Chapter 332: Expelling the Tang Army (I)
[There is a chapter in front of me where the number of the troops is wrong, and it has been corrected]
A fierce battle, in the end, Lin Zhe's army was victorious, Feng Ye's army was defeated and retreated, and Lin Zhe cautiously did not give the order to pursue.
In this battle, Feng Ye's army suffered more than 60,000 losses, Lin Zhe's army lost nearly 100 casualties, and only less than 1,000 were wounded, most of them were minor injuries, and most of the casualties of Lin Zhe's army were not generated in the battle, but were accidentally injured and killed by the wounded soldiers of Feng Ye's army when cleaning the battlefield after the war.
It is worth noting that in this battle, the number of enemies captured by Lin Zhe's army was only about 300 people, and Feng Ye's army retreated in an orderly manner, leaving only the corpses of dead soldiers and wounded soldiers who could not retreat on the battlefield, and were injured by firecrackers and artillery, even if they were cured, they were disabled, this kind of person was useless to Lin Zhe's army, and he was not even qualified to be a prisoner, and was directly killed by the soldiers of Lin Zhe's army.
However, some wounded soldiers pretended to be dead and broke out when the soldiers of Lin Zhe's army approached, which was the main reason for the considerable damage to Lin Zhe's army.
After the end of the battle, Lin Zhe's army temporarily rested for a day, and the next day, Lin Zhe's army divided into two routes, Yun Hao led the First Cavalry Division to the north, and Lin Zhe continued to advance eastward with the Second Infantry Division and the Fourth Infantry Division.
Yun Hao's task is to guard against the Menglihu coalition army in Yuanhe County in the north of Hengzhou, the Yun army's army went out, the internal strength is relatively empty, Lin Zhe's army wants to continue to advance eastward to drive away the Tang army, naturally can not take into account the Menglihu coalition army, once the Menglihu coalition army breaks into the area controlled by the Yun clan, it will cause great losses to the Yun clan, so Lin Zhe asked Yun Hao to lead the first cavalry division to the north to guard against the Menglihu coalition army, and he personally led the second infantry division and the fourth infantry division to the east to eliminate or drive away the Tang army.
In fact, it was also the case, the three families of Mengli and Hu were planning to take advantage of the emptiness of the Yun clan's internal force to raid the interior of the Yun clan, but Yun Hao's First Cavalry Division marched fast, and before the Menglihu coalition army left Yuanhe County, the First Cavalry Division was only a few dozen miles away from Yuanhe County.
The Mongol-Lihu coalition army had a total of 100,000 soldiers, and the First Cavalry Division only had 5,000 cavalry, and the gap between the two was 20 times, and the gap in strength was huge.
The 1st Cavalry Division, with its high mobility and firearms in its hands, reduced its 5,000 cavalry to pieces and launched an attack on the allied forces of Monglihu.
The attack of the 1st Cavalry Division not only caused serious disruption to the Mongol-Lihu coalition army, but also brought huge losses to the Mongol-Lihu coalition army, and in the first day alone, the Mongol-Lihu coalition army lost more than 4,000 people and countless people were wounded.
In the face of the attack of the 1st Cavalry Division, the Menglihu coalition army also wanted to launch a counterattack, but the number of cavalry of the Menglihu coalition army was not large, and the skills and weapons were far inferior to the 1st Cavalry Division, and they would only be slowly eaten by the 1st Cavalry Division.
If you want to deal with the attack of the 1st Cavalry Division, the only way to deal with the Mongol-Lihu coalition is to gather together, when a small group of cavalry is coming, as long as they are close to the Mongol-Lihu coalition army, the Mongol-Lihu coalition army can cover the arrow rain, and the 1st Cavalry Division, as a light cavalry, can not resist the arrows.
However, the purpose of the Menglihu coalition army was to raid the interior of the Yun clan, and if they were assembled, there would be no way to march quickly.
In just three days, the Meng-Li-Hu coalition army has lost more than 10,000 yuan, and now an important question is placed in front of Mengzhen, Li Xun, and Hu Bi: should they continue to advance or assemble to guard against the attack of the black cavalry?
Continue to advance, the losses of the Menglihu coalition army will continue to increase, the army is one of the fundamentals of the Menglihu family, if the army has too many casualties, it will be a huge blow to the Menglihu family, and the hegemony of the pass has become far away, and the three of them do not know how long the coalition army can hold out under the attack of the black cavalry, three days, the coalition army has just entered Hezhou, and Hezhou is thousands of miles away from Yunhua County in the southwest of Zezhou.
If you don't continue to move forward and assemble on the spot to guard against the attack of the black cavalry, the three families of Mengli and Hu will also lose an important opportunity, and the opportunity will not come again, in the face of the powerful Yun clan, it is almost impossible for the three families of Mengli and Hu to find the next opportunity to give the Yun clan a heavy blow.
This is a dilemma, and Meng Zhen, Li Xun, and Hu Bi are very troubled by this.
After being silent for a long time, Meng Zhen said with some dejection: "Withdraw, the Yun family is not the enemy of the three of us, the Yun family should be handed over to the Wang family to deal with, let's go to Huizhou, as long as we can unite the Su and Shen families to keep Huizhou, and when the Yun family and the Wang family fight, the two will fight, there will be a defeat and an injury, and that time is the opportunity for us to wait." ”
"Hmm!" Li Xun and Hu Bi glanced at each other and agreed with Meng Zhen's words.
Immediately, the Mongol-Lihu coalition stopped advancing, and the rear team switched to the front and began to withdraw, the withdrawal of the Mongol-Lihu coalition army was very slow, and they had to guard against the attack of the black cavalry.
Yun Hao saw that the Menglihu coalition army withdrew, and after continuing to attack and harass the Menglihu coalition army for a period of time, he gave up continuing to attack and harass, and the Menglihu coalition army was exhausted under the attack of the First Cavalry Division, and the First Cavalry Division was also relatively tired, and then continued to attack and harass, I don't know which of the two sides could not hold on first.
On the other side, Lin Zhe led the 2nd Infantry Division and the 4th Infantry Division to march to the east of Hengzhou.
Feng Ye pondered for a long time after learning that Lin Zhe's army was chasing after them, the land in Guannei that they had just occupied could not be abandoned, if they were driven back to the Jiuling Mountain Range, it would be difficult to come up with it again, the Tang Empire took three years with the help of the Huang Clan to open up a road in the Jiuling Mountain Range that could accommodate the passage of the army, and it was difficult for the Tang Empire to open up a new road from it.
On the contrary, if Feng Ye led a large army to hold the eastern part of Hengzhou, the army of the Tang Empire would continue to come from afar, and since 140,000 could not defeat the enemy, then 200,000, 300,000, and 500,000.
The civil strife in the Guannai has been going on for several years, and the young and strong have suffered heavy losses, so how many troops can they recruit?
The Tang Empire has not had any civil strife for decades, and with a population of nearly 25 million in the Tang Empire, it is completely possible to form a million-strong army and completely take the Guannai into its hands with the advantage of military strength.
Since Lin Zhe's army could not be defeated in the field, Feng Ye decided to rely on the city to hold on and resist Lin Zhe's army.
On the twenty-fifth day of April, Lin Zhe's army came to the city of Yunyang County, in Yunyang County, there were 60,000 Feng Ye's army, and the Tang army and 50,000 horses were scattered and stationed in the eastern part of Hengzhou.
In this case, Lin Zhe did not let the army surround Yunyang County, but directly put the army on the front and ordered the whole army to artillery to bombard Yunyang County.