Chapter 267: Recovering Chaisang
As soon as the enemy battalion owner died, the soldiers under his command were leaderless, and in the face of the powerful offensive of the Jin army, hundreds of Zhao soldiers collapsed instantly, they threw away their weapons and armor, ran down the city wall, and desperately fled backwards.
Tie Niu and Zhao Wu led some of their soldiers to chase after the fleeing enemy, while Wang San led his soldiers to quickly run to the city gate and open the city gate.
With the sound of 'click', the city gate of the basin pass was opened, and tens of thousands of Jin troops entered the city gate of the basin pass one after another.
Hua'an and Li Yang entered the customs side by side, riding horses on the avenue in the pass.
"General Hua, the main force of the enemy army has really withdrawn, it must have gone to Chaisang." Li Yang looked at the empty basin pass and said affirmatively.
Hua An nodded slightly, and said: "The enemy's withdrawal is naturally to go to Chaisang, but outside Chaisang City is General Yu Yi's 50,000 horses, does the enemy want to concentrate all the main forces and fight with General Yu Yi outside Chaisang City." ”
"It's very likely, the enemy's army is 40,000 tall, only 10,000 less than General Yu Yi, it seems that there will be a big battle under Chaisang City! We should immediately march in and reinforce Chaisang. Li Yang's speculation coincides with Hua'an.
Hua An nodded slightly, looked at the generals behind him, and said loudly: "The wounded soldiers and the baggage battalion are all left, and the rest of the men and horses will follow me to kill Chaisang and set off." After speaking, he rode his horse and took the lead in the direction of Chaisang City.
Li Yang and his 5,000 soldiers and horses reinforce Chaisang together with Hua'an.
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In the city of Chaisang, except for the west and south walls, each defended by 500 soldiers, the rest of the soldiers and horses were quietly assembled at the ferry port in the north.
At this time, more than a dozen warships and 30 small wooden boats responsible for leading away the Jin army's naval division, lit torches, and rushed to the direction of the Jin army's naval division's fortification with great fanfare, with the momentum of a decisive battle with the Jin army's naval division.
Seeing that the naval division of the Jin army was coming with great fanfare, the naval division of the Jin army naturally immediately mobilized all the warships to meet the Zhao army, and the two sides started a battle on the river.
The Zhao State Naval Division was naturally defeated, and it fled downstream not long after the battle, while the Jin Army's naval division had high morale and pursued it relentlessly.
"General, the Admiral is back." Not long after the Jin army's sailors were led away, Zhang Raccoon, who was guarding the basin pass, led the main force into Chaisang City.
"General Zhang, the Jin Army's naval division has been diverted, let your subordinates prepare immediately, and the army will cross the river immediately." Kui An didn't have time to say hello, and directly gave the order.
When Zhang Raccoon heard the order, he immediately ordered his soldiers to collect the planks and tree trunks that had been prepared, while he himself boarded a small wooden boat with Kui An.
"Cross the river, and the army will cross the river immediately." Kui An ordered loudly, and the small wooden boat he was in was the first to sail to the other side of the river.
Among the 40,000 troops, the officers above the battalion commander and Kui'an's personal guards all took small wooden boats, while the remaining soldiers all held a piece of wood and swam to the opposite bank by moonlight.
Due to the limited area of the ferry, the 40,000 horses of the Zhao army could only be launched in batches, and they jumped down the icy river in turn with a team of 100 people.
Half an hour later, the generals of the Zhao army in small wooden boats had already reached the opposite bank, and the soldiers of the Zhao army swimming across the river with wooden boats were only halfway there.
In the moonlight, tens of thousands of Zhao soldiers swam in a line towards the north bank of the river, looking like a herd of migrating wildebeest on the African savannah.
Two hours later, half of the main army of Zhao had landed on the land of Jiangbei, and only a few people and horses were still staying at the ferry port of Chaisang City, waiting to be launched.
At this time, more than 30,000 men and horses of Hua'an's Northern Expeditionary Army and Li Yang's Jingzhou Army have been killed, because there is a mountain range between the east gate and the south gate of Chaisang City, Yu Yi's army cannot appear outside the east gate at all, the only threat to the east gate comes from the direction of the basin pass, and Kui An did not expect the Northern Expeditionary Army to capture the basin pass so quickly, therefore, the east gate is not tightly fortified, only dozens of soldiers symbolically guard the city gate.
These dozens of soldiers of the Zhao State were stunned when they saw the main force of the Jin army coming to kill under black pressure, and they couldn't care about sticking to their posts, so they threw away their weapons and armor and ran away.
There was a trace of 'fish belly white' in the east, and the sky was about to dawn, Hua An looked at the soldiers of Zhao Guo who were fleeing for their lives in a panic on the city wall in front of him, and frowned deeply.
He originally expected that Kui'an's main force transferred back to Penkou Pass was to fight a decisive battle with the Yuyi army on the periphery of Chaisang City, but at this time, the surroundings of Chaisang City were quiet, there was no movement of the bloody battle between the two armies, and the east gate was almost not defended, which was too strange.
"General Hua, there seems to be no defense at the east gate in front of you, and there is no movement of battle in the west and south directions, Kui'an's 40,000 horses, is it possible that the world has evaporated." Li Yang stroked his beard and said suspiciously.
"The world evaporates." Hua'an was stunned, and thought about it carefully, there are 50,000 horses in the west and south directions, and there is his own army outside the east gate, and the main force of Kui'an, no matter which direction he breaks through, it is impossible not to cause a bloody battle.
"Lord Li, Kui'an's main force, will they have already crossed the river and gone north." Hua An suddenly said.
Li Yang was stunned when he heard this, thought for a moment, and said, "It's not that there is no such possibility, you can find out when you go into the city." ”
At this time, the soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army, who set up a ladder and ran to the city wall, had already opened the east gate of Chaisang City, and Hua An and Li Yang led their subordinates to ride horses into the city.
After entering the city, they were greeted by dilapidated houses and corpses all over the ground, and the hearts of the soldiers were suddenly filled with infinite sadness and anger.
"Kui'an, this rabbit cub, really crossed the river and ran away." Li Yang looked at the dilapidated house and sighed.
Hua An nodded and said, "The north of the city is the ferry, go over and take a look." After speaking, he led his subordinates and rode towards the ferry north of Chaisang City, and Li Yang led his subordinates to follow.
By the time Hua'an and Li Yang's men and horses arrived at the ferry, most of Kui'an's 40,000 troops had already landed on the land of Jiangbei, and there were less than 2,000 men and horses still staying at the ferry, and there were still nearly 10,000 soldiers on the river.
"Rabbit cub, sure enough, he crossed the river and ran away." Hua An scolded loudly and ordered: "Soldiers, kill this group of inhuman brutes, rush." ”
"The warriors of the Jingzhou Army, kill all the enemies and avenge the people of their hometown." Li Yang drew his sword and loudly boosted morale.
"Kill ......" The Northern Expeditionary Army and the Jingzhou Army under Li Yang shouted and killed the ferry.
Zhao Guo's soldiers, who were waiting to be launched at the ferry, turned around and suddenly saw the Jin army's black pressure killing, and were immediately dumbfounded.
Although it was a backwater battle, Zhao Guo's soldiers were too few, and there were no generals to command, so it was completely scattered, and it collapsed not long after the confrontation with the Jin army.
The scattered soldiers of the Zhao State became lambs to be slaughtered, and one by one they fell under the angry swords and guns of the Jin army, and the few soldiers who jumped into the river could not escape the fate of being shot.