Chapter 1634: Kill the giant
Chapter 1634 Killing the Giant
Chapter 1632: Kill the giant
If you want to win more with less, you will naturally have to pay a price.
The Qin army not only suffered 10,000 casualties, but also had five generals die in the battle to win the war.
It can be seen that this victory was not easy at all.
After the first battle, although Wang Mang and his 40,000 remnant troops escaped temporarily, Li Jing obviously could not let go of this opportunity to pursue the victory.
Li Jing left part of the army to clean the battlefield, and while he personally led most of the troops to pursue them, he also asked Huang Feihu to lead the cavalry to intercept them in a detour, and sent Zhou Yu to directly lead the navy to attack Liangshanbo.
Three things were done at the same time in no particular order. Li Jing acted so aggressively that he hardly gave Wang Mang any chance to react.
In the end, Huang Feihu's cavalry caught up with Wang Mang's tribe and held them back, and then Li Jing led the army to catch up.
Under attack between the two armies, the Northern Han Dynasty fled in panic and encountered little resistance. They once again defeated Wang Mang's army. Nearly half of the enemy army chose to surrender, but Wang Mang only escaped with less than 20,000 remaining troops. .
Immediately afterwards, Zhou Yu, who was traveling by water, also got ahead of Wang Mang and broke through Liangshan Po, which had never been attacked in ten years but was extremely empty of troops at this time, completely cutting off Wang Mang's last retreat.
After learning that Liangshanbo had been breached, even Wang Mang, who had long been accustomed to losing, suddenly felt a little hopeless.
It is naturally impossible to capture him without mercy. With Wang Mang's pride, he would not allow himself to be captured alive.
It was impossible to escape back to Youzhou. Wang Mang thought that he had tried his best in this battle, but in the end he lost miserably.
There were a total of 160,000 troops before and after, but they just couldn't defeat Li Jing's 60,000.
If Liu Che, Yuan Shao, Han Xin and others knew about it, they would definitely chop Wang Mang alive, so the Northern Han Dynasty would definitely not be able to go back.
In the end, Wang Mang adopted Chen Qingzhi's strategy, abandoned all his troops except the navy, and temporarily hid in Qi State with Zhu Tianpeng.
Wang Mang still has nearly 20,000 troops in his hands, of which exactly 10,000 are naval troops. The Qi navy and the Liangshan navy each account for 5,000. If he fled to Qi, it would mean abandoning nearly 10,000 troops.
This is undoubtedly a difficult decision for Wang Mang, but he has no other choice at this time.
However, even if you want to escape by water, it is still not easy. After all, the Qin army also has naval forces, and the warships are faster.
So, if you want to escape safely by water, you must have a bait to attract the Qin army.
After repeated thoughts, Wang Mang endured the pain in his heart and left Juwuba to continue his breakout northward by land under his own banner, while he and Zhu Tianpeng took the waterway to Qi State.
Wang Mang and Ju Wuba have always been inseparable. When Ju Wuba is there, Wang Mang is also there, so leaving Ju Wuba behind can confuse Li Jing and make him think that Wang Mang took the land route instead of the water route.
“Brother Wuba, for the sake of the safety of the entire army, I have no choice but to wrong you first.”
Wang Mang grabbed Ju Wu Ba's hand and warned, "Be careful along the way. As long as you enter the mountain, your troops will be completely safe."
Juwuba was first injured by Ran Min, and then suffered serious injuries in the battle with the Five Tigers of Liangshan, so he looked a little depressed, but he still patted his chest and grinned: "Don't worry, lord, Juwuba Guaranteed to get the job done.”
Looking at Ju Wuba's leaving figure, Wang Mang felt his heart bleed.
To Wang Mang, Ju Guuba was more than just a subordinate. No matter how difficult the situation he faced, Ju Guuba never left him and saved his life several times.
Although the two are nominally servants of the master, in fact, their relationship has already reached the level of brothers. But now, for the sake of his own safety, Wang Mang personally sent his last brother to a dead end, but he called it for the safety of the entire army.
Wang Mang felt disgusted by this kind of self. He once again lived in the way he hated most.
“Wu Ba, you must live.”
After giving a heartfelt blessing, Wang Mang turned around and boarded Liangshan's warship, while Ju Wuba and Zhou Yafu led the army and continued to flee north.
Although Zhou Yafu knew that he had become Wang Mang's abandoned son, he still refused to give up his army and decided to lead the army in a final desperate resistance. If he was lucky, he might be able to escape?
Facts have proved that Zhou Yafu was very unlucky. His army had not escaped for less than fifty miles before being overtaken by Li Jing.
After a great battle, nearly 10,000 remaining troops were killed, hundreds were killed, and the rest all surrendered.
Zhou Yafu wanted to take advantage of the chaos to escape, but was accidentally discovered by Tai Shici. He decisively shot his horse with an arrow, causing it to fall to the ground. Guan Sheng, who caught up, took advantage and directly captured him alive.
As one of the four generals who participated in the siege and killing of Ran Min, Ju Wuba could not surrender even if he wanted to. Besides, he had never had any intention of surrender.
At this time, Ju Wuba was just like Ran Min back then. He was surrounded by the four war gods Huang Feihu, Huang Tianhua, Huang Tianxiang, and Jintai, and he had no intention of surrendering.
The difference is that Ran Min had the strength to escape, but he took the initiative to stay until he died in the battle, in order to delay the withdrawal of the main army, which led to the subsequent Beihai victory;
As for Ju Wuba, he was first injured by Ran Min and then severely wounded by the Five Tigers of Liangshan. His combat strength was less than half and he had no strength to escape at all. Even one of the four gods of war, let alone the four gods of war, could still kill him. life.
"Ju Wuba, when you used the many to bully the few against General Ran Min, did you ever think that today would happen?" Jin Tai sneered and mocked.
“Where does all this nonsense come from? Do you really think I’m afraid of death?”
Ju Guuba looked impatient and shouted arrogantly, which naturally made all the generals furious.
Huang Tianhua rushed forward and said, "Father, there is no need to attack this person together. One child is enough."
Huang Feihu was a little moved, and was about to agree, but Li Jing rode over and said calmly: "No, the four of you come together. Li is going to let Ju Wuba die in the same way as General Ran Min."
Huang Feihu's eyes showed a hint of surprise. No wonder he had to dispatch four of their god-of-war generals in the face of a seriously injured Juggernaut. This was retaliation.
"kill…"
The four generals occupying one side respectively roared in unison and launched an attack at the same time.
The four gods of war launched an all-out attack. Not to mention that Big Boss had been seriously injured, even in his prime state, he couldn't stop it. With almost no resistance, he was killed by the four of them on the spot.
Huang Feihu cut off Ju Wuba's left leg with one shot, Huang Tianxiang cut off his left arm with one shoulder-level shot, and the overwhelmed Shen Shen was smashed to pieces by Huang Tianhua with a hammer.
Jintai directly sealed his throat with a knife, and his head flew backwards, rolling to the ground and revealing his eyes that were staring at death.
The second in the list of generals in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the most invincible in the world, fell.
Fourth update to…
Thanks to Huakai Mo and Liunian Luan for the 10,000 starting coins, I will add another chapter, and I still owe six chapters.
Today has been the fourth update, and the number of chapters owed has not only not decreased, but has actually increased.
I beg you all to stop giving rewards. Liu Xiang really can’t pay it off. Even if you want to give rewards, can you wait until the debt is paid off?
(End of this chapter)