Eighty-two, break the enemy
"The enemy will soon be unable to support it, their armor seems to be unable to resist our feather arrow throw, and the follow-up infantry seems to be unable to keep up!" Yuan Ren squinted his eyes and sighed.
Li Qi finally smiled happily when he heard this, and finally found some sense of participating in this battle.
The soldiers in front were fighting with weapons, and the crossbow troops in the back were still trying to cut off the enemy's support forces, although they could not achieve perfect battlefield isolation like the artillery of later generations, they could indeed play some role in blocking attacks. Obviously, the crossbowmen on the Jin army's side were much stronger than the other party.
"The southern army will soon retreat, the attack in the middle will not work, and the follow-up troops will be intercepted, so it is only a matter of time before the front army is defeated." Yuan Ren looked at the battlefield with his hands, and seemed to be quite eager to try.
Looking at his movements, Li Qi really wanted to laugh, but he didn't expect that the addiction of this fight was really not small!
Wang Yanqiu, a battle-hardened veteran, did not watch the battle at the head of Quyang City, but immediately looked down on the battlefield on a hillside in front of Jiashan.
The decisive battle he chose was near the foot of Jiashan, where the terrain was not destined to be very conducive to cavalry combat, and the undulating hills were the biggest obstacle to the cavalry charge, and the horses had to slow down when they encountered the hillside when they increased their speed, so the threat of the cavalry was weakened by a small half.
However, Wang Yanqiu, who had been paying attention to the situation on the battlefield, couldn't help frowning, but the 5,000-foot army, which was his own forward, was suppressed by the opponent's front formation of more than 3,000 people, and there seemed to be signs of scattered rout.
"Beat the drums, and those who dare to retreat will die!"
Wang Yanqiu shouted, the war drums of the southern army sounded again, and under the urging of the dense drumbeat, the originally scattered southern army rose up the courage again and stabilized the formation again. Wang Yanqiu's pro-army was slashing and killing the soldiers of the Southern Army who retreated and fled, but the ruthless killing still had a deterrent effect, at least for the time being, no one dared to flee backwards.
The battlefield was originally a large area of farmland, but the army unfolded, and everywhere it passed, the originally green farmland was trampled and destroyed, and it was a mess everywhere.
"What's going on with Zhang Qianzhao? Still haven't moved?! Li Qi saw that the battlefield was stuck again, and said a little anxiously.
"He's looking for a better opportunity to turn his back on it!" Yuan Ren half-squinted at the opposite half-hillside and said, before the battle began, he knew the news of Zhang Qianzhao's rebellion.
Zhang Qianzhao's unit was Wang Yanqiu's reserve team, which was deployed behind the hillside at this time, and only a small section of the flagpole could be seen.
The fierce battle was still going on, and Li Qi glanced at Yuan Xingqin, who was commanding the battle not far in front of him, this guy was sitting firmly on his horse, like a stone sculpture. Seeing that more and more generals were injured and fell on his side, Li Qi felt sorry for his Jinyang army, but this guy's heart was like iron stone, and he had no intention of adjusting at all.
The fierce battle lasted for about a pillar of incense, and at this time, Yuan Xingqin suddenly raised his right hand.
Li Qi chuckled, gently knocked the heel of his boot and sat down on the jujube horse, the mount shook its head and trotted forward, and the three thousand armored horsemen behind him also prepared to enter the battlefield with him. Yuan Ren let out a loud shout, and the war horse that was sitting down rushed forward, overtaking Li Qi and rushing in front of him.
Not to be outdone, Zao Li was about to sprint forward, but was strangled by Li Qi and neighed with some annoyance. This is a tactic that has been discussed in advance, if the enemy army is not supported, Li Qi, as the Son of Heaven, will take the lead in charging, which is more conducive to boosting morale.
"The Son of Heaven is here, long live!" Yuan Ren shouted, waving the special steel gun in his hand on his horse.
"Hooray!" More than 3,000 cavalry soldiers let out an earth-shattering cry when they charged, and the momentum was like a rainbow.
It is impossible for a cavalry charge to gallop at full speed at the beginning, but to gallop first. The Southern Army, which was originally defeated like Yilu, immediately became in chaos after seeing Li Qi's banner of the Son of Heaven and the charging armored cavalry, and began to retreat slowly......
Wang Yanqiu stared at the battlefield coldly, and said to Zhu Hongzhao beside him: "See, the former prince still has a bit of the anger of the first emperor, and he is the first soldier, but it's a pity, a certain family wants to see if he has the luck of the first emperor!" With that, he raised the saber in his hand, "Order the spear army of Gao Xing Zhou to rush forward, and there is no advance or retreat!" ”
The order flag behind him was raised, passing the commander's military order, and the horn on the battlefield whimpered and harmonized.
It's just that not long after his order was issued, there was a sudden chaos in the rear of the Gao Xing Zhou army that was moving forward, and it suddenly stopped......
"What's going on?!" Wang Yanqiu shouted angrily.
At this time, Zhang Qianzhao on the hillside behind him suddenly shouted: "Kill!" Capture Wang Yanqiu alive! ”
"Kill!" More than 5,000 soldiers and horses under Zhang Qianzhao's department suddenly shouted and killed, and surrounded the mountain where Wang Yanqiu was!
At this time, seeing the chaos behind the Southern Army, Yuan Xingqin also suddenly understood what was going on, where would he be willing to let go of such an opportunity, "The whole army will attack!" Kill! ”
Only then did he hold the Glaive Knife aloft, clamp his legs firmly on the horse's belly, and take the lead in the charge.
The cavalry army in the rear mutinied, and Zhang Qianzhao's defection suddenly put the southern army in chaos, and the whole line immediately collapsed!
The war has now been out of suspense, and only one side has been left to flee and the other side to cover up......
The rout and rebels had already shaken Wang Yanqiu's Chinese army, and Wang Yanqiu's Chinese army was also rushed by the rout, and when he began to flee, even if Wang Yanqiu had great ability, it was difficult to recover the fate of defeat.
Wang Yanqiu, Zhu Hongzhao and others wanted to stop the southern army from dispersing at first, but the entire army was in chaos, and some pro-troops under these people alone would not help at all. Seeing that the general trend had gone, the two also abandoned the army under the protection of the pro-army.
Seeing that the southern army was defeated, the Jinyang army led by the generals to follow the southern army all the way to chase and kill, Li Qi's pro-army saw that the southern army had no fighting spirit, and according to the previous orders, they took the lead in shouting: "The southern army is also our brother, and those who lay down their arms will not be killed!" ”
After hearing this, the generals of the southern army threw away their weapons one after another and sat on the ground with their heads in their hands.
Gao Xingzhou, the general of the right army of the Southern Army, was running away with dozens of pro-army horses, but he happened to bump into the front of Li Qi's pro-army team. When Yuan Ren saw him, he couldn't help but be overjoyed and said, "Isn't this an old acquaintance?" Don't hurry up and get off the horse to meet the Son of Heaven! ”
At this time, Gao Xingzhou dared to fight, turned around and ran back to the horse. Yuan Ren was unrelenting, chasing after him with a horse, and seeing that he was chasing behind Gao Xingzhou, Yuan Ren raised the spear in his hand and stabbed it with one shot. Gao Xingzhou raised the iron gun in his hand and blocked it out. Unexpectedly, the steel gun in Yuan Ren's hand was very heavy, and Gao Xingzhou did not completely open it, but the head of the gun stabbed the back of his mount. The horse could not bear the pain, fell down, and rolled a few times on the slope.
Gao Xingzhou fell off his horse and was smashed to pieces, but he was rushed by the Northern Army and tied up on the ground.
Because the cavalry of the Northern Army was on the periphery, Wang Yanqiu and Zhu Hongzhao were protected by the pro-army, and they failed to break through and escape, and they were also captured by the Northern Army.
After a great battle, there was blood everywhere and corpses everywhere.
In the battle of Jiashan in Quyang, the Jinyang army annihilated 20,000 enemies, and in the case of several civil strife on the other side, it still killed nearly 2,000 and wounded more than 3,000. The war in the era of cold weapons is very bloody and cruel......