At the end of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 620 Battle of Yanmen

The reason why Li Jing is called the God of War is certainly due to exaggerated deification by later generations, but it has to be said that he himself is indeed a military leader, and he is also quite good at military training. Wonderful.

Seven people form a team, known as the Qijue, combining long and short weapons, taking into account both offense and defense, and killing efficiently. Teams can also respond to each other and form one piece. Transform into a more flexible three-talent formation, and continue to attack and kill in groups of three.

Li Jing's infantry has been built for almost two years, and he has honed it to a high degree of proficiency. The speed of progress is not fast, but everything it passes is "cut" cleanly.

Although Liu Wuzhou has a large number of people, no matter how many ears of rice there are, he can't help harvesting with a sharp sickle. What's more, in order to defeat the Qi army in one fell swoop, Liu Wuzhou threw out his strongest combat power as soon as he came up, but was resisted by the Qi army's defense , Now that the Qi army is fighting back with all its strength, Liu Jun has no cards to play.

After the two thousand armored light cavalry of the Qi army ate the Turkic cavalry, they seemed to be invincible. They rushed through Liu Jun's formation, coming and going like the wind, and went straight to Liu Wuzhou's commander-in-chief.

When Liu Wuzhou saw the enemy cavalry rushing towards him, he couldn't help feeling terrified. He hurriedly mobilized his troops to resist, and retreated while fighting.

"Liu Wuzhou is about to lose, Li Jing really deserves his reputation!" Chen Xiaoyi, who had been watching the battle from the top of the city, couldn't help sighing.

The old servant was obviously also very shocked. Seven thousand beat [-], and it was so easy to win. Qi Jun's combat power is too scary. Of course, Qi Jun is also much better than Liu Jun in terms of equipment, especially those that can explode. I don't know what kind of new big killer it is. If the Qi army has a lot of equipment and other forces don't have this thing, the Qi army may really be able to sweep the world.

At this time, the battle situation became more and more clear. The Qi army's cavalry was in full swing, and the infantry was also advancing steadily. In terms of killing, the infantry was obviously more efficient and brutal than the cavalry.

Liu Jun retreated steadily, and the battle line kept shrinking, while the Qi army's infantry and cavalry only stared at Liu Wuzhou's flag to chase and kill, so Liu Wuzhou couldn't breathe at all, and coupled with the chaotic situation, the chaotic soldiers were noisy all around, and he could no longer command. up.

Seeing that the general situation was over, Liu Wuzhou had no choice but to order a retreat in the direction of Mayi. As a result, the retreat turned into a retreat, and finally turned into a rout. At this time, Liu Wuzhou didn't care so much. The guards of the soldiers fled.

This time there was no hope of salvation, Liu Wu fled on Monday, and the whole army collapsed immediately, Song Jingang and Xun Xiang, the two generals also abandoned their subordinates and fled for their lives in a hurry.

The Qi army chased them all the way for fifty miles before stopping the pursuit. They seized a large number of weapons, horses and various supplies, and then returned in triumph.

It was not until the afternoon that the Qi army finished cleaning the battlefield. In this battle, Liu Jun killed nearly 3000 people, including more than 500 Turkic cavalry, captured as many as [-] horses, and captured more than [-] horses, as well as weapons, food and offensive troops. There are a large number of city equipment and so on, which are piled up like a mountain.

Ma Zhou, a member of the army under Li Jing, joined the army after counting the spoils, and he was so happy that he walked up to Gao Bufan and Li Jing and smiled, "King Qi, General Li, I'm afraid Liu Wuzhou has been defeated in this battle." , The grain captured alone is worth more than ten thousand shi, enough for our army to eat for several months, so as not to have to transport grain from the middle of the country."

Gao Bufan shook his head and said, "It's not enough."

Ma Zhou was stunned and said, "We only have [-] troops, and even if we add more prisoners, there are only more than [-] people. The captured food, plus the army rations we brought in, are more than enough to last us for three or four months."

Li Jing pointed at Yanmen City Road: "I'm afraid Ma Canjun didn't count the soldiers and civilians in the city."

Ma Zhou suddenly realized, slapped his forehead and said, "It's my subordinate's negligence. Yanmen City has been besieged for several months, and it has already run out of food. Even if we take it, not only will we not capture it, but we will have to feed tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in the city!"

It's over, how much food do we need to bring from China?
Ma Zhou seemed to have fallen from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley in an instant, from elated to frowning.The people in Qi State live and work in peace and contentment, and there is continuous food production. However, Yan County has been in war for the past year, and production has been greatly damaged. Inside, Yanmen County had to rely on domestic blood transfusions.

So, fighting for land is not enough to grab it. As the owner of this land, you have to control the life and death of the people on this land. If you want to harvest leeks, you have to let the leeks grow first, right?
Of course, as the boss, Gao Bufan doesn't need him to care about these things. He can just leave it to Wei Zheng and Du Ruhui after the territory is established. How to manage it well is what they should do.

At this time, the gate of Yanmen County was finally opened, and Chen Xiaoyi came out with the soldiers under his command, and silently walked in front of Gao Bufan and Li Jing.

At this moment, Chen Xiaoyi and the others naturally looked miserable, all of them were dressed in rags and skinny, like a group of beggars, but Gao Bufan and Li Jing didn't mean to laugh at them, they even respected them in awe, because every loyal and unyielding subject deserves respect .

Chen Xiaoyi came in front of Gao Bufan, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I want to see Yu Wenhua, the king-killing traitor, and give him the head."

Gao Bufan nodded and said, "I promise you."

Only now did Chen Xiaoyi brush his tattered official robe, lifted his hem and knelt down on the ground, solemnly said: "Yanmen prefect Chen Xiaoyi, kowtow to King Qi!"

The soldiers behind Chen Xiaoyi also knelt down and shouted in unison: "Kowtow to His Royal Highness King Qi."

Gao Bufan hurriedly stepped forward to help Chen Xiaoyi up and said: "Master Chen, please get up quickly, you don't need to be too polite, just be flat!"

Chen Xiaoyi stood up tremblingly, took a set of documents from the old servant, held it up over his head and said: "This is the household registration and field map album of Yanmen County, please have a look at it, King Qi."

Gao Bufan nodded, took the document and flipped through it casually, then handed it over to Ma Zhou, who joined the army in the recording office for safekeeping.

Gao Bufan smiled and said: "Master Chen guards Yanmen alone, and is so loyal and admirable. This king ordered you to continue to serve as the prefect of Yanmen, and the positions of the rest will remain unchanged temporarily. Send someone to fill the gap."

Chen Xiaoyi shook his head and said: "The old man is getting old, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for him to take up the big job. The king of Qi should choose someone else."

Gao Bufan didn't force himself when he heard the words, nodded and said: "Forget it, Mr. Chen has been guarding the isolated city for several months, I'm afraid he will be tired, so he will take a temporary rest for a while, how about taking the position of a scholar in the Qi Palace?"

Chen Xiaoyi hesitated for a moment, then bowed and saluted and said: "Thank you King Qi for your appreciation, and this subordinate is willing to do my little work for King Qi."

Gao Bufan was overjoyed, who would not like such a loyal subject?

Next, Chen Xiaoyi introduced his generals and officials, and greeted each other. The Qi army then entered the city to take over the defense of the city, recruited four or five thousand defenders under Chen Xiaoyi's command, and released food to help the people.

For a time, all the soldiers and civilians in the city were grateful and thanked King Qi for his life.

As for the captives, Gao Bufan also ordered them to be released. Those who were willing to leave were given three days of food, and those who were unwilling to leave could also stay. In the end, only 1000 people chose to leave, and the remaining [-] people chose to stay.

Ever since, Li Jing recruited all these people. Adding the original defenders in the city, the force was close to 20,000 people. Of course, to form combat effectiveness, these people had to go through drills.

That night, Gao Bufan wrote a letter and sent a fast horse back to Zhuo County, asking Wei Zheng to send a capable person to take over the affairs of Yanmen County, and the food had to be brought as soon as possible.

Next, Li Jing continued to send troops, and it took about ten days to take all the remaining four counties in Yanmen County.Since Liu Wuzhou was defeated, the rest of the counties surrendered, so Li Jing fought quite easily. So far, the entire Yanmen County fell into the hands of the Qi army.

Li Yuanji and Pei Jide, who were in charge of guarding Taiyuan, heard that after the Qi army captured Yanmen County, they couldn't help being so shocked that they couldn't sleep or eat. The army suddenly went south.

After Liu Wuzhou fled back to Mayi, he was still in panic all day long. While mobilizing heavy troops to defend at various levels, he also sent people to ask for help from the Turks.

(End of this chapter)