059 Night Raid
On the Luoyang side, Cao An rushed to Yingchuan with a luxurious lineup, and on the other side, on the battlefield in Runan.
After Di Qing put the main infantry on the side of Ningcheng to clean up the mess of Ningcheng and led the cavalry to chase after him, Di Qing finally caught up before the Huangchao army waved its army to Yingchuan.
However, at this time, Di Qing chased after Huang Chao's army, but after catching up, Di Qing found that with the strength in his hands now, he was completely unable to deal with Huang Chao's army.
On the side of the Huangchao army, after slaughtering Ningcheng and most of Runan County, the number of troops not only did not increase, but also decreased a lot, and the number of troops that was originally close to 1.5 million dropped to about one million after the massacre of Runan County.
However, the one-third reduction did not reduce the strength of the Yellow Nest army, and even made the strength of this army have been terrifyingly improved, and now the average force of the million soldiers of the Yellow Nest army has increased to 25.
The most terrifying thing is that the entire army of the Yellow Nest army has a terrifying aura at the moment.
The incomparably rich smell of blood, the ferocious momentum, at a glance from a distance, the army of the Yellow Nest army is like a fierce demon that people dare not look at directly.
Even the elite cavalry under Di Qing's command would be distracted and panicked when they looked at Huang Chao's army without preparation.
With Di Qing's military literacy, he can confirm at a glance that the Huangchao army in front of him is not at all something that the less than 50,000 cavalry under his command can resist, only his follow-up infantry main force can resist one or two.
But not every war can wait for both sides to be ready, shouting one, two, three, and finally fighting.
It is this situation that Di Qing is facing at the moment, he knows very well that his current army is definitely not the opponent of the Huangchao army, but he has to fight.
Because if he doesn't take action, then the Huangchao army at this time will wave his troops north to Yingchuan.
What's even more terrifying is that now this army of Huangchao has been completely demonized, and the most violent and ferocious wildness of all the soldiers has been completely released.
At this point, I am afraid that even the commander Huang Chao at this time will not be able to take back the killing intent that the soldiers were released, the blood on the land of Ningcheng Runan has not dried up yet, and Di Qing can't let Yingchuan be stained red with blood again no matter what.
So this battle, Di Qing must fight.
July 23, late at night, Runan County.
After Di Qing was ready, he launched an attack on the Huangchao army.
In this battle, Di Qing had only one purpose, and that was to defeat the logistics of the Huangchao army.
An army of millions, as long as Di Qing can defeat the logistics and supplies of Huangchao, then this army will definitely be paralyzed in Runan County for a period of time.
And now the most lacking thing on the side of the Great Song Dynasty is time, as long as he can win ten days, Di Qing's own infantry will be able to arrive, and he will have the ability to press the Huangchao army in Runan again.
In the future, as long as the reinforcements of the three forces of Ming, Sui and Chu come over, they can naturally easily take down the Huangchao army.
The plan is a good plan, provided that Di Qing can really succeed in the night attack and really take down the logistics of the Yellow Nest Army.
Huang Chao itself still has considerable military literacy, and Huang Chao still attaches great importance to logistics supply, the lifeline of the army.
He almost put the logistics in the center of the army, which means that Di Qing will have to kill the millions of troops if he wants to take the logistics supply of the Yellow Nest, which is so difficult that it can be imagined, if he is not careful, Di Qing's army is afraid that he will stay in it forever.
The danger was well known to Di Qing, or should it be said that everyone who was going to participate in this battle was very clear.
But what they know all the more is that they have no choice and no room for timidity.
If they don't take this risk, then Yingchuan will be full of corpses, and those soldiers don't want to see death.
Therefore, when the night sank, the 50,000 cavalry led by Di Qing set off.
At midnight, at the most sleepy time, Di Qing's cavalry launched a surprise attack under his leadership.
What I have to say here is that Di Qing, as one of the most powerful generals in the Great Song Dynasty, has a lot of talents, martial arts, and military formations, and perhaps because Di Qing's record is the battle of the night attack on Kunlun Pass, so Di Qing has an excellent night attack on the legion skills.
This skill can increase the concealment of Di Qing's army and reduce the vigilance of the enemy.
From the point of view of the attributes of the skill, this is a skill that does not increase one's combat effectiveness at all, but its usefulness is beyond doubt.
With this skill, the 50,000 cavalry under Di Qing's command were only discovered within 100 meters of the Huangchao army.
You must know that Di Qing's cavalry is not one or two, but a full 50,000, not to mention that the sound of the horses' hooves running is terrifying.
In this case, it is already a miracle to be able to quietly get within 100 meters of the enemy.
And with this miracle, Di Qing's night attack started with great success.
50,000 cavalry, under the situation of Di Qing, Yang Yanzhao and other top generals, directly entered the military camp of the Huangchao army in one go.
Although Huang Chao's million-strong army will have experienced a lot of changes in strength and mentality after two massacres, these soldiers are all peasants anyway.
Playing a tailwind game is naturally majestic, but in this kind of local headwind state that is attacked, the Huangchao army is prone to chaos when no one is in control.
And this chaos is the best opportunity for Di Qing.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the Huangchao army, Di Qing led the army to the grain and grass of the Huangchao army.
Although Huang Chao arranged relatively elite troops in the grain and grass, without preparation, he still couldn't withstand the surprise attack of Di Qing's elite cavalry after all.
Di Qing took the granary with ease under a round of charge.
However, although he took the granary, Di Qing did not dare to be careless, he knew very well how terrifying the army he was in at the moment, he was now in extreme danger every moment, and if he was not careful, their cavalry would be wiped out.
Therefore, after taking the granary, he didn't dare to waste any time, and the granary that was quickly ignited, after ensuring that all the food of the Huangchao army was ignited, immediately turned around with the cavalry and prepared to fight out of the encirclement.
However, at this time, Di Qing found that it was easy to get in and difficult to get out, and at this moment when he ignited the other party's granary, Huang Chao's side had already reflected and controlled the army.
At this time, the momentum of the entire Huangchao army had changed, the original chaos was gone, all the soldiers had red eyes, and a terrifying military momentum was condensed in the sky above the legion.