The Passionate Guns of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 515 Fierce Battle Against Matsuyama

After Yang Yong's men occupied Duisong Mountain on the left, it was already dark.

Since Youshan hadn't been captured yet, Yu Chigong's [-] right-hand army did not attack after a day of strong attack, and suffered heavy losses.

After Yang Yong and Xu Maogong discussed, they must not give Wang Xiong and the others a chance to breathe, and must attack Youshan overnight.However, although the battle in Zuoshan is basically over, there are still many post-war matters that need to be dealt with. Many prisoners of the Wu army captured in this battle need to be detained. Handling, the battlefield needs to be cleaned up in time to facilitate further battles, and so on.

Therefore, Yang Yong asked Luo Shiying to lead 5000 troops to stay in Zuoshan to deal with these post-war matters, and asked Princess Yujing to assist Xu Maogong to lead [-] troops, mainly archers. After the battle started, let them go from the height of Zuoshan to the right The Wu army attacked in order to suppress and disturb the Wu army in Youshan, thereby reducing the pressure on Yang Yong and others to storm Youshan.

Then, Yang Yong led Yang Yuling, Li Wan'er, and Luo Song to gather the remaining troops in one place and there were more than 6 soldiers, mainly the original left army and the main force of Xu Maogong's central army.

At the second watch of the night, Yang Yong secretly descended from the back mountain to the left mountain with more than 6 horsemen, including two beautiful wives and general Luo Song, and launched a fierce attack from the back mountain to the right mountain. At the same time, the front pass of the right mountain was also attacked. The onslaught of Yu Chigong's right army.Also at the same time, Xu Maogong and Princess Yujing led thousands of archers from the height of Zuoshan.

For a time, Wu Jun in Youshan was attacked on three sides.After receiving the battle report, Wang Xiong didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly announced the end of the meeting, and brought his personal guards to the front line to supervise the battle.

The battle was fierce.Numerous torches illuminated the entire Duongsong Mountain, and half of the sky turned red.

But Wang Xiong knew clearly that it would be bad for him to fight like this.One is that they lost the battle during the day, Zuoshan fell, and more than half of the 10,000+ soldiers and horses were injured. His right-hand men, Zhang Wei and Pang Yu, were all killed, and the morale of his troops was low; Not to mention the rest, the bows, arrows, rolling logs and stones available on the mountain are limited after all, and there is no time to replenish them; the third is that the natural danger is no longer there, because Zuoshan fell, and Yang Yong's troops attacked them from Zuoshan. It is taller and bigger than Youshan, which is why he put his coach camp in Zuoshan at the beginning. Now that Zuoshan is lost, his advantage has turned into a disadvantage; There are tens of thousands of people, and Yang Yong's troops far exceed him.

There are four reasons for this. After a long time, the Wu army will undoubtedly be defeated.

But Wang Xiong knew that this was the case, there was no way out, and he couldn't do without fighting, so he had to lead all the soldiers to defend desperately.

This murderous battle lasted all night, and tens of thousands of soldiers were killed or killed overnight.At dawn, without Wang Xiong's suggestion, Yang Yong's men and Yu Chigong's men attacked You Mountain from the back mountain and the front mountain one after another, and the two sides fought desperately on the mountain again.

In the afternoon, Wang Xiong's troops were completely defeated, and only less than 2 people were compressed and surrounded by Yang Yong's two groups of troops on a half slope on the right mountain.

Wang Xiong saw that the general situation was over, and if he continued to fight, the whole army would really be wiped out, so he quickly ordered to break through.

But breaking out is easier said than done?To the north was Yang Yong, to the west were Yang Yuling and Li Wan'er, to the south was Yuchi Gong, and to the east was Luo Song. million people.

Wang Xiong, who fought for two days and one night, is now completely discouraged. In the end, he changed into the armor of an ordinary soldier, abandoned his horse, and gave up the halberd in his hand, and turned into an ordinary infantry , finally broke out of the siege, rolled down the hillside, and escaped together with dozens of escapees.

At dusk, Yang Yong's men completely occupied Mount You and captured many Wu troops.But after searching all over the mountain, there was no sign of Wang Xiong, and only then did I know that this cunning guy had slipped through the net.

This murderous battle started from Pang Yu's wedding at noon on the first day, and ended completely in the evening of the next day. It lasted for two days and one whole night, and the fierce fighting lasted for more than 14 hours, completely defeating Wang Xiong's nearly 100 troops. , When Wang Xiong fled to Songshan and gathered the remnants and ran back to Xuchang, there were only more than [-] people around him, what a tragedy!
In this battle, Yang Yong won a complete victory. He not only rescued his beloved wife Luo Shiying, but also obtained countless trophies, such as knives and spears, food, grass, horses and other military supplies piled up like a mountain, and captured more than [-] soldiers of the Wu army.

But in this battle, Yang Yong's rebel army suffered more than 3 casualties, and the price was quite heavy. As the saying goes, killing three thousand enemies will cost you eight hundred.

Yang Yong rewarded the soldiers of the three armies on the mountain, collected the prisoners, rectified the soldiers and horses, and rested for three days against Songshan.

From the prisoner's mouth, Yang Yong finally understood Wang Xiong's tricks of leading troops, and suddenly realized: Damn, I said why his soldiers are so strong in battle, and why are they so willing to work for him? For meritorious soldiers, they are very good at buying people's hearts. As for those who retreat before the battle, their families will be beheaded and buried with them. He has gone to two extremes of selfish human nature, which is really not advisable.This guy is really a ghost, the ghost is so cruel, if he replaces Du Fuwei in the future and wins the world, he must be a tyrant. Thinking of this, Yang Yong scoffed at Wang Xiong's way of leading troops.

But Yang Yong wronged Wang Xiong for thinking this way. This is Wu Jun's tradition and Wu Jun's system. The instigators were not Wang Xiong, but Du Fuwei and Fu Gong Er.Wang Xiong is just an executor. His ability lies in bringing this system to the extreme. Among the hundreds of thousands of Wu soldiers, he is a model of loving soldiers like sons. The prestige in the army is naturally high.

Three days later, Yang Yong led an army of less than 12, but he still claimed 15 to the outside world. After passing through Dui Songshan, he went straight to Xuchang to kill him. This time, General Zhang Gongjin also followed the camp. Transport grain and grass.

When Zhang Gongjin was about to set off, according to Yang Yong's instructions, he entrusted the task of guarding Luoyang to a trustworthy 8000-man leader, and left him with [-] troops to defend the city. The leader and eight thousand soldiers are more than enough to defend the city.

Before Yang Yong's troops arrived in Luoyang, the news came that Wang Xiong, who was seriously injured, abandoned the city with thousands of troops and fled. A few days later, Yang Yong's troops entered Xuchang without bloodshed, and this historic city returned to the rebels. embrace.

They only stopped in Xuchang for two days, leaving a team to defend Xuchang, and Yang Yong's troops continued to move forward.Wang Xiong, who was like a frightened bird, did not dare to stay in Nanyang. Instead, he withdrew his troops and led more than 1 Wu soldiers to abandon Nanyang and go all the way south, crossed the Huai River, returned to Danyang, and went to his emperor Du Fuwei's side. Please go.

Therefore, along the way, Yang Yong took the opportunity to regain Nanyang and other large areas of lost ground.In the summer of 617, in less than half a year, Wang Xiong's powerful army was completely defeated, and the invading Wu army was driven out of the territory of the rebel army.

But Yang Yong didn't intend to withdraw troops. He and Li Jing wanted to unify Jiangnan this time. According to Yang Yong's words, who told you to provoke Lao Tzu first?

Therefore, in July, Yang Yong and Xu Maogong led an army of 12 out of Nanyang all the way to the southeast, and the soldiers arrived in Huaiyang.

Huaiyang is now the Zhoukou area of ​​Henan Province. It was called Ruyin and Yingzhou in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Huaiyang was the sphere of influence of Wu State at that time, and it was also the first stop for Yang Yong to attack Du Fuwei in the true sense.

The city guard of Huaiyang was called Ma Kui, a civil servant who was called the governor of the county at that time, with 10,000 soldiers and horses in the city.Even the famous Wang Xiong with [-]+ "Iron Army" was completely defeated. Ma Kui knew that he was not Yang Yong's opponent, so he held on to the city and dared not fight. On the other hand, he sent someone to his Emperor Du Fuwei to ask for reinforcements.

Yang Yong and Chen Bing outside Huaiyang City ordered people to fight against the enemy and scold them. The magistrate guard could bear it, and hid in the yamen, pretending to be deaf and dumb, and remained indifferent.But this move pissed off one of his generals...

(End of this chapter)