Chapter 614: Chen Dou's decisive battle
In history, the reason why Li Er was able to capture Dou Jiande outside the Tiger Prison Pass was really Li Er's luck couldn't be better, and it was also Dou Jiande's idea that he couldn't be memorized!
Yes, regardless of politics, scheming and military, Dou Jiande is a big cut behind Li Er, and during the Battle of Tiger Pass, Li Er's spies were able to send false information directly to Dou Jiande to falsely report the military situation; In terms of combat effectiveness, Sergeant Dou, who has never seen a truly strong enemy, is indeed inferior to Sergeant Tang, who is on the rise. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info// In addition, Dou Jiande was also blocked by Li Er for more than a month with the Tiger Prison Pass before the decisive battle, and was dragged into a tired soldier by Li Er, and also lost a lot of strength in several siege battles, and in the final decisive battle, Dou Jiande also made the mistake of lining up for too long, resulting in hunger and fatigue of the soldiers and a decrease in physical strength, and then there was a scramble for drinking water that caused the army to be chaotic on its own.
But even so, the main force of the Dou army at that time was by no means powerless in front of Li Erjun, if it wasn't for the strange thing that stood up after the coin landed, the main force of the Dou army, which had the advantage of troops, would not have been defeated so badly even if it lost!
However, Li Er casually tossed the coin, but after it landed, it miraculously stood upright! When Li Erjun attacked, just in time for the earth bun Dou Jiande to put the emperor's majesty, at noon also held a court meeting to discuss the military situation, when Li Erjun launched a surprise charge, Dou Jiande wanted to personally lead the cavalry to meet the attack, but the group of civil and military officials under his command who were stupider than pigs actually rushed to him instead to surround him, and grabbed Dou Jiande's hands, Dou Jiande had a full handful of Wang Bang in his hand but did not have a chance to play the card! When Dou Jiande drove these foolish subordinates away, Li Er's Xuanjia cavalry had already rushed to the front, and Dou Jiande would never have the opportunity to lead the troops to meet the attack, so he could only quickly take the foolish subordinates to the bull's mouth to retreat, and then fell off his horse by himself in the chaos, and led himself in front of the Tang Army's Bai Shirang and Yang Wuwei.
Chen Fuliang knew very well that he didn't have the good luck of Li Er, so he played countless tricks before the battle to weaken the enemy as much as possible, and he was mentally prepared for a bitter battle early on. The results proved that Chen Fuliang did not have such luck, Dou Jiande did not put the emperor on this historical track to hold a court meeting, and heard the loud military song that suddenly came out of the city of Tiger Prison, Dou Jun's civil and military hurriedly woke up Dou Jiande, Dou Jiande concluded that this was the Sui army's attack, and immediately ordered the army to strictly organize the formation, and the Dou army soldiers were not as chaotic as in history.
Without Li Er's strong luck, Chen Fuliang could only rely on the strength of the Sui army soldiers to speak, rhythmically beating war drums, the suspension bridge at the east gate of the Tiger Prison Pass slowly landed, and when the city gate opened, the three thousand Sui army infantry led by Wang Fubao first strode out of the city, followed by the Sui army artillery team led by Qian Xiangmin, then the Baoguo army led by Chen Fuliang himself, the three thousand Sui army cavalry led by Qin Qiong, and finally the main force of the Sui infantry led by Wei Chi Jingde, Luo Shixin, He Yanyu and Shi Wanbao, More than 24,000 cavalry troops lined up in a zigzag formation half a mile away from the west bank of the river, close to each other, and the formation was also quite dense, like a huge arrow, pointing directly at the huge military formation of the Dou army.
"People say that Chen Thief is good at using soldiers, according to my opinion, but that's it!"
Standing on the imperial chariot and carefully looking at the arrangement of the main force of the Sui army, Dou Jiande laughed, and disdained Chen Fuliang's arrangement to the extreme! -- However, this is not surprising, Chen Fuliang did not set up a formation this time, nor did he pay attention to protecting the two wings, such a troop arrangement could not achieve the rotation of the army at all, and the infantry and cavalry covered each other, except for the fact that it was conducive to the charge and assault of the whole army, and could form a direct threat to the front of the Dou army's large array, there was no merit.
Laughing and laughing, Dou Jiande, who had been stumbling on the battlefield for many years, still didn't take it lightly, and immediately ordered the front army to shrink the formation, with long shields in the front, swords and guns in the center, and bows and crossbows in the rear, strengthening the frontal defense, and preparing to block the Sui army's obvious charge and assault first. While the former army of Dou Jun contracted and adjusted according to the order, Dou Jiande also pondered whether to go out and answer a few words with Chen Fuliang to make up for the regret that he couldn't meet Chen Fuliang last time because of Li Mi's troubles.
Under the push and pull of two hundred Sui infantry, ten bronze artillery pieces quickly crossed the front of the infantry queue, lined up in front of the Sui army's formation, lifted the thatch camouflage to expose the cannon body, uncovered the dustproof silk cloth to expose the cannon muzzle, and the swarthy muzzle was also quickly aimed at the Dou infantry who had quickly shrunk the formation to a dense degree a mile away, and then quickly loaded and reloaded, ready to open the cannon.
The soldiers of the Dou army knew that the range of the so-called artillery was not far, and they would never be able to hit themselves from a long distance, so they didn't care much about being afraid. Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben, the generals of the Zheng army who were in Dou Jiande's army, saw the Sui army's artillery suddenly appear, but they were so frightened that they hurriedly rushed to Dou Jiande's palace and shouted: "Your Majesty, let your front army charge, you must not let the thief army open fire!" The thieves must not be allowed to open fire! ”
"Why?" Dou Jiande asked suspiciously: "Didn't you say that that kind of broken thing called artillery can only hurt people within eighty steps at most?" ”
"Nope! The artillery of the thief is much more powerful than ours! Wang Xingben hurriedly explained: "Thief Chen was shameless and cunning, and deliberately gave my uncle a fake artillery with very little power, and he hid the real artillery and suddenly used it, and killed my uncle by surprise!" In the Battle of Kui Han Dao, the Chen thief used this kind of artillery to defeat our army! His artillery happens to be the nemesis of the dense formation! ”
"Boom! Bang! Bang! ”
When Dou Jiande was still questioning in more detail, the Sui artillery on the west bank of the river had already opened fire one after another, and under the careful calculation and debugging of the shooting height of Qian Xiangmin, who was very talented in mathematics, ten shells accurately entered the dense formation of the Dou army's front army formation, and the shells whistled and injured the enemy, and after landing, they bounced up to do Brownian motion, and continued to smash and injure the Dou soldiers. None of the Dou soldiers behind the shield were spared, either their arms were sprained by the huge force, or their internal organs were directly smashed to pieces, and the strict formation of the Dou army staggered in an instant, and there was a big chaos.
Seeing this scene, Dou Jiande on the imperial chariot inevitably opened his mouth wide, his eyes widened, and he couldn't believe that all this was true. Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben, who had only heard about the power of the Sui army's artillery in the letters, were also dumbfounded, and what made Yang and Wang even more unbelievable was still behind, just in the blink of an eye, the Sui army's artillery had already fired a salvo again, and the second time the cannonball bombarded into the Dou army's formation, wounding and killing the enemy, once again stirring up the front army of the Dou army, and at the same time making the other Dou army teams in an uproar, and the army was terrified.
This time, there was no need for Yang Gongqing and others to urge, and Dou Jiande, who had come to his senses, immediately ordered the front army to charge and prevent the Sui army from continuing to fire artillery -- this was a smart decision, standing and letting the Sui army continue to bombard like this, or it would not be long before the morale of the Dou army could be directly bombarded by the Sui army's artillery.
Dou Jiande's clever decision did not have an immediate effect, the Dou army's front army counterattacked, not only gave up the orderly defense by itself, but also failed to prevent the third salvo of the Sui army's artillery, the artillery roared, the shells continued to fall into the Dou army's charging crowd, and the Dou sergeants panicked and avoided the bullets, and there was a lot of confusion on their own. At the same time, Wang Fubao, who had long been unable to hold back, also couldn't wait to order a charge, killing the front army of the Dou army that was rushing head-on, and advanced without hesitation.
The tragic fierce battle unfolded in the river, Wang Fubao, who was ordered to open the way for the cavalry to charge, took the lead, led the infantry of the Sui army to fight for life and death with the Dou army in the chest-deep river, with red eyes and stabbing and stabbing, all of them desperately stepped forward like crazy, and did everything in their power to greet the Dou soldiers with the weapons in their hands, and forcibly dragged the enemy into the river to scuffle and smash the hammer, the blood quickly stained the surface of the river, and the head of the stump quickly floated all over the river.
Although the Dou army also made a stubborn resistance, but the two armies always met or the brave to win, the Sui army is to attack more with less, desperate, the generals and soldiers from top to bottom are determined to fight to the death, but also occupy the advantage of relatively sufficient physical strength and relatively good physical condition, Dou Jun's side was first bombarded by artillery to disrupt the formation and shake the military heart, and was exposed to the scorching sun for a long time and suddenly fell into the cold river, it is inevitable that there will be physiological reactions such as physical exhaustion and cramps in the hands and feet. In the end, in addition to the front of the road is the former Dou Army's number one brave general Wang Fubao, knowing that Wang Fubao's powerful Dou Army soldiers were cowardly before the battle, psychologically the first to be at a disadvantage, so the fight was only ten minutes, the front army of the Dou Army had been caught up by Wang Fubao on the east bank, and the Sui Army soldiers took advantage of the situation to kill the shoal and continue to rush and fight, killing the Dou Army to the point that it was difficult to parry.
At this time, there was also a small deviation in the development of the war that Chen Fuliang had not expected in advance, and after carefully calculating the distance with the triangular positioning method, Qian Xiangmin ran to Chen Fuliang and said to Chen Fuliang: "Your Highness, the thief army flag array is just within the maximum range of our army's artillery. ”
"Is this a good thing? Didn't Wang Shichong tell Dou Jiande about the maximum shot of our artillery? ”
As soon as Chen Fuliang heard the music, and after thinking about it carefully, he found that maybe even Wang Shichong didn't understand what the maximum range of his army's artillery was, Chen Fuliang no longer felt strange, and immediately ordered Qian Xiangmin: "Open the cannon!" Shoot your heart's content! Until I call it a halt! After our troops charge, you can also continue to bombard the enemy's flanks! ”
Qian Xiangmin happily agreed, and ran back to the artillery team to pass the order, and the firing height of the Sui army's artillery team was already adjusted by Qian Xiangmin, so after the order was delivered, the Sui army's artillery also fired a salvo for the fourth time unplanned, and the shells whistled and went straight to the Dou army's flag array.
Of course, the maximum range could not guarantee the accuracy of the shells, so all ten shells smashed into the distance around Dou Jun's flag array, just killing and wounding some of Dou Jiande's Chinese soldiers, and none of the shells could hit Dou Jiande's side. But this was enough, seeing the tragic appearance of the nearby soldiers being killed and injured by shells, Dou Jiande still yelled with a pale face, "Chen thief's artillery can hit so far?" Yang Gongqing, Wang Xingben, why didn't you tell me before?! ”
"We don't ......, we don't know." Yang Gongqing and Wang Xingben were also pale, and said tremblingly: "If we could know that the thief army's artillery could hit so far, we would definitely have told Your Majesty a long time ago." Damn thief Chen, with such a powerful weapon, no wonder he is reluctant to give it to us. ”
"Your Majesty, it's too dangerous here, please retreat quickly!" Qi Shanxing hurriedly reminded beside him.
Dou Jiande was a little embarrassed, because at this time, his handsome banner retreated, which would definitely affect the morale of the army immediately, and then it might lead to the direct collapse of the former army that was fighting fiercely on the shore of the river, so Dou Jiande had to weigh this consequence no matter what. However, just when Dou Jiande hesitated, the cannon sounded again, and the fifth salvo of Sui artillery hit again. And this time, a cannonball finally hit Dou Jiande's side, killing one of Dou Jiande's guards.
"The Chinese army retreats one mile!" Dou Jiande subconsciously roared, and the Dou Army, who had long been frightened by the artillery, heard the will as if it had been amnestied, and hurriedly retreated to the rear with Dou Jiande's imperial chariot and handsome flag, and the honor guard and drum and gong team around Dou Jiande also hurriedly followed.
Chen Fuliang was waiting for this opportunity, after an order, more than 1,000 **** soldiers shouted neatly 'Dou Jiande is dead', heard this neat shout, and turned back to see that Dou Jiande's handsome banner was indeed retreating to the rear, and the front army of the Dou army, which was fighting fiercely with Wang Fubao, suddenly collapsed, and from top to bottom they were scrambling to flee, Wang Fubao took the opportunity to chase and kill with all his might, and successfully completed the task of opening the way explained by Chen Fuliang. Seeing this scene, Chen Fuliang was overjoyed and immediately shouted: "The whole army is advancing and flowing through the water!" ”
The order was conveyed, and more than 20,000 soldiers of the Sui army trotted forward together, and flowed across the river while basically ensuring the formation, and Chen Fuliang did not wait for all the infantry to cross the river, he immediately drew his sword, pointed to the front and shouted: "Raise the flag, beat the war drums!" Charge the whole army! Goal, Dou Jiande's first level! ”
The banner waved, the war drums on the east gate of the Tiger Prison Pass all beat wildly, and the general attack of the Sui army was launched, Chen Fuliang led the Baoguo army to rush to the front, Qin Qiong led the light cavalry to follow, and then the Sui army infantry marched in four directions.
The infantry of the Dou army on both flanks killed left and right, trying to attack the two wings of the Sui army to stop the Sui army from charging, while Wang Fubao's army, which was in front of the road, was divided into two, facing the enemy left and right, and buying time for the cavalry to charge with fewer strikes and more shots. More than 1,000 **** soldiers roared like thunder, charged at full speed non-stop, quickly poked into the inside of the defeated and fleeing Dou Army's front army, slashed and rushed straight through, leaving corpses all over the ground, and then smashed straight into the Dou Army's Zhongjun formation, which was retreating in a hurry, and the Dou Army's Central Army hurriedly intercepted in a dense formation, but it was not too late at all, and the cavalry of the Baoguo Army rushed like the wind, and once again directly penetrated into the inside of the Dou Army's Central Army.
It seems that the reappearance of the rain battle eight years ago, in the dark, Chen Fuliang can see, in addition to the white cloak around him, there is only the sand and smoke in the sky, and the towering Dou character flag in the distance, which is closely protected by Mulan and the soldiers of the National Army, and the saber in Chen Fuliang's hand has no chance of getting blood at all, so the only thing Chen Fuliang can do is to pat the horse to chase Dou Jiande's handsome banner, and keep howling and roaring, "Kill!" Kill! Kill Dou Jiande, this puppet! End this damn troubled times! ”
The most sophisticated protection gives the most powerful defense of the heavy cavalry of the Baoguo Army, tired and? The soldiers of the Dou Army, who were hungry and had reduced physical strength, could not cut the bright light armor and horse armor of the **** cavalry at all, and in front of the **** soldiers armed to the teeth, they were purely a group of lambs to be slaughtered, unable to line up, without the skillful cooperation of long shields and knives and guns, the soldiers of the Dou Army could not stop the charging iron hooves of the cavalry of the Baoguo Army, and the iron cavalry of the Baoguo Army continued to advance in the enemy formation, constantly rushing to Dou Jiande's handsome banner, and worked hard little by little to narrow the distance with Dou Jiande.
At the same time, the Sui artillery is still constantly firing artillery, constantly bombarding the two wings of the Dou army that have not yet participated in the battle, and the Sui cavalry led by Qin Qiong has also been chasing behind the **** team, constantly opening up the space to cover the two wings of the ****, and then the main force of the Sui infantry advancing in four ways, the footsteps of the charge shook the ground trembling slightly, and the terrifying momentum of the indomitable move also made the Dou soldiers secretly tremble.
Dou Jiande is also trying to stabilize the Chinese army, trying in vain to stabilize his position and then launch a counterattack, but the cavalry of the Baoguo Army behind is like a group of white hungry wolves, always staring at his handsome banner, and has been fighting his Chinese army to advance, not giving him a chance to breathe and adjust at all. With no other choice, Dou Jiande could only yell loudly, "Drumming!" The whole army counter-charges! Let's talk about the thieves first! ”
Hearing the sound of this drum, the Dou army troops on both wings and the rear also launched a charge, rushing towards the Sui army from the front and the two wings together. Dou Jiande did this, although he would increase casualties due to the chaotic formation, and he would never have a chance to completely defeat the Sui army of the Eastern Expedition, but at least he could entangle the Sui army of the Eastern Expedition and win a chance for Dou Jiande to get out of the way. However......
However, it is a pity that Dou Jiande seriously overestimated his military morale and combat effectiveness of the soldiers, and also seriously underestimated the determination of the Sui soldiers to kill him. Fierce as hellish ghosts, the soldiers of the Dou army were frightened, dodging left and right, and no one dared to be their leader.
There is also a dangerous consequence of Dou Jiande's doing, that is, once his army collapses under such circumstances, it will be impossible to clean it up, and it will no longer be able to condense into an army and effectively command, and the soldiers of the Sui army who are charging in the group will no longer have any power to fight back. Unfortunately, the situation of the Dou army is developing rapidly in this dangerous direction............
The sound of a new explosion sounded in the Dou Army, the **** soldiers who were accustomed to opening the way with gunpowder bottles at the last moment threw a large number of gunpowder bottles, and the soldiers of the Dou Army in the middle of the explosion staggered, and the formation was even more chaotic. At this time, the banner of Jingzhong to serve the country and Chen Fuliang's banner of Tang Wang with teeth and claws were less than fifty steps away from Dou Jiande's handsome banner.
There was no way, knowing that taking the lead in escaping at this time would only lead to the defeat of the self-army, and the casualties of the soldiers were so heavy that they could not be more miserable, but for the sake of his precious life of the Son of Heaven, Dou Jiande still gritted his teeth and jumped off the imperial chariot, rode on the royal horse and fled, the Chinese soldiers hurriedly followed, and without the fetters of the imperial chariot, honor guard, gongs, drums and horns, etc., they fled quickly. However, after seeing the defeat and retreat of the Chinese army, the Dou army also quickly collapsed, and the generals and soldiers all fled eastward, escaping faster than one another, crying and shouting one after another, earth-shattering, "Run!" We lost! We lost! ”
The moment to harvest the fruits of victory has finally arrived, the soldiers of the Sui army who are flying like flying only need to wield knives and guns, and they can easily slash and kill the soldiers of the Dou army who have given up resistance on their own, chop melons and vegetables with knives and axes, and kill the enemy as much as they want, but the biggest victory of the Sui soldiers this time is only one, that is, Dou Jiande himself who will lead to the long-term continuation of this cruel and chaotic era, so whether it is a ****, cavalry or infantry, all of them are only pursuing in one direction, that is where Dou Jiande's handsome banner is!
During the rout and escape, Dou Jiande's army fled to the front of the camp of the army in embarrassment, but the Sui army immediately followed up, frantically slashed and drove the defeated soldiers of the Dou army to advance, and the defeated soldiers of the Dou army trampled on their own in front of the gate of the camp, pushing and fighting for the road to the camp, and the corpses that were trampled into mud quickly paved the road of the camp gate, and the corpses, the living and the wounded soldiers quickly filled the trenches to protect the camp, and the defeated soldiers of the Dou army stepped on the corpses to advance, knocked over the antlers and overthrew the horses, trampled the fence into a state of sawdust, and the towering arrow tower of the camp gate also fell to the ground under the push of the Dou soldiers, and smashed into the dense crowd, splashing the sky with blood.
Driven by the desire to escape, the defeated soldiers of the Dou army tore down countless camp tents, overturned countless baggage grain trucks, and directly broke the rear army of the Dou army that stayed in the camp, and then threw down the huge camp, stepped on the corpses of his own people and fled eastward, crying and shouting and rushing to the Niuzhukou wharf.
Dou Jiande's handsome banner has long been abandoned, but because the golden helmet and golden armor on Dou Jiande and the armor of his Chinese guards are too conspicuous, the experienced **** soldiers have been chasing him all the time, and they have been chasing him from the camp to Niuzhukou Wharf. The defeated soldiers of the Dou army on the wharf were already crowded, the soldiers scrambled to get on the boat, and sank countless small boats on the spot, and the Dou soldiers who fell into the Yellow River struggled in the water to call for help, and the miserable shouts were unbearable to hear.
The soldiers of the Dou army did not have the opportunity to cross the river at all, and the ruthless Chen Fuliang had already prepared for this, and the little water thief He Er on the Tongji Canal had already rushed to the vicinity of the Niuzhukou wharf with the Sui army warships, although the Sui army's Yellow River warships were all converted from civilian ships, and their combat effectiveness was far inferior to that of the regular sailors - but the damn Dou army ferry was not even armed! He Er, who was somewhat skilled in water warfare, commanded the Sui soldiers to release rockets and ignite the sails of the Dou army's ferry, while directing the water-skilled Sui soldiers to go into the water to scuttle the boat, and slammed the Dou army's ferry, which was full of defeated soldiers and was slow and difficult to walk, wantonly slaughtered the Dou soldiers, and soon completely cut off the Dou army's northward escape route. The smoke of the Dou Army's ferry, which was ignited by rockets on the river, and the Dou soldiers' soldiers and corpses drifted in the water, floating in the surging yellow water.
Knowing that he could no longer cross the river, Dou Jiande could only order the army to continue to flee east with him, but the chaos was like a mess, and there were not many people in the Dou soldiers who had lost the command of the general, and there were no people with him, so Dou Jiande was forced to have no choice but to flee east with his guard team. As a result, the brightly armored guards around Dou Jiande became magnets, attracting the all-out pursuit of the iron cavalry of the Baoguo Army.
In the charge, Guo Feng and Chen Ci, two veterans of the national army, first caught up with Dou Jiande's guard team, Guo Feng and Chen Ci thought that there was about to be a fierce battle, and they both fought twelve points of spirit to prepare for the battle, but who knew that Dou Jiande's guards were far less loyal than his soldiers - this is also the case in history, they even screamed and fled in all directions, and took the initiative to give way to Guo Feng and Chen Ci's two generals. Guo Chen'er was surprised and pounced on Dou Jiande, who was wearing conspicuous gold armor, Dou Jiande looked back and was shocked, and hurriedly yelled at his guards to protect him, but his guards were more greedy for life and afraid of death than one another, not only was no one willing to die in the palace, but also fled from him one after another......
Finally, Chen Ci was the first to catch up with Dou Jiande, picked up the cooked copper stick stained with blood and brain, and swept towards Dou Jiande, knowing that the general trend was gone, Dou Jiande turned around and yelled, "Don't kill me, I can make you rich ......!" ”
Before the words were finished, and the head was only halfway back, the wrought iron rod in Chen Ci's hand had already smashed on Dou Jiande's face, and he was not biased towards Dou Jiande's face, smashing Dou Jiande's face full of deformation, and he fell off the war horse with a vague scream............
Then, when Chen Fuliang came to Dou Jiande's corpse, all he could see was a corpse whose appearance could not be distinguished at all. After personally dismounting and observing for a long time, and also checking the sweat and blood stains on Dou Jiande's clothes and armor, as well as the knots of the gold armor, Chen Fuliang still couldn't tell whether this was Dou Jiande's corpse, so he could only ask Guo Feng and Chen Ci suspiciously: "You guys, confirm that he is Dou Jiande?" Will someone change his armor and die for him? ”
"This ......." Guo Feng and Chen Ci wiped the sweat and blood on their faces and hesitated, and they all shook their heads and said, "Your Highness forgives you, there is no way to confirm it." ”
"The thief killed!" Chen Fuliang kicked Dou Jiande's corpse heavily, bent down and pointed at Dou Jiande's corpse and scolded: "Piff! When you were alive, you didn't let me see your appearance, forget it, but when you die, you still die with a sparse face, so that this king can't see what you look like, and you have to make this king struggle to tell whether you are real or fake! Damn it! ”
After straightening up again, looking at the surging Yellow River in the north, Chen Fuliang muttered in his heart again: "I hope it's you, this damn troubled world should be over." ”