Chapter 446: Seven armies were flooded and ambushed on all sides
Chapter 446 Flooded Seven Armies Ambush from All Sides
Chapter 445: Flooded Seven Armies Ambush from All Sides
January 1, the third year of Zhongping (186 years).
The 400,000-strong Yellow Turban army, which was ill-prepared, finally withdrew from Xiangyang.
As soon as the Yellow Turbans retreated, Qin Hao, the Han general who had just returned, ordered an attack across the entire front, and 100,000 Han troops went north to pursue them overnight.
When Xiang Yu saw the Han army leaving the city, he thought he had an opportunity, so he turned his guns again, but the Han army did not engage in battle, but tried his best to delay the attack.
Due to the cooler climate and the lack of food and grass, the Yellow Turbans could not withstand long-term consumption.
After realizing Qin Hao's intention, Xiang Yu ordered the retreat in batches and personally led the army to break up the rear.
In order to prevent the Han army from stalking, Xiang Yu set up ambushes along the way, but the Han army uncharacteristically watched from a distance, as if they had no intention of pursuing them. When the Yellow Turbans retreated far away, the Han army followed them again.
In this way, one quickly left, the other slowly followed, and the forces of both sides began to shift northward again.
January 5th.
The Yellow Turban Army withdrew to the Han River and garrisoned at Zengkou River, but at this time it rained heavily and snowed.
Once the rain and snow arrive, the temperature will naturally drop faster. Most of the Yellow Turban soldiers are wearing thin clothes and cannot withstand the sudden drop in temperature, so they are eager to return home.
Just the day before the Yellow Turbans arrived at Hekou River, Yue Fei and Xue Rengui led an army to raid the ferry and destroyed most of the ferry.
Xiang Yu had no choice but to cross the river first, and at the same time ordered people to search for ferries and prepare to cross the river. Of course, his precautions against the Han army who were still attacking Xinye were not reduced at all.
On January 8, 40,000 elite Yellow Turbans crossed the Han Dynasty.
On this day, when Xiang Yu and his soldiers had just crossed the Han River, they heard the sound of tens of thousands of horses galloping, and the turbulent water rolled towards the Yellow Turban Army.
"Qin Hao, how dare you break the embankment." Xiang Yu looked up to the sky and roared unwillingly.
Seeing this scene, Xiang Yu immediately understood why the Han army had been stalling for time. It must be to store water.
How did the Han army accurately know that there would be heavy rain and snow in these days?
In fact, Qin Hao also wanted to know the reason. Guiguzi could actually know so early in advance that there would be heavy rains in Xiangfan in the first month of this year. Even the weather forecast couldn't be so accurate, right?
But the heavy rain really came.
Under the power of heaven and earth, human power seemed so insignificant. The Yellow Turban army of 400,000 was crushed in an instant and turned into nourishment for the earth.
Long Qie, who was still in the camp, was shocked when he heard the shocking noise. He hurried out of the tent and mounted his horse to check, only to see such a desperate scene.
Floods came suddenly from all directions, and the seven armies fled in disorder. Countless people followed the waves, but they were eventually washed away by the floods.
Soon the floods had covered the flat ground, and Long Qie and other generals relied on the speed of their horses to climb a hill to avoid the water.
At this time, Liu Bei and Yuan Shu led all the men under their command to arrive in a large boat, waving flags and drums.
Most of the Yellow Turban generals saw no way out and only fifty or sixty people around them. Knowing that they could not escape, they had no choice but to surrender.
Zhao Kuangyin sent down all his troops and armor, detained him in the boat, and then led his troops to capture Long Qie.
At this time, Long Qie, Ji Buji and Zhongli Mei gathered together and gathered more than a thousand infantrymen and stood on the hillside.
Seeing Zhao Kuangyin coming, Long Qie was not afraid at all and fought bravely.
Zhao Kuangyin did not fight with him, but surrounded him with boats and ordered his sergeants to fire arrows together.
After shooting most of the soldiers to death, Zhao Kuangyin began to persuade Long Qie to surrender. Seeing that the situation was in danger, some Yellow Turban generals also persuaded Long Qie to surrender.
"General, most of the soldiers have been injured. Now there is no way around, so why not surrender." Long Qie had not yet spoken, but Ji Bu was furious: "We have received so much kindness from a great virtuous teacher, how can we be willing to surrender to the Han... "
Before Ji Bu finished speaking, Long Qie directly beheaded the person who had spoken of surrender, and said sternly: "Let's talk about surrender, it's the same rule for these two!"
All the soldiers were afraid and fought hard to defend themselves against the enemy.
Zhao Kuangyin brothers fought from early morning to noon, but still failed to capture Long Qie, but they did manage to capture Zhongli Mei alive after he slipped and fell into the water.
By this time, Liu Guan and Zhang had settled the war and arrived with their troops. After a siege, Zhang Fei captured Ji Bu alive.
After the two generals were captured, all the ordinary soldiers lost their fighting skills, and only Long Qie was still fighting hard.
While he was killing, Long saw dozens of Han soldiers coming in a small boat, so he jumped on the boat with his sword in hand and immediately killed more than ten people. The rest abandoned the boat and fled into the water to escape for their lives.
Long Qie held a sword in one hand and a halberd in the other, and was about to set up a boat and sail towards Fancheng. Guan Yu saw all this, so naturally he would not let him go.
Upstream, one general rushed down with a large raft and directly knocked over Long Qie's boat, and was captured alive by Guan Yu in the water.
“Ding dong, Guan Yu captured Long Qie alive, the base force is permanently +1, the current base force is 102.”
At this point, 85% of the Yellow Turbans' 400,000-strong army died in the water, and half were either killed or surrendered.
As for the remaining 10%, they and Xiang Yu were lucky enough to cross the Han River. Of course, this does not mean that they are safe.
Qin Hao has planned for this day for so long, so how could he possibly give Xiang Yu a plan to make a comeback?
Liu Ji and Fang Qiao had expected that Xiang Yu would cross the Han River, so Qin Hao also listened to their plans and set up an "ambush from all directions" for Xiang Yu.
On the way to Fancheng, there are ten groups of ambushes waiting for Xiang Yu to arrive.
Since Qin Hao knows how to flood, he has no other backup plan, and there is no way for Xiang Yu to support him across the Han River.
In order to prevent being caught in the trap again, Xiang Yu had to quickly lead his army to retreat to Fancheng. However, before they were halfway through the journey, a pair of ambush soldiers came out from two mountains.
“Xiang Yu, Changshan Zhao Zilong has been waiting for a long time.”
“Huang Zhong is here, and those who surrender will not be killed.”
Having just witnessed the grand scene of the annihilation of the entire army, even if Xiang Yu's men were elite troops, no matter how good their psychological quality was, they would not still have the will to fight.
Because of the terrain, Xiang Yu could not see the details of the Han army, so he did not dare to fight easily and directly led the army to seize the road.
After Zhao Yun and Qin Wu intercepted some of the enemy troops, they did not pursue them because they only had a thousand men.
The Yellow Turbans' surveillance of the Han army was not loose, so it was impossible for Qin Hao to send too many troops to sneak across the river through a detour, and this time the "Ambush from Flying Daggers" only had a total of 10,000 troops.
After avoiding Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong's ambush, Xiang Yu had not traveled ten miles when another two groups of ambush troops came out. This time it was Xiong Kuohai and Xu Chu, and behind them were Lu Bu, Xue Rengui, Yue Fei, Yang Qilang, Qin Wu...
After the ten teams of ambush troops were exhausted, only 3,000 of the 40,000 elites remained. Most of them were killed, and only a few surrendered.
Xiang Yu led 3,000 soldiers and horses and fled back to Fancheng with difficulty, but when he arrived, he discovered that the flag at the top of the city had already been changed, and Qin Hao had been waiting for him on the tower for a long time.
Qin Hao looked at Xiang Yu with a condescending victor's attitude, and said with a faint smile: "Xiang Yu, you lost, completely lost."
Zhao Yun’s ‘Reverse Scale’ has been modified. Although the savior attribute is not ready to be activated, the set increase amount is indeed a bit large, so it is directly changed to unknown. In fact, not only Zhao Yun, but also the five tiger generals Lu Bu and some famous generals will get increases. After all, we are writing about the Three Kingdoms, and it is not good to let local characters become a sidekick!
(End of this chapter)
