Chapter 382: The Last Battle of the Emperor Taishang, the Counterattack Begins!
From the moment the Yulin Army's cooks were thrown into the battlefield, in less than half an hour, the scorching situation on the battlefield was instantly broken.
The fat and strong, heavy armor, and the cooking soldiers with murder weapons in their hands incarnated as gods of war rampaged in the battle formation of the former Jiannan Army.
Although the entire front did not collapse completely in a short period of time, the front was indeed crumbling in the place where it was broken into by the brave cooks.
Although it is not like Li Yu who can watch the battle with the help of a clairvoyant mirror, the position of Liu Pi and Nima Bazar is a position that is convenient for observation and command, and the situation on the battlefield is also clear at a glance.
Using the existing forces to squeeze the battle line, forcing the opponent to take out a back hand, and then completely defeating the opponent in one fell swoop with 20,000 elite Tubo, this is Liu Pi's plan.
The current situation is that the back hand of the Yulin Army has indeed been forced out, but this is not the way he wants!
Suddenly it was obviously excessive! If the other party comes up with tens of thousands of elites, it's nothing, after all, the hard power is there, and what he is ready to deal with is this kind of large-scale battle formation.
In the fierce battle of the 6,000 elites of the Yan and Yulin Army, they not only did not show decline, but occupied an absolute advantage by virtue of their numbers, and then, only a few hundred people, a charge, and directly destroyed the elite of more than 10,000 people, who is to reason with?
Who can believe it, who dares to believe it, and who wants to believe it? Although more than 10,000 of his elites have been fighting fiercely for a long time, although the other party's surprise attack was very sudden, although he was not prepared enough, this is not a reason for the other party's hundreds of people to break through the tight battle formation and kill their own elites to retreat, unless the one who broke into the battle formation one by one was Li Siye, the former god of war of the Tang Dynasty.
Unless hundreds of Li Siye attack at the same time, no one will be able to do this at all, Liu Bi firmly believes this.
It's just that this idea just came to mind, and the next moment Liu Pi laughed at himself, hundreds of Li Siye, how is this possible.
There is no one in a thousand fierce generals like Li Siye, if the other party really has hundreds of fierce generals at the god of war level, he doesn't have to fight this battle, and it is easier to capture him directly.
If it weren't for hundreds of fierce generals at the god of war level, no matter how strong the other party was, there was a limit, and it was impossible to defeat more than 10,000 elite Qianjian Southern Army with just a few hundred people, or completely collapse them and cause the battle line to collapse, and there was no point in not doing this.
Therefore, Liu Bi made such a rough judgment, that is, this is definitely not the last hand of the other party.
So, you should be able to wait! Theoretically, this is so, but on the battlefield, crumbling is also the status quo!
Therefore, in an instant, Liu Bi fell into a dilemma, Liu Bi didn't believe that the other party had hundreds of Li Siye in his hands, but he didn't dare to bet that the other party's hundreds of people must not have the ability to defeat his own soldiers and penetrate his own battle line.
If there is enough time, Liu Pi may be able to analyze it simply, however, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and there is no room for so much time to think.
Now, the other side is still advancing and the battle formation is still in swing, if because of his own delay, he did not send troops and horses to support at the first time, resulting in the collapse of the battle line, it would be really too late!
After decades of military career, the rout of the army is terrible! When facing the enemy, not everyone can exert 100% combat effectiveness, but when fleeing for their lives, everyone can easily exert 1,000% of their strength.
Under the coercion and impact of the rout, any army and military formation are pale and powerless, and just one wave is enough to completely destroy everything.
Excluding the troops that have been lost in battle, Liu Pi still has nearly 75,000 people in his hands, and there are nearly 200,000 soldiers and horses of the anti-Tang coalition army in Chencang Road in the rear.
The loss of 10,000 or 20,000 people is nothing at all, but once the front collapses and morale collapses, then it will be too late.
Almost instantly, Liu Pi made up his mind and sent the 20,000 Tibetan elites who were already in a state of readiness in the rear to the battlefield.
Under the handsome banner of the Yulin Army, seeing that the other party had finally increased his troops, Pei Zhi's serious expression relaxed a lot.
"Give the order, let the cooks withdraw, keep the big killing weapon first, and proceed according to the normal plan." With Pei Zhi's order, the herald next to Pei Zhi immediately took out the red order flag and began to wave.
At the same time, another herald took out the trumpet on his waist, and the sound of ticking resounded throughout the battlefield.
Under normal conditions, the Tang army attacked with war drums and retreated, so during the civil war of the Tang army, the two sides often had no secret words, and basically fought with famous brands.
Although this is not the first military horn sound on the battlefield today, Liu Pi, Nima Bazar, and all the soldiers of the former Jiannan Army and the Tubo Army are confused about the unique military horn system of the forbidden army.
On the contrary, the foot soldiers of the Yulin Army have been accustomed to all kinds of orders over the years, and the pattern of military horns and command flags is enough for every Yulin Army to clearly understand the content of the orders.
The order of the trumpet represents the cessation of the offensive, while the red command flag represents the holding of the formation and the steady retreat.
Hearing the order of the military horn and seeing the order of the red order flag, those veterans who had fought bloody battles for the Tang Dynasty, participated in the rebellion, fought for their lives to atone for their sins, and finally entered the cooking class and entered the semi-pension state, put the fire fold tightly in their hands.
He then gently stroked the shirt that looked heavy on his body, but was actually very light, and gently stroked the clay pots that hung on the shirt and were tightly wrapped in cotton cloth.
After making sure that these things would not be used in this battle, and that they would not become suicide bombers, these old guys grew a breath of air one by one.
Immediately afterwards, these veterans who acted as commanders skillfully gave orders and began to command the enemy troops who had broken through into the enemy formation
The "humanoid tanks" alternately covered and retreated. Compared with the veterans in the cooking soldiers, the foot soldiers were much calmer, and the generals and colonels in each team immediately adjusted after hearing the sound of the military horn.
Although there is no clear response to the orders of the cooks in the instructions, the Yulin Army, which extends from the Changying Army, also maintains the regulations of the Changying Army and does not give up any robe and brother.
Of course, even if there is no order, the soldiers of the Yulin Army do not want the cooks who cook for themselves with a smile to die on the battlefield like this.
So, according to the order to stop the attack in the sound of the military trumpet, while stabilizing the battle line, the rifle and spearmen in the battle formation were at the forefront, and the Mo Dao soldiers in the queue were under the cover of the crossbowmen, waving the Mo Dao to extend to both sides, and in the way of Mo Dao advancing to open the way, they responded to the cooking soldiers who had broken through into the enemy's battle array.
The trench broke into the enemy's ranks
The "tanks" did not have much space, but the veterans who had retired from their responsibilities began to give full play to their characteristics, closely following the side of the foot soldiers, using the armor-piercing hammers, pickaxes, and sapper shovels in their hands, these weapons that were not heavy, but had excellent armor-piercing effects, frantically harvested the enemies who were stunned under the attack of the heavy cooks and foot soldiers.
Clear orders, efficient commands, swift movements, and unified actions are in stark contrast to the confusion and sluggishness of the former Jiannan soldiers under Liu Pi's command.
After all, the people who fought against the Yulin Army were not some local chickens and dogs, and those who followed Liu Pi to rebel, although the command chromatography was not very smooth, but the combat effectiveness of the elites of these former Jiannan Army was still strong.
Although Pei Zhi did not directly participate in the Chang'an counterinsurgency in the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan, he learned too much about the scene from Guo Rong and those who witnessed it at the time.
In Pei Zhi's opinion, the current Jiannan Army is so similar to the Shence Army that once followed Ju Wenzhen to launch a rebellion and besieged Xingqing Palace, both mentally and physically.
Pei Zhi's judgment was good, but after all, he did not carry the attack of the rebels on the Xingqing Palace like Guo Rong, and his judgment of the combat effectiveness of the rebellious Jiannan Army was skewed.
With the instinct of fighting, these former Jiannan troops still caused a huge obstacle to the Yulin army that was trying to complete the response and get closer, so that by the time they completed the response, the Tubo elite who came from the rear was already on the verge of the first line.
The fierceness of the battle was even greater than the previous fighting, and the soldiers of the Yulin Army and the former Jiannan Army fell on the battlefield one after another.
Fortunately, these former Jiannan Army has only the appearance and body of the Tang Army left, and there is no longer the spirit and will that once surrounded Jiannan and the Tang Dynasty, and after all, it has not completely blocked the retreat of the cooking soldiers.
Seeing the performance of the Qianjian Southern Army, Pei Zhi's mood that had been relaxed was tense again, but fortunately, although the delay was longer and the losses were greater, the foot soldiers of the Yulin Army still persevered.
Before the follow-up Tubo elite sealed the retreat of the cooking soldiers, the Mo knife soldiers successfully broke through the encirclement and completed the convergence with the cooking soldiers.
Immediately afterwards, under the response of the foot soldiers, the more than 200 cooking soldiers who were still alive gradually shrank into the protection of the infantry battle formation, and were directly incorporated into the infantry battle formation on the spot.
The use of standard blades such as knives, spears, and spears is supplemented to the first line, while the use of other various blades such as armor-piercing hammers, pickaxes, and sapper shovels are used as the existence of flower teams in the battle array.
It's just that the cost is far greater than Pei Zhi's initial expectations, the entire six infantry battalions, six thousand soldiers, and until now, only about sixty percent of the soldiers who are still maintained on the battle line have been left, that is, about three thousand six hundred, and the soldiers of the entire two and a half infantry battalions have been lost on the battlefield.
Moreover, these 3,000 early years also include the rescued cooks and the engineer companies attached to the six infantry battalions, so the actual casualties of the Yulin Army have exceeded 3,000 so far.
The total number of people led by Zhang Yiyi and Pei Zhi to the Yulin army was only 15,000, and the number of battle losses had reached 20% of the total number.
Compared with the Yulin Army, in the fierce battle for a whole hour and a half, the former Jiannan Army lost more than 10,000 people in the anti-Tang coalition army.
In the battle formation that confronted the infantry of the Yulin Army, the armored heavy infantry of the former Yulin Army had lost more than half, and according to Liu Pi's order, the archers who were replenished from the back row to the front row were killed and wounded in the tragic battle of the infantry of the Yulin Army to rescue the cooking soldiers.
In a sense, the most elite 20,000 foot soldiers in Liu Pi's hands have lost their combat effectiveness in a short period of time and are on the verge of collapse.
If Liu Pi does not put the follow-up elite Tubo infantry into battle in time, and then fights, there is a high probability that this army will collapse directly.
And the timely investment of 20,000 elites, while saving their own soldiers and horses, has also become a killing move to defeat the opponent, in the eyes of Nima Bazar, the retreat of the Yulin army, which has never retreated since the beginning of the battle, is the best proof.
It's just that, in Liu Bi's eyes, although Yu Linjun's retreat is reasonable, his intuition tells him that this retreat is not normal.
It's just that, compared with Pei Zhi's understanding of the Jiannan Army, Liu Bi had to admit that Yu Linjun or the entire forbidden army system was too unfamiliar, and he instinctively thought that the other party still had a counterattack, but the excessive strangeness made him unable to judge and where to start.
On the surface, the foot soldiers of the Yulin Army retreated, and then what? Is it to continue to send troops to follow up and completely annihilate the Yulin Army in one fell swoop?
It is better to let the rear army stand still, but let the 20,000 Tibetan elites who have just been sent out continue to test the possible conspiracy and traps of the other party Nima Bazar, who watched the battle by Liu Pi's side, did not know Liu Bi's plans and arrangements, but in his eyes, he rushed to Liu Bi's control of the time used by the 20,000 Tibetan elites, and Liu Bi's ability to control the battlefield has reached its peak.
At least Nima Bazar thinks that it is inferior to Liu Pi, and under the sincere admiration of Liu Pi, Nima Bazar did not hesitate to praise himself.
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"Liu Dashuai, this battle is so exciting, I take it!" Just when Liu Bi was seriously thinking about whether to continue to increase the troops, Nima Bazar's praise floated into Liu Bi's ears, and it was obvious that Nima Bazar thought that he had won the battle.
As a result, the balance in Liu Pi's heart began to tilt, no matter what conspiracy he had in the Yulin Army, in the face of absolute strength and strength, all conspiracies and tricks were paper tigers.
Even if there is a trap, what about the 20,000 Tibetans who fill it in? Then another 20,000! Immediately, under Liu Pi's order, the crippled Jiannan army retreated, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the rear followed again.
It was determined that the cooking soldiers were successfully received, the battle formation of the foot soldiers did not collapse due to the onslaught of the Tubo elite, and the last trace of uneasiness in Pei Zhi's heart disappeared completely.
With the other party once again investing in vitality, Pei Zhi knew that his goal had been achieved after all!
Although there were some twists and turns on the battlefield, although the losses exceeded their expectations, in the end, the situation on the battlefield was within the range they preset.
Seeing this scene, Pei Zhi, who was satisfied, gave the order again, and several heralds began to run frantically towards the part of the rear that was not engaged in battle, and went to convey the order.
And Pei Zhi's side of the military horn sounded again, and the red and black flags began to wave non-stop.
According to the order of the military horn to return to the position, the eight-bull crossbow attached to the infantry battalion accelerated to the rear, and the battle formation formed by the infantry began to retreat back alternately while resisting the attack of the Tibetan elite.
In the rear of the infantry, the second-line infantry battle formation composed of heavy infantry and light infantry, the third front composed of eight-bull crossbows, and the third line composed of light cavalry and heavy cavalry formations have all entered a state of mobilization according to the orders conveyed by the heralds.
At the same time, there was also a herald who quickly rushed to the location of the Emperor Li Yu.
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