Late Tang Dynasty: I

Chapter 220 Pursuit
At a distance of five or six hundred steps, the cavalry of the left Wu cavalry army rushed up in a few breaths, and slashed at the right habayashi army one by one.

Among the soldiers of the Right Habayashi Army, two to three thousand people retreated through the gully line. According to the emperor's military order, these people were all within the scope of the Zuo Wucai Army's massacre.

But after all, it used to be his own robe, and the Zuowu cavalry held the pace and drove the gang of defeated soldiers back to the battlefield.

"Brothers, if you retreat, you will die. If you advance, you may still have a way to survive. Go back and form a formation to kill!"

More and more soldiers crossed the ravine again, and Zhang Cunjing's two thousand pursuers gradually became less relaxed.

Originally, the fleeing soldiers independently searched for the shield soldiers to assemble. It was very chaotic at first, but after gradually forming an formation, they stabilized their positions, and the advantages of the mandarin duck formation were revealed.

Unfortunately, in the rout just now, many soldiers discarded their shields and weapons. Although there were still quite a few soldiers, half of them had already lost their combat power.

However, the goal of the frontal battlefield has been achieved, and the Youbalin army has successfully attracted [-]% of Zhang Cunjing's troops, almost all of the heavy weapons, the eight-ox crossbow.

"General, the rear line is on fire!"

Zhang Cunjing was shocked.

"Tang Jun burned our food and grass!"

Once the food and grass are burned, even if the Tang army does not attack, it will not last for a few days if they just surround it like this!

Like You Yulin's army, Fu Cunshen's army was also on the battlefield for the first time after becoming an army.

Fu Cunshen took the lead, pulled out the seven strongholds, and was heading towards the center. At the same time, some loud voices in the army also began to shout at the Zhongwu army.

"Mr. Zhao became Luoyang Yin of the imperial court, why are you rebelling!"

"Zhu Wen is a rebellious thief. What's the matter with Guan Zhongwu's army? Are you willing to commit the crime of ransacking your family and exterminating your clan?"

"Chenzhou has fallen, don't you miss your wives, children, and mother?"

Zhao Xu, the soldier and horse envoy of the Zhongwu Army, is Zhao Ji's younger brother, and he is in the army at this time. Although he has no real power and can only command dozens of soldiers, he still has some prestige in the Zhongwu Army.

A group of soldiers of the Loyalist Army heard that Chenzhou had fallen, and they were in a panic. How could they obey the order of the general, and gathered around Zhao Xu.

"Master Zhao, is Chen Zhou already trapped?"

Zhao Xu didn't know that now that the news was cut off, the news of Chenzhou could not reach the front line at all.

It was precisely because of the impediment that Fu Cunshen was given the opportunity to build momentum.

"There are only two thousand old and weak in Chenzhou, how can they block the peak of imperial soldiers!"

Everything makes sense, as long as Zhu Wen doesn't send reinforcements, then Chenzhou doesn't need to fight at all. Even if the imperial army comes to Chenzhou, will Zhao Chang stop it?

Another soldier couldn't figure it out, Zhao Ji had always used the righteousness of the court to gather troops to resist Huang Chao and Qin Zongquan's thieves, but now they became thieves.

"We are all Tang loyalists, why are we fighting against the imperial army!"

"Zhu Wen's rebellion, what does it have to do with my loyal army, Zhao Bingmashi, let's do it anyway!"

"Anyway!"

Zhao Xu remained silent.

Fu Shoujie, Marquis of Yu, the capital of the Zhongwu Army, hurriedly led the sword general to supervise the battle.

"Do you want to disobey the military order?"

But at this time, the Zhongwu Army still listened to the military orders of the generals of the Bian Army.

"It's your rebellion that engulfs us and affects our family, kill!"

Three or four thousand soldiers of the Zhongwu Army drew their knives, chopped melons and vegetables, and beheaded Fu Shoujie and his party of five or sixty people.

Looking at the fifty or sixty heads, Zhao Xu had no choice but to respond. If he didn't nod his head at this time, he might be killed by the soldiers and set up another leader.

"I'm willing to wait anyway!"

"Dropped down"

Fu Cun tried his soldiers without bloodshed and occupied the Chinese army.

The loss of food and grass had already made Zhang Cunjing flustered, and the mutiny of the Zhongwu army was like a heavy hammer, shocking him into a coma.

Originally, at this time of the war, the Bian army did not have much reduction in personnel, but when the Zhongwu army came out like this, it was equivalent to half of the troops becoming the Tang army, and the offensive and defensive momentum immediately changed.

Zhang Cunjing hurriedly led his army back to the village, defended himself, and then led the army to the Zhongwu Army Zhongzhai. Just now, it was a robe in a trench, but now, the Bian Army has met the Zhongwu Army's swordsmen.

The Bian army is strong, and the Zhongwu army is naturally not weak. At the beginning, Zhao Ji defended Chenzhou by himself, instead of standing on the city wall and defending the city, he opened the city gate and led the army to fight outside the city.

After a while of tentative attacks, the two sides felt that the other party was difficult to deal with, and Zhang Cunjing didn't even have a chance to talk to Zhao Xu.

At this time, the Youbalin army pulled out the village from east to west.

Fu Cunshen's army pulled out the stronghold from west to east.

Sima Yixing, the commander of the Zhongwu army, said: "General Zhang, the Zhongwu army rebelled. I'm afraid they won't be able to persuade them to return. There are still [-] elite soldiers in the army, so they can't be wasted on the Zhongwu army?"

Zhang Cunjing sighed incomparably: "Jie Shuai doesn't listen to me, if the generals of the Zhongwu Army are mixed with the Bianjun soldiers, what will be the disaster today."

He Xing'a shook his head, and thought to himself that Jie Shuai didn't want you, Jie Shuai and Zhao Ji are relatives of sons and daughters, Zhao Ji put Jie Shuai first in everything, Zhao Ji is not dead, how could Jie Shuai have the nerve to recruit the Zhongwu Army.

But it never occurred to Zhao Ji to go to Luoyang, and the Zhongwu Army was sent to Bozhou before it could be reorganized.

"The matter has come to this point, the Zhongwu Army is useless, our army has no food, no reinforcements, we must make progress early, otherwise disaster will be imminent!"

Zhang Cunjing also knew that this matter was out of reach, and said: "Now we only have three ways, one is to stand here and wait for reinforcements, the other is to return to Chenzhou, and the third is to go to Bozhou to join forces with General Ge."

Yixing A Dao: "It's hard to defend without food. If you go to Chenzhou, the army said just now that Chenzhou has fallen. I will be in a desperate situation when I go to Chenzhou. Now I can only use the third strategy to go to Bozhou and join General Ge. Soldiers!"

Zhang Cunjing nodded and said: "I'm going to Bozhou, Yi Sima, pass on this general's order, the army will cross the Ci River westward, don't delay!"

Yi Xing'a was a little confused, and hurriedly asked: "Isn't the general going to Bozhou to the west? Why do you want to cross the river and go east?"

Zhang Cunjing said: "We have five thousand soldiers and horses, all of them are infantry. The imperial court wants tens of thousands of cavalry to watch us. The terrain here is flat, which is suitable for cavalry to charge. If we go directly to Bozhou, can we stop these tens of thousands of cavalry? "

"This……"

"There are no soldiers on the east bank of the Ci River. We go up the river. If the imperial court transfers the cavalry to the east bank, we will just cross the Ci River westward and go all the way to Bozhou. There will be no more worries."

"The general's fortune-telling, humble and admirable!"

Zhang Cunjing waved his hand, in this situation, he really couldn't bear Yi Xin's flattery, Bianjun moved as soon as he said it, and immediately threw away all the luggage, and only took the poor horsemen to cross the river, Zhang Cunjing personally led five hundred elite soldiers to the rear!

…………

"Your Majesty, the Zhongwu Army is ready to fight anyway..."

"Your Majesty, Zhang Cunjing has withdrawn and is commanding troops to cross the river!"

His Majesty the Emperor was heartbroken for You Yubayashi's army just now, and the succession of good news shocked him.

"We must go back to Chenzhou, pursue, pursue, and order the left and right cavalry troops to cross the river to pursue, and we must wipe out Zhang Cunjing's army."

"promise!"

(End of this chapter)