Chapter 146: Inverted Bead Curtain

Towards dusk, the sky was full of dark clouds, and it was getting lower and lower. Although it has not yet rained, the wind has already risen, and the wind in the sky has swept up the banners on the battle flags, and dust and dead leaves are flying!

It was extremely dark today, but in the evening, it was already as if it was dark, and among the flying sand and rocks, the 180,000 people of the two armies were tearing and killing on a continuous front that stretched for nearly 20 miles.

Canyons, woods, hillsides, people and horses everywhere.

The cavalry shouted, the horses neighed!

The spear is like a forest, and the horizontal is like snow!

The hundreds of war drums on the North Ridge still did not stop at this time, the drums thundered and thundered, and the big horns rang for a long time.

After receiving Chen Kefu's order, Mao Yi in the west resolutely played the trick of procrastination, and with 5,000 soldiers and horses reinforced by Chen Kefu, his layers of defense line were even more perfect. And when the old man Li Benlei in the east received Chen Kefu's order for their whole army to assault the Liao Chinese army, he couldn't cry or laugh. In the current situation, there is no need for Chen Ke to give them such an order as a recurrence.

That madman Guo Xiaoke had already led their entire cavalry unit by the nose, and was constantly attacking in the direction of the Chinese army. He just can't keep up if he doesn't want to, the heavy cavalry brigade is too precious, and he can't let such a force alone attack the flank of the Liao army.

However, although Guo Xiaoke was fierce, the cavalry had been impacting for so long, and they were basically about to lose their momentum at this time. The speed also slowed down, and Yuan Gaitong also took advantage of this rare opportunity at this time to start gathering with those cavalry again, although there were not many people gathered, but they had begun to slowly stop the cavalry of the Sui army on the left flank of the Chinese army.

Yuan Taidi has been in battle for a long time, and knows that the soldiers and horses of both sides are very tired at this time, and whoever takes the lead in breaking through the opponent's formation may be able to win the final victory. He personally put on armor and went into battle, carrying a golden and steel wolftooth stick, riding a bright white horse, leading a large number of Goguryeo city lords, lords, and generals, with the most elite white horse battalion, and the elite guards of the nobles, staring at the right flank.

There was Liu Tiezhu's 5th Division, the Sui Army faced by the Goguryeo Central Army, the heavy infantry brigade led by the Li Shimin brothers assaulted the center of the Goguryeo Central Army, and Zhang He's 4th Division Infantry attacked the left flank of the Goguryeo people.

In addition to the 6,000 men and horses of Li Shimin's brothers, "like a sharp cone, they continued to insert into the Liao formation. Liu Tiezhu's Fifth Division was not strong, this army was originally stationed in the four cities of Xincheng, it can be said that he had not even seen blood before coming, and only went on a rapid march. When it comes to the quality of the soldiers in the troops, it is even inferior to the original weakest Zhang He Fourth Division in the original Liaodong City.

Although Zhang He's Fourth Division was the weakest division in Liaodong City, it later replenished a group of elite people in Liaodong City. And a few days ago, he also participated in the battle of ambushing Gao Zhen and them in Liaodong City, although that battle was very humiliating, fortunately, he had already experienced it once.

However, Liu Tiezhu's Fifth Division was even weaker than the Fourth Division. As soon as he received the order, Chen Kefu asked Liu Tiezhu and Li Benlei to rush to Xincheng overnight, "The soldiers and horses they brought were all temporarily selected overnight, and there was no time to select many strong men for a while."

After entering the new city defense, he was busy reinforcing the city defense, and he didn't have much time to train. This time, he was transferred by Chen Ke to participate in the war, except for the 1,000-strong veterans, the entire Fifth Division was all rookies.

As soon as the drums beat and the battle began, it was easy to distinguish between the new and the veteran. Although the officers and men of the Fourth Division were still in an unstable formation, they had fought a battle anyway. Many soldiers have adapted to the killing on the battlefield, especially those veterans who served as low-level officers, in the ambush battle in Liaodong City that day, they only patronized themselves and rushed forward, and forgot the responsibility of an officer, and were severely criticized by Chen Kefu in front of the three armies. After returning to the barracks, "the division commander Zhang He called all the officers over and gave them another severe training, and then gave all the officers a temporary lesson in battlefield command."

At this time, when they went to the battlefield again, these veterans could already remember their duties to some extent, although they still often killed xìng, and rushed to the front, "but in the end, no one lost their soldiers."

However, the Fifth Division, which is now in charge of the right flank, is a real rookie unit, and their performance is completely a copy of the Fourth Division's ambush in Liaodong City that day. Fortunately, today's Sui army is going on offense, not on defense. The soldiers of the Fifth Division, under the leadership of those veterans, shouted very loudly. The performance of the squad and platoon leaders of the Fifth Division was completely out of the same mold as those in the Fourth Division that day. ,

The swords and soldiers all fought bravely one by one, for fear of falling behind. Thousands of veterans have all rushed to the front line, but their subordinates have all become follow-up troops.

Those who rushed to the front were all squad and platoon leaders of various squads and platoons, and they were basically veterans of the past who broke the barracks.

After several hours of fighting, the veterans suffered heavy casualties, and the loopholes in the right flank were suddenly apparent. Without those veterans, the impact of the right flank on the Liao army basically did not have much threat, and it was even counter-charged by the Liao people many times, and they kept retreating.

To pinch persimmons, you have to pick soft ones, and the same is true for fighting.

Yuan Tai Gui led his vital force and went directly to the Fifth Division on the right flank, completely ignoring the situation in the center and the left flank. The Sui army, dominated by heavy infantry brigades, kept killing the right flank and the central army of the Liao, and those Liao soldiers and horses kept retreating.

On the other hand, Yuan Taidi turned a blind eye to the situation on his right, and took the fresh army to kill the Fifth Division on the right flank of the Sui army, and the offensive was like a wave. The officers and men of the Fifth Division, which had been fighting for several hours, were not strong in combat effectiveness and lacked the rational command of the officers at the grassroots level.

Yuan Taidi's White Horse Battalion is strong, and the White Horse Battalion, which has been recuperating and recuperating, is already the strongest force in the Liao army. At this time, as soon as it was shot, it was completely a torrent of desperate embankments. The white expanse was even more like an avalanche, and the light infantry of the Fifth Division had never seen such a scene. Let them ride on foot, but they lacked the timely command of the grass officer, and they couldn't even form a decent defensive line, and they were completely defeated in only a few rounds by the elite personal soldiers of the White Horse Battalion and the elite soldiers of the Liao nobles.

The officers and men of the Fifth Division kept retreating, but Yuan Taidi did not give the Fifth Division a chance to breathe. Putting aside the situation that the right flank of his center and the middle flank were also attacked, he turned a blind eye to it, and just blindly led the men and horses to rush the men and horses of the fifth division on the right flank of the Sui army.

Liu Tiezhu, the commander of the Fifth Division, led a team of guards at this time, and was chased by the Liao people and fought and retreated, feeling indescribably aggrieved. Well, since he broke the barracks, every battle was that they broke the barracks and chased the Goguryeo people all the way, fighting opponents like lost dogs. But now, the major general and division commander of the Fifth Division of the Liaodong Army, with more than 10,000 horses under his command, was chased by more than 10,000 Liao people behind.

"Formation! Formation! ”

Liu Tiezhu kept shouting, hoping that those soldiers would stop and form an infantry formation to defend.

But the throat he shouted was about to burst, and every time there would only be dozens or hundreds of people stopping and forming a formation under the leadership of the veterans. But every time, it didn't take long for the Liao soldiers and horses to rush in, basically just a few dozen Liao people's forwards, and their formation had already been broken.

With a hint of a sneer, Yuan Tai quietly crouched on his horse, biting the more than 10,000 Sui soldiers in front of him.

, "Dashuai, let the sons and daughters surround them, these Sui people have already been frightened, as long as they are surrounded, it won't take an hour, we can wipe them out." A city lord was running next to Yuan Taidi on horseback, and he didn't expect that this seemingly brave Sui people were originally so vulnerable.

Unexpectedly, all the way down, few dared to turn around and engage with them.

"Fenced? Why did Ben Shuai fence it off? Even if you kill all those Sui people, what can you do?

What Ben Shuai wants is victory in this battle. Let the brethren continue to drive them, and we went around to their right front, and drove all these Sui troops to the left flank and the center. Ben Shuai wants to let these Sui people help them break through their own backs! ”

When several nobles next to him heard this, their eyes lit up. At this time, the scuffle in the canyon "The light annihilation of this Sui army in front of you really did not have much effect on the whole battle. However, if these Sui troops are driven and their own left flank and the rear of the central formation are attacked, then the Sui people's positions will be in chaos, and their own side will take advantage of the situation to kill them, and their own soldiers and horses in the large array of the Chinese army in front will come to attack from both sides, and the chaotic Sui army of the Chinese army will inevitably be defeated.

As soon as the Sui army of the Chinese army was defeated, the initiative on the entire battlefield would be completely in their hands. These Goguryeo people who grew up in the mountains and forests of the northeast are best at hunting, and the Sui army is best at formation.

Pull a shot and move the whole body, and break an army to break the whole division.

Those Liao generals and nobles seemed to have seen victory in sight at this time. One by one, smiling and smiling, shouting their own soldiers and horses, whistling, riding the war horses galloping, Hulala's detachment of soldiers and horses directly detoured back to the right front of the Fifth Division, and the Goguryeo cavalry brandished sabers and rode spears, like a hunt, and began to drive the soldiers and horses of the Fifth Division that had already been defeated, and rushed towards the rear of the Fourth Division and the heavy infantry brigade.

The recruits of the Fifth Division had already become frightened birds at this time, but they were blocked in the way ahead, and they turned around and ran away in a panic.

More than 10,000 men and horses, like a flood that burst the embankment, rushed towards their brother troops along the river that the Liao people had drawn for them.