Chapter 36 Encirclement of Chenzhou 4

Because Meng Kai underestimated the enemy, he led 50,000 elite soldiers of the first army of Daqi to Chenzhou north. When he camped in the north of Xiangcheng, there were no obstacles, causing the leading troops of Li Tang Chenzhou army to successfully enter the Daqi military camp. Most of the generals of Daqi were asleep and were killed by Chen Zhou's soldiers in a muddle.

Poor Meng Kai, the cavalry general of Daqi, was killed in this battle of the Tang army, and his reputation was lost for the rest of his life.

Zhao Lu and Zhao Lin learned that Meng Kai had been attacked and killed by Chenzhou soldiers. On the one hand, they ordered Chenzhou soldiers to continue to kill, set fire to the camp, and expand the results of the battle. On the other hand, they sent their own soldiers to quickly inform Zhao Yi, Li Yu and Tong Bing to lead troops to support, and it was necessary to annihilate the main force of the first army of Daqi.

Xu Chengjian's battalion caught fire on all sides, and the generals and soldiers of Daqi were scattered and fought separately, making it difficult to form an effective counterattack against the Chenzhou army. Xu Cheng was so anxious that he drew his sword out of the sheath and shouted with all his strength, "General Qi soldiers, don't panic. There are not many soldiers in Chenzhou. As long as we hold a group and fight the enemy to the end, we will definitely win!"

Some of the generals of Daqi listened and began to calm down. They gathered together and shouted to kill Chen Zhoubing.

When Zhao Lin saw Xu Cheng galloping back and forth in the firelight and shouted desperately, he opened a bow and arrow and shot at Xu Cheng, hitting Xu Cheng's forehead. Xu Cheng turned over and fell off the horse and died heroically.

Xu Cheng was killed in battle, causing the generals of Daqi to lose their main bones, and the formation became chaotic again.

At this time, Zhao Yi, Li Yu and Tong Bing led 10,000 troops to arrive and quickly kill the first military camp in Daqi. Daqi soldiers suffered heavy casualties, but they still tried their best to resist, with killing sounds and drums inside and outside the camp.

In the melee, Ge Congzhou happened to meet Li Yan's soldiers and horses. Li Yan patted his horse and took Ge Congzhou directly. The second general fought more than ten times in the firelight. Ge Congzhou shouted and cut Li Yu under the horse with one knife, resulting in Li Yu's life.

When Tong Bing saw that Li Yan was beheaded, he was furious. He swung up the axe and shouted to kill Ge Congzhou. Chen Zhoubing shouted and rushed up. Ge Congzhou saw that there were fewer and fewer soldiers around him. Without fighting, he plucked his horse and left.

Tong Bing was reluctant to give up and rushed to the horse. Suddenly, a pout came out of the line. It turned out that Huo Cun brought hundreds of people to pick up Ge Congzhou.

Huo Cun waved a fierce tooth stick and took Tong Bing straight. Tong Bing was caught off guard and was hit on his helmet by Huo Cun. He fell off his horse and died.

When Chen Zhou soldiers saw the two generals in a row, they were very frightened and began to retreat backwards.

Just when the battlefield situation began to be beneficial to the Qi army, Zhao Yu led 10,000 elite soldiers to arrive. Zhao Qian saw that some Chenzhou soldiers retreated, drew their swords and killed several Chenzhou soldiers. He shouted, "Today's battle can only move forward, not retreat!" Those who advance have merit, and those who retreat are all beheaded! Chenzhou soldiers, let me rush!"

When Chen Zhoubing saw that he was on the front line, he doubled his courage and no longer retreated. He shouted to kill the Qi army.

Zhao Yui waved a gossip dragon splitting water knife, riding like the wind, and went straight into the most tenacious area of the Qi army's resistance. The knife was fascinated by Zhao Yu. In the blink of an eye, Zhao Yu cut down dozens of generals. Ge Congzhou and Huo Cun fought against Zhao Wei, but they couldn't help his gossip dragon split the water knife.

In the depths of the fight, Zhao Yu shouted loudly, rose up his power, and used the unique skill "Dragon King Spraying Water to Roll Kyushu". The knife seemed to split the waves and cut the waves, rippled countless cold lights, forcing Ge Congzhou and Huo Cun to retreat repeatedly.

Ge Congzhou and Huo Cun couldn't resist and had to retreat. Zhao Yi, Zhao Lu and Zhao Lin led their troops to kill. The formation of the first army of Daqi was finally broken. 50,000 soldiers, most of them were killed and injured. Ge Congzhou and Huo Cun only brought out thousands of soldiers and fled to Xiangcheng.

Zhao Lu found Zhao Yu and asked to continue to hunt down the Qi army.

Zhao Qian said, "Take it as soon as it's good. Killing Meng Kai this time is a great achievement. In this attack, most of the main force of the First Army of Daqi was annihilated by our army, but our army also suffered more than 10,000 casualties. Some soldiers and horses of the First Army of Daqi are still stationed in Xiangcheng. If our army goes to attack the city, it will not be worth the loss! It will turn victory into defeat! It is said that I will order to quickly clean up the battlefield and withdraw to Chenzhou!"

After Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun and Zhang Quanyi led the troops back to Xiangcheng, they saw Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou and Zhang Guiben and talked about the great defeat.

The Zhang Guiba brothers were born as mountain thieves. When they went to Daqi, it was because the Daqi soldiers were strong and the horses were strong at that time. The three brothers returned to Meng Kai with the mentality of fishing. Now that Meng Kai was killed by Chen Zhoubing, and the elite of Daqi's first army was almost completely destroyed, the Zhang Guiba brothers made a small calculation: there are not many good operas in Daqi. If there is a chance, you'd better eat in Li Tang's pot!

In fact, the idea of Zhang Guiba's brothers coincides with Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, Zhang Quanyi and others, because they have been together for some time. They call each other brothers, value fame and fortune very much, and don't care much about Daqi's idea of "Tian Bu Junping". When Daqi's power is strong, they can still stay in Daqi's camp; when Daqi's power declines, they have a rebellion and want to betray Daqi. In the past few days in Xiangcheng, Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, Zhang Quanyi, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guiben and other wavers gathered every day to conspire to discuss the time and place of betray Daqi.

After receiving the news of Meng Kai's death, Huang Chao was in great pain and vowed to enter Chenzhou to avenge the fallen soldiers of the First Army of Daqi. However, God does not bless Daqi. Chenzhou's city defense works are extremely strong under Zhao Yu's years of operation. The Qi army besieged Chenzhou for more than 300 days and could never pull out Li Tang's important town in the Central Plains. The vitality of the Qi army was greatly damaged, and a bigger disaster is coming!