Chapter Fifty-Seven: The Great Victory of the Eastern County (Part II)
The thousands of defeated Qi soldiers who rushed to the front were shot in front of the formation, which greatly stimulated the defeated soldiers of the Qi army who rushed behind. On the battlefield, blood and sacrifice either make people wake up, or they make people more frightened and fall into madness.
Although there were still thousands of people panicking and trying to take the quickest way to rush into the phalanx and seek refuge, most of the defeated Qi soldiers still realized that they would only die faster if they collided with the phalanx. They chose to bypass the two flanks of the phalanx, although it was inevitable that they would be too late to dodge the pursuit of the South Korean army behind them, but it was better than being shot by their own people.
"Raise your shield! Spear up! The herald shouted hoarsely.
The defeated rear army can no longer be counted on, but the Qi army still has 50,000 Chinese troops! Hou Sheng firmly believed that he could hold out until reinforcements arrived east of Binh Duong.
To the south of Pingyang, the combined forces of Qi and Zhao had an army of 120,000, of which 20,000 were Zhao and 100,000 were Qi. To the east of Pingyang, the combined forces of Qi and Zhao had an army of 90,000, of which 60,000 were Zhao and 30,000 were Qi. The distance between the two was only thirty miles, and when the Han army was discovered, Hou Sheng sent people to the east of the city to assemble a large army, and it only took an hour, or even half an hour, to reverse the shape! The premise is that you stick to it!
The rumbling sound of horses' hooves was like a spell for life, and the closer you got to the Qi army, the greater the pressure on the Qi army. The thin flesh naturally can't compete with the war horses that are sprinting with all their might, and the Qi troops in the front row with spears and spears all know that they have almost no chance of surviving, but they are very likely to be trampled into flesh! But they have no way to retreat, and if they want to slow down the Korean cavalry, they can only fill it with human lives.
This is the moment to consider courage, the cold and shining spear of the Qi army is by no means an ornament, the spear of more than three meters long is enough to skewer the Korean army and the people and horses into meat skewers, if you want to get rid of this situation, or the Qi army can't stand the pressure and disperse. Either the South Korean army is afraid of casualties and dodges.
The training cost of cavalry is always high, especially the Yulin Army, which is one in a hundred! Hou Sheng set up a tight defense just to tell the Yulin army that they didn't leave more than half of the corpses, and they didn't want to rush into the Qi army's array! After these simple rejections of horses have made the Yulin army suffer enough, the Yulin army will change its strategy, and finally face the real enemy - the Han army's foot soldiers! Hou Sheng has always thought. The 90,000 Han army chariots behind the Yulin Army are the real threat to their own side! Cavalry, used to defeat unprepared foot soldiers, is the real king!
It's just that the desire for victory, the desire for life, makes the cruel impact inevitable. The Qi army could not retreat, lost the protection of the phalanx, and the foot soldiers were vulnerable in the eyes of the cavalry. The Han army could not retreat, and the combined forces of Qi and Zhao were now caught off guard and panicked. This is the best opportunity for the Korean army! Incubated for days. Isn't this the moment you've been waiting for?!
"Bang! Bang! Bang! The continuous sound of collision resounded throughout the earth, and the pikemen and cavalry of the Han army in the front row were almost all killed in an instant, and the expressions on their faces were either calm, tragic, or frightened, and quickly covered by the hooves of the Korean army, and disappeared into the sea of people.
Then there were the pikemen of the Qi army in the second row, and the pikemen of the Qi army in the third row, and the two sides fought with their lives. Life passes quietly in the sun. In order to cope with the charge of the Korean army, the Qi army set up twenty platoons of pikemen. But the cavalry of the Han army broke through the outermost defense of the Qi army with great sacrifices, and the archers of the Qi army, who were still continuing to release arrows and suppress the charge of the Han army, did not expect the Han army to break through the formation so quickly, and wanted to flee deeper into the phalanx in panic, but it was too late!
The Yulin army sacrificed more than 3,000 elites to break through a corner of the Qi army's array, how could they let go of the Qi army's accomplices, the archers! The Yulin Army placed the long sword in his hand diagonally. With the speed of the war horse, thirsty for the blood of the Qi army! Killing becomes the easiest thing to do in this moment! The price of blood proves once again that a weak archer is inferior to a light infantry when distance is lost!
At this time, the sword and shield soldiers behind the archers of the Qi army wanted to protect the robes. But it was knocked away by the archers in a panic, and the front of the Qi army was inevitably chaotic!
Qi Jun couldn't imagine why the South Korean army was so careless about casualties?! This is the most courageous cavalry elite in the world, and South Korea is so ruthless that it wants to use the Yulin Army to open the way! Isn't the Yulin Army the best at riding and shooting?! Why wasn't it the Yulin Army that harassed itself, and the South Korean infantry charged?!
The heavy cavalry, which still maintained the size of 2,000 people, had no distractions, and although the most elite heavy cavalry of the 1,000 people died on the battlefield, their sacrifice was worth it. The Qi army is panicked, and it is obligated to achieve this great victory and comfort the undead with the old man! The heavy cavalry and light cavalry of the Yulin Army together slaughtered in the Qi army array, completely blocking and killing the gods, and the Buddha blocking and killing the Buddha!
The panic spread rapidly among the Qi army, and the Qi army that received the enemy could not stand the huge pressure and began to retreat, and the Qi army inside wanted to come out for reinforcements. The two sides squeezed together, but they couldn't move! Seeing that the Yulin Army was getting closer and closer, I don't know who pulled out the long sword first and killed the defenseless robe, wanting to kill a bloody way! At this moment of panic, this seemed to be a signal, and the Qi army, which was originally just pushing and shoving, began to kill each other!
One side only wants to live, and is unwilling to face the Yulin Army that kills gods again; One side was ordered by Hou Sheng to ask the other side to turn back and fight with the Korean army again! The selfishness of human nature is unmistakably revealed in this narrow battlefield.
The same uniform, the same weapons, and maybe even a local village party, all of them are not obstacles to fratricidal fighting! Qi Jun only knew that anyone who was not moving in the same direction as himself was the target of his own killing! The ground beneath his feet was soon stained red with blood, and the ground became sticky and muddy because it was covered with blood. But none of them will care about this detail, they only know that if they want to live, they must kill everyone on the other side!
The Yulin army did not watch the infighting of the Qi army from the sidelines, but accelerated the pace of driving the Qi army, listening to the horses that were getting closer and closer, the two warring sides did not stop the army, but fought more fiercely! The Qi army, who was facing the South Korean army, knew that without destroying these "enemies" in front of them, they would not be able to complete the task assigned to them. The Qi army, which had their back to the South Korean army, knew that they could not escape from the pursuit of the South Korean army without killing these "enemies" in front of them! As for how many people they have left and how much strength they have left after the fight, they don't care at all!
The Yulin Army quickly let both sides know what they should do, and wherever the rolling iron flow went, there was no longer a standing Qi army! The Qi army, who was still insisting on his duties, could no longer withstand it. Turn around and flee in a hurry! The two sides have reached an amazing tacit understanding, perhaps they have realized that if they continue to fight, they will only be completely annihilated by the South Korean army! The Qi army, which spared his life, fled, and the direction of escape was the Chinese army where Hou Sheng was!
Hou Sheng looked at this scene not far away. Dumbfounded and clearly overwhelmed! Although the defeat of the 30,000 rear army was unexpected, under the ruthlessness of the rear victory, it still succeeded in saving the 20,000 army! Unexpectedly, the Korean army once again caught himself off guard with a huge sacrifice. This time, there were more than 10,000 routs, and after removing 20,000, the defeated army that had not yet calmed down and had no strength to fight, there were only 30,000 people under his command who could fight a battle (10,000 Qi troops had been killed in the battle!). )! And at this time. The banner of the main force of the South Korean army is already clearly visible!
"Withdraw!" Hou Sheng hesitated for a moment and made this difficult decision!
If you want to stabilize this 10,000 routed army, you need to send at least 10,000 troops! Then there are only 20,000 people who can really be used to directly face the impact of the South Korean army! 20,000, how can it be possible to beat the 100,000 wolf-like South Korean army?! Hou Sheng knew that he had lost his chances of winning, and the first thing he thought of was to preserve his strength! Isn't Lian Po leading 40,000 Qi and Zhao coalition troops to besiege and kill 20,000 Korean troops?! Let him face it!
The Qi army, which was originally not high in battle, was pardoned after hearing the news, and as for the robe behind him, who was being slaughtered by the Korean army, they subconsciously chose to forget! In these years, it would be good to be able to save your own life. Who will have time to rescue each other!
Immediately, the strangest scene on the battlefield appeared. The 10,000 Qi army rushed forward desperately, and not far from them, the 40,000 Qi army ran faster, but behind them, there were obviously only thousands of Korean cavalry, only behind thousands of cavalry. There is the shadow of 90,000 Korean army chariot soldiers!
The whining horn sounded the pace of the retreat of the Qi army, and the Qi army, which was originally assisting the Zhao army and doing its best to surround and kill 20,000 Korean troops, heard the horn sound, and only hesitated a little, and decided to withdraw from this battle immediately! Didn't you see that the Qi army had already retreated under the leadership of Hou Sheng?! If you don't run again. I'm afraid that I will be made dumplings by the Korean army! The Qi army completely did not care about the life or death of Zhao Jun and fled for his life.
As soon as the Qi army walked like this, it not only exposed a huge gap in the originally tight encirclement, but also directly exposed the flank of the Zhao army to the Han army! The Han army, who had already prepared for the worst, disappeared in the blink of an eye as soon as the arrogant Qi army disappeared, and the horn of their own charge was getting closer and closer, and they suddenly understood that the shape was reversed! It must be the guard captain Li Mu who led the army to reinforce himself! At this time, the remaining more than 10,000 Han troops rose up and bit Zhao Jun to the death! In less than two quarters of an hour, the main force of the South Korean army will arrive, and by then, the Zhao army will be finished!
Lian Po regrets it very much now, he has long known that Hou Sheng does not know the military, why should he believe that he can stop the Korean army! However, even if it is 80,000 pigs, it is enough for the Korean army to cut and kill for a while. What is going on with the Qi army, only half an hour later, it was actually broken by the Korean army?! And it seems that the Qi army was chased and killed by thousands of Korean cavalry all the way, and the main force of the Korean army has not even caught up with the Qi army?!
As soon as the Qi army left, the Zhao army, which had only 15,000 people left, faced a flanking attack by the Korean army, which was several times its size. The more than 10,000 Korean troops will not let go of themselves, the Qi army running at the back is about to be killed by the Korean army, and the remaining thousands of people are completely impossible to buy themselves a little time, behind them are thousands of Korean cavalry, and further behind them is the main force of the Korean army that is overwhelmingly black.
Retreat has become the only way out for the Zhao army, and in order to gain enough time, there must be no fewer people left behind! Lian Po has experienced a hundred battles, so naturally he will not have the kindness of a woman at such a moment. Leaving 10,000 people to contain the Han army, Lian Po led 5,000 Zhao troops without looking back. He knew very well that if these 10,000 people wanted to live, there was no other way but to surrender, and he also hinted at the captain who stayed behind that after holding on for an hour, he could lead the army to surrender!
So, with 40,000 Qi troops as the vanguard, 15,000 Qi troops in the center, and 5,000 Zhao troops in the palace, the Qi and Zhao coalition began a desperate escape game, the rules of the game are very simple, whoever runs slowly, who will be bitten by the Han army, and those who are bitten will be eliminated due to death! The destination of the Qi and Zhao coalition was in the camp thirty miles away. At this time, no one remembered why there was such a big battle here, but there was no movement in the direction of the camp!
At the beginning, the 5,000 Zhao army ran at the rear, but because they were all cavalry, they quickly surpassed the Qi army of 15,000 people in the middle, and then they got closer and closer to the 40,000 Qi army!
Very unexpected. The Yulin army let go of the 10,000 Zhao troops left behind, and continued to chase after the Qi army that was at the rear. It's just that Zhao Jun's happiness didn't last long, and he was overwhelmed by 90,000 Korean troops. The Korean army naturally divided 20,000 people, and the remaining 70,000 people were still in hot pursuit of the fleeing enemy army!
An hour later, both sides of the chase were exhausted, but still struggling to hold on. Everyone knows it. Every step forward is one step closer to victory!
At this time, there were only 40,000 people left in the Qi army, and only 5,000 people left in the Zhao army, no matter how panicked Lian Po and Hou Sheng were, they also knew that something must have happened to the camp in the east of the city, otherwise, they would not have sent a large army to reinforcements for so long! But have already run such a long distance. No matter how dangerous the lies ahead, you can only go all the way! This has become the driving force to support yourself!
The scouts who went to investigate finally brought back the news that Hou Sheng and Lian Po wanted, the camp in the east of the city was really ambushed, and the defenders in the camp were bent on rescuing themselves but did not expect that South Korea had ambushed 50,000 elites on a hillside, and the first 20,000 troops were all wiped out, and the second batch of 30,000 troops was also lost! Now, the defenders in the camp are confronting the Korean army, and what surprised Hou Sheng and Lian Po even more. The main general of this South Korean army is actually Langzhong Lingmeng, who should have been in Hanoi!
The camp that originally had 90,000 troops now only had 20,000 Qi troops and 35,000 Zhao troops left, and Zhao Jia, the general of the Zhao army who stayed behind, was worried about being ambushed again. He is currently facing off against an unknown number of South Korean troops!
The facts are already very clear, from the very beginning, South Korea knew that Zhao and Qi had reached an agreement to join forces to pass through the eastern county, perhaps when Lian Po led the army to Puyang quietly, Meng Fu also led the army to quietly go south, but the Korean army was forbearant enough. The use of Pingyang consumed the morale of Qi and Zhao. When the battle was at its most intense, it suddenly attacked the belly and back of the Qi and Zhao coalition armies, and the Han army concluded that Hou Sheng and Lian Po would ask for help from the camp in the east of the city.
So far. The 290,000 Qi and Zhao coalition troops that invaded Dongjun suffered heavy losses, and only 100,000 people remained! Among them, there are 60,000 remnants of the Qi army and 40,000 remnants of the Zhao army!
In this battle, which took half a month, there were mutual calculations and concerted efforts. The Qi army sacrificed 40,000 people and saw the power of Korea's latest trebuchets and crossbow arrows! Then, at the cost of 30,000 people, he broke through the camp garrisoned by 50,000 Korean troops and annihilated more than 10,000 Korean troops; Not to be outdone, the Zhao army suffered more than 20,000 casualties and annihilated more than 20,000 South Korean troops. Just when the 40,000 Qi and Zhao coalition forces began to encircle and annihilate the remaining 20,000 Han troops, the sudden intervention of Li Mu's army broke the subtle shape on the battlefield.
The Qi army was defeated as soon as it engaged, the chaotic army crushed the Qi army's own phalanx, the Qi army had no choice but to retreat, and the war that could have been evenly matched suddenly became a chase battle, and the combined forces of Qi and Zhao became the prey of the Korean army. The 90,000 Qi and Zhao coalition armies, which could have been coordinated, carelessly fell into ambush one after another, and suddenly exhausted their military advantage.
Of course, the losses of the Korean army were also large, 40,000 Pingyang defenders died on the battlefield, when they broke through the Qi army's formation, they lost 4,000 elite Yulin troops, and in the pursuit battle, they also lost 20,000 troops, and in the ambush battle, they lost 20,000 troops, and the number of casualties added up to nearly 100,000! However, compared with the nearly 200,000 casualties of the Qi and Zhao coalition armies, it seems insignificant.
As the combined forces of Qi and Zhao retreated into the camp and could not defend themselves, the shape of Dongjun suddenly became enlightened. Enough
The Qi army was defeated as soon as it engaged, the chaotic army crushed the Qi army's own phalanx, the Qi army had no choice but to retreat, and the war that could have been evenly matched suddenly became a chase battle, and the combined forces of Qi and Zhao became the prey of the Korean army. The 90,000 Qi and Zhao coalition armies, which could have been coordinated, carelessly fell into ambush one after another, and suddenly exhausted their military advantage.
Of course, the losses of the Korean army were also large, 40,000 Pingyang defenders died on the battlefield, when they broke through the Qi army's formation, they lost 4,000 elite Yulin troops, and in the pursuit battle, they also lost 20,000 troops, and in the ambush battle, they lost 20,000 troops, and the number of casualties added up to nearly 100,000! However, compared with the nearly 200,000 casualties of the Qi and Zhao coalition armies, it seems insignificant.
As the combined forces of Qi and Zhao retreated into the camp and could not defend themselves, the shape of Dongjun suddenly became enlightened. The Qi army was defeated as soon as it engaged, the chaotic army crushed the Qi army's own phalanx, the Qi army had no choice but to retreat, and the war that could have been evenly matched suddenly became a chase battle, and the combined forces of Qi and Zhao became the prey of the Korean army. The 90,000 Qi and Zhao coalition armies, which could have been coordinated, carelessly fell into ambush one after another, and suddenly exhausted their military advantage.
Of course, the losses of the Korean army were also large, 40,000 Pingyang defenders died on the battlefield, when they broke through the Qi army's formation, they lost 4,000 elite Yulin troops, and in the pursuit battle, they also lost 20,000 troops, and in the ambush battle, they lost 20,000 troops, and the number of casualties added up to nearly 100,000! However, compared with the nearly 200,000 casualties of the Qi and Zhao coalition armies, it seems insignificant.
As the combined forces of Qi and Zhao retreated into the camp and could not defend themselves, the shape of Dongjun suddenly became enlightened. Full (To be continued......)