Chapter 112: Bug [Collect]
With the golden finger in hand, the ambush and blockade set up by the Twist Army on the road ahead are a joke for Liu Xian.
After Chongqu Town, Shangcai, Shaodian, Suiping, three formations in succession, the cavalry battalion of Liu Xian's army were in the unexpected direction of the army, the unexpected opportunity, and attacked rapidly. Three times the Twist Army Horse Team was caught off guard, and the wolf bèi fled.
In the final battle of Suiping, the main general of the horse team behind the Twist Army, Zhang Zongjue, the young king of Wo, was almost captured alive.
After four battles, the Twist Army lost no less than 2,000 horses, of which more than 700 were forced to surrender to Liu Xian's army and those who were captured by Liu Xian's army on the battlefield. Liu Xian's army captured as many as 1,000 horses.
And the Twisted Army Horse Team, which suffered heavy losses, not to mention the loss of vitality, was also a little broken. In particular, the Yellow Flag had the largest proportion of the two thousand horse teams in battle.
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After the Battle of Suiping, the Twist Army no longer dared to provoke Liu Xian with a cavalry of three or four thousand horsemen. And Liu Xian did not take advantage of the situation to attack the Twist Army, and the 6,000-step cavalry just hung behind and followed.
Until the city of Runing Mansion - Runan. Liu Xian changed his previous 'laziness', and the 6,000 army rushed to the Twist Army like a tiger and a wolf.
Because at this moment, the inscription battalion has entered the city of Runan and is waiting for the arrival of the twist army.
On the virtual map, as early as the time of Jinxiang Town, Liu Xian saw a large number of teams appear in the eastern part of the map, and enter the city of Runan along the way. Liu Mingchuan did not miss the deadline.
On the bank of the Ru River in the north of the city, there is a camp of 70,000 or 80,000 troops of the Twist Army.
Zhang Zongyu, Ren Huabang, Niu Hongsheng, Liu Shouyi, Li Yuntai and other leaders of the Five Banners all gathered in the big tent. They were discussing the next move to twist the army.
Liu Mingchuan's more than 10,000 Huai troops are waiting on the south road, will the twisted army hit headlong next, kill a bloody road, or go north to fight Liu Xian's soldiers and horses, or go east?
This is negotiable.
The people in the tent first vetoed the article of eating Runan. Starting from the current situation of the lack of artillery in the Twist Army, the inscription battalion of Liu Mingchuan is the next strategy.
So, how to choose the two roads of going north to fight Liu Xian's army and going east to Anhui?
"Each has its own benefits." Ren Huabang couldn't make a decision, and looked at Zhang Zongyu.
"Whether you go east or return north, you can lure Liu Mingchuan out of Runan City. Whether our army is going east or north, if we want to be calm, we must defeat the Erliu coalition army, and then we can go calmly. Zhang Zongyu's face was as calm as ice. That's the number one thing. ”
"As for the next step, it depends on the direction of Qinggou's defeat at that time."
"They retreat south, and we will go east. They retreated eastward, and let us go south. If we all retreat south, let's go north to the Sand River—"
Next. The sky was hazy and bright, and the stars had not yet set in the blue-gray sky. The tens of thousands of military horses have quietly assembled, passed through the Hongji Bridge on the Ru River, and moved to the east of Runan City.
The Ru River flows quietly, it crosses the east side of Runan City, stretches for more than 200 miles, and runs through half of Runing Province.
The Hongji Bridge is not the only bridge over the Joux, but it is the largest and strongest bridge.
Hongji Bridge is a five-hole double-arch stone bridge, built in the Yuan Dynasty. The total length of the north and south is 17 zhang, the middle hole span is 2 zhang 3 feet 4 inches, the side hole span is 2 zhang 1 foot, the bridge deck is 2 zhang 2 feet wide, and the bridge height is 3 zhang. The bridge deck is paved with bluestone slabs, and the whole bridge is built with bluestone strips, which is unusually strong.
Tens of thousands of horses can jog their horses from the Hongji Bridge, but if they are replaced by other bridges, they may collapse the bridge.
Liu Xian was still asleep at this time, and the detector that automatically alarmed him woke him up. This is not the first time, Liu Xian is simply used to the sudden sound of an alarm in his sleep.
Before he opened his eyes, he saw a small and large red cloud circled by himself on the virtual map, and they all moved at this moment.
A small piece of red clouds, Liu Ming's transmission department in Runan City, has begun to assemble. But not out of town. What alerted the detector was the large red cloud represented by the Twist Army, which had partially crossed the River Ru and turned to the east of the city of Runan.
Liu Xian looked at the movement speed of the red cloud of the Twisted Army, the speed was more than thirty miles per hour, the number of people was scanned around 10,000 cells, and the life fluctuations of each individual were extremely vigorous, uh, it was not something that normal human cells could achieve. In this way, this red cloud can only be a team of 10,000 horses!
Liu Xian watched the team of twisted horses run straight east for twenty miles, and then turned south, his brows furrowed, and he couldn't figure out what attention Zhang Zongyu and they were fighting.
At this time, the sky was already bright, and the Liu Xian army in the garrison was all on standby, and Liu Mingchuan's troops in Runan City were also ready to go, waiting for the next move of the twisting army.
The Twist Army also moved, first thousands of horses crossed the Hongji Bridge, then one after another infantry also crossed the Hongji Bridge and moved to the east, and finally the Twist Army Horse Team behind the palace.
Liu Xian looked at the Twist Army Horse Team in the southeast direction on the virtual map, and then looked at the Twist Army army that was slowly advancing eastward, and the Huai Army of Liu Mingchuan's Department, which had already opened the east gate of Runan, seemed to have caught a touch of Zhang Zongyu's vein, but it was still vague.
When the pocket watch reached eight o'clock, Liu Xian also led the cavalry to the rear of the Twist Army. Soon he met with the horse team behind the Twist Army.
The number of the Twisted Army Horse Corps was at least 5,000, and because it was a head-on battle, the small battlefield and the lack of 'advance' time for half a moment, Liu Xian's cavalry battalion had no possibility of a roundabout flank attack at all. In this way, Liu Xian would not use his precious cavalry to fight against the Twisted Army Horse Team at all.
The Twist Army Horse Team was divided into two parts, a group of 3,000 horsemen, facing Liu Xian's cavalry battalion.
The cavalry battalion was on the left, they went to the left; The cavalry battalion was on the right, and they were to the right; The cavalry battalion protruded in front, and they were ready to charge; The cavalry battalion pulled behind, and they also turned to the back.
Another cavalry of about 2,000 hovered directly in front of Liu Xian's soldiers at a speed that was neither fast nor slow. They were cautious and kept the distance out of range of shotguns at all times. However, a few mortar cannons hidden at the front of the ranks, firing fiercely, and firing flowering shells, still caused them to lose twenty or thirty cavalry, which made them more cautious. And not only away from shotguns, but also from the coverage of artillery.
Liu Xianam's soldiers were well-trained, and the musketeers were at the forefront, holding shotguns in both hands, and could always discharge a well-organized line of platoon fire. They stared straight ahead, and in the face of the Twisted cavalry that was about to rush forward, there was no sign of retreating at all.
The shotguns that were quickly raised every time made those twisters who didn't want to die lightly have to turn around. And this slowing and turning gap of their U-turn is an excellent opportunity and target for the musketeers to shoot.
Every move of the Twist Army can always kill a few or a dozen of its own people.
After a few circles like this, the horse team of the Twist Army had already left dozens of corpses on the battlefield, but found nothing.