Baiguwu is located in the southeast of Yanshi, between the open valley between Luoshui and Songshan Mountains. It is an important passage to the east of Luoyang. Most of the large groups of people going east to and from Heluo must pass through here.
After receiving the order to go east to resist the enemy, He Lanxiang immediately led his elite cavalry to leave the southern city of Heyang and ford the Luoshui River. After entering Baiguwu, he sent scouts to inspect the surrounding area in the hope of discovering the enemy in advance and attacking them.
Intercept.
The name Bai Valley is said to be because cypress trees are planted all over the valleys, but it is also called Bai Valley because it is located in the transition zone between the Heluo Plain and the Songshan Mountains, so there are many ravines and valleys.
Therefore, it is not easy to accurately grasp the enemy's advance and retreat channels in this situation. If you want to attack the enemy before crossing, you only need to defend Baiguwu.
However, the specific strength of the enemy's army is not clear at present. In addition, once the enemy cannot be stopped here, the north bank of Luoshui will be unprotected, and the enemy can directly attack the south city of Heyang. In order to ensure the safety of the flanks of the river bridge, He Lanxiang
He hoped to intercept the enemy troops outside Baiguwu.
The scattered scouts quickly relayed the news that an organized enemy ranger was discovered on the east side of Goushi Mountain, more than 20 miles east of Baiguwu.
He Lanxiang was surprised when he learned the news. He did not expect that the enemy would advance so quickly. Although the scouts reported that there were only more than a thousand enemies, it was obviously not enough to recapture Heyang with more than a thousand troops.
It should be just one of the forward troops.
After pondering for a while, He Lanxiang bluntly sent out all his troops, hoping to hit the enemy unprepared and inflict heavy damage and even annihilate this group of troops, thereby causing a huge psychological shock to the enemy and making them dare not advance easily again.
This will buy more time for the armies in the rear.
Although the terrain near Baiguwu is rugged and rugged, the elevation changes up and down are not very big. Although it brings some trouble to the march, most places can be passed by horseback, but the speed is not too fast.
He Lanxiang's elite cavalry is not a powerful private group newly recruited and reorganized in Kansai in recent years. It is still mainly composed of Xianbei veterans with rich combat experience. Although the ravines they travel are rugged, they can still ensure the coordination of the formation.
When the group of people turned along the mountain stream into a slightly open valley, they looked up and saw a simple temporary camp fence deep in the valley. The enemy soldiers inside the camp fence were also alert.
They had begun to assemble in the valley to prepare for the battle, but they were obviously in a panic due to the hasty encounter with the enemy, and there were only a few armored ones.
In addition to the hundreds of soldiers arrayed against the camp fence, there were also the neighing sounds of war horses in the area blocked by dense vegetation on the other side of the river valley.
When He Lanxiang saw this scene, he felt something was wrong in his heart. He saw that except for the simple camp fence, almost everything else in the valley retained its original style, and he couldn't figure out the purpose of the enemy's forward troops stationed in this inaccessible valley.
What exactly is it.
But now that the enemy was in front of him, He Lanxiang had no time to think about it in detail. He immediately drew out his saber and pointed towards the valley ahead: "Charge! Wipe out all the enemy troops and leave no one alive!"
The Western Dynasty was poor and weak, and the prisoners captured during the war were also a great harvest, and could be used as slaves. However, because the enemy's situation was not yet completely clear, He Lanxiang did not want to entangle with the enemy for too long, so he ordered that the prisoners should not be counted.
Following his orders, the soldiers rushed into the river valley on horseback and headed straight for the camp fence on the opposite side.
The so-called understanding that cavalry cannot rush into formation and break out of camp is just a stupid trick of ordinary people. Those who do not know the tactics of armies talk about war on paper. There are many variables in war. Of course, they must be applied in specific situations. Moreover, cavalry charging into formation has always been the main tactic of Xianbei in the six towns.
First, the townspeople who were soldiers in their era have rich combat experience accumulated and passed down from generation to generation, and they also have a kind of bravery in their bones.
With the first round of firing by the rangers, there were already people killed by arrows in the enemy formations inside the camp fence. These enemy soldiers had simple weapons. Apart from knives and guns and other easy-to-carry weapons, other shields, spears, etc. were very few in number.
If it weren't for the fact that the military uniform he wore was that of the Eastern Army, he would have looked more like a rogue bandit based on his shabby equipment.
Although the weapons are very crude, these people are by no means a mob. The enemy troops are stationed in the camp, but on the other side of the stream diagonally opposite, there are hundreds of horsemen reining up their horses and waiting for battle.
As He Lanxiang's men and horses rushed to the front of the camp fence, the horses stamped their feet and the charge was suspended. However, the enemy cavalry in the array behind the stream started to charge: "Kill!"
Hundreds of cavalrymen each held a spear and plunged straight into the Western Wei cavalry formation in front of the camp fence. The long and sharp spear spear took advantage of the momentum of the horses and mercilessly penetrated into the bodies of the soldiers.
The splashing blood dyed the entire stream red in an instant. But in this round of charging, dozens of riders died under the force!
He Lanxiang, who was supervising the battle at the mouth of the valley, frowned when he saw this scene. He immediately ordered the troops behind him to continue charging, and he himself and other soldiers went straight into the valley to kill.
Thousands of men and horses poured into the river valley, immediately filling up all the space in the river valley. The counter-attack fighters from both sides separated and penetrated each other. There was no obvious coordination in the battle formation, and they each searched for the enemy within sight and within the reach of the blade.
Fighting. If you move a little slower, even if you intend to raise your hands to surrender, the red-eyed enemy will be killed on the spot!
Such a brutal battle lasted for more than a quarter of an hour, and in the end, the advantage of the side with more people was more obvious. As the scattered enemies were gradually killed, more and more courageous enemies gave up resistance and surrendered.
, and was gradually driven to a corner in the camp.
By the time the battle was over, almost half of the enemy's body was dead on the spot, and the remaining more than 500 disabled people were surrounded in a corner of the valley, trembling and begging to surrender. He Lanxiang's side also had 400 to 500 casualties. Simply looking at the number of casualties could not even be counted.
It was a victory, but the final result of the battle was that the enemy army of thousands of people was completely eliminated.
Although he had been ordered before the battle to leave no one alive, seeing that the remaining enemy soldiers had completely surrendered, He Lanxiang did not order any more prisoners to be killed. Instead, his officers reorganized the prisoners and quickly cleaned the battlefield, while he himself interrogated them personally.
Several commanders knew exactly the enemy's situation.
"What? You are not the army from Hulao, but the defeated army from Luoxi before?"
The result of the interrogation surprised He Lanxiang. This group of troops was not attacking the enemy from the direction of Hulao, but the remnants of Xue Guyan's army that Li Boshan defeated at Qianjinyan in Luoxi many days ago.
The battle failed that night, and Xue Guyan's troops fled to all directions. One of them went east along Luoyang. Under the order of a general of Xue Guyan's tribe, they gathered the defeated troops along the way, forming such a force of thousands.
The remnants of human beings.
They originally planned to enter Baiguwu and then cross the Luoshui River to return to Heyang Nancheng. However, when they were about to arrive at Baiguwu, they were shocked to hear that Heyang Nancheng had been lost. With no place to go, they had no choice but to stay here for fear of being captured by the river.
Yang's Western Wei army discovered it and had been hiding nearby. Unexpectedly, it was finally discovered by the scouts sent by He Lanxiang, and this disaster ushered in.
He Lanxiang originally thought that he could annihilate the enemy's vanguard to frighten his division, but he did not expect to make such an own goal. Although it was considered a hidden danger, it was completely different from his original goal, especially when the team rushed in and failed to hit it effectively.
The target is in danger of being exposed.
"Retreat! Retreat to Baiguwu quickly!"
He Lanxiang was complaining in his heart. He was misled by Yu Wenhu. He heard Yu Wenhu brag about how impeccable the defense was, but he didn't even know that an enemy force of thousands of people was hidden nearby.
The efficiency of the advance and retreat of the large group of troops was not high. He Lanxiang was afraid that the situation would get worse, so he sent his horse back to Heyang Nancheng to report the unexpected situation, and reminded Yu Wenhu to try to build a line of defense on the other side of Luoshui if possible. What he encountered here
It is still unclear how much ability it can exert against the enemy due to an accident, so it is natural to be prepared with both hands.
On the way back, He Lanxiang was worried all the way, fearing that the team's whereabouts would be detected by enemy scouts and blocked in the middle. But fortunately, the journey back to Baiguwu was without any danger. Seeing Guoguchengwu vaguely in sight, he
The hanging heart slowly fell.
But when the front men and horses arrived in front of the city dock, many figures suddenly appeared on the city top, shooting arrows downwards and throwing corpses from the city top. It was clear that those corpses were the defenders that He Lanxiang had arranged before.
"Master Lang, something bad is going on!"
He Lanxiang was a little dumbfounded when he saw this scene, and was so shocked that his thoughts stopped, while the troops around him hurriedly guarded him and retreated towards the sloping valley behind him.
The group of people fled for more than ten miles, and the horses and men were exhausted, so they stopped. The people behind them came to tell them that the enemy was not coming one after another. He Lanxiang frowned and sighed: "What's wrong! Maybe the one entering the city is the one.
The enemy scouts are in the vanguard. If they can attack quickly at that time, they should be able to recapture the city!"
He Lanxiang had been out of shape ever since he discovered that he had attacked the wrong target. At this time, he realized that he had been too frightened before, and he couldn't help but feel even more annoyed. So he hurriedly rushed back to fight back, hoping to catch up before the enemy's brigade arrived.
Then capture Baiguwu back.
However, when his troops returned to a ravine near Baiguwu, drums and horns suddenly sounded on both sides of the ravine, flags were fluttering, and countless ambush soldiers emerged. At the same time, under a large banner surrounded by soldiers directly in front, a soldier in uniform
General Hu held up his sword and shouted: "But Zhu Hun Daoyuan is here. The thief will quickly dismount his horse and ask for surrender. May I spare your life!"
Seeing the enemy soldiers emerging from all directions, He Lanxiang was so frightened that his hands and feet were cold for a while. He stopped making any comprehensive arrangements and just shouted loudly: "While the enemy's encirclement is not yet completed, quickly break out of the encirclement! But you can break out of the enemy's encirclement."
Sir, tell Heqiao the news about the enemy troops quickly!"