Chapter 153: The Battle of the River Crossing
It was still dark, and Yelu Mada looked at Li Shouzhen's camp on the other side of the Yellow River, and the feeling in his heart was very different from that of a few days ago. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Hundreds of ships were burned, and more than 100 ships fled to the other side, and now he has no more than four or five hundred ships, four or five hundred ships, if only Khitan soldiers are transported, they can only transport more than 3,000 people at a time, and if they want to transport war horses together, they can at most transport more than 800 iron horsemen at a time.
Relying on these more than 800 horsemen to occupy the ferry on the opposite side, Yelu Mada no matter how confident he was, did not think that there was any possibility of victory, after all, Li Shouzhen had gathered more than 10,000 horses on the opposite bank, even if 10,000 pigs rushed over, it was overwhelming, enough to squeeze 800 iron horsemen down the river, not to mention that the combat power of Li Shouzhen's soldiers and horses was not weak.
The only thing that was beneficial to Yelu Mada was that he could choose the location to cross the river on the other side, so that he would not be blocked by Li Shouzhen on the Yellow River, and he would not even have a chance to rush to the river beach.
I can't wait any longer, and then collect ships, I don't know when, there are too many people in the Central Plains, and when they mobilize all their forces, this raid will lose its meaning. Moreover, the Khitan soldiers and horses in Hebei have been exhausted, if the Southern Dynasties reacted and counterattacked, the Khitan 100,000 iron horsemen were only afraid that the horses would not be able to return to the pass.
Yelu Ma replied, waved his hand and shouted: "According to the original plan, the first batch of 3,000 men and horses will cross the river!
A group of Khitan horsemen jumped off their horses, rushed to the boat, and forced the boatman to drive the boat to the opposite shore.
Half an hour later, the sky was getting brighter, and I was able to see the situation on the other side clearly, the Yellow River was not too wide, and it was not difficult to see the situation on the other side, but the thin morning mist slightly obstructed the view.
Yelu Mada saw that the first batch of 3,000 men and horses, under the leadership of the general Yelu Chunguan, killed one of the men and horses patrolling the shore and successfully landed on the shore.
However, Li Shouzhen's soldiers and horses on the other side were also alarmed, and a large number of soldiers and horses killed Yelu Chunguan.
"Not good!" said Jerman, whose face changed slightly.
Yelu Chunguan on the opposite side does not seem to have sorted out the formation, the Khitan people are not good at foot combat, but relying on their physical strength, the southerners may not be their opponents, but if there is no formation, even if the personal combat strength of the Khitans is stronger than that of the southern dynasties, the stragglers will never be able to deal with the army that is waiting for the battle, and the first to rush over is the cavalry.
"What is the hell about this Yelu Chunguan?" said Yelu Ma angrily.
Before leaving, Yelu Mada repeatedly explained that the first batch of 3,000 men and horses needed to support at least one hour, and only in this way could the follow-up soldiers and horses be sent to the other side.
But now, not to mention an hour, the time that Yelu Chunguan can support a stick of incense is very good!
The shouting of killing could be heard across the Yellow River, and Yelu Ma's face was as black as ink, and his heart sank to the bottom of the water.
Yelu Chunguan's performance was worse than imagined, and the Khitan soldiers who crossed the Yellow River seemed to have just woken up from a dream, one by one, weak and sleepwalking, and was cut down to the ground by Li Shouzhen's elite horsemen in a whirlwind, and the courage of the Khitan people was not restored at all.
Yelu Chunguan managed to sort out a defensive line, and it was almost effortlessly broken by Li Shouzhen's cavalry in one fell swoop.
Yelu Chunguan was also very wronged, he didn't expect that after crossing the Yellow River, the soldiers would be seasick and faint to such an extent, vomiting in the dark, it was rare that a few seasick people could not organize an effective defense line at all.
It seems that Yelu Mada made a big mistake, the northerners fought in the south, and seasickness was a major defect that the northerners could not overcome. There are no big rivers in the north, let alone a turbulent river like the Yellow River, and it is difficult for a man who is used to sitting on horseback to cross the south by boat, and it is difficult to adapt to the earth-shaking rolling Yellow River.
After only one round of attacks, Yeluchun's 3,000 soldiers began to disperse.
On horseback, even if Li Shouzhen has more than 10,000 horses, the Khitan man will never be afraid, he will only wield a scimitar, whistle and rush towards the enemy, step out a bloody road with the horse's hooves, and sweep away all the stubborn enemies who dare to resist along the way with a steel knife, maybe as long as there is a charge, Li Shouzhen's army will completely collapse. Immediately fighting, the Khitan man has never been afraid of anyone.
Without horses, the combat power of the Khitan men was suddenly reduced by more than half, but with the bravery and physique of the northern men, the combat power of the Khitan soldiers and horses was still stronger than that of the elite soldiers of the southerners. With these 3,000 soldiers and horses, holding a beachhead for an hour, Yelu Chunguan once thought that this should not be a problem.
Successively cut down several soldiers who fled one after another, lifting their heads, Yelu Chunguan shouted loudly: "Block, block, as long as you block the attack of the Southern Barbarians, the Great Khan has countless cattle, sheep and wine, the men of the grassland, none of them are your seeds, you will not retreat in a fight to the death, who dares to take half a step back, there will be no forgiveness!"
If these words were said on weekdays, the men on the grassland would scream in anger, carrying steel knives and killing each other like wolves. But today is different, there are a few cronies on weekdays, almost no one pays attention to him, and more people avoid him and flee towards the river beach, it seems that there is life.
"Run, where can you run?" Yelu Chunguan was angry, and behind him was the rolling Yellow River, not to mention that these northern men who did not know the nature of water, even if they were proficient in swimming across the Central Plains, no one was sure that they could swim across the turbulent Yellow River.
However, it is a strange thing that when everyone is brave, the sheep in the crowd will become as brave as a lion, but if everyone around them is fleeing for their lives, even a lion will be as cowardly as a sheep.
Li Shouzhen obviously noticed Yelu Chunguan, pointed at the big gun, and shouted: "Kill him, Xun Zhuan three strategies, Shang Yin and Bai Liang!"
With a whistling, a group of hundreds of elite horsemen turned their horses' heads and killed Yelu Chunguan.
After a period of fighting, there were dozens of corpses on the ground, and Yelu Chunguan's head was raised high on the tip of the spear, and the headless corpse fell on the battle flag, and the bubbling blood stained the battle flag even redder......
Yelu Chunguan was beheaded, the Khitan people were even more chaotic, everyone only thought about running for their lives, two thousand Yunzhou elite riders harvested life like harvesting crops, pieces of Khitan people jumped into the Yellow River, fluttering in the muddy yellow waves, and soon they were pulled into the bottom of the river by the heavy cowhide armor full of water, leaving only a few waves on the river surface, and disappeared in a flash, as if this person had never appeared.
"Huh-" Xiao Chao howled desperately in the face of the boiling Yellow River.
Before coming to the Central Plains, he also thought that he would die for the Han Dynasty, which would not be bad, and the Great Khan would give a rich reward, which was enough for his family to live without worry.
However, after coming to the Central Plains, he found that the battle with the Central Plains people was far less dangerous than he imagined, and it was not even as fierce as the fierce tribal battles.
Xiao Chao's happy future unfolded in front of him, the mountains of treasures, to be taken and robbed, the delicate southerner woman, let him collect and shackle, where is the war, it is simply picking up things, robbing beautiful women, hunting and killing.
However, this dream is about to fall on the south bank of the Yellow River, he is not convinced, he is unwilling, if it is not for the beloved war horse left on the other side, if it is not for the damn Yellow River, so that his yellow gall is almost spit out, his hands and feet are weak, and the bottom plate is vain, where would he be afraid of those southern barbarians?
"Poof", a steel knife swept through the back of his neck, Xiao Chao only saw the Yellow River rolling, and countless Khitan warriors kept falling in pools of blood.
Li Shouzhen shook his head, the overall situation had been decided, and he felt relaxed for a while, he didn't expect that the combat strength of the Khitan army that crossed the river would be so weak, and it was so easy to win this battle.