Yang Yi sat on the horse and looked around. Fires flashed in the night, and whistles came from all directions. His heart trembled. His first reaction was that he had been fooled!
This cavalry must be a bait sent by the enemy. Its purpose is to hold our own side back and create an opportunity for the enemy's main force to encircle our side.
Thinking of this, how dare Yang Yi bother to annihilate Ma Wu and others, he hurriedly ordered: "Retreat! The whole army retreats immediately!" As soon as Yang Yi gave the order to retreat, countless Han troops came out of the night.
Charge out.
Seeing this, Yang Yi was even more sure that the main force of the Han army was coming. He did not dare to fight, so he turned his horse's head and ran away.
Even the general has run away, so how can the soldiers below still be eager to fight? More than 10,000 Kaixiao troops, the rear team became the front team, running backwards like the ebbing tide.
Ma Wu and others, who were still rushing into battle among the enemy troops and fighting in darkness, were stunned for a moment when they saw the enemy troops suddenly retreating and didn't understand what happened.
Seeing the enemy troops running further and further away, before Ma Wu could recover, two Han troops rushed over from the left and right.
Already red-eyed, it was still night and the visibility was limited. Ma Wu could not immediately recognize that his own soldiers and horses were arriving. He raised the nine-eared eight-ring knife in his hand and shouted: "Get ready to meet the enemy..."
Before he could finish his words, someone from the two Han armies charging over shouted loudly: "Zizhang, it's me!"
Ma Wu was shaken and slowly put down the long sword in his hand. When the two Han troops came to him, he took a closer look and saw that Geng Yan was leading the army on the left and Wang Ba was leading the army on the right.
Seeing the two of them, Ma Wu could hardly believe his eyes and said in surprise: "You... why are you here?"
Seeing clearly Ma Wu and the remaining three hundred cavalrymen under his command, Geng Yan and Wang Ba felt sad and their eyes were red.
Wang Ba sniffed and said indifferently: "Of course we are here to help you! If you, Ma Wu, die, who will quarrel with me in the future?"
Geng Yan sighed secretly, these two people would fight when they met, and their faces would turn red when they fought, but when the critical moment came, they both thought about each other from the bottom of their hearts.
He said: "Zizhang, Uncle Yuan and I were worried that you might have done something wrong, so we came to help you! You... how are you injured?"
At this time, Ma Wu still had several arrows stuck in his body! Ma Wu frowned and asked urgently: "Didn't I tell you to evacuate quickly? The main force of the enemy army will arrive immediately. If you don't leave now, why are you waiting?
At that time? Are you trying to kill more than 20,000 soldiers?"
Wang Ba snorted and said, "If we didn't come to help you, how would you still be alive now?"
Ma Wu was furious and was about to reply to Wang Ba when Geng Yan smiled and said: "Zizhang, the main force of our army has successfully passed through the Duanwu Valley. We are the only ones left outside the valley now!"
As he spoke, he pointed back.
Following his finger, Ma Wu took a closer look and saw that the brothers brought by Geng Yan and Wang Ba totaled only about a thousand people. He was stunned for a moment, then Fang took a long breath and said, "That's it!"
Geng Yan and Wang Ba used a trick to scare off the enemy.
"Zizhang, your injury..."
"This small injury is nothing to mention!" As he spoke, Ma Wu grabbed an arrow on his thigh, pulled it out hard, and threw the arrow to the ground. From the beginning to the end, he didn't even frown.
Wang Ba felt his flesh hurt when he looked at it, and said angrily: "You are already old, what else can you do? Medical officer!"
You are only a year old! Ma Wu rolled his eyes in anger. As Wang Ba shouted, more than a dozen medical officers ran up from behind. People helped Ma Wu and others off their horses, stopped the bleeding of their wounds first, and then temporarily
Make a simple bandage.
Geng Yan, Wang Ba and others used the cover of night to plant many torches around the battlefield and lit them one by one. At the same time, each of them held a whistle in his mouth, and thousands of them blew it in unison. In the dark night,
It can indeed create the illusion of an incoming army.
But a lie is a lie after all. When the main force of the enemy army comes up, the thousands of them will probably be overwhelmed in an instant. Geng Yan said: "It is not suitable to stay in the land of right and wrong for a long time, retreat!"
Ma Wu and others did a simple bandage, then mounted their horses one after another, and retreated towards Duanwu Valley together with Geng Yan and Wang Ba.
As soon as they retreated to Duanwu Valley, the main force of the Kaixiao Army headed by Wang Yuan caught up with them.
Geng Yan, Ma Wu, Wang Ba and others did not dare to waste time and quickly entered the Duanwu Valley. Since the road in the valley had been paved with grain bags, people walked on it at a very fast speed.
Ma Wu said as he walked: "The enemy is chasing us too fast. If we continue like this, we won't be able to get rid of the enemy!"
Geng Yan and Wang Ba smiled at each other and said, "I'll let you watch a good show later."
Ma Wu looked confused. What a show? What do you mean?
Their group of one thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry passed through the Duanwu Valley smoothly, but the people did not leave immediately, but stood at the entrance of the valley and waited.
Ma Wu looked at the confident Geng Yan and Wang Ba, and asked dissatisfiedly: "Are you going to wait for the enemy to attack?" Do you think that with just a thousand of your own, you can stop tens of thousands of enemies?
Geng Yan smiled and said: "Zizhang, please be patient!"
Wang Yuan led a large group of troops and rushed to the Duanwu Valley. Soon, a spy reported that the Duanwu Valley was covered with grain bags and the roads were paved. Obviously, the Han army used this method to quickly pass through the Duanwu Valley.
After hearing the spy's report, Wang Yuan was stunned for a moment, then nodded, and couldn't help but praise: "Geng Yan is so witty!" Taking out the most precious rations in the army to pave the way requires not only wit, but also great effort.
Courage and courage.
He turned his head and shouted in a bad tone: "Yang Yi!"
Yang Yi stepped forward with a blushing face, stepped in to salute, and whispered: "General!"
He led 20,000 front troops and was blocked by 2,000 cavalry. He fought for more than two hours. Not only did he fail to completely wipe out the enemy troops, he also suffered more than 6,000 casualties.
In the end, they were frightened by the reinforcements of the Han army and fled. Now that the situation has been clearly investigated, the Han army that suddenly appeared was not a main force at all, only a few thousand people at most.
With the battle going like this, Yang Yi really lost all face. Wang Yuan looked at him coldly, raised his hand and pointed at Duanwu Valley in front of him, and said, "You lead the troops first!"
"Here!" Yang Yi didn't dare to say anything nonsense and commanded his troops to enter Duanwu Valley. Groups of Kaixiao's troops entered Duanwu Valley. The road paved by the Han army with grain and grass was now fulfilled by Weixiao's army.
As groups of Kuai Xiao's troops entered the Duanwu Valley, the long and narrow Duanwu Valley was also crowded with soldiers of the Kuai Xiao army. Feeling that enough people had entered the valley, Geng Yan nodded to Wang Ba on the side.
The latter smiled, took off his bow and arrow, twisted the bow and set an arrow. A soldier on the side came forward with a torch, lit the arrow, and Wang Ba shot out an arrow.
The arrow pierced the sky, drew an arc in the air, and fell into the valley.
Seeing a rocket falling from the sky, the soldiers in the valley retreated to both sides. Bang! The rocket did not hit anyone, but directly hit a grain bag on the ground.
There was a whirring sound in the ear, and the food and grass bag was immediately ignited. The sudden fire frightened the soldiers standing on it so that they screamed and retreated.
But the speed at which they retreated was not nearly as fast as the fire spread.
I saw the grain and grass bags being ignited one after another, like a baton. In less than five minutes, the narrow Duanwu Valley turned into a sea of fire.
More than two thousand Kaixiao troops who entered Duanwu Valley were burned to the point where they had no way to go up to the sky and no way to get down to the earth. The screams of people's hearts torn apart seemed to come from the underworld.
Ma Wu, who was standing outside the valley, was knocked back by the heat waves coming towards him. He couldn't help but raise his hand to block the heat waves. At the same time, he looked at Geng Yan and Wang Ba in surprise and asked: "This...
…”
Wang Ba chuckled and said: "The food and grass bags have already been poured with kerosene!" Seeing Ma Wu looking at him blankly, Wang Ba continued: "This is Bo Zhao's idea! Bo Zhao said, our army's food and grass
, we cannot fall into the hands of the enemy in vain, let alone pave the way for the enemy, and we cannot allow the enemy who pursues our army to have a good harvest!"
Due to the narrowness of Duanwu Valley, the number of enemy soldiers entering Duanwu Valley cannot be too large, but even if only a thousand soldiers enter and are burned alive by our own side, it will cause a big blow to the enemy's morale.
Seeing the Duanwu Valley that had been burned into a fire dragon, and the soldiers of our own army screaming and struggling in the sea of fire, Yang Yi, who had not had time to enter the valley, was dumbfounded, and the tens of thousands of Kaixiao Army soldiers were also dumbfounded.
I don’t know how long it took, but Yang Yi reacted and screamed with a changed tone: "There is an ambush! Escape quickly!"
Wow——
The officers and soldiers of Wei Xiao's army just woke up as if from a dream, and people instinctively turned around and ran back. Wang Yuan was so angry that his face was livid, and he held the reins of his war horse rattling. He also did not expect that after paving the road with grain and grass, the Han army was still on the grain and grass.
Did some tricks.
Yang Yi quickly ran up to Wang Yuan and stammered: "General...General, there is an ambush! The enemy has set up an ambush in Duanwu Valley!"
"I'm not blind!" Wang Yuan shouted angrily. Sometimes he really doubted whether Yang Yi was Yang Guang's biological brother. How could the gap between the two brothers be so big?
Yang Guang was a general that even Wang Yuan admired, and he was a famous general in Xiliang. Compared with Yang Guang, Yang Yi was just a loser, unable to hold up a wall with mud.
"General, there is someone in Duanwu Valley..."
"Do you think the enemy army can now pass through the sea of fire, burst out of Duanwu Valley suddenly, and catch our army by surprise?"
"Here……"
Wang Yuan was too lazy to look at him and shouted in a deep voice to the generals on the left and right: "Put out the fire immediately! Rescue as many people as you can!"
The surrounding generals hurriedly agreed and ordered their soldiers to search for water nearby and put out the fire in Duanwu Valley.
However, it was so difficult to find a water source in the middle of the night when they couldn't see anything. It was estimated that by the time they found the water source and brought it back, the soldiers in Duanwu Valley would have been burned to ashes.
At the other end of Duanwu Valley, Geng Yan said: "This fire is enough for the enemy to drink a pot! It's time for us to leave!"
Everyone did not stop any longer and followed Geng Yan to pursue their main force.
The Han army achieved a small victory here in Duanwu Valley, but such a small victory was far from enough to reverse the Han army's overall defeat.
The Han army led by Geng Yan, Ma Wu, and Wang Ba marched southward, heading straight to Longguan where Liu Xiu was. The Han army headed by Zang Gong also marched southward to Longguan to seek for Liu Xiu.
At the same time, the main force of the Kaixiao Army headed by Wang Yuan was in hot pursuit. The Kaixiao Army stationed in Qinting also moved out of Qinting and joined Wang Yuan's troops. In addition, the Kaixiao Army that opened the mountain top,
Blockades were set up layer by layer on the road in an attempt to prevent the Han army from retreating south.
Now the Hanyang battlefield has entered a stage of chaos. The soldiers and horses of both sides are moving quickly, moving east and west, and from time to time they will encounter each other and fight.
Currently, there are two groups of enemy troops that pose the greatest threat to the Han army. One group is the soldiers and horses commanded by Wang Yuan, and the other is the soldiers and horses at Kaishan.
Wang Yuan's soldiers and horses numbered close to one hundred thousand, while the soldiers and horses in Kaishan Mountain numbered more than 30,000, adding up to more than one hundred thousand people.
One group is blocking in front, and the other group is chasing behind. Geng Yan's tribe, Ma Wu's tribe, Wang Ba's tribe, and Zang Gong's tribe. The current situation is not optimistic. They may be surrounded by enemy groups at any time, and there is a danger of the entire army being annihilated.
In order to avoid the enemy's pursuit and interception, and to disperse the enemy's forces, the four Han armies, Geng Yan, Ma Wu, Wang Ba, and Zang Gong, all chose to break up into pieces.
They divided into units of battalion (2,000 people), tribe (1,000 people), and Qu (500 people) and marched toward Longguan.
