Chapter 818: Besieging the Allah Legion
Outside the Alla battalion, only Hou Cheng's 100,000 infantry remained, but because the eyes were not very far, all the Rus army in the camp could see was the figure of the person, and no one could say how many people there were.
It is said that Lu Bu and Wen Chou came to the side of Zhang's army with nearly 200,000 cavalry, and then a total of more than 200,000 cavalry began to launch a fierce attack on Yesenin's army.
At this time, the sky was already slightly bright, and Ye Senin's scouts could vaguely see the number of incoming enemies. It was precisely because he could see clearly that when he saw so many cavalry coming towards him, he hurriedly went back to report.
When Ye Senin learned that the number of cavalry of the Celestial Empire was so large, he showed an expression of disbelief, "This is impossible, the Celestial Empire is about to divide its forces to see Prince Ivan, and it has to deal with the army of Ala, how can there be so many cavalry to deal with themselves?" It's absolutely impossible, are you mistaken? ”
Listening to the scout captain's report, Ye Sening shook his head vigorously, then took a few steps forward, reached out and grabbed the placket of the scout captain's clothes, and asked angrily.
"General, the report of his subordinates is true. I thought, isn't it... Could it be that the Celestial Empire has sent some reinforcements? The scout captain was afraid that Ye Sening would kill himself in a fit of rage, so he was really too wronged, so he speculated wildly for a while.
"Reinforcements!" Hearing this explanation, a trace of weakness appeared in Ye Senin's eyes. Yes, I suddenly faced so many cavalry and infantry of the Celestial Empire, I think it should be the reinforcements of the Celestial Empire. If this is the case, what else will be fought in this battle, the troops are inferior to the people, all the grain, grass and clothing have been burned, the army's spirit has long been unstable, and if it persists, I am afraid that it can only be passively destroyed.
Thinking that it was likely that reinforcements from the Celestial Empire were coming, if this was the case, it was normal that he would be defeated. Immediately, he said, "Withdraw." ”
"Withdraw! General, where do we retreat? The scout captain asked, puzzled.
"To..." Yesenin just wanted to say that he would retreat to the army of Ala, but as soon as he thought that the Celestial Empire must be full of troops on the way there, and it was likely that he would be wiped out if he didn't get there, he immediately changed his words: "Withdraw to the place where Prince Ivan is in the palace." I don't think anyone would have guessed that I could make such a decision, hahaha. ”
Now the Yesenin army, the food, grass and military uniforms have been destroyed, and the thing that needs to be done is to find a place where supplies can be provided, and there is no doubt that there should be many places where Prince Ivan camps, and if you go there, you can have a chance to regroup. At that time, the march will be used as a base to defend, and once other reinforcements from the Rus Kingdom arrive, they may rush out with a bloody way from inside and outside.
Yesenin made his decision, and after thinking that he had made an unexpected decision, he began to move in the direction of the camp with his army of 250,000 men.
The army retreated, instead of moving forward, which seemed to be unexpected by the Celestial Empire army, and no one came to pursue, which made Yesenin secretly happy, and he made a correct decision, because the scouts had already heard the news that the Celestial Empire cavalry army was still fortified on the way to the Allah army.
The happy Yesenin led the army to retreat like this, but what he never expected was that in the morning, when he came to a valley twenty miles away from the camp, suddenly a noisy shout came from the mountains, and then countless boulders, bows and arrows slammed towards the army.
On the top of the valley, a big Lezi flag was held high, which was the 180,000 infantry army led by General Lejin.
Le Jin was ordered by Emperor Zhang Chao to wait here for most of the day, and finally saw Ye Sening leading the army here, where would he be polite, and immediately took advantage of the terrain to launch a fierce attack.
With sufficient preparations, Yesenin's army was taken by surprise, and the 250,000 Rus' army was immediately cut into several sections and encircled.
Ye Sening never thought that there was still an ambush of the Celestial Empire army here, so he believed in the fact that the Celestial Empire's reinforcements were even more convinced, and in a hurry, he didn't care about his army, but just led the tens of thousands of people around him to break through.
When it was dark, after Ye Senin withdrew from the valley, he found that the 250,000 troops he had brought with him were now not even 100,000.
"That's it, that's it, as long as you enter the palace, everything will be fine." Despite the severe wounds, General Yesenin comforted himself.
It's just that it seems that God deliberately wants to joke with him, and as soon as he came out of the valley, he bumped into the Celestial Empire infantry led by Sun Libu and Cai Yangbu.
It was another fight, and in the end, it was because Prince Ivan was killed from the palace that he rushed out of a bloody way, which introduced Ye Sening into the camp. Only at this time, there were only 30,000 sergeants who could follow him.
Yesenin and Prince Ivan finally met, but he didn't care about being happy, so he looked at the camp that was still smoking wolf smoke everywhere in surprise and said, "Your Royal Highness the Second Prince, what's wrong here?" Why is there a smell of gunpowder everywhere? Could it be that the Celestial Empire has invaded? ”
"Hey, I didn't completely attack it, but I did come in and loot it, and burned a lot of places." Speaking of this, Ivan sighed and said: "Speaking of which, I was careless, last night I saw a fire in the distance, I was wondering if the general led the troops to come to the rescue, and I began to break through with the army at that moment, but I didn't expect that the army of the Celestial Empire had already prepared, and they actually took advantage of our breakthrough to kill and rob countless grain and grass in the place where we camped." Oh yes, this time General Ye brought how much grain and grass he brought, I can't hide it, we are almost out of food here. ”
"Ahh Looking at Prince Ivan's expectant gaze, Ye Sening opened his big mouth in shock. At the moment, even if you stuff an egg into it, you can enter. "Your Royal Highness the Second Prince, I didn't bring any food here, and the grain and grass of my army was also burned by the army of the Celestial Empire."
"What? So how is this good? Hearing Yesenin say the same countless, at this moment, Prince Ivan's face only showed a trace of sadness. Originally, he had an army of 200,000, but after the failure of yesterday's breakout battle, after saving Ye Senin during the day, the remaining army was only 50,000, and the food and grass of these people was already a problem, and he was completely expecting Ye Sening to supply, but he didn't expect that Fei Dan didn't have one more grain of food, but he had to eat with 30,000 more mouths, so what can you do for him?
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Outside of Allah's department.
Zhang Chao led the Lu Bu Road Army, the Wenchou Road Army, the First Army Road Army, the Zhang Jiajun and Hou Cheng's Infantry Road Army are now surrounding the Ala army.
What Yesenin saw was that the Celestial Empire army did not pursue them, not because they did not pursue, but because they did not want to pursue them. Because in Zhang Chao's eyes, he is not so important, but it is Ala Fang who is his goal.
In yesterday's battle, the losses of Allah's troops were not very large, only 30,000 cavalry and more than 20,000 infantry, which naturally had a lot to do with his cautious character. But it is also because Zhang Chao does not regard him as the main opponent.
Zhang Chao adopted the tactics of surrounding one, fighting one, and stealing one.
It was Yesenin who was fighting, and now it has been realized, and only 30,000 of his 400,000 troops are left; Stealing one naturally refers to Prince Ivan, and the same is true, not only robbing them of their military rations, but also severely inflicting on them. The last one is surrounded by Allah's own department.
Nearly 600,000 troops completely surrounded the Alla Division, and at this moment, General Lejin with a large number of prisoners of the Rus Army is approaching here, it can be said that Zhang Chao is full of confidence in this battle.
Comparatively speaking, the besieged Allah's face was indeed not good-looking at all.
Now, he also knows the basic situation of yesterday's battle from the mouth of the scout. When he learned that the Celestial Empire's army had only arranged for less than 300,000 people to force his own army of 500,000 back, he regretted it, he knew that if this was the case, he should have launched an attack with all his might, maybe this is not the situation now.
But God won't give him a chance to start over, not only can he attack with all his strength, but what he has to do is defend with all his might. Fortunately, he had released the news of the siege in time, and I believe that the eldest prince Anatoly will receive the news soon, and at that time there will definitely be reinforcements to help him, and all he needs to do is to prepare for his own defense.
Allah wants to hold on and wait for help, and what Zhang Chao needs to do is to reorganize the army and recuperate.
In the battle last night, Zhang Chao's heart has been hanging on his throat, because all the plans, once there is a problem in any link, I am afraid that it will cause irreparable losses.
Fortunately, Lu Bu's cavalry launched an anti-stealing camp with the help of Ala's stolen army, which made the plan go smoothly. Now that he had finally inflicted heavy losses on Yesenin's army and besieged Alaso's troops to death, he could finally catch his breath.
For this reason, Zhang Chao ordered that in addition to the soldiers who were responsible for monitoring the Ala Division, the other soldiers should have a good rest for a day and then prepare for the next big battle.
Just one day later, Lejin came to assemble with an army of 180,000. In this way, the army of the Celestial Empire has nearly 800,000 troops, and in the face of the Alasuo Division, which is only 450,000, it can be said that the victory is in hand.
In contrast, the besieged Allah was indeed in fear.
Although General Allah had already said that he had sent someone to send a letter to Prince Anatoly, the soldiers in the army knew that it was impossible for reinforcements to come so quickly, and it was unknown whether they could wait for reinforcements to arrive.
There was instability in the army's heart, and Allah naturally ordered the generals to do their best to appease them, although this also temporarily stabilized the army's heart, but he himself knew very well that once the Celestial Empire army attacked, I am afraid that the military spirit that had just stabilized would be chaotic again.