Chapter 17: The Death of Mo Nan (2)
Shangguan Chengcheng bowed slightly, which was regarded as an expression of understanding.
Li Maozhen saw that Shangguan Allure had no intention of stopping, and said strangely: "They have more than 200,000 soldiers, and you only have less than 70,000 elite horsemen here, so I'm afraid it's not appropriate to attack Luoyankou, right?"
Shangguan Chengcheng didn't say much, and only responded to Li Maozhen with one word: "War." ”
This reaction was obviously very much in line with Li Maozhen's temper, she raised her eyebrows and gave a thumbs up, "I appreciate your courage." In that case, I'll sweep the battle for you!"
An hour later, the Wolf Tooth Army came to Luoyankou.
It's not a mountainous place.
The wasteland stretched out in front of two huge hills, one on the left and one on the right, and the highest point was less than twenty feet. However, the mountains are extremely extensive, so they form a natural and favorable terrain. The middle passage is very wide, more than 100 zhang. The whole landform is shaped like a goose's wings, so it is called Luoyan Slope.
The north slope is bordered by the river and the south is connected to the mountains, so it is impossible to bypass it - of course, if you are willing to walk an extra hundred and ten miles, then of course you don't have to go through Luoyankou.
It's just that in that case, it will be too much of a delay for the fighter.
Now, on the gentle slopes on both sides, the cavalry of the Shatuo Department has been assembled, and at a glance it is very powerful, and there are no less than 50,000 of each. In the giant passage in the middle, there is an endless battle formation of foot soldiers, with guns and halberds like a forest, and there are even horse traps in front of the formation.
Obviously, the Shatuo people's defense system is very complete.
Li Maozhen frowned and said: "If the troops are divided to attack the cavalry on the gentle slope, the opponent has a favorable position, once the offensive is blocked, the foot soldiers in the passage will surround it, and the army will fall into the quagmire; if you concentrate your forces to attack one of the gentle slopes, it will be even more unfeasible, and it will be attacked from behind by another cavalry;
"And if it is a well-defended infantry formation in the attack passage, the cavalry on both flanks will be killed, and our battle formation will be cut off from the flanks...... No matter how you look at it, the opponent's military formation is very well-organized, and there are no breakthroughs and weak areas. ”
She glanced at Shangguan Allure, "There are many great monks on the other side, and we are not superior in numbers, it seems that we are the shaman envoys of the Khitan." As long as the other party doesn't want to fight hard, it will be difficult for us to defeat it in a short time. ”
Li Maozhen's analysis is very reasonable, and the battlefield is like this in her eyes.
But this is not the battlefield in the eyes of Shangguan Allure.
She said: "It seems to be neat. In fact, it was hastily formed, poorly prepared, and flawed everywhere. ”
Shangguan Chengcheng concluded: "One blow can be broken." ”
She raised the lance in her hand, pointed to the center of the passage, and shouted, "Wolf Tooth Army, forward!"
Nearly 70,000 wolf tooth troops slowly accelerated.
Li Maozhen disturbed her head, she couldn't understand why the same battlefield would be completely different in the eyes of the two. After thinking about it for a while, I can only attribute this to the difference between the generals of the military family and the famous generals of the soldiers.
Seeing that Shangguan had made up his mind to fight in the city, Li Maozhen did not hesitate, and took the great monk behind him to meet the team of shaman envoys in the sky above Luoyankou.
The elite cavalry of the Wolf Tooth Army, which galloped to the speed of battle, when Shangguan Allure raised his hand and clenched his fist, the power of the battle array erupted, and the raging aura erupted, once again wrapping the military array into a huge sharp arrow.
Shangguan Allure turned out to be ignoring the Shatuo cavalry on the slopes on both sides, and rushed directly to the infantry formation in the passage unreasonably.
Not only Li Maozhen and the others were stunned, but even the Shatuo cavalry on the hillside was in a commotion, and there were even mocking and mocking whistles in the middle.
The large array of infantry troops was fortified layer by layer, and the horse traps in front were enough to resist the cavalry charge.
The Wolf Tooth Army had several ways to fight, but Shangguan Chengcheng chose the worst one.
This is the view of the Shatuo people.
They soon stopped seeing it that way.
In the sound of the earth-shaking horses' hooves, when the wolf's tooth army rushed to the front of the horse pit, Shangguan Chengcheng raised his hand with a move, and countless sacks full of sand and soil flew out of the army array, like flying locusts.
The sandbags that flew out of the monk's hands were accurately landed in the trap after being guided by Shangguan Allure and with the blessing of the power of the battle array.
The cavalry rushes into battle, and the most feared thing is to trap the horse pit, and any experienced cavalry commander will be prepared to deal with it when he is about to fight with the infantry army.
Li Maozhen had already told Shangguan Qingcheng about the size and depth of the trap, so she was prepared.
If it is an ordinary cavalryman, they will turn before the trap, and the soldiers will throw sandbags into the pit, wait for the tunnel to be filled, and then come back and rush over.
The military formation of famous generals does not need to be so troublesome.
The raindrops of sandbags fell into the pit one after another, and as soon as the pit was filled, the horse's hooves stepped on it, and the whole process went smoothly and without the slightest delay.
Exclamations rang out from the gentle slopes on both sides.
These Shatuo cavalry, who were preparing to wait for the Wolf Tooth Army's movements to be delayed, rushed down from the hillside, were stunned by this scene.
And in the large array of infantry troops in front of the passage, there was a desperate wail.
Shangguan Chengcheng raised his lance flatly: "Break the formation!"
The power of the famous general: Break the formation!
Without the large array of Shatuo infantry army that was trapped in the horse pit to hinder the wolf tooth army, there was no means to defend against the impact of the elite cavalry, and after the rain of arrows was resisted by the battle array field, the wolf tooth army carrying the power of the battle array was like a fierce tiger rushing into the flock.
Those spears and halberds, in front of the realm of famous generals, could not threaten the battle formation at all.
Where the Wolf Tooth Army passed, Shatuo's foot soldiers were crushed like barren grass.
At this time, the Shatuo cavalry on the slopes on both sides, although they rushed down, they could not bite the tail of the wolf tooth army at all.
If they forcibly pursued, they would only knock and trample their fellow infantry in a disorganized formation to death.
The Wolf Tooth Army broke out of the formation, and the large array of the Shatuo Infantry Army no longer existed.
There was only a group of wolves rushing to the stragglers.
The stragglers didn't survive for long.
Because after the wolf tooth army came out of the battle, it quickly turned a big turn and came back.
The infantry sergeant who sensed the wolf's tooth army's counterattack immediately thought of turning around and running away.
The Shatuo cavalry, who had just rushed down from the hillside and wanted to block the Wolf Tooth Army in the large formation of the infantry army, were scattered by the frightened infantry companions.
It horrified them.
No matter how much they slashed their fellow infantry, they could not stop them from scattering, and no matter how much they roared and cried, they could not stop the Wolves from rushing into their chaotic formation and slaughtering them to the ground like they were chopping melons and vegetables.
Li Maozhen only understood at this moment why Shangguan Allure said that the Shatuo army array was full of flaws.
The more than 200,000 Shatuo cavalry who were fortified with the help of the terrain were defeated by the Wolf Tooth Army so easily.
In the face of absolute strength, any idea of both offense and defense is just a flash in the pan.
When there is a flaw in the battlefield, the famous general will seize the flaw, and when the enemy army has no flaw, the famous general will also create a flaw for them.
That's the power of a celebrity.
The rest of the battle was just the Wolf Tooth Army all over the mountains, chasing and killing those Shatuo people who were unable to form an army.
The terrain on the slopes on both sides was conducive to cavalry charges at first, but now, it has become a magic obstacle that makes Shatuo's rout unable to run fast.
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For Qi cultivators, killing an ordinary person is as simple as crushing an ant to death, and for a soldier general, there is no military formation led by a general, just a flock of lambs to be slaughtered.
And for Shangguan Allure, who led the Wolf Tooth Army, the military formations of the world can be broken in one battle.
The deterrent power of famous generals is not limited to battle formations or battlefields.
Destroying the country, for famous generals, is just a gesture.
The power of a generation of famous generals and military gods can make neighbors tremble and make Siyi surrender.
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The battle lasted until late afternoon, and more than 200,000 Shatuo people had been slaughtered.
The efficiency of the Wolf Tooth Army is very fast, because Shangguan has issued military orders in the city, and it will change later.
More than 200,000 people, it will take a long time to kill, not to mention the pursuit of the wasteland.
The Wolf Tooth Army does not accept prisoners, they are not many in number, and they have no time to divide troops to guard the prisoners, and these Shatuo people are not enough to make the Tang Dynasty believe in them anymore.
However, the unexpected came.
Li Maozhen and the others had been fighting against the shaman envoys, so they couldn't monitor the four directions, and when the Wolf Tooth Army rangers noticed that a large number of enemy troops were coming, the thunderous sound of horses' hooves quickly reached the ears of the Wolf Tooth Army soldiers.
It was the Khitan army that was encircling, with the elite cavalry of the heart of the abdomen led by Yelu Xiannichi as the core, with as many as 300,000 people!
"General, what should we do?" Zhao Nianci, the deputy general of the Wolf Tooth Army, came to Shangguan Chengcheng Ma for the first time, and anxiously asked for military orders.
Her anxiety certainly had a point.
The wolf's tooth army broke through Xiazhou, rushed to Shatuo, and fought a big battle, although the victory was very fast, but the pursuit lasted for a long time, and now the soldiers are very tired. Even if there is the power of the generals, if there is no morale to echo it, the power of the battle array will be greatly reduced.
Now, the Khitan 300,000 fresh troops are surrounded, how can the less than 70,000 wolf tooth army face it?
Shangguan Allure was immediately at the highest point of the gentle slope, with a wide line of sight, and his eyes crossed the heavy grassy slope, and he had already seen the Khitan cavalry rising like a tide.
She glanced at the battlefield under her feet, and suddenly understood that the battlefield in Luoyankou was specially selected by the Khitans for the Wolf Tooth Army.
In such a vast terrain, if there is no infantry to assist, the pure cavalry will not be able to stand at all if they are arrayed at the mouth of the wide passage.
If the Wolf Tooth Army divides two gentle slopes, the Khitan cavalry only needs to occupy the valley pass to cut it into two pieces, and if they only occupy one gentle slope, it is an isolated island in the vast ocean.
If less than 70,000 elite cavalry still want to occupy the valley, they will not be able to stop the impact of the Khitan army no matter what.
Only when the infantry army is tightly defended and encamped in the valley pass can the cavalry have a foundation to rely on and can be attacked and defended.
Luoyankou, for the Wolf Tooth Army, is not defensible at all.
And attacking and breaking the enemy is too difficult for the tired Wolf Tooth Army at the moment.
This is a life-and-death dilemma.
It was precisely because Zhao Nianci saw through this that he showed an anxious look.
Famous generals are not undefeated.
But Shangguan Chengcheng did not hesitate.
She said, "Forge the edge." ”
The forward formation is naturally an offensive formation, and it is an indomitable offensive formation. There is no way back, no room for retreat. If the offense is frustrated and wants to change the formation to defend, it is simply wishful thinking.
These four simple words came out of Shangguan Allure's mouth, although it was calm, Zhao Nianci felt its weight.
Her eyes turned red all of a sudden, and she gritted her teeth and said, "The last general will take the order!"