Chapter 384: Destroying 40,000 Thieves in One Night (Fourth Watch)
After regaining military power, Ma Yuan and the others immediately went out of the camp to find the Beidou Jiuzi who were cruising nearby, and asked them to contact the volunteer battalion in Yinma Lake to send troops, and if everything went well, they could launch an attack at lunchtime. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Cheng Shiyu got in touch with Tang Jinyi of the Shiqiaozi camp, and the tens of thousands of peripheral troops of the White Lotus Sect were like mud men under Yuan Keli's blows......
Before dawn, two or three hours after the official army subdued the Shiqiaozi White Lotus Army, 10,000 officers and soldiers disguised as the White Lotus Army divided into two roads along the banks of the White Horse River and touched the line of the Henghe River in the northwest.
In the dark night, Jin Yuwei led a team of 'defeated' White Lotus Army panicked 'fled into' the camp of the Yokogawa White Lotus Army, and when the other party saw that it was his own people, he immediately opened the camp door and let them in.
Then, in the roar of the tiger squat cannon, the Yokogawa battalion was beaten to the ground. After Yan Ruyu and Jin Yuwei used their own examples as an example to persuade them, Ruo Shuiwei agreed to go into the city to contact the other four saints.
Ge Fei, the leader of the thief army, saw that the general trend had gone, so he led thousands of people to the east of Zou Cheng to run wildly, just ran a few miles out of the river on the side of the river when there was a sharp sound of bows and arrows breaking through the air, Ge Fei did not figure out where the arrows came from and fell down the horse, and in the darkness I don't know how many people trampled on each other and died.
When the thieves were at a loss, the fires on both sides of the river bank were flourishing, and the two fierce men and horses were surging to kill, led by two fierce generals wearing gray robes, and the thieves turned around one after another when they saw this, and fled to the last safe direction - Guobao in the north.
At that moment, the officers and soldiers were driving thousands of thieves along the rivers and official roads like ducks, galloping towards Guobao without stopping.
The White Horse River and the Henghe River meet at Guobao, forming a small three-way estuary that becomes a natural barrier, and because of this, the White Lotus Sect placed the military camp in the north here at Chang Wei's suggestion.
It was already dawn when the remnants of Yokogawa fled to Guobao, and as soon as they heard that the number of officers and soldiers was small, Fan Ying, the defender of Guobao, ordered his general Huang Kai to take the initiative to attack him.
Fan Ying's idea is: Shiqiaozi and Henghe were all defeated by the sneak attack of the officers and soldiers, which shows that the officers and soldiers are short of manpower and have no ability to fight tough battles. Moreover, based on his previous experience against the official army, he believed that as long as he opened up and fought bravely, the official army would be defeated immediately. At that time, he took advantage of the situation to regain two positions, and his status could be greatly improved.
Suffering from the contempt for the combat strength of the officers and soldiers and the excessive demand for honor, the horns of Guobaozhai sounded in unison, the drums shook the sky, and 15,000 soldiers gathered outside the south gate.
Yuan Keli, who was personally supervising the battle of the official army and the Chinese army, saw the battle of the thief army from a distance, so he immediately issued an order: The spear formation of the Chinese army retreated three miles to show weakness to the enemy; the front army made a detour to the east and west gates of Guobao, waiting for an opportunity to seize the fort gate; the two wings attacked its flanks and the rear; the gun battalion was ambushed on the southeast bank of the river, and when the rebels were chasing, they let go of the front army and directly took the Chinese army to kill the enemy's main general, and captured Guobao in a battle!
On the formation of the thief army, Huang Kai was overjoyed to learn that the main force of the official army was retreating: the official army was really still that rotten, and they dared to fight a sneak attack, harassment, and an ambush! Once the formation was set up and the army was desperate, the officers and soldiers were afraid! Pursuit, everyone gave me a pursuit!
As soon as the various units of the thief army that were forming a formation received this military order, they accelerated their pursuit. In terms of Huang Kai's military talent, this fifteen-thousand-strong army can still be neatly arrayed when it usually exercises, but as soon as the pursuit accelerates slightly, it becomes chaotic, and the people and horses scream and the various departments fight with each other, and it is chaotic.
Seeing this, Huang Kai ordered again: The army should be divided into five thousand people, divided into the front, middle and rear armies, and chase in order, without competition.
Huang Kai led the Chinese army of 5,000 and chased in the direction of the defeat of the enemy army in the southeast.
The officers and troops were far away and retreated early, so Huang Kai chased all his strength to the bank of the Henghe River and failed to catch up, but at this time, the terrain under the bank was undulating, and the officers and soldiers were running slower and slower.
Huang Kai was overjoyed, drew his sword in his hand and shouted: "The official army can't run, the brothers will kill me if they break the official army and get promoted!"
"Kill!"
As soon as the thief army heard the words "promotion and fortune", everyone moved forward bravely.
The formation was even more unbearable under the hard pursuit, and the army of more than 10,000 people sprinkled the entire river valley like loose sand on the river beach.
Huang Kai chased a river bay and finally saw the official army by the small forest in front of him, but at this time, the official army no longer fled in a hurry.
In front of the woods was an army of thousands of swords and guns waiting brightly, and when the thieves were killed, the leading officer shouted, and the phalanx immediately dodged to both sides, and rows of murderous tiger squat cannons and bird guns opened fire at the same time.
Suddenly, the rain of bullets was unstoppable, and the front team of thieves fell down a large area like cutting wheat, and suddenly encountered such a ferocious firepower, and the remaining thieves in front turned around and fled, but collided with the swarming companions behind them, and for a time countless people trampled on each other, and the screams and curses on the river beach became a pot of porridge.
"Retreat, retreat, there is an ambush!"
"Run for your life, the officers and soldiers have artillery. ”
"Ah, who's stepping on me?"
This is the characteristic of the White Lotus Army, the downwind battle is as fierce as a tiger wolf, and the headwind battle immediately exposes the nature of the rabble. Yuan Keli had already seen this, so he retreated a few miles to let them mess with themselves, but with a full blow with a gun fire that was not too fierce, it immediately received a miraculous effect!
When the thieves trampled on each other, eight fierce generals in gray robes rushed out of the official army formation that had completed a round of salvos, and under their leadership, hundreds of elite officers and soldiers rushed into the thief army's formation, slashing and slashing guns as if they were in a no-man's land.
This brave and invincible blow became the last straw that crushed the thief army, and the thief army immediately lost its weapons and flew back the way it came.
A trumpet sounded behind the ground, and at once, a group of birds, bows and arrows was formed on the riverbank. Feathered arrows are like flying locusts, bullets are like rainstorms, and the thieves who hit them are terrified, desperately fleeing.
Huang Kai saw this situation under the riverbank, knew the plan, and was directing the hundred-person squad around him to fly back, when the eight members of the squad rushed to kill with knives and guns, and shouted: "Where will the thief go?"
Although Huang Kai was shocked in his heart, he calmed down, and when he was about to defend himself against the enemy on the spot, he saw the rout in the river beach coming overwhelmingly. When the defeated soldiers rushed up, the formation was in chaos.
Huang Kai knew that the general trend was gone, and he could no longer care about organizing resistance, so he immediately turned his horse's head and fled for his life, but it was too late. Two faster gray-robed figures swept over like the wind, one with a spear to fly him, and the other with a knife to cut off his head.
Poor Huang Kai didn't even see the appearance of the other party clearly, so he was killed on the spot.
A gray-robed man put his head on a gun and stood proudly on the riverbank and shouted: "The thief will be dead, and those who descend will not be killed!"
The thieves who were quick had already fled, and the slow-running soldiers saw that the main general was dead, and the officers and soldiers were so powerful, where did they dare to resist? They all abandoned their weapons and surrendered on their knees.
Yuan Keli reported and ordered: The Chinese army led 3,000 troops to defraud the south gate, and the rest of the troops followed up in turn.
Soon, the Chinese army pretended to be a thief under the banner of a thief army and returned to Guobao and said: Although the melee with the officers and soldiers was a big victory, they were sniped by the guns and artillery of the officers and soldiers, and now the casualties are not small and they want to go back to the fort to rest.
Fan Ying, who supervised the battle in Guobao, didn't know what to do, and when he saw that the other party was under his own banner, the colonel who led the army also greeted the colonel guarding the gate, boasting that he had killed a few officers and soldiers. He ordered the soldiers to open the south gate and let them in, who knew that as soon as they came in, they would kill every person, and in a blink of an eye, they seized the fort gate and let the follow-up army enter Guobao, and the front army on both sides of the standby also waited for the opportunity to take the east and west gates, and Guobao fell in a short time......
After listening to the detailed battle report, Chang Wei sighed heartily: "Duke Yuan is worthy of being the cadre city of the country, a generation of famous ministers, and he destroyed 40,000 thieves in one night! )