Chapter 830: The whole army is defeated
Xiang Yong felt that an arrow had hit, and in desperation, he had to quickly dodge sideways, this arrow grazed his neck, fifty steps away, and Hua Rong shot three arrows in a row, forcing Xiang Yong to retreat one after another.
Cao Meng seized the opportunity, pulled out from under the war horse, and galloped into the distance, Xiang Yong was in a hurry, he knew very well that he shot the horse first, and captured the thief first to capture the king, this is the best opportunity to kill Cao Meng, let Cao Meng escape this catastrophe, and it will be difficult to kill him again.
Xiang Yong shouted, picked up a shield and chased Cao Meng, at this moment, a general from the oblique stab killed, a shot straight to Yong, this shot came too fast, the tip of the gun was as fast as lightning, Xiang Yong was surprised, threw away the shield and waved the stick to the tip of the gun, but the tip of the gun suddenly disappeared, he realized that something was wrong, the body rushed to the saddle to lie down, but it was too late, only to feel a pain in the lower abdomen, the tip of the gun has been pierced into the lower abdomen from the side.
This general is the silver spear general Gao Chong, he saw Cao Meng in the distance, the situation was critical, urged the horse to hurry over, and thanks to Hua Rong continuously released arrows to stop Xiang Yong, to gain a little time, so that Gao Chong finally arrived in time.
Gao Chong picked up the silver spear, Xiang Yong shouted, was picked off the horse, and the big iron rod also rolled to the side, Gao Chong didn't wait for him to get up, and another shot pierced Xiang Yong's chest, resulting in his life.
At this time, several personal soldiers galloped over and gave Cao Meng a horse, Cao Meng turned over on the horse, galloped forward to pick up the double hammer, and said to Gao Chong a little embarrassed: "This time it doesn't count, it's just that I fell into a plot." ”
Gao Zhong smiled and urged the horse to kill the enemy.
Cao Meng was annoyed in his heart, no matter what, this time he was suppressed by Gao Pet.
Cao Meng stepped forward to thank Hua Rong for saving his life, he hated it in his heart, and shouted: "Kill me completely!" ”
As the Lord was killed, the heavy cavalry began to fail, and the signs of defeat quickly appeared.
At the same time, there was also a crisis in the central main gun formation of the Jiangnan Army, which was triggered by the three thousand green-headed soldiers who were responsible for guarding the left side of the central spear formation.
The escape of the Greenheads revealed the left side of the spearmen's array, which was the weakness of the Tiger Army's spearmen's formation, and the unprotected weakness was undoubtedly fatal.
Li Yanqing seized this opportunity, he personally led three thousand cavalry to kill, rushed to the front, Li Yanqing shouted, "Attack the left side of the spear formation with all your strength!" ”
The cavalry of the three thousand Jingzhao Army surged up, the impact was like a storm, and they rushed away from the spear formation in an instant, and this large array of spearmen, which had been killed and wounded and attacked by the Jingzhao Army, finally could not hold on, and the formation was chaotic and began to collapse rapidly.
At this time, the horn sounded again in the distance, the Jingzhao army drum sounded like thunder, Li Yanqing gave the order for the final attack, he personally led the 20,000 most elite Jingzhao army, shouting and killing The sound shook the sky, like a gust of wind blowing under the dark clouds, swept towards the Chinese army of the Jiangnan army.
The 6,000 cavalry led by Cao Meng also annihilated the 1,000 heavy armored cavalry of the Jiangnan Army, and the 6,000 cavalry came from behind.
The Jiangnan army was attacked by the enemy on the back, Zheng Chen saw that the situation was not good, and immediately rushed forward and shouted to Xiang: "Marshal, we must withdraw quickly now, otherwise we will be wiped out!" ”
Xiang Fa's face turned pale, he gritted his teeth fiercely, and shouted: "Withdraw immediately, retreat to the west!" ”
With the escape of the commander, the Jiangnan army completely collapsed, and tens of thousands of troops fled westward, and the army was defeated for a while.
"Kill!"
The Jingzhao army shouted and killed, and their morale was greatly boosted, and they chased the enemy army to cover up and kill, and the defeated soldiers who were crushed and crushed fled for their lives, they trampled on each other, and the field was full of soldiers who were suffocated and trampled to death.
A few miles to the west is a small river, the river is about ten zhang wide, there was originally a wooden bridge, but Yan Qing led the scout cavalry to demolish the bridge, the Jiangnan army defeated soldiers have nowhere to escape, one after another jumped into the river to swim.
Although the river was not deep, at most it only reached the top of people's heads, and there was no threat to the soldiers living in Jiangnan, but under the scramble of the soldiers, the soldiers trampled on each other, countless people drowned in the river, and the corpses soon blocked the river.
The corpses piled up like a mountain, forming a bridge of corpses, and the defeated soldiers behind them stepped on the corpses of their companions and fled to the other side, only to hear moans, screams, and cries, and everything was like madness, horror and chaos.
But the 3,000 cavalry rushed to the front, cutting off the escape path of the Jiangnan soldiers, and in the end, tens of thousands of desperate Jiangnan troops had to kneel and kowtow and beg for mercy, and countless surrendered to them.
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The battle, which lasted for nearly three hours, finally ended, and the sky began to drizzle, diluting the blood all over the ground, and groups of soldiers walked by with their heads hung down, they surrendered too late, they would all be labeled as rebellion, unless they took their families to leave their homeland to earn a living elsewhere, their lives would be very bleak, and the stain of rebellion would not be easily washed away, and even carry them for the rest of their lives.
The soldiers of the Jingzhao Army are busy cleaning the battlefield, it is already summer, and after two days when the sun comes out, the weather will become extremely hot, and the corpses will easily deteriorate at that time, and if they are not dealt with in time, the consequences will be very serious, and this is how the epidemic that ravaged the Central Plains came out.
The soldiers had already dug dozens of large pits in the wilderness, threw the corpses into the pits, doused them with fire oil and began to burn them, and then buried them deep after they were burned to ashes.
Li Yanqing inspected the battlefield everywhere under the escort of hundreds of personal guards, and in front of him was a mountain of armor and weapons, a total of five piles, and this was the largest pile in front of him, which was the armor of the Tiger Ben Army and the Flying Bear Army, all of which were the best armor in the Great Song Dynasty army, Shunshui Mountain Pattern Armor and Black Hammer Armor, and one such armor was worth a hundred times.
"Qiyu Dutong, 7,400 pairs of mountain pattern armor, about 6,500 pairs of black hammer armor, these are complete armor, incomplete armor is not counted, and the iron armor is ........"
The marching Sima reported a series of boring figures, but Li Yanqing didn't pay too much attention to it, he waited for the marching Sima to finish speaking, and then asked him: "I want to know the whereabouts of several major enemy generals, have you found out?" ”
"Back to the capital, Xiang Yong, Zhao Wenkai, Guo Huaisu and Lei De have all been killed, Li Mo and Zhu Hongying have been captured, and only Xiang Fa and Zheng Chen are missing."
The dead and captured are not the main characters, the key is Xiang Fa and Zheng Chen, one is the eldest grandson of the Xiang family, and the other is the nephew of the Empress Dowager Zheng, this person is the top two people in the Jiangnan Army, if he escapes, it will be a pity.
"Continue to track down the whereabouts of these two people, you want to see people in life, and you want to see corpses in death!"
Li Yanqing's order made many soldiers muttered in their hearts, you must know that thousands of people have been burned, in case these two people are also mixed in the corpse, where to find the corpse?
At this time, a group of prisoners of war walked past Li Yanqing, he glanced at these prisoners of war, and now fell on one of the prisoners of war, this prisoner of war was wearing shabby leather armor, seemed to have a wound on his head, covered half of his face with his coat, and walked with a limp, Li Yanqing looked at him for a moment, and suddenly pointed with a horsewhip, "Keep him alone!" ”
The face of the alleged prisoner of war changed, and he turned around and ran, but several soldiers threw himself to the ground and tied him up with hemp ropes, and the prisoner did not say a word or struggle, as if he had accepted his fate.
The soldiers escorted the prisoner of war to Li Yanqing, who drew his sword and picked the cloth on his face, revealing an angry face, but he could not see a single injury.
"If I'm not mistaken, you should not be low!" Li Yanqing smiled faintly.
The prisoner of war spat heavily to the side, and said proudly: "Grandpa, I won't change my name when I stand or sit down, Zheng Chen is also!" ”
"It turns out that you are Zheng Chen, I thought it was Xiang Fa."
"Humph! That soft egg is dead. ”
"Dead!"
Li Yanqing asked, "Where did you die?" ”
Zheng Chen looked at the small river in the distance, many soldiers were fishing for corpses in the river, "I should have died in the river, I saw him go down the river, but I didn't see him get up." ”
Li Yanqing made a look, and Zhang Bao immediately took hundreds of soldiers to the river to retrieve the corpses.
"May I ask how Captain Li recognized me?" Zheng Chen asked a little unwillingly.
"You are different from these prisoners of war, I can see it, Zheng Chen, you should also be a jinshi!"
"I was born as a Jinshi, and unlike you, Taiwei Li was admitted to the Jinshi, and I was just stained with the light of the imperial family."
Zheng Chen sighed again and asked, "What does Taiwei Li plan to do with me?" ”
Li Yanqing shook his head, "What to do with you has nothing to do with me, it's up to the official family to decide!" ”
Of course, Li Yanqing also has the right to dispose of it, otherwise Zhao Gou would not have given him the sword of Shang Fang Tianzi, but he didn't want to do much with the three major relatives, this kind of thing was handled well, Zhao Gou might not be grateful to himself, but if one was not handled well, there were endless hidden dangers, so let Zhao Gou deal with it himself.
At this moment, Zhang Bao shouted in the distance: "Dutong, fish it out!" ”