Chapter 844: One Step Late
Cao Liang's order was very clear, because the right guard battalion failed to conquer Huai County, when encountering the counterattack of Chen Tai's army, it was likely to fall into the predicament of being attacked by the enemy, so Cao Liang asked Liu Jing to immediately give up the siege, withdraw to Yewang, and join the left guard battalion.
In this raid, Cao Liang only mobilized three infantry battalions, in terms of siege, although the role of the infantry battalion is greater than that of the cavalry battalion, but in the field, the infantry battalion is definitely inferior to the cavalry, and it is impossible for any infantry battalion to have the terrifying defensive power of Ma Long's flat box car formation.
Cao Liang was worried that the right guard battalion would not retreat in time and would be surrounded by the enemy, so as soon as he discovered the movement of Chen Tai's army, Cao Liang sent a fast horse to Liu Jing as soon as possible.
The transmission of information on the battlefield is extremely important, and Cao Liang, as the highest commander, although he did not participate in the specific battle, he sat in the Chinese army and strategized, but he did not dare to relax at all.
At the same time, the state army blossomed in Wulongkou, Yewang, Wenxian, and Huaixian, and Cao Liang naturally had to take into account all aspects of the entire battlefield, and he sent a large number of scouts to summarize the information of each battlefield in a timely manner, and grasp the dynamics in all directions.
The battle on the Wulongkou side has come to an end, and Ma Long's vanguard battalion has performed amazingly enough, they not only resisted Chen Tai's attack, but also made Chen Taimeng suffer a lot of losses, Chen Tai is already unable to launch another attack, and retreat is inevitable.
At the same time, Ma Long's side successfully contained Chen Tai's main force and won the opportunity for the attack of the other armies of the state, Yewang and Wenxian also fought very beautifully, and it only took a few hours for Xianhong and Yanghu to take these two cities.
As long as the city is in hand, the state army will not be afraid of the counterattack of the Sima army, not to mention that the Tun cavalry battalion and the Xiao cavalry battalion are already on the way, once they join the battle, the situation in the entire Hanoi will change greatly, if the three cities of Yewang, Wen County and Huai County all change hands, Chen Tai will be the same lost dog, and there will be no place for him in Hanoi.
But at the critical time, the right guard side still dropped the chain, and their attack on Huaixian was frustrated, and it was not as smooth as the left guard battalion and the infantry battalion.
However, this result did not surprise Cao Liang, after all, Huai County is the county of Hanoi, in terms of defensive ability, Huai County is higher than Wen County and Yewang, not to mention that Chen Tai's Wulongkou battle this time was only the army of Wen County and Yewang, so Huai County's defensive strength has not weakened at all, and it is indeed very difficult for the Right Guard Battalion to take Huai County in such a short period of time.
Therefore, after Cao Liang learned the news that Chen Tai's army had returned to Huaixian, he immediately ordered Liu Jing to retreat as soon as possible and not to engage Chen Tai's army.
After Liu Jing received the order, although he was a little depressed, he still decisively ordered the whole battalion to immediately withdraw to Yewang.
At this moment, Chen Tai led the soldiers all the way and went straight to Huaixian.
The loss of Wen County and Yewang was a heavy blow to Tran Tai, and it also declared the bankruptcy of his Hanoi defense system, but Huai County, as an important town in Hanoi, could not afford to lose, and once it was lost, Tran Tai's situation became more and more difficult.
Therefore, Chen Taicai desperately returned to Huai County, and now holding Huai County has become his last hope.
However, he hoped that at this moment, the Bingzhou army was besieging Huaixian, so that he could attack from behind, give the besieging Bingzhou army a heavy blow, and save a little face for him.
In the past two days, Chen Tai has suffered too many defeats, the battle of Wulongkou, in the face of the turtle shell-like Bingzhou pioneer battalion, Chen Tai has repeatedly attacked, but has repeatedly failed, although he has always held the initiative on the battlefield, but has never been able to eat such a team of 3,000 people, as a result, he attacked too fiercely, resulting in self-damage of more than 5,000 people.
Obviously, this battle could not be fought any longer, and not only could the enemy disappear, but even his own men and horses were almost exhausted.
However, compared with the news of the loss of Yewang Wenxian, the defeat of Wulongkou seems to be nothing, judging from the current battle situation, Cao Liang is obviously in the next big game of chess.
Ma Long's pioneer battalion is just a pawn crossing the river, and even Cao Liang is used as a bait as an outcast, but this chess piece that seems to be an abandonment has made Chen Tai very anxious.
The target of Cao Liang's attack this time was the entire Hanoi, and after throwing the bait of Ma Long to attract Chen Tai's attention, he secretly crossed Chen Cang, and launched an attack on Yewang, Wen County and Huai County at the same time.
Yewang and Wenxian took the lead in falling, which made Chen Tai completely fall into a panic, he was tricked, this time it was really tricked, fortunately, there was no bad news from Huaixian, which made Chen Tai breathe a little.
Huaixian must not be allowed to be lost, Chen Tai can't take care of Wen County and Yewang who have been lost, even if he is the closest to Wen County at the moment, Chen Tai directly bypassed Wen County, led the army to drive east, and rushed to Huai County.
Although in the Battle of Wulongkou, Chen Tai's 10,000 horses were lost more than half, but after Zhang Ren and Li Yi led the remnants of Wenxian and Yewang's defeated brigade to join, Chen Tai had another 20,000 people, of course, thanks to Li Yi, it was because he escaped relatively quickly that the Wen County defenders were able to be preserved in an organized manner.
This is obviously probably the biggest black humor, but Chen Tai can't care about punishing Li Yi now, and the top priority is still Huaixian.
Chen Tai drove all the way, almost without any physical strength, the cavalry was better, the infantry ran wildly all the way, all of them were exhausted, and their bones almost fell apart.
However, when he looked at the city wall of Huai County, Chen Tai finally took a long breath, at least he could see from a distance that the banner of Sima Jun was still fluttering on the city head of Huai County, which also made Chen Tai feel relieved, fortunately Huai County was not lost!
However, Chen Tai was a little puzzled, why couldn't he see any people in this city, it stands to reason that the state army had attacked Huai County before, and it should be nearby at this moment, why did it disappear?
Chen Tai took a closer look, and there were indeed traces of battles here, rolling stone bullets, broken city walls, and damaged military ordnance, but there was not a single corpse to be seen.
If the Bingzhou army came to attack the city, there would definitely be casualties, but these corpses were missing, presumably taken away by the Bingzhou army.
This way is in a hurry, but in the end it seems that he is still a step too late.