Chapter 328: Reversal
The outcome of a war in which the generals of both sides worked hard and painstakingly calculated sometimes depends on a small event that is not at all inconspicuous.
Experienced generals are sometimes wealthy, but at certain times, experience becomes a disaster. Although such things are rare, and even rare, they do not happen never.
Feng Lun is a veteran and extremely experienced. In the battles of his past life, when the battle was fought like this, the enemy basically lost its combat effectiveness. In a battle like today, the losses of the Wuwei army even exceeded his estimates.
Liu Chenglin only had 5,000 armor soldiers under his command, and the two Qu Transition River battles, even if they were not completely annihilated, there was not much left, and his main Chinese army was surrounded by more than ten times the opponent, and was divided into small battle groups that were not connected to each other, no matter how powerful they were, they would be swallowed up after all.
Li De's cavalry blew up, even if they could be regrouped, it was not something that could be done in a short time, and after he regrouped, the entire battlefield would be decided.
Feng Lun wanted to defeat Liu Chenglin's main force, and in fact he did it.
Judging from Feng Lun's many years of combat experience, the rest is the time to reap the merits, and the overall situation of this battle has been decided.
But what he never expected was that the Wuwei army he faced this time was very different from the army he had encountered before.
The first thing he didn't expect was Wuwei's cavalry.
After experiencing the initial bombardment of the camp, these cavalry, which had already been dispersed, were restored in a very short period of time, and what was even more terrifying was that their leading generals were extremely sober, even if Liu Chenglin was in danger, he was not in a hurry to rescue their commander, even at this moment, he still wanted to seek victory in the battle.
Nearly 2,000 cavalry after the establishment is a deadly force for the current battlefield.
The second unexpected is that Liu Chenglin's main Chinese army burst out of the huge combat effectiveness in a desperate situation. It will be the courage of the army, and Liu Chenglin's personal martial arts and courage have greatly stabilized the morale of the army at this moment. This made Feng Lun's hope of annihilating Liu Chenglin's main Chinese army in the shortest possible time come to naught.
They are like reefs in the sea, submerged by the waves again and again, but they still stand proudly, and the willow-shaped banner has never fallen.
The third thing I didn't expect was that after Liu Chenglin's army left behind in the camp arrived at the battlefield, they also did not choose to rescue Liu Chenglin, but rushed straight to Shijiawu.
The performance of the other party was beyond Feng Lun's cognition of all the armies he had encountered in the past, even including their Lu Long Army, and the blind spot on this cognition led to his command mistakes, and the blow he did with all his strength became the biggest defeat in this battle.
The cavalry under the command of Li De has become the scythe of death on the battlefield at this moment, and everywhere he goes, blood flows like a river, and those ordinary villagers who rushed out of Shijiawu Fort just by virtue of blood and courage are not much stronger than lambs in front of these well-trained sergeants. Even those townspeople, in the face of the onslaught of the cavalry, the only thing they could do was to escape.
What made Feng Lun chill was that the combat ideas of this cavalry were quite clear, they were not inserted to the end, but they drove and killed in circles around the periphery, and drove more people to the center of the battlefield, which was equivalent to adding more pressure to Liu Chenglin, the commander of the Wuwei Army in the center of the battlefield.
Feng Lun even thought that this cavalry general had an enmity with Liu Chenglin, so he wanted to take this opportunity to kill Liu Chenglin. But this thought only flashed through his head. He knew Liu Chenglin's status in the Wuwei army, he was the brother-in-law of Li Ze, the commander of Wuwei, and this cavalry general was born in Li Ze's descendants, so it was impossible for him to have the idea of putting Liu Chenglin to death.
Excluding this one, it can only show that this person named Li De has absolute confidence in Liu Chenglin's ability to hold on, and he is not worried that Liu Chenglin will trouble him afterwards, and the only purpose of his doing so is to cover another Wuwei army led by Hou Fangyu to seize Shijiawu Fort.
If it is placed in normal times, it is naturally impossible for a team of more than 1,000 people to take the strong and steep Shijiawu, but at this moment it is different, Shijiawu has become an empty shell, and all the people who can fight are concentrated on the battlefield at this moment, and they are stopped by this cavalry on the side of the stone bridge, the only passage leading to Shijiawu.
Seeing the army under the command of Hou Fangyu approaching the stone bridge, Feng Lun roared in despair, turned around and took his elite and ran in the direction of the upstream.
Shi Kui, the lord of Shijia Fort, finally discovered that the momentum of the battlefield had been reversed in this short period of time, Liu Chenglin's Chinese army headquarters, that small circle formation was not far from him, it looked like the wind and rain were fluttering, but it always stood resolutely, and another Wuwei army had crossed the stone bridge and directly attacked Wubao, and between them and Wubao, there was still a Wuwei cavalry.
The villagers on the outskirts have completely dispersed. As far as the eye can see, there are panicked and fleeing villagers and villagers.
This is the gap between the regular army and the miscellaneous cards, even if a regular army has suffered serious trauma, but as long as the leader is still there, they can always organize an effective counterattack within a certain range, and the miscellaneous cards are extremely brave when they play a good fight, once they suffer a setback, no matter how wise the general is powerless.
Shi Kui saw Feng Lun running away.
He shouted angrily, gathered all the strength that could be gathered behind him, turned around and ran towards Shijiawu Fort, he was going to rescue Shijiawu.
Feng Lun didn't go in the direction of Wubao, he fled. But he Shi Kui can't run, this is his home, it's his everything, without Shi Jiawu, he is nothing.
Li De was like a mad tiger, the spear in his hand had been broken, and the horizontal knife had been cut, he picked up a spear on the battlefield at random, and then mercilessly stabbed or stoned everyone who stood in front of him, whether this person was a gray-haired old man or a childish half-grown child, whether this person was fiercely pounced on him or kneeling on the ground in horror and begging for mercy.
In this battle, their losses were too great.
On the side of the stone bridge, on the embankment, and in the river beach, there are scattered corpses of Wuwei soldiers everywhere, the river has turned red, and there are a lot of corpses half floating and half sinking on it, and on the other side of the river, it should be the hardest hit area, he simply does not dare to resemble it, it is a whole two curves of soldiers and horses.
A group of about 1,000 people still in the formation of soldiers and horses came head-on, fluttering flags to explain the identity of the other party, that is another person with great status on the battlefield, Shi Kui, the castle master of Shijia Fort.
Li De, who originally planned to pursue Feng Lun, immediately gave up his original idea, Feng Lun was running away, and the direction of Shi Kui's advance was to go back to Shi Jiawu, which was more important, naturally at a glance.
At the sound of the order, the cavalry, which had been divided into small groups to fight, closed again in an instant, blocking the pace of the opponent's advance in front, while the left and right flanks kept trying to cut off the team, and then attached another cavalry on the opponent's ass to follow the attack.
The intercepted cavalry retreated while fighting, but the flanks launched a fierce impact again and again, each time after successfully biting a section, it was immediately convenient for the cavalry in the rear to work together, and the section that was bitten off was eaten and wiped clean, Shi Kui's team was indeed advancing, but the number of advancing teams was drastically decreasing, when Shi Kui finally saw the stone bridge, there were less than 100 people around him, and the cavalry blocking in front of him was densely blocking the stone bridge.
"Capture Shi Kui alive, I'm going to peel his skin and pull his tendons!" Li De threw the broken horizontal knife in his hand fiercely forward, and easily took a new spear from a cavalryman beside him.
The war horse was clamped between his legs, and he rushed forward like an arrow.
At this moment, on the entire battlefield, as Shi Kui turned back, Feng Lun fled, and Liu Chenglin, who had been surrounded and beaten for a long time, finally relieved himself, although there were less than eight hundred people around him at this moment, but it was completely enough to deal with the rabble who had completely lost their organization, lost their courage, and lost their leaders.
Liu Chenglin was not interested in killing those ordinary villagers, and only the remaining more than 800 people went straight to the direction of Shijiawu.
Hou Fangyu easily took the dock fort that seemed to them to be impregnable, and on the dock fort, the banner representing the Shi family was cut down with a knife, and the banner of the Wuwei army slowly rose into the air, and on the battlefield, all the Wuwei troops shouted excitedly. Although they suffered heavy losses today, the victory was finally theirs.
They were already numb and did not have time to reminisce about this bitter battle, nor did they have time to remember their dead comrades, at this moment, there was only one thought left in their minds, to kill all the enemies in front of them.
War can turn everyone into madness.
Feng Lun's department disappeared from Wu Weijun's eyes, and there were only hundreds of people who could escape with him. He fought hard with Liu Chenglin's troops before, and when he finally encircled and suppressed Liu Chenglin, his army was also the main force, and the losses were not under Liu Chenglin.
And the Wuwei army didn't have the heart to pursue the fleeing Lu Long army at the moment, Shijiawu Fort was their target, and taking this place would open the passage to Mozhou.
Squire committed suicide.
When the team led by Liu Chenglin personally killed him, he wiped his neck with a knife in despair. He knew very well that if he fell into the hands of Wu Weijun, he was afraid that it would be difficult to die.
In today's battle, Wuwei Army suffered heavy casualties, and this account can only be recorded on him.
With Squire's suicide, the war finally came to an end, and the defeated naturally became the lost dogs, but the final winner did not have any expression of joy.