Chapter 324: Death Battle

On June 22, the 17th year of Hongwei, Zhong Qingyuan personally led the Black Flag Army to launch a fierce attack on Wang Yi's third Northern Dynasty reinforcements, and the 50,000 infantry of the Northern Dynasty collapsed after only half an hour under the fierce charge of more than 10,000 Black Flag Army.

For the first time, Wang Yi personally experienced the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Black Flag Army and was greatly shocked.

Even compared with the other two Wuling pro-army, the Black Flag Army is also a higher-level existence, not to mention the so-called elites that Wang Yi had fought with him in the past when he was in the border army, the two can be described as a cloud and mud.

However, Wang Yi is not an ordinary person, and after knowing that he could not defeat the Black Flag Army, he immediately relied on his strength advantage to cover each other, crossed and retreated, and dragged the Black Flag Army in the way of wheel warfare, and at the same time sent a light cavalry of 10,000 people to raid the rear of the Silent Annihilation Army.

After all, the Black Flag Army had a limited number of people, and they couldn't take care of both the beginning and the end, so they didn't notice this action, and when they completely defeated Wang Yi's army, that strange army had already killed behind the Silent Annihilation Army unconsciously.

At that time, the Silent Annihilation Army was fighting a decisive battle with Xiao Jinwubu, which was composed of a part of the main force of the Northern Dynasties and more than 30,000 southeastern border troops.

After a day and night of fierce fighting, after paying extremely heavy casualties, Xiao Jinwu's military department was already in a desperate situation, and at this time, the reinforcement army sent by Wang Yi finally arrived.

In a desperate situation, the morale of the soldiers of the Northern Dynasty suddenly increased greatly, and Xiao Jinwu immediately sent people to shout on the battlefield that the Black Flag Army was defeated and Wang Yi's 100,000 troops rushed to help.

After fighting a tough battle for so long, the strong army had already shown fatigue, and at this time, it suddenly found that a large number of enemies appeared behind it, and it was inevitable that the morale was low, and then the rumors in the encirclement were aroused, and the army immediately collapsed.

Napoleon also suffered a big loss when the enemy's reinforcements arrived first in the decisive battle of Waterloo, which led to the defeat of a generation of war gods and was unable to return to the sky.

Right now, the Silent Army is facing the same situation, and it is also on the verge of collapse.

How could Xiao Jinwu, who was in the encirclement, let go of this flaw, and immediately ordered the army to join forces with the 10,000-strong reinforcements and break through to the north.

The Silent Annihilation Army was disheartened and could not stop it, so they could only watch the two armies of the Northern Dynasties merge.

Originally, Xiao Jinwu wanted to take the opportunity to expand the results of the battle and defeat the Silent Annihilation Army in one fell swoop, but when he heard that the reinforcement general said that the Black Flag Army was about to break through, he did not dare to continue to delay, and quickly broke away from the battle group under the cover of the 10,000 light cavalry reinforcements and fled north.

As soon as Tong Yang saw that Xiao Jinwu did not launch a counterattack, but continued to flee in the wilderness, he had already guessed the situation on the battlefield, and immediately ordered the sword and axe men of the Military Justice Department to go out of the battle, kill hundreds of defeated soldiers one after another, stabilize the situation, and then retract the line and pursue Xiao Jinwu.

After the Black Flag Army defeated Wang Yi's army, they wanted to pursue it with victory, but they suddenly received Tong Yang's flying pigeon message, knowing that Xiao Jinwu had escaped from the encirclement, so he had to give up Wang Yi's remnants of the defeated army, turn the horse's head and chase after Xiao Jinwu.

Xiao Jinwu's military department has been fighting fiercely for days, and it is already the end of the crossbow, if he is caught up by the Black Flag Army in the field, it will definitely be the end of the whole army.

At the critical moment, as the general reserve of the Northern Dynasty army, Beichang Xingwei arrived in time, and under the leadership of Liang Tongfang, Beichang Xingwei established a defense line in the northeast of Xiao Jinwu's department and supported a barrier.

With the experience of the Battle of Jingyang, Liang Tongfang used Xu Rui's set to deal with the Black Flag Army, and the combination of stumbling horses, rejecting horse piles, and falling horse ditches came up one by one, that is, instead of fighting head-on with the Black Flag Army, he tried every means to delay the speed of the Black Flag Army in order to avoid its absolute advantage in impact power.

At the same time, on the evening of June 23, the Silent Annihilation Army finally caught up with Xiao Jinwu, who had fled north frantically, and the two armies fought again.

But this time, Xiao Jinwu had opened the passage in the rear, and reinforcements came in a steady stream, forming a confrontation with the powerful Silent Annihilation Army.

At this point, the plan of the Wuling pro-army to attack in an all-out way was frustrated, and the two sides returned to the same running line again.

In this battle, it is roughly estimated that the Northern Dynasty lost nearly 100,000 men and horses, and the Southern Dynasty army would not lose less than 20,000 troops.

At this moment, the two warring sides are exhausted, and the battle lines are even more intertwined, truly forming a situation where you have me and I have you, as if in a quagmire, no one can help anyone for the time being.

In ancient and modern times, no matter which war was fought to such an anxious point, it was basically time to compete in will and adjustment ability, and it was obvious that the Southern Dynasties had the absolute upper hand in both aspects.

However, their grain and grass have been burned by Xu Rui, and the whole army only has six or seven days' rations left.

The limit is both a challenge and an opportunity for both the North and the South, and now it depends on whose commander can make the best use of his advantages and force the other commander's commander to make mistakes.

In the camp of the Black Flag Army, Shu Gesheng had just returned from the front of the battle, his armor had been stained red with blood, but his huge body was still high-spirited, and the hot wind in the evening even steamed a thin mist from his body, which looked a little like a reddish blood mist, making him like a killing god.

He held a carrier pigeon and rushed into Zhong Qingyuan's handsome tent excitedly, Zhong Qingyuan had just removed his armor, and his soldiers handed him a wet towel, he wiped it on his face, and the white towel was immediately contaminated with blood and turned black and red, and his tired look was relieved a lot.

"Dashuai, there's news!"

Shu Gesheng held the carrier pigeon in front of Zhong Qingyuan without any scruples, Zhong Qingyuan took the secret letter from the pigeon's leg, tore off the fire paint and looked at it carefully for a moment.

He was slightly stunned at first, then ordered someone to take the map, and poked his finger on the Black Flag Army's march route for a while, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a relieved smile.

Shu Gesheng had been standing by his side, quietly waiting for him to finish thinking before he asked softly, "Dashuai, ...... this secret letter?"

Zhong Qingyuan waved his hand and said: "It was sent by Lu Shuai, and it is another clever plan, Lu Shuai is worthy of being the first wise general in my Wuling army!" ”

"The current situation has fallen into a general, our army does not have much food and grass, what is Lu Shuai's opinion?"

Shu Gesheng asked without hesitation.

Zhong Qingyuan said: "The prince said that the so-called clever plan is the most accurate solution based on the current situation, and Lu Shuai's wisdom is that there are no tricks, but it is the most practical. ”

"Oh?!"

Shu Gesheng was aroused, and waited for Zhong Qingyuan's next words with an expectant expression.

Zhong Qingyuan did not disappoint him, and then said: "Lu Shuai's clever plan is very simple, since it is a chaotic battle, then it will be chaotic, so that the opposite side will not be able to play any tricks, and it is beneficial for us to fight for strength." ”

Shu Gesheng was stunned: "Fight strength? How is it spelled? ”

Zhong Qingyuan said: "Pass the order, rest tonight, beware of the enemy attacking the camp, and we will leave the front early tomorrow morning." ”

"Out of the front? Don't fight? ”

Shu Gesheng was shocked.

Zhong Qingyuan sneered: "Of course we have to fight, let's change places, the mobility of the Black Flag Army is unparalleled in the world, let's join Lu Shuai tomorrow evening, first annihilate the remnants of the enemy in the northwest with him, and wait for the Rhino Horn Army to free up their hands, hum ......"

Zhong Qingyuan's words came to an abrupt end, but Shu Gesheng stroked his palms and laughed: "I understand, both sides have done their best right now, but our army has the advantage of mobility, which is equivalent to having an extra reinforcement on the battlefield that can be reinforced everywhere, this is a means to break the balance!" ”

Zhong Qingyuan nodded and said: "That's right, we have reinforcements, but the enemy doesn't, this is Lu Shuai's clever plan to remind Ben Shuai, hum, the Northern Dynasty has exhausted its organs, let it go, but I didn't expect to expose all the main forces in front of us, just giving us the opportunity to fight a battle, this battle, we will win, the Northern Dynasty, the number of qi is exhausted!" ”

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