Chapter 274: The Great Battle of the Shatuo Army (5) (3rd Watch)
The cavalry of the Seven Thousand Shence Army naturally couldn't stop the 10,000 Shatuo cavalry, especially the three thousand Crow Army, which took the lead in breaking through the Seven Thousand Shence Army and killing the infantry phalanx in the rear.
In the eyes of these crow troops, without cavalry, the infantry in the rear would not be able to stop them at all.
But they thought it too well!
First of all, they were not heavy cavalry, and their impact was far less powerful than that of heavy cavalry, and it was not an easy task to break up a strong infantry phalanx; Secondly, they didn't expect that the Shence Army actually had a heavy infantry phalanx composed of 3,000 Mo sword soldiers.
Therefore, when the three thousand crow army tore a lot of gaps in the cavalry formation of the seven thousand Shence army and rushed out, they saw the Mo sword soldiers coming with heavy steps.
The high-speed cavalry couldn't stop at all, and the Mo sword soldiers didn't care if you couldn't stop, and directly swung the Mo knife and slashed at the horse leg of the oncoming Shatuo cavalry.
The war horse rushed to the front, and with the flash of the sword, a group of people turned over on their backs, and the war horse neighed. The whole scene was extremely tragic, the fine horses were directly cut off by the Mo knife soldiers, and the cavalry on horseback fell directly and heavily, and suddenly their heads broke and bled out, and those war horses did not die, but made a miserable cry.
For a while, in front of the Mo Dao soldiers, countless war horses and the corpses of Shatuo cavalry fell.
However, this is the first time that this Mo sword soldier has been used like this on the battlefield, and it is the Shatuo army that was once invincible, so there is still a trace of chaos.
The Raven Army is worthy of being the most elite unit of the Shatuo Army, with rich battlefield experience. A part of the ordinary Shatuo cavalry who rushed out from behind launched an attack on the two flanks of the Modao soldiers under the leadership of the Raven Army; Part of it was divided into several groups, concentrating on the battle formation of the Mo Dao soldiers.
In the face of the fast-reacting Shatuo cavalry, the Modao soldiers were in confusion, and the Shatuo army took the opportunity to tear open two openings.
However, Liu Kui had long known the shortcomings of the Mo Sword soldiers, and the three thousand cavalry on both wings were just to prevent this situation.
Seeing that there was chaos in the battle formation of the Mo Dao soldiers, the cavalry on both wings quickly divided a part to strangle and kill the Shatuo cavalry who tore apart the battle formation of the Mo Dao soldiers.
The Shatuo cavalry is a human, not a god, and after rushing away from the battle formation of the Shence army cavalry and the Modao soldiers one after another, it has also become the end of the strong crossbow. Although a single pair of single-god cavalry can't beat the Shatuo cavalry, they can be beaten.
The already exhausted Shatuo cavalry faced several times the cavalry of the Shence Army and was quickly defeated. Relying on the help of the cavalry, the Modao soldiers quickly resumed their battle formation, and then strangled the Shatuo cavalry with the cooperation of the cavalry.
After withstanding the first round of attacks by the Shatuo cavalry and the next few rounds of attacks, the Modao soldiers were no longer satisfied with passive defense, but continued to attack forward. With every step forward, hundreds of Shatuo cavalry fell under Mo's sword.
It is no secret that the Mo sword soldiers can deal with cavalry. However, years of war have led to the inability of Mo Dao to replenish and consume, coupled with the high cost and complex process, the dense Mo Dao battle array has not appeared for a long time, especially in the wars in recent years.
Just when Liu Kui thought that the victory was decided, the direction of the Shatuo army camp was to kill a cavalry of thousands of people.
Liu Kui didn't care about it at first, but after this cavalry and the scattered Shatuo cavalry directly tore apart the phalanx of Modao soldiers, he realized that something was wrong.
Seeing those precious Mo sword soldiers dying under the sword of this cavalry one after another, Liu Kui was so angry that his heart was dripping blood, and he hurriedly led the infantry phalanx behind him to support.
The cavalry in front and the Modao cavalry phalanx were scattered by the Shatuo cavalry, and the infantry phalanx behind was also affected.
Sha Tuo's skillful horsemanship and the sturdy armor and numbers of the Shence cavalry became the advantages of both sides, and the two sides were evenly matched, and the killing was difficult to solve, of course, both sides suffered heavy casualties.
Seeing the increase in casualties among the soldiers under his command, Liu Kui was about to grit his teeth and order a retreat, when a dull sound of drums suddenly came from the west side of the battlefield, and then an army appeared on the west side of the battlefield.
The sudden appearance of the army startled both sides, but in fact, the Shence army was okay on this side, because Liu Kui knew which army had arrived.
Soon Li Keyong also knew what was going on with this army in the west, and Zhang Jun led the 30,000 Jingyuan army to the battlefield.
Knowing that the 30,000 Jingyuan army had been killed, Li Keyong's face changed greatly. He naturally didn't think that this was here to help him, he hadn't even contacted Jing Yuanjun, but Yang Fugong did, but he wasn't sure if this was here to help him.
But soon they knew who Jing Yuan was helping.
Because soon the 8,000 Jingyuan cavalry launched an attack on the Shatuo army.
Jingyuan Jiedu envoy is an old feudal town, once launched the Jingyuan Mutiny, captured Chang'an, forced Dezong to flee to Fengtian (now Qianxian County, Shaanxi), and then was surrounded by rebels for more than a month, which shows the courage of the Jingyuan army.
In the early days of Huangchao's attack on Chang'an, the Jingyuan army was also one of the main forces fighting against Huangchao's army. It's just that Cheng Zhongchu died in Chang'an at that time, and Jingyuan was greatly injured because of this, but after a few years of recuperation, he has already recovered.
Take these 8,000 cavalry as an example, although they are not as good as the Shatuo cavalry, they are obviously stronger than the cavalry of the Shence Army.
Therefore, when the 8,000 Jingyuan cavalry killed the flank of the Shatuo cavalry, both Li Kegong and Li Cunzhang and others panicked.
"Summons the order!"
Seeing the Jingyuan army coming, Li Keyong hurriedly yelled at the people next to him.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! ”
As the horn sounded to collect the troops, the Shatuo army, which was fighting with the Shence army, retreated like a tide. But where would Liu Kui let go of this opportunity, he died so many people, and Sha Tuojun wanted to run?
Taking advantage of the retreat of the Shatuo army, Liu Kui gathered the remaining thousands of cavalry and pursued and killed the Shatuo army for two miles. Although the Shatuo army was brave, it was also a little bribed when retreating, and it was in a hurry, and it was killed all over the field for a while, and during the retreat alone, it lost nearly 2,000 cavalry.
But there is no way to retreat, Li Keyong is not ready for a decisive battle, and even if he sends troops, it is too late. The situation of the Jingyuan army is unknown, and if it starts, the outcome is unknown.
However, such a retreat also made the generals of the Shatuo Army who had withdrawn very depressed.
But the order to retreat was given by Li Keyong, and these people had to listen if they didn't listen.
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Although the battle ended with the retreat of the Shatuo army, Liu Kui was not happy at all when the casualties were counted.
This time, the 30,000 army went out to fight, but only 16,000 people returned to the camp, of which 2,000 were seriously wounded.
Of the 10,000 cavalry, only 4,000 remained; Of the three thousand Mo sword soldiers, only one thousand two hundred remained, and the rest were the losses of the infantry phalanx.
In this battle, the cavalry of the Shence Army was basically abolished. As a hard Shatuo cavalry, the Mo Dao soldiers were even more targeted by the Shatuo army, and the losses were also very large, but it was an effective way to use the Mo Dao Array to deal with the Shatuo cavalry.
It's only because the cavalry is too weak and the Mo sword soldiers are small in size and inexperience, so this result will appear, otherwise the 15,000-strong Shatuo cavalry will basically have to be explained here.
The Shence army lost as many as 16,000 people in the battle, and the 15,000 Shatuo cavalry who fought were not much better, and in the end only 5,000 people returned to the camp.
If you look at the data, the losses of the Shatuo cavalry are small, but in terms of proportion, the Shatuo army has lost two-thirds. Moreover, only 2,000 of the 10,000 Shatuo cavalry who fought before came back, and even Li Kegong himself had many wounds on his body, and his armor was even more tattered.
"Big brother, I... Li Kegong knelt down on one knee in front of Li Keyong and wanted to explain, but because of his personality, he didn't want to explain too much, "Big brother, I underestimated the enemy, please punish the eldest brother." ”
Li Keyong was on the verge of anger at this time, his right hand had already clenched into a fist, and his green tendons were bulging, but he could see the miserable fourth brother, and finally let out a long sigh and waved his hand, "Go down and treat." ”
After Li Kegong, Li Cunzhang and the others went down, the atmosphere in the big tent was suddenly weird, calm and terrifying, and no one dared to speak.
In addition to the defeat of Li Kegong and others and the reinforcement of the Shence Army by the Jingyuan Army, news finally came from the Suining side. But it's not good news, it's bad news.
Yang Shouliang not only can't come, but is also in danger.
It turned out that just a few days ago, on the night of Shangyuan, when Yang Shouliang was about to lead the army to help Yang Fugong, Gu Yanlang under his command suddenly launched a mutiny and attacked Yang Shouliang.
Even if Gu Yanlang betrayed, Yang Shouliang would not be like this, at least the news could come out.
After all, the power in Yang Shouliang's hands was stronger than Gu Yanlang, and even if he was attacked by a sneak attack, he still defeated Gu Yanlang. But who knew that at this time, Dongfang Kui's Bao army suddenly attacked, Yang Shouliang was flanked from front to back, and finally had to be trapped in Pizhou, knowing that only yesterday a cronies broke out of the encirclement and came to report the news.
Originally, Yang Shouliang came to ask for help, but he didn't know about the changes in Chang'an, who knew that Yang Fugong had fallen short, and the situation Li Keyong was currently facing was also not good.
Since the Bao army dared to send troops to attack Yang Shouliang, then he dared to send troops to attack Li Ke's logistics supply line.
"Send someone to inform Wang Chongrong and ask him to leave 10,000 troops to deter the defenders of Huazhou, and the rest of the army will come to reinforce as soon as possible."
In the end, Li Keyong took the initiative to break this embarrassing situation, but hearing his words, Li Kening on the side couldn't help but ask, "Your Highness wants to start a decisive battle with King Shou's army?" ”
"For the sake of today's plan, only by defeating the imperial army in front of you can we solve the current unfavorable situation." Li Ke said sharply.
Obviously, today's defeat made Li Keyong determined.
Gai Yu originally wanted to persuade Li Ke to think twice, and even withdraw from the army directly. However, he knew that it was impossible for Li Keyong to withdraw his troops now, especially when he lost more than 10,000 troops, which could be said to have angered Li Keyong.
And the withdrawal of troops at this time was a great blow to morale, so Gai Yu finally held back.
Gai Yu didn't speak, and Li Kening didn't object, even if others objected, it couldn't affect Li Keyong's decision.
Just when Li Keyong sent someone to transfer Wang Chongrong back to help, this news was also learned by Li Ye.
Seeing the current impasse, Li Ye suddenly had an idea, an idea that could break the situation.
So the next day, the 30,000-strong army led by Li Hong finally arrived at the battlefield.
Li Hong's Zuo Tiance army was very strange when it came, and the Zuo Tiance army had 10,000 fewer elites and did not come, and it was still cavalry.
(End of chapter)