Chapter 635: Defeat
Once the heavily armed Wyvern cavalry began to charge, this might rose, and the Yan soldiers in front of them had no enemy at all. Although not a chain horse, the impact of this hoplite cavalry is clearly beyond doubt. When they rushed across the battlefield, they didn't even need to make too many movements, as long as they maintained this kind of rushing all the way, the Yan soldiers everywhere they passed were all knocked on their backs. Not to mention the pistols in the hands of the knights immediately, the lethality is amazing.
With just one charge of the five thousand flying dragon riders, the Yan army, which was originally blocking the military formation, was repelled by a hundred meters, and a large area was cleared in the middle.
"Kill!" And taking advantage of this opportunity, Li Xin took the opportunity to order a counterattack. Zhang Hao was on the left, Deng Qiang was on the right, and Li Xin himself was in the center to lead the army, and the 10,000 unbroken army went down to the fierce tigers in the mountains and counterattacked head-on towards the Yan army.
Deng Qiang and Zhang Hao are both unborn fierce generals, each leading a thousand Mo swordsmen behind them to stride forward, and behind them, there are other foot soldiers. The main direction of attack of the unbroken army was placed in the middle, and the attack on the two flanks was safely left to the Wyvern.
The two sides were quickly slaughtered, although the Tang army was far less numerous than the Yan army, and it seemed as if the sheep were among the wolves, but at this moment, the situation seemed to be the opposite. Because the Yan army, which was supposed to be a wolf, seemed to be being chased and killed by the Tang army at this moment.
The soldiers of the Yan army were of different ages and weak, and there was a great difference in combat effectiveness. Therefore, this leads to the fact that the combat power of each place is different, and some places may be better able to resist in the face of the Tang army's attack, but there are some places that are almost immediately defeated.
Things on the battlefield are often not an independent part, and many times, the outcome of a small place may determine the outcome of the entire war. Therefore, when these places that could not stop the Tang army increased, basically the entire Yan army was faced with the result of being broken through.
The Flying Dragon Rider was like two sharp blades, and after rushing straight out from the two wings, he rushed all the way towards the Yan army in front of him. Killed all the way, and there were countless corpses behind him.
Originally, on the dense battlefield of the Yan army, the place where the flying dragon rider passed was left with two gaps, as if it had been run over by a huge rut in a wheat field.
Seeing that this Tang army was extremely fierce, many Yan soldiers were killed. After all, you can't cut people by yourself, but when people cut themselves, it's like chopping melons and vegetables. Under such circumstances, how can this battle be fought?
Especially with his own thin body, to resist this high-headed horse that rushed over, the Yan soldiers were afraid in their hearts.
Not long after the Tang army's counterattack began, it had already repelled the Yan army step by step, and almost every moment it was retreating towards the place before the attack. In this case, it will not be long before all the Yan troops will scatter and flee.
"Never retreat, divide the troops to advance, exhaust the enemy army, and you must block the Tang army here!" Murong Ke, who was watching the battle from behind the formation, saw this situation and ordered repeatedly.
The strength of the two sides is not equal, and now he can only rely on the advantage of more troops.
Although it seems that the mounted cavalry and foot soldiers of the Tang Army are very brave and powerful, Murong Ke believes that as long as he persists long enough, he will definitely be able to drag Li Xin to death here.
However, even he didn't know how long this time was, and what kind of physical strength the Tang soldiers could reach. If you make a mistake in your estimation and your side can't support it first, I'm afraid the whole battle will be completely lost.
At this time, Li Xin, who was personally fighting in battle, understood Murong Ke's thoughts when he saw that the Yan army suddenly began to change its combat plan, which was quite similar to an attack rather than a frontal decisive battle.
"Order the Flying Dragon Rider to leave other places alone, and directly attack Murong Ke's Chinese army!" Li Xin also quickly adjusted the battle plan and issued a new order.
With this military order issued, the flying dragon cavalry, which was originally sweeping the Yan army on the battlefield, immediately began to turn around and rush from the north and south wings towards the place where Murong Ke's banner was.
Murong Ke, who was originally in the midst of ten thousand armies, at this time, because he wanted to divide his troops to drag down the Tang army, there were not too many soldiers and horses around him. Therefore, as soon as they saw the imposing Wyvern, they realized that something was wrong.
"Shoot the arrows! Shoot the arrows! The soldiers and horses guarding Murong Ke's side immediately began to defend, and wave after wave of arrows flew towards the rushing Wyvern Horseman.
However, such arrows are basically not very effective. If it is true that some cavalry were unlucky enough to be shot, for the most of them, most of them were not affected much.
The Flying Dragon Cavalry under the leadership of Hong Yi has been trained for many years, and in the past drills, basically all kinds of tactics have been deduced. Therefore, I am also very familiar with this practice of directly taking the Chinese army and capturing the main general among the ten thousand armies.
At this time, the two parts of the Flying Dragon Cavalry had already rushed to the periphery of Murong Ke's place, and then, the two sides rushed towards each other, but they staggered in front of the formation. Soon, the two teams of soldiers and horses seemed to be a positive and negative spiral, and began to gallop around Murong Ke's part of the soldiers and horses.
There were not many soldiers and horses around Murong Ke at this time, and there were only about 3,000 people left around in the end. With such soldiers and horses, it is not enough to deal with a thousand flying dragoons, let alone five thousand. If this encirclement is formed, it will not be easy for Murong Ke to get out of here.
"My lord, the situation is critical, you better retreat quickly! We've got you covered! The generals beside Murong Ke said to him.
Facing the attack of the Flying Dragon Rider directly against him, Murong Ke actually found out very early. But the problem is, he can't stop it, and it's better if the Heavy Horse is still around.
The only way to deal with this may be to move farther away or call back more soldiers to protect yourself.
But the problem is that in this situation, as long as you move slightly, you will definitely be thought by the soldiers below that you are trying to escape, and then the battle will be out of control.
In addition, it is even more impossible to recall more soldiers and horses to protect themselves, regardless of the entire battlefield situation.
In this way, the Wyvern Rider has already been killed in front of him, and he has to stay here. But in this situation, there is really no chance if you don't leave, because there is no one here who can stop the Wyvern at all.
Although the surrounding Yan soldiers had already killed Murong Ke from the surrounding area after seeing this scene, wanting to save Murong Ke from the danger he was facing, this was just sending him to death.
Murong Ke watched as the soldiers around him fell one by one under the hooves and spears of the flying dragons. In the distance, the unbreakable army led by Li Xin had already broken through the encirclement, not only did not see slackness, but seemed to be becoming more and more courageous the more they fought.
At this time, on the battlefield, there are far fewer soldiers left on his side than before. Whether it was killed by the Tang Army or ran away halfway, in short, it shows that the battle situation has taken a sharp turn.
"If this king withdraws first, the army will inevitably collapse, and I don't know what happened to His Majesty!" After Murong Ke pondered for a while, he said with a complicated expression.
"My lord, no matter what happens over there, you should withdraw first! The battle situation here is already corrupted, and there is almost no possibility of recovery, and Dayan still needs you, the king, so you should go and join Your Majesty immediately. Even if the last general and others die here, Li Xin will inevitably be dragged here, so it is better for you and Your Majesty to cross the river as soon as possible! The cronies and generals persuaded bitterly.
From the beginning of the war to the present, several hours have passed, and basically, Murong Wei and the others should have almost arrived at the edge of the Yellow River at this time. Although there are a lot of people in their group, no one else matters, the important thing is that Murong Wei, the emperor, is safe!
Thinking of this, Murong Ke was also worried in his heart, so he said: "That's it, the affairs of the court are important, this king will rush to the river, and he will definitely protect His Majesty to cross the river safely!" Here's it to you! ”
With that, he lifted the reins of his horse, turned around and galloped towards the direction of the Yellow River in the south. And behind him, those generals rushed towards Li Xin and them in turn at this time, obviously to cover Murong Ke's retreat.
When the battle on Li Xin's side began to come to an end, the Tang army led by Lü Guang and Pang Hui, located north of Qishui Pass and outside Neihuang County in Wei County, was finally basically wiped out by the Yan army north of Qishui Pass.
Originally, it would take some time for the war to end, mainly because these Yan troops occupied the fortified city and blocked the Tang army's northward movement layer by layer. It takes a lot of time to fight city by city.
Just now, Qiu Xian led the army to arrive, and after discussing with him, Lü Guang deliberately abandoned the city and went north. In this way, those Yan troops in the city saw that there was an opportunity, so they sent a large number of soldiers and horses behind them to try to sneak attack him.
When Lü Guang fought with the enemy, Qiu Xian led the flying dragon cavalry to kill from the side, and the Yan army was defeated. After this defeat, the remaining Yan troops no longer dared to leave the city easily, so they had to retreat in the city.
As a result, Lü Guang was able to lead his army north and go straight to Dunqiu County.
In the west, Shao Zisong stabilized the situation around Jingcheng, and after the town troops from Shangdang and other places arrived to take over the county seats, he immediately led the army south to join the 10,000 soldiers and horses at Chumaling Pass and Junjisai.
Then, the Yan army that attacked Zhao County and Guangping County together, not only did they not be able to stop Liu Xiaohai from attacking Fukou Pass in the south, but they also kept sending people to Murong Mo, the Duke of Shi'an, who was in charge of the western defense line at this time, for help.
But obviously, Murong Mo at this time was already taking care of himself, where could he control them!