Chapter 0042 - Halfway Robbery and Killing (Third Update)
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"General Gao, I plan to let the army rest on the spot for a while, and then hurry away. I don't know what you think? Zhang Qun asked.
Gao Xiang looked at the army behind him, nodded and said, "It's okay." ”
Although his army did not launch a fierce attack on Quanzhou last night according to Zhang Qun's request, nor did he participate in the bloody battle in the early hours of this morning, whether it was the confrontation with Li Yi's iron cavalry in the back, or the subsequent pursuit of Zhang Qun by leading the army, it was not an easy thing, and now he was extremely tired. Anyway, Li Yi's army didn't chase after him, so it's good to take a break.
Because it was a temporary rest, neither Zhang Qun nor Gao Xiang ordered them to set up camp.
In fact, both armies were evacuated in a hurry, carrying no baggage at all, and it was impossible to set up camp.
When the order was handed down, more than 10,000 horses rejoiced. Especially Zhang Qun's subordinates, after a night of fierce fighting, coupled with this morning's desperate escape, they are now extremely exhausted. Given the order to rest on the spot, the soldiers fell asleep.
Soldiers can fall asleep upside down, and people with status like Zhang Qun will naturally not be like this, not to mention that Zhang Qun is a very particular person. Although he was also very tired, he asked his soldiers to set up a tent for him to rest.
While the soldiers were busy, Zhang Qun also looked around, only to see that the trees were overgrown, the hills were undulating, and he was laughing on his back.
The cronies around him felt very strange, and asked one after another, "Why is the military advisor laughing?" ”
Zhang Qun said with a smile: "I don't laugh at others, I just laugh at Li Yi's yellow-mouthed child and have no plan." Ladies and gentlemen, this place is located at the junction of two counties, more than 50 miles away from Quanzhou City, our army marched here, it must be a lack of people and horses. And the hills here are undulating, which is very conducive to Tibetan soldiers. If I use my troops, and ambush an army here in advance, what else can I deal with but to tie my hands? ”
Before the words fell, the drums in the hills on both sides of the official road sounded, and the flames rose into the sky, startling Zhang Qun and almost falling from his horse. An iron cavalry came out of the thorn and shouted: "I, Guan Yu, have been waiting here for a long time on the orders of the lord's general!" ”
A thousand iron horsemen came out, headed by Guan Yu, carrying the green dragon knife, straddle the yellow horse, and came majestically and majestically.
When the Yellow Turban Army saw it, they were terrified and looked at each other.
Zhang Qun gritted his teeth and said: "Now that you are here, you have to fight to the death!" ”
The generals were full of bitterness and were silent. At this moment, they are all sore, and they don't even have the strength to hold weapons, how can they fight?
These generals are like this, not to mention the minions below. Especially the thousands of people under Zhang Qun's command, one by one at the moment, they couldn't get up.
Seeing that all the generals looked weak and powerless, the soldiers collapsed to the ground one by one, unable to move, Zhang Qun's face was black like the bottom of a pot, and he said in a deep voice: "What the hell is going on?" ”
None of the generals spoke, Zhang Feng looked at it, and said hesitantly: "Zizhong, it seems that the army should be poisoned." ”
Zhang Qun was stunned for a moment and asked, "Poisoning?" How can it be? ”
Zhang Feng thought for a while and said, "It should be that Li Yi was poisoned in the river, and many brothers went to the river to drink water just now......
Before the words fell, I heard a commotion next to me, and someone shouted: "Falling into the water, falling into the water!" ”
It turned out that there was a soldier who was drinking water by the Gu River, and after discovering that Guan Yu was leading the iron cavalry to attack, he got up in a hurry, but felt dizzy for a while, and then fell to the ground. There were even some who were unlucky and fell directly into the river.
Seeing that many people had fallen by the river, Zhang Qun's suspicion was reduced again, and it seemed that the river water had really been poisoned.
At this moment, Gao Xiang rushed over and said loudly: "The military division is about to leave this place, we have been tricked, and many soldiers have been poisoned." ”
Hearing Gao Xiang say the same, Zhang Qun believed it, it seemed that he had really fallen for the enemy's tricks, and most of the soldiers were poisoned.
"Li Yi'er deceived me too much!" Zhang Qun shouted angrily.
Zhang Feng persuaded: "Zizhong, now is not the time to be angry, let's quickly follow General Gao to fight out of the encirclement, I am too late!" ”
Zhang Qun had no choice but to get on the horse, and under the escort of Gao Xiang and others, he broke through in the direction of Yongnu.
Guan Yu only has 1,000 iron cavalry under his command, but there are more than 10,000 Yellow Turban Army here, although most of the Yellow Turban Army is paralyzed on the ground and unable to move, but there are also 3,000 or 4,000 people who can get up to fight. These people were lined up in a scattered formation, although they were unable to block the impact of Guan Yubu's iron cavalry, but if they wanted to block it for a while, they could still do it.
Under the obstruction of these Yellow Turban Army, Gao Xiang and the others finally fled from this place before Guan Yu broke through the Yellow Turban Army's formation, and ran for their lives in the direction of Yongnu. They only hoped that the remaining soldiers would be able to hold off the enemy for a while longer, buying them more time.
It's just that this is destined to be an extravagant hope, Guan Yu led a thousand iron cavalry, and after cutting through the enemy formation, he didn't care about the Yellow Turban soldiers who collapsed on the ground, but just followed the fleeing Zhang Qun and his party to chase and kill.
After escaping ten miles away, seeing that Guan Yu had caught up again, Gao Xiang had no choice but to turn back and block the enemy. It's just that where he is Guan Yu's opponent, in less than three rounds, he was slashed by Guan Yu with a knife.
However, being stopped by Gao Xiang like this, Zhang Qun fled far away.
Thinking of his eldest brother's orders, Guan Yu stopped chasing, and ordered his soldiers to escort the prisoners and return with the heads of the enemy soldiers who died in the chaos.
When he arrived at the ambush site, Guan Yu found that those Yellow Turban soldiers were still in place, and he couldn't help but be dumbfounded.
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Outside Quanzhou, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians were busy cleaning up the battlefield and burning the bodies of the soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army on the spot, while the bodies of the soldiers who died in the battle were also identified and properly disposed of.
The battle was fought very fiercely, with no less than 30,000 dead on both sides. And now it's early summer, the weather has begun to get hot, so many corpses, if not properly disposed of, there will definitely be a great plague, this is definitely a more terrible disaster than the great war that has just passed.
As the chief general, Li Pengfei will certainly not be involved in the matter of identifying the corpses, and he has more important matters to deal with urgently.
In the Chinese military tent, Yue Fei fell to the ground and cried: "Lord, Yue Fei has a heavy trust, and he almost caused the city to be lost, please punish the lord." ”
Li Pengfei hurriedly stepped forward to help Yue Fei and comforted: "Pengju, please get up, this is not your fault." In fact, you've done more than I expected. ”
Indeed, Yue Fei was able to stop Zhang Qun for nearly ten days, which was beyond Li Pengfei's expectations. After systematically judging the combat strength of the Yellow Turban Army, Li Pengfei even believed that it would be difficult for Yue Fei to hold Quanzhou for more than five days. Although Sun Tzu's Art of War says that the method of using soldiers, ten will encircle it, five will attack it, and the multiple will divide it, the enemy can fight, the few can escape, and if not, it can be avoided, but this is only a general situation, and the city of Quanzhou is facing an extraordinary situation.
It is true that the strength of the Yellow Turban Army seems to be only a little more than twice the strength of the troops in Quanzhou, but the combat strength of the army is not only based on the number of people, but also on its training, equipment level, ability to command the army and other factors. In this battle, in addition to the 2,000 county soldiers who did not have much training, the defenders were 20,000 soldiers of the Yellow Turban Army who had just been recruited, which could be described as a rabble. There is no comparison with the 50,000 elites brought by Zhang Qun.
Under such circumstances, Li Pengfei was not surprised that the two sides had a battle loss ratio of one to one or even higher, so he did not expect Yue Fei to be able to hold Quanzhou for too long.
However, Yue Fei's command ability was much greater than Li Pengfei expected, and he not only led such a group of rabble to hold on to Quanzhou City for ten days, but also fought a one-to-two battle loss ratio with the Yellow Turban Army.
It was precisely because of this that Li Pengfei was given enough time to find a suitable fighter plane, and finally launched a surprise attack at the moment when the Yellow Turban Army was extremely exhausted, winning with one blow and achieving a brilliant victory.
It can be said that the first credit for such a huge victory in this battle is Yue Fei.
The rest of the generals also spoke one after another, and Yue Fei had done his best. Even Zhang Fei, who has always been at odds with Yue Fei, expressed his approval for the first time, but this guy's mouth was as poisonous as ever: "Little white face, don't cry like a woman there." You were able to lead a group of rabble, hold Quanzhou for ten days, and inflict huge losses on the Yellow Turban Thieves, I am ashamed that I am not as good as ......"
Zhang Fei wanted to continue, but Li Pengfei glared at him, so he had to stop talking.
And Yue Fei was said by Zhang Fei, but he quieted down.