"Let's go to Cixian County!"
The Sui army formed an array on three sides, with bows and crossbows firing thousands of arrows on both sides. Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to charge twice, leaving only corpses scattered on the ground.
Seeing that the situation was getting worse, Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth, turned his horse around, and headed towards Ci County. The remaining defeated soldiers around him also followed closely and fled as fast as flying. The Sui army pursued them closely, and from time to time some of Zhu's soldiers fell behind. Except for a few who still resisted, most of them threw away their weapons and knelt aside to ask for surrender.
At the same time that Yue Fei defeated Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Yanqing also led 20,000 Tang troops to the north to block Huo Qubing's troops, and set up camp at the main entrance to block Huo Qubing's way south.
The sudden movements of Zhu Yuanzhang's three coalition forces were quickly delivered to Huo Qubing's hands. Huo Qubing naturally understood the movements of the three coalition forces and made a prompt decision to rush southward with Lu Wenlong, Ma Chao and Zhang Liao's elite troops.
Huo Qubing's headquarters originally numbered 30,000 people, but he ambushed Guan Yu and Pugu Huai'en, resulting in over a thousand casualties. He also sent some troops and horses to escort the prisoners to Youzhou. Troops and horses were also left to garrison in the Feihuxing area. This time, the troops went south. There are still more than 23,000 people.
Huo Qubing led his troops to travel quickly, and soon arrived not far from the Tang army's camp, where they set up camp opposite Liu Yanqing's troops.
Huo Qubing, Zhang Liao, Lu Wenlong, Ma Chao and other generals climbed up to look at the Tang army's camp, but they saw that the Tang army's camp was completely unorganized, the camps at the front, rear, left and right were disorganized, and the sentry tower patrols were undisciplined.
"Who is the commander of this Tang army?"
Seeing the Tang Army camp, Huo Qubing couldn't help but shook his head, turned around and heard the news.
The Army Sima who was responsible for inquiring about the intelligence immediately stepped forward and replied: "General Huo, Liu Yanqing, the commander-in-chief of the Tang Army, this person was originally just a backup, but later he relied on Li Yuan's confidant eunuch Tong Guan. In just a few months, After being promoted several levels in a row, I will be honored as General Youtunwei."
Lu Wenlong, Ma Chao, Zhang Liao and others all showed disdain when they heard this: "An incompetent person relies on eunuchs to rise to power. Old thief Li Yuan uses people like this. It is unreasonable to be undefeated."
Huo Qubing was also a group of war horses and rode back to the camp: "Go back to the camp to discuss and defeat this thief as quickly as possible!"
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Huo Qubing led his army to attack, and Liu Yanqing was also very nervous. He personally inspected the camp defense for days. However, his ability was mediocre, and the defense of the Tang army's camp was not improved at all.
On this day, Liu Yanqing had just returned to his headquarters after inspecting the front camp, but he heard the deputy general reported that two Sui army messengers had been intercepted by outposts and a letter had been found.
Liu Yanqing immediately brought the letter, and when he opened it, his expression suddenly changed. It turned out that the letter was written by Han Xin, the governor of Youzhou, to Huo Qubing. The letter stated that the Jurchens were afraid of the Sui army and had surrendered to the Sui Dynasty. Han Xin returned from victory and led the One hundred thousand elite troops will soon arrive to aid Huo Qubing.
"The incompetent Jurchen rats surrendered to the Sui army so quickly!"
Liu Yanqing couldn't help but curse: "Why can't you delay the Sui army for a while? Now the main force of the Sui army in Youzhou has all moved westward. It's really hurting me!"
"What should we do? What should we do?"
Liu Yanqing paced back and forth in the commander's tent like a captive beast, muttering to himself from time to time, without realizing that his words had been heard by all the soldiers outside the tent, and they were passed on to hundreds of people. Within a long time, everyone in the Tang army knew that the main force of the Sui army was about to attack.
At nightfall, Liu Yanqing, who was still thinking about how to deal with the main force of the Sui army that was about to kill, suddenly heard people outside shouting and shouting, and was about to ask what happened, but saw the deputy general crawling in and shouting loudly. Said: "General Liu, Sui Army, Sui Army is coming!"
"What?"
Liu Yanqing stood up and asked quickly: "Sui Army... How many people are there from the Sui Army?"
"The general doesn't know either."
The lieutenant general replied with a trembling voice: "You can't see clearly in the dark night. I only know that the mountains and fields are full of fire."
"Is it possible that the main force of the Sui army has arrived?"
Liu Yanqing's face was pale and he had no time to think about it and rushed out of the tent and looked up. But he saw countless firelights appearing in the distance, like a long dragon, roaring from the north. "Captain Han will win!" "Long live the Sui Dynasty!" the voices kept coming and going.
"Han Xin's main force is coming!"
Liu Yanqing's heart felt like it had fallen into an ice cellar, and the chill spread from the bottom of his heart to his limbs and bones.
"Quick, get out!"
Suddenly Liu Yanqing yelled like crazy: "The main force of the Sui army is more than 100,000 men. How can we resist it? The soldiers listened to the order, burned down the camp, abandoned the camp and left quickly!"
"Quick, run!"
The courage of the soldiers depends on the general. How unbearable the general's performance is, how can he expect the soldiers under his command to fight bravely? In just a few moments, the entire Tang Army camp was in chaos, running back and forth, trampling on each other and killing countless people.
"General Huo, General Huo! The Tang Army's camp is in chaos, and Liu Yanqing's fellow is preparing to burn the camp and run away!"
The Sui army scout reported what he had just seen to Huo Qubing with excitement.
The corner of Huo Qubing's mouth curled up slightly, and he turned to the officials behind him and said, "Thank you so much for your help, sir. I will definitely report your contributions to your majesty truthfully."
Behind those officials, I could see Han Xin's main troops. They were all young and strong civilians holding torches and shouting loudly. It turned out that Huo Qubing entrusted several nearby states and counties to gather the people to create the formation. .
In fact, as long as Liu Yanqing sends scouts to investigate in detail or relies on the camp to resist, Huo Qubing's strategy will lose its effect. After all, these people's bluff is okay, but if they really attack the Tang army's camp, it will be a waste. Huo Qubing would not give orders when a sheep enters the tiger's mouth, and the few local officials who assisted Huo Qubing in recruiting people would not agree.
It's a pity that Huo Qubing has already seen through Liu Yanqing's character. A person who does not hesitate to rely on eunuchs in order to climb up must cherish his own life very much. How can he have the courage to fight to the death?
Seeing that his strategy was successful, the Tang army collapsed without a fight. Huo Qubing immediately ordered a general attack on all fronts, urging his tall horses, waving the steel guns in his hands, and led tens of thousands of warriors to stampede. The smoke and dust billowed, the ground shook, and the mountains rolled in like a tide.
The Tang army had long lost its will to resist, and Liu Yanqing himself escaped faster than anyone else, and was now gone. The Tang army, which had lost its command, was like a herd of sheep, completely massacred by the Sui army. Countless Tang soldiers turned into souls killed by the Sui army's swords. They fled all the way and were killed by the Sui army. Corpses were scattered all over the field and blood flowed into rivers.
Of the 20,000 Tang troops, only a thousand soldiers and horses led by Liu Yanqing managed to escape the Sui army's pursuit. More than 10,000 people became prisoners. The rest were either killed by the Sui army's swords or trampled to death by their own people. inside.
