Chapter 196: The First Formation in the Early Morning
Yunnei Prefecture is the second largest city in the southwest of the area under the jurisdiction of the Recruitment Division, with an urban population of 50,000.
Now that the war is coming, the common people have already been relocated to Fengzhou, leaving only 10,000 strong men to defend the city. These 10,000 strong men are all herdsmen! Ride on a horse, with a spear or a sabre, and you are a Khitan light cavalry!
Coupled with the 5,000 Khitan regular army cavalry left in the city, there are actually 15,000 Khitan soldiers defending the city in Yunnei Prefecture, and they are Khitan cavalry who can rush out of the city at any time!
Yelu Bugu's strategy was very simple, plus the strong men of Yunnei Prefecture, the total strength of the Khitan army reached 40,000, leaving 15,000 troops trapped in the state city of Yunnei Prefecture, and the other 25,000 troops were divided into five mobile cavalry of 5,000 people, scattered left and right, running out of fifty miles, erratic, and did not know where to go.
Once the Tang army besieged Yunneizhou, the 25,000 men outside would rush from any direction at any time. As long as the Tang army's formation wavered slightly, the fifteen thousand cavalry in the city would rush out to respond. Under the attack from inside and outside the city, the Tang army is afraid that it will suffer a big loss!
He Daxian commented that ginger is still old and spicy.
Bart, no matter how old the ginger is, is blind and can't be spicy.
The Zhenwu army and the Tiande army were scattered on both sides, separated by five miles, and slowly advanced, not in a hurry, but sent a large number of archers to hunt and kill the Khitan scouts. From Dongshengzhou to Yunneizhou, a short journey of 100 miles, it took three days! In these three days, the Tang army hunted and killed nearly a thousand Khitan scouts, and of course, the Tang army scouts themselves also lost more than 200 horses, most of which were party cavalry of the Tiande army.
After all, the Tiande Army comes from the Dingyan Army, but there is no professional long-range shooter like the Zhenwu Army's fart soldiers!
As a result of the frenzied hunting of the cavalry, the Tang Army Brigade basically did not see the Khitan cavalry within a radius of thirty miles, and the entire battlefield was full of Tang cavalry scouts running around.
Three days later, more than 30,000 Tang soldiers came to the city of Yunneizhou.
The Tiande army and the Zhenwu army occupied the southeast and east sides respectively, and camped a kilometer away from the city wall.
"Burned them?"
"Wait, let's clean up the periphery first!"
On that day, the Tang army was only besieging but not attacking, in addition to continuing to sweep the Khitan scouts on the periphery, the Tang army besieging the city was only doing some simple defensive work.
The next morning, the sky was cloudless and blue.
A Khitan army that had not appeared for a long time finally appeared on the horizon, this is a 5,000-person Khitan cavalry led by the newly promoted general Yelu Qinghong after Zhao Siwen's death.
"What's going on in Yunnei?"
"I don't know, the Tang Army is too powerful to chase and kill the scouts."
"No, if this continues, our army will become blind and deaf! In the future, let's team up with a hundred scouts. ”
"General, since yesterday, the Tang Army has appeared with a team of 1,000 people to hunt and kill our scouts, and our army's 100-man team as scouts also released five teams yesterday, and only three teams came back!"
"Have you contacted Lord Lu Bugu and Lord Kuma?"
"No, the signal corps sent was also hunted by the Tang Army."
Yelu Qinghong looked at the rising sun on the eastern horizon depressedly, and he didn't know what to do.
"Report, ten miles to the south, the Tang Army was found."
"Report, five miles behind the mountain in the north, the Tang Army was also discovered."
Yelu Qinghong ran up to the top of a small slope several meters high and made a general observation.
No matter, it's going to be fought anyway, so let's fight!
"The whole army obeyed the order, set off to the north, and prepared for battle!"
The 5,000-horseman Khitan army immediately began to move, marching quickly to the north in small steps.
Yelu Qinghong did not choose to avoid the battle, but decided to pursue the Tang army in the north, which seemed to be smaller in number.
In the case of continuous losses of reconnaissance cavalry and unclear battlefield information, sometimes it can only be judged by the general's own visual inspection. Yelu Kiyohiro can only judge the number of enemy troops by visually measuring the width of the enemy's front line from a distance.
He judged that the Tang army in the north had 1,000 horsemen, and the Tang army in the south had more than 3,000 horsemen.
However, he was wrong.
Ho Tai Sin's instructions to the various travelogue troops were that the small troops must discharge a wide front line so that the enemy looked like many people from a distance, and the large troops should instead narrow the front line to attract the enemy to fight.
Contrary to Yelu Qinghong's judgment, the Tang army in the north was actually a cavalry of 3,000 Zhenwu troops, and the south was only a 500-man feint army with a wide width.
As soon as the Zhenwu army in the north saw the Khitan army coming towards them, they immediately began to retreat and hide behind the hill.
"Quick, accelerate! Catch up! ”
Yelu Qinghong felt that he had made the right bet and should eat this Tang army before it escaped!
The running speed of the 5,000 Khitan army gradually increased to about 50 kilometers per hour, quickly bypassed the foot of the mountain, and then saw the true face of this Tang army on the grassland ahead.
This is a Shuofang army from Lingzhou, after turning to the back of the mountain, the charging array has been arranged, a total of six yang arrays, in front of each yang array is a strangely shaped four-horse chariot, and the two in the middle are the yellow-haired man and his fat wife.
"The Khitan dog in front listens! The poor road is the butcher of the world, Joseph"
After turning the foot of the mountain, the Khitan cavalry in front slowed down, and Yelu Qinghong also noticed that something was wrong, so he immediately stepped forward to observe.
Nima's Six Yang Arrays! There are about 3,000 people in the Tang army, where is the 1,000 people before!
But Yelu Qinghong was not too afraid, fortunately, it was not 30,000 people!
Seeing that there was a yellow hair in the Tang army's formation there, Yelu Qinghong ignored him, and saw that his team was still in good shape, so he ordered to charge.
"Report, the Tang Army was found on the right."
"Report, the Tang Army is catching up later!"
I rub! Is this an ambush?
No matter, rush it, scatter the Tang army in front, and don't pay attention to those who are ambushed or not.
"Wow!"
Relative to the distance of about two miles, the three thousand Zhenwu army and the five thousand Khitan army began to hedge!
The Khitan army formed a sharp charging formation, narrowing the front line to only three yang formations, each of which had five hundred people, ready to carry out a dense charging formation and gouge through!
Rushing to the front is Yelu Qinghong himself!
Yelu Qinghong was promoted by the line of fire, it is not unreasonable!
He himself is the deputy general who followed Yelu Kuma, and he has rich experience in battle formations, and his personal strength is very strong! A 100-8-pound male in his hand, a giant mace with a front end of three feet long, wielded vigorously.
Yelu Qinghong believes in the power of courage and believes in the role of example!
Of course, he is not a fool, he just rushed to the front to boost morale before the two armies came into contact, and when they really collided, he would naturally shrink to a few rows behind!
The several ridiculous chariots that the Tang army rushed in front of became another reason for the Khitan army to increase its courage! The experienced Khitan cavalry knew that anyone who pretended to be forced in front of them would be crushed by the ruthless Khitan iron cavalry!
Chariot? Obviously, this Don will not know how to fight! How can such a low-level mistake be let go!
"Wow!" Yelu Qinghong excitedly led the Khitan soldiers behind him to raise the speed of running to the extreme, and the deafening sound of horses' hooves made every Khitan cavalry enthusiastic!
"Kill! Kill all the Tang dogs! ”
Eight hundred meters!
Five hundred meters!
Three hundred meters!
Yelu Qinghong lightly pressed the horse's back, and the speed began to slow down, and the heads of several Khitan heavy cavalry on the front line behind him had already crossed his horse's buttocks, ready to cover Yelu Qinghong behind.
At this moment, a long arrow flew silently and low!
Yelu Qinghong just glanced back, and saw that his troops behind him were still in a neat formation when charging at high speed, and he was also full of confidence. It's just that when he turned his head, this extremely accurate long arrow brushed the ground, passed through the gap between the two breastplates, and shot directly into his throat!
Yelu Qinghong let go of the heavy horse lance in his hand, and his hands tightly grasped the long arrow inserted into his throat, and blood gushed out like a fountain, fell backwards, turned over and fell off the horse!
Kill with one stone!
No way, this is the suppression of the level!
You are a person who can't even enter the top ten Khitans, and you encounter the arrow shot by Wang Caiyun, the first shooter in the Central Plains, where can you survive!
The main general of this Khitan army was killed directly before the battle, and immediately frightened the Khitan cavalry in the gallop!
The two armies were about to collide head-on, but at this critical moment, the morale of the Khitan army fell instantly, and more than a dozen heavy cavalrymen in the front row hesitated, and the formation began to be a little scattered!
What's even more tragic is that they will face the Zhenwu Army's unique weapon, six God of War Chariots!
The God of War chariot is not a weapon that He Daxian personally customized for Pei Baoman. He Daxian's concept of weapons is very modern, isn't this an armored tank? Since it's easy to use, let's build a few more! Tanks are consumables, not artifacts!
The Khitan cavalry, whose morale had plummeted because the main general died before he could leave the army, now hit the God of War chariot head-on! This is not the battle of the Yin and Yang Array when the cavalry rushes into battle in the traditional sense, but a one-sided meat grinder!
Blood and light were everywhere, minced flesh flew wildly, and the six God of War chariots were lined up in a row, and the heavy cavalry of the Zhenwu Army behind them plunged into the queue of the Khitan army, as if a high-speed speedboat broke through the water, and instantly smashed the charging array of five thousand Khitan troops into pieces! (To be continued.) )