Chapter 165: Great War 2

The chaos of the Tatars gave Jake a huge opportunity, and Jake seized the opportunity. He ordered the phalanx to attack and advance at once, and the phalanx was like a wall, overwhelmingly pressing over.

The Tatars collapsed faster, and even the cavalry in the rear began to flee. Jia Ke knew that the time was almost up. Immediately ordered his own cavalry of nearly 8,000 to pursue the fleeing Tatars.

In the past, when the Central Plains people fought against the grassland tribes, most of the cases were that as long as the formation was neat, they could defeat the grassland cavalry, but as soon as the opponent retreated, there was no way to expand the results of the battle.

So much so that the opponent regrouped his team, re-searched for fighters, and was defeated in one fell swoop on the way to march or rest of his own troops.

And now Jia Ke has 8,000 cavalry under his command, and these cavalry made up for this deficiency when the phalanx army defeated the enemy. They attacked from the center, divided into two parts to divide and surround the Tatars, and cut them into pieces after pieces to facilitate the phalanx army to attack forward, this strategy was still very effective, the Tatars were compressed into small pieces, lost room for maneuver, and were hunted by the phalanx army in Kaiping Town. And the archers in the back also kept firing, increasing their casualties.

Arslen Khan saw his cavalry in the rear, and once again there was confusion. I know that if I don't take action, I will lose this time. Arslen Khan immediately ordered his personal guards to immediately rush forward to the center of the Jake array, in order to contain the cavalry in Kaiping Town.

In the rear, Jake saw that Arslen Khan had sent the last of his reserves, and knew that he must not allow this force to enter the battlefield, otherwise his goal of defeating the Tatars would be in vain.

So Jia Ke took his own personal army and gathered another 500 cavalry. He led these men and horses to personally charge towards the personal guards of Arslen Khan.

Jia Ke had no more than a few hundred people, and the purpose of attacking the thousands of guards was not to defeat them, but to delay time. Let your main forces kill and wound the Tatars as much as possible, so as to gradually gain an advantage in future wars.

Seeing Jake leading hundreds of people straight towards his personal guards, Arslen Khan couldn't help but remind him of the events of last year. This was also the case last year, Jia Ke directly killed the person blocking in front of him and went straight to him.

Fearing a repeat of last year's events, Arslen Khan retreated with the tribal leaders, but this retreat had consequences that the Tatars could never have imagined.

On the battlefield, the Tatar cavalry were constantly hunted by the soldiers of Kaiping Town, and suddenly found that their Great Khan's royal banner was retreating backwards, thinking that the Great Army had been defeated and that the Great Khan had begun to flee.

I don't know who shouted, "We are defeated, the Great Khan has fled, let's run away." ”

When the Tatars heard this shout, it was like the last straw that broke the camel's back. It was a complete collapse, they all turned their horses and fled backwards, this time it was a real collapse, and no one thought of resisting anymore.

At this time, Jake had not yet made real contact with the Guards of Arslen Khan, when he saw the Tatars running back like a tide. Jia Ke was completely stunned by this situation.

Arslen Khan did not expect that his small self-preservation measure would lead to the collapse of the whole army.

There is a way that the defeat of the army is like a mountain, in this case nothing can stop the defeated army, if you stop it too much, these people even dare to kill their own people.

Jia Ke saw that the opportunity could not be lost, and it would not come again. So he ordered the whole army to charge together, with the cavalry in front and the infantry behind. It is necessary to defeat the Tatars in one fell swoop and relieve the siege of Xuanfu Town.

What is the easiest battle to fight on the battlefield? Of course, it was a tailwind battle, and now the Kaiping Town troops are fighting a tailwind battle, and they are covering the past from behind.

The Tatars have no intention of resisting, but only know to run away, busy like a lost dog, and anxious like a fish that has slipped through the net.

Jia Ke rushed to the front with hundreds of men, and the place he passed was like a chopping wave, and he led 8,000 cavalry to cover and kill tens of thousands of Tatar cavalry. None of the Tatars dared to resist, and as a result, there were numerous casualties, and many even dismounted and surrendered. Jia Ke was not embarrassed by these surrenderers, and directly rushed past them with cavalry, and the infantry behind them came up and captured them all.

In the end, Arslen Khan could not stop the rout of the army, so he had to retreat to the camp with the remnants of the defeated army, and could not hold it in the large camp, and the archers kept shooting arrows outward, which blocked Jia Ke's charge.

Jia Ke saw that there was no chance to take advantage of it, so he ordered the troops to be collected and camped five miles outside the Tatar camp. But at this time, Jia Ke did not relax, when the infantry and logistics were camped. Jia Ke led the cavalry in front of the Tatar fortress to prevent the Tatars from suddenly attacking.

Where did Arslen Khan dare to attack at this time, and after returning to the camp, he counted the men and horses, and lost nearly 20,000 of his men and horses in this battle with Jia Ke, and all tribes suffered heavy losses. Now they are discolored by the name of Jia Ke.

Besides, in Xuanfu Town, when the Tatars attacked, they had already discovered that the situation was wrong, and hurriedly reported to Wang Tao, the envoy of Jiedu.

Wang Tao received the report and hurriedly took Gao Hong to the city wall and looked into the distance.

Wang Tao and Jia Ke were on the city wall, and they could barely see that the Tatar cavalry of the brigade gathered together and rushed into the distance, and they couldn't see clearly what happened after that.

Gao Hong didn't know where at this time, the reinforcements had arrived. It's a bit of a joy to look at. said to Wang Tao next to him: "My lord, we have been saved, I think it is Jia Ke's reinforcements who have arrived, and the Tatars are going to meet Jia Ke." ”

Wang Tao was also overjoyed when he heard this, he was exhausted from the more than ten days of fighting, and the more than 20,000 soldiers he had gathered back had now been lost. He had to requisition the strength of the whole city to defend it together.

How can these ordinary people, who have not been trained, withstand such an attack, and have lost a total of tens of thousands of people in the past ten days. There were even several mutinies in the city, but fortunately, Wang Tao took the opportunity under Gao Hong's planning to carry out several purges and execute all the wealthy merchants of the big clans who participated in the mutiny, which barely suppressed the voice of dissatisfaction.

But even so, Xuanfu Town is about to be unable to hold on, and now almost all the veterans at the head of the city are killed, all relying on these young men to defend the city desperately, if it weren't for Wang Tao sending his own personal guards to act as a supervising team, everyone but those who retreat will be killed, I'm afraid the city would have fallen long ago.

At this time, not only Wang Tao and Gao Hong saw the situation of the Tatars forming a team behind them, but everyone in the city had already seen it, and everyone was not stupid, so they couldn't see such an obvious situation. This was the arrival of their own reinforcements, and the Tatars had to divide a part of their men to block the reinforcements.

For a while, there was thunder of joy in the city, and many people cried with joy. These people were already numb, thinking that maybe they would die in the city tomorrow. I didn't expect the rescuers to arrive so soon, at this time the city can be said to be full of morale, their eyes are full of hope, everyone is holding their weapons tightly, if the Tatars dare to come at this time, they will definitely find that these young men who defend the city have already been sentenced to two people.

Although the young people were thunderous and excited, Gao Hong began to worry again after calming down.

He saw very clearly from the top of the city that the Tatars had sent out at least sixty or seventy thousand cavalry this time. And the combined army of Jia Ke and Ma is only 10,000 people, and I am afraid that they are no match for the Tatars.

Gao Hong analyzed in his heart that if he was Jia Ke, he would avoid the enemy's edge at this time and retreat temporarily. The strategy was also based on harassment, and every effort was made to contain the Tatars so that they could not attack the city with all their might. Then wait for the arrival of the imperial army, join forces with them, and then fight a decisive battle against the Tatars.