Unfortunately, Liu Xiu's words turned out to be a prophecy.
The more than 3,000 Qingdu troops that appeared near Liang Qi were indeed just bait, and an ambush was indeed set up by the Qingdu troops in Qin Mountain.
Liu Qing led 10,000 soldiers and horses to pursue the fleeing Qingdu Army. When he saw the fleeing Qingdu Army running into Qinshan, Liu Qing also hesitated, but then he thought about it, there were more than ten people behind him.
Where is Wan Dajun?
What's more, when sending troops to Wei County this time, not only did the Lord come in person, but also Prince Xiao came. At this time, I had to show off to the Lord, and I must not let Prince Xiao see the joke.
Due to this mentality, Liu Qing did not think much and led 10,000 troops under his command to pursue Qin Mountain.
As a result, after entering, he didn't run very far when he discovered that there were ambushes all around, with arrows like locusts, and his soldiers were shot to the ground in groups.
Liu Qing was also a veteran of the battlefield. He realized that he had been ambushed by the enemy. Although he was afraid, he remained calm.
He immediately ordered his men to huddle up and form a shield formation to resist the enemy's arrows. At the same time, the entire camp moved outside Qin Mountain.
The Qingdu Army that set up an ambush numbered no less than 50,000 people. Seeing that Liu Qingjun was planning to break out, how could they give him this chance?
The commander-in-chief of the Qingdu Army commanded his men to launch a fierce attack on Liu Qingjun's phalanx, and then the two sides launched an even bloody close-quarters battle.
When Liu Xiu and Xie Gong led their troops to Qinshan, the Qingdu Army that had set up an ambush began to retreat.
With all the besieging Qingdu Army withdrawing, looking at the battlefield, there were corpses and wounded everywhere. Liu Qing's army, which originally numbered ten thousand, now only had less than three thousand people standing with weapons.
In just a short period of time, Liu Qingjun killed more than 7,000 people. Liu Qing, who was covered in blood and wounded in many places in the battle and was almost out of strength, walked up to Xie Gong with the support of his soldiers.
Before he spoke, he knelt down on the ground and said in a trembling voice: "Sir, the general is incompetent and fell into an ambush by the enemy..."
Xie Gong stepped forward, stretched out his hand to help Liu Qing up, and asked with concern: "How is General Liu's injury?"
"It's all fine, just some skin injuries." Liu Qing's eyes turned red, and water dropped in his eyes.
Xie Gong nodded and said: "As long as the injury is okay!"
As he spoke, he turned his eyes away and looked at the corpses on the ground, feeling as if he was scratching his stomach. Xie Gong really didn't expect that he would suffer such a huge defeat just after entering Wei County.
He looked at Liu Xiu and said with a gloomy face: "Prince Xiao, the bandit army should not have gone far yet. Should we continue the pursuit?"
Liu Xiu could predict that the three thousand green calf troops were just bait. Now, Xie Gong had to sincerely admire Liu Xiu's ability to use troops.
He also began to actively seek Liu Xiu's advice on how to fight the next battle and whether to continue to pursue the enemy.
After thinking for a while, Liu Xiu slowly shook his head and said: "Don't chase after poor bandits." As he spoke, he raised his eyes to look at the surrounding mountains and forests, and continued: "In such a big Qinshan Mountain, let alone our army only has more than 100,000 people.
Even if there are tens or millions of people, entering it is just a drop in the ocean."
Xie Gong followed Liu Xiu's gaze and looked around, nodded, thinking that Liu Xiu's words were reasonable. He frowned and said, "Prince Xiao, what should we do?"
"We can temporarily station outside Qinshan and wait and see what happens." Liu Xiu said: "Spring has just begun, and there are not many wild animals in the mountains. This group of green calves has tens of thousands of people. So many people, so many
Open your mouth, they can't hide in the mountains for a long time without coming out, we can plant spies outside the mountains and wait for them!"
Liu Qing's eyes lit up and he said fiercely: "As soon as the bandits come out of the mountain, I can surround them and annihilate them!"
Liu Xiu nodded.
Xie Gong frowned and said: "However, Qinshan is so big. If our army is stationed in the east of Qinshan, and the bandits escape from the west of Qinshan, we will not be able to catch up even if we want to!"
Liu Xiu had already thought of this and said with a smile: "Our army can be divided into four groups and stationed in the southeast, northwest and northwest of Qinshan Mountain. No matter which side the rebels escape from, our army can detect it immediately and attack them.
To block the attack, you don’t need to win, you just need to hold off the enemy. In this way, the other three troops can come to support and annihilate the enemy in one fell swoop!”
Xie bowed, clapped his hands, and said with a smile: "This is a good idea from Prince Xiao!"
Liu Xiu said: "Thank you to Shangshu's department for stationing on one side, and our department can station on the other three sides!"
Xie Gong nodded repeatedly. Liu Xiu had already taken special care of his own side by allowing his side to be stationed on one side. He said in a solemn voice: "These tens of thousands of thieves are extremely bold and must not be left here!"
Liu Xiu and Xie Gong were highly consistent in their attitude towards dealing with the rebels, which was to completely eradicate all rebel armies in Hebei and avoid future troubles forever.
Under Liu Xiu's arrangement, Xie Gong's army was stationed in the east of Qinshan; Liu Xiu's army sent Deng Yu, leading an army of 40,000, to station in the north of Qinshan; Liu Xiu's army sent Wu Han, leading an army of 40,000, to station in the south of Qinshan; and he personally
He led the remaining 20,000 troops and stationed them in the west of Qin Mountain.
The Qingdu Army threw out bait to lure Liu Qingjun into the encirclement they had set up in Qinshan.
In the view of the Qingdu Army, after this battle, they can hide in Qinshan Mountain.
Qin Mountain is so big that even if the officers and soldiers went into the mountain to hunt them down, they would not be able to find them. But the Qingdu Army obviously did not expect that Liu Xiu did not lead his army into the mountain at all, but divided his troops into four groups and stationed them outside the mountain.
Just sit back and wait.
As Liu Xiu said, not long after spring, the wild animals in the mountains are extremely limited. Whether it is wild vegetables, wild fruits, mushrooms, fungus, or wild beasts in the mountains and forests, the number is very small. If there are not many of them, they can still be in the deep mountains.
You can easily hide for a month. But there are tens of thousands of them, with tens of thousands of mouths waiting for food!
It was okay for a short time, but over time, the Qingdu Army couldn't stand it anymore in the mountains.
Three days later, the Qingdu Army took the lead in breaking through to the south of Qinshan. It was Wu Han who was stationed in the south of Qinshan. Seeing that the Qingdu Army chose to break out from the side where he was stationed, Wu Han was happy and immediately organized troops to block the attack.
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Although Liu Xiu had already given an order, when the rebels broke through, all we had to do was defend and block the enemy's path.
But Wu Han was not a man who could only be passively beaten. He commanded his soldiers to fight against the Green Calf Army that broke out of the encirclement.
The Qing Calf Army was able to set up an ambush and cause Liu Qing to suffer a big loss, but when they encountered Wu Han on the frontal battlefield, even if both sides had equal strength, they really couldn't defeat them. After a confrontation, the Qing Calf Army threw more than 3,000 people into the enemy's army.
They suffered casualties and retreated to Qinshan in defeat.
After the Qingdu Army escaped, Wu Han immediately ordered that all the captured and injured bandits be beheaded. Even those who died in battle had their heads cut off and hung on tree trunks in the forest.
After the battle, bloody severed heads were hung in the woods south of Qin Mountain. This large forest was like a hell on earth.
This was not the end yet. Wu Han asked his archers and soldiers to use the heads of thieves to practice their bows and arrows and the accuracy of their crossbows.
He did this not entirely out of cruelty, but to deliberately humiliate and anger the Qingdu Army, hoping to draw revenge from the Qingdu Army. He only killed about 3,000 people on the other side, and Wu
How can Han be satisfied?
Wu Han's actions indeed angered the Qingdu Army in Qinshan. Many generals suggested to the general that they should break out to the south again and fight Wu Han to the end. The brothers who died in the battle must not let Wu Han do this.
humiliation.
The leader of the Green Calf Army is quite calm. Is Wu Han that easy to deal with? He is a leader who is willing to risk his life on the battlefield.
Generals have a will to die, and soldiers have no desire to live. Even the general dares to charge forward and risk his life, and all the soldiers below are willing to do so. Tens of thousands of people are fighting with you desperately, who can resist it?
live?
The commander of the Qingdu Army stopped his brothers from wanting to fight to the death with Wu Han. According to their reports, the officers and soldiers stationed on the four sides of Qinshan Mountain were stationed. The camp of officers and soldiers in the west was smaller and should have the smallest number of troops. He decided to change the breakout
direction, breakout to the west.
Stationed on the west side of Qinshan Mountain was none other than Liu Xiu.
Although there are only 20,000 people on Liu Xiu's side, the 20,000 people include the 2,000 Benming Army led by Jia Fu. Just these two thousand Benming Army, their lethality on the battlefield is no less than
An army of ten to twenty thousand.
The Green Calf Army's breakout this time was much more determined than the first breakout. The main reason was that their rations had been exhausted. Even the wild vegetables in the mountains were harvested by them. Even the wild vegetable roots were removed from the land.
Dig it out and gnaw it clean.
If they were trapped like this, the tens of thousands of them were in danger of being annihilated. When the Qingdu Army broke through, they directly attacked Liu Xiujun's camp.
Liu Xiujun did not leave the camp to fight at all, and the entire army huddled in the camp and defended it. Several offensives launched by the Qingdu Army were all repelled by Liu Xiujun.
General Qingdu saw that Liu Xiu's camp was difficult to break, so he immediately ordered the entire army to march north, bypass the camp, and then break out to the west.
When the Qingdu Army moved north, Liu Xiujun finally came out of the camp, and the first to fight out was the Benming Army led by Jia Fu.
The two sides met head-to-head and immediately came to a head.
Previously, the Qingdu Army had launched several attacks on Liu Xiujun's camp, but all failed, leaving them exhausted and demoralized. On the other hand, the Benming Army had been suppressed by Liu Xiu and did not participate in the battle.
In terms of physical strength, they maintained their peak condition, but in terms of mentality, they were all holding back a sigh of relief. Now on the battlefield, people could finally vent their frustration, and each and every one of them slashed and killed the enemy with all their strength.
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Liu Xiu didn't even have time to bring the main force to fight the enemy. The two thousand men of the Benming Army defeated tens of thousands of Qingdu Army. Even the chief general of Qingdu Army was almost killed in Jia.
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The Green Calf Army's breakout this time was really a failure, and its casualties exceeded 10,000.
It can be said that the morale of the Green Calf Army was already low before. After the second breakout failed, the morale of the entire army fell completely to the bottom.
In the following days, the Qingdu Army made another breakthrough to the north and east of Qinshan, but the intensity of the breakthrough was far less than the previous two breakthroughs, and they were all repulsed in the end.
After several days of fighting, the Qingdu Army suffered heavy casualties, but the most fatal problem was the lack of food for the entire army.
People, blinded by hunger, began to eat leaves, dig grass, and even pull out tree roots and bark.
However, the nutrients these things can provide to the human body are too limited, and they are not enough to sustain hunger. A large number of soldiers were starved to death, lying on the ground, dying. Many people fell asleep and never woke up.
When the battle reached this point, the Qingdu Army was in despair from top to bottom. Many people began to suggest to the general that they surrender to the officers and soldiers.
