Chapter 308: Ten Sections
Tang Bin and Hao Siwen gathered hundreds of men and horses to break through the siege, and on the way, they gathered a few lucky stragglers who escaped, and by the time the Liangshan cavalry arrived, the strength had grown to 1,000. But the two of them didn't have any joy at all, both of them knew what kind of virtue these thousands of people under their command were, that is, a plate of loose sand, it is estimated that they were ridden by Liangshan thieves, and they were torn apart in an instant.
And so many people will also attract the attention of Liang Shanjun.
Looking at the back, it was like a hungry wolf hanging a human tail, and a Liangshan cavalry was always faintly visible.
The latter cavalry only had two or three hundred cavalry, but Tang Bin and Hao Siwen were full of worries, not because they were afraid of death, but because they were worried about Guan Sheng, who was seriously injured. It's easy for them to escape, but it's hard for Guan Sheng.
Fortunately, the Liangshan thief rode never attacked, and I don't know what they thought, otherwise Tang Bin and Hao Siwen would have to worry about what happened after death.
"This ...... Where is this? Tang Bin looked up at the town in front of him and asked stunned.
It's a small town, it's still a walled town, but there is no one in sight in this town, and the entrance to the town is blocked by beds, wooden chairs, trees, etc.
It seems that no one wants to turn their homeland into a battlefield, especially a battlefield of defeated soldiers and a nest of thieves. Even if that thief is a well-known Liangshan thief, it seems that he will not kill people indiscriminately. However, the people in the town have already expressed their attitude with practical actions.
They don't take the initiative to help because of the official army.
"The ghost only knows, that Liang Mountain thief has been chasing me for two hours!" Hao Siwen glanced at the slow Liangshanbo cavalry behind him, feeling so speechless and desperate.
From the battlefield to here, the sun in the sky is turned west. The guillotine hanging overhead, still not falling. But if there is no guillotine that falls, it is also a guillotine, isn't it?
This kind of waiting for death is really torturous.
Intuition told Hao Siwen and Tang Bin that this was not a good thing, but the desire to survive forced them to grit their teeth, march westward, and hold on to the end.
Naturally, they didn't know that Lu Qian scattered the cavalry, and several squads drove the fleeing officers and soldiers around and fled to the west, while the main force of nearly 2,000 cavalry was recuperating behind them.
Those officers and soldiers, if there were really those who could not escape, were taken prisoner, but many of them were hacked to death with mending knives, and all the way down, the fleeing officers and soldiers in front of them could hear the screams of their comrades before they died. This brought great fear to the officers and soldiers, so that they did not dare to stop at all, and they had no time to judge in detail how many "Liangshan thieves" were behind them, or how many of their comrades were ruthlessly slashed and killed.
"There's always a lot!" That's what many of the routs thought. Anyway, it's not something that you can deal with with a defeated soldier, and if someone rushes, you will definitely be crushed with one blow!
Two more hours passed in the blink of an eye, and the sun was long out of sight in the sky. Tang Bin, Hao Siwen, and their army are still fleeing westward, but the speed has become a slow and slow old woman. In order to prevent the Song army from escaping, the Liangshan army behind them all stretched the line little by little, and it already showed a perfect arc.
"Oops, they're chasing again, run, the Liangshan thieves are here again!"
The exhausted Song soldiers in the team looked in horror at the "torch line" lit up behind them approaching, in order not to be hacked to death by random knives, they could only rise up 'Yu Yong', step up their legs that were about to be wasted, like a turtle struggling, step by step forward.
After nightfall, many soldiers in the ranks of the Song army were left behind, and they chose to surrender. But the result? The screams from behind me were endless. Surrender is death, so what can they do? You can only escape.
Seeing the torches behind him begin to approach again, and the shouts, the sound of horns, and the most frightening of all brass whistles burst forth, the soldiers in the ranks began to shout.
At this time, the order of the Song army was completely chaotic. Exhaustion and defeat led them to flee all the way to demoralization, and darkness and fear caused them to fall into a deep panic. Now they are a plate of loose sand, and the rabble is praising them. Even Hao Siwen and Tang Bin could only lead dozens of henchmen around them and escort Guan Sheng to leave first.
The rest of the people are waste wood that can't escape, and can't be lowered.
They are a wave of waste that is being utilized, just waiting for the last moment to come. No one tried to form a defensive formation, and those who had that kind of mind would have died on the battlefield long ago. What's more, they don't even have a wall of earthen wall, so in this dark field, how can they defend it?
There was another scream, the sound of the slow escapees being killed.
Hao Siwen licked his thirsty lips, he really didn't look like he had run away. It's too shameful, even if you fight to the death, it's better than being tired to death on the way to escape!
But when I thought about Guan Sheng on the side, all thoughts were dispelled.
Let's run. Even so, he didn't know when this escape would end.
In this way, as soon as they did it, they ran straight into Wang Huanjun, who was rapidly retreating westward. To be exact, it is Wang Huanjun's camp. Hebei and Henan Jiedu made the subordinates' soldiers and horses really worrying, and they couldn't walk after walking for 30 miles in a day and night. And Wang Huan was also worried about being attacked by the Liangshan army, so before the sun set, he found a good place and landed on his feet.
When a large group of defeated soldiers came from outside the camp, after being seen by Lao Wang Huan, he hurriedly called the whole battalion of soldiers, and then sent 3,000 people to line up outside to stand guard, and the defeated soldiers were included in the camp in waves.
Lu Qian looked at it and wanted to sigh. Why didn't Wang Huan want to think about whether there were Liangshan's men and horses among these defeated soldiers?
Fang Jie, who had a ruddy complexion, was now gray-headed, wearing a bloodstained battle robe, holding a simple knife in his hand, hidden among more than a thousand people, and was not conspicuous at all. But when they attacked, countless Song Jun were shocked to see Fang Jie stabbing Wang Huan on the thigh, and the next moment he was captured alive. The heart was full of consternation and unstoppable righteous indignation, and I don't know how many Song Jun were indignant.
"Kill......"
But at this time, there was a shouting of killing outside the camp, but it was Lu Qian who appeared with the right troops. There were more torches than the stars in the sky, and the figures of the buildings that could not distinguish the real from the false in the dark night directly called all the morale of the Song army in the camp to zero.
There are henchmen inside, and there are powerful enemies outside, what will happen to Wang Huan's 10,000 Song troops who have lost their heads, that is imaginable.
So Tang Bin and Hao Siwen had to clamp the seriously injured Guan Sheng, lead more than a dozen henchmen, and go straight to the camp. And they were very lucky to rush out, this is no one in battle, people really have luck to protect themselves.
The next day, in the city of Puzhou. Liu Zhen looked at Guan Sheng, who was seriously injured and fainted, with a sallow face, and listened to the news of Hao Siwen's reply, only willing to have a nightmare, and unwilling to wake up.
Li Congji is finished, Wang Huan is also finished, and they were even arrested on the spot. The 25,000 troops have ended up now, and Hao Siwen and Tang Bin have fled back to Puzhou City to protect Guan Sheng, who was seriously injured, and the rest of the people can be said to be all finished.
The officers and soldiers of the Northwest Road broke their three sharpest spears at once: Li Congji was the most elite, Wang Huan was old and strong, and Guan Sheng was the only general under Liu Zhen who dared to fight in Liangshanbo. Now all three of them are finished. And without these three sharpest spears, the situation of the officers and soldiers of the Northwest Road is also worrying, that is, a tiger without claws and teeth, becoming vulnerable in front of hunters.
What scares Liu Zhen even more is that this defeat seems to be closely related to one of his decisions. It doesn't feel good.
However, at this time, he needs to focus more on the subsequent situation than on the possible punishment given by the imperial court.
Wang Huan and Li Congji also knelt, and Guan Sheng also knelt, which resulted in a great loss of vitality of the Northwest Road officers and troops, which means that since the annihilation of the West Route Army, the most powerful Northwest Road officers and troops have also withdrawn from the historical stage.
The Liangshan army would definitely be able to easily sweep Fan County and Yanggu County and open the Song army's blockade line in the north, but it didn't make much sense. Then Hebei was not Lu Qian's destination. If he wants to 'shock the whole country', Lu Qian can take advantage of the victory to march into Gyeonggi Road at this moment, and guarantee that the world will be shaken.
As a middle-level and high-level thug of the old Zhao family, Liu Zhen's eyes have been able to pay attention to the overall situation a little, especially since he was originally from the Western Army, which makes his movements towards the Western Army more obvious. There was news in the city of Tokyo that Tong Guan was appointed by the emperor as an ambassador to fight thieves, and Liu Zhen was the first to think of the Western Army.
With Wang Huan and Li Congji's fight on the streets, only Zhang Kai's fruits remained in the ten knots, and the whole army has not been wiped out. However, as a 'trump card' at the bottom of the box, the value of 'suppression' in ten knots has been completely lost, and it will no longer make the world 'side-eyed'.
And when the imperial court is not using the trump card of ten knots, as a military general from the Western Army, Liu Zhen knows very well that the last hole card in the hands of the old Zhao family is only the Western Army. But as soon as the Western Army and the Western Xia cried out, how could they retreat when they said they would retreat?
The party members of the year, Bing Feng once pointed directly at Guanzhong. And the land of Kansai is the hometown of hundreds of thousands of Shaanxi soldiers, and when the nest is in danger, can it really be transferred out casually?
Perhaps, it is time for the imperial court to recruit troops again.
Liu Zhen foresaw a great chaos coming. Anyone with a discerning eye will know that to completely eliminate the Liangshan bandits, there are still battles in Tokyo City. Another defeat of the imperial army of Liangshan bandits, the next half a year, but invincible, rampant in Jingdong, Hebei, Huainan ......, and even Gyeonggi Road.
Sure enough, that Lu Qian is not an idiot who has lost his mind, and the army will continue to be stationed in Shuibo there. It was only a few days, and the Liangshan army made a comeback, and thousands of cavalry seemed to see a fat hungry wolf, completely isolating Puzhou City from the outside world.
The atmosphere in Puzhou City suddenly became solemn. Liu Zhen once again felt sad about his fate, the last time was there was no danger, the Liangshan thieves were just "outside the country", and there was no real "siege of the city and land", Liu Zhen and his freshly baked defense of Jingdong and West Road were still doing it firmly for the time being.
But what about this time?
This time, Liang Shanbo will not conquer the city again, and Liu Zhen himself will not believe it.
And although the city of Puzhou is full of rabble, there are more than 20,000 troops, how can they be ignored by Liangshanbo? is like Boss Zhao's famous saying: How can others be allowed to snore on the side of the couch?
Now the army of the Liangshan army has come to attack the city, and Liu Zhen himself does not believe that he can hold Puzhou.
knew that there was today, and he was seriously injured in the battle of that day, so he lost the position of the commander of the Tiger Wing Army, and also had his own foothold. Liu Zhen, who was also a tiger general in the Western Army in his early years, has long since lost his original bravery. Such a dirty idea actually came from the brain of the head of his army, so what kind of signs were in Puzhou City, I don't know.
Liu Qi was angry, and every time he accumulated a belly of anger, he came to talk to Guan Sheng. Tang Bin and Hao Siwen are humble and light-hearted, they only care about guarding Guan Sheng, who is seriously injured, and ignore everything else.
Just when you see that the tiger is not powerful, there will always be no shortage of people who think that it is a sick cat.
Liu Qi came to Guan Sheng again to complain about his grievances on this day, and suddenly heard a report that someone under Tang Bin had slashed and killed a man in the army and was held by a sergeant. The people in the house were shocked.