0397 Next city first
The strong troops are arrayed, and they are out-and-out killing machines. But if it is a pawn of defeat, then it will be completely reduced to a lamb to the slaughter.
At this time, there were even two or three Eastern Wei soldiers on the battlefield who chased after them with knives, and they could drive hundreds of Hu soldiers to rush and slaughter them willfully, but these Hu soldiers did not dare to stop and fight back.
At this time, in the cavalry team still hidden in the valley, Liang Shiyan walked quickly to Li Tai's side, and asked for battle with a eager face: "Lord Lang, the thief army has been out of the city for hundreds, and the army of Shihu is even more festering, and the casualties are increasing, please attack and kill the thieves out of the city for the front team!" ”
"Wait, it's not time yet. Wutu City is a big war here, and it controls a huge area, and there must be elite horsemen in the city to prepare for changes. Today, its elite has not yet come out, and it has not been moved. ”
After hearing this, Li Tai waved his hand and directly rejected Liang Shiyan's proposal to attack at this time.
Although Liu Aqi did not know what the ratio of troops in the city was, it was common sense that this city needed to deter the forces of the left and near Hu, and there must be a considerable cavalry force. If you don't lure this group out of the city, you can't call it a success in luring the enemy.
At this time, the Lishi Hu people on the other side of the river had already suffered a lot of casualties, plus the dead and wounded in the previous sheep siege of the city, at least thousands of people had been killed in this short period of time.
Even if it is just as a consumable, Li Tai is quite distressed, but if the big fish is not caught and the line is reeled in advance, it will only make the bait laid before wasted.
The fleeing Lishi Huzhong spread out more and more in the suburbs, and it was difficult for the hundreds of defenders who left the city to effectively intercept and pursue.
And when these people completely disappear from view, they will become uncontrollable hidden dangers again, and they will gather into a large group of people and make a comeback at some point.
So the gates of the city of Utu were finally opened, and more than 500 cavalrymen rushed out of it, each with a bow and a spear, and after wading across the river in the shallow part of the river, the second wave of slaughter against the scattered Jihu began.
As this group of knights joined the pursuit, the fleeing huzhong in the wilderness was like weeds in a nursery being quickly harvested.
"Get on the horse and go straight to Wutu City!"
Seeing that the enemy cavalry finally dispatched, Li Tai waved his hand and gave the order, but the direction he ran to was not the east bank of Lingshui, which had fallen into a one-sided slaughter, but the city gate of Wutu City.
After receiving the order, all the soldiers mounted their horses, divided into front and rear formations, and rushed out of the valley on horseback, heading straight for the city of Wutu, which was several miles away.
"So, where did that come from?"
As the thousands of cavalry emerged into view, both the city and the Eastern Wei people who were chasing and killing the Jihu soldiers in the wilderness were shocked, and a cavalry commander immediately ordered to return to help.
At this time, there is no point in chasing and killing these people in the wilderness, if the city is captured by this sudden strange army, not to mention what kind of punishment they will suffer, I am afraid that they will be in a worrying situation.
After comparing the distance between the positions of their own reinforcements and the attackers, the commander of the defending soldiers wisely ordered the soldiers to quickly close the city gate again, so as not to be rushed in by the enemy cavalry to seize the gate.
Under the high-speed gallop, the distance of several miles is approaching in an instant, seeing that the defenders at the head of the city are nervously drawing their bows and waiting for the enemy, Li Tai chuckled, and took advantage of the fact that the enemy cavalry had not yet arrived, and quickly took the three teams of the army branch.
A team of 200 men lined up in front of the gate of Wutu City, only waiting for the defenders in the city to come out of the city to rush and kill, a team of 300 people rode their horses and rushed up to the west side of the dirt slope to rest and wait, and the other team of 500 people lined up in battle formation on the west bank of Lingshui, waiting to snipe and kill the enemy cavalry who rushed back to help.
The enemy was worried about the safety of the city, and soon galloped back from the wilderness, although it was a high-speed gallop, but the formation was not scattered, which shows that they were also well-trained elite soldiers. Especially when they were about to rush within the range of the cavalry bow, the cavalry swept straight to the side and fired with their bows.
Li Tai couldn't help but sigh when he saw the almost uniform sweeping and shooting movements of these horses, since he came to this world, he had never seen such a cavalry team full of cavalry and archery beauty, not to mention his own troops, even the athletes who had just been brought back from Longshang were slightly inferior to the elite soldiers in front of him.
But elite soldiers do not mean that they can win, compared with the enemy's flexible switching formation, Li Tai's response is a little dull, neither drawing the bow and shooting, nor changing the formation to respond to the enemy, just turning his face to the side, changing a direction and continuing to look at the enemy: What are you fooling about? To come or not to come?
Obviously, the importance of the safety of the soldiers on the other side of the river in Li Tai's mind is far less important than the importance of the enemy cavalry to the safety of the city, seeing that the enemy soldiers and horses are only arrayed on the opposite bank, there is no intention to wade into the water to meet the attack, so the cavalry general of the Eastern Army gave an order, and the team was immediately divided into two parts, one large and one small, and divided into two positions to rush across the river.
When Li Tai saw this, he directly led Liang Shiyan to lure this group of men and horses away, stared at the team with more men and horses, and only waited for the halfway to attack. As for himself, he led three hundred soldiers on the slope, and only waited for a team of fewer people to land on the shore and then rushed and killed.
When the enemy cavalry began to wade across the river, the originally closed city gate was also opened with a bang, and the black and oppressive defenders rushed out of the city gate, each holding a sword and shield towards the two hundred cavalry in front of the city gate, in order to use this fatal attack to win time for the cavalry on the opposite bank.
Li Tai saw that the swarming foot soldiers definitely exceeded a thousand, plus the foot riders who went out of the city before, it had already exceeded two thousand, and at this time, there were still a large number of defenders on the head of the city who were shooting to cooperate with the impact of the foot soldiers at the city gate, it can be seen that there were more than two thousand defenders in this city, Liu Aqi They have been grinding for a few days, and as a result, they have not used all their strength at all.
Li Tai cursed secretly in his heart, and at the same time ordered the two hundred guards to retreat uphill, this guard is simply a fucking turtle, obviously there are so many people in the city, even Liu Aqi's troops are away from Shihu's remnants blocking the door and shouting for several days to refuse to fight.
However, he soon noticed that the quality of these rushing foot soldiers was really not very good, far less than the elite of the five hundred cavalry on the opposite bank, and not much worse than Liu Aqi's rabble.
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With no one in his eyes, Li Tai naturally would not get used to their stinky problems, and when he shook the horse lance in his hand, he led the crowd to rush straight down the slope, and the horse lance stabbed forward, and directly pierced several people, and then made a ring and smashed, and there was no one standing in front of him!
The five hundred cavalry rushed to break the waist of these foot soldiers, and the people and horses on the back road retreated to the city gate in a hurry, but the hundreds of soldiers who were intercepted in front were already greatly panicked, and under the impact of the elite horsemen and horses behind them, they could only continue to rush forward for their lives.
At this time, more than 100 cavalry had already crossed the river and landed on the shore, and were about to attack the enemy's bank army formation along the riverbank, but the road ahead was cut off by the rebels who were swarming into the river.
"Rush over, don't pity Hu Nu's life!"
Li Tai had Lishi Hu as cannon fodder bait, and these foot soldiers who were driven out of the city were also in a similar position in Wutu City, they were all Jihu soldiers who had been recruited and captured before, so they were nothing in the eyes of the cavalry general, even if they had to ride their horses and rush through.
The Eastern Wei army did not pity the lives of these foot soldiers, and Li Tai and them would not, at this time they rushed in from the rear, and the lance went straight into the chest of a cavalryman, and the lance rod was slightly bent due to the force of the stroke, and then flicked forward steeply, and the body of the Eastern Wei cavalry was immediately ejected and fell directly into the river a few zhang away.
"Lord Lang be careful!"
A loud shout sounded near the left, Li Tai subconsciously lowered his arm and pressed down the horse's lance, and his upper body was lying on the horse's back, but he still felt a shock in the back of his head, and the dou slammed into the back of his head due to the loss of strength.
He resisted retching, raised his eyes and looked diagonally ahead, and saw a young horseman a dozen feet away holding a bow that was far larger than an ordinary riding bow, and the arrow that almost killed him was shot by this person.
"Capturing and killing that thief general is the first achievement of this battle!"
Li Tai exhaled a breath of turbidity, and the horse lance in his hand cracked left and right, and rushed straight towards the place where the rider was, and all the people and horses in front of him were lying in ambush. All the surrounding soldiers also cheered up, and the front and rear cover surrounded Li Tai as the center, and quickly formed a charging formation.
The rider was about to shoot again, but the opponent's momentum was too fierce, and before the string was halfway through, the spear was already close at hand, so he threw aside the strong bow, raised the big sword hanging on the saddle and waited for the battle.
He had just swung his knife to block a head-on shot, but the spears on both sides pierced out like poisonous snakes spitting letters, forcing him to slide off his horse, so as to avoid those attacks that were enough to pierce the ribs and break the abdomen, but a bloody hole was still pierced in his left shoulder, and he didn't have time to flee elsewhere after landing, and a big lance had been pierced between the two strands and accompanied by an angry shout: "Kneel!" ”
As soon as the horseman's knees weakened and his sword fell to the ground, he also obediently prostrate on the ground, and shouted loudly: "The two armies are fighting each with their own masters, and they do not intend to harm the general!" Now that the enemy is defeated, I am willing to disarm and surrender, and I implore the general to spare his life and spare his life......"
The turmoil and disputes between the Northern and Southern Dynasties for hundreds of years continued, so a large number of warriors who took war as their profession also emerged, and the concept of loyalty and righteousness was very indifferent. Especially in today's post-Three Kingdoms period, the east and west Wei are two flowers, but the production is not separated, as for the Jiangdong Xiao Bodhisattva, it is not even more said that he is afraid of descending people, and he will not hesitate to take his life into it.
So seeing this rider surrendering cleanly, Li Tai was not surprised, and directly crossed the side of this person's neck and said in a deep voice: "Who is the guard here?" Who is the thief also called? ”
"The slave name is Pi Jinghe, the governor of the tent of the king of Bengao, and the lord of Wutu in the third year of Wuding, and he is the defender of this city. The general god is intimidating, and the slave is dull and slow, please forgive the general! ”
The rider bowed to the ground for a long time, not daring to look up at Li Tai, but answering the question was respectful and simple.