130 duels
In January 244, just after Chinese New Year's Eve, Hachi led 100,000 cavalry and 50,000 Han troops in Kaifeng Province to advance to Xuzhou, and Hao Tianfeng led the army to hold on to the border one fortress after another.
At the same time, Zahemin led 80,000 troops out of Tongguan and attacked all the way to Zheng County along the Hangu Pass Road, and Tie Qinglin led the main force of Luoyang to confront it in Zheng County, and Luoyang was empty.
A Richa had already received an order from Dadu, and as soon as Guanzhong Kaifeng moved, he immediately led 60,000 cavalry and 40,000 Hedong Han troops to cross the Yellow River, and broke through Mengjin in three days and approached Luoyang.
Ah Ri looked at the Luoyang City in front of him and laughed, just arrived in Hedong to recover Luoyang and made such a miraculous feat, wouldn't it be more powerful than the previous Su Hedai? Although I know that this is not my real credit, I can't help but feel complacent in my heart.
Liu Jiahao was also very nervous standing at the head of Luoyang City, the main force of the first army of 30,000, there were 25,000 north of Xin'an ready to copy the back road of the Hu people, there were only 5,000 in the city plus 10,000 people of Shen Zhixing's tenth army, the troops were not so abundant, even if the cavalry was not good at attacking the city, there was still a great risk.
With a wave of his hand, tens of thousands of cavalry turned into infantry and began to attack the city, but slowly found that it was wrong, if there were really only a few thousand defenders, it should collapse and surrender at this time, even if it did not surrender, the morale should not be high, but looking at the appearance in front of him, his subordinates fell to the head of the city, and after a while, thousands of casualties were lost, and it was clear that there were elites defending the city.
Ah Richa was reluctant to bear such a meaningless loss of his cavalry, so he immediately collected his troops and sent people back to urge the infantry behind him to attack the city.
Liu Bingyun followed Liu Hesheng's main force of the first army to attack Mengjin rapidly, and he had received news from the Liu family that his distant cousin Liu Yu led more than 10,000 Hedong infantry soldiers to guard the baggage in Mengjin, and the remaining more than 20,000 infantry soldiers left Mengjin and went to Luoyang under the leadership of Ba Yihan, a man of color eyes, to prepare for the siege.
Liu Bingyun has discussed with Liu Hesheng to first exterminate Ba Yihan's 20,000 foot soldiers, and then come back to pretend to attack Liu Yu and drive him back to Hedong, and the Liu family cannot be exposed for the time being.
Qian Dazhuang was a little excited, as the commander of Lin Jianyue's heavy infantry guards, his three thousand heavy armored infantry were the strongest on the ground except for cavalry, and he was confident that he would stop the Hedong infantry that had appeared not far from the front, otherwise the commander would not have sent him to intercept in advance.
Ba Yihan looked at all the elite infantry in front of him who were in front of him and were blocked in front of him, and sighed, Marshal Aricha ran too fast, and he received an order to march quickly, and the formation was a little chaotic, how could he quickly break through the big lump of elites waiting for work in front of him? The armor and weapons are not comparable, and he is not stupid, since he dares to stop here, he knows that there must be a large number of enemies behind him who will come to besiege him, so he can only rush with superior forces.
But in half an hour, Ba Yihan's heart was cold, and he was surrounded on all sides, but he couldn't beat this military formation at all, he had thousands of dead and wounded, and the other party had fallen hundreds of people at most, and the formation was not chaotic at all, one by one was like an emotionless wood, and there was no fear at all, and he showed signs of collapse.
Ba Yihan knew that he couldn't run, and he didn't dare to run, as long as he said to retreat, he didn't need to be surrounded by the enemy's brigade, and he would disperse first, he knew that he couldn't compare to the infantry of the Han people, but it was too unreasonable to be strong like this, so he could only bury his head and attack desperately.
The horns sounded on all sides, and Ba Yihan was also decisive, and directly ordered his subordinates to surrender, he was not a Menghu man, so there was no need to throw his life here.
Liu Bingyun Liu Hesheng breathed a sigh of relief, there was no need to worry about it now, and hurriedly ordered the messenger to notify Li Fei's 50,000 cavalry who came from the east to come to converge, and regardless of Meng Jin's cousin, he directly attacked Ah Richa's 60,000 cavalry, and caught him off guard.
The left and right infantry never appeared, and Ah Richa became more and more anxious, and felt that something was wrong, and he realized that he might have been tricked, so he was ready to lead his troops to leave Luoyang, or it was safe to return to Hedong first.
The sky trembled, and a black line rushed to the sky, and Aricha knew that this was the formation of more than 50,000 cavalry.
Since the other party is also a cavalry, Aricha became excited, so let's face off, the Dameng cavalry has never been afraid of anyone.
Speed up, speed up, Aricha took his more than 50,000 cavalry without fear, and rushed straight to the enemy formation, but at this time an accident happened, the enemy's cavalry troops suddenly separated from the middle, began to outflank from both sides, and exposed tens of thousands of heavy armored infantry, the formation came slowly, there was actually a bed camp in the formation, it was too unmartial arts, too despicable, what about a good duel?
Luoyang behind him also opened the city, tens of thousands of infantry poured out, Ah Richa looked up to the sky and sighed, and he didn't bother to analyze where these elite infantry and tens of thousands of cavalry came from, just to see how many people he could take back to Hedong.
The cavalry of the Hu people is indeed strong, with rich experience in long-term field combat, they are all veterans, and they are not lacking in experience, force, and courage, and they know that they cannot break through the heavy infantry formation based on strict defense in a short period of time, and they are the strongest ones in terms of posture, so under the leadership of Aricha, regardless of casualties, they just continue to attack the joint of cavalry.
Many of the Menghu cavalry are self-prepared weapons and armor, after so many years of conquest, the loss is very large, can only continue to recruit troops from the grassland to replenish, and even some are no longer the real Menghu people, but also to bring their own armor, weapons and horses, some of which are uneven, and the combat power has decreased a lot.
And Li Fei's cavalry is different, it is supported by strong economic strength, all of them are standard armor, spears, shields, waist knives, but the war horses are almost inferior, and the riding and shooting are not as good, and the comprehensive combat power has gradually caught up with the Hu people.
After half a day of fierce fighting, Li Fei sighed long, the cavalry command himself was still almost, not to mention that the combat power could not be fully exerted, with the cooperation of the infantry, the loss was still not small, but after this battle, it was different
Aricha rushed out of the encirclement exhausted, and escaped the Yellow River with the remaining nearly 20,000 cavalry, of course, the baggage left in Mengjin could only give up, and it would be good to be able to escape.
Liu Jiahao, Liu Bingyun and others were a little uneasy, the cavalry that had been trained with great difficulty lost nearly 10,000 yuan, and the foot soldiers were about the same, this was the first army, fortunately, a large number of war horses were captured, and the cavalry troops after a large-scale duel also had more battlefield experience and courage.
However, they did not know how great the impact of this was the first large-scale head-to-head duel in the open plains of the wilderness, defeating more than 50,000 Menghu cavalry.
When the news of the defeat reached Dadu, Li Chongshan looked at the south in a daze, is Lin Jianyue already so strong? Although it was a successful plan, in the end, it was still a frontal fierce battle with little difference in strength, how many troops were needed to really defeat Lin Jianyue's Long Jie army?
Li Chongshan had no intention of blaming Qin Zhenghao, because his strategy was not wrong, but he was only wrong in not correctly estimating Lin Jianyue's true strength, and he did not expect that Lin Jianyue would dare to leave his core army and lead a miscellaneous army to Huaixi to scare Sun Zhengyi, after all, Sun Zhengyi was about to hit Jianning.
There are still a little doubts, because the past two years have indeed given Lin Jianyue the opportunity to develop and grow, but he will never believe that Qin Zhenghao will betray him, it can only be said that it is a mistake.
Qin Zhenghao sat silently in his study, smiling in the dark, and finally became stronger, it was not easy for Li Chongshan to easily defeat Lin Jianyue, as for what happens to him in the future, don't care, doubt it, doubt it, he has done everything he can do, or there will be a chance in the future, who knows?
Lin Jianyue rode on the big black horse and looked at the north, although the battle in the north was not personally commanded, but the Wuwei Army Xiangyang Army looked at himself with reverence, and the news of this victory greatly encouraged the Han army that was still insisting on fighting, whether it was Lin Jianyue's troops or other places.
Wang Gui also has some turmoil in his heart, or the military plan can start to prepare, the general trend of the world has undergone subtle changes, and the dawn has appeared.
Sun Zhengyi and Wu Zhong were drunk, and his biggest variable was in the victory, he was already thinking about how to bring Hachi to the pit in Kaifeng, and he was originally a little worried that he would be suspected, but seeing that Hachi was doing everything to him, it seemed that there was no major omission.