Chapter 145: Advance

Due to the full cooperation of the Yunzhou side, the Blood Qi Army almost did not need to carry food baggage when marching rapidly, and there were naturally ready-made barracks that could be stationed in each place, and the Blood Qi Army was also able to carry a large number of Mars bombs, fire oil bombs, and a larger number of arrows and other materials to prepare for large-intensity operations. They will inevitably encounter a high-intensity battle.

Qiu Haohui didn't regard Xi Ling's camp in Mengnan Banner as any threat, just when Jiang Xujing was thinking about attacking the Blood Qi Army, Qiu Haohui, Chi Lei and others had already worked out a plan with Tie Yunqi to uproot Mengnan Banner's camp. And in this plan, the main task that the Blood Qi Army will undertake is to block the reinforcements sent by Jiang Xujing from the Bauhinia Valley to the place where the Blood Qi Army is encamped. Since 10,000 cavalry followed Ye Tao north to participate in the alliance, the main ones left behind were heavy infantry, longbow battalions, baggage battalions and heavy equipment battalions, even with Chi Lei's scout cavalry, there were only a few thousand cavalry, which was really not enough to participate in the decisive battle of the cavalry corps. And their equipment and training ensure that they are bound to be extremely strong.

"Big brother, what do you mean by the Blood Qi Army?" Because his daughter was already presiding over the Wolf Plain, Dai Shikui did not accompany Ye Tao further north, and let Dai Gong, a powerful figure in the younger generation of the Dai family, accompany Ye Tao, while Dai Shikui himself came to the western front of Yunzhou with the main force of the Blood Qi Army, and prepared an attack on Xiling with his eldest brother, Dai Shining, the patriarch of the Dai clan.

Dai Shining was extremely supportive of such a strategy as Dai Shining was extremely supportive of a strategy that he would strive to achieve a key victory in a short period of time with swift and powerful tactical movements, so as to obtain favorable conditions in terms of morale, diplomacy, etc., and the Blood Qi Army had been obeying his command in a rather friendly atmosphere since they came to the Western Front, which made him feel the generosity and sincerity of Dongping in his heart. Cast it with a peach, repay it with a plum. Dai Shining also gave the Blood Qiqi Army absolutely sufficient say in several military discussions after the arrival of the Blood Qi Army, and even let the Blood Qi Army give priority to selecting tasks when the battle tasks were assigned.

Originally, Dai Shining and other core figures of the Dai family were ready to hand over the task of the final blow to the Mengnan Banner to the Blood Qi Army. There is no danger in such a mission, and the damage will not be great...... In fact, if the early offensive can go smoothly, this final blow will be a purely meritorious operation. However, the serious and modest Blood Qi Army's acting overseer Qiu Haohui, the youngest son of the Dongping Taiwei family, Chi Lei. There was also Zou Shuangwen and others, who also had an extraordinary background, after the meeting, they asked for the task of blocking the main force of Jiang Xujing's troops from coming to help, which was the most dangerous task in the entire campaign planning. When Dai Shining asked what other requirements they had, their request couldn't be simpler, hoping that after besieging the enemy forces in Mengnan Banner, they would be able to allocate a Tieyun Cavalry to protect their flanks and ensure that Jiang Xujing had the only way to attack them head-on. The most legitimate, simpler request......

Although the troops were relatively tight, Dai Shining still directly allocated 5,000 Tieyun cavalry to Qiu Haohui. Temporarily obey their commands. Correspondingly, the heavy equipment battalion of the Blood Qi Army allocated a team of more than 500 people, carrying enough fire oil bombs and ballistas to assist the Yunzhou side in attacking the fortified positions. Although it can be said that it is the first joint operation between Yunzhou and Dongping in history, the two sides have a faint tacit understanding.

For the Blood Qi Army, they have chosen a mission that may have to bear considerable casualties to complete. Dai Shikui was a little puzzled. Dai Shining, on the other hand, became more interested in the Blood Qi Army. Dai Shining is a general who can lead the charge of the troops, but he is not a good commander who likes to interfere with the command of his subordinates, he did not ride with Tieyun to Mengnan Banner to vigorously pull out the nails of the advancing camp, but stayed in the current only 20,000 infantry troops. Ensure that Jiang Xujing can't turn directly to the key location of Yunzhou's wreak havoc after the attack on the Blood Qi Army fails: Suiyuan City. Since Suiyuan City was only less than a hundred miles away from the camp of the Blood Qi Army, he had been staying in the Blood Qi Army camp with Dai Shikui for the past few days, and seeing that the Blood Qi Army was still extremely happy and morale-like after receiving the task that their brother thought was extremely miserable, Dai Shikui was more and more unable to understand the Blood Qi Army.

"Hey, they're really confident. After many years on the battlefield, it is really rare to see an army that is so confident in its own strength. Dai Shining smiled heartily: "This time, Jiang Xujing is in trouble. ”

"They are only 20,000 people, and even if you add the 5,000 Iron Cloud Riders who let them control the ground, it is only 25,000. But Jiang Xujing was pressed by an army of more than 100,000 in a blink of an eye. Can it really withstand it? Dai Shikui hesitated.

Dai Shining shook his head. Some said disapprerovingly: "It's useless to fight a war, just looking at the number of troops, otherwise it would be good for everyone to compare the number before the strong man formation, and what kind of strength would he fight." I don't dare to say that the Blood Qi Army will definitely be able to hold it, after all, although they have experienced battle formations, they are not the kind of iron army that survives a hundred battles. But I'm afraid that from the very beginning, the Blood Qi Army was not prepared to defend to the death. They have a higher spirit. ”

Dai Shining asked the guards to fetch a pen and paper, and sketched out the distribution map of the Blood Qi Army's camp that he saw. He explained to Dai Shikui: "You see they are all in one direction with those catapults and ballistas and the like. It's about 1,200 to 2,000 paces wide. The barracks had three layers of ramparts on one side and only two floors on the other three sides. The passages in the camp were designed to allow all troops to assemble and line up on the front within a width of 2,000 paces...... The Blood Qi Army didn't want to defend the camp at all. They just want to fight in the field. ”

Dai Shikui was taken aback and said: "Although it is true that the camp on the plain does not take much advantage, but, field battle? In the face of several times the number of troops, they dare to fight in the field? After all, a few more camps will take advantage of a lot of advantage. ”

Dai Shining put down the pen and said, "So they are high-spirited." …… However, if I had such equipment and training as the Blood Qi Army, and such complete logistics as the Blood Qi Army, I would also choose to fight in the field. Just wait and see. ”

Jiang Xujing's assault at the forefront was not Jiang Xujing's headquarters cavalry, but the 10,000 cavalry of Ni Sigui's division of the Zhenbei Army and the 30,000 infantry troops of Zhao Li's army. Jiang Xujing felt the threat of Suiyuan City on the flank, although Suiyuan City's troops were limited, but after all, it was backed by the hinterland of Yunzhou, and it was possible to get reinforcements at any time, so he placed 10,000 cavalry from Jia Qingyun's department in the direction of Suiyuan. And he himself led the cavalry of his headquarters to respond in the middle. As for the more than 20,000 Daoming Sect Protectors, Jiang Xujing didn't know much about the combat effectiveness, so he didn't dare to send them rashly. He was afraid that if the 20,000 Guardian Army did not fight as promised by the Korean and Chinese bigwigs who stuffed them into his battle sequence, once they were sent to fight with the Blood Qi Army first and retreated, the situation would be difficult to clean up.

However, on the night that Zhao Li set up camp in front of the Blood Qi Army, he was attacked in the camp. When he first arrived and had a firm foothold, Zhao Li was 120,000 careful after all, and he was meticulous in his anti-attack deployment at night. But the attack on the camp planned by the Blood Qi Army was full of twists and turns, and it was extremely exciting. First of all, a team of more than 2,000 people approached Zhao Li's camp, touched the alarm bell, and retreated abruptly before engaging with Zhao Li's subordinates. Afterwards, Tie Yunqi was active nearby, and it seemed that he was preparing for a night attack. In order to allow his soldiers to have a good rest, Zhao Li led 10,000 people to attack, but he didn't expect Tie Yunqi to leave and not fight with them closely. And just when Zhao Li didn't understand what the other party's idea was, the Blood Qi Army launched an official night attack. After nearly half an hour of rapid firepower, thousands of Blood Qi Army cavalry and longbowmen who fought with crossbows on horses launched a general attack on the camp, if it weren't for Zhao Li's timely response, plus a group of soldiers under his command who did not retreat, and held a small place in the camp to gradually collect the soldiers who fled everywhere due to the fire, maybe Zhao Li's more than 30,000 infantry would have been completely defeated this night. Although Zhao Li had already behaved very well, the 30,000 infantry under his command still suffered more than 6,000 casualties in this night. In fact, if it weren't for Ni Sigui's troops seeing the firelight at night and pulling out the whole army in time to help, so that the Blood Qi Army had to retreat slowly after getting a vote, I am afraid that Zhao Li would eventually lose the camp and enter the rout with great dignity.

The Blood Qi Army is too arrogant. When he got the news, Jiang Xujing was furious. He immediately ordered the Daoming Sect's apologetics to be topped, except for Ni Sigui's department and Jia Qingyun's department to maintain the two wings of the army, he put the 20,000 cavalry of his headquarters in front of the Blood Qi Army, and he wanted to compete with the Blood Qi Army in a field battle. What annoyed him even more was that the Blood Qi Army did not hesitate at all, but rather happily accepted his battle letter and held a decisive battle tomorrow. Jiang Xujing had never seen such an arrogant and domineering army, even if it was the legendary first army in the world, he didn't think he could have such qualifications.

However, not long after the decisive battle began, he realized what a terrible army the Blood Qiqi Army was. The 10,000 cavalry of Ni Sigui's division and the more than 20,000 infantry of Zhao Li's subordinate who still had combat strength jointly attacked the military formation of the Blood Qi Army, but they did not even break through the first line of defense. When the Xiling side attacked, as soon as the cavalry and infantry rushed through the center line of the battlefield, the heavy weapons battalion of the Blood Qi Army began to express their opinions. One after another fire oil bombs fell on the battlefield, in the middle of the dense infantry and cavalry. Due to the too many fire oil bombs projected, it even caused an earth-shattering deflagration effect on the battlefield. And the heavy arrows fired by the Divine Arm Bow were aimed at the officers who were shouting and scolding to maintain the line and morale of Sergeant Xiling. After dodging these, when he rushed to within a hundred steps of the Blood Qi Army's formation, he encountered a raging fire that erupted from the pipe. And even if they desperately broke through these defenses, Xiling's cavalry found that they couldn't get past the long spears at all. The heavy infantry of the Blood Qiqi Army stood with tower shields, spears with claws that could pierce into the dirt, and men with two-handed long knives in the ranks, and behind them were longbowmen who were ordered to shoot without fear of accidentally injuring their own people......

When Jiang Xujing watched through the telescopes he had obtained at a high price as the soldiers under his command withered and fell like leaves falling in the autumn wind, and more than 30,000 soldiers suffered nearly 10,000 casualties in a single impact, with only a negligible casualty inflicted on the Blood Qi Army, he was dumbfounded and unbelievable. Then, he clearly saw that when Zhao Li and Ni Sigui had to gather their subordinates who had suffered heavy casualties and slowly retreated, the heavy infantry line of the Blood Qi Army, which seemed to be a wall poured in metal, began to advance slowly but firmly......