In Juiyang City, Liang Qiuci was shocked when he heard the news that the camp on the east bank had been attacked, and hurriedly ordered the soldiers who had fled back to the west bank to be brought in to see him.
Seeing these four drowned soldiers, Liang Qiuci asked loudly: "The camp on the east bank was attacked. What happened?"
One of the soldiers said in a trembling voice: "Return to, Sir Captain, the rebel cavalry took advantage of the heavy rain to attack our camp. Three thousand brothers have already...have..."
"What's going on?" Liang Qiuci asked sharply.
"The entire army has been wiped out..." At this point, the four soldiers burst into tears.
Nearly two thousand county troops and one thousand county troops were completely wiped out? Not to mention Liangqiu Ci was dumbfounded and couldn't recover for a long time. Even Lu Zhi and others felt a chill in their hearts and were dumbfounded.
After a long while, Liangqiu Cifang asked: "How many troops are there in the enemy camp?"
The four soldiers looked at each other and hesitantly said: "All...all are cavalry, there should be...there should be thousands of them!"
Liu Xiu's troops clearly had less than a thousand men, but the four soldiers were said to be in the thousands, which is not entirely an exaggeration.
Being on the battlefield, as one of them, no one has a God's perspective, and the range they can see is very limited. Furthermore, it was raining heavily at the time, and the visibility was extremely low. Everywhere you looked, you could see the opponent's cavalry.
, the four soldiers could not accurately judge how many men and horses the opponent had. They could only judge by the opponent's attack power. There seemed to be thousands of cavalry.
After listening to what they said, Liang Qiuci suddenly slammed the table and shouted: "That's nonsense! Where did the rebels get the thousands of horses?"
The four soldiers shrank their necks in fright, and fell to their knees one by one, trembling and speechless.
Lu Zhi waved his hand to Liang Qiuci and reminded in a low voice: "Lord Captain, it is said that there is a cavalry in the Chongling rebel army, called the Xiaoqi Army. The strength of the Xiaoqi Army is about two thousand cavalry."
The Valiant Cavalry Army! Liang Qiuci frowned. It seemed that the ones who attacked the east bank camp this time should be the Valiant Cavalry Army from the Chongling Army, and they were dispatched in full force.
However, it would take a long time for such a large number of cavalry to travel long distances from Huyang to the east coast of Suiyang, and how could there not be any news of it. The heroic cavalry army does not look like they have traveled a long distance, but more like they are falling from the sky.
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A captain said with a solemn expression: "Sir Captain, we transport a lot of grain, grass and supplies to the east coast!"
Liang Qiuci's face was gloomy, and he waved to the four soldiers to signal them to retreat. Then he stood up, walked to the door of the hall, and looked at the sky outside.
At this time, the heavy rain had turned into light rain, and the dark clouds in the sky were gradually dispersing. Liang Qiuci looked at it, took a deep breath, and shouted loudly: "Order the troops! Attack with the whole army! Retake the camp on the east bank!"
As the captain said, a large amount of grain, grass and materials have been stockpiled in the east bank camp. Once these grains, grass and materials are destroyed by the rebels, not only will the county army suffer huge losses, but it will also cause huge losses to the county army.
The morale of the soldiers was also a fatal blow.
The Nanyang County Army does not have large warships here in Huoyang. The ships they use to transport troops and supplies are all recruited from the private sector, some are large and some are small, and the specifications are not uniform.
Six thousand county troops, riding on more than a hundred large and small boats, set off from the west bank ferry and headed straight for the other side of the river. Liang Qiuci and others were riding on a large merchant ship, and people stood on the deck
Go up and look at the other side.
At this time, the sky has cleared the clouds and mist, the rain has completely stopped, and the visibility has returned to normal. Looking from a distance, I can see the east bank, with piles of corpses on the ground, covered with a thick layer.
There was a layer of corpses floating in the river, even in the river.
As the ship moved forward, corpses floated down the river from time to time and hit the hull of the ship, making a bang-bang sound. This sight made all the officers and soldiers of the county take a breath and make the hairs on their bodies stand on end.
Cavalry! Among the corpses on the other side, there are hundreds of cavalry standing upright. The people are holding spears and wearing sweat towels on their faces. Only their cold eyes are exposed.
Liang Qiuci swallowed his saliva, turned his head and shouted: "Let the third song go ashore to explore the enemy's strength!"
When the messenger heard the words, he immediately held the flag and signaled to the ships on the side.
After seeing the flag, more than a dozen ships sped up and headed straight for the east bank ferry. As soon as the more than ten ships docked at the ferry, the five hundred county soldiers on board jumped off the ships and rushed to the shore, roaring.
As soon as they landed, they were fired upon by crossbows from the cavalry on the shore. There was no time to arrange their troops, so the county soldiers could only gather together in a swarm to form a shield formation to resist the crossbows.
At this moment, more than two hundred cavalry led by Ma Wu rushed out from the camp on the east bank and rushed straight towards the crowd of county soldiers.
Seeing the enemy's cavalry coming to charge the formation, the commander of the county army stretched his neck and shouted, and spears poked out from behind the shield formation. For a moment, there were many spearheads outside the crowd of county troops, and it seemed that
It's quite scary.
Ma Wu, who was leading the way, did not pause for a moment and rushed straight towards the spear on the opposite side.
When he got closer, he swung the nine-eared eight-ringed sword, and heard several crisp clicks in succession. The spears in front of him were cut off by the blade. Then, he struck the shield with another knife.
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Click!
This loud noise was like thunder in the clear sky. The two soldiers holding shields on the opposite side were cut into two pieces. The four hooves of the war horse trampled the fallen corpse and crashed directly into the crowd. For a moment, screams were heard.
The sound became a chorus.
Ma Wu was on horseback, swinging his nine-eared eight-ringed sword and slashing the surrounding soldiers, just like chopping vegetables. The crunching sound was endless. At this time, other cavalrymen also came to the front of the county army crowd.
The cavalrymen in the platoon turned a blind eye to the protruding spears, and did not dodge or dodge. They directly hit them. They and the horses under their crotches were probably stabbed into a hornet's nest by the spears, but its powerful impact also caused the enemies in front to be killed.
The shield is shattered.
The cavalrymen from behind came one after another and plunged their spears into the crowd. With such a dense formation, the cavalrymen's spears penetrated not only one person, but two or three people at once.
When the enemy soldiers in front fell to the ground, the cavalrymen drew out their swords one after another. While urging their horses to press forward, they slashed with their swords condescendingly.
The blade split the helmet and the sound of severing the skull was heard one after another. The soldiers of the county army fell to the ground in rows. Some soldiers were not cut down at all, but were hit by their companions, but the fallen soldiers had no chance.
Standing up again, the horses that kept squeezing over them trampled them to pieces, breaking bones and tendons, leaving them completely bruised. The two sides fought for less than a stick of incense. In one song, out of the 500 county soldiers, only less than three were left.
Hundreds of people.
At this time, the cavalry led by Ma Wu suddenly turned around and charged outward. After they opened the distance between them and the county army, the cavalry team suddenly turned around and fought back again.
The county army of less than 300 people had been killed to pieces. Seeing the cavalry galloping towards them, the people were so frightened that they retreated. Some soldiers were still standing there, ready to fight, while some soldiers were frightened.
, kept retreating, and the crowd of county troops dispersed, leaving ample space for the cavalry to rush into the formation. The cavalry led by Ma Wu passed through the formation this time, and killed directly from the front of the county army in one breath.
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Just this one cavalryman rushed down the battlefield. On the battlefield, the county army of less than 300 people was almost nowhere to be found. The corpses on the east bank were piled up in a thick layer.
Ma Wu, who killed dozens of county soldiers by himself, was covered in blood and his eyes were red. When he saw two undead county soldiers struggling on the ground not far away, he urged his horse to rush over and slashed one by one.
, beheaded two county soldiers.
He stared at the blood-red eyes and looked around. Wherever he looked, he could no longer find a single county soldier who could still move. He shook off the blood on his nine-eared eight-ring knife and pointed it at the man standing on the river.
Those county ships let out a loud roar.
"Who else comes to die?"
Ma Wu's voice made all the county soldiers on the boat tremble with fear. People looked at each other with horror in their eyes.
"I am Ma Wu and Ma Zizhang! Who else is going to die?" Ma Wu, holding a long knife, urged his horse to circle back and forth on the river bank, constantly shouting: "Who else is going to die?"
"Evacuate!" Liang Qiuci, who was standing on the deck, looked frighteningly gloomy. Looking at Ma Wu on the river bank, who seemed to be possessed by a god of death, he held back for a long time before spitting out such a word.
Under Liang Qiuci's order, the ships on the river turned around one after another and sailed back to the west bank in a hurry.
They didn't see how the rebels annihilated the three thousand soldiers of the east bank camp, but how Ma Wu annihilated a brother of Qu was clearly seen by people.
The first round of contact between the two sides could barely be regarded as a battle, but the second round of cavalry charging into the formation was a complete massacre of cavalry against infantry. Five hundred brothers were slaughtered to pieces in an instant. This battle
How else to fight?
Even the resourceful Lu Zhi believed that this battle could not continue.
The rebels were gathering momentum on the other side, but as soon as our soldiers landed, they were hit head-on by the enemy. They didn't even have time to set up a decent battle formation, so how could they compete with their cavalry? The disadvantage was too great.
Already.
The five hundred county troops sent to the shore by Liang Qiuci were all cannon fodder. Not one of them escaped. They were all killed by the Mawu Division. This also completely dispelled Liang Qiuci's desire to recapture the east bank camp.
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The rebel army has 2,000 cavalry. Now there are only 200 cavalry. If we kill all 500 of our brothers, even if all the remaining brothers come ashore, there will not be enough to kill.
The county army of less than 6,000, like a defeated rooster, retreated to Tuoyang and placed strict guard at the Tuoyang Ferry, for fear that the rebels on the other side would attack.
Liang Qiuci, who returned to the Yamen of Juoyang County, became more and more angry and angry as he thought about it. He didn't even see the main force of the Chung Ling rebel army. Here in Juoyang, he wounded more than 3,000 soldiers and generals. The imperial court
How can he explain the blame?
One of the captains said quietly: "Lord Captain, there are rumors in the city that Cen Peng has had second thoughts and is passive and lazy in fighting. He has stayed behind closed doors in Xinye and is unwilling to fight with the rebels, which has caused the rebels to fight unscrupulously.
Juoyang, next, the rebels will probably take Wancheng directly and attack the county city!"
"Bah!" Liang Qiuci heard this, slammed the table and said through gritted teeth: "Cen Peng!"
Lu Zhi secretly frowned. He bowed and said seriously: "Sir Captain, what Xinye is facing is the main force of Chung Ling's rebel army. General Cen only defends but does not attack, which is really a helpless move."
