Chapter 45: The Final Battle

Looking along the line of sight of everyone, I saw a military general holding a sword and riding a horse galloping, behind him there were tens of thousands of reinforcements on horseback to support, these reinforcements brandished weapons, shouted loudly and rode their horses and galloped, rushing towards the bandit phalanx of Juyitang, after entering the bandit camp, they raised their weapons and cut down.

Although it was indeed surprising that the War Guards had invited reinforcements, everyone did not react so much, and the reason why everyone was surprised was because these reinforcements were too miscellaneous, including catchers, errand officers, government servants, and even some people wearing jailer uniforms, it seemed that these people were drawn from various agencies.

When he asked Ling Xia to discuss the plan before, Yi Haojie casually mentioned that after the legion exterminated the three major bandit forces, the rest were some shrimp soldiers and crab generals, and at that time, there would be no need for the war guards to take action, and only the arrest of the yamen at all levels would be able to encircle and suppress those bandits.

There is a way that the speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. After Ling Xia heard this, he immediately thought of an idea, although the other two divisions and other legions could not come over to support, but the division could apply to the governor's yamen for reinforcements.

The governor's yamen cannot mobilize the army, but it can mobilize another armed force, that is, the arrest and service of each prefecture and county government, and there are 100 county officials in the province, as long as each county government makes up 100 arresters or officials.

Although the combat effectiveness of those fast arresters and government servants cannot be compared with the battle guards, they at least have some combat effectiveness, and it is their errand to suppress bandits and arrest murderers, and it is just right to turn over and cooperate with the war guards to suppress bandits.

After listening to Ling Xia's method, Yi Haojie looked at him with admiration, I am afraid that only Ling Xia can think of this kind of idea, and others will not think of it anyway, praised Ling Xia, Yi Haojie hurriedly went to find the division commander.

After seeing Fu Qingyun, Yi Haojie told Ling Xia's actions to Juyitang, saying that Juyitang would attack the war guards in a big way in the near future, and it was the kind that all of them were dispatched, if they couldn't find reinforcements, the war guards could only retreat to avoid the edge for the time being.

Hearing the word "retreat", Fu Qingyun shook his head without hesitation, saying that the commander of the corps had given an order to die, and he would rather die in battle than retreat a single step, so no matter how many people were dispatched from the Juyi Hall, the Tiger Division must not retreat.

In fact, Yi Haojie had already guessed this, the reason why he proposed this was to pave the way for the rest of the matter, and after hearing Fu Qingyun's firm tone that he could not retreat, Yi Haojie told Ling Xia the idea of borrowing troops.

Of course, when talking about these plans and methods, Yi Haojie did not mention Ling Xia's words, but said that all of this was his own idea, and Yi Haojie took Ling Xia's ideas and methods with peace of mind.

When he heard Yi Haojie's proposal to borrow troops from the government and county governments in various places, Fu Qingyun and the other generals all had bright eyes, and looked at Yi Haojie in surprise one by one, I don't know how he came up with this solution?

Everyone was stunned by Yi Haojie's idea, and after deducing and analyzing, they all felt that this plan was feasible, as long as they could borrow 10,000 reinforcements, the Tiger Division would be sure to eat the gang of bandits in Juyitang.

patted Yi Haojie on the shoulder cordially, praised his military talent, and then Fu Qingyun led Yi Haojie to the base camp to find the army commander Nangong Bo, and after telling Nangong Bo the idea, he asked Nangong Bo to find the governor to borrow troops.

Nangong Bo was also stunned by this plan, and learned that this was an idea that Yi Haojie came up with, Nangong Bo summoned Yi Haojie and praised him in person, and then Nangong Bo went to the governor's yamen and personally borrowed troops from the governor for help.

With Nangong Bo's appearance, things went very smoothly, and after listening to Nangong Bo's request for borrowing troops, the governor immediately sent a flying pigeon to pass the message, ordering 100 county officials in the province to send troops to support the war guards to suppress bandits.

At the same time, the governor's yamen also issued a task target, each county government dispatched 100 reinforcements, and each government government dispatched 500 reinforcements.

Some wealthy county officials reorganized and transferred 100 fast catchers, while those county officials with backward economic levels could only make up for it, because the number of fast catchers was not enough, so they sent messengers, government officials, and jailers.

Originally, these people were not required to ride horses, but the provincial capital was far away, and those people could not run to come, so in order to rush to the provincial capital as soon as possible to support the suppression of bandits, the yamen from all over the country let them ride into the province, so that it was equivalent to 15,000 more cavalry.

Because this plan was proposed by Yi Haojie, Fu Qingyun gave him the task of integrating and managing these reinforcements, and asked him to train the reinforcements briefly, so as not to mess up after arriving at the battlefield.

Although Fu Qingyun commanded, Ling Xia had reminded Yi Haojie to let him be quick and try not to exceed one day, so Yi Haojie only waited for 13,000 people to come after a day, and the remaining 2,000 people were still on the way.

Yi Haojie was obedient to Ling Xia's words, after receiving 13,000 people, it was already late at night, he didn't dare to wait any longer, he didn't care about training those reinforcements, Yi Haojie pulled those people directly to the battlefield, and it happened to catch up with the two armies to start a battle.

When Yi Haojie led 13,000 miscellaneous cavalry to rush into the bandit team of Juyitang, two more cavalry teams of 1,000 people rushed out of the camp, these are the real cavalry, and they are also the last hole cards of the Tiger Division.

Fifteen thousand cavalry rushed into the crowd of bandits like tigers rushing into a flock of sheep, and although the motley cavalry would not cut, kill, pick, or stab from their horses, they would crash into people, and the horses would rush into the crowd and then rush wildly.

"Oops, my leg, help me, my leg was trampled off."

"Damn, more than a dozen horses kicked me at the same time."

"Be careful, there are dozens of horses rushing over on the left, everyone listen to my command, poof......"

More than 10,000 horses plunged into the ranks and directly scattered the ranks, although the casualties caused were not large, but they kicked the bandits to broken bones and legs.

After suffering thousands of casualties, the Juyitang side gradually came to its senses, although more than 10,000 cavalry were moved from the side of the battle guards, but most of those were indiscriminate, and the real cavalry was only a few thousand.

After figuring out the key, the bandits began to fight back, cutting the horse's legs, cutting the horse's tendons, stabbing the horse's neck, and several powerful leaders simply dragged people directly and dragged those knights off their horses.

A catcher was dragged off the horse's back and fell to the ground, and the catcher just wanted to get up, at this moment, dozens of bandits surrounded him, and without saying a word, he stabbed him with a spear.

Seeing that the situation on the battlefield was about to be reversed, at this time, Ling Xia shouted at the panicked catchers and officials: "Let the horses move, as long as the horses don't stop, the bandits won't be able to stop you." ”

The cavalrymen, who were already a little stagnant, were reminded by Ling Xia, and suddenly came back to their senses, and flicked their horsewhips one by one to make the horses move, this method really worked, seeing that those horses were rushing at high speed, no one dared to step forward and drag people.

With the help of these motley cavalry, Fu Qingyun hurriedly ordered the whole army to join the battle, and with a few horns humming, the battle guards screamed and charged at the bandits, and when the war horse cavalry broke the bandits' archers and crossbow phalanx, the war guards launched a counterattack.

"Woohoo!"

"Knock knock!"

"Boom!"

"Kill, kill, kill!"

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the cavalry had inflicted heavy damage on the bandit phalanx, the archers, giant hammer soldiers, spear phalanx, and ironclad shield phalanx on the side of the battle guard all pounced.

"The other party has invited reinforcements, retreat, retreat quickly!"

Seeing the brothers of Juyitang falling one by one, Yue Qifeng's eyes were red in a hurry, and he wanted to order the withdrawal of troops back to the mountain, but at this moment, the battle was in a stalemate, and there was no way to retreat.

The battle has been going on for more than four hours, but it is still not over, the situation on the battlefield at this time has become clear, after a bloody battle, the battle guards have sacrificed more than 6,000 people, 2,000 cavalry have all died, and only 4,000 of the 13,000 people who came to support are left, and the two sides together have sacrificed more than 15,000 people.

Compared with the casualties of the battle guards, the casualties on the side of the Juyi Hall were even more severe, there were more than 27,000 people on the side of the Juyi Hall when they went down the mountain, but at this moment there were less than 7,000 people left, just these people, they were all injured and sick, and on the leader side, except for Yue Qifeng, the rest of the leaders were all dead.

Now there are about 11,000 people in the battle guards, plus the 4,000 reinforcements, the strength of the army has exceeded the strength of Juyitang by double, if the fight continues, the destruction of Juyitang is inevitable, just when Fu Qingyun saw the battle clearly and wanted to annihilate the remaining bandits of Juyitang in one go, suddenly, a red light lit up in the distance, shining the sky like a white night.

"Oh no, that's the base camp headquarters."

"Oh my God, there's actually an attack on the base camp."

"Oops, the Legion Captain is still there at the moment."

"It's bad, the three divisions have gone out to suppress bandits, and the base camp is empty."

The change in the distance suddenly stunned everyone at the scene, the fire could be seen from such a distance, which meant that the entire base camp of the Battle Guards was ignited, otherwise it would be impossible to have this kind of momentum, Ling Xia looked at the fire that was red through the sky, and his expression was a little surprised:

"Could this be the handiwork of Mr. Dongfang? He actually thought of drawing wages from the bottom of the kettle and burning down the base camp of the war guards, I thought that if I invited reinforcements, I would definitely be able to beat him this time, but now it seems that this game is drawn. ”

"The whole army obeyed the order and withdrew its troops back to the camp!"

Seeing that the headquarters base camp was attacked, worried that something would happen to the corps commander, Fu Qingyun didn't care about exterminating Yue Qifeng, and ordered the withdrawal of troops with an anxious face.

This change in front of him also made Yue Qifeng stunned, looking at the panicked appearance of the battle guards, and hearing Fu Qingyun's order to withdraw the troops, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.