Chapter 353: The Hebei Army's Fiasco
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"Ironclad cavalry?" Gao Shixing was shocked when he saw this. This is the elite of the elite in the Liaodong Army sequence!
"Not good! King Xia, we may have been tricked. According to the intelligence, the command of Red Sleeves and U Yu Qing is just a unit transporting grain and grass. How could they have ironclad cavalry under them? And as many as 10,000 people. I'm afraid that the ironclad cavalry of the entire Liaodong Army is only that! Gao Shixing said eagerly.
In fact, there is no need for him to say it, Dou Jiande also noticed that something was wrong. His 80,000 elite soldiers attacked the 10,000 heavy soldiers with red sleeves, and the casualties were even worse than those of the other party. Moreover, the enemy's baggage troops were also equipped with a large number of cavalry, which is completely unheard of. Previously, he thought that this was the reason why there were many cavalry in the Liaodong Army. But now it seems that this is a trap set by Yu Ming.
But he knew it was too late to deal with it. His soldiers had been exhausted from a whole day's battle, and because they were attacking the camp, they did not have the same neat defensive formation as they did in the field.
There is no formation, forming a defensive formation, the infantry scattered on the plain, facing the enemy's heavy cavalry, there is only one word for the end: death!
At this time, the cavalry of the Liaodong Army had suddenly appeared in front of the infantry of the Hebei Army with lightning speed, and all the war horses had already mentioned the highest impact speed.
These cavalrymen of the Liaodong Army crouched on their horses with their eyes in order. They were either holding spears or carrying swords, and they rushed towards the Hebei army with fear in their eyes like a tidal wave!
No one could see how many cavalry there were in the Liaodong Army. I could only see them like a black torrent, completely obscuring the sky that had only the remnants of the sun left. Layers of black tide are surging like stormy waves!
"Quick! Immediately give me a battle against the enemy! The cavalry of the Liaodong Army is coming! Liu Heimin shouted.
The Hebei army immediately sounded golden drums in unison, and the banner commander waved the banner again and again, asking those soldiers who had already walked towards their own camp to come back as soon as possible, and asked them to immediately return to the defensive formation to deal with the onslaught of the enemy's large-scale cavalry.
And those soldiers who had already sat down to rest were alarmed, and they panicked and grabbed their swords and rushed forward, ready to stop the Liaodong army.
I have to admit that the Hebei Army under the command of Dou Jiande is still quite elite among the righteous army. Although he was attacked by the enemy at first, he still began to assemble in an orderly manner in the midst of the shock, preparing to resist. It's just that it is not possible to do it in a short time if the Hebei sergeants who have already rushed to the gate of the camp in a hurry, and even stripped off their clothes and disarmed to prepare for a good rest.
Ling Jing hurriedly shouted loudly in his already hoarse voice, "The crossbowmen stepped forward and shot their feet!" Hold off the enemy's assault in front of the spear and shield platoon! Let the cavalry hurry up and get on their horses, so that they must not mess with themselves! Anyone who makes a lot of noise and disrupts the formation will be killed! ”
Dou Jiande also knew that if he resisted desperately, as before, let the cavalry of the Liaodong Army fall into a melee, and the Hebei Army could still fight by relying on the superiority of troops.
He drew his sword and shouted, "Listen, everyone: this king has a command! Those who retreat will not be spared! If this battle is won, all officers and soldiers will be promoted two levels in a row! If there are those who flee in fear of the enemy, they will be punished by the nine clans, and all the doors will be killed! ”
Under the orders of their own generals, the Hebei army gradually calmed down from the initial panic.
However, how could Li Jing and Yu Yuqing give them the opportunity to calmly deploy their defenses, they seized this moment of the fighter. For the iron cavalry of the Liaodong Army, which had already begun to sprint, it was only a blink of an eye to rush over these few miles. Just when the Hebei Army was still arranging its formation, the cavalry of the Liaodong Army had already crashed into the chaotic crowd of the Hebei Army.
"Kill!" Yu Yuqing screamed, the spear in Yu's hand stabbed out like a poisonous snake, and suddenly provoked Liu Heimin, who was commanding in front, with a gun, and lifted it into the air, Liu Heimin's body rolled down from the air, and overturned the four soldiers who were still in formation.
"Ahh General Liu is dead! The soldiers of the Hebei Army beside Liu Heimin were already about to line up in formation, but when they saw that the main general was dead, they immediately panicked. Immediately, they lost their fighting spirit, turned and fled backwards.
At this time, Redsleeves also raised his short crossbow and released cold arrows in the crowd. In this kind of melee combat, the longbow is not as practical as the short crossbow, and she and her subordinate archers followed behind Yu Yuqing's ironclad cavalry, specifically aiming at the officers of the Hebei army to shoot, trying their best to stop the Hebei army's assembly and formation.
Although there are still some sergeants in the Hebei army who have not assembled in the camp, the number of soldiers who are put into battle is still much more than the cavalry of the Liaodong Army, but these soldiers have been attacking the city for a day, they are exhausted, and most of them are infantry.
If Dou Jiande and Gao Shixing are given enough time to prepare and let the Hebei Army line up their defensive formations, they may be able to resist the surprise attack of the Liaodong Army, but now in the face of this kind of sneak attack, no matter how brave Dou Jiande is, no matter how smart Gao Shixing is, he will have no power to return to the sky.
Half an hour later, Ling Jing was also cut off by Red Sleeves, and the Hebei army had completely collapsed. No matter how Dou Jiande and Gao Shixing shouted, they didn't pay attention to it, and they just wanted to flee for their lives.
"King Xia, let's run away too! This battle is lost! There's no going back! Gao Shixing said with a bitter face.
"Master Gao, I also know that I am defeated. But what do we do now? Where to escape? Dou Jiande asked with a sad face.
Gao Shixing was stunned when he heard it: Yes? Where are you going to run now? At this moment, Lao Chao Leshou must have been broken by another Liaodong army. I'm afraid that Hejian County will not be able to keep it, where else can they go?
After thinking for a while, Gao Shixing said: "King Xia, needless to say, the north is the territory of the Liaodong Army, and we can't go there. It is also better not to go to Hedong in the west, where Li Yuan and Liu Wuzhou are fighting fiercely, and no one will pay attention to us. ”
"And to the south is Henan, and now Li Mi and Wang Shichong are fighting fiercely in the area of Luokou and Tiger Prison, both wanting to destroy each other and dominate the Central Plains...... So, now we can only go east, into Shandong. Gao Shixing continued to analyze: "Li Yuan, Wang Shichong and Li Mi are all scheming people, and Liu Wuzhou has Turkic support, these four forces are beyond our reach. Therefore, we can only think of a way from Wang Bo and Xu Yuanlang and others in Shandong, strive to unite them, occupy Shandong, and then find a way. ”
At this time, he continued: "Shandong is mountainous, even if Yuming chases after us, we can still drill the ravine to avoid if we can't defeat the Liaodong Army, unlike Hebei, which is a flat river, and there is no danger to defend." ”
"Good! Then give the order to go down, and everyone flee to the east and meet in Shandong! Dou Jiande made a decision.
After the Hebei army received the order to retreat, if it was amnestied, it immediately ran away. The Liaodong cavalry followed behind and chased wildly, killing them crying for their fathers and mothers, with many dead and wounded, and corpses all over the field.
When Dou Jiande finally escaped from the battlefield at night, there were only military advisors Gao Shixing left, a few partial generals, and less than a thousand soldiers, which could be described as a complete defeat.
And what worries him the most is that his only beloved daughter Dou Hongxian has also disappeared. This is his lifeline, and it makes him anxious.
But fortunately, he was only worried for two hours. In the middle of the night, Dou Hongxian also took several soldiers to the meeting place to meet. And she also brought an important news: from a captured officer of the Liaodong Army, she learned that Yuming equipped Red Sleeves and Yu Yuqing with the most elite troops of the Liaodong Army, and the number was not 10,000 on the surface, but 50,000. And the person who really commanded this battle was Yuming's master, Li Jing, a famous general of the Great Sui. So it is no wonder that the Hebei army will be defeated.
After getting this truth, the generals of the Hebei Army relaxed slightly, and it was reasonable to lose to the elite of the Liaodong Army led by Li Jing. It's just that after Li Jing and Yuming, the two masters and apprentices are together, isn't the Liaodong Army like a tiger? I am afraid that after I escape to Shandong, I will still be unable to escape the doom of destruction.
"King Xia, don't think so much about it first, let's go to Shandong and talk about it!" Gao Shixing persuaded him: "Now that the Liaodong army is strong and occupies the entire Hebei, I think Wang Bo and Xu Yuanlang in Shandong are afraid that they will also become frightened birds." Let's take refuge, and they'll accept it! After all, they also want to know some news about the Liaodong Army from us. ”
Dou Jiande nodded after hearing this, and now he can only take one step at a time.
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The Liaodong Army marched south to Dou Jiande this time, although it was completely defeated and took over the land of Hebei. But Luo Yi and Luo Shou, who had just surrendered, were killed in battle, and Luo Cheng was also seriously injured. And the 60,000 troops they led were also wiped out, and less than a thousand escaped.
This made the Liaodong Army very shocked, and Yuming felt that Luo Yi's defeat and death were very strange, so he immediately asked the new president of the Supervision Yuan, Yang Luoqi, to thoroughly investigate the cause of the defeat. A few days later, Yang Luoqi reported the results of the investigation. After Yu Ming saw it, he immediately became furious.
It turned out that because the red sleeves had already gone out with the army, the work of Jinyiwei was temporarily replaced by Hu Sizheng to coordinate the collection and transmission of external intelligence, and the intelligence of Dou Jiande was the top priority.
As early as before Luo Yi's army entered Hejian County, Jinyiwei's detectives reported to Beiping the information that the main force of the Hebei Army had moved eastward and gathered in Hejian County. However, after Hu Sizheng got the news, he suppressed it and did not send anyone to deliver it to Luo Yi.
In this way, Luo's father fell into the trap of the Hebei army in a daze.
"Luo Qi, call Hu Sizheng for me! I'm going to ask him, how could he make such a low-level mistake? Yu Ming said angrily.
Yang Luoqi nodded, she also knew that this matter was very strange, and it stands to reason that Hu Sizheng would not be so careless.
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