Chapter 713: March 3

"How could this happen?" Under the big banner, the muscles on the dark face of the commander Liang's army twitched, looking a little ferocious. The man's surname was Yi Rong. He was a person who firmly advocated the head-on attack of the Wu army during the military discussion. Although Kong Jie did not adopt his suggestion, he still gave him eight thousand soldiers, so that he could delay the speed of the Wu army as much as possible and gain time to complete the purpose of strengthening the wall and clearing the field. After Yi Rong led his troops to the Man River, he immediately destroyed the bridge. All ships on the other side were concentrated on the north bank, dispatching a roaming post to strictly guard the Wu army to prevent the Wu army from smuggling. As a result, in the morning of the same day, several raids patrolling the river bank found that there were several bodies of Wu soldiers and livestock on the river beach. After inspection, he was found.

Later, it was concluded that it was drowning. Yi Rong, who had been in the army for a long time, judged that the Wu army detachment should have crept upstream, and these were drowned and drifted down when crossing the river. After making this judgment, Yi Rong was very excited. He immediately ordered that only the old and weak be left in the camp, bluffing the flag, giving the Wu soldiers on the other side the illusion that their main force was still in the camp. He led the main force up along the river and ambushed the small hills on the left side of the narrow plain on the river bank, preparing to launch a fierce attack once the Wu army detachment fell into the ambush circle, and drove it into the river. But what he never expected was that although the Wu army fell into the trap, it was so difficult to deal with his vanguard and defeated his vanguard.

At this time, the first attack of the Liang army had collapsed. The body left by the Liang army almost filled the official road, leveling with both sides. The Wu army, who defeated the enemy's attack, did not dare to fight back. After all, they were attacked suddenly and did not understand the reality of the enemy. Instead of rashly attacking, it would be better to occupy the favorable terrain and use static and control as the top priority. The battlefield, which was still killing sounds, suddenly calmed down. Only the wailings of the wounded in the middle of the battlefield, and the dying people were mixed together, as if they were not like the human world.

More than a dozen miserable military men knelt on the ground, their faces pressed against the ground, and they were trembling. Yi Rong was on a bed, and his dark face had calmed down. But from his cold voice, he could still feel the suppressed anger in his chest at this time. "I didn't move forward when I heard the drum, retreated in the face, abandoned the army and returned alone. What should I do if I say?"

These military men were all officers who visited the Liang army vanguard, so they naturally memorized the military law of "Seventeen Beheadings and Fifty-Four Forbidden". When they heard Yi Rong's question, they kowtowed like pounding garlic and said repeatedly: "We deserve to die. I only ask the military leader to see the past relationship and give us a chance to make meritorious deeds and die on the battlefield!"

The general Zuo You, who was in the two sides, hurriedly helped to plead with him. Yi Rong sneered and said, "Diet on the battle formation? How can there be such a cheap thing? People come, drag these guys down and behead them. If the soldiers who fled back lose their team's purpose, they will all beheaded, so that the entire army will know that this will only end up retrenching in the last battle!"

With Yi Rong's order, a group of wolf-like soldiers rushed out of the two sides and dragged the officers down. After a while, they presented more than a dozen bloody heads and hung them on the flagpole to show the public. A crying and begging came from a distance, but it was being executed. This was a military law established by Zhu Wen: "Any general and school are killed, all the soldiers in charge of the army will be killed." However, many soldiers fled to the mountains and caused harm to the side, and this method was abolished. Today, Yi Rong was extremely angry and turned it out again. Seeing this, the generals and assistants did not dare to cause trouble and advised him.

After dealing with the defeated troops, he changed his strength and launched a new force to launch a fierce attack. This time he personally led 4,000 main forces to attack the main force of the Wu army by the river, and then sent a thousand deputy generals to attack the Li Yimin army defending the high ground. The Li Yimin army on the high ground saw that the number of enemy troops besieged by several times was several times as high as himself, and their faces changed drastically and said in unison: "Military leader, Liang thieves are several times as high as me. It is better to abandon Gaodi and Governor Lu to join forces with the army!"

Li Yimin observed the Liang army's military situation for a moment and shook his head and said, "No, we are mostly knights, and they are soldiers of separation. If we retreat to the river to reach our own formation, we are in a narrow and unremitting place, we will die! Although the Liang thief has a large number, I have already taken the lead in the first battle, and I am already in a position of superiority. If the army obeys my arrangements, it will not be difficult to break it!"

Seeing that the general was calm, everyone gradually calmed down. Seeing this, Li Yimin divided his cavalry into two teams, led one team down the mountain, and the remaining one team stayed at the top of the mountain. When the Liang army saw the Wu cavalry rushed down the mountain, they stopped and treated each other with spears. Li Yimin just sent the knights to take turns to gallop, bent their bows and arrows, and if the Liang army attacked forward, the Wu cavalry retreated. When the mount was a little tired, Li Yimin retreated to the high ground and exchanged with the guards on the mountain. If the Liang army attacked the mountain, the cavalry under the mountain attacked the back.

After several times, the Liang army was not allowed to rest and eat, and they became tired and gradually slowed down. Li Yimin saw it clearly on the high ground and quickly ordered the drum to shake it. He led the cavalry that had already accumulated energy and still rushed to the place where the commander of the attacking Shanliang Army was located. The Liang army had been fighting for a long time, but was slackened in spirit, but suddenly it was rushed and the formation was in chaos. Liang general shouted loudly, trying to regain the control of the troops, but was shot down by Li Yimin with an arrow and trampled to death. The attacking Shanliang Army was immediately defeated.

At the same time, Lu Hongkai's war had reached the most critical moment. Under Yi Rong's cruel military law, the Liang army launched a crazy offensive towards the Wu army next to the river bank. Ironically, Yi Rong chose a narrow battlefield with the river bank that certainly prevented the Wu army from escaping, and also made it impossible for him to use his number advantage to bypass the front line to attack the Wu army's back. Facing the sixteen-foot spear and the convex gun used by the Wu army, although the Liang army suffered heavy casualties, as time passed, the number advantage gradually took effect. After repelling the three waves of Liang army offensives, the eight Wu army formations at the forefront were reduced by two, and the number of the remaining six was also sparse. Lu Hongkai had to add his guards and servants to maintain the front line without collapse.

"Damn it, I have obviously predicted the enemy's first, but I didn't expect that I could not bite this hard stone!" When I saw the soldiers of our side retreating again, Yi Rong couldn't help but curse: "It's all a group of waste, but only more than two thousand enemy soldiers, and twice the enemy's strength can't be defeated! Those who retreat first have all killed the commanders to serve as a warning to others!"

The generals around also saw the fierce battle on the front line, and many troops had already died and injured more than 30%. In this case, it was not the responsibility of the officer to retreat. However, the general was violent and no one dared to advise and cause trouble. There was only one yaya who was very favored on weekdays. He smiled and said, "Those guys retreated at the last minute, and they deserved to die. But now they are still in the time to use people. It is better to punish them and make meritorious deeds!"

Yi Rong snorted coldly, glanced at his subordinates covered in blood, and finally accepted the advice of his confidants: "The crime of death can be avoided, but the crime of living cannot be spared. I will drag it down and give it fifty whips, it's a heavy!" No one dared to dissuade him again this time. After a while, a scream of whipping came from the hill, and the generals couldn't help but feel sorry for him.

Just after the execution, Yi Rong launched the last *** force and eliminated the lonely army crossing the river in one go. A rumbling sound of cannons suddenly came from the direction of the old camp. He couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "What's going on? Is there something wrong with the old camp?"

At this time, the old camp of Liang's army was already in a sea of ​​fire. Groups of Liang soldiers were fleeing outside the camp in panic. In the flames, a group of mules and horses were neighing loudly and running around, which made the chaos even worse. It turned out that Lu Runxing had sent a dispatched troops to cross the river from the upper reaches, but he was not idle. With a heavy reward, he finally found more than ten small boats hidden by the people in a hidden river bay more than ten miles downstream. The Wu army transported more than a thousand people over overnight, preparing to attack the Liang army at that time, but the surveillance found that the Liang camp was very empty, and the guards were just old and weak. The Wu army's leading general Zuo made a quick decision, launched a bombardment, and set a fire on the attack. The Liang camp defenders were immediately defeated.

By the river, the Liang army was in chaos. The black smoke rising from the old camp rose straight into the sky. Even here, I could see clearly that the Liang army soldiers who had been fighting hard for more than two hours were hungry and exhausted. Now seeing the old camp lost, they dropped their weapons and fled in all directions. Even if the generals of the war were swaying their swords, they could not stop the defeated soldiers like the collapsed dam. Soon, they were also swallowed up by the defeated soldiers. Seeing this, Li Yimin, who had broken the besieged high ground, ordered his knights to cut down dozens of small trees, tied them to the ponytails, and rolled up smoke and dust. The other cavalry clamored loudly and waved flags. When the defeated soldiers of the Liang army saw that the Wu army had arrived, they were even more frightened, trampled on each other, and ran away wildly.

In the old camp of Liang's army, the fire had been put out, and the corpses of burnt black people and animals were everywhere. They emitted a unique stench after the protein was burned, which made people feel nauseous and completely eliminated. A group of prisoners carried the corpses dejectedly under the drive of Wu army soldiers. These people with uncertain fate looked at the neatly arranged copper cannons and the mesh guns on the shoulders of the division soldiers, as well as those spears that had been divided into two pieces, using these strange weapons. The Wu soldiers repelled the attacks of enemies that were several times more than their own, and eventually led to the defeat of the Liang army. For the first time, they felt that the enemies in front of them were completely different from those they had encountered in the past, but as for what were the differences, they could not say for a moment.

"Lu Zhaowu, this time you defeat the enemy, you will be worthy of being a small number of enemies and make great contributions!" In the camp, Lu Runxing said in a deep voice. Since Lu Hongkai had already reached the scattered rank of Zhaowu's captain, Lu Runxing was called his official position in front of the generals to show his respect for him.

"In this battle, the general manager is in charge first, and the soldiers fight behind. The last generals do not dare to take credit for their duties!" Lu Hongkai replied with bowing, because he bowed and wore a helmet, he could not see the joy and anger on his face. He paused for a moment and continued, "It was Li Wanshi, a cavalry general who led the knights to deal with the powerful enemy and won a lot of gains. He is a rare general!"
Chapter completed!