Chapter 433: The three generals, all strangers
The battle report of the Qiliba battle touched both the Western Army and the Forbidden Army.
What touched the most was not the fearless break of the Xiangyang recruits, but Li Ruyu's sword that changed the entire battle situation.
Throughout the ages, there has never been a case of pure martial arts changing the tide of battle.
Battlefield generals, such as the god of soldiers Yue Jingzhong, take the lead but only boost morale, and it is difficult to rely on personal force to turn the tide of the battle.
is like Yue Pingchuan, who shot and thundered, but there was no one person who turned the tide of the battle.
Xu Xiaolan of the Lancang River was barely one, and he blocked 300 armor alone to win a fighter for Yue Pingchuan, but it was far less shocking than Li Ruyu...... The difficulty of procrastination and deity out is not on one level.
Generals can turn the tide of battle, relying on the art of war, not personal force.
But now, with the appearance of the Inhumans, and with the rise of martial arts, this situation has finally been broken.
Jinguancheng, Kaifeng, and Lin'an were all touched by this, and almost all made the same reaction: without any hesitation, the martial arts masters raised by the three forces poured out, and all of them rushed to various fronts to serve in the army as soldiers.
But the shock caused by the battle of Qiliba was quickly suppressed by the battle on the Changzhou side: the city of Changzhou was broken!
Changzhou guard is the former fishing veteran Xiahou Chi, the deputy will be the flower knife of the green clouds, there are 8,000 troops in the city, all are defending the city foot soldiers, it was originally the first front line after the beginning of spring, cooperated by Yongchuan light cavalry, but it became the first city to fall.
Changzhou 8,000 foot soldiers, more than half of the battle losses.
After the city of Changzhou was broken, it fell into a street battle, under the pressure of the opponent's absolute strength, the situation of the whole army being wiped out in front of the defenders of Changzhou, if it were not for the last moment of Changzhou Zheng's Xiahou Chi and the deputy general Hua Xiaodao were united by several generals and forced to retreat, the entire 8,000 troops would be martyred together with these two defenders.
Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao were forcibly taken out of Changzhou City by more than a dozen forbidden soldiers and retreated to Longshui Town between Changzhou and Yongchuan, and were defeated with 3,000 remnants.
Those generals led the last soldiers to die in the battle of Changzhou City.
Not to mention whether Yuzhou An Xianggong will hold Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao accountable for their dereliction of duty after the war, in this battle alone, the general of the Western Army who led 20,000 troops to attack the city was completely famous all over the world.
The commander of the 20,000 elite soldiers in the siege was a fifteen-year-old woman.
The surname is Lee.
The name is Pingyang, and the word Xiuning.
A fifteen-year-old woman was able to command an army of 20,000 people, and she also took Changzhou City in one fell swoop, such a feat was that the group of big men in the Lin'an Military Department and the Privy Council couldn't help but give a thumbs up.
A female streamer, what a hero!
The rout of Changzhou City was not because of how invincible the Western Army was, but because of its surprise victory.
The soldiers led by Li Pingyang rushed through Pukang Town with lightning momentum and arrived directly under the city of Changzhou, and Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao were not as good as the Junzi Banner after all, and relaxed their vigilance on Chinese New Year's Eve, and only sent a scout to mean it.
Unfortunately, this standard scout was made dumplings by Li Pingyang's scouts, and none of them went back alive.
This directly led to the Changzhou defenders discovering that the enemy was attacking and rushing to the city to retreat from the enemy, the enemy's city-breaking vehicles were already hitting the city gate, and under the absolute superiority of troops, the city head was suppressed by Li Pingyang's bow infantry and could not move, and broke open the city gate.
The influx of troops into the city of Changzhou was doomed.
The fall of Changzhou City has an extremely important impact on the entire front, and the Western Army can not only rush to Bishan County to Yuzhou City through this springboard, but also send troops left and right, Bachuan and Yongchuan are all under the threat of the Western Army of Changzhou City.
Just the day after the fall of Changzhou, Yongcheon fell!
This is a situation that no one expected - in the battle of Qiliba, Junziqi and Li Ruyu were a small victory over Li Su, but after Li Su rested for a day, he led a large army to Yongchuan City, but found that the city gate was wide open, and there were no troops stationed in the city at all.
Li Su took Yongchuan without a single soldier.
And the soldiers and horses of the Western Army in Hezhou are also heading south strongly towards Yuzhou, as if together with Yongchuan and Changzhou, the troops of the three fronts will come out together, and Yuzhou City will be bagged like a trident.
At this point, the strategic purpose of the raid of the Western Army was completely successful!
Not only did it successfully threaten Yuzhou, but it also made the plan of Yuzhou An Xianggong and Lu Xiangsheng's army in Guangxi to attack Shuzhong completely aborted, and the battle between the Western Army and the Forbidden Army went into the unknown.
In the midst of the great changes in the situation, no one has forgotten the Cloud Piercing Army.
The light cavalry that made Li Su suffer enough with its mobility in Qiliba did not retreat to Yongchuan, nor even Xiahou Chi who rushed to the aid of Longshui Town, but just disappeared out of thin air.
Of course, more than 2,000 iron horsemen could not disappear like this.
Everyone knew that the Chuanyun Army must still be cruising in the wilderness between Yongchuan and Changzhou, looking for an opportunity to give the Western Army a fatal blow, but no one was optimistic.
After all, the Chuanyun Army has no city to rely on, and the grain and grass cannot be guaranteed, and it is likely to be forced into a desperate situation by the Western Army.
When the time comes, it will be impossible to escape the end of the total annihilation.
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According to the deduction of all forces, after Li Pingyang took Changzhou, Li Su took Yongchuan, and Hezhou soldiers and horses went south to take a city, these three soldiers and horses should be rectified for a day, and then pounced on Yuzhou City again.
However, wars are not deduced.
Just when Changzhou and Yongchuan fell, the forbidden army troops stationed in Yuzhou City were deployed together, and only a few remnants of the veteran soldiers were left in Yuzhou City, and the rest of the elite soldiers and horses rose up, pounced on the Western Army's three-way soldiers and horses, and launched a counterattack.
Li Pingyang was fearless and sent troops to attack Xiahou Chi's soldiers and horses in Longshui Town.
The soldiers and horses going south in Hezhou were also hard to shake.
Only Yongchuan City is a little weird, Li Suming knew that the forbidden army counterattacked, but he did not send troops, but stuck to the city, making people unpredictable what he meant, with his less than 10,000 troops, can he withstand the counterattack of the forbidden army?
Li Su in Yongchuan City was also helpless.
I want to go to the army, but I don't dare to go to the army...... Relying on 500 light cavalry, he couldn't withstand the guerrilla encroachment of the more than 2,000 iron cavalry of the Yunjun Army.
The Chuanyun Army did not stay away, and roamed near Yongchuan City.
In the past few days, Li Su sent a lot of scouts to find the whereabouts of the Chuanyun Army, but in this way, dozens of scouts were gnawed by the Chuanyun Army in the east and dozens of scouts in the west, and before they knew it, they lost more than 300 soldiers.
Li Su's army scouted only three hundred people.
Scouts, in fact, are the elite of the elite, each scout has a strong individual combat ability, and also has an extremely brilliant tactical awareness, but when encountering the elusive Cloud Piercing Army, none of the elite scouts under Li Su can escape.
With the annihilation of the scouts, Li Su became blind.
Continuing to serve as scouts for ordinary soldiers has no point in sending them to death.
Li Su was very worried.
It was not until this moment that he had to admit that he had lost to the Gentleman's Banner.
A real defeat.
From the moment Junzi Qi abandoned the city to fight, he was doomed to defeat - the Cloud Piercing Army without the city was still a light horse, but with the city, he became a turtle.
Out of the army?
Not to mention finding the Cloud Piercing Army, even if you find it, what can you do.
Rely on five hundred light horsemen to take down the Cloud Piercing Army?
Dream.
Not out of the army?
The Chuanyun Army just roamed around Yongchuan City, imprisoning thousands of its own foot soldiers in Yongchuan City, and had no effect on the entire front, so they could only sit and wait for the forbidden army to counterattack.
What's the difference between waiting for death.
This is the genius of Junzi Qi, he has seen the current situation early on.
If the Chuanyun Army sticks to Yongchuan City, then he has more choices, but after changing his position, he sticks to Yongchuan City, and the Chuanyun Army has become a lingering fly.
Li Su could only wait.
After the general of Hezhou won a great victory all the way south, and after Li Pingyang of Changzhou was like a bamboo, forcing the Chuanyun army to leave the range of Yongchuan City, he could continue to send troops.
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The Cloud Piercing Army no longer has the distinction of veterans and recruits.
At the end of the Qiliba War, after the Xiangyang recruits were not afraid to die, the old soldiers admired the group of reckless men in their hearts, and returned to die together with the old soldiers, and the humiliation and grievances that the Xiangyang recruits had suffered before were swept away.
The word robe is as simple as that.
The world of men is as simple as that.
Now there are less than 2,500 people left in the Chuanyun Army, and in the first battle of Qiliba, more than 100 old soldiers died, and more than 300 recruits died in Xiangyang.
Battle losses amounted to one-sixth.
Among them, more than 200 people died when they collided with the opponent's light horse.
The remaining 200 people, 70 or 80 people, died under the crossbow arrows and crossbow guns of the archers, and the remaining 100 or so died after the collision - they were knocked into the enemy formation, but only more than 100 were killed!
This shows how vulnerable the foot pawn is to the upper light horse.
And these 500 heroes took more than 1,900 lives under Li Su's command, only in terms of battle loss ratio, both sides are about one-fifth, but considering the disparity in strength between the two sides.
Five hundred against one thousand eight hundred, one to three.
The Cloud Piercing Army made a lot of money.
Junzi Qi and his more than 2,000 cloud-piercing troops are also waiting.
Waiting for Li Su to make a mistake in Yongchuan City, waiting for the counterattack of Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao stationed in Longshui Town, and waiting for the defeat of the Western Army on the front of Hezhou - if one of these three is missing, the Chuanyun Army must withdraw from the range of Yongchuan City and retreat to the direction of Yuzhou.
Once Longshui Town is broken, the Cloud Piercing Army will be blocked from retreating.
When the time comes, we will have to stage extreme challenges.
Junziqi is not afraid, but in his heart, he still hopes that on the Changzhou side, Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao of Longshui Town can break Li Pingyang - after all, Li Ruyu went to Longshui Town.
Solo swordsman.
It is said that Li Ruyu, as the deputy general of the Chuanyun Army, must not leave his post without authorization, but the generals will not give military orders abroad, and the fighter planes are changing rapidly, and nothing is immutable.
Besides, this matter is being agreed by the gentleman's banner.
At that time, if the Ministry of Security and the Privy Council want to pursue it, they can also prevaricate.
Li Ruyu did arrive in Longshui Town.
Ran to death two war horses, and when he arrived at the garrison of the forbidden army outside Longshui Town at dusk, Li Ruyu, who looked tired, was stopped by the depressed sentry, and after learning Li Ruyu's identity, the sentry looked dazed.
What is Li Ruyu, the deputy general of the Yongchuan Chuanyun Army, doing in Longshui Town?
Not everyone knows the sword of the Great Liang Empress - after all, there are still many low-level people in this world, who just live their own ordinary lives and don't care about the general trend of the court.
But when he saw the general Xiahou Chi and the deputy general Hua Xiaodao, who heard the report, came out of the camp in a panic to greet them, the sentry was even more puzzled, could this be the reinforcement that the two generals said.
A single lieutenant with a sword?
Or the lieutenant general of the light cavalry.
Li Ruyu stood by the sword, looked at Xiahou Chi and Hua Xiaodao, shook his head and sighed: "How long will it take for reinforcements to arrive?" ”
Xiahou Chi felt a little guilty, "The Bachuan garrison went to intercept the soldiers and horses of the Western Army going south from Hezhou, and the soldiers and horses stationed in Bishan County should beware of Yongchuan Li Su, and they may not come to support." ”
The implication is that there will be no support in the short term.
Li Ruyu nodded, "I discussed with Junziqi, you really don't have to hope for reinforcements from Bachuan, but Qin Yujing, the defender of Bishan County, is not a mediocre person, he must be able to see that Li Su was nailed to Yongchuan by the Chuanyun Army, so he is likely to send troops from Bishan County to support Longshui Town." ”
Xiahou Chi was a little surprised, "Bishan is the throat of Yuzhou, if Bishan is lost, Yuzhou will face the Western Army, does Qin Yujing dare to take this risk?" ”
Li Ruyu snorted, his face expressionless, "If Longshui Town is lost, Bishan will have to face Li Pingyang's army, and on the Yuzhou side, An Xianggong has already dispatched troops to counterattack, and there will be troops to supplement the defense of Bishan County in the future." ”
In the final analysis, this passive situation is still because you Xiahou lost Changzhou City late!
Xiahou Chi bowed his head in shame.
Although Li Ruyu's words were relatively peaceful, he could feel that Li Ruyu's hatred was not made of steel, although Li Ruyu was now only the deputy general of the Cloud Piercing Army, and he was a regular general, but Xiahou Chi really didn't think it was inappropriate for Li Ruyu to treat himself like this.
The flower knife on the side was about to take responsibility, but was stared at by Li Ruyu, "What do you want to say?" ”
Hua Xiaodao was startled, and swallowed back the words in his mouth, "No...... It's nothing. ”
Li Ruyu was a little tired, and said softly: "I analyzed this battle with Junziqi, if the expectation is not bad, Zhao Changyi's attack instead of defense will not be too long-lasting, if the general named Meng Heng who went south to Hezhou is blocked, and the Changzhou city taken by Li Pingyang is recaptured by us, Li Su will inevitably retreat, and the western army will fully withdraw to the defense line at that time." ”
After all, there are natural dangers to defend in Shu.
If Zhao Changyi's beautiful hand can't really take Yuzhou, even if he occupies Yongchuan and Changzhou, he won't be able to change the overall situation.
Xiahou sighed lately.
He is a fierce general, but he is not a famous general, and the general situation of the battle is far inferior to the gentleman's banner.
Hua Xiaodao sighed, "But I heard that Meng Heng, the general of the Western Army who went south in Hezhou, is a strange person, and his military skills are not weaker than that female general Li Pingyang." ”
Li Ruyu smiled bitterly, "Who said it wasn't." ”
However, there is a high probability that An Xianggong will let Qin Yujing, the defender of Bishan, lead reinforcements to intercept Meng Heng.
This time, the Western Army took the initiative to attack instead of defending, not relying on troops to win, but by intriguing...... Therefore, there are only 10,000 soldiers and horses in the three routes, Li Su's department is only 10,000, Li Pingyang's department is 20,000, and Meng Heng's department is 30,000.
But the generals of these three armies are all people with a lot of background.
In the first battle of Qiliba, Li Su's soldiers were not inferior to the gentleman's banner.
In the first battle of Changzhou City, Li Pingyang almost crushed Xiahou Chi.
Meng Heng, who went south from Hezhou, was even more powerful all the way, and a small number of soldiers and horses stationed along the way had already been uprooted, and now the soldiers were pointing directly at Yuzhou City, which was only more than 200 miles away from Yuzhou.
The speed of its troops is staggering.
Even if these three people are all aliens, no one doubts it.
Otherwise, with a cool world, how could there be so many generals who are good at military morals but are unknown in an instant, and what other explanations can there be besides aliens to convince the public?
The rest of the battle will be interesting.
Li Su is against Junziqi, Meng Hui is against Qin Yujing, and he will be against Li Pingyang.
The three-front battle, who can laugh at the end of the battle.