Chapter Seventy-Two: Ding Siji's Oolong
The battle is like this, it is difficult to say who surrounded whom.
As long as you resist at a few key points of the encirclement, the encirclement will become a counter-encirclement.
And the besieged naturally became surrounded.
Zhou Zong was reluctant to leave his 10,000 army, so there was only one choice, to go north.
And in the city of Tanzhou, Baili Wuji has already received a battle report.
Ding Sijin was nowhere to be found, and the Southern Tang Army cut off the supply line of the army on the right.
This time, Baili Wuji is no longer in a hurry to send reinforcements or quell the chaos as he was last time.
Hundreds of miles are flawless, and not a single soldier has been sent.
There is a four-compartment forbidden army, and Tanzhou must be there.
Tanzhou is here, and the supply line will naturally be passed.
So, do you need reinforcements?
Bailikang, a newly-born famous general, if he can't handle it with more than 5,000 horsemen in his hands, what is the use of a special combat army?
This is what Baili Wuji said in his heart.
Fate itself is a variable, and if you want to make a variable a certainty, it is as difficult as trying to control your own destiny.
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Zhou Zong ordered a rapid advance, and at the same time ordered the 10,000-strong army that had gone south to return north to join the main force.
Zhou Zong's response was not wrong, using a feint as a means to wait for the southbound army to return north to join him, and then decide how to deal with it.
But he did not expect that more than 5,000 cavalry were waiting for him at the turn at the exit of the canyon.
Bailikang once again chose the turning point as the starting point for the cavalry charge of the Benlei Chamber.
It's because this place is really good.
When the two armies approached, the eyes of the soldiers of the Southern Tang Army would not turn, so they naturally could not see the cavalry, and they would not be defenseless if they could not see it.
When the Southern Tang Army passed through the canyon, it was only three miles away from the turn.
At this distance, as soon as the cavalry charged, the soldiers of the Southern Tang Army heard and saw .......
It's all late.
There was no suspense in the ending, and Bai Likang once again added a strong stroke to his battle record for the Chu State with his proud achievements.
The charging momentum of more than 5,000 horsemen is unparalleled.
At that time, more than 700 horsemen were able to level the entire canyon at the same time.
And today, that number is five thousand.
The thunder before the summer storm made the hearts of even the most daring people tremble.
And the hooves of more than 5,000 horsemen are countless explosions and thunders exploding endlessly.
Plus the shaking of the ground.
Endless.
Only a ruthless person like Yun Yang can resist with the same strength and human life.
Even so, the Black Flag guard he led was also crippled.
Not to mention the fact that there were also firearms at that time.
The Southern Tang army broke up quickly.
When Zhou Zong was taken prisoner, he didn't understand how Chu could have such a large number of cavalry.
But it doesn't matter anymore, the important thing is that he has become a prisoner.
How to survive in the future. This was the most urgent thought in his heart.
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Ding Sijin had successfully captured Yuanzhou, which had only 1,000 defenders.
To be precise, it is to enter Yuanzhou.
The name of the Black Flag Army is like thunder, and there are few people in the world who don't know the way.
When the 1,000 guards stationed in Yuanzhou knew that the person who came was the Black Flag Army that they had admired for a long time, they opened the city gate and cordially welcomed Ding Siji's headquarters into Yuanzhou City.
One thousand against five thousand? And I don't know if the road is real or fake?
Fools are going to provoke them. This is the real idea of the 1,000 Southern Tang defenders.
The battle could have ended here.
The victory and defeat have been divided, and the Chu army defeated the 30,000 Southern Tang army with strong strength, and captured Zhou Zong, the envoy of Zhennan Jiedu, alive.
However, in this era, the news is closed and the transmission is inconvenient.
When Ding Sijin captured, no, entered Yuanzhou, the news came from the scouts behind him that the Southern Tang army was divided into two routes, one to the south to cut off the supply line of the army on the right of the Chu State, and the other to the north to attack Tanzhou.
This news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Ding Sijing, who wanted to take advantage of the great merit of occupying Yuanzhou to offset the sin of changing orders without permission, and did not want to cause such a catastrophe.
Ding Sijin couldn't choose, and he didn't have a choice.
The only reason for this is a secret order to continue to instigate the special operations army to break the formation and march eastward, so as to make up for its mistakes by striving for greater merit.
And for the soldiers who successfully occupied Yuanzhou, they were convinced that this must be the arrangement of the King of Chu, otherwise how could they take Yuanzhou so easily. Whether in the hearts of the soldiers of the Black Flag Army or the Special Operations Army, King Chu is a god-like existence.
Therefore, Ding Sijing, who made the mistake, led the soldiers who broke the formation to march east again after a short rest and supply in Yuanzhou, and marched towards Hongzhou, the old nest of Zhou Zong.
Fortunately, although Ding Sijin was reckless, he still had the existence of Baili Wuji in his heart after all, and before leaving, he sent a soldier to Tanzhou to convey the message that he had occupied Yuanzhou and was marching towards Hongzhou, which also left an excuse for Baili Wuji to pardon him after the war.
Naturally, now Ding Sijin does not know the way.
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At this time, Yunyang and Baili Yisuo had easily conquered Yingzhou, and the troops were under the city of Xingwangfu.
And Pan Chongche and Wang Dingbao each led the Jianwu Army and Ning Yuanjun to "repel" the invading Second Route Army of Chu and embarked on the road to rescue Xingwangfu.
Bailikang used 1,000 cavalry to escort Zhou Zong and nearly 10,000 disarmed Southern Tang prisoners back to Tanzhou, and he led the remaining cavalry to quickly pursue the 10,000 troops of Southern Tang who went south.
In just one hour, he collided head-on with the Southern Tang army that received Zhou Zong's order to return north, no need to warm up, and no need to mobilize, Bai Likang led 4,000 cavalry to start harvesting human lives like wolves into a flock.
It is conceivable that this poor Southern Tang army received two opposite orders in half a day, and finally completed the turn, but unexpectedly encountered a fierce and vicious charge of 4,000 cavalry, and did not even have a chance to resist, and was quickly defeated.
The 10,000 Southern Tang troops on the road back to the north were like a long block of ice that was penetrated by a red-hot iron rod, and melted in an instant.
It is not an exaggeration to describe it as a rat scurrying, the official road is full of discarded ordnance and baggage, and the routs quickly submerged into the woods and fields around the official road.
In less than half an hour, an army of 10,000 people, less than 700 dead and wounded, less than 2,000 prisoners, and the rest were missing.
Perhaps this was not a strange sight for the time.
The soldier has no loyalty in his heart, but he will be fed and join the army, and since he can't fight, it is reasonable to escape.
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The next day, when Bai Likang escorted the second batch of prisoners back to Tanzhou, the people in Tanzhou spontaneously came to the gate of Nancheng and welcomed them. Since the people of Tanzhou helped Baili Wuji win the battle against Gao Baorong, they have inexplicably had a sense of pride and a heartfelt sense of existence in their hearts. The people really feel that Tanzhou is their home, their land, and they have shed too much blood and ...... for this city.
The enthusiasm of hundreds of people and many young girls ignited the soldiers of the special operations army under the command of Bai Likang, and no one could resist the cheers of the people, and the sense of pride was incomparable.
The people of Tanzhou did not know what to say, and their spontaneous welcome this time inadvertently planted a seed in the hearts of the soldiers of the special combat army, that is, who to fight for.
A soldier who knows who he fights for is always invincible.
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