Chapter 359: Remembering the Cavalry
Zhu Jing took his team and returned to Pingwang Village to garrison, so that the strength of Pingwang Village was unprecedentedly strong.
After the Seven Water Army occupied Shangzhong Town, it stopped again, and it was called resting and recuperating.
As a result, Taoyuan Town has time and ability to think about whether it is time to send troops to completely pull out the annoying official army camp.
This idea was put forward by Zhu Jing, who was holding back his anger, but whether it was Li Jiayi or Huang Zheng, they all felt that this suggestion was very feasible. Such a good thing, of course, we can't forget the "ally" Mai Dashuai, according to the previous agreement, he should be given a credit, so that he can explain it better, and Taoyuan Town will not regret it when he says good things.
After the previous siege battle, there were less than 6,000 soldiers left in the official army camp, and without a commander, the people under his command suddenly fell into a state of leaderlessness, and the strongest of them was naturally the cavalry general. Until new instructions come down, they can only stay here for the time being. Although they were waiting, they did not let their guard down, after all, the old opponent was not far from the camp, and the steps were a little bigger, and they could walk here with a walk. Moreover, as far as they know, the rebels have almost no losses so far, and their strength is three times that of them.
However, the more you are afraid of something, the more you will come. In the evening, the rebel army surrounded the official camp like a tidal wave, and launched an attack on the camp without any warning.
Although the battalion also has certain protective measures, it is certainly not comparable to the strong city walls, facing several times the enemy. The officers and non-commissioned officers of the battalion tried their best to resist, but the number of casualties kept beating upward. The officers and soldiers who had just suffered a defeat in Pingwang Village. Even the commander was taken away, and there was really no morale at all. Fight purely to survive.
Although Mai Dashuai is good at defending, he is not weak in attack, he naturally knows the truth that the three are missing one, if the road is completely blocked, it will provoke the enemy to fight desperately, and it will cause many unnecessary casualties to his side, and if he leaves a way to live, it will greatly weaken the opponent's will to fight. What's more, the way of life left behind may not really be the way of life......
As Mak expected. Not long after the battle began, the officers and troops began to break outward, and it was naturally the cavalry team that broke through first, and such a defensive battle was very disadvantageous for them, and they could not give full play to their advantages at all. In fact, if they go out of the camp to rush and kill, it will definitely greatly reduce the pressure on the defense, and it will cause a lot of trouble to the officers and troops on the periphery, but. In that case, the danger for these cavalry is also very great. If the commander in chief of the army is still there, no matter what the cavalry thinks. For the sake of the big picture, he would definitely order the cavalry to attack. However, in the case of the dragons without a leader. It is not so easy to count on the rest of the officers and troops to work together.
The cavalry wanted to break through, and they chose the side that was not surrounded. Nature is unimpeded, but they go. The rest of the officers and soldiers had a hard time. Not only is it a factor of declining troops, but more importantly, the rest of the people have no intention of fighting again.
The army was defeated, and due to the departure of the cavalry, the rebels captured the official camp with little effort.
Three miles east of the camp, Zhu Jing waited here with the army of Taoyuan Town for a long time, in order to escape from the camp. The ambush site was carefully chosen, with a river on one side and a steep hill on the other, and it was not easy to kill it from the inside as long as it was blocked at both ends.
As Huang Zheng expected, if the officers and troops want to break through, the cavalry will definitely run at the front. After tasting the benefits of cavalry in the previous war, both Li Jiayi and Zhu Jing were particularly eager to expand this type of troops, but war horses were not something that could be obtained casually, they could be called priceless, and no amount of money could buy them, and it was impossible for the officers and rebels to sell this strategic material to Taoyuan Town, and there would be no such thing as a horse in the treasure house. Therefore, when Zhu Jing proposed to vent with the official army, several people naturally remembered the cavalry team of the official army.
In order to get this cavalry done, Li Jiayi took the initiative to contact Mai Dashuai and asked the other party to cooperate with the implementation of his own plan, and the exchange condition was that after the matter was completed, the other party's young marshal would be returned. For such a request, it is impossible and unreasonable for Mai Dashuai to refuse.
As a result, when the cavalry broke through, they did not encounter any resistance from the rebels. Because Taoyuan Town said that it was necessary to ensure that the officers and cavalry were not harmed as much as possible.
Therefore, when this cavalry panicked and fell into the trap laid by Taoyuan Town, it still retained almost the complete structure. These cavalrymen are the elite of the officers and soldiers, not only brave, but also very good in their minds, which is reflected in the fact that when they saw that the road ahead was blocked by a cut down tree trunk, they reacted immediately and were ambushed!
If it was an ordinary soldier, when he encountered such a situation, he would definitely retreat to the rear in a hurry, but for smart people, the ambush people had already blocked the road ahead, how could they still give them a chance to retreat from behind. Sure enough, before they could react, many soldiers with bows and arrows suddenly came out of the originally empty hillside. In such a terrain, in a hurry, there is no place to hide.
However, the strange thing is that the ambush did not immediately attack as soon as they appeared, but in this way, the cavalry did not dare to act rashly, and as soon as they moved themselves, countless arrows would instantly rain down from the hillside, shooting themselves like hedgehogs.
"Listen to the people under the mountain, you have been surrounded by us, if you don't want to die, hurry up and get off your horse and surrender, I count to three, if there are still people on the horse, immediately release the arrow!" Zhu Jing's trick is ruthless, tying everyone's life and death together, if anyone wants to lie on the horse to support himself, then everyone will be buried for him, then, people who don't want to die will never allow anyone to continue to sit on the horse, no matter what, they will drag the "disobedient" person off the horse.
"One!"
Sure enough, Zhu Jing had just shouted "one", and all the cavalry obediently turned over from their horses, and a few of them really wanted to hold on, and were hugged and dragged off their horses by several companions.
Zhu Jing didn't expect the effect to be so good, "Er" hadn't even shouted out, but all the cavalry dismounted, and even threw their weapons to the ground, and he was suddenly relieved in his heart, and if he gave the order to release the arrows, he was really a little reluctant. (To be continued.) )