Chapter 376: Capture the city
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The iron spear Wang Yanzhang jumped on the horse with his spear and rushed into the formation, staring at the divine light and shaking his majesty. From afar, he went straight to the white horse silver spear Gao Si and then shouted: "That little white face left to stay, and I will meet for a while!" ”
Liu Xun also drove in unison, holding a long lance and riding a horse straight over.
In the midst of the chaos, the white horse and silver spear saw most of the enemy coming, and it was from the direction when he came before, and it was the appearance after the battle, and he knew in his heart that his father was missing. Shocked in his heart, the Yanzhou White Horse Cavalry was even more panicked at this time. Previously, it was all with a momentum that he was undefeated against 10,000 people. But now the people are tired and sleepy, and the water and rice have not entered after fighting for a long time, and the horses are all poorly equipped. At this time, the arrival of the Zhendong Army made everyone's hearts surge with a cool breath, and they were already panicked, and they were bitter in their hearts.
Gao Siji knew that it was difficult to hold on at this time, so he was going to lead his troops to fight a bloody way, but who knew that in the distant enemy formation, suddenly two horsemen rushed straight to kill, and one of the black young men actually named the battle. I couldn't help but be angry in my heart, "How dare you bully each other like this!" ”
Gao Siji saw that the morale of the army was low, and he was angry and prepared to take these two, who were only fifteen or sixteen years old, but wore the armor of a captain, to take them down, so as to boost morale and fight their way out of the encirclement. Immediately shot down a Liaonan cavalryman beside him. shouted: "A certain white horse and silver spear in Feizhou are thinking about the succession, and the person who comes is rampant!" Before he could say anything, he had already rushed over with a white horse under his crotch.
Iron spear Wang Yanzhang shouted to Liu Xun next to him: "Brother Liu, let me deal with this little white face!" "Say it. He took off another gun. One shot in one hand. Straight to Gao Siji.
Generally, most of the generals use lances, and the rest use guns and spears less. Even if you use a gun, you mostly take the light route, and you can pick and so on. But Wang Yanzhang is an anomaly, not to mention the iron gun, there is even a unique skill, that is, he can fight with two guns. Two iron guns in hand. But it danced like two iron whips.
The iron spear Wang Yanzhang faced the white horse and silver spear Gao Siji, and the two caught each other and tore them apart. Although Gao Siji is only twenty years, the Gao family is a wealthy family in Yanzhou, a border general for generations, and is known as the Gao family general in Yanzhou. Gao Siji has been practicing martial arts and military formation tactics since he was a child, and he has been excellent since he was a child. Li Maoxun raised troops to attack Youzhou, and Gao Siji led the Gao family to go out with his father, and fought a beautiful battle for the first time. Later, Li Ke used soldiers and horses to attack the Ningwu army in Yanzhou, and Gao Siji performed extremely well in that battle and officially won the title of a white horse silver flower.
And Wang Yanzhang's formation is just the first formation. But he was not afraid of his opponents. Li Jing favored and valued him, and not only recruited him, a homeless man who was about to starve to death, as a soldier. and promoted him to the rank of personal guard. Wang Yanzhang wants to make military achievements on the battlefield, which is not only a gift to Li Jing, but also a proof to those subordinates who have not been convinced of him. Just now, he had already seen the bravery of this white-robed general, and at this time he was bent on taking advantage of him.
Two young generals, three spears, chess opponents, will meet good talents, and it is difficult to distinguish between killing.
On the other side, after Liu Xun gave up the opportunity to fight Gao Siji to Wang Yanzhang, he directly faced Gao Siji's two brothers, Gao Sixiang and Gao Mian. Although these two are not as famous as Gao Siji, they are not much different in terms of bravery. Liu Xun directly picked two of them, and his exquisite lance dance was like a dragon going to sea, and it was like a silver snake dancing.
Li Jing watched the battle under the handsome flag, and after seeing the three generals of the other side fighting for a long time, he couldn't help but be a little surprised that the two most powerful young generals under his command were actually inseparable. This Liu Xun and Wang Yanzhang can be described as five generations of famous generals, especially this Wang Yanzhang's innate bravery, the force is still above Liu Xun, and he is smart. When I was first recruited, I didn't know how to ride a horse, but now I can charge on horseback.
"Who is the one who fights with the king's iron spear?" Li Jing looked around at the generals and asked.
Li Wei of the Flying Eagle Battalion replied: "This person should be the son of Gao Shunli, the general of Youzhou Town, this time the vanguard of the former army made Gao Siji, with extraordinary martial arts, not long ago he followed Gao Shunli to repel Li Keyong's attack on the Ningwu Army, and was nicknamed the White Horse Silver Spear. The other two should be his two brothers. One is his brother Gao Sishen, and the other is Gao Mian, the son of his uncle Gao Zhongwu. ”
Hearing the words white horse and silver gun, Li Jing couldn't help but be surprised. Gao Siji, a white horse silver gun, was evaluated as the first gun of the five generations in later generations. Not only is his martial arts extremely high, but what makes him remember even more is that Gao Siji's family is a Gao family general, and perhaps the Gao family general is not very famous now. But the Gao family runs through the entire five generations, and there are generals from generation to generation. Especially when it came to Gao Siji's great-grandson, Gao Qiong, the founding general of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The Gao family has five generations of seven kings, more than 30 people in seven generations as generals, and there is also a queen known as "Female Zhongyao Shun" in history. In the entire Northern Song Dynasty, the Gao family reached its peak, and the Gao family generals were on par with the Yang family generals and the Zhe family generals.
Li Jing couldn't help but have the intention of subduing the Gao family at this time, and he liked the courage of the three Gao brothers even more. They were immediately ordered to be fenced off and not to let go of arrows.
Wang Yanzhang and Liu Xun played against the three brothers of the Gao family, and the fight was inseparable. Gao Siji's marksmanship is extremely powerful, and the shadow of the gun is heavy, like plum blossoms. But Wang Yanzhang's iron spear was powerful, and every blow was like an iron hammer.
After more than 100 rounds, Gao Siji's people were sleepy and tired, and gradually became a little overwhelmed, Wang Yanzhang's two iron guns were lightweight, and they seemed to be holding two wooden sticks in their hands, but they could be smashed on the bright silver guns, but they made Gao Siji's mouth numb again and again.
In the end, he couldn't support the white horse, knelt down with his front hooves, and fell down, Gao Siji hurriedly picked up the saddle and rolled off the horse to avoid being pressed by the war horse. Wang Yanzhang chased after him on horseback, but he was not proficient enough to ride on the horse, so he simply jumped off the horse and fought on foot.
The two fought for dozens of rounds, and by this time Li Jing's soldiers and horses had already besieged most of those white-horse cavalry.
The rest had to flee, but the cavalry and horses of the Zhendong Army were physically strong, and they didn't run far, and they were all surrounded again.
At this time, Lin Wu, who was in charge of cleaning the battlefield by the river, arrived, and he sent a surprise to Li Jing. The brothers Gao Shunli and Gao Zhongwu were both swept downstream by the river and could not escape and were taken captive. Li Jing was overjoyed, and hurriedly pulled the two to the front of the battle, ordered Wang Yanzhang and others to stop fighting, and let Gao Siji's brothers and their subordinate cavalry surrender.
Gao Siji's brothers and others were already under siege, and they expected that they would not be able to escape, but they saw their father and uncle being taken prisoner again, and finally had no choice but to put down their weapons and surrender.
Seeing that the Gao family general and the white horse cavalry had surrendered, Li Jing personally untied Gao Shunli and Gao Zhongwu's brothers, and pulled Gao Siji to his side and looked carefully. Sure enough, it is worthy of a white horse and a silver gun, and the whole person is a jade-faced Langjun and a handsome young man.
The Gao family will surrender, and there will be less than a thousand people in Gu'an City without a fight. Li Jing easily captured Gu'an.
The five generals of the Gao family, Gao Shunli and Li Jing were all given the posts of soldiers and horses, and the three brothers of Gao Siji were all given the same as Wang Yanzhang and were given the ten generals of the battalion.
The former army brought by the Gao family was originally 10,000 men, 7,000 infantry troops, and 3,000 horse troops. However, at this time, more than 4,000 infantry were killed and seriously wounded, and more than 2,000 were surrendered and captured. The cavalry had 3,000 men and horses, and because they surrendered after the last resort, the losses were not large, but they were just tired of men and horses, and there were still nearly 2,000 men and horses.
Li Jing did not directly disperse the more than 4,000 troops, but reorganized the two officer guard battalions of the Zhendong Army with 2,000 men and horses, plus the remaining 6,000 soldiers and horses of the Liaonan soldiers who were severely injured by the beating, and after temporarily extracting the wounded, they were reorganized into two chambers and ten battalions of 10,000 horses, 4,000 cavalry, and 6,000 infantry.
After the Yanzhou soldiers, the Liaonan soldiers, and the three divisions of the Zhendong Army were all disorganized and reorganized, the officers and non-commissioned officers of the barracks and battalions held a large number of middle-level military positions. The two compartments, Wang Pu and Gao Shunli of Duli Town, each of the soldiers and horses, separated the two compartments and organized them into the left front army and the right front army respectively.
Li Jing's reorganization order was issued, and the southern Liaoning soldiers were no longer as independent as they used to be, not to mention a separate box, or a separate battalion head. Now from the gang to the team, to the battalion to the box, the three troops and horses are integrated together. Although the Liaonan soldiers accounted for nearly half of the men, the Zhendong Army held a large number of middle-level positions in them, and with the annexation of the Yanzhou soldiers, the situation of the Liaonan soldiers was much worse than before.
However, at present, for the rest of their lives after the robbery of the southern Liaonan army, although Shi Shoucheng and other generals knew that Li Jing was taking the opportunity to reorganize, they had no choice.
The front-line reorganization was completed that night, although it was a bit of a hurry, but Li Jing didn't care too much. Of the 10,000 men and horses of the Zhendong Army, only 2,000 men and horses were drawn out to reorganize into it. He still has 8,000 elites to keep it pure, so he doesn't have to worry about combat effectiveness.
After resting for the night, Li Jing did not continue to stay in Gu'an, but was ready to take advantage of the unpreparedness of the Youzhou soldiers to continue to expand the results of the battle.
"Summoned General Wang Zhong of Huichang and asked him to come to Gu'an with 3,000 men and horses. In addition, the 2,000 wounded soldiers will also remain in Gu'an. "After Li Jing reorganized that night, he immediately put forward a proposal to continue the attack." At present, we have taken the front army of the Five Route Soldiers and Horses in Youzhou, and this news will not reach Li Maoxun's ears for a while. At present, Changzhou, where the former army was stationed, is an empty city, and I plan to immediately wave my troops to seize Changzhou, and then attack Li Maoxun's headquarters directly. As long as Li Maoxun can be beaten, then this battle can be over. ”
The battle of Youzhou needs to be fought, but Li Jing is not ready to fight a protracted war for a long time, but wants to end it quickly. To end this war, the most important thing is Li Maoxun.
Li Zhen and the others had no meaning for Li Jing's plan, and they discussed the most important details that night.
Before dawn the next day, the fourth watch made rice, and the fifth watch set off.
After the Zhendong Army left 2,000 wounded, due to the reorganization of the surrender army, although only half of the Liaonan soldiers set off at this time, the number of troops sent after the last time still reached 20,000 horses. This is comparable to the number of people leaving Huichang.
20,000 horses followed the route of Gao's former army and originally killed Changzhou. In the afternoon of the next day, he arrived at the city of Changzhou, and Gao Shunli volunteered to go to the city. Li Jing asked him to take the newly formed Left Front Army to change into his original clothes and go to the city. When the Changzhou guards in the city saw Gao Shunli returning, they didn't have much suspicion and immediately opened the city gate.
The left front army rushed in, quickly seized the city gate, and then, like the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, before the people in the city could understand what was going on, they had swept away the few defenders in the city and successfully captured the city of Changzhou. (To be continued......)