Section 89 Pursuit
As more and more of the Sui army's circular formations disbanded and turned into horizontal formations, more and more barbarian troops were forced to stop attacking the Sui army's undisbanded circular formations, and began to break through and assemble outside the formation, leaving countless ownerless war horses and countless weapons along the way.
At this time, even after passing through the large array of the Sui army, the barbarian army was no longer able to fight, not only the horses suffered heavy losses, but more people even lost their weapons in their hands, and escaped from the range of the Sui army's large array with empty hands, and then lay down on the ground with all their strength.
The barbarian Khan Tama was not dead or seriously injured, but he was as embarrassed as the other ordinary barbarian cavalry, even the long chickling on the golden helmet on his head had disappeared, his face was covered with gray and black mud marks, and the robe on his body was torn off here and torn there.
In such a mess, Tama was originally full of confidence in the million-strong army under his command, and now he was depressed, and he no longer had the vigor he had when he attacked. The only thing that Tama thinks about now is to return to his Khan Court and regain control of his power, especially when his most elite Cowardly Xue Army is almost lost, and most of the trusted generals around him are also missing, only after the Cowardly Xue Army remaining in the Khan Court is re-mastered by himself, it is safe time: who knows what the careerists among the barbarians will plan to do after the defeat of this battle?
Seeing that the Sui army didn't pay much attention to the barbarian army that no longer attacked after escaping from the big array, Tama knew that it was the Sui army concentrating on eliminating the soldiers who had not yet escaped, and looked at the survivors around him, there were less than 500,000, and they still lost their armor and were not well equipped, and even the number of war horses could not be one person, and there were at least one million people wrapped in the large array by the Sui army. "If you don't leave now, when will you go?" was the first thing Tama did when he saw the situation around him.
As soon as Tama moved, like a shadow, countless barbarian troops either rode horses, or simply spread their legs, and did not even return to the barbarian camp, and ran directly into the stab.
This directly made the barbarian army who was still struggling in the Sui army's great array feel abandoned by their own Great Khan, and the feeling of frustration came to their hearts, and they began to be weak to resist. Finally, within a quarter of an hour of Tama escaping, the first barbarian cavalry to surrender appeared on their knees.
With a barbarian cavalry who took the lead in surrendering, there was a second and a third, and with it came the surrender of a large number of barbarian soldiers.
After Li Hu in the Great Circle Formation of the Sui Army learned that a large number of barbarian troops had begun to surrender, more than ten fiery red snake flame arrows rose into the sky again, which was a signal of victory, and it was also a signal for Li Hu to attack the other five elite families who were ambushed on the flank.
Because after the surrender of a large number of barbarian troops, the only remaining troops in the barbarian army could not stop the attack of the Sui army, and at this time, it was also the time when those barbarian troops retreated overnight, and in order not to be pursued by the victorious Sui army, they did not even dare to burn the camp, and the materials that had been transported to the camp also did not dare to damage.
If in the past, after a big battle between the barbarian army and the Sui army, the two sides were tied, even if the barbarian army retreated, all the materials that could not be taken away and the built camp would be destroyed, because the Sui army at that time was unable to pursue because of the lack of war horses and cavalry.
But now it's different, not to mention that the Sui army solved the battle of the vanguard of the barbarian army, that is, after this big battle, the Sui army has countless intact horses, and hundreds of thousands of cavalry can be organized immediately, at this time the ratio of strength between the barbarian army and the Sui army has been reversed, if the barbarian nobles still want to live, they will not destroy the materials and camps like fools, they will only use the night to escape quietly.
In fact, Tama's escape not only hit the morale of the barbarian army still on the battlefield, but also affected the strength of the barbarian camp!
Originally, the entire strength of the barbarian army this time was 3 million people, and most of the 500,000 pioneers were annihilated by the Sui army, but only a sporadic 12,000 people were lucky enough to join the main force of the army, and as a result, they were ordered to be beheaded by Tama and beheaded, which was equivalent to not a single one; the army launched an attack, and the 250,000 cavalry and 20,000 cowardly Xue troops in the first stage attacked, resulting in the loss of half of the cavalry and all the cowardly Xue army; in the second stage, the Sui army took the initiative to attack, inducing Tama to launch an all-out attack, and filled in another 2 million troops, with the result that only more than 500,000 people finally escaped from the Sui army's main array, and of course there were sporadic escapes in the follow-up, adding up to no less than two or three hundred thousand, but the number of barbarian troops left behind in the camp is less than 400,000!
Considering that the Sui army had rich experience in attacking camps and cities, as well as sufficient equipment, as well as the remaining troops after defeating the barbarian army, which could not be resisted by the 400,000 troops left behind in the camp, the guards who were left behind to save their lives fell in love with running for their lives.
The remaining 400,000 barbarian cavalry did not dare to ride horses, but could not pull the war horses, and it was not until twenty miles away from the camp that they turned over and began to speed up their escape.
In fact, even if the 400,000 troops of the barbarian army launched a counterattack against the Sui army, although they did not dare to say that they would win, they would certainly inflict heavy losses on the Sui army! Because the Sui army, which had been fighting from morning to night all day, was already very tired at this time, except for a large number of people who rushed over from the rear to supervise the surrendered barbarian army and squatted in a big pit for themselves, the other soldiers were all sleeping soundly.
If it weren't even for the fact that the Sui army's consistent policy was to bring the captured barbarians back as slaves, those barbarians who surrendered would have been thinking of rebelling again, because the Sui army ordered them to dig a big pit, and they almost thought they were going to bury them alive. Therefore, after the war, the Sui army is now definitely a foreign power, a weak cadre. It's a pity that the remnants of the barbarian army, who have long been frightened, really don't have the heart to counterattack.
The entire process of the escape of the troops in the barbarian camp was under the watchful eye of the scouts who were still energetic. All the Sui army scouts are actually the same fear, their number is too small after all, if the barbarian army attacks, they can't resist at all, at most they will give a warning to the Sui army with their own lives, but now the soldiers in the camp can continue to fight, none of the scouts made a positive answer.
Seeing the actual actions of the barbarians, all the scouts sweated wildly in their hearts: General Pingbei, the gods and men also! Sure enough, the more generous the Sui army rested, the more the remnants of the barbarian army did not dare to attack, but would only choose to flee, and this empty city plan was successful!
After resting for the night, the Sui soldiers, who had won a great victory, became vigorous again, and began to rearrange their clothes, armor, weapons, and replenish them with new crossbow arrows, long knives, dragon spears, and of course horse-drawn carriages.
After the sky brightened, the soldiers of the Sui army, who had eaten a full meal of horse meat, drove the carriage and began to pursue with the barbarian army, leaving more than 100,000 lightly and seriously wounded soldiers and 200,000 people, and drove into the camp left by the barbarians, and the barbarian captives who had been hungry for a day and a night now needed to clean up the battlefield, collect the corpses of the war dead, or burn them, or dig pits and bury them deeply.
In addition, the barbarian Great Khan Tama who fled led more than 500,000 barbarian troops to escape first, but in the second half of the night, he was caught up by the barbarian army who fled from the camp, and only then did he get food and eat the first dry food. However, the barbarian army, which was more tired than the Sui army, was unable to move any further. He stopped a hundred and fifty miles away from the barbarian camp and began to rest—lying directly on the grassland, falling asleep directly, even the yelling of the people next to him was indifferent.
The rest of the barbarian army gave the five Kansai families a chance, although they were some distance from the main battlefield of Jilusai, but in the evening, after receiving the letter from the relay of the red snake flame arrow launched by Li Hu, they had already started to set off in the direction of the barbarian army's escape, and it was not far from the place where the barbarians stopped to rest.
At ten o'clock in the morning, when the barbarian army got up early and started cooking, wisps of cooking smoke flew high into the sky, directly exposing the position of the barbarian army.
After finding the location of the barbarian army, it was the 100,000 elite people who quietly approached the horse bits, until the barbarian scouts issued a sound alarm, and the five 100,000 elite cavalry mounted their horses one after another and began the final stage of the charge.
After a night's rest, the barbarian army did not actually recover from exhaustion, nor did it regain its spirit from the defeat of the previous day, it still belonged to the frightened birds, and after receiving the warning signal from the scouts, the first thing was not to reorganize the army and lay down the formation, but that everyone was fighting for horses and preparing to start the great cause of fleeing again.
When the five families of 100,000 elite cavalry soldiers approached the temporary resting place of the barbarian army, what they saw was not the barbarian cavalry waiting for battle, but the chaotic rabble.
Don't look at the barbarian army at this time there are nearly a million people, but the morale is lost, the discipline is gone, the five families of 100,000 cavalry soldiers are divided into five ways, rushed into the chaotic barbarian army, the expected desperate resistance did not happen at all, only a quarter of an hour of effort, the five cavalry will be the barbarian garrison to a cross, aggravating the chaos of the barbarians.
Before the five elites could fight back again, the barbarian army began to collapse.
Countless barbarian armies scattered and fled, like headless flies, and there were even barbarian cavalry running into each other. However, the number of the five elite families was too small, and although the barbarian army had lost its organization, there were still cavalry of different sizes that could be gathered together, shouting and shouting for the barbarian army to merge into a larger group. And these barbarian army groups with a certain organization and scale are the primary targets of the five elites, especially those who are gorgeously dressed as barbarian nobles!
The Sui army inherited the military merit system of the pre-Qin and Han empires, and the military merit obtained by capturing or beheading a barbarian nobleman was different from beheading an ordinary barbarian, and for all Sui troops, it was a living merit!