Chapter 234: The Decisive Battle

After a day and a night of full rest, the army had already made preparations, bringing all the supplies it could carry, and piling up the rest on both sides of the city gate and lighting them. Under the scorching flames, the frozen ice on the city gate began to melt, and at this time, Li Guanqi waved his hand, and everyone went out of the city in turn.

In order to prevent slipping and falling, the big cadres tied thick cloths under the feet of people and horses, so that they walked quietly and silently. The Jiannan army besieging Tucheng, because they had been harassed the night before, did not rest at all, and they were even more afraid to sleep during the day. And after repeated harassment, their guard has long since been relaxed. I thought that this time it was a small force to interfere with their rest, but I didn't realize that this was a big cadre army breaking through the whole army.

When they were shocked, the big cadres had already rushed into the camp and began to set fire, and in the howl of ghosts and wolves, the entire Jiannan military camp was in chaos. Li Guanqi also knew that although the Jiannan Army was caught off guard, there was no combat power at all, but it was absolutely impossible for him to completely defeat the main force of the Jiannan Army with more than 10,000 people, and once it was delayed for a long time, after the Jiannan Army calmed down, he might fall into a heavy siege again, so he was not greedy for merit, and when the Jiannan Army was busy fighting the fire, he had already led the soldiers to leave quietly. When everything stabilized at dawn, the Jiannan Army noticed that the earth city was empty.

After Li Moran received the report, he looked at the empty city in front of him, and spit out a mouthful of blood with "wow" -- it took him a lot of effort to surround Li Guanqi, and in just two days, he let him escape safely, how could Li Moran not vomit blood in anger?

"Chase! Give me a hard chase, you must catch up with him! Catch up with him at all costs! Li Moran gave an order with his mouth full of blood.

I don't know if it's intentional or unintentional, or if it's because of the snow on the ground. The cavalry troops led by Li Guanqi did not escape too far, and the vanguard troops led by Li Moran personally discovered their traces in only half a day.

Li Moran was overjoyed, and sent people to the rear to give orders, so that the other armies could follow in time. Bian led 50,000 pioneers to chase after him.

The big cadres in front of them stopped and stopped, and there were several times when Li Moran was about to catch up, but he was always a little bit behind, and the two sides chased and stopped like this, and before they knew it, they had entered a deep canyon.

The Great Cadre Cavalry, who had been being pursued, suddenly lost his trace, and Li Moran was shocked at this time, "It can't be that you have fallen for Li Guanqi's trick again, right?" He hurriedly gathered his mind and sat down on his horse and looked around. Nothing can be seen except large coniferous forests.

The hidden worry in his heart increased a little, and Li Moran ordered the scouts to come forward to reconnoitre, and the troops maintained a formation and were ready to engage at any time.

The scout rode forward, and the moment he entered the woods, he shook his horse and fell.

"There's an ambush!" Li Moran was shocked as he watched the countless cadres rushing out of the woods with shouts. After all, he still couldn't escape being ambushed by Li Guanqi.

But time simply did not allow him to think too much, on both sides of the cliffs. Rolling logs and rocks are falling like raindrops, and reinforcements are also coming, and they must be killed before the road back is blocked.

But Li Guanqi spent so much effort to lure Li Moran into this ambush circle, how could he let him go so easily? Moreover, the other armies behind Li Moran also entered this Grand Canyon called "Broken Gut Valley" one after another, and the opportunity to completely annihilate the main force of the Southern Army of the Sword was in front of him. I only heard a loud "boom", countless mountains and rocks fell, and the way out of the valley has been completely blocked!

Li Moran knew that there was no hope of breaking through, so he turned around again and ordered at his generals: "The whole army rushes through the woods in front. Capture Li Guanqi alive! ”

But the 200,000-strong army was trapped in a long and narrow valley, and the sky was still falling down logs and stones, where could it form an effective combat force for a while? What's even more terrifying is that after the rolling wood and stone attack, iron eggs the size of watermelons began to fall from above the valley. At first, the Jiannan Army thought that these iron eggs were the same existence as rolling wood and stones, but as soon as these iron eggs fell to the ground, they exploded with a "boom", and the iron thistles mixed in them suddenly flew in all directions, and the soldiers of the Jiannan Army immediately cried and called for their mothers.

Li Guanqi went west to quell the rebellion this time, and brought a total of 2,000 Lei Zhenzi, which had not been used, and now it came in handy, in the narrow valley, the soldiers of the Jiannan Army had no way to dodge the damage caused by the explosion of Lei Zhenzi.

Li Moran finally gathered a part of the soldiers and began to launch a counterattack against the big cadres who rushed out of the woods.

In a moment, the two armies were already staggered, the screams that tore through the sky mixed with the terrible screams, and the waves of blood stirred up in the crowd.

The fierce fighting lasted for half an hour, and when the big cadres retreated, Li Moran found that more than half of his 5,000 personal soldiers had been lost.

Before he could catch his breath, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves sounded again. The black-pressed cavalry appeared like a wall on the hill in front of the left, and a yellow dragon flag with a white background was erected high.

As soon as he saw the flag, Li Moran couldn't help but be vicious, ignoring his already exhausted subordinates, stretched out his hand to the mountain and said: "Cloth charge formation, attack the mountain, and capture Li Guanqi alive!" ”

Seeing Li Moran's stubborn resistance, Li Guanqi smiled contemptuously, turned around and glanced at the soldiers, pulled out his sword with a choked sound, swung it forward, and shouted: "Rush!" The five thousand horsemen behind him shouted in unison, and quickly plunged straight into the camp of the Jiannan Army, and the Jiannan Army, which had been frustrated by its sharpness, was ten times the number of the enemy, and it was still uncontrollably chaotic.

However, in the war of the Cold Weapon Age, the number of people is still a big determining factor. Rao is Xiao cavalry guard has excellent combat strength, and there is the impact of fierce generals such as He Ziming, Nameless and Xie Chen, but after all, there are only 5,000 people in number, and it is okay to break the enemy's spirit, but if you fight for a long time, you will inevitably suffer.

In fact, Li Guanqi didn't expect to be able to defeat Li Moran with a wave, the purpose of his launch of this wave of charges was originally just to deter the enemy, so he just charged back and forth and retreated.

Then Li Guanqi sent someone to persuade Li Moran to surrender, saying that Li Moran had lost the game, and if he continued to resist stubbornly, he could only bring humiliation on himself, and in order to avoid the innocent soldiers of the Jiannan Army from continuing to lose, he advised Li Moran to surrender immediately. Your Majesty promises that the first evil will not be killed, and the accomplice will not be prosecuted! (To be continued......)