Royal Road - Chapter 255

[Chapter 254 | City]

“What?!” Shi Le was startled, “Where is the ambush? How many people are there?!”

“Also, it’s not an ambush…” The scout turned red and whispered, “The Jin team that intercepted us earlier The army, lured the partial division into the narrow path, and General Wang ordered me to ask the general for help…”

Shi Le was speechless for a moment.

Isn’t that the number of soldiers and horses who spent the city field battles only more than 5,000?

He left behind his confidant, Wang Yang, to lead the division, and the number was three times that of the other party. How could he still be like this?

!

and many more!

Could it be that this is the Bingzhou Army?

Shi Le’s face became even colder when he wanted to understand the key.

This tactic was daring, using several thousand soldiers and horses to divide half of his troops.

If you send troops to rescue, will you still be ambushed halfway?

He also underestimated his subordinates too much!

“Stop attacking the city, retreat three miles, and set up camp to defend against the enemy!” Shi Le ordered loudly.

“General, don’t you save General Wang?” The confidant beside him frowned.

The partial teacher has fifteen thousand troops!

If you really can’t save it, let the thousands of soldiers swallow it?

Shi Le sneered: “Of course we have to save! And we have to use all the cavalry!”

This is a typical strategy of dividing troops to lure the enemy.

He still had 5,000 cavalry and 10,000 foot soldiers in his hand. If he only sent two or three thousand people to rescue him, he would have been killed halfway.

However, with all the cavalry and galloping horses, the enemy army that was used as a bait can be defeated.

And the remaining 10,000 soldiers, as long as they stop attacking the city and stick to the camp, they can last until they return.

Only in this way can the military advantage be used to the extreme.

The tactic of “adding troops” is the most taboo in war. Putting troops and horses in batches will always be left for everyone to defeat.

Only when the army moves in unison is the right thing to do!

The following confidants may not all understand Shi Le’s tactical arrangements, but they obey his orders.

Only because of the strength of General Shi is known to everyone.

Soon, all the siege men and horses withdrew and re-camped at the chosen place, while Shi Le personally led 5,000 horsemen to rescue the partial division.

The battlefields on both sides were less than twenty miles apart, so we could get there in an instant.

Shi Le did not move at full speed, on the contrary, he suppressed the speed of the horse, and there were scouts on the left and right.

Once an ambush appears, a counterattack can be launched immediately.

These cavalry soldiers are all the cronies who have followed him for the longest time.

He wants to see what tricks these Bingzhou soldiers want to play!

※

“The camp is right, the enemy has sent reinforcements. It’s cavalry, there are 5,000 cavalry!”

Liu Gong took a deep breath when he heard the latest news from Tan Ma.

As the general expected, it’s really not bad!

He had previously been ordered by Yiyan to bring 5,000 men and horses to stop the rebel army.

If the enemy were to attack with all their strength, this force might not necessarily be able to stop them.

But the thief chief did not leave all the troops, but divided 15,000 to deal with them.

His task is to lure the enemy into dividing his troops and hold back this group of enemies.

So after fighting and retreating, Liu Gong led his troops to the preset battlefield and used the terrain to hold the enemy.

It didn’t take much effort to disrupt the opponent’s position.

Both sections of the narrow passage were guarded by soldiers, and the chaotic enemy troops could not break through, so they had to ask for reinforcements from the main camp.

This is exactly what Liu Gong needs!

“Send the order down, get out of the west passage, and let the enemy break through!” Liu Gong ordered loudly.

In fact, using these recruits to besiege the enemy is a very stressful thing.

Thanks to the adequate training of the soldiers, the complete setting of the battlefield, and the help of spears and arrows, it was possible to support it.

With this order, the soldiers on the periphery began to retreat slowly and quickly gave way.

How could the thieves who have been battling from left to right in the formation and could never escape from their predicament miss such an opportunity?

Like an exhausted bird, seeing a loophole in the net, it immediately rushed out.

However, no matter how turbulent Jizhou is, this group of people are refugees who have never received military training. How can they know how to retreat?

Before being besieged, not many lives were injured, but now there is a chance to escape, but a situation of practice has emerged.

Such as the flood tide that broke the embankment, the breakout turned into a rout in a short period of time!

“Beat the drums! The front line is advancing!” Liu Gong rode on the war horse and roared loudly.

Behind him, five hundred cavalrymen also mounted their mounts, and rushed out of the array with the woo horn!

At any time, chasing down troops is an effective way to kill the enemy.

The recruits under him have seen blood in the war just now, and with courage, as long as the chasing formation is not chaotic, they can let the routed army flee in the direction they need.

His general was not mistaken.

Pulling out the long knife, the blood in Liu Gong’s cavity also boiled.

He did not come from the Liangfu Yongrui Battalion, but joined the army after the Tiger Wolf Battalion was established, and climbed to the position of the battalion deputy step by step with his military exploits.

This time Wang Long was ordered to return to Bingzhou, and he was the number two person in the army.

This is the opportunity to really show off and make a career, how can we not seize it?

Like wolves driving a flock of sheep, the five hundred cavalry pierced straight into the defeated army with the sound of drums and trumpets.

※

“General! There is an enemy ahead!” The scout was the first to discover the enemy’s situation.

However, before the voice had settled down, someone exclaimed: “It’s not the enemy army, it’s Wang Yang’s army!”

Yes, all the mountains and plains were full of defeated soldiers who fled.

One by one, they threw away their helmets and armor, hurried away, and even threw the weapons in their hands.

For them, the semaphore is completely useless, fear is above reason, no one dares to turn around and fight, on the contrary, they want to smash and tear all obstacles in front of them, just to escape and ascend!

In the face of such a rout, no one can close it, let alone stop it!

“Raise your bow! Everyone who dares to rush into the army formation will be shot and killed!” Shi Le’s face was ashen as he shouted loudly.

If you ignore it, this group of defeated soldiers is very likely to break through their own formation. When the enemy army catches up, even their support soldiers will suffer!

This is not the time to show kindness, we must stop these frightened deserters!

They are all their own brothers… an army composed of refugees, after all, is different from the real imperial army.

Even these horse soldiers, there are relatives and friends among the defeated soldiers.

Some people hesitated, but Shi Le did not. With the longbow in hand, the arrows were like lightning, and they shot towards the routed soldiers in front of him.

A soldier was shot down, followed by ten or a hundred… More and more cavalrymen fired arrows, either shooting people or shooting the ground, leaving an empty field in front of the formation.

The same death threat finally made those defeated soldiers have some reason and began to detour.

Seeing the broken soldiers splitting up in front of him, Shi Le did not relax.

He was still waiting, waiting for the group of Bingzhou soldiers to take advantage of the chaos.

However, when all the defeated soldiers fled, the enemy did not appear.

“Damn it!” Shi Le’s face changed dramatically, “Quickly return to the camp!” What

they wanted to sneak attack was not the soldiers and horses of the aid Chi, but the large camp left outside Qinghe City!

※

In less than a moment after the horse soldiers left, Zhao Lu, a cronie who was left in the camp by Shi Le, found the enemy’s trace.

“Less than 2,000, and they are all cavalry

? With just this number of troops, I want to attack the battalion!” Zhao Lu snorted coldly.

of weakness.

As long as there are spears, bows and arrows, plus the horses and antlers set up when camping, it is enough to resist.

Even if the soldiers are bloody brave, the horses are very delicate, and they can’t force the camp.

All the formations that were broken by the cavalry were either unprepared for the attack, or timidly defeated and resisted head-on, so they could only shoot.

But this cavalry, even if the guerrillas are not a threat.

As long as the attack is blocked, the general will soon be able to return.

At that time, five thousand cavalry will face two thousand, and they will turn their backs on their horses if they still don’t kill them?

With a strategy against the enemy in mind, Zhao Lu put on it himself and came to the front.

In the distance, the smoke billows, and the hoofs of thousands of horses are like muffled thunder, hitting the vast wilderness.

The sound was powerful, even more threatening than his own horse army.

Zhao Lu narrowed his eyes.

No, the formation of the enemy seems to be unusual in some places…

Two hundred steps, one hundred steps, fifty steps, when the two armies are a stone’s throw away, and finally can see the whole picture of the enemy army, Zhao Lu suddenly widened his eyes. .

That horse…that horse is wrong!

At the forefront were five hundred tall horses wrapped in iron armor.

Like the knights riding above, these horses were tightly bound from head to toe, like moving iron mountains, galloping towards the camp.

what is this?

!

Zhao Lu had never seen armored cavalry, but he knew that such cavalry was completely different from what he knew!

“Release the arrow! Release the arrow!” Zhao Lu roared loudly.

Behind him, hundreds of archers fired arrows in unison.

At such a close distance, the arrows can penetrate most of the light cavalry’s armor, and even some are accurate enough to hit the cavalry in the face.

But now, it was like a torrential rain hitting the iron plate.

Five horses and one column, the heavy cavalry was not damaged at all, and all of them had raised long carbine.

With a bang, the heavy cavalry slammed into the array of defenders.

Wooden spears, swords, and even antlers could not stop this terrifying cavalry like a strong shield and a barrier.

In an instant, the front line was torn apart, and even Zhao Lu, who was guarding in front, was knocked out by the galloping horse, and his tendons were broken.

Wherever the heavy cavalry passed, there were bloodstained corpses everywhere, and this was just the beginning.

After the heavy cavalry, the light cavalry with armor.

With long knives, fast horses, and curved bows, the soldiers on horseback harvested the enemy in front of them at high speed and effectively.

Who has ever seen such a cavalry?

After losing the main commander, the defense was broken, and after a brief struggle, the entire camp collapsed.

All the preparations were no match for the vicious enemy who rushed into the tent and wielded swords and arrows.

These rogues armed with knives and guns were still farmers who were farming more than ten days ago.

What do they use to resist this unstoppable charge?

Shi Le’s reaction speed is not unpleasant.

However, when Zema returned to Qinghe City, he was greeted by a dilapidated ruin, as well as soldiers and horses lined up beside the ruins.

The camp was breached within half an hour.

No matter how much preparation Shi Le had done, could he have expected such a thing?

“General!” Some of the cronies roared, “Let’s attack! We want to take back the camp!”

There was the wealth they had accumulated over the months, as well as the mountains of food and grass.

If you don’t take it, your life-threatening struggle will be in vain.

Shi Le’s teeth were also rattling, but in just a moment, he gritted his teeth: “Withdraw! Gather the remnants, let’s go out!”

Qinghe couldn’t stay any longer.

These five thousand cavalry, but his old capital, how can he take the risk?

But can the city be held, and the state be held?

Change the city and see how you can handle me!

Filled with resentment and a little inexplicable fear, the group of cavalry had to keep running for a while, fleeing into the distance.

In the opposing army formation, Liu Gong whispered, “General, they escaped.”

In fact, they had set up an ambush in the barracks beside them, just waiting for the red-eyed enemy to charge up and catch them all.

But I didn’t expect that this band of thieves was so cunning, the defeated troops could not be dispersed, and the ambush was useless.

It’s like setting a trap, but it can’t catch the fox.

The way the enemy generals use soldiers is really unexpected.

Wearing a thick and cold iron armor, thick blood condensed on the nose, but this smell and crazy battle did not make Yi Yan lose his calm.

Looking at the vanishing cavalry, he said coldly, “Clean up the battlefield. Others, follow me into the city!”