Chapter seven hundred and sixty-five the enemy was annihilated
The 20,000 Shuofang army was almost defeated under the attack of the Yiluohe cavalry. Guo Ziyi quickly organized his formation and shouted loudly: "Don't mess up! Don't mess up your position, they only have three thousand people!"
However, these three thousand Yiluohe were as powerful as crazy tigers and unstoppable. They organized a sharp formation to pretend to attack, but it was enough to make the approaching enemy troops retreat. The cavalry under Guo Ziyi's command were no match, and they were beaten without the ability to fight back.
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He was so anxious that he yelled loudly on the horse: "Li Siye, you are really cheating me! You actually gave me such a hot potato! Can't I say that I have 20,000 Shuofang elites and even a mere 3,000 Huqi can't do anything about it!"
The Yiluohe cavalry were also in a critical situation. They had gone through several battles without rest, and had traveled hundreds of miles in succession. Both men and horses were exhausted to the extreme, and they relied solely on their desire to survive and their strength to hold on.
However, An Shouzhong made a decision-making mistake. He mistakenly believed that Shuofang's army still had strong combat effectiveness and was difficult to eliminate for a while, but he could hardly hold on. At this moment, the defense of Pujin Ferry was empty, so it was better to rush over directly.
He took the boat and moored it to the other side and went down the river.
"Let's go, occupy the ferry and seize the boat!"
Three thousand Yiluohe raised thousands of flags and ran towards the ferry. The soldiers of the Tang army stationed at the ferry retreated to the earthen fortress and fought back at the crenellations of the female wall with bows and arrows in hand.
After the Yiluohe cavalry rushed into the empty camp, they failed to consolidate the victory and capture the fortress. This was another fatal mistake. They endured the harassment of arrows and rushed to the river, abandoning their horses and boarding the ferry.
Only a few people were left behind at the shore.
After Guo Ziyi regrouped, he led his army to the ferry, formed a formation based on the earthen fort, lined up thousands of crossbowmen, and used dozens of Fuyuan crossbows to launch arrows one after another. More than a hundred arrows were left behind on the shore.
The Luohe cavalry charged with arrows, but such powerful crossbows could not shake the Shuofang army's formation. After being intercepted by the infantry, the Mo Dao team swarmed up and hacked them in a pool of blood, leaving only horse corpses and broken pieces.
corpse.
Guo Ziyi was overjoyed. He didn't expect victory to come in this way. It all depended on the opponent's stupid move. I remained unmoved. He shouted excitedly: "Quick! Get the Fuyuan Crossbow to the river and load it.
Oil arrows, shoot them for me!"
Can northern warriors without horses still be called warriors? The Yiluo River Cavalry can make countless fancy movements on horseback. Their hands do not need to grab the horse's reins to make the horse turn, accelerate and stop. But for rowing
Crossing the river, they knew nothing.
They crowded on the boat and moved the oars vigorously, but the boat was spinning in the water. It took half a day to float only more than ten feet to the middle of the river.
Guo Ziyi mobilized thousands of longbowmen and crossbowmen and lined up on the bank to shoot at the Yellow River, turning Yiluohe into a living target. They could still use horn bows to fight back at first, but once the distance was extended, the horn bows would
The shooting range of more than sixty steps was no longer enough to pose a threat, but Shuofang's troops on the shore, holding long bows and crossbows, could continue to shoot. Many soldiers fell into the river and fell into the water with several arrows in their bodies.
Even more terrifying was the Fuyuan Crossbow, which could easily shoot through the hull of the ship. The fat burned upwards along the hull. The soldiers kept beating the flames, and another powerful crossbow shot through, piercing both of them.
An Shouzhong sat in the middle of the boat and shouted: "Straighten the boat! Go downstream with the current!"
The Yellow River flowed slowly through Pujin Ferry. He looked down at the dark yellow water and could hardly feel the flow. Shuofang's army continued to chase down the shore. In the end, only six ships approached the other side, and the rest were either full of corpses or dead bodies.
They were engulfed in flames. However, thousands of Tang troops emerged from the ferry on the other side of Pujin Ferry, bending their long bows and shooting the Yiluohe warriors on the boat.
An Shouzhong hurriedly ordered everyone to row to the middle of the river, so that only dozens of Fuyuan crossbows could reach them. They kept adjusting the direction of the crossbows, and another ferry caught fire and sank after being hit by an arrow.
After passing Pujin Ferry and going further down, the speed of the Yellow River became faster, and the Shuofang soldiers who were chasing the shore could no longer catch up. They could only watch three or four boats drifting farther and farther along the river, and finally let them go.
An Shouzhong fled.
An Shouzhong sat on the side of the boat and had just recovered from the shock. He looked back at the soldiers on the boat. Except for the corpses, there were wounded soldiers. Almost everyone had arrows stuck in their bodies. The fallen captain had a hedgehog on his chest and armor, lying there with his eyes closed.
Standing on the side of the boat, the sergeant who had been hit by an arrow in the face turned his head towards the outside of the boat. Blood covered the deck of the boat, and he could not stop moaning in pain.
He brought 8,000 to Yiluohe and brought 5,000 to Guanzhong, but when he returned, only these 100 people were left. They were the bodyguards selected by his adoptive father from the army. I believe that the old man would be furious when he found out, and he would die even if he wanted to
His skin was peeled off.
Shuofang's army on the shore also suffered particularly heavy losses. Guo Ziyi calculated that the casualties were around 7,000. If An Shouzhong hadn't been clever and gave up his horses to board the ship, he would have been defeated today.
The envoy sent by the imperial court rushed to the ferry on horseback. The eunuch crossed his arms on the horse and said: "Your Majesty has returned to Chang'an from Lingwu and has specially ordered me to deliver the message. If the war is over, Doctor Guo, please return to Chang'an immediately to receive the reward.
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"So anxious?" Guo Ziyi opened her mouth in surprise.
"Of course, awarding a meritorious official is a big deal, so naturally we can't delay it for a moment."
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After Li Siye entered Shangluo County, he quickly led his army southward and built strongholds on both sides of Taohuayi in the south of Shangluo County, blocking the road to Wuguan.
Li Guiren failed to knock on the gates for three days in a row, so he decided to retreat to Shangluo County to search for more food. Unexpectedly, Li Siye had already cut off his return. He was like a rat stuck in a dead end, completely cutting off the chance of escaping.
He believed that there was no hope in attacking Li Siye. The battles between Fengxiang County and Xiliuyuan had fully realized the combat effectiveness of the Hexi Army, which was unbelievably strong. The only possibility now was to conquer Wuguan and quickly move south. Only in this way could it be possible to completely defeat the Hexi Army.
Tang Jun was left behind.
Wang Sili, who was guarding Wuguan, might be a soft persimmon that could be crushed. He quickly ordered his sergeants to cut down trees near the top of the mountain, then made siege ladders and battering rams, and began to continuously attack Wuguan.
Wang Sili patrolled the city wall day and night. He held a long spear in his hand in the cold winter, and the frost on his armor made a clanging sound. The rebels kept knocking at the gate day and night, and the Tang army suffered serious losses. He looked into the distance and wondered why Li Siye hadn't come yet!
I can hardly hold on any longer.
Li Siye ordered his soldiers to reinforce the defenses at Taohua Station, but refused to attack. As long as Li Guiren stayed with him for one more day, he would collapse faster.
On the tenth day, the rebels began to slaughter horses to satisfy their hunger, and the number of soldiers also dropped sharply. Many of them were still gathered around bonfires in the dark, but they had frozen to death in the pass on the second day.
Li Siye stood on the watchtower inside the village wall and looked into the distance. The rebels had built countless wooden sheds on the Wuguan Road. The skeletons of horses were scattered everywhere. The ground was filled with people lying on the ground. It was unknown how many of them were dead.
How many living people are there?
"That's it! The cavalry went out in three groups to attack Li Guiren and meet up with Wang Sili of Wuguan."
Wang Sili was not the only one who was anxious during the ten days of waiting. Zang Xieye, Duan Xiushi and others also sharpened their knives and requested to go to war several times but were not allowed. After Li Siye gave this order, the Flying Tiger Cavalry they led was as close as Han Haijun.
The tiger came out of the cage and rushed towards Li Guiren's army stationed at the top of the mountain.
After a short battle, the rebel general Li Guiren led his troops to surrender. Unfortunately, of the more than 10,000 cavalry he led, after repeated sieges, only less than 4,000 remained. At this point, An Lushan was sent to Guanzhong
The 100,000 troops have been completely wiped out, with not a single drop of water remaining.
Li Siye put him into a prison car and sent people to Chang'an.
Wang Sili walked out of Wuguan City with red eyes and swollen face. He came to Li Siye with a fluffy bun on his head, bowed and crossed his hands and said: "Doctor Li, if you are one step late, Wuguan will definitely be lost and Li Guiren will be released."
Ran."
"Wrong, Wang Shangshu, Li Guiren is at the end of his strength. You think you can't hold on anymore, but he can't even organize a decent attack. That's how fighting is. Whoever can persist will win the final victory.
.So it is your credit for capturing Li Guiren alive and destroying the rebel cavalry. When we return to Chang'an, I will definitely ask for your credit in front of His Majesty."
Wang Sili coughed awkwardly: "Why do you have to do this, doctor? How dare I monopolize this power?"
"It doesn't matter. I have Zhang Tongru and Sun Xiaozhe, you have Li Guiren, and Guo Ziyi has An Shouzhong. As colleagues, we should be equally divided."
What a tie! If Wang Sili and Guo Ziyi knew that he had won easily in these games, they would not know how they would feel.
Cheng Yuanzhen, the lieutenant sent by the emperor, arrived at Wuguan. When he saw the prince of Xiliang County and the Minister of War, he did not dismount. He waved his fly whisk arrogantly and said, "Your Majesty has entered Chang'an and ordered me to summon you two to the capital to accept the reward."
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Li Siye frowned. Isn't now a good time to take advantage of the victory and enter Shaanxi Province from Tongguan to regain Luoyang? What kind of reward should they be asked to go back to receive?
After Cheng Yuanzhen left with his entourage, the marching leader Bo Daiwang crossed his hands beside him and whispered: "If my guess is correct, the emperor summoned you to Chang'an this time. On the surface, he wanted to reward you with a reward, but in fact he was targeting the doctor.
He holds the military power of the three armies in Beiting and Anxi, Hebei Province."