Chapter 319: Reinforcements to Binh Duong
The trapped beast still has lost its backup, and it has long been unintentional to fight, only thinking about fleeing for its life, but it was intercepted by this new force, and in the case of this confidence collapse, there is no power to fight back, and after rushing left and right to break through the encirclement, some cavalry has begun to dismount and surrender.
The enemy infantry who had just caught up behind saw that the cavalry team in front of them had collapsed, and knew that the general trend was gone, so they all consciously threw away their weapons, knelt on the ground and gave up resistance.
In addition to the more than 1,000 enemy soldiers who had been killed, the remaining 2,000 people were already on their knees and bound, plus the six or seven hundred war horses captured and countless weapons and ordnance, this battle can be said to be a complete victory.
Li Yi didn't care about ordering people to count the results of the battle, and immediately ordered Qian Shitang, Lin Yi, Gao Chang and others, with the city guards and vigilantes, as well as the young and strong people, to tie up the captured enemy soldiers, clean up the battlefield and collect weapons and horses.
He took Zhuang Qian, Yue Chang, Cheng Xun, Yue Wei and others, gathered more than 200 uninjured soldiers and more than 100 elite cavalry from Yuezhou Guard, and after a short rest, he immediately waved his army to Pingyang Pass.
Through this fierce battle, Li Yi can already imagine that the situation at Pingyang Pass must be much more serious than here, although Jian Zheng has already rushed to reinforcements with the officers and soldiers of the most elite Ningzhou battalion in Yunnan, but whether Pingyang Pass can be held is related to the safety of Ningzhou and even the entire Yunnan.
If the enemy breaks through Pingyang Pass in an all-round way, so that tens of thousands of troops of Dayi Ningguo swarm, even if the whole of Yunnan is raised, it will be difficult to have any decent resistance, and once Ningzhou is lost, the whole of Yunnan will definitely not be lucky.
And there has been no news from Pingyang Pass so far, thinking of this, Li Yi is already anxious.
The distance from Ningzhou to Pingyang Pass is about 70 miles, and since the road has been renovated, the road has been smoothed a lot, and the time taken to reach Pingyang Pass has been greatly reduced. This cavalry team of more than 300 people galloped on horseback, and it only took more than half an hour to approach the slope behind Pingyang Pass.
Although he encountered small groups of enemy cavalry scouts many times on the road, most of them were easily wiped out, which made Li Yi's heart even more uneasy. The enemy's brigade was able to penetrate deep into the city of Ningzhou, and there were many scout teams cruising in all directions, this kind of staggered situation can only show that the enemy has completely controlled the area near Pingyang Pass, and the fate of Wei Jing and Jian Zheng seems to be more than lucky.
After walking forward for a while, a team with a clear banner appeared in front of everyone, and the banner and costume were Jian Zheng's elite cavalry.
But what made Li Yi feel strange was that countless war horses on the Yunnan side were crowded and blocked on the official road, there were as many as three or five hundred, but only a few dozen of our soldiers were guarding them, and the rest of the soldiers, including Jian Zheng, were nowhere to be seen.
Li Yi hurriedly called a soldier to ask, only then did he know that when Jian Zheng and they arrived, the pass connecting Pingyang Pass to the official road had been broken by the enemy, and a large number of enemy troops had entered the pass and went deep along the official road to the city of Ningzhou. And more enemies rushed to the back of the pass, trying to flank the front and rear, and completely destroy the defenders of Binh Duong Pass.
Jian Zheng's elite cavalry arrived at the right time, and after a fierce attack, they kept the enemy out of the pass. And Wei Jing also led people to put countless boulders in time to completely seal the pass.
However, due to the fierce attack of the enemy, even if Jian Zheng's cavalry abandoned their horses and landed at the pass and joined forces with Wei Jing's defenders, they could only be able to resist it.
After asking about the current general situation, Li Yi immediately ordered Cheng Xun to take the cavalry of his headquarters to patrol and reconnoiter on the nearby official road to prevent the enemy from bypassing the mountain and sneak attack, and then let the others leave the horses in place and follow him to Pingyang Pass to participate in the defense.
After ascending Pingyang Pass, Li Yi found that the current Pingyang Pass has long been riddled with holes, the city gate tower has already collapsed in half, and the long wall is scattered everywhere with large and small stones thrown by the enemy's catapults, which are densely packed and countless, and the smashed city tower, lookout hole and other wooden buildings are incomplete, and there is almost no place to hide. There were also two or three hundred wounded officers and men on the roads and roads, either lying or lying down, moaning and wailing.
Fortunately, although the pass was lost for a short time, but the Pingyang Pass is still in their hands after all, so that as long as the Pingyang Pass is resolutely held, there is still hope for Ningzhou and the whole of Yunnan, as long as it persists for a period of time, after the Baiwu Pass can come in time for reinforcements, there is room to continue to maneuver with the enemy.
At Pingyang Pass, Li Yi finally met Wei Jing, who had been fighting tirelessly for six or seven hours. His robe had already been stained with blood, and when he saw Li Yi's arrival, his eyes turned red.
Wei Jing leaned down and bowed down in front of Li Yi, choked up and said: "In the end, there will be a failure to perform his duties, and he will almost make a big mistake, please punish the marshal heavily." ”
Li Yi smiled slightly and said: "Why did General Wei say this, if you hadn't held on here bloodily and resisted the enemy's tens of thousands of troops, our Ningzhou would have fallen a long time ago, and our Han Yunnan would no longer exist." I am about to reward you heavily, and where will I be punished? ”
"Get up quickly! The most important thing now is to repel the enemy's attack and ensure that Binh Duong is in our hands, but there is no time to hold anyone responsible. You tell me the full story of how the enemy carried out the sneak attack, so that we can plan a response. ”
Saying that, Li Yi pulled Wei Jing to his feet.
Wei Jing stood up and said angrily: "Great handsome, the Great Righteous Ning Kingdom is really despicable and shameless. In the early hours of this morning, just after the ugly hour, a large number of enemies crossed several mountain trails in Songyang Mountain and entered our territory in Yunnan. Alas! Although we have already sent more men to defend in those places, because the enemy who came is a selection of first-class good players, and the strength is obviously higher than ours, the enemy has hardly encountered any decent resistance, and those few trails quickly fell into the hands of the enemy, and we were still ignorant of Pingyang Pass at that time. ”
"It wasn't until the enemy killed more than a dozen guards at our pass at night and opened the gate of Pingyang Pass that our patrol officers realized that the situation was different and sounded the warning trumpet."
"By the time we organized a counterattack, the enemy's brigade had already passed through the barrier. It is strange that the enemy did not outflank our defenders at Pingyang Pass, but went all the way to Ningzhou. Probably because we think that our Pingyang Pass guards are weak, and there will be their brigade in the follow-up, so it is not worth staying here at all. ”