Chapter 450: The End of the War
In an instant, the remnants of the five armies in the middle of the northern and southern armies scattered away, and the soldiers of the army were all lost, and they had already lost their formation.
"Actually blocked? Good! Kill me, brethren! Several captains of the Xiaoguo Army shouted in unison, brandished the spears in their hands, and galloped wildly.
Five thousand horsemen followed closely behind him, and the huge cavalry array seemed to come from the dark waves of hell, wrapped in the power of trampling a qiē, like the sky and the earth cracking, like a storm crashing on the shore, towards the five routs in front of him. The dotted torches also stretched the flames with the wild running.
On the west side, Lost Kuo also led the nearly 10,000 cavalry to rush away, although it was not as neat and mighty as the Xiaoguo army, but it was huge and powerful, and it was also shocking.
The earth under his feet receded like a tide, and the whole world trembled and trembled with the roar of thousands of healthy horses striking the earth at the same time, and even the stars in the sky seemed to want to see the final battle, and the stars were much brighter.
"Kill!"
Tens of thousands of cavalry called out to the sky in response, the sound was like thunder, and tens of thousands of iron hooves stirred up the snow in the sky, like two torrents, coming opposite each other, to drown the tens of thousands of remnants of the army in the middle.
Like a rolling iron stream, it instantly crossed the distance of Li Xu and approached the position of the remnant army. In the sky, countless arrows flew in the sky. Countless sharp spears pierced the cold wind, creating a suffocating forest of death. The horizontal knives, scimitars, and machetes in the hands of the knights were all held high above the top, and the gray light of the sky faded from the cold light.
The soldiers around Cao Cao began to stir, the soldiers standing in the front row began to look around in horror, the timid ones had begun to retreat, and the ashen Cao Cao still wanted to control the decline, but his efforts were in vain, more people began to retreat, and the soldiers who could stay in place were becoming fewer and fewer.
Cao Cao sighed in despair, the rout of the army is the rout, I knew that I shouldn't have provoked the Xiaoguo army, but now it's too late to regret it. On the open plain, when the infantry encounters the cavalry, only by lining up in a dense formation and fighting to the death can there be a glimmer of life, and turning around and fleeing can only be self-defeating, and two legs can never be faster than four legs.
The cavalry in the front and the rout collided fiercely, and the sharp spears lightly pierced the body of the five routs, and then stabbed into the body of the second soldier, but more of the five routs were knocked headlong by the surging horses, and they were already dead of anger when they fell backwards in the air.
At this time, the follow-up cavalry had already waved the weapons in their hands one after another, and these cavalry combined into a sharp arrow to rush into battle, like a sharp scalpel to cut the chaotic rout into countless small pieces, and the bloody slaughter began......
After killing several retreating soldiers in succession to no avail, Cao Cao finally gave up and turned around to join the fleeing army. In the final analysis, it's not that he doesn't have the courage, but he also knows very well that there is only a dead end to resist like this.
The defeat was like a mountain, and the five-part coalition army, which was originally a rout, was completely unresisted and placed under the attack of the two armies.
The iron cavalry of the north and south plunged into the remnants of the rout like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and the sharp spears pierced through the bodies of the five allied soldiers like straw, and the bloody slaughter began!
"Oh Cao Xiao'er, you also have today, where to escape!" Da Jiwen stared at the culprit and screamed. Hundreds of cavalry around him chased after Cao.
He ran desperately westward, but was intercepted by the ambush cavalry who were killing from the west.
"That's it! Today is my death! Cao let out a bitter sigh. Then he turned around and went towards Dajiwen, even if he died, he couldn't die at the hands of a nobody.
"Want to fight me? Shoot the arrows! ”
"You...... Despicable ......" Before the words fell, he turned into hedgehogs with his men and horses and fell to the ground.
"Am I despicable? It's far worse than you! You are dead, and you will not be blinded by death. Daji Wenzema came to the corpse of Cao Cao, and after confirming that it was correct, he sneered.
"Cut off his head and take it for a reward!"
"Those who descend will not be killed!" After breaking up the enemy formation, the Xiaoguo army began to shout slogans. Then, riding his horse around and surrounding them all in the center, the generals were pressed together to prevent them from escaping.
More and more troops from the Southern Coalition and Fubu had arrived from the south, and even some of the civilians who had come to help and cheer on had arrived, encircling the entire area within a radius of several miles, turning the whole night into day.
"Give me a shrink formation!" Li Huaiyuan, who arrived, ordered in a deep voice.
The three armies moved closer to the center in unison, like an iron wall, and they began to form a neat offensive array, and after the cavalry festival, they continued to push forward, and at the same time, they were also using bows and arrows to suppress the hiding space of the five coalition forces. After some of the non-commissioned officers of the Five Coalition surrendered, they were also trapped by the conscripted people on the side.
The non-commissioned officers of the five coalition armies were constantly compressed, compressed, and eventually shrunk smaller and smaller. There were also more and more surrenderers, but there were more routs gathered towards the center under the orders of the officers.
One soldier after another fell, without sympathy, without hesitation. On the battlefield, either you die or I die. If you are soft on these people today, it may be their turn to raise their butcher's knives against them tomorrow.
"Don't fall? Sixty steps! Bow ready! "Put!" Another voice sounded, and there was no trace of emotional fluctuation in that voice.
"Whew! Shout! Shout! "Thousands of feathered arrows flew out of the surrounding Southern Coalition positions, piercing through the routs one by one and nailing them to the ground. As the space shrinks, the non-commissioned soldiers of the five coalition forces are becoming denser and denser, and the rain of arrows of the southern coalition army is becoming more and more threatening, and the casualties are also increasing.
The five-part coalition collapsed, and so did all the officers. No matter how brave the general is, he will not be able to bear it in the face of such a slaughter that keeps falling. Because if it goes on like this, there is no point at all, and you can't escape, do you still want to let the other party kill you?
The bloody breath of the sky wafted over the wilderness, and countless torches lit up the sky. The ground was littered with corpses, horizontal and vertical, even layered. Blood had already stained the dirt, and the burned flags were thrown haphazardly on the ground.
The five non-commissioned officers of the five divisions threw down their weapons, and the prisoners who were crouching on the ground with their heads in their hands were tied up by the soldiers and civilians who accompanied them, and then strung together in a long line. Every captive was pale and dull at this time. Tonight's incident may leave an eternal shadow in their hearts, many of the captives are covered in wounds, some of them can no longer hear others, it is estimated that the deafness caused by the earth-shaking thunder has not yet recovered.
The eastern sky has risen a round of fish belly white, and a new morning has begun.
"General, this head is the culprit of this war, Fen asked the clan chief Cao, according to investigation, Rui Xi, the two clan chiefs have been killed, and there are no bones!"
Li Huaiyuan stood in the morning light and looked at more than a dozen people not far away, these were all generals of various ethnic groups, all covered in blood and tired. And Tu Yan, the patriarch of the Tubian tribe beside him, was even more gray and lonely.
"All the captives were taken to the camp and guarded, and they were given one meal a day. Implement the system of joint sitting, one person escapes, kills ten people, ten people flees, and kills 100 people...... In addition, the various ethnic groups are mixed and detained. All officers with a length of 100 or more are kept in solitary confinement. Li Huaiyuan said lightly.
"General Daji, General Kuokuo, you will divide three thousand men to take care of the prisoners. In addition, 5,000 men from each branch came out and continued to march north with a part of our Xiaoguo army, and took back the camps we had abandoned. After staying for so many days, it was time to return it to us. Tuyan Banner Master, you should also act together, whether the five soldiers of these camps can survive depends on your eloquence. ”
"The last general commands!" Suddenly Yan said in a slumber voice. I don't know what Li Huaiyuan told him last night, in short, he is now starting to call himself a subordinate of the Xiaoguo Army. And the loss of bread changed his face, and then he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
"Order the officers and men of our army of the five tribes, let them defeat the five tribes, escort the leaders of the various tribes to the south, and the rest are mixed and waiting for disposal! If there is any change in the various departments, the general will grant them the right to kill the prisoners! ”
"Obey!"
There were nearly 20,000 soldiers in the Fu Division, divided into three, one to guard the prisoners, one to continue the northern expedition, and one to follow the side of the lost broad. With a bitter smile in his heart, coupled with the sudden attack of the banner lord who didn't know what it meant, he understood that the former independent and powerful Fubu would no longer exist, and he could only survive under the power of the Xiaoguo Army like the Khitan Sanbu.
Returning to the makeshift camp, Li Jinqian sighed: "The first battle will be decided in the Khitan, and General Li will shake the north." ”
Li Huaiyuan shook his head and said: "Actually, the biggest credit in this is the earth-shaking thunder, otherwise, last night's battle will definitely not achieve the goal we want." By the way, Jin Qian, did you send out the recital? ”
"Sent out! The Eight Banners and the Four Divisions coexisted, and the Khitan was not a problem. Does the general want to use the name of Tuyan to subdue these four tribes? ”
"Well, in addition, we must also deter the loss of the subordinate. This loss of breadth is not easy, give him a loss of an opponent, so as not to make him into the wind and rain, if something is wrong, we will do our best to solve him. ”
"I think there must be other means."
"I have already reported to the Metropolitan Governor that these four departments are going to redivide their territories, and the Fubu is at the southernmost point. Secondly, the troops in the hands of the leaders of each department should not be too much, otherwise, how to support the Khitan Eight Banners. Li Huaiyuan said lightly.
"Great idea!"
"Someone, give an order to the two soldiers who are guarding the prisoners, and kill all those who are injured and inconvenient to treat."
Tu Yan led the army all the way north, surrendered five battalions in a row, and five days later, met the southern coalition army from the north to the south. Since then, the five coalition forces have been defeated, and the battle of Khitan has ended. The three allied armies of the Xiaoguo Army and the Khitan were all victorious.
The Murwei people in the north of the Khitan and the Turks in the northwest, after hearing that the Xiaoguo army had annihilated nearly 100,000 troops in one night, extinguished the idea of taking advantage of the Khitan war to enter the Khitan land. The reputation of the Xiaoguo Army also began to spread to the Murwei and the Turks, so that the two clans listed the Xiaoguo Army as a key defense target.
In September of the 26th year of Xuanwu, the combined forces of the Khitan Third Division and the Xiaoguo Army annihilated more than 40,000 in the first battle, and surrendered more than 20,000, and the battle in the southern Khitan turned a corner. At the same time, during the battle of the Khitan five-division coalition army going south, nearly 100,000 coalition soldiers entered the five-tribe tribe and broke the five-tribe. At this point, the battle of the Khitan ended, and the eight Khitan divisions became the four Khitan divisions.