Chapter 14: The Great Army Spreads Its Pressure
At the end of the month, Zhang Liao set off with three thousand flying snake iron horses. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info Zhang Liao's army bypassed the county seat of Mayi with great fanfare and went straight to Sangqian. Tang Hua led another 2,000 Flying Snake Iron Cavalry to secretly set off after nightfall, choosing a forest to hide before dawn, while only more than 4,000 soldiers were left in the base camp of Tang Hua's army.
When Zhang Liao led an army of 3,000 to Sangqian City, there were only a few more than 300 cavalry stationed in the city, and they did not expect that Tang Hua's army would boldly bypass Mayi City and attack them directly. The Tartars in Sangqian City did not expect that Tang Huajun was not afraid of cutting off the back road, the number of Xianbei cavalry in the city was not large, and they had also heard of the prestige of Tang Huajun, so they did not dare to go out of the city to fight a decisive battle. They had already asked for help from the Xianbei army around them, and they had to wait for reinforcements to arrive.
As for the 2,000 Flying Snake Army led by Tang Hua, they had already secretly infiltrated the mountains less than twenty miles away from Sangqian City, just waiting for the prey to take the bait, as long as there was a prey to take the bait, then Tang Hua would pounce fiercely until the prey was annihilated.
Zhang Liao made a symbolic attack on Sangqian City, letting the enemy know that Tang Hua's army did not have siege equipment, and blatantly acted as if he was manufacturing siege equipment in the city. And the Xianbei cavalry in other small cities did not come to support Sangqian, even Mayi City did not come, although there were also six or seven hundred soldiers in Mayi City, but they were still worried that Tang Huajun would take the opportunity to attack Mayi, and only the Xianbei cavalry in Yinguan City was dispatched. They knew that Zhang Liao's army was only 3,000 men and was now making siege equipment, and they were very confident in the strength of their cavalry. In order to eat Zhang Liao's army at one time, more than 4,000 iron horsemen were dispatched in the city of Yinguan at one time, leaving nearly 1,000 iron horsemen in the city to defend the city.
After Tang Hua received the scout's report, he was quite happy at first. However, after the Tang Hua army scouts continued to reconnoitre, they found that this group of Xianbei cavalry was still relatively cunning, and they would rather walk a little longer than take the road that would allow Tang Hua to ambush.
In the end, after Tang Hua and Zhang Liao studied it, they decided to annihilate them at night.
Since there was no good ambush position, Zhang San could only sneak attack the camp of the Xianbei tribe with five hundred flying snake soldiers.
Although Tang Hua also knew that the Xianbei people must be prepared. Tang Hua asked Zhang Chuang not to get too close to the enemy camp, and asked them to shoot at the enemy camp with rockets a little farther away, the purpose of which was to attract the enemy army.
Zhang Liao led 2,500 Flying Snake troops to wait for Zhang San's army to retreat halfway, while Tang Hua led 1,500 Flying Snake troops to wait a little further on the flank.
When the enemy army chased Zhang San's army out of the camp, as long as he heard the movement of Tang Hua's army's attack, Li Jin led five hundred flying snakes to finish the camp of the Xianbei army, and there would not be many enemy troops stationed in the camp at that time.
The actual situation was indeed the same as Tang Hua expected, when Zhang San took five hundred Flying Snake troops to the range of the enemy's camp, Zhang San immediately asked his soldiers to shoot rockets at the enemy's camp. When the enemy saw that Zhang San's army did not want to enter the big tent, he had to lead the army to kill Zhang San's army. Especially when he saw that Zhang San's army only had a few hundred cavalry, not even a thousand cavalry, he immediately wanted to destroy Zhang San's army in one fell swoop.
Zhang San led his men to retreat and return fire to the enemy, always keeping a certain distance from the enemy. This made the Xianbei army extremely angry, and immediately led the army to chase Zhang Chuangjun at full speed. When Zhang Sanyi saw the enemy chasing and killing, he dared to stay, and immediately led his soldiers to retreat. The enemy's speed is fast, he is fast, the enemy army slows down a little, he slows down, and so fast and slow, the enemy pursues for almost twenty or thirty miles. At this time, the momentum of the enemy army is not as high as it was at the beginning, and the enemy army is hesitant to continue to chase and kill. It's better to stop hunting.
Zhang Liao led 2,500 flying snakes to kill the enemy, and Tang Hua also led 1,500 flying snake soldiers to the enemy's flank a little farther away.
When Zhang Liao and Zhang San were entangled with the enemy, the Flying Snake Soldiers led by Tang Hua also killed the enemy's flank and rear.
The enemy really didn't expect that there would be Tang Hua's army in their flank and rear, and now the enemy army was confused, and the enemy soldiers didn't know whether to turn around and face Tang Hua's army? Or continue to fight against Zhang Liao and Zhang Sanjun?
Of course, they just wanted to turn around and stop Tang Hua's army, and it was impossible to fight, because it was not so easy for the cavalry to turn around, and it could not be completed in a very short time like the infantry.
Some of the enemy soldiers turned, some did not turn, and some only turned halfway, and in just a moment, the enemy soldiers were in great confusion, which of course meant defeat and the fate of being slaughtered. The leader of the enemy army was met by Zhang Liao, he only walked more than ten rounds under Zhang Liao before Zhang Liao shot through, the Xianbei soldiers saw the leader die in battle, the whole morale plummeted, and the soldiers of the Tang Hua army shouted surrender and do not kill, surrender and do not kill. Seeing that the general situation had gone, some of the Xianbei soldiers began to flee, and some of the soldiers saw that they could not escape, so they simply surrendered.
Tang Hua's army did not stop chasing and killing the enemy, Tang Hua only left Zhang Chuang to lead a few hundred soldiers to collect prisoners, and Tang Hua and Zhang Liao led a large army to chase and kill behind the enemy. When the enemy soldiers fled to their own camp, they were not waiting for their comrades, but the interception of the soldiers led by Li Jin. This made the enemy soldiers even more panicked, they had no intention of fighting, but Li Jin didn't want to let them go.
After a while, the army led by Tang Hua and Zhang Liao was also killed, and the enemy soldiers who had not yet escaped saw that there was no hope, so they had to choose to surrender, and the Xianbei Tartar iron cavalry that could escape only had a few hundred horsemen.
The battle was over, and after cleaning up the battlefield, the Tang Hua army killed more than 1,200 Xianbei cavalry, captured more than 2,500 people, and several hundred enemy soldiers escaped. Tang Huajun suffered more than 500 casualties, of which more than 200 were seriously wounded or killed. Generally speaking, Tang Huajun's victory this time can be regarded as a complete victory, although hundreds of enemy troops escaped out, but it is irrelevant to Tang Huajun, and now there are a little more than a thousand troops in the entire Yin Pavilion City, which will not have much impact on Tang Huajun's next attack on Yin Pavilion City.
During the break, Tang Hua said to Li Jin: "Li Jin, is your camp against the enemy army stubbornly resisted?" ”
Li Jin said with a smile: "Lord, they only left a few hundred soldiers in the entire enemy camp, and they all went to hunt down Zhang Chuang, when I led the brothers into the camp, the enemy soldiers did not expect that our army would sneak attack their camp in this case, and they did not expect to be attacked, so we caught the enemy soldiers by surprise, and we only paid the price of more than 20 soldiers to end their camp, and completely solved the enemy." ”
Two days later, Tang Hua led his army to the outside of the Yin Pavilion City, and when Zhang Liao led his soldiers to attack the city, he found that it was an empty city, and all the Xianbei cavalry fled. When Tang Hua entered the city, he learned that it was the hundreds of defeated soldiers who fled back, saying that the army was all annihilated by Tang Hua's army, and when the enemy generals in charge of defending the city heard that Tang Hua's army had five or six thousand cavalry, they immediately chose to flee.
After Tang Huajun entered the city, he also rescued more than 1,000 Han people, they were all captured by the Xianbei army, and then became the slaves of the Xianbei tribe, especially the more than 500 women, who completely became the puppets and objects of venting of the Xianbei soldiers, and when they saw Tang Huajun, they were really in tears. Tang Hua Ma asked people to place them all in place, and reassured them that no Tartar iron rider would dare to bully them in the future. Immediately, Tang Hua immediately asked Li Jin to lead 1,500 flying snake soldiers to rush directly towards Yanmen Pass, without letting them stay for a moment. Tang Hua didn't want the defenders of Yanmen Pass to have any time to prepare for defense, and Tang Hua also wanted to catch people off guard again.
When Li Jin arrived at Yanmen Pass, the Xianbei cavalry on the pass also withdrew. After Tang Hua received Li Jin's report, he immediately arranged for craftsmen and some captives to repair Yanmen Pass, make the city wall of Yanmen Pass taller and thicker, and add fortifications to strengthen the defense capability. At the same time, let Zhang Liao lead the army to attack other cities in Yanmen County, and the entire territory of Yanmen County must be recovered as quickly as possible, so that Tang Hua's army will have a little defensive ability.