Chapter 139: Fighting Taixing to the Death
Yan Gang Zhao Yun led the army to rush to the aid of Sanguan, the two of them spied the time to attack, broke the Huns for a while, beheaded more than a thousand, the morale of the defenders soared, the battle Zhao Yun's brave performance was also deeply imprinted in the hearts of every soldier, the two of them and Li Tieniu drank heartily on the pass that night, and sent fast horses to Liu Yi to report the victory.
This time, Zhang Hu thought that the scattered pass is a natural danger, the Huns are likely to make a detour after the attack, after he reminded Liu Yi also immediately sent Shan Jing and Xu Huang two generals to guard Yi County and Taixing County, the two generals naturally did not dare to slack off, day and night rushed to the two places, Yi County is closer to Beiping, there is still time to deploy after the single warp, but Xu Huang suffered a bloody battle in Taixing, many years later Xu Huang also mentioned that this was the most difficult battle in his life.
Among the 8,000 soldiers led by Gongming this time, in addition to the 3,000 Beiping soldiers, the rest is the Qinglong Battalion that he has been commanding, originally the old four battalions were all under the command of Xu Huang after Liu Yi reorganized the army, he knew that this battle was not trivial, so he still took this old army with him.
When the army arrived ten miles away from Taixing, he saw a large group of soldiers in front of him mixed with the fleeing people rushing forward, Xu Huang was taken aback, and immediately called the commander of the team of soldiers to come to question, he did not leave the people in difficulty, but selected some detailed questions about the battle situation in Taixing.
"Who are you, when the enemy army is overwhelming, and you dare to abandon the city and flee? Don't you know that it is a capital offense to flee from battle? Seeing that the soldiers brought the military marquis to the front, Xu Huang shouted in a deep voice.
"I don't know what this general is called?" The people who came were not flustered by Xu Huang's anger at all.
"A certain is the loyal and brave captain Xu Huang and Xu Gongming under General Liu!"
"It turned out to be Captain Xu, and I still ask the captain to send troops to Taixing quickly, Chi is afraid that it will be difficult for the commander to be safeguarded, these Huns are simply beastsγγγγγ" It turned out that this person's surname was Lin Mingyu, who was the marquis in the Ganping camp of the Taixing defenders, and the Hun army could not break up the pass, and he had the guidance of Gongsun Yue, so he divided his troops to attack Taixing! Although Taixing can not be compared with Sanguan, there are 5,000 soldiers stationed there, and Gan Ping is quite good at using soldiers, and the Xiongnu army is not able to take it for a while.
I don't know who offered a poisonous plan, the Hun army actually drove the Han people in front, straight to the city gate, these soldiers were trained by Liu Yi, has always been very good to the people, can't bear to make a move under Gan Ping ordered the people to put the people into the city! Who knows that many of these people are the Huns soldiers, so the city gate was lost after the street battle, although the enemy army is heavy, but the Han army under the leadership of Gan Ping to fight to the death, the situation is still deadlocked, but the Huns brutal attack, regardless of whether the opposite side is the Han soldiers or ordinary people are all killed, the means are extremely cruel! Gan Ping had no choice but to let Lin Yu lead a battalion of soldiers to protect the people and escape, while he had to live and die with Taixing.
After Lin Yu finished speaking, the soldiers who asked the fleeing people outside also came to reply, and the words of the people were no different from what Lin Yu said, and it was mentioned that many soldiers died under the knives of the Huns because of the protection of the people, and Xu Huang couldn't help but be stunned when he heard it.
"Good man, worthy of being my big Han soldier, Xu apologized to you for what he said just now, Captain Gan is still fighting bloodily, I should immediately wave the army to help, is Lin Junhou willing to walk with me?" Just now, Xu Huang thought that this person had escaped, and he immediately paid tribute to him when he learned about it.
"We were waiting to send the people to a safe place, and then we turned around and fought for life and death with those beasts, and now we meet the general, dare not follow us!" Lin Yu said with indignation when he heard this.
"After the order, the whole army immediately drove to Taixing, and sent someone to report the battle situation here to the lord in detail, so that the lord can decide at his discretion!" After Xu Huang finished speaking, he didn't delay any longer, and led the army to Taixing.
Under the city of Taixing, the city gate is wide open at this time, you can faintly hear the sound of shouting and killing in the city, but it is already very sparse, Xu Huang took the lead, leading the soldiers to kill from the city gate, at this time the Han army in the city is only hundreds of people under the command of a black-armored officer and the enemy army to do a life-and-death fight, everywhere is covered with the corpses of the soldiers on both sides of the enemy and us, and there are many poor people.
"Brothers, panic, reinforcements have arrived." After Lin Yu entered the city, he shouted wildly, those remaining soldiers were pretentious to die, and when they heard the arrival of reinforcements, they immediately boosted their morale. The ground is full of corpses of the enemy and me, the war horse is difficult to walk, Xu Huang had to get off the horse and fight, what Lin Yu said just now has aroused his boundless hatred, so he was ruthless, the stump and broken arm under the big axe wave flew all over the sky, the soldiers behind him saw that the main general was so brave, and they were also competing for the first, the Hun soldiers were taken by the momentum of the Han army for a while, and retreated again and again, Xu Huang was also able to hold the city gate, so that the follow-up soldiers all entered the city, he knew that the Hun army was mostly cavalry, and this street battle could not play its strengths, so he decided to drive it out of the city and recapture Taixing!
"Captain Gan!" At this time, Lin Yu suddenly heard a sad cry, and those remnant soldiers moved closer to Lin Yu one after another, Xu Huang knew that something was wrong, and ordered his soldiers to continue the attack and then rushed away.
The black armor military academy was lying in Lin Yu's arms at this time, the blood in his mouth was flowing for a long time, and his body was also mottled with blood, his eyes were slightly closed, and his face was not guaranteed, thinking that this person was the Taixing guard general Gan Ping in Lin Yu's mouth.
"Captain Gan, this is Captain Xu who came to the aid on the orders of the lord!" Seeing Xu Huang approaching, Lin Yu leaned close to Gan Ping's ear and said.
"Xu, Captain Xu, tell the lord that Gan is fortunate not to be dishonored, and I will hand it over to you later." Gan Ping immediately opened his eyes when he heard the word lord, and after using his last strength to speak, he closed his eyes and passed away! His countenance was extremely calm. The soldiers around are all shouting loudly, and it seems that this Gan Ping is also very popular with soldiers on weekdays.
"Brothers, Captain Gan is a good man, living up to the title of my strong Han army, and now the Huns are still wreaking havoc in the city, everyone will drive them out of the city with me and avenge Captain Gan!" Xu Huang raised his arms and shouted, and took the lead in killing in the direction of the retreat of the Huns on the street. Seeing this, all the soldiers refused to lag behind, and followed Xu Huang, even those who had lost their strength just now struggled to keep up.
Those retreating Hun soldiers under the order of their leader to kill back, the two streams of people gathered in the center of Taixing County, short soldiers and street battles, at this time not only tested the combat strength of the soldiers on both sides, but more importantly, courage and courage!
Speaking of physique, it is obvious that the Hun soldiers have the advantage, and they are also fighting more and less in terms of numbers, but the advantage in numbers in the street battle is difficult to play, Xu Huang's corporal is already elite, and just now he witnessed the death of Captain Wang and the city, and his morale has soared to the peak, and he has nothing else to think about in his heart except to kill the enemy! Although the Huns were strong, they did not expect to encounter such a group of outlaws in the city, even those seriously injured soldiers would do their best to hinder the opponent's actions and win convenience for their comrades, even if they were still not afraid of swords and axes! The streets are full of dead Han soldiers and Hun soldiers.
A total of tens of thousands of people on both sides fought on this long street, and the blood flowed like a river has become a reality, and in the chaotic battle, often you just end up with the enemy himself will die under the weapons of the latecomers, and the boundless blood has aroused the hidden beastliness in the hearts of the soldiers on both sides, and all the organs on the body have become weapons to attack each other in the end! Xu Huang saw with his own eyes that a seriously injured Han soldier had bitten the throat of a Hun soldier who fell beside him with his mouth.
This bloody battle from the beginning into the most **, as time continues, the Hun army can no longer stop the Han army's almost crazy offensive, I don't know who took the lead in fleeing, causing the whole army to retreat, the Han army also took advantage of the situation to drive all the Hun soldiers in the city out of Taixing County.
Xu Huang has never been so tired as today, and his big axe does not know how many Hun soldiers have been harvested, not only the whole body is red with blood, but even the feet under his feet when moving are the sticky blood of the soldiers on both sides, when the Hun army retreated, Xu Huang could hardly even lift his arms, but after the enemy retreated, he still had to strengthen his spirit to rearrange the defense of the city.
The Xiongnu generals who led the army this time wanted to take advantage of the chaos to attack the city again, but they could see that the Hun soldiers who escaped from the city had a look of fear on their faces, as if the Taixing county town in front of them was the place of death, and the banner of the Han army was erected again on the local city tower, and the shouts of victory could be faintly heard, so they had to temporarily defend the army, and then think about the strategy of breaking the city after rectifying the people and horses.
He didn't know that the shouts of these soldiers were also Xu Huang's bluff, fortunately, this plan was successful, seeing that the enemy army temporarily retreated, he also grew out of his chest, and his own soldiers were also exhausted at this time, after selecting more than 800 soldiers who were still in spirit to monitor the enemy, Xu Huang hurriedly ordered the whole army to repair and clean up the battlefield, he didn't know when the enemy's next attack would begin, and the current combat strength of the soldiers was in urgent need of recovery.
The inventory of the results of the battle surprised him, he came to bring 8,000 men and horses, together with the defenders of the original Taixing more than 10,000, and just now after the fierce battle of just two hours, there are only 4,000 soldiers left, most of them are wounded, the price paid by the Huns is not small, more than 10,000 corpses were left in the city alone, that is to say, the fight of 20,000 soldiers on both sides, 16,000 people fell in two hours, the tragedy of the battle is unprecedented! Later historians revised the classics, all known as the Taixing Death War, which is the proud work of the loyal and brave Marquis Xu Huang.