On the fourth day of the first lunar month of the third year of Zhonghe, after several consecutive days of unsuccessful invitations to fight, Shao Shude basically understood the enemy's state: morale was low, he was worried, and he lacked the will to fight.
Sun Bin is indeed a master of the art of war. The two armies are of equal strength and facing each other. Testing the enemy's internal situation is indeed the first thing to do. In fact, Shao Shude was prepared for the test to fail, but he did not expect that the rebel army was so sparse. Wang Yu broke through in half a day.
In the camp, Guo Qi also succeeded in a night attack, killing hundreds of enemies, burning the camp tents, and losing military resources.
This army is not as good as Meng Kai's half a year ago, and even worse than Zhu Wen's more than a year ago.
Therefore, he did not plan to waste any more time. The soldiers and horses of the four towns of Xingying in the northeast achieved another great victory yesterday, capturing and killing more than 7,000 thieves. Li Changyan of Fengxiang Mansion in the west also led 20,000 people to fight against the thieves.
A small victory, beheading more than a thousand people.
Today's Chao Army really doesn't need to give an overly high evaluation, it can just be beaten directly!
At Chen time, after receiving no response from another invitation to fight, Shao Shude directly ordered Lu Huaizhong to order four battalions of soldiers and two thousand auxiliary soldiers to prepare for the attack. Li Xiaochang of the Yifang Army took the lead, consuming the enemy's arrows and filling in the trenches.
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The war drums sounded. Li Xiaochang gave an order, and more than a thousand soldiers attacked the bandit camp at the front.
Hiding behind the camp fence and firing arrows, the people in the nest seemed to have some courage. Li Xiaochang watched with pain on his face as his capital was spent on filling the trenches, but there was nothing he could do. Who could make him jealous?
Who came to the camp in the north? Now the commander of the camp in the northeast is Wang Chongrong, and the deputy commander is Li Keyong. He is already a man of the camp in the north, so why bother? There is no way out!
After paying about two hundred casualties, the trench was finally filled up. The soldiers of the Yifang Army rushed up again. The rebels resisted desperately and finally drove the Yifang Army back after a lot of effort.
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"Shao Shuai, the thieves are fierce, why not..." Li Xiaochang said hesitantly.
"Attack again." Shao Shude said expressionlessly.
Wang Yu, Guo Qi, Lu Huaizhong and others also looked at Li Xiaochang, and their looks made Li blush a little.
The drums of war are beating again.
This time Li Xiaochang became ruthless and carefully selected more than a thousand people, led by his nephew himself, and charged forward ferociously.
The sound of killing shook the sky, and arrows flew everywhere.
After all, the camp is not a city. The rebels were in a hurry and the repairs were relatively crude. Therefore, the Yifang army once broke through the camp gate and fought fiercely with the rebels. But in the end, they still lacked a breath and were pushed back bit by bit.
"Cai Songyang!" Shao Shude said loudly.
"The end is here!"
"Lead your troops and charge into the camp!"
"Got the order!"
A battalion of 500 soldiers marched in neat steps and approached the fighting camp with an imposing manner.
When the rebels in the camp saw it, they immediately shouted, "Butcher Shao is here." Arrows flew from the wall, but they were still far away and could not threaten Sergeant Tielin.
Shooting arrows randomly at this distance will only waste your energy in vain, and the rebel army will be in a panic.
As they approached, Cai Songyang ordered four groups of archers to come forward and launched a wave of shooting.
After shooting, regardless of the result, the shield hand was in front, and the rifleman followed closely behind, and rushed straight towards the camp gate.
"Stab!" Whether it was the bandit army or the Yifang army running around, everyone who stood in front of them was stabbed to pieces by Chang Zhang.
"Hurry up and shoot arrows! Block the camp gate! Anyone who dares to escape will be killed immediately!"
The generals of the thief army are still making their final struggle, and there are loyal soldiers around them who are desperately resisting. However, not everyone thinks the same as them. The ordinary thief army now recognizes the brown uniforms of the Tielin Army. When they see this accomplice,
When the God Killer came up, his morale suddenly dropped to the bottom. Those who dared to stand and shoot two arrows before running were all warriors. Some people just turned around and walked away, not wanting to fight to the death.
"Huang Wang Xu Er and others plundered the property, woman, this is how you repay the Yellow King?" A thief general was furious and scolded the fleeing sergeant. However, no one paid attention to him, and some polite people knew how to run around him without giving any face.
He knocked him away directly. If you want to be King Huang's loyal minister, you can do it yourself, we are not interested.
"Shoot!" A wave of overwhelming arrows came, and the thief's eyes widened, blood flowed from his orifices, and he fell to the ground.
And his death also marked the change of hands of this camp.
The rebel army was not as capable as the sergeants of the eight towns northwest of Beijing, but they were allowed to occupy Chang'an for two years. The state affairs are like this, and there is not much to say. Fortunately, it is finally coming to an end.
"Continue the attack! I want to see how long Huang Ye can retreat!" War relies on courage. Shao Shude knows the principle of going all out. If the rebel army is so discouraged today, how long will it take to not beat the drowned dog?
I vaguely remember that during the Liang-Jin struggle for hegemony in later generations, the Liang army stationed at Yangliucheng and built twelve strongholds nearby. However, the Jin army destroyed them all in one day. I wonder what the Tielin army can do today?
The war drums continued to sound.
On the fourth day of the first lunar month of the third year of Zhonghe, the morale of the more than 30,000 troops camped in the north was like a rainbow. They successively attacked three villages and captured and killed nearly 5,000 bandits. At night, Huang Ye still did not dare to fight, and continued to shrink his troops and defend.
Among them, the army dominates the stronghold. However, the morale of the rebel army is low, and everyone knows that they can no longer defend it.
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"Pack your things, we can't fight this battle." Huang Ye held the bloody sword and walked around anxiously in the tent.
He had just beheaded the poor mother and daughter, and he didn't even want to eat dinner. He wished he could retreat to Chang'an now.
There is no one in the camp who really wants to fight. Zhang Guiba may be one of them, but after coming once, he disappeared and seemed to have realized that the matter cannot be done.
Huang Ye didn't bother to care what these people were thinking. He just wanted to leave now, as far away as possible. News had come from the west that the civil and military forces in both the DPRK and China were discussing the evacuation of Chang'an. But King Huang still wanted to insist on it.
Persevere and see if there is any hope of holding on. After all, the army surrounded Chang'an twice and failed in the end.
Maybe this third time also failed?
But Huang Ye didn't dare to think so. Today is different from the past. In the past, there were only 78,000 or 80,000 Tang troops fighting them in Guanzhong. When they were less, there were only 50,000 or 60,000. Now I am afraid there are not 200,000! And after two years of fighting, the old
The soldiers were withered, morale was low, and military discipline was even worse.
The sergeants are no longer able to fight!
"General, there are many Tang Army rangers outside. The messenger tried to rush out just now, but was intercepted and killed."
"General, which way are you going? Someone is setting fire to the south. I don't know which camp is on fire."
"Brother Zhang Guiba ran away."
"General, the Tang army is beating drums in the east, are they about to advance?"
"Shut up!" Huang Ye thrust out his sword and stabbed it into the chest of the attendant. He said viciously: "I've been making so much noise all day long that I have a headache."
"Leave now, don't pack your things!" Huang Ye picked up his sword and hurried out of the camp.
There was some commotion in the camp at this time. The sergeants were not stupid. In the past few days of fighting, the Tang army was so fierce that they could not hold any camp. They had long been afraid and expected the general to order the retreat. Although Huang Ye did not inform everyone at this time,
We need to withdraw, but anyone with eyes can see some clues.
Huang Ye no longer cared about the morale of the army. He left the commander's tent and directly called for a general.
"General Ji, are you ready?" Huang Ye asked.
"Six hundred elite soldiers, all old brothers who have followed the last general for many years." General Ji knelt down on one knee and said in a trembling voice, "I hope the general will take care of a certain child."
"Don't worry about this. If someone stutters, it will definitely be of great use to General Ji's family." Huang Ye helped him up, his voice a little louder.
"General, I'm leaving now." General Ji glanced at Huang Ye again and strode away.
After a while, hundreds of people came out of the camp, set off torches, and attacked the Tang army's camp.
Huang Ye took a quick glance, and then disappeared into the darkness surrounded by his followers. This evening, he had sent a general with more than 3,000 people to camp westward, and they would be ready to respond. After he left, the camp
The generals inside will also lead their troops to retreat one after another. This place cannot be defended!
Although the army would be in chaos if they escaped at night, there was nothing they could do. Butcher Shao was so aggressive that he could leave under his nose during the day. The other battalions had already sent people to notify them. Although they had arranged who should leave first and who should stop, but
Huang Ye had no hope at all and would definitely leave in droves. Zhang Guiba was determined to fight, so why not leave first?
At this time, there is no need to talk about military discipline. No one wants to hear this. Don’t laugh at anyone. We all only have one life.
There were treasures everywhere in the camp, and there was a lot of food. In order to avoid alerting the Tang army, they took away few mules and horses, hoping to block them. Now that all the armies were losing consecutive battles, King Huang would not do anything to him.
I can't stay in Chang'an anymore, I still have to go back to Henan.