Chapter 280

Sirius mountain, the North Bank of the Han River, when you look at it, people are crowded, there are countless ships, and tens of thousands of troops are busy crossing the river, which makes the Ming army defending the other side secretly frightened.

Qin Huan and his army didn't directly go south to Fancheng, but ran dozens of miles upstream, ready to rush to the beach and land, and sandwiched the 20000 troops of Yang Guozhu on three sides.

Obviously, this is a naked way to suppress people with military potential. Before the war, let the other party be timid by three points.

Yang Guozhu on Sirius mountain was indeed frightened and blocked by the thief army. He was not afraid of siege because of his geographical advantage.

In the past half a month, Yang Sichang has organized young people to send him two batches of food from the path. It is not a problem to eat for two months.

But compared with the upstream and downstream, the river beach on the north bank is very wide, more than 20 miles. Although he has been on guard for a long time, he can only prevent a small group of troops from sneaking attacks, but he can't prevent tens of thousands of troops from making a full-scale attack. If the thief troops on the upstream and downstream also launch an attack and attack on three sides, he is really not sure.

"Commander, I'm afraid there must be fifty or sixty thousand thief troops on the other side. If you add the thief troops surrounded at both ends, there will be a whole hundred thousand troops. Once they are broken by the other party, it will be too late to retreat by the path."

"Yes, marshal, although Sirius mountain is commanding and extremely steep, it is dead. It's really inappropriate to command here."

Obviously, all the generals don't want to stay on Sirius mountain. They are worried that they will be blocked on the mountain by the thief army and become a turtle in a jar.

"Well, the wolf mountain is really not suitable for Ben Shuai's place of the Chinese army that day. Send orders and move to the foot of the mountain immediately."

Yang Guozhu nodded and decided to move the place of the Chinese army to a fork in the road.

Naturally, they won't have any opinions. They are eager to move the headquarters to the South depression. When the situation is bad, they can just leave.

It's night. It's Midsummer, but it's still cool by the river.

In the big tent of the Chinese army, all the great men from Xuanfu are homesick for their wives and concubines.

"Marshal, Wang Pu and his people are popular in Nanzhang every day. Other soldiers and horses are also hiding in Xiangyang City. Only we drink the West and north wind here and fight with the thief army. Just think about his mother's anger."

"The key is that once the thief army launches an attack tomorrow and is besieged by three sides, I don't know whether it can be held. If it can't be held, I'm afraid more than half of my brothers will have to explain here."

"Hey, what else can we do? Apart from admitting bad luck, can we leave tonight?"

"What happened to walking all night? Why do they want us to stay here and fight with the thief army? "

All the generals complained and looked at Yang Guozhu's reaction.

Seeing that he still didn't speak and looked at each other, one of the generals stood up and hugged each other and said, "commander, the thief army is powerful. It's better to leave overnight than wait for them to attack on three sides and withdraw troops in a hurry tomorrow."

"Yes, marshal, the thief army has a total of 100000 troops, which can't be defended in any case. It's better to retreat to Xiangyang City than waste our troops here."

Other generals also stood up and advised that although there was a path for retreat, their own lives would not be threatened in any case, but they were so narrow and rugged that it would be too late to take all the soldiers and horses away at that time.

If there are few soldiers and horses left in their hands, even if they escape to Xiangyang, they may not have a good life, so they don't want to stay here at all.

Yang Guozhu also didn't want to stay here alone. He was besieged by the thief army. Seeing that it was almost over, he no longer installed it. He nodded and said, "give orders, all the battalions will withdraw in turn in the second half of the night, and all the baggage, grain and grass will be burned."

"Yes!"

All the generals were overjoyed, hugged their fists together, and then went down to work one after another.

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The risk of withdrawing troops at night is great. They take the path and are under the eyes of the enemy, so we can imagine the consequences.

At first, it was in order, but when the second town and the third town noticed it, they chased and killed it from both ends, and 20000 troops completely turned into a pot of porridge. Finally, only more than 8000 people successfully escaped by the path.

However, both Yang Guozhu and other leaders are quite satisfied with this result.

Because the elite soldiers and trusted veterans have withdrawn, and their weapons and armor have not been lost, their strength has not suffered much loss. As for ordinary soldiers, they will be recruited at that time.

More than 8000 people crossed mountains and mountains. They didn't arrive in Blackstone town until the next afternoon. Wang Pu, who was carefree and happy in the town, was suddenly startled.

Mrs. Li and Qin Shuang of Heishan stronghold almost scared to death. They thought the imperial court had sent more troops to beat them.

Fortunately, Qin Shuang saw the doorway, thought about it, and comforted Xiao Xinru: "madam, don't worry. The Ming army below looks embarrassed. They don't seem to come for reinforcements at all. Instead, they seem to have escaped from the foot of Sirius mountain all night."

Li Waner looked carefully, and immediately pointed down excitedly, took Xiao Xinru's hand and said, "really, mom, look, many of their clothes have been caught and broken, which is about the same as when we escaped. I understand that they must have been defeated by brother Xiaoyu's army and escaped."

"Well, so you can call me soon."

Although Xiao Xinru was also very excited, she would not jump and jump like her daughter, but secretly squeezed her little fist.

On one side, Wang can seems not to know that his mother and daughter are looking forward to the stars and the moon, looking forward to the return of King Qin.

Shook his head and said, "although these Ming troops are likely to be fought by the king's army, now we are trapped in the stronghold and the town is occupied by the Ming army. The king can only attack Xiangyang City from the front. It is impossible to send troops to take the path to get involved."

"Mr. Wang, is that true? Brother Xiaoyu really won't send troops down the path to rescue us? "

"Don't worry, miss. Even if there are no reinforcements for the moment, it's no problem to stick to it for another month or two with our strength. I'm afraid Xiangyang City will have been broken by then."

Wang can obviously doesn't know what she cares about. She thought she was worried that she couldn't defend the stronghold, so she smiled and comforted.

The faces of the mother and daughter suddenly became lost. They thought that the Chinese army would chase after them along the path today. Qin Huan was likely to come back together. Who wanted to be happy again.

"Mr. Wang, you'd better go down and count how long the food can last."

Qin Shuang and Qin Feng glared at Wang can when they saw that their mother and daughter became depressed again.

Secretly, this guy has read all his books to cattle and can't see anything at all.

Wang can is inexplicable. He is so confused that he just speaks out his analysis. How did he provoke the two young generals to glare?

Originally, it was impossible for the Chinese army to send troops to attack Blackstone town.

On the one hand, it is easy to be ambushed by walking along the path. On the other hand, food and supplies must be transported from the mountain path. The gain is not worth the loss. It is better to fight Baokang.

Outside the town, I heard that Yang Guozhu came with troops and horses. Wang Pu rushed out.

"Brother Yang, which song did you sing?"

"Oh, don't mention it. Yesterday afternoon, more than 100000 troops of the thief army suddenly came to the north of the river and launched a strong attack. Although brother Wei insisted hard, he was defeated by three side attack. He had to retreat from the path with the disabled soldiers and defeated generals."

Yang Guozhu waved his hand and sighed, as if he had lost a real war.