Chapter 41: Rescue
The enemy's weak resistance did not do much, and the Sui army advanced while attacking. The infantry was all pressed in front, Liu Ziyi followed behind the infantry to command, and behind him was the cavalry team. Although this enemy army was defeated by the Sui army, it was also tenacious and kept blocking, which made Liu Ziyi very annoyed. At the same time, it also made Liu Ziyi more convinced that the enemy army was delaying time.
In the afternoon, 3,000 routed troops ran to a high ground and set up a formation to block again.
It was all some old tricks, and Liu Ziyi, the secretary and servant, was very disdainful in his heart, and ordered the forward 2,000 people to quickly defeat the enemy, and the army continued to advance.
The most important thing is that the enemy army does not have many bows and arrows, and there have been many battles, and Liu Ziyi has never found that the enemy army uses a large number of bows and arrows. This made Liu Ziyi very relieved, and the brave and warlike soldiers of the Sui army just rushed up to kill the enemy, and did not have to care too much about the opponent's bow and arrow shooting.
The enemy army used the old routine again and again, which paralyzed Liu Ziyi. If Liu Ziyi took a closer look at the surrounding environment, he would definitely be shocked, this place is too suitable for ambushes.
The high slopes on both sides are not large, but the vegetation is very dense and it is easy for Tibetans to be hidden.
Liu Ziyi was unlucky, he thought that the enemy army was delaying time, and wanted to rush to destroy the enemy so that the army could quickly reach Yuzhang. Even, he didn't even send out to investigate around, and made a low-level, fatal mistake.
Although it is the time of the battle, as a commander, you should not be careless at any time. War is an existential matter that must not be taken lightly.
The 8,000 infantry of the Sui army pressed the formation in the rear, and the forward 2,000 men opened the way with bows and arrows to attack fiercely forward, and just when they were about to approach the enemy, suddenly a cannon rang out: "Boom"
This cannon sound frightened the Sui army a lot, and at the same time frightened Liu Ziyi, the scholar and servant, this is the situation of Shenma, could it be said that there is really an ambush?
Originally, Liu Ziyi had already thought of the possibility of an ambush, but calculating the strength of the two sides, in the last battle, almost 10,000 enemy troops were killed, how much strength did the enemy have to stop him? Even if they set up an ambush, Liu Ziyi, the scholar and the imperial historian, is not afraid.
Now, the enemy has really set up an ambush.
After the sound of artillery, just when the Sui army was in a daze, countless enemy troops poured out of the high slope, including tens of thousands of people. It turned out that the enemy troops were hiding behind the high slope, and Liu Ziyi and his Sui soldiers in front of him could not be seen.
Liu Ziyi, the scribe and the imperial historian, was concentrating and was raising his eyes to look ahead, but he didn't think that the two sides around him remembered the sound of bows and arrows, and he knew that it was very dense when he heard the sound.
This wave of bows and arrows was shot at Liu Ziyi, who served as a scholar, and hundreds of arrows were all shot around Liu Ziyi, and Liu Ziyi, who served as a scholar, turned him into a hedgehog on the spot.
This is why Lin Shihong's army did not have many bows and arrows, originally their equipment was poor, and if they wanted to kill Liu Ziyi, the imperial servant of the Zhishu by surprise, they had to concentrate their bows and arrows to shoot and let him kill with one blow.
When Lin Shihong knew that the master had died, he wanted to avenge him. In addition, Lin Shihong also understood that if he captured the thief and captured the king and killed the commander of the Sui army, half of the battle had been won, and the remaining group of headless flies would be easy to handle. Therefore, Lin Shihong devised this plan in order to kill Liu Ziyi, the scholar and servant, and strive to win the war.
"The Imperial Servant is dead!" After the bow and arrow, the surrounding Sui soldiers found out, so they shouted loudly, frightened.
At this time, the battle in front of him has undergone earth-shaking changes, Lin Shihong's tens of thousands of troops rushed down from the high slope, and the huge difference in strength made the two thousand pioneers of the Sui army instantly defeated and fled in panic.
Lin Shihong's army took advantage of the situation to cover down the high slope, and followed the vanguard of the Sui army to kill and rush over.
The rout army disrupted the formation of more than 8,000 Sui troops behind them, and they were in a mess. These people even saw Lin Shihong's tens of thousands of troops killing fiercely, and it was difficult to resist. Seeing that the Sui army was invincible, he shouted, turned his head and ran.
This switch between attack and defense occurred in an instant, in a very short time, and at the same time, the Sui army lost its command, and there was no one to effectively command the army, resulting in the defeat of the Sui army.
The infantry of the Sui army was desperately fleeing, seeing that they were about to rush in front of the cavalry. These cavalry of the Sui army were still in a daze, and Liu Ziyi, the scribe and servant, was dead, and they didn't know what to do.
At this time, seeing that his army was about to impact the cavalry formation, he thought to himself, if it was attacked by the infantry, it would be troublesome if the war horse could not run, and the enemy army would not cut us to death when they came up? Paralyzed, let's run away regardless of it, and the cavalry turned their horses and fled for their lives.
Only then was it chaotic, more than 10,000 people of the Sui army rushed in front, and Lin Shihong's 40,000 troops behind him desperately chased after him. The hapless Sui soldiers were caught up and either beheaded or captured.
On the battlefield, this chase continues. The officers of the Sui army all had war horses, and they ran faster than anyone else. However, they ran to Poyang Lake, where there were still several large boats on the lake, and as long as they got on the boats, they could escape back to Jiangdu City.
Those who are officials can run by boat, but those who are soldiers can't, and just a few boats that officials can't sit on, so where is there still a place to be a soldier. Therefore, most of the middle and lower-ranking officers and soldiers of the Sui army ran eastward, how they came and how they went back.
More than 10,000 people of the Sui army fled with wolves, and Lin Shihong's 40,000 troops pursued them to the death. There are constantly Sui soldiers who are caught up and killed, and these Sui soldiers are not miserable.
From the late hour in the afternoon to the time of Shen, it was more than an hour, and both the escapers and the pursuers were exhausted.
Even, some of the soldiers of the Sui army were already desperate, although the enemy may not be able to catch up with them, but they are in hot pursuit, this does not cost human life!
But the cavalry ran fast and disappeared early.
Just when the soldiers of the Sui army were feeling desperate, there was a lot of smoke and dust in front of them, as if there were rescuers coming.
Yes, it was the rescuers who came, and it was the Sui army who stayed in the rear to protect Lu Chang's southern army. Lu Chang led the cavalry through the fleeing cavalry of the Sui army, and did not forget to greet Jì while running: "There is an answer in front, go back to the camp to rest." ”
In the past, these Sui soldiers looked down on the Southern Army, and when they saw Lu Chang, the general of the Southern Army, galloping first, these Sui soldiers had long forgotten their mentality of looking down on the Southern Army, and directly regarded the Southern Army as a life-saving benefactor.
Lu Chang ran at the front, behind him was the big black man and the vast sea, and behind them were two hundred cavalry.
Lu Chang bypassed the fleeing Sui infantry, cut directly into their rear, and rushed towards Lin Shihong's army, which was chasing after him.
At this time, Lin Shihong's army was very scattered, because they were chasing the Sui army, and naturally there could be no formation. Anyway, it was to chase the Sui soldiers.
This chaotic situation was the moment when the cavalry showed their skills, and Lu Chang and Xiong Kuohai led two hundred cavalry to meet Lin Shihong's army.
This is a good kill, the majestic sea makes a cooked copper stick, weighing three hundred catties, in the process of rapid galloping, who meets who is unlucky, smashed to the head, the head is broken, smashed to the arm, the arm flew into the sky, this fierce man killed all the way to death and injury, so not terrifying.
Lu Chang came in time, and their 200 cavalry quickly isolated the two sides of the pursuit, avoiding the continued casualties of the Sui army.
With Lu Chang's ferocious killing, Lin Shihong's army couldn't withstand this blow, first of all, the soldiers who ran in front were frightened, and began to turn around and run back, and they ran very fast. Although they have no strength anymore, when their lives are threatened, especially when these two generals kill fiercely, it is really terrifying, and they can't run away!
This is a bit exaggerated, Lin Shihong's army is 40,000, can Lu Chang's 200 cavalry defeat so many troops?
In fact, this is not the case, you must know that although Lin Shihong has many troops, they have been chasing the defeated army for more than an hour, and the defeated soldiers who have caught up are not necessarily individual people, some are even a group of soldiers, do they need to be encircled and suppressed?
Besides, the soldiers ran fast and slowly, and those who escaped were the strong, and the weak were overtaken. The entire pursuit front was probably several miles away, so the number of forwards that Lu Chang and the others hit was not large, and it was very scattered.
The interception was successful, the rescue was timely, and the most important thing was that Lu Chang had a plan in advance, and the time and place he chose were very good. The sky gradually darkened, and Lu Chang stopped in time and walked back with the cavalry.