Text Chapter 175: The Fierce Battle in the Southwest (Medium)
On the morning of the next day, at the base of the Marshal's Mansion on Phoenix Mountain, we received a report from Tanmalai that Tang Sheng, the governor of Ya'an, and Ye Qianshi, the leader of the battalion, poured 17,000 soldiers from Ya'an, and arrived at Maoling, which was less than 100 miles west of the mountain city; Deng Enge, the governor of Leshan, and the garrison company, led 15,000 troops of Leshan to Huyu in the north of the mountain city, which was only 80 miles away from the mountain city, and was only 10 miles away from the Dashan garrison of the 5,000 Right Route Army led by Zheng Jiaolin, and the two echoed each other from afar; Zheng Tianli, the governor of Luzhou, Hu Huaxiong, the town guard, led 30,000 soldiers from Luzhou and neighboring Wanzhou, greeted the marshal Wu Yinglin, and arrived at Huang He, one hundred and twenty miles east of the mountain city.
Li Ying led 15,000 people in Huyu to make contact with the left route army of Mu Jishi, 20 miles to the west of the south of the mountain, and the general who led the left route army was Yan Lai, the eldest disciple of Mu Jishi, and the deputy general was Li Quanyou, the disciple of Kunlun Daxia.
Because the enemy of the mountain occupied the dangerous mountain and could not hold out, the 10,000 troops led by Yan Lai and Li Quanyou had no battle to fight, and then under the coordination of the military aircraft department, they were deployed and commanded by Li Ying.
In the early afternoon, the battle first began on the front line of Dashan and Huyu. The Leshan garrison company led 10,000 troops to charge Li Ying's troops from the flat land of five miles in front of Huyu, and the Zheng Jiaolin Department of Dashan on the right saw the attack of Leshan's troops and thought that the time for revenge had come, and also dispatched 2,000 soldiers and horses to the left side of Li Ying's department at the same time.
Li Ying had already prepared, and sent Yanlai and Li Quanyou to lead 10,000 soldiers and horses to attack Zheng Jiaolin's troops from the left side, and he also led 10,000 soldiers and horses to fight head-on with the troops of the Leshan company, 10,000 against 10,000, the tactics and tactics were the same, and the central battlefield was glued together, regardless of victory or defeat.
Yan Lai and Li Quanyou on the left led 10,000 soldiers and horses to crush the 2,000 troops of Zheng Jiaolin's department, which was naturally extremely easy, less than an hour, Zheng Jiaolin's troops lost nearly 1,000 troops, Li Quanyou led the troops to compress the 1,000 troops at the foot of the mountain, and Yan Lai led 5,000 troops, dangling a shot on the periphery of the mountain, and outflanking the past from the back of the mountain.
The frontal battlefield was filled with shouts of slaughter, with shield-wielding infantry in front, archers with bows and arrows in the middle, infantry with spears in the rear, and a handful of cavalry at the end. The shield-wielding soldiers of their own side, the archers shooting arrows, and the same is true of the other side, so that neither side seems to be in a hurry to break through the other's defenses, so although the battle has been fought for more than an hour, the casualties of the soldiers are very few.
Leshan Governor Deng Enge led 5,000 troops, quietly from the outside of his left flank, towards the right rear of Li Ying's department, hearing the shouts of killing on the battlefield, Deng Enge couldn't hold back his excitement, less than half a mile away from the rear of Li Ying's department, clearly saw the rear defense line of Li Ying's troops.
A blue firework with a tail rushed into the sky, which was a signal for Dungee to launch a counterattack from the rear, and when Lian Li saw that the surprise attack was successful, he naturally rushed towards the front of Li Ying's troops.
But seeing the flag fluttering, the shield soldiers of Li Ying's department held their positions, and the shields collided with the shields, and the shouts of killing and the sound of collision were deafening.
Suddenly, a unit of nearly 10,000 people appeared in the rear of Dunge's troops, surrounding Dunge's 5,000 troops in the middle, and Li Ying's rear also suddenly turned around and killed with Dunge's troops.
"The praying mantis flutters the cicada, and the yellow finch is behind", this yellow finch in the back is actually Zhan Tingyu, he discussed with Li Ying, and specially set aside a reserve force of 10,000 people, ambushed in the cornfield in the right rear, on the one hand, to guard against the attack of the other party from the right rear, on the other hand, as a reserve, when the front-line force is insufficient, it is put into use, and it does not want to come in handy.
Deng Enge was taken aback suddenly, and wanted to withdraw from the encirclement, but Zhan Tingyu's command had blocked the back road from the east and west, 5,000 Deng Enge troops, rushed left and right, and always couldn't break out of the encirclement, Deng Enge brandished the command knife, commanded the troops to attack the opponent's weak place, and was seen clearly by Zhan Tingyu who was standing on a high place, Zhan Tingyu bent his bow and took an arrow, and an arrow shot to Deng Enge's left eye, and Deng Enge's hand covered his left eye and respected the ground, Deng Enge's escort troops tightly guarded Deng Enge in the core, and rushed to the right, but where the impact went, the soldiers surrounded it, and the thick human wall firmly surrounded the thousands of troops in the center。
At this time, the rear of the frontal battlefield company troops suddenly had a standard of troops rushed out, it was the 5,000 soldiers led by Yan Lai, this Yan Lai led the troops to bypass the rear of the mountain, because of the crossing of the river, so the time was delayed, until this time was outflanked, so that the company suddenly suffered from the enemy, and could not deal with it, and the rear was killed and wounded all of a sudden.
The company troops were in chaos all of a sudden, the two forces were surrounded by each other in the center of the two circles, he thought of retreating before the enemy attack in the rear was not formed, but he was afraid that "the defeat of the army is like a mountain" and affect morale, so he hesitated, but this hesitation, lost the best opportunity to break through, the opponent's shield in front, the arrow soldiers in the rear, a rain of arrows, the disadvantage of no shield in his rear was exposed, the only little cavalry was lost, and soon surrounded in the direction of his command vehicle.
Lian Li handed over the command of the battlefield to his deputy, Sipindu Si Leqi, and he quietly got off the command vehicle and led a guard of about 100 people to attack the flank. By the time this loophole was discovered, it was already too late, and Li Ying commanded the troops to plug the gap, but Lian Li led a guard of about 60 people, broke away from the battlefield and fled to the east.
The loss of the commander-in-chief on the frontal battlefield affected the morale of the other side, so from time to time groups of three or five connected soldiers laid down their arms and surrendered to Li Ying's troops.
The act of surrendering to the enemy on the battlefield is like a contagion, no matter how many soldiers are killed by Leqi's command, but he can't stop his own soldiers from surrendering, so he really responds to the ancient admonition that the army is defeated like a mountain, and the connecting soldiers on the frontal battlefield quickly collapsed under the siege of the opponent's superior forces.
Deng Enge in the rear was wounded by an arrow, and he wanted to escape from the flank under the escort of the guards, but the troops placed by Zhan Tingyu on the left side were thick, so he was not lucky to have a strong force, and after a hard battle, the soldiers were also quickly defeated.
When Shen Shi was approaching, the stalemate battlefield came to an end, except for Lian Li who escaped with a guard of less than 100 people, all the enemies in Leshan were annihilated, the deputy commander Le Qi was killed in battle, Deng Enge was seriously wounded and captured, and nearly 5,000 soldiers of the opposing side were captured. With more than 5,000 troops from the opposing side, the battle was completely won.
At the foot of the mountain on the left side of the battlefield, after Zheng Jiaolin lost 1,500 troops, he shrank back, relying on the powerful defensive terrain of the mountain, and could not hold out.
"Tightly surround the mountain from all sides to prevent the place from climbing down the rock and escaping at night", Li Ying commanded while cleaning the battlefield, looking at the steep mountain cliff.