Chapter 57: Repelling Dongyi
With the success of Yu Heng and Chonglou, the balance of victory has tilted towards the Great Zhou, but in the end, it was decided to look at the situation of Sun Feng and Tuoba Han.
Tuoba Han's face was a little bad at this time, he thought that he was fast enough, but he didn't expect that this Great Zhou general in front of him would react so quickly, and seize the most dangerous Cangshan Longshou Peak fifty miles outside Yumen Pass in front of him.
The nineteen peaks of Cangshan are connected as a whole, like a winding and circling dragon, surrounding the entire border of the Great Zhou, becoming a natural Great Wall, except for a few sheep intestine trails, the large army wants to attack Yumen Pass Mountain is absolutely unavoidable.
Longshou Peak is the most important thing in Cangshan, and Sun Feng tried his best to finally occupy Longshou Peak before Tuoba Han.
"General, we are waiting for a rapid march of hundreds of miles, and it is better to rest for a while when the people are sleepy and the horses are tired, and then attack when the backup supplies arrive." Tuoba Hong saw the rigorous military appearance of the Great Zhou and knew that attacking in this matter would only increase casualties.
"No, the general's subordinates think that the army of the Great Zhou has just occupied the Dragon Head Peak, although our army is a little tired, but the people of the Great Zhou are not much better, we should attack immediately." Agni doesn't want to wait, it's too late.
Tuoba Han thought about it, this is the time to be full of energy, once the soldiers stop and lose this breath, they will be more tired and their morale will drop a lot.
"Agni, you take 20,000 iron cavalry to attack first, and Tuoba Hong, you let the soldiers of the headquarters seize the time to rest."
"Yes."
Agni took the lead in front of the Great Zhou Formation, with a cruel smile on his face, his mace pointed to the sky, and shouted: "The bad seeds of the Great Zhou, wait for Grandpa to cut off your heads." ”
Sun Feng looked at the flames and did not refute, he turned his horse's head and said to the soldiers: "Soldiers, see it, this is the Dongyi cavalry that killed my Great Zhou Ziming, if we are defeated and the Yumen Pass is breached, do you know what will happen?" ”
After a pause, Sun Cover smiled, but the smile revealed wireless sadness, and said: "Our parents will be slaughtered by the enemy, our wives will be humiliated by the enemy, our children will be reduced to slavery, and our homes will be trampled by the enemy." ”
Hearing this, all the soldiers clenched the weapons in their hands, gritted their teeth desperately, their bodies couldn't help but tremble, and their eyes revealed infinite anger.
"The front is the blood of countless deceased, the rear is our homeland, we have no way to retreat, there is no way to retreat, only to fight to the death, don't shout, don't make a sound and leave this little strength on the enemy."
Sun Feng's words completely aroused the enthusiasm of the soldiers, and the exhaustion was swept away, and they only felt that there were countless forces in their bodies to be used.
Agni did not notice the changes in the Great Zhou army, and after gathering 20,000 soldiers, he walked to the front of the battle and shouted: "Soldiers, as long as you kill all the Great Zhou people in front of you, we can break through the Yumen Pass, and the rich Zhongzhou will wait for us, beautiful people and wine, and enjoy it to your heart's content." ”
As everyone knows, his words once again ignited the anger of the Great Zhou people.
Waving the mace in his hand, Agni shouted, "Rush." ”
The 20,000 Dongyi iron horsemen rushed towards the Great Zhou like a torrent.
Luo Rod, a fierce general in Yumen Pass, Sun Feng arranged for him to lead 10,000 cavalry to fight against Dongyi's 20,000 men. It's very dangerous, but Rhodes is not afraid at all, he is a top fighter who has guarded the Yumen Pass for more than ten years.
However, at a distance of an arrow, the cavalry on both sides were hedging again, almost in the blink of an eye, and above the wilderness, two iron streams collided head-on
Two torrents of steel, in the front end of the staggered place, suddenly stirred up a dazzling metallic light alley, like the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, all the screams and exclamations were suppressed, only a piece of thrilling muffled sound was heard, and the cavalry running in the front crashed into the first wave, there were countless people falling off their horses.
To everyone's surprise, when the two armies just collided together, the Dongyi cavalry, which still maintained a complete charge queue in the front row, also blocked the charging momentum of the Rhodes cavalry, but it was just a stone dropped in this iron flow, which was nothing more than a little splash.
But immediately, the momentum of the heroic charge of the Rhodes cavalry immediately cut the brigade of Dongyi's cavalry directly, as if a steel knife had cut into the soft butter, and it was as straight as a bamboo.
Tuoba Han's eyes were straight, how could the people of Da Zhou still have such good physical strength, and the cavalry of the fire would be so vulnerable.
Sun Cover's face is as usual, Rhodes's cavalry is the most elite part of his hands and the best physical strength and energy, he just wants to defeat Tuoba Han's sharp energy with one blow.
"Kill, kill, kill, don't run." With the rout of the forwards, the Agni could not turn the tide even though they could take one to ten.
In the collapse of the team, the Dongyi cavalry no longer had the courage to move forward, and they didn't know who was the first to shout and run, countless people began to scatter in all directions, and some even turned around and ran.
Instead, the ranks of their own side rushed up from behind, and Rhodes immediately separated from the two wings with dexterity, and the cavalry brandished their sabers to drive away the scattered enemy cavalry, and the screams came from all directions, the heads rolled, and the broken limbs flew.
More than 4,000 Dongyi cavalrymen died in one photo, and countless were wounded.
Sun Feng saw that the time had passed, the military horn sounded, and under the hurried military horn, the cavalry gave up the pursuit of the routed enemy, quickly regathered in the center of the large army, and relined the ranks.
Although Rhodes won a big victory, after all, the number of opponents was twice as large as his own, and there were fierce generals like Agni, and his own side also lost more than 2,000, but the effect of the first battle was directly full.
Agni returned to the Dongyi side in despair, Tuoba Han's face was gloomy, although this battle also caused a lot of casualties, but the morale was completely gone.
He finally understood Sun Feng's purpose, the most important thing in the blitzkrieg is morale, at this moment, Da Zhou's morale is high, but his side is extremely low and can no longer fight.
"Order everyone to rest in place, wait for supplies, and break through the Yumen Pass in one go."
Sun Feng saw that Dongyi began to rest, knowing that he was also relying on a breath of support, and immediately ordered to rest, unlike Dongyi, the backup supply of Da Zhou had arrived, and the soldiers began to bury the stove and rice.
The Dongyi cavalry smelled the aroma of rice and couldn't help but swallow their saliva.
At this time, Tuoba Han finally realized that something was wrong, no matter how slow Tuoba Han was, he should have approached at this time, but the scouts sent out couldn't even see a single figure.
"General, is there something wrong with Tuoba?" The fire finally did not stop, and his men continued to replenish with heavy casualties.
"Tuoba Hong, you quickly lead five thousand cavalry to Yecheng, and let Leng Qianshan come to support." Tuoba Han couldn't sit still, this Tuoba Han is really a bastard, he has more than enough success and more than failure.
On the other hand, Chonglou sent Zhen Kuo to Cangshan and saw Sun Feng.
"Meet General Sun." Zhen Kuo was racing all the way, tired and out of breath.
"How is it, have Chonglou and Yu Heng succeeded?" Sun Feng asked anxiously.
"Your Excellency, rest assured, Tuoba Jue's supplies have been destroyed by Lord Chonglou, and then together with Lord Yu Heng, they have recovered Yecheng, and now Leng Qianshan and more than 3,000 Dongyi soldiers have been captured."
"Great." Sun Feng was overjoyed, this war was destined to be won by the Great Zhou, and then said: "You rest first, and then set off, tell Chonglou that Tuoba Hong has rushed to the direction of Yecheng,"
Zhen Kuo shook his head and said, "The last general doesn't need to rest, so he will return to Ye City." ”
Sun Feng patted him on the shoulder, time is the fighter, Zhen Kuo's choice is not wrong.
The sky was getting dark, and Tuoba Hong's army approached Ye Cheng, and suddenly he noticed that Ye Cheng's defender flag was wrong, and his pupils shrank, no, something happened to Ye Cheng.
"Hahaha, it's General Tuoba Hong under the city." The sound of the heavy building came from the city wall, and Tuoba Hong's face turned green.
"Chonglou, I didn't expect you to move so fast, and even Leng Qianshan was planted." Tuoba Hong looked at Ye Cheng, and it was probably difficult for his five thousand cavalry to break the city.
"I might as well tell you that Tuoba Jue that idiot has been slaughtered by me, and there are still more than 3,000 Dongyi captives in the city, if you dare to attack the city, I will dare to throw them down from the city."
Tuoba Hong said secretly, oh no, the backup supply has been completely cut off, and now the army has not entered the water and rice for a day, and its physical strength has reached the lowest point of the day.
A drop of rain fell on his face, Tuoba was shocked, it was not good to rain, the moon was dark and the wind was high accompanied by heavy rain, at this time, if the camp was sneak attacked, the seventh regiment was afraid that the whole army would be annihilated.
He didn't dare to delay any longer, turned his horse's head and returned to Cangshan.
It turned out that he was right, and when he saw that the sky was getting darker and darker, Sun Feng knew that it was going to rain, and ordered the soldiers to quickly replenish food, and wait for the whole army to attack as soon as the rain arrived.
Tuoba Han was also extremely tired at this time, not as unruly as before, the rain dripped on his face, giving him a little sobriety, and suddenly the charging sound of the war horse rushed into his ears.
Oh no, the Great Zhou army actually attacked the camp at this moment.
"Stop them...... Stop them...... Stop them......" Tuoba Han's whole body trembled, his mouth trembled in a low voice, and in the end, his whole body trembled madly, his cheeks twisted, and he suddenly roared out wildly, as if he wanted to vent all the fear in his heart.
The team of the extremely tired Dongyi cavalry soon collapsed, and after being directly chiseled through the team by Sun Feng's cavalry, Rod's cold and fierce eyes, waving his saber, and harvesting the heads of the Dongyi cavalry to his heart's content, those Dongyi cavalry who were knocked off their horses in the first wave did not even have a chance to turn over and flee for their lives, so they were trampled into meat by the cavalry of the brigade that rushed immediately, and countless horse hooves were trampled into pulp.
The defeated Dongyi cavalry looked extremely desolate, almost none of the cavalry still held weapons, most of them just hugged the horse's neck, closed their eyes and galloped all the way, and then the rout cavalry was only about two or three hundred, but it dragged and dragged on, and the team was one hundred and ten meters
Tuoba Han didn't believe that among the five countries, the most sophisticated weapons and armor of Dongyi were piled up, and the elite Seventh Regiment of the Flying Wing Legion was actually beaten back step by step under the impact of less than 50,000 cavalry regiments of the Great Zhou Cavalry
The defensive line at the front, the phalanx, collapsed one by one, and were broken down layer by layer......
Tuoba Han's eyes closed, knowing that he was powerless to return to the sky, and hurriedly organized a retreat.