Northern Dynasties

Chapter 509
Baiguwu is located in the southeast of Yanshi, in the valley between Luoshui and Songshan Mountain. It is an important passage to the east of Luoyang. Most of the troops and horses entering and exiting Heluo eastward must pass through here.

After He Lanxiang received the order to go east to resist the enemy, Dang even led his fine cavalry to leave Heyang Nancheng and cross Luoshui. block.

Baigu is named Baigu because of the cypress trees planted in the valley, but it is also called Baigu because it is located in the transition zone between the Heluo Plain and the Songshan Mountains, so there are many gullies and valleys.

Therefore, it is not easy to accurately grasp the enemy's advance and retreat passages in this area. If you want to attack the enemy at the crossing, you only need to defend Baiguwu.

But the specific strength of the enemy army is not clear now, and if the enemy army cannot be stopped here, there will be no danger to defend the north bank of Luoshui, and the enemy army can directly attack the southern city of Heyang.In order to ensure the safety of the flanks of the river bridge, He Lanxiang hoped to intercept the enemy outside Baiguwu.

The scattered scouts quickly sent back news that an organized enemy ranger was found on the east side of Goushi Mountain, more than 20 miles east of Baiguwu.

He Lanxiang was also taken aback when he heard the news, he didn't expect the enemy to advance so fast.Although the scouts reported seeing only a thousand or more enemies, it is obviously not enough to take back Heyang with only a thousand troops, it should be only one of the vanguard.

After pondering for a while, He Lanxiang directly went out with all his troops, hoping to attack the enemy's unprepared heavy damage and even wipe out this army, so as to cause a huge psychological shock to the enemy army, so that they would not dare to easily march again. Thereby buying more time for the rear troops.

Although the terrain near Baiguwu is rugged, the altitude change is not very big. Although it brings some troubles to the march, most places can be passed by horseback, but the speed is not too fast.

He Lanxiang's elite cavalry is not a powerful private song that has been recruited and reorganized in Kansai in recent years. It is still dominated by veteran Xianbei soldiers with rich combat experience.

When a group of people turned into a slightly open valley along the mountain stream, they looked up and saw a simple temporary camp fence in the depths of the valley, and the enemy soldiers inside the fence were also alert. They have already begun to assemble queues in the valley to prepare for the battle, but they are obviously a little flustered due to the hasty encounter with the enemy, and there are even very few armored people.

In addition to the hundreds of soldiers arrayed against the barracks, there was also the neighing of war horses in the area on the other side of the river valley that was covered by dense vegetation.

Seeing this scene, He Lanxiang faintly felt something was wrong. He saw that except for the simple barracks, almost all the original features of the valley were preserved, so he couldn't figure out the purpose of the enemy's forward camping all the way to this inaccessible valley. What exactly is it.

But now that the enemy is in front of him, He Lanxiang didn't have time to think about it, so he pulled out his saber and pointed at the river valley ahead: "Come on! Wipe out all the enemy troops, leaving no one alive!"

The Western Dynasty was poor and weak, and the prisoners of war captured during the war were also a great harvest, which could be used as military slaves.However, since the enemy's situation has not been fully clarified, He Lanxiang did not want to entangle with this enemy for too long, so he ordered that no capture be counted.

Following his order, the soldiers rode their horses into the valley, and went straight to the opposite barracks to kill.

The so-called cognition that cavalry can't charge into the formation and pull out the camp is just a foolish trick of ordinary people. They don't know the convenient way for soldiers to talk about war on paper. There are many variables in war, and of course it needs to be used in specific situations.Moreover, charging with cavalry has always been one of the main tactics of Xianbei in the Six Towns. The townspeople who served as soldiers in these eras have rich combat experience accumulated and inherited from their ancestors for generations, and they have a kind of bravery in their bones.

Following the first round of ranger shooting, there were people killed by arrows in the enemy formation in the barracks. These enemy soldiers had simple weapons, except for weapons such as knives and guns that were easy to carry, other shields and spears were very few in number.If it weren't for the fact that the military uniform on his body was worn by the Eastern Army, the shabby equipment alone would be more like a bandit.

Although the armament is very simple, these people are by no means a mob.The enemy army was guarding the camp inside the fence, but on the other side of the stream diagonally opposite, there were hundreds of horsemen reining in their horses and waiting for battle.

As He Lanxiang's men and horses rushed to the front of the barracks, the horses stomped their feet and the charge was suspended, but the enemy cavalry in the formation behind the stream charged their horses: "Kill!"

Hundreds of cavalry soldiers each held their spears, and plunged straight into the cavalry formation of the Western Wei Dynasty in front of the barracks. The long and sharp spears carried the inertia of the horses' charge, and pierced straight into the bodies of the soldiers without mercy. The splashed blood immediately dyed the entire stream red.But in this round of charge, dozens of riders died under the spear!
Seeing this scene, He Lanxiang, who was in charge of the battle at Taniguchi, frowned immediately, and immediately ordered the rear troops to continue charging, and he himself and all the soldiers went straight to the valley to kill.

Thousands of people poured into the valley, immediately filling up all the space in the valley. The dual anti-fighters separated and infiltrated each other, without any obvious battle formation, each looking for the fierce enemy within the sight of the blade. Fighting.Move a little slower, even if you intend to raise your hand to surrender, you will be directly hacked and killed on the spot by the red-eyed enemy!

Such a fierce battle lasted for more than a quarter of an hour, after all, the advantage of the side with more people was more obvious.As the scattered enemies were gradually chopped down, more and more embattled enemies gave up resistance, abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and were gradually driven to a corner in the barracks.

When the battle was over, almost half of the enemy died on the spot, and more than 500 disabled were besieged in a corner of the valley, trembling and begging for surrender.On He Lanxiang's side, there were 500 casualties. Just looking at the casualties alone, it wasn't even a victory, but the final result of the battle was to completely eliminate this thousand-strong enemy army.

Although he ordered no survivors before the battle, seeing that the remaining enemy soldiers had completely disarmed and surrendered, He Lanxiang did not order any more prisoners to be killed. Instead, he ordered the prisoners to be organized and quickly cleaned the battlefield, while he personally interrogated them. Several commanders were accurate about the enemy's situation.

"What? You didn't come from Hulao, but you were defeated by Luoxi?"

The result of the interrogation surprised He Lanxiang. This group of troops did not attack the enemy from the direction of Hulao, but the remnants of Xue Guyan's army that Li Boshan defeated at Qianjinyan in Luoxi a few days ago.

The battle failed that night, and Xue Guyan's men and horses fled to all sides. One of them went east along Luoyang all the way. human remnants.

They originally planned to enter Baiguwu, then cross Luoshui and return to Heyang South City.As a result, when he was about to arrive at Baiguwu, he was shocked to hear that the south city of Heyang had fallen, and he had nowhere to go, so he could only stay here. Fearing that heyang's Western Wei army would find him, he kept hiding near the left, but he didn't expect to be found by He Lanxiang in the end. The dispatched scouts found out, and thus ushered in this catastrophe.

He Lanxiang originally thought that he could annihilate the enemy's forwards to frighten his division, but he did not expect to make such an oolong. Although it solved a hidden danger, it was completely different from his original goal, especially when the team rushed into the area and did not strike effectively. The target is in danger of being exposed.

"Withdraw! Quickly withdraw to Baiguwu!"

He Lanxiang complained endlessly in his heart, he was also misled by Yu Wenhu, he heard Yu Wenhu brag about how impeccable the defense was, and ended up hiding an enemy armed force of thousands of people nearby without knowing it.

The advance and retreat efficiency of the brigade was not high. Fearing that the situation would get worse, He Lanxiang dispatched his horse to report the unexpected situation to Heyang Nancheng, and reminded Yu Wenhu to try to set up a line of defense on the other side of Luoshui if possible.It is not known how much he can use to block the enemy after encountering an accident here. Naturally, he has to make two-handed preparations.

On the way home, He Lanxiang was anxious all the way, fearing that the whereabouts of the team would be detected by enemy scouts and be blocked in the opposite direction.But fortunately, the journey back to Baiguwu was safe and sound. Seeing Guguchengwu vaguely in sight, his hanging heart slowly fell.

But when the front troops arrived in front of the city dock, many figures suddenly appeared on the top of the city, shooting arrows down, while throwing the corpses from the top of the city, and those corpses were the defenders that He Lanxiang had arranged before.

"Master Lang, something is wrong!"

He Lanxiang was a little dumbfounded when he saw this scene, he was so shocked that his thoughts stopped, and the soldiers beside him hurriedly guarded him and retreated towards the inclined valley behind.

A group of people fled for more than ten miles, and the troops were exhausted, so they stopped. He Lanxiang frowned and sighed: "That's it! The enemy's scout vanguard, if they can attack quickly, they should be able to take back the city!"

He Lanxiang has been out of shape ever since he discovered that he had attacked the wrong target before. At this time, he realized that he was too frightened before, and he couldn't help but feel even more annoyed, so he hurriedly ordered people to fight back again, hoping to be able to catch up before the arrival of the enemy brigade Then take Baiguwu back.

However, when his men and horses returned to a valley near Baiguwu, the horns and flags on both sides of the valley suddenly sounded, and countless ambush soldiers emerged. Hu Jiang raised his knife and shouted: "But Zhu Hun Daoyuan is here, the thief will quickly dismount and please surrender, but I will not die!"

Seeing the enemy soldiers appearing from all directions, He Lanxiang was frightened for a moment, his hands and feet were cold, and he didn't make any careful arrangements, but shouted orders: "Taking advantage of the enemy's encirclement, quickly break through the encirclement! But you can break out of the enemy's encirclement Those who want to report the news of the enemy at Heqiao!"

(End of this chapter)