Chapter 921: The results are huge
The Southern Tianzhu coalition army was overwhelmed by the attack of the Western Qin army, sometimes they couldn't sleep well all night, they even just fell asleep, and the cavalry of the Western Qin army killed into the camp again, burning everywhere, setting fire everywhere, the weather was dry in winter, even if this is the south, it is easy to burn. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
It was attacked and disturbed for several days, causing a large number of camp tents in the camp of the Nantianzhu coalition army to be burned down, and a large number of soldiers and war horses were lost, which also directly caused that as long as there was a large number of horses' hooves, the coalition soldiers would soon wake up and never sleep again, which was not the most important thing, what annoyed the coalition kings the most was that hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers were in a particularly poor mental state these days, and they were in a bad state all day long.
After four days of this, the kings of the Southern Tianzhu Alliance found that they could not go on like this, and if they continued like this, they would collapse without the Western Qin army attacking again, so the kings decided to counteract after discussion, and they also sent cavalry troops to attack the camp of the Western Qin army at night.
On the night of December 15, the coalition army sent a cavalry of 5,000 people to sneak to the camp of the Western Qin army, but I did not expect to encounter the cavalry of the Western Qin army halfway, it is the narrow road to meet the brave wins, the cavalry of the Western Qin army has long been accustomed to night combat, sneak attack, surprise attack and other tactics, but this is too sudden for the first time to use the night sneak attack tactics of the coalition cavalry, too unexpected, at the moment of the encounter, before they can determine the identity of the cavalry of the Western Qin army, the cavalry of the Western Qin army lined up in a neat attack formation and charged.
Before the two sides made formal contact, the coalition cavalry was hit by the overwhelming dense arrows of the Western Qin army and suffered heavy casualties, holding their heads and running away, five waves of arrows in a row, and no coalition cavalry was still in place, and the remaining coalition cavalry had been frightened and ran away, and in the process of turning around and fleeing, there were countless people who were squeezed off their horses, knocked to the ground, and hacked to death by their companions.
What's worse is that these fleeing coalition cavalry fled in the direction of the camp one after another, and they flocked to the camp gate, and the coalition generals guarding the camp gate thought that their own army had returned victoriously, and specially ordered someone to open the camp gate for them to enter.
The tragedy happened, the cavalry of the Western Qin Army under the command of its leading general Zhao Lei followed the fleeing coalition cavalry into the camp, and the coalition cavalry who fled into the camp rushed indiscriminately, and rushed down countless camp tents along the way, a large number of camp tents in the camp were set on fire, and countless coalition soldiers ran out of their respective camp tents, but were soon overwhelmed by the fleeing cavalry.
Zhao Lei led the cavalry of the Western Qin Army to kill the coalition camp and set fire everywhere, a large number of camp tents burned, and the Tianzhu people who were still sleeping inside rushed out with fire all over their bodies, and the chaos quickly spread.
"Kill me!" Zhao Lei shouted, the three-pointed two-edged knife in his hand pointed forward, and his legs clamped the horse's belly hard, killing a large group of assembled coalition soldiers.
"Whoosh ・・・・・・" The rain of arrows shot over the sky in waves, and a large group of assembled coalition soldiers suddenly fell in large pieces, and the others were scattered in fright.
After killing and dispersing this large group of coalition soldiers, Zhao Lei took his generals to continue to impact the other coalition soldiers who were assembling, as long as there was a large group of coalition soldiers who were gathering, he immediately led the Western Qin cavalry to kill, first several waves of arrow rain strikes, and then rode horses to rush over, almost no coalition army could withstand this blow, at this time it was night, under the sneak attack, the coalition soldiers who were dispersed no longer had the courage to assemble and fight with the Western Qin army.
Chaos and panic spread to every corner of the coalition camp at a very fast speed like a plague, in fact, Zhao Lei only brought 3,000 cavalry over, but in a short period of time, the coalition camp was turned upside down, and there were more and more people fleeing, and the coalition soldiers who didn't know what happened had just walked out of the camp were swept away by the rout army, and more people were coerced to flee the camp and flee to the south.
The allied kings were forcibly taken out of the camp by their generals and attendants without knowing exactly what was happening.
Zhao Lei led the Western Qin cavalry army to chase and kill for a whole night, until the sky was bright before leading the troops back, on the way back was not suitable to encounter a large coalition army rout, he had to continue to fight, these coalition soldiers who were unable to escape were killed to cry dad and mother, many people had to kneel and surrender.
Zhao Ziliang, who got up early in the morning to practice martial arts, heard the news and immediately sent a large number of soldiers and horses to clean up the battlefield and count the spoils.
At noon, Zhao Ziliang had just had lunch, and Zheng San, who was in charge of cleaning the battlefield, counting the loot, counting the results and losses, walked into the big tent and said: "King, the statistical results are out, we have found at least 100,000 corpses of coalition soldiers in the camp of the coalition army, all kinds of tents, flags, weapons, armor, bows and crossbows, arrows, horses and other military materials are discarded everywhere, and it is impossible to make accurate calculations for the time being, and our army has only lost eighty-one people. This battle is the biggest result since our army entered the Tianzhu operation, and the eldest prince is really a god! ”
"Are you telling the truth?" Zhao Ziliang couldn't help but stand up and asked.
Zheng Sandao: "Such a military event, how dare Weichen talk nonsense? ”
Zhao Ziliang slapped the table and said with annoyance: "Why didn't anyone tell this king that the people of Nan Tianzhu were all beaten and fled?" Knowing this, the king sent tens of thousands of cavalry to quickly chase and kill the past, and it will be decided in a battle to determine Nantianzhu, at this time it is too late to send a large force of cavalry to pursue, they are only afraid that they have gained a firm foothold and re-established the camp! Come on, go and pass Zhao Lei over! ”
"Yes, King!"
At this time, the Southern Tianzhu coalition army has indeed regained a foothold and set up camp with the efforts of the kings, and sent additional manpower to defend and probe the movements of the Western Qin army, through the inventory, the kings found that after the sneak attack last night, they lost more than 100,000 people, plus the losses of the previous days, the total loss exceeded 120,000!
This result made the kings almost vomit blood one by one, yes, before the decisive battle, the soldiers lost more than 100,000 people, only less than 300,000, and the army's armor, weapons, bows, crossbows and arrows and other military supplies were lost innumerable, and now the coalition army of less than 300,000 people is like a huge army of refugees, and its combat effectiveness has dropped sharply.
The kings urgently discussed, and in view of the current situation, they decided to immediately lead the coalition army to continue to retreat south, retreat to the Peacock Pass in the Katanbo Kingdom, and then rely on the strong city defense and steepness of the Peacock Pass to resist the attack of the Western Qin army, so as to buy time for the army to recover its combat effectiveness and morale, and at the same time to recruit more troops and raise more supplies for them to delay time.
Peacock Pass is one hundred and twenty miles away from the previous camp of the coalition army, has been used as the grain and grass base of the coalition army, the coalition army has not retreated to the Peacock Pass, the kings of the countries received the news that the grain and grass hoarded in the Peacock Pass has been burned more than half, which made the coalition kings almost vomit blood again, the kings hurried to Peacock Pass with men and horses to see the grain and grass warehouse that was burned to ashes is really crying without tears.
Through the inventory, the kings learned that the remaining grain and grass was enough for the soldiers of the coalition army to eat for a month, which made them a little relieved, they sent people back to the south to collect grain, grass and ordnance, on the other hand, they organized manpower to strengthen the Peacock Pass, and sent troops to capture the nearby Tianzhu people, so that the people of Tianzhu could build and strengthen the city wall, build and collect the equipment and materials to defend the city.
Western Qin Army Camp.
The generals and officials praised the eldest prince Zhao Lei for his bravery, courage and strategy in front of Zhao Ziliang! Such a big victory this time is unique since the Western Qin army entered the Tianzhu battle.
After listening to the praise of the generals and officials, Zhao Ziliang looked at Zhao Lei and asked: "Uncles and uncles all say that this is the biggest victory since our army entered Tianzhu, and they think that you are brave and strategic, and you are a rare general, what do you think?" ”
Zhao Lei was a little embarrassed, touched the back of his head and hugged his fist and said: "Thank you uncles and uncles for your praise, in fact, I am not as good as you say, the results of this battle are really big, but it is not my credit, as long as the soldiers use their lives and obey the command." Afterwards, I also analyzed why I achieved such a big result this time, General Li Sheng, General Ma Sui, General Xuansi and several other generals all led cavalry to attack the Nantianzhu coalition army at night, why did they not achieve such a big result, but I was able to achieve such a big result this time? This is the second time I led the cavalry to attack the camp, and after my analysis, I found that there were several coincidences in this battle: first, we encountered the allied cavalry who came to prepare to attack our camp on the way, and the allied cavalry never fought at night, and they were stunned after encountering us, and our army took the lead in attacking and quickly defeated them and fled, which was due to the lack of adaptability of their leading generals, and it was also related to the fact that their soldiers had not experienced such things! ”
"The second coincidence. It was the coalition cavalry that fled straight back to their camp while our army was still chasing after them, and they didn't know that this would make us follow them into their camp? ”
"The third coincidence is that the coalition generals guarding the camp gate actually took the initiative to open the camp gate and put them into the camp when the troops fled back, so our army could directly rush into the coalition camp. At this point, I thought about it, it may be that it is too dark, and the generals of the coalition forces cannot see clearly, and they do not know that our army is chasing and killing behind! ”
"In addition to these coincidences, the reason why the Nantianzhu coalition army has suffered a large-scale and large-scale rout is mainly because we have been constantly attacking and harassing in the past few days, and they have been frightened all the time, and I led the troops into the camp last night to make their worries to the peak, many people can't bear it, so a large-scale rout was formed, only a small part of the results of these 100,000 people were killed by me and the soldiers under my command, and most of them were killed by each other, trampled on each other, or burned to death, and were killed by war horses and war elephants!"