Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 906 Canyon Ambush ([-])

Bowstrings and fast crossbows were crackling, and Tuoba Shi, Han Tao, Pan Luo Ajiu, and Kurban led their chaotic light cavalry to chase the fastest. While chasing, they shot at the moving deserters as targets. But he ran so fast that he left the infantry far behind.

The yellow dust permeating the dry wilderness of the Wusu Grand Canyon is like a blazing flame, and countless running pawns seem to be galloping in the fire.On the battlefield, no one knows who is which. They are all running around. Only the soldiers are left around the generals. No one can command the current army.

The ground was full of dead and wounded people from the Guiyi Army, and the cavalry trampled over the corpses and wounded soldiers mercilessly.The contact area on the battlefield is limited. In fact, some soldiers of the second echelon of the infantry in Xiangfu Kingdom have not killed a single time since the battle has been fought, and they have to run along.So the four battalion soldiers of the second echelon fought with red eyes to catch up and kill a few people, so as to gain some military merits.

In short, Xiangfu country's large infantry and cavalry seemed to turn into waves and surge forward.

At this moment, a large area fell to their knees in the smoke and dust on the opposite side, and many people around them also fell to their knees one after another.It was as if a god had thrown a stone in the middle, and the wave-like ripples spread rapidly around.

"I am Yan Yishan, and I will surrender with my men and horses!" The horse and the standing man were in a daze, and then the rider also jumped down and knelt down.Soon all the [-] cavalrymen under Yan Yishan's command who were still alive knelt down.Thousands of Cao Xuexiong's direct subordinates who could not escape in the end also surrendered.But there were also some who escaped quickly, thinking they could escape, and ran towards the way they came, or ran towards the mountain paths on both sides.

But the next moment a series of explosions frightened these people back from the mountain paths on both sides.

The Special Operations Battalion, which has been invisible for a long time, planted the last quota mines of the Western Expedition Army at the entrance of the mountain road on both sides where the rebels might escape.

Some of the rout soldiers who retreated from the mountain road chose to surrender, while some did not take the mountain road and chose to escape directly by climbing the mountain and crossing the ditch.As for following the way of origin, there was no one, because everyone already knew that the way of origin was blown up.

Seeing this, Yang Jiye said, "Han Tao was ordered to drive away the surrendered troops, and Tuobashi led his men to chase Cao Xuexiong."

Cao Xuexiong ran along the hillside along the edge of the mountain path with hundreds of soldiers, got into the vast mountains, and soon disappeared from sight.

To the south of the Wusu Grand Canyon is the blue Qilian Mountains. There are corpses of Guiyi soldiers scattered in the canyon. To the northeast is a group of prisoners squatting densely, surrounded by some infantrymen from the Xiangfu Kingdom.Some scattered fights and screams erupted from several hills and mountains farther away.

Yang Jiye was walking in the Grand Canyon with his horse buttocks under the guard of his own soldiers. The first thing that caught his eye was the mounts of nearly [-] Guiyi soldiers gathered and his own dead cavalry. These horses will be very tired now. No more running around.

Next to the war horses, more than 3 Guiyi soldiers were guarded by the infantry of the Xiangfu Kingdom, their heads were downcast, their eyes were dull, and they sat down on the ground. All the weapons and armor on their bodies had been disarmed, and they knelt on the ground. Most of them looked numb or gloomy. despair.

Not far away, Yan Yishan knelt at Yang Jiye's feet and was answering Yang Jiye's question.After a while, accompanied by Tang Xingwu, Yan Yishan selected more than 700 prisoners.Yang Jiye ordered to hand over weapons and armor to them, and gave them each a war horse, gave them dry food, clean water and fodder, and asked them to sit down and rest where they were. Afterwards, each person was given a hundred taels of silver, and they were given five acres of fertile land in Xiangfu Kingdom. They were asked to write on the cowhide on the spot, stamped with his big seal, and handed it to Yan Yishan to show it to the 700 people.

While carefully watching the changes in the faces of these 700 people, Yang Jiye asked, "Did Cao Xuexiong be caught?"

Tang Xingwu replied: "Not yet, he fled into the Qilian Mountains in the south, where there are many high mountains and valleys, and the sky is getting dark now, Han Tao and the others are not as familiar with the terrain as Cao Xuexiong, so it may be difficult to find for a while, but Sun Lixing Just sent someone to report, he has led the special warfare battalion to catch up, with the strength of the special warfare battalion, he must be able to catch Cao Xuexiong back."

Yang Jiye nodded, glanced at the sky that was almost dusk, and said to the messengers on the left and right: "It's getting dark, send the order to set up camp at the same place at night, give priority to the placement of the wounded soldiers, and then deploy defenses as soon as possible and send out vigilance. Military judges at all levels should count and calculate the military exploits of each brigade, battalion, and company as soon as possible."

The left and right have their own staff officers to receive orders, convey them to the brigades and make overall arrangements.Yang Jiye turned his head and said to Tang Xingwu: "Master Tang! You call the people Yan Yishan just mentioned, first persuade them to surrender, and if they agree, bring them to me, and then let them select from the captives who are willing to surrender immediately. soldiers, and other diehard elements were selected and killed directly, so as not to confuse the hearts of the captives."

Tang Xingwu respectfully said yes, saluted the military, and then led a group of soldiers towards the captives.

Yang Jiye led the people to continue walking forward. The corpses became denser as they went forward. Finally, they reached the place where the battle was most intense. Layers of corpses, weapons, and flags were stacked together, surrounded by crossbow arrows, feather arrows, crossbows, and spears. , and some earth pits where gunpowder packs were blown up. After absorbing a large amount of blood, the ground turned into a reddish deep black, and the air was filled with a strong smell of blood.

More than ten steps away from here, there are rows of neatly arranged corpses of Xiangfu soldiers. Behind them are thousands of various wounded. Five medical teams are busy in the field hospital temporarily built with four leather tents. The fire was in full swing, and the wounded were constantly being carried in for treatment. Some seriously injured screamed from time to time, and some seriously injured died one after another, and were carried out and placed next to other corpses.There were also some newly recruited medical soldiers who experienced this kind of scene for the first time. They couldn't help feeling sick, and they ran from the tent to the side from time to time to vomit.

Yang Jiye stared at the scene in front of him for a long time without saying a word, and the generals around him kept sighing. Today's battle was considered a big victory, but more than 3000 people were lost in the battle, more than 200 were seriously injured, and nearly a thousand were slightly injured.

Yang Jiye had been fighting for decades, and he had seen this scene many times, but it was really sad at this moment. He saw an officer wearing the military uniform of the Shaodu School in front of his own body. He remembered this scene The name of the officer is Wang Dongjie. He knew him because Wang Dongjie was No.600 among the first batch of more than 1 grassroots officers who graduated from Xiangfu Military Academy. Du Xiao Junxun, Wang Dongjie was later assigned to the Suzaku Legion as a company commander of an infantry company. At this time, his neck was almost cut off with a machete, leaving only a small part of flesh still attached. A pale soldier, With a sad and crying face, he was about to straighten his head.

The sun in the distance was slowly setting, and the sun was no longer dazzling, but turned into a kind of warm haze, lightly sprinkled on the row of corpses, Yang Jiye was a little distracted, and a staff officer next to him couldn't help but said: "It's still big. The commander-in-chief commanded properly and used his troops like a god, otherwise, if the commander-in-chief hadn't chosen this perfect place to set up this ambush plan, how could he have won such a big victory. There will definitely be more casualties in our army."

Yang Jiye sighed with emotion, nodded and was about to speak when suddenly cheers erupted from a mountain pass in the south, and everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. The man who was tied up seemed to be in a coma, so he was held up by two soldiers of the Special Operations Battalion.

This prisoner is none other than the commander of the Guiyi Army, the ruler of Guazhou, Cao Xuexiong. Today, the Special Operations Battalion was ordered to use gunpowder to blow up the retreat route of the Guiyi Army, and then planted some landmines in the mountain roads on both sides. Yang Jiye considered the Special Forces Soldiers had no advantage over ordinary infantry in corps combat, so they were not allowed to participate in frontal battles. After the Guiyi Army was defeated, Sun Lixing followed Cao Xuexiong with more than 30 people and chased him down, waiting for him to escape into the Qilian Mountains In the middle and later stages, the Special Operations Battalion took advantage of their own advantages in fighting in the mountains and chased them all the way. It took half a day, more than 30 people killed all the more than 400 people around Cao Xuexiong, and captured Cao Xuexiong alive.The captives of the Guiyi Army were ashamed. They were defeated so thoroughly that even the commander was captured.

Yang Jiye called Sun Lixing, and after giving serious instructions, Sun Lixing selected 700 soldiers from the special warfare battalion to put on the uniforms and armor of the Guiyi Army, and then mixed with more than [-] people from Yan Yishan.

After a while, Yan Yishan and Sun Lixing bowed to Yang Jiye, got on their horses, and headed towards Guazhou.On the other side of the road that was blown up, Yang Jiye had already ordered someone to fill in half of it.

After Yan Yishan and Sun Lixing left, Yang Jiye called Han Tao and asked him to lead [-] cavalry to chase Yan Yishan and Sun Lixing to Guazhou.

Ever since Han Hu ignored the dissuasion of Yang Yanguang, the envoy Fu Hongliang, and Zhang Shuping, the magistrate of Lanzhou, and led an army of [-] to Wu Shengjun to avenge his family, Yang Yanguang, the deputy head of the White Tiger Legion, felt uneasy, feeling vaguely that this was probably a conspiracy Because unless An Duo Xiake from the Ando Division of the Wu Sheng Army's Tubo was crazy, how could he send someone to venture into Xiangfu Kingdom to rob and kill the family of Han Hu, the head of the White Tiger Army?

Therefore, ever since Han Hu led an army of [-] to Wu Shengjun, Yang Yanguang lived and boarded on the city wall of Lanzhou. At this time, Fu Hongliang, the military justice chief of the White Tiger Army, came to talk to Yang Yanguang with a heavy expression.

"I know that the head of the army is eager to take revenge, and it is understandable, but I have already written a secret report truthfully, and sent someone to rush everything to Xiajing with [-] miles to report to His Majesty and the court." Fu Hongliang sighed, He said with a heavy expression.

(End of this chapter)