Chapter 177 Xiamagou

Outside the city, Gao Shun was extremely excited. He commanded the artillery to smash the city gate and felt so happy. This was much more satisfying than he usually commanded the artillery to perform. Especially when he saw the chaos at the city gate, he felt particularly fulfilled, as if the world was on my chest, there was no city in the world that he could not smash!

Gao Shun shouted: "Continue shooting, you can do it anywhere on the city wall. Just hit the stone on the city wall!" This is equivalent to giving the order to free shooting. The Qiang soldiers are now in chaos and there is no need to find the target. Anyway, as long as it is a city wall, it is all targets!

The artillerymen of Fujiao were all extremely excited and screamed. The artillery soldiers had this advantage. They did not have to abide by silent military orders. They could shout a few times as long as they were happy!

If the soldiers were excited, their combat effectiveness would increase exponentially. The artillery soldiers threw big stones on the city wall and smashed another city wall. There was no one on the city wall now, and all the Qiang soldiers ran away!

But the artillery was still shooting, and Li Qin did not give the order to stop, so they shot endlessly, just treating it as training. Smashing the city wall is the best practical exercise. How could they usually be willing to build such a long and strong earth wall exercise? Even if the manpower is not enough, they can't mobilize so much!

Seeing that there were no Qiang soldiers on the city wall, Yuan Shao rushed to Li Qin and said, "Li Lang, can you stop? We can start climbing the city. I see that the wall collapsed is very big, and the soldiers can climb up without ladders!"

Li Qin smiled and said, "There is no need. The Qiang soldiers in the city must be running out. The city is full of fire. It's useless to go in. We don't have to get something from the city!"

Zhang Qin also came over. After listening to Li Qin's words, he said verbally: "General Yuan, this is because you have too little experience, so you should do less wars! Since we came to Fujiao Fort, we have experienced dozens of battles from all over the world. We are still very familiar with the current situation. We should fight like this..." He looked like a teacher and began to teach Yuan Shao.

Yuan Shao thought to himself: "Does of battles? Since the Fujiao Army was established, there have been only a few battles in total. You have experienced dozens of battles alone. Did you experience them when you were dreaming?"

But he couldn't refute it, so it would be too disrespectful to Zhang Qin. With Zhang Zhongguan's scrupulous attitude, if he doesn't give face tonight, then Zhang Xiaoyan will never give him face in his life, so he has to listen to him lyrics while gritting his teeth!

Li Qin did not listen to Zhang Qinluo's nonsense. He called Jia Xu and said, "If Wu Danzi failed to catch Li Wenhou, think about it, where would Li Wenhou gather defeated soldiers? He would definitely not be willing to be defeated, and he would not be able to abandon so many Qiang soldiers. He would definitely gather the remaining defeated soldiers. Where should it be?"

Jia Xu thought for a while and said, "Our army won a great victory. It will be during the day when the sky chases again, so it is certain that it will chase dozens of miles. For Li Wenhou, it is unsafe for cavalry chasing within 100 miles, so Li Wenhou will escape for a hundred miles before he will rest. But he will not immediately gather the army, because that will attract us to pursue it. At this time, the Qiang soldiers were still in shock and there were everywhere, so he could not close it much!"

Li Qin said: "Based on the distance, he can only start to gather the remaining defeated soldiers and generals about two hundred miles away. Only when he is so far can he be safe, and the army he just gathered will not be disbanded again! So which direction should it be?"

Jia Xu smiled and said, "Don't think about it. It's definitely not possible to go to the west. It's not easy to cross half of Bingzhou in the north. Moreover, if the newly defeated army wants to get supplies, it's even more unthinkable. The territory of Song Xiao is in the east. No matter how useless the governor is, he will not be able to pick up the cheap ones. No matter how stupid Li Wenhou is, he will not go to take advantage of himself. So there is only the south, which is densely populated and easy to rob, and we dare not press too much, so we won't be too anxious to jump over the wall and run towards Luoyang. The consequences will be serious!"

Li Qin said: "Okay, then let's chase north and make a move to chase south first. Once Li Wenhou turns, we will block him!"

Jia Xu smiled and said, "That's right!"

Li Qin called the generals of various divisions and said, "Dian Wei, you should first run south with your people to let all the Qiang soldiers know that you are chasing Li Wenhou, and Li Wenhou is heading south. When you see an army turning and fleeing north, you will withdraw your troops and guard this Gaonu County and send someone to see that there are no Han people nearby. If there are Qiang soldiers coming to surrender, you can also take them in, and just take them in for the time being!"

Dian Wei agreed and ran south with a thousand soldiers.

Li Qin said again: "The rest is all. Follow me to the north. During the march, no one is allowed to speak or fight with the Qiang soldiers. Just march quietly. Let's capture Li Wenhou!"

The soldiers agreed in unison and began to set off to the north.

Gao Shun shouted, "Li Lang, what about me? Now I only use the corner cannon, and the siege cars and other things are not useful yet!"

Li Qin pointed to the county town with black smoke and said, "The west gate of this city is abandoned. Even if the wall that has not collapsed is full of cracks. If it is rebuilt, it must be knocked down first and cannot be restored on the spot. So, you might as well have to go to a grand ceremony to smash the entire western wall and practice the troops well. Your artillery will be of great use in the future!"

Gao Shun was full of red light. The happiest thing he was now was smashing things. It had become his hobby, and it was more addicted to drinking. He shouted: "Okay, with Li Lang's words, if you hit things, you will be even more energetic and you can't stop even if you want to!"

Li Qin laughed and said, "It should be a lot of force!" He led the Fujiao Army to the north.

Yuan Shao looked at Gao Shun and thought to himself: "This corner-help cannon is a good thing. Do I want to stay here to learn it? I will build a few more in the future, just like Li Qin, and you will smash anyone who sees it!" But he looked at Li Qin again and thought to himself: "I'd better keep up with him. The corner-help cannon is a dead thing. It's time to learn it at any time, but Li Qin's ability to fight is not visible at any time. I can't see it this time, and there will be no chance in the future!"

Yi reluctantly glanced at the corner-helping cannon again. Yuan Shao followed Li Qin and asked, "Li Lang, did Marquis Li run north?"

Li Qin said: "No, after he left the city, he should have run south. Didn't I send Dian Wei out? Dian Wei shouted with his soldiers, and then Li Wenhou is like a stray dog ​​now, so he must be scared. Then he will turn to the north, because he has nowhere to go except the north. Let's take the army to the north to block him, and you will definitely get caught in one block!"

Yuan Shao thought to himself: "This is to guess the enemy's plane first? No, this is even more powerful than guessing the enemy's plane first. It's simply leading the enemy's nose. Is Li Qin so powerful? Well, if he can really do this, then I have learned a trick and I will use it in the future!"

When the marching was at night, when the fire was rising into the sky in Gaonu County, the Qiang soldiers were hiding. As long as the Fujiao Army did not chase the Qiang soldiers, no Qiang soldiers dared to come to them. The Fujiao Army marched very smoothly. By dawn, it had already driven out fifty miles away. Wherever it passed, no Qiang soldiers were inside, and they all ran cleanly, leaving only a mess everywhere!

Fifty miles away, there is a small river. The river is not wide, at most only two or three zhang, but the river water is deep. The scouts responded that the depth of the river is three zhang, and the water flows are also fast. There is a lot of mud and sand in the river, and the water is turbid. Looking at the two sides of the river, there is no trace of a large army marching. It is estimated that Li Wenhou has not escaped here yet!

Li Qin personally arrived by the river and looked at the river, thinking: "This cannot be regarded as a river, it should be said to be a ditch, and there is so much mud and sand. If it is not managed, it may break the dam and the river water will spread, which will flood the nearby villages!"

Looking around, Li Qin said, "In the past, a group of people lie on the opposite side. When Li Wenhou comes, he will pass the ditch and give it to him hard. Zhao Zheng, you are the best at catching people, so you can do it!"

Zhao Zheng has always been low-key. Li Qin doesn't call him. He rarely comes. After Li Qin's order, he quickly shouted: "Get order!" He took the five hundred most elite horn-boosting soldiers off their war horses, swam across the river, and found a place to ambush.

Li Qin said again: "There is a big forest over there. Let's go in and rest. Let's eat some dry food. If you don't eat enough, you will have the energy to fight." He led the army into the forest and went to rest.

After a long time, the rumbling sound of horse hooves came from afar. Thousands of Qiang soldiers fled here. It seemed that they were Li Wenhou's personal guards.

Li Wenhou rode a horse among the Qiang soldiers, and his anger was indescribable. Last night, he led his troops out of the east gate and fled south, but he didn't escape far. The Qiang soldiers screamed behind him, saying that a Fujiao Army was chasing behind him, yelling to capture him alive. Li Wenhou's first reaction was that Bian Zhang surrendered, otherwise how could the Fujiao Army know that he was going to escape south, and the Fujiao Army was still shouting like this?

But then he thought again that Bian Zhang wanted to persuade him to flee north at that time, but he insisted on going south, and it seemed that he could not blame Bian Zhang for being caught alive. Maybe Bian Zhang was so proud that he confessed that he wanted to use his head to make a contribution in order to make a job in the Fujiao Army?

He could not confirm his imagination, but he knew that escaping south was not possible, but not east or west, so he had to bite the bullet and take his soldiers around a big circle and headed north. This time it went very smoothly, and he actually got rid of the yelling sirens!

But after escaping for a few miles, another squadron-squad soldiers followed behind. The squadron-squad soldiers were all good at shooting. After catching up, they shot out randomly and shot hundreds of Qiang soldiers. Seeing that the situation was not good, the Qiang soldiers fled a lot. He could only send the most powerful Qiang generals to resist. The pursuers were blocked for a while, but not long after, they probably killed the Qiang generals, but they actually chased them again and fell firmly behind them, unable to shake them down no matter how they shook them!
Chapter completed!