Facing the attack from three sides by the Han army, the exhausted Tang army almost collapsed. Things often develop like this. When an emergency comes, people will regret it. Even if they are headstrong and stupid like He Yanxi, they will see the Han army advancing like a tiger.
When the flock of sheep wantonly slaughtered the soldiers of Haozhou, they finally realized what was "strange" as mentioned by Guo Tingwei.
This was a tactic used by the Han army to lure the enemy. When he realized it, He Yanxi almost vomited blood. He couldn't see through such a superficial tactic...
At this critical juncture, He Yanxi completely lost his position and had no intention of gathering troops to resist. He turned his horse and drove away. As soon as the general fled, the Tang army was defeated even more completely. The defeat was like a mountain.
At the rear of the Tang army, there was an army led by Guo Tingwei, who was waiting behind him. The more he pursued, the more worried he felt. Seeing that it was going deep into Tushan, he became even more vigilant and sent people to persuade He Yanxi to withdraw his troops. Unfortunately, he was stubborn and refused to listen.
Not long after, the sound of killing came from the foot of Tushan Mountain. Listening to the movement, it was definitely not the momentum caused by a small group of hundreds of soldiers and horses.
"Something happened!" He cursed He Yanxi in his heart for not listening to persuasion, and hurriedly led his troops to follow up, preparing for support to see if the situation could be restored.
One mile forward, the Tang army was defeated and came in a hurry, one by one, unorganized, chaotic, and scattered in the wild. Guo Tingwei immediately found a school captain and asked: "What's going on ahead? Where is the governor?"
When Guo Tingwei faced him, the army officer had just recovered from his shock and said: "We followed the governor to pursue the Han army and went straight to the foot of the mountain. Suddenly, the Han army came out from the mountains on the left and right sides. The Han army was defeated and turned around to attack. The Han army was fierce.
Our army was not aware of it for a moment and was unable to resist it. It was defeated and no one was caught in the formation..."
"How many people are there in the Han army?" Guo Tingwei asked urgently.
"The battle flags are densely covered and boundless, at least tens of thousands. The Han army has two fierce generals who killed several of my commanders..." The captain replied: "Your Majesty, run away quickly. All the armies are in chaos and fleeing.
Han soldiers are pursuing us!"
Guo Tingwei had his own judgment, and of course he would not believe all the words of this lost low-level officer, but it was an indisputable fact that He Yanxi was ambushed and defeated.
Hearing his words, he retreated, the sword was unsheathed, and with a flash of cold light, the officer's head fell to the ground, with a look of panic lingering on his face.
Taking a deep breath, Guo Tingwei rode forward and ordered sternly: "Line up to meet the enemy and lead the defeated soldiers away from the two wings. Anyone who dares to say retreat will be killed without mercy!"
At this critical moment, Guo Tingwei made a decisive decision, intending to use his own army to prevent the Han army from pursuing it, and to cause continuous damage to the retreating Tang army. As far as he knew, the Han army at Uokou only had three to two thousand people, and there was also a part of the navy.
The number of Han soldiers was ten thousand, but it was just a conjecture made by the officer when he was completely defeated.
Standing in front of the formation with his sword pressed, he looked at the retreating Tang army. There were many familiar faces. Guo Tingwei's face was as dark as water, and he hated He Yanxi extremely in his heart. He failed to succeed but failed more than failed. Some rebels charged recklessly, but Guo Tingwei ordered them to be killed.
kill.
After a while, the Han army came in pursuit.
Dang Jin took the lead and led people to the front of Guo Tingwei's army. Looking at the Tang army blocking the road and looking at the crossbowmen in the front row, Dang Jin couldn't help but licked his almost dry lips, and without thinking, he picked up a handful.
Shield, yelled "charge", and took the lead to rush towards the Tang army.
Entering the shooting range, three rounds of arrow rain directly caused more than 100 casualties to the Han army, and Dang Jin's arm was also stained. Seeing this, Dang Jin became even more red-eyed, knowing that during the previous ambush and pursuit, Dang Jin
, his subordinates did not suffer such heavy losses. He became more ferocious and energetic, and led his men into the Tang army's formation. Dang Jin directly pointed at Guo Tingwei, who was dispatching and commanding before the battle.
When a fight broke out, it became white-hot. As the commander-in-chief, Zhao Kuangyin did not focus on the fight, but commanded his subordinates from behind to chase down the fallen enemy. When he arrived with his army, the party advanced and fought with
The fighting between Guo Ting and Wei's troops was fierce.
With a glance, he judged the situation clearly. Looking at Guo Tingwei's army occupying the road to resist, he understood its plan at a glance. He ordered his battalion commander to lead people to rush forward to support the party's advance, while he himself led the army to bypass it.
Taking advantage of the victory, the Han army had strong generals, and Zhao Kuangyin made arrangements at the right time. Even if Guo Tingwei was quite talented in controlling troops, it was difficult to resist him. In the end, before Zhao Kuangyin came around to attack, he ordered a retreat, and then he was pursued by the Han army.
, turned into defeat...
Zhao Kuangyin and Dang Jin pursued and killed them for several miles, and when they approached Tang Camp, they stopped and took a break.
"That guy surnamed Guo really has some tricks up his sleeve. He resisted me for so long and injured nearly three hundred of my soldiers!" Dang Jin cursed, his face reddened due to the cold and excitement.
Zhao Kuangyin's attention was focused on the Tang camp not far away. Chaos had already broken out, even affecting the navy near the shore.
"That Guo Tingwei is indeed not easy to deal with. If he leads the army independently, I am really not sure that he can implement this strategy. But the defeat is like a mountain, and it cannot be saved by Guo Tingwei's manpower!" Zhao Kuangyin said.
Exhaling a breath of turbidity, Zhao Kuangyin pointed at the Tang camp and asked: "The infantry of the Tang army have been defeated. Our army has accomplished most of the battle, and only the stronghold is left! Brother Dang, do you dare to join me in directly attacking the Tang camp and cooperate with the naval attack?"
The water camp? The land division of the Tang army is nothing to worry about. If we can severely damage its water army, then our army will not be afraid of its threat in the lower reaches of the Huaihe River in a short time."
"How dare you not! Brother Zhao has such ambitions, how dare the general say no? Furthermore, we haven't had enough fun in this fight." Dang Jin jumped out on horseback, boosting morale: "Brothers, dare to follow me in the attack.
Is it Tangying?"
After his encouragement, the soldiers enthusiastically shouted "fight" three times in a row, which shocked the field. Seeing the party advancing, he raised his arms and mobilized his morale. Zhao Kuangyin became more and more delighted with these generals.
Without saying much, he went with the party to assemble the troops. After a long pursuit, they only gathered more than a thousand soldiers. However, the morale of the Han army was strong and they were not afraid at all. After a little reorganization, they followed Zhao Kuangyin and the party.
Advance and attack the Tang camp.
The generals worked hard and the soldiers fought hard. Even if there were more than a thousand troops left by Guo Tingwei in the Tang camp, they could not stop the Han army's fierce attack.
After the victory in the Tushan ambush, Zhao Kuangyin sent people to notify the Han army in the water village early, sent out all the warships, went south along the river, and directly attacked the Tang division.
When Zhao Kuangyin defeated the Tang camp, the Han navy had already begun to fight with the Haozhou navy. In terms of strength alone, the dozens of light boats and small ships of the Han army were not enough to fill the gap between the Haozhou navy. However,
,Failure is contagious...
The failure on land directly affected the Haozhou navy, which lost the will to fight and ended up retreating down the river.
In Tangying, Guo Tingwei, the training envoy of the puppet Haozhou regiment, was determined to kill the thieves, but was unable to save his life. He finally fled back to Haozhou with a remnant of less than 500 people. However, He Yanxi led his people to break away from the brigade at the Tushan battlefield and took a detour to return.
Before he could drink any hot water, Guo Tingwei returned to the camp, and the Han army followed him to attack the camp. In the time of great disaster, he followed Guo Tingwei to flee.
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Of the nearly 200 ships of the Haozhou Navy, only a hundred or so successfully retreated when the situation was bad. The rest were intercepted and captured by the Han army. Nearly half of the 5,000-strong navy was lost without much fighting.
.....
In the battle at Wukou, the Han army achieved a complete victory.
The wine and meat in the Tang camp became the reward for the Han army after the war. The whole army was overjoyed, soldiers and horses from all camps returned one after another, and the seizures and battle losses were gradually counted.
On the shore, facing the slightly ruined but warm Tang camp, Zhao Kuangyin, Dang Jin and the navy commander boarded the largest captured Haozhou battleship.
Dang Jin was injured in several places and had been bandaged, but he was in high spirits and not seriously injured. All three of them looked happy, especially the commander of the navy named Zhang, who was even more happy, but he had not done much.
With his strength, he gained a large amount of military merit and looked at Zhao Kuangyin with extremely kind eyes.
It was getting late, and the three of them sat cross-legged and sat together, enjoying the confiscated wine and meat. A soldier from Suzhou, with a happy face, excitedly reported to Zhao Kuangyin from the side: "Your Majesty, after preliminary statistics, the number of people in Wukou is
In the battle, our army killed more than 2,000 Tang army infantrymen and captured 1,000, and the rest were hard to count. The Haozhou Navy captured more than 1,500 soldiers and captured 80 large and small ships, especially 10 of which were fully loaded.
There are also carriages carrying grain, equipment, and military supplies. There are also countless swords, armor, flags, etc. Tang camp still has more than 10,000 stones of rice, and several carts of wine and meat..."
"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Zhao Kuangyin had not yet responded, but Dang Jin clapped his thigh and said hello three times. He picked up the wine bowl and toasted to Zhao Kuangyin and Navy Commander Zhang: "Brother Zhao, Brother Zhang,
Let’s have a bowl of celebratory wine!”
"good!"
Zhao Kuangyin was a good drinker, so he drank it all in one gulp, wiped his mouth, and asked: "How many casualties have our troops suffered?"
"It's not big!" Joining the Army said in a relaxed tone: "The soldiers from all the battalions returned to their ranks. We do not rule out getting lost. Counting last night's attack, our army lost a total of 367 people before and after this battle, and 451 were lightly or seriously injured!
"
"Nearly half of the casualties!" Zhao Kuangyin put down his wine bowl and sighed.
"Compared with the results of the battle, these casualties are nothing!" Commander Zhang of the Navy Army said with a smile: "I would also like to congratulate Ambassador Zhao for defeating the Haozhou land and water army. This is a great achievement and he is about to be promoted!"
Zhao Kuangyin expressed regret: "It's a pity that so many brothers were killed and injured!"
After saying that, he said to the army: "Record all the casualties of the military academy soldiers in the book without leaving any omissions. When the war is over, I will report the pension to the court to comfort these warriors who fought for the country!"
"yes!"
"Instruct each camp to take a short rest, escort the prisoners, seize them and put them on the ship, burn the Tang camp, and return to Jingshan Village to prepare for any unexpected events!" Zhao Kuangyin thought about the order and then looked at the navy commander: "Commander Zhang,
There are brothers from the Labor and Water Army who are waiting for me!"
"What a trivial matter!"
After spending more than an hour, Zhao Kuangyin returned to his army at Wokou, took out the seized wine and meat, and rewarded the soldiers.
On Zhao Kuangyin's side, he wrote down the battle situation and results in his own handwriting, and reported them to the commander of the Huainan front camp to ask for merit for the generals.
That night, Zhao Kuangyin and his soldiers drank heavily to celebrate, and fell asleep in the middle of the night.
Early the next morning, under the influence of a hangover, thinking about the elation of last night, he summoned his officers and issued a strict order: From him on, if there is another drinker before the end of this battle, he will be killed!
As soon as the Battle of Wukou ended, Zhao Kuangyin sent people to investigate the situation in Haozhou, while also paying attention to the battle between Wang Jun and Liu Yanzhen in the south.
There is the key battle in Huainan.
Judging from the news that came out in the past two days, Zhao Kuangyin always felt that Liu Yanzhen had fallen into the trap of the handsome king.
Liu Yanzhen defeated Li Chong's intercepted advance to the west of Anyuan, and took advantage of the situation to approach Shouchun. In Zhao Kuangyin's view, this looked like his own strategy for the battle at the Ukou...