Chapter 51: Breakout

Suddenly several cannon shots were heard, and the herd of cattle in front of the enemy camp rushed out like crazy, and they roared and rushed forward, and in an instant the mountains shook and rolled up the dust, sweeping like a dark cloud.

The iron cavalry who were speeding forward were dumbfounded, slowed down their advance, lowered their spears, hesitated and didn't know what to do, in the blink of an eye, the herd had rushed to the front, and the iron cavalry in the front row was blown up in an instant, and the horses and soldiers who fell to the ground were swallowed up by this black current before they could struggle, and the iron cavalry who had no time to stop and turn around were not spared, and they all turned on their backs and died tragically on the tips of the horns and under the iron hooves of the mad bulls. In just a moment, the murderous heavy armored iron cavalry team just now was wiped out under the impact of the oxen consumption array.

The Chinese generals and others in the rear saw all this happening in front of them, and they were shocked to lose their souls, and turned around and fled in a frenzy, and for a time the whole army suddenly collapsed like an embankment, and it was out of control. Countless officers and soldiers were killed or trampled to death by the cattle, and were killed or injured by the subsequent Tufan cavalry swordsmen and spears.

The defeated soldiers who were pursued by the enemy fled towards the city of Yonglin, losing their armor and failing to form an army. Seeing this, Duan Fei, the general who was ordered to guard the city, immediately asked his soldiers to open the city gates, let the defeated army retreat into the city, and immediately ordered the archers, crossbowmen, artillery, and catapults on the city to prepare for battle.

When the herd of cattle and the enemy's cavalry pursued to the front of the city, Duan Fei gave an order, fired a salvo of bows and crossbows, and the artillery and catapults also exerted their strength, and a fierce blow to the enemy's cattle and pursuers stopped the pursuit of the enemy's cattle and cavalry, and gradually stopped the pursuit and began to retreat, so as to ensure that General Fang and his remnants of the defeated generals could all retreat into the city.

After the army withdrew into the city, it stabilized its position, and under the command and deployment of Duan Fei, it was fortified in four gates, but fortunately, fortifications, equipment, and rolling logs and stones were prepared in advance. After the Tufan army came up, the city was surrounded layer by layer, but because this army did not carry large siege equipment in order to pursue lightly, and the resistance in the city was very fierce, the Tufan soldiers could not get close to the city for a while, so they had to retreat and start camping outside the city, and then attack the next day.

In this battle, the army of Dafeng lost more than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and more than 10,000 people were captured, but it is a pity that 10,000 heavy armored iron cavalry troops were wiped out in this battle, and the general soldier Lu Chengyi also died in battle. At this time, there were only about 60,000 people left, huddled in this small county town to resist desperately. However, on the second day, the Tufan army only besieged but did not attack, and transferred the main forces to the south gate and the west gate to defend, the purpose of this move was obviously to besiege the imperial army in the city and not to flee south, and when the Tufan reinforcements arrived, they would completely annihilate the enemy army in one battle.

General Chai Yu and others advocated that Yonglin City should be strictly defended and wait for reinforcements. He said: "If the Northern Regions are lost, the imperial court will order General Huang to conquer the 200,000 troops in the Western Regions and return to support our army, which will only take six or seven days at most." Now that the enemy and us are about the same strength, and the enemy does not dare to attack rashly, we must not give up this city easily, and cheapen the northern barbarians in vain. ”

Mu Junshi said differently, he said: "This place is still in the northern territory, and the follow-up troops of Tufan will arrive in less than three days, and our army will be unable to escape at that time, and the enemy will besiege us but not attack, and it is precisely in recuperating and recuperating our army in this city after the reinforcements from the north arrive." ”

Fang Dingchao hesitated when he heard this, he looked at Duan Fei and asked, "General Duan has any opinion, but it doesn't hurt to say it." ”

"I also agree with Lord Mu's opinion, the enemy's plan is to boil frogs in warm water, and want to trap our army here to death. In my opinion, if they do not attack, we can take the initiative to go out of the city to attack and harass the enemy army, so that they will be exhausted by their defense, and they will eventually show their flaws. At that time, our army will be able to choose an opportunity to break through the encirclement. ”

General Fang was overjoyed when he heard this, and said: "This plan is very good! Our army chose the weakly defended city gate and took the initiative to attack out of the city, mainly to annihilate the enemy army. "At that moment, immediately dispatch troops and generals, arrange them, and the generals will act under orders.

Tufan did not attack after the siege of the city, the two sides were safe, unexpectedly, suddenly a cannon sounded at the north gate, General Chai Yu led 20,000 horses to rush out of the city, and the eight thousand Tufan soldiers stationed at the north gate were killed by surprise, with countless casualties.

Less than half a day later, 20,000 horses led by Duan Fei rushed out of the west gate, and after a rush into the enemy's formation, they immediately withdrew to the city without waiting for the enemy to counterattack. As soon as this side entered the city, another army rushed out of the east gate, and it was killed, so that the Tufan soldiers could not be guarded.

General Fu Zhe, the general of Tufan, came to Dong Zanyun and suggested: "Our army should divide the strength of our army evenly on the four gates, so that the enemy will not always attack our weak points." ”

Dong Zanlang said to Fu Zhe: "The general doesn't have to worry too much, the enemy is just attacking the north gate and the east gate, if you really break through these two gates, there is only one dead end." Going out from the north gate, you can only be killed by our army and reinforcements before and after, and going out from the east gate, you will be blocked by mountains and rivers, and will be pursued and surrounded by our army. The enemy is most likely to break through the south gate, and our army must focus on this gate, and the rest of the troops must be ready to support the encirclement of the south gate at any time. ”

The army of Dafeng Kingdom attacked and harassed the North Gate, East Gate, and West Gate several times on this day, causing many casualties to the Tufan soldiers. But the Tufan soldiers have not been moved, insisting on the heavy deployment of troops on the south gate. On the second day, finally the south gate suddenly opened, and a general rushed out, holding Fang Tian's halberd, and came to the front of the Tufan army to call the battle, this person was General Duan Fei.

Dong Zanyang seemed to have expected it, and on the one hand, he sent his subordinates to fight in battle, and on the other hand, he arranged for the army to stand by in order to prevent the enemy from breaking through. I don't want the enemy to come and the general is very fierce.,Killed three Tufan generals in a row.。 General Fu Zhe immediately slapped his horse to face the battle, and Duan Fei fought together, dozens of rounds down, Fu Zhe was also difficult to parry, rode his horse back, Duan Fei immediately slapped his horse to catch up, only to see him wave the halberd, the city immediately burst out of the cannon, rushed out of the city Countless officers and soldiers, in an instant, the flag was unfurled, the shout shook the sky, and the tide followed Duan Fei to the enemy camp.

Seeing that the enemy's army wanted to break through from the south gate, Dong Zanlang immediately asked the soldiers to release three horn cannons and summoned the three garrisons to come to the aid and encircle the enemy.

As soon as the Tufan soldiers stationed at the Three Gates arrived, an emergency suddenly came from the West Gate, saying that a large number of enemy troops had broken through from the West Gate.

It turned out that Fang Dingchao had already calculated, and the enemy expected that our army would inevitably break through from the south gate, so he ordered Duan Fei to lead a small part of the army to rush out from the south gate, creating the illusion of breaking through, but in fact, there were few people and many flags, and it was just a bluff. The army had already set up a breakthrough offensive on the west gate, and when the enemy's defense was empty, it rushed out in one fell swoop and broke through.

Dong Zanlang was shocked when he learned of the report, and immediately led his entire army to chase in the direction of the West Gate. Duan Fei took advantage of the chaos and led more than 5,000 people led by him to break through to the north.