Chapter 725: Retreat to Hudong
Early the next morning.
Li Hao was discussing military affairs with Yuwen Chengyu and Zhang Qi, when he suddenly heard thunder rolling in the distance.
A messenger quickly rushed into the camp tent: "The prince is not good, the Volga security army is pressing the border, and more than 300,000 troops are coming overwhelmingly!" ”
"There was just a fiasco yesterday, and thousands of people died in front of our military camp, and they dared to come!" Yuwen Chengyu said in a deep voice.
Zhang Qi's face also became ugly: "Lord Wang, won't their plans be seen through by them?" In yesterday's battle, we have already fired almost all the stone bullets and arrows in spite of the attrition, and the power of today's war equipment will certainly be greatly reduced, and the enemy army is numerous, and we may not be able to cope with it easily! ”
Li Hao was silent for a moment, and snorted coldly: "Sure enough, it's not an ordinary thing, I actually saw the king's plan so quickly!" Don't panic, everything is going according to plan! ”
"Yes!"
Everyone bowed their hands and walked away quickly.
Half an hour later, the Linghui army and the Volga Khanate confronted each other in the wilderness.
The catapult crossbows were all laid out, but this time the gold-armored general was not afraid to personally lead the troops and began to charge against the main formation of the Linghui Army.
The war equipment of the Linghui Army began to work, and dozens of stone bullets and more than 100 stout bed crossbow arrows shot out, killing hundreds of soldiers of the Volga Khanate on the spot.
But today's Volga army is like a chicken blood, desperate to continue to charge.
Yuwen Chengyu had no choice but to lead the cavalry team and the chariot team to fight against him.
In just half an hour, the ammunition stocks of the Linghui Army were completely empty, and all the catapults and bed crossbows were dumb.
The Volga Bao soldiers, who had been overwhelmed by stones and crossbow arrows, lost the threat above their heads, and fought more fiercely, relying on their numerical superiority to gradually suppress the momentum of the Linghui cavalry.
More than 100 chariots rushed back and forth in the crowd of enemy troops, killing thousands of people. But as the cavalry retreated, so did the pressure.
A group of highly mobile cavalry followed closely behind the Linghui battle vehicle, and the Linghui chariot had powerful weapons both in the front and on both sides, but there was no in the back of the car, so this group of cavalry followed and gradually came to the back of the war vehicle.
Volgabao's cavalry threw hooks and locks at the chariot, dense like a spider's web, and bound the chariot firmly.
Immediately afterwards, the cavalry holding the hook lock suddenly stopped, and the Linghui chariot was led and galloped by the war horse.
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But no matter how strong the war horses of the Linghui Army were, they could not resist the power of dozens of enemy cavalry.
Boom!
There was a loud bang, and one of the tanks at the rear of the chariot unit tripped and could not move again.
The enemy infantry officers hurriedly surrounded and killed all the Linghui troops on the chariot.
In this way, the chariots of the Linghui Army were stopped on the grass one after another, and none of the soldiers on the chariots were spared.
Seeing this, the commander of the chariots hurriedly led his troops to fight their way out of the weakest part of the enemy's defenses, and finally returned to the camp safely under the protection of the cavalry who came to help.
In this battle alone, the Linghui chariot lost a total of thirty-five chariots, and nearly 1,000 people were killed and wounded. The cavalry team managed to break through in order to cover the chariot troops, and the losses were even more severe. In just one battle, more than 2,000 people have been completely buried in the muddy grass.
The three strongest units of the Linghui Army, cavalry, chariots, and war weapons, were all damaged, and they did not deal a fatal blow to the enemy in a frontal confrontation as usual.
The soldiers of the Volga Khanate saw the nightmarish enemy fleeing back in disarray, and for a moment their morale was greatly boosted, and they roared and counterattacked.
Li Hao had no choice but to command the main army to step forward and fight a white-knuckle battle with the enemy.
The battle lasted a day and a night, with heavy losses on both sides.
The souls of 30,000 soldiers of the Linghui Army returned to the heroes, and the Volga Khanate also suffered more than 50,000 casualties.
But the strength of the Linghui army was already inferior to the other party, and even if the losses were less, the morale had been completely suppressed by the enemy. can only fight and retreat, all the way to the direction of dry Ze.
Having been delayed for so long by the Linghui Army, how could the army of the Volga Khanate easily let them go? As soon as he saw that the Linghui army had the momentum of retreating, he immediately pursued and bit the Linghui army to the death.
was forced to be helpless, Li Hao could only go into battle in person and lead the cavalry team to break off the army.
The fierce battle lasted for three days and three nights.
With Li Hao joining, the morale of the Linghui cavalry was greatly boosted, and they repeatedly attacked the pursuing team of the Volga Bao Khanate.
But no matter how powerful one person is, he can't turn the tide of the battle, the defeat of the Linghui army has been decided, and he can only retreat to the east, and the Linghui cavalry is also completely sharpened after the arrival of the enemy's main force, and the large army is evacuated backwards.
After three days in a row, the Linghui cavalry had already killed people and horses, and their weapons were shattered. Seeing that the enemy army was chasing after him, Yuwen Chengyu was furious: "Lord, when Princess Yan Yan brought the boat branch before, she also gave it to us."
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Bring back a batch of supplies of war equipment, quickly take them out to kill the enemy's momentum, and if you are chased like this, the morale of our army will not come back! ”
Li Hao was already covered in blood at the moment, he wiped the rain on his face vigorously and shook his head: "No!" Before the time comes, send the order to set up ambushes along the way, and hold off the enemy as long as possible! ”
"Yes!" Yuwen Chengyu gritted his teeth and replied in a deep voice.
In this way, while retreating, the Linghui army left a small number of troops to ambush along the way, relying on Li Hao's strategy, creating a lot of difficulties for the enemy's pursuers, and the pursuit speed continued to slow down.
More than half a month passed, and the Volgabao army finally drove the Linghui army to the shore of Dry Lake with great effort.
When Li Hao walked to the camp on the shore of Dry Lake, the whole person had lost a lot of weight. Although he was still standing proudly, Li Mingda, who was familiar with him, could see the tiredness in Li Hao's eyes.
Entering the camp, Li Hao didn't even have time to rest, and immediately ordered: "The Volgabao army is less than fifty miles away from us, everyone hurry up and board the ship, and you must leave here before noon!" ”
"Yes!" Zhang Qi and Yuwen Chengyu also followed Li Hao to fight for a whole month, and they were already physically and mentally exhausted at this moment, but when they thought that the chasing soldiers were still behind them, they didn't dare to slack off at all, and hurriedly left the camp to prepare.
Li Hao sat down on the chair tiredly and seized the time to rest.
Suddenly, a pair of white hands deep behind Li Hao gently pressed on his head.
Li Hao trembled, these hands were too familiar to him!
Looking back, it was Wan'er.
"Why are you here!" Li Hao got up and shouted.
Li Mingda and Li Ziyin don't care, one of them is a princess of the Tang Dynasty, and the other is the head of the Li family in Longxi, and they have more or less troops around them, and they can be regarded as masters who have been on the battlefield. But Wan'er is different from them, she is just a little maid of Li Hao, even if she later holds the financial power of Li Jiazhuang, she has never participated in the Linghui Army, a pure battlefield novice.
What is she doing when she doesn't stay in the Li Kingdom, and suddenly runs to the battlefield?
Wan'er smiled slightly: "Wan'er is the first person to follow the young master's side, Sister Yan Yan said that this battle is related to the danger of the Li family's kingdom, Wan'er's life is picked up by the young master, even if she dies, she must die by the young master's side!" ”
"You stupid girl!" Hearing Wan'er's gentle but firm words, Li Hao was angry and moved in his heart, and put her out of the tent: "Take your good sister and hurry up on the boat, I'll settle accounts with you when I turn back!" ”
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