Chapter 653
When Pang Xi learned that the vanguard Yang Huai was killed by Chen Wei, the vanguard of the vanguard was defeated by Chen Wei's three thousand infantry and cavalry. He was furious and led the army to attack Chen Wei's three thousand troops.
Pang Xi's 60,000 troops rushed over like a rolling tide. Chen Wei's three thousand men did not dare to fight, so he quickly fled and kept running into the valley. But the entrance of the valley was too small, and three thousand men rushed to the entrance of the valley. Before the front had entered, the back had already arrived, blocking the entire mountain pass. The soldiers who could not enter behind had to abandon their horses and run along the hillside, throwing their armor one by one, making it very embarrassed.
Seeing that Pang Xi's army was about to chase him, Chen Wei shouted in a panic: "Don't run from the valley entrance, hurry up and push the stones on the mountain down, block the valley entrance, and don't let the Shu army come in!"
Most of the soldiers gave up rushing into the valley, but climbed up the mountain and pushed down the big and small stones on the mountain. The stones rolled down and blocked the mountain pass.
Pang Xi led the army to the entrance of the valley and was hesitating whether to go in, but when he saw Chen Wei leading the troops to block the entrance of the valley, he couldn't help but smile: "It seems that Chen Wei ordered the entrance of the valley to escape, and the purpose was to stop our army from continuing to pursue. If there was an ambush inside, he would not block the entrance of the valley!"
Pang Xi firmly believed in his judgment, so he ordered his soldiers to remove the stones stuffed at the entrance of the valley and took half an hour to clean them up.
This valley is about seven or eight miles long. Although it is the main road from Yin County to Chaoyang County, it has been war-torn for years and has not yet been repaired. There are many rocks on the mountain road. In addition, the drought has been repeated for months, the plants and trees are withered, and covered with weeds and branches. Therefore, Chen Wei's three thousand men and horses have not escaped from the valley in this half hour. Pang Xi chased him not long ago, and he saw from afar that Chen Wei's men and horses were all crooked and slanted, and were at a loss.
Pang Xi was overjoyed and shouted loudly: "Just ahead, chase it! Chen Wei's dog thief can't escape, kill him to avenge General Yang!"
Pang Xi chased after the land for four or five miles. It was almost dusk. Suddenly, the sound of horns sounded from the valleys on both sides, and countless heads appeared. The rumbling sound resounded throughout the valley.
Pang Xi suddenly widened his eyes. The intense horror made him almost suffocate, his legs became weak, and he was sweating coldly.
Countless huge rocks rolling wood looked like surging mountain torrents, swelling upside down, and quickly hitting the army at the bottom of the valley.
Pang Xi hurriedly urged the horse to rush forward, trying to escape from the valley, but he found that the road ahead was filled with huge rocks and trees branches, and the sides were steep and there was no way to go. It was impossible to turn around and go back. The people rushing up from behind had already filled the valley. The entrance to the valley behind was also filled with huge rocks and rolling wood.
"Fire, it's on fire!" The shrill shout made people feel terrified. When the flames ran around behind him, they spread rapidly. The fires in the valley soared into the sky, and a scorching wave of heat came to the face. In a blink of an eye, the fire came to the front, ruthlessly swallowing the people huddled in the low valley, and despair instantly spread throughout the army. Everyone felt that the breath of death had already enveloped themselves.
The fire burned wildly, dyeing half of the sky red, and complementing the afterglow of the sunset.
Pang Xi's army soldiers were burned to death by fire and countless people were killed by huge rocks and rolled wood. The smell of bloody and burnt smell filled the entire valley.
The sound of shouting, howling, shrill screams. With the rumbling sound of the rolling stones, the sound of whimpering horns intertwined, shocking the earth and trembling the hearts of everyone...
"Go down the horse and go up the mountain quickly..." Seeing that the situation was not good, Pang Xi shouted at the top of his lungs and took the lead in getting off the horse and climbing up the mountain.
The soldiers of Shu army dismounted and climbed up the mountain in a mess. The road ahead was blocked and there was a fire behind it. Only the road climbing the mountain had hope of life. So the hillside was covered with soldiers of Shu army. In order to escape from the purgatory bottom, they climbed up desperately.
"Arrow! Rolling Stones! Arrow! Rolling Stones!"
Countless arrow branches flew out like locusts, falling on the mountain-climbing soldiers like heavy rain. Huge stones and rolling trees poured down like waterfalls. A large number of Pang Xi soldiers rolled into the valley, broken debris spread all over the hillside, and the sticky blood flowed along the hillside. The bloody smell eroded everyone's heart and made people crazy.
Pang Xi hid behind a stone, feeling sad and angry, and his eyes flashed with infinite resentment. He watched his soldiers roll into the valley one by one, falling to pieces. He wanted to cry without tears, his heart was broken, and after working hard for many years, he finally became the prefect of Bashu. Unexpectedly, this battle turned his years of hard work into vanishing. How could he go back to see Liu Yan? Since he had failed and still lived in the world, what would he do? It would be better to fight with them. Even if he died, he would die vigorously!
Pang Xi held the knife in his hand and shouted sternly: "Pang Xi is here, follow me and we will have a way out when we rush up. Let's work harder and kill!"
"Kill!" The remaining Shu army heard Pang Xi's voice and immediately cheered up and crawled up the mountain with howling.
It was already dark, and torches were clear on the top of the mountain. Huang Zhong led 10,000 Central War soldiers on the right side of the hillside, Huang Quan led 10,000 county soldiers and 10,000 military farm soldiers on the right side. They kept shooting arrows into the valley.
Gao Pei died under Huang Zhong's arrow, and Pang Xi also died under Huang Zhong's arrow. Huang Zhong, who had been through Yang for hundreds of steps, made a fuss and dealt with the other two main commanders. The Shu army could no longer support him and surrendered one after another, especially those Dongzhou soldiers who were not locals in Yizhou.
More than 4,000 Shu soldiers crossed the mountains and fled. Chen Wei led 10,000 elite soldiers to chase after him. The more than 4,000 Shu soldiers wanted to resist with Yin County, Jun County, Wudang County and Xian County. However, they found that when Zhang Ren, the commander of Shangyong County, had previously retreated from these counties, they hid a thousand elite soldiers in the county. The thousand elite soldiers cooperated with Chen Wei outside and quickly recovered the county.
The more than 4,000 Shu soldiers joined the Shu soldiers guarding these counties, fought and retreated, and finally retreated to the west city. There should have been more than 8,000 people, but they were lost to only more than 3,000 people.
The commander of the West City, Wu Yi, gathered with the three thousand men and horses. He originally wanted to defend the city and wait for help. Zhang Ren was hiding a thousand elite soldiers in the city, and Zhang Ren also led 6,000 elite soldiers to kill from the mountain. Wu Yi had to lead 7,000 troops back to Hanzhong County.
Huang Quan originally thought that Wu Yi's uncle Wu Kuang, son Wu Ban, and niece Wu Xian Wu Xia were all with his lord, so he sent someone to persuade Wu Yi to serve Lu Bu. However, Wu Yi's loyal ministers did not serve the second master and refused Huang Quan's kindness. Huang Quan could not do so, so he had to follow the previous strategy.
In these consecutive battles, the Shu army only fled back 70,000, more than 30,000 people were buried underground, and 30,000 people became prisoners of the Central Army. Except for some Dongzhou soldiers who reinforcing the Jingzhou Corps, most of the remaining Jingzhou Construction Corps were reincarnated in Huang Quan.
After Zhang Ren recovered Xicheng, he left two thousand deputy generals to defend, and led 6,000 elite troops to follow Chen Wei down the Han River, and quickly reinforced Xinye City.
The high-ranking officials besieged Caiyang County, which Li Tong defended. After more than ten days of attack, tens of thousands of people were lost, but they were unable to break through. The high-ranking officials had to give up Caiyang County and not attack Xinye City and directly attack Xinye City, because only by breaking Xinye City can they march into Wancheng.
When the Military Information Department first discovered Yuan Shao and Liu Yan was preparing to send troops to attack Nanyang County and then peek at Luoyang's intelligence, General Zhang Liao of Sizhou made a quick decision and handed over the defense around Luoyang to the Sizhou Prime Minister Zhu Jun and Deputy General Hao Zhao of Sizhou. He personally brought 20,000 elite troops to quickly reinforce Nanyang County.
When the 90,000 troops of the high-ranking officials arrived at Xinye City, Zhang Liao's 20,000 troops had arrived for two days, but they had been silenced and regained their strength. Zhang Ren and Chen Wei's troops also rushed back from the front line of chasing the defeated soldiers in Yizhou. They also rested for a day, held their energy and waited for the arrival of the Jingzhou army.
Taking advantage of the fact that the 90,000 high-ranking officials had just arrived in Xinye and had not yet established a stable foothold. At the third update that night, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Zhang Ren, Chen Wei and Li Tong came out from all directions and attacked the Jingzhou army's camp at night.
Because the Jingzhou Army's ability in charge of military intelligence was far inferior to that of his clan Guo Jia, the Jingzhou Army's military intelligence was full of falsehood and distortion. The high-ranking army had no idea that Zhang Liao, Zhang Ren, and Chen Wei had already rushed back, and did not expect that Huang Zhong would dare to go out of the city to attack at night while defeating Liu Yan's army. Therefore, he did not take sufficient defense at all and faced the battle unexpectedly.
Huang Zhong, Zhang Ren and Chen Wei came with the power of great victory, with great strength and a strong morale. Zhang Liao and Li Tong were the new force and were eager to fight.
Since the 90,000 high-ranking officials heard that Liu Yan's 100,000 troops were easily defeated by the Central Army, their morale was depressed. They marched from Jiangling to Caiyang City for more than ten days, and then attacked the city under Caiyang City for more than ten days. They were exhausted and injured. As soon as they set up camp, they fell asleep. They were sleeping soundly and were attacked by the enemy at night. Many Jingzhou soldiers could not bear the will to resist.
Huang Zhong and Zhang Liao each led 4,000 cavalry one left and one right into the flank of the enemy. Although the Jingzhou army of the high-ranking officials also had two or three thousand cavalry, they were far from Zhang Liao, who was good at using cavalry. Under the double blow of the crossbow and the iron cavalry, they only supported the situation of collapse after only half a day of fighting. Zhang Ren, Chen Wei, and Li Tong led elite infantry to assist the cavalry in expanding their results.
Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Zhang Ren, Chen Wei, Li Tong and others are all powerful generals who are good at fighting and rarely encounter opponents on horseback. Under these brave generals, everyone in the Central Army was like a tiger.
Huang Zhong's 4,000 cavalry were about to reach Cai Mao's central army camp, and Cai Mao's clan brother Cai Zhong shouted: "Don't be rampant, wait for me to take your life!" He led the elite troops of his troops to come forward and fight for his brother Cai Mao to escape.
Huang Zhong instigated Huang Pima and rushed up at lightning speed. Fengzui's knife was like a thunderbolt in the clear sky, and he cut Cai Zhong into two halves with one knife.
Cai Zhong's younger brother Cai He saw that his brother was killed by Huang Zhong. He was bleeding from his pupils. He didn't expect that his skills were not as good as others. Instead, he wanted to avenge his brother. He roared and rushed towards Huang Zhong. Huang Zhong's sword light was like a horse flying, or like a lightning light. There was no living person in his place, including Cai He, who died tragically under Huang Zhong's fast sword like ordinary soldiers in Jingzhou.
Wang Wei and Wenpin's Western Route Army were meeting Zhang Liao's troops. Wang Wei was almost killed by Zhang Liao. Wenpin resisted desperately and escaped, but the Western Route Jingzhou Army had been defeated by Zhang Liao's cavalry.
Chapter completed!