Liu Xiu had already planned to deploy this cavalry force inside the city gate.
The purpose is to wait for one's own defense to be unable to support, and suddenly release this cavalry, which can catch the Rang army by surprise, temporarily disrupt the Rang army's attack, and give one's own side a chance to breathe.
However, the effect of our own cavalry has far exceeded Liu Xiu's expectations.
Seeing the reckless troops receding like a tide, Liu Xiu immediately realized that his own fighter plane was coming. He shouted to a cavalryman not far from him: "Go back immediately, notify General Wang, and lead the entire army to pursue the victory!"
The cavalryman hurriedly agreed, turned his horse's head, and ran back. Liu Xiu and Ma Wu led the cavalrymen and continued to pursue the defeated Rang army.
On the Mang army's side, due to the large number of troops, only about 10,000 people were actually in the front to attack the city. The 50,000 to 60,000 troops were blocked in the back and could not charge forward at all.
At this time, the soldiers in front retreated in defeat and happened to collide with the soldiers blocking the back. For a moment, people crowded with each other, pushed and shouted, people turned on their backs, and became a mess.
When Yan You and Chen Mao saw this scene, their noses were almost crooked with anger, and they kept shouting: "Don't mess up! Don't mess up!"
But in such a huge battlefield, no matter how loud they shouted, few people could hear them. Even if they heard them, people would just run for their lives, so how could they listen to them?
This army is not the direct line troops of Yan You and Chen Mao. Their direct line troops have already been transferred to the Capital Army by Wang Mang to fight against the Red Eyebrow Army.
The current army is exactly as Liu Xiu speculated. It is composed of county troops from various places and temporary recruits.
It's okay when they're not fighting. This army seems to be large in scale, with bright armor and strict military discipline. But when it comes to fighting hard, it immediately loses control.
There was no coordination between the various ministries. Once the soldiers in front were defeated, the soldiers behind did not dare to push forward. They were all racing to escape, following the defeated front army and running back together.
Not to mention how many people were killed by Liu Xiu and Ma Wu's cavalry, the casualties caused by the trampling of each other within the Rang army alone were countless.
At this time, a strange scene appeared on the battlefield. There were tens of thousands of troops, and the people were panicking like bereaved dogs, abandoning their helmets and armor, and running forward desperately.
Behind them, there were only more than a thousand cavalry chasing them.
Such a result made both Wang Chang and Cheng Dan dumbfounded.
They worked day and night here for five days at Sunset Gathering. The soldiers worked hard and finally built a three-meter-high city wall. They thought they were going to fight a protracted battle with the reckless army here, but they never expected.
Less than an hour into the battle between the two sides, the Mang army suffered a massive rout.
If the reckless army is pretending to be defeated, the purpose is to lure their own side out, but the fake defeat must also look like a fake defeat. Even if it is defeated, the overall formation will not break up, it is orderly in chaos, and the current reckless army
The army has become a mess, like a pile of scattered sand. It is no longer possible to reorganize. This is not a false defeat, but a real defeat!
At this moment, the cavalry sent by Liu Xiu ran to the earth wall and shouted to Wang Chang above: "General Wang, General Liu has an order. The entire army will attack and take advantage of the victory to pursue and kill the enemy!"
When Wang Chang heard this, his eyes widened, and when he was about to give the order, Cheng Dan hurriedly stopped him and said solemnly: "Yan Qing, be careful of fraud!"
Looking at the serious Cheng Dan, Wang Chang raised his eyebrows and looked at Cheng Dan with clear eyes.
They were all experienced in the battlefield. He didn't believe that Cheng Dan would not be able to tell whether the enemy was faking defeat or real defeat. Even if it was a faking defeat, Liu Xiu, the commander-in-chief, had already chased him out, and there was absolutely no one on his side.
The principle of sitting back and doing nothing.
Wang Chang suppressed the anger in his heart and said in a deep voice: "General Cheng, we are at war now, fighting the enemy desperately. What are you thinking about?" After speaking, he ignored Cheng Dan's reaction.
, he waved his arm fiercely, shook off Cheng Dan's hand, and shouted to the left and right: "Send the order, the whole army will attack, chase the enemy!" As he spoke, he also ran down with his sword in hand.
Earth wall.
Looking at Wang Chang running down the earthen wall with swift steps, Cheng Dan's face turned red and white for a while, and finally he stamped his feet fiercely and ran down.
The 30,000 Han troops led by Wang Chang rushed out from the Sunset Gathering and pursued the reckless army.
Seeing so many Han troops chasing them, the soldiers of the Mang army who had no intention of fighting ran faster. At this time, even Yan You and Chen Mao could not turn the tide. They were humans, not gods, and they did not turn back.
The art of heaven.
The two had no choice but to follow their own army and run back all the way.
Everyone in the Han army thought that the Battle of Sunset Ju would be a hard and bloody battle, but no one expected that it would end with such a result.
The Mang army, which was said to number one hundred thousand, was personally commanded by the famous generals Yan You and Chen Mao. On the first day of the battle with the Han army, they were completely defeated and more than 20,000 people were killed. The remaining more than 40,000 people were killed in the battle.
Under the leadership of Yan You and Chen Mao, they withdrew from Nanyang County and retreated to Yingchuan County.
The Mang army lost more than 20,000 people, and more than half of them became prisoners of the Han army. Even among the thousands of people killed in battle, not many actually died at the hands of the Han army. Most of them were because of their own confusion.
, trampling on each other, causing casualties.
In one day, to be precise, in less than an hour, the mighty 100,000 Mang troops were defeated by 30,000 Han troops. This battle shocked the whole country.
When the news reached Chang'an, Wang Mang was furious. In the court hall, in front of many ministers, he cursed Yan You and Chen Mao.
Of course, at this time, Yan You and Chen Mao had already retreated to Yingchuan County in defeat, and could not hear Wang Mang's angry curses.
Wang Mang couldn't understand how Yan You and Chen Mao fought in this battle. In his opinion, these two people had ulterior motives and resented themselves, so they lost on purpose.
On the other side, Yan You and Chen Mao were holding back their resentment and anger and had nowhere to vent it. Wang Mang didn't trust them at all, and wanted to use them to fight.
The two of them finally cultivated an army into a well-trained and powerful army. They had just defeated the Xiajiang Army of the Green Forest Department in Nanjun. As a result, the battle was over and the army under their command was transferred by Wang Mang.
He became a polished commander without a single soldier.
The Han army killed Zhen Fu and Liang Qiuci in Nanyang, which shocked the government and the public. At this time, Wang Mang remembered the two men again and asked them to temporarily form an army of 100,000 to go to Nanyang to fight the Han army.
But where are they going to get 100,000 people?
They could only draw troops from various counties, plus temporary recruitment, and finally cobbled together an army of about 70,000 people. There was no training or drills. As soon as it was formed, they were ordered to lead it.
The army entered Nanyang.
Such an army might be able to win if it encounters just a group of bandits, but when it encounters the elite Han army, it will be completely vulnerable.
Yan You and Chen Mao have been fighting for a lifetime, and they have never lost so badly.
On the way back to Yingchuan, Yan Youdu had the intention to commit suicide and wiped his neck to kill himself. How could he have the dignity to live in this world if his reputation in a lifetime was ruined?
It was Chen Mao who stopped him in time and comforted him: "Bo Shi, a gentleman takes revenge. It is not too late in ten years. If you keep the green hills, you are not afraid of running out of firewood! We are defeated this time, but we still have a chance to come back. After all, we
There are still more than 40,000 soldiers under my command. As long as we train well, in the future, we will become a 40,000-strong army of tigers and wolves. If we face the Han army again, we will be able to avoid today's humiliation!"
After hearing Chen Mao's words, Yan You finally calmed down a bit. He nodded with a wry smile and said, "That's the only way it can be!"
The two of them withdrew to Yingchuan, still thinking of working hard to train more than 40,000 soldiers under their command into a tiger and wolf army, and then go to the Han army to avenge themselves. However, at this time, they never dreamed that this would happen.
The more than 40,000 soldiers will soon no longer belong to them.
Not long after Yan You and Chen Maogang retreated to Yingchuan County, a transfer order came from Wang Mang, asking them to lead the army to Luoyang. All the soldiers under their command were integrated into the capital army. From now on, they will all be under the unified command of Grand Master Wang Kuang.
Liu Xiu and Wang Chang's troops gathered for a great victory at sunset. The Xinmang court did not expect it, and the Han army also did not expect it.
Defeating Yan You and Chen Mao, further consolidating the foundation of the Han army in Nanyang, and turning Wancheng where Cen Peng was stationed into an isolated city. This was originally a great joy for the Han army, but many of the Green Forest Department
After hearing the news, the generals felt as if they were mourning for their heirs.
Who would have thought that the famous Yan You and Chen Mao would be so vulnerable, allowing Liu Xiu to take such a big advantage.
After this battle, Liu Xiu's prestige in the army has also been greatly improved, and there is a faint tendency to become the second person in the army.
If Wancheng is defeated by Liu Yan again, the Liu brothers' prestige in the army will become even higher. What's even more frightening is that the two brothers now control an army of 40,000.
It can be said that the elite of the Han army are all under the control of these two men.
If this momentum continues, it may be difficult for the Green Forest Department to succeed. Wang Kuang summoned his generals to discuss how to deal with this matter.
Chen Mu frowned and said, "I never expected that Yan You and Chen Mao, who are known as famous generals of the generation, would be such idiots. If I had known this, I should have invited him to fight!"
I already knew that money is hard to buy. When I first heard the news that Yan You and Chen Mao led an army of 100,000 to Nanyang, no one of the generals of the Green Forest Department, except Wang Chang, dared to step forward and go to fight.
Now that they saw Liu Xiu winning the battle and winning so easily, they all regretted it and felt that they should not have missed this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make a name for themselves.
Wang Kuang rolled his eyes at Chen Mu, "What's the use of talking about this now?!" He said quietly: "Now that the most skilled elites of our army are in the hands of brothers Liu Yan and Liu Xiu, how should we deal with them?"
Liao Zan said: "How about letting Wang Chang lead his army to withdraw to Jiyang?"
Wang Kuang thought for a moment, shook his head, and said: "The commander-in-chief of the entire army is Liu Xiu now. If Liu Xiu doesn't say anything, Yan Qing won't be able to withdraw his troops even if he wants to! What's more, Yan Qing himself doesn't want to withdraw his troops and return to Jiyang!"
Wang Chang has always been inclined towards the Liu brothers. Now that he has fought such a big victory with the Liu brothers, he is probably more loyal to the Liu brothers. Now, we can no longer treat Wang Chang completely as our own brother.
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Zhu Tuna rolled his eyes and suddenly said: "I have a plan to break the current crisis!"
Wang Kuang's eyes lit up and he asked: "Chang Shu, do you have any good ideas?"
"Elect Liu Xuan to be the emperor! Now is the time!" Zhu Tuna said with shining eyes.