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Chapter 27 The Siege of Xuchang

Amid the sound of drums and whistles soaring into the sky, the two-wing cavalry of Sima Yi's army also began to launch an attack. These cavalry included the Imperial Guard's Tiefutu and Guillizima, as well as ordinary Jin cavalry in the outer camp.

The crossbows in the rear still fired a fire bomb every three or four minutes, and the rebel formation still rose from time to time to time. Two hundred crossbows were placed in a hollow square formation composed of 4,000 imperial infantrymen. In front of this hollow square formation was the main square formation composed of foreign camp soldiers and other imperial soldiers.

There is no suspense in this battle. Dong Ai's troops, who were already carrying the psychological burden of the rebels, were already depressed, and were at a disadvantage in equipment and did not have any advantage in military strength. The result was obvious.

The first thing to fight was the two wings of the cavalry on both sides. After several classic cavalry hedges and attacks, Dong Ai's two wings of the cavalry were almost wiped out. The price for Sima Yi was that ordinary cavalry also suffered heavy losses, and the Kadzima and Tiefutu were also injured and killed. All the remaining iron cavalry on Sima Yi's side continued to encircle the two sides and left with two wings.

The central part of the military formation was not far apart, only a distance of more than ten battles. The crossbowmen on both sides began to shoot arrows. In the dense rain of arrows, both sides got closer. At this time, large pieces of javelins flew out of Sima Yi's military formation like heavy rain. These fierce and powerful javelins pierced through the bodies of rebel soldiers and were full of shields of rebel swords and shields.

Immediately afterwards, the rain of arrows stopped abruptly, and the infantry on both sides met in close combat, but the javelins of the imperial infantry were then put on two waves. Among the rebels, those long-rod weapons, such as snatchers and other gunmen who did not have large shields and were in front of the formation, almost no infantry could stand on the battlefield.

Almost at the same time, the flanks and rear of the rebel formation began to be in chaos. The Guaizi Ma Tiefutu rushed into the already chaotic rebel formation from the back and began to massacre. At this moment, among the rebels, both soldiers and generals, they knew that they would be defeated. They thought of their families and tribesmen who were implicated because of themselves, and they were still in love with the fight, and they took the time to run around.

The rebels were like a dam that was eaten by ants and washed away by a small hole by the flood, and completely collapsed in an instant. The sudden huge fugitive flow of people even caught several ordinary Jin army knights behind the formation, almost rushing down with people and horses.

Dong Ai also wanted to escape to Xuchang City, but he could no longer leave. With a few sharp arrows breaking through the air, he was hit by dozens of arrows, although he was almost blocked by armor. However, he still fell from the horse's back because of excessive bleeding. Almost at the moment of landing, a cavalry iron pagoda passed by him. After two cold lights flashed, his head was lifted by the knight on the tip of the knife.

After Sima Yi knew that Dong Ai had been killed, he ordered the pursuit to stop. This was also what Sima Yu told him. In addition to the evil and backbone, the rest did not need to pursue and fight. The fundamental purpose of this was to prevent the internal consumption of the Great Jin Dynasty.

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The next day, the sun rose. When he opened his eyes at night, Sima Jiong, who was not asleep, was about to go to inspect the city defense. Before the mansion had left the house, a personal soldier who had been waiting outside the room early in the morning reported: "Report to the king, Dong Ai's troops fought with the enemy thirty miles north of Xuchang City yesterday evening. When it was dark, the entire army was wiped out."

Sima Jiong felt a slump when he heard this, and he didn't say anything, and continued to walk out quickly. As soon as he left the mansion, he saw another soldier running towards him in panic.

"Report, King, Xuchang City was suddenly surrounded by the enemy at night." The soldier said to Sima Jiong in a panic. Sima Jiong had a blue face, but he still didn't say a word. He took the reins handed over by a personal soldier, flew onto a horse, and galloped towards the city tower.

Sima Jiong, who climbed the city tower, looked down at the city and felt dizzy. Outside the hundred battles in Xuchang City, there were cloudy military tents. Twenty battles outside each gate of Xuchang City were built. The entire Xuchang City was surrounded and it was impossible to break through with 20 battles without foreign aid.

However, Sima Jiong is still lucky. He hopes that the manifestos he issued will work. He also ordered the reinforcements from various counties and counties in the Henan and Yanzhou prefectures to come to the rescue in the next day or two.

But in fact, when the prefects of Yu and Yanzhou received the order, the county magistrates, except for a very small number of loyal people to Sima Jiong, gathered their troops to come to Xuchang. Most of them remained silent and were watching the changes. The county magistrates of several counties even organized manpower to send food and supplies to Sima Yi's siege army.

On the wilderness east of Xuchang, more than 800 kidnapped horses were besieging a unit of more than 3,000 people. This unit was one of the very few people willing to follow Sima Jiong. Kidnapped the maneuverability of the cavalry and galloped back and forth in the wilderness, always keeping a certain distance from the other party, and shooting with bows and arrows.

A red-eyed captain gathered all the war horses in the team, with as many as 500 horses, and he personally led them to chase the more than 800 horses. This time, the horses did not run away, and the horses rushed up halfway, and the horses rushed up to them. When there were less than five battles apart, the cavalrymen raised the carriages more than two meters long in their hands. More than 500 cavalrymen and eight hundred horses passed by, and only horses were left. More than 500 cavalrymen lay on the ground, and almost everyone had a carriage gun inserted on their bodies.

The kidnappers ran back slowly again and took back their rifles from more than 500 corpses. Thousands of rebels who had lost all their cavalry had to move away from the kidnappers, hoping to leave their sight. But they were then shot and killed by arrows one by one.

The generals in the army had no choice but to stop moving, and set up military formations while building camps. The crossbowmen were all bent their bows and arrows, ready to attack these crutches. Unexpectedly, these crutches stopped in a faraway place, dismounted and started to rest in the open air. They watched their busyness as if they were watching a show.

Once the rebels pulled out the camp, the kidnapped horses were stuck on like candy and shot them from a distance, which made the other party less troubled.

In such a cat and mouse game for two or three days, these rebels were tortured crazy. After two or three days, more than 3,000 people were left. Both the surviving soldiers and generals knew that if this continued, they would be wiped out. So they decided to break it into pieces and retreat.

The actual result of breaking up the whole into pieces is to evolve into scattered fleeing. The soldiers, generals and schools abandoned their weapons and armor, disguised as civilians and dispersed. They would never become a system, and they would really become zero, and it would be impossible to turn zero into a whole again.
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