Thanks to the desperate battle of Gao Le and others, the Northern Qi army under Duan Shaosuo has been blocked between the Luoshui River Valley, laying an excellent foundation for the next stage of the battle.

Duan Shao's tens of thousands of horses were the main force of the Northern Qi army in this east-west battle, and the proportion of cavalry was quite high. Once such an army is in the open field, the tactical options that can be adopted are more diverse, and because of the high mobility of the cavalry, it will also make it more difficult to engage them.

Now this large army is confined to the narrow Luoshui River Valley, and it is difficult to fully exert the advantages of both troops and troops.

As for Duan Shao's previous tactics of taking turns to attack and fight, they were not applicable to Li Tai. Because Kim Yong City has been conquered, and Lee Tae's goal is no longer to confine the enemy army to the Luoshui River Valley, but to destroy as many enemy forces as possible.

If the enemy forces divide into small groups and enter the battle, they can even ignore it, and intercept it after they are out of touch with the main force, and directly surround and kill them. In the face of a strong enough opponent, such a tactic does not achieve the effect of exhausting the enemy, but instead serves the food in batches.

With Duan Shao's wisdom, of course, he also understood this, so after Li Tai led his troops to arrive, he led his army back to the camp, and did not launch another attack for the next two days, and turned a blind eye to the provocation and invitation of the Wei army outside the camp.

Of course, Duan Shao has not been idle in the past two days, and has been busy calming the hearts of the soldiers and preparing for the next battle. The loss of Kim Yong Cheng, the suicide of Hu Lu Kim, and the surrender of Gao Rui and others, each of these things can cause great shaking to the morale of the army, and now it is really a bit difficult to digest all this suddenly let the soldiers accept all this.

Duan Shao had been discussing strategies with the generals for several days, to make them realize the reality that his army's retreat was blocked and the division was alone, and in the face of such a situation, no matter how much he complained and worried, it was useless, and only by throwing away these miscellaneous thoughts in his heart, fighting hard to break through the enemy's blockade and return to the vast Heluo Plain, could he try to restore contact with the north and try to launch a counterattack and siege against the enemy.

All the soldiers of Jinyang are also veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, although they were indeed psychologically shocked at the beginning, but when they gradually recognized the reality, they couldn't help but have the decisive idea of breaking the cauldron and fighting against the water.

In order to be able to break through the enemy's interception in a battle, Duan Shao first used scouts to investigate and confirm the current strength configuration of the enemy's army, and then did his best, including the Dugu Yongye troops who were previously stationed in Yiyang Jiuqu City, and they were also incorporated into the combat team.

Although Jiuqu City was finally captured by taking advantage of the rout of the Wei army's chaotic position, but now that Heluo is about to be lost, it makes little sense to garrison such a lonely city.

Only by putting in all the forces that can be mobilized in the next battle and breaking through the enemy's blockade in one fell swoop is the right plan, otherwise once a difficult opponent like Li Boshan is confronted and entangled, it is very likely that the old man will be exhausted and his morale will be weakened, and it will be difficult to break through.

The time soon came to the morning of the third day, the soldiers of the army had finished eating, the horses were also fed, and with the sound of passionate drums and horns, the entire Qi army camp was full of troops.

Tens of thousands of horses and horses were connected to each other, filling the entire Luoshui River Valley, and many soldiers walked directly on the ice on the Luoshui River. The banner is like a mountain forest, the armor is like a fine grass, and the dense battle makes people's scalps numb, and they are already timid before the war starts.

When Li Tai saw this offensive battle of the enemy army, he couldn't help but gasp. In the face of such a tight battle formation, if it is also-for-tat to fill the river valley with the infantry and cavalry battle array, the Wei army's strength disadvantage is placed here, and the battle formation is far less thick than the enemy's army, and it is difficult to completely defend the entire front.

However, if the battle formation is set on one side, and the valley cannot be completely blocked, once the front of the enemy formation is outflanked by the enemy, the successors can go straight out of the valley and advance and retreat freely.

After Li Tai muttered about this slightly, he ordered his troops to take the hundred jiashu garrisoned at the moment as the center of the position, and arranged them outward to form a triangular battle array, forming a relatively complete defense line to hold the river valley with the few remaining sand banks, and Gao Le led 3,000 elite cavalry to retreat in the direction of Baiting City to stand by. If the enemy rushes out of the valley in formation,

Gao Le can give a head-on blow.

At the same time, Li Tai also asked people to raise fire-burning materials such as anointment, firewood, charcoal, etc., and store them on the position for the time being, and then decide whether to use fire attack in the later battle through factors such as the battle situation and wind direction.

The formation and materials here have just been prepared, and the battle formation of the Qi army has advanced to the front, and the battle has started in an instant. Under the pressure of such a tight and heavy battle formation of the Qi army, the soldiers in the battle formation of the Wei army, which was the first to be engaged by the enemy, immediately suffered heavy casualties, and the triangular battle formation was directly sharpened off a corner.

Of course, the Qi army also suffered a lot of casualties, but because the soldiers in the battle formation were too close to each other, it was not very obvious from the perspective that they could look at the overall situation of the battlefield.

And even if the soldiers in the front battle are cowardly because they see the heavy casualties in the robe, they will be pushed forward by the rear battle formation, and only by moving forward can they have a way to live, once they stop or retreat, even if they are not detected and beheaded by the supervision team, they will be trampled to death by the robes that continue to surge up from the rear!

There is very little room for shortcuts in such a battle, and the battle will only end if one side can't endure it and the battle is defeated.

Although the advance of the Qi army in the early stage was relatively smooth, it was because there were fewer enemies in front of the triangular battle array, but as the battle line advanced, it actually squeezed the Wei army's battle formation more and more condensed, and the battle line was lengthened, the area of contact with the enemy army also increased, the consumption of personnel on the battlefield gradually increased, and the battle became more and more difficult.

"Keep attacking, the thief formation will break!"

Duan Shao saw that the enemy formation was compressed into the limited space around Baijiashu, and most of the river valley had been occupied by the soldiers of the Qi army, and those unguarded sand banks could hardly be hindered, and his mood became hot.

However, at this time, there was a lot of wind on the battlefield, and Li Tai, who had been paying attention to the changes in the weather, felt the movement of the mountain wind, and was overjoyed, and hurriedly ordered the officers and men in the position to throw fire pots and bombs at the enemy formation with their arms and trebuchets, and soon the enemy formation was filled with thick smoke, and the fire spread in the dense and thick enemy formation, and at the same time the formation became chaotic.

The cold winter wax moon is already a windy season, and it is mostly a north wind, the wind sweeps from the open Heluo Plain in the northeast, and surging into the gradually narrowing Luoshui River Valley, which is the direction from which the Qi army came, with the cold wind blowing, the fire spreads more and more turbulently.

Weather and seasons are also a very important factor in warfare, and it is important for generals to know the heavens. But sometimes, even if you know about it, you can't avoid the bad effects of bad weather.

At this time, the wind direction is normal, and if the wind rolls in from the south, it will be really dramatic. And on today's battlefield after all, there are no dramatic variables, as the Qi army array has many fires spreading, the original powerful and heavy battle formation suddenly collapsed, these veterans may be able to face the cold and sharp blade, but in the face of the licking of the tongue of fire, they still can't help but panic, and they will flee.

At this time, Duan Shao could no longer control the collapsed battle formation and the panicked soldiers, so he could only take advantage of the fact that the losses had not reached the maximum to retreat in the direction of Jiuqu City, restrain his troops on the way to retreat, and dispatch the elite town to meet the pursuit of the enemy.

Li Tai led his troops to chase down the defeated and fleeing Qi army, while trying to create more panic among the enemy army. However, after chasing and killing for several miles, he found that these Qi troops who had retreated from the battlefield in a hurry gradually restored order on the way to retreat. Li Tai almost suffered a small loss because the pursuit was too close and he was overlooked for a while.

In this way, the Qi army fled all the way and returned to Jiuqu City to station, although there were thousands of military losses in the previous battles and defeats along the way, but the number of troops who successfully withdrew to Jiuqu City was still considerable.

When Li Tai sorted out the results of the battle after returning, he couldn't help but sigh that Duan Shao was worthy of being one of the most outstanding people in the second generation of the town, and even Li Tai felt a little inferior to the control of the army that he showed after his defeat. Such a person will not be too aggressive, but it is rare for a big defeat to occur in battle, which can be described as very

Steady.

The victory in this battle further consolidated and expanded the superiority of the Wei army. Although the Qi army that retreated to Jiuqu City still had considerable strength, the low morale also made it difficult for them to organize and launch a battle of this intensity in a very short period of time, and the situation turned stalemate.

The soldiers of the Wei army were overjoyed by the successive victories, and Li Tai was of course very happy in his heart, but with the arrival of Han Xiong, who had previously retreated to Tongguan with the army, he told him about the various variables that had occurred in the pass during this time, and his good mood was immediately destroyed.

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