Chapter 107 Qingshui River (IV)

Life in the deep ditch was not easy. The Northwest Alliance stayed in a deep ditch with a size of its butt for two days. The soldiers could only move in limited places every day, and were not allowed to make loud noises. This cavalry who liked to gallop across the plains was very irresistible.

People have many contradictions, and things they cannot get are always the best things. Once they own these beautiful things, their value will immediately drop sharply.

For example, when fat meat is too hungry, you will drool when you think of a piece of white fat meat. After eating a few more fat pieces, you will become greasy when you think of fat meat.

For example, the Black Eagle Army soldiers are usually very nervous in training, and they are so tired that their skeletons are about to fall apart every day. They wish they had time to sleep well, but this dream is still not fulfilling. Now the generals have taken out a lot of time to encourage everyone to sleep in. Most Black Eagle Army soldiers are used to going to bed early and getting up early. They wake up before dawn. After turning around in the tent a few times, they still couldn't help but get up. After leaving the tent, they found that there were Black Eagle Army soldiers who woke up early and wandered around in the military camp.

After staying in this deep groove with a big butt for two days, he was already impatient. He complained several times in front of He Wulang. As the saying goes, birds of a feather flock together, and it is no longer appropriate to use it on Guang Zitu and He Wulang. They are both powerful generals in the army, with different personalities, but their inner temperaments are very similar. They both fell in the deep groove and sighed that they met too late. Whenever they had free time, they would chat together, and sometimes they would secretly compete for a while. Therefore, although He Wulang was the direct general of the Black Eagle Army, Guang Zitu still complained several times in front of him.

Wang Tengxiang was calm and calm. After arranging military affairs for two days, he picked up a book called "The Three Kingdoms" and studied it carefully in the tent. Like Guan Gong, the saint of martial arts, his tirelessness and strong figure formed a huge contrast. Hou Dayong admired Wang Tengxiang quite a bit. Every time he looked at Wang Tengxiang, he felt like he saw a delicate jade, which made him unable to help but shine and wished he could immediately put it in his treasure chest.

Hou Dayong knew that Wang Tengxiang was a sweat-blooded and bloody horse. He was noble by nature and would never change his family easily. Only by taking advantage of power, virtue and kindness, can he be truly subdued. However, Hou Dayong was concerned about the battle outside Tongxin City, and he did not have the mind or time to subdue this sweat-blooded and bloody horse.

According to the pre-war deployment, the Northwest Allied Forces led by Wang Yanchao set out two days earlier than the horse army led by Hou Dayong, and the horse army was much faster than the infantry. Therefore, when the horse army arrived at Daniu Pass, the infantry almost launched a siege battle. In other words, after two days of staying in the deep ditch, the main force of the Northwest Allied Forces should be able to receive news from Wang Yanchao's troops. However, no news has been heard from Wang Yanchao's troops now. The vanguard battalion lurking in Xiaoniu Pass followed the requirements. People were sent to the Shengou to report the news every day, but every news brought disappointed Hou Dayong - the vanguard battalion still did not find the Dangxiang cavalry from Tongxin City to Xihuizhou.

Hou Dayong repeatedly pondered the war in Tongxin City. The war outside Tongxin City was nothing more than the following three situations: "First, the Northwest Alliance Army attacked too hard and accidentally attacked Tongxin City. The Dangxiang Army in the city had no time to send soldiers for reinforcements; Second, the Dangxiang defending troops believed that they could cope with the attacks of the coalition and did not need reinforcements; Third, the Northwest Alliance Army was hit or surrounded by the Dangxiang Army, and the situation was dangerous or had been wiped out." However, in any case, the coalition army should send soldiers to the deep ditch.

In order to find out the situation of Tongxin City, Hou Dayong sent a fifty-man reconnaissance team to check the truth. From deep ditch to Tongxin City, the cavalry could walk back and forth within less than a day. Hou Dayong anxiously guarded the deep ditch, waiting for the return of the reconnaissance team.

The reconnaissance team had fifty people, led by Chen Chukuang, who were also wearing Dangxiang people's costumes and along the Qingshui River, without hiding their tracks. They ran towards Tongxin City as fast as possible. From Xiaoniu Pass to Tongxin City, there were many Dangxiang herders along the way. They watched the small team running south in surprise, in less than half a day. Chen Chukuang and his party came outside Tongxin City. The gates were closed, and the city was quiet outside, without any trace of a big battle. Chen Chukuang took the reconnaissance cavalry to sway and swayed around the city, and then headed east.

Soon, the scouts saw the killing battlefield flying with flesh and blood. Chen Chukuang, like Zhou Qing and Wu Jiaqiang, was a veteran of the scout cavalry in the lion camp, and had very experienced reconnaissance experience. After arriving at the battlefield, Chen Chukuang took two soldiers and got off the horse from afar, using the slightly undulating terrain to approach the battlefield, and observed the battle situation at close range.

Soon, Chen Chukuang figured out the basic situation and ordered ten soldiers to rush back to Shengou to report the news. The soldiers from other places continued to stay here to monitor the battlefield. After the ten soldiers got the order, they ran towards Daniu Pass like the original Luffy. The Dangxiang herders were extremely simple and saw their troops passing by. They took out horse milk, meat pieces and other items to prepare to entertain these soldiers, but the scouts left in the eyes of the Dangxiang herders who did not understand.

Just when Hou Dayong sent a reconnaissance team to the south, the battle outside Tongxin City was still going on cruelly. The Dangxiang people surrounded Wang Yanchao's 8,000 infantry and cavalry. The two sides fought for two days and after more than twenty times, the casualties were extremely heavy. The coalition counted the minor wounded people who could fight together, no more than four thousand people, while the Dangxiang army was slightly better, but there were more than three thousand casualties.

The Dangxiang Army is a mixed cavalry and infantry force, with a combat power that is obviously stronger than the coalition infantry that has been combined together in a hurry. If the coalition infantry left the position and fought the Dangxiang Army on Pingba, they would have been completely wiped out. Wang Yanchao had a unique vision and understood this truth very well. He insisted on adopting the hedgehog policy - never give up the position and stood firm and waited for reinforcements. This strategy caused the powerful Dangxiang Army to suffer a lot. The Dangxiang Army attacked the positions of the Northwest Alliance Infantry several times, and was driven out by the coalition soldiers who had no way to retreat. The coalition army threw out some fire caltrops, poisonous smoke, fire and iron nails from time to time, causing a large number of casualties between the Dangxiang soldiers.

Fang Dangdu was so angry that he wanted to quickly wipe out the surrounded Zhou army and avenge his brother Fang Dangbai Ge, but he did not expect that these Zhou troops were so difficult to deal with, and the casualties were so heavy that it was hard to accept. The most loyal and brave commander under his command was so sad that he cried when he saw the shocking losses. Fang Dangdu was unwilling to stop, and the battle reached this point. Tactics were no longer important. The two armies were fighting spirit and courage. Whoever was more cruel and fierce would be able to win the final victory.

The battle lasted until the evening of the next day, and the Dangxiang Army's spirit was worn out and they were temporarily unable to launch a new round of attacks. The two armies sat on the ground and gasped. They had to wait until they recovered their energy before fighting again.

After the Dangxiang Army temporarily retreated, the soldiers in the coalition positions quickly collected the Dangxiang Army's arrows shot in. After two days of fierce fighting, there were not many arrows left in the sergeants' arrow bags, so they frantically looked for the Dangxiang people to shoot in. The Yongxing Army's fire caltrops and huge arrows were exhausted. Due to the weakening of long-range attack methods, every attack of the Dangxiang Army evolved into a bloody hand-to-hand combat.

The command platform where Wang Yanchao was warmly entertained by the Dangxiang cavalry. More than a dozen personal guards holding shields were shot and killed, and Wang Yanchao was also shot on the shoulder. Wang Yanchao was over forty years old, not confused. Wang Yan was over the age of forty and was not confused for a while. He had never rushed to the front line. Even though the Dangxiang people had already broken through the defense line, he knew his position very well. For the past two days, he had been standing on the command platform most of the time. Through orders, the command flag commanded the coalition forces in the position, and the troops in the position were very diverse. Although the Yongxing Army was the main body, it was mixed with the Lingzhou Army and the Fengzhou Army and the local and infantry Army. If the command was not careful, it would cause chaos in the troops. It was precisely because Wang Yanchao looked at the Eighth Route Army on the command platform and arranged troops in time. This slightly offset the advantage of the rapid movement of the Dangxiang Army cavalry.

Wang Yanchao sat on the podium, looking up at the sunset. The last glory of the sun shone brightly, making the sky as red as blood. The corners of Wang Yanchao's mouth burned with blisters the size of soybeans. This was a physiological reaction caused by high nerve tension. The arrow wound on his shoulder was painful and itchy, which seriously affected his back and face, making him feel as uncomfortable as fire.

There is a special poisonous weed on the banks of Qingshui River. After being shot, the whole body will gradually be paralyzed. After the wound is cured, sequelae will be left. The poisoned arrow that Wang Yanchao was killed is this kind of chronic poison.

Wang Yanchao's son Wang Lantian was the commander of the infantry of the Yongxing Army. He had been guarding the bowstrings of the bowstrings. The weaknesses of the defensive positions here endured dozens of impacts from the Dangxiang Cavalry. The bodies of the soldiers on both sides and the war horses that were chopped down on the ground were stacked together, hindering the impact of the Dangxiang Cavalry and becoming an important defensive fortification on the bowstrings. The bloody and gradually stinking corpse stinkings are the greatest pollution to people's sense of smell and vision. After the war, the United Nations soldiers who survived by chance from hell were reluctant to see meat for several months, and they would vomit when they smelled the meat.

Wang Lantian was originally a handsome man. At this time, blood condensed his hair into pieces, and there was a long wound on his cheek, which was scratched by the arrow. Fortunately, the arrow only wiped his cheek, otherwise he would have become an obstacle on the bowstring position. Wang Lantian walked to the front of the command platform, looked at his father sitting on the ground and gasping for breath, and asked with concern: "Judgesman, it's okay." As soon as he spoke, he touched the wound, and his facial expression became very ferocious. Wang Yanchao demanded his son very strictly. In the army, father and son are not allowed to be called each other, and military positions must be called each other.

Wang Yanchao sighed softly in front of his son: "You can't accept old age. If you were ten years younger, you would never sit here and breathe." Wang Lantian asked anxiously: "How long will the reinforcements arrive? If you don't come again, we can't hold on." Wang Yanchao glared and rebuked: "How many times have you told you that you should be calm when you encounter major events. How can you achieve major events like this?" Wang Yanchao saw the wound on his son's face and slowed down and said: "Is the injury serious? Your mother will make a fuss when she sees it. In this situation, the Dangxiang people no longer eat our strength. Whoever reinforcements arrive first will win the battle."

Wang Lantian wanted to ask about reinforcements again, but was afraid that his father would scold him, so he held back and said nothing. At this time, the guarded soldier at the bowstring shouted loudly: "The Dangxiang cavalry is coming again." Wang Lantian did not say anything, and rushed towards the position with his sword.

Before fighting with the Dangxiang Army outside Tongxin City, Wang Yanchao sent three sergeants to report the news in time. The two sergeants to the north were very unlucky. They encountered a small Dangxiang tribe who was transferring the ranch. This kind of intelligence could not be reconnaissed in advance and could be called a natural disaster.

There were more than 500 small tribes in the migration. After more than 100 elderly people and children, both men and women were good riders. They were originally close to the territory of Huan County in Great Zhou. The troops in Huan County often crossed the border to grab cattle, sheep and other property. The small tribe could not bear the bullying of the Zhou army. They could not bear the defeat, so they moved to the Qingshui River. When they saw this small team of Zhou army, they became revenge.

The first team of soldiers had more than 20 people surrounded by this group of revenge Dangxiang people, and none of them escaped. The second team of soldiers were lucky and found the Dangxiang people ambushed behind the mountain in time, so they fled. The two sides started a long-distance pursuit. The Dangxiang people had the advantage of geographical advantages and were slightly better in riding. After chasing for more than a day, all the soldiers of the second team of soldiers were shot and killed on the east bank of Qingshui River.

The soldiers reported to the south that they did not encounter any trouble. They ran for more than half a day and arrived in Huan County. Then they went south along the Maling River. After a long time, they arrived in Qingzhou.

After Han Lun, the envoy of the Qingzhou Troupe, said that he had left the illness, the deputy envoy of the Qingzhou Troupe was Wu Songdan. Like Yang Tianpan, the commander of the Ma Army, he was both subordinates of the general Meng Hanqing who was convicted and killed.

Wu Songdan and Yang Tianpan were both brave generals who charged forward, but Han Lun, a regiment commander, was a civil servant. He relied on his son's power to become the regiment commander of the Gyeongzhou regiment. Wu and Yang looked down on Han Lun, but they were killed by the first level of official position. The two were fed up with Han Lun's bird energy. After Han Lun was forced to leave by Hou Dayong, they applauded. The two thousand cavalry led by Yang Tianpan became the independent army of the Northwest Alliance, while Wu Songdan led 5,000 troops to guard Qingzhou alone.

Since General Meng Hanqing was convicted, Wu Songzhong's life has been quite depressed, especially since Han Lun, who did not understand military affairs, came to the Dangdang delegation to Qingzhou, Wu Songzhong saw no hope and became discouraged day by day. When Wu Songzhong heard the news of the battle in Tongxin City, he asked about the general power comparison between the two sides, when he heard that there were no more than 10,000 Dangxiang people, his eyes suddenly shone. He sensitively realized that this was an opportunity to change his destiny. The three thousand infantry troops in Qingzhou gathered as fast as possible and arrived in Huan County on the evening of the second day of the war. One thousand people stationed in Huan County belonged to Qingzhou, and Wu Songzhong ordered 500 Huan County troops to follow the Qingzhou army to act together.

After a little rest in Huan County, Wu Songzhong's entire army headed straight to Tongxin City at the time of Xu. After a night of forced marching, when the sky was slightly higher in the morning, the Qingzhou army was only more than twenty miles away from the battlefield outside Tongxin City. Although Wu Songzhong was eager to make contributions, he also understood that using these exhausted soldiers to rescue the siege was tantamount to hitting a dog with meat buns. Moreover, rescue is also an art that requires skill. The reinforcements come early and the surrounded people have not yet reached the end of the mountains and rivers. His gratitude is reduced. If the reinforcements arrive too late and the surrounded people are eliminated by the enemy, not only will the goal of rescue not be achieved, but the enemy can also concentrate their efforts to deal with the reinforcements, and the rescue will be difficult to end. Therefore, this degree is very important. This is the same as the principle of everything. The ability to master the degree is a manifestation of a person's comprehensive ability.

When the sun was the most dazzling at noon, the Qingzhou army had basically recovered after a morning rest. After eating large pieces of meat brought by Wu Songzhong, the Qingzhou army rushed to the battlefield outside Tongxin City with orders.

When the Qingzhou Army appeared on the battlefield, although more than half of the Northwest Allied Army infantry were injured or killed, they relied on their weak positions to fight against the Dangxiang Army for two and a half days under the correct command of Wang Yanchao. Wang Yanchao insisted on standing on the podium for two days, his legs slightly swollen. When he saw the "Qing" army flag waving in the distance on the podium, he knew that victory was a foregone conclusion, and he could no longer stand up. He collapsed softly and was carried off by his personal guards.

Fang Dangdu was extremely crazy. As long as the Zhou army left the position, he would be sure to wipe out the Zhou army in the field. However, the Zhou army generals were very cunning, and he racked his brains to force the Zhou army out of the position. When the Zhou army cheered loudly, the fighting spirit had been exhausted. All the soldiers of the Party Xiang army changed color. Fang Dangdu watched thousands of Zhou army's new forces rushed over, and knew that the chances of victory were all lost. He ordered the entire army to retreat with a pale face.

The Dangxiang Army had less than 4,000 troops left, and they alternately covered their troops to retreat into the city.

Wang Yanchao sat on the podium and received a salute from Wu Songzhong, deputy envoy of the Qingzhou regiment training. Wang Yanchao's eyes were flashing with tears, just like seeing his relatives. Wang Lantian knew Wu Songzhong, and he gave Wu Songzhong the warmest hug on behalf of his father. Wang Yanchao's mission was to force the Dangxiang Army in Tongxin City to go to Xihuizhou to ask for help. He watched the Dangxiang Army slowly retreat and grinned. He smiled so happily that he had no demeanor of a governor at all, just like a little naughty boy who picked up a treasure.

The infantry of the Northwest Alliance defended the position for two and a half days and finally walked out of the position. However, except for the smiles when the Qingzhou Army arrived, they all had expressionless faces on their faces at the other time. The continuous bloody battles squeezed out their energy. The cruel killings caused the hearts of the soldiers to be severely damaged. They followed behind the Qingzhou Army like a walking corpse and forced them towards Tongxin City.

Twenty-seven Black Eagle Army Lion Camp reconnaissance cavalry hid behind a small hillside. Chen Chukuang took two sergeants off the horse and lurked in the grass. He witnessed the second half of the bloody battle close by. They observed that more than a dozen war horses in the Dangxiang army left the team and headed towards Xihuizhou at full speed. Chen Chukuang and two sergeants slowly retreated from the hidden place and returned to the back of the small hillside. Thirty war horses headed straight for the deep ditch.
Chapter completed!