Chapter 848: A Defeat
The Dahua army continued to march westward, with 300,000 soldiers and horses, stretching for ten miles, with strong armor and huge troops, all neatly armored and majestic.
Luo Zhaoyun drove the expedition in person, and usually in the royal car dragon bowl, he exchanged things about governing the country with Xiao Yu, Wei Zheng and others who accompanied him, and rarely showed up.
At the beginning, Wei Zheng was flattered, because he has not been reused, and it is just a record room in the Wagang army, after this time he took refuge in Dahua, he did not expect to be summoned by the emperor himself soon, and after some exchanges, he was deeply infected by Luo Zhaoyun's bearing and mind, and admired this young man Rong Ma famous, and laid down half of the country His Majesty Dahua.
With the deepening of the exchange, Wei Zheng gradually adjusted his mentality, and was no longer restrained, and some opinions and suggestions would be put forward directly.
In the affairs of the army, each has a general in the army who is responsible for daily affairs, and there is no need for Luo Zhaoyun to bow down to everything, but to give full play to the wisdom of the military generals.
Hou Junji, Xue Wancheng, Shi Danai, Qin Qiong, Xue Shixiong, Xu Shiji and other military generals are like clouds, Luo Zhaoyun is confident in the ability of these people, but does not interfere too much in the training and governance of the army.
Seven or eight days later, the army arrived in Hengshan County.
Liu Heimin led his soldiers and horses to assemble in Jingjing, and he couldn't wait for Li Tang's rescue, and he had to fight a decisive battle with the Dahua army.
He longed for a miracle to happen, just like Han Xin's back-to-back battle and defeated the Zhao army in the Jingjing area.
It's not that Liu Heimin didn't want to continue to escape, but the rear is the Taihang Mountains, and he must go around Yanmen County, but the army is too numerous and the food and grass are insufficient, so he can't take it all away.
Seventy or eighty thousand Hebei troops lined up, the guns were like a sea, the iron armor was cold, dense, and their faces showed a cold color.
Behind the phalanx is a river, fighting against the water!
Liu Heimin took some generals and personally faced Dahua's vanguard army here.
After a while, the horses in front of him neighed, the horns sounded, countless flags were unfurled, and the sharpened spears and blades flashed with a scorching cold light.
The 20,000 cavalry went first, their speed was extremely fast, and the 10,000 war horses fought to neigh, galloping on the wilderness, and the spectacular scene made people tremble.
The earth-shattering sound seemed to shake out the hearts of the Hebei soldiers, looking at the sand and dust, war horses and people in the distance mixed into the same color of heaven and earth, with an incomparable shock in the desolation.
At this time, in the phalanx of the Hebei army, the atmosphere was depressed and almost suffocated, except for the whirring panting, no one spoke, holding the long soldiers, staring at the enemy army in front.
Hou Junji, Mai Zhongcai, and Xue Wanbei led the army to kill, and after seeing the Qi military array, a sneer overflowed at the corner of his mouth: "Does Liu Heimin want to imitate Han Xin?" It's a pity that he is not the reincarnation of Han Xin, and we are not Zhao Guojun! ”
"Rush over and kill all the soldiers—"
Boom, the sound of horses' hooves shook the ground, like a muffled thunderbolt, earth-shattering.
Ten thousand horses galloped, and 20,000 cavalry charged together, and the momentum was majestic, like a dark cloud advancing layer by layer, covering the entire wilderness and grassland, enough to crush the armor soldiers on the opposite side into a thin cake.
"Kill!" Liu Heimin shouted, and the soldiers around him roared angrily at the same time, and the murderous aura that erupted in an instant, with the snowy long ges and spears, they blocked it, and some cavalry rushed out.
Bang bang bang –
The cavalry collided, and the infantry was pressed, and the scene was tragic.
In the place of confrontation, desperately slashing and killing the other party, the cavalry kept breaking halberds, and there were countless Hebei soldiers, who fell in a pool of blood and were trampled into flesh by the war horses.
The shouts of fighting, shouts and roars were mixed together, and there were miserable screams, everywhere there were Ge Guang sword shadows, everywhere was bloodstained, and the small mountains and hills and ravines instantly evolved into Shura fields.
In half an hour, the two sides invested more and more troops, and the left and right armies of Xu Shiji and Qin Qiong also arrived, forming a three-sided encirclement.
Liu Heimin lined up with his back to the water, there was no way to retreat, and he directly ordered the army to resist to the death and crush the Great Chinese Army, but the weapons and equipment of the Chinese Army were advanced, and the ironclad cavalry holding the Mo knife was too sharp, and it was directly said that the Hebei military formation was cut open.
There was a huge disparity in strength, and the Hebei army had no fighting spirit, and its morale began to be low, and there were precursors of collapse.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Heimin broke through with his pro-army and fled towards the northwest, passing through the Taihang Pass and escaping.
Due to the rugged mountain road, the army could not catch up, and the 300,000 army could not smoothly cross the Taihang Mountain, so there were only two roads, one was to go north into Yanmen County, and then go around to the back of Taiyuan County; The first is to go south, bypass the Taihang Mountain, take the official road to the east of the river, enter Shangdang County, and then attack Li Tang's area to the north.
After thinking about it, Luo Zhaoyun decided to divide the troops into two routes, one was to take Xue Shixiong as the main general, allocate a team of 50,000 horses and horses to attack Yanmen County, and at the same time mobilize Zhuo County's soldiers and horses to go to Yanmen County for reinforcements and provide troops.
Before leaving from Hengshan County, Luo Zhaoyun drafted an edict to mobilize some imperial examination scholars from Chang'an City to come to Hebei to pacify the party, take charge of local political affairs, register households, measure land, count population, manage local security, and win the hearts of the people.
Many young military attachés are newly graduated from military academies, and they also have to be sent to the cities in batches, where they are just literate, and they are armed with the soldiers, serving as county commanders and county lieutenants, organizing the local political system, and effectively operating as soon as possible.
Luo Zhaoyun arranged these things before continuing to go south, bypassing Taihang Mountain, marching into Shangdang County, officially going to have a showdown with Li Tang, and deciding to die.
This is the biggest obstacle to Luo Zhaoyun's unification of the world, as long as Li Tang falls, Du Fuwei and Xiao Liang, Fu Gongtuo, Li Zitong, etc. south of the Yellow River will not be enough to contend at all.