Chapter 184: A Test of Your Wisdom
Three light cavalry of the Zhenwu Army with 1,000 cavalry slowly surrounded the Khitan cavalry in the center.
One of the light cavalry of 1,000 people was led by the Fuzhou Assassin Shi and the northwest guerrilla general of the Zhenwu Army! The other is led by Zhe Congyuan's son Zhe Deran.
Someone asked, how did these two cavalry groups appear here by such coincidence?
Although gunpowder was invented by Sun Simiao in the Tang Dynasty in this era, it was mainly used in alchemy, and advanced things such as fireworks had not yet been invented.
He Daxian's thinking is very clear, he will never cheat beyond the current level of science and technology or craftsmanship, so the method of contacting other armies is not the kind of cannon that everyone imagines to fly up and explode in the air.
The means of communication of the ancient army were backward, do you think that Zhi Congyuan is really relieved to let those light cavalry in a team of 1,000 people run around casually? If so, what's the difference with betting? Bo: Don't they run into the Khitan army?
If you are so opportunistic, you don't want this so-called celebrity.
In fact, this time the Northern Expeditionary Army came out with 300 fart soldiers.
Some of the ass soldiers did not fight with the army, but formed a team of three, hanging far behind the large army. The steppe is endless, and if there are no obvious hillside undulations, it is generally not much of a problem to see a thousand-strong army thirty miles away.
The soldiers hung behind the army, and the horses were stacked with firewood soaked in fire oil. Usually do the basic action of battlefield shielding, see the Khitan scout cavalry will shoot an arrow to death, once you find that the large army you are tracking is attacked, you will activate the emergency plan, put down the firewood and ignite it, it becomes a simple beacon alarm.
It is not random for the Northern Expeditionary Army to go out to rob every day, and the distance between the troops will not exceed 50 miles.
Zhe Congyuan came from afar, so the other two detachments also maintained the same movements as Zhecongyuan's detachment, slowly surrounding, instead of immediately coming forward to fight!
After all, the Khitan army in front of him, which only has more than 1,500 people left, is not a real sheep! There are 500 heavy cavalry in there!
The three Zhenwu armies that surrounded them, although they were twice as numerous as the other party, were all light cavalry. The heavy cavalry of the Zhenwu Army was concentrated outside Dongshengzhou City for deterrence, and did not participate in the burning and looting tasks on the periphery.
The 500 heavy cavalry of the Khitan army, if they really rushed up and fought desperately, with the character of compromising from afar, it is estimated that they would still avoid fighting and turn around and run away. The mission of the Northern Expeditionary Army is to rob, and there is nothing to do to fight with the Khitans!
Therefore, now Zhi Congyuan deliberately maintained a slow pace of advance, far away, but unswervingly surrounded the Khitan army.
He hoped that the Khitan generals who led the army would be smarter.
Indeed, the Khitan generals who lead the army today are still smart people.
After fifteen hundred Khitan cavalry stayed in place for a while, the encirclement of the Zhenwu army became smaller and smaller, and now, it was time to make up their minds how to fight!
The Khitan army had many options to choose from.
For example, wait for the Zhenwu army to get closer, and then stare at one of the directions to launch a decisive charge!
Or, while the encirclement of the Zhenwu Army has not yet closed, flee in a direction where no one is around!
The Khitan army chose to flee.
The reason is very simple, I contacted Liao Xian before, suffered a loss, and I can't find a way to counteract for the time being, and now the Zhenwu Army has changed from one cavalry to three cavalry, and when the fight starts after a while, God knows how many crooked tricks they still haven't used?
What's more, in the direction to the north, if you flee immediately, you can escape, and that direction is the direction of Yunnei Prefecture, less than thirty miles away from Yunnei Prefecture! Once you escape to the city of Yunneizhou, whether you flee into the city or the reinforcements in the city come out to fight back together, it is much easier than your own independent army against the three Zhenwu armies!
It's just that the arrogant habit of "not escaping" on the battlefield that the Khitan army has developed for many years still makes the Khitan general hesitate.
Then, at last, he asked himself the question, why did they not pounce on us at once, but moved forward slowly, even though they were surrounding us.
Thinking about it like this, the back of my head suddenly felt a chill!
Damn, they must be waiting for more Tang Army! There will be more Tang troops coming!
If you don't run now, when?
The more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, and the Khitan general shouted, and took the lead and ran towards the gap in the north.
The general took the lead, and all the Khitan cavalry were relieved, and everyone scrambled to follow.
The face of the dead fish, which had been from a distance for a long time, finally showed a smile, and with a wave of his big hand, the cavalry of the Zhenwu Army in three directions accelerated together, quickly converged, and followed the 1,500 Khitan troops about 500 meters behind, and began to chase hard!
The savannah looks endless, but there are some places where it is a little undulating.
If you go north in the direction of Yunneizhou, you will pass a small "canyon" after walking less than ten miles.
It's not a "canyon", it's just a relatively flat path, about 70 or 80 meters wide, and there are not towering mountains on either side, but mounds of earth that are only 10 meters and 8 meters high.
If the cavalry walks from the top of the mound, there is actually no problem, but if you want to go uphill, the speed may slow down, not to mention that there are people chasing behind now, even if no one is chasing, most people will choose to pass in the relatively low-lying "canyon".
When I came from afar just now, it was in this "canyon" that more than 300 "wing arrays" were arranged.
The effect of the "wing array" has been proven when he beat Zhao Siwen before, and this time he simply took out all the wings and set up a formation in this place!
Anyway, the wing array is extremely fast, and it only takes a few minutes.
Now it really frightened the Khitans, and the Khitans did not dare to fight, and fled in the preset direction.
Without the slightest hesitation, this Khitan cavalry, which was running fast, ran into the "canyon" full of wings.
More than 300 wings are spinning at high speed!
The arrangement of this round of wing arrays is even more ruthless, twenty-five in a row, a total of more than a dozen rows!
For a while, people turned on their backs, and flesh and blood flew sideways!
Another round of meat grinder drama was staged, only this time it lacked Comrade Joseph's vulgar and vicious pretending to scream. There is no way, Pei Baoman and his wife were arranged around Dongshengzhou today to watch the Khitan soldiers in Dongshengzhou City.
Today, there are only 2,000 people besieging the city, in order to extinguish the Khitan soldiers in Dongshengzhou to come out and make trouble, Zhi Congyuan specially sent Pei Baoman to the city tower to scold the street and intimidate those Khitan soldiers.
It doesn't matter if the wing array is full of planes, it doesn't matter if Pei Baoman doesn't check it, anyway, he never said that he would kill them all, the purpose was just to block the Khitan soldiers in the city and not dare to come out.
It's a pity that although the Zhenwu Army didn't plan to kill them all, after all, a dozen rows of wing arrays, where is it so easy to break through! A large number of enemy troops chased after them, everyone ran forward ********, most of them fell in the first five rows, and there were very few people who could rush to the back of the wing array, and there were only a dozen horsemen who really rushed through the wing array and escaped the pursuit of the Zhenwu army!
Another Khitan army was wiped out by the Northern Expeditionary Army! (To be continued.) )