Chapter 222: Seven Thousand vs. Two Hundred Thousand
The first to go to Houli, for the Houli Dynasty to relieve the siege of Li 12 and Luo Hu, Li 12 fought bravely, but not brutal. Luo Hu is even more elf, a small ghost.
Li XII first arrived at Gaoping City and asked Zhu Huan and Ruan Zhengming, who were stationed in Gaoping City, about the situation of the Ruan Dynasty.
Regarding the situation of Zheng Zhu in the Later Dynasty, Zhu Huan and Ruan Zhengming investigated very clearly, but they were not familiar with the situation of the Ruan Dynasty, and they only knew a rough idea.
Li Twelve was angry at that time and scolded, "Sending you to garrison here, are you eating for nothing?" I don't know anything, what are you eating! ”
scolded so much that Zhu Huan and Ruan Zhengming both lowered their heads.
Li Twelve thought about it, and he couldn't blame these two people, because they were in Gaoping after all, and they were far away from the Ruan Dynasty. And it is also necessary to stabilize the situation in Gaoping, after all, many people have been killed here, and it is necessary to pacify. And Zhu Huan's manpower is not enough.
"Well, it's not all your fault! You gather the troops here, wait for my order, and Luo Hu and I will go to see the situation of the other party first! ”
"Uncle Twelve, I'll go with you too!" Zhu Huan wanted to go with him.
Li Twelve shook his head, "Your cavalry is very small, and it is difficult to move, so you should wait here first." ”
Li XII and Luo Hu led 7,000 cavalry to kill Shenglong.
There were a large number of Nguyen Dynasty troops stationed outside Thang Long City, and although most of the 7,000 cavalry led by Li XII were equipped with firecrackers, although the power of firecrackers was fierce, because it was a lone army, the supply of gunpowder was insufficient, and they did not dare to rush forward.
Because the number of troops of the Nguyen Dynasty is too much, now in addition to the 300,000 troops of the Nguyen Dynasty. There were also 200,000 people who surrounded and suppressed Shenglong City, and these 200,000 people were ordinary people captured by the Ruan army in the Houli Dynasty, and the Ruan army called these people cannon fodder.
Other than that. It is said that the Nguyen Dynasty also had quite a few cavalry, tens of thousands of people, although the quality of the cavalry was not good, but there were many of them.
Moreover, I heard that the Nguyen Dynasty actually had a cannon!
Whether these things are true or not, Li Twelve doesn't know, after all, there is very little intelligence work on the Ruan Dynasty. Hardly.
Therefore, Li Twelve will not go to the hard, he just crumbles towards the rising dragon with momentum.
This time, it was Nguyen Gang, the lord of the Nguyen Dynasty, who personally set out on the expedition. 300,000 people! It is almost the power of the Nguyen Dynasty to the whole country! That is to say, Lord Ruan almost brought all the soldiers of the Ruan Dynasty who could fight well. This also shows Lord Ruan's determination to destroy the Zheng Lord of the Houli Dynasty! Because most of the Houli army was wiped out by Li Guo, the remaining Houli army was partially killed when the Nguyen army attacked, and the remaining men and horses retreated to Thang Long City.
So, since the start of the war. Ruan Jun has been cautious from the beginning. Slowly let go of the courage, along the way, as if entering a no-man's land, it became more and more rampant, burning, killing and looting, doing all kinds of evil, and even killing people in many places. Now the morale of the Nguyen army is very high, because they have not lost a battle yet!
The information of the Ruan Dynasty was more accurate than that of Li XII. When I heard that thousands of cavalry were coming, and it was the clothing of the Ming army. Ruan Gang attaches great importance to it.
Ruan Gang also heard that the army was very powerful, but Ruan Gang decided to break the cauldron and defeat Shenglong first! Laying down the Shenglong heralded the fall of the Houli Dynasty, and the entire territory of the Houli Dynasty was his. What about the Ming army, Ming Chengzu's army was so powerful back then, it wasn't the same that it couldn't stay in Annan! I have 300,000 soldiers and 200,000 cannon fodder, and I can't beat them? Ruan Gang didn't believe it. Besides, with such a large territory, even if you can't beat it, it will be easy to negotiate.
Therefore, while attacking Shenglong City, Ruan Gang sent his younger brother Ruan Meng to lead all 50,000 cavalry, 50,000 infantry and 100,000 cannon fodder, a total of 200,000 people, to intercept Li Twelve.
Looking at the people all over the mountain, Li Twelve was also stunned, the strength of this Ruan army is too big! So many people?
Therefore, Li Twelve slowly retreated backwards, unable to fight.
On the first day they retreated thirty miles, and the enemy followed them thirty miles.
The next day they retreated another thirty miles, and the enemy followed them another thirty miles.
Li XII did not attack, and neither did the enemy. It's as if both sides are testing each other
On the second night, when he set up camp, Li Twelve called all the big and small leaders over for a meeting.
"Twelfth Master, will you retreat thirty miles tomorrow?" One of the ringleaders asked.
Luo Hu smiled.
Li Twelve then asked Luo Hu, "Little Huzi, what are you laughing at?" ”
"I think, we won't retreat tomorrow, Uncle Twelve, I see that although there are many enemies, there are also weaknesses, I think you are going to fight?" Luo Hu looked at Li Twelve.
"Little bunny, goblin. Yes, I'm going to fight! Li Twelve said.
It turned out that through the observation of the past two days, Li XII found that the ranks of the Ruan Dynasty were a little chaotic, especially when they retreated faster, and the Ruan army was even more chaotic. And there are many people at the front who don't have weapons, it's even more strange, the rangers sent by Li Twelve have caught a few prisoners in the past two days, and when they asked, they realized that they were cannon fodder. So, Li Twelve decided to play a dozen.
"Remember, everybody, tomorrow look at my order flag!" Li Twelve commanded.
The leaders went out, but Luo Hu stayed.
"Uncle Twelve, I am also in favor of fighting a dozen, if you don't hit the enemy, you don't know the pain! Just be quick! Luo Hu proposed to Li Twelve.
Li Twelve nodded, "I know, our ammunition is not very sufficient!" ”
The two men took another deliberative meeting.
So, early on the morning of the third day, Li XII ordered a quick retreat, and the seven thousand cavalry quickly retreated.
And the leader of the Ruan army on the opposite side is Ruan Meng's younger brother, Ruan Meng, Ruan Meng has always been very fierce, but Ruan Gang ordered Ruan Meng to just drag this Ming army, and did not order Ruan Meng to attack.
However, Ruan Meng followed Li Twelve for two days, and found that Li Twelve only knew how to retreat, so he forgot Ruan Gang's order and decided to attack on the third day. But as soon as I got up in the morning, a sergeant came to report, saying that the cavalry of the Ming army had already pulled out of the camp, and it seemed that they were going to run!
Ruan Meng thought to himself, he had arranged the attack, how could he not fight, so he ordered, "Chase!" ”
In this way, the army of the Nguyen Dynasty began to chase in chaos.
Li Twelve and Luo Hu ran out of the distance with the cavalry, suddenly stopped their horses, lined up, and slowly ran back. Slowly, faster and faster, faster and faster, at last the horses' hooves rumbled, and the ground trembled. Seven thousand horses, seven thousand warriors slaughtered the army of 200,000!
Ruan Meng was taken aback, grandma's, these people are crazy! This person wants to fight me?
Yes, that's it! Li 12 and Luo Hu's 7,000 men thrust a blade at the enemy!
Looking at the galloping horses and angry men, the cannon fodder at the front of the Ruan army panicked, most of them had wooden sticks and sticks in their hands, and they had never fought.
The cannon fodder at the front was in the strong survival **, and the two rolling and crawling, dodging the iron hooves of the war horses, ran to both sides, and the legs and feet were trampled into meat sauce on the spot.
Li XII didn't even give the order to fire the firecracker, he killed the front battalion, and after the cavalry, he left a bloody path.
However, Li XII and they immediately met the cavalry, the cavalry of the Nguyen Dynasty! (To be continued......)