Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 675 Kill them!

On the snow trampled by the horseshoes, there was blood dripping.

The collapse of 5000 people was actually only a moment. The front was killed and retreated steadily, and the flanks and back were attacked by light and heavy cavalry in turn.

Wang Chong got off his horse, walked up to Cai Songyang who had another wound on his body, and said in admiration, "General Cai's bravery is known now. Do you want to chase after him?"

"Of course we have to chase!" Cai Songyang said without hesitation.

This place is one mile southwest of Lindu Post, five or six miles east of Lindu Post is Luoyang, and about seven or eight miles south is the place where the Changzhi Army camped last night.

Just now when the army fought here, the drums and horns were contending, and the south might have heard it.

The Heluo Basin is really too small, long from east to west and narrow from north to south.

Luoyang went north to Baisi Maban, [-] miles away, and it was only a day's journey if you walked quickly. The Tianxiong army had already arrived in Luoyang last night, and they had already rested and collected fresh water. They crossed Luoyang and pursued southward.

From Luoyang to Yique Pass in the south, it is actually only a little over [-] miles away. Under normal circumstances, it is a day's journey with luggage.

From Luoyang to the east, it is more than [-] miles to the old city and [-] miles to Shiqiaodian, which is also within a day's journey.Yang Sheng's troops of the Tiande Army are now less than five miles away from the upper east gate of Luoyang, and they have already turned south to pursue the Changzhi Army.

All ministries are actually about half a day's journey away from the Changzhi Army, and the Tianxiong Army is even less than half a day's journey away.At this time, they all received the news and hurried on their way frantically, and must keep this army behind.

Well, Marshal Shao, who was on the way, also received the news.With one arm around the young and naive Webster, he wrote a sentence with a pen in his hand: "Kill the [-]st Marine Division!" and burned it...

Zhu Youning was tied up and brought to Cai Songyang.

Cai Songyang laughed loudly, drew his short sword against his chin, and said, "Zhu Zhenshi, 5000 troops, how about losing in one battle?"

"Shao Shude's running dog, what can I say? If you want to kill or cut, it's up to you." Zhu Youning said with a cold snort.

Cai Songyang used to be Shao Shude's bodyguard, so he was naturally his confidant, so it's normal for Zhu Youning to scold him like that.

"Haha! The defeated general." Cai Songyang withdrew his dagger and said with a smile, "Then go and capture Kou Yanqing and let him be your companion."

After finishing speaking, he waved his big hand and said: "The captives will be sent back, sons and daughters will follow me to the south to kill the thieves!"

The movement of waving his hands was too big, which affected the wound, but Cai Songyang felt more and more happy.

Killing is addictive.He felt that he could hardly suppress his bloodthirsty emotions, and urgently needed to vent.

Ma Sixun was called over and asked him to bring nearly [-] prisoners back to Luoyang, so he didn't have to participate in the following battles.

Just now he rushed forward naked, very brave, which changed Cai Songyang's impression of him, and his attitude will be much better now.

"Follow orders!" Seeing the brilliant achievements of Xia Jun's united efforts to defeat Zhu Youning's unit in World War I, Ma Sixun is now very honest and dare not have any second thoughts.

Zhu Youning's collapse, Huo Cun's siege, Xu Huaiyu's silence, and Heluo's works seem to be not very good.

Now there is only one Kou Yanqing left.Well, Hu Zhen and Marshal Hu are also with him, but it looks like a foil.A depilated phoenix is ​​not as good as a chicken, and what is the difference between a warlord without soldiers and a civil servant?I'm afraid it will be even more unbearable.

After a short rest, the wounded and prisoners were evacuated, and the seized supplies and equipment were also escorted back.

Cai Songyang took more than [-] people and embarked on a journey southward.

As for the [-] cavalry pawns of the Dingyuan Army and the [-] leopard cavalry, they are one step ahead.The distance of less than ten miles was within a short time for these cavalrymen.

……

On the snowy field to the south of Luoyang, the rangers called for friends and gathered almost all the cavalry.

On Fu Cunshen's journey, there used to be 600 cavalry from the Tiande Army, [-] cavalry from Xie Bin, and [-] cavalry from Guanbei Fan. Now, except for the [-] soldiers from the Baoyi Army, all the rest are gathered here.

After taking the soil, the long straight sergeant pulled the carriage, arrived at the trench, and slowly filled it up.

During the process of filling the trench, a large group of infantry stepped forward and lined up with guns to prevent the cavalry from approaching and harassing.

The trench is not too wide, and it doesn’t take too long to fill it. From cutting trees, warming the fire, digging soil, loading soil, transporting to filling the trench, more than a thousand people went to battle together, and it took about an hour or two to complete it.

But after filling one, another trench was dug three or four miles away.Xia Jun was very disgusted, so he took the excavated soil away in a truck, and did not let Liang Bing use it nearby.They are forced to continue to spend time cutting wood to make firewood, and then digging after warming the fire.

However, during this process, they still approached harassment, tried every means to reduce the efficiency of Liang people, and delayed the time for them to complete their work.

Not surprisingly, this crazy harassment also paid a huge price: from yesterday afternoon to now, three or four hundred riders have been lost. .

The dull sound of horseshoes sounded, and nearly a thousand German cavalrymen were divided into three waves, from south to north, rushing straight like waves.

"Don't stop! Keep going." Kou Yanqing ordered.

After walking for a whole morning, he calculated carefully, and only walked five miles to the south.

Counting the distance traveled yesterday, there are still ten miles away from Yique Pass!
Yesterday afternoon and this morning, almost a whole day, I only walked ten miles!What kind of speed is this?
Generally speaking, the less people walk, the faster you walk, and the more people you walk, the slower you walk. If you carry baggage vehicles, the speed will be slower.But no matter how slow you are, you can still walk twenty or thirty miles a day.But now the ground was covered with snow, and there were trenches dug by Xia Bandits, surrounded by more than 2000 cavalrymen who harassed him day and night, which made him only walk ten miles a day, almost setting a record for the slowest march.

Xia Zei's infantry hadn't appeared yet, which made him a little relieved.

He is not afraid of the cavalry, the cavalry can't do anything to them, but the infantry can really attack his chariot formation.And they come in formation, you don't have many soldiers in each small car formation, they can gain an advantage by fighting more and less.

If Xia Bandits sent five thousand flying dragon troops to ride in front of them and then fight on foot, Kou Yanqing didn't think his troops would have any chance of escape.

Thankfully they didn't!

"Whoosh! Whoosh!" The spare bowstring that he was reluctant to use was taken out, and the arrows were shot out desperately.

Sure enough, the Xia Bandit Cavalry Army just put on a show and scattered far away.Then it was divided into two sides, came back from the side and rear, and shot arrows with the help of the upper wind.

Hundreds of people have been killed or injured by their arrows since they played this kind of bad trick yesterday, and their morale is extremely low.

After withdrawing this time, we must change to the kind of side van that is professional to restrain cavalry. The fenders may not be thick, but they must be there.Grandma, she was bullied by these people.

The convoy stopped again.

The trench ahead might be the last one, and the soldiers already knew what to do without Kou Yanqing's instructions.

Kou Yanqing boarded the carriage and first glanced at the confrontation between the two sides.

Perhaps sensing the crisis, Xia Jun's cavalry rushed closer this time.Regardless of the casualties, a group of more than a hundred cavalry forcibly inserted into the junction of the long straight army infantry. Although the Liang soldiers who were fetching soil were successfully disrupted, the casualties were really heavy. Killed.

Traditional riding and shooting tactics are still in play.

Liang Bing put up a big shield and tried his best to resist, but casualties were inevitable, so he could only continue to endure.

Kou Yanqing turned his head to look to the south, and Yique Pass was already visible from a distance.

He suddenly felt very emotional in his heart, but it was really an impressive retreat.In these years of fighting, I have never encountered Xia Bandit's style of play.

There are also many cavalry in the feudal towns of Hedong and Hebei, and even in Zhu Jin's heyday, there were large groups of cavalry, but the methods of using troops are still very different.

Kou Yanqing asked herself how well she handled it.

After filling this trench, you should be able to reach the place not far north of Yique Pass before dark.But he won't camp outside the pass anymore, and he has to enter the pass when he walks in the dark. It's too unsafe outside.

"Woo—" A dull sound of a horn came from the north, interrupting Kou Yanqing's thoughts.

He took a closer look, and saw that another large group of cavalry arrived, like thousands of cavalry—well, he has good eyesight, and every knight master in the Leopard Cavalry City has two "knight servants" to serve them, all of which are more than [-] people.

The light cavalry came from nowhere, Kou Yanqing didn't care, his eyes only followed the armored cavalry.

"These lunatics!" He patted the carriage angrily.

In the howling north wind, hundreds of cavalrymen of the Dingyuan Army launched a charge. With the help of the wind and possibly the speed of their horses, their arrows fell densely into the group of long straight soldiers.

After the first wave of people charged, they switched to the second group and dropped arrows again.

The horse neighed in pain and almost foamed at the mouth, but the rider showed no mercy and galloped again and again.

At the back, the auxiliary soldiers of the Leopard Cavalry Capital also joined the battle. They rode pack horses or riding horses, and retreated after shooting arrows.

so repeatedly.

During the charge, horses often lose their strength and fall to the ground, and no one cares.

Bowstrings were broken one after another, and no one cared.

Everyone seems to be fighting the last battle, crazy and irrational.

Kou Yanqing finally ordered to retreat because of too many casualties.

Fortunately, there are temporary obstacles around the sergeants in the formation, otherwise, with their morale on the verge of collapse, if they are charged by armored cavalry, the entire army may be wiped out.

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In the cold wind, the "Zang" flag fluttered.

On the vast snowfield, Tianxiong Jun Erlang exhaled white steam and marched tirelessly and fast.

Traveling back and forth, the information is summarized one by one.

Cai Songyang is several miles to the northwest of them, Yang Sheng's troops are several miles to the northeast of them, there are Tiande army cavalry and Guanbei fan cavalry in the southwest, Dingyuan army cavalry and leopard cavalry capital in the southeast, adding up to more than 2 cavalry, like A hammer, to smash the walnut Chang Zhijun.

"There are still four miles, hurry up!" Zang Dubao could almost see Liang thief's car formation.

Niu Li cheered up, laughed and said: "If you don't bring a car, the thief can run faster, maybe this will have entered Yique Pass."

"If you don't bring a car, you've already been eaten by the cavalry, why wait until now?" Zang Dubao also smiled: "We have to take this great achievement."

"Military envoy, if you say this, the rest of the army will probably scold them." Niu Li smiled and said, "Running to death and waste so many horses, at any cost, just to keep the long straight army, if all the credit goes to us , I’m afraid many people will not accept it.”

"That's right." Zang Dubao nodded, "After this battle, many cavalry will become infantry."

The crowd burst into laughter and their morale was high.

"Military envoys, scouts come to report that the bandit army has stopped, and they are encircling the car camp. It seems that they will not leave." Li Lin, the Marquis of Tianxiong Army, came on horseback and reported.

"It's pretty vigilant." Zang Dubao commented: "The distance between the two armies is only three or four miles. If Kou Yanqing wants to force himself to go southward and walk so slowly, we will only be caught up by us. At that time, it will be difficult to even form a formation. If you don't die, why not? Send an order to go forward for three miles and go down to the stronghold. Let's take a good rest and fight again."

Since the thief had given up fleeing, there was no need to fight in a state of exhausted physical strength.

The army continued to move forward, and at the second quarter of Shenshi, it arrived at a flat field, about a distance away from the Changzhi army.

They also built a camp around the car first, and then sent people outside to cut wood and set up fences to strengthen the camp.

The cavalry continued to harass the Liang people, draining their morale and exhausting their energy.

From yesterday to now, Liang Ren has been tormented by them terribly.It would be nothing if the Xia army infantry didn't come, but isn't the Xiong army here today?
After the banner of the Tianxiong Army was erected, the cavalry troops scattered on both sides of the Liang people slowly gathered and went to rest in the distance.People need to restore their physical strength, and horses that can fight need to restore their physical strength even more.

Liang Ren's camp was quite busy.

They dismantled a lot of baggage vehicles, chopped them into firewood and burned them, and then dug trenches around the camp, and filled all the soil they took out to the front, filling up the trench dug by Xia Jun.

There was faintly sad singing in the camp, and the officers didn't seem to stop it.

The Tianxiong army began to bury the pot and cook.Now they are not in a hurry to attack at all, and only recover their physical strength silently.

At nightfall, Cai Songyang's troops arrived, and they chose to camp in the west.

Yang Sheng's troops are still on their way.

The moon silently climbed to the middle of the sky, shining on the white snow all over the ground, almost feeling like a fairyland.

In the bright moonlight, the carts surrounding the camp were moved away, and the wooden boards were placed on the ditch.

Team after team of sergeants came out of the camp.

The people were divided into two parts, one with a helmet and armor, heading straight to the camp of the Tianxiong Army, and the other carrying luggage, antler guns, etc., placed on both sides.

The battle starts from the night attack, and the death is endless.

(End of this chapter)