Chapter 488

When Ye Tao's subordinates, who had been pressed and beaten for three days, turned to the attack, after the Northern Liao army retreated to the other side of the river, the Blood Qi army even moved all the ballistae to the front. The heavy ballistas were already able to hit the opposite bank in the battalion, and after moving forward, they could effectively support the river-crossing troops of the Blood Qi Army. The one left behind by Northern Liao to defend was an old general who was fifty years old, and he was not unskilled in garrisoning, but the fighting style of the Blood Qi Army was too strange. First of all, at any cost, two rounds of powerful deflagration were carried out on the opposite bank, and the front of the river beach was emptied, and then a small number of masters of the guard battalion swam across the river and launched a harassment operation, when the Northern Liao army had just discovered that there were only less than a hundred people who were attacking, one after another hook locks had already shot over, and took root on those big stones and trees on the side of the river beach, and some of the soldiers of the Blood Qi Army, especially the light infantry troops, immediately crossed the river by climbing the rope, looking at their skilled and energetic appearance, Obviously, there is no shortage of such training. The Northern Liao side also wanted to organize a counterattack, but when Gao Senqi and Zhang Lixian's troops left the front camp and advanced towards Qingya to complete the more important campaign objectives, they were also harassed by the enemy behind their backs. And the Blood Qi Army was gathering under their noses at great speed. Then, the casualties to the Northern Liao army were hand-thrown light fire oil bombs, which, although limited in lethality, easily plunged the remaining troops of the Northern Liao into chaos. Their morale was not high, knowing that they were the broken troops, most of them were abandoned by Gao Senqi, and although the strength of the troops still had a certain advantage over Ye Tao's troops, but after the fierce battle in the previous three days, they naturally knew that this advantage in numbers was very unreliable. The Blood Qi Army bravely interspersed without fear of sacrifice, and in less than an hour, it broke through the troops in the front battalion of the Northern Liao garrison, completed the river crossing very easily, and successfully joined the harassing troops sent by Zou Shuangwen. And in this brief battle, 9,000 Northern Liao soldiers finally chose to surrender.

Gao Sen Banner really couldn't take care of the troops left behind at this time, and he led the troops to rush to Qingya's Gao Sen Banner, and at this time, Qingya hit his head and bled out. Gao Senqi's personal guards also entered the battle, and several times they had already attacked the head of Qingya's city, but they were finally beaten back. The resilience of the Blood Qi Army is extraordinary, and although they are besieged and have to hold on, their mentality at this time is very proud, and this advantageous mentality appears in the Blood Qi Army, when every soldier fights confidently, the combat effectiveness exerted is also extraordinary. Gao Senqi's overseer, he invested in the high-strength personal guard troops regardless of losses, although it also made Zou Shuangwen feel very troublesome and annoying, and the losses of the Blood Qi Army were also considerable, but there was still a considerable distance from being able to recover Qingya. And when the two armies were entangled together and fought inextricably until late at night, the ambush of the Blood Qi Army was launched. Zou Shuangwen didn't seem to be interested in the enemy army with a larger force on the other road, so he stared at Gao Senqi's part desperately, and seemed to want to annihilate Gaosen Banner on the spot. Naturally, Takamori also understands his opponent's thoughts. If he can be solved, it will be difficult for the Western Route Army to have a leader who can have his prestige, have his determination, and be willing to do his best to drag the Dongping army back, even if he pays several times the sacrifice and the Dongping army will not let the other party make progress soon. Gao Senqi knew that the various combat methods he had explored over the years, imitating the Blood Qi Army and the Yunzhou Army, might be just a drop in the bucket in front of these "teachers", but he was really unwilling to lose, and he didn't want Northern Liao to perish like this. He could not perish in the first place. It is also a plan to let the imperial court release his father back to lead the troops, but both of them know that for these emerging tactics, only Gao Senqi has a little bottom in his heart, and there are various ways to deal with it that seem unbelievable to others, although he has to keep trying to know whether his methods are effective, but there is a way to do it. Those leaders of the older generation are now completely unable to keep up with the energy and imagination. And this also made him feel more and more the terrible of the current Dongping army.

"Qin Chang, if you lead people up, you must force the other party down this mountain for me. Xu Yadong, you bring 2,000 people to support the west city...... Prepare to withdraw......" Gao Senqi looked at the current chaotic situation, and could only let his two close generals go up to control the situation and create conditions for the retreat of the army. For these two and the troops they led, more than 10,000 people combined, as well as the Northern Liao sergeants who were fighting with the Blood Qi Army, they might never get reinforcements again. But their sacrifice may allow Gao Senqi's troops to leave this killing field as completely as possible.

Gao Senqi's adjustment, Zou Shuangwen saw it, but he scratched his hair in annoyance, but he was also a little helpless. The gap in strength is there, although he wants to encircle and annihilate the enemy, no matter how good he is at using troops, no matter how strong the individual and team combat strength of the Blood Qi Army is, 30,000 people surround the same number of enemy troops at most, no matter how much, it is equivalent to diluting his advantage to the point of almost nothing, that is, he is risking the lives of his brothers. "It seems that this is the case, Gao Senqi is too slippery, there is no way. Zhang Lixian's side is estimated to be unstoppable, let's see how many enemies can be erased in the pursuit operation when we turn back. Those who can be encircled in the encirclement are only twenty or thirty thousand. It's really ......."

Zou Shuangwen's complaint made everyone laugh. Coupled with the previous battles, after all, the Blood Qi Army fought with more than 300,000 enemy troops with 50,000 troops, and also achieved the record of capturing a city, and also caused more than 100,000 casualties in the Northern Liao army, of which at least 60,000 were killed. The Blood Qi Army is still suffering considerable losses, and now, Zou Shuangwen himself doesn't know how many people the Blood Qi Army actually has, but the combat strength of the Blood Qi Army is very good in its heyday. They have defended the name of the first army in the world, and they can devote themselves to repairing without regrets. You can't be too dissatisfied.

Ye Tao did not continue the pursuit after paying a limited price to annihilate the garrison of the former battalion of Northern Liao. In the end, only cavalry units with a combined strength of less than 6,000 men were carried out in the pursuit. Rather, the scout camp has created so many opportunities for them. The two Han brothers predicted that the enemy would pass through Jinjiling, and they also knew that the follow-up troops would not follow soon, so they actually contacted the airship troops, concentrated many airships, and bombed Qing'an Village. This main road in Jinjiling passed directly through the middle of this undefended village, and they lit Qing'an Village, although there were not many casualties, but the rising smoke column made the Northern Liao army hesitate for a while. Inspired by the fact that this time was not quite in line with the original very gentlemanly combat methods of the Blood Qi Army, other scout groups also used airships to always get ahead of the other party, taking advantage of the fact that the Northern Liao army had more infantry and limited marching speed, and constantly carried out all kinds of harassment operations. Their favorite way to attack is to run over the enemy's head in the middle of the night and drop some bombs. A small fire oil bomb can make the Northern Liao battalion very noisy for a while, and those soldiers have to be worried and can't sleep well, and this harassment tactic makes the Northern Liao army slower and slower after two days of wild running.

And during these two days, the cavalry units of the pursuing army conducted more than a dozen skirmishes, and the cumulative annihilation of the enemy was more than 4,000 people. Although this is not a remarkable record, considering their own fatigue of continuous battles, the efficiency is already very high. The cavalry units pursued to this point, and finally began to recover as well. Gao Senqi and Zhang Lixian had already rendezvous, and the army had already received supplies from the reserves that were holding each other in front of the center, and it was not much away from the army in the middle. If the pursuit is ineffective, or if the battle is not resolved in time, it may be encircled by the enemy's superior forces. The stakes of the chase are too great, and the benefits are relatively limited. Mathematics has always been very good, so the soldiers of the Blood Qi Army don't do this kind of loss-making thing.

Fifteen days after the back road was cut off, the Blood Qi Army not only regained control of Gongchuan and was relieved of worries, but also took Xiangning and Qingya, forming a very stable triangular area.

It turned out that the strength of the Blood Qi Army was a little stretched, and it was also a great waste to let the strength of the main battle force like the Blood Qi Army be scattered on the garrison. Although the Tianxuan Army and the Forbidden Army have arrived, these troops should not be used for garrison either. Ye Tao finally decided to carry out further mobilization in the Northern Xinjiang Economic Strategy Fuzhi, mobilize more garrison battalions, clan soldiers and other combat forces into the Northern Liao Territory, and help consolidate the areas that have been captured, so that the main battle forces of Dongping, including the Blood Qi Army, can concentrate their strength to face the next stage of the battle. The Blood Qi Army is in urgent need of repair now, but it also happens to have time to wait for this part of the troops, maybe a month's rest will allow the enemy to recover some vitality, but compared to the suspenseful situation caused by the previous rash advance, Ye Tao feels that it is really not a problem for the opponent to recover a little vitality. After all, it is impossible for the enemy's total strength to increase by leaps and bounds, and even if Gao Senqi is mobilized to death, in the vast territory of the Western Route Army, there are at best more than 500,000 troops, and the proportion of cannon fodder is quite high. But the military support he has received on his side is much larger, just the Tianxuan Army and the Forbidden Army, and the Tan Family Soldiers combined, that is more than 100,000 elites. No matter how you calculate it, it is also your own combat power that has an absolute advantage, and in this case, it is becoming more and more unnecessary to take risks.

The communication and supply lines between the ground and the Northern Xinjiang Jingluo Prefecture were also restored, and the small Northern Liao troops who could not get the support of the army finally pulled out the vast mountains and forests, otherwise, their only fate would be to be strangled in the woodland by Ye Tao from both ends. After issuing a further mobilization order, ordering the construction of a temporary line from Gongchuan to the original boundary of Jinglufu in Northern Xinjiang, and the construction of Gongchuan Airship Station, Ye Tao could finally put down all his worries and go to Xiangning City to meet Tan Xiaopei.