Chapter 50: The Battle of Handan (7)
On the Yan side, there were 4,000 iron cavalry plus 10,000 foot soldiers, and on the Korean side, there were 3,000 Yulin troops and 1,000 tiger hoplites. At first glance, there is a huge disparity in the strength of the two sides. Even if the Yan army could not defeat the Han army, it could still stop the Han army and buy enough time for the 30,000 Yan army led by Rong Yi to annihilate the remaining 15,000 Han troops.
However, in matters on the battlefield, victory and defeat must not be calculated by simple troops. The Yan army has lost more than 90,000 people, as high as seventy percent of the casualty ratio, and the reason why the Yan army can still support it is all because of the great prestige of Rong Worm. After three hours of fierce battle, it seemed that the winner was about to be decided, but the South Korean army came to reinforcements. The morale of the besieged Bai Qi army was greatly boosted, and the Yan army was inevitably panicked, and for a while, the Han army, which was at a disadvantage, actually defeated the Yan army.
If the Yan army's 4,000 iron cavalry plus 10,000 foot soldiers can stop the Han army that rushed out of Julu City, then things will still have a turnaround. However, the Yulin Army and the Tiger Ben Battalion broke through the defense line set by the Yan Army, which directly made the Yan Army feel very confused.
Defeat, big rout, when a Yan army could no longer stand such a heavy pressure and turned to flee, he gathered to respond, and countless Yan troops also turned around and fled.
Yan Jun couldn't hold on any longer. They only thought about escaping from this human purgatory, escaping from this sad place, completely ignoring the robes that were still struggling to resist the Yulin Army and the Tiger Ben Battalion, and completely ignoring the few robes who were bravely moving forward and would rather die than retreat.
The shape shì turned sharply, and an extremely strange scene appeared on the battlefield, although the Yan army was numerous, it was defeated, and although the Han army was numerous, it was overwhelming.
The general trend has gone, the general trend has gone, and the old people are in tears, and there is no way to stop the rout. Lost fighting spirit, lost courage. Having lost the pride of being a soldier and the blood of being a man, Yan Jun is not as good as a lamb to the slaughter. Even if King Yan is here, he has no power to return to the sky! The Yan army is defeated! Utterly defeated.
"General! Run! It's a big deal, let's fight again! The leader of the guards looked at the countless Yan troops rushing in the direction where he was, looked at the hideous Han army that was getting closer and closer, and said hurriedly.
The lieutenant general has been killed in battle. Sima Tianwei was seriously injured in the march, and if Rong Yan had another three long and two short, the Yan army that escaped would have no hope.
"Run?" Rong Yan smiled miserably, his eyes revealed endless loneliness, completely ignoring the fact that Han Jun was eagerly approaching, and laughed at himself: "Where can we escape to?" ”
"Go to the dunes! Checkmate! We can go to the dunes! There is also General Wang's army of 20,000 there! The leader of the guards shouted.
Rong Yan seemed to see a life-saving straw, and there was a glimmer of hope in his eyes. Oh, yes! There are still 20,000 Yan troops under Dune City! He has less than 40,000 soldiers and horses on hand. But the problem is that there are fewer South Korean troops! No matter how elite the Tiger Battalion is, the heavy infantry is not suitable for pursuit warfare at all. The more than 10,000 light infantry under Bai Qi's command were suitable for pursuit, but unfortunately they were already tired. The only threat to the Yan army was the three thousand Feather Forest Army.
Seeing hope, Rong Yi immediately sent his guards to the sand dunes to report the news. The sand dunes are less than forty miles away from here, as long as the king can send someone to pick them up, Rong Yi is very sure that he can rescue at least half of the soldiers and horses!
Although he knew that this defeat had ruined Yan State's hope of dominating the northern frontier, King Yan would punish his own serious crimes, and even if he survived death, he would be imprisoned. Rather than being humiliated. It is better to die to apologize! But Rong Yan knows better that he must live. If he is alive, he can still lead his soldiers to escape to the sand dunes, help Wang Fang control the army, and regain the morale of the army, if he dies like this, it will make the originally chaotic Yan army even more chaotic. The Yan army may not be able to catch up with the sand dunes at all, and the whole army will be wiped out.
With such a plan. Rong Yi led his three hundred guards not to stay where they were and make useless struggles, but to ride their horses north, and showed the banner of the Chinese army. This move gave hope to countless Yan troops, and the Yan army, which had fled in all directions, had a unified direction. Many nimble soldiers realized that less than forty miles to the north, there was a large army that could meet them.
Although the Yan army is a tired army, in order to survive, they all take the lead. The so-called love of robes and the friendship of fellow villagers have become worthless in the face of their own lives. In order to survive, many people aimed their weapons at the robe that blocked their path, and the selfishness of human nature was undoubtedly revealed at this moment.
The Han army pursued north for thirty miles, and it was not until Zhonglang General Wang Fang, who was stationed under the city of Dune, led 20,000 Yan troops to come to reinforce them, and the Han army retreated with interest. The two sides tacitly withdrew their troops and ended this tragic battle.
In this battle, the Korean army annihilated more than 100,000 Yan troops and captured more than 8,000 Yan troops with only 44,000 people! The deputy general of the Yan army, Li Belly, and Sima Tianwei of the marching army died on the battlefield, but only Yan Guoyaqing Rong led more than 20,000 people to flee back to the sand dunes, and joined forces with Zhonglang General Wang Fang with more than 40,000 people to defend the camp.
Of course, behind the great victory is a great sacrifice. In the face of the Yan army, which was three times its size, the casualties of the South Korean army were also heavy, with more than 28,000 killed and more than 4,000 seriously wounded.
The next day, Han Teng, who received Bai Qi's request for help, led an army of 100,000 to the south and arrived at Julu City. After Bai Qi and Han Teng discussed, they decided to take advantage of the unstable morale of the Yan army to move their troops north and attack the sand dunes.
It's just that after learning that Han Teng's army arrived, Rong Yi and Wang Fang did not stay under Dune City, and directly returned to China, which made the Han army pounce.
Dune County, which was under great pressure and knew that there was no hope of defending the city, ordered Xiancheng to surrender, and the Han army took the dune bloodlessly. Since then, the sand dunes and the pawren-eup belong to South Korea, and the South Korean Tong guò blockade the sand dunes and the pawren-eup, dividing the Zhao country into two. And Yan Guo was hit hard by this, so he could only retreat on the line of Fuliu and Changcheng to prevent the invasion of the Korean army, and he could not do anything about the dire Zhao State. South Korea can finally attack Handan with all their might.
On 15 July, Luoyang received news of the destruction of the main force of the Yan army.
As Bai Qi expected, the great victory covered up many problems, and King Han did not blame Bai Qi for his preemptive strike, but instead made Bai Qi an earl. In the eyes of the people of Luoyang, Yan Guo has also become another representative of perfidy. All the people suddenly realized that without the containment of Yan State, Zhao State was divided into two by South Korea, and the time was ripe to destroy Zhao, and even, as long as South Korea was willing to spend blood, the destruction of Yan State would be a matter of course.
Although Zhao still had more than 300,000 troops, the most elite 250,000 were besieged in Handan and Wu'an, and the rest of the cities, except for Yunzhong and Yanmen, did not have an elite system. Yan Guo is the same way, on the surface, Yan Guo can still pull up an army of hundreds of thousands or even more than 200,000, but it can't change the reality that there are only 100,000 elites.
Destroying Zhao and Yan has become the biggest temptation for South Korea! (To be continued......)