Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 843 Can't Let Him Go Back
The silver wave was well-trained, and maintained a general formation during the charge, and it was not scattered.

Of course, the so-called charging does not mean rushing forward with all the strength.In that case, it is easy to run out of energy during the battle and be defeated by the enemy instead.

In fact, they walked in small steps, which in military terms is called "in a row".Generally, every two or three hundred steps, they will stop to organize their formation.This is the main reason why the enemy often runs away in rout battles. You have to put on armor to chase down the enemy army, and the defeated soldiers may even lose their equipment and take off their armor and run away. How can you catch up?
The Tianxiong Army is well-trained, and almost all of them are veterans.They knew how to control their speed, align their formations, and distribute their physical strength reasonably, so they didn't need to stop to organize the queue, and they directly killed Liang Jun.

In fact, Liang Jun still had time, but their morale was low, and their first thought was to withdraw to the camp instead of fighting in formation.

The nearly [-] infantry in the left wing of the Tianxiong Army inserted directly into Liang Jun's formation like a knife cutting tofu, without encountering the slightest resistance.

The bucket was kicked over, the soldier was cut down to the ground, and there were exclamations and screams everywhere.

The Xiongwei army completely lost their fighting spirit, and everyone scrambled to escape.Occasionally, a few generals gathered soldiers to resist, and they were quickly submerged in Xia Jun's steel jungle.

Such a big defeat is almost a replica of Taizong's defeat of Dou Jiande in the early years of the Kingdom.

It was also a day in armor, and it was also tired and hungry to fight for drinking water, and it was also killed to pieces, which was horrible.

Zhu Quanzhong watched from the high platform in the camp with his eyes tearing apart. The [-] soldiers were chased everywhere by the Xia bandits like sheep, and they were completely defeated.

His heart was bleeding.

The capital is running out, and I did not expect to lose a large amount here, what should I do in the future?
No one could answer his question, and the soldiers of the Xiongwei Army rushed to the barracks like a tide.

The narrow trench bridges and camp gates became "battlefields for military strategists", and the irrational sergeants pushed and kicked each other.People kept falling into the trench, their bodies covered with bamboo sticks and barbed wire, screaming incessantly.

Some people ran into the trap in a panic, crying for someone to save him.

Someone rushed in front of the antler gun and just wanted to bypass it, but the people behind continued to push and rush forward, squeezing them alive onto the blade of the gun.The long and thick antler guns were covered with corpses, and the blood flowed everywhere, as if they were making a silent mockery: This is a tool for dealing with enemy cavalry or stealing sergeants, and there are so many fleeing sergeants of our own side, it is simply ridiculous. .

The soldiers of the Tianxiong Army consumed the stamina and morale of the bandit army unhurriedly, maintained their formation well, kept their swords and guns in their hands, and easily harvested the lives of the enemies.

The cavalry was also dispatched, and the right side of the guards and cavalry continued to obliquely insert into the rout, separating them.

The deserters lost their direction in a panic, and ran in the opposite direction when they saw an enemy. This is human instinct and has nothing to do with anything else.

The cavalry skillfully used horn bows and swords to "plan" the escape direction of the rout soldiers, and cooperated with the infantry to wipe them out one by one.

This was originally the job of the cavalry of the army, but the main force of the Tianxiong army had not yet arrived, so the iron cavalry and the personal guards could only make a temporary guest appearance.Their cameos were very good, fully embodying the professionalism of the military cavalry, without much effort, they achieved a better effect than directly killing the enemy.

"The Xiongwei army is finished!" Jing Xiang closed his eyes in pain.

The broken soldiers frantically poured into the camp, and the other troops couldn't come out to rescue them, they could only watch them being slaughtered by the Xia people.

After three or four thousand people fled in one after another, the sergeants guarding the camp began to shoot arrows.Some of the arrows prevented Xia Bing from approaching, and some of them shot at his own soldiers.

After the intensive reminders were sent out, there were screams at the trench bridge, and corpses piled up like mountains.

Some people fell into the ditch after being shot, some were directly shot to death on the trench bridge, some were still alive, and yelled at the camp, and they were still fighting side by side in the morning.
Others knelt in front of the trench, weeping and begging to be let in.

but nothing works.After clearing out the broken soldiers in front of the camp gates, a large group of soldiers rushed out, gathered their spears to the outside, fired their bows and crossbows, and shot to death the cavalrymen of the Xia army who accidentally got too close.Others cleaned up the corpses on the moat bridge, then slowly retreated into the camp, pulled up the moat bridge, and closed the camp gate.

There are tense guards everywhere on the wall of the village. They hold bows, crossbows and spears, staring at the soldiers of the Xia army who are chasing and killing the remnants of the enemy, and they are full of fear.

No one wants to die. If someone has to die, let someone else die. It has nothing to do with me.

After half an hour, the hustle and bustle on the battlefield has gradually subsided.

Li Lin, the envoy of soldiers and horses in the left wing of the Tianxiong Army, ordered all the ministries to gather slowly and maintain their formation.

The cavalry is still fighting.There were only scattered scattered troops left, and it was not worth dispatching a large force. Their task was to "drive the sheep", that is, to drive these people together, and then make them abandon their weapons and surrender.

Zhao Ye and Murong Fu led 3000 people out of the camp to clean the battlefield and take prisoners.

This battle was fought heartily, and it is conservatively estimated that more than 3000 people were beheaded and about [-] people were captured.

The number of Xiongwei troops who escaped back is almost the same, but it is difficult for them to form an organized field battle in a short time. It would be good if they can go up to the wall to defend after containment and rectification.

There are only more than 1 soldiers left in Liang Jun's battle, which is already at an absolute disadvantage.

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Under the setting sun, a large group of sergeants is moving eastward quickly.

They didn't care about horsepower at all, and they came in the direction of running dead horses.

The ten thousand people in the left wing of the Flying Dragon Army, at the moment when the Tianxiong Army launched an attack, bypassed from the north and south sides, ran all the way for dozens of miles, and arrived outside Bajiao Town at the moment the sun set.

Bajiao Town is a military town with a city. At this time, there are about 6000 troops in the garrison, and except for a few ranger scouts, almost all of them are infantry.

The guard Liu Chongba, together with Du Yanqiu, Wang Yanzhang and Liu Qi, served in the Poxia Army.

Now the Po Xia army has been scattered, and the rest have joined the various ministries.Among the few people who had a good relationship back then, Wang Yanzhang took a post as a commander and guarded in Suanzao, Zhao Yan returned to Xuzhou, the whole family voted for Xia, and Du Yanqiu also voted for Xia.Liu Chongba brought more than a hundred confidants of the Poxia Army into the Dragon and Tiger Army, most of them were from the Changzhi Army, so as the backbone of the army, Liu Chongba also became the commander, leading [-] troops.

After the Feilong army got off their horses, the defenders put on strict guard as if they were facing a formidable enemy.

Qi Bizhang shook his head, Liang Ren's army did not take the initiative to attack when their position was unstable, either the guards were timid or the sergeants were incapable.

"General Liu, don't guard. Here is a letter from General Du Yanqiu. You might as well take a look." Taking advantage of the panic of the enemy army, a knight stepped forward and shot Du Yanqiu's letter into the city.

"Soldiers of the Dragon and Tiger Army, God has the virtue of good life, King Xia is benevolent, I don't want to see you all die at the edge of the edge, why don't you surrender?"

"The Changzhi Army has been destroyed. This is Zhu Youyu's flag, let's take a look at it."

"This is the Changzhi Military Academy..."

The soldiers who persuaded them to surrender stepped forward one after another like a revolving lantern, shouting with all their might.

The defenders heard the noise gradually, but were quickly scolded.

Qi Bizhang laughed loudly, the thieves' morale was low, and defeat was easy.

At the same time, the iron cavalry army, which had just defeated the Xiongwei army in Jiugou, also dispatched overnight after raising its horsepower.

Although they were dubbed by the generals of the Xia Army as the weakest cavalry among the cavalry, they worked hard and played a greater role—well, the generals of the Iron Cavalry believed that their combat effectiveness was at least stronger than that of the Dingnan Army , is definitely not the weakest one, can't beat the cavalry of all armies, can't you beat your newly formed Difficult Army?

The target of the cavalry army was not Bajiao Town, nor Bianzhou. They were active on various roads leading to Bianzhou and even in the wild, firmly blocking the passage.

This order was suggested by Niu Li, the deputy envoy of Tianxiong Army. Zhe Siyu agreed, and then led the team himself, skipping Liang Jun who was hiding in the camp and advancing backwards.

This is actually Xia Jun's habit of playing in recent years.Their tactics have undergone tremendous changes compared to earlier years. They were created based on the stubborn and tough infantry of the Central Plains feudal towns: detours and intersperses, delaying the retreating enemy forces, and creating opportunities for the main infantry group.

This tactical grassland nation can't play, because they lack a powerful infantry group, and the cavalry's frontal raids and assaults seem to have no effect on the gang of warriors in the late Tang Dynasty.But in Xia Jun's hands, this tactic was simply brilliant. The combination of infantry and cavalry was invincible, and Liang Jun, who had almost lost all his cavalry, was miserable.

"Zhu Quanzhong can run north or south, but he can't go east." On the bank of the small river in the dark night, Zhe Siyu assigned orders to the military academies under his tent: "The king said before the war, Zhu Quanzhong gave him this If there is a chance, then we can’t let him go back. If he is allowed to return to Bianzhou in this battle, I will ask the king for my sins, but you will have no good fruit to eat. When the department is reorganized, wait for it to be removed.”

The generals were shocked when they heard this.

The number was revoked, but it was not just as simple as changing the name.There are too many interest issues involved in it. If it is annexed by the silver gun, everyone can wipe their necks, which is really shameful.

After the order was issued, the generals rushed back to their respective camps.

Zhe Siyu thought for a while, then called a messenger, and ordered: "Go to Zhongmou quickly, and ask the king to recruit the cavalry of the guards and the army, and the native regiment soldiers in Henan Province will also send over to block the eastern border together. [-] to [-] riders, pestering Zhu Quanzhong hard, we must not let him slip away."

The messenger didn't say a word, took the letter written by Zhe Siyu in a hurry, and left.

Forty miles from Zhongmu to Bajiao Town, the courier arrived quickly with three or four horses each.

After Shao Shude finished reading it, he made a decision on the spot and agreed to Zhe Siyu's request.Not only that, he also ordered the Tianxiong Army and the National Guard Army who were still rushing to Zhongmou to allow the cavalry of the army to ride on horseback and rush to Bajiao Town.There are still about seven or eight thousand riders in these two parts, and they are all under the command of Zhe Siyu.

A total of more than 2 cavalry were deployed on the east side, lest Zhu Quanzhong could not be stopped from rushing back to Bianzhou.

But Shao Shude was still a little worried. At this critical moment, he also took a gamble and ordered: "Kecheng, you take all the soldiers, Qianqi, to Bajiao Town, and return to the command of the army envoy. If you see Liang Jun cavalry east If you run away, you will stop it even if you try your best, and you must not let anyone go."

Yeli Kecheng was a little surprised, but complied without hesitation.

He knew that no matter what, Zhu Quanzhong could not be allowed to go back, this was the key to success or failure.

(End of this chapter)