Chapter 128: The Great Melee (1)
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Wu Xueli brought a total of 80,000 horses, of which 5,000 people from Wang Yuncheng's department were already dead and fled; There are 50,000 horses in Hukou, who are fighting with Zhang Xianzhong.
There are only more than 20,000 people left in Yuanzhou City, and at this moment, 60,000 or 70,000 people in Yuanzhou City are fighting for their lives under the leadership of Huang Lianshan under the leadership of Huang Lianshan;
Even a sixty-year-old woman and a five or six-year-old child smashed the Left Army with stones, which shows that the Left Army has been a disaster in the city these days, and the people are clearly forced to live no longer to have such a strong resistance.
Immediately after the Jiangxi general soldier Xu Kaijin was injured under the arrows of the left army, and the nine thousand Jiangxi soldiers also fought with the left army, and the city of Yuanzhou was completely out of control, with bloody killings everywhere and desperate crowds everywhere;
It would be good if the 1,000 men and horses around Lu Daqi could barely hold the mansion, and they were powerless to stop the killing in the city.
When Lu Daqi led the army to Yuanzhou, there were still 50,000 or 60,000 people who were responsible for escorting grain and grass, and after the chaos, these tens of thousands of people were inevitably affected;
All of a sudden, there were more than 100,000 people fighting and fleeing in Yuanzhou City, and the chaos could not be described in words.
When Su Jin arrived at Yuanzhou with more than 100 cavalry, the two gates of the north and south of Yuanzhou had been opened, and countless people and people fled from the city, scattered all over the mountains;
And many left troops also rushed out of the city, and the fighting spread to the outside of the city, and there were cries, curses, shouts, and killings everywhere, making the outside of Yuanzhou City like a ghost domain.
The iron hooves of the wild rush are as dense as raindrops, the roaring sound shakes the mountains, and the people who fled to the outside of the city all run away, and when they see the big banner of the word "Qin" in red letters on a black background, the people all over the mountains suddenly quieted, and then they all cried loudly, crying hoarsely, and their liver and intestines were broken;
The people of Yuanzhou have endured too much suffering this time. Only in the few days when Qin Mu was stationed in Yuanzhou, they could sleep with peace of mind, and they didn't have to worry about the door being kicked open suddenly, the wife and daughter suddenly being dragged to ravage, and the children suddenly being killed.
At this moment, seeing this banner of the word "Qin", countless people are like children who have been wronged and found their parents and support. Everyone screamed involuntarily.
"Lord Qin is back"
"Lord Qin's men and horses are back, we are saved."
"Lord Qin, why did you come back!"
"Woo woo"
What I saw in my eyes were countless tearful faces, and what I heard in my ears were countless voices calling for "Lord Qin", and Su Jin and the others, who were galloping on horseback, couldn't help but burst into tears, and their hearts were full of inexplicable anger.
"Kill!" An angry roar erupted from his throat, and Su Jin swept away with the galloping iron horsemen, cutting down the corpses of the left troops who went out of the city to chase and kill the people, and trampled them into flesh. Only in this way can they vent the surging anger in their hearts.
One hundred iron cavalry divided and combined, and strangled the left army outside the city to their heart's content, and it was a chaotic battle inside and outside the city. The left army did not have any formation to speak of, and under the rush of Su Jin, they could only flee for their lives;
The angry people of Yuanzhou turned around and knocked with wooden sticks. Stone, bite with teeth, use all available means. Killing the left army one by one, dividing their corpses, biting their flesh, and breaking their bones is not so difficult to vent the deep hatred they have accumulated.
Su Jin didn't dare to enter the city, because once he lost the advantage of speed, his more than 100 people would be drowned in the waves of chaos in the city, but outside the open city, his more than 100 cavalry could be said to be cleaving the waves and invincible, and no one could stop them at all;
Su Jin tried to contact Huang Lianshan in the inner city, but the news of their arrival flew in like wings, and the people who heard the news continued to pour out, making the city gate congested, and trampling on each other was not a few, Su Jin couldn't do it even if he wanted to send people in.
At this time, Qin Mu and his army finally arrived, and he didn't have time to take a breath, he immediately asked the soldiers to shout in unison, so that the people who had escaped from the city gathered together and moved in the direction of Wanzai.
At this time, the four gates of Yuanzhou have been opened, in addition to the ordinary people who escaped, there are also many left troops and Jiangxi soldiers who Xu Kaijin, there are people inside and outside the city, all bleeding, all crying, the scene is very chaotic, and the sound of the wave comes out for more than ten miles.
Among the crowd who escaped from the north gate, there was a person who hurried to Qin Mu's handsome banner, his name was Huang Erbao, a few days ago Qin Mu sent him and Li Tongliang and other fifty people to enter Yuanzhou City among the captives, relying on them to set fire to the city and instigate it, so that they could easily take Yuanzhou City from Gao Ze's hands.
When Qin Mu withdrew from Yuanzhou City, he still let them hide in the city as an internal response, so as to control every move in the city, at this time Huang Erbao hurriedly rushed to Qin Mu's handsome banner and reported to Qin Mu: "My lord, hurry, quickly enter the city, we pulled up thousands of people to capture a military camp of the left army, which has more than 5,000 war horses, Shi Dasheng, the general of the left army, is desperately fighting back, my lord, quickly kill in, seize the horse"
Huang Erbao said that he was out of breath when he said that he was already out of breath. There is a shortage of horses in the south, and war horses are very precious, since there is a chance to take them, Qin Mu is absolutely unwilling to give up. At this time, there was no time for him to think about it, because Wu Xueli might give up the tiger's mouth at any time, and Zhang Xianzhong's army might follow at any time.
"Order Su Jin, let him control the north gate no matter what, and closely monitor the situation in the tiger's mouth."
"Yes."
"Liu Meng Huo Sheng, open the way ahead, kill in, quickly!"
Wu Shouli's 80,000 army brought more than 6,000 war horses, and the defense of the tiger's mouth was to build fortifications according to the mountains, and the war horses were not needed for a while, so most of the war horses were left in Yuanzhou City.
Qin Mu didn't expect that Li Tongliang and the others who were hiding in the city would actually control most of the war horses.
At this time, it is actually very dangerous to enter the city, not to mention the chaos in the city, and it can be expected that there will be great changes in the tiger's mouth, but it is difficult to determine when the changes will start and what will become;
In case Wu Xueli's 50,000 army collapsed, and Zhang Xianzhong's 200,000 army rushed in, Qin Mu's 1,000 men and horses were very likely to be trapped and killed in the city;
Even so, for the sake of more than 5,000 war horses, Qin Mu still decided to fight. A thousand men and horses formed a tight formation, with shields as walls, and rushed into the north gate;
As soon as the people in the city saw his banner with the word "Qin", they all cried loudly, and they all made way for this army that could bring them hope for life, and Qin Mu led the army to rush forward. On the one hand, the soldiers shouted that the people of the city should hurry out of the city;
There are a lot of chaotic soldiers on the street, including Jiangxi soldiers and left troops, who are still fighting in chaos, like a pot of porridge
Wu Xueli of Laohukou received a report at first, saying that when there was a civil unrest in Yuanzhou, he didn't care too much, but he still sent Feng Xi to bring 10,000 horses. was about to return to Yuanzhou to suppress the civil unrest, but on the way back to the city, he was ambushed by the rebels.
This time, Zhang Xianzhong sent a small group of men and horses that infiltrated over, the total number was not 30,000 as Qin Mu predicted, but a full 50,000, divided into thousands of small units, infiltrated like an ant colony, these rebels only brought a few days of dry food in addition to weapons; If the officers and soldiers deal with it properly. First come to a strong wall and clear the wilderness, and then send elite soldiers to chase and kill, these tens of thousands of horses will starve to death, but civil strife broke out in Yuanzhou City at this time. Officers and soldiers are killing each other, where is there anyone who cares about these infiltrated rebels?
Hu Yansan took the opportunity to gather more than 3,000 people and was about to rush to the tiger's mouth to attack Wu Xueli from behind, but he encountered 10,000 left troops who rushed back to Yuanzhou. Hu Yansan hurriedly set up an ambush on Bashupo, which was only eight miles away from Yuanzhou City;
Feng Xi 10,000 horses never dreamed that there would be an ambush here, so they crashed into it and were stunned in an instant. The 10,000-strong army was in disarray, and hundreds of people were killed and wounded just by trampling on each other.
Bashupo was only a few miles away from the tiger's mouth, and Wu Xueli, who received the news, was shocked, and hurriedly sent 5,000 men and horses to reinforce Feng Xi, which gradually stabilized his position.
"General Feng, Marshal Wu ordered you to counterattack immediately and defeat the enemy at Bashupo as soon as possible, otherwise you will not be spared."
Wu Xueli's herald put down the cruel words, and Feng Xi, who had just stabilized his position, couldn't even breathe, and immediately organized men and horses to launch a counterattack against Hu Yansan;
At present, their 50,000 troops are sandwiched between the tiger's mouth and the Bashupo, if they can't quickly seize the Bashupo, the army's morale will be weakened, and under Zhang Xianzhong's attack regardless of casualties, the tiger's mouth may be captured at any time. At that time, there was a blockade in front and a pursuer in the back, and their 50,000-strong army had only one way to die.
Feng Xi didn't want to die, so he also took out the strength to eat, personally went to the front army to supervise the battle, and organized men and horses to launch a fierce counterattack against Hu Yansan.
Although Hu Yansan occupies a favorable position, his troops are several times less, and in addition, they are all infiltrated by small groups of people and horses who have been hurriedly assembled, and they are unfamiliar with each other, and the orders are not smoothly issued, and the situation becomes precarious if they hold on to less than a pillar of incense.
Fortunately, there were a lot of rebels infiltrated, Hu Yansan sent people to gather a small group of people, and constantly rushed to Bashuling to participate in the battle, every time reinforcements arrived, even if there were only 50 or 100 people, it could also make the rebels in Bashupo get a lot of encouragement.
"Hold on, brothers, hold on, our reinforcements are coming in a steady stream, we have infiltrated a total of 50,000 horses, all of them are rushing in, as long as we hold on for a while, the victory will be ours" Hu Yan's 31st Company commanded the resistance, while loudly boosting morale.
At the foot of the eight-tree slope, more than 10,000 left troops continued to charge up like ants, gunshots, explosions, bowstrings, intertwined like a tide, soldiers on both sides fell one by one, corpses soon covered the slope, the smell of blood filled the air, and people were disgusted;
The outcome of this battle is a matter of life and death for both sides, so both sides have risked their lives, even if the corpses are all over the field, they can only grit their teeth and fight
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PS: Because of a sister paper, I've been listening to Matthew very much for many years. Lian En's "Bristhenon", do not hide from you, I only scored 18 points in English when I was in the middle school exam, or by virtue of blinding those multiple choice questions to get out of it, and then English has been very poor, now listening to English songs, most of them do not know the meaning of the lyrics, but they will never go to Du Niang to see the Chinese translation, just because I don't know the meaning of the lyrics, when listening to it, you can let your thoughts spread and fly at will, the music itself will bring me an incomparably wonderful imagination I can even imagine that the fan list is full of alliance masters, the book review area is red all the way, and the moon ticket is full of moon tickets to me, The melancholy of waking up with nothing
(To be continued......)