After the Qin army broke through Wugu Mountain from the east gate, they chased and killed the ghost army skirmishers all the way without any effort at all, heading straight towards the west gate.
This is the effect of a successful blitz after detouring.
Really unexpected.
Wugu Mountain is not just a garrison, it is more like a town, with many buildings, rivers and lakes, so the area is also very large, and it will take a certain amount of time to move from the east gate to the west gate.
At this time, Ning Zhan had naturally received the news that his side had breached the east gate, but his frontal offensive did not stop. He obviously wanted to flank Wei Qing to annihilate all the ghost troops here.
Based on the speed of delivery of Falcon's letters, the Ghost Army's military information arrived later.
When the Wugushan Ghost General received the news, the first thing he showed was rage, not at the Qin army, but at the soldiers who came to deliver the message.
He slapped her hard and yelled: "Fuck you! What nonsense are you talking about! How dare you scare this general!"
The ghost sergeant almost fell down after being beaten and received a slap in the face. He covered his face and shouted aggrievedly: "General! The Qin army really came in from the east gate! Even if I have the courage, I won't dare to lie to you!" "
"You still dare to talk nonsense!" The ghost general really refused and couldn't believe it. He kicked him over again and said sternly: "Our warriors are holding on to the west gate desperately. Is it possible that the Qin army can fly over?"
"But the Qin army has really appeared!" The soldier said anxiously, ignoring the attack: "After breaking through the east gate, it advanced all the way. Now it is coming towards our army. In a few moments, it will be here. , I hope the general will make a quick decision!"
How dare you make such nonsense, little soldier? Seeing his flustered and anxious look, he couldn't help but believe it, but he still held on to the last glimmer of hope and said: "I will ask you one last question! Is this serious?"
"It's absolutely true!" the soldier said directly.
"This!" The ghost general suddenly panicked, his face changed instantly, and he couldn't help but start pacing back and forth: "How could the Qin army appear at the east gate! How could it be! What can we do! What can we do!"
He was pacing very fast, and immediately came back to his senses: "Quick! Send my general order to fight the Qin army entering from the east gate, and we must kill them out of Wugu Mountain!"
"Then what about Ximen's defense?"
"Continue to defend! Move all the support troops over, we must first eliminate this group of Qin troops!"
He was already under attack from both sides, and he began to look at one thing at the expense of the other, but the ghost general had no choice but to make this choice, or else wait for death.
Under his order, a large number of frontline ghost troops withdrew and hurriedly assembled. As a result, the West Gate defense line began to experience obvious shocks.
The Qin army also clearly felt that the siege pressure had dropped sharply. A Qin general looked happy: "It seems that General Wei Qing has already reached Wugu Mountain. The ghost army has no choice but to divide its troops for defense."
Ning Zhan had been fighting for so many years, how could he not see the situation on the battlefield? He nodded and said, "Yes, if nothing unexpected happens, our army will take over this place soon."
"In this battle with the ghost army, His Majesty is personally in charge. Our army is on many fronts, and the various units cooperate perfectly."
In the morning, Wei Qing led his army to attack from the inside to near the west gate.
After arriving here, the Qin army no longer fought random battles, but quickly formed a formation, with heavy vertical shields in front, long halberds at the back, and then strong bows and crossbows, in a step-by-step advancing posture.
The ghost general's troops have been mobilized here, and the two armies faced each other face to face.
Wei Qing was not in a hurry to charge at all, and began to use his powerful crossbow to attack from a distance.
"Fire the arrow!"
With a command, a large volley of sharp arrows shot out. This kind of confrontation was no longer a throw, but a direct shot.
Miserable howls rang out, and although the ghost army had round shields to block, many of the front rows were still shot over in some gaps.
But at such a distance, they could not fight back. After one round of the Qin army, the crossbowmen staggered and there was another round.
In this case, the ghost general had no choice but to shout loudly: "Break through the Qin army's formation! Kill them all!"
“Warriors, charge—”
At the point where the scimitar pointed, the ghost soldiers shouted to boost their courage, picked up their spears, and launched a charge.
The powerful crossbows were all lowered, the triggers were pulled, and the crossbow arrows arrived again.
At this time, due to the forward charge, more people died in the ghost army. Rows of sharp arrows shot down each ghost army one after another. After leaving corpses on the ground, the ghost army finally rushed to the point where they could return fire. From a distance, arrows flew in and hit the vertical shield with clanging sounds.
There were also spears flying towards him, and the impact knocked the shield over, but the gap was immediately filled.
Subsequently, the two sides came into contact and started a hand-to-hand combat face to face.
The heavy vertical shields hit the ground together, and the halberds behind them stabbed together, like cutting wheat, harvesting a row in an instant.
The place of confrontation was like a meat grinder. Under the armored square formation of the Qin army, the ghost army was splattered with blood. How could they possibly defeat it?
At the beginning, the powerful soldiers of the Liang Army could not defeat the Qin Army in a direct battle, let alone these spear and scimitar soldiers.
In the past, they relied on the city defense fortress, and they could still withstand it. Now they are trying to fight against each other? It’s no different than sending yourself to death!
In just a moment, the Qin army began to press back on the corpses, while the ghost army began to fight and retreat.
Not two miles behind was the West City Gate. Seeing this, the ghost general roared: "Don't retreat! Don't retreat! Warriors, kill them all! Kill all these Qin troops!"
But it was useless. It wasn't that the ghost army wanted to retreat, but that the front row couldn't fight at all and was harvested as soon as they came up. Such a terrifying situation would inevitably make them feel frightened.
If both sides were evenly matched, they could still give it a fight, but in such a scenario, how could they fight?
They were retreating all the way, and the ghost generals couldn't stop it. Moreover, some ghost soldiers became chaotic due to their bile, squeezing forward and pushing back.
By this time he had already had a premonition of his fate.
But what made him even more panicked was what was behind him. Due to the redeployment of defensive forces and the sharp decline in morale of the ghost army, the Qin army had already breached the defense line at the west gate and was about to enter the city.
"It's over! It's over!" The ghost general screamed sadly, not only on the left but also on the right. As a result, both sides were defeated.
After a while, the Qin army's killing cries on the west gate became clearer and clearer, mixed with miserable howls and panicked screams of the ghost army. On this side, the troops blocking Wei Qing suffered heavy casualties, with corpses spreading all the way. Those who survived were forced back to the west gate.
By chance, Ning's war department entered the city, and the ghost army concentrated here was beaten from left to right in an instant.
There was no suspense in this battle. In the end, Wei Qing beheaded the ghost general and cooperated with Ning Zhan to clear out the ghost army in Wu Gu Mountain and wiped out the place in the afternoon.
The ghost army had a large number of troops in Wugu Mountain, twenty to thirty thousand, but they were completely wiped out in one battle. (End of chapter)
