Chapter 1160: Chasing the Dead and Chasing the North

The positions of the two enemy generals were a little too far from the front and separated from the brigade behind, but the martial arts of these two were too high, and they were far from being able to take it in a short siege. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Wait for the Iron Cavalry Brigade to kill, then there is really no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground. The only way now is to leave some people behind the break and let Meng Shu withdraw first.

At about the same moment, an earth-shattering shout erupted from the rear formation, and the Southern Barbarian Army, which had been menacing not long ago and still had considerable combat power, completely collapsed.

The foot soldiers had experienced hard battles before, and their morale was at a low point for a while, and it was entirely because of the expectation of the cavalry that they had the courage to cover up the killing. Seeing Meng Huo's handsome banner overturned and the brute cavalry collapsed, where did they dare to continue to move forward?

Even after an extremely tragic battle, the remnants of the Southern Barbarian Army still exceeded 400,000, and the formation of such a large number of people was certainly extremely spectacular, and the collapse was also amazing.

Like the rising tide of the sea, the empty wilderness after the rain was instantly paved. The black pressure is boundless, and there are crowds of people surging everywhere.

The huge cry that Meng Shu heard was actually a mixture of many sounds, including hoarse screams, cries full of despair, scolding, shouting and killing, and the sound of weapons colliding or entering the body.

The Southern Barbarian Army is a coalition army, and the various units that make up the coalition army are far from being sincere and united with each other. Usually fashionable and frictional, at the moment of great disaster, in order to open up a way of life, it is not unimaginable to raise a knife against the former friendly forces.

Seeing this, Meng Shu finally dispelled the last trace of luck, and took advantage of the fact that several loyal guards were struggling to besiege Zhao Yun and Zhang Fei, rode his horse and swung his sword, fought a bloody way, and fled south.

The first merit was in front of them, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun naturally refused to give up, and killed all of Meng Huo's personal soldiers as quickly as possible, chasing after them.

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Husband war, courage also. An army that has lost its courage, no matter how large its numbers and how well armed it is, no longer poses any threat, and the transformation from wolf to lamb is as simple as that.

Not to mention that the army in front of him is not a powerful and elite army, but just a coalition of barbarians, in other words, a rabble.

Seeing the collapse of the Southern Barbarian Army, Li Yi was also unceremoniously, waved his hand, and ordered the whole army to pursue.

At the beginning of the rout, the first thing was that the rear formation changed to the front formation, and the cavalry in the front formation was left behind, and they wanted to accelerate but were blocked by the crowd in front of them, and they couldn't find a way to survive at all.

The way of life is cut off, if these cavalry return to fight to the death with the momentum of fighting with their backs against the water, let alone after the break, they may even turn defeat into victory again and repel the Tang army.

It's a pity that Meng Shu's Chinese army has been defeated, and without his leadership and encouragement, it would be impossible for the Southern Barbarian Cavalry to turn back.

In order to open the way of escape, they used the momentum of launching a decisive charge, urging the speed of their mounts to the extreme, and directly crashed into the crowd in front of them, slashing and killing with the big knives and spears in their hands, and desperately rushing forward.

Therefore, when the light cavalry took the lead in rushing into the chaotic crowd, around them, there were not only cavalry, but also many infantry, nearly half of whom still had weapons in their hands.

But when these people heard the sound of horses' hooves behind them, not only did they not turn around to face the battle, but they followed suit and directly waved the weapons in their hands to the comrades in front of them, so that the first blow of many Tang cavalry directly split into the air.

Now everyone wanted to run, run to the middle of the group, run to the front of their comrades, and let the people behind them fight against the pursuing Tang cavalry.

The mounts rushed in a hurry, and the chaotic crowd didn't have time to dodge, and many people were directly hit by the mounts.

What makes people even more desperate is that more than half of such accidents are caused by their own people.

This kind of impact makes the already chaotic team even more difficult to clean up. No one thought about turning around and resisting with weapons, they were all desperately drilling forward.

The battlefield is a very large wilderness, but the routed soldiers feel that there is no way to escape, whether it is front or back, left and right, it is crowded and abnormal, there is no place to run on both sides, it is completely blocked, in front of them is a crowd that cannot be seen, and behind them is the fierce and vicious Tang cavalry.

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The horse lance in Yue Yun's hand stretched forward diagonally, slightly downward, just at the position of an adult's neck. As soon as an enemy is within range of the horse's lance, he reorients the horse's lance so that the blade brushes across the opponent's neck. He didn't need to exert much effort on his own, because the speed of the horses and the combined momentum of the horses were enough to inflict lethal damage on the enemy, and he only needed to control the horses.

But this ideal maneuver of cavalry combat did not last long, and some of the cavalry even had a certain degree of confusion. The reason is that the rout in front is too dense, and when the cavalry charges behind and pushes it, it is immediately crowded. The space vacated by the slashed and fleeing routs simply could not keep up with the pace of the cavalry's advance.

The vacant place was immediately filled with cavalry in the back, and the cavalry in the front row just raised their weapons and slashed down, and a group fell in front, and the cavalry could only take a step forward.

Zhao Yun chased Meng Shu for a while, and found that the other party's horse was also very fast. couldn't catch up for a while, so he left the task of chasing and killing Ma Chao to Tai Shici. He returned to his own position to command the battle. He saw that Yue Yun was slashing and killing the Southern Barbarian rout, and hurriedly stopped him and said, "Ying Xiang, don't patronize and kill, give up your position to the infantry and iron cavalry, let's outflank him in a roundabout way!" ”

Now that the rout of the Southern Barbarian Army has been completed, there is no suspense in this battle. But if Meng Shu can't be caught, there is inevitably the possibility of a resurgence. The best way to eliminate this hidden danger is to weaken the enemy's forces as much as possible.

At present, the southern barbarian rout army is the front one who fled quickly, and the one behind was squeezed and couldn't move, if it just followed and chased like this, it was difficult to say whether half of the troops could be left in the end.

Trailing and chasing is also a waste of light cavalry high motor power, so it is better to give up the position and go to the front to volley.

"This method is good, the third uncle didn't mention it, I really didn't expect it." Yue Yun patted his forehead and suddenly realized.

Zhao Zhao frowned slightly, and hesitated: "As the saying goes: the poor don't chase, the heart of the Southern Barbarian Army has collapsed, and it doesn't hurt for our army to follow and kill, if it is intercepted head-on, it is difficult to ensure that they do not fight for their lives, and then will they pay a lot of meaningless sacrifices?" ”

"It doesn't matter." Zhao Yun waved his hand and said confidently, "The other army has no will to fight, and the emperor has always had the reputation of not killing prisoners, as long as you stop it, don't rush to kill, just shout and persuade to surrender first." ”

"Well, it works." Zhao nodded, as if he remembered something again, and said with a smile, "But after all, we have few people, and it is troublesome to have too many prisoners." ”

Yue Yun laughed and said: "Zijing, it's not right for you to think like this, you calculate carefully, count the world, how many generals can have this kind of trouble?" This is the trouble of happiness, most people want to worry about it once, but they don't have a chance, so you can steal the fun. ”

Zhao Yun also smiled slightly, made a move of the silver spear in his hand, and the herald blew the horn, and more than 10,000 light horsemen spread out to the wings like the wind, as if a large net had been opened, and the huge array of the Southern Barbarian Army was completely swept in.

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As soon as Zhao Yun's side moved, Li Yi immediately knew what the other party was going to do, and said to the generals around him: "Zilong's appetite is not small, and I am not worried that we will not be able to eat." ”

While commanding the position of the iron cavalry to supplement the light cavalry, Li Yi ordered: "Pass the order and tell the southern barbarians that those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will be killed!" Those who take the initiative to kill their recalcitrant comrades can be exempted from crime and serve the people! ”

"Whoa!"

The guards on the left and right responded in unison, shouting in unison: "Those who descend will not die, and those who resist will be killed!" Those who take the initiative to kill their recalcitrant comrades can be exempted from crime and serve the people! ”

"Those who surrender will not die, and those who resist will kill ......"

With Li Yi's Chinese army as the center, the shouts quickly spread, and soon tens of thousands of people chanted in unison.

Although it has experienced fierce battles for most of the day, when chasing after the victory, few people will rush to the exhaustion, shouting together, the Tang army officers and soldiers are even more imposing, while running fast to chase behind the cavalry, while shouting with all their might, the momentum is amazing.

Hearing that there was hope for survival, the feet of the Southern Barbarian rout suddenly softened, especially those who were wrapped in the crowd, could not find a way out, and were completely surrounded by fear.

I thought I had fallen into a situation of certain death, but now I have the hope of survival, so why do I have to run away so hard?

Surrender is just a matter of bowing your head. Although it is very aggrieved, it is much better than having no head on the neck.

Just when the panic gradually spread, and many of the routs began to wander and wait and see, it was another sudden change!

Originally, the cry of those who surrendered to avoid death only came from behind, and those who had gradually begun to break away from the brigade in the front army did not care. But suddenly, it was as if an echo sounded in the four fields, and overwhelming shouts came from all directions!

That shout was several times louder than the 100,000 Tang troops behind him, as if there were hundreds of thousands of troops ambushed around!

Crowds, black-pressed crowds, from the mountains, from the rivers, from the depths of the wilderness, from any place imaginable!

"Oh my God! There are still so many soldiers in the Tang Army......"

"Too much, too much, I'm afraid there are hundreds of thousands!"

"I can't run away, let's go down!"

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This mutation completely broke the psychological defense line of the defeated soldiers.

When the last of the courage is lost, human dignity is gone.

"There is still an eighty-year-old mother and a three-year-old child in the small family, spare the little one's life, general!"

"As long as the villain's life is spared, the villain is willing to be a cow and a horse for the general for the rest of his life, let it be driven, and there will be no second heart!"

"The little ones didn't want to come, they were all coerced and forced to come! If the general wants to take the southern barbarians, Guanzhong, the villain is willing to risk a hundred deaths, and drive the army forward! ”

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The vanquished gave up their flight, but knelt in a pool of blood of their comrades and kowtowed like garlic, their faces covered with snot and tears mixed with blood and mud, and they looked unusually cowardly.