Chapter 871: Horses Fall and People Fall
Shen Yong still wanted to give it a try, but Yi Yangxian had already spread the news that the grain road was cut off.
The morale of the army has been chaotic, and it has basically become impossible to attack the city again.
There is no murderous intent, and there is no murderous power.
Shen Yong had to sigh and say, "Okay, that's it, just withdraw. But to leave behind the broken army, don't give the dragon army a chance to take advantage of it."
is worthy of being the general who was favored by Yeluren first, and he did not mess up when he was in trouble.
"It's nature. I have a tiger in my Yi family named Yi Feng, and I can do this." Yi Yangxian agreed immediately.
What he wants is that Shen Yong is willing to retreat and help him stabilize the Tongzhou nest behind him, as for other things, it is completely trivial.
Speaking of which, that is, Shen Yong's age is too young and his qualifications are too poor, if he is replaced by Yeluren first, he can stabilize the morale of the army with just a shout, as long as he is willing to make a promise, after capturing Anzhou City, he can eat and drink all the money inside, and the soldiers will not be chaotic.
It's a pity that it was Shen Yong, although he has military power, but because of his qualifications, he doesn't have a strong sense of trust, that is, he is really willing to make any promises, and there are not many people who believe in him.
In this way, under the coercion of Yi Yangxian and Xiao Yuan, Shen Yong had to bow his head, and then he personally sent a cavalry team of 3,000 people, Yi Yangxian and Xiao Yuan each sent 1,000 cavalry, a total of 5,000 cavalry was handed over to Yi Feng, leaving the broken queen.
As for the rest of the people in the barracks, they retreated overnight.
Retreating in the dark sky is not the first thing to do for the army. Everything is that Yi Yangxian is too worried about the safety of the nest, thinking that if he starts earlier, he can arrive earlier. In addition, they retreated quickly in the night, and the dragon army in the city may not really dare to pursue for unknown reasons.
Normally, if the soldiers in the city didn't know what was going on outside, they wouldn't dare chase them out.
Don't forget, the dragon army has the ability to communicate instantly, especially the scouts have night vision devices, even what happens in the dark can be seen clearly in their eyes as clearly as in the day.
Not to mention that there were scouts watching their every move. Let's just say that as soon as the Second Brigade of the Dragoon Army appeared outside Tongzhou City, the division commander Mu Huan in Anzhou City here got the latest news.
Su Shi, who was marching, also came with news, so that Mu Huan's First Division of the People's Army was ready to go out of the city to chase the enemy at any time.
Su Shi is not an immortal, he doesn't know when Yi Yangxian will withdraw his army. But I think it's tonight or tomorrow morning, and it won't be later than tomorrow noon at the latest.
Yes, after Mu Huan got Su Shi's instructions, he had been sending people to keep an eye on the movements of the Liao army under the city, and when they began to prepare to evacuate, the Liao soldiers who were supposed to have a good rest also walked out of the military tent one by one, and when they began to assemble, he took the first step to think of what the enemy was going to do.
"I want to leave, I attacked my Anzhou City for two days in a row, and we also played with you for two days, so it's not good to leave without saying hello." With a mocking look on his face, Mu Huan said to the two generals Hu Yanqing and Wang Cai, who had already received the news and came to him, "Get ready, go out of the city to chase and kill the enemy."
Unaware that his every move was within the field of vision of the Long Army, Xiao Yuan was entrusted by him, and after gathering 10,000 Liao troops, he began to retreat as a vanguard.
At this moment, the dragon army in the city did not move, and the time had not come.
It was more than half an hour, and when Yi Yangxian withdrew from the barracks with the assembled 50,000 Liao troops, Mu Huan's headquarters still did not move.
It wasn't until more than half an hour later, after more than 60,000 Liao troops left the barracks under the leadership of Shen Yong, that Mu Huan gave an order: "Open the city gate and go out of the city to kill the enemy."
Elites are indeed elites, just by the speed at which they retreat.
But no matter how elite the Liao army is, once it begins to retreat, it is completely devoid of its usual strength, speaking of personal ability, in the process of retreating, the original ten can play seven points is considered good.
If you add that it is a black sky evacuation, strength
If you have to play a three-point discount, then there are only four points of strength left, and this opportunity was seized by Mu Huan without hesitation.
The originally quiet Anzhou city gate opened from the inside, followed by a cavalry leaping out, shouting and killing the Liao army camp outside the city.
The dragon army was supported by Su Shi, but all the soldiers were equipped with war horses, even the newly joined peasant soldiers.
But it is not that a war horse can be called a real cavalry.
Rome was not built in a day, and riding was not something that could be practiced in a short period of time.
For those peasant soldiers, or even most peasant soldiers, they can be called mounted infantry at best, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
It's just that this truth is not known to the Liao army on the other side.
After Yi Feng was left behind by the head of the family, he originally thought that it would be a very honorable thing to bring five thousand cavalry, and it would not be very difficult to complete the task. After all, even whether the dragon army will go out of the city to pursue is between the two.
But when the main force of more than 100,000 people had just retreated, and the dragon army was killed from inside the city gate, and from a distance, there were countless torches, and they couldn't be counted, Yi Feng was a little panicked.
Yi Feng himself is very burly, but at most he is a little brave, and when it comes to the ability to lead troops, it is just average.
Such a person can be called a good talent in the Yi family, and if he can really command five thousand Liao cavalry, then he is not a suitable person.
It seems that right now, when he saw a dragon army out of the city, Yi Feng's first reaction was to go back and hit these dragon troops out of the city hard, showing his ability.
But as soon as the order was given, I saw that the torch was like a long dragon, and there was no end in sight, and my heart suddenly became timid again.
There are only 5,000 cavalry in his hands, but looking at the number of torches on the other side, it is obviously more than 30,000, with one against six, how can this be fought?
It's not that I don't do my best, it's that there are too many dragon troops.
Knowing that he was invincible, Yi Feng committed a taboo on the battlefield, that is, he ordered the order to be changed and suddenly ordered to retreat.
This is an act of self-protection that is done knowing that you are invincible. However, on the battlefield, an order to attack has just been given, and someone has already begun to carry it out, but then the order to retreat is given again, and it reaches the ears of the soldiers, which will inevitably make them overwhelmed.
Some of the elites of the Liao army even thought that they had misheard the message, and they still focused on the first order, and went forward regardless of it. But there were many more Liao troops who obeyed the second order and began to retreat.
This made the Liao army that rushed out a lone army, and this Liao army, which numbered more than 1,000 horses, soon found that there was no one behind them, what kind of play was this?
There were no reinforcements later, and the number of dragon troops on the opposite side was extremely large, pointing at their more than 1,000 people and trying to stop it, it was an impossible task at all.
That's it, just retreat.
One will advance, one will retreat, the result is that even the war horses under their seats are a little confused, and when Hu Yanqing rushed to the Liao army with the second brigade as the vanguard of the first wave, what he saw was only more than two miles away from them, and he remembered the retreating Liao army.
"Haha, these unplanted things. Come on, pick up the speed, rush up, and slaughter them all, hahaha.".
Hu Yanqing laughed, and he led the more than 3,000 regular army cavalry of the main force of the brigade to bite the back of the Liao army.
The Liao army just fled in a panic, and for them, who were still attacking just now, now turning around and retreating, the speed is not at all fast for a while and a half.
In contrast, the dragon army rushing out of the city has been accelerating, and when they come behind these Liao troops, the speed is at its best, and the distance between the two sides is getting closer and closer.
Hearing the sound of horses' hooves approaching behind him, some Liao riders running behind changed their faces greatly.
The speed could not be increased all at once, knowing that if this continued, they would definitely catch up, so some of the more daring Liao cavalry stopped their horses, ready to turn around and fight.
It's just a pity that in front of the dragon riders who are charging with full momentum, dozens or hundreds of Liao cavalry want to block the way
, which is equivalent to a mantis arm blocking the car, is useless at all.
The reason why the cavalry is strong is borrowed from the inertia of the charging speed of the war horse.
Whether it is a long knife or a spear, the blow with speed is several times the power of their usual swing, which makes it as easy for the cavalry to run as it is to kill the foot soldiers.
Now one side is quiet, one side is moving, even though they are all cavalry, the one who suffers will only be the quiet side.
Led by Hu Yanqing, the double mace swung out hard, and the mace borrowed the horse's momentum, and when it hit the Liao cavalry who was blocking the road on the opposite side, it was like a thousand catties entering the body, and under a blow, the Liao cavalry that was smashed was useless no matter how much he tried his best to resist.
Hundreds of Liao riders are like waves in the sea, and even a huge wave does not turn out, and then disappears on the surface of the sea and disappears.
Yi Feng was still running away from the side horse, and from time to time he would look back at him.
When he saw that the hundreds of cavalry under his command were covered by the chasing dragoons, and there was not even the slightest wave, he turned around in fright and continued to speed up.
At this moment, he had long forgotten that his mission was to break off.
There was one thing on his mind now, and that was to run as fast as possible, and get as far away as possible from those chasing dragoons.
Without any resistance at all, Hu Yanqing's Second Brigade was the leader, followed by thousands of auxiliaries and peasant soldiers, then the Wang Cai Department of the Third Brigade, then there were auxiliary soldiers and peasant soldiers, and finally the first brigade led by the division commander Mu Huan plus more than 20,000 peasant soldiers.
The first division of the entire People's Army, except for leaving 2,000 peasant soldiers to guard Anzhou City, the other more than 40,000 people all chased out, and in order to strengthen the momentum, Lou Yang also ordered the peasant soldiers to beat two torches each, which made their team grow stronger.