Chapter 904: Fighting Back After the Chaos
The change happened too suddenly, in fact, from the time the cavalry launched a surprise attack on logistics, until Li Ji led the troops to help, and even had to use the Modao battalion to suppress the chaotic position, the whole process happened in less than an hour.
The logistics battalion is already full of fire, the goal of the Yan cavalry is very clear, first of all, they will attack the grain and grass of the Tang army, they also know that the grain and grass is the lifeblood of an army, as long as they hold the lifeline, no matter how powerful the enemy will be, so when the Yan cavalry raids, their main goal is not to kill, more than 200,000 Tang troops, even if they do not resist and let them kill, they do not have the ability to kill them all, but if the grain and grass of the Tang army are burned, the battle of the Eastern Expedition launched by the emperor of the Tang State is almost defeated.
In the sky-high firelight, the Yan cavalry and the Tang Army's Mo Dao Battalion were facing each other from a hundred zhang apart, just now there was an unbelieving Yan Ya cavalry to charge the Mo Dao Battalion, the ending was no suspense, and it was twisted into a pile of minced meat in the blink of an eye, and now the Yan Ya cavalry finally has an intuitive understanding of the world-famous Tang Army Mo Knife Battalion.
Under the fame, there is indeed no falsehood, and those who do not believe in evil have finally turned into piles of flesh and blood on the ground, so the living people are deeply shocked.
The Mo Dao battalion in front of him became an insurmountable strong in the eyes of the Yan Ya cavalry, an unconquerable mountain, more than 2,000 Mo knife men danced the Mo Dao vigorously, and the snow-white sword light refracted the sunlight and stabbed the eyes of the Yan Ya cavalry.
The generals of the Yan Ya cavalry led by them exchanged glances with each other, and each other's eyes revealed the same decision, the Tang Army's Mo Dao Battalion is too powerful, and it must be avoided from its edge, otherwise it will cause great casualties, and the people of the Yan Ya tribe are already scarce, and they must not add senseless sacrifices in front of this impossible war machine.
Besides, the Yan cavalry launched a surprise attack on the Tang army today, not for the purpose of killing the Tang army, what they wanted was that the Tang army's logistics grain and grass would be destroyed in one burn, and the Tang army would be defeated without a fight.
Seeing that the Modao battalion in front of him could not be defeated at all, the Turbulent cavalry decisively gave up and continued to charge forward, and after a horn sounded, the originally strict formation of the Turbulent cavalry suddenly changed, and they scattered in all directions, and then ...... Began to set fire to the grain.
The enemy's reaction surprised Li Ji, and his face suddenly became ugly. Seeing that a cart of grain and grass was lit by torches, and that black smoke was billowing everywhere in the logistics camp, Li Ji angrily ordered all the officers and men of the Tang Army to take the battalion school as a unit, break it into pieces, and launch an attack on the Yan cavalry with small units.
The enemy's tactics have changed, and Li Ji has also changed, at this time, of course, it is impossible to attack the enemy with the method of unified attack and defense in ordinary formations, and the enemy has turned into a small group of cavalry to attack and harass, and the Tang army can only follow the change according to the gourd in a hurry.
The Modao battalion quickly withdrew, tens of thousands of Tang Army infantry and cavalry stepped forward, each of them quickly dispersed in the battalion and school, under the command of the battalion officers and captains, a small group of troops rushed in all directions, encountered the enemy and killed the enemy, and countless people began to fight the fire and save food in the frightened roar of the logistics clerks.
So the cavalry set fire to the front while galloping their horses, the Tang army in the back pursued and killed closely, and the people behind were desperate to put out the fire and rescue the grain and grass, and the logistics camp was in chaos.
Li Ji watched the cavalry set fire all the way and fled all the way, and the logistics of grain and grass supplied hundreds of thousands of troops every day, how huge their number was, once the fire started, there was no time to evacuate, all paid to the fire of the cavalry, looking at the fire and smoke everywhere in front of him, Li Ji couldn't help but close his eyes in pain.
The first battle of the Eastern Crusade was almost over, and countless grains and grass were burned, so how could the Tang army have the spare strength to continue to kill the enemy and advance eastward?
In the battle of the Eastern Crusade, Datang secretly prepared for many years with the strength of the country, but finally collapsed outside the city. The invincible and invincible Tang Dynasty King Division, on this day of this year, finally tasted defeat.
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With mental calculation or unintentional, the Tang army was caught off guard and suffered very heavy losses.
The loss was not only the lives of thousands of soldiers, but more importantly, the grain and grass of the whole army did not know how much was burned, Li Ji commanded the soldiers to kill the enemy, and at the same time anxiously looked at the grain and grass that was smoking everywhere, and his face became more and more pale.
The incident happened suddenly, and the Tang army camp was in chaos, especially the chaos in the rear of the army.
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers gathered in the same camp, the camp stretched for dozens of miles without end, seemingly majestic and magnificent, but once an accident was attacked, it would be a catastrophe for these hundreds of thousands of people. The camp is dozens of miles, it is said that it is connected from end to end, but in fact, there is no time to take care of it after the accident, especially when hundreds of thousands of people gather in one place, once there is a shock, the fear will expand infinitely at an extremely exaggerated speed.
The soldiers will be frightened, will imagine, will involuntarily guess the worst and most terrible place, so the first is the gradual collapse of the psychology of the soldiers, this kind of collapse of the mood is easily contagious, one to ten, ten to hundred, until the psychology of hundreds of people have collapsed, the camp will immediately mutiny, causing a purposeless and unjustified rout, the camp roars, and the last one all become madmen, pick up the knife and kill people indiscriminately, to vent the uneasiness and fear in the heart.
But any general who has a little experience in leading troops, what he is most afraid of is that this situation will occur, and at that time, everything will be useless.
When Li Ji was anxious and commanded his troops and horses to pursue the Yan cavalry, the chaos in the Chinese army camp was finally forcibly suppressed by many veterans such as Cheng Yanjin, Niu Jinda, and Li Daozong.
God mercy, although this attack happened suddenly, after the initial panic and panic of the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty, there were no consequences such as a mutiny, during which there were many people who trampled and fled, but most of them calmed down.
After all, it is a mighty army of victories, most of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers have experienced many battles, large and small, are experienced and very knowledgeable veterans, once the initial chaos is overcome, the quality of the veterans will quickly manifest, first calm, then quickly organize the ragged robes, and finally move closer to the junior and middle-level officers.
When Li Ji was busy directing his troops and horses to pursue the enemy, Cheng Yanjin and Li Daozong had already finished reorganizing the Chinese army, and the officers and men of the Chinese army regained their combat strength, and under the command of several veteran generals, they each assembled in formation, and then advanced in the direction of logistics.
The Tang army slowly pressed forward, and the arrogance of the Yan cavalry ended here.
Cheng Biting Jin had the worst temper, dragging his seriously injured body that had not healed, leading the army to outflank from the left flank, Li Daozong led another army to outflank from the right flank, Li Ji of the Chinese army did not move at all, and the three armies attacked separately, and soon completed the encirclement of the Yan cavalry who set fire everywhere, and then a rumbling drum sounded, and the three armies charged at the same time towards the Yan cavalry.
In the face of the Tang army soldiers rushing from all directions, the Yan cavalry couldn't help but be surprised, they didn't expect the Tang army to end the panic in such a short period of time, and assemble in a formation, and even have the ability to carry out a sharp counterattack, such an army quality, no wonder it can sweep the world for decades, win a hundred battles, and there is no opponent in the world.
After a battle with Li Jisuo's department, the battle losses of the Yan cavalry are also a lot, nearly 10,000 people were killed in this sneak attack battle, the remaining 30,000 soldiers and horses are already sleepy and lacking, and the Tang army soldiers who have recovered their morale and combat strength are at the peak of their spirits, under the strength of the other, the Yan cavalry only had a head-on collision with the Tang army and showed a bad state, the bad feelings of the Yan cavalry knew that the fighter had died, in the face of the Tang army's counterattack, they asked themselves if they had no power to fight back, under the command of several tribal generals, the Yan cavalry quickly gathered, shrinking the defense, The formation slowly retreated.
In general, the purpose of today's sneak attack of the Yan cavalry has almost been achieved, the Tang army's logistics grain and grass have been burned innumerable, and under the surprise attack of 40,000 people, the lifeblood of the Tang army has been cut off, and the results can be described as fruitful, and there is naturally no need to fight to the death with the Tang army, which is meaningless and stupid.
So the generals gave an order, and the remaining 30,000 people turned their horses' heads and galloped away quickly towards the north, quickly evacuating this battlefield full of smoke and fire.
At the same time, the defenders of Daxing City were really not willing to be lonely, after seeing the chaos and smoke in the Tang army camp from a distance from the city, they suddenly knew that there was a change in the Tang army, no matter what kind of change, it was good news for the defenders of Daxing City, so the defenders immediately made a decision, and immediately sent 3,000 soldiers and horses out of the city to attack the forward camp east of the Tang army camp.
This is really taking advantage of your illness to kill you, which can be described as a classic case of falling into the well throughout the ages.
Fortunately, Li Shimin is also the battle-hardened Emperor Rongma after all, and he has a lot of experience in command, so he calmed down immediately after the panic, and issued a series of orders, one of which was to order Niu Jin to reach the entire army of 20,000, stationed in the east of the forward battalion, and beware of the fall of the guards of Daxing City.
On the battlefield, it is not only the strength of the two sides that is compared, but more importantly, the commanders of both sides grasp the fighters and judge the current situation.
Li Shimin made a big mistake, the evil result he got was that the logistics grain and grass were burned, of course, Li Shimin was useless, at least much stronger than the defenders of Daxingcheng, when the three thousand soldiers and horses of Daxingcheng went out of the city, happily formed a formation and prepared to charge the Tang Army's forward battalion, intending to take advantage of the fire to rob, Niu Jinda had been ordered to organize 20,000 troops, so as to wait for them in the forward camp.
Next, the defenders of Daxingcheng are tragic, taking advantage of the fire to rob this kind of thing is not so easy to do, the timing is not right, and in the end it can only become a piece of big fat that is actively sent into the enemy's mouth, and the fat meat sent to the door, Niu Jinda will naturally not be polite, the defenders of Daxingcheng rushed to the Tang Army's forward camp less than a hundred zhang, and found that the crowd in front of the camp was already in a dark position waiting for them quietly, the defenders were shocked, and hurriedly turned around and fled, behind them, Niu Jinda's other army and horses had already cut off their retreat, one in front and one in the back, and under the waving of the flag, the two armies quickly surrounded the enemy, and finally, it was a merciless unilateral slaughter......
Today's camp was attacked, all the Tang army generals held a breath of evil in their hearts, the Tang Dynasty has been fighting for many years, it is the worst today, Li Shimin drove the expedition in person, the famous general of the Tang Dynasty almost poured out of the nest to accompany him, the emperor is the emperor who has fought for many years, and the general is a famous general who has made great achievements in the world, a group of people gathered together, leading hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses to march eastward, but today the boat overturned in the gutter, and was attacked by the Yan cavalry, which directly broke the lifeblood of the Tang army. For Niu Jinda and other generals, today is really a great shame in his life, when he thought of his self-smugness and swore to go out of Chang'an, but was beaten back by the enemy, Niu Jinda felt a blood in his heart churning endlessly.
Riding on the horse, Niu Jinda coldly watched the soldiers under his command carry out a unilateral slaughter of the 3,000 enemy troops who went out of the city to pick up cheap without suspense, and his expression was unhappy and angry.
The fate of these 3,000 enemy troops had been sealed, and they could no longer attract any attention from Niu Jinda, so Niu Jinda's eyes moved away from them, and then slowly landed on the arrow tower at the head of Daxing City in the distance.
On the battlefield ahead, the enemy's screams have become smaller and smaller, and the battle is almost over, but Niu Jinda is still frosty, wrinkling his brows and not knowing what he is thinking, for a long time, he suddenly slapped the saddle fiercely, and Niu Jinda scolded viciously.
"Son of a bitch! How could the old man endure this bad breath! Come, quickly go to the Chinese army to play Your Majesty, out of the city to sneak attack our enemy army has been wiped out by the old man, pass on the old man's words, just say that the minister wants to take advantage of this good opportunity, lead the army to directly capture Daxing City, please Your Majesty, go quickly! ”