Chapter 1082: Defeated Like a Mountain (Part II)
The defeat was like a mountain......
At this time, Li Wannian finally understood the meaning of this sentence.
He watched his army quickly lose its fighting spirit in the face of the impact of thousands of Vietnamese troops—no, it should have been only 800 Vietnamese cavalry, and the entire army collapsed, and fled frantically backwards.
In this process, he and many of his generals did not make efforts to block, and wanted to reorganize their forces to turn back against the enemy.
However, it didn't work.
Because by this time, the enemy they really had to face was no longer a few hundred or thousands of Vietnamese troops, although they were still chasing and killing closely, constantly harvesting the soldiers of the Guan Long army who were left behind.
For the entire Guanlong army, the enemy they faced was precisely themselves.
The huge number of troops has been completely disintegrated into individuals who only want to protect themselves and flee for their lives, and any military discipline and law have been completely abandoned by them. All that was left was one thought, which was to keep running backwards, and then kill and push away all the obstacles that stood in their way to escape.
So, on the road to fight for the opportunity to escape, those officers who tried to use the majesty of the past to order their subordinates to stop and turn back were cut down on the spot by their subordinates who once looked very obedient. And waiting for them to fall down are soldiers who don't care about the situation below.
In just a short period of time, more than a dozen or twenty middle- and low-ranking officers were trampled into pulp by countless routs.
After seeing that the robes were like this, the remaining officers who had been ordered to do so did not dare to have any more thoughts, and they also chose the same path as the others, turning their heads and running all the way to the rear.
And at this time, not to mention those generals and leading officers, even the orders of Li Wannian, who is the chief general, have completely lost their effectiveness, and at most they can be transmitted to the hundreds of surrounding soldiers.
But in a rout army with tens of thousands, how useful can a few hundred people be?
The only thing they could do was to protect their general from being injured by the rout, and at the same time helplessly persuade him to leave this dangerous place quickly.
And now, looking at the entire army that is really like a mountain collapsing, Li Wannian is only left with a deep sense of powerlessness and frustration in addition to anger and shock.
It's over, his plan to attack Sichuan and Shu this time not only failed, but also failed miserably.
The price paid this time is too tragic, I am afraid that most of the 100,000 troops will be lost, and the rest will go back, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to form an army in a few years......
"General, let's go, otherwise when the enemy army really covers up, I'm afraid even we won't be able to protect you......" Some subordinates shouted urgently, and they had the audacity to pull the reins of Li Wannian's mount, wanting to pull him to escape from here as soon as possible.
Li Wannian looked back at the rear again, behind his own army that was running frantically like a low tide, the Vietnamese army was pursuing unhurriedly, constantly harvesting the lives of the soldiers and horses that fell behind.
Seeing this scene, his last thoughts quickly dissipated, and the enemy commander was more calm than he thought, even at this time, he was not greedy for that bit of killing, and he had never really killed in his own army.
If they really enter the battle, in the chaos, even if their own soldiers and horses are irretrievable, they can still inflict great damage on them in the chaos, and even kill their masters.
But now, they are only at the back of the team and are not integrated into it, which ensures their own safety.
"Let's go!" The red-eyed Li Wannian finally roared angrily and gave an order.
And before Tima could rush forward, he gave the order: "Throw away all our flags......
Since the husband can bend and stretch, win and lose, since it is irretrievable, it is still to ensure his own safety as the first priority. His own handsome flag or something, under such a rout and chaos, has no positive effect at all, but will become the target of the enemy's key pursuit, so it is better to lose it.
After dropping the eye-catching flag, Li Wannian's troops and horses retreated faster, and they rushed away from the routs one by one, and on this autumn afternoon, like a lost dog, they kept moving forward and moving forward.
And this one of his
The decision was clearly quite correct.
Because Sun Ning had indeed set his sights on the eye-catching Li Zishuai banner before, and had even made up his mind that this time he would catch up with this banner and kill or capture its enemies.
To be honest, the sudden collapse of the enemy army this time really caught Sun Ning off guard.
When he led 800 cavalry to kill the generals, he thought that he could cut a gap and then spread to destroy an enemy defense line, so that the follow-up soldiers and horses could follow to break the enemy and defeat the enemy.
After all, he is facing a tenfold enemy, and he really can't say that he will be able to win.
But the result made him dumbfounded, the enemy almost collapsed at the first touch, and even did not even make contact, only to see his own team rushing towards him, and quickly collapsed and fled.
It can be said that Sun Ning's 800 cavalry frightened tens of thousands of enemy troops into fleeing and retreating with almost zero casualties.
In the past, Sun Ning heard that in a classic battle where fewer won more, one side killed several times with very few troops, and the enemy collapsed dozens of times in a hurry, which was somewhat unimaginable.
Unexpectedly, all this has become a reality in front of my eyes today.
In the Battle of Hefei, Zhang Liao broke 100,000 Wu soldiers with 800 pieces.
In the Battle of Weishui, Xie Xuan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty defeated hundreds of thousands of former Qin troops with 10,000 Beifu soldiers......
These classic battle examples that are enough to be passed down through the ages and glorify future generations are finally one more today.
Sun Ning guarded the pass with 5,000 tired soldiers, and broke 100,000 Guan Long soldiers!
He originally wanted to go further, not only to break his army, but also to capture and kill all the enemy generals along the way.
As a result, after running out for a while, Li Wannian actually wisely chose to abandon Shuai Qi, so that he mixed into the tens of thousands of routs, which made Sun Ning no longer able to find his whereabouts, and finally could only stop chasing after a period of chasing and killing, as the whole army was exhausted.
However, the Guanlong rout army did not re-stabilize because of the cessation of the pursuit of the Vietnamese army, they had broken their courage and fled all the way, running from the dangerous and difficult Sichuan Shu for three days, exhausted, falling to death, trampling to death after countless soldiers, and finally retreated to Ganlong.
At this time, Sun Ning had already led the army to retreat to Jiameng Pass in triumph.
And the information of this great victory was also quickly transmitted back to the rear, causing the entire Sichuan and Shu to be shaken.
Perhaps it won't be long before this news can reach the Central Plains and be known to the enemy and our soldiers on the front line, thus bringing unexpected variables to the entire battle situation.
But this is all an afterthought, for the current Sun Ning, a crisis has reappeared.