Chapter 1004: Blocking the Pursuers
Yang Yi sat on the horse, looked around, there were pieces of fire flashing in the night, and the whistles came from all directions, his heart trembled, and his first reaction was that he had been fooled! This cavalry must have been a decoy sent by the enemy, and its purpose was to drag their own side to the death, so as to create an opportunity for the enemy's main force to encircle their own side.
Thinking of this, where did Yang Yi dare to take care of the whole annihilation of Ma Wu and the others, he hurriedly ordered: "Retreat!" The whole army retreated at once! ”
As soon as Yang Yi gave the order to retreat, countless Han troops rushed out of the night.
Seeing this, Yang Yi was even more sure that the main force of the Han army was attacking, and he didn't dare to fight, so he turned his horse's head and turned around and ran.
Even the main general has run away, where will the soldiers below still be in love?
More than 10,000 Kui hustle and bustle troops, the rear team turned into the front team, like the tide of the ebb tide, running backwards.
Ma Wu and the others, who were still rushing into battle among the enemy army and fighting in the dark, were stunned for a while when they saw the enemy suddenly fleeing, and they didn't understand what was going on.
Seeing that the enemy army was running farther and farther, Ma Wu had not yet come to his senses, and the two Han armies rushed over from the left and right.
He had already killed the red eyes, and it was still night, the visibility was limited, Ma Wu did not immediately recognize that it was his own soldiers and horses who arrived, he raised the nine-eared eight-ring knife in his hand, and shouted: "Prepare to meet the enemy......" Before his words fell, among the two Han troops who rushed over, someone shouted loudly: "Zizhang, it's me!" ”
Ma Wu's body was shocked, and he slowly put down the long knife in his hand, and when the two Han troops ran close to him, he fixed his eyes and saw that Geng Yi was leading the team on the left, and Wang Ba was leading the team on the right.
Seeing the two of them, Ma Wu almost couldn't believe his eyes, and said in surprise: "You guys...... How did you guys get here? ”
Seeing Ma Wu and the only remaining 300 cavalry under his command, Geng Yi and Wang Ba's hearts were sour, and their eyes were red.
Wang Ba sniffed, pretending to be indifferent and said, "Of course we are here to answer you!" If you Ma Wu die, who will fight with me in the future? ”
Geng Yi sighed secretly, these two people fought when they met, and they were blushing and thick-necked, but at the critical moment, they were thinking about each other in their hearts.
He said: "Zizhang, Yuanbo and I are worried that you will lose, so we are here to respond!" You...... How are your injuries? ”
At this time, Ma Wu still had several arrows stuck in his body! Ma Wu frowned and asked urgently, "Didn't I tell you to evacuate quickly?"
The main force of the enemy army will arrive immediately, if you don't leave now, how long will you wait?
Do you want to kill more than 20,000 soldiers? ”
Wang Ba snorted and said, "If we don't come to answer, how can you still have your life now?" ”
Ma Wu was furious, and was about to reply to Wang Ba a few words, Geng Yi smiled and said: "Zizhang, the main force of our army has successfully passed through the Broken Wu Valley, and now we are the only ones who remain outside the valley!" ”
As he spoke, he pointed back.
Following his fingers, Ma Wu fixed his eyes and saw that the brothers brought by Geng Yi and Wang Ba were only about a thousand people together.
He was stunned for a moment, then Fang Chang let out a long sigh and said, "I see! ”
Geng Yi and Wang Ba used suspicious tactics to scare off the enemy.
"Zizhang, your injury ......" "This little injury is not enough to worry about!"
As he spoke, Ma Wu grabbed an arrow on his thigh, pulled it out hard, and threw the arrow on the ground casually, from beginning to end, he didn't frown.
Wang Ba felt pain when he looked at it, and said angrily: "You are old, what can you do?"
Medical officer! ”
You're only a handful of old men! Ma Wu rolled his eyes in anger.
With Wang Ba's shouting, more than a dozen medical officers ran up from behind, and people helped Ma Wu and others to dismount, stop the bleeding of their wounds first, and then temporarily do simple bandaging.
Geng Yi and Wang Ba and others used the night as a cover, planted many torches around the battlefield, and then lit them one by one, at the same time, each of them had a whistle in their mouths, and thousands of people blew together, in the dark night, it can indeed create the illusion that the army is coming.
But the fake is the fake after all, and when the main force of the enemy army comes up, and their thousand people come, I am afraid that they will be drowned in an instant.
Geng Yi said: "The land of right and wrong, it is not advisable to stay for a long time, withdraw!" ”
Ma Wu and the others did a simple bandage, and then they got on their horses one after another, and retreated in the direction of Broken Wu Valley with Geng Yi and Wang Ba.
As soon as they retreated to the Broken Martial Valley, the main force of the Kui Huan army led by Wang Yuan caught up.
Geng Yi, Ma Wu, Wang Ba and others did not dare to delay the time, and quickly entered the Broken Martial Valley.
Since the road in the valley has been paved with grain bags, people walk on it with great speed.
Ma Wu said as he walked: "The speed of the enemy chasing is too fast, if you go on like this, you can't get rid of the enemy army!" ”
Geng Yi and Wang Ba met and smiled, and said, "I'll let you watch a good show." ”
Ma Wu's face was dazed, good show?
What do you mean?
A group of 1,000 infantry and 300 cavalry passed through the valley without any problems, but the people did not leave immediately, but stood at the mouth of the valley and waited.
Ma Wu looked at Geng Yi and Wang Ba, who were full of confidence, and asked dissatisfiedly, "Do you want to wait for the enemy to kill you?" ”
Think that with just a thousand of your own, you can block tens of thousands of enemies?
Geng Yi smiled and said, "Zizhang don't be impatient!" ”
Wang Yuan led a large group of men and horses to rush to the Broken Wu Valley, and soon, there were spies who reported that the Broken Wu Valley was paved with grain bags and smoothed the road.
After listening to the spies' report, Wang Yuan was stunned at first, then nodded, and couldn't help but praise: "Geng Yi is witty!" ”
Taking out the most precious military rations in the army to pave the way requires not only tact, but also great courage and courage.
He turned his head and shouted in an unkind tone: "Yang Yi! ”
Yang Yi stepped forward with a red face, intervened in the salute, and whispered: "General! ”
He led 20,000 troops in front of him, encountered the resistance of 2,000 cavalry, fought for more than two hours, not only failed to completely annihilate the enemy, but also suffered more than 6,000 casualties.
In the end, they were frightened by the reinforcements of the Han army and fled.
Now that the situation has been investigated, the Han army that suddenly appeared was not the main force at all, at best there were only more than a thousand people.
The battle was like this, and Yang Yi really lost face.
Wang Yuan looked at him coldly, raised his hand and pointed at the Broken Martial Valley in front of him, and said, "You lead the troops first!" ”
"Whoa!"
Yang Yi didn't dare to say half a word of nonsense, commanded his subordinates, and entered the Broken Martial Valley.
Batches of Kui Huan troops entered the Broken Wu Valley, and the roads paved by the Han army with grain and grass have now completed the Kui Huan army.
As the Kui Huan army walked into the Broken Wu Valley, the narrow Broken Wu Valley was also crowded with Kui Huan army officers and soldiers.
Feeling that the number of people in the valley was enough, Geng Yi nodded to Wang Ba on the side.
The latter smiled, took off his bow and arrows, twisted his bow and arrows, and a soldier on the side stepped forward with torches, lit the arrow, and Wang Ba shot an arrow.
The arrow pierced the sky, drew an arc in the air, and fell into the valley.
Seeing a rocket falling from the sky, the soldiers in the valley retreated to both sides.
Boom! The rocket did not hit anyone, but directly at a grain bag on the ground.
A whirring sound was heard in the ear chakra, and the grain and straw bag was immediately ignited, and the sudden fire frightened the soldiers standing on it into screaming and retreating again and again.
But they retreated much faster than the fire spread.
I saw that one after another grain and straw bags were lit, as if a baton, and the time before and after did not exceed five minutes, and the narrow Broken Martial Valley turned into a sea of fire.
The more than 2,000 Kui troops who entered the Broken Martial Valley were burned to the point that there was no way to go to the sky and no way to go to the ground, and the screams of the people's hearts tearing apart seemed to come from the underworld.
Ma Wu, who was standing outside the valley, was hit by the oncoming heat wave and retreated, he couldn't help but raise his hand to block the heat wave, and at the same time looked at Geng Yi and Wang Ba in surprise, and asked: "This ......" Wang Ba smiled: "On the grain and grass bag, fire oil has already been poured on it!" ”
Seeing Ma Wu looking at him blankly, Wang Ba continued: "This is Bo Zhao's idea! Bo Zhao said that the grain and grass of our army cannot fall into the hands of the enemy in vain, let alone pave the way for the enemy army, and we cannot let the enemy troops who pursue our army have good fruits to eat! ”
Due to the narrowness of the Broken Martial Valley, the number of soldiers who entered the Broken Martial Valley could not be too large, but even if only a thousand people came in and were burned alive by their own side, it would also cause a big blow to the morale of the enemy army.
Looking at the Broken Martial Valley that burned into a fire dragon, and the soldiers of his own side who were screaming and struggling in the sea of fire, Yang Yi, who didn't have time to enter the valley, was dumbfounded, and tens of thousands of Kui Huan soldiers were also stupid.
I don't know how long it took, Yang Yi reacted and let out a scream that changed his voice: "There is an ambush!" Evacuate! ”
Boom - the soldiers of the Kui Hustle Army woke up like a dream, and people instinctively turned around and ran back.
Wang Yuan's face turned blue with anger, and he held the reins of the war horse with a clattering sound.
He didn't expect that after the Han army paved the road with grain and grass, he also did tricks and feet on grain and grass.
Yang Yi quickly ran to Wang Yuan and stammered, "Will ...... General, there is an ambush! The enemy army has set up an ambush in the Valley of Broken Martial Forces! ”
"I'm not blind!"
Wang Yuan shouted angrily.
Sometimes he really wonders if Yang Yi is Yang Guang's younger brother, how can the gap between the two brothers be so big?
Yang Guang is a general that even he admires Wang Yuan, and he is a famous general in Xiliang, and compared with Yang Guang, Yang Yi is a wine bag and rice bag, and the mud can't support the wall.
"General, there is a ...... in the Broken Martial Valley" "Do you think the enemy army can now pass through the sea of fire, suddenly kill out of the Broken Martial Valley, and take our army by surprise?"
"I ...... This ......" Wang Yuan didn't bother to look at him, and shouted to the generals on the left and right: "Put out the fire immediately!" Save as many people as you can! ”
The surrounding generals hurriedly agreed and ordered their soldiers to find a water source nearby to extinguish the fire in the Broken Wu Valley.
However, in the middle of the night, I can't see my fingers, so how easy is it to find a water source?
It is estimated that when they find a water source and come back with water, the soldiers in the Broken Martial Valley will have already been burned to ashes.
The other end of the Broken Martial Valley.
Geng Yi said: "This fire is enough for the enemy to drink a pot!" It's time for us to go! ”
Everyone didn't stop any longer, followed Geng Yi, and chased after their main force.
The Han army achieved a small victory here in the Broken Wu Valley, but such a small victory was far from enough to reverse the overall defeat of the Han army.
The Han army, led by Geng Yi, Ma Wu, and Wang Ba, marched southward and went straight to Longguan, where Liu Xiu was located, and the Han army, led by Zang Gong, was also marching south, going to Longguan, seeking a rendezvous with Liu Xiu.
At the same time, the main force of the Kui Huan army led by Wang Yuan was chasing after it, and the Kui Huan army stationed in Qin Pavilion also drove out of Qin Pavilion to join Wang Yuan's department.
Now the battlefield of Hanyang has entered a chaotic stage, and the soldiers and horses on both sides are moving rapidly, east and west, and from time to time they will meet together and fight.
At present, there are two groups of enemy troops that pose the greatest threat to the Han army, one is the soldiers and horses led by Wang Yuan, and the other is the soldiers and horses of the Kaitou Mountain.
Wang Yuan's soldiers and horses had nearly 100,000 people, and the soldiers and horses in the beginning mountain had more than 30,000 people, adding up to more than 100,000 people.
One is blocked in the front, the other is chasing in the rear, Geng Yi's department, Ma Wu's department, Wang Ba's department, and Zang Gong's department, the current situation is not optimistic, and they may be surrounded by enemy regiments at any time, and there is a danger of annihilation of the whole army.
In order to avoid the encirclement and interception of the enemy, and also to disperse the enemy's forces, Geng Yi, Ma Wu, Wang Ba, and Zang Gong all chose to be divided into parts.
They marched to Longguan in units of battalions (2,000 people), subordinates (1,000 people), and Qu (500 people).