Chapter 318 Just chase, just do it!
The scene of thousands of people surrendering collectively was spectacular.
They lined up in a long queue and filed out of the camp. After handing in their equipment at the designated location, they were led to the other side and sat on the ground, anxiously waiting for their fate.
Will he die?
If the officers and soldiers want to kill prisoners, should they shoot them to death with random arrows, or dig a hole and bury them alive?
Everyone can't help but think about these things, scare themselves, and then tremble uncontrollably.
“You’re going to fight with this little ability?” Jin Zheng walked over, scanned it first, then picked up the riding crop, whipped the prisoner kneeling on the ground hard, and cursed.
The person who was beaten by him screamed in pain, but did not dare to make a loud noise.
“How can we fight if we don’t even know how to use a bow?” Jin Zheng let him go and started beating another man, saying, “Are you coming out to die?”
The prisoner cried. After two sounds, he realized that he was beaten harder and wisely closed his mouth.
Jin San whipped it twice more, then threw the riding crop to his subordinates and looked at the advancing queue in the distance.
"Let's go, it's not interesting to leave this to Li Chong." He got on the horse, clamped his legs under the horse's belly, and rushed out.
At the southern foot of Fangcheng Mountain, the large group of troops has begun to march without any delay.
Wang Queer, deputy governor of the Silver Spear Army, led 1,200 soldiers, carrying five days of food and water with him, and left first, acting as a vanguard.
Jin San accompanied Shao Xun, leading the remaining Silver Spear Army and 7,000 auxiliary troops, totaling more than 10,000 people, closely behind him.
This battle is fought quickly, without giving the enemy any chance.
After the large group of troops left, Li Zhong ordered the battlefield to be cleaned and the prisoners to be screened.
The casualties in this battle were relatively high.
Mainly Xiangcheng Dingzhuang was forced to attack three formations by the strong bows and crossbows behind him, with more than 1,300 casualties.
The casualties of the auxiliary troops were less, less than a thousand.
In the end, the Yamen Army made the final decision, with two to three hundred minor casualties, crushing the enemy's will in one fell swoop and winning a complete victory.
The stronghold was broken in half a day, which can be described as clean and tidy. Li Zhong became much more optimistic about the next battle.
Perhaps they really have time to return to the north and fight on two fronts.
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On the dilapidated post road, defeated soldiers piled up one after another with no end in sight.
Pang Shi frowned and looked carefully.
The enemy is chasing us so fiercely, giving them no chance to contain and rectify our situation. It will be very dangerous if this continues. The longer the collapse lasts, the harder it is to gather the defeated soldiers.
In the end, those who are separated - are really separated.
Pang Shi did not participate in the day's battle, nor did he have the two thousand men under his command.
They had just escorted the grain and grass over, and then they heard the news that the camp had been breached and the entire army was defeated.
The Nanyang servants escorting the car collapsed on the spot and ran away.
Pang Shi met Hou Tuo and was entrusted with an important task by him: Duan Hou.
Pang Shi knew very well that this was not a good job. But Hou Tuo had saved his life and had never asked him for anything before, but it was hard to refuse.
The morale of the more than two thousand soldiers was low and they were panic-stricken. They forced themselves to block the road with the grain carts horizontally, trying to stop the pursuing troops.
Pang Shi led more than a hundred troops to the north, trying to contain more defeated troops and organize them as part of the army after the break.
But just after taking in hundreds of people, it had to be terminated because the enemy's forward appeared in the distance.
There were only fifty or sixty of them. After seeing Pang Shi and others, they did not panic. Instead, they speeded up and rushed over at a small jog.
As they approached, some people ran up the small slopes on both sides of the post road, then put down their spears, took off the strung bows from their waists, and picked up the bows and arrows.
About a dozen people took off the small round shields on their arms, holding the shield in their left hand and the knife in their right hand, and lined up in front.
Finally there were twenty people, armed with spears, in groups of five, a few steps apart, following behind the sword and shield man.
The two sides soon started fighting.
But as soon as they fought, Pang Shi felt something was wrong, especially when an arrow flew over his head with a "thud" and landed on a tree trunk.
Pang Shi subconsciously looked at the feather arrow above his head.
The arrow penetrated the wood very deeply, and the arrow feathers trembled endlessly.
"Whoosh!" Another arrow shot out, hitting the throat of a soldier beside him.
Pang Shi couldn't help but hide for a moment.
On the way to the charge, more than ten people have been lying down one after another.
The arrows shot from the highlands on both sides were fast and urgent, biting the flesh, and their accuracy was frighteningly high.
On the frontal battlefield, the opponent was in a group of five, and the sword and shield wielders stepped forward quickly, using their round shields to block the opponent's swords and spears. , killing two people instantly.
There was also a tall and strong man, wielding a long-handled ax with both hands, and relying on the iron armor on his body, he jumped into the crowd and swept away. The last archer fell at the back, picking up his bow and arrows one after another, harvesting lives with his tricky and vicious archery skills.
There were only more than fifty people, but in the face-to-face fight without any tricks, they showed amazing skills and coordination.
To be fair, it is not difficult to kill one of them alone. Even if their spear skills, sword skills, and archery skills are quite commendable, when three or five people get together and execute group tactics, killing people The difficulty is greatly increased.
One-on-one, their advantage is not that big.
But three against three, five against five, the advantage is too great to watch.
More than a hundred people were beaten back by fifty or sixty people from the opposite side, and their bodies were lost along the way.
"Retreat!" Pang Shi's scalp was numb. He saw the smoke and dust filling the sky behind him, and it seemed that more enemy troops were chasing him. He did not dare to fight anymore and shouted towards the battlefield, Then he ran back.
The battlefield was so noisy that not everyone could hear his voice.
Some people are still fighting, while others have fled and are in chaos.
The archers on the opposite side began to move forward to close the distance, trying to shoot arrows in a more effortless way. However, when they were halfway there, everyone here was defeated, and no one dared to stand and fight.
The Silver Spear sergeant was wearing iron armor and walking as fast as flying. He chased after him with a roar, his bow strings firing continuously, and he continued to reap human lives.
It was not until he saw that the post road was blocked by a large number of carriages and horses that he stopped and sent someone to report back.
After doing these things, they did not stand still, but scattered to both sides, placing their spears, long axes, swords and shields under their feet. Everyone took out their rifles and pointed at the enemy. Shoot arrows in the direction where the army is gathering.
The enemy also mobilized some archers and sent out spear-carrying infantry in an attempt to drive them away.
The arrows fired by these people are really annoying. They are not shooting randomly at all, but are aimed at the roll call. The threat is too great.
And the smoke and dust to the north are getting closer and closer.
The leader of the team was Wang Queer. He first took a look at the enemy's position, and then made a prompt decision and ordered some vehicles to be transferred over.
The sergeants did not hesitate at all, and after much coordination, they mobilized more than ten handcarts from the auxiliary soldiers in the rear formation.
The cart was full of firewood, and someone started pouring oil on it.
Hundreds of silver spear soldiers were guarding the car on the left and right sides. They first used a wave of volleys to suppress the opponent's head.
The auxiliary soldiers pushing the cart had a ferocious look on their faces, roaring and rushing forward.
Someone held a torch and set the vehicles on fire one by one.
The "Chariot of Fire" rushed forward and directly hit the enemy's baggage convoy blocking the road.
With the strong north wind, thick smoke billowing, the fire became more and more intense, and there was a commotion in the enemy formation behind them.
"Dong dong dong..." The drum sounded.
“Kill!” The silver spear soldiers shouted in unison and rushed forward with their spears in hand.
The enemy troops at the rear were already in low morale and could not be defeated by normal attacks. What's more, they were so embarrassed by the fireworks that they turned around and ran away.
Pang Shi ordered to fire arrows, directly killing dozens of the defeated soldiers who were rushing towards him.
But there were so many people fleeing that they could not stop. After sizing up the situation, he could only sigh sadly and run away.
Breaking the queen, breaking the bird's queen, it can't stop it even for a moment!
The Silver Spear Army pursued them all the way without giving the opponent any chance to breathe.
On the 11th, the two sides fought in the northeast of Duyang, and Pang Shi, who was once again cut off from the rear, was defeated and retreated.
On the 12th, the Silver Spear Army passed through Duyang without entering, and stuck behind Hou Tuo's defeated army.
On the night of the 13th, he fought in the old city of Bowang, defeated the enemy again, and beheaded more than 400 people.
Bo Wang is a place name that often appears on the scene. Cao Hong attacked Jingzhou, fought in Wuyang, Ye County, Duyang, Bowang, and also settled in Ye.
Liu Bei stationed in Xinye, marched into Bowang, and reached Ye County, where he set up an ambush and defeated Xia Houdun before returning.
On the evening of the 14th, they fought at Gualijin and killed more than 300 enemy generals and below, and captured Pang Shi.
Gualijin is located in the northeast of Nanyang and is one of the famous ferries.
Guangwu of the Han Dynasty personally conquered Deng Feng in Nanyang and fought in Gualijin and Xiaochang'an. This was the most glorious time of Gualijin.
Wang Queer and Hou Tuo chased and escaped. By this time, both sides were exhausted.
Hou Tuo was followed by no more than a thousand people, all of whom looked panicked and disheveled.
Wang Queer's team was also far away from the baggage team, and they only carried enough dry food for one day.
But everyone is in good spirits and their morale is even higher.
This is not the first time that he has been chasing the enemy like this.
When they first conquered Wang Mi in Hebei, they pursued them in the snow. They did not give the enemy generals a chance to retake the defeated soldiers, nor did they give the enemy a chance to stop and reorganize. They just chased, just fought, and chased to death. Bei, completely dispersed the enemy's spirit and could no longer gather it together.
Ahead, Nanyang City (Wan County) is already in sight.
(End of this chapter)