The sky was filled with black moon and stars, and war drums were thundering everywhere.
Huang Yao sat by the campfire and let the soldiers bandage his wounds.
Zhao Han firmly occupies Zhangshu Town. As the distribution center for medicinal materials in the south, what he is most indispensable for now is medicine. Moreover, the two drug dealers who presented excellent golden sore medicine formulas have received Zhao Han's recognition and support, including punishment according to law.
Fei Chun's parents.
"There's something wrong with the war drums played by the officers and soldiers tonight. They beat them five times in just one watch." Huang Yao frowned.
Missionary officer Tu Menggu said: "Either plan to attack at night, or plan to escape."
Huang Yao suddenly laughed and said: "Hey, Mr. Tu also knows how to fight, and he can actually see through the intentions of the officers and soldiers."
The Tu family also belongs to a common surname in Jiangxi, and their ancestor is Tu Qin, who supported Sima Rui as emperor. There are many people with the surname Tu in Nanchang and Fengcheng. There are several rich people who defected to Zhao Han, and there are also many who recruited soldiers to help Zhu Xieyuan fight.
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Tu Menggu said: "This afternoon, I shuttled between various positions to encourage the morale of our troops while also observing the enemy's movements. After noon, it became easier and easier for the officers and soldiers to flee, and by evening, many officers and soldiers had not yet approached the positions.
, he was so frightened that he fled down the mountain."
"We have a humble life. It doesn't matter if we die. The town will provide compensation for us, and orphans and widowers will not be bullied." Huang Yao pointed down the mountain. "Those rural warriors who come from good families don't dare to die. Once they
If you die, your family's land and property may be occupied by your relatives. You are a good man, are you willing to fight for it?"
"Hehe, I definitely don't want to." Tu Menggu said with a smile.
After the wound was bandaged, Huang Yao immediately stood up: "The officers and soldiers will flee tonight. It depends on whether Lao Li (Li Zheng) and the others dare to take advantage!"
Before Li Zheng arrived, officers and soldiers suddenly attacked at night.
The surviving more than a thousand Tengjia soldiers, as well as several thousand "elite" officers and soldiers, suddenly launched night raids on various positions.
The Datong Army finally interrupted the attack of the officers and soldiers at the cost of more than 40 casualties.
Tu Menggu asked doubtfully: "Don't the officers and soldiers want to escape, but fight to the death with us? If we delay for another two days, our army will run out of water."
Huang Yao shook his head and said: "The officers and soldiers can't fight anymore. Governor Zhu only has one or two thousand vine armor soldiers. But this is not a flat ground battle. Our army's second line of defense is even more dangerous. How can the officers and soldiers defeat it so easily?
? All he can do is delay. Our army has lost its first line of defense and its water source. It will delay until we have no water to drink. But how long can the morale of the officers and soldiers be sustained? No matter how fierce the attack tonight, the officers and soldiers will definitely
retreat!"
Huang Yao inspected various positions with his injuries, preparing his soldiers to go down the mountain to pursue them, and then took a nap against the rocks.
There was a drum sounding at the foot of the mountain telling the time on time, so he was not afraid of oversleeping.
Near the middle of the night, Huang Yao ordered the entire army to attack. No matter whether the officers and soldiers retreated or not, they would conduct a night attack to recapture the first line of defense.
"kill!"
The Datong army moved out from all directions and reached the first line of defense, only to find that the position was filled with dummies made of thatch.
"Dudududu"
The sound of suonas came from the direction of the artificial river, and then one suona was passed to another, all of them were sentinels sent out by Li Zheng and Fei Yinggon along the way.
The officers and soldiers retreated and were discovered by sentries.
The sound of the suona goes from near to far, tearing through the silence of the night and spreading to the mountains further away.
It was definitely too late to intercept immediately. Li Zheng, Fei Yinggon, Zhang Tieniu, Liu Zhu and others led their troops directly to the northeast in an attempt to block the retreat of the officers and soldiers upstream.
They...all failed!
Zhu Xieyuan did not follow the river all the way back to Nanchang, but crossed the river one mile south of Fengcheng.
That's where the river is at its narrowest, with a width of only 30 meters.
Moreover, Zhu Xieyuan left a thousand officers and soldiers here, so that he could not only watch the defenders of Fengcheng County from the south to the north with the officers and soldiers in the Gan River, but also make preparations to cross the river in advance.
The navy has been harassing Fengcheng County. Jiang Liang, who is responsible for defending the city, has not dared to act rashly these days, let alone cross the river to attack the thousand officers and soldiers.
The position of these thousand officers and soldiers is disgusting, located at the intersection of two small rivers. Whether Jiang Liang from Fengcheng County comes to attack, or Li Zheng and Fei Yinggon from the mountains come to attack, they must first cross the river. And the officers and soldiers still have to cross the river.
We have prepared many small boats so that you can escape by boat if the situation becomes bad.
Zhu Xieyuan had already thought of his retreat before he surrounded the mountain!
More than 20,000 officers and soldiers followed the river and arrived at the ferry south of Fengcheng at dawn.
Huang Yao led more than 3,000 exhausted soldiers and pursued them all the way from the southwest. The soldiers were really exhausted. Many of the soldiers wanted to doze off while walking, so they had to fight hard and pull each other's belts to march.
Li Zheng, Fei Yinggon and others blocked the retreat and ran too far. When they realized something was wrong, they quickly returned along the river.
"Have the main force of officers and soldiers returned?"
Liu Shunyi, the magistrate of Fengcheng County, boarded the tower in a panic.
Jiang Liang pointed to the south and said: "The officers and soldiers want to cross the river. Liu Zhixian and Fengcheng will be left to your defense. I will lead the troops to attack halfway across the river!"
Liu Shunyi said in horror: "No, our responsibility is to defend Fengcheng. There are officers and soldiers in the north, and there are many built ladders. What if the general leads his troops to the south, and the officers and soldiers take the opportunity to attack the city in the north?"
"I will only take a thousand regular soldiers out, leaving you with a thousand peasant soldiers and hundreds of warriors temporarily recruited," Jiang Liang said. "The officers, soldiers and navy will go ashore, and the full force will only be two or three thousand. We can still give the city to you."
Breached?"
"But..." Liu Shunyi stopped talking.
Jiang Liang didn't bother to tell him more, so he directly asked people to open the city gate and led a thousand regular soldiers out of the city.
"kill!"
Hundreds of officers and soldiers had successfully crossed the river, but Jiang Liang suddenly came to kill them, frightening the officers and soldiers to flee.
Zhu Xieyuan was not surprised but overjoyed, and said to his generals: "The rebels have left the city. No need to wait for the boat, take off your armor and swim over to seize Fengcheng County!"
More than 20,000 people crossed the river, all of them Jiangxi soldiers who could swim, and the river was only more than 30 meters wide. How could Jiang Liang's 1,000 regular soldiers be able to defend them?
After killing more than two thousand officers and soldiers, thousands more quickly swam over and surrounded Jiang Liang's Qian Fengcheng garrison in vain.
"Jie Yuan formation!"
Jiang Liang shouted anxiously.
Fortunately, in order to swim over, the officers and soldiers took off their armor one after another. Facing Jiang Liang, who was forming a circular formation by the river, it was really hard to chew.
Moreover, when fighting in formation on the ground, the strange weapons used by officers and soldiers against wolves are not that easy to use.
Even those more than a thousand rattan-armored soldiers, swimming across the river wearing rattan armor (rattan armor is waterproof), were helpless against the formation of wolves, shields, and spears.
"Hurry up and divide your troops to attack the city. The ladder is by the river!"
Zhu Xieyuan was very depressed. The rebels guarding the city dared to go out of the city to prevent him from crossing the river. The navy led by Zhu Guoxun, the commander-in-chief of Jiangxi, actually stood still for so long, which was really annoying in comparison.
Zhu Guoxun had long heard the cry of killing, and his order was: "The enemy's situation is unclear, wait until dawn."
"Boohoo!"
There were five hundred archers hidden in the circular formation, and they began to shoot at the officers and soldiers outside.
Suddenly, screams were heard everywhere. The officers and soldiers were all naked and had no defense against bows and arrows.
"kill!"
Li Zheng, Fei Yinggon, Zhang Tieniu, and Liu Zhu finally rushed back and rushed directly towards the officers and soldiers who had not yet crossed the river.
Zhu Xieyuan was shocked and angry. The anti-thief garrison in Fengcheng County took the initiative to attack, which delayed his crossing the river. Now the whole army is divided into three parts. Most of them have crossed the river, one part is in the river and the other part is on the other side.
"Gather the troops, gather the troops!"
Zhu Xieyuan asked the messenger to blow the trumpet.
After reinforcements from the Datong Army rushed in, the officers and soldiers who could not cross the river jumped into the river and swam to the other side.
The river is thirty meters wide and flows slowly, which is nothing to Jiangxi soldiers. They can swim across it in the blink of an eye.
They can have 20,000 people surrounding Jiang Liang's 1,000 soldiers, or they can stand by the river and kill Li Zheng, Fei Yinggon and others who are trying to cross the river. They can also move towards the Gan River, with officers and soldiers as navy troops.
With the support, I can return to Nanchang safely.
However, how can a group of terrified soldiers retreat in disarray in the dark and remain sane?
It would be great if we could evacuate here.
"The rebels are coming, run away!"
"The thieves know magic!"
"Master, let's run away too. We can't fight anymore."
"..."
The officers and soldiers swimming across the river were in chaos.
Obviously they have the advantage in numbers, they have already crossed the river, and they have many options to be invincible! But they just got into chaos. Groups of rural warriors did not assemble after crossing the river, but just followed the river.
Xiaohe escapes.
The sound of Zhu Xieyuan's military bugle as he gathered his troops seemed to turn into the starting gun for an escape, and countless officers and soldiers rushed to escape.
Zhu Xieyuan was completely stunned. Our entire army successfully crossed the river, blocking the enemy's main force on the other side, and also surrounded the enemy's Fengcheng defenders by the river. Our army has the advantage at the moment. If we fight harder, we can even take advantage of the opportunity.
Seize the city. The enemy is still on the other side. It is them who should be afraid. What do you mean by fleeing?
In a word, the officers and soldiers were frightened out of their wits, and their peaceful retreat turned into a rout.
And it collapsed into a mess.
Wang Tingzhan was among the defeated troops. He wanted to rebel at this moment. But the defeated troops did not give him a chance. The two thousand local warriors he recruited were also escaping in a swarm, completely unaware of what they were escaping from.
Anyway, if someone runs away, we will run with him. If we run away early and fast, we will definitely survive.
"Superintendent, leave quickly, it will be too late by the time the rebels cross the river!"
Zhu Xieyuan was dragged away by his own soldiers. Those Guizhou vine-armed soldiers were very loyal and could form formations to cover their commander's retreat in the dark.
"Damn it, if I had known better, I shouldn't have worn armor. I'm exhausted from running all the way!"
Zhang Tieniu took off his armor and dove into the river. His ax was a bit heavy, and Liu Zhu quickly swam ahead.
At this moment, Huang Yao also led his troops to pursue him.
But his soldiers were too exhausted. Seeing that the officers and soldiers had been routed, they all immediately lay down by the river to sleep, leaving the rest to the friendly forces to deal with slowly.
"kill!"
After being besieged for a while, Jiang Liang's 1,000 garrison soldiers were left with only 930 people able to fight, and they took the lead in chasing down the defeated troops.
Li Zheng, Fei Yinggon, Zhang Tieniu, Liu Zhu and others also led their troops to swim across the river one after another, leaving only more than a hundred musketeers and hundreds of archers.
There are so many large and small rivers in Jiangxi. After tracing for several miles, there is another small river ahead.
I saw countless defeated soldiers jumping into the river, swimming to the other side of the river and continuing to flee. The pursuing soldiers also jumped into the river, and continued to pursue them after landing ashore.
If each of them is given a bicycle, it will truly become a triathlon.
From dawn to morning, many defeated soldiers were so exhausted that they could only sit down to rest for a while, and then ran for their lives when they saw the pursuers coming.
Those who are physically weak cannot run, so they just lie down there and do whatever they want, kill or cut them into pieces, it’s up to them.
Wang Tingzhan's physical strength was even weaker. He was lying on the river bank. When he saw the Datong soldiers chasing him, he quickly shouted: "I am Zhao Zongzhen's internal agent, don't kill me!"
Although the officers and soldiers in the Ganjiang River in the north did not dare to go ashore to fight, they also sent spies to check.
Upon learning that Zhu Xieyuan's entire army had fled, Zhu Guoxun immediately ordered a retreat and withdrew the navy to the outside of Nanchang City before stopping.
This Jiangxi general is a parallel importer!
He was fighting in Fujian. In three years, he was promoted from commander-in-chief to deputy commander-in-chief, first by following Zheng Zhilong in fighting favorable conditions, and second by squandering money and pretending to be someone else's military honors.
The emperor and his ministers believed that Zhu Guoxun was good at water warfare and would definitely show his prowess in suppressing bandits in Jiangxi.
However, he did not dare to fight a tough battle...
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