Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 532 The Battle Behind the Mountain

The ground trembled amidst the sound of horseshoes, rolling up a vast expanse of dust, as if a curtain had been drawn in the sky, covering half of the sky.

Thousands of cavalry were divided into several factions and rushed down the mountain, and the ground was bumped up and down amidst the sound of heavy horseshoes.

Accompanied by the hissing of the artillery on the mountain and the sharp whistling of the shells, the iron cavalry of the Qin army opened a long black iron wall in the northeast, and approached quickly with fear.

Because the artillery was too far away, it was so accurate that it fired dozens of cannons and killed eight or nine people, but the momentum was still very scary. When the besieged Qin army heard the sound of cannons all over the mountain, they immediately knew that the reinforcements were coming. After fighting for a long time, they were exhausted. The morale of the soldiers was greatly boosted, they marched forward bravely, and began to fight back.

The equally exhausted Liao army was terrified. Their horses had not undergone desensitization training like the Qin army, and they fell into varying degrees of panic as soon as the guns sounded. The most important thing was the rear team commander and the peripheral Liao army.

They clearly saw the cavalry of the Qin Army Brigade rushing towards them in the distance, and wanted to ask what to do, but when they looked back, there was a mess behind them, and the figure of the chief general Yeluxiu was gone.

Then some soldiers cried and shouted, "The commander was killed!" and so on.

There was a lot of people and horses, and everyone was horrified, but they couldn't be sure whether it was true or false, but they really couldn't see the figure of the coach, and fear poured into their heads. "The Qin army is coming!" "The Nan soldiers are behind!"

The sharp and whizzing shells hit some unlucky lucky people from time to time in the chaos, and their flesh and blood flew instantly, but they did not cause too much trouble in the melee. It was not until people were hit one after another that the people around them panicked and panicked. Find where the attack is coming from, where the enemy is coming from.

All the shouts were mixed with the shouts of killing. At first, not many people paid attention, until Qin Jun's cavalry completely rushed down the distant hillside and approached the other side of the avenue. Shouting to kill, the peripheral Liao army was ready to flee.

At such a critical moment, another piece of frightening news spread in the army formation, the main general Yeluxiu died!Some military officers yelled loudly that it was a rumor, but it spread more and more widely, and the morale of the army was in chaos for a while.

Qin Jun's iron cavalry came too fast, and they quickly crossed the road, rushing fiercely towards the back of the Liao Army's formation like a black torrent.

The cannons on the mountain stopped firing, and amidst the noise of gold and iron horses, the sound of interlacing metals could be heard endlessly, and the neighing and wailing of war horses intertwined.

The formation of the Liao army did not resist the offensive of the Qin army like a solid embankment, but began to be squeezed and fled to the other side.

On the other side, the besieged Qin army began to fight back. The soldiers changed from a circular formation to a square formation, pushing their chariots forward to squeeze the living space of the Liao army.

After fighting for a while, the Liao army suffered heavy casualties and began to flee to both sides. Those who ran slowly in the middle were immediately unlucky, and fell in large numbers under the attack from both sides.

The Liao army who fled from both sides did not run very far before being overtaken by Qin army's iron cavalry from both sides. After a day of fierce fighting, they were exhausted for a long time, and they couldn't outrun the energetic Qin army who was waiting for a rabbit.

Once they can't run away, facing the Qin army's iron cavalry armed to the teeth, the Liao army's chances of winning are very small...

Soon, the battlefield changed from fierce fighting to Qin cavalry chasing and killing the fled Liao army everywhere. The entire Guishui River Valley to the north of the mud mountain was full of cavalry chasing and fighting.

The Liao army fled everywhere, while the Qin army chased and killed them. Until the sun slanted to the west, the cold mountain wind howled and swept along the river valley, and the noise remained.

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Yang Jiye's army captured a large number of prisoners of the Liao army who surrendered on the spot, cleaned the battlefield, sorted out the supplies, and gathered the horses. At the same time, when burying the corpses, they did not hesitate to kill and bury the slightly injured Liao army.

When it was dark, Li Jilong also gathered people and horses. They brought back a large number of horses and many heads on their backs, but there were far fewer prisoners.

Everyone was disheveled, the horses were panting heavily, oil was leaking from their armor, but they were all very happy, this battle was a complete victory!

When Li Jilong came back, he entered the camp temporarily set up by the Hedong Army. After he entered, he found that there were wounded everywhere waiting for treatment, in dozens of tents.

In order to drag the Liao army to exhaustion, the Qin army in the valley paid a high price, with an astonishing 5000 casualties. You must know that there were only [-] people in the valley.

The large number of wounded basically filled all the tents.

Seeing this, the joy of victory in Li Jilong's heart was diluted a little.

He dismounted and handed over the reins to the soldiers, and then found someone to lead the way, and went directly to the Chinese army. There were exhausted soldiers all the way, and many of them fell asleep on the ground. The day's fierce battle was really exhausting.

When he arrived at the big tent of the Chinese army, Yang Jiye was talking to several army clerks, and he nodded when he saw him. "Li Qianfeng came just in time, we are talking about the results of the battle."

A clerk went on to say: "Our side killed about 1000 enemies and captured more than [-] people. However, more cases are still being counted. The soldiers are all tired and need to rest."

Li Jilong followed: "We brought back more than 1000 heads, but we will only kill more. Thanks to the general's delay, most of the Liao army is exhausted and unable to escape the pursuit. When the troops gather tomorrow, There should be greater results.”

Yang Jiye nodded, his face full of excitement: "There is another great achievement here. It was confirmed by the Liao soldiers that the leader of the Liao army, Brother Yeluxiu, was killed by the artillery at the beginning, so they were in chaos."

"Have you found the body?"

"I found it, but only half of it. The cannonball hit him on the left chest, basically killing him in half. Fortunately, the head is intact and his face can be confirmed.

Moreover, the generals of the Liao army confessed that there were only about 1 people on their journey, but now they are all accounted for. "

Li Jilong also became excited, "So the soldiers coming from this direction of the Liao army have been wiped out in all likelihood, and the front is completely empty!"

Yang Jiye nodded: "If the officers of the Liao Army didn't lie, it should be so. After we interrogated many people and compared them, we shouldn't be wrong."

The two looked at each other, seeing light in each other's eyes.

If the information is accurate, it means that the west is empty!

The main force of the Liao army in the middle is confronting the Qin army in the area of ​​Beikou, while Lin Renzhao's army is facing the enemy in the west of Liaodong in the east, but now there is an empty area of ​​the enemy on the battlefield behind the mountain.
Just as Li Jilong was about to say something, Yang Jiye already understood and said, "I have already sent someone to Guizhou."

That's right, they thought at the same time that, taking advantage of the emptiness of the enemy behind the mountain, they could use Xiangxi's tens of thousands of main troops to go straight from the northeast to the side of the Liao army and cut off the retreat of the Liao army's [-] troops!
Thinking about it this way, Li Jilong seemed to feel that the sacrifices of these casualties were all worthwhile. If he hadn't come down cruelly to let the Qin army in the valley hold on, maybe there would not have been such a result, and there would have been no changes that could change the overall situation. Chance.
In the end, he said seriously: "Today's victory is mainly due to the bloody battle between the soldiers of Hedong and tens of thousands of Liao troops in the river valley. Only when they are exhausted can they have a chance to annihilate most of them. This matter must be reported to the official! General Yang, please rest assured. .”

Yang Jiye nodded and cupped his hands: "General Li Gaoyi!" He didn't fight for his own credit, but also for the credit of many Hedong soldiers. There is no room for hypocrisy in this kind of matter.

(End of this chapter)