Chapter 662: The Enemy Army Disperses
The enemy commander saw that the 10,000 elite cavalry of the Jin army suddenly killed from behind, and he was already frightened, at this time, he and his nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses have become fish on the sticky board, if they do not retreat quickly, there is a possibility of being completely annihilated.
"General, General Zhang has issued an order for our army to evacuate the Mengjin Ferry immediately, so what are we waiting for, retreat immediately! Otherwise, it will soon be wiped out. Another general shouted to persuade him.
"Retreat, retreat on all fronts." The enemy's commander-in-chief, who was responsible for defending the Mengjin Ferry, gave the order to urgently retreat.
Under the order of the commander-in-chief, the enemy soldiers quickly retreated, and in order to run faster, many soldiers abandoned their armor and dry food, and some soldiers even threw away their weapons.
Deng Qiang, the Jin general who was commanding the soldiers to fight, was really taken aback when he saw that the enemy's position was suddenly chaotic and quickly fled backwards, and he looked up to be seen, only to find that Zhuge Xiong's reinforcements had killed the rear of the enemy.
"Soldiers, General Zhuge has reinforced us, kill ......" Deng Qiang was greatly surprised when he saw this situation, and loudly gave the order to attack and kill.
"Kill ......" For a while, there was a deafening shout of killing on the position of Mengjin Ferry.
Zhuge Xiong and his 10,000 cavalry smashed into the scattered enemy formation like a tiger into a flock of sheep, and launched a fierce attack on the enemy, while Deng Qiang and his soldiers and horses were also in hot pursuit, and similarly, gave the enemy a heavy kill.
The enemy soldiers only wanted to flee for their lives, and they had no intention of fighting at all, and under the two-way attack of the Jin army, they broke and fled even more fiercely. And in the process of rout, they suffered heavy losses.
Deng Qiang led the army all the way forward to fight, and soon met with Zhuge Xiong, the main general of the reinforcements. Seeing Zhuge Xiong standing in front of him, Deng Qiang grinned. He said loudly: "General Zhuge , when did you cross the Yellow River, your movements are too fast!" ”
Zhuge Xiong smiled and replied loudly: "General Deng's men and horses, after capturing Luoyang City, seem to have slacked off!" It was actually blocked by the enemy for three days, and our department had already broken through the Aocang ferry two days ago, haha! After speaking, his face was full of pride.
When Deng Qiang heard this, he naturally felt a little uncomfortable. However, Zhuge Xiong led 10,000 reinforcements to arrive in time, which was indeed a great help to him, otherwise, the elite soldiers and horses under his command would definitely suffer heavy losses, for this, Deng Qiang was still very grateful to Zhuge Xiong in his heart.
Moreover, at the beginning, he instantly broke through Luoyang City. Zhuge Xiong, who had also been blocked under Chenggao Pass for many days, was now ridiculed, which can be regarded as retribution.
"General Zhuge , thanks to you leading the army to arrive in time. Otherwise, our army will suffer heavy losses, and we will definitely thank you again in the future. Ha ha! Deng Qiang said politely loudly.
Zhuge Xiong waved his hand and replied loudly: "General Deng." The enemy soldiers are fleeing, and this is the best time for our army to pursue and kill. You and I join forces to pursue, and we must annihilate the enemy army in large numbers, so as not to let the enemy army rout and merge with the soldiers and horses in the north. ”
"Okay, the coalition pursues the enemy." Deng Qiang agreed loudly, and immediately ordered his army to pursue the fleeing enemy soldiers.
"Chase and kill the fleeing enemy, chase and kill the fleeing enemy." The soldiers of the Jin army shouted loudly and immediately launched a ferocious pursuit.
The enemy army has nearly 20,000 soldiers and horses, most of them are infantry, and the cavalry is less than 3,000, so it is difficult for most of the infantry to escape in the face of the coordinated pursuit of the Jin army's infantry and cavalry, and it is difficult for a small number of cavalry to get rid of the pursuit of the Jin cavalry.
At this time, because tens of thousands of war horses were still on the south bank, the 30,000 elite army under Deng Qiang became infantry on foot, and the speed was much slower than when riding horses, but the infantry chasing and killing the enemy was still more than enough, and the enemy's cavalry had 10,000 cavalry under Zhuge Xiong to pursue.
"General Deng, the enemy infantry will be handed over to you, and our troops and horses will pursue the enemy's cavalry with all their might." Zhuge Xiong looked at Deng Qiang and shouted loudly.
Deng Qiang nodded and said loudly: "This is very good, you fight cavalry, our army pursues the enemy infantry, and attacks on both sides, and you will be able to completely annihilate the enemy's soldiers and horses." ”
Zhuge Xiong clamped his legs on the belly of the horse, and said loudly: "Soldiers, follow the general to chase and kill the enemy cavalry, and drive the ......" After speaking, he rode his horse and chased after the fleeing enemy cavalry.
"Soldiers, annihilate the enemy infantry." Deng Qiang shouted loudly, led the soldiers and horses under his command to assemble one after another, and launched an attack on the fleeing enemy infantry.
At this time, the soldiers and horses gathered under Deng Qiang's command were less than a quarter of the enemy's defeated infantry, but the enemy's soldiers and horses had completely lost their fighting spirit, so although the strength was four times that of the Jin army, they did not dare to launch a counterattack at all, but desperately fled, eager to flee the battlefield immediately.
There were many woods in the vicinity of the Mengjin ferry, and the enemy soldiers fled in all directions, and after entering the woods, they became more scattered, which was not conducive to the encirclement and suppression of the Jin army.
After all, the forces under Deng Qiang's command were not all assembled, so they could only let the enemy troops who were too scattered and fleeing, and besides, the possibility of these scattered enemy soldiers returning to the enemy's main force was very small, and it could be said that they had been completely wiped out.
Unlike the scattered infantry, the enemy's 3,000 cavalry were relatively elite men and horses, and under the leadership of their commander, they quickly fled due north.
In order to completely annihilate this enemy army and prevent it from joining Zhang Jin's main force in the north, Zhuge Xiong and the Wudang Fei Army under his command pursued with all their might, not giving the enemy the slightest respite.
The 3,000 enemy cavalry who fled saw that Zhuge Xiong and the 10,000 cavalry under his command were in hot pursuit, so they had to desperately ride their horses and flee, intending to escape the pursuit of the Jin cavalry.
In the big tent of the Chinese army in Yewang City, Hua An looked at the soldiers beside him and asked softly, "What time is it?" ”
"General Hui, it's almost noon." The soldiers immediately replied.
Hua An nodded, immediately walked out of the Chinese army's tent, and looked up at the sky.
"Big brother, the whole army is ready, do you want to set off immediately." At this time, Wang San happened to come over and said with his fists clenched.
Hua An smiled and said softly, "Do you think our army has broken through the Mengjin Ferry?" ”
"Big brother, with the strength of our army, if you attack from both sides, the ferry will definitely be broken a long time ago." Wang San said excitedly.
Hua An nodded and said: "That's right, at this moment, the Mengjin Ferry must already be in the hands of our army, the enemy infantry cannot escape the pursuit of our cavalry, and the enemy's small number of cavalry, if they want to flee to the north, they must pass through the road west of Yewang City, and now our army immediately goes to the ambush on both sides of the intersection, and it will definitely be able to catch the enemy by surprise." ”
"Big brother, then let's go now." Wang San said.
Hua An nodded and said, "Order the whole army to immediately go to the intersection of the west of Yewang City to ambush and prepare to ambush the enemy cavalry." ”
"Yes, big brother." Wang San answered with a loud voice, and immediately went to deliver the order.
Soon, 10,000 soldiers of the Guards, under the personal leadership of Hua An, left Yewang Castle and went to the junction of several miles west of Yewang Castle to ambush in order to wait for the passage of the enemy cavalry.
In Yewang City, Hua'an only left two hundred soldiers to defend the city, after all, the banner of the Jin army has been planted above the Yewang City, and the defeated cavalry of the enemy army will not dare to attack the city when they see the banner of the Jin army.
Hua An and his 10,000 soldiers of the personal guards were in ambush at the intersection west of Yewang City for half an hour, but they still did not see the figure of the enemy cavalry.
"Big brother, after so long, the enemy cavalry has not been seen, will it take another road and run away, or will it be annihilated by the main cavalry of our army?" Wang San guessed softly.
Hua An shook his head, and said: "No, you must pass through this road to Shangdang County, if you take a detour, it will be too far, and the enemy army has arranged 20,000 troops at Mengjin Ferry, such a huge force, it is impossible to be completely wiped out by our army, there will definitely be fish that slip through the net, and the enemy's mobile and flexible cavalry is naturally the fish that is missed in this net." ”
Seeing that the soldiers were a little unconvinced, Hua An said with a little anger: "This general is not an immortal, how can he accurately calculate the time when the enemy army fled here, in order not to let go of the enemy cavalry, only to set up an ambush in advance, just wait a little longer." ”
"Yes, then we'll wait." Wang San hurriedly said.
"Smoke and dust, smoke and dust in the distance." Just when the generals doubted Hua'an's judgment, a puff of smoke and dust rose in the distance.
"The enemy cavalry must be the cavalry of the enemy army who broke and fled." Wang San said excitedly.
Hua An was also very excited, paused, and ordered: "Let the soldiers be ready to attack, as long as the enemy cavalry approaches, they will be killed immediately, and it is best not to let go of an enemy." ”
"Soldiers, be ready to fight, ready to kill the enemy at any time." The generals of the Pro-Guard Army conveyed orders down in turn.
The smoke and dust were getting closer and closer, and soon, the sound of horses' hooves could be heard, and it was clear that the enemy cavalry was already very close.
"Big brother, look, there's a bigger cloud of smoke and dust in the back." Wang San pointed to the distance and said loudly.
Hua An raised his eyes and saw that it was so, so he said loudly: "The smoke and dust behind must be the cavalry corps of our army, which is chasing and killing the enemy, if you guess correctly, it should be the men and horses under Zhuge Xiong." ”
"Big brother, can you tell from the smoke and dust that it's Zhuge Xiong's centaurs?" Wang San asked curiously.
Hua An nodded and said softly: "From the scale of the smoke and dust, it can be seen that there are 10,000 cavalry, and there are exactly 10,000 horses under Zhuge Xiong's command, so the eldest brother also guessed casually, haha!" He laughed.
Wang San smiled and said softly: "Big brother, now, our army is attacking from both sides, and the thousands of cavalry of the enemy army are unable to escape. ”
"That's right, just so that none of them can escape." Huaan said loudly.
Soon, the enemy's 3,000 cavalry approached the ambush position of the Guards, and Hua'an and his Guards were also ready to attack. (To be continued......)