Chapter 568: A plan to earn Nanzheng (Part 1)

Although the walls of Baocheng County are solid, they are stacked layer by layer, more like a pair of dominoes. When a gap collapses, it will cause serious conjunction and collapse, so that the seemingly strong city wall collapses in an instant. The Anxi army rushed into Baocheng County like a tide. Hundreds of war horses galloped strongly, like a strong wind swept through the night, and rushed into the gap first.

At this time, the defenders of Baocheng County were still immersed in extreme fear and confusion. The impact brought by the thunder of the sky was like the collapse of the world. The Anxi cavalry led the way into the county town, with horses running wildly, killing people with swords, people's heads were chopped away, and their chests were pierced. In front of the ferocious Anxi army, any resistance was futile. The defenders were scared and knelt down and surrendered one after another. The stubborn resisters were killed on the spot. The cavalry rushed all the way to the south gate of Baocheng County. At this time, the defenders had not had time to open the city to escape, and the Anxi cavalry arrived like lightning and controlled the southern gate.

At a corner of the city wall, Yang Wei shivered with fear. He could no longer see the caution on his body, and only timid and cowardly left him. The sharp siege of Anxi Army completely scared him to paralyze him. He didn't even have the courage to shout for surrender. He wanted to shout, but his voice was hoarse, and he was trembling like a sieve.

"Surrender! Let's surrender!"

His personal soldiers had already realized Yang Wei's fear and began to shout. Their shouts turned into the last piece of Domiruo's fall. The city gate was wide open and the suspension bridge was put down. Teams of defenders ran out with long spears and crossbows. In a moment, nearly two thousand people gathered. They knelt on the ground and begged Anxi Army for forgiveness. Each of them was filled with fear. Many of them were trembling all over, unable to even kneel down, and completely collapsed on the ground.

Li Siye rode forward and squinted his eyes to look at the surrenderers. At this moment, he suddenly lost interest in Baogu City and respect for the Hanzhong Army. An army that did not even have the courage to resist was not worthy of fighting against the Anxi Army. He waved his hand and threw the matter of handling prisoners of war to his subordinates. He led the army through Baocheng County, continued to go south and towards Nanzheng.

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Despite the news that Anxi Army blocked Baocheng and was captured, Li Huan of Nanzheng still knew from the first time that Baocheng City fell, which made him extremely panicked. He could not know the details of Baocheng County's conquered. But he knew that Baocheng County was strong and such a strong city wall was conquered overnight, which made him feel inexplicable uneasy. The only thing he comforted was the comparison of the forces between the two sides. He had 30,000 troops in his hands and a strong city as a support, while the other side had only 40,000 people. As long as he defended the city to death, according to normal offensive tactics, the Anxi Army would not want to capture Nanzheng City within half a year. Maybe there would be no successor and retreat to Guanzhong. This was the wishful thinking that Li Huan had been fighting, but Anxi Army captured Baocheng County overnight awakened his dream. He suddenly realized that Nanzheng City was not so reliable.

Li Huan stood on the city wall, looking at the north with worry, about sixty miles apart from Baocheng County to Nanzheng City. But at the fourth update yesterday, some of their soldiers faintly heard the sound coming from Baocheng County, like thunder. But last night they were clear and cloudless here, so it should be the same in Baocheng County. So where does this thunder come from? It is really thunder, or something else.

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Li Huan was a little afraid to think about it. He had heard that the Anxi Army had a very powerful weapon called Tianlei. It sounded like thunder when it exploded, and it could be heard from a hundred miles away. Did the Anxi Army use this weapon last night?

Li Huan was full of concern for this, but what made Li Huan even more worried was the 10,000 defenders in Xingdao County and Gucheng County. Whether they could withdraw safely was his misjudgment. He thought that the Anxi Army would take the Han River Road, so he set up heavy troops in the two counties. Unexpectedly, the Anxi Army finally took the Luo Bao Road, which made his deployment fail.

Now ten thousand troops are deployed outside, which has seriously dispersed his troops. If he is recruited, he is afraid that time will not be enough. If he puts the army outside, he is worried that 20,000 troops will be unable to resist the fierce attack of the Anxi army. This makes Li Huan seem to be put in mid-air, unable to go up or down. He is full of anxiety, but helpless.

Just two hours after Baocheng County was attacked, Li Huan received the latest information. The main force of the Anxi Army had appeared about twenty miles northwest of Nanzheng City. He had set up a large camp and was extremely vigilant. His scouts could not get close to explore the information. From the scale of the camp, no less than 50,000 people, Li Huan probably also saw Anxi's strategy. They sent troops from Chang'an and arrived in Nanzheng in just three days and three nights, including the capture of Baocheng County. Even gods could not withstand such speed and physical exhaustion. Therefore, Li Huan had judged the trend of the seven-point Anxi Army. They should rest and rest in the camp and accumulate the power to attack Nanzheng again. But how long does it take for them to stay in the camp? One day or two days? This is extremely important to Li Huan. This is related to whether his 10,000 troops can return safely.

Although the Anxi Army set up a main camp north of Nanzheng, there were still a 13,000 cavalry led by General Zhao Chongjie and advanced directly from Baocheng County to the southeast of Nanzheng. They quickly and hidden, avoided the patrol of Nanzheng scouts, rushed to a hill, and ran east along a bumpy river beach.

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In addition to its own scouts, the Anxi Army also has a Falcon team, which is actually also a scout, but their main role is to counter-reconnaissance, that is, to eliminate the opponent's scouts and protect their whereabouts from being exposed. However, there are not many Falcon teams in the Anxi Army, only three in total, one in Li Qing'an's hands, one in Li Guangbi's Longyou Army, and the other in Li Siye's Hezhong Army. This time, Li Siye's army was transferred to the Central Plains, and the Falcon team also followed, with about 500 people, and was officially organized to be called the Second Scout Battalion of the Hezhong Army.

Today, because we want to implement Li Siye's strategy, we must absolutely ensure that the whereabouts of Anxi Army will not be leaked, otherwise Li Siye's plan will fail. In order to ensure that the whereabouts of them will not be leaked, this Falcon team will play a major role.

Next to a dense forest, a Hanzhong Army scout team rushed over. They had about twenty people. They were originally patrolling south of Baocheng County, but were temporarily transferred to the Hanshui Road last night. Their mission was to investigate whether there were Anxi Army ambushing on the Hanshui Road.

They ran all the way, but did not find any trace of the Anxi army. According to the rules of reporting every fifty miles, they had already used a letter to send a safe and sound message to Nanzheng City. They would continue patrolling eastward and finally arrive in Gucheng County.

This scout team is very experienced. When they approach the dense forest, they will pay attention to the changes in the bird flock in the dense forest. When they are on the road, they have to observe whether there are dense horse hoof prints on the road. They can even tell from the horse hoof prints that the war horse is a mountain horse from Jiannan or a tall horse in the Western Regions.

Next to the trees is a small river. The river water in late autumn is very shallow, revealing a large area of ​​riverbed, which forms a natural marching road.

Although this scout team was very cautious, they could not defeat the more experienced Anxi army scout Falcons. They gradually entered the Falcons and laid the net.

In the dense forest, five hundred Falcon scouts had been waiting for a long time. They hid in the trees and under the trees, as if they were part of the forest. They remained motionless, and even the birds ignored their existence, but their special poison crossbows had locked the twenty scout soldiers and their war horses from all directions.

The scout team of Hanzhong Army approached the dense forest and turned around and headed east along the riverbed. At this moment, they heard a shrill cry of owls. This was a signal of activation. The birds and birds rushed to the sky. Five hundred poisonous crossbows shot like lightning, just like a large group of wild bees returning to their nests roaring. Twenty scouts, together with their war horses, all fell to the ground and died, without a single living mouth.

After a moment, the Falcons buried the body and wiped the traces away. Instead of walking through the riverbed, they walked eastward along the shallow river water. The water rippled with turbidity, but soon it was clear and there was no trace of it.

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An hour later, Zhao Chongjie's army arrived thirty miles east of Nanzheng, where the Falcons annihilated the Nanzheng scout team. At this time, he received information from the Falcons. A Hanzhong army of about 5,000 people was ten miles away, and it should be the defenders of Gucheng County. However, Zhao Chongjie was more concerned about whether his whereabouts were exposed, so he asked: "Can the Falcons encounter enemy scouts?"

The scout reported the news and reported: "The Falcons have successively annihilated two opponent's scout squads, one of which is the outpost of the Gucheng County defenders and the other is a spy sent by Nanzheng. Both enemy scouts were all annihilated, and no one escaped the net."

“Beautiful job!”

Zhao Chongjie praised it and said, "Let the Falcons strengthen their searches, especially the spies from Nanzheng cannot discover our whereabouts."

"Abide by the order!"

The scout bowed and turned his head down. At this time, Zhao Chongjie looked at the river valley in the distance and was about to fight against each other. He was about to appear below.

"Tell me my order! The light cavalry advances at full speed, and the heavy armored soldiers can lag behind."

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Xingdao County and Gucheng County are both in the east of Nanzheng, and a Han River connects them together. Gucheng County is about a hundred miles away from Nanzheng, while Xingdao County is 150 miles away. Since the Anxi Army did not take the Han River route, the 10,000 Hanzhong troops deployed in Xingdao County and Gucheng County must immediately withdraw to Nanzheng. Li Huan's withdrawal order was issued last night, and sent to the two counties by sending letters to the two counties. The troops stationed in the two counties set off almost at the same time, but because the two counties were 50 miles apart, the defenders of Xingdao County were beat slower, and the defenders of Chenggu County rushed to Nanzheng County first.

Five thousand troops were marching in line on the north bank of the Han River. The Hanzhong army was far from comparing with the Anxi Army. They had few horses. There were only hundreds of war horses in the five thousand troops, basically all infantry. It took eighty miles to walk for almost a day.

At noon, the five thousand Hanzhong troops who returned from Gucheng County had arrived in a valley about forty miles east of Nanzheng. When the team arrived here, they were exhausted. There was a small river in the valley, and the water was clear. When they saw this river, before the officers ordered a rest, the soldiers rushed forward and squatted by the river to wash their faces and drink water. Seeing that the officers could not stop the soldiers, they simply let them go and let the soldiers rest for an hour. More soldiers ran towards the river, and the noise ran through the entire valley. But at this moment, many soldiers stood up in surprise. They felt the earth trembling and the river water was shaking, as if a slight earthquake occurred. The soldiers looked at each other, and no one knew what had happened. Suddenly, a soldier pointed to the distance and shouted in horror: "Look, what is that?"

All the soldiers stood up straight, their eyes full of horror. They saw black cavalry three miles away, with horses galloping, swords and halberds like forests, like black frenzy, and the murderous aura swept towards the five thousand Hanzhong troops by the river.

The Hanzhong army was stunned. Suddenly, they reacted and turned around and fled. Five thousand soldiers were defeated. While cursing the scouts who were exploring the way ahead, they hated their parents for giving him two feet and rushed eastward. The river beach was full of fleeing soldiers. They threw away their armor, threw away their weapons, packages, and everything they could throw away. Everyone had only one idea: escape! Escape from the massacre of the Anxi Army.

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But they could not escape the Anxi cavalry. In an instant, the defeated Hanzhong army was caught by the Anxi cavalry. The cavalry swept the broken clouds like wind, and swallowed the defeated soldiers, or knelt down on the ground, or were chopped by the cavalry. A soldier stabbed the Anxi cavalry with his spear, but was driven by the Anxi cavalry who rushed to the sky and cut the head into two halves with one knife. The Hanzhong general shouted in a hurry: "Don't escape, gather to fight! Gather to fight!"

Before he finished speaking, a wolf-toothed arrow roared and shot him in the face. The general screamed and turned over and fell off his horse. The head was cut off by the speeding Anxi cavalry and raised it high. A hundred steps away, the general of the Anxi army, Zhao Chongjie, coldly put away the bow and arrow. He drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, cut off their escape route, and don't let anyone go!"

The Anxi cavalry was like wind and lightning, and the war horses stepped by the water, stirring up water splashes. Another cavalry ran along the foothills. The burly Anxi cavalrymen were brightly armored, carrying bows and swords, and fiercely aura. In the blink of an eye, they rushed past the Hanzhong army, which had escaped the fastest, and cut off their escape route.

The Anxi cavalry surrounded Hanzhong's defeated troops from both sides, shouting and killing shocked the sky. At this moment, only kneeling down and surrendering immediately was the only way to survive. Any hesitation or escape would be ruthlessly killed by the Anxi cavalry. The river beach was full of surrendered soldiers, and many of the killed people rolled into the river. The clear river changed color and the blood dyed the river red. In less than an hour, the entire Hanzhong army that had arrived from Gucheng County was wiped out.

A general rushed up and bowed to Zhao Chongjie and said, "Report to the general, and count them according to their list, a total of 5,340 people were killed, a total of 1,140 people were captured, and 4,200 people were captured alive, and none of them escaped!"

"Okay!" Zhao Chongjie turned around and asked the soldiers: "Hongjia Army has arrived?"

"Report to the general, a thousand Modao Army has arrived and is waiting for the order five miles away."

Zhao Chong nodded. At this time, a tied Hanzhong Army officer was brought up. He was also a general of the Central Army. He was about thirty years old, with a tall figure and a big beard. His name was Su Yu, a Han from Liangzhou, but his mother was from Qiang. He came to Chang'an ten years ago to join the army and is now the deputy general of the five thousand Hanzhong Army. The chief general was shot to death by Zhao Chongjie.

He lost his hooves on his horse while running away and was captured alive by the Anxi cavalry. Although he was captured, he was still furious and said with hatred: "If you have the will, fight with me hard. What is the Anxi army by sneak attack!"

Zhao Chongjie sneered and winked the soldiers beside him, "Let him loose!"

Two soldiers cut the ropes on his body with long swords, and Zhao Chongjie asked again: "How many stone bows should be used?"

"Four stone bows!"

"It's OK, but it's far from my general."

Zhao Chongjie turned around and ordered: "Give him a four stone bow, three arrows, and give him another horse."

A soldier handed Su Yu a bow and three arrows, and then led him a horse. He was a little overwhelmed and said, "What are you going to do?"

"Aren't you dissatisfied? Then I will compete with you. Let me tell you that I am only ranked forty-eighth in the Anxi Army's bow and horse. If you can't even compare to mine, don't talk louder."

After saying that, Zhao Chongjie turned around and ran away a hundred steps away. The soldiers around him scattered one after another. Thousands of cavalry formed a large circle. A hundred steps away, Zhao Chongjie shouted: "It starts after the drum sounds, and the arrows are ruthless, and life and death are from heaven!"

"Dong!Dong!Dong......"

The dense drum sounded. Su Yu took a deep breath and turned over the horse. He adjusted the angle of the archery. He pulled out an arrow and put it on the arrow. He immediately looked like a full moon. He narrowed his eyes and aimed at Zhao Chongjie a hundred steps away.

At this time, Zhao Chongjie was also on the string. He just said that he was ranked 48th in Anxi Bow and Horse, which was actually very modest. In fact, Zhao Chongjie was recognized as the fifth in Anxi Army, and was a sharpshooter in Anxi Army, which was extremely heavy on the bow and horse. He used a five-stone bow and horse bow, and had a thousand pounds of force on both sides. Three consecutive beads were shot in every step.

The drum beats tighter and tighter, and suddenly stops abruptly. Just as the drum stops, Su Yu's arrow shot out first, with a strong arrow, directly hitting Zhao Chongjie's throat. Zhao Chongjie's body shook, and the man disappeared immediately. He hung on the saddle, three consecutive arrows shot out like lightning, one arrow faster than the other. The first arrow instantly reached Su Yu's chest, scaring him to dodge to the right, the second arrow hit his face, the tip of the arrow roared, and he saw a small black dot suddenly grow bigger, a little cold light flashing, it was too late to hide, and he had to close his eyes and wait for death. With a crack, the arrow shot into his helmet, and the tip of the arrow brushed his scalp, and it hurt a lot. Before he could react, the third arrow shot into his horse's neck, and the war horse raised its front hooves and neighed, overturning Su Yu to the ground.

These three arrows were completed in an instant, and many people didn't see the whole story clearly. Su Yu was already caught in the arrow and fell to the ground. At this time, Zhao Chongjie urged the horse to come. He turned over and dismounted, helped Su Yu up and smiled: "It's just a joke, General Su doesn't have to take it seriously. If you compare weapons, I'm afraid I'm not a rival to General Su."

Su Yu looked ashamed. He was convinced by his loss. Not to mention the Hanzhong Army, there was probably not even the Jiannan Army. Only Gao Xianzhi was said to be very powerful, but he was just a member of the Central Army, not to mention Li Qing'an, who was known as the world's number one arrow.

Seeing Zhao Chongjie comforting himself like this, he couldn't help but feel moved. He got up and knelt down on one knee and said, "Although I, Su Yu, are a reckless man, I know that birds choose good trees to live on. I am willing to serve the Anxi Army. Please include it by General Zhao!"

Zhao Chongjie was overjoyed. All he wanted was the deputy general who surrendered to the Anxi army. He immediately helped him up and said, "The Anxi army has always been rewarded with military merits, and the military law is strict. If General Su made outstanding contributions, even if he was not the Anxi army, he would still be able to improve. His achievements will definitely be above me in the future."

Su Yu nodded secretly in his heart. He had always heard that the Anxi army was strict and rewarded and punished clearly. Today, he saw the general's style from an ordinary general. He couldn't help but sigh in his heart. He had known that it would be great that he would have gone directly to Anxi to join the army.
Chapter completed!