Chapter 737: The Battle of Tongshan
Li Mi and Yu Wenhua fought a big battle in Xiangcheng County, and half a month has passed, and there are casualties on each other.
During this period, Li Mi listened to the strategy of the strategist Fang Yanzao, pretending to make peace with Yu Wenhua and to join forces to take Luoyang, in fact, he had to exhaust Yu Wenhua's grain and grass, because this Sui army that went north did not carry much grain and grass with him, and the rear also lost its roots.
A few days passed, Yu Wenhua and could not get a specific answer from Li Mi for a long time, and he had some doubts in his heart, at this time, he happened to be a military attache of the Wagang Army, Zhai Rang Old Department, after breaking the law, he was worried about being punished, and he entered Yu Wenhua's army, and told Yu Wenhua's true intentions to Li Mi.
"This Li Mi villain actually deceived me like this, how can it be reasonable!" Yu Wenhua was furious, seeing that the grain and grass were exhausted, and the seventy or eighty thousand army would have no food available, and they could not travel long distances to other places, so they could only attack the camp of the Wagang army, defeat the Wagang army, and rob the other party of grain and grass.
Due to the presence of Yujuluo and Yuwencheng, plus a lot of regular captains, captains, and partial generals of the Sui army, as well as the powerful Xiaoguowei, Yu Wenhua felt that it was still possible to defeat the Wagang army if he took risks.
Therefore, Yu Wenhua led all the main forces, about 60,000 people, across Yishui, arrived at the foot of the Tongshan branch, and lined up in front of the Wagang army camp.
"Li Mi, get out, you untrustworthy villain!" Yu Wenhua and scolded, hated in his heart, was deceived, if someone hadn't told him, wait a few days, and he would have not seen the Wagang army form an alliance and sent grain and grass, and the seventy or eighty thousand troops would have mutinied with hunger.
Li Mi learned that the Sui army came to call for war, and sneered: "This Yu culture is nothing more than that, although I used to do things in the court, there are many tricks, but they are all small tricks, small means, I can't do the troubled times, I don't have enough brains, I don't have a long-term vision, this Sui army, most of them are from Guanzhong, they are eager to return home, and their morale is low, so they are vulnerable, we have already competed in the previous battles, this time, we defeated the remnants of the Sui army head-on, and captured Yu culture and . ”
"General, it's better for us to stay out of the wall, as long as we stay up for more than ten days, the Sui army will be completely dispersed because of lack of food." Jia Runfu said.
Li Mi shook his head and said: "In case they escape and attack elsewhere, we will miss the opportunity in vain, this is to prove the strength of our Wagang army to all the powerful forces, the people of the world, the time has come, kill Yu Wenhua, get the praise and attachment of the people, it is very worthwhile." ”
Many generals have long wanted to win a battle, so Wang Bodang, Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan, Shan Xiongxin, Wang Junkuo and others all asked for battle.
Li Mi smiled and nodded, his morale was like a rainbow, it was the opportunity to destroy the Sui army.
The order was immediately given, and the whole army dispatched the elite to line up in front of the battalion.
Soon, the horn sounded, and the orders were passed down layer by layer, and there was an endless stream.
"Knock Knock Knock"
The dull sound of war drums, piercing the silence of the sky, the Wagang army camp immediately resounded, and the sound of horses' hooves, armor, and footsteps sounded loudly, and the momentum was extremely huge.
After a while, the Wagang army was assembled on the flat ground outside the camp, and there were also 50,000 or 60,000 troops.
At the moment of the cavalry, the war horses are in the ranks, and the sabers and spears in their hands are shining with a faint cold light, which is daunting.
Li Mi, Wang Bodang, Shan Xiongxin, Cheng Zhijie, Luo Shixin, Pei Renji and other generals gathered.
On the opposite side, before the Sui army went north, there were also some generals, such as the most courageous Yuwen Chengdu, as well as the old general Yu Juluo, as well as Meng Jing, Pei Qiantong, Zheng Shanguo, Xu Hongren, Yuwen Zhiji, Chen Zhiluo, Fan Wenchao and others, who were also many generals.
Li Mi looked at Yu Wenhua in front of this group of Jiangdu rebels, and shouted loudly: "Your Yuwen family was born in the slave 'Po Yetou' of the Huns, a family of three generations, and received Sui Grace, enjoying glory and wealth. However, if the Lord is immoral, he cannot die to admonish, but instead does the act of rebellion and usurpation, which is intolerable by heaven, and everyone will be punished! ”
Yu Wenhua was furious: "All of you are anti-thieves, but you accuse me, it's really a thief shouting to catch a thief, and you won't die today!" ”
"Kill"
The two sides didn't have anything good to say, and after a few words, they all held back their strength and charged towards each other.
Combined, the two sides invested more than 100,000 troops, and at the same time, thousands of troops shouted and killed, and in an instant, almost tore the void, deafening, as if to set off an earth-shattering storm.
The area that stretched for about two miles was full of war horses and armor soldiers, and the left and right of the archers were no longer large, because the armies of both sides were mixed together, and it was difficult to distinguish them from a distance.
The thick bloody qi began to rise, forming an invisible aura here, the soldiers and horses howled, and the blood was monstrous.
Yuwen Chengdu was very brave, fighting Luo Shixin, Pei Xingyan and Wang Bodang alone, and the fight was inseparable.
Yujuluo and Pei Renji are both veteran generals who dispatch the three armies, so they will only collide with the soldiers in formation and fight the enemy in formation.
The other generals led a team of 1,000 people to fight on the battlefield.
This time, Li Mi was a little underestimated, he had the upper hand in the first few battles, and misjudged that this group of Sui troops was demoralized and had no intention of fighting, but he didn't know that Yu Wenhua and the most elite Imperial Forest Army and Xiao Guowei had not been put into battle before, and it was not until today that the most elite core forces were brought out for the final life-and-death fight.
This batch of elite Xiaoguo Guards, from the Guanlong region, is strong, brave and good at fighting, because they are royal guards, so they are matched with the best war horses in the Western Regions, equipped with riding spears and sabers, wearing blood-colored Mingguang armor, wearing a red gold leopard helmet, and a blood eagle tattooed on his left arm.
After a hard encounter with the elite of the Wagang Army, he even gained the upper hand, and the elite of the Wagang Army was a little unbearable.
Both armies at this moment, have no way to retreat, from the morning to dusk, five or six hours, the battle situation is deadlocked, and finally even Li Mi was shot by a stray arrow, planted off the horse, almost trampled to death by the chaotic army, fortunately Cheng Zhijie arrived, armed with a horse lance to kill more than ten brave Sui soldiers who surrounded him, and only then rescued Li Mi, who fell unconscious, back to the army.
However, the main force of the army outside the camp was still fighting, half an hour later, Li Mi woke up, regretted, did not expect this main force of the Sui army to be so difficult to fight, he immediately decided, ordered the three armies to gather the remnants, avoid its edge, gradually retreat into the camp, use the fortifications to fight, drag the Sui army, as soon as the night is dark, the Sui army will naturally retreat.
As soon as the military order came out, the Wagang army gradually retreated, but the elite of the Sui army also suffered heavy losses, did not eat lunch, fought for half a day, and was physically exhausted, and was unable to attack the camp, so it had to be forced to retreat.