Chapter 255: The Shaozhou Pit is Filled
In the northeast of Shaozhou City, on the west bank of Wushui, the sound of cannons rumbled, and the smoke and dust rose in the Huanglang camp two or three miles away from the river bank, and a cannonball hit the watchtower of the camp, and the broken wood rose up with the human body.
"Military Gate! The artillery fire on the riverside is too fierce, and it can't rush through at all! A full 2,000 thieves have crossed the river! ”
The people in the camp were neighing and chaotic, and a staff member rushed to the high place of the camp in a hurry to report to the high position who was watching the battle.
"Got it......"
Gao Qi's response was so empty that it seemed to come from the underworld, and he could see it clearly, two thousand thieves swooped down from Huanggang Mountain, and the cannons bombarded their camps on the east bank, and the thieves who crossed the river carried small cannons that could shoot flower shells, fighting against the water, and their own soldiers could not even rush close for two hundred paces.
If he faced this thief army yesterday, he would have laughed out loud, but now, his brows are jumping wildly, and this camp is lost. Yesterday the whole army was broken to the backbone, and now let alone rushing in front of the thief army, as long as he hears the sound of cannons and gunfire, he is so frightened that he can't even hold his sword and gun.
"Military Gate! Bid to kneel and beg to withdraw to Chenzhou! In order to fight again! ”
He was very reluctant to make this decision, which not only meant admitting defeat, but once he retreated, how much could he have left in this army, and he didn't have any bottom in his heart.
But the subordinates have already forced the palace with their lives, and it is difficult to stand up to their high position, and what is more realistic is that the thief army crossing the river is approaching within two miles, and if they don't leave, they can't leave.
"Military Gate! Huangjiadu was attacked! The shipwright and the thief army joined forces and drove the ship away! ”
A group of people rushed into the camp, and the guerrillas led by him shouted at the top of their voices before they got off their horses, and their brains were numb, and their bodies swayed, and they almost fell down instead of being supported by their own soldiers, and a group of generals kneeling on the ground screamed in amazement, and several people sat on the ground.
In order to hurry, after arriving in Chenzhou, he requisitioned civilian boats, all the way down the river, and the boats were gathered in Huangjiadu, Gao Qiwei was very cautious, and specially put 2,000 people to guard, but he did not expect that the boatmen would still collude with Li Xi.
The topography of Shaozhou is very strange, Wushui Zhenshui is the Beijiang River, the flat land is the left and right river banks, the southeast and northwest are all mountains, like a big pit. Huang Langji is at the northwest entrance of this big pit, if you can't return to Hunan from Wushui, then you have to go into the mountain nest in the north, which is not called retreat, but escape.
"Shaozhou! Let's go into Shaozhou and hold on! ”
The subordinates shouted one after another, and each piece of Gao Qi's newly broken heart was divided into two halves again.
Can't go!
His reason was shouting, and he had long felt that Li Xian's layout of separating people from north and south was very strange, and now it seemed that he was deliberately going to drive him to Shaozhou City!?
What can Shaozhou City defend? Nearby is Furong Mountain, condescending to fight artillery, and his remnants can't resist it at all. To the east of Shaozhou is the Beijiang River, and if there is no boat, it will be captured.
By the way, the Cantonese guys in Shaozhou City ...... Then reason turned to the other direction, he was defeated, but if he dragged the remnants into Shaozhou and dragged those guys who were watching from the wall into the water, there would always be someone to share the blame at that time.
"Retreat to Shaozhou City!"
Gao Qiwei finally made a choice, a choice that Li Shi had laid out for him at the beginning.
The commander said "retreat", Huang Langji suddenly blew up the nest, Gao Qiqi was protected by thousands of horses, rushing towards Shaozhou, the infantry behind them ran away with their heads in their hands, the soldiers could not find the officer, the official was too lazy to take care of the soldiers, raised a large piece of dust, and rushed to the southeast.
"You must not go to Shaozhou City, then Li Xian doesn't know what tricks are waiting for you!"
In the camp, Yue Zhongqi supported his crutches and was helped on the horse by his subordinates, he didn't want to stay in the big pit of Shaozhou for a quarter of an hour, so he took his hundreds of remnants and went straight north to drill the mountain nest.
"Ignore those who have been left behind! Just rush towards Shaozhou City! ”
Wu Ya commanded the guards to step forward steadily, chasing after the Qing soldiers like sheepherds, and in front of their two thousand people, 20,000 people fled for their lives, and the situation was extremely spectacular.
On the tower of Shaozhou City Gate, there have been "audiences" seated one after another, and when they saw such a scene, they were all dumbfounded and speechless.
"Let's ...... Let's just watch the fun......"
Guangzhou military standard Wang Hua muttered with straight eyes.
"But whether it's Li Xi or Gao Qi's position, he doesn't think so."
Qu Wansheng said as he looked left and right, and the professional battle viewing group had a plan in a moment, and they all ran wildly and rushed straight to the east dock of the city.
"Guanguanguan...... Close the gates! ”
Bai Daolong, who had always been like an old monk in a steady state, jumped up and beckoned his subordinates to order the door to close.
"How does this make !? That's a soldier of our court! ”
Chen Xun, the prefect of Shaozhou, turned pale, blocked the officers and soldiers outside the city, and let Li Shi slaughter him.
"Close! Close the door! The patrol officers and the people are strong, and those who can work are on the city wall! ”
"You can't let the Hunan soldiers enter our Shaozhou City!"
A similar shout rang out from all sides, and not only the gates were closed, but the crowds also poured onto the city walls, all armed with shotguns, bows and arrows, staring nervously at the officers and soldiers approaching the city walls, as if the enemy was at present.
Chen Xun's eyes are about to erupt out, is his Shaozhou City also reversed!?
"This group of routs has entered the city, what will happen to our Shaozhou City at that time, Chen Fuzun, you can't think of it?"
Zhou Ning had a crying and laughing look on his face, and said words that made Chen Xun thunder.
That's right, Gao Qiwei is going to enter Shaozhou City, and then he will be besieged by Li Xian, then the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Shaozhou will be dragged into the abyss by Gao Qiwei, and the jade will be burned together. Even if Li Xian is not embarrassed by Shaozhou City, this high position comes in, and the rout army defeats the tiger and wolf, Shaozhou City is afraid that it is full of smoke and blood.
But he closed the city gate directly, Chen Xun couldn't imagine the consequences, he was still unwilling, he just felt that he had never faced such a difficult choice in his life.
"Li Xian said, as long as we don't let go of our position and enter the city, he won't embarrass us."
Zhou Ning continued, this was what Li Xi had already explained to him.
"Maybe...... He also hopes that we will put Gao Qi's position in, and when the time comes, I am afraid that the people of Shaozhou will stand with him. ”
Bai Daolong said lightly, he had seen through Li Shibu's game, how they chosen, it was all churning in the palm of Li Shi's hand.
"Ouch......"
Listening to Bai Daolong Zhou Ning blatantly saying something similar to a "thief", Chen Xun didn't dare to answer at all, he was ruthless, bit his mouth, spurted blood, and "fainted" to the ground. That would be nothing to do with him, at least as it seemed.
"How daring...... Poof......"
The high-ranking horse team approached the city wall, and saw the city gate slowly closed, and a large number of soldiers appeared at the head of the city, looking at them as if they were staring at the enemy, only to think that the city of Shaozhou had rebelled. His chest was half flame, half ice, and he couldn't breathe up, choking on a piece of blood foam, and fell from his horse.
When he sobered up, in addition to a circle of personal soldiers, the soldiers under his command would be like the end of the world, and they were showing strange appearances.
Countless people are frantically storming the city gate, if they use this spirit to rush the enemy troops who are still coming down from Furong Mountain behind them, in fact, most of them can escape, but they just don't want to, while bumping, while scolding the Cantonese for not being righteous, falling into the well and something like that.
Thousands of Jiangxi soldiers fled to the northeast, and they planned to cross the river to go home, but there were no boats, and there was Li Shi's fleet on the river chasing after them, and their fate was clear.
Not all the Qing soldiers were bold, and the scattered crowd desperately rushed towards the back, in the direction of Furong Mountain, but in front of the neat line of guards, their role was to show the other Qing soldiers a clear and incomparably what the fate of stubborn resistance would be.
"Cheer up! Pull yourself together! ”
The noisy battlefield made the consciousness of high position return to Qingling, and he seemed to return to the scene forty years ago, when he fought against Wu Sangui's army in Hunan with dozens of people. At that time, I was so desperate, but as long as I gritted my teeth and persevered, the victory must be my own!
"Horse team! Gather the horse team! ”
His horse corps had dispersed, and most of them were circling the walls of Shaozhou, trying to find a gap to enter the city, or find a boat by the river. In this big pit in Shaozhou, the one by the Wushui can allow the horse team to run, and the rest of the place is full of potholes and hollows.
"Rush out! Rush out to the west! ”
It was difficult to pay attention to the closed Shaozhou City, Gao Qi's position beckoned his subordinates to accept the rout, relying on his prestige, he actually gathered a thousand people in a moment, gritted his teeth and cheered up, ready to break through to the west, and the gray and blue figure coming down from Furong Mountain had approached within two or three hundred steps.
A cold swishing sound sounded overhead. Gao Qiwei and everyone subconsciously looked up.
Boom Boom Boom ...... A series of flowering shells exploded in mid-air, and shards of cast iron shot out like a rain of death, spilling on the center of the Qing soldiers, who were still in a neat formation.
"Good ......"
Gao Qiwei muttered a low word, and a stream of blood slipped down the middle of his forehead, and then he fell to his knees, and there was already a corpse lying around him.
The lightning rod helmet rolled off the head, and there was a hole in the middle, and the small piece of hair in the tail of the money rat was also dyed red with blood, and it was difficult to raise its head from a high position, why is the winter sun so dazzling?
Puff puff...... Another flowering bomb exploded, and the fragments spewed out, brushing the entire upper body of the high position into a blur of flesh and blood, hideous and indistinguishable, and stood for a long time, before the lifeless body slowly fell, as if there was still a soul holding the body, as if it did not believe in its fate.
With the high-ranking corpse as the center, the blood and fire vortex is constantly converging, and the chaotic shouts of ten thousand people make everyone in Shaozhou City close their eyes and cover their ears, and they can't believe that this terrifying scene is also created by themselves.
Looking at the flesh-and-blood battlefield under Shaozhou City, Li Xian was speechless, he still couldn't believe it, this battle ended like this? The anxiety in advance and the sacrifice of the battle were all impacting his confidence.
The Qing soldiers who attacked Huanggang Mountain last night have found out that it was actually Yue Zhongqi, through him, Li Xi actually made a move with Nian Qianyao, and the result was that both were defeated, no, Li Xi even thought that he was defeated, he lost a proud disciple who had worked hard to teach, and lost a close brother.
When this operation called "filling the pit" was launched today, Li Xian was extremely worried, for fear that he would still have something to do, and if he was in the same situation as last night, he would lose everything, and when he gave the order, his subordinates could see it clearly.
Fortunately, the confident shouts of his subordinates when they received the order were perfectly integrated with the current battle situation, and the 30,000 troops who were in his position were completely buried by him, the big pit in Shaozhou.
(To be continued)