Chapter 1188: Bloody Battle on the Tuojiang River
Wu Han and Hua Feiyan and his party quickly passed through the Han army camp and came to the pontoon bridge by the river, Wu Han and others did not hesitate at all, led the war horse, boarded the pontoon bridge, and went straight to the other side.
As soon as they got on the pontoon bridge with their front feet, the Shu army also chased them to the Han army camp.
When Xie Feng and Yuan Ji entered the Han camp, they raised their eyes and looked around, in the huge camp, there were no people or war horses, only a few lonely dilapidated tents standing there.
Xie Feng and Yuan Ji were in a hurry, led the Shu army under their command, and went straight to the riverbank.
When I arrived at the riverbank, I didn't see anyone, but I saw a lot of sundries abandoned by the Han army when they retreated.
Just as Xie Feng and Yuan Ji were raising their eyes to glance, a soldier galloped over, and when he approached the two of them, he intervened and saluted, saying, "Da Situ, Zhi Jinwu, I found a pontoon bridge laid by the Han army over there!" ”
Xie Feng and Yuan Ji's eyes lit up, and the former waved his hand and shouted, "Go!" ”
Everyone hurried to the pontoon bridge, and faintly, it seemed that a figure could still be seen walking on the pontoon.
Needless to say, Wu Handing escaped along this pontoon bridge.
Xie Feng urged the horse to go to the bridge, but Yuan Ji hurriedly grabbed the reins of his war horse and said in a low voice: "Da Situ, be careful of deception!" ”
Xie Feng looked at Yuan Ji and asked rhetorically, "Does Zhi Jinwu want to watch Wu Han escape from under our noses?"
Your Majesty asked, how can you and I explain to Your Majesty? ”
Hearing this, Yuan Ji subconsciously let go of his hand.
Of course, he has not forgotten that not long ago, His Majesty issued an edict to reprimand him.
Because he let Wu Han go, His Majesty almost didn't scold his mother directly in the edict, and until now, he can't raise his head.
Yuan Ji no longer hesitated, nodded heavily at Xie Feng, gritted his teeth and said, "This time, we can't let Wu Han run away no matter what!" Pursue! ”
Xie Feng and Yuan Ji led more than 30,000 Shu troops along the pontoon bridge from the west bank of the Tuojiang River to the east bank of the Tuojiang River.
After landing on the east bank, look around, all around is highland, only the river is low-lying here.
Both of them are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, knowing that such terrain is very unfavorable to their own side, Xie Feng waved his sword forward and shouted loudly: "All the soldiers of the army, immediately climb the hill ahead!" ”
With his order, the Shu army that went ashore quickly assembled and lined up, and then the square formation began to advance on the hillside ahead.
Just when these Shu troops were about to advance to the top of the hillside, countless Han troops suddenly appeared on the top of the mountain, and at the same time, huge grass balls were pushed down by the Han army.
These grass balls are all artificially made, and each one is almost more than two meters tall.
The grass balls rolled down the hillside, even if they crushed people's bodies, they would not cause any harm to people, but the terrible thing was that the Han army set all the grass balls on fire while pushing down these grass balls.
The grass balls that burned with raging flames turned into huge fireballs, leaving long fire dragons on the ground where they rolled, and the fire would not be extinguished for a long time.
The soldiers of the Shu army who were crushed by the grass balls were covered with fire all over their bodies, and let out bursts of heart-rending screams.
A ball of grass rolled from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain, and the Shu army in this column became a column of burning men.
In an instant, the mountains were all over the wilderness, almost all of them were a sea of fire, and in the flames, people's screams, wails, and cries for help were already connected.
This situation made the soldiers of the Shu army on the shore dumbfounded, and Xie Feng and Yuan Ji were also dumbfounded.
Wu Han, who had fled without a trace, appeared on the top of the mountain with a halberd in his hand and a tall horse.
He waved the tiger mighty silver halberd in his hand forward, and shouted loudly: "Han army soldiers, kill the enemy with me!" Kill all the enemy troops and kill Xie Feng and Yuan Ji! ”
"Roar-" Wu Han responded to the call, ambushed on the top of the mountain, and thousands of Han troops rushed down the hillside to kill, and went straight to the Shu army at the bottom of the mountain and on the river bank to kill.
Cold weapons fighting, rushing from the high ground to the low ground, it is really like thunder.
The Han army that rushed down from the sea of fire in the mountains was as imposing as a rainbow and unstoppable, drowning the Shu army on the hillside that had not yet been burned to death in an instant.
Xie Feng and Yuan Ji on the shore secretly screamed that it was not good, they had a plan, and the two hurriedly ordered, the rear team became the front team, and the whole army retreated to the west bank.
But when the Shu army was about to board the pontoon bridge, it was amazing, first a raging fire ignited in the center of the pontoon bridge, and the fire spread rapidly, engulfing the entire middle section of the pontoon bridge in a sea of fire.
Looking up, it is really like a fire dragon across the Tuojiang River, the scenery is spectacular, beautiful, but for the soldiers of the Shu army, such a beautiful scenery is tantamount to the call of death.
In an instant, Xie Feng and Yuan Ji were shocked into a cold sweat, and the two of them hurriedly ordered the whole army to retreat north.
But to the north of them, a phalanx of Han troops and 10,000 people appeared, blocking the northward path of the Shu army.
Seeing that the north was blocked, Xie Feng and Yuan Ji ordered a retreat to the south.
However, to the south of them, a phalanx of 10,000 Han troops also appeared, still blocking the road.
There were 10,000 Han troops in the north and 10,000 Han troops in the south.
In fact, there is no gap between the strength of the two sides, the Han army is full, less than 30,000 people, and the Shu army is also close to 30,000 people, in terms of troops, the two sides are completely evenly matched.
It's just that in my heart, the gap between the two sides is too big, the Han army is like a rainbow, and the Shu army is like a mourner.
The Han army on three sides completed the encirclement of the Shu army, and advanced towards the Shu army together.
A large number of Shu troops did not dare to fight and retreated in defeat, but behind them was the Tuojiang River, and there was no way to retreat.
Many Shu soldiers were squeezed, pushed, and fell into the water, and when they floated up again, they all became floating corpses floating on the river.
Seeing that they had no way to retreat, Xie Feng and Yuan Ji only then made up their minds to fight to the death with the Han army.
It's just that at this time it is too late to make up your mind about a decisive battle.
The Shu army was up and down, with no fighting spirit, and on the opposite side of the Han army that advanced over, the soldiers of the Shu army were like grass mustard, and they were crushed to the ground in groups.
Xie Feng and Yuan Ji completely lost their square inches, and each of them led an elite, one broke through to the north and the other to the south.
Xie Feng, who broke through to the north, happened to face Wu Han's deputy general Liu Shang.
Liu Shang first ordered his soldiers to release arrows at the Shu army that had rushed over.
After a few rounds of arrows, the Shu army that broke through was sharply reduced by three or four percent, and many of the remaining Shu troops had arrow wounds on their bodies.
Liu Shang smiled and commanded the whole army to rush forward to meet the enemy.
Xie Feng led his troops to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Han army.
The battle lasted less than half an hour, and Xie Feng's troops were defeated by the Han army, and Xie Feng and the remaining more than 1,000 Shu troops around him were surrounded by the Han army.
In the end, with no hope of breaking through, more than 1,000 Shu troops led by Xie Feng surrendered to the Han army.
On the other side, Yuan Ji, who broke through to the south, was even worse than Xie Feng, he was not surrounded by the Han army, but died tragically in the chaos.
Losing the two main generals Xie Feng and Yuan Ji, the Shu army was defeated faster, and tens of thousands of soldiers died tragically in front of the phalanx of the Han army.
The Shu army was unable to fight again, and some generals took the lead in surrendering to the Han army, but surprisingly, the Han army did not accept surrender.
Wu Han gave a death order, all enemy troops were killed, and no prisoners were left! Even Xie Feng, who surrendered to the Han army, was beheaded by Wu Han on the spot, and his head was hung on the flagpole of the Han army to further deter the Shu army.
This situation had never been seen before when Cen Peng was the chief general of the Southern Expeditionary Army.
Cen Peng did not kill and surrender, as long as the enemy surrendered and gave up the battle, he would take it all as it was, and after being imprisoned for a period of time, he would be released back to his hometown.
Wu Han is different, he has a cold temperament, his methods are vicious, he treats the enemy army, killing and surrendering is the norm, and not killing and surrendering is Wu Han's inexplicable conscience discovery.
What's more, Wu Han has just experienced a battle of nine deaths and a lifetime in Jiangxi, two thousand Han soldiers are heroic and martyred, and the battlefield is lost, and now Wu Han's eyes are red, where will he surrender?
The Han army refused to surrender, and the ensuing battle completely turned into a one-sided massacre.
The Han army slaughtered the Shu army into the river from the shore, and the floating corpses spread a layer on the water, and half of the river was almost red with blood.
In this battle, more than 30,000 Shu troops led by Xie Feng and Yuan Ji were annihilated on the east bank of the Tuojiang River.
Of the more than 30,000 Shu troops, more than 20,000 of them died in the killing of the Han army, and the other 10,000 were basically drowned alive in Tuojiang.
After this war, even after one or two decades, human bones will still be found in the lower reaches of the Tuojiang River from time to time, and the people in the lower reaches will not eat Tuojiang fish for ten years.
No one in the Chengjia court thought that Xie Feng and Yuan Ji, with a total of 100,000 troops, would have such a fiasco after defeating the Han army led by Wu Han.
Originally, people thought that Wu Han was just fierce and fierce in battle, but now that Wu Han used a strategy, it was also unpredictable.
After winning a great victory in Tuojiang and killing Xie Feng and Yuan Ji, the two ministers of Gongsun Shu, Wu Han did not continue to be stationed near Chengdu, but led his troops to withdraw to Guangdu.
The victory in this battle is really a fluke, if Xie Feng and Yuan Ji were not bent on killing him Wu Han and bent on making immortal achievements, with the minds of the two of them, they would never be so easily fooled.
Now Wu Han also realized that his own troops were too inferior against Chengdu, and he would not do much to continue to stay near Chengdu, but would be easily surrounded by the Shu army and be in danger of annihilation.
After he returned to Chengdu, he once again transferred troops from Jiangzhou and sent 20,000 soldiers to Guangdu to replenish his own battle losses.
Chengdu.
The death of Xie Feng and Yuan Ji made Gongsun Shu a lot older.
First Gongsun Hui and Shi Xing, and now Xie Feng and Yuan Ji! Wu Han first killed his younger brother and son-in-law, and now he has beheaded his two ministers in a row, this is to kill all the people around him! For Cen Peng, Gongsun Shu is afraid, for Wu Han, Gongsun Shu is afraid and hateful, eager to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
He was in Chengdu, and he offered a thousand gold, canonized the conditions of a king with a different surname, and offered a reward for Wu Han's head.
No matter who it is, as long as he can kill Wu Han, he will be rewarded with a thousand catties of gold and canonized as a king.
Back then, Wang Lang offered a reward for Liu Xiu's head, and he had never been so valuable.
It can be seen that Gongsun Shu at this time was really forced to be red-eyed by Wu Han.
Although the conditions he offered were tempting, for most people, they only dared to think in their hearts, but they did not dare to put them into action.
The Han camp is now heavily guarded, and it is not so easy to sneak in.
Even if you can sneak into the Han camp and want to succeed in killing Wu Han, the possibility is very small.
What kind of person is Wu Han, among thousands of troops and horses, he can take the head of the enemy general, it's good if he doesn't come to kill you, you still want to kill him, isn't that looking for death?
However, under the heavy reward, there is always no shortage of brave men.
People die for money, and birds die for food! After Wu Han led the Han army to retreat to Guangdu, he stopped for a long time.
Mainly in the recuperation of injuries.
In the battle outside Chengdu, Wu Han suffered several arrow wounds and flesh wounds, although they were not serious, but they also needed time to recuperate.
In addition, now the Han army is insufficient, and the Han soldiers who have come from Jiangzhou to reinforce have not yet arrived in Guangdu.