Chapter 177
Huang Long frowned and shouted angrily: "How could there be a cavalry? Where is Yu Digen? Didn't he swear that Qinshui is isolated and helpless? Where is Guo Daxian? Where is his interspersed troops, where is my elite soldiers?!"
He asked several questions in a row, but no one could answer him. Zuo Jiao bowed to Huang Long and asked in a low voice: "Ship Huang, what should we do?"
"What should I do?" Huang Long roared angrily: "Come and ask me, who should I ask? Even Cao Ang appeared on the battlefield. No need to ask, the Huns must have suffered a defeat! Even the Huns suffered a defeat, what else can we do?!"
The Left Chief whispered: "Why should we withdraw?"
Everyone shook their heads repeatedly. It took such a great price to break through Xiangshan Ridge and Yujun Mountain. They retreated without getting any benefits. Wouldn't it be worth the loss? Even if they can't get the food in the military camp, at least they have to go to Qinshui to rob.
Huang Long frowned and asked in a low voice: "There is still no news about Guo Daxian? Where are the elite soldiers he led?"
The Zuo Jiao hesitated and said this time: "Cao army claimed to defeat Guo Daxian's troops in Qinshui County, and Guo Shuai was spared only. However, maybe they were lying about military information..."
Huang Long sighed, "The other party should not lie about such news. If you lie, it will be difficult to justify yourself afterwards. It seems that Cao's army may have defeated Guo Shuai's troops, but Guo Daxian escaped by chance. Alas!"
Seeing Huang Long, Zuo Jiao and the others sighed. Yu Digen gritted their teeth and whispered: "Ship Huang, Shuai Zuo, I don't think you have to be depressed. We still have hope! Although the Cao army may have severe damage to the Huns, with the combat effectiveness of the Huns, the Cao army should not win easily and will definitely pay a heavy price!
Besides, according to the news I received, the Cao army has been fighting with the Huns these days. Even after the Huns retreated, the main force of the Cao army immediately turned to Qinshui, and it would take more than two days to march! Although Cao Ang appeared on the battlefield, I guess the Cao army should not have many troops to aid, and it is likely that they were just those cavalry!"
Huang Long's eyes lit up and he said in a deep voice: "In other words, we have two days to attack Cao's army? In this way, we have hope of defeating the enemy!"
Zuo Jiao shook his head and said with a wry smile: "With that being said, it will take one day for our large troops to cross Yujun Mountain, and it will take another half a day to rush to Qinshui. This will only leave us with half a day offensive time. As long as the opponent does not leave the city, as long as the city walls are used to mobilize the young and strong in the city, they will definitely be able to defend this half day!"
After hearing this, Huang Long couldn't help but smile bitterly and asked Di Gen: "Shuai Yu, can you put down the Yinmen Formation?"
"Yu Digen" means that his beards are entangled with each other, not his real name. However, for the convenience of addressing, the commanders of the Black Mountain Army often use the first word of the other party's nickname as the other party's surname.
Yu Digen smiled bitterly: "The Yinmen Formation can only work when the other party is unprepared. Now Xu Rong has just suffered the loss of the Yinmen Formation, so how can he be deceived?! At that time, Xu Rong just needs to send a supervision team in advance. As soon as our army sets up the Yinmen Formation, they can shoot and kill those women. In this way, the Yinmen Formation will be broken immediately!"
After hearing this, Zuo Jiao couldn't help but sigh.
Huang Long slapped himself suddenly and said angrily: "Isn't it just five hundred cavalry? Look at you like this, don't despair so easily! Now that we can only burn our boats, leave the large army here, and concentrate the elite troops of the entire army to capture this Qinshui County!"
As the commander of the Black Mountain Army's operation, if the attack fails, his reputation of Huanglong will be greatly affected. In this chaotic era, reputation means power and strength. No one will surrender to a useless general who has been defeated repeatedly! Since that is the case, it is better to burn his boat and take a gamble!
However, compared with Huang Long who made up his mind, Zuo Xia and Yu Digen were a little hesitant. The two were in awe of Cao Ang's famous Cao Ang, and they did not dare to face the cavalry directly, and they were even more unwilling to pay a heavy price to achieve Huang Long's reputation. You must know that even if everyone can seize Qinshui, under the pressure of Cao Ang's army, they will have to abandon the city and flee. Even if they can transport some spoils from the Qinshui River, they will have to spend more than enough money!
Seeing Huang Long staring at them, Zuo Jiao couldn't help but lower his head, but Yu Digen whispered: "Guo Shuai is missing, life and death are uncertain. He has left three or four thousand people in this Yujun Mountain. He will definitely find a way to avenge him! Since that's the case, why don't we fulfill their wish and let them fight to the death with Cao's army!"
After hearing what Yu Digen said, Zuo Jiao nodded repeatedly. Huang Long couldn't help but frowned, but Yu Digen continued to say: "Each of our three families has drawn out 200 people to serve as the Du Bo of the Guo Shuai's army, the first-class officer of Shi Zheng, commanding the young and strong men to fight the Cao army. With the command of the generals and assistants, they will definitely fight the Cao army! As long as the mobile troops of the Cao army are eliminated, we will advance and retreat freely and no longer be as difficult as we are now! If we are lucky enough to kill Cao Ang, we may even take all four places in the county!"
Zuo Jiao nodded repeatedly: "Yu Shuai said very well, and even if the war fails, we will only suffer more than a hundred casualties, and the main force will not be affected. Huang Shuai, let's follow Yu Shuai's opinion!"
Huang Long nodded slightly and sighed: "I'm just sorry to Shuai Guo... I'll send orders to rectify the front line of Yujunshan and prepare for the next step of the battle. Two hundred people were drawn from our three armies to serve as the commander of the sergeant and the first-class officer of the Chief of the Guo army to strengthen their command capabilities. Since Shuai Guo's life and death are uncertain, we have to pay the blood debt from Cao's army for Cao's army. Since Shuai Guo's generals volunteered, we can't let the hearts of the soldiers be disappointed!"
Faced with the military pressure of Cao's army, Huang Long's order was quickly implemented. The 600 people transferred by the three families quickly took office and replaced all the first-level officers of the sergeant commander of Guo Daxian. Although the sergeant commander's position was low, he could control the bottom of the army. With the sergeant's blood change, Guo Daxian's troops were actually controlled by Huang Long and other three.
The officers above the sergeant level in Guo Daxian's army finally climbed to their current high position and were suddenly captured and removed from their official position. How could they be willing? On the surface, everyone frequently swore to avenge Guo Shuai, but in fact, the hatred point of everyone's towards Huang Long and others exceeded Cao Ang.
While the generals sent by Huanglong were not paying attention, the former generals and subordinates of Guo Daxian gathered quietly.
One of the generals of the village whispered: "Cao Ang, at least, fought with us with real swords and guns, and did not use any conspiracy! On the contrary, Huang Long never bravely moved forward when fighting, and was never willing to be the enemy's descendants when fighting for power. I am not greedy for power, but I am just worthless by Guo Shuai. He fought bravely for our Heishan Army and personally led his army to intersect behind enemy lines. But Huang Long and the others treated him like this, trying to digest our Guo family army into their Huang family army. This is unreasonable?"
Everyone nodded and agreed, and one of them even whispered: "Ship Guo has always taken the overall situation into consideration. He had previously volunteered to infiltrate into Qinshui. Recently, he volunteered to lead elite troops to sneak into Yujun Mountain and sacrifice his blood for our Heishan Army! But Huang Long has not waited for news about Ship Guo, so he sent someone to take over the command of our army. It's really ugly! We don't want to protect this army for Ship Guo!"
"It's easy to say, protect the entire team?" A Duman sneered and retorted: "We will have to fight the main force of the Cao army immediately and fight against the Cao army's cavalry. Not to mention protecting the entire team, it would be great to save our lives!"
The first general to speak whispered: "Now that Guo Shuai's life and death are uncertain, maybe he has been captured by Cao's army. If we fight against Cao's army, it will be detrimental to Guo Shuai!"
Everyone nodded one after another. In fact, everyone knew in their hearts that Guo Daxian's character would definitely escape now and would not be captured by the Cao army at all. The reason for saying this is mainly to leave a step for everyone and find an excuse to surrender to Cao army.
After some discussion, everyone quickly reached a consensus. After fighting with Cao's army, they should not advance rashly. If the battle situation is in crisis, in order to protect the troops left by Guo Shuai and to prevent the Cao army from infuriating the safety of Guo Shuai, everyone can put down their weapons and pursue the way of peace and compromise.
Although everyone was removed from their posts by Huang Long and others, they had great influence in the army. They reached a consensus, and more than half of the soldiers in the army reached a consensus.
An hour later, Huang Long ordered to advance to Qinshui County with Guo Daxian's troops as the main force, and prepare for a decisive battle with Cao Ang and Xu Rong's troops.
After receiving Huang Long's order, Guo Daxian's army immediately set off and strode towards Qinshui City. Soon, the scout Cao's army, who was monitoring the Heishan Army, discovered the abnormality of the enemy and immediately reported the situation to Cao Ang.
While Cao Ang ordered Xu Rong and others to strengthen the city defense and form a young and strong team; while personally leading the cavalry troops to attack, harassing and attacking the enemy sideways.
Anyway, the Heishan Army had no cavalry, so Cao Ang ordered all cavalry to bring bows and arrows from the Qinshui City Arsenal and attack the main force of the Heishan Army.
The Black Mountain Army discovered that the cavalry rushed into the formation and quickly formed a defensive formation. However, the Cao army did not attack recklessly, but stopped on the flank of the Black Mountain Army, took a bow and archery, and continued to shoot. After the Black Mountain Army transferred the bow and archery troops, the Cao army immediately relocated its horses to retreat, giving the Black Mountain Army no chance to counterattack.
If the Montenegro army sends a small group of troops to pursue it, it will go but never return. If the Montenegro army pursues it, the Cao army will continue to adopt guerrilla archery tactics to peel off the Montenegro army's troops layer by layer.
After only three or four rounds, the morale of Guo Daxian's troops fell to the bottom, and many of the newly appointed generals were also shot and killed by Cao's army. In order to ensure the complete system of the troops, the original officers had to be promoted. Soon, Guo Daxian's troops fell into the control of the original officers' regiment.
Soon, during a tentative attack by Cao's army, Guo Daxian's troops collectively turned against each other and surrendered to Cao's army!
Chapter completed!