Chapter 1196: The Savior of the Periphery
PS: Corrected later, about two o'clock.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. Wu Yan could only abandon the Tiger Prison Pass and lead his troops to flee south, wanting to join the army of Lu Kang. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Due to the existence of the Tiger Pass, Luo Xian's right army was blocked in the east of the Guandong and could not enter the Pass, and once the Tiger Pass was lost, it was like opening Pandora's box, and 70,000 elite cavalry entered the Pass from the East of the Guan, and the terrible storm set off in the Luoyang area will sweep the entire Guannai area.
When Lu Kang heard about the loss of the Tiger Prison Pass, his expression suddenly changed greatly. If it is just Jiang Bin's 100,000 pursuers, then even if you add Luoyang's pursuit troops, Lu Kang can retreat calmly, after all, both sides are infantry, and there will basically be no big difference in the speed of marching, even if the Wu army withdraws, it can also be done in an orderly manner, although in terms of momentum, the Wu army is far inferior to the Han army, but if the Han army wants to eat more than 100,000 Wu troops in one go, it will not have the appetite to die.
But the Han cavalry troops, but to the defeated Wu army in the head of the blow, infantry and infantry comparison, that can be compared with the number, the number of the side can be taken advantage of no suspense, even if it is a retreat, the number of the side will not be afraid of the small number of the party.
But the addition of the cavalry has had subversive consequences, no matter how many infantry there are, in front of the cavalry, there is no advantage at all, not to mention, this is the plain area, it is the paradise of the cavalry, galloping vertically and horizontally, doing nothing, the infantry in front of the cavalry, there is no power to fight back.
Although the Wu army is much more backward in this regard, it has gradually mastered the method of using chariots to hinder the offensive of cavalry, coupled with the traditional means of fighting cavalry such as spear formation, horse rejection formation, and trap formation, although it is difficult to gain the upper hand, but it is not so defenseless.
Unfortunately, these tactics are based on a premise, that is, a frontal confrontation between infantry and cavalry, and only when there is enough time and time to fight head-on, the infantry may be invincible.
But now the situation is just the opposite, the Wu army is in the process of routing, to deal with the pursuing infantry, there is still a certain amount of spare strength, but to deal with the sudden attack of the cavalry, there is no time and no ability to organize a battle formation, in the face of the strong cavalry impact, the Wu army infantry is like a plate of scattered sand.
It was this that Lu Kang was most worried about, so he attached great importance to the containment of the Han army in Xingyang, not only asking the three kings of Kwantung to send troops, but he also ordered Wu Yan to strictly guard the Tiger Prison Pass, and never let the Han army enter the pass with one person and one horse.
It's a pity that the Kwantung Army was not able to contain the Han cavalry, and Wu Yan was not able to hold the Tiger Pass.
Jiang Bin led the army from south to north, Fu Tong led the army from west to east, Luo Xian led the cavalry from north to south, and the three-way army, just like a hunt, in this area east of Luoyang, surrounded and suppressed the defeated Wu army.
The right army easily tore apart the formation of the Wu army with an unstoppable impact, and every impact of the Han cavalry could divide the formation of the Wu army into two, and the Han cavalry was like a sharp knife, constantly dismembering the behemoth of the Wu army.
Luo Xian adopted the most clever way of fighting, and did not concentrate his forces to fight a battle of annihilation, but only divided the cavalry of the right army into several columns, and they were like sharp knives, rushing towards the Wu army's front, tearing their formation, and not encircling and annihilating them.
With each charge, the Wu army could not resist the attack of the Han cavalry, and could only passively avoid it, and the formation of the Wu army soon became fragmented and fragmented.
The consequences of the collapse of the formation are catastrophic, and the most direct impact is that the soldiers do not see the generals, the generals do not see the soldiers, the military orders from above are difficult to convey to the below, and the unified command is lost, and the Wu army of more than 100,000 people begins to slide towards the abyss of defeat, which is unstoppable.
The original retreat in order, leaving a part of the army broken, Lu Kang is confident that this army will be taken out of Luoyang, as long as it returns to the territory controlled by Wu State, Lu Kang can completely regain its strength and fight again, but at this moment, under the strong impact of the Han cavalry, the Wu army has completely lost its unified command, and the Wu army is like a headless fly, regardless of east and west, it is difficult to distinguish between north and south, and it is chaotic everywhere.
However, the attack of the Han army was sharp and orderly, the cavalry of the right army was only responsible for dividing the Wu army brigade, and the rest of the encirclement and annihilation battles were handed over to the middle army and the left army and Jiang Bin's infantry to deal with.
After being divided and surrounded, the Wu army of each department was almost deaf and blind, neither could see the support of the troops on the side, nor could hear the orders of the upper peak, and wanted to break through, there were Han troops in all directions, and there was no way out at all. The slightest bit of blood was killed in battle, and those who were greedy for life and afraid of death surrendered one after another.
And greedy for life and afraid of death, is to occupy a large proportion, ants are still greedy for life, what is a person, in the case of no hope of breaking through, most people still focus on saving their lives, after all, eating food as a soldier, it is just a mix of food, nothing can be more precious than their lives, between loyalty to the country and stealing life, the vast majority of people will still choose the latter.
There is the first to surrender, soon there will be a second, Wu soldiers who have lost the will to resist follow the trend and surrender quickly, at first it was the behavior of individual soldiers, and soon it became a collective action, Hulala knelt and surrendered, sometimes can occupy most of a team.
Now that surrender has become the general trend, Wu Bing's will to resist has collapsed faster, and even as long as an army is under siege, even symbolic resistance does not exist.
In just one day, the Wu army had already lost most of it, and only a few teams were lucky enough to escape from the encirclement of the Han army.