Chapter Eighty-Three: Twenty Thousand Against Forty Thousand
Fear, deep fear, fear to the point that his legs were weak, this is what Huzi felt in his heart at this time.
He has been in the army for three years, and the biggest scene he has ever seen on weekdays is only 20,000 people training together. As a reserve army, he was not even qualified to participate in the exercise, but now, he had to face a sudden war.
On this day, the border pass, which had been pacified for decades, suddenly ignited wolf smoke, and Kaipingwei, as the forefront of the north of the Beijing Division, naturally bore the brunt of the target of the Northern Turkistan Army. Before the arrival of the 40,000 army led by the national teacher Harba, the Kaiping guard army got the news early and guarded the road from Beitu to Beijing.
All the soldiers of Kaipingwei are only 20,000 together, with 20,000 against 40,000, there is a huge disparity, and there are still 10,000 cavalry on the North Turkistan side, which will be a tragic battle for Kaipingwei.
However, if it is not blocked, the Northern Turkistan army will be able to reach Kyoto directly in a few days, and then the country will fall, and the people of the Central Plains will once again fall into a dire situation, so even if the time and place are favorable, the Kaiping guards will not be able to hide.
Khalba relied on his strong troops, and did not take the 20,000 soldiers of Kaipingwei in his eyes at all, and directly ordered the cavalry to rush in front and the infantry to sweep in the rear, but he still underestimated the soldiers of the Central Plains.
At the beginning of the war, Kaiping Wei Wuhou disregarded his personal safety, and resolutely led more than 1,000 elites to cut off the back of 10,000 cavalry, separating the connection between the Northern Turkistan cavalry and the infantry, and stabbing the back of the cavalry's buttocks while facing the siege of 30,000 infantry.
In less than half an hour, there were only more than ten people left in the elite troops of more than 1,000 people, and Kaiping Wei Wuhou was among them.
This move seems reckless, but because of this, Kaipingwei exchanged more than 1,000 people for the lives of 5,000 cavalry of Northern Turkistan, and Northern Turkistan lost its greatest advantage.
Although Wuhou died, there were still thousands of households under him, and Qianhu took the place of Wuhou, and continued to take the remaining army to deal with the Northern Turkistan army, and Halba was not the first day of fighting, although the first battle suffered a big loss, but then launched a surprise attack that night.
The gate of Kaipingwei was quickly breached, and more than 4,000 Northern Turkist troops swarmed in, thinking that it would be a bloody battle, but things seemed to be going smoothly and unreally, and the Northern Turkist troops who poured into the city ran along the main street, but soon found that something was wrong - there was no shadow of the dynasty army in the city, and Kaipingwei was already an empty city.
The Northern Turkist army did not react for a while, thinking that the commander of the dynasty army had died, and the army withdrew under unstable morale. Just as they were about to report the incident to the rear troops, the gates were suddenly closed, and a large number of royal troops poured in from all directions, coming out of the houses, alleys, and even dry wells and cellars.
More than 4,000 Northern Turks who led the advanced city were instantly surrounded, spears stabbed from all directions, and the Northern Turks who were already turtles in the urn had no room to fight back, and under the attack of spears, they were stabbed under their horses without even touching the opposite side, and the Northern Turks lost another 4,000 soldiers and horses in this battle.
Coach Halba stayed up all night. He didn't expect that a small Kaiping guard would be so difficult to deal with, seeing that his side had lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, and less than 5,000 people died on the opposite side, if it dragged on like this, he was afraid that his 40,000 people would really be dragged to death by 20,000 people on the opposite side.
Calculating the strength of the troops in his hand, Halba decided to make a detour and take the Beijing division directly. Spread out the map, originally captured Kaipingwei, through this into Beijing, day and night only need more than a day, if you change from the east, the speed will be two days slower.
After much deliberation, Harba finally decided to take a detour.
According to the information of Jingzhong, the army in Beijing only has 10,000 people in Beijing, plus the guards of the palace and the officers and soldiers of the Yamen in the capital, and they can get together 15,000 people if they die, and they still have 30,000 soldiers and horses in their hands, and it is not a problem to enter the palace.
Having made up his mind, Halba ordered to go down and rest on the spot. Originally, the Wang Dynasty Army, which had been observing the movements of the enemy army, was the first to make a move.
The current commander Qianhu quickly understood the other party's intentions after learning that the Northern Turkistan army had begun to set up camp.
The other party used so many soldiers and horses this time, and they must be ready for a quick battle, but now they are not in a hurry to attack, but choose to rest in place, then they must be preparing for the night. Since they suffered a big loss last night, they will definitely not choose to raid again tonight, so the answer is coming:
The other party planned to take advantage of the night to sneak around Kaipingwei and take the Beijing division directly.
As the sky darkened, the Northern Turks really took advantage of the darkness to assemble as expected, and then marched towards the east, in order to reduce the noise, they even wrapped strips of cloth on the hooves of the five thousand war horses in advance, and then left all the tent stoves in place to confuse the public.
When he traveled less than fifty miles to the east, Halba suddenly found that the army of the dynasty in front of him was already waiting here, and after a rough count, there were 15,000 troops, which was all the remaining troops of Kaipingwei.
Fifteen thousand to thirty thousand, the gap is still huge, and every soldier in Kaipingwei knows in their hearts that there is no shortcut this time, and there is really only a fight to the end.
What is a hero, one enemy can be described as a hero, but those who know that there are more defeats and fewer victories still resolutely go are even more heroes.
The tiger in the crowd was trying to raise his neck and look around at the moment, he was looking for Zhou Jiuer's figure, he hadn't seen the other party since the battle began.
Huzi, who had been looking for a long time and found nothing, lowered his head gloomily. Maybe the opponent in the first confrontation is already dead, or maybe he has already run away before the battle has started, he prefers the latter, after all, with Zhou Laodao's small body, it is already good to be able to escape, don't point to him that he can kill people on the battlefield.
Zhou Laodao did run, but he didn't run at the beginning, but on the first night, when everyone was hiding in the alley to prepare for an ambush, he found a dog hole, and Zhou Laodao, who had been struggling with whether to escape or not, finally chose to start again, and the result was still "Tianshan Escape" as expected. Lao Dao can only lament:
"It seems that providence has so."
So he took advantage of the unpreparedness of others, pouted his ass and drilled out of the dog hole, ready to protect himself and wait for the opportunity to save the world.
In the crowd of the Dynasty Army, there was a Baihu chief wearing mountain armor, less than thirty years old, at this time he was staring at the opposite Beitu boss with angry eyes, if you say hate, everyone present hates Beitu, but if you say hatred, no one can compare to this young Baihu.
This person is not an outsider, it is the fourth prince Wang Zhilu who was abolished as the prince before and assigned to Kaipingwei.
Wang Shanqi does have some ability, after being assigned to Kaipingwei, he changed his name and surname, starting from a soldier, and he relied on his own strength to step by step to the position of a hundred households, he also thought that one day he could make a comeback and lead his troops to attack the Beijing Division, but the arrival of Halba made him completely change his mind.
He will never forget this name when he dies, the misfortune of his life is caused by this person, he wants to be the emperor, but it is just to kill this person to avenge his mother, and now the enemy is a hundred steps away, he can't wait.
"Swear to defend the capital to the death!" Coach Chihu shouted.
"Swear to defend the capital to the death!" Fifteen thousand dynastic soldiers chanted in unison.
"Kill!"
As soon as the coach Qianhu shouted this, the four princes beside him, Wang Shanlu, took the lead in riding out and rushed straight to the enemy formation.