Chapter 616: Decisive Battle for Ili, Betrayer

In the Ili River Valley, nearly half a million infantry, crossbowmen, and cavalry confronted each other, and the Han army once again engaged the combined forces of Temujin and Chagatai!

This time the Great War broke out in the Chagatai Khanate, that is, the original Wusun country, and decided the ownership of the Ili River Valley!

The 110,000 Han troops crossed the Tianshan Mountains in order to fight a life-and-death battle with the Chagatai Khanate at this moment!

Having won, the Chagatai Khanate was in danger of being destroyed, and the Han army was likely to recover the territory of the Ili River valley.

If they lose, the 110,000 Han army and the 40,000 cavalry of the Wusun Kingdom will be wiped out, and there may be few people who can cross the Tianshan Mountains and escape back to Luntai under the premise of lack of supplies, and the Wusun Kingdom will also be purged by Temujin and Chagatai.

For both sides, there are reasons to win this battle!

No side will want to lose!

Chutian's army was located in the middle army, while Lao Qin was in the left army, Huo An and Mu Ke were in the right army, and Xu Fengnian's Xiliang remnants and Wusun State cavalry were in reserve and could be put into battle at any time.

The cavalry of Wusun Country is poor, and it was originally intended to let the cavalry of Wusun Country serve as the left and right wings, but I don't know if the cavalry of Wusun Kingdom will be defeated by the Mongolian cavalry in one blow when it encounters Mongolian cavalry, so for the sake of insurance, it is better to let the Wusun State cavalry serve as a reserve.

Huo An sent the famous general Ban Chao to serve as the commander of the cavalry of the Wusun Kingdom. Ban Chao has a taming and strengthening effect on the servant army, so the cavalry of the Wusun Kingdom commanded by him may be stronger than the cavalry of the Wusun Kingdom commanded by the King of Wusun.

The Han Empire expeditionary force confronted the combined forces of Temujin and Chagatai Khanate, and the war eagles of both sides soared on the battlefield, and the atmosphere was solemn.

The soldiers of the infantry legion such as Le Yi and Mu Guiying, who were in the front, clenched their halberds or spears.

Slightly behind, the Jianyan crossbowmen, the Shenji battalion, the archery battalion and other long-range troops, are preparing crossbow arrows and black powder, and through long-range attacks, they will harvest the cavalry of Temujin and Chagatai.

"It's not Ogedai and Jerod on the other side."

Xu Fengnian led the remnants of the Xiliang Legion on the high ground in the rear, looking down on the entire battlefield.

He wanted to avenge Wang Tiegun and others who died in battle, but unfortunately, it was not Wokotai and Yelu Dashi who besieged Luntai City to resist the Han army in the Chagatai Khanate, but Chagatai.

Ma Chao followed behind Xu Fengnian, with a monstrous hatred, even if it was not Wokotai and Yelu Dashi on the other side, for Ma Chao, he could recover some interest.

"Cheng Yi died under the hooves of the cowardly Xue army, the generals, avenge Cheng Yi!"

Xu Fengnian's subordinates, but Han Sui had a grudge against the cowardly Xue army, because the cowardly Xue army killed his subordinate Cheng Yi.

A group of Wusun nobles who followed the Han army commanded their own tribe's cavalry under the command of Ban Chao, but when they found that the Mongol cavalry on the opposite side and the servant army of King Wusun were twice as numerous as the Han army and them, their faces turned pale, and some regretted their decision to join the Han army when the Han army appeared from the Tianshan Mountains.

Originally, they thought that the Han army could be overwhelmed and directly capture Alimari, but now that they looked, it seemed that the forces on the side of Temujin, Chagatai, and Wusun were stronger, and there were more grains, grasses, and arrows.

The Han army's grain and grass had basically been eaten, and almost all of them relied on the grain and grass forcibly requisitioned in the Ili River valley to maintain supplies.

This is also the disadvantage of the expeditionary force, which must be taken from the enemy.

In the left army, Lao Qin took Wang Qian's Qin Ruishi and Zhu Jun's five colonels of the Northern Army as the main force, while Meng Tian, Li Dao, Guo Yan and other cavalry generals led the cavalry to protect the flanks, and Yang Dayan and Gao Shun served as reserves.

In the right army, Huo An took Li Siye's Modao team, Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, and Wutu's rattan armor soldiers as the backbone, and Huo An personally led a team of cavalry with Gao Xianzhi as the offensive force.

On the eve of the decisive battle, Huo An greeted Chu Tian in advance, and if something happened to him, he also asked Chu Tian to take care of his sister, so that Chu Tian was confused.

"We have come thousands of miles to win this battle."

Chutian was located in the middle army, with Sun Bin as his military advisor, and his cavalry reached its peak.

As for infantry and long-range troops, they mainly rely on the bonuses of Le Yi, Li Xiuning, and Liang Hongyu, and Chutian has almost no bonuses to infantry and long-range troops.

The white-robed army is more special, and directly eats Chen Qingzhi's bonus.

"If Monk Wanyan Chen and his loyal and filial piety army and Heli army surrender to me, then our chances of victory in this battle will increase a lot."

When Chu Tian saw the mighty Mongolian cavalry and Wusun State cavalry on the opposite side, he couldn't help but think of the Wanyan Chen monk who was captured by himself.

Monk Wanyan Chen's class is indeed very deadly, and it can be used to make the general of the Mongol army.

"Defeat the Han army, take the head of the leader of the Han army, and then sweep the Western Regions Protectorate and the Hexi Corridor again, and conquer the Han Empire!"

This time, in addition to the cavalry, Temujin also mobilized a lot of light infantry and heavy infantry, and learned the lesson of being defeated by the Shenji battalion.

The cavalry of Chagatai and King Wusun on both flanks did not move, and when the Han army attacked and there were flaws, the victory was decided in one fell swoop.

In this battle, the Han army was on the offensive, while the Mongol army was on the defensive.

Temujin wanted to defeat the Han army by using the Han army's proudest defensive counterattack tactics.

"The Left Army is attacking!"

"The right army is attacking!"

"The Chinese army is attacking!"

Soon, the Han army gave the order for the three armies to attack, and all the infantry, archers, and cavalry advanced, intending to break the armies of the Temujin and Chagatai Khanate in one fell swoop!

Sure enough, the Han army came from afar, worried that the situation would change, and was eager to fight. In this battle, we won. ”

In the face of the Han army's attack, Temujin was not only not worried, but overjoyed.

The Han army was anxious for battle, and it was in the hands of Temujin.

This was also the disadvantage of the Han Empire's expeditionary force, which was in a hurry to win on the home turf of the Chagatai Khanate, otherwise the supply of the Han army would eventually have problems, and it would be continuously increased by Temujin and Chagatai, and finally wiped out in the Ili River Valley.

100,000 Han troops advanced, while 300,000 Mongolian troops held on, and the dismounted Mongolian cavalry and Wusun cavalry served as archers.

Qin Liangyu's spear danced into the air, shooting away the rain of arrows that were shooting at her.

The white pole soldier held his shield, and from time to time a rain of arrows shot through the shield and shot the white pole soldier to death!

"Shoot back!"

The long-range troops in the Han army also threw arrows one after another, and both sides used bows and arrows to harvest!

"Wind! Wind! ”

"Gale!"

The Qin Ruishi regiment of the left army, with crossbow arrows, fiercely fought back against the Mongolian archers!

On horseback, Qin Ruishi could not be compared to the Mongol archers, but on the ground, fighting on foot, Qin Ruishi's crossbow bolt damage was quite amazing.

"We can't show weakness either!"

Liang Hongyu commanded the Jianyan crossbowmen to use the Divine Arm Bow to shoot fiercely at the enemy troops in front, and at the same time shoot the Shooting Sound Battalion!

The rain of arrows shot by the Zhemu longbow and the divine arm bow broke through the air and fell with a roar, and the enemy soldiers in front of them were shot and killed at least hundreds of people in a round of arrow rain!

The Shenji Battalion hasn't moved yet!

The most feared class of troops for Temujin did not move for a long time, which made Temujin extremely guarded, so that when he thought of the Shenji Battalion, his wound ached faintly.

After three rounds of arrow rain, the infantry of both sides approached and engaged in hand-to-hand combat!

In the expedition of the Han Empire, many types of troops were specialized high-level heavy infantry, so the Han army had an advantage in hand-to-hand combat of the heavy infantry!

The Tang Mo sword team, rattan armor soldiers, and white pole soldiers of the right army are all high-level infantry that do not want to die, and after forming a phalanx, they fiercely attack the infantry and cavalry on the opposite side!

The fierce general Li Siye took the lead, holding a Mo knife, and cut a Wusun cavalry company with a horse with a knife, cutting it into two to deter the morale of the enemy!

Li Siye, like heroes such as Zhang Liao and Zhang Fei, also has the effect of reducing the morale of the enemy!

Qin Liangyu, Vulture Gu and Li Siye are all generals who dare to rush to the front, they lead by example, head-on impact on the enemy, one person can kill hundreds of people, as the sharp blade of the legion, cut the enemy's phalanx, trying to chisel through the enemy formation!

Huo An and Mu Ke dealt with the cavalry of King Wusun.

"Order Li Siye, Qin Liangyu, and Wutu Gu to slow down their offensive, otherwise, they will become a salient and be flanked by the Mongol cavalry and the Wusun cavalry."

Huo An saw that Li Siye and the others had cut down thousands of Wusun State cavalry, not only did he not allow Li Siye, Qin Liangyu and others to attack all the way, but asked them to retreat slightly.

Li Siye, who was fighting bloodily in front, couldn't help but be a little puzzled when he learned Huo An's order, but he had to follow Huo An's order to slow down the offensive.

In the Chinese army, the advance of Le Yi and Mu Guiying, Liang Hongyu, Li Xiuning and others was relatively steady, and the infantry heavy infantry relied on their strong defensive power to rush to the front of the Mongol army in the rain of arrows, fighting side by side with Yanjia, trying to destroy the opposite defense line.

The pressure on the left army was even greater, and Chagatai personally dealt with the old Qin, concentrating the elite cavalry of the Chagatai Khanate, trying to engulf the 30,000 Guanzhong army of the old Qin.

Although the defense and military formation maintenance ability of the Guanzhong army were extremely amazing, this time, Chagatai personally commanded 100,000 elite cavalry of the Chagatai Khanate, intending to defeat Lao Qin's cavalry, and then make a detour to attack the Han army from the flank or rear, and win in one fell swoop!

"Although Timur is not here, my ability to Chagatai is not bad, this time, I must avenge the war of Luntai! Destroy this Han army for me! ”

Chagatai ordered 100,000 Chagatai Khanate cavalry to attack and launch a continuous assault on Lao Qin's Guanzhong army!

Of Lao Qin's 30,000 Guanzhong Army, more than half of them were infantry, and only 10,000 cavalry remained, and the purpose of Chagatai was very simple, to destroy Lao Qin's 10,000 cavalry, attack Lao Qin's Guanzhong Army from the flank, or go around to the rear and assault the rear of the Han army!

Lao Qin used the Ili River as a barrier, and originally wanted to prevent the detour of the Mongol cavalry, but the cold winter caused the Ili River to freeze, and the Mongol cavalry could completely intersperse with detours!

"Order the eight thousand cavalry of Jebe to dispatch, kill Chu Zimou, and take advantage of the chaos of the Han army to counterattack the whole army."

Temujin's tone was heavy, the outcome of this battle was related to the life and death of the Chagatai Khanate, and he could not be defeated again, otherwise he would lose the Chagatai Khanate.

Only the two khanates and the Mongol Empire remained, unable to withstand the offensive of the five major civilizations.

In this battle, only victory is allowed, not defeat!

In the snow forest north of the battlefield, a war eagle fell, and the Mongolian army general who was hiding in the snow forest, the divine arrow Jebe, received an order from Temujin.

"The cowardly Xue army and the warriors on the grassland, kill the first princes of the Han Empire, everyone has a reward, thousands of households are promoted to ten thousand, and one hundred households are promoted to thousands!"

Jebe led 8,000 Mongol cavalry and quickly attacked the rear of the Han army.

His goal is Chutian, who is in the command of the Chinese army, as long as he uses cavalry to carry out pig assault, then the Han army will definitely collapse completely!

The death of the commander is extremely fatal to one side of the battlefield!

Eight thousand cavalry, galloping in the snow-covered river valley, the hooves of the war horses trampling the snow, the elite cavalry from Mobei, basically not affected by the cold winter, still maintain a strong combat capability!

At the forefront of the 8,000 cavalry, 1,000 of them belonged to Temujin's cowardly army, closely following the main general Jebe.

Jebe is one of the most powerful generals under Temujin's command, and only Jebe can use his archery skills to shoot Chutian!

The average combat power of the Han army was higher than that of the Temujin and Chagatai coalition armies, while the strength of the Temujin and Chagatai coalition armies was more than twice that of the Han army.

"Artoria."

Chu Tian suddenly summoned King Arthur.

"Your Excellency, please command."

"Your knight army, prepare to meet the cowardly Xue army."

"Yes."

Artoria was a little surprised, she had to deal with one of the strongest cavalry classes in the East, the Cowardly Xue Army.

The cowardly Xue army is rampant in the east, unless it is a special army in the west, it can stop the cowardly Xue army.

"Chen Qingzhi, Xue Rengui, as well as Wei Chigong and Cheng Yanjin, you act with Artoria. Temujin wanted to kill me, and it was easier said than done. ”

Chu Tian had already learned of Temujin's ambush of a cavalry.

When Jebe led 8,000 cavalry to appear in the rear of the Han army, King Arthur's Western Knights, Wei Chigong and Cheng Yanjin's Xuanjia Army, and Chen Qingzhi's White-robed Army were ready, and Xue Rengui had already targeted Jebe.

Jebe was the number one archer under Temujin, and Xue Rengui was the number one marksman under Chu Tian!

The Han army had already detected Jebe's ambush in advance!

"How could it be ......!"

Jebel turned around and fled!

The Han army has already discovered his ambush soldiers, and if they charge forward, then they will only be sent to death!

A war eagle hovered from Subutai's shoulders and warned Temujin.

Because, Subutai found that things are not so simple.

Temujin, who was commanding the battle in the rear, suddenly saw a warning from Subutai - the war eagle.

"How could Jebe be discovered in advance......"

Temujin looked at the generals around him, and it seemed that someone had informed the Han army of Jebe's whereabouts.

"Isn't it ......!"

Temujin suddenly looked at King Wusun's servant army, and King Wusun, who was fighting with Huo An, suddenly led his troops to attack Temujin's Chinese army!

Li Siye, Qin Liangyu, Wutu Gu and others who fought with the Wusun cavalry were stunned, even if even some of the Wusun cavalry were a little confused, they could only follow the king of Wusun and a few nobles to attack the Mongolian cavalry.

Huo An looked in the direction of the cavalry of the Wusun Kingdom who suddenly betrayed: "This Wusun King is my confidant, how can it be so easy to surrender to you......"