Chapter 523 Carelessly lost Jingzhou
Liang Jianfang is more concerned about the battle situation in the east of Minshan Mountain.
Everyone is eating and sleeping in the open, and the people who have been used as beds have been crawling around in this gangster lair for more than a month. What's going on in the east?
"I don't know much information now, but it's all good." Qin Lang said.
When their 3,000 Qingqi and Qin Qiong marched westward respectively, Qin Qiong bravely marched northward with 5,000 troops, not afraid of the 50,000 horses of Xifeng Bulai, Yeli Renli, and Fei Tingchangsheng.
About the time they left Gansongling, Qin Qiong had already fought a battle at the border of Songfu. He still used the old tactics of rushing on light horses, which caught the party members by surprise.
In the first battle, more than a thousand enemies were wiped out, and he fought a beautiful counterattack, declaring Qin Qiong's determination to regain Fuzhou.
After that, Qin Qiong took advantage of the victory and went north, encircling Jiachuan with soldiers.
But Qin Qiong did not fight, he sent troops to set up a camp under the dangerous city of Jiachuan, and then set up a flag. Every night, Qin Qiong would quietly call out a battalion of troops, and in the daytime, they would march into the camp from a distance under a flag and show off their might.
Deliberately create an illusion that the Tang army is continuously arriving with reinforcements. In fact, Qin Qiong dispatches 1,000 people every night, and only 600 people enter the camp during the day.
After this continued for many days, there were actually only a thousand people left in the camp of Jiachuan. Qin Qiong quietly transferred 4,000 people and arranged them on the only road outside Jiachuan.
Xifeng Bulai sent people to lead troops to help, but Qin Qiong used dangerous terrain to ambush him halfway, and wiped out more than a thousand enemies in one fell swoop.
This move of besieging the city and fighting for aid is very beautiful, which makes Xifeng Auri very annoyed.
After that, Zhang Shigui rushed to the reinforcements with 20,000 troops, and Qin Qiong had sufficient troops, and once again created the appearance of going all out to attack Jiachuan, and then block the retreat of the party members.
Zhang Shigui led more than 10,000 infantry and launched several violent feint attacks, which created great pressure on the defenders. The general of the Qiang people in Jiachuan had to send messengers again and again to ask for help from Xifeng Bulai in Tongchang City, Fuzhou.
Although Xifeng Bulai was worried about the ambush, he didn't dare to sit idly by, and finally led his troops back to aid Jiachuan, being cautious along the way.
Although Qin Lang couldn't ambush and attack, he was able to intercept him halfway.
He mobilized more than 10,000 men and horses to rush to repair fortifications day and night, dig trenches, erect horses, build fences, dig pits for horses, and in a short period of time, on the only way to return to aid, Xifengbulai, A fortification was erected.
Xifeng Bulai's road ahead was blocked, and Jiachuan was in a hurry, so he could only bite the bullet and attack.
As a result, after several days of consecutive attacks, Qin Qiongyi used the fortifications to fight a defensive battle. With strong bows and crossbows combined with the fences of the trenches, Xifengbulai suffered heavy losses.
Xi Fengbu Lai saw that the strong attack was difficult, so he had to withdraw his troops and retreat to Fuzhou.
As a result, Qin Qiong secretly sent an elite soldier to take a detour to Xifeng on the road back to the city, and set up an ambush according to the danger.
Xifeng Ayulai never thought that there would be such a move.
He returned to Fuzhou halfway dejectedly, and was ambushed by the Tang army. After some fighting, he finally managed to kill him. Fortunately, the path that the Tang army took was too dangerous to pass too many soldiers. But he threw away his helmet and armor and hurried back to Tongchang City. After counting, he lost nearly a thousand more.
Now, Ayumi Hosioka no longer dares to rescue Kagawa easily.
So Qin Qiong led his troops back to the city of Jiachuan, surrounded Jiachuan with Zhang Shigui, and was not in a hurry to attack the city. They only harassed the city day and night, making the Qiang people restless day and night.
He stepped up to build siege equipment under the city.
After the first batch of siege catapults and ladders were built, Qin Qiong gave the Qiang people a vivid classic siege lesson.
The siege began, Qin Qiong besieged three towers and one, and attacked fiercely from three sides, but left the west side alone.
When the rain of arrows and stone bullets fell from the sky, countless ladders were carried to the bottom of the city, and groups of soldiers of the Tang army raised their shields and held their knives, and ants climbed the city. The Qiang people in the city were basically desperate.
They only lasted for three days, and finally chose to open the unenclosed city gate at night, and fled westward.
Qin Qiong deliberately let these Qiang people run out of the city, and then started chasing them with light cavalry.
And Tang Jun also successfully regained the city of Jiachuan.
Without a strong will, there are not a few troops who can survive under the psychological tactics of encircling three queues. On one side is a fierce offensive, and the city is in danger, while the other side is an escape route.
The Qiang people, who were originally invaders, naturally chose to escape in the end. Qin Qiong was a little surprised that they could survive for three days.
But escaping from the city does not mean that he really escaped.
Because the real killer move actually started after they left the city. When they were in the city, they could still rely on the fortress of the city to resist, and even offset many of the advantages of the Tang army in terms of numbers.
But once they left the city, they no longer had these things to rely on.
The Qiang people, who were determined to run away, didn't even have any fighting spirit, while Tang Qi, who had been waiting for a long time, had been recharging his energy for a long time. And so begins a game of chase.
The exhausted and fleeing soldiers faced the elite and fierce hunter Tang Qi.
Any experienced general knows that this is the most terrible situation, and it is also a situation that must be avoided by every possible means. The generals all know that the biggest casualties on the battlefield do not come from the battle between the two armies, but when one side is defeated. just started.
The vast majority of those who died in battle actually died on the way to escape.
Either be hacked to death by the enemy chasing behind, or surrender and be captured after having nowhere to escape.
There are very few people who can really escape from the defeated battlefield. They are usually the most elite troops or officers, because they all have horses, and they all have loyal guards desperately opening the way and covering the rear.
When fleeing, once injured, it is difficult to get timely treatment, and it is easy to die, and many rout soldiers will starve to death because they have no food.
Everything is as Qin Qiong expected.
This chasing game lasted only one day. None of the thousands of Qiang people who fled from the city were able to cross Minshan Mountain and flee back to Dangxiang’s hometown. and die, or fall and drown.
In the end, more than 1,800 captives were brought back to Jiachuan City, and the rest became corpses lying on the side of the road.
In the Battle of Jiachuan, Qin Qiong showed textbook-level tactics, letting the Dangxiang Qiang people understand what war is.
By besieging the city and fighting for aid, he consumed Fuzhou Xifeng Bulai's troops, and also cut off his ability and confidence to rescue Jiachuan, and finally made Jiachuan City an isolated city.
Through fierce onslaught and siege of Sanqueyi, the fighting spirit of the Qiang people in the city was disintegrated, forcing them to abandon the city and flee.
Originally, the danger of Jiachuan was easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if Qin Qiong had the support of Zhang Shigui and had an army of 25,000, it would not be possible to take the city of Jiachuan guarded by thousands of Qiang people in a short time. If it arrives, even if it is consumed, there will definitely be heavy casualties.
Even the pressure of logistics can make Qin Qiong's more than 20,000 horses last until the city is broken.
But Qin Qiong finally took less than a month to take down the city of Jiachuan. In addition to regaining Jiachuan, he also wiped out thousands of troops and killed more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in Xifengbulai, Fuzhou.
When Jiachuan was captured, Qin Qiong even completed the strategic lore layout.
Qin Qiong controlled Jiachuan and blocked the retreat of tens of thousands of people including Xifeng Bulai who went deep into the Baishui River Basin in the east.
Leaning on Songzhou with their backs, inserting their swords into Jiachuan, Xifeng Bulai and others are in a desperate situation.
They can't go home.
When Qin Qiong was still besieging Jiachuan, the party departments were still making noises. No one wanted to fight Qin Qiong head-on, and they all counted on others to take the lead.
Regarding the matter of rescuing Jiachuan, after delaying it again and again, Xifeng Ayulai was also hesitant.
As a result, Qin Qiong captured Jiachuan and blocked their escape route, and Xifeng Bulai and others regretted it.
But there is no medicine for regret in the world.
The Qiang people finally panicked.
They are here to rob, they are here to grab the territory, and they don't want to be trapped here to death.
Fei Tingchangsheng and Yeli Renli no longer besieged Wenzhou, but looted everywhere.
Even though Wenzhou is not big, the Qiang people couldn't take it down with five thousand soldiers and horses from Songzhou to help defend the city. They were besieging the city while cutting down trees and making some crude siege equipment. On the one hand, the various ministries are looting the countryside everywhere, preparing to grab things and occupy territory.
Who would have thought that the siege equipment could not be made well, and nothing could be obtained by looting everywhere.
I want to enter Jianzhou and Lizhou in the south to make a profit, but the Tang people in the south are also on the alert. They have increased their troops to garrison the front line of Dabai Mountain in the south.
After the fall of Jiachuan, the chiefs of the Wenzhou Qiang army, Fei Ting Changsheng and Ye Li Renli, quickly reached an agreement to withdraw quickly.
The 20,000 Qiang people who went deep into Wenzhou retreated westward in panic.
Originally at this time, if the samurai in Wenzhou City were a little more daring and led thousands of soldiers and horses in the city to pursue them, it would definitely cause a lot of losses to the Qiang people.
But the samurai Xun went to rescue Songzhou, but was blocked in Wenzhou on the way, and guarded for more than a month in fear. How could he dare to chase them? I am afraid that it was a trick of the Qiang people to lure them out of the city and then ambush them.
If the samurai did not pursue him, the governor of Wenzhou would not dare to pursue them with only a few brave people in his hands.
After the Qiang people had withdrawn for several days, the warrior Xun dared to send Qingqi out of the city to investigate, and only then did he learn that the Qiang people had really withdrawn.
I heard that Qin Qiong captured Jiachuan and blocked the retreat of the Qiang people. This caused the Qiang people to retreat in panic, so the warrior Xun regretted it again.
His nephew who joined the army was even more eager to do meritorious service. He lied about issuing military orders and chased him out with a thousand troops. The samurai Xun was worried about his nephew's safety, and was encouraged by the governor of Wenzhou, so he had no choice but to bring the rest of his soldiers and horses to pursue.
As a result, they hurried for a few days and finally caught up with the vehicle in front. However, when they were exhausted, the Qiang returned their carbine guns in the middle of the night and raided their camp.
The two civilian officials were in command, but most of the soldiers under their hands were brave and strong men from the countryside. Although there were more than a thousand soldiers from the Chongfu government, when the Qiang invaded the camp, the strong men from the village quickly panicked and dispersed. The soldiers of the army were also powerless to recover, and finally the camp fell and the whole army collapsed.
Fei Tingchangsheng and Yeli Renli led 20,000 Qiang cavalry to hunt them down for three days, and they chased them all the way to Wenzhou. The warrior Xun and the Wenzhou governor didn't even dare to enter Wenzhou City, because there were few soldiers around. He couldn't keep it, so he crossed the city without entering, and fled all the way to Lizhou.
Fei Ting Changsheng had attacked Wenzhou for more than a month before, but he couldn't do anything about it. He never expected that this time he won it easily.
After entering the city, the soldiers looted for a day and a night, and the last fire burned Wenzhou City, and then walked away happily with the looted gold, silver, money, silk, children and livestock.
This time, no one dared to chase after him.
The samurai Xun fled all the way back to Miantu City in Lizhou in panic. There were 5,000 troops, but less than 800 came back.
The whole person is stupid.
(end of this chapter)