Chapter 669: Three Battles and Three Victories
After a day of preparation, the main army of 100,000 under Murong Ke was completely ready, and it only took Murong Ke's order to launch an attack in the direction of Anxi City.
In order to conserve their own vigor while consuming the sharp energy of Ran Min's army, the Yan army was divided into three groups of 30,000 cavalry each according to Murong Ke's request, and prepared to take turns to launch a feint attack on the Wei army.
"Fourth brother, the soldiers are completely ready, whether to launch an attack immediately." Murong Ba asked loudly.
Murong Ke nodded, and ordered: "Fifth brother, you personally lead the first group of soldiers to attack Anxi City immediately, remember, the purpose of this battle is to consume the sharp energy of the Wei army, and cultivate Ran Min's heart to light the enemy, and you must not fall in love with the battle and let the army suffer huge losses." ”
"Fourth brother, don't worry! I know it. Murong Ba replied and rode his horse to the first group of soldiers.
Murong Ba looked at the 30,000 cavalry under his command and shouted: "The warriors of the Great Yan Kingdom, follow the general to Anxi City and march. Then he rode his horse and galloped westward.
Under the leadership of Murong Ba, the first group of 30,000 cavalry of the Yan army rushed towards Anxi City.
When the Yan army carried out large-scale preparations for war, and marched in the direction of Anxi City, how could this escape the eyes of the beggar army scouts, when the Yan army was making large-scale preparations, Ran Min got the news and made corresponding preparations, when Murong Ba led an army of 30,000 to march to Anxi City, the beggar army scouts made a timely report to Ran Min at the first time.
In the face of the surging Yan army, Ran Min was not afraid. He and his eight thousand beggar guards occupied a favorable terrain, and they could completely defeat the attack of the Yan army, and in Ran Min's heart, no matter how many soldiers and horses the Yan army had, it would be impossible to defeat it.
In fact, after killing Tuoba Invincible, Ran Min knew that the main force of the Yan army would definitely come to seek revenge, and for this reason, he had gathered all the 5,000 infantry scattered around Anxi City. And let the five thousand men and horses stand guard in the dense forest outside the city. Echoing with the 3,000 cavalry in the city, it formed a corner trend.
At this time, seeing that tens of thousands of cavalry of the Yan army had already been killed, Ran Min naturally would not passively defend the city. Instead, he immediately led his three thousand cavalry out of Anxi City. In a small open area outside the city, waiting for the arrival of tens of thousands of Yan troops.
Ran Min's tactics are still based on his own force. Kill the main general of the Yan army, so that the main force of the Yan army will be scattered, so that in this way. The thousands of cavalry under his command can pursue and kill the scattered Yan cavalry, and at the same time, the 5,000 infantry who are ambushed in the woods will suddenly rush out and chase the Yan cavalry with the cavalry.
Ran Min stood at the front of the military formation, staring at the direction of the Yan army, in this battle, he was determined to give the Yan army a fatal blow, so as to completely destroy the self-confidence of the Yan army, so that the Yan army knew the difficulty and retreated.
It didn't take long for the 30,000 Yan cavalry led by Murong Ba to arrive outside Anxi City, and seeing Ran Min waiting in formation in the open space outside the city gate, Murong Ba immediately stretched out his hand to stop the advance of the army under his command, and stopped at a distance of 800 steps from Ran Min.
Seeing that the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Yan army stopped, Ran Min sneered at the corner of his mouth, and ordered loudly: "Soldiers, kill with me, kill ......" After speaking, he rode his horse and killed the tens of thousands of cavalry of the Yan army.
Murong Ba, who was in charge of the Chinese army, naturally would not flee immediately, he immediately ordered the cavalry on the left and right flanks to outflank the begging guards, so as to make Ran Min believe that he was really attacking, and at the same time, let the crossbowmen of the Chinese army immediately prepare to release arrows, so as to give the begging guards a certain amount of damage and thwart the sharp spirit of the begging guards, so as to achieve the purpose of weakening Ran Min's strength.
Ran Min naturally didn't know about Murong Ke's conspiracy, so he rushed forward with all his strength to kill, and continued to kill the Yan cavalry that hindered him, and the beggar guards under his command also fought to the death with the Yan cavalry.
When Ran Min was rushing to kill with all his might, Murong Ba had been carefully observing Ran Min, and after Ran Min entered the range of the bow and arrow, he ordered the arrow to be released.
"Whoosh...... Suddenly, thousands of arrows flew densely towards Ran Min.
When Ran Min saw Yan Jun release arrows, he hurriedly raised the weapon in his hand to block back and forth, and blocked all the arrows that were shot at him, while the begging guards around him were not so lucky, and many soldiers were shot by arrows and fell off their horses.
The death of his subordinates naturally did not make Ran Min stop attacking, he just glanced back at the soldiers who fell off their horses, and then, with a loud shout, continued to rush towards the position of the Chinese army where Murong Ba was.
"Shoot the arrow, release the arrow with all your might." Seeing that Ran Min had already been killed in front of him, Murong Ba ordered even more loudly.
Suddenly, more arrows were shot at Ran Min, and the beggar guards under Ran Min's command suffered even greater losses.
Seeing that the Yan army was hiding behind and releasing arrows, and caused a lot of losses to the soldiers under his command, Ran Min was furious, and attacked forward more fiercely, killing more than ten elite cavalry of the Yan army in a row, and quickly killed only fifty steps away from Murong Ba, at the position of fifty steps, Ran Min could even see the face of the enemy's main general, which increased his desire to kill.
"General, Ran Min has already killed closer, and the two wings of our army have not yet completed the encirclement of the enemy, the situation is not favorable to our army, let's withdraw quickly!" A subordinate general saw that Ran Min had been killed in front of him, and hurriedly built a road.
Murong Ba nodded and ordered loudly: "Retreat, the whole army retreats immediately." ”
......A crisp gong sounded, and the Yan army gave the order to withdraw the army.
After receiving the order, tens of thousands of cavalry of the Yan army immediately began to run backwards quickly, and it was an orderly escape, giving Ran Min the impression that the Yan army was completely dispersed, and he could rest assured that he could pursue and kill.
In fact, although Murong Ba received the task of deceitful defeat, the situation at this time was really defeated, however, Murong Ba felt that it was okay to at least appear more real, so that Ran Min could not see through Murong Ke's serial scheme.
Now that the cavalry of the Yan army has been dispersed, how can Ran Min just forget it, he raised his arms and shouted: "Soldiers, chase and kill the fleeing enemy, chase and kill the fleeing enemy." After saying that, the first one pursued forward.
"Kill ......" 3,000 begging guards, closely following behind Ran Min, pursued and killed the fleeing Yan cavalry at the fastest speed.
The cavalry of the Yan army rode all good horses from Liaodong, and their speed was faster than that of most of the begging guards, so it was difficult for the begging guards to catch up with the Yan cavalry.
......At this moment, the 5,000 Wei infantry who were ambushed in the woods suddenly came out of the ambush and planned to cut off the escape of the Yan cavalry.
However, the speed of the infantry was obviously too slow, and when they rushed out of the ambush, most of the cavalry of the Yan army had already escaped from their ambush, and the impact of the cavalry gallop was extremely amazing, and it was difficult for five thousand infantry to block the impact of tens of thousands of cavalry of the Yan army, even when they were scattered.
However, the rush out of these 5,000 infantry still caused a lot of losses to the scattered Yan cavalry, at least, their intensive arrows caused hundreds of casualties to the Yan cavalry.
Seeing that the cavalry of the Yan army broke and fled all the way, Ran Min pursued relentlessly, and did not give the Yan army a chance to breathe, about ten miles after the pursuit, the second group of 30,000 Yan cavalry had already lined up and waited there, and set up a posture to fight to the death with Ran Min.
Ran Min didn't dare to hold it up, so he immediately ordered to stop the pursuit, gathered the scattered soldiers and horses under his command, and cleaned up the formation thousands of steps away from the Yan army's formation, preparing to repeat the old tricks, and once again broke the formation of tens of thousands of Yan troops, making the Yan army frightened.
Soon, the 3,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry under Ran Min's command were in formation, and they could attack the enemy in front of them with just an order from Ran Min.
Ran Min looked at the formation of the Yan army on the opposite side, and decided to adopt the tactics of cavalry raid and infantry suppression, personally led 3,000 cavalry to attack the middle army of the Yan army, and let the 5,000 infantry stay to suppress the formation.
"Soldiers, kill ......" Ran Min shouted, and personally led 3,000 cavalry to launch a fierce attack on the middle army of the Yan army.
This time, the Yan army also adopted the tactics of outflanking on both flanks, and divided the Chinese army's men and horses into two parts, with the 5,000 cavalry in the front launching a counter-charge towards Ran Min, while the 5,000 cavalry in the back bent their bows and arrows, firing dense arrows at Ran Min and his beggar guards.
In this battle, Ran Min also achieved a brilliant victory, and after a fierce battle, the 30,000 cavalry of the Yan army broke and fled, just like the situation in the previous battle.
And Ran Min naturally did not let go of the scattered Yan cavalry, and once again launched a pursuit of the Yan army.
Unexpectedly, after chasing and killing for more than ten miles, Murong Ke personally led 40,000 Yan cavalry to block Ran Min's way.
Ran Min looked up and saw the Yan army's chief general Murong Ke's Daxu, and couldn't help but feel slightly excited, Murong Ke was the main general of the Yan army, if he could kill Murong Ke, he would definitely be able to completely destroy the morale of the Yan army, thus forcing Yan Guo to abandon his attempt to go south.
For this reason, Ran Min ignored the fact that his soldiers were already very tired, and once again launched an attack on Murong Ke's army, and after a fierce battle, Ran Min's army once again won the victory, and forced Murong Ke and the Yan cavalry under his command to retreat and flee.
Within one day, three battles and three victories, Ran Min relied on a small number of elite soldiers under his command to continuously defeat the main force of the Yan army on three roads, a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses in turn, and the results were not brilliant.
The battle lasted from morning to dusk, and Ran Min and his soldiers were immersed in the excitement of victory, until all the three armies of the Yan army were lost, and then they felt extremely tired, and at the same time, their stomachs were also growling with hunger.
In order to prevent the Yan army from taking advantage of the night to kill again, Ran Min led his begging guards to quickly return to Anxi City, and after dinner, the soldiers all fell asleep tired. (To be continued......)