Part IV 50
After Liu Qianli returned to Jiezhou, he could be regarded as having learned Bai Yunqi's strength, and he never dreamed that Bai Yunqi not only made him suffer a big loss in Panlong Mountain, but also ate his nearly 50,000 troops at the same time in Jiezhou City. At the same time, there were constant reports from Malay that Kong Beihai's troops suddenly disappeared, a large number of troops from the direction of Jiangzhou and Yulongguan suddenly appeared near Jiezhou, and the banners in Xiezhou City suddenly nearly doubled.
Liu Qianli smiled helplessly, feeling that he had missed the opportunity, so that Bai Yunqi's main force had been forced under his nose at some point, and now there was no better way than a decisive battle. Duanmu Ming also thought the same way, so they simply waited for work, while continuing to surround Jiezhou City, while resting their troops and preparing for this decisive battle.
In fact, they also made Bai Yunqi afraid, so they fell into the trap of Bai Yunqi's suspicious array, and made a completely wrong estimate of the situation here. In fact, there are no troops on the current side of Jiezhou, and Kong Beihai's 300,000 troops will take three days to reach Jiezhou at the earliest. If Liu Qianli and they are really determined to fight with Bai Yunqi in the past few days, China will really suffer a big loss.
But Bai Yunqi gambled on Liu Qianli's psychology, and first sent a team to tie branches behind the horse's buttocks and run around. Then he asked Quan Dayou to put up more battle flags in Jiezhou City to bluff, once again deceived the eyes of Tanma, and successfully sang an empty city plan. Finally, I managed to get three days.
When Liu Qianli found out the truth of the matter. It was too late to regret it, and Bai Yunqi took a short rest, then sent out a battle report and prepared to counterattack.
The rumbling drum knocked on the sleeping city of Jiezhou, Bai Yunqi personally delivered large vasks of braised pork, and the sergeants gathered on the grass in groups of three or five, eating and drinking, and talking in a whisper. The east finally turned white. The refreshed soldiers were bright and bright, neatly arranged into a phalanx, Bai Yunqi was still wearing a flowing white robe, sitting firmly under the umbrella cover of Huang Luo, at the moment he was smiling, but behind the smile was a little bitter.
It's going to bleed again. This is the cruelty he least wants to see, but he has to face again and again. My father died, my brother also died, and he was in the battle-hardened Bai family army. New faces came and went, and they came and went, as if they were just hurried passers-by in Bai Yunqi's life, and whether they could complete their mission or not, they had to leave decisively.
The world is impermanent, white clouds and dogs. Bai Yunqi felt that he was no longer the white-faced scholar who was in the dust of the game, but a baptism of power and hatred, reborn as a killing machine. So his heart was a little sad, and his smile was a little sour.
"Brothers, I swear to heaven that I will try to let everyone return safely. If one of the brothers dies. I will ensure that your family will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life. If there is a violation, it is like this stone! He said calmly until the end, he raised his tone abruptly, and the sword "choked" out of the sheath, he raised his foot and kicked the boulder in front of him into the air, his body rose from the ground, and a dozen swords in a row of swords split the whole stone into pieces. After landing, he was already in tears: "Brothers, in today's battle, we must successfully retreat from the enemy, and then wave the army to Zhang Chu, and then we will drink for three days and set off!" ”
When he landed, he turned his back to the crowd and said no more than to give the order to pull out.
Bai Yunqi was indeed moved by his true feelings this time, and he offered the most favorable conditions and made an oath, which instantly raised the morale of the whole army to the highest point. You must know that in ancient wars, the lives of soldiers were the least valuable, and their charges were generally inspired by blood and death before they forgot about death, and after death, at most, the government gave some pensions to their families, and they didn't take this as the same thing at all.
Therefore, on the battlefield, most of the commanders sent the overseers to intimidate them with death. But today, Bai Yunqi moved people with emotion and offered such high conditions, which basically relieved all the worries of the soldiers.
Bai Yun shed tears on the soldiers, and all the soldiers were immediately infected and shed tears. A high-pitched and clear piano sound suddenly sounded on the stage, Xu Yuyan waved her jade hand lightly and began to chant in a low voice: "Outside the long pavilion, by the ancient road, the grass is green. The evening breeze blows the willow flute, and the sunset is outside the mountain
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Bai Yunqi even moved out of his wife this time, and Kong Beihai and the others around him couldn't help but look nervous, and sank into a tragic atmosphere. And this song happened to be sung in the hearts of all the soldiers, and for a while, the crowd was suddenly excited, and they immediately became determined to repay the lord of the country with death.
Young people are so easy to be moved, and even more so for men who are a little bloody. Xu Yuyan sang a short song, first Bai Yunqi on the general stage took the lead and began to harmonize, and then the chief and deputy commanders and all the generals under him. When the song began to whirl and repeat to a climax, everyone began to sing, and at the same time, the heavy cavalry began to set off.
Liu Qianli never dreamed that Baiyunqi didn't even beat the war drums here, and a team of people and horses rushed out while singing. The 500,000 soldiers quickly completed the assembly under the city of Jiezhou, and then without any command order, the chain horses had already been inserted diagonally like sharp arrows off the string.
The coalition army hurriedly ordered the Hun cavalry to come forward to fight, and went out to mobilize 100,000 heavy cavalry at one time. And the chain horses here are only 50,000 people, they skillfully circled, and then directly threw the oncoming cavalry behind, the two cavalry only slightly touched on the outer ring, and the chain horses under Bai Yunqi suddenly rushed out of the weak area of the cavalry, and approached the main camp of the coalition army. The coalition forces didn't want to use their heavy cavalry to carry the opponent's chain horses, so they simply ordered their heavy cavalry to go straight to the middle of Baiyunqi. As for the 50,000 chain horses that came over, they were slowly consumed with bows and arrows and infantry.
On the side of Baiyunqi, nearly 200,000 heavy infantry and archers ran out with rushing carts, and they followed behind the cavalry to take the initiative to catch the enemy's heavy cavalry.
The two sides came into contact at first glance. The soldiers in the front row first formed a wall with rushing vehicles. Used to slow down the cavalry. The heavy cavalry slashed with the speed of the charge, and the heavy infantry in front raised their shields to block, while the other archer suddenly pulled out a weapon that looked like a shovel. Under the cover of the shield, the horse's hooves were cut off at once, and the war horse fell down in pain with a volley, and the heavy cavalry on the horse was pressed by his own horse without even having a chance to escape, and the soldier with the shovel put him down at once. And the hoplites, who matched it, began to parry another cavalry.
This is another new move of Bai Yunqi, which is specially used to deal with heavy cavalry. As more and more horses fell in front of them to block the road, the speed of the cavalry charge began to decrease.
"Damn, how could Bai Yunqi use infantry to resist my heavy cavalry, this guy is really evil." The coalition forces were wondering when they suddenly found themselves falling on heavy horses. And the formation began to loosen, so he hurriedly ordered the infantry on the right flank to catch the sweep of the chain of horses, and the troops in the center and on the left began to slowly push into the battlefield.
The head-on confrontation is the most troop-consuming, just for an hour. The coalition forces all suffered more than 20,000 casualties. The heaviest losses were the heavy cavalry under Duanmu Ming, who fell to death for no apparent reason, forming a wall of flesh at the junction of the two soldiers to block the charge of the heavy cavalry. And the archers here can still take advantage of their free time to stretch their bows and arrows, which greatly increases the consumption and casualties of heavy cavalry. Therefore, after they destroyed Duanmu Ming's more than 10,000 horses, their own casualties were about five or six thousand. The 50,000 chain horses on the other side rushed left and right with absolute superiority, except for a few hundred dead and wounded during the handover. At present, there are basically only 2,000 people and horses.
In desperation, Duanmu Ming ordered the heavy cavalry of the vanguard to continue to attack and attack, and then divided 50,000 cavalry to meet the chain of horses of Baiyunqi.
The battlefield unfolded in the plains below the city of Jiezhou, and as the two sides continued to inject troops, the casualties of the war became more and more severe. The green plains are littered with warhorses that have lost their owners, corpses that have lost their lives. There are also gasps and cries that are not yet dead, scattered battle flags and weapons everywhere, mixed with the blood and deafening shouts of killing, and the white clouds are a little dizzy and disgusting.
Both sides have been fighting for many years, and they understand each other very well, so this time Baiyunqi basically does not have too many opportunities to take tricks, first of all, it is impossible to use the mines that specialize in breaking the cavalry. But on the battlefield, he suddenly took out another secret weapon that he had painstakingly operated for many years, and asked the original pikemen to use shovels to break the enemy's war horses, basically with one-on-one attrition and the world-famous Hun cavalry. Then the cavalry on this side had a place to play, so in one morning, he exchanged 50,000 injuries for nearly 100,000 lives of the coalition army.
When this battle is fought, both sides have no choice. As the main attacker, the coalition forces can't retreat, of course, they can't retreat, and Bai Yunqi has held back his strength for so long, that is, in order to repel the coalition forces, and then counterattack Zhang Chu.
At this time, the Jiangzhou naval army that came along the waterway suddenly appeared on the battlefield. Their joining lifted Bai Yunqi's spirits, and the battle situation, which was basically equal, suddenly showed a one-sided situation. As soon as the Jiangzhou naval army came on the field, it was a crazy bow and arrow crossbow shot at the heavy cavalry of the enemy's forward, and they shot specifically at the eyes of the horse, and also shot accurately, and after a few minutes, more than a thousand batches of heavy cavalry lost their direction, some of them scattered and galloped away, and some directly drilled into their own formation and were trampled into meat cakes, and the charge of the heavy cavalry was immediately disintegrated, and the formation was basically unable to maintain.
Seeing this, Duanmu Ming hurriedly ordered the troops to return to defense, and hundreds of thousands of heavy cavalry retreated like a tide, and Bai Yunqi led the team to take the opportunity to follow, and after a period of cover-up, he killed thousands of people. At the same time, the chain of horses that were entangled with the enemy suddenly turned around, and they counterattacked the Hun heavy cavalry with lightning speed, throwing Zhang Chu's heavy infantry directly in place. Since the horses were all covered with iron armor, their retreat was not to be lost. But the Hun heavy cavalry here quickly dispersed under the front and rear attacks of the Bai family's army.
Duanmu Ming felt sorry for his army, so he had to leave more than 20,000 heavy cavalry and Chinese sergeants to deal with, while he led the brigade to gallop towards Dingbian. The defeat was like a mountain, and they basically did not get Liu Qianli's cooperation this time, so they left 20,000 troops to retreat in the direction of Dingbian City.
Bai Yunqi didn't have such a good idea to talk this time, he personally led the team, and almost all the heavy cavalry went to chase and kill Duanmu Ming's main force. A small part of the infantry on the Xie Zhou side was handed over to Kong Beihai for command, and the brigade let Wu Ming lead it straight to the direction of Dingbian City.
Besides, Duanmu Ming, after he retreated, he didn't plan to go far, but waited ten miles away for another decisive battle with the cavalry chasing by Bai Yunqi. According to his thoughts, his cavalry mainly suffered from the shovel soldiers of Bai Yunqi this time. Now he led the cavalry to rush up, which could not fight the hundreds of thousands of heavy horsemen on his side who were good at horse shooting under any circumstances.
After a short time, the broken cavalry retreated. The leading general panted and reported: "Prince, Bai Yunqi's brigade has followed. ”
"Good!" Duanmu Ming hurriedly straightened his clothes, and his face regained his composure again.
Today's battle was indeed unpleasant, and their invincible cavalry unit was actually defeated by the infantry, which made him feel angry. "Bai Yunqi, don't treat Lao Tzu as a general, as long as you dare to chase after you, I will bury your cavalry here."
Because the speed of the war horse was much higher than that of manpower, Liu Qianli could only watch Duanmu Ming flee while fighting, and sighed with more than enough strength, and then reorganized his forces to deal with the small number of infantry left behind. Unexpectedly, at this time, the city gate of Jiezhou suddenly opened, and about 20,000 cavalry rushed out quickly, and it was Quan Dayou who led the team.
As soon as they left the city, they went straight to Liu Qianli's main force, and after a burst of fierce charge, they joined Kong Beihai's troops, and then retreated while fighting, and retreated straight to Jiezhou. How could Liu Qianli easily let this team of people get away, he immediately led the team to cover up the killing, and unconsciously arrived at the city of Zhizhou, but then shouted to kill the sky, it turned out that Bai Yunqi's troops were back!
Xie Zhou's army immediately came to the spirit, and Kong Beihai immediately ordered: "Form a counteroffensive formation, stick to the center, and the cavalry continue to charge the main force of the allied forces." ”
Bai Yunqi drove away Duanmu Ming, and immediately turned around and picked up Liu Qianli. And Duanmu Ming's side was left to his main infantry to deal with. Judging from today's battle, his infantry is still very effective against the Hun cavalry. In this way, he was able to avoid being flanked by the coalition forces on both sides and in turn to attack Liu Qianli with the army on the side of Jiezhou. So far in this battle, Bai Yunqi can be said to have basically won. **