0901 Capture the Flag
There is a tributary named Xiaoshui in the east of the valley, which is the place where Wang Xiang of the Langya Wang clan of the Western Jin Dynasty lies on the ice and asks for carp, because of this name. Now that it is the deep winter season of wind and snow and cold and frozen rivers, there are no filial sons lying on the ice and begging for carp here in Xiaoshui, and some are just thousands of troops and horses, and hunting with flags.
After arriving at Xin'an Han Pass, Li Bi had been trying to break through the defensive system arranged by the Qi army around Zuojin, so as to expand the scope of his military activities. However, the layout of the fortress set up by the Qi people on the left side is tricky and tight, and every time a stronghold is attacked, one or several strongholds near the left will be able to respond to the rescue, which can really be said to affect the whole body.
These fortresses are distributed in the western Henan wilderness like chess pieces, and each fortress is not a dangerous fortress on its own, and the soldiers stationed there are not many, but when they are connected in series with the ranger brigade as a whole, they become dense and tenacious, making it impossible for people to break through.
Although Li Bi has both wisdom and courage and rich experience in the Rong Brigade, when facing such an enemy defense, he felt a little helpless for a while.
If he is overwhelmed by a large army, he can also uproot these fortress strongholds one by one with a strong force, but there are only less than 10,000 soldiers in the current department, and he does not carry heavy siege equipment.
Faced with such a situation, the only way to break the game quickly is probably to attract the enemy's main force and seek opportunities in the field to defeat it. However, now that the enemy army is waiting for work at leisure, and with such a thorough and meticulous defense arrangement, I am afraid that it will not easily take the initiative to go into battle, give up its own geographical advantages and carry out field attrition.
Therefore, Li Bi is also thinking about advancing the whole army when necessary, and using his example as a bait to attract the main force of the enemy army to fight. If the enemy still refuses to fight, then he will directly abandon this border gate and confront him, and move his troops to the northwest corner of Heluo near Hanshui as Li Boshan did before, so as to control the entire Heluo area.
However, when Li Bi had not yet decided which plan to adopt, the enemy army, who originally thought that he should not take the initiative to attack, actually took the initiative to show up in the opposition and come to invite the battle, which could not help but make him feel very excited.
Although the enemy's response is in Li Bi's hands, it still needs to defeat the enemy to break the game, and this is by no means an easy thing to do.
Tens of thousands of enemy troops marched across Kim Yong City, using the two fortresses between Gusu and Hyosu as the base points to set up two large-scale battles. The hard ice seals the river, making the valley a complete battlefield.
Accompanied by the sound of war drums and the wind blowing from the north, Li Bi also led his troops to the field. Each of them advanced separately, and when they were close to a certain distance, the cavalry in their respective formations went straight to the enemy's formation like arrows off the string.
On the vast field, the torrent of steel formed by the soldiers of the two sides collided together without any fancy tricks, and at the front of the contact, there was a tragic scene of people turning on their backs and breaking their tendons.
Since the army of the Northern Qi was several times that of the Western Wei people, the number of cavalry was also victorious. The enemy cavalry was divided into several teams, two of which were responsible for harassing and blocking the light cavalry that had launched a charge from the Western Wei, while the other cavalry were all attacking the enemy's infantry on this field.
"Hold where you are, and don't retreat!"
Li Bi stood below the Chinese army, in order to be able to see the whole situation of the battlefield, he did not put on his battle helmet and hood, the cold wind blew his gray beard, his eyes patrolled the entire battlefield like an eagle's vision, and the war drums matched the changes of the flag, conveying his orders to every part of the formation.
The real famous generals have their own energy to turn decay into magic, and the Kansai soldiers who have been reorganized for many years can by no means be described as corrupt and weak, but because of the suppression of the troops, they have to form a formation in this field to defend themselves against the bite and impact of the enemy rangers like wolves and tigers.
Under the subtle command of Li Bi, although the enemy cavalry gathered around this battle and repeatedly attacked, the whole formation was like a rock full of thorns, standing still in this field, but the enemy knights who were on the attacking side continued to lose in the formation.
On the Western Wei side, there were only more than 2,000 cavalry, and 1,000 of them were led by Li Bi's brother Li Yan to the enemy
An assault was launched, but the thousand-man cavalry was as small as a leaping mayfly in the face of the enemy's thick and solid formation, and it was only in vain to cruise.
Although Li Yan was short in stature, he was bold and strong, and he was not frightened because of the outnumbered enemy, and when the battle in front of him did not move, he immediately led his troops to wander away, and once again chose an angle to attack the enemy formation.
After several attempts, his troops had wandered to the side of the enemy formation, and when the charge was launched again, the enemy formation on this side finally wavered, and as the soldiers on the periphery shrank inward in panic, the recognition flag in the formation also involuntarily tilted and shifted, which caused the left and near sergeants to all lose adjustment, and the enemy formation within a radius of more than ten zhang became a little chaotic.
"The thief will take his life!"
Li Yan's body leaned close to the horse's back, the man and the horse were one, jumping like a dragon rushed into the enemy formation here, the lance leaned out of the horse's body nearly a zhang away, swept up and down, stabbed like the wind, with his own strength, he actually fought out of the uninhabited land that was more than a foot wide in this battle, and the armor soldiers behind him rode into this no-man's land, and tore the enemy formation on the side A shocking huge rift!
"Drumming! Continue to attack, and be sure to capture and kill the enemy's main general!"
Gao Guiyan, who was in the battle of Gushui, saw that the battle situation was unfavorable, and his heart suddenly became anxious, and he ordered his men and horses to continue to attack the enemy formation, and to crush the enemy formation in the suburbs with a strong military advantage.
As more and more people were invested by the enemy, the Western Wei army array, which had almost been surrounded by enemy cavalry, suddenly felt pressure, and the range of the formation was suppressed to show a thrilling death curve, and Li Bi's Chinese army was locked by several enemy cavalry generals, constantly trying to rush and kill.
Finally, an enemy cavalry broke through the obstruction of the dense crossbows and spears on the periphery, and slaughtered the Chinese army with a rainbow of momentum, and the enemy general even let out a hideous sneer on horseback.
However, at this time, the front cavalry was like hitting an iron plate, and the momentum was stopped, and in front of them were the heavy infantry armed almost to the teeth.
They were arranged in front of the Chinese army, the core of the military formation, like a copper heart wrapped in layers of iron sheets, colliding and shattering all the enemy soldiers who had gone through the hardships and dangers to rush here. And Li Bi, who was surrounded and protected by these strong and heavily armored soldiers, still stood under the banner and did not move an inch, but his gray beard was submerged in the pocket to prevent stray arrows.
The enemy cavalry could not rush into the formation, but was trapped in the formation, and as the Wei soldiers on both sides reunited the formation under the guidance of the banner, this confrontation alone was enough for seven or eight hundred enemy cavalry to cross the corpse formation!
"King, the thieves are too tenacious, let's withdraw our troops for the time being, and fight again after a short rest!"
Seeing the heavy casualties on the battlefield, Luozhou Assassin Shi Storm couldn't help but be worried for a while, came to Gao Guiyan's tent, and suggested to Gao Guiyan.
It must be known that this time it is not only the people in front of them, according to the current way of fighting, even if they destroy this enemy army at any cost, they will inevitably suffer heavy losses, if the enemy army from the south breaks through the blockade again, I am afraid that they will not be able to fight again.
Gao Guiyan also frowned at this time, his face was tense, he had not experienced battles, in the old years, he followed Gao Yue to quell the Hou Jing rebellion, to meet the Southern Liang army, and in recent years, he has repeatedly pursued the Qi lord Gao Yang out of the fortress to fight, in addition to leading the army in Huainan a few years ago to encounter the Western Wei Li Boshan and defeated, he has rarely encountered defeat in his life, and his heart is naturally quite arrogant.
He had also heard of the name of Wei general Li Bi, but after all, he had not seen it with his own eyes, and after this fight, he saw the tenacity of Li Bi, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty, and the soldiers of the Guanxi Prefecture.
As the drums of the retreat of the Qi army sounded, the cavalry of the Qi army who were still gathered and hovered on the battlefield also withdrew one after another, like a tide returning to the sea.
After the enemy retreated, the tremendous pressure on the Wei army also dissipated suddenly, and a battle was carried out, although the army was still solid, but it itself suffered heavy casualties.
However, at the moment, Li Bi didn't care about counting the battle damage, but took advantage of the retreat of the enemy army, and then integrated the hundreds of remaining war horses that were scattered in the general's formation, and personally led hundreds of cronies to kill them on horseback
to the enemy.
At this time, Li Yan, who had been wandering on the flanks and could not return to the battle, saw his brother leading his troops to rush out, and immediately ordered his troops to get on their horses again, and rushed to the enemy formation together from the side.
The soldiers of the Qi army who were recruited back to the battle had lost their fighting spirit, and they were pursued by the enemy, even if there were only a few hundred enemies, but no one wanted to be left behind and continue to fight with the enemy, so they all beat their horses and marched quickly.
As a result, the retreat, which was still somewhat orderly, suddenly became chaotic, and many sergeants panicked and did not retreat to the prescribed position, but directly penetrated into their own military formation, which caused a considerable impact on the military formation.
"What a cowardly dog thief, he even wants to die! If you want to fight, I will fight!"
Gao Guiyan saw that the enemy army still dared to entangle unrelentingly, and the fighting spirit that had been somewhat fading was suddenly stimulated again, and when he ordered to stop calling the sergeants, he ordered to return to the battlefield and continue to charge.
However, with the sudden sound of this drum order, the retreating Qi soldiers on the battlefield suddenly became more confused and panicked, and returned to their own formation more quickly.
"Fight into the enemy and capture the flag!"
Seeing that the enemy formation was already in a rout, Li Bi shouted loudly on his horse, waving the big lance in his hand and flying, and his heroic posture was not inferior to that of a young man!
"Capture the flag!"
At this time, there was a northwest wind sweeping across the land in the wilderness, carrying a violent wind and snow, accompanied by the Wei army's iron cavalry, smashing the Qi army in the western array.
For a time, the sound of wind and snow, the neighing of horses, and the sound of shouting and killing in the wilderness were mixed together, and the Qi army formation was like a wild wave that rolled upside down, burst and shattered, and Gao Guiyan, the king of Ping Qin, saw that the general trend had gone, and his hands and feet were cold for a while, and he turned over his horse with the support of his cronies, and ran backwards even though he desperately beat his mount.