Chapter 434: Besieged
"Block, block me, retreat to that mountain!" Li Mingzhen shouted.
It's not so much a mountain, it's actually a high-lying hillside, and the relative height is hundreds of meters, but the slope is relatively steep, and people can go up, but it's a bit laborious for the war horse to rush up.
The battlefield was also several miles away from that hillside, and in normal times, this distance would be only a blink of an eye.
However, under the siege of tens of thousands of Uighur troops, the Guiyi army was defeated one after another.
Seeing his cavalry being continuously cut off by the Uighurs, Li Mingzhen's heart was dripping blood, these cavalry were all his subordinates, and he had trained them with great difficulty over the years.
If equal in number, his cavalry would not have been a match for the Uighur cavalry.
But the Uighurs on the other side were not only superior in numbers, but also had several thousand heavy cavalry. Especially the latter, which they did not expect at all.
The strength of the heavy cavalry lies in the ability to charge into battle, and in this case, it is a good place for the heavy cavalry to play a role.
But in this case, the cavalry had to hold off the Uighur cavalry and retreat towards the hillside.
Although it may be surrounded by regiments, it is better than being slaughtered like this, and on the hillside, you can still play the role of infantry and defend it for a day and a half.
In the end, at the cost of more than 9,000 cavalry, the remaining 6,000 remnants of the defeated army finally withdrew to the hillside and began to build a defensive line on the hillside.
Seeing that the Guiyi army was retreating to this unknown hillside, Yao Luo Ge Renmei naturally would not let it go, so he ordered the army to storm the hillside.
The Uighur army attacked twice in succession, but at the cost of thousands of casualties, they were unable to capture the hillside that the Guiyi army had entrenched.
"Kill me! Those who obtain the head of Li Mingzhen will be promoted to the rank of captain! ”
Hearing this order, the Uighur cavalry, which had been somewhat retreating, once again burst out with superior combat effectiveness, and there must be brave men under the heavy reward.
Captain Wan!
For a moment the Uighur army was like crazy, and if you just watched, you could see that their eyes were red, as if there was something particularly attractive on the hillside.
Countless arrows rained down the hillside, and the Uighurs became more and more fierce. The Guiyi army on the hill was also a little struggling, and was almost rushed up by the Uighurs several times, and even Li Mingzhen was shot by the Uighurs who rushed to the front.
Fortunately, it is in the arm, otherwise the leaderless Guiyi army may soon collapse.
The battle lasted until noon, and the two sides piled up corpses halfway up the hillside, and blood stained the entire mountainside and the foot of the mountain.
Although the Guiyi army suffered heavy casualties, with less than 3,000 remaining, the morale of the Uighurs was greatly affected, and it was difficult to organize another attack in a short time.
At this time, Li Mingzhen could only hope that the reinforcements would arrive as soon as possible, he had already sent a falcon to Zhang Huaiding's side to ask for help, and at the same time sent cavalry to report the news, and by the way, he also sent a few troops to the east to seek reinforcements from the imperial army.
At this time, he could only be a live horse doctor.
"Woooooo
The dull sound of the horn came, and the two sides of the confrontation were suddenly stunned, and they both stopped their movements and looked at the cavalry that suddenly appeared.
At this time, the appearance of a cavalry, no matter which side it is, is not good news for the other side.
"Could it be Hassan's special service? Didn't he let him surround Ganzhou City well? ”
The sound of the horn came from the east, and the main force of the Guiyi army was in the west, and the Guiyi army in the east was trapped in Ganzhou.
However, at this time, Yao Luo Ge Renmei hoped that it was the army of Hassan's special service, because in the battle just now, although his army wiped out Li Mingzhen's tens of thousands of troops, it also lost 6,000 cavalry, most of whom died at the foot of the hillside.
You must know that the main force of the Guiyi Army is not far from here, and if he encounters the main force of the Guiyi Army at this time, it will be a little difficult for him to deal with it.
He also hoped that the support force would be from Hassan's special service, but unfortunately it backfired.
A fast horse suddenly came to Yaoluo Ge Renmei and informed the other party of the results of the reconnaissance, "Qi Qi Great Khan, it's Tang Jun." ”
"Tang Jun?" Yao Luo Ge Renmei was about to speak, but the special agent Ma Heimu next to him asked first, with a hint of disbelief in his voice, "How is it possible?" Are you sure it's not the Guiyi Army, but the Tang Army? ”
The person who came affirmed, "It's the Tang Army, they are under the banner of the Tang Army, and they are completely different from the Guiyi Army, but the number is only a few thousand." ”
"Is it the Tang army outside Ganzhou City?" Yao Luo Ge Renmei immediately remembered the cavalry of the Tang Army that appeared outside Ganzhou City.
"It should be!"
"How did they get here? Could it be that someone within our Khanate revealed the news to the Tang people? ”
"Great Khan, probably not. It may be that our actions last night were discovered by the Don people, and they probably followed us. ”
The sudden appearance of this Tang army made the situation very strange, and the Uighurs, who had wanted to attack again, had to put aside this idea for the time being, and the remnants of the Guiyi army were not happy.
When they saw that it was their own reinforcements coming, they were happy at first.
However, they were disappointed to find that the reinforcements were only a few thousand men, and that they were far away from the Uighur army, and that they had no intention of attacking.
"Sima, why didn't the army of this court attack? Will they not be saved when they see death? ”
Li Mingzhen glanced at his subordinates and said lightly, "You go and order them to attack?" ”
The subordinate stood awkwardly to the side, he could command the army of the immovable court.
Li Mingzhen knew in his heart that although the appearance of these thousands of cavalry in the imperial court failed to rescue them, it made the Uighurs dare not attack at will.
Despite the fact that the cavalry of the imperial court was only a few thousand men, the same number of Uighurs was not necessarily an opponent.
"Now we can only see when reinforcements will come from the servant side!"
The three armies remained at a stalemate for about an hour or two, and the Uighurs sent men to drive out the Tang cavalry, but to no avail.
At this time, the remnants of Li Mingzhen, who were standing on a high place, found that a black line suddenly appeared in the west, and when the black line approached, it gradually converged.
After a while, I saw that it was an army of flags fluttering, and the word 'Guiyi' on the flag was so eye-catching.
"Reinforcements have arrived!"
"Our reinforcements have arrived!"
"Long live the Rebels!"
Seeing that it was their own reinforcements, there were deafening cheers on the hillside, while the Uighurs did not look good.
"All troops on alert!"
Seeing the Guiyi army coming at this time, Yao Luo Ge Renmei's face was not very good-looking, but she could only order the withdrawal of the army surrounding the hillside, and then gather the army.
Although there are only more than 20,000 troops in the hands of Yao Luo Ge Renmei at this time, and there are more than 40,000 people on the side of the Guiyi Army, it does not mean that he is afraid of the Guiyi Army.