sweeping the world

Chapter 609 The Battle of Destroying Yan ([-])

Liu Yan still underestimated the consequences of the emergence of gunpowder. Murong Yanjun, who was left to block the battle in Qiushui, did not persist for three days, or even for a morning. As more and more hilltops and fortifications were bombed, they realized what gunpowder was, and immediately came a wolf rushing and howling.

Murong Yanjun was scared to death by the new weapons, but the morale of the Han army was unprecedentedly high.

As Murong Yanjun who was dealt with by gunpowder, they have absolute reasons to fuck off. Apart from seeing the power of gunpowder, they have more of a despair of being abandoned by heaven in their hearts.Think about it, people's fear of the unknown, after seeing the gunpowder explosion repeatedly, the people at the center point are directly evaporated to nothing, and the people who are a little closer to the explosion are definitely disabled, and who will not collapse directly.

The Han army only found out after the gunpowder was used. It turned out that they had such a sharp weapon on their side. People who were a little superstitious directly regarded it as God helping them. Whether it was confidence in gunpowder or the help of God, who would not It will be an instant morale explosion, and even the timid person will burst out with the courage to capture the dragon and slay the tiger in the face of the inevitable outcome.

With sharp weapons and the courage to face everything, the Han army no longer used gunpowder weapons at all, and could directly run over Murong Yan's army, leveling Murong Ke at an unprecedented speed. It took about a year of hard work. Ran Min led the cavalry to chase after Murong Ke's headquarters, which had not gone far.

"Go away, go away!" Although Li Mi is only a knight of the Han army, at this moment he thinks that he is a heavenly soldier and a heavenly general. Facing the enemy army kneeling and surrendering with weapons, he is only annoyed but not very happy: "Don't block the Laozi's attack!" Road, roll to the side of the road and wait for the infantry behind to come up and accept the surrender."

I don't know if it is the dirt road of the main road. The Murong Yan army who was staying on it originally retreated to the two sides with the arrival of the cavalry of the Han army. divide each other.

Elephants never pay attention to whether there are ants on the ground of the road they are walking on. Anyway, they just step on it.

The strong also rarely look at the ants that pose no threat to them, and if they feel uncomfortable, they must run over them directly.

Now those Murong Yanjun who are full of fear are ants. They are looking at the Han army like elephants with the mentality of ants. They are afraid that any Han army will stare at them, as if they will be crushed if they look at them die.

Li Mi didn't ride alone, he was galloping with three thousand knights, and the one at the front was called Ran Min, who was a general of hussars in Han Dynasty.

The [-] Murong Yan troops who were left to block the Qiushui defense line, those who reacted quickly fled first, and those who reacted slowly were either killed in the penetration of the Han army or became prisoners.

After the army lost order, it became chaotic even if the gods came, and it was difficult to restore order in a short time. They fled in fear, and then crowded into a group on the main road.At that moment, anyone who prevented him from escaping was an obstacle. If he dared to yell and fight back, he would face each other with sharp knives. They were killing each other and the Han army cavalry chased them, and they knelt down and trembled amid the sound of the Han army's hooves.

The Zhulong horse under Ran Min's crotch was galloping all the way. I don't know how many defeated soldiers were knocked into the air. The horse's hooves were bloody because they trampled on too many people. It is also impossible for the iron cavalry to stop because there are defeated soldiers in front of them without avoiding them. Naturally, they will run over directly.

Ran Min wouldn't have the slightest sense of accomplishment to kill a defeated soldier, so he didn't even bother to swing his weapon along the way. The rest of the Han army knights would not swing their weapons if they didn't do it smoothly. They have their own pride.

Murong Ke led his army to retreat overnight last night. The [-]-strong army could not run very far in a short while, and the trailing army was only five or six miles away from the defense line at the back end of Qiushui.

The Murong Yan army retreating from the Qiushui battlefield was not going to the Rushui defense line. Although there was a strong city like Lingzhi City there, it was irrelevant under the premise that Murong Yan was about to move the whole country. They wanted to go directly all the way north.

So far, Murong Ke still doesn't know the trend of the northern battlefield, let alone the fact that the Han army has already gone directly to Longcheng. He never thought that Tuoba Shiyijian would betray him.

"The big man wants to be invincible in the world, and kill all Jie people in the northwest. I heard that he has killed 40 or [-] people?" Of course, Murong Ke is riding on the back of a fine horse. The speed of the horse is not too fast. A kind of marathon jogging to hurry: "The king of Han doesn't like foreigners, and the big man even calls for the extermination of aliens. Tuoba Shi Yijian will naturally weigh it."

The extermination of the Jie people by the Han Dynasty can be said to have shocked and feared the alien races in the world.

So far, although the various ethnic groups have been fighting endlessly, it has never happened that any ethnic group wants to completely wipe out a certain ethnic group. They only enslave the clan after defeat.

During the period when the Jie tribe ruled the Central Plains, the Jin people were regarded as inferior to wild beasts, but they never thought of completely exterminating the Jin people in the Central Plains. They wanted to eliminate them to the greatest extent and become an absolute minority. To be completely killed.

The Hu people who gradually accepted the Chinese culture also accepted the concept of "Fifty avenues, 49 Tianyan, escape one", that is to say, the truth that everything cannot be done absolutely, is no longer living in the grassland and facing The mentality that the enemy must be wiped out.It's hard to tell whether it's progress or regression, but that's what it is anyway.

Defeating a certain tribe to step on their feet and defeating a certain tribe before they are completely extinct. Although a certain tribe is a loser, they can at least live as slaves, and the blood of the nation can survive. The universal value of the winner is king is still acceptable. .But it is a bit desperate to be killed if you lose, but anyone who is not mentally retarded will resist desperately when there is no way out.

Murong Ke didn't expect that Tuoba Shiyijian would turn against the water. It was based on the fact that the Han Dynasty was really killing the Jie people. From the perspective of a smart person, it is assumed that Tuoba Shiyijian would not be dizzy.

It was another clear and cloudless weather. Looking down from a high altitude, several long dragons composed of soldiers and horses stretched far away. It was because of the lack of wind that the banners in the team seemed to be half-baked.

"The [-] army should be able to last for ten days and a half months or even longer with the fortifications. As long as the branch city is not lost, the Han army in Rushui will not march west." Liu Xiang said with some confidence: "Even if the Han army The army knew that we were evacuating, and waited for them to catch up, but they couldn't catch up."

Liu Xiang also rode a horse, but he was not wearing a military uniform, but a scholar's uniform.Wearing loose scribe clothes while riding a horse is not beautiful, especially when the sweat sticks to the clothes all over his body. He will twist his buttocks when he is uncomfortable all over his body, but he has to make a graceful posture, which looks extremely weird.

The [-] army was really stretched. The front-end troops were nearly fifteen miles away from the Qiushui battlefield, and the rear-end troops were only five or six miles away, which meant that the distance between the head and tail of the entire army was close to ten miles.

It's not that the retreating troops of Murong Yan's army didn't want to gather and march, but it was mainly limited by the terrain. After all, they had to be able to walk on their feet. They couldn't just go through mountains and forests if they didn't want to walk, or they had the ability to walk on water. .

"When we reached the open ground, the front army stopped advancing and buried pots for cooking. We waited for the troops behind to catch up and rested for half an hour before moving out." Murong Ke was talking about entering the plain area, where there was an open area with a radius of nearly a hundred miles: "Pai The people who went out haven’t come back yet?”

"No." Liu Xiang said worriedly: "We have not received any news from the northern line for two days."

In the era of backward communication, it is normal to have no news for half a month even if there is a distance of hundreds of thousands of miles. It is only in the sense of unknown crisis that two days without news is abnormal. This shows how much Liu Xiang pays attention to the northern line. .

Murong Ke's handsome face had become extremely gloomy, he glanced at Dajun and was about to say something, when bursts of loud noises like rolling thunder came from afar.

There was not a single cloud in the sky. Although the sound was far away and sounded quiet, it was connected together. The army on the way slowly stopped, and almost everyone looked in the direction of the sound in confusion.

"Large troop of cavalry?" Murong Ke raised his eyes to look. Although some of his sight was blocked, if there was a large troop of cavalry, he would still appear in his field of vision. At least he could see the dust and smoke from the galloping cavalry. The problem was that he didn't see it. Confused, he asked, "What caused the series of noises?"

However, Liu Xiang drove the horse to the side and turned over, and he lay down on the ground regardless of whether his clothes would be dirty. He turned his head and said to Murong Ke, "There is no vibration on the ground, and it doesn't seem to be caused by cavalry."

Murong Ke didn't know what gunpowder was, and he couldn't think of any other sounds that could be heard more than ten miles apart from lightning and thunder. He frowned dissatisfiedly when he saw the army stop.

Naturally, someone will drive the soldiers back on their way again, but everyone including Murong Ke is extremely curious about what caused the noise.

The sound was not loud at a distance of more than ten miles, but it would be louder at a distance of five or six miles. As a result, Murong Yanjun, who was left behind, was far more curious or panicked than those in the front.

Not long after the series of noises, the retreating troops also resumed their march. About a quarter of an hour later, a group of broken soldiers on horseback appeared on the Qiushui defense line, and they basically looked frightened.

The cavalry appeared in the direction of Qiushui, and the retreating Murong Yan army could not ignore it. On the one hand, the generals in the back of the palace reported to Murong Ke urgently, and on the other hand, they called for some people to stop and prepare to meet the enemy.

Waiting for Murong Ke to receive the report, he was annoyed and confused when he learned that a broken soldier had fled from the Qiushui defense line.

"It's impossible for the Han army to break through the line of defense in half a day." Liu Xiang was in the bliss of ignorance, but he was also more or less surprised.

"Since he fled privately, how dare he rush into the army?" Murong Ke led troops in battle for many years. He was not a half-hearted man like Liu Xiang, but he had not learned the truth from the rout of the soldiers, so he ordered for safety: "The whole army stands by!"

The general had an order, and the order was conveyed repeatedly. For a while, people all over the mountains and plains were yelling "stand by", and the troops naturally stopped from their normal march.

It didn't take long for the rout soldiers to be questioned clearly, but the violent explosion they said was beyond the imagination of those who hadn't seen it with their own eyes, and they didn't believe it out of ignorance.

"Hehehe..." Liu Xiang belonged to the kind of person who couldn't imagine and didn't believe it: "He still called for Shenlei? It's because he was afraid of making things up!"

There is no cloud in the sky!In the eyes of many people, where did the thunder come from? If the Han army could really summon the divine thunder, it would be blasted with thunder in every battle. Is it necessary for the soldiers to charge forward?
"..." Of course, Murong Ke didn't believe in the idea of ​​calling the god of thunder. He only knew one thing: "All those who escaped were from my Murong clan. The call to the god of thunder may be false. I dare not talk nonsense about the complete collapse of the defense line."

Liu Xiang was stunned, he was only focused on guessing whether the Shenlei was real, and he didn't pay attention to what the soldiers said about the collapse of the defense line.

There are probably thousands of routs from the Qiushui defense line. It is hard to say that they can be controlled. The news of the collapse of the Qiushui defense line will spread out in a long time, and the Murong Yan army who is evacuating begins to commotion.

Murong Ke's response was to prepare the whole army for war, and did not refute the rumors, but gathered the troops as quickly as possible.

"Regardless of whether it's true or not, let's deal with it first." Liu Xiang was extremely nervous, but he kept his utmost calmness: "Although this place is not a dangerous place, the road is narrow, and we can set up battle formations on the road to stop the enemy."

The surrounding area is a very common terrain, not dangerous mountains, but it is not flat, it can rely on streams, hills and woods as a support, but there are no fortifications built in advance.

"Leave [-] infantry troops to defend in the open, and the rest of the infantry..." Murong Ke kept staring at the direction of the Qiushui battlefield, and said with an unpredictable expression: "If there is really a rout there, there must be a steady stream of routs." If the army flees, the Han army will inevitably pursue the rout."

Liu Xiang understood in no time that no matter what happened to the Qiushui battlefield, they should at least stabilize first. If they heard a little movement and drove the soldiers to speed up, panic would most likely appear in the suspicious atmosphere, and even the panic would turn into riots. Really bad.

While Murong Ke was doing what he thought was the correct response, the news about Ran Min leading the army to kill him was discovered.What he was thinking at that moment was how to set up traps to swallow up the three thousand Han cavalry including Ran Min, but when he was thinking, he received a new report, saying that the scouts in front reported urgently and found an unknown number of Han cavalry. military.

"Impossible!" Liu Xiang was full of disbelief: "It's unbelievable that the Qiushui defense line collapsed in half a day. It was a temporary decision for us to evacuate overnight. We didn't find the Han army detour to intercept before. How could it appear overnight!"

"There is still a possibility..." Murong Ke's face was full of frost: "The Han army can break through the Qiushui defense line in half a day, and can also defeat Tuoba Shiyijian's troops in an instant."

Up to now, Murong Ke still doesn't think that Tuoba Shi Yijian will betray him...

(End of this chapter)