Chapter 7 Still Fighting
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Hu Tu was a little dumbfounded... More than 400,000 people and nearly one million livestock all walked on a mountain road. How long will it take? When they arrived in Chengzhou, Xiao Gan had already breathed and had to dispatch reinforcements to defend the city.
Whether the army can seize the victory and conquer Chengzhou at the fastest speed is not only related to the success or failure of the south, but also to the survival of the rebels. This matter cannot be joked about. But Hu Tu dare not say that he is afraid, this tiger king is too powerful. He used more than 10,000 people to withstand the attack of the 50,000 Jin army. After fighting for a day, he forced the Jin people to repel it. After this battle, the tiger king was amazing. He was so powerful that no one dared to stop his sharpness, and no one touched the tiger's butt.
However, Huang She asked herself to arrive at the battlefield in person to present Li Hu to convince Li Hu, and this matter also concerns his own life, so it would be impossible not to persuade him. Hu Tuxiao narrowed his eyes and blinked again and again, and he mustered up the courage to persuade him a few words. Li Hu shook his hand and was very determined.
Siege? What are you going to attack now? The Jin army may make a comeback and fight when the rebels are exhausted. The Jurchens are wild wolves in the desert. They will never let go after biting their prey and will never stop. Therefore, the soldiers in the rear cannot retreat now. There are 19 generals in the rebels, and now seven generals are destroyed. Five generals are the capital. They must not be used as infantry unless they have to. In this way, only seven generals are left, which will also damage the soldiers.
If the general is taken to attack the city, these seven generals will probably be destroyed. The army is completely destroyed, even if it goes south, the way out is Li Hu, very much, hopes that Luo Qinghan can succeed. If the resentful army mutiny or rebel, then Xiao Gan has no other way except retreating and defending Xingzhong Prefecture. In this way, the rebel army can retreat smoothly, but this kind of thing is not sure. It depends on the fate of the great fortune. If he wants to fight a bloody path, he must rely on the sword in his hands.
Hundreds of bonfires were lit on the left and right mountains and the back mountains, and the fires soared into the sky, illuminating the winding mountain paths.
On the mountain road, there were crowds of people, carrying the old and the young, carrying the old and the young. Camels, horses, cattle and sheep were mixed together, bustling like a whistling dragon.
Huang She carried her hands on her back and forth, walking back and forth on the top of the mountain, irritable and restless.
Li Hu's order was as expected. Since Wanyan Zongwang proposed to exchange 400,000 Han people for the way south, Li Hu's idea changed. He suddenly regarded the Han people who were making a living behind the rebel army as treasures and never left them. Perhaps it was his and Chai Yun's persuasion that played a role. Abandoning the Han people who followed the rebel army was equivalent to abandoning the reputation and loyalty of the Tiger King. So Li Hu's idea changed, and he had to fight to protect these Han people.
Of course there is no error in this approach, but the problem now is that the rebel army has not yet escaped from the predicament and is still surrounded by the Liao and Jin armies. Only by conquering Chengzhou and conquering Tongchang City can the rebel army jump out of the encirclement, so the most urgent task is to attack Tongchang City immediately.
According to time calculations, Xiao Gan was still on the way to escape, and the Xi army was also fleeing. Mao Jun, Tie Ying and Gao Baolong led their troops to chase after him. Only a hundred miles to Chengzhou, if they were not stopping, it would be in more than two hours. If the rebels could attack the city tomorrow morning and take advantage of the shock of Xiao Gan and the Liao army, they would launch another fierce attack, and the rebels would be quite sure to capture Tongchang City.
Siege requires army and even more siege equipment. When in the mountain city, the rebels quickly built a lot of siege equipment. These things are now in the old camp and are all in the Tiger Roar Platform, and they need to be transported to the front line as quickly as possible. However, these people who have been making a living run faster than anyone else. As soon as the Tribulus Mountain was taken down, they began to retreat. This retreat was crowded with people. The mountain road of Tribulus Mountain was immediately blocked. After dawn, the entire hundred-mile long mountain road from Tribulus Mountain to Chengzhou was probably blocked. In fact, it was impossible to quickly transport these siege equipment and weapons and supplies to Tongchang City.
The rebel army was unable to quickly conquer Chengzhou and take down Tongchang City, which was equivalent to being still in the encirclement and not getting out of the predicament.
Huang She became more angry the more he thought about it. He was angry and hated the people in front of him who were only concerned about his own escape. The rebel army fought to the death and defeated the Liao army at the cost of tens of thousands of casualties and took down the Jin army, and blocked the Jin army at the Tiger Roar Platform. He finally reversed the situation and created an opportunity to break through, but in a blink of an eye, a great opportunity to break through was ruined by these people.
Brother Huo Liu and Li Jin followed the crowd and sighed helplessly when they saw Huang She's angry. They just looked at the foot of the mountain. They were crowded and crowded. If they wanted to get them all out, they would have to be at least tomorrow morning. There was only one mountain road from Mount Targas to Chengzhou. The road was narrow, and more than 400,000 people and nearly one million livestock continued all the way, which would probably take dozens of miles.
In other words, before the rebels captured Chengzhou, heavy troops must be deployed on Mount Targas to block the Jin army.
Yuanye walked out of the military tent. Brother Huo Liu saw him and asked hurriedly: "Is there the latest news on the General Commander's side? What are the casualties in Hu Xiaotai?"
Yuanye looked sad and said in a low voice: "Luo Zhongyuan, the deputy commander of the Black Mountain Army, was killed in battle."
Huo Liuge and Li Jin were disgraced, and Huang She even exclaimed in surprise. Luo Zhongyuan was killed in battle? This was so shocking. The deputy commander of the Black Mountain Army went to the battlefield to fight and died in battle. From this, we can imagine how fierce the battle was.
"The first general of the Black Mountain Army, Wen Yuan, and the second deputy general Hu Lei were killed in battle." Yuan Ye continued, "The first deputy general Huang Yong was seriously injured, and the second general Gao Hao was also injured. There were 5,000 generals of the Black Mountain Army, and 1,500 prisoners were added during the battle, but in the end, there were only more than 2,200 people who survived. The Black Mountain Army was about to finish the battle."
"The sixth general Wu Xiong and deputy general Zhu Tu were injured one after another. The sixth general was 2,500, and nine hundred prisoners were added during the battle, and more than one thousand four hundred survived. The sixth general was beaten and destroyed."
"Li Yuan, the eighth general of the Tiger Lie Army, was seriously injured, and the deputy general Lu He was killed. The eighth general had 2,500 people, and 600 prisoners were added during the battle, but in the end, only more than 800 people survived. The eighth general was also considered to be over."
"Tan Hongyi, the thirteenth general of the Tiger Lieutenant Army, and the deputy general Liang Bin were injured. In the final decisive battle, the thirteenth general of the Ma Jun became an infantry army and all killed them, and in the end more than 1,700 people survived."
"The two Iron Guards have been following the general commander and fighting, and have lost more than half of them. They are preparing to use Li Bing as the general commander to protect the general commander and be killed in battle."
"The old camp commander Luo Sinan was seriously injured and has been unconscious so far. More than 300 old camp guards, more than 1,000 people, and two thousand prisoners were killed, more than half of them were lost."
"The entire rear army originally had five generals, one thousand Iron Guards, ten thousand 13,500 people, plus the three thousand prisoners who were added up, a total of 16,500 people. Now there are only about 6,600 people left, and ten thousand soldiers were injured and killed in the battle. If the number of people killed in the old camp was added, in the battle of Hu Xiaotai, our army would lose about 12,000 people."
The rear army lost tens of thousands of people, and the battle was too tragic. It is not difficult to imagine Li Hudi's mood at this moment. The rear army was unable to fight again. Although the Jin army suffered a lot of losses, it had a large number of troops. After resting for a night, the Jurchens were very likely to make a comeback, so he needed troops to guard the Hu Xiaotai and needed to gain enough time for the people to evacuate. How about the front?" Li Jin suddenly asked, "How many troops are there in front? Can you capture Tongchang City?"
Yuanye smiled bitterly and shook his head.
"Now the Tiger Lie Army is the fifth, ninth, tenth, and eleventh generals and four generals, the main forces of the infantry army are behind. In this way, except for the four generals and horse army of Baoshou, there are only the seventh generals of the Tie Supervisor, the Ghost Commander's Yan Wang Army and the Tuo Supervisor's Yunshuo Army."
"The horse army cannot use it to attack the city. That is the capital of the rebel army. It will be gone after the battle. The Seventh General, the King of Hell Army, and the Yunshuo Army suffered varying degrees of losses when attacking the Liao army. They only had 6,000 troops together. In addition, Mao Shuai still has six troops. This is the number of troops drawn from the fifth, tenth and eleventh generals when attacking the back mountain. If the loss of land is eliminated, there will be only 1,000 people at most. In other words, the front army can use only 7,000 troops to attack the city, which is too small."
Huang She looked at Huo Liuge and others, shook her head repeatedly, and her skeleton face looked very ugly. "There must be a left-behind army in Tongchang City. If nothing unexpected happens, Xiao Gan should have left two or three thousand people. With these two or three thousand people, Xiao Gan can block us."
Then Huang She sighed, helpless and indignant, "What can we do now? We are still surrounded by the Liao and Jin armies and cannot rush out."
Brother Huo Liu lowered his head and looked speechless, with a very depressed expression.
Li Jin frowned and pondered for a long time, and suddenly said, "The Thunder Army still has more than 1,500 people, and I can still fight. I led the army to hurry and rushed to Chengzhou overnight to meet Mao Shuai."
Huang She hesitated.
The Thunder Army is responsible for guarding the prisoners. Li Jin is gone, who will come to see the prisoners?
Now there are many prisoners, including the guards’ personal army, with a total of 14,500 people. After the rebel army captured the back mountain, Xiao Gan led the Xi army to run away, leaving the guards’ personal army alone. Gao Baolong then surrounded the guards’ personal army with the horse army. The Han army was so heartbroken that all surrendered, with about 6,700 people.
Chapter completed!