Chapter 853
Hearing Shangguan Yuanrang's name, Wang Zhong, who was not far away, was frightened out of his wits. He didn't have much ability, but at least he had self-knowledge. Even if ten of him were tied together, he couldn't defeat the Feng Army's number one general TXT download.
Wang Zhong wanted to run away, but Shangguan Yuanrang's eyes were very sharp. He caught sight of Wang Zhong, who was wearing spiritual armor and taking advantage of the chaos to run towards the town. Shangguan Yuanrang didn't recognize him, but since he could wear the spiritual armor, he was You can say that among the enemy troops, they are at the level of captains of thousands or above. Read the full text. Without thinking, he urged his horse to break through a bloody path and pursue Wang Zhong.
Wang Zhong ran a few steps away, but Shangguan Yuanrang had already caught up behind him. Taking advantage of the inertia of his horse, he slashed down with the spirit knife in his hand slanted over his shoulder.
Hearing that the evil wind behind him was not good, Wang Zhong realized that something was wrong and hurriedly returned his sword to block it.
A loud sound was heard in the ear. Shangguan Yuanrang's spiritual sword was slashing at Wang Zhong's spiritual sword. The force of this sword was so great that it directly smashed the spiritual sword into pieces. Wang Zhong flew like a kite with its string broken. When he went out, he hit the wall of a small adobe house hard. With a bang, the wall broke, and Wang Zhong also fell into the adobe house.
He struggled to stand up, but before he could get up, blood spurted out from his mouth. The bones in his body seemed to have fallen apart, and his arms were numb and numb. At this time, Wang Zhong simply stopped getting up and lay on the ground with his eyes closed and pretended to be dead. This trick really works. Shangguan Yuanrang didn't know his identity. After slashing him away with a knife, he ignored him and turned his horse to kill other enemy troops.
The Zhen army that clung to the earthen wall was defeated by the Feng army. There were countless casualties, and only a few of them escaped back to the town.
The Feng Army did not stop for a moment. After capturing the earth wall, they continued to advance into the town. At this point, it was no longer the Zhen Army that resisted the Feng Army, but the previously defeated Sichuan Army and the Reserve Army.
The Pingyuan Army rushed to the front and took the lead in fighting the enemy.
The tens of thousands of Sichuan and Zhen Allied troops could not form a neat formation. It was not that the regiment commander of the Sichuan army did not command, but that the reserve army did not listen to his command at all. These 30 to 40,000 people gathered together in a noisy manner. Not only did they become The formation was broken, and the formation of the Sichuan Army Corps was also crowded into chaos.
On the battlefield, your opponent will never give you a chance to arrange your troops carefully. If the battle formation is not good and the whole army is in chaos, it will only make the opponent more excited and charge more quickly. Soon, the phalanx of the Pingyuan Army came up. One side has a battle formation, while the other side has no structure. The strength of the two armies is not at the same level at all.
Under the battle formation of the Pingyuan Army, the soldiers of the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Army fell to the ground in groups. At this time, the Pingyuan Army was like a harvester, running over the battle formation, leaving corpses all over the ground, piled up like mountains, and blood flowed. into a river. The new recruits in the reserve force completely collapsed. For the new recruits, encountering such a battle for the first time on the battlefield is too cruel and impossible to adapt to.
The new soldiers were defeated first, and the Sichuan Army mixed among the new soldiers saw this and were defeated. They could not defeat the Pingyuan Army in a head-on battle. Now that they were defeated, the situation became even worse. A large number of Sichuan-Zhenlian soldiers who fled were overtaken by the Feng Army. , chopped to the ground, and the battlefield turned into a big melee.
In the small town of Pingxiang, there are fighting and death everywhere. The shouts of killing merge with the screams, turning Pingxiang into a hell on earth with corpses everywhere. Hundreds or even thousands of Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces were cornered by the Feng Army and surrounded. At this time, they wanted to surrender, but the Feng Army no longer accepted it. Regardless of whether the opponent put down their weapons or not, they would kill them all.
It didn't take long, and the battle had come to an end. Pingxiang was still in chaos, but the fighting began to gradually decrease. The Sichuan and Zhen coalition forces could no longer be seen on the main streets of the town. There were only Fengjun soldiers and soldiers all over the ground. corpse.
Xiao Muqing and Liang Qi were inspecting the battlefield under the protection of many guards. At this time, a soldier came to report that about 20,000 Sichuan Zhen wounded soldiers were found in the enemy camp and asked him what they should do with them.
Without waiting for Liang Qi to speak, Xiao Muqing said directly: "Leave no one alive, kill them all!"
"Wait!" As soon as he finished speaking, Liang Qi waved his hand and whispered: "The Zhen army can all be executed, but the Sichuan army must release them all."
"Why?"
Liang Qi smiled and said: "There is a saying in the art of war. If we unite, we will divide, and if we divide, we will destroy them! We are cruel to the Sichuan and Zhen armies on the one hand, and kind on the other, favoring one over the other. There will definitely be gaps between the officers and soldiers of the two armies, especially the Zhen army. It is to our advantage to be suspicious."
Xiao Muqing nodded and said to himself that it made sense. Then he asked in confusion: "Then why not kill all the Sichuan troops and leave the Zhen army behind?"
Liang Qi explained: "The Zhen Kingdom has no wise generals, likes to act impulsively, and is easily fooled, while the Sichuan Kingdom has many wise generals, and has too much self-control. Our approach of favoring one over the other may not be effective."
"Oh! That's it!" Xiao Muqing was happy. No wonder people say Liang Qi is a ghost. He is indeed a ghost!
The Feng army followed Liang Qi's policy and killed all the surrendered and wounded soldiers of the Zhen Kingdom, but kept the Sichuan soldiers. Those who were seriously injured were released on the spot. The Feng Army who were slightly injured and not injured were disarmed and detained. In addition, the Sichuan and Zhen Kingdoms A large amount of baggage and provisions were stored in Pingxiang. The Feng army took away everything they could and set fire to what they couldn't take away.
In this battle, the Pingyuan Army and the Sanshui Army launched a surprise attack on Pingxiang with lightning speed and achieved great success. Not only were the reserve forces of the Sichuan-Zhen Allied Army wiped out, but even the baggage and supplies were reduced to nothing. It can be said that it was a heavy loss if it entered Feng Jun's pocket.
Another sneak attack by the Feng Army was in Lishan City, Gaochuan County, within the Feng Kingdom.
Ren Fang used Lishan as another logistics gathering point for his army and left 20,000 soldiers to garrison there. He thought it was foolproof. As a result, the Western Border Army led by Zuo Shuang, who was lurking in Gaochuan County, suddenly rushed to Lishan City and engaged in a fierce battle with the 20,000 defenders inside. When the battle reached a stalemate, the people in Lishan City suddenly rioted, and cooperated with the Feng Army outside to attack the city, and rushed to the Sichuan Army from the city.
Feng people are martial and have a strong folk style. The people gathered together to riot, and the destructive power was also amazing. The Sichuan Army's defense line began to become chaotic from the inside, and the Feng Army outside took the opportunity to intensify the offensive and rushed into the city in one breath. The two sides started a street fight in the city again.
With the cooperation of the people of Feng, the 150,000 Western Border Army defeated the 20,000 Sichuan Army. In the end, only 2,000 people escaped from the city, and even the main general defending the city was killed in the battle.
The defeat in Pingxiang was an extremely heavy blow to the Chuanzhen coalition, and the defeat in Lishan City was undoubtedly a further blow, which instantly destroyed the Chuanzhen coalition's original perfect and abundant logistical support. The army of more than 600,000 people consumed an astronomical amount of food and grass every day. Without logistics, the result can be imagined, which also made the Chuanzhen coalition's original advantage gradually become passive.
However, the Chuanzhen coalition was not without good news. The only one who reported victory after victory was Li Cheng's troops.
The 150,000 Zhen troops led by Li Cheng and supplemented by Gao Jun and Xun Xiao broke into the hinterland of Feng State, just like entering an unmanned land, winning battle after battle, and no one could compete with them.
After leaving Chongcheng, this army went straight to Fangcheng.
Zhou Lan, the lord of Fangcheng, had already received the news that Chongcheng had been broken and the enemy was coming to Fangcheng. At this time, officials in the city suggested to Zhou Lan that Fangcheng should be abandoned and the people of the city should be led to evacuate to avoid the enemy's edge.
Zhou Lan adopted the suggestions of the officials, but only half of them. He only ordered the officials to lead the people to evacuate, but he did not leave himself, and left thousands of soldiers in Fangcheng to fight to the death.
The officials were puzzled. The news said that the enemy had 150,000 soldiers, and they only had a few thousand people. How could they hold on? Zhou Lan said to his officials: "My generals of Dafeng have never fled without fighting. Although I am a civil servant, I must not embarrass the literati of Dafeng. In this battle, I swear to live and die with Fangcheng!"
Zhou Lan's words moved everyone, and many officials wanted to stay, but they were all rejected by Zhou Lan.
In the end, he only led 3,000 Fangcheng officers and soldiers to stay in the city to deploy defenses.
The speed of the Zhen army's advancement was amazing. It took two days to go from Chongcheng to Fangcheng. It would take at least three or four days for a 150,000-man army to arrive, but the Zhen army only took more than a day to reach the city of Fangcheng.
Without any rest, after arriving at Fangcheng, Li Cheng immediately ordered the whole army to attack the city.
The 150,000 Zhen army, without reservation, launched the attack, and all the troops went up, even the main general Li Cheng went into battle personally. The Feng army was brave, and the Zhen army was equally brave. The Feng army had the will to die, and the soldiers of the Zhen army did not consider whether they could survive the battlefield. The two sides fought fiercely, fighting to the death.
The only more than 3,000 local troops in Fangcheng held the 150,000 Zhen army outside the city for more than an hour, which made Li Cheng furious.
Seeing the fierce attack of the Feng army, the soldiers in front climbed up the ladders one by one, and then fell down one after another. He roared and climbed the ladders himself.
Seeing the main general like this, the soldiers of the Zhen army below were like crazy, shouting and ignoring the arrows, rolling logs, and pounding stones on the city, and just kept climbing up the city.
Fifteen thousand soldiers fought for their lives, and the three thousand Feng army could no longer resist. Soon, the Zhen army broke through the Feng army's defense line, climbed the city wall, and started close combat with the Feng army.
The Feng army could not resist, and retreated to the city gate tower while fighting. When they retreated into the city gate tower, only about a hundred of the three thousand were left.
Even after fighting to this extent, no one in the Feng army surrendered. Zhou Lan led more than a hundred remnants to retreat to the top of the city gate tower and slashed and killed the Zhen soldiers who climbed up.
At this time, the Zhen army had already won the victory, and Li Cheng was much more relaxed. He no longer let the soldiers continue to climb the city gate tower, but added firewood inside to prepare for a fire attack. Before the fire attack, he deliberately walked out of the crowd, raised his head and looked up at the city gate tower, and asked: "Who is your commander? Let him come out and talk to me."
Zhou Lan walked to the edge of the wall, lowered his head and looked down. Well, on both sides of the city wall, there were densely packed Zhen soldiers and generals standing, black and dense, like ants, and there were countless numbers. He took a deep breath and said loudly: "I am Zhou Lan, the Lord of Fangcheng. What do the enemy generals have to say?"
"You are the one who commanded the defense?" Li Cheng asked in disbelief.
"That's right!"
"Civil servants?"
"That's right!"
"Haha——" Li Cheng suddenly laughed. There are also brave civil servants, so why not himself? He said seriously: "Zhou Lan, you are now trapped in a desperate situation and can't escape. I appreciate that you are a talent. I advise you to surrender quickly. As long as you are willing to surrender to Dazhen, I, Li Cheng, can guarantee with my head that you will have a bright future and a rich life!"