Chapter 345: The Battle of Tongshan
Sima Dejiao personally selected 5,000 elites from the 20,000 Xiaoguo, and the giant Kun helped the big ship to reload them back to the north bank of the Tongji Canal, waiting for the time to leave.
The 5,000 people were all cavalry, and nearly seventy percent of the war horses in Long Tao's hands were used, which made him deeply feel the importance of the Pegasus Ranch.
The mission was to take advantage of Yu Wenhua and the war with Li Mi to loot property, and the battle was mainly a surprise attack, so everyone traveled lightly, and the food and grass supplies were carried by Bu Tianzhi and Chen Laomou's fifteen flyships.
After the darkness, Long Tao issued an order, and the army set off.
The destination of this march was the mountainous area south of Liyang, and Long Tao needed to sneak in with 5,000 men and horses without the knowledge of Yu Wenhua and Li Mi, and he also had to hide and hide until the two sides were engaged and the most favorable time appeared before he could appear in a surprise attack.
This was absolutely impossible, but under the detection of Long Tao's spiritual sense, which could cover a radius of hundreds of miles, they traveled day and night, walking through the inaccessible mountains and forests, and sometimes needed the help of the fleet of the Giant Kun Gang to cross the river, and finally after half a month, they arrived at a large mountain hundreds of miles south of Liyang, camped in a valley to rest, and set up sentry points on the periphery to ensure that no one would find out the whereabouts of the army.
sneaked hundreds of miles with 5,000 people safely, which made Sima Dejiao and Zhao Xingshu throw themselves to the ground for the five bodies that Long Tao admired, which was simply amazing.
In fact, the spiritual sense alone detected this point, which was enough to make Long Tao an invincible commander.
On the battlefield, they have a clear grasp of the movements of the enemy within a hundred miles around, not only are they not afraid of the opponent's sneak attack, but they can also adjust their strategies according to the opponent's layout at any time, to sneak attack the enemy or break through and retreat, etc.
This ability can almost make him invincible!
However, maintaining this kind of large-scale detection for a long time will cause a great burden on Long Tao's spirit.
Fortunately, most of the void universe energy in his self-styled body had been slowly nurturing his spiritual will, and half a month of intense marching did not make him feel too tired.
After settling the troops, Long Tao took Sima Dejiao and Zhao Xingshu to investigate in the Liyang area, but Yu Wenhua's army had not yet appeared.
The two were a little stunned, but Long Tao was not surprised, Yu Wenhua didn't come straight to Liyang, and he still needed to loot grain and grass along the way, so he would naturally arrive later than them.
In order to reassure the hearts of the two, Long Tao still explained: "Don't worry, I have received a secret report from the spies of the Giant Kun Gang, Yu Wenhua has eaten up the military rations when he arrived at the slipway, and now he is looting and killing Liyang, preparing to capture Li Mi's Liyang Cang and replenish grain and grass." ”
Sure enough, two days later, Yu Wenhua and the army arrived, Li Mi ordered Xu Shiji to guard Liyang, and he led the army to confront Yu Wenhua in Qishui.
The two sides made several contacts, and in the head-to-head battles, they all ended in the defeat of the Wagang Army, showing the strength of Yu Wenhua and the regular central troops of the Great Sui under him!
Yu Culture and the Department of the Guard, with Yang Guang with him all the year round, this is the elite of the Sui army, well-equipped, well-trained, by no means ordinary local troops can be compared, let alone the formation of complex local rebels.
Although the Wagang Army was the best of the rebels, when facing the regular Central Army of the old Sui, even if the opposing army was discouraged and demoralized, it was still not their opponent.
The three of them hid in the shadows and watched the two sides fight many times, Sima Dejiao and Zhao Xingshu were born in the Xiaoguo Army, so they naturally felt that this result was deserved, but Long Tao saw the contrast between the old Sui strong soldiers and the leader of the righteous army for the first time, and he was very excited, and looked forward to the most elite Xiaoguo army among the 20,000 Sui troops in his hands.
After Li Mi lost the first battle, he formed a village in Tongshan, refused to fight, and formed a horn with Liyang Xu Shiji, and Yu Wenhua and Liyang attacked his back, so that he could not take care of both.
At the same time, in order to prevent the enemy from being attacked on his abdomen and back, Li Mi also surrendered to Yang Jiong, the emperor of Luoyang who was supported by Wang Shichong, Wang Shichong was happy to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, so that Yang Jiong agreed to surrender.
Li Mi made peace with Yu Wenhua again, and said that he would send grain and grass to help him return to the north, Yu Wenhua did not doubt him, and readily agreed, and let the soldiers let go of eating and drinking, and the military food was consumed faster.
In the future, when people talk about this war, they will say that Yu Wenhua is too stupid, Long Tao watched the whole war process, and naturally had a different opinion, Yu Wenhua is indeed stupid, but it is not so stupid.
Li Mi lost consecutive battles, and it is normal for people to seek peace, Yu Wenhua and won several games in a row, thinking that the Wagang army was afraid of him, and he was careless for a while, and it was normal for Li Mi to fall for Li Mi's treacherous plan.
Li Mi originally planned to wait for Yu Wenhua and the army to be completely exhausted before launching, but he didn't want Yu Wenhua to learn about Li Mi's treacherous plot from elsewhere, and in a fit of rage, the whole army attacked Li Mi.
The two sides fought at the foot of Tong Mountain.
The battle was extremely fierce, the Yuwen army was fooled by Li Mi, and the army was running out of food, which can be said to be hungry and crazy, angry and crazy, and launched a fierce attack on the Wagang army.
The Wagang army was almost unsupported, and if it weren't for Li Mi's morale, the Wagang army would have been almost defeated, and Li Mi was also wounded by stray arrows in the chaotic battle.
The battle lasted for a day, and in the end, the Yuwen army ran out of food and could no longer hold on to the Wagang army, so it collapsed automatically, and Yuwen only collected 20,000 remnants and fled to Wei County.
Long Tao's 5,000 troops appeared on the battlefield at the end of the war, and Yu Wenhua saw that the general trend had gone, so he ordered people to escort the ox cart to withdraw, and on the other hand, he supervised the army to attack and launch the last wave of rush against the Wagang army, so as to cover the safe withdrawal of the ox cart.
More than 1,000 ox carts lined up in a mighty long line, and occasionally there was a team of palace maids caught in the team, and when they fled for their lives, they naturally would not be allowed to ride the ox carts to increase the burden.
Three soldiers per cart followed, and another 8,000 Yuwen lord's children were divided into three military patrol convoys, and those who marched slower would be whipped, and the cries of the palace ladies were endless.
Long Tao waited for the convoy to leave the main battlefield in Tongshan before launching a surprise attack.
As the front army at the head of the team, it was Yu Wenzhi and the 4,000 soldiers led by him, Long Tao and Sima Dejiao led 2,000 cavalry to stop the waist and cut it in two, and then returned to the horse to rush back and forth to kill.
Yuwen Zhihe didn't expect that a group of new forces would suddenly be killed, and the overseers would fight in a panic.
The four thousand Yuwen lord's disciples were in chaos under the impact of the brave Xiaoguo army, and after Long Tao killed Yuwen Zhi and a knife, they were even more frightened and fled for their lives.
At the same time, Zhao Xingshu also took the remaining 3,000 Xiaoguo to defeat the 2,000 Yuwen lords of the Chinese army, and then led the team to the rear army to kill.
Sima Dejiao rode his horse against the convoy and shouted: "Yu Wenhua has been defeated, you have only one way to die with him, and you don't surrender quickly!" I, Sima Deji, will definitely give you a way out! ”
The sergeant who drove the car was not a son of Yuwen Lord, and Sima Dejiao was known as a prestige in the old Sui army, and the soldiers surrendered one after another when they saw that he was leading the army.
Long Tao asked Sima Dejiao to lead 2,000 cavalry in front and lead the convoy to the south, while he himself rode alone to the rear army to meet Zhao Xingshu.
When I came to the rear army, I saw that the battle was in full swing, but the opponent was not the children of Yuwen Valve, but a team of about 3,000 people.
These Tsing Yi warriors are obviously good hands, and they can withstand the impact of Zhao Xingshu's cavalry.
When Long Tao arrived, Zhao Xingshu just gathered the team and prepared for the next round of impact, and the other party also formed a formation and was ready to attack.
"It seems that Li Mi's people wanted to rob the property, but we didn't expect to be the first to get it." Zhao Xingshu frowned. "Dust was rising behind them, and it was clear that reinforcements were coming from behind."
Long Tao looked at the opponent's formation, and saw a stunning beauty wearing a white robe, with long hair hanging down her shoulders, surrounded by several people with a special appearance, giving orders in the command, and suddenly her eyes lit up, and her heart warmed up.
This woman is Shen Luoyan, the "pretty military division" of the Wagang Army.
Long Tao immediately said: "After leaving five hundred people to break with me, General Zhao please take the rest of the people back to meet General Sima and cover the convoy to retreat to the meeting place of the Jukun Gang!" ”
Zhao Xingshu said: "I think these should be the new force of the Wagang Army, the combat power is still there, and the lord must not underestimate the enemy." ”
Long Tao said with a smile: "Don't worry, five hundred people are enough, I will try to make them have no time to chase you, this is a military order, General Zhao quickly retreat!" ”