Chapter eight hundred and twentieth the end of the Jingsui army
On the night of September 19th, Zhu Biao, the commander-in-chief of the Han Dynasty, led 100,000 infantry and cavalry to defeat the 300,000 Zhao army at Qingyang, Linzhou. Zhao Sheng, the commander-in-chief of Zhao, led only 30,000 cavalry to escape at night, leaving more than 200,000 troops.
Zhao Jun was completely wiped out
In October, the Han army regained Linzhou and regained the lost territory in the east. Hedong general Yang Yanzhang and Gao Xie attacked the rebel general Guo Ming in Yanping County.
After two months of rebellion, the Jingsui Army seemed to be at its end. Zhao's main force of 300,000 men was defeated in Qingyang, and ten people were killed. The Han army conquered the lost territory of Yandong, Linzhou, on the tenth day, and the morale of the Jingsui Army was even lower.
Now the navy camp in Peiping has moved west to Yanping County. There is a large area of the river. The navy often attacks and fires are everywhere. A few days ago, a grain escort team was intercepted. Now this team was temporarily dispatched. In a hurry, they gathered
The counties collected food and grass and rushed back to Yanping County as quickly as possible. Not only were they mentally exhausted, but they were also physically very tired.
But for now, Guo Xiao's luck is pretty good. He has never been intercepted by Han soldiers along the way. He is only thirty or fifty miles away from the county town. He will rest after walking a while and he will arrive tomorrow morning.
This made him and his soldiers feel a little relieved.
Guo Xiao was riding on the horse. As the horse moved, his body was swaying slightly, and his face looked tired.
Although the county town will arrive tomorrow, Guo Xiao's mood has not eased at all and is still heavy.
As a member of the Guo family, he is worried about the current situation and cannot sleep at night.
As the governor of Yanzhou and the envoy of the Jingsui Army, Guo Ming had as many as 70,000 Jingsui troops under his command. However, he was trembling under the 30,000-strong troops of Hedong General Yang Yanzhang and Gao Xie.
Veteran, Guo Xiaoshen knows how poorly the Jingsui Army is fighting and how unstable its morale is.
When he thought about this, he could only sigh helplessly
The Zhao army was defeated too quickly and was too unpopular. Not to mention that the Jingsui Army and Yanzhou under its control were incompatible. Even those powerful locals who chose to attach themselves to Zhao and the Jingsui Army during the war were also defeated.
He is just a grassroots. He usually bows to Zhao Guo and Guo Minghui. At a critical moment, for the benefit of the family, he can abandon the old and welcome the new at any time, or even actively drive out chaos anyway.
Now only 30,000 soldiers and horses are coming. Guo Ming controls the main force of 30,000 to 40,000 Jingsui troops. There are nearly 10,000 Zhao soldiers in Yanping County, but they do not dare to attack the city in the field.
Guo Xiao had a wry smile at this moment. When he prepared food and grass this time, he could see the actions behind the scenes of the wealthy and powerful officials, gentry and landlords, but what could he do?
Yanxi is facing an attack by the government and the army, and civil unrest has occurred in many places. If the Jingsui Army continues to break up with the local powerful families, it may immediately fall apart.
However, these are all big things. I just hope that the food escort can go back smoothly this time.
Guo Xiao rode on the horse, squinted his eyes, and looked ahead. He sent another exploration horse to explore the way ahead.
As cautious as he is, there is no need for anything to happen again when approaching the county town.
"Master Xiaowei is too cautious. This place is only 30 to 50 miles away from the county town, and patrol posts are common. Is there any danger? Someone really intercepted the grain truck. They have already done it before. How could they wait until now?" The civil servant accompanying the army
Talking
The collection of grain and grass must also be recorded, and the person who records it will naturally be a clerk.
Guo Xiao actually thinks so too, but it's his nature to be cautious
"This time Zhu Shuai personally led the army to Yanzhou. The Zhao army was retreating steadily, which is worrying. If there are a few more mistakes in Yanping, it will have a great impact on morale. It is better to be cautious." Guo Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly and shook his head slowly.
Shaking his head and sighing softly
Everyone around them fell silent when they heard this. No one spoke, but their hearts felt a little heavy.
Just as Guo Xiao was sighing secretly, a prowling horse galloped back from the front, looking a little frightened!
"Could something happen?" This was the first thought that flashed through his mind.
"Report——"
"The cavalry is found ahead, they are the army!" Just after Tan Ma finished speaking, there was a rumbling sound in the direction of the road ahead!
The dust is flying and the sound of horse hooves is like thunder, rolling in!
A cavalry, a cavalry is coming this way quickly, and they are approaching in an instant.
"No, the enemy is attacking! The enemy is attacking!" Guo Xiao took a look and saw that the scale was not very large, with three to five hundred people. He immediately shouted: "Don't panic, everyone. The enemy's army is small. Get ready to meet the enemy!"
By this time, he had regained his composure and drew his sword out of its sheath, but there was also a commotion behind his food team.
"Sir, there are army cavalry behind us, and they are coming towards us!"
Are you under attack from both sides?
Cold sweat broke out on Guo Xiao's head, and he gritted his teeth and shouted: "What are you still doing? The enemy's two teams together only have six or seven hundred people. Our army of three thousand soldiers, how can we not compete with them? We are all moving."
Get up! If you lose your food and grass, how can you survive when you go back? If you don't follow me and kill the army, you will lose your food and grass!"
Following his loud shout, his soldiers quickly gathered together and the food team also began to move to form a defense line.
But just a moment later, the cavalry had already charged forward, made contact three times, and immediately began to kill each other.
The raging tide and the tofu-like dams collided with each other. As soon as the battle started, the strong and weak were clearly distinguished. The iron cavalry stepped out and directed their swords and guns. In the blink of an eye, a piece was broken, and Sergeant Jingsui kept coming.
When a pawn falls, someone keeps filling in
Although he had some premonitions about this situation, Guo Xiao was shocked when he saw it with his own eyes. Hedong Jingqi was indeed the strongest soldier of the Han Dynasty. Their combat power was so powerful. Not far away, he saw a knight on horseback slashing wildly.
As he continued to kill, the sound of the weapon piercing through muscles and bones reached his ears.
The two groups of cavalry did not take turns to attack. It was just a simple pincer attack. The three thousand infantry armor could not withstand it. As the situation became more and more widespread, the entire team already showed signs of guilt.
Guo Xiao watched the Hedong cavalry rush in from the gap they had opened. In just a moment, the front and rear units of the grain escort army collapsed, but he could only hold on to the central army and was unable to save it.
"Although brother also trains cavalry, the difference between heaven and earth is simply incomparable." Seeing this situation, Guo Xiao just smiled bitterly, turned around and was about to lead his team to escape, but at this moment, he heard a pop and suddenly
Suddenly the horse stumbled, neighed, rolled off the horse and fell to the ground.
"A bunch of trash!" Sima of the Hedong Army Cavalry Army in the distance took back his crossbow and snorted coldly: "Pass my military order, and those who surrender will not be killed."
This order sounded during the war. In addition to the dead, most of the Jingsui troops fell to the ground and begged to surrender and became prisoners. Guo Xiao also chose not to resist when two Hedong cavalry put their guns to their necks.
This Hedong Army did not hesitate, took this batch of loot, cleaned up the battlefield, and quickly evacuated the place.
In Yanping County, Guo Ming occupied the Governor's Mansion as his lair on the first day he entered.
But the indulgence and wantonness of a month ago is gone forever. The main force of the Zhao army was greatly lost. It completely lost its ability to restrain the Han army and even threatened to lose Linzhou, Yandong and Yanxi sooner or later.
How can a person like Guo Ming be happy when his master is in trouble?
Although he was still sitting high at the top, and the generals came in hand in hand, kowtow and saluted, he was still very impressive, but it really changed from one moment to the next...
The lobby fell silent for a moment, only the sound of armor clinking could be heard
The entourage unfolded the map and quietly exited.
Guo Ming looked at the generals with a solemn expression. Most of them were his relatives and close confidants, and the remaining three or two were Han generals who had become traitors like him.
"Everyone, please read through all these military reports!" Guo Ming said lightly, as if the heavy solemnity on his face was not the same.
Several of the highest-ranking relatives and close generals read it first, and then let the subordinate generals watch it. Although these people are also close to each other, they are generally considered to be close and trustworthy to Guo Ming.
Anyone who has seen these military reports will have their faces slightly changed and their expressions will become very solemn.
This military information was passed among a group of generals, and within a moment, it came back
The content is basically the same. It roughly tells the story that after Guo Ming gathered his army and retreated to Yanping County, the gentry and wealthy people in the local counties made frequent small moves.
The officers and soldiers were stunned
There are also several places where civil commotions have occurred. These civil commotions were certainly caused by the recent excessive gathering of food and grass for the war, but judging from their circumstances and echoing the actions of the government and army, the inside story is by no means simple.
The Jingsui Army is facing internal and external troubles at this time, and misfortunes never come alone.
"Everyone has read this information." Guo Ming glanced at everyone with a gloomy face and asked, "Do you have anything to say?"
"Commander, General Yimo, I see that these county and township tyrants are really hateful. They actually took advantage of this moment to make small moves in secret. They completely forgot about the great kindness of our Jingsui Army and refused to punish them severely. They don't know the majesty of our army!
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"Commander, please ask the last general to take a battalion of soldiers and horses back, and immediately attack several houses to see if these unsighted people dare to act like this!" Two generals from the clan came out to ask for orders.
At this moment, all the generals stood neatly in two rows, and they were silent for a moment. Guo Ming glanced over, and the few people behind him couldn't help but change their colors slightly. These people were former Han officers who were traitors like Guo Ming, but they had no positions.
Guo Ming is tall, but his attitude is not as strong as Guo Ming's. Not to mention that Guo Ming was the daughter of Zhao Jun who bought horse bones, so his status in front of Zhao Jun is far inferior to that of Guo Ming. He is also very sensible these days.
Jin is close to Guo Ming and has become a close confidant of Guo Ming's team, but this cannot change their origins. They are all descendants of powerful families in Yanxi.
However, the families of these people have done nothing secretly and are very good teachers. Their military information was not mentioned in the military information delivered by Zhao Jun.
"No!" Another general came out and said: "If we use troops to suppress it at this time, it will be a disaster immediately. We must not do it at this time."
This person looked at the two previous Guo Ming relatives with disdain. He was a close confidant of Guo Ming who had been with Guo Ming for a long time. There was no need to be secretive when speaking. He thought about it. To put it bluntly, he was also an old martial artist in the army and looked down upon the most.
Those relatives of the Guo family who came in and rocketed up through their connections
Guo Ming slowly stood up, looking at the hazy dusk outside the hall, his face uncertain. He clenched his fist several times to make up his mind, but finally loosened his fist. Guo Ming did not yet have the decisiveness to kill that a person in a superior position must have.
No matter 'kill' or 'not kill', Guo Ming should make a decision quickly because not asking, that is the worst cut-off. But fortunately, Guo Ming is not so stupid yet, he also knows that he must take it quickly.
After making a decision, his face turned pale, he sat down, and was about to discuss with the generals under his tent again. Suddenly, a soldier shouted outside the hall: "Captain, there is urgent news!"
When he ordered his soldiers to come in, he immediately made a plop and turned over to prostrate himself: "Reporting to the Commander-in-Chief, we have just received an urgent report that the cavalry found hundreds of dead bodies of our soldiers and the bodies of dozens of mules and horses forty miles away. After inspection,
The deceased were all grain escorts under General Guo Xiao, and all the grain and grass that were supposed to be transported to the sentry camp thirty miles west of the city today have disappeared!"
The soldier finally reported: "We have carefully inspected Zhan Chao and found no body of General Guo Xiao."
"Report!" Guo Ming was not allowed to make a decision, and another person came in to report: "Captain, the officer and army forwards were found outside Bincheng County, raising the "high" flag, and there were tens of thousands of troops. Liu Xiaowei asked the commander to make a decision quickly!"
The successive urgent reports made Guo Ming's expression change drastically. However, he was still a decent person. He quickly realized it, snorted coldly, his tone became slow and heavy, and said to the generals on his left and right: "It seems,
The Hedong Army cannot wait any longer and will kill our Jingsui Army."
At this time, Guo Ming's mastermind Han Wen came out. He was a very smart man. He answered loudly without even thinking: "Captain, there is no way out now. If our army delays any longer, the situation in each county will be dire."
It is falling apart. At this time, only the governor personally supervises the army and personally resists or even defeats the Hedong Army in order to stabilize the situation!"
"That way Yanping can be stupid and Yanxi can be stupid."
"The guarantee is temporary. If the governor abandons all the counties in Yanping without a fight, I'm afraid that the Zhao army in the city will withdraw from the county before the official troops arrive..."
"The Jingsui Army can also withdraw——"
"The Zhao army can all retreat to Zhao Di. I don't know how many of the governor's army can retreat to Zhao Di with him."
"Sir, if you say this, my efforts in raising food these days have been in vain. Will the army still march out of the city? Although our army has a large number of people, in terms of combat strength... it is really not as good as the elite of the Hedong Army."
"The Commander-in-Chief clearly saw the current situation. If the officers and soldiers did not resist until they were forced to the gates of Yanping County, then our army would have to be trapped in the isolated city."
The main force of the Han army led by Zhu Biao will not be in Yandong for a long time. As long as the Han army advances westward in a large scale, it is hard to say whether the Zhao army in Yanxi will resist. The Zhao army in Yanxi only has a few tens of thousands of people. How long can it resist? If
The Zhao army in Yanping City also left. Even the Jingsui Army was still firmly guarding the Yanping County City. Only one of everyone present died——
Because Zhao Jun will not rescue Yanping County at all, rescue Guo Ming
Guo Ming raised his eyebrows and gritted his teeth in thought. The hidden meaning in the Korean words made sense, but the risk was too great. In a field battle, with twice the military strength and General Yang Gao, Guo Ming could not see the dawn of victory.
"Commander, there is no need for a real decisive battle. You just need to go back and forth in Bincheng County a few times to see what the main force of the army at Zhu Biao is doing..."
Guo Ming gritted his teeth and nodded: "Okay, I will take the army to Bincheng."
The tenth day of October, cloudy
On this day, just after dawn, a large dark cloud swept over from the north, almost covering the sky, covering the newly white sky with darkness again.
There was a heavy, wet feeling in the air, and waves of cold wind blew past, grazing my cheeks and making my eyes hurt. Another year of early winter is coming.
Outside Anju County, a field turned into a battleground with more than 100,000 soldiers from both sides facing off.
Yesterday afternoon, Yang Yanzhang suddenly abandoned Bincheng County, which had been trapped for two days, and led the army to march fifty miles. In the evening, outside Anju County, he intercepted the main force of Guo Ming's army, which was advancing to Bincheng County.
Therefore, today's battle is inevitable
He crossed the river from Jiangjin to the north, and then moved all the way west, first to Yandong, and now to Yanping County. Yang Yanzhang and Gao Xiechu's army of only 15,000 to 30,000 people slowly expanded to about 30,000. A large number of Jingsui troops surrendered.
Soldiers and local warriors from all over the country joined the army
At this time, Guo Ming had more than 60,000 troops. The main force of the Jingsui Army in his hands, as well as the tens of thousands of Zhao troops in Yanping County, also came.
A total of nearly 100,000 troops battled, stretching for more than ten miles
With the sound of the horn, the Hedong Army, which had a small number of people, took the lead in launching an attack. The entire army came in formations. They saw large formations arranged one after another. After a moment, a huge roar came from the army.
"The Han army is mighty!"
"The Han army is mighty!"
The wind blew the Han army's flags and flags, and the overwhelming cries became louder and louder than the waves. This high military morale made the Jingsui Army and Zhao Army on the opposite side tremble unconsciously.
A little later, the drums and trumpets of the Jingsui Army were also blaring. Guo Ming, escorted by his own soldiers, came to the front of the formation, but his movements seemed so hasty.
A mountain of swords and a forest of spears, arrows shot like rain, and the sound of killing shook the sky!
Viewed from a high altitude, the connection between the staggered formations of the two armies is a strangulation ground where blood and flesh are splattered. The sounds of killing, screams, screams, and the sound of swords piercing human bodies are endless.
The pervasive smell of blood, no matter how strong the wind is, cannot be dispelled
Trumpets and flags were waving, and the Chinese general issued orders one after another from the flag
"Gather up and move forward!" Suddenly, another unit with more than a thousand people was ordered to move forward. The marching drums were beaten. Along with the drums, all the soldiers rushed forward in orderly steps.
One square formation after another, under the command of Yang Yanzhang, no matter whether the Hedong Army is a small mandarin duck formation inside or not, anyway, it looks like a neat and uniform square formation from the outside.
It's like pieces of steel being put together one by one
Due to the restrictions of communication and battlefield, it is so unreliable to rely on the sound of trumpets, drums and battle flags to command in the middle of a fierce battle. Especially except for the 15,000 veterans in the Hedong Army, the other half have no tacit understanding or even training.
A team of Jiangbing and Xiangyong enters the battle, either winning or falling apart.
The billowing iron stream approached, like a raging tide, and hit a Jingsui army. Suddenly, there was a continuous sound of fighting. People kept falling and people kept filling in.
Once a melee breaks out, the battle is to see whose blood is shed first.
"Fight for a long time without chaos, use one to block ten, take losses without defeat, advance and retreat with success..." At the command post of the Jingsui Army, Guo Ming's eyes were already bloodshot, and he murmured
