Chapter 057: Meng Tian's Strange Soldier Comes Out
The Xiongnu army stormed Yanmen Pass several times, but was repulsed, did not achieve any results, tossed for a day, were exhausted, and rested in advance at night.
However, the Qin army did not rest, and in the north and south directions of the Xiongnu front army, two Qin troops sneaked in the dark and ambushed before the arrival of the Xiongnu army.
To the south was the army of Bai Long and Zhao Sheng, and to the north was the army of Cheng Zhiyi and the Mongol army. The army of Yanmen Pass took advantage of the darkness to open the west gate, and then the war drums rumbled and launched an attack on the Xiongnu army. As soon as the ambushed crossbow archers heard the beating of war drums, they immediately poured crossbow arrows into the Xiongnu camp.
The Xiongnu army faced the attacking Yanmen Pass army head-on, who would have thought that there was an ambush on the north and south sides, and immediately rioted and uneasy, and soon fell into extreme panic.
King Zuoxian, who supervised the battle in the former army, discovered the abnormality of the army and immediately ordered the army to rush to Yanmen Pass and kill it, ignoring the crossbowmen who were in ambush on both sides.
In less than an hour, the main force of the Xiongnu began to attack the Mengtian army in front in an orderly manner, and a fierce cavalry head-on duel was about to break out.
But the Yueshi cavalry in the south was not so united, and in the last battle north of Yinshan, Donghu was almost consumed, and now there is no initiative in the hands of the Xiongnu. If you want them to be the front army and use them as cannon fodder for the Huns, it is better to take this opportunity to flee south, and then wait for the opportunity to go north to find their families.
In this way, the army of Bai Long and Zhao Sheng in the south saw that the Xiongnu army was frantically rushing towards their ambush place, shouted to cut their throats and command the army, and stepped up their shooting. However, the belief of these Yue's cavalry to escape is the first, no matter how intensively the Qin crossbow shoots, it is to rush and kill desperately. After the fall of more than 20,000 Yue's cavalry, the Yue's army still collided with Bai Long and Zhao Sheng's army.
As a result, the two armies began a fierce battle, and at this time, the advantage of the cavalry was brought into play. After more than an hour of rushing and killing, the Yue's army finally broke out of the encirclement, and after fleeing frantically south for an hour, they were exhausted and began to stop marching and rest.
Bai Long was wounded in the fight and couldn't walk, Zhao Sheng was killed in battle, and more than 30,000 of the 50,000 army were killed and wounded, but there were only more than 10,000 at the moment, so he had to slowly approach Yanmen Pass.
King Zuo Xian was commanding the army to rush madly to kill Meng Tian's army, and when he got a letter that the Yue army in the south had fled, he was furious, so what could he do.
At this moment, he was entangled by Meng Tian's army, and he couldn't get out, so he could only hold on, and the crossbow arrows of the Qin army in the north kept pouring all the time, and he couldn't ask for help from Shan Yu behind. In this way, the two sides rushed and slashed extremely fiercely, and Meng Tian also commanded the army to fight hard with red eyes.
As soon as dawn came, Meng Tianli ordered the king of Xijun to put out the fangqi of the Yue clan to recruit the old subordinates of the Yue clan. The 2,000-strong army of Wang Kunyue of Xijun met the army of Bailong with a tooth banner, and learned that a cavalry had broken through to the south in a panic last night and fled. Kunyue inspected the traces of the enemy's withdrawal and concluded that it was his old Yue clan, so he ran south excitedly.
Soon, Mao Dun also learned about the battle situation of the former army, and also saw Meng Tian's tooth banner in the army of Yanmen Pass. Just as he was about to raise troops to support King Zuoxian, he suddenly probed Malay to report the appearance of the Qin army in the west.
Mao Dun immediately understood, it turned out that Meng Tian had withdrawn Jiuyuan's army to Yanmen Pass a long time ago, and wanted to surround and annihilate himself. He decisively ordered to kill the Qin army in the west, and then led 300,000 elites to quickly bypass the Yanmen Pass army and attack Jiuyuan City along the Great Wall.
King Zuoxian's Xiongnu and Donghu mixed 300,000 cavalry front army finally fell, and the help of the more than 100,000 Yue's army suffered a great loss.
After two days and one night of fierce fighting, Meng Tian's more than 100,000 cavalry at Yanmen Pass coordinated with Cheng Zhiyi in the north and the crossbow arrow army ambushed by the Mongolian army, and all those Hun cavalry were slashed on the grassland under Yanmen Pass.
At the end of this battle, in addition to the ambush crossbowmen, the losses were less than 10,000 casualties, the Bailong army suffered more than 20,000 casualties, and Meng Tian's army suffered 80,000 casualties, totaling more than 110,000 soldiers and horses.
Fortunately, the king of Xijun Kunyue recruited more than 80,000 cavalry from his old Yue clan to return, these cavalry were forced to go out by Mao Dunshan Yu to hold his family hostage, they hated the Xiongnu, asked to surrender to Daqin, and begged Meng Tian to send troops to rescue their families......
On the other side, Xin Sheng's 50,000 army and the main force of Mao Dun encountered, but fortunately, the Xiongnu were in a hurry to attack Jiuyuan, so they did not besiege them, but just beat them away, and then collected their troops and went north. Xin Sheng's army lost more than 10,000, and only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses returned to Yanmen Pass.
Meng Tian ordered Xin Sheng and other Longxi generals to deal with the bereavement of the soldiers, and then Meng Tian began the next step of the combat deployment, Meng Tian's plan was as follows:
Li Xi, who ordered the ambush, 20,000 Jiuyuan cavalry, quickly attacked Maotun from the north from the "second straight road"; After resting, Xintong's army went out of the Great Wall and cooperated with Li Xi's army from the south to attack Mao Dunshan Yu's main cavalry.
Cheng Zhiyi, the Mongolian army led 20,000 cavalry and Xijun Wang Kunyue led 80,000 Yue's old troops, along the straight road quickly north to Jiuyuan and Li Xin convergence, controlled by Li Xin, led out of the Great Wall north to Yinshan to attack the Shan Yu 10 army north of Yinshan, rescued Yue's family and returned to Jiuyuan to defend.
Meng Tian left 50,000 tired soldiers and horses for Xin Sheng to defend Yanmen Pass, and led the remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses north to meet Li Xi's army......
King Youxian led 100,000 vanguard troops to the north, and was surprised to find that there was a wide straight road on the grassland near the Great Wall, which could speed up the march. So, he ordered the army to go up the straight road, and they all thought about attacking the empty Jiuyuan City, and their hearts couldn't help but float and speed up.
At sunset, this fluttering Xiongnu army entered Li Xi's ambush circle. He had his own plan, first ambushed on the side of the Great Wall, and shot a group of Hun cavalry with bows and arrows.
The Xiongnu encountered a sudden attack by bows and arrows, and immediately panicked. However, these were the elite cavalry of the Xiongnu royal court, and they calmed down within a quarter of an hour. The number of Qin troops who attacked them was not large, and King Youxian began to command the army in an orderly manner to kill Li Xi's army.
Li Xi had already calculated it, and ordered the army to rush out of the grass, and after a while, the two armies collided together. Immediately, the advantages of the Qin army's long sword, armor and helmet were revealed, although the Xiongnu cavalry was elite, against the Jiuyuan cavalry, there was nothing too bad, and there were fewer victories and more losses.
Seeing that he couldn't get rid of the entanglement of this Qin army, King Youxian ordered the whole army to launch a crazy attack on Li Xi, and the two armies were inseparable, and the sky was dark.
Xin Tong received Meng Tian's general order and selected more than 10,000 elite cavalry to be killed from the Great Wall, but this cavalry was specially selected by Meng Tian according to Xin Tong's personal characteristics. After the last night attack on the Xiongnu camp, the actual combat experience of this unit has been greatly improved, and the soldiers are like a group of fierce tigers, rushing into the wolves and slashing and killing.
King Youxian saw that although his men and horses were several times the enemy, they were like frightened birds, and the battle situation was still unclear. Now that the enemy has more courageous reinforcements to join, it is not possible to annihilate the whole army, he does not dare to continue to entangle, and quickly goes north.
Both Xin Tong and Li Xi were ordered by Meng Tian to entangle this group of Hun cavalry and prevent them from going north. The two young generals were fierce tiger generals again, and quickly ordered to speed up the pace of slashing.
Seeing that he couldn't get rid of it, King Youxian ordered the army to separate and fight with the two Qin armies, and this encounter turned into a head-to-head confrontation, and the killing was extremely tragic.
After fighting in the middle of the night, the two sides finally decided the winner. After the defeat of the army of the Right Xian King, it was crushed, trampled on each other and was chaotic, and it was impossible to fight anymore, and only a few thousand of the 100,000 troops tried their best to protect the Right Xian King, and fled westward under the cover of night.
Youxian Wang, who was later the military minister Shan Yu, felt that he could not defeat the Qin army this time, and after fleeing west to avoid the Qin army, he went north in a roundabout way and fled back to the Xiongnu court in embarrassment.
And the two armies of Li Xi and Xintong also lost a total of more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, which was a tragic victory. They all knew that the follow-up main Xiongnu force was about to arrive, so they ordered the army to retreat into the Great Wall to rest and prepare for battle.
After dawn, Shan Yu received a report that the 100,000 troops of the vanguard Youxian King were defeated by the more than 30,000 cavalry of the Qin army in ambush, and the whereabouts of Youxian Wang himself are unknown.
Mao Dunshan Yu concealed this military situation, and still gave an order to the army: "The army of the Right Xian King is already close to Jiuyuan City, and the warriors of the Great Huns hurry up and kill it." ”
So, the Xiongnu army went to Jiuyuan with high morale to kill. When the Maodun army marched to the temporary "second straight road" ordered by Meng Tian to be repaired, and saw the corpses of the Xiongnu army under the command of King Youxian, the lie was exposed......
Maudun could no longer conceal the military situation, so he had to hysterically order the army to hurry north, trying to save the defeat.
At sunset, the army of Li Xi and Xin Tong, who had rested in the Great Wall for a day, saw that Mao Dun Shan Yu's army was overwhelming and black. Both of them felt that the Hun army was too numerous, and they were afraid that they would not be able to defeat these wolves with a small number of troops.
"If you can't beat them, you have to hold them back!" Xin Tong remembered Meng Tian's plea to his father and son before leaving, and then the flames of war ignited again. He persuaded Li Xi, and the two decided to have a tragic captivity operation to drag Mao Dun!!
When the night was falling, Li Xi and Xin Tong led the army to rush towards Mao Dun Shan Yu's army, and the killing energy frightened Shan Yu's front army in an instant.
At the beginning of the game, the Qin army seemed to have the upper hand, killing the Xiongnu to the point of retreating. After half an hour of strangulation, the Huns slowly eased up and organized a counterattack.
Mao Dun received the news that the front army was attacked, and heard that there were only more than 10,000 Qin troops, and instantly understood that this was a deliberate delay in the northward movement of his army. Mao Dun was overjoyed, and ordered the army to crush the Qin army, eat the lone Qin army as quickly as possible, and end the battle.
When the main army of the Xiongnu is pressed with all its might, what fate will Li Xi and Xin Tong face, the next chapter will break down.