Chapter 659, Ji Ling is defeated
In order to catch up with the main force of the Jiangdong Army as soon as possible, Yuan Shu ordered Ji Ling to advance lightly, and the heavy equipment was left in the camp.
But all the time, Ji Ling felt that something was wrong, and there were a lot of scouts released along the way, but until the night when he set up camp, he didn't encounter any accidents, and the scouts didn't find anything abnormal, the main force of the Jiangdong Army was ahead, and Xu Chu and Chen Lan would soon be able to catch up. At the pace of today's march, even if the Jiangdong Army set off a day earlier, it would not take two days to catch up with its main army.
In order to prevent night attacks, Ji Ling specially arranged a large army to guard outside, but after the night, there was still no abnormality. It wasn't until the fourth watch that the Huotou Army began to light a fire to cook, and it wasn't until the sky gradually began to shine that Ji Ling finally gradually relaxed and wanted to rest for a while.
Because after a full meal, the army would continue to march, and in the few days before the Jiangdong army was completely defeated, Ji Ling had no intention of resting.
But that's when the accident happened.
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Liu Feng did pay a huge price in order to defeat Yuan Shu. Not only did he fight head-on under the city of Hefei for half a year, but at this last moment, he used all the props he had obtained over the years.
Under the urging of Xun You and others, the "Fog Shadow Rune Array" took advantage of the favorable weather in late autumn to completely hide Liu Feng's army, so that the scouts sent by Ji Ling did not find anything. In fact, after deliberately leaving a camp for Ji Ling, Liu Feng's army was only more than thirty miles away from Ji Ling's camp, and if he forcibly marched, he could reach it in an hour.
At dawn, it was time to get up again, which was the time when the soldiers were most sleepy, and it was also the time when they were the least vigilant, until the Jiangdong army was ten miles away, and it was finally discovered. But at this time, it is already possible to carry out a frontal attack, and it doesn't matter if you sneak attack or not.
When Ji Ling was awakened and walked out of the Chinese army's tent, the camp was already in chaos. The soldiers couldn't care about what to eat, and their minds were full of questions - where did the Jiangdong Army come from?
Ji Ling is no exception. But this is not the time to investigate the reason, knowing that he and even Yuan Shu have fallen for the tricks of the Jiangdong army, for the sake of today, it is to bring back the fat of the army under his command. So he immediately summoned all the generals and ordered them to take over the command of the troops and organize the soldiers to block the attack of the Jiangdong army.
But it's a pity that at this time, it's too late, and since Liu Feng and the others have launched it, they are already ready. The lurking catapult quickly showed its fangs, and under Liu Ye's command, it frantically poured towards Ji Ling's camp.
Almost instantly, Ji Ling's army was dealt a heavy blow. Many people were killed by the torrential rain of stones before they could wake up from their sleep, and some of them even had their bodies torn apart.
As a veteran of the battlefield, Ji Ling naturally has his own set of choices for the camp, and he will never choose dangerous places. In fact, the camp that Ji Ling chose was a large plain, and after camping, there were no dense forests or valleys within ten miles of the surrounding area where a large number of people and horses could be hidden...... It can be said that this is a great campsite, because the enemy is in front and there are no forces around that can threaten you.
It is precisely because of this that after Liu Feng discussed with Xun You and others, he was sure to lure Ji Ling to camp here, so he decided to ambush Ji Ling here.
Of course, this kind of place is not a good ambush location for ambushers, although it is unexpected. The four sides are too open, and even if they are attacked, it is easy to break through. This brought great difficulties to the generals of the Jiangdong Army who completely annihilated the Jiling troops.
As a heavy instrument, the catapult was inconvenient to carry, so Ji Ling was all abandoned and came lightly when he was in pursuit. The use of catapults required a large number of stones, and the layout time of the Koto Army was too short to support an attack of this magnitude.
Ji Ling guessed this, so he tried to gather the army. After all, their camp is very wide, and with the number of catapults of the Jiangdong Army, it is simply not enough to form a cover.
Sure enough, in just a moment of incense, the stone-throwing attack ended. Under Liu Ye's command, the lethality is not small, and the destructiveness is also great, but the attack time is too short.
Of course, Xun You and the others didn't think that the catapult could play much of a role, and the main effect of the catapult's attack was to cause chaos to Ji Ling's camp. And this goal was easily achieved.
When the catapult's attack stopped, a dull sound of thunder gradually came, and it got closer and closer.
From afar, Ji Ling, who was commanding the generals under his command with a calm face, finally changed his face.
This wave of attacks was cavalry.
This is the biggest reliance of Liu Feng's total annihilation of Ji Ling's army this time.
In the era of cold weapons, cavalry is the absolute king, and since its birth, the chariot has been eliminated and has been rampant in the world. The most powerful Mongol empire in history is the most outstanding achievement of cavalry. Even after the birth of firearms, they were still suppressed by cavalry for hundreds of years, and then they were suppressed by the ever-changing thermal weapons, and gradually eliminated from the battle sequence.
In the land south of the Yangtze River, cavalry is the most expensive type of military service, because there are too few qualified war horses, and it is not easy to train cavalry. Liu Feng accumulated twenty years of work, and he was careful and careful every time he fought, for fear of losing too much, so he created 300,000 elite cavalry. This time, it's all about the battle.
In contrast, Yuan Shu's cavalry was even less. Being in a rich land and closer to the north, the production of war horses under Yuan Shu is more than that of Jiangdong. But correspondingly, Yuan Shu's wars were far more than Liu Feng's, and sometimes, the cavalry had to participate in battles, so the cavalry under Yuan Shu's command was even more scarce than Liu Feng. There were more than 100,000 people who came with Ji Ling this time, but there were only tens of thousands of elites.
Ji Ling's camp is only a temporary station, so naturally it will not be very strong, and it has been attacked by Liu Ye before, and it is already crumbling. When the Jiangdong cavalry came, there was almost no resistance, and they were rushed into the camp. Then the speed did not decrease, and all the way to the rampage.
This time, Bai Jian personally went into battle and charged with the cavalry. There were many people gathered there, so they killed that place and directly dispersed the soldiers gathered by the generals under Ji Ling's command. Even the soldiers under Ji Ling's command have experienced wars, most of them are elites, and when facing the cavalry charge, they can only be scattered. And those cavalry under his command, before they even had time to find their war horses, they were killed and scattered, and they couldn't form a scale to stop Bai Jian at all.
In an hour, Bai Jian killed a few back and forth in Ji Ling's camp, and finally broke through the psychological defense line of the soldiers under Ji Ling's command, countless soldiers laid down their weapons and began to flee, no matter how hard Ji Ling tried, he couldn't gather many troops.
"It's over!" When Bai Jian's cavalry left arrogantly, Ji Ling could only have such a voice in the face of a messy camp. The army of millions has gone out, killed, wounded and fled, there are less than a million, and many of these people who are left have lost their minds, and some are constantly leaving...... And among the hundreds of thousands of people who can maintain their sanity, Ji Ling can't gather many people.
And, more critically, they are in danger.
When the cavalry leaves, it is the time for the archers and infantry to exalt their might.
Finally gathered the 300,000 panicked people with the help of his generals, and Ji Ling found that a large number of routs had been driven back. The road to the east and north was blocked by the Koto Army, and it became difficult to return. To the west is Feishui, and further west is the Nanlu River, and to the south, it is also under the control of the Jiangdong Army.
"Everyone, fight to the death. I hope we can break through the encirclement and return to Hefei, otherwise, Your Majesty will be in danger. Looking at the slowly approaching Jiangdong Army, Ji Ling boosted his morale, "The crime of this battle is that the general is alone, if he can return to protect His Majesty, His Majesty will naturally reward him, and he will not be a problem to pay homage to the marquis." ”
Ji Ling's words made the generals cheer up a little, and began to shout and order the soldiers to break through, but it had little effect.
Despite this, Ji Ling still had to take these more than 300,000 people to start breaking through.
Liu Feng was lucky, the ambush of Ji Ling was very successful, almost exactly the same as the previous rehearsal. Ji Ling personally broke through in front of him, met Dian Wei, was beheaded under his horse and died in the battle, most of the generals died, and only more than 10,000 people escaped, so to speak, Ji Ling was wiped out this time.