Mu Gulu, the Great Khan of the Rouran Clan, heard that Yeluqi, the Khitan Right Rite King, said that he had come up with a way to crack the infantry battle formation of the Ju'an Army, and Mu Gulu immediately said: "The method that the leader of the Yeluqi Alliance thought of will definitely work, and our warriors of the Rouran Clan are willing to give it a try." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo”

The method of Yeluqi, the right king of Khitan, is to attack the front two corners from the side of the infantry battle formation in the direction of the diagonal, because the number of people at the corners is not enough to form a superior force, once it is chaotic, the infantry phalanx will inevitably cause chaos, and it is not impossible for the entire infantry battle array to collapse immediately.

In the face of Yeluqi's tactics, the infantry phalanx would not adjust its direction faster than the cavalry, and it was easy to be caught by the cavalry in the process of changing the formation, but died faster.

Next, according to Yeluqi's method, the Rouran tribe divided the 30,000-strong team into three groups, one 10,000-person team continued to contain from the front, and the other 20,000 people chose to charge from the two corners at the front of the Ju'an army's infantry battle array.

However, when the three Rouran 10,000 troops charged, they were still all charging towards the front of the infantry battle formation of the Jue'an Army at the beginning, but when they were about one hundred and fifty steps away from the battle formation formed by the two infantry battalions of Le Yi and Gao Shun, the two 10,000 troops on the left and right sides suddenly separated from the 10,000 people in the middle, circled a semi-arc, and directly launched an assault on the two corners in front of the diagonal of the infantry battle formation.

Not to mention that Yeluqi's method really caught the two infantry battalions of Le Yi and Gao Shun off guard, the battle formation of the two infantry battalions had no time to adjust the formation, and the infantry officers and soldiers in the two corners of the battle formation in front of the diagonal line were quickly disrupted under the onslaught of the Rouran cavalry.

If a large number of Rouran cavalry are allowed to take advantage of the situation to enter the entire battle formation from the gap between the two corners of the diagonal line, then the battle formation composed of the two infantry battalions of Le Yi and Gao Shun will completely collapse, and the infantry without the battle formation will be powerless to resist in the face of the cavalry, and only the part of the slaughter will remain.

At the critical moment, thanks to the soldiers of the two infantry battalions of Le Yi and Gao Shun, they forgot to die to block the gap in the two corners, and did not let the Rouran cavalry expand the gap in the battle formation, coupled with Zhou Kai's timely attack of the cavalry battalion, which helped to repel the two cavalry battalions of Rouran, and finally relieved the crisis of the two infantry battalions of Le Yi and Gao Shun.

Yeluqi, the Khitan right rite king, saw that a cavalry of the Ju'an army was dispatched, and immediately asked the Shatuo tribe and the Ding Ling tribe to send 20,000 cavalry each, preparing to leave the cavalry unit of the Ju'an army on the battlefield, but Zhou Kai's cavalry battalion quickly retreated to the back of the six infantry battalions after relieving the crisis of the two infantry battalions of Le Yi and Gao Shun.

The 40,000 cavalry of the Shatuo clan and the Ding Ling clan combined, one left and one right, chased Zhou Kai's cavalry battalion, and rushed to the back of the six infantry battalions of the Ju'an army.

At this time, Liu Ji had already taken many generals and puppet bodyguards, and also withdrew to the back of the six infantry battalions, and saw the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Shatuo tribe and the Ding Ling tribe chasing from both sides of the three huge infantry battle formations, Liu Ji immediately ordered Yang Zaixing, Zhou Kai, Hua Xiong and Li Wenzhong The four cavalry battalions all attacked to meet the tens of thousands of Hu cavalry.

At the same time, Liu Ji also ordered the two infantry battalions of Li Xin and Meng Wu to move to both sides respectively, preparing to intercept the retreat of the tens of thousands of Hu cavalry.

Yeluqi, the Khitan Right Rite King, quickly saw through Liu Ji's intention to eat the 40,000 cavalry of the Shatuo tribe and the Ding Ling tribe, and immediately mobilized nearly 100,000 cavalry of several tribes and rushed to the opposite Ju'an army.

Because of the addition of nearly 100,000 Hu cavalry, Liu Ji's idea of eating the 40,000 cavalry of the Shatuo tribe and the Ding Ling tribe in the end did not come true, but the four cavalry battalions of Yang Zaixing, Zhou Kai, Hua Xiong and Li Wenzhong also brought a lot of casualties to the Hu people's coalition army.

The two sides displayed their own tricks, defending and attacking one after another, and fought fiercely until the afternoon of 2 May, when the officers and men of both sides even ate lunch on the battlefield.

In the end, it was Yeluqi, the king of Khitan Youli, who felt that it was impossible to have any big gains today, so he ordered the troops to be withdrawn, and the day's battle had caused the various ethnic groups to lose nearly 60,000 cavalry combined, but still did not defeat a giant infantry battle formation at the front of the Ji'an army.

Seeing the dense grassland cavalry on the opposite side, it seemed that they were beginning to return to the camp, and Liu Datou and Zhang Minghui, who were in the infantry battle array, were immediately relieved.

Under the fierce impact of the cavalry of the Hu people, although the infantry battle formation composed of the two infantry battalions of Le Yi and Gao Shun still maintained a solid formation, the two infantry battalions suffered a lot of losses.

Liu Datou was originally standing in the sixth row of the battle array, Zhang Minghui stood in the seventh row, the two of them held a long wooden gun together, and the fierce battle reached the time when the Hu Ren coalition army was collected, Liu Datou and Zhang Minghui were still holding a long wooden gun together, but their position in the battle formation became the second and third rows, and four soldiers had died in front of this column.

"Big head, the Hu cavalry won't rush again, right?"

"The lives of the two of us are saved today, these steppe cavalry continue to rush over, and the two of us will be hanging!"

After Yeluqi, the Khitan right-handed king, returned to the coalition camp, he immediately summoned the Great Khan and the kings of the other nine clans to his felt bag.

Yeluqi looked at the Great Khan and the kings of the various clans and said in a deep voice: "Everyone has seen it today, the cavalry of all ethnic groups have also fought with the Ju'an army, how is the combat effectiveness of the Ju'an army under the command of Liu Ji, the Great Jin Dove, this king will not say much here, now let's take a closer look, how to defeat the main force of the Ju'an army here in Qishankou!" ”

Yeluqi discussed with the Great Khan and the kings of the other nine clans for a long time, but in the end they did not come up with any better strategies.

Originally, Yeluqi was going to send a partial army to enter Qianzhou from other gorges in the Anxing Mountains in Qianzhou, and then directly take the old nest of the Great Jin Dove Tiger into the Yin City, but Yeluqi's idea was stopped by the Great Khan of several other tribes.

The reason is that the cavalry of all ethnic groups is not good at attacking the city, even if Liu Ji leaves 10,000 people in Chengyin City, 100,000 cavalry of all ethnic groups may not be able to capture Chengyin City, not to mention that Liu Ji concentrated his main army here in Qishankou, which is equivalent to giving the coalition army the opportunity to defeat the main force of the Jue'an army in the field battle.

Yeluqi thought about it for a while, and accepted the opinions of several Great Khans, and gave up the idea of sending a partial army to attack Chengyin City by a detour, but then Yeluqi asked Wuheng, Lou Fu, Rouran, Donghu, Dangxiang, Shatuo and Ding Lingqi to send more food and forage to the coalition camp as much as possible, Yeluqi was worried that the coalition army would not be able to defeat the main force of the Ji'an army here in Qishankou in a short period of time, and the territory of the Khitan, Baitan and Limo tribes was too far away from here, and the seven tribes in front of them could only rely on the seven tribes in front of them to replenish the supplies for the coalition army.

After the six infantry battalions and four cavalry battalions of the Ju'an Army returned to the camp today, after statistics, today's battle with the coalition army of the ten tribes of the Hu people, the infantry and cavalry of the Ju'an Army lost more than 10,000 people, compared with the losses of the Hu people's coalition army, it can be said that it is a good start and a victory.

In the face of the Hu coalition army with a strength of more than 1.5 million, at present, in addition to the dignified duel, Liu Ji and the generals under his command can't think of any good way for the time being.

On May 3, 427 of the Great Jin Dynasty, the Hu coalition army invested more than 300,000 cavalry on the battlefield, and launched a bloody battle with eight infantry battalions and four cavalry battalions of the Ju'an army.

As the leader of the Hu Alliance, Yeluqi, the Khitan Right Rite King, wanted to invest more troops and defeat the recalcitrant Ju'an army with an overwhelming superiority, but unfortunately the Ju'an army used the terrain here in Qishan Pass to set up an infantry battle formation, so that the Hu Ren coalition army could not invest too many troops at one time, even 300,000 Hu cavalry were also put into the battlefield in batches.

On May 4, 427, the Hu army still invested more than 300,000 cavalry on the battlefield, while the Ju'an army invested nine infantry battalions and five cavalry battalions, and finally the Hu army suffered about 50,000 casualties on the side and more than 14,000 casualties on the Ju'an side.

On May 5, 427, the Hu army suffered more than 40,000 casualties, and the Ju'an army suffered about 12,000 casualties.

In this way, the two sides have been fighting fiercely here in Qishankou for ten days, and the Hu coalition army, which occupies the advantage of troops, still has not defeated the Jue'an army led by Liu Ji, and after ten days, the strength of the Hu coalition army that can still fight has dropped to 1.14 million, and about 420,000 cavalry of various ethnic groups have either become corpses, or they have been seriously injured and can no longer continue to fight, of which the number of dead is as high as 400,000.

In the ten days of fierce fighting, 120,000 people were killed and more than 30,000 wounded.

On the evening of 10 May, in the camp of the Juan'an army north of Qishankou, Liu Datou came to the camp of the wounded soldiers where Zhang Minghui was.

Zhang Minghui was lying on the wool felt, and when he saw Liu Datou walking into the tent, he said with a difficult smile on his face: "Brother Datou, you are here, no, I should call you Shi Chang!" ”

Liu Datou and Zhang Minghui's Shi Shi, as well as the two Wu Chiefs, have all been killed in the battle, and Liu Datou, who is quite brave, was appointed as the Wu Chang after the Wu Chang was killed, and after his Shi Chang died in battle, Liu Datou was promoted to Shi Chang.

Liu Datou looked at the gauze wrapped around Zhang Minghui's right shoulder, and said with a sigh: "Brother Minghui, let's call me Brother Datou in the future!" If you hadn't blocked that knife for me, I, Liu Datou, would have already been in a different place at this time, where could I still be that chief! ”

Yesterday on the battlefield, the battle formation formed by Le Yi's infantry battalion was attacked by the Khitan cavalry, and if Zhang Minghui hadn't used his body to help Liu Datou block a knife in the battle, Liu Datou's head would have been cut off by the Khitan cavalry.

Liu Datou never dreamed that the timid Zhang Minghui would sacrifice his life to save himself regardless of his own safety, and from the moment Zhang Minghui saved him, Liu Datou regarded Zhang Minghui as his own brother.

"I asked the doctor of the wounded barracks, your shoulder injury is not a big deal, thanks to your iron armor is strong enough, otherwise that knife, one of your arms will be gone, now you only need to rest for ten days and half a month, you should be able to recover almost, I have already agreed with the team rate, when you return to the team, you will be a captain under me, and the captain will also have four taels of silver every month!" Liu Datou said with a smile.

When Zhang Minghui heard this, he suddenly forgot about the sharp pain in his shoulder, and asked in a somewhat excited tone: "Big brother, are you telling the truth?" I...... Can I be a captain too? Can I? ”

Liu Datou nodded affirmatively and said: "Brother Minghui, of course you are qualified to be the captain of the army, these days not to mention the death battle of our brother's grassland cavalry under the long wooden spear, you yourself have slaughtered five grassland cavalry in a single battle, such a record, in one of our teams, or even the entire tun, who can compare?" ”

Don't look at Zhang Minghui's body is a little thin, but his strength is not small, and his body is very flexible, when some Hu cavalry at the expense of casualties, after breaking into the infantry battle formation, it is necessary to need the soldiers of the Jue'an Army in the battle formation to eliminate these Hu cavalry as soon as possible, and quickly plug the gap in the battle formation, Zhang Minghui personally slaughtered the five grassland cavalry, all killed in this situation.

"Yes! Brother Datou, you are more powerful than me, and there are at least thirteen Hu cavalry slaughtered by your own hands! ”

"Hehe, it's fourteen, otherwise how can the team leader let me take over the position of the chief!"

"Brother Datou, thank you, if I become a captain, I can send more money to my family every month, and my family's life will be better."

"Our brothers are lifelong friendships, and we should help you, by the way, isn't your father sick? If I was short of silver, I had saved almost fourteen taels, and this time I could exchange my exploits for at least seventy or eighty taels, and if you want to use them, you can take them all! ”

According to the rules of the Juan Army, the decapitation of an enemy in battle is a reward of five taels of silver, and if the enemy is an officer, the reward is more, and the higher the enemy's rank, the higher the reward.

"Thank you, big brother, I don't need silver for the time being, my family sent a message a few days ago that the thirty taels of silver left by me when I joined the army have cured my father's illness! By the way, big brother, did our battalion fight today? ”

Liu Datou's face suddenly became a little gloomy, "No, our battalion did not fight today, in yesterday's battle, our Yizi battalion was disabled, let's just say that our Shi, now counting you, in fact, there are only four people left, this is not bad, we have a total of ten Shi, three of them have died, and our entire Yizi Battalion seems to have more than 5,000 people left." ”

Of the various battalions under the command of the Ju'an Army, Liu Ji did not give names to the rest of the battalions except for a few ones, but the soldiers of each battalion privately named their respective battalions in the name of their captains, such as the battalion of Le Yi, and the soldiers in the battalion called themselves Yi battalion.

"What? There are more than 5,000 people left in our Yizi camp, so ...... Aren't there almost 10,000 dead in our Yizi Battalion? Zhang Minghui shouted in shock.

Liu Datou said bitterly: "Brother Minghui, you can recuperate in peace in the wounded barracks!" Our Yizi Battalion should not have fought in the near future, I don't know when we will be able to replenish new recruits to our Yizi Battalion? ”

In Liu Ji's tent in the camp, only Liu Ji, Su Lie and Le Yi were here at this time, Liu Ji sighed and asked Le Yi, "How many people are left in your camp now?" ”

Le Yi said gloomily: "Tell the lord, if you don't count the seriously wounded, there are only a little more than 5,300 left, and the subordinate battalion was disabled by the Khitan cavalry yesterday, and it lost more than 4,500 people in the first battle yesterday." ”

Le Yi, as one of the trump card troops in Liu Ji's hands, except for the first day of fighting against the Hu coalition army here in Qishankou, Liu Ji only sent Le Yi's battalion to fight twice, including yesterday.

However, after Le Yi's battalion went out to battle yesterday, he was targeted by Yeluqi, the Khitan right rite king, Yeluqi did not hesitate to send his Khitan elite cavalry to launch a desperate attack on the infantry battle formation of Le Yi's battalion, hoping to annihilate the elite under the command of the Great Jin Jiuhu.

Fortunately, the soldiers of Le Yi's battalion were tenacious and tough enough, and they stubbornly carried the repeated attacks of tens of thousands of Khitan elite cavalry, and finally under the guidance of several cavalry battalions, they persevered until yesterday evening, that is, when the Hu people coalition army collected its troops.

Of course, the loss of Le Yi's battalion was also staggering, the infantry battalion, which was originally full of more than 15,000 people, now has only more than 5,300 people left, and almost two-thirds of its strength has been lost.

At this time, Su Lie said: "My lord, Brother Le Yi's battalion can't be sent out again, otherwise the foundation of this battalion will be gone, and if you want to rebuild this battalion, there will be a world of difference in combat effectiveness." ”

Liu Ji's face was a little bad at this time, this time the Jue'an army was here in Qishankou, a total of nineteen infantry battalions and ten cavalry battalions were concentrated, and then Liu Ji's guard battalion.

Twelve of the nineteen infantry battalions are newly formed infantry battalions, and the combat effectiveness of the new infantry battalions is not high, and the main way to deal with the attack of the Hu cavalry these days is to rely on Le Yi, Gao Shun, Li Xin, Meng Wu, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, and Zhang Guiben, which are seven infantry battalions with strong combat effectiveness.

In the 10-day fierce battle, the Jing'an army suffered about 150,000 casualties, of which 60,000 were cavalry and 90,000 were infantry, and among the 90,000 infantry, the seven infantry battalions with strong combat strength accounted for almost 55,000.

Therefore, not only Le Yi, the infantry battalion, but also the other six infantry battalions with strong combat strength were almost all disabled in these ten days of bloody battles.

Liu Ji pondered for a moment and said to Le Yi: "Now not only the infantry battalion under your command, but also the six battalions of Gao Shun, Li Xin, Meng Wu, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, and Zhang Guiben have suffered heavy casualties. ”