Chapter three hundred and twentieth fifth retreat
The silver bullet and Zhi Deli were stopped by Gao Chong alone, and the Jin soldiers under his command could not stop the Kaiping Army's charge. The number of Kaiping Army was more than twice that of the enemy. In addition, with the leadership of Yang Zaixing, the Jin soldiers were divided and surrounded in a short time.
There were endless shouts of killing, and the number of Jin soldiers was decreasing continuously. They were about to be wiped out. Suddenly, fires surged into the sky in the distance, and piles of bonfires were ignited.
"Retreat!" Gao Chong knew that this was a warning signal. After seeing it, he ordered the army to retreat south without saying a word.
Silver Bullets and Ji Deli wanted to entangle Gao Chong, but they didn't expect Yang Zaixing rushed over. They fought with Gao Chong with a few shots and fought back against Silver Bullets and Ji Deli. They also urged the horse to catch up with the large army and escape.
When Jin Wushu and others arrived, they almost lost the loss and found that most of Yuan Da's men died, and the silver bullets and the 2,000 Jin soldiers who were sticking were almost injured and killed, with less than 500 left.
"Master Four Wolfs, avenge me!" Yuan Da asked his wife to block Yang Zaixing, ran out by himself, and drilled into the pile of firewood next to him, and finally escaped. He waited until the battle was over before he came out from inside to cry to Jin Wushu.
Jin Wushu asked about the situation and made people restrain Wu Lihua's body and reward her greatly. They did not punish Yuan Da, so they asked him to continue to be the pioneer and then go to Zhending.
The guards of Zhending City were Li Miao and Zhou Shiyuan. They were ordered by Gao Chong to hold on to the city and would never leave the city.
Wanyan Zongfu under the city had tried his best to lure the enemy out of the city. They tried to launch an attack, and the people in the city were also prepared to make their attack return in vain.
"Wuchuo, Gao Chong is eager to do something. We might as well attack Wuyuezhai in a different way. I think the Song people in the two places must be in contact. As long as Wuyuezhai asks for help, Gao Chong will definitely send troops. When we fall, we set up an ambush and then catch them all in one go. Wouldn't that be better?"
Jin Wushu agreed very much: "Okay! Just follow what the third brother said, I will record Gao Chong's dog head for the time being, and let's go to Wuyue Village!" Jin Bing said that he did what he said, and they immediately set up camp and continued to go south.
After the Jin people crossed the Hutuo River and had already come straight to their own mountains, Zhao Zhen and Zhao Bangjie from the Five Mountains Village received the news.
Zhao Bangjie was very enthusiastic. While he asked someone to inquire about the news, he was rectifying the army and fighting to the death with the Jin people. Fortunately, Zhao Zhen remembered Ma Kuo's words, and finally left 20,000 people to guard the mountain village.
Zhao Bangjie led an army of 80,000 to go down the mountain, and he wanted to fight the Jin people to the death with the advantage of numbers.
His ideas were undoubtedly good, and his courage was very commendable; however, he had never commanded such a large army, and he didn't even know what the concept of a 100,000 army was.
As a result, I realized that it was not good after getting off the mountain. The army could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers. The command system was completely messed up and went down the mountain in a daze.
Some of these people ran forward with their heads in silence, some wanted to wait for the team behind, and some were slowly watching from behind, and suddenly became a mess.
Zhao Bangjie also knew that there was no way to fight like this, so he quickly gathered the team and wanted to retreat to the mountains. However, it was easy to go down the mountain, but it was difficult to go back. The messenger rode a fast horse and wanted to pull the team back.
Changes in the morning and night are a disaster for this team with poor discipline. They took the order and ran back in a row, like a group of sheep.
Even fools know what they should do now, not to mention that Wanyan Zongfu and Jin Wushu are both famous generals of the world. They urged their troops to kill them without saying a word.
This battle was killed from morning to night, and the blood was flowing into a river and corpses were everywhere. If it weren't for the rugged mountain roads and were not conducive to the cavalry's roundabout encirclement, all the 80,000 troops would have been thrown here.
Even so, no 20,000 troops returned, and the rest were either killed or ran away. The strength of Wuyuezhai was suddenly defeated back to its original form.
Only then did Zhao Bangjie realize that he was afraid. They all retreated to the mountains and firmly guarded their village gates, and never dared to go out again.
This Wuyue Village is 200 miles away from Zhending, the capital of Hebei West Road. It is located across the mountain from Wutai Mountain, a Buddhist holy land in Hedong. It is named after the five peaks stand side by side and have the characteristics of the Five Mountains.
The main peak of Wuyue Village is independent of five peaks, like a group of huge bonsai being held up by Taihang Mountain as a chest. The main peak is 19,465 meters, and the lowest peak is more than 1,880 meters. The mountain is steep and dangerous, with a steep cliff on the southeast side, and a vertical valley depth of hundreds of meters. The peak rock platform, which is only a dozen square meters, faces a cliff on three sides, which is extremely dangerous.
Qinou Peak is an important landscape of Wuyue Village, located in Lingxiao Gorge. The seven peaks are arranged in a row, with different heights and shapes, such as Jincheng Railway Wuyue Village-Qiannu Peak Fort
Zhao Zhen's army was stationed here. The mountains in this place were more dangerous than those in Xishan Monk Village. Moreover, Zhao Bangjie had an army of 40,000. Although his offensive strength was insufficient, he still put some effort into defense.
With the steep mountains of Wuyue Village, Zhao Bangjie and the Jin people fought desperately. Their battles for one mountain pass and one mountain pass, and the fighting between one mountain peak and one mountain peak made the Jin people unable to succeed in one go.
However, among them, there are factors that the Jin people deliberately slowed down the pace of the offensive and waited for Gao Chong's army to come to rescue.
The troops who were asking for help from Wuyue Village came down from the mountain one after another. They took Zhao Zhen's letters to attack everywhere to find reinforcements. Of course, the nearest place they went to was Gao Chong's camp in Baodu Mountain. When they were far away, they even ran to Yingtian Prefecture to ask Zhao Gou for help.
Gao Chong agreed to help Wuyuezhai and arranged for all the troops to go out. However, these troops did not attack the Jin soldiers surrounding Wuyuezhai, but began to sweep the outside.
These cavalry came and went without a trace, just to destroy the transportation of Jin people's supplies. They did not take them away after robbing them. In addition to replenishing their own supplies, the rest was distributed to the people around them. Sometimes it was too late, and they would burn the enemy's food and grass. Anyway, a grain of food was not left to the Jin soldiers.
Jin Wushu finally knew the trouble; he couldn't keep up with the supply in the mountains, and there were often no people here for dozens of miles, so it was impossible to snatch it. The logistics of the Jin people had major abnormalities.
Wanyan Zongfu was also very troubled. He had never seen such a fighting style. These enemies can only be described as scoundrels. They ran around like mice, and they snatched and changed places to make them unable to defend themselves.
Moreover, this army has a strong combat power. The number of people in its own delegation is small, so it just delivers them vegetables. If there are too many people sent, they will not show up. Moreover, they only have 50,000 troops in total. Where can I draw more people to help them?
Once this battle was fought, it really made me think I was too stupid and I seemed to be unable to stop.
The main force of the Jin people was stopped by Zhending, and riots began to rebel in other places, especially Hedong Road, which was constantly rebelling.
Although Wanyan Loushi captured Jingzhao Mansion, after Wanyan Zonghan suppressed the prisoners, he sat in Hedong and monitored the Jingzhao Mansion.
Han Shizhong and his men came out at night and carefully arrived at Xi'an Prefecture, Jingyuan Road. Here, Li Yanxian and Wu Jie have recruited 10,000 people, and now they have nearly 20,000 troops under their command, and their strength has increased a lot compared to before.
As soon as Han Shizhong arrived in Xi'an Prefecture, he showed Gao Chong's token. Li Yanxian, Wu Jie and Yang Zhi handed over the command of the troops without any hesitation. Li Yanxian and Wu Jie took office as deputy commanders of the Western Route Army, and Yang Zhi, Jie Yuan, Wen Zhongrong and Cui Ye all led an army.
Han Shizhong said: "Everyone, the marshal, before I came here, I kept reminding me, saying that Li Yanxian, Wu Jie has great talents, and Yang Zhi is also a brave general of the world. I hope that we will unite and fight against the Jin soldiers together.
I admire Marshal Du’s vision and excellence. He said that if you have this ability, you will definitely not be able to do it. I just arrived and don’t know much about the situation here. I will just say anything if you have any opinions."
Li Yanxian and others also heard Gao Chong mention Han Shizhong. Knowing that he had outstanding abilities, the few of them were not dissatisfied with him, they immediately introduced the situation here.
Han Shizhong nodded slightly after hearing this, "Everyone said it very well. Now that Wanyan Loushi has left, the Jin people's control over Qin Fenglu has been greatly reduced. This is exactly what we should do when we should make a difference?"
Li Yanxian and others' eyes lit up and said, "The heroes' views are similar, but I don't know what instructions are there for the commander."
"I dare not take the instructions! But we cannot fight against the enemy with 20,000 people. There are still many Western soldiers on Qinfeng Road, all of whom are veterans of a hundred battles. I think they should also contribute.
I am going to send someone to contact Liu Guangshi of Quduan, Fuyan Road, Zhe Keqiu of Linfu Road, and Zhang Shen, the Xihe Strategic Commander, sent troops to attack Qinfeng Road.
Our goal is not to show off. We will not let others do things that are profitable and successful. We can just drink soup with Quduan, but Shanzhou is the gateway to Qinfeng Road, and we must strive to take this place into our hands.
As long as Shanzhou is in hand, we can spy on the land of Guanzhong at any time and seize strategic advantages."
Li Yanxian and others agreed with it, and they all supported Han Shizhong's argument. So Li Yanxian went to Jingyuan Road as an envoy to seek a visit to Quduan.
Qu Duan agreed to Li Yanxian's request very happily, and then contacted Liu Guangshi on Fuyan Road, Zhe Keqiu on Linfu Road, and Zhang Shen, the governor of Xihe River.
These people also saw that as soon as Wanyan Loushi retreated, the ground of Jingzhao Mansion on Qinfeng Road was constantly rebelling; they all thought it was a good opportunity and made an appointment to raise troops together.
The remaining four armies along the border began to reinforce Qin Feng, and the Fuyan General ordered Zhe Ke to "turn the orders of all the routes and fight against the bandits during the meeting." Quduan of Jingyuan Road, Liu Guangshi of Fuyan Road, and Zhang Shengui of Xihe General Road actively sent troops to respond.
Chapter completed!