Chapter 521: Mission Accomplished
The enemy army is 200,000, although only less than 100,000 finally participated in the battle, but it is also more than 20 times that of the Yejiabao army.
The Yejiabao army was unprepared from the beginning and got very good results. But this good situation is only temporary.
In the shouting and shouting of the two brothers of the Zhang family, the enemy army began to slowly become orderly. The Yejiabao army was also facing an increasingly difficult predicament at this time.
The people led by Lin Biao rushed to the enemy camp and set fire everywhere, and they were better. And the iron tower is different, under Zhang Zuosheng's strict orders and scolding.
The musketeers began to shoot and kill, which was likely to injure their own men, but quickly stopped the tower from rushing left and right, and gradually formed an encirclement around them.
Realizing that it was not good, the tower had already come up with the idea of slipping away, and at this time he wanted to inform Lin Biao to retreat, but found that he could no longer be contacted.
In desperation, the tower could only order the whole army to fight out of the encirclement and retreat first!
"Bang ......"
Gunshots rang out in the tower's ears, and one of the guards behind him was suddenly overturned under the horse. Looking back at the tower, he found that he was too dead to die, and his entire head had been blasted open.
Tower's face changed dramatically, but before he could get angry and look for the murderer, the gunfire among the enemy began to grow more and more intense.
"Watch out for the musketeers, take the shield, withdraw!" The iron tower suppressed the anger in his heart, did not dare to hesitate any longer, and immediately took the lead in the killing.
The enemy forces had begun to gain order, and the musketeers, who had been in a panic, were gathered by their commanders. Then the cavalry of the Yejiabao army began to shoot mercilessly.
The casualties of the Yejiabao army continued to appear, although they all had wooden shields to defend themselves, but unfortunately the distance between the two sides was too close at the moment, and the defensive capabilities of the wooden shields became very limited.
A trace of remorse flashed on Tie Tower's face, when it was going well just now, he was too carried away and didn't escape in time, and now it seems to be too late to run.
"No matter how late it is, you have to rush out!" The tower secretly reminded himself that he couldn't let his men die here like this.
The sabers flew over, and the tower took the lead, followed by a dozen or so guards, and then the rest of the cavalry. Once again, they formed a charging formation and began to charge with the tower leading the way.
The tower no longer cares about killing more enemies, and his only wish now is to withdraw with all his subordinates as soon as possible.
However, it backfired, the enemy army had formed an effective defense, and it had begun to stabilize, and it was already difficult for the tower to rush out.
The more he killed Tie Tower, the more chilling he became, and he had already foreshadowed that even if he could rush out in the end, the entire cavalry battalion would inevitably be left with little left.
"Kill!"
Suddenly, from the left side of the tower, there was an earth-shattering shout of killing.
There was a lot of commotion on the left side of the enemy army at the same time, and when the tower heard the sound, he saw Lin Biao and other cavalry battalion brothers rushing over.
"Brethren come with me, hahaha!" The iron tower saw hope, the horse's head turned slightly, and immediately rushed to Lin Biao's side.
The two soon converged in the enemy camp, Lin Biao seemed to have a way back, and as soon as he saw the arrival of the iron tower, he immediately shouted loudly: "Let me take the lead and follow me." ”
Tie Ta didn't hesitate, he understood that Lin Biao had just set fire back and forth in the enemy camp, and he must know where the enemy's weak point was.
Sure enough, Lin Biao was very familiar with the situation of the enemy camp, and led all the brothers of the cavalry battalion to rush left and right, and soon bypassed the main force of the enemy army and rushed out of the enemy camp.
"Hahaha...... Brethren go! The tower was in a good mood, and after shouting, he urged the horse to gallop with all his might.
With less than 3,000 men and horses left, the Yejiabao cavalry battalion suffered heavy casualties this time, but it had a brilliant record. After all, they attacked the opponent's 100,000 army head-on with only 5,000 soldiers and horses.
When Zhang Zuosheng and Zhang Jiachang saw the cavalry battalion of Yejiabao fleeing, they shouted angrily and immediately ordered the whole army to pursue. was dissuaded by Yan Xisan and Feng Guozhang, who rushed over.
"Zhang Shuai, don't chase after the poor Kou, be careful that there is an ambush outside them."
"Yes! These Yejiabao troops are too cunning, we should be careful. ”
The Zhang brothers did not send troops to chase after them, but the two of them were angry that Yan Xisan and Feng Guozhang did not send troops to help just now.
Zhang Zuosheng immediately sneered: "They are pretending to be good people, Lao Tzu is fighting to the death here, but you are all watching the excitement at the side." ”
"Yes, I suspect you want to wait for us to suffer a heavy blow before taking the opportunity to annex us." Zhang Jiachang immediately echoed his eldest brother.
Yan Xisan and Feng Guozhang glanced at each other, and at the same time saw helplessness in each other's eyes, they were really afraid of anything.
Yan Xisan took the lead in explaining: "Zhang Shuai, you can't say that, you also saw the chaos just now." It's not that we don't send troops to help, but we can't send troops over! ”
Feng Guozhang in order not to cause unpleasantness to everyone, immediately said: "Once we send troops to stir up again, it is inevitable that there will be some accidental injuries, and when our own people fight, won't they be seen as a joke by those guys in Yejiabao, as they want, and fall into their plan!" ”
Zhang Zuosheng and Zhang Jiachang also seemed to understand the truth, but the two were obviously still dissatisfied. After all, they still suffered a big loss this time, and the chaos just now directly led to the death and injury of nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses.
The casualties of so many people were not all beaten by the Yejiabao army, but most of them were caused by trampling on each other in a panic.
"Hmph, forget it this time, I don't care about you!" After thinking about it, Zhang Zuosheng still failed to succeed in the end.
Seeing that the two brothers of the Zhang family had calmed down, Yan Xisan and Feng Guozhang were immediately relieved. It seems that the two are not so confused that they don't know anything.
Although the Yejiabao army had retreated, the four marshals still did not dare to relax in the slightest. In their opinion, these cavalry in Yejiabao are completely crazy, and they are not lightly crazy!
I was fully prepared to help the Zhang brothers clean up the camp, and after a while, the sky was almost bright.
Tie Ta and Lin Biao have been running towards the location of Ye Shaolong's army, and the enemy army has no need to care about it at all. I believe that the attack just now was enough for them to keep busy until dawn.
By dawn, Ye Shaolong's army had arrived, and their cavalry battalion had successfully completed Ye Shaolong's orders.
Ye Shaolong's army was camped a few miles away at this moment, and when he learned that the iron tower was actually frenzied to attack the 200,000 enemy troops with 5,000 soldiers and horses. Ye Shaolong has been worried about their safety, and he hasn't closed his eyes all night, waiting for news.