"Why is Guangmu City lost?" Cheng Jin, the prefect of Wuyuan, was furious when he saw the messenger lying on the ground in the Wuyuan Army camp in Bingzhou beside Qingyan Ze.
"What does Han Yipo do for food? Guangmu has tens of thousands of troops garrisoning the fortified city. How come he is so vulnerable and is defeated by Zhu Biao? Ah——?" His face was full of anger.
Zhu Biao's main force stayed in Xihe. According to Cheng Jin's knowledge, the Qi soldiers who went north to Wuyuan County only had ten thousand cavalry.
If 10,000 infantrymen defend the city correctly, will it be possible for 10,000 cavalry to defeat it?
The person who reported the news was the captain of Guangmu County. He naturally knew that Guangmu City was lost. It was indeed that they and the defenders were too careless. They directly let Zhu Biao's people sneak into the city...
Cheng Jin was furious, and the murderous intent emanating from his body made the Guangmu County captain lie on the ground like a dead dog. To the west of Guangmu, that is the main breeding ground for Bingzhou Army's war horses, including Bingzhou Wolf Cavalry and Bingzhou Army Cavalry.
One of the input sources for Laiyuan.
Although compared with the heavy demand, the supply of war horses in Wuyuan County is less than one in ten, and the local war horses in Bingzhou are less than one-third of the total demand, but this is still very beneficial.
Producing one war horse locally in Bingzhou can reduce the supply of two war horses in the rear. This is the same principle as "eating the enemy's chestnuts".
"Withdraw the troops, withdraw the troops immediately." A furious Cheng Jin stood up from his position and kicked over the table in front of him as if to vent the suffocation in his chest.
Guangmu City must be recaptured. Although his heart was full of anger, Cheng Jin did not lose his mind because of this. His immediate decision to return to Guangmu City was not a reflexive conclusion, but because he knew that Guangmu City was very important to Wuyuan.
The importance of this cannot be compensated by guarding Qingyanze.
Although this is considered one of the salt producing areas in Bingzhou.
However, Bingzhou, as a major salt-producing area, could not afford to lose Qingyan Ze, but it could not afford to lose Guangmu. Moreover, Qingyan Ze was so big that even if Zhu Biao wanted to destroy it, he would not be able to do it completely at once.
Half of the county government offices in Guangmucheng were destroyed, and now it became Zhu Biao's residence. Inside the city, there were constant patrols of patrols and cavalry, one team after another. This was because the people's resistance in this place was too strong and fierce.
On the eastern front, the king of Tang and the imperial army fought many tug-of-wars on the front, but they still maintained the "hidden rules" of not harming the people. But on the western battlefield, they had a good chance to massacre the city.
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Now among the remaining people in Bingzhou, five out of ten are hostile to the Tang-Xia coalition, and the remaining five are hostile and resistant.
If Zhu Biaojun hadn't appeared so unexpectedly, the people in Guangmu City would have dispersed long ago.
But now, after the first part of the defenders broke through, the city was in a mess. Many residents in the city also fled Guangmu City in panic as the defenders evacuated. The remaining people also stayed in their own houses in fear.
At home, he looked at the groups of soldiers patrolling the sentry with resentment and hatred.
There was not a single pedestrian on the street, and not a single shop was open. If it weren't for the tens of thousands of Zhu Biaojing riding on horseback, howling and neighing, the huge Guangmu City would really be like a ghost town.
As the animal husbandry center of Wuyuan County, Guangmu City has stored a large amount of grain and grass. The guard sent people to burn it when he evacuated. But it was impossible to burn it all in a short period of time. Looking at the seizure list submitted,
Zhu Biao thought for a while, maybe he thought a little bit wrong about Bingzhou. Guangmucheng is just a county, and it can store so much food and grass in one city. Although its status is a bit special, it can be placed in the entire city.
The merging of states is not a crucial point, but such a reserve is truly remarkable.
Hou Ji, who was about thirty years old, has already achieved the rank of Zhonglang General. For a person like him with average strategy and average martial arts, who was ranked as Zhonglang General at the age of thirty, his life path in the first half of his life has been extremely smooth.
. But now, this general, who can be regarded as a high-ranking general in Wuyuan County, is covered in dust, standing on his horse beside the road with a look of exhaustion and helplessness, looking at the remaining 5,000 soldiers under his command.
Feeling weak and struggling to escape forward, one can imagine the pain in his heart.
Hou Ji's ability to reach the position of Zhonglang General in the Bingzhou Army was mostly due to his hard work on the battlefield. Although he was lucky, he still had to go through hundreds of battles and be on the battlefield. He fought many times with the Tang Army, but he never
He has never been in such a mess like today, and his soldiers have never been as lost as they are today. Looking at the troops in front of them, it is really hard to imagine that they are soldiers of Bingzhou's strong army. They have no morale at all, and some
It's just that everyone is in a state of embarrassment.
More than two days have passed since the destruction of Guangmu City, and the defeated army has been running non-stop on the way to escape. After withdrawing from the west gate, Hou Ji did not dare to lead his troops to move directly to the west.
In that case, he wouldn't be able to help Cheng Jin at all if he returned to the army. When Cheng Jin takes action, he will most likely not spare him. If he wants to survive, he must lead his troops to find the organization!
So Hou Ji led the army to move to the Gaobi area, preparing to collect some food and grass before moving south [towards Qingyan Ze]. But it was obvious that Zhu Biao was more impatient than he thought, and he slightly stabilized Guangmu.
After entering the city, they immediately sent out three thousand horsemen led by Dou Bing to pursue them along the way.
When Hou Ji was still more than 20 miles away from Gaobi County, he received a notice from the sentry cavalry behind him. Dou Bing led his troops to press forward. He thought for a while that he obviously didn't have enough time to go to Gaobi City. He had time to pursue the troops behind him.
The calculation was so accurate that they had no choice but to reluctantly give up on the pre-selected target, and changed the direction of the leading army and headed straight for a small town in the south.
Although Dou Bing was ordered to pursue Hou Ji and his party, 3,000 cavalry troops faced off against 5,000 Bingzhou troops, including 2,000 cavalrymen. If they fought head-on, even if they won, Dou's troops would suffer some casualties.
The soldiers were not in a hurry to complete the task, so they did not fight head-on. Instead, they waited for the enemy to be harassed and carried out small-scale sneak attacks, which made the defeated soldiers extremely nervous. In the past two days, Hou Ji's troops could not rest at ease.
It's hard to have a peaceful meal, not to mention a comfortable night's sleep.
The pressure of escape and the fear of death constantly devoured the souls of Bingzhou soldiers, and the extreme exhaustion caused by not eating well and sleeping well compounded the former. The defeated soldiers, who were exhausted both physically and mentally, were completely in chaos today, almost to the point of collapse.
edge!
If they see the city, they will rush in eagerly. The Qi army is pursuing them, and they will seize the opportunity to attack. Gaobi County is not a place of rescue for our own troops, but a place of death.
Starting from early morning, they ran for their lives all the way without even taking a few sips of water. The whole army was on the verge of chaos. Although the defeated soldiers suffered little losses in the chase along the way, everyone's lives were at stake in the pursuit of Dou's soldiers.
Gradually slipping into the abyss of death.
Hou Ji knew very well that if he continued to escape like this, by tonight's night, his soldiers and horses would either be blown away, or they would be beaten to pieces by the pursuers. But if he didn't escape, what would he do? That was also a dead end. No.
Who wants to die when we are at the end of our rope?
The fruit is ripe! Dou Bing rode his horse and galloped at the front of the three thousand horsemen. He looked at the defeated soldiers in front of him through a telescope and felt very proud in his heart. "It's time to pick it!" A sinister smile came from his mouth.
bloom.
"Oh oh oh - oh oh -"
After lunch, Dou Bing drove his troops to follow up again. Loud cheers suddenly came from the mouths of the defeated soldiers who were fleeing in front. The cheers got louder and louder, and finally they suddenly turned into a roar that shook the sky.
Dou Bing's expression changed, and he raised his telescope in confusion. After a while, his face turned livid...
Hou Ji galloped to catch up with him, his expression full of excitement. While riding his horse, he pointed at the road ahead and shouted: "Reinforcements, reinforcements, our reinforcements have arrived, the prefect has arrived..." At this time, he no longer cared about meeting Cheng Jinhui.
No matter what kind of punishment he got, all he could see was the Bingzhou Army that kept coming out from under the horizon.
Half an hour later——
Cheng Jin raised his head and looked across.
On a small hill, a huge flaming red war flag danced wildly in the wind. Under the war flag, a general stood on horseback with a gun on the top of the mountain, majestic and full of vigor.
Dou Bing! General Zhu Biao——
Cheng Jin thought silently in his heart.
"General An..." Hou Ji met An Guoshan, the captain of Wuyuan County, and said loudly: "Dou Bing's cavalry suddenly accelerated their flight and seemed to be intending to distance themselves from us." (To be continued, please search Piao Tian Literature, novels.
