Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 272 Carrying Out Street Fighting
Guizhou city is broken.But Wu Yanrou thought that there were still [-] to [-] troops, and there was still a chance, so he organized troops to fight the Song army in street battles.

It's a pity that among the [-] to [-] Han troops, less than [-] soldiers have actually been on the battlefield, and there is still some gap between the combat power and the Song army.As a result, less than half an hour after the street fighting, the Han army finally began to be defeated. Even if Wu Yanrou asked his own soldiers to kill dozens of deserters, he gradually lost control of the situation.

At this time, there were fires everywhere in the city, thick smoke billowed into chaos, shouts of killing and screams came and went one after another.Affected by the random running of the people and the reason why the Han army intended to fight in the streets, the Song army has also been disrupted.When Ye Chen entered the city, there was no one to be found except the five hundred imperial guards guarding the east gate.

Ye Chen climbed up the deserted city wall with his own soldiers, his dantian was lucky, and shouted: "If you can't find the top person after entering the city, you can fight on your own, and the generals at all levels will make decisions immediately."

"Whoever captures or kills Wu Yanrou alive, whether it is our Song army or Han people or Han army officers and soldiers, can be promoted to three ranks in our Song Dynasty and rewarded ten thousand gold."

Ye Chen used his internal strength, and the sound came out, like thunder rolling, and even half of Guizhou City could hear it clearly.

The voice was so loud that Ye Chen himself was taken aback, but as soon as this sentence came out, it was the last straw that broke the camel's back.

In the south of the city, Wu Yanrou was surrounded by five hundred personal guards, and he didn't dare to let other soldiers get close to him. Except for the five hundred personal guards he trusted most, the other Han soldiers and the people seemed to look at him. Different, the greed in the eyes is hard to hide.

Wu Yanrou was sad in his heart. The only ones who were really fighting Song Jun were the 5000 who followed him to fight Dali and Nanyue in the past few years, but now nearly half of them were killed and injured, and most of the other [-] Han troops had already left.Under such circumstances, this battle is already impossible to fight.But he was really not reconciled, and still persisted, and did not order the withdrawal of troops.

The whole city of Guizhou groaned and trembled under the flames of war and iron cavalry!
The city was in chaos, and Ye Chen couldn't figure out which one was where.However, he didn't know that Wu Yanrou, the chief general of the Han army, had lost control of the army. During the melee, there were many surrenders from the Southern Han army, and the overall situation was settled.

The ancient army was good at field battles, but not so easy to fight in street battles. After losing the formation, it was entirely up to the low-level generals to control their subordinates.

Ye Chen had already told the five generals before rushing to the city gate that Wu Yanrou should not be allowed to escape as much as possible.But he knew that it would be difficult to achieve this. After all, compared with the Han army in Guizhou City, his army was still too small, and Wu Yanrou also had thousands of soldiers capable of fighting. It is difficult to find Wu Yanrou.

Guizhou City fell completely, and Wu Yanrou finally escaped, taking more than 8000 Han troops with him.Two days later, the intelligence officer of the Yizhou Intelligence Department received news that Wu Yanrou had gone to Yizhou.

Ye Chen was not in a hurry to attack other places, but led the army to stay in Guizhou to further consolidate the regime in Guizhou.

The other two armies of the Song Dynasty were also in full swing. After Zhao Zan led the East Army in Jizhou, they captured Jianzhou and several military towns.Pan Mei has led an army to capture Fanglin Town, the most important military town in the Southern Han Dynasty, which is only a short distance away from Hezhou.

Seeing that something was wrong, Gong Chengshu repeatedly ordered Pan Chongche to stop Pan Mei's army.Because after passing Hezhou, along the Shixing River, all the way to the plains, after Shaozhou, it can directly lead to Panyu, the capital of Han Dynasty [now Guangzhou].

Pan Chongche was forced to lead his army to meet the enemy.

Pan Chongche was a heroic general in the Southern Han Dynasty who was well versed in strategy. He was comparable to Wu Yanrou in prestige and fame in the Han army, but his character was quite different from Wu Yanrou. resentment.

In fact, before this activation, he was deprived of military power by Gong Chengshu, and was even imprisoned for a time.If his family hadn't been hijacked by Gong Chengshu to the capital, he would never have worked for the Southern Han court this time.

This time, although he was forced to lead the troops into battle, he only felt chills in his heart.

At this time, Pan Chongche was standing at the head of Hezhou City, and a past event from a few years ago suddenly appeared in his mind again.

It was still in the second year of Qiande in the Song Dynasty. For a while, Chen Jingyuan suddenly had a whim and ordered Pan Chongche to send troops to attack Tanzhou in the Song Dynasty.At that time, the military strength of the Southern Han Dynasty was already very weak. The soldiers were dead, the buildings and ships were in disrepair, and the people were tired of fighting. It would be nice to be able to compete with the two small countries of Nanyue and Dali. Tan.

At that time, Shao Tingmao, the domestic servant, was well aware of this situation, so he advised the prime minister Gong Chengshu and the emperor Liu Yu: "The Han inherited the chaos of the Tang Dynasty and lived here for more than [-] years. Fortunately, there were many wars in the Central Plains, and the fighting was not as good as in the southern border. In the war, the Han Dynasty is proud of nothing. Today, the soldiers do not know the flag and drums, and the master does not know whether he is alive or dead. The world has been in chaos for a long time, and the chaos will be ruled. Please prime minister and your majesty to prepare the army and send envoys to communicate better than Song."

Liu Yu couldn't make the decision, Gong Chengshu must have firmly listened to Chen Jingyuan's words, he said: "I am a big man located in the south of Lingnan, where the mountains are high and the water is fast. The Song army is only good at fighting in the plains. Once they enter our mountains, they will be at a loss. What's more, I have a The incomparably mighty 'elephant army', the army of the Northern Song Dynasty who had never seen an elephant, would surely be terrified to see them, abandoning their armor and fleeing."

In the end, Gong Chengshu refused to listen to Shao Tingmao's dissuasion and sent troops to attack Tanzhou.As a result, it turned out to be a fire, and the Tanzhou defense envoy at that time took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and soon captured Chenzhou in the Southern Han Dynasty.

At this time, Gong Chengshu didn't dare to be arrogant, and urgently ordered Shao Tingmao to serve as a recruitment envoy, and stationed troops to guard against the Song army.

After Shao Tingmao led his army to the station, he stepped up to build fortifications, trained soldiers and horses, and actively prepared for battle.

However, the eunuchs in the court were jealous of Shao Tingmao, fearing that his meritorious service would compete for favor, so they wrote an anonymous letter to Gong Chengshu, accusing Shao Tingmao of conspiring to rebel.Gong Chengshu was furious when he saw the letter, but without verification, he ordered Liu Yu to order him to execute himself.Shao Tingmao was busy training and preparing for war in the army day and night, when he suddenly received the death edict from the imperial court, it was like a bolt from the blue.However, he was an official for generations and firmly believed in the ancient adage that "the king ordered the minister to die, but the minister was not loyal if he was not dead", so he died of injustice drinking poison that night.

Thinking of these past events, Pan Chongche only felt chills all over his body.He has completely despaired of this faint king who is controlled by demons and eunuchs, and these treacherous ministers, he can't repeat the same mistakes as his old friend Shao Tingmao.Some time ago, after the Southern Han Kingdom received the news that the Song army was about to make a southern expedition, Gong Chengshu wanted to use Pan Chongche, but Pan Chongche refused to lead the army under the guise of his eyesight.

Although Gong Chengshu was angry in his heart, it was a fact that Pan Chongche's eyes were sick. He didn't want to punish him at this juncture, so he had to use someone else. They also sent people to arrest Pan Chongche's family members, coercing and luring Pan Chongche out of the mountain.

Pan Chongche was indeed capable in fighting. He found a substitute in Hezhou and erected his own flag on the top of the city. Then only 5 soldiers were left in the city to guard the city, and he led [-] horses to sneak into the mountains.

Pan Mei led an army of [-] to capture Hezhou in two days. After seeing the weakness of the soldiers of the Southern Han Dynasty, she was very energetic. After a day of recuperation in Hezhou, she left [-] soldiers to guard Hezhou City, and then led the troops out of the city. , went to Shaozhou, wanted to take down Shaozhou in one go, and went straight to Panyu, the capital of the Southern Han Dynasty, and made the first attack on Han before Ye Chen and Zhao Zan.

Shaozhou is the north gate of Guangzhou City, and the Song army's attack on Shaozhou was the prelude to the attack on Panyu [now Guangzhou].Gong Chengshu panicked and sent someone to urge Pan Chongche, but Pan Chongche put forward a condition that Gong Chengshu send his family to Shaozhou, otherwise he would lead his troops to surrender.Gong Chengshu was furious, ordered Pan Chongche's youngest son to be killed, and sent the body to Pan Chongche, and said that if Pan Chongche didn't lead an army to block the Song army, he would kill all of Pan Chongche's more than 100 family members.

Pan Chongche was heartbroken and hated Gong Chengshu to death, and he saw Gong Chengshu's character very clearly. He knew that even if he drove back all the Song troops in this way, Gong Chengshu would hate him for this bargain afterwards, and he would definitely wipe out his whole family. And he himself would certainly not be able to escape Gong Chengshu's murderous hands.

Pan Chongche sat on the bed and thought all night. His eyes were blood red in the morning, and his dark hair turned gray overnight. He seemed to be more than 20 years old, but he had already made the most difficult decision in the world.

He sent his confidants to contact Pan Mei, and gained Pan Mei's trust by using a big secret military situation in Tianyi of the Southern Han Dynasty as a stepping stone, and the two teamed up to stage a scene.

Pan Chongche told the generals below that he deliberately lured the Song army to go deep, and then waited for work with leisure. When the Song army was exhausted, he suddenly surrounded and wiped them out with [-] ambush soldiers.But in fact Pan Mei had already been notified.

On June [-]th, near the evening, Pan Chongche left behind his [-] descendants and sent the others to a canyon to ambush the Song army.But after waiting for a long time, there was no trace of the Song soldiers. The Han army felt very strange. When they felt that something was wrong, they suddenly heard a loud blast of trumpets. , Shouting to kill from all directions, thousands of flying arrows shot towards the Han army formation like overwhelming.Batch after batch of soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and the frightened horses spread their hooves and rushed through the crowd, causing the team to be in chaos.

The Han army didn't know exactly what was going on, but they knew that they had been tricked by the Song army and hurriedly organized a counterattack.It's a pity that although the number of the Han army is nearly twice that of the Song army, most of the Han soldiers have no experience in the battlefield and have no fighting spirit. At this time, ambushing the opponent, but being ambushed by the opponent will weaken the morale first, and I don't know how many Song troops have. People, plus Pan Chongche, the main general, has long since disappeared, so how dare he confront the Song army, just running for his life like a headless chicken.The Song army's momentum was greatly boosted, and they charged bravely, one by one, rushing into the flock like tigers, without any resistance.After fighting for about two hours, seven or eight of the [-] Han soldiers were killed or injured and captured. The rest of the few broke out of the siege, like fish slipping through the net, and fled for their lives in panic.

Then Pan Chongche quietly surrendered to Pan Mei with [-] soldiers and horses. After discussing with Pan Mei, Pan Chongche hid in the army, found a corpse wearing Pan Chongche's clothes, wandered around the city of Shaozhou, and told the Han army Pan Chongche Already died in battle.

(End of this chapter)