Chapter 153
It was not until the Ming army arrived at the side of the Great Wall and began to slow down and turn that the Obstruction Army shortened the distance between the two armies, and saw that the Ming Army was slowing down at the base of the city wall five miles away, and it was impossible to organize an effective defensive formation.
Yun Yang, who had finished turning, smiled, in fact, even if he didn't smile, his natural smiling face was always smiling.
Luck ordered the Ming cavalry to begin to gather momentum.
You must know that the Obstruction Army has accelerated and entered the state of charge, and although the Ming Army has completed its accumulation, it still has not started.
At this time, countless crossbowmen suddenly rose on the wall of the Great Wall, and the dense arrows flew all over the sky like locusts. The 10,000 crossbowmen of the horned crossbowmen have been waiting in ambush here for a long time.
The condescending projectile gives the arrow more potential energy and longer range.
The cavalry of the Blockade Army who rushed in front was suddenly blinded by the dense arrows, and the sudden deceleration of the forward made the cavalry that rushed after him avoid and collided, and in an instant, the formation of the Blockade Army was chaotic and had lost the ability to attack forward.
Yun Yang seized this opportunity and ordered the whole army to start charging. When he saw that the Ming army was beginning to charge, he ordered the archery to stop.
said that it was too late, it was fast, and it happened to Yun Yang to order the whole army to charge, and it was only half a pillar of incense.
The commander of the Divination Army had no time to respond effectively to this incident, and the cavalry of the Ming army had already arrived in front of the Divination Army.
In this battle, Yun Yang didn't even have a chance to make a personal move. The Obstruction Army did not even have the ability to fight back, and was beaten all at once, after the Ming cavalry ploughed back and forth three times. The more than 10,000 surviving Obstruction troops surrendered.
In the open field outside the Great Wall, none of the 30,000 Obstruction Army escaped, and they either died or surrendered.
Yun Yang "smiled" and ordered, "According to the conditions of the battlefield, it is impossible to contain prisoners. ”
As a result, more than 10,000 of the surrendered Divination troops were slaughtered.
The blood was quickly sucked dry by the sand outside the Great Wall, forming depressions and dark red low-lying areas. It seems to be announcing a word.
"Those who commit crimes against strong men will be punished even if they are far away."
After the victory, Yunyang immediately marched east along the Great Wall, bypassing Helan Mountain and turning north. A few days later, they rushed to the west of Huaiyuan.
originally planned to cross the Yellow River east to aid Lingzhou, but he didn't want to encounter a big battle between Zheng Enbu and the Hinder Army, and fell into a disadvantage.
Evian's personality. The First Army was immediately thrown into battle. There is no strategy. There was no pre-war encouragement, just a simple order - to crush them.
30,000 cavalry swept away from miles away into the battlefield in a sea of mountains.
There is a phenomenon on the battlefield that distinguishes whether an army that has never fought is a strong enemy, and often only needs to look at the momentum of its attack to judge eight or nine.
The Blockade Army, which was sure to win, was suddenly attacked by most of the Ming Army's cavalry from the west, and actually threw down tens of thousands of Zhou troops who were almost unable to hold on, and pulled their legs to the south, while the Zhou Army was stunned to watch the Blockade Army flee in a hurry, without sending an arrow to block.
In fact, even if you can't stop it, you can't stop it. How can a foot and an archer outrun a ranger? But it is mainly a kind of momentum, Zheng En's Zhou army has indeed been scared by the Bu army. There was a deep-seated fear, so it was incredible to see the Hinder Army retreating when they saw the Ming army attacking.
More than 40,000 troops fled south along the Yellow River, and the Yunyang Department was actually at the end of the strong bow, and the soldiers' bodies had already been overdrawn after several days of hurrying, so after meeting with Zheng En, they camped on the spot, prepared to repair for a day, and then crossed the Yellow River east to aid Lingzhou.
Zheng En has not received the battle report of Lingzhou City so far, in his heart, Lingzhou City is as stable as Mount Tai under the stubbornness of Chai Rong's 100,000 forbidden army, so he accompanied the Yunyang Department to rest in place.
The soldiers of Zheng Enbu, who were grateful for the saving grace of the Yunyang Ministry, prepared to have a carnival with the Ming army on the west bank of the Yellow River. And all the food and drink were taken from the people around Huaiyuan, and tens of thousands of soldiers of Zheng En's army ransacked all the surrounding villages and towns.
When the Ming army learned about it, they were surprised inexplicably, but Huaiyuan and Lingzhou were both Zhou territory and belonged to the internal affairs of Zhou, and it was inconvenient for the Ming soldiers to interfere, but the military discipline of the Zhou army made the Ming soldiers dare not agree.
In fact, this is a kind of inertia, Zhou replaced the Later Han, and most of the army was adapted from the Later Han army, even Chai Rong's forbidden army was only selected from the short ones. In this era, decades of war have made the soldiers lose their faith, and whoever pays me will work for whom, and the mentality of having milk is a mother to join the army, which is why in just a few decades, one of the fundamental reasons for changing the five dynasties.
In fact, Yun Yang's heart agrees with this, not that luck wants to oppress the people, but that Yun Yang thinks that the soldiers are bloody on the battlefield, tying their lives to their belts, and it is not a big deal to get some food and drink from the people after winning the battle, as long as they don't kill people.
But Yun Yang has been controlled by the iron-blooded military regulations set by Baili Wuji over the years, and he has gradually become accustomed to the military regulations of not robbing the people, and he has become an important minister of the Ming State, so he has no such kind of soldier's mind.
Therefore, when he saw Zhou Jun robbing his own people, Yun Yang didn't see it and didn't take it seriously.
That night, the venting of the soldiers of the Zhou army who escaped death infected the soldiers of the Ming army. In addition to the three teams of scouts sent south by Yunyang, the Ming and Zhou armies fell into a carnival on the west bank of the Yellow River.
And it was precisely because of this night's delay that the Lingzhou guarded by Chai Rong fell into a desperate situation again.
The more than 40,000 cavalry that retreated south was thus one day ahead of the Ming and Zhou armies, and when they reached Zhongning, they immediately crossed the Yellow River eastward, and after crossing the river, burned their boats.
In the three years before and after, the army marched south three times, and each time it was lost in the hands of the Ming army, which was like a contagious plague, spreading among the soldiers.
They burned the ships in order not to be caught up by the Ming army, thinking that as long as the ships were burned, the Ming army would be as helpless as them, but they seemed to have forgotten that the divination people could not swim, just as the southerners were not born to ride horses, and the water nature was just a piece of cake for the Ming army formed by the southerners.
Although the speed of the Ming army's crossing of the river was delayed, the sequelae left behind were very huge, which is a later story.
After crossing the river, more than 40,000 troops immediately advanced northward.
Two days later, he joined forces with the Divination Army outside the south gate of Lingzhou, and as a result, the strength of the Divination Army instantly doubled.
In the past two days, Chai Rong sent Xiang Xun and Zhao Kuangyin to take turns to harass the Bu Blockade Army several times, but they all returned in vain, and each had a victory or defeat. (To be continued......)