Chapter 19 White Horse Hunting Nagahara(2/3)
At this thought, Han Wenyue reluctantly put away his sadness and anger, and said with a forced smile: "What Wang Sima said is that although I am defeated this time, I am all-powerful and whole-body, I think I will achieve something in the future..."Huainanzi" said, a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise.
Knowledge is not a blessing; "Mencius" says, therefore, when heaven assigns great responsibilities to people, their minds must first be tortured..."
Before he finished speaking, all of a sudden, the colors of the dozen or so people in the grass changed.
It turned out that everyone was from Xiliang and had experienced martial arts, so they felt the tremors on the ground almost at the same time and judged that a large group of cavalry was coming from the east.
You don't need to think about it to know that this is the main force of the Han army's cavalry that comes following the Baima Yiliang and is responsible for cutting up the Xiliang army.
And sure enough, everyone raised their heads slightly in the grass, and faintly saw the killing spree over there. Yi Cong on the white horse hesitated for a moment, and after exchanging some words with the leader of the general who was riding the divine white horse, he actually just hit him.
Then he gave up the pursuit of the Xiliang cavalry and headed west towards Chencang City.
Han Sui was startled for a moment, and then sighed more and more: "This man is really a good general. I know that since the rear army is following, I should put the overall situation first and go west to Chencang City to cut off our army's retreat... This kind of thing is easy to say.
It’s difficult to do, but if you put yourself in his shoes, who can easily give up the gains in front of you..."
"Han Gong!" Wang Sima next to him suddenly reacted and shouted to stop the other party. "Let's escape while this person leaves and the main cavalry of the Han army has not arrived!"
Han Sui and others suddenly realized this, and immediately got up, trying to find the ownerless horses on the battlefield, and took the opportunity to escape. However, Han Wenyue had just found a horse, but like several people around him, he suddenly stood there, and
Breaking out in cold sweat.
"Mr. Han, where are we going to escape?" Wang Sima, who had been advocating about destiny just now, was the first to ask.
Han Sui was speechless... That's right. The group of white horse cavalry had already passed them and headed towards Chencang. There was a large group of Han cavalry approaching behind them. Where should he and others escape?
You can't go to the east, you can't go to the west, it's not that you can't go to the north... But I and others were chased by the group of white horse cavalry and fled along the Wei River. They had unknowingly arrived at the southernmost part of the battlefield. If they went north,
Afraid it's too late?
As the tremors under his feet continued, Han Sui and the few people around him looked at each other, but they all looked at the Weishui River to the south, which was shining with some kind of mesmerizing light!
"Is it possible to walk along the Wei River?" Wang Sima's voice trembled again. "How thick is the ice? I remember that when we were fetching water, we could easily penetrate the ice with a spear."
"Abandon your horse and take off your armor." Han Sui let go of the reins, his voice trembling.
The next moment, these dozen people ignored them and quickly turned around and walked towards the Weishui River bed. As they walked quickly, they hurriedly took off their armor and other extraneous items.
However, it was mid-afternoon and the ice was slippery. Several people discarded their helmets and armor and carefully supported themselves across the river. Before they were halfway through, a large group of Han cavalry appeared behind them. They were so surprised that several of them slipped directly, and then
He fell to the ice with all the people who were supporting him!
"Don't look back." Han Sui, who was lying on the ice with a bruised nose and face, shouted through gritted teeth. "The Han army will not risk crossing the river to chase us. Let's cross the river quickly!"
And sure enough, although these cavalrymen saw scattered defeated soldiers on the Wei River trying to cross the river, and saw a dozen men without armor among them, and probably knew that they were of extraordinary origin, they did not take risks, let alone waste time. On the contrary,
Quickly follow Xu Rong's previous order and circle to the north here in order to divide and encircle it.
In the end, Han Sui and others were allowed to safely climb through the ice layer of the Weishui River, which was more than a hundred steps wide.
After crossing the river, everyone knew that they had completely escaped from death, and they couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.
However, at this moment, it was "Huainanzi" and "Mencius" again. Han Suifu, who was not afraid of falling on the ice, escaped to the sky, but was miserable for a while, and finally threw his head up and fell.
Tears, and the more I cry, the harder it is to let go.
It turned out that he only thought about the shame of being knocked off his helmet by the white horse warrior and the shame of climbing on the ice to cross the river. Then he thought of Cheng Gongying who stayed at the camp for him, and Yan Xing who had been rushed off his horse before.
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In fact, it wasn't just Han Sui, there were many others... That battle just now was really too shameful. They had been traversing Liangzhou for several years, but had they ever encountered such a level of defeat?
The nine thousand cavalrymen were confused from the beginning of the battle, and then collapsed to this point!
But shame is shame, what should we do when we reach this point? Yes, so far, the Liangzhou army has only collapsed, and the real deaths have not yet come to that point, especially the cavalry. If they can gather one or two, they may still be able to
Can fight.
However, after finally crawling over, do we have to crawl back again?
It can only be said that who would have thought that the forward sent by General Wei Gongsun Xun was so powerful that it could pierce the entire Liangzhou Army in one go? Who would have thought that the large supporting force behind him would arrive in such a timely manner and do what he did?
What about partition?
After crying for a while, Wang Sima, seeing that his lord Li Xiangru was more and more likely to die, tried to persuade him: "The matter has come to this, Mr. Han, don't worry too much. Although the Han cavalry is coming,
The division is quick, but after all, our army is strong and the battle line is so wide. They may not be able to completely encircle it. At least more than half of them can escape from the north, right? Let's set off quickly, go around from the upper reaches to gather the troops, and then return to Liangzhou to train for a few years.
, might not be able to make a comeback?”
Han Sui tried his best to put away his sad face, and then nodded slowly, but as soon as he stood up in the withered grass on the river bed with his numb legs, his face suddenly turned ashen.
"Mr. Han?" Everyone around him was a little panicked.
"How can more than half of the people escape?!" Han Sui shouted and beat his voice. "Now I am afraid that Gongsun Xun will also put a cavalry in the north... not too many, two or three thousand, enough to cooperate with the Han army
The main force on horseback is enough to drive our defeated troops southward! And with Gongsun Xun using his troops like this, how could he forget to arrange it like this? Looking at the tenderness of yesterday and the fierceness of today, how can Gongsun Xun be the kind of person who is open to one side?
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Everyone around them changed their colors.
"For today's plan." Han Sui's eyes suddenly became blank again, and then he suddenly knelt down in the grass on the south bank of the Wei River. "We can only hope that the main forces of the battalions behind our army will not be defeated too quickly. In fact, if we can hold on until the sky
Black, there is still some way to survive..."
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"Once it gets dark, the Han army will not be able to identify us, so we can escape in the dark. More importantly..." Han Wenyue, who was covered in mess, stared at the ice of the Weishui River in front of him, and said with hope. "After dark.
, the river ice becomes solid again, and more people may be able to successfully cross the river and escape."
Everyone nodded one after another, but when they turned to look at the sun hanging high above Chencang City in the distance, they were speechless. Then they all followed Han Sui's example and knelt down in the grass on the river bed and looked north...
Again, at this point, what can they do besides taking such actions? Are they going to crawl back again?
At the same time, Gongsun Xun didn't know what a tragic state his old friend had fallen into, nor did he know that Lu Bu had used his great power to actually complete the task of piercing the enemy's entire formation without looking for Han Sui.
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In fact, General Wei was still walking slowly.
By the way, shortly after the previous war, Gongsun Xun received a report that the camp of Huang Yan, the weakest among the rebel leaders, the former Jiuquan prefect, had been breached, and he rushed there on his own.
As soon as Gongsun Xun arrived at Huang Yan's camp, he heard that another rebel leader, Longxi Governor Li Xiangru, had also abandoned the camp and left.
This does not mean that Li Xiang's move was completely wrong... You must know that the rebels have five large camps, running side by side for fifteen miles, from south to north, starting from the bank of the Wei River, namely Ma Teng, Guo Guo, Li Xiangru,
Huang Yan and Han Sui are in this order. Among them, Li Xiangru's camp is in the middle. In theory, it should be at an angle with Huang Yan and the kingdom's camp next to it. However, Huang Yan is too weak, and for some reason, there is no one there.
To provide support, Gai Xun, a top three-level general in Liangzhou, led 5,000 Liangzhou veterans and defeated them in one battle, so they had to abandon the camp and leave.
In such a situation, Li Xiangru's camp in the center would inevitably fall into a multi-faceted battle situation, and might even be quickly divided and surrounded by interspersed cavalry.
So in order to preserve our strength, it cannot be said that it is unreasonable to choose to retreat before the Han army was completely surrounded.
However, with his withdrawal, he finally exposed the main camp of his kingdom on the other side.
The kingdom was the nominal leader of the rebels, and had many miscellaneous troops attached to it. It did not send cavalry to support Han Sui this time, so its troops were strong and could be called the fulcrum of each battalion.
As a result, Gongsun Xunfu moved his flag again, starting from Huang Yan's camp, passing through Li Xiangru's camp, and heading to Wang Guo's camp, intending to supervise the battle.
However, before he arrived there, Bao Xin, who was in charge of attacking here, received support from both sides at the same time... On one side was naturally the Han army facing Li Xiangru after retreating, and on the other side was Huangfu who rushed to the front of the battle and noticed the situation.
Song, took the initiative to order the reinforcements to be sent out.
Facts have proved that Huangfusong's temporary tactical move worked wonders.
Although Ma Teng in front of him was not as powerful as the Kingdom, his combat power and tenacity were far greater than that of the Kingdom, so he could not attack for a while. At this time, the infantry was dispatched to assist Bao Xin, forming a three-sided siege of the Kingdom's camp, but it was
Caught the opponent off guard, and the camp was immediately destroyed.
Taking the initiative to retreat is not the same thing as being suddenly attacked from three sides. The kingdom's camp was completely out of order, the army was completely out of control, and it almost quickly became a defeated army.
Ma Teng set up camp next to the Wei River. Although he had not lost his combat power, seeing the situation in the kingdom's camp next to him, he was about to become an isolated camp. He also sent two thousand cavalry to Han Sui as a "support force"
, but at this time, there was not even a hair on the horse that was attacked by the opponent's cavalry... Without reinforcements, how could you dare to risk your life?
As a result, Ma Teng quickly abandoned the camp and left.
Almost at the same moment, Dong Zhuo's troops in the north also completely defeated Han Sui's camp, which was unable to support itself, and captured the camp's commander.
Han Sui was the most powerful faction in the Xiliang army and the most difficult opponent. When Gongsun Xun heard the news, he just thought that Han Sui had been captured, so he had no time to take care of the kingdom and the escaped Ma Teng, so he turned north again and tried to
Go to Han Sui's camp.
However, when they rushed there, they discovered that Han Sui actually took the initiative to "escape" before the war started, and only captured Cheng Gongying.
Not much to say,
Someone came from behind to report that one of the rebel leaders, Huang Yan, the former Jiuquan prefect, was surrounded in the front. He knew that he would not end well and was resisting stubbornly.
And when Gongsun Xun continued to move the guard of honor and arrived at Huang Yan's place, he only saw the other party's head... It was said that he committed suicide...
I just ordered to hang my head in public, and they said that the kingdom was captured...
Unlike Gongsun Xun who was constantly turning and moving, on a platform north of Han Sui's military camp, Dong Zhongying coldly watched Gongsun Xun's banner going south and north, walking east and west for a long time.
In fact, shortly after the war started, Dong Zhuo moved to this platform with an excellent view, and then he never moved, just looking at the battlefield from a distance:
He saw the combination of Lu Bu and Baima Yicong in the distance moving forward inexorably, piercing the rebel cavalry formation along the way;
When he arrived, Gai Yuangu was worthy of being the only Liangzhou general after him. After the first battle, he attacked Huang Yan's military camp with a force attack;
To be continued...