ci was not in charge of the army, and they could not rigidly think that Xu Huai was dishonest in doing so. They were just shocked that a person like Cao Shili could be so easily deceived.
Of course, Yang Qiye participated in the defensive battle of Gong County and also participated in the attack on Qingquan Gou Village. If you think about it carefully, you can still understand why people like Cao Shili were so easily fooled.
To put it bluntly, Xu Huai is the shadow that Cao Shili can't get rid of in his life, and it's the nightmare that he can't wake up from in his life.
He was suddenly ambushed, and the moment he saw Xu Huai show up, he may have lost the courage to form a battle, and pinned his vague hope on Xu Huai Zhen's duel with him.
As the commander-in-chief of an army, it would be really funny for Xu Huai to challenge Cao Shili in a battle involving the fate of his family and country.
The general Cao Shili was trapped and killed. These old Shuozhou soldiers who were gathered by Cao Shili to the front had already been killed by Xu Huai when they were in Gong County. Without a cup of tea, these Shuozhou warriors who were gathered on the front line were either
Being killed mercilessly, or fleeing in panic.
At this time, five hundred enemy troops were blocked in the narrow gorge by ambushes from the front and rear. The Chushan elite soldiers, who were dismounted and fighting, used a shield formation and concentrated their firepower to squeeze into the middle. Soon, from the marching array that was more than four miles long,
It was compressed into a gorge that was less than a hundred feet long.
On both sides of the gorge are steep slopes covered with ice and snow, wet and slippery. The bottom is only three to four feet wide. Five hundred enemy soldiers were mixed together. Many people fell and dismounted. The out-of-control horses rushed forward and back, smashing into the enemy formation.
It became even more chaotic; under the trampling of horse hooves, countless people who fell to the ground were trampled to pieces with broken bones and limbs.
In order to prevent the frightened horses from rushing over, a multi-layered shield array was built in front and back of the gorge, with gun clips interspersed to block the impact of the frightened horses and the fleeing enemy soldiers. The crossbowmen stood behind the shield array and kept firing in front of them.
The sound of dense arrows being fired and passing through, the clanging sound of being blocked by armor and iron helmets, the muffled sound of sharp arrows piercing into the flesh, the tragic roaring and wailing, the roar of venting fear, and the sound of the wind were mixed together.
The rounds of firing lasted for less than half an hour. After confirming that the enemy soldiers could no longer organize an orderly counterattack and resistance, Xu Huaicai arranged for the sword and shield players of the team to step out from behind the shield formation and enter the canyon to surround and kill the scattered enemy soldiers...
Looking at the more than a hundred feet long gorge filled with corpses of people and horses, it seems that the vitality of war horses is stronger than that of people, or the wounds opened by arrows bleed slower than those of people hit by arrows. What is the neighing on the battlefield?
The horses howled, and most of the injured horses struggled to stand up.
The swordsman and shieldman ruthlessly killed these wounded soldiers and the wounded horses struggling to stand up.
But this time there were no extra manpower to guard the prisoners, so the sword and shield men also mercilessly surrounded and killed those enemy soldiers who put down their weapons and knelt down to surrender.
Although the slopes on both sides of the gorge are steep, they are not cliffs after all. In the end, dozens of enemy soldiers scattered and fled.
However, the nearly 500 elite cavalry left by the Qing Shun Army or the Shuozhou rebels in Lanzhou, including a group of children of Shuozhou rebel generals, except for a few important people who were captured, were all excluded.
Kill and kill.
Yang Qiye and the several generals of the Xuanwu Army around him felt a little calmer. After all, the battle scenes they had witnessed in Qingquangou Village in Gongxian County were more bloody, brutal, violent, and intense than what they saw before them.
Zheng Jinqing and the generals who were affiliated with the Qinfeng Road Capital Deployment Department around him were stunned, but there was also a fire in their chests, and they wanted to rush down the slope to join the fight.
In the past hundreds of years, Qin Fenglu was responsible for almost one-third of the wars with the Dangxiang people. As the son of a general, Zheng Jinqing grew up in the army with his father and brother since childhood, and participated in many battles with the Dangxiang people.
However, in the past ten years, the intensity of the war between Dai Viet and the Dangxiang people has dropped. Zheng Jinqing and several people around him pride themselves on being brave, but they have never experienced such a fierce battle scene before them. The red cavalry slaughtered in the Hehuai River.
They were in Gong County at the time and didn't see the scene...
There was simply a one-sided massacre in the gorge. The scene in front of them made them unable to calm down for a long time.
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The gorge was too narrow. When he saw Xu Huai, Wang Ju asked his generals to retreat to the slightly wider mouth of the valley. Only then did Yang Qiye and Zheng Jinqing lead the generals down the steep slope and rushed over to meet Xu Huai and Wang Ju to wait for the new entrance.
instruct.
Tang Pan, who took over the command of the battlefield, stood on the stone cliff on the left, still paying attention to the battlefield in the gorge that had almost calmed down, but it was hard to say that there were not a few enemy soldiers who were pretending to die, and he was searching for them and cleaning up the battlefield.
The generals struck hard.
At present, their main troops are still stationed in the west of Taohuachong and Mingluzhai. This post road is currently the only way from Lan Valley to the upper reaches of Fenshui River Valley (Kelan, Loufan), and these people cannot be allowed to compete with them.
The horse's carcass was frozen solidly with the road.
They were clearing the battlefield and needed to drag the human and horse corpses out of the canyon in time before their body temperatures had completely cooled down.
Only a few generals from the Chushan camp died in this battle. The ground was frozen solid and it was difficult to bury them on the spot. They could only be covered under the ice and snow. The lightly injured generals were simply bandaged and continued to follow.
Large armies fight.
In addition, nearly twenty generals were seriously injured.
Shi Hu led 20 injured horses to the valley and killed them by cutting their throats. Then he cut open the horses' bellies, pulled out their intestines, and stuffed the seriously injured soldiers into the horses' bellies, hoping to keep them alive.
Their body temperature will be kept high until subsequent soldiers and horses arrive from the valley south of Taohua Chong via a detour before further treatment can be carried out.
"Xu Xin'an will immediately lead two hundred cavalry to Heiyanyi. Yang Qiye, you immediately return to the west of Taohuachong. Ignore the enemies in Taohuachong. Arrive at Heiyanyi within two days and meet up with Xu Xin'an. If you fail to arrive after the time limit, you will be charged with losing the army.
Did you understand the discussion?"
Baiyanyi is the core pass on the Lanzhou side of Yang Guang's old road.
The northern section of Luliang Mountain in Taiyuan, which separates Lanzhou and Xinzhou, is much steeper than Guanchuan Mountain. Heiyan Station is located in a mountain gorge, with high cliffs to the north and deep ravines to the south. If one man is at the gate, ten thousand people will not be able to do anything.
risk.
The former site of Tianmenguan at the west entrance of the Baiyanyi and Yangguang old roads can be said to be the two most dangerous places on the way to Taiyuan from Lanzhou.
At this time, Xu Xin'an, Fan Zongqi, and Wu Chichuan took advantage of the fact that before the Lanzhou defenders could react, they led their remaining cavalry to Heiyan Post. They had earlier led dozens of elite scouts to sneak into the mountains at the western foot of Luliang Mountain to block the passage. By joining forces with Zhou Jing, it is possible to block the news of the attack on Lanzhou for two or three days.
This will also buy them two or three more days in Lanzhou to further attack the Qing Shun army.
Yang Qiye's 500 troops are horse infantry. They have been trained in Gong County defense and other battles. They have grown up and have considerable combat effectiveness. Xu Huai asked him to lead his troops into Lanzhou and join forces with Xu Xin'an, Fan Zongqi, Wu Chichuan and others. Leading the cavalry troops together will enable them to cooperate more effectively in combat.
Marching in windy and snowy weather makes combat more difficult, but it is undoubtedly the most capable of creating miracles.
In the previous raid on Kelan, Xu Huai led his troops to jump out of the blockade of the Japanese soldiers on a snowy night, climbed over the border wall west of Yangkou Village, traveled three to four hundred miles in two days and one night, and suddenly reached the foot of Kelan City, creating three hundred cavalry. The miracle of taking the city.
Of course, marching through valleys and hills in windy and snowy weather is also a severe test for ordinary generals.
It may only be 1,670 miles from the west of Taohuachong to Heiyanyi, but with such heavy wind and snow, there is still a small section of mountains with no existing roads to travel, and it is necessary to carry as few supplies as possible, in two days Arriving in time, Yang Qiye really didn't know how many generals would be left behind in such a high-intensity march, and some might be completely lost among the mountains in a foreign land. However, he did not hesitate at this moment to carry out this marching mission. Take the next step.
Not to be outdone, Zheng Jinqing asked Xu Huai for a battle: "Yang Jun is leading his troops to Heiyanyi. How should our troops fight? Please give instructions from the military marquis!"
"Envoy Zheng, your troops need to arrive at Huanglongpo Station before noon tomorrow and be prepared to engage the enemy troops coming south from Ningwu!" Xu Huai ordered Zheng Jinqing.
The Qingshun Army (Lanzhou and Shuozhou rebels) stationed elite troops in Langu and Taohuachong Village, mainly to guard against Fuzhou soldiers and horses. Since Xiao Linshi actually controlled the entire Xishan area, the Qingshun Army guarded against the defense lines of the remnants of the Khitan tribe. Minglu Village, Guangwu Village and Yangkou Village in the north of Ningwu County are the main ones.
Yangkou Village is located on the Huihe River Valley, and is the main channel for large-scale roundabout attacks by large groups of cavalry. There are also channels along the side wall to the west to support Guangwu Village, Minglu Village and Langu City. You can also go south He was transferred back to Lanzhou City, so Cao Shixiong placed five thousand soldiers and horses in Yangkou Village.
Xu Huai cut off the Qing Shun army in Lanzhou, preventing them from gathering to block the west entrance of the northern footpath of Luliang Mountain near Heiyanyi. Huanglongpoyi, located on the east slope of Guanjuan Mountain and on the west bank of Fen River, was their A battleground.
If Cao Shixiong is not willing to let them live in an uninhabited land in Lanzhou, they will definitely take back Huanglongpo Station.
After Yang Qiye, Zheng Jinqing, led the generals and other messengers and guards, disappeared into the mountains to the south despite the wind and snow, Xu Huai was preparing to lead a group of soldiers and horses to Huanglongpo Post for a short rest, and then chased the defeated people into the mountains on both sides. At this time, a small group of troops captured several prisoners and escorted them over...
