Chapter 71 Killing
Logically speaking, even in the current situation, 7,000 people have an absolute advantage over less than 3,000 people. However, when Zhao Wei and Ren Qi faced the army in front of him, a chill in his heart for no reason. The cold eyes stared at them like wolves, which made people feel cold in their hearts. On the other hand, the previous gathering was almost driven by others, with low morale and no desire to fight.
"Retreat." Zhao Wei suddenly sighed in a low voice. First, he was unsure. Second, even if he defeated Zhang Liao's troops, his current strength could not stop Ye Zhao's counterattack. If Luo County was really destroyed, it would not take long for Ye Zhao's army to come here. At least Zhao Wei did not have the confidence to fight Ye Zhao without the advantage of his troops.
"But how does this person deal with it?" Ren Qi also felt intent to retreat at this moment, but Zhang Liao had already chased him here. If they wanted to retreat, Zhang Liao might not agree.
The city gate is so big, and seven thousand people have to go through, and the formation will definitely be in chaos. When Zhang Liao led his army to pounce on him, he may immediately be the result of collapse.
Zhao Wei turned his head to look at Zhang Liao, and a trace of cold sweat appeared on his forehead. He never thought that this young player who was not noticeable in his eyes was so difficult to deal with.
"Defeat it first!" Zhao Wei gritted his teeth.
It sounds a bit contradictory. In fact, Zhao Wei was worried that Ye Zhao's army would come to fight back later and they could not resist it. They were unwilling to compete with Ye Zhao again. However, even when facing Zhang Liao, even if he was a little scared, he did not think that his seven thousand soldiers would not be the opponent of the other party.
"Shoot the arrow!" The two main generals here were still discussing how to withdraw. Zhang Liao did not have so many concerns over there. After the troops gathered, he directly issued an attack order.
The dense clusters of arrows shot over without any preparations from Zhao Wei and Ren Qi. At the same time, Zhang Liao led 800 elite soldiers to pounce on them like hungry wolves. The wolfish nature that had been tempered on the battlefield outside the border was completely burst out at this moment, and he rushed forward with an endless attitude.
The crowded soldiers of Jianwei were unable to exert their number advantage in this small space. A rain of arrows fell, and the soldiers fell to the ground. The impact of Zhang Liao following the enemy completely destroyed the small amount of morale. The soldiers in the front row began to rush back frantically, but the soldiers in the back row were completely unaware of anything, and were blocked with the soldiers in the front row and were shot and killed by the clusters of arrows that followed.
The stalemate did not last for a quarter of an hour, and Jianwei's troops were completely defeated. There was no need for the orders from Zhao Wei and Ren Qi. The remaining army rushed out of the city, and it was useless for Ren and the two of them to beat and scold them.
"Retreat!" Seeing Ren Qi trying hard, but Zhao Wei grabbed him and said bitterly, at this time, the morale of the army had dispersed, and it was useless to continue to fight.
"Chase!"
Zhang Liao was shot out of the real fire this time, so he was reluctant to let the two of them leave. He led his army to chase them out of the city, hanging Jianwei's troops and horses, chasing them ten miles outside the city, killing corpses everywhere outside the east gate of Chengdu, so he was unwilling to withdraw the troops. If he hadn't been concerned about the emptiness in the city, he would have been chasing until the remaining Jianwei soldiers were wiped out before he would give up.
After withdrawing the troops and returning to the city, Zhang Liao ordered people to close the four gates and re-arrange the four gates to defend. Then he led the remaining troops to start pacifying the people in the city. This killing also shocked the hearts of those who were ready to move in the city.
Three days later, Ji Ling led a large army to Cheng/Du called the gate, but was blocked outside the city.
Zhang Liao came to the city and bowed to Ji Ling, "General, forgive me, lord has an order. No one is allowed to enter the city before lord arrives in Chengdu."
"Where are the soldiers of Jianwei?" Ji Ling ignored it. Ye Zhao's army was mainly military orders and did not talk about personal affairs.
"It has been repelled by the last general, and now it should have retreated to Jianwei!" Zhang Liao bowed.
"I'll ask Wen Yuan to clear the food route for me!" Ji Ling nodded, and without waiting for Zhang Liao to answer, he led his army to Jianwei. Since it was repelled by Zhang Liao, it means that Zhao Wei and Ren Qi had taken action against Zhang Liao. In this way, the reason for attacking Jianwei was more sufficient.
Three more days later, when Ji Ling rushed to Jianwei, Zhao Wei and Ren Qi had already received news that the gates of the nine counties of Jianwei were closed, and Ji Ling didn't say much, and pushed them over one city at a time. For three consecutive days, Han'an, Nanguang and Jiangyang counties were destroyed, and the gentry in the city were all slaughtered in the name of communicating with the enemy.
Wuyang, the prefect's mansion.
"What is Ye Zhao trying to do!" Ren Qi rushed to Zhao Wei with a pale face, pulled Zhao Wei's eyes and said with a bloodshot: "In just three days, more than a dozen families were uprooted by the Ji Ling Dog Thief. I sent someone to surrender, but they were all rejected!"
Ji Ling didn't have many soldiers. Ye Zhao used to be like Hanzhong, and he divided five divisions, each with 10,000 troops. Ji Ling was one of the main generals of the five divisions, with a name of about 10,000 people, and the actual force is now only more than 8,000.
Before attacking Chengdu, Jianwei still had the power to fight, but in the battle between Chengdu, he suffered losses and lost his soldiers and generals. He was chased by Zhang Liao, and countless people were killed and fled. He actually brought back less than 3,000 or 3,000 troops. It is naturally impossible to defend against nine cities. Therefore, most of the troops were concentrated in Wuyang. The remaining counties had more than 100 soldiers. Even if those private soldiers from aristocratic families could not gather a thousand people. The ordinary city was not as majestic as Chengdu. How could it stop Ji Ling's 8,000 troops?
Zhao Wei sat weakly on the seat, looked ahead without any hesitation, shook his head and sighed: "It seems that Ye Zhao, like Liu Yan, has long been able to establish his authority!"
"What should we do now?" Ren Qi was extremely anxious at this moment. If Ji Ling continued to kill like this, Jianwei would probably have no family in the future.
"I have sent someone to ask Mr. Qiande to plead with me, but it is still unknown whether it is useful. Even if it is useful, it may be difficult to catch up! For the sake of the present, I can only ask the families to gather Zhuang Yong to fight against Ji Ling together, hoping that they can catch up." Zhao Wei closed his eyes in pain. If he had known this, he would not have used any scheming. He thought that Ye Zhao would attack the Shu family after he delayed and refused to help him win over the aristocratic family, but he did not expect Ye Zhao would be so straightforward and ruthless.
In addition, Liu Yan had already cleaned up the Shu family once before. After this battle, I am afraid that the entire Shu family would not dare to be enemies with Ye Zhao anymore. It was just that such atrocities would be so atrocities. Wouldn't Ye Zhao be afraid that it would not last long?
Chapter completed!