Chapter 492: The Big Picture Has Been Decided

After a long period of fierce fighting, the situation was no longer unfavorable to the Yu army, but the defeat was beginning to appear.

Wang Rong looked at the overall battle situation, through the smoke and dust, and looked at the location of the Yu army camp in the north, and could only see that their banners seemed to be less, and there was no sign of moving south.

He immediately judged that the time was ripe, and ordered, "Order, the last four formations will turn into a square formation and move forward!"

A herald took the order.

Wang Rong then ordered, "Give the order to the left and right cavalry! The hussar guards of Chu Luxu's department marched north from the west avenue to attack the large formation of the Yu army in the north as planned, and the cavalry guards of the Wuluo tribe went out of the northeast side of the large formation to cut off the retreat of the Yu army." Wang Rong said loudly.

The heralds who had passed on the high platform in the rear received the order, and immediately unfurled the corresponding quadripartite flags and waved them vigorously.

The sound of rumbling horses' hooves could be heard miles away, and on the western avenue, a large number of flags moved rapidly northward in the fields.

From a distance, Wang Rong could only see the flags in the fields and trees, and he could also infer the situation, the location and number of troops from the flags.

In the establishment of the Tang Army, 189 people were one capital, and each one issued a banner; 567 men in a battalion, the battalion has a battalion flag; The three battalions are a regiment, and the regiment has a regimental flag; The three regiments are one brigade, and the brigade is out of the brigade flag; In addition, there are generals' name flags, and according to their location, they will play the corresponding flags of the four flags.

According to the number, style, and color of the flags, the commander of the Chinese army can judge the number of troops, the location of the army, and who the generals are from a long distance, otherwise they will not be able to see clearly on the chaotic battlefield.

The long line of flags composed of a large number of flags went north along the west avenue, and the eastern reserve of Wuluo was much more obvious, not far away, and it could be seen clearly, Wuluo and Li Sujie were in front of the banners, and a large number of cavalrymen dressed in armor were rolling up in dust, and they were quickly crossing the right flank field of the large array and heading towards the northwest.

In front of the Tang army, Li Han and Wang Huang had already commanded the last four formations to turn into a circular formation, slowly advancing across the open space between the four formations.

The Yu soldiers also began to realize that the situation was not right, and more and more people began to flee to the northwest, and like a contagion, it quickly spread, gradually evolving into a large-scale rout to the north.

However, there are still many Yu generals who insist on fighting and are equipped with full-body armor roaring angrily in the crowd, slashing and killing a few deserters one after another to stabilize the situation a little, and the generals of the Yu army tried to stop a large number of cavalry fleeing to the north, and slowly regrouped outside the forward position of the Tang army, slowly gathering a huge team of thousands of people, and it seemed that they were going to counterattack.

At this time, the sun had begun to set westward, and after the frontal contact, the battle had been fought for a long time, and the four formations in front and the Yu army were all suffering heavy casualties and exhaustion, but the four formations in the rear of the Tang army had the smallest losses, and they received much less attacks and had less physical exertion.

When this new force advanced forward from the rear, the four front formations with heavy losses were supported, and the morale of the Henan army, which had been attacked under the Yique Pass, was not high, and the morale of the seriously injured was even lower, and many Henan troops began to hesitate.

Wang Rong watched from afar, and when he saw the movement and chaos in front of the Yu army in the north, he understood that their morale was almost at the limit.

The slowly organized Yu army launched another large-scale counterattack from a hundred paces away from the forward position of the Tang Army, but this time it was obviously different from the beginning, the soldiers carried out procrastination, the front and back of the front, some did not want to rush forward at all, resulting in a lot of vacancies on the whole, and the sound of horses' hooves was not as tight as at the beginning, still a lot, but sparse and loose, and their overall speed was also a lot slower, because after fighting for a long time, the war horses could not run, and the speed was naturally slow. :

Many of the officers of the Yu army in the back were anxiously running around with banners, and Wang Rong couldn't hear what they said from a long distance, but just by looking at it, he understood that they should be scolding and threatening the soldiers not to retreat.

However, these were useless, the Yu army, which was tired and tired, and suffered heavy casualties, could not organize a decent attack, and they were hit by more than a dozen rockets before they got close, the fire flickered, and the explosion sounded like thunder, and the killing and wounding were secondary, mainly because the large range of war horses were frightened, which suddenly made the already loose and weak formation worse.

The so-called three arrows in the battle means that the speed of the war horse is extremely fast, and at most it has time to open the bow three times before it has rushed to the front, but the war horse is tired and frightened, and the Yu army counterattack the army moves slowly, giving the Tang army a lot of opportunities.

The Tang army's front bow and crossbow were fired together, and a large number of Yu troops fell off their horses before they arrived at the front of the battle, and when they rushed to the front of the battle with their eyes closed, the war horses could not run, and they did not have the intention of charging into the battle at all.

The Don troops at the front line piled up the corpses, and the heavy infantry erected their spears to completely withstand the onslaught.

Then the Tang army of the four formations also rushed to the front line in a horizontal column, strangled a large number of Yu troops in the gap between the positions, and fought for half a day, many exhausted Yu war horses could not run at all at this time, and many Yu soldiers were directly dragged off their horses by the shouting.

With the continuous advancement of the new force of the Tang army in the rear, a large number of war horses and soldiers of the Yu State were stabbed down by the spears of the Tang army in the front row, chopped and chopped down by knives and axes, and then crushed and trampled into meat by soldiers who crossed one after another, and the smell of blood became stronger and stronger.

After the many generals of the Yu army followed behind and cut a few deserters, they also realized that the situation was wrong, and if they didn't run, it would be over, regardless of the soldiers who began to turn their horses' heads and prepare to go north to leave the battlefield, but unfortunately it was too late.

Wang Rong had already seen from a distance that the banners of Wuluo and Li Sujie had detoured back to the north of the army, and to a position about a mile in front of the large array, carrying a large amount of sand and dust, like a long dragon rolling on the ground, rampage, interspersed to the west, and directly cut off the retreat of the Yu army.

When the battle came to this, a wise commander should order the withdrawal of the army, and at the same time send reserves to support and protect it, so as to prevent the main force on his side from being surrounded and annihilated, Wang Rong thought to himself.

In fact, as the Yu army began to collapse and flee, the shouting and killing were much quieter. Wang Rong looked into the distance, and the banner of the Yu army in the north began to move slowly, and there was a faint depiction of gold among the many banners, which should be the banner of Wei Hua, the Marquis of Suiyang, Yuguo.

He also vaguely heard the shrill sound of gold on the side of the Yu army, which was probably a signal to retreat.

However, it was too late, and the main force of the Yu army had already been surrounded. Moreover, Wang Rong concluded that the Yu State could not send a reserve force to rescue, because their Daxu banners had begun to move, indicating that Wuluo had led five thousand elite cavalry guards to the face of Wei Hua, the Marquis of Suiyang, Yu, otherwise the banner in the north would not move.

The soldiers around him were very excited, they were also elite soldiers in a hundred battles, and when they saw this situation, they also understood that the basic situation had been decided.

In the distance, Wuluo and Li Sujie intercepted the rout of the Yu army in the north, and then detoured to the west, forming a huge encirclement and driving the defeated Yu army to the south and east.

Behind the Tang army, the large array disarmed the troop vehicles, lined up in a phalanx and slowly pressed up.

A large number of unorganized and undisciplined Yu troops were like headless flies, and large swaths of black pressure were scurrying around, just trying to find a place where there was no Tang army to stop and flee for their lives.

The Tang army's large array was on their southwest side, and after spreading out, it gradually developed westward, completely blocking all sides, and Wuluo and Li Sujie detoured back to the north to cut off the retreat, leaving only the south and east sides to escape.

Wang Rong watched from a distance on the high ground, from God's point of view, he could see what was going on, but the Yu army, which had no one to lead and was in chaos, did not know the overall situation, they were just scurrying around in a vast area within a radius of several miles, in order to escape from the Tang army, and immediately turned back when they encountered the large force of the Tang army.

As everyone knows, their instinct to survive is being used by Wang Rong, and the Tang army is driving them in the direction Wang Rong wants like cattle and sheep.