Chapter Five Hundred and Thirty What's Up, This Is?
Wuling City.
When Xiahoulan's cavalry was about to arrive at Wuling, Wuling Prefect Jin Xuan didn't realize what was going on.
However, even though he saw that Xiahoulan had already arrived at the city, Wuling County Governor Jin Xuan did not take it seriously at all, and even ordered all the defenders to prepare to go out of the city to fight.
When Gong Zhi saw that Jin Xuan wanted to go out of the city to fight, he immediately urged him: "Master Fu, we only have 20,000 defenders in Wuling City! Although Xia Houlan is only the deputy general of the Dragon Cavalry Army, he is also a bodyguard. He is a strong general who has experienced hundreds of battles, but he still has cavalry under his command. We can't go out of the city to fight with them in the field! Why don't we just surrender, or the peace of the soldiers and people in our city can be restored."
"You're such a bastard!" Seeing that Gong Zhi actually persuaded him to surrender, Jin Xuan was so angry that he cursed loudly, "How can I be afraid of a mere warrior? Surrender? Don't even think about it!"
When Gong Zhi heard this, he immediately sighed and said: "Master Fu! Do you really want to fight this battle with Cao Jun regardless of the life and death of the people in the city?"
Hearing this, Jin Xuan was furious.
In a rage, Jin Xuan raised her hand and slapped Gong Zhi on the face!
"Pah!" The slap was very loud.
Gong Zhi's face suddenly turned red.
"You greedy bitch! If you want to survive, don't get involved with this county guard! If you dare to say such things again that disturb the morale of the army, then don't blame this county guard for being ruthless."
Gong Zhi received a slap in the face, feeling angry and humiliated in his heart.
But he also understood Jin Xuan's personality and knew that Jin Xuan was definitely not joking sometimes, so even though he was extremely angry and aggrieved, he could only temporarily shut his mouth and not dare to say anything more.
Seeing that Gong Zhi closed his mouth knowingly, Jin Xuan snorted coldly, ordered all the soldiers and horses in the city, and went out of the city to form a formation to meet the enemy.
outside the city,
Xiahoulan, who was about to send someone to persuade him to surrender, suddenly saw the city gate on the opposite side wide open, and a man dressed as a civilian official personally led the troops out.
Xia Houlan suddenly felt as if he had seen a ghost, and said to himself in disbelief: "What kind of trouble is this?"
Xia Houlan didn't know what the other party's "conspiracy" was, and to be cautious, he didn't let the dragon cavalry behind him launch an attack.
It didn't take long before the defenders led by Jin Xuan formed a military formation outside the city. The soldiers were basically wearing cloth armor, and at most they had an unknown leather product hanging on the front and back. It looked very perfunctory.
At this time, Xiahoulan's deputy general Tieniu came to him and asked: "General, why don't I go out and shout?"
Xia Houlan thought for a moment, then nodded and said: "Go and shout twice, be careful not to enter the enemy's bow and arrow range."
"I saved it!"
After Tieniu finished speaking, he rode his horse to the front of the two armies and shouted at the top of his voice: "People on the other side, listen, my army of hundreds of thousands is in Jiangling City. If you don't surrender, you will be crushed by our army." Become a powder!"
Tieniu's words are indeed very intimidating.
The hundreds of thousands of troops made all the soldiers under Jin Xuan's command change their expressions.
Jin Xuan has a hot temper. When he heard Tieniu's words, he roared angrily: "Don't talk nonsense! If you have hundreds of thousands of troops, why do you only have a mere 10,000 people now?!"
Then, without waiting for Tieniu to shout again, Jin Xuan directly issued an order to attack!
"Soldiers, don't listen to his nonsense, come with me and kill him!"
Not only Tieniu, but also Xiahoulan and the soldiers of the Dragoon Army were dumbfounded by this scene.
Looking at the opponent's front line that basically dispersed as soon as they started running, some soldiers had blank eyes and murmured to themselves:
"What are you trying to do?"
"Take a group of ragtag infantry to attack us???"
"When did our dragoon army become so out of line?"
This is like boxing champion Tyson meeting a primary school student who has just learned Taekwondo for two and a half years. The opponent is currently showing off, screaming, and wants to kick Tyson over.
In the face of such provocation, it is simply an insult, right?
Is it tolerable or not?
After Xia Houlan reacted, smoke was coming out of his nostrils. He picked up the iron gun, pointed the tip of the gun forward, and said: "Brothers, let them see what Shura Field is!"
"kill!"
"kill!!!"
"The Dragon Cavalry Army is invincible!"
"The Dragon Cavalry Army is invincible!"
The Wuling garrison who had lived in the south of the Yangtze River for a long time had never seen the power of a collective charge of cavalry.
You can call them ignorant and fearless, or you can call them courageous. In short, they did do what even Lu Yan didn't dare to do.
Twenty thousand infantrymen, with no formation at all, started to clash with Xiahou Lan's Dragon Riding Battalion.
However, they did seem to have good morale and momentum at the beginning; but when tens of thousands of cavalry began to accelerate their charge, not only the defenders, but also Jin Xuan himself changed wildly!
"Oh my god! Look at this momentum, it's very difficult to mess with!"
"Do you really want to force yourself? I feel a little dangerous!"
"No, the opponent is too fast and too fierce.!"
"Boom!!!"
The soldiers of the Dragon Cavalry Battalion galloped forward like thunder!
The earth-shattering sound of horse hooves, the trembling ground, that invincible momentum that is unstoppable!!!
"Wow!!!"
"Run!"
Sure enough, after seeing the true power, some of the Wuling defenders immediately started to turn around and run away!
Jin Xuan also wanted to run away, but he couldn't save face, so he had no choice but to rush forward.
This is really not a battle, it can only be described as a farce.
Jin Xuan boasted that he was usually very good at wielding a long sword, but under Xia Houlan, a general who had experienced many battles, he could not even get through a single encounter.
Xia Houlan stabbed him with a spear. If Jin Xuan hadn't been lucky enough to lower his head, the shot might have hit him directly in the head.
The two of them passed by on the wrong horse. After being frightened, Jin Xuan hurriedly shouted: "Come and save me, come and save me!"
However, the personal guards behind Jin Xuan had already been dispersed by the dragoons, but in front of Jin Xuan were all the dragon cavalry soldiers who looked like wolves and tigers!
"It's over!"
The cavalry of the Dragoon Army were approaching quickly, and Jin Xuan had already closed his eyes in despair.
But the soldiers of the Dragon Riding Battalion did not kill him. Instead, they dragged him away from his mount, threw him to the ground and tied him up.
The Wuling defenders who followed Jin Xuan into the battle saw this and wanted to rush forward to cover Jin Xuan.
Seeing this, Tieniu waved his long spear and charged forward with hundreds of cavalry. They met and dispersed the Wuling defenders.
The battle lasted less than half an hour, and the 20,000 Wuling garrison collapsed after losing 5,000 casualties.
What made them even more devastated was that when they finally escaped to the city gate, they found that the city gate had been closed at some point.
When the soldiers who had escaped saw this, they were so angry that they screamed and cursed, "Open the city gate quickly, we want to enter the city!"
At this time, Gong Zhi's figure appeared above the city gate.
He smiled coldly and said: "Huh! Jin Xuan, since you are going to die yourself, don't blame me for not accompanying you."
No matter how many soldiers under the city yelled and cursed, Gong Zhi remained silent.
After finishing off the last group of Wuling defenders who were stubbornly resisting, Xiahoulan's army quickly pursued Wuling City.
There is no way forward, and there are pursuers behind.
In desperation, the nearly 10,000 defeated troops
Either they start to flee, or they just kneel down and surrender.