Chapter 202: The Battle of Fancheng (8)
"That Fan Wenhu escaped quickly. ”
Seeing that Fan Wenhu had escaped, Li Ting couldn't help but open his mouth to scold, but he felt a little happy in his heart.
The strength of the battleships in Fan Wenhu's hands was amazing, if they had joined in the previous battle, with the support of the guns on the battleships, Gundam would not have fallen to that kind of fate, and if he wanted to recapture Baicheng and Lumen, he would have to pay more price.
"What about Gundam and the others?"
Someone asked.
In the previous battle, in order to be able to recapture Baicheng and Lumen as soon as possible, they did not prevent the Song army from escaping, but let Gundam and others escape.
Li Ting complained: "Send men and horses to continue the pursuit." That Gundam is also a generation of famous generals no matter how you say it, if he escapes to Xiangyang to make peace with Lu Wenhuan, there may be a lot of trouble. ”
"I'll understand. ”
When the generals heard this, they immediately divided a cavalry, numbering about 1,000 people, and continued to chase Gundam.
With Gundam now running out of ammunition and food, a thousand cavalry can be said to be more than enough.
This cavalry also quickly followed the soldiers of the Song army all the way to chase after it, with only one purpose, that is, to completely exterminate this army.
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"Let's go. If you don't leave, you'll be chased by the Tartars. ”
Walking through the wilderness, Gundam kept shouting at the soldiers around him.
When the soldiers heard this, they all wailed: "But general, we really can't walk." ”
"If you can't walk, you have to go, or are you going to wait for death?" Gundam tightened his eyebrows and scolded directly at everyone: "Don't forget, that Tartar will appear anytime and anywhere, if we don't take advantage of this time to escape, and wait until they catch up, then we will be bad." You don't want to be their dead spirits, do you?"
"Well, but where do we go from here?"
However, the soldier was still at a loss and did not know what to do.
They are Jianghuai people, they are not familiar with this place, and they do not know where to escape safely.
Gundam could only point to a dense forest in the distance and said, "Let's go there first." It's a jungle, and those Tartars are cavalry, so they shouldn't be easy to get into. ”
"I'll understand. ”
The soldiers were shocked and hurriedly stepped into the distance.
The dense forest was about a mile away from them, and it didn't seem like a long journey, but now they were already exhausted, and the speed of the march was not as fast as before, so they could only move slowly and step by step, and although Gundam was extremely anxious in his heart, he could only accept it helplessly.
At this time, dust and sand flew in the distance.
Everyone was shocked when they saw it: "It's the cavalry of the Yuan Army." ”
For the scene of cavalry dispatch, they have long been common.
"These guys, they're really chasing after you. Gundam's heart tightened, and he hurriedly shouted, "Everyone is ready to fight." Everyone took out their spears behind their backs and chased the cavalry in the distance one by one, for fear that the cavalry would chase them, but of course they did not dare to stop, and moved their steps slowly, wanting to hide in the dense forest in the distance.
With that dense forest, they can resist a little longer.
"Whew!"
A low horn sounded, and Gundam was shocked, this was the news of the cavalry attack, and he had heard too much.
Sure enough, the cavalry in the distance urged the horses under their crotches one after another, and rushed towards the remnants of the people, but when they were not close to the effective range of a hundred zhang, they turned around sharply, ran in another direction, and then regained their foothold.
"Feint?"
Gouda cursed in a low voice.
Relying on the superiority of cavalry mobility, the Mongol cavalry often did this, and as their enemies, the Song army was often crushed by this tactic.
No way, two legs can never run over four legs.
"Quick, get into the woods, or it will be really bad if they do attack. Gundam urged.
In the distance, those cavalrymen were all holding guns, and the horses under their crotches were also eager to try.
They were waiting, waiting until the right time, when everyone was at the peak of hunger, fear, and physical strength, and then they would deliver the deadliest blow.
As usual, the Yuan army often used this tactic to torment opponents.
"Are we really going to die?"
"But my mom is still alive, and I don't want to die yet!"
"Who will save us, who will save me?"
“......”
couldn't bear it, and the Song soldiers at this moment also began to cry from time to time, at first they only dared to cry quietly, and then tears flowed, and finally they couldn't control their emotions and cried loudly.
"Alas!"
Gundam looked at the soldiers around him who looked almost desperate, and fell silent for a while.
It's not that he didn't want to stop it, but with this almost desperate scene now, there is nothing he can do to change the desperate situation.
They were infantry, they didn't have to go to cavalry, they had to rely on their legs to move, and they had already exhausted their physical strength in the previous war, and now it was too difficult to continue to hold on.
Of course, there is another way to survive, and that is to surrender.
As long as they surrendered, the Yuan army might spare the lives of these soldiers out of respect for themselves.
Gundam thought that even if he would be infamous as a traitor in the future, he would have to give these soldiers a chance to survive.
The cavalry in the distance also showed a smug look, and even laughed at Song Jun's appearance, which made all the soldiers, including Gundam, feel ashamed.
Could it be that this time they are really going to die here?
"Dididi!"
At this moment, a high-pitched suona sound suddenly sounded in the dense forest in the distance.
Gundam was shocked and quickly turned his head, only to see hundreds of people rushing out of the dense forest, and dozens of tiger cannons were fired from behind them.
Those cavalry did not expect this, and when they were hit by those tiger squatting cannons, the horses under their crotches were frightened and ran around, and the people above were also beaten and screamed, and they couldn't figure out when such an army appeared in this place.
Gundam was also quite surprised, and stared at the people who had suddenly appeared.
At this time, he noticed that the clothes worn by these people were varied, some from the Song army, some from the Huaxia army, and more from the Tartars.
And in the distance, those cavalry were attacked by tiger squat cannons, and they were naturally terrified.
In order to pursue the Song army, they were lightly armed, and did not carry high-power weapons such as siege guns and recoil guns.
They didn't dare to stay here any longer, so they turned around and ran into the distance, and after a while, they disappeared, leaving only corpses.
Gundam relaxed a little, and then he saw a man walk up to him.
The man complained, "May I ask if your Excellency is General Gao Gao?"
"It's just down there, but who are you, and you have such strength?" Gundam was slightly surprised, staring at the person in front of him.
The man smiled at the corner of his mouth, bowed down and bowed: "In Xia Zhang Shun, I deliberately waited for the general again." It is inconvenient to talk here, so please go back with us to talk about it. How?"
"Absolutely. Gundam nodded, and then followed behind Zhang Shun, and the soldiers under his command also relaxed a little, and after a day of running, they were finally able to rest a little.