witch chaotic country

Chapter 602
Dao Yanzhi's retreat without a fight undoubtedly opened the door for Yu Li's army.Originally, the military order Yu Li received was only to delay the defenders living in Luoyang, so after gathering in the city, he only sent the vanguard to attack for a round.

Who would have thought that Liu Song's garrison in Luoyang was only a few thousand people, and the city walls were dilapidated, and then seemed to lose their fighting spirit.Seeing that the situation was one-sided, Yu Li hurriedly pressed his army up and broke through Luoyang City by accident.

When he learned from the prisoners that Yanzhi's army had abandoned the camp and fled not long ago, he was overjoyed and hurriedly sent someone to count the remaining military supplies in the water village.But there was nothing left for him at this time, the entire water village was burned to the ground.

Yu Li was so angry that his seven orifices were filled with smoke. This was supposed to be his spoils in this battle, but now there is only black ashes flying all over the sky.Yu Li's fiery temper would not allow him to suffer such a disadvantage, so he immediately divided his troops into two directions and headed southward, heading towards Xiangcheng and Xuchang respectively to pursue Yanzhi's army.

Naturally, Yu Li didn't forget to ask his military adviser to write a memorial to Tuoba Tao eloquently and send it to Tuoba Tao for reward.He took Luoyang City with almost no loss of soldiers this time, which is no small credit.Now that the booty has been wasted, it is time to brag in front of His Majesty and get more rewards.

The army led by Yu Li was the Northern Wei army originally stationed in the four towns of Henan.After they withdrew from the four towns at the beginning of the year, they gathered in one place and hibernated in the north, waiting for the opportunity to counterattack.

As soon as the Yellow River froze, Yu Li followed the deployment Cui Hao had arranged in advance, without waiting for Pingcheng's decree, and directly attacked Luoyang, intending to separate the four towns from Luoyang's rescue.

Yu Li attacked Luoyang nearby without any effort, so when the memorial of his great victory was sent to Tuoba Tao, Tuoba Tao's army had just arrived near Xiangzhou.There are only two days left before the slide.

Just as Tan Yaoyu was worried, Tuoba Tao did not choose to directly attack Jinyong City on the westernmost side, but went straight to the sliding platform located in the middle of the four towns.It is planned to cut the four towns from the middle now, and then divide the troops to attack them.

The reason why Tuoba Tao dared to act so boldly, and put his army in the position of flanking Liu Song's flanks, was to catch Liu Song's army by surprise.

However, Tuoba Tao is definitely not acting bravely for a while.In addition to Yu Li's [-] men who were transferred to cut off the reinforcements from Luoyang on the west side, Tuo Batao ordered Shu Sun Jian to take the [-] cavalry who had originally besieged Xia's army east to Qingzhou to prevent Liu Song from rushing to the east.

When the reinforcements from east to west were cut off, the four towns in the middle became fish on the chopping board of the Northern Wei army.

According to Tuoba Tao's original plan, he planned to personally lead the army to take the slide directly.But now he learned that Yanzhi was fleeing on foot with the navy army.This water army is Liu Song's core combat force today, and Tuoba Tao has one hundred people in his heart that he doesn't want to let it go.

Judging from Yu Li's memorabilia, he was leading people to follow him southward, but what if Dao Yanzhi did the opposite, instead of fleeing southward directly, but ran to the slippery platform in the east?

If such a large army reaches the sliding platform smoothly, the outcome of the sliding platform will be difficult to determine.

After thinking about it, Tuoba Tao decided to divide his army into two groups on the spot. One side was led by the veteran Xi Jin and continued to attack the sliding platform, while he took more soldiers and horses to the west to Jinyong and Tigers. Go to the direction of the prison to stop Yanzhi's army that might flee to the sliding platform.

Xi Jin had no objection to Tuoba Tao's arrangement, and even proposed that Tuoba Tao take away more soldiers and horses, so as to avoid having an advantage in numbers when encountering Dao Yanzhi's army.

Tuoba Tao thought about it and agreed, but he assigned the vanguard army of the Ahura tribe to Xi Jin.

"The tribe of hundreds of people, although a little evil, is indeed brave and good at fighting. I believe that with them, the old general will be able to easily capture the slide."

Naturally, Xi Jin had also heard about this ghost-like tribe, and knelt down to thank him, "Thank you for being so considerate to the old minister. It's just that this tribe can defeat a hundred in a fight, so it should be placed by your majesty's side to protect him well. "

But Tuoba Tao waved his hand, "It's okay. Wait for you to quickly take down the slide, and then bring them west to fight with me."

Naturally, Tuoba Tao would not admit that the king who had never been afraid of heaven and earth, the emperor of the Northern Wei Dynasty who dared to make up his mind even when Tan invited rain, was afraid of Ahura's eyes looking at him.

Even if he was just glanced at, it made him feel as if he had fallen into a cold pool.

His Majesty has said so, Xi Jin can only be disrespectful.Thank you so much for taking over this vanguard.After a little reorganization, we will split up with Tuoba Tao's army.

Apart from Ahura's Zoroastrianism, Xi Jin only brought [-] light cavalry and [-] heavy cavalry.To be honest, he still had no confidence in attacking the sliding platform with this force.So he decided to cross the river from the ice and sneak attack Slippery City at night.

After Xi Jin's army arrived on the other side of the river, they all quietly lurked down to recharge their batteries.It wasn't until the moon was in the middle of the sky that under the cover of night, they formed an formation lightly.At this time, the slide across the river was still as quiet as ever in the dark.

As a veteran, Xi Jin marched very conservatively.So before the army crossed the river, he first sent the Zoroastrian vanguard to cross the river to test.

When he saw that the vanguard army of [-] people crossed the river without incident, and no one in Huatai City noticed it, Xi Jin waved his hand and let the army cross the river in batches.

In order to prevent the large army from crushing the ice, Xi Jin's army formed a thousand-man phalanx, led by the commander. The phalanx was spaced a hundred steps apart, arranged obliquely in a line, and slowly stepped on the ice to cross the river.

Xi Jin has been watching from behind. At this time, there are already three thousand-man phalanxes on the river, and the front phalanx is about to set foot on the opposite bank.

Xi Jin gradually felt relieved.Although the Yellow River froze early this year, and the river beach was relatively shallow before it was frozen, so many people crossing the river at the same time, it is inevitable that there will be no accidents.

Just when Xi Jin was about to let the second batch of troops cross the river, he heard a huge roar from the sky and the earth, and then, like thunder, there were deafening crackling sounds on the black river surface, and amidst the strange flames, The ice surface of the Yellow River was blown to pieces in a blink of an eye.

Xi Jin watched helplessly as the army on the ice fell straight into the river below the ice hole!Three thousand cavalry, including men and horses, disappeared in an instant.

Xi Jin let out a groan, but felt his blood rushing up, his forehead buzzed, and his body fell straight back from his horse!

The Northern Wei army on the north side of the Yellow River panicked before they had time to cross the river.Some leaning on the bank of the river rushed over to save people, while others backed away desperately in fear!

"Look at the opposite side, the fire on the city wall over there, is there a platform!"

Far away, more and more people from the Northern Wei Army noticed the torches lit on the city wall of Huatai at unknown times, and an altar illuminated by the torches.On the altar, a man was wearing a black robe with a belt facing the wind, holding something like an iron rod in one hand, pointing high to the sky.

"Thunder -! Ming -!"

(End of this chapter)