Chapter Thirty-Six: Retreat
The shouts of killing resounded in the valley, and the boulders that fell from the sky began to gradually advance towards the rear of the barbarian army!
The barbarian soldiers, who thought they had been punished by God, fell into panic and confusion, and the only thought left in everyone's minds was to escape!
The soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom, who were like rainbows, frantically rushed forward to cover the kill, until the sound of Ming Jin withdrawing troops came from behind him.
It was only at this time that those Yan State soldiers who were immersed in killing found that they and their comrades had almost rushed out of the valley unconsciously!
In the barbarian camp, there was an early sound of the horn of retreat, but unfortunately, there were less than 500 people who escaped alive out of the twenty hundred-man team!
These deserters lost their armor one by one, and more than half of them lost their horses, and these deserters who called themselves warriors in the past even broke up the formation of the reserves!
Tuoba Dewang, who was sitting on the platform, watched everything in front of him in horror, and the generals of all races guarding him also fell into great fear!
Many of these people, like the soldiers who died in the valley, thought that their army had been punished by God, but it was the middle-aged scribe named Tuoba Dewang who served as a staff member who shouted frantically after the initial astonishment and fear!
"Dashuai, that's not a divine punishment, it's a new weapon of the Southern Barbarian!"
But what if you know where the boulder that fell from the sky came from?
The defeat was like a mountain, if it weren't for the fact that the soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom were not strong enough, if it weren't for the fact that the Great Yan Kingdom did not have enough war horses to form cavalry, just taking advantage of the rout to pursue and cover the killing, it would be possible to completely overwhelm the barbarian camp!
Zhao Hengyi's move to withdraw his troops was very wise, and after learning that the boulders that fell from the sky were not the punishment of the gods, the barbarian army quickly stabilized its position, and even slowly retreated ten miles to the rear, but the entire army did not collapse.
In the era of cold weapons, after the defeat, facing the impact of the rout, it was able to retreat steadily, showing the strong strength of the barbarian army!
And in this battle, the harvest of the border army of the Great Yan Kingdom is beyond everyone's imagination!
More than half of the three hundred and seventy-two barbarian captives lacked arms and legs, and it was difficult to survive, which was not worth mentioning, but there were more than 400 intact war horses!
With these excellent war horses, Yonggu City can form a cavalry in a very short time!
With this cavalry, the border army will no longer have no means of countermeasures in the face of the barbarians who come and go like the wind!
The tactics of the marshal Zhang Chaoyang will be more abundant in the future, and what he can rely on is no longer only the city wall of Yonggu City!
The partial generals sent by Zhang Chaoyang and the generals of the Xuanzi battalion once again dissuaded Zhao Hengyi's idea of slaughtering the prisoners, and in the eyes of everyone, this Mr. Zhao, who was like a military god, was too murderous.
All the captives and rescued civilians were handed over to the camp that came to assist in the defense, and the Xuanzi battalion led by Zhao Hengyi had just won a big victory and became busy again.
As a calm observer at all times, Zhao Hengyi clearly grasped the shortcomings of the Xuanzi Battalion or the soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom.
There is an extreme lack of training, the team does not know how to cooperate with each other, and the battlefield is all based on blood and bravery, and it is good to say that if you win, everyone rushes up to cut off the enemy's head, and once the battle situation falls into disadvantage, it will inevitably collapse completely!
The reason why he was able to lead such a team to victory was entirely because of the new types of weapons that Zhao Hengyi had never seen before.
Once these weapons are known to the barbarians and they have figured out the means of countermeasures, the huge gap between the soldiers of the two sides will inevitably be highlighted again!
What Zhao Hengyi has to do is to use his insight to lead this era and not give the barbarians a chance to catch up!
A large number of baggage soldiers and auxiliaries were sent to the ridges on both sides of the valley, and while the barbarian army was regrouping, several firebreaks were cleared on the outside of the ridges.
Last winter, there was only a thin layer of snow, just wet the land, and after the beginning of spring, whether it was in the territory of the Great Yan Kingdom or the territory controlled by the barbarians, not a drop of rain fell.
The drought is so severe that the trebuchets on the mountain beams have been exposed, and the barbarians must be strictly prevented from setting fire to the mountain!
Facts have proved that Zhao Hengyi's worries are not superfluous, and three days later, the barbarians really sent people to set a few mountain fires, and as a result, the trebuchet position that had been prepared for a long time was unharmed!
At the same time, under the order of Zhao Hengyi, the soldiers of the Great Yan Kingdom laid countless traps on the mountain, and the mountain beams on both sides were even equipped with a team of archers.
In Yonggu City, Song Ying'an was lying on the sickbed with a pale face, and the arrow wound in his chest made him dare not breathe.
Listening to Zhang Can, the captain of the guard, explain the battle situation at the bell in detail, the main commander of the Xuanzi Battalion couldn't help but have a trace of flush on his face, and under the excitement, Song Yingan couldn't help coughing.
"Uncle, be careful of the wound!"
"Hahaha, this little injury, what is it compared to everything that Brother Zhixian has done?"
Song Ying'an couldn't help laughing heartily, even if he pulled the wound on his chest, he didn't care, "This time, my brother is attacking the barbarians, and I think those barbarians are not far from withdrawing their troops!" ”
The barbarians are different from the Great Yan Kingdom, although they also have a nominal unified regime, but in reality, most of the time these guys live in a tribal way.
Even if troops were sent south to plunder the Great Yan Kingdom, they were all cobbled together by various tribes.
In the eyes of these tigers and wolves, the Great Yan Kingdom is the granary for themselves, and they can't be called any enemies at all.
On the contrary, it is the other tribes around you that are most likely to destroy their own bloodline and annex their own tribes!
It is no secret that the various tribes of the barbarians are inseparable from each other, and each has a ghost.
Therefore, Song Ying'an concluded that after the barbarians who were not vigorous lost more than 2,000 young people, there must be many disagreements and contradictions within the army, and it is very likely that it will eventually lead to a reluctant retreat!
In fact, as Song Ying'an expected, since the failure of setting fire to the mountain, the barbarians sent troops to attack the trebuchet position towering on the top of the mountain several times.
The well-prepared defenders of the Great Yan Kingdom lost more than 300 people to the barbarians, and there was no hope of attacking the mountains, and the barbarian camps had already become a pot of porridge!
This time, even Tuoba Dewang, as the commander-in-chief, could not suppress the anger of the generals of the various tribes.
Originally, Tuoba Dewang relied on his reputation and this year's drought to barely gather 10,000 soldiers and horses.
According to the situation in previous years, this 10,000 soldiers and horses are enough to easily break through the defense line of Yonggu City, and even if you are lucky enough, you can destroy this fortified city stuck at the mouth of the horn!
As a result, the sky did not fulfill people's wishes, and a Zhao Hengyi was born, which made Tuoba Dewang's ambitions come to naught.
The morale in the camp has dropped to a freezing point, and the contradictions between the various tribes have intensified here, and the anxious Tuoba Dewang really began to plan to withdraw his troops.